Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

 August 4, 2021

August 5th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 4 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for August 5th are Sorrowful. 

Please Pray for Fr. Joe & Bob
     

Prayer for Grace for our Country

Dear Father united to Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present, celebrated around the world, in the Holy Spirit. We offer up all we do united to the Mass. We unite in one mind and one heart as members of the mystical body of Christ, with Christ our head in the pure and holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, through the powerful intercession of Mary with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory, and we beg for the saving grace, for our country, the United States. Please help us. We further pray for unity to always do the will of God in love. We spread the Blood of Jesus on the leaders and people of the United States and cast the devil into hell. We consecrate our country to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and all our dioceses, and beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. God help us. We pray for our families, the priests, the Church and the world. In the Name of Jesus please hear us, we pray. We pray for our president and leaders. We pray that we are united as one nation under God to work together in love as God wants.  

                            

               August 3, 2021               

We were Created for More

Jesus: I am a God of truth and love.

I love you so much.
I give you these letters of love for My beloved souls in God’s Blue Book.
I want to be intimately United to you My precious soul.
You can not even know how My Heart burns for love of you.
I want to be eternally one with you, My precious soul, one day in heaven.

I give you Myself in the Holy Eucharist.

I long for you to come and receive Me.
Only God can satisfy your soul. You were created this way, to be satisfied by God.

Oh child, you must pray for vision to see more and more God’s Plan for relationship and unity.

Your soul was made for this love and relationship with the Divine God.

I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, My beautiful child, with My Heart on fire for love of you. No one can satisfy your stalking soul. You were created for God’s love, relationship with God.

R. And He gives us these messages of this truth, because He loves us this much.

Jesus: I am the bread of life, whoever comes to Me will not hunger or thirst.

This is truth child, what your heart seeks to be satisfied, can only be satisfied by Me.

Oh precious, I give you My letters of love in My Blue Books. Your faith is waning. Believe child, I speak to you in My letters. This is truth. My love is real. Believe Me. Believe Me. Read My letters from God who loves you. Read, Believe, be intimately one with Me. My relationship with you is what you seek.

Believe, precious one, believe Me.

I am the source of love.

Come to Me.

Surrender, use My Blue Books, I love you so much.

I am Jesus, your Savior, I died for you My precious one.

Song: A Song from Jesus


 

Jesus: I give you My love letters in God’s Blue Book.

Believe and watch your life change as you become wrapped in My truth and love.

A fountain of love, precious one for you My precious soul.

Letters of love to you My beloved.
Amen.

R. We were created for love that can only be satisfied by Him eternally.

We must believe we can’t be satisfied by love here -
We were created for perfect love in heaven.

We want this unity in our souls.
We can have this some day if we reach. It’s so much more, than here.

Beyond!! Transcendent.

I love you!!

Eternal!!!

We need our eyes and hearts open to the Divine Plan!! Truth!!

The Blue Books speak this.

Open anywhere.

I keep looking around for something here to fill me and I was created for Divine Eternal Love, relationship and unity.

Only God can satisfy my soul.

Believe!! Believe!!

Stuff here leaves us thirsty, hungry, not satisfied!!! We were meant for more!!!!!!

We are the creation of our Heavenly Father.

Peanuts won’t satisfy what our soul was created for.

Give me light Lord.

Jesus: Rita, use My letters of love.

God’s Blue Book - truth.

R. We receive supernatural faith, hope and love in baptism.
Our knowing and loving capacity is elevated in baptism.
It’s a capacity.

We live holy lives, pray for grace - His life in us.

It’s a capacity.
We can respond to God’s love or not respond.

We are free.
Pray for the grace we need most.

We share in God’s knowing and loving activity through baptism.

Wow!

We were meant for more.
Nobody here can satisfy us.

God is light and in Him is no darkness.

The devil drags us down. We can feel like a ball and chain is on our leg.
Knowing only God can satisfy us, lifts us up.
 

We were made for more than any way we are treated by others.

Jesus: I am Jesus, you are precious to Me.

Come and know My love.

I love you with deepest love.

Come to me Lord and possess My soul.

I am with you.
You are My beloved Spouse.
Love is giving love according to God’s will for the good of the other.

I want you to focus on God’s will.

I want you to see the Love Mary has given to you.

 

From Blue Book II

January 4, 1994 5:00 a.m.

The Soul Craves Union With God

Jesus: You, My child, must trust in Me. I am not going to quit giving you messages. I am your beautiful Jesus and I am very aware of everything that happens in your life. Do not worry. Do not think. Live your life for two purposes, love of God and love of your fellowman. You are My precious child. Such dignity, such honor I bestow on you! I am Jesus, Son of the Living God and I love you so. What dignity for all My beautiful children!

Hold tight to all I have taught you. I am with you in all your trials. I never leave your side. Pray to Me, child. I want you to pray constantly. Time is short and your prayers for others are the greatest help to this world. Do not question. Try to focus on love for your brothers. You are so lucky to have these letters. I want everyone to have these messages. Come and write for all so they may learn My ways.

You come, I am always waiting for you to be with Me. Jesus Christ waits for His creatures. What an honor that is for your feeble hearts--that the Son of Man waits on a creature. I am by your side. I am here in every trial you experience every day. Make people aware of how close I truly am to them. They are so lost in this world. They are unaware of how to save themselves.

