Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A. We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.

August 7, 2004

Next Retreat night of August 11th,
August 12th thru August 15th

Please Pray for the 

Newsletter & Delores.

Click on the picture below to
hear the radio and see China.

From August 6, 2004

Jesus speaks:            I am calling

                 you to the retreat

                 in China.

                    Tremendous grace

                 will be granted.

Feast of the Sacred Heart
June 18, 2004

               Mass every day

St. Ignatius

            From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, 
                by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.  p. 12                     

            23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION

                                    Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God 
                                     our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.

p. 11

21.                     SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

    Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
    and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
    no decision is made under the influence of any
    inordinate attachment

 

p. 25

46. PRAYER.  In the preparatory prayer I will beg God
our Lord for grace that all my intentions, actions, 
and operations may be directed purely to the 
praise and service of His Divine Majesty.

August 6, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:            I have called for 24 hour
                               adoration in China, Indiana.

                                (1) to pray for the priests, the
                                        Church and the world.

                                (2) to pray for the Priestly Newsletter
                                        and all involved.

                                (3) Always to pray Friday
                                        12:00 - 3:00

                                (4) Pray for little peoples books

                                (5) Rosary Program

                                (6) Retreats in China and 5ths
                                        and priests who help us.

                                (7) Internet Ministry and all ministries

                                (8) All Shepherds of Christ
                                        needs including leaders,
                                        servants, handmaids and apostles.

                                (9) Special Intentions

                              (10) Florida and funds

                                I call you to prayer ––
                                    Servants, handmaids and apostles

                                    a) 6:20 prayers
                                    b) daily Mass and adoration
                                    c) pray hourly

Retreats are held monthly.

August 7, 2004

From the Red Rosary Book
March 17, 1995

Crucifixion

3. Jesus: My Mother stood under My cross. My beloved Mother! How she loves each one of you. Go to the Heart of Mary and reside in her arms. Rest in her Heart. This is Her House. She is with each one of you on your journey. We love you with the tenderest love.

From the Red Rosary Book
March 17, 1995

Crucifixion

9. Jesus: It is in this time that you spend alone with Me that I can work in your heart. Do not look for visions. Do not look to hear things. Go inside of your heart and be alone with Me. Spend this time with Me each day and, through the day, spend short periods, minutes when you just close your eyes and focus on My presence with you, for I am truly present. I will work in your heart when you come to Me in these special moments.

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996

from the consecration out of the Prayer Manual

From Your pierced Heart the Church was born

from June 30, 1999

Jesus speaks: From My pierced side flowed Blood and water,
signs of the sacramental life of the Church.

St. Dominic

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pray for us!

August 8, 2003
   

Happiness Is Not Something You Can Touch

Excerpt from November 11, 1993 
St. Gertrude's After Mass

Jesus speaks:  My child, you please Me, spending time with Me. I am here with you. The closer you come to Me, the more you embrace My light. If you stay far from Me, you are surrounded by darkness. My hand is upon you in the light. You are guided on your way to Me. Embrace My light and draw yourself near to Me, nearer every day. This relationship with Me takes time. It takes many times alone with Me to know Me. I am God and there is so much to teach you, but you must come to be taught. You must come and be alone with Me so I can tell you what you long to know.

There is a magnetic attraction to Me in your soul. Once you start to seek Me, you keep coming back because you crave what I have to give you. Why do you keep coming back, My child? You could go to the world but it does not feed the soul. You keep coming back because I fill your soul and you get something here that is nowhere else.

I am your true Savior and your lover. I fill you with such good things. I do not adorn your bodies or put meat on them. I do not give you money. I do not give you cars, and boats-all the things the world gives you. These things the world says you need to be secure. I give you peace and love and joy. I give you lightness and wisdom. I give you a smile for your troubled heart. I give you all things you cannot touch, but which you crave. Clothes, cars, house are all things you touch, but their presence lasts a moment and then you ask, "What do I get next for my happiness."

Happiness, my daughter, is not something you touch. It is not an item you can buy. It is a spiritual thing in your heart. Your joy, your peace, your love are all things of the spirit. Only I can feed you with the things of the spirit. Only I can feed you with the things of the soul. I created the soul and I make it work. To try to work the spirit with the things of the body is useless. It does no good. I made the soul, I feed the soul. To go elsewhere to feed the soul is useless.

Come to Me, My little ones. How I love you and want to feed your souls. I want to give you all your hearts crave. I want to fill you with My peace, love and joy. Only I can give these things. Go to the world and they will supply you with objects. These do not feed your soul, your spirit. Come to Me and I feed the spirit. I feed the soul. I give you the greatest love there is-the love of the one, true God.

Come unto Me, all who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Those things you seek in this world will all pass away. What I give will never pass away. What you carry in your soul goes on with you to eternity. Carry My gifts in your soul and you will soon be with Me in heaven.

end of excerpt from November 11, 1993

August 8, 2003

Mary speaks:     My Daughter,

                                I love my little ones so much. All

                            are my children. I appear to show

                            them, I am their mother and I love

                            them.

                                So many are imperfect and yet they

                            give into their emotions and will not

                            live in the truth.

                                The sin of pride is bigger than you    

                            think. Many are not like little children,

                            underneath they crave riches and recognition

                            they do not know what it is to be pure and

                            unattached to the things of the world.

                                Oh my little babies, I give you the

                            rosary. I want you to pray. Because

                            you pray does not mean you will not

                            suffer.

                                You will suffer, when you follow

                            in the footsteps of my Son Jesus.

                                You must offer up your sufferings

                            for souls. Oh my children, they are

                            sinning, many are not pure, many

                            are so prideful. I am a Mother of love.

                                Many people today are so prideful

                            and they do not respect authority.

                            Some children are mean to their parents

                            and very willful.

                                My Son Jesus showed you how to live.

                            He showed you how to obey the Father.

                            Lying is a sin.

                            Saying someone did something who

                                didn't do it to prove you have

                                been victimized is sinful.

                            Why do you not live in harmony, oneness

                                and telling the truth how it really

                                is, working out your differences

                                in love.

                            Those who do not confront problems,

                                trying to solve them according to God's

                                will in love, can hurt themselves

                                and others.

                            Make a fearless inventory.

                            Be just and loving.

                            When you have to endure troubles because

                                of imperfect people and you suffer

                                greatly offer up your sufferings.

                                Oh my children, I love you

                            so much.

                                I appear to tell you.

July 5, 2000

                                        I am Mary and I love you my little children,
                                        I appear to tell you of my love.
                                        I am Mary, I am your Mother.
                                        I want you to love me too.

Jesus speaks:     I want you to give honor to your

                                heavenly Mother.
 

God the Father speaks:

                            I am a God of justice.

                            I want you to honor your Mother

                                Mary. She loves you so much.

                                She is your model.

                            Model your lives after My Son Jesus 

                                and your heavenly Mother. 

                                Pray the rosary. 

                                Teach your children the rosary 

                                    at an early age. 

                                We have given you these rosary 

                                    meditations for the priests, 

                                    for the little ones, for the 

                                    elderly, for the Church 

                                    and the world.

December 19, 1996

Mary: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn. He is the Almighty God, the Light of the World.

    I appear to you, my children, on a (former) bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus, for your money. Your money is your god.

    I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you. I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book.

end of December 19, 1996 message

August 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:    My children my heart is filled with 

                                love for you my children, I am 

                                your mother Mary.

Jesus speaks:         I sweat Blood in the garden for My precious

                            souls.

Jesus speaks:         I was scourged at the pillar by the

                            very men I loved so much. They stood around

                            Me they hollered slanderous things at

                            Me, they numbered all My bones.

Jesus speaks:         Oh My children, they pounded a crown

                            of thorns into My head, they beat Me,

                            they may persecute you, those you

                            love so deeply and you may experience

                            a little the pain I endured for

                            My precious ones I love so much.

                                Some are so selfish, they think

                            only of their money. They want to be rich

                            and make their kingdom here below. They

                            measure everything by their money.

                                Do not give up. Do not give into satan.

                            Do not let your actions depend on tricks

                                that others may do that get you bowed

                                down.

Jesus speaks:      I could hardly move on the way to Calvary.

                            The cross was so heavy with the weight

                            of the sins of the world. My shoulder felt

                            as if it would break and I went on,

                            I carried the cross. I fell under its

                            weight.

                            When you are weary you must say

                            "Sacred Heart I trust in Thee."

                            Looking at the dark clouds you see the

                            blackness, but beyond the light will

                            shine through. There are those dark days

                            and there are light days.

Jesus speaks:         One day you get up and the sky is so

                            blue and the mountain tops glisten with

                            a little snow -- the little flowers are scattered

                            on a near by hill, you breathe in the fresh

                            air and you may feel the touch of a heavenly

                            embrace.

Jesus speaks:         The key for you is to not give into the

                            tauntings of satan, the distractions he plants

                            through others to get you bowed down and

                            not lose your focus.

                                Satan comes with a bag of tricks to

                            drain your energy. People in families can

                            hurt one another by speaking untruths to

                            get power or work out their dysfunctional

                            ways.

                                In the end you will be judged on what you

                            do to one another. You must aim to be pure,

                            you must seek the truth -- never tell lies --

                            when you stretch the truth to make yourself

                            a victim you should tell God you are

                            sorry and try to make amends for the damage

                            you may have caused.

                                Oh My children how short are the days

                            of your lives and how very much I love you.

                            You rely on your own might and you need

                            to pray.

Messenger:            Oh I was distraught and felt empty and

                                He came and comforted me. I knew

                                the power of His ways and His deep

                                embrace protected me on the thistles

                                and thorns.

Jesus speaks:     They led Me to the hill of Calvary and they

                                pounded the nails into My hands and

                                My feet. They didn't care, they were

                                ruthless and these were the men I loved.

Jesus speaks:     Blood poured from My wounds until it seemed

                                there was no more.

                            Then they pierced My side and what came

                                forth was Blood and water.

                                Oh My children, do not give into satan's

                            lure to divide you. And if they surround you

                            and persecute you for My sake, come into the

                            deepest recesses of My Heart and find love.

                                In the death there is the resurrection.

                                Satan wants to hurt you. His negative tricks,

                                division always drains your energy.

                                You cannot control others and those with

                                bitter wounded ways.

                                I send messages to help you grow in

                            holiness. When you feel bad inside

                            why blame someone for your bad

                            moods. Oh some just blame others, they

                            need a scapegoat.

                                They heaped the cross on My back laden

                            with the sins of the world. Oh My children

                            pray.

Mary speaks:         How will they get purified? Their focus

                            is their money. Some lie and lie and take

                            and God blesses them so abundantly.

                                I am pure and tender of heart, some

                            are so envious and in search of power.

Messenger:        I was told by Mary to put the Twelve Steps of AA

                                here from the internet.

            "Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

                    1.  We admitted we were powerless over alcohol,
                            that our lives had become unmanageable.

                    2.  Came to believe that a Power greater than
                            ourselves could restore us to sanity.

                    3.  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
                            over to the care of God as we understood Him.

                    4.  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

                    5.  Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
                            being the exact nature of our wrongs.

                    6.  Were entirely ready to have God remove all
                            these defects of character.

                    7.  Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

                    8.  Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
                            and became willing to make amends to them all.

                    9.  Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
                            except when to do so would injure them or others.

                    10.  Continued to take personal inventory and when we
                            were wrong promptly admitted it.

                    11.  Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
                            conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
                            praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
                            the power to carry that out.

                    12.  Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
                            we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
                            and to practice these principles in all our affairs."

August 8, 2003

Feast of St. Dominic

Messenger:        Our servant Jerry has a prayer, it goes

                                something like this

                                We pray for greater peace, love, joy, harmony, unity,

                            obedience etc.

                                We will call this the "Jerry prayer."

                                At every Mass we attend when asked is there

                                    any special intentions he prays for this.

                                It is a beautiful prayer intention.

                                Jesus told me when working with each other

                                    in community settings we can keep praying

                                    this prayer for greater focus.

                                Jerry is a servant of the Good Shepherd, where

                                    ever he is he joins in this spirit of peace, love

                                    and joy, unity and he is obedient.

                                In working together in the projects we do, we

                                    need to be united.

                                I learned I can't do anything by myself.

                            In November, 1996 I knew the message I so strongly

                                received about getting the Red Rosary book

                                together. Other distractions were tying up this

                                process. Fr. Carter prayed for this every day

                                at Mass, that the red rosary book would

                                go out.

                            I walked around my dining room table one day

                                where my computer was, wanting to cry to

                                try to do what Jesus was telling me to do.

                                I couldn't get it done myself, others were

                                distracted and I had no computer skills,

                                finally Emily did all it took to finish

                                the job, it went to the printer and they

                                gave us the date it would leave the

                                printer December 17, 1996.

                            Now Mary appeared that day in Rainbow color

                                to match the Red Rosary book with the

                                rainbow on it.

shipped from the printers December 17, 1996

Mary appeared December 17, 1996

Genesis 9: 12-15

    And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come:  I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

August 8, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Here is a talk Fr. Carter gave two months after

                                Mary appeared.

February 13, 1997

Talk given by Father Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries

Talk given February 13, 1997 National Conference of Shepherds of Christ, held at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, Norwood, Ohio.

    Before we begin the rosary, I’d like to say a few words about the great importance of these days on the 13th of each month. Before Our Lord asked me to begin the Shepherds of Christ Ministries, the 1st dimension of that ministries was given to me on May the 31st, 1994. But before Our Lord asked me to start the ministries, I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima. And I knew that everything concerning recent Marian apparitions centered around the Fatima message. The Fatima message is key to the peace of the world, as Our Lady of Fatima has told us. So because I had been given a great devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, it was no surprise to me when Our Lord told me, and through me the whole Movement, the great connection that there would be between Shepherds of Christ Ministries and helping to bring the Fatima message to conclusion. I’ll expand more upon that in my talk this afternoon. But here and now I’d like to read just a part of the message I received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Ministries into existence. It had begun May 31st , some five or six months previous to that. But really October the 13th, 1994, marks the real birth, the complete birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. And part of the message I received on that day reads as follows:

"I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ Movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the Reign of My Sacred Heart. Today then, October the 13th, 1994, the 77th anniversary of the great apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, the Chief Shepherd of the Flock."

    The calling of Our Lord to Shepherds of Christ to be present if possible at these meetings on the 13th of each month, and if they cannot be present physically, to be present in spirit with us then comes as no surprise. It’s merely another unfolding in the history of the Shepherds of Christ Movement and in the Fatima message.

    These 13th of the months meetings are extremely important. They are great instruments which Our Lord and Our Lady are using to help bring to completion the Fatima message, which will result in that great era of peace, which Our Lady of Fatima promised eventually would come to the world.

    So I ask you to take these meetings on the 13th of the month with the utmost seriousness, gratitude, thanksgiving, joy that Our Lord, for His own reasons has chosen Shepherds of Christ, the members thereof, the whole Ministries to play such a great part in the completion of the Fatima message. It comes as no surprise either that Our Lord gives special messages during the rosary on the meeting of the 13th, just as Our Lady of Fatima gave messages to the three visionaries at Fatima in 1917, from May through October. So at this stage of the Fatima message’s unfolding, it is no surprise that they continue, and in a new way and a new phase of the Fatima plan, give us these very special messages on the 13th. They are meant not only for us here present, they are meant for all members of the Movement, and eventually for the whole world. All these messages, all these rosaries on the 13th, eventually go onto our Internet with its world-wide audience.

    So please, be very grateful to God for the messages He gives us during the rosary. Not everything which Rita says is a message. I think you’ll be able to distinguish when she’s receiving a message from Our Lord or from Our Lady, and when she is speaking from her own heart. Sometimes the transition is very quick and you may miss it, but there are both ways in which meditations are given on the decades: in strict locutions or messages, and then from Rita’s meditations or reflections herself.

(After the Rosary)

    I wish to thank everybody who made the effort to be here with us, especially those people who had to travel from out of town. I’m sure the Lord has blessed you already and will continue to do so for your effort to be here. These are extremely important meetings on the 13th of the month. Our Lord has, Himself, instructed us in His great love and mercy for us and the whole world to have them. From these meetings, the messages of Our Lord, the previous message given at Fatima, go out to the whole world...

    I sort of left off when I introduced the rosary by reading the rest, or at least a good part of the rest, of that message which I, myself, received on October the 13th, 1994, when Our Lord called the full Shepherds of Christ Ministries into existence.

"My beloved priest-companion, today I come to you with another mission."

    He had already asked me on May the 31st of 1994 to start the priestly newsletter and then shortly after that to start the prayer chapters.

    "I’m asking you to establish Shepherds of Christ Ministries. At My request you have already begun the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the prayer chapters, Shepherds of Christ Associates...

    "I am giving you this message on this day, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, because of the close connection between the Shepherds of Christ movement and the Fatima message. The Fatima message is centered in devotion to My Heart and My Mother’s Heart, especially in consecration to Our Hearts. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is also centered in devotion to Our Hearts. I will use Shepherds of Christ Ministries as a great instrument in helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. When this occurs, My Church and the world will be experiencing the great era of peace promised by My Mother at Fatima.

    "Today, then, October 13, 1994, the 77th Anniversary of the Great Apparition at Fatima, marks the birth of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I pour forth the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock."

    So (this is) one of the most important messages given in the whole history of our Movement, and I think you can see why. Not only was Our Lord calling the Ministries into full bloom with this message, but He was making that great connection between Shepherds of Christ and the Fatima message.

    You see how He says that both the Fatima message and Shepherds of Christ is centered in devotion, and especially in consecration, to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

    So in my moments here before you this afternoon, I wish to speak a bit about this consecration.

    I’ll start off by reading a message of Our Lord and from "Tell My People" which deals with this consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

    "My beloved friend, tell My people that I desire all to consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Tell them not to just recite words in making the Act of Consecration, but to realize what they are saying. Consecration to Our Hearts means a total gift of self. That means handing over everything to Me and My Mother. Consecration means a willingness to surrender completely to Me. In Baptism, one is consecrated to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But how many fail to live out their consecration? I extend to all the invitation to renew this Baptismal consecration through consecration to My Heart and to My Mother’s Heart.

    "My beloved companion, I have taught you what this consecration means. I have given you great peace, joy and happiness because you have made this consecration. I have taught you that you are to renew this act of consecration each day. I constantly remind you that you are to pray each day for the grace to more and more live the consecration. I have taught you that your consecration to Me and My Mother means that you constantly surrender yourself to Us and to Our care. I have taught you that the more you surrender yourself to Me, the more I live in you, and through you and for you. I have taught you that My great love for you longs to draw you more deeply into My Heart. I have shown you that I wish your Mother Mary to place you there within My Heart, and that the more you dwell within her Heart, the more deeply she places you within My Heart. Dwelling within Our Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions you more and more in My likeness. The Father thus looks upon you with greater favor and takes you more closely to Himself.

"Tell My people all these wondrous truths. I am Lord and Master and I desire all to listen to My words. (end of message)"

    And what beautiful words those are, which Christ gives all, to us all regarding the consecration to His Heart and Mary’s Heart.

    I want to - after that message of Jesus telling us what consecration involves, I wish to single out a few aspects of the consecration, what it includes. One aspect of our consecration and especially the consecration which Our Lord has given us for Shepherds of Christ, one aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to realize that we are apostles and that we are called to go out into the world as we have heard in the rosary today, and other times to be the apostles of His love, of His love and His Mother’s love, and thus to help bring about that great era of peace promised by Our Lord, Our Lady of Fatima in which love will just dominate. That’s what it means when Our Lady says, "In the end," she says, "my Immaculate Heart will triumph." And along with that triumph of her Immaculate Heart will occur the Reign of the Sacred Heart. The Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart simply is a reign of love, a triumph of love and in that era there will be a type of love existent in the hearts of the members of the human family never known before. We will all be so united in love to the Father and the Holy Spirit through the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And not only with Them, but with each other. What a glorious era we have to look forward to.

    We are apostles. More and more as the Movement has gone on, Jesus is letting us know that, yes, we are supposed to pray. This is one of our primary duties in the chapters and elsewhere, to pray for priests and all others. But more and more He is telling us that now is the time to start to more and more move out from our chapters and to be apostles of His love, to help spread the Movement, to help spread the consecrations in the schools through the consecration cards, the Rosary Aves, both of which have the Imprimatur of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, to help spread all our materials, all our books and all the various rosaries, the rosary tapes. And you are called to do that.

    In the beginning of the Movement, it was a relatively few people who were carrying the burden and carrying the Ministry on. We have entered a great new episode of the Movement, principally in that episode, principally centers itself around these meetings of the 13th. More and more people are realizing as they hear more and more the messages, more and more people in the Movement are hearing that Jesus is calling each one of us to be apostles of the Movement, to spread the Movement, to help implement the various ministries in all ways possible, to help spread the movement by starting new prayer chapters. Just think if we have something like, I guess, 2500-3000 members in the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement here in this country and throughout the world-most of those, thus far, in this country.

    But just think if each person would take it upon himself or herself to go all out to get one more new chapter formed. That’s not impossible, I don’t think that’s asking something heroic. That would double our chapters; that would double our prayer power. And so much of the Movement, the success of it, depends upon the prayer power coming out of the chapters and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement. So He’s calling all of us; and how admirably so many in the Movement are answering. I wish to single out-just because all of you know about the Florida apparition-four or five, six, I don’t know how many now of our members from Rita’s core group have gone down to the apparition site. One of our main members, Tom A., has a home there at St. Petersburg, and Clearwater is just a short distance from there. And they’ve been going down and staying in his house, and each day going over to the apparition site and handing out our materials, especially the rosary message tape, but other materials also. This is what Our Lord, Our Lady has asked us to do. And they’ve had phenomenal success. We can’t keep enough materials down there. They just, the people are just so eager for it. But this is what. . .and they do it on their own time, they drive down, some of them spend three or four days, some a week and they come back. But what a marvelous example of their answering the call to the apostleship to which Jesus calls them in the Movement. And they’re doing just a tremendous amount of good.