I am the medicine for My children. I am He Whose bootstraps you are unworthy to tie and I wait to be with you every day at the altar. I wait and lament your passing, too busy for the Son of Man. You, in your pain, go to bottles, people, everywhere for the cure to your illness and nothing you try even comes close to the cure. And you, My little ones, miss the real cure in your busy little lives. Oh, but you must be on your way, you say. "I have to…and…and…" and the Son of Man waits for a mere creature!

You are sick and need the medicine only I can give you but you go to every other source but Me. Every man was created with a soul, destined for love of God. Every soul craves the union. Every soul is searching for this and is at unrest until it is settled in the arms of God.

Where do you go for the stalking soul? Do you go to man and try to satisfy the soul? What emptiness you find there! Do you go to material things to try to satisfy the soul? This is more emptiness. In your avid search, you miss that which alone will satisfy the stalking soul. The soul craves union with God. In your earthly form you will never know total satisfaction, but the soul can rest somewhat in the earthly union with God. Look no more, My little ones. Come and let Me love you. Your hearts find rest only in God.

I am He Who waits for your love. I lament your busyness and want you to come and sit with Me. Search ye no more for the heart is restless unless it is nestled in Me. Quit going to the world for the things of the Spirit. Come to Me, My little ones, and let Me love you as I desire. Be not empty and searching, but filled with the peace of God. Nothing can be as God to your heart. Your efforts to look elsewhere are in vain.

I am Jesus, Son of the Living God, and I wait for your love and your time with Me. Come, come, My children. Come to Him Who loves you. Search no more this barren desert for the things of God.

R. And He showered them with His love and He waited for their return. They went their way and knew that only He would quiet a stalking heart. Their hearts were no longer hungry and afraid, but at peace for having found the one, true God.

Alleluia!

He is our refuge and our strength. He pulls us from the troubled waters and we are saved from the hungry sea. We rest in the arms of our lover and we feel His greatness in our souls.

Come to Me, all who are weary. I give you rest for your troubled spirits. You wander in vain a barren land, while the land I give is brimming with milk and honey.

Oh, little ones, so foolish are you when your love waits. You search, you find no peace except in Me. Wander you the barren lands of the earth, but a search of such uselessness you undertake, for only in Me do your souls find rest. Your bodies will wither and fade and be thrown on a heap for the birds of prey, but your soul is made for glory. It will one day possess total union with God. It must be kept holy. It must be protected and nurtured and fed. It must be cared for by Him Who created it!

How do I make you understand? You dress up your packages. You care for every detail about your life here and I am God and I come first. All else receives its importance in reference to Me. Tend to the soul, My children. Come and pray to Me every day. Don't listen to this world. It is very sick.

I am your loving Jesus. Listen to My words and take heed of these things. I want to shape you to My love, but you are so stubborn! What more do I tell you? I died that you might live. Now I ask you to turn to Me yourselves. Quit listening to the world. It is so sorry. You must come and be fed by Me.

I am the Omega. I am all there is. You are sinking in your boats and you do not see the water coming in. Take the blinders off your eyes and look all around you. Pray for the Spirit to open your hearts and to shower His gifts. He will awaken your hearts to the things of God. You will see where you once were blind and He will lead you out of your troubled waters to a calm sea and peace in your hearts.

R. Alleluia. Praise Him Who loves you so! Praise the Spirit for He enhances our lives with His love. Where we were blind, we now see. Alleluia.

 

 

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Response in Christ
Fr. Edward J. Carter gives to the modern Christian a message that will sustain him.
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...God Himself is the Ultimate Mystery
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Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. In this book Fr. Carter speaks of God as the ultimate mystery. We can meditate on the interior life of the Trinity. Fr. Carter tells us about our uniqueness in the Father's Plan for us, how the individual Christian, the Church and the world are in the state of becoming. Imprimatur. $10

Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters 1
Selected Writings on Spirituality—for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur
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Shepherds of Christ — Selected Writings on Spirituality for all People as Published in Shepherds of Christ Newsletter for Priests. Contains 12 issues of the newsletter from July/August 1994 to May/June 1996. $15

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Selected Writings on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur
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Selected Writings on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
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Shepherds of Christ — Volume 3 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains Newsletter Issues 1 through 4 of 2000 including Fr. Carter’s tremendous Overview of the Spiritual Life $10

Tell My People
Messages from Jesus and Mary Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest
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Spirituality Handbook
Shepherds of Christ Associates Spirituality Handbook - A Way of Spiritual Life
Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest

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Fatima: The Setting, The Message, The Spirituality of Consecration
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R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
                2) Pray for Special people.
                3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                6) People going to Florida and China.
                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                9) Pray for pope helping us.
               10) Pray for Jeff.
               11) Pray for the country
               12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
               14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Pray for the Corona Virus to go away
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Sanja, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
                    Fr. Joe, all priests helping us, Ed, Jimmy, Mary,
                    Carol R., a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
               21) All of our families.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               23) All of our houses.
               24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
               25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
               26) Consecrate all hearts.
               27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.

 


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