    And by the way when I’m talking and as long as I’m talking about Florida I might read you part of that message of Our Lady. You have read it, no doubt if you’d gotten a copy of the picture with the message on the back. But for my own purposes I want to read that here and now. So Mary tells us, this is the message which Rita received on December the 19th:

Mary speaks: My dear children, I give to you, my Son, Jesus, born in a stable in Bethlehem on Christmas morn’. He is the Almighty God the Light of the world.

    I appear to you, my children on a bank in Florida. You have made money your god! Do you know how cold are your hearts? You turn away from my Son, Jesus for your money. Your money is your god.

    I am Mary, your Mother. I do not appear as I once appeared to you.

    When Rita got that message and when she gave it to me, both of us for a number of days thought that her number of apparitions was simply decreasing, but we both came to the conclusion; well Rita came to the conclusion and I followed after her, in agreement with her conclusion, Mary says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She was saying apparently that, "I’m appearing to you in this new way, where the whole world can see me."

    So many others’ apparition sites have had their believers of course, but many, many people throughout the world have doubted all this talk about the various apparition sites of Mary. She says, "I do not appear as I once appeared to you." She is appearing on a bank for the whole world to see.

Mary continues:

    "I am asking you today to circulate my message given on a tape on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. Please circulate this tape now."

    That’s one of the main things our apostles down in Florida are doing, handing out the tapes with this message.

Mary continues:

    "Please circulate this tape now. Give it to as many people as you can. I am Mary, your Mother. Please circulate my Rosary Book."

    She’s referring to a book which Shepherds of Christ Publications came out right around Christmas time. Hopefully all of you have received it in the mail, Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as given to Rita. Now here’s the point I want to make here and now. Notice how she links up the apparition site with the circulation of her Rosary Book, and we are circulating the book there. But to me, there’s a very great phenomenon connected with the colors on the window, bank windows and the Rosary Book. And Rita herself pointed this out to me. Now this cover on this book-it was designed by Hal K. weeks and even months before the apparition of Our Lady on the bank in Florida. When did you start to design that Hal? (question asked to Harold K.) Almost, two years ago. And the colors were already selected months ago, right? Well if you’ll take the picture of the bank of the apparition of the bank on Florida, and this Rosary Book, you will notice that the colors are the same. To me, that’s a miraculous confirmation of the fact that Our Lady is connecting the apparition site on the bank in Florida with the Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a special way with the rosaries. It’s just phenomenal. You can check the colors out one by one. They’re a little bit brighter on the book, but because of the photography involved I think you can see how they wouldn’t be quite as bright on this. But check out the colors. They’re the same on the Rosary Book and on this. And these colors, as I say, were picked by Hal months and months before the apparition. You can take it for what you want, but for me it’s a miraculous confirmation of this message, that Our Lady chose those same colors which are on the front of her Rosary Book, to show the same colors relative to her apparition there on the bank in Florida.

    Therefore, our Florida apostles are one of the many examples I could point out to you of how people in the Movement are more and more taking up the challenge, the invitation of Jesus and Mary to spread this Movement throughout the world. They have chosen the Shepherds of Christ Movement as a great instrument to help bring about the Fatima message. How privileged we are to be part of it, to be called to it. I believe, I’ve told you this before, at least some of you have heard me, I think this Movement is one of the greatest in the history of the Church. And I think history itself will bear that out. So how precious a gift each of us has been given by Our Lord in calling us to be members of this Movement.

    Therefore, a very important aspect of our consecration to Their Hearts is to be apostles, to help spread all the ministries. Another aspect of our consecration is the idea of union. I think we’re all very well aware how the consecration unites us to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and through Them to the Father and the Holy Spirit. But perhaps we don’t think often enough of that how it unites us with one another, in the Movement, in the Church, throughout the whole world. You cannot grow in union with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, without growing in union with all your neighbors. And this is the tough part. It’s relatively easy to love Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Mary, isn’t it? Three Persons in One God infinitely perfect and Mary a human person, perfect, free from all sin. It’s easy to love the Triune Persons and Mary, relatively speaking. But it’s not all that easy to love each other all the time, isn’t it? And yet that’s what Jesus calls us to. Jesus literally died for each and every person. And no matter how unattractive a person is in their behavior, Jesus still died for that person. If He loved that person enough to die for that person, then certainly we have to love them, him or her, and especially within the Movement. Satan is violently attacking us, he will always try to cause division in the Movement. But if we are going to be examples - and we are called to that, to be examples to the whole Church and the whole world of what it’s going to be like in the new era, when we all exist in such great loving union with each other in Christ. We are the forerunners of that. We’re helping to prepare the way for that for the whole Church, for the whole world. Not only us, but we have been given a special mission for that. So we have to be united in love with each other, if we have differences, we work them out in love and in peace. We work them out in love and in peace. In one of the Blue Books, Jesus says, "The glass is either half-empty or it’s half-full." I look at my neighbor, whether he or she is in the Movement or outside of it. I can either look at the half-empty part of the glass or the half-full part. I can either look at that person’s faults and concentrate on them, or I can concentrate on the great goodness which is inherently theirs. If they are in the state of sanctifying grace, their soul is magnificently beautiful, despite the blemishes of their failings of their sins. When I look at a person, do I look at the half-empty part or the half-full part?

    Everyday I ask you to pray for a growing unity in the Movement. What Our Lord has allowed us to accomplish so far in less than three years is just miraculous, I think it’s just miraculous. The sign becomes ever and ever greater that He started this Movement, not me. I was just the instrument which He chose to head it up. He has given me so many beautiful people to help me do the Movement and that includes all of you. He has given you so many beautiful companions in the Movement. Let us concentrate on that part of it. This is the only way we’re going to be models to the rest of the Church and the world, of the profound union that Our Lord calls us to, not only with Himself, but with each other.

    Strength for all this, day after day, it’s not easy to live this way, is it? But as I said in my homily, the great strength we have for that is the Eucharist. The power of the Eucharist is much greater than your faults or my faults or the faults of others in the Movement that surround you, or the faults of others in your parish, or the rest of the Church and the world. He can give you the strength to arise above your own faults and the faults of others around you, and march forward in the most positive way towards this great new era. Oh what a gift the Eucharist is.

    St. Julian Eymard, the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, who gave us such beautiful writings on the Eucharist, in one of his writings on the Eucharist he says:

    "It is true also that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from visiting Him and cripple the effects of His love. This world engrosses the attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in order to deter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus. It even fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional, as practicable at most only in a convent. And the devil wages incessant warfare on our love for Jesus in the most Blessed Sacrament. He knows that Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle." (That is if we give in to Jesus’ desire to possess us in the Eucharist.) "And yet God is all love. This gentle Savior pleads with us from the Host: "Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast the fire of love on the earth, and My most ardent desire is that it should set your hearts on fire." ¹

¹St. Peter Eymard, "The Most Blessed Sacrament Is Not Loved!," as in The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardon, S.J., ed.; Ignatius Press, p. 384.

    Union amongst ourselves through our union with Jesus and Mary and Father and Holy Spirit. Each of you is so precious to Jesus. He has given each of you a very, very, very special gift, precious gift, in calling you to be involved in this Movement. Very early on in the Movement, it was July 31st of 1994, on the Feast of St. Ignatius, He often gives me very important messages on key feasts, and the Feast of St. Ignatius is a feast for Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. And He told me in that message that He would give great, great, great graces to those who join the Movement, and hope I’m sure, all of you who have been in the Movement have experienced those great graces. In appreciation for the great graces Jesus has given you in the Movement, I ask you, with great joy and a great sense of responsibility and a great sense of privilege, to do what you can to implement the ministries of the Movement. No one else can do your role, can carry out your part. You are preciously unique, no one exists like you now, no one ever has, no one ever will. It’s you alone who can give Jesus the opportunity to do what He wants through your humanity to help spread the Movement. To the extent that you answer Jesus and give yourselves to Him, and work as time and energy permits, as your other duties permit to help spread the ministries, to that extent you give Him an opportunity which no one else can give Him, and to the extent that you hold back, to this extent He loses this opportunity which no one else can give Him.

    A precious Savior who has done so much to each of us. Certainly He deserves our full loving response. As I kneel before the crucifix each day, either before a actual crucifix or one in my mind, let us ask ourselves those questions posed to us by Ignatius Loyola, "What have I done for Christ?" "What am I now doing for Christ?" "What ought I to do for Christ?"

end of February 13, 1997 talk by Fr. Carter

August 8, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Here is a rosary I received same day

                                February 13, 1997.

Rosaries from the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary

This rosary was received on Thursday, February the 13th, 1997 at an International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. The rosary was led by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., spiritual director of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. The meditations and messages were given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and transcribed from the recording. This live recording can be obtained by writing Shepherds of Christ Publications. All of these meditations have been discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES

The Agony in the Garden

1. Jesus speaks:
   I have promised to be with you in a special way, My beloved ones. I am Jesus. I am with you this day, this special time to deliver to you messages that will help to bring about the completion of the Fatima messages. Mary appeared at Fatima from May the 13th until October the 13th of 1917. I am Jesus. Beginning October the 13th of 1996, the Fatima message will unfold through these messages that I deliver to you on the 13th. I am Jesus. These are My messages that I am giving to you, My apostles, that I have called here, to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message. My Heart will reign, My Sacred Heart will reign in the hearts of men and from the tabernacle. Many people will love, love God with the deepest burning love. You, My beloved ones, I have called you to come this day to be My apostles to go into the world, to carry out My burning love to the souls that are suffering and in pain. Will you answer this call? You are here because I have called you. You are the apostles. You are the messengers. I am giving to you the messages to help bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. I am Jesus. I have spoken. My Father has spoken from this church. He has delivered to you two messages that you must read in the Apostles Manual. The Apostles Manual is given to you to study that you will know what I am asking. I am asking you to go out and to carry My love letters to this world. It is through these love letters that many will know My burning love. Men will love God in a way that they have not loved God before, with a deep, burning love. It is through these letters they will know the most intimate secrets of My Heart. I love you with such love, My beloved ones. Open your heart now and listen to the messages that I deliver to you, My apostles.
2. Jesus has asked that I read the following message from the third Blue Book on June the 12th, 1994 entitled "The Carpenter". "You are he who goes to a carpenter to learn to make a cabinet. You know nothing. You do not have any idea of what you are to do. The carpenter knows exactly. He has a procedure whereby his plan will be accomplished. Every detail must be observed. He is the Master. You do not have the talent. You need talent to do woodwork. If you were given the talent and the directions, you could accomplish this task with such beauty. I am the carpenter. You are he who needs to be taught. You lack the talent. You need the gifts of the Spirit to accomplish My task! You come to Me in total ignorance. You are open, the Spirit fills you with the gifts. You have everything you need to do My work. The Father created you to accomplish His tasks. You are perfect. You must come open. You must know the plan. The plan is His will for you. If you do not follow the plan, the cabinet will not be built correctly. I am the Master. I guide you. I love you. I give you all you need. I walk you through every move. If you try on your own, you have a problem. You know not the way to build cabinets. You know not the way to Me on your own. You must come to Me to be taught. To go it alone is to your own detriment. Oh, little one, it is so simple. You, and your will, want to work your own plans. You know not how to do it. Only I can teach you what you need to know. Oh, please come to Me. I have all you need. The Spirit fills you with the gifts to know, love and serve God. To go it alone is like trying to build the cabinet with no knowledge of woodworking. Oh, little ones, I love you. Come to Me. Let Me teach you. The will of the Father is the happiness of your life. I am Jesus Christ, Son of God. I am God. I, God, long to be with you and to teach you. Go not off on your own. Come to Me. I love you so!"¹
3. Song: "Oh the rosary, the rosary..."
4. And the Father told me on January the 5th of 1995 that the Father's plan will unfold despite all the willfulness of all those involved. He gave to us two messages in January of 1997, the messages from the Father. Mary appeared everyday for fourteen months and she gave messages and she cried out. People did not listen to the pleadings of their Mother. Jesus has given to us these messages to bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. Mary appeared on the 5th of every month for two years and four months. And Jesus on the 5th of December appeared instead of Mary, dying on the cross with His mouth moving. And He said that people were not hearing Him. Then He began to deliver very strong messages starting December the 19th. I received these strong messages. Every night He would wake me and give me very strong messages. In January the Father began to speak, on the 5th of the month neither Jesus nor Mary appeared. On the 5th of February, I was sick and could not go to the rosary and receive this message. The messages in the Apostles Manual, these are His messages for you. For in these live rosaries, Jesus is delivering the messages to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message. He speaks in the message and He says that when you listen to the live tapes in a candlelight setting, when you pray the rosary fervently that He will be there and His Mother will be there in a special way and grant to you special graces. And all those present will receive special graces to be drawn ever closer to His Heart and the heart of His Mother. They appeared, both Jesus and Mary, over and over again. Now the Father has spoken. He is calling you the apostles to go out to carry the tapes and the live rosaries to your individual chapters, not in the churches but in private homes, in private settings where you can play these live rosaries where the people there can participate in the rosary and Jesus and Mary will be there with you. They will give you special graces to draw you ever closer to Their Hearts. And you will receive the graces He says that He has given when He was there and delivered the rosaries. This is His calling. These rosaries and messages will spread throughout the world and people will know the special grace when they pray this rosary in candlelight as Mary has requested. You are the apostles. You will carry Their messages to the far ends of the earth. And the world will know the fire of His love. For this is a new era, it is a new way. It will be a new earth in which men will love God with this great intimacy as never before and He is revealing in these messages, the intimate secrets into His Heart. He is longing for our love. Look at Him now in the tabernacle. See Jesus. Know that He is with us. Hear Him crying out to you, "Oh, come to Me and tell Me of your love. I am a Person and I am longing for you to tell Me how much you love Me. I am Jesus." This will be the era of great love. When we love one another as the Father intended and we love God with our whole heart, our whole soul, and our whole being and there will not be bumping of heads on this earth, but the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign in all hearts and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign from His throne, the tabernacle, in all churches. And the earth will be lighted with the burning fire of His love.
5. And so how do we feel now? Are we persecuted? As Father said in his homily, we are suffering. But there will be the new life and there will be this new earth and we will fervently love God with the deepest love. See Jesus in the garden. I know how it has felt many times to hear Jesus call out from the tabernacle, "Come to Me. I long for that soul that loves Me so dearly, for that soul that comes to Me and just outpours their love to Me." See Jesus in the garden and see the sweat come from His brow on the ground. For His greatest agony was not the agony of knowing that He would suffer, of knowing the wounds, His greatest agony was for the neglect, for the indifference, for the hatred, for what is inside of the hearts of men when He is love and He longs for love and He wants us to love one another. The greatest agony was the agony within His most Sacred Heart filled with divine love.
6. Song: "I come to you with greatest love..."
   Jesus speaks:
   You are My apostles that I am calling to go into this world. And I am giving to you a heart filled with love. As you come to Me, as you come and you adore the Almighty God and you pray before the tabernacle, I outpour to you the greatest grace and you will carry My love into this world. Many will know the burning fire of My love through you.
7. Jesus wants intimacy with us. He wants communication with us. He gave a special message that is in the front of the book. The new messages are in the front of the book. Jesus wants this: for ten minutes everyday, He wants you to take a notebook, He said a red notebook for the fire of His love, and to write in that notebook everyday how you feel in your heart about your beloved Jesus. In this ten minutes that you write to Him, you will communicate to Him the desires in your heart, the troubles in your heart, the feelings that you have in your heart to the Almighty God, our Divine Lover. We will become intimate with Him as we write to Him in this love letter. And after the ten minutes of writing to Him, telling Him whatever is in our hearts, if it is love, if it is joy, we are sharing with Him intimately the depth of our heart. And then He has requested that you open the Blue Book messages which are His love letters to you and for ten minutes read love letters from Him. Read each word as if Jesus is speaking to you and hear His words of love as He outpours them to you. And after this for the following ten minutes to spend this time conversing with Jesus, being intimate with Jesus, sharing whatever is in your heart with His Heart. This tool that He has given to us will increase our intimacy with Him. How can we be intimate with Jesus if we do not really share the desires that are deep in our heart with Him? This is His tool. These are His love letters that He writes to you.
8. Oh, my beloved Jesus, I love You so much. How many times I have come to this tabernacle and I have sat before the tabernacle and I felt your presence, the King on His throne, the Almighty God. And I have cried and cried and I have heard You call out to me and say, "I long for the soul that comes to Me and tells Me how much they love Me. I long for that soul. I want to hear the words of love from your lips. I want love from you. Bring Me souls. Bring Me souls for I long and I thirst for the precious souls that I love, that I gave My life for, that I suffered for, that I sweat blood for. I am God. I am love. And I long for love from My beloved souls, but how few come to Me and tell Me how they love Me."
9. And so I know this Person, this Person, a Divine Person, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that came and gave Himself for love of me and gives Himself to me everyday in the Eucharist. He comes and He gives Himself to me. And I write these letters to Him and He becomes more and more alive in my heart, as I read the messages that He has delivered to me. These are His messages to bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart, where there will be such intimacy between God and man as there has never been before in the past. These are His letters given to bring about the completion of the Fatima message as Mary promised. The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph. Mary appeared at Fatima. She told us her peace plan. Jesus gives to us this day the most intimate secrets into the love in His Heart.
10. Mary appeared over and over and over again. She appeared at Fatima. She appeared here in the Cincinnati area and her call was to bring in the children, the children of light, that they would consecrate their hearts to her and that she would then take them to the Heart of her Son. The plan was to bring the children to her heart and then to lead them to these messages that would bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. For they are Jesus' love letters, love letters that will help us to love Him with the greatest intimacy. But Satan blocked this plan. Mary called and the people came and Satan was strong for he did not want the reign of the Sacred Heart to come. So he blocked the messages that would lead people deeply into the Heart of Jesus. The Father has assured me and in these messages that His plan will unfold despite all of the tactics of Satan and anyone to try to block these messages. These are great revelations that He has given to us, that we will know Him in a most intimate way as we have never known God before.

The Scourging at the Pillar

1. And so we must be protected against the wiles of the evil one for he aims to stop all messages that will take men deeply into the Heart of Christ. Mary called and the children came. And it is in consecrating our heart to Mary that we will be able to go deeply into the Heart of Christ.
2. I sat in this chapel and received so many messages. There are so many stories given from the Father, from Jesus, and from Mary, that they have given to us to tell us about the Father's plan. I remember sitting in this chapel and I looked at the window where Jesus was being whipped at the pillar and I said to Jesus, I said, "Jesus, what were You thinking when You were being beaten?" And He said, "I was thinking of you sitting in the pew and telling Me of your love." For Jesus suffered such bitter persecution, such bitter wounds, but the love that we give to Him was sweetness during His bitter Passion. He was beaten, His flesh was torn, His Heart was broken, for He knew all the souls that would neglect Him, hate Him, and would be condemned to hell despite all that He did. But He also knew the great love that we give to Him and it was such sweetness to His Heart as He suffered during His Passion.
3. And so the plan of the Father unfolds and He said how important this chapel is to His plan. We look at the mysteries of the rosary in the windows from the beginning, from the Annunciation all the way to when Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth. We walk these mysteries in the lives of Jesus and Mary and their lives live in us as we meditate on the mysteries of the rosary and as we read these meditations that He has given to us. It is in these meditations that His life lives in us in a special way. He is in my heart, and my soul, and my whole being from these revelations. This is what He wants. He wants to be so one with us that He lives in us, that every word of scripture vibrates within us as we hear the words. We know Him and we love Him in each word in scripture, in each word in the Mass. We cry. We fall to our face. We worship, we adore the Almighty God. If we could see at this very moment, if we could see with eyes unveiled, we could not even see because of the immensity of the power of the Almighty God. He is here. God. And He is on His throne in this room and He is longing for us to tell Him of our great love for Him. Oh, Jesus, how dearly I love you. And the great gift that we are here and that God is in this room with us. Who are we that the Almighty God is here in this room with us? Oh, what a gift He has given to us. I want to cherish and love Him with all my heart for He is all my heart craves. God is here.
4. There is bitterness and there is sweetness. There is bitterness and there is sweetness. There was a time when I prayed in this chapel for years and then I was told to pray in a different place and there was bitterness. As I sat in the pew, I felt such sorrow within my heart because I had all these special rendezvous with my beautiful Jesus and Mary in this chapel, times that I met Him most intimately and I loved Him. And I did not want to leave and I went and prayed elsewhere. And He gave to me greater intimacies with Him. We are sitting here in the pew this day. We do not know what the future will hold. We only know that the Father's plan will unfold and that men will love God with greater and greater love. Jesus is here in the tabernacle with us today, the Almighty God. Do we treasure this within our heart? For tomorrow we may not have this great gift in the availability that we have it today. We do not know. Think of the great gifts that God has given to us in the Mass and in the Eucharist and how He is treated. I was sick and I could not go to Mass and I am writing the Mass Book. And in that book I recalled the most intimate times all through the Mass when I was so close to Jesus and He spoke to me and He told me of the great intimacy that He wants with us and that the Mass is the greatest love affair that there is, when He gives Himself to us and we give ourselves to Him. This is what the Mass is. It's a great love affair with Jesus. And so I could not go to Mass for a week and it was so hard as it was when I could not pray in this chapel for a while. It was hard but He was there in another tabernacle and He outpoured His great gifts. God is in this room at this moment in all His might and divinity. God is present. What a great gift He gives to us. He is outpouring His grace to us at this moment. We are being saturated with His divine life. He is outpouring His love. He wants us to open our heart and to tell Him, "Oh, Jesus, I love You." He is a Person and He is waiting for an intimate love. He is revealing to us the secrets of His Heart that we will more fervently love Him than any people before in history. He wants us to love Him, to love Him now.
5. On March the 13th, I remember this as if it happened yesterday, in 1994, Jesus called out from the tabernacle. This was at St. Phillips and it was so strong. He says, "I died for you, sweet one." This is from the Blue Book Two, "I allow you to suffer. This is suffering. You are given this to know how I suffered. You I only give such little things. I suffered, sweet one. I suffered, bloodied, bruised and beaten. Blood rolled down My cheeks. My head was pierced with sharp thorns. They spat on Me. They whipped Me. They beat Me on My head, My precious head. They hit Me on My thorns and the pain was so intense--the piercing thorns! I was slapped hard by these senseless ones. Oh, such evil in the hearts of those who beat Me, the Son of God! My whole Body ached from head to toe. I suffered so, My child. You will never know how I suffered for love of you. I am God and I loved all My precious ones to My death--and they ignore Me! Oh, how I suffer from this wounded heart. They will never know what love I have to give them. They will never know how I, God, love them. They are so busy with their worldly lives!" And He was so emotional here, I cryed and my insides felt like I was torn within from what He hollered at me and it was this, "You must tell them how I wait for them. I wait. I want them to come and I will give them such love! Tell them, Rita, tell them! Your discontent is from what emotions I give you and you keep them inside. I want all to know Me and My love. I am crying out to you, little one. Tell them, tell them. Do not waste any time. I am crying out for you to spread this message. I want you to tell all of My love and how I am waiting. Emotion! Emotion! I am crying out to you in your heart! I long for their love. I died for them. How do I make them know if you, to whom I speak, hold back? I want you to get the messages out, child. I loved all My beloved ones to My death."²
6. Song: "I come to you with greatest love..."
7. Jesus speaks:
   And so, My soldiers of love, I call you this day to be the soldiers that will go into the dark night and will spread My love to My beloved ones. I give to you the letters of My love. I give to you this special gift, the gift of knowing Me in the most intimate way. You must come to Me everyday. You must spend an hour with Me everyday, if you can, before the tabernacle for it is there that I give you a great sharing in My life. But if you cannot, you must spend an hour alone with Me in your home everyday. In this hour I will tell you of My intimate love for you. Write to Me your letter. Read My letters to you. Spend this hour alone with Me and I will sort out in your mind all of the confusion. I will give you secrets into My Heart. I will call you to the deepest chamber of My Heart and I will give you great love. I am Jesus. You are My lovers that will carry My love to the world today. You must put aside all of the bitterness and hatred in your heart for a heart that is filled with anger cannot unite to My Heart. My way is love. You are My apostles of love. You must be loving in your heart.
8. Look at Jesus tied to the pillar. See Him with the sores all over His body and His flesh is torn. Do you see Jesus there. This is how He loved us. He loved even those men that beat Him. My beloved Jesus, I know how it is today and how hard it is to love. I beg You for the grace that my heart may be more and more like Yours for I fall and I want to love like You. It is only through Your grace that I can be better.
9. Jesus speaks:
   I am giving to you great grace in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to come ever closer to My Heart. I am asking you to spread the chapters to this world. I am asking you to pray the prayers, to consecrate your hearts all through the day, to say the Holy Spirit prayer and the consecration prayers that you will be joined in one mind and one heart for you are My shepherds that will go into the darkness and will help unite all of the people with the fire of My love.
10. Hail Mary...

The Crowning With Thorns

1. And the King will reign on His throne. All men will love God with a burning love. This great era will come soon. He is giving to us great grace at this moment that we will know Him more intimately, that we will be able to help carry out what the Father is asking us to do to bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.
2. So Mary appeared at Fatima and she told us what we must do. We must carry the consecration into this world, to the church, to the family, to the school. It is in giving our hearts to Mary that we become children of light, that the Holy Spirit works within our hearts to make us more and more like Jesus. And that when we go to the heart of Mary in her pure and Immaculate Heart, we can then go into the Heart of Christ and unite to Him.
3. There will be this great era in which men will do what the Father wills them to do. There will be great love among men. We will live as the Father intended us to live. It is in the Shepherds of Christ Movement that He is calling us to be one in His Heart. And as we are one in His Heart and as we spread the consecrations, we lead the strayed ones home to His Heart.
4. See the Heart of Jesus surrounded by a crown of thorns. See His head pierced with a crown of thorns. He is the King. He is the King of heaven and earth. He does not wear a crown of jewels but He wears a crown of thorns for He longs for love. He gave Himself for love of us. It is up to us to give ourselves to Him in love and to give ourselves to one another in love. His Heart is a heart of love. He wants us to be one with each other and to be one in Him.
5. And so how is it that I can say, "I can love you, but not love you. And I can love you, and not love you" when the Heart of Jesus loves all souls. He gave His life for each and every soul. If I am divided in my heart toward any person, I am dividing myself from Jesus, for I will not be able to unite in the deepest union with Him when there is anger and bitterness and hatred in my heart. So we are hurting ourselves when we are hating and feeling angry in our heart towards others. His Heart is pure, His Heart is love. He gave Himself for each and every soul. He loved those that crowned Him with thorns, that tore His flesh. He walked with the wounds wide open on His body and He loved those men. He did not shout at them. He was not arrogant. He walked and He gave Himself for love of each and every soul.
6. Jesus speaks:
   You are My soldiers of love. I am calling you to be the soldiers that will help bring about this great era.
7. Hail Mary...
8. And the soldiers walked across the earth. And you could tell that they were soldiers for Christ for they loved one another, they lived in harmony, they saw the problem, and they worked together to figure out the problem according to the Father's will for His honor and glory. The kingdom of God is at hand. We are the people that He is calling to help bring about this great era in which the King will reign on His throne. But we cannot be divided with each other. We must love and do the Father's will.
9. Jesus speaks:
   I give to you these messages, My beloved ones, to bring about the reign of My Heart. They are the directions that I am giving to you. You will be My lights that will shine in the darkness. But you must surrender. You must do as the Father is asking you to do. You must come each day and spend this hour alone with Me.
10. Jesus gave to me a message last week and He said that the bombs would fly around us. And He said only those that spent this hour would be the ones that would survive. For Satan is trying to stop us. He knows that we have been called, the apostles, to help bring about this era. We cannot do it on our own. It only is in holiness that we can do this. It is only by God's might that we can do this. If we do not spend the hour alone with God everyday, we will have a problem. So Jesus gave to us this special tool of writing these letters so that we will be more intimate with Him. In this time we will share the most intimate desires of our heart with Jesus. This is what He wants, intimacy with us.

The Carrying of the Cross

1. Let us be there next to Mary as she walks and she sees her Son with a cross on His back. She sees Him covered with blood. He is not clothed in a golden robe. He is clothed in a cloak of dried blood and the cross bears heavy on His back. And they poke at Him and they laugh at Him and they scorn Him. Think of how we are and how we worry about what other people think of us. How we worry about how they are looking at us, what we are wearing. Was Jesus thinking about what people were thinking of Him when He walked with a cross on His back?
2. His Heart was consumed with the greatest divine love. He was filled with such love for men. His greatest agony was not the poking, not the bleeding, not the torn flesh but His greatest agony was the rejection. Think of how it is in your life. Think of how it is when you feel rejected and you do not feel loved. How painful that is. Think of Jesus carrying the weight of the sins of men on His back, loving them with the most perfect love, and seeing before His eyes all of the men that would hate Him and ignore Him and not even have a thought of Him, that would go to the Holy Eucharist, that would come to the church and not even realize that He is there. Think of the people how many times they walk in front of the tabernacle and they do not even genuflect and recognize the Almighty God, the King of all kings, truly present. God, God is there as He is here.
   Song: "In this very room there's quite enough love for one like me..."
   Jesus, Lord Jesus, is in this very room. How are our hearts for our King? Is the King of all kings reigning in our hearts? Or are there places in our hearts where there are debris and bitterness where we love some and we hate others? How are our hearts? Oh, Jesus, King of all kings, give to us the grace to be more like You.
3. I love Jesus so much and I want to be so one with Him, but it is so hard. I know that I must pray more and more. And He is showing to me more and more everyday that it is in this hour that I spend alone with Him that this is the true treasure after the Mass and the Holy Eucharist, that this is the treasure. That Satan attacks and he comes as a wolf in sheep's clothing, if I do not have this intimate time with Him everyday. Just as Jesus said, He said "If we do not spend time alone with Him that the devil will tear us to shreds because of the great mission that God has called us to in the Shepherds of Christ Movement." The plan of the Father will unfold. And it will unfold around us for this is Jesus' plan for the renewal of the Church and the world. You have been called, an apostle. I have been called, an apostle, and I must spend this time alone with Him everyday or Satan will cause us to act in ways that are not like God.
4. Hail Mary...
5. "He put another parable before them, 'The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everybody was asleep his enemy came, sowed darnel all among the wheat, and made off. When the new wheat sprouted and ripened, then the darnel appeared as well. The owner's laborers went to him and said, "Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from?" He said to them, "Some enemy has done this." And the laborers said, "Do you want us to go and weed it out?" But he said, "No, because when you weed out the darnel you might pull up the wheat with it. Let them both grow till the harvest; and at harvest time I shall say to the reapers: First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burnt, then gather the wheat into my barn."'" (Matt. 13: 24-30)³
6. The Father gave me a very strong message in this chapel and He said that I should read the accounts of Noah. I have not been taught greatly in the Scriptures. I only know what Jesus has taught me and what I have read. I went and read the account of Noah and someone that was typing the rosary said, "Exactly what you said was in Matthew." And so I read this from Matthew 24:37-44. It says: "As it was in Noah's day, so will it be when the Son of man comes. For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark, and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept them all away. This is what it will be like when the Son of man comes. Then of two men in the fields, one is taken, one is left; of two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, one is left. So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house. Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect."⁴
7. And Mary said, "The time is nigh that the children of light walk next to the children of darkness." And she called and she called and she called and men in their willfulness ignored her call. How do we think that the Father expected us to respond to the calling of our heavenly Mother. We are to obey our earthly mother but look at how we have disobeyed our heavenly Mother at Fatima.
8. She appeared over and over and over again and she called to the children of light to come to her heart. And it was there that she would take them to these messages to lead men deeply into the Heart of her Son. But Satan blocked these messages. Mary appears now as she did not appear before. She appears on the building in Florida. On December the 19th, I got a very strong message from Jesus and Mary both of which are in the Apostles Manual. And Mary said, "I appear on a bank in Florida, my children, because you have made money your god." She said, "I do not appear as I once did." And then she told me to spread the tape, Mary's Message, which I was told to make on December the 12th. Mary appears on a building in Florida. She wants to lead men to these messages given by her Son that will help bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart.
9. The time is nigh.
10. The more that we spread the consecration, the more souls will be turned to children of light. Mary has told us at Fatima what we must do. Jesus is giving to us these messages to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message in which His Heart will reign and her heart will triumph.

Jesus Dies on the Cross

1. In John 16: 23-28, it says, "When that day comes, you will not ask me any questions. In all truth I tell you, anything you ask from the Father he will grant in my name. Until now you have not asked anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and so your joy will be complete. I have been telling you these things in veiled language. The hour is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language but tell you about the Father in plain words. When that day comes you will ask in my name; and I do not say that I shall pray to the Father for you, because the Father himself loves you for loving me, and believing that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world and now I am leaving the world to go to the Father."⁵
2. Jesus has told me that He is giving His teachings to us in plain talk. He has given twenty books of messages since the end of 1993. As we read these messages we know Him more and more and He lives within our heart. Every word in the Scriptures penetrates our heart as a two-edged sword. The more that I read these messages, the more that every word comes alive to me in the Scriptures and in the Mass. He is unveiling the Scriptures in these messages and He is writing the messages of His love on our hearts in plain talk.
3. Jesus appeared on December the 5th hanging on the cross for twenty minutes and His mouth moved and moved and moved and moved. And He looked as a man hanging on the cross dying and it was horrifying, after seeing Mary appear every single month for over two years and then seeing Jesus instead of Mary when I went there. This is from the Mass Book: "God wants union with us. He wants fire. Many try to love God with a cold heart. They tell Him words that they think they should say that are loving. When one loves, they do not need to be prompted to say words. From the depth of their being they cry out their words of love. It is a cry from within, from the fire within their chest, behind the words. The words are burning in their chest and must be released because of the fire behind them. We are as blind men. We do not see the great gifts that God gives to us. It is as if we stand by the shore of the sea and throw little words at Jesus. We must not be afraid to jump into the water and be completely immersed in His love. He was consumed with such love for us. He gave Himself to His death on the cross. There is a man on a cross and He tells us so many things. He does not have to speak. When we study Him on the cross, He speaks to us with His pierced hands, His head covered with blood, His body withered and beaten. He speaks to us of His undying love. Oh, beloved Savior, I am blind. I am selfish. I do not see the great reservoir of love that you give to Me. I see the man dying on the cross. How do I see Him?"
4. I saw Jesus on the cross on December the 5th and He looked as a dying man on the cross. His body was that of a live man. And in all His agony, I saw His mouth move and move and move. For He has spoken over and over and over again of His love and we do not hear. He is asking you today to help to spread His letters of love into this world. It is through these revelations that He has given that He will greatly bring about the reign of His Sacred Heart. For men will intimately love God in a way that they have not loved God before. He has opened Himself up wide and revealed the deepest secrets into His most intimate love. And we have not treated this great gift with the gratitude that we should. He wants us to take these letters and to spread them to the souls that are hurting and in pain, that they will read His words of love and that He will reign as King in their hearts.
5. And what is the mighty medicine for the sick world, for the world that is hurting, that longs for love, that has suffered so many abuses? What is the mighty medicine? It is the burning love of Jesus Christ. It must be in the hearts of men. As men give themselves in consecration to the heart of Mary and to the Heart of Jesus, the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign in their hearts and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph.
6. There is a man hanging on the cross and He does not have to speak. If we study Him, we will see His undying, everlasting love.
7. Jesus speaks:
   I have delivered to you this day this rosary, My beloved ones. I want your love. I want you to come to My Heart. I want you to give Me your heart, all through the day to tell Me, "Oh, Jesus, how I love you and I give myself to you." I will be King and Center of your heart when you come to Me and you spend time with Me after you have received Holy Communion, when you come to Me and you spend time before the tabernacle, when you spend intimate moments with Me in your room at home. I want intimacy with you. It takes time to be intimate. I am Jesus. I am the Almighty God. I have all that you need. You must come to Me and I will heal your wounds, I will love you and I will give you My divine love.
8. And how do we feel when we go to the tabernacle? How do we feel when we go to the tabernacle or when we spend time alone with Him? He gives us great gifts, gifts of peace and joy in our heart. There is not another way. We must spend this time alone with Him or as He said in the message the bombs are going to fly around us. And if we do not have this intimate time with Him, Satan will tear us to shreds.
9. We give our hearts to Mary and she takes us into the deepest chambers of the Heart of her Son.
10. There is a man hanging on the cross. He gave Himself for love of us. He did not holler and scream. In His last dying words He gave us His Mother. We must give ourselves to our Mother Mary and give ourselves to Him.
    Jesus speaks:
    I am Jesus, My beloved ones. This is the message that I give to you on the 13th of February to help with the completion of the Fatima message. I am asking you to carry these rosaries and messages to the far corners of the earth for I give to you My love letters to bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. You are the apostles that will help bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart. You are the messengers. I have called you. I have chosen you. You must do the Father's will. I am giving to you the directions in these messages that are needed to help bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart. The Shepherds of Christ Movement is major in bringing about the renewal of the church and the world. You have been called to this movement. Satan will try to lead you astray by doing other good works. He will cause division in your hearts. You must know that I, Jesus Christ, am calling you this day. You are a major part of the completion of the Fatima message. You are part of the Father's plan. You have been called to this chapel and great miracles will happen in your heart this day if you open your heart to Me. I love you. I am waiting for your most intimate love.

Notes:
1. Rita Ring, God's Blue Book Vol. 3, Shepherds of Christ Publications p. 122.
2. Rita Ring, God's Blue Book Vol. 2, Shepherds of Christ Publications p. 159.
3. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
4. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.
5. Scripture quotations are taken from The New Jerusalem Bible, Catholic Edition, Doubleday and Co.

August 8, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Here are some writings from the front of the

                                Red Rosary book.

Excerpts from the Red Rosary Book

July 5, 1994 6:30 p.m.

I was told to go to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center to pray the rosary with my children. There were people in the front of the church, so we decided to pray the rosary in the back before the Sorrowful Mother statue. I had the following vision at the end of the rosary.

The statue of the Sorrowful Mother was lit up as if she had fire around her. The light was very bright. Her whole gown was all-white, but the statue's gown is blue and pink. She was all aglow. It looked like the glow that comes off of a fire. Her face kept changing but remained totally sorrowful-the sorrow of an older woman. She was in such pain and sorrow! (It was hard to explain how she looked-extremely pained!) Her face looked as though she was in such pain that she could hardly bear it.

The vision remained like this for about ten minutes, having begun during the last Hail Mary of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary. She was holding something-it was all bright white-the brightest light ever!

Mary appeared almost every day from July 5, 1994 until September 5, 1995 at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. A video taken at the last rosary revealed a pink mist over the statue during key meditations during the rosary. This video is available upon request. Also available are audio tapes of some rosaries in this book and live rosaries received later. A live rosary is a rosary in which I receive these messages directly from Jesus and Mary. Most rosaries last about one hour. They are taped and these meditations and messages are transcribed from this tape. Mary continues to appear to me.

end of excerpts from the Red Rosary Book

     

Excerpt from November 1, 2001 

Messenger:    

        At the end of 1996, December 5, 1996, Jesus appeared
           on the cross at the point of death—
           this was after Mary appeared on the 5ths
           since July 5, 1994. He said later, He appeared December 5, 1996
           with His mouth moving because no one was listening.

end of excerpt from November 1, 2001 

Excerpt from December 12, 1998

On December 12, 1996, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I was told to go to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. I sat on a folding chair in the back of the chapel where we had one of the last rosaries in that chapel before we were told to go to the Sorrowful Mother Chapel.

Mary and Jesus both spoke to me. They gave me clear directions to make the Mary's Message tape and to put on the label "Jesus and Mary requested that this tape be made and circulated on December 12, 1996, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe." I was told to make the tape, have it checked by Father Carter and pass the tape out at Tom's farm the next day for the December 13, 1996, gathering. We worked very industriously to do this and the next day we began the December 13, 1996, gathering with Mary's Message tape.

end of excerpt from December 12, 1998

Excerpt from Mary's Message Tape

Messenger: It is recommended this message from Mary be read before the crucifix. This message was received from Mary in a live rosary August the 27th, 1996 at Tom Arlinghaus’ farm. Mary appeared to me daily from July the 5th of 1994 until September the 5th of 1995. The story of these apparitions are given in a book published by Shepherds of Christ Ministries called Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Mary appeared on the 5th of the month from July the 5th of 1994 until October the 5th of 1996. On that day Mary gave to me the following message: "On this October the 5th, 1996, I beg you, as your heavenly Mother, to not ignore the importance of these rosaries. I have appeared, I have begged, I have warned you. I can not hold back the hand of my Son any longer. His hand is struck with power.

On December the 5th, 1996, Jesus appeared on the crucifix. His mouth and His jaw moved for twenty minutes. It is significant that Jesus appeared on December the 5th, 1996 instead of Mary appearing. Jesus has called His apostles together on the 13th of the month at 12 o’clock.  

(End of excerpt from MARY’S MESSAGE TAPE)

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996  

Excerpt from December 31, 1998

Messenger:  On October 5, 1992, I said to Jesus, "If You were to write a book, what would You say to the world? Use my hand and write Your book for the world."

    I received a long response from Jesus. He spoke of the light and dark side of people. He spoke of people in the dark side not feeling they have enough. He told me there is enough to get along.

end of excerpt from December 31, 1998

October 5, 1995

Mary speaks: I am Mary, your Mother. This is an urgent call to you at the Center and the Shepherds of Christ Movement. I have appeared as Our Lady of Light for 14 months daily at the Center. I have given to you special rosaries to be circulated among the youth and for all of your devout souls to be drawn closer to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. These rosaries are an important part of the fulfillment of Fatima.

    I have called a special rosary on the 5th of each month in honor of the 5 wounds suffered by my Son and the 5 blasphemies suffered to my Immaculate Heart. I have called and called for all to follow the promises given at Fatima for those who honor my request to pray on the First Saturday of the month. I am calling out an urgent plea to answer my call. I have appeared from April 5th, until September 5th, at the Center, six appearances. The first rosary received in the Sorrowful Mother Chapel was March 17th, a very important rosary, received before the exposed Eucharist. I requested the rosary be prayed in the presence of the tabernacle. On March 21, 1995, a special rosary was prayed before the Pieta at the Shepherds of Christ meeting. Many of my children saw events at that rosary. On March 30, 1995, I came in a special way, the corner was filled with a tinted film and I was adorned in such light and alive. At this time I requested the rosary be prayed in the Sorrowful Mother Chapel. The rosary was prayed there for the Shepherds of Christ meetings and many nights. This continued for six months. On September 1st, I gave a very special rosary at 12:00 noon, Friday, a time my Son requested that the rosary be prayed at the Center. Rosaries were given on most Fridays at 12:00 noon. Very tender rosaries of my Son's special love for His beloved souls. I want published a book of these rosaries received on Friday at 12:00 noon. I want published the first book of rosaries with all the rosaries already discerned. In this book, you should include pictures of the windows in the Rosary Chapel, the love songs given from my Son, Jesus, the Seven Sorrows and the messages I have specified. The second book of rosaries should be all of the rosaries received during the Shepherds of Christ meetings. These rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary were given to teach chapter members about Our lives. They are to be spread to this world. They will lead the hearts of your members to my Heart and the Heart of my Son. A book should be published as soon as possible for rosaries for children. I have given many children's rosaries, and the early rosaries were given for children. These rosaries should be used in the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement.

    We have given to you thirteen books. Many answers to your problems are in these books. These books, God's Blue Book and Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary are an important tool to draw souls back to the Church. My Son is so wounded by the indifference and neglect given to Him in the Eucharist.

    The Center will light up this world, for many of my messages and my Son's messages were received there. The rosaries were received at the Center. The hearts of many will be filled with the love of God when you circulate these rosaries.

    I call out to you. I will continue to come on the 5th of each month. The time was changed at Our Lady of the Woods for I have requested that the rosary be prayed close to 6:30 p.m.

    Your Center will remain divided. The funds will come when these rosaries and love letters are circulated.

    The funds for the Shepherds of Christ will come when you circulate and publish the books and tapes. I have given to you information about these books. My Son has requested a book of messages given after the daily Masses. These messages will lead many to a deep union with God during the Mass.

    You are given great gifts in these messages. Satan has confused and tried to stop these messages. These messages need to circulate. They will lead many to God. I beg you with my motherly Heart to please listen to me. Today is a special day, this October 5th. This is my message to all, to help circulate these messages. Pray earnestly for their circulation and publication. Pray for the funds to help you circulate the books and tapes. The tapes will help many in hospitals, nursing homes. Pray for the funding and it will come.

    Many other messengers will come to confuse the importance of these messages. SATAN wants these messages stopped. When they are circulated, my Son will unite deeper and deeper in such oneness with many hearts. These will be the soldiers that will carry His love to this world. Unless these messages of His love are transmitted in the Church, the Church will continue to suffer.

    I beg you to listen. I am Mary, your Mother. Many of my little children will go to hell. You hold personal messages from Our Hearts and Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

    I am Mary, your Mother, and thank you for responding to my request.

end of October 5, 1995 message

           

October 5, 1996

Apostles Manual

Mary speaks: I am Our Lady of the Rosary. The Fatima message will unfold around the Shepherds of Christ Movement. I am begging you, please, publish these Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I appeared daily for 14 months and delivered rosaries for the world. Why have these rosaries been held back from this world? Souls are dropping into hell. Do you comprehend the importance of these rosaries to the Fatima message?

    I have appeared as Our Lady of Light and Our Lady of Sorrows delivering these rosaries.

    I am now delivering this message as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.

    A great mission I give to you, my beloved apostles in the Shepherds of Christ Movement is to live these rosaries and spread the messages to the world. You must reach the world with these teachings I am giving in the rosary.

    On this October 5, 1996, I beg you as your heavenly Mother to not ignore the importance of these rosaries. I have appeared, I have begged, I have warned you. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. His hand is struck with power.

    Today is the 5th of the month, first Saturday. I beg all to study this message and to tell all that come on October 13th, 1996 the importance of these live rosaries and the completion of the Fatima message.

    I am Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. This is the key to watching the Movement spread. I am assisting you in publishing and circulating these rosaries. Anyone who stops the rosary messages and meditations will deal with my Son, Jesus!

    Souls are at stake and souls have been lost because of the delays to hold back the messages in God's Blue Book and Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Any negative references in the Movement to these messages displeases my Son for you have been given the greatest gifts in these revelations. I am asking all to help in the circulation of these rosaries and messages. We are communicating to the world majorly in these messages. The completion of the Fatima message is greatly dependent on these messages. Do not give into Satan any longer to block these messages. You are dealing with my Son, Jesus. This is a great gift given to the world. It would please my Son greatly if you expressed to Him your great thanks for the gifts He has given to you. Your answers are found in these messages. They must be studied and recognized for the great gift they are. You were chosen by God to deliver this message to the world. The ingratitude of many displeases my Son greatly. It is now time for the leaders of the Movement and all apostles to support these messages. It is now time to study the content in its entirety. You are missing the key directions because you do not even read the messages.

    I am Mary, your Mother. You will be rewarded with the funds needed when you publish these messages and rosaries.

end of October 5, 1996 message

Excerpt from the Daily Messages

Five days later, December 17, 1996, she was noticed on the building in Florida, looking as Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Rosary Book by Shepherds of Christ Ministries was released with a rainbow on the cover, matching the rainbow color she appeared in, on the building.

end of excerpt

August 8, 2003 message continues

Messenger:            Today we see how Mary has appeared in

                            Rainbow Color since December 17, 1996.

                                A sign of the rainbow —

Genesis 9: 12-15

    And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come:  I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

August 8, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        One of the gifts Mary and Jesus gave to us are these

                                rosary meditations from the Hearts

                                of Jesus and Mary.

                            What a gift —

                            Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary  

       
                                                        (Spanish)    

(English)
 

(Spanish)

August 8, 2003 message continues

Messenger:        Today is the Feast of St. Dominic.

                            Today we thank God for giving us

                                Mary and the Rosary.

                            We have received rosary meditations for

                                all ages of life — little toddlers to the elderly.

Mary speaks:    This I have given to my children to pray

                                the rosary.

                            Pray the rosary to help you in your

                                spiritual life.

                            Meditate on the Mysteries of the Rosary.

                            Please help me spread this school

                                Rosary Program to the schools.

                            I am your Mother.

                            Jesus and I, Mary, give you these

                                rosary meditations from our Hearts.

                            It is a must you meditate on these mysteries

                                to help you grow in the spiritual life.

                            Pray the rosary with the children,

                                with the elderly.

                            I give you these nursing home videos.

August 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:    I appear on each video for my nursing

                                home ones and the whole world.

                            Help me circulate my wallet pictures —

                                tell all I appear on the building

                                in Clearwater.

                                Help me circulate my Rosary

                                    program for all.

                                Help me reach my school children

                                    with the school rosary program

                                Help me,

                                I am Mary, your Mother,

                                    Mother of all the children — 

August 8, 2003 message continues

Mary speaks:     I am Mary, Mother of the Eucharist —

                                I love you so much.

                            My Son gives you Himself in the 

                                Eucharist.

                            I appear to spread His Movement

                                Shepherds of Christ and these writings please

                                help me.

                            I appear today August 8, 2003 on this

                                web site —

                                click on here for my image

                                    on the building as I appear

                                    right now.

                            Will you help me reach the schools.

                            Spread the Spanish Material.

                            Pass out the wallets to English and Spanish

                                to all.

                            Pass out the Guadalupe/Clearwater image on

                                wallet size pictures also.

                            I am Mary Immaculate —

                            I appear to you today —

                            Please help me.

                            Do not be jealous —

                                My Son Jesus died for all the souls

                                    please help me reach them.

                            My Son Jesus has given you this

                                movement for the world.

                            I am Mary, my messages are for

                                the whole world.

March 8, 1995    2:25 p. m.

Nursing Home

He Knocks at the Door of our Hearts

Jesus: I will knock on the door of their hearts and whoever opens I will come in and I will sup with thee.

John 14: 6   I am the Way; I am Truth and Life... 

Jesus: I am He Whose bootstraps you are unworthy to fasten and I come to you with greatest love, My beloved dear ones.

    Oh, how I love thee. Oh, how I wait for you. I ardently love you with an unfathomable love, yet you keep yourselves at arm's length from Me. Some never even come close to Me.

    I stand, I knock. I wait so patiently. Gently, I treat you. You do not comprehend the great love I have for you.

    I beckon you to listen to My words here, for I truly speak to you. Remove the crust from your eyes. Pray that you may see with hearts that are open to Me, that clear vision is had in your hearts. You look, you wonder, you roam, you cover your eyes. You close your hearts and I watch you, so gently do I tap. So willful you are and set in your ways.

    I knock, I knock, I knock so gently and patiently. All that you want, all that you need is found in Me, yet you turn your backs and miss My great love for you.

    My dear, dear loved ones. I love you with unfathomable love. I knock, I knock, I knock minute-by-minute, second-by-second. I tend to your needs. Harken to My call. I love you, I love you, I love you. I am Jesus, your Savior on fire for love of you, My dear, dear chosen ones.

    You think I do not know your sufferings. I know everything about you. I ponder the ways of your heart. I know you far better than you know yourself. I am Jesus, your beloved Spouse, the Bridegroom of your soul. Harken to Me. I love you, I love you, I love you. This is My love letter to you, My sweet ones.

February 2, 1995

                            Pray for

                                5 very urgent intentions

                                An audience with the pope for Rita

                                Margaret

                                All priests involved

                                Funds for building payment, funds to pay for it free and clear.

                                Funds for us to do what Jesus and Mary ask us to do.

                                Funds for school rosary mailing.

                                Pray for August 13th, Retreat August 12, 13, 14 China

                                Bishops

                                All conventions and those we touch.

                                All Shepherds of Christ intentions.

                                Vocations to all 7 categories.

                                All priests involved.

                                All who touch the Movement in any way.

                                All prayers for the priests, the Church and the world.
   

                            Dear Jesus, we ask that Your Blood be

                                spread on all of us and the whole world.

                                We consecrate all hearts to Your

                                    Heart and Mary's heart.

                                We beg for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

                                We cast the devil far away from us

                                    into the fires of hell.

                                Please help us do what you want.
  

                            Dear Jesus,

                                I love you so much.

                                Help me to be so one with you.

                                Help me to rely on Your Might.

                                Help me to do Your will.

                                Help me to have peace, love and joy.

                                Help us to be united in the Shepherds of Christ

                                    in such oneness and work in harmony

                                    with each other.

                                Help us to be in one mind and one heart and

                                    all work to do what You have asked

                                    us to do.

Let Me Permeate Your Being

Excerpt from February 24, 1994 6:00 a.m.

Jesus:  This world is sinful. Your lives are but fleeting moments in the scope of eternity. They are here and then, like smoke, they vanish.

I am your God. I am Jesus Christ. I come to you. The closer you come to Me, the more I tell you of Myself. I am sorrowful for what is happening. I love you so much. I want you to know Me as a real person. I want you to turn to Me as you would your intimate lover. I want you to come and share your heart with Me.

I am not a God far off. I am Jesus Christ, so present to you this day. I come in such union with you in Communion. Your growth with Me depends on you and how you spend time with Me. If you want to know someone, you must spend much time alone with that person. To your ardent lover, no time is enough. You wait and you anticipate your union.

This is what I want with you. I want to be a part of every thought. I want you to run to My arms and pour out your heart. I want you to wait with such eagerness for the time you spend with Me. I want you to make Me the very center of your life. I want every breath you breathe to be for the glory of God. I want your all. I am a jealous God. I want you to be this connected to Me.

Your soul craves this union. Nothing here will satisfy it. To strive for union with Me is to live in harmony with the song of the soul. You were created to have this union with Jesus Christ and thus this union leads to such love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is God. To love Him intimately leads to union with God.

You cannot separate the Son from God. He is God and God is all three: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. To know Jesus intimately is to know God. But, you will never know God here as you crave. There is this constant longing and aching for more. To know God a little, but never enough! Know there is a restlessness of the soul to behold Him more. The soul will never be satisfied until you obtain heaven. You crave God. The closer your union with Him, the more you want every moment with Him.

My ways I make plain to you. My love I give freely. I wait for you as an ardent lover that never goes away. It is you who keep yourself from Me. Every attachment you have to this world keeps you from greater union with Me. I wait for our love affair with every beat of My heart. I love each of you this intently. You are responsible for this union.

If you want to be close to Me, give up your attachments. You cannot be attached to things and people and be in proper union with Me. I must be first in your life. Any person or thing you use should be there only as it leads you closer to Jesus. To make anything or anyone so important in your life is to lead you away from Jesus. I must be Number One. The love you have for others comes from your love with Me.

Let Me possess your soul. Let Me permeate your being. Let Me use you to do My work. Surrender yourself. The reward that waits for you is so great you will never know. You must realize I am Number One and be busy about our love affair. To know Me, to love Me, is to spend time alone, especially in front of the tabernacle, to spend time alone with Me after Communion. I am closest to you then. I am inside of your body. I am there, God-made-man, inside of your body. Do you want to know and love Me? Then never leave right after Communion. Be absolutely alone with Me! Those moments are so precious. Those are the closest moments you have with Me. You must stay and relish every second. It is so simple, but people have a free will. They place other things before this union. Then they cry, "Lord, Lord, let Me know you." Sit with Me after Communion. Let yourself go entirely. Focus on My intense Love! This is your moment. These are your golden gems. You are My bride and I am the bridegroom of your soul.

Do you want to know Me? Come to your lover. I am a person. I am He Who loves you. Treat Me like a person you love so much! Be with Me in your heart. Love Me with action from your heart. Let go as you would experience one you love ardently. Let go and focus on the love between us. I want to love you. I long for you to be close to Me. I am God. I can do all things. You must choose Me first and spend time with Me.

People say they want to be close to Me, but they want it on their terms. I come in the busiest moments of your lives and you are missing My love affair with you. You want Me on your terms, in your time. You want a quick time with Me. You don't do that to someone you love. You linger and do not want to leave. You want this attentiveness and you give it to the other person. I want a love affair with you. I want burning love. I want to be Number One in your life. I want you, My little beautiful ones. I am God and I long for you with a heart afire. I long for you with My ardent love. I come to you in Communion. God comes to you and you treat Me so coldly. I love you. I want you. I am eagerly waiting for you and you treat me coldly. You run off to senseless things and pay no heed to God Whom you receive in Communion. How this hurts My aching heart! To love you so much--God-t-o come to you, only to be made light of!

You do not know the pain in My heart for such indifference. You do not know how silly you are to run after these senseless things when God is waiting for your silent moments with Him. Busy, busy--and I wait. I grow so tired of speaking because they do not have ears that hear. They want signs and words and what have you and I come into your heart. I share Myself with you in Holy Communion. You, child, behold God in your breast, and you run after senseless things!

You want to know God. You want to love God. You want to serve God. Quit the lip service. Sit with Me. It is very simple. You do not know anyone if you never spend time alone with them. Sit after Communion. Alone. You want to do what you want to do. You want Me to fit into your concept of God. To know Me is to be always ready to grow, to open up to the Word of God here and to listen and be taught. I am Jesus. I am telling you in simple terms how to know Me and love Me and really serve Me. You are so willful. You want it your way. That is why you do not listen!

Surrender and be taught. Comply with the will of The Father. These prayers are beautiful when they are said for love of Me and My mother and when they come from your heart out of great love!

These prayers are cold and offend Me when you decide to do your quota and rattle them off, who knows where, and then say, "Oh, I spent so much time with Jesus." Do I get anything out of this time "with Him"? I do not like this cold prayer. You decide to do an endless stream of prayers, do them to get them in, and then ignore Me all day.

I want action from your heart. I want love. I want to be as close to you as an ardent lover. I am a person. I am God. I wait for your love affair with Me this day. Please harken and be with Me. I wait for you with such longing--you and you alone. See My eyes looking on you with such tenderness and longing. See My heart on fire for love of you. Come and be fed in the soul by God himself. No man can ever come close to My love. Nothing can give you what I alone have to give you.

Come, I love you!

end of excerpt from February 24, 1994

end of August 8, 2003

August 8, 2002

Jesus speaks:     Do you know what it is to love 
                                and give and love and
                                give and be rejected.

                            Oh My precious souls, I give you
                                Myself in the Eucharist, Body,
                                Blood, Soul and Divinity.

                            Oh My beloved souls, I am God.

                            Oh My souls, I speak to you, but
                                you do not hear.

                            You have persecuted My Church,
                                My beloved bride.

                            You have slandered My Mother
                                and your Mother, the Mother
                                I gave you as I hung
                                dying on the cross.

                            Oh My Church, I speak here
                                and I am ignored.

                            I was mocked and spit on by
                                the men I loved.

                            Oh I send you these gifts in
                                My Priestly Newsletter.

                            Oh My men I write to you.

                            I give you My letters of love in
                                God's Blue Book and these
                                messages and you treat them
                                like dirt.

                            Oh My men, could a math teacher
                                write so profoundly and
                                simply.

                            Oh We give you the Virgin
                                Mary building and you are
                                too busy to take notice.

                            Oh My men, I am rejected this

                                day, my messenger, I allow

                                you to experience this rejection

                                that you will know some of

                                the pain I felt in the garden.

                                Oh how I suffered for the likes

                                    of you.

                            And you, My beloved priest—

                                Do you treasure your priesthood?

                            Or do you listen to the people of

                                the world who discredit Me!!

                            Oh My earth, I cry, I cry to 

                                thee and you will not hear Me.

                            Your ears are plugged.

                            Your eyes are blind.

                            Your pride is a pride that is

                                not to My liking.

                            Oh Prideful men.

                            My Name has been so hideously

                                used.

                            The Eucharist is not treasured.

                            I cry to you to listen to Me.

                            I give you this as a sign of

                                My Movement Shepherds 

                                of Christ.

                            I give you My Priestly Newsletter

                                for your priests.

                            I give you these prayers to

                                be prayed daily for your

                                priests, the Church and the

                                world.

                            Oh your life is but a breath and

                                in moments it is taken from

                                you and you are taken from

                                your place.

                            Oh that you would open your

                                hearts and listen to Me, but

                                you have rejected Me.

                            You do not promote My Priesthood.

                            Look at how Singers and Rock Stars

                                promote their songs, some

                                so vile.

                            Oh My men you are given such

                                gifts in My Priesthood.

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Oh My men are you pompous and

                                arrogant, seeking your treasure

                                here below.

                            Like the blowing wind and the

                                waves at sea, they come and they go.

                            You come to this earth and you

                                leave and the only seeds you

                                plant that last forever to bring

                                happiness to men are the ones 

                                that promote My kingdom.

                            You are here but a short while

                                and then you are gone,

                                your body, you deemed so important,

                                rots beneath the ground and

                                you can never live those days

                                again.

                            When you go to bed tonight, those

                                moments of the day are gone

                                forever.

                            Like seeds planted in the hearts

                                they can spread the good news

                                of the Kingdom.

                            Oh My men, I cry to you.

                            Do you see your Mother.

                            Some you believe

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Some you don't

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     And the obvious connection goes

                                unnoticed.

                            A Jesuit priest no matter how

                                intelligent could not have

                                written all this

                                18 books

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     And a college math professor and

                                mother.

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Here is the Lady

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Here is My Face

February 5, 2001

April 5, 2001

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     After I gave Fr. Carter the

                                messages to begin the

                                Movement 2 1/2 years later

                                Mary appears on the building.

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Oh why do you test your God.

                            Do you think I do not see the

                                evil in the world, the evil

                                in the hearts?

                            Do you think I do not see

                                what you are doing to the

                                unborn babies.

                            What sign would you listen to?

                            What man would you accept as a

                                messenger.

August 8, 2002 message continues

Jesus speaks:     Fr. Carter entered the Jesuits August 8, 1951.

                            Rita Ring born August 8, 1946.

                            Almost 50 years later with a

                                doctors in theology and 18

                                books later on the spiritual

                                life Fr. Edward Carter died.

                            December 18, 2000 (the day after

                                the 4th anniversary of Mary

                                on the building, after the

                                6:20 prayers)

                            Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. wrote the

                                last 33 years of the second

                                millennium and published

                                33 Newsletters for priests

                                before his death.

                            He died at the end of the

                                second millennium.

Messenger:        Shepherds of Christ acquired the

                                loan of the building in Clearwater

                                on the last business day of the

                                second millennium after leasing the

                                building for 2 1/2 years and operating

                                from there since Mary appeared

                                on the building.

Excerpt from March 21, 2002 message

Messenger:         On December 17, 1996 the Red Rosary Book
                        left the printers.

    

March 21, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         This rosary book was made up of rosary meditations 
                        given during Mary's daily apparitions from July 5, 1994 
                        to September 5, 1995.

                            Fr. Carter prayed for this book every day at
                        Mass and had carefully discerned it. He
                        was there for many of the rosaries when I
                        received the messages.

                                  Here is the shipping label when the book left
                        the printers.

   

   

March 21, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Mary appeared the same day in rainbow
                        color on the window in Clearwater, Florida.
                        The rainbow matched the color on the book.

  

Mary appeared December 17, 1996		book shipped December 17, 1996

  end of excerpt from March 21, 2002

         

   

Genesis 9: 13-15

I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

 

    

March 21, 2001

   

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August 8, 2002

Messenger:        Dear Jesus,

                                You are what my heart desires.
                                You fill me with your love.
                                    33 years
                                Oh He is the bridegroom.
                                He is the one who adorns His bride
                                    in the most beautiful attire.
                                The finest silk, the richest linens,
                                    pearls of a treasure no one
                                    could describe.

                                How would God dress His bride
                                    for Their marriage?

                                He would crown her with a crown
                                    of beautiful flowers.

                                He is attentive to her every need,
                                    but this is the gift He gives
                                    her.

                                He gives her a gift that leads her
                                    to deeper intimacy with Him.
                                He wore a crown of thorns,
                                    He wore a purple dirty robe,
                                    His body was beaten.

                                When his legs ached from the weight
                                    of the cross, he walked on until
                                    He fell.

                                Oh, it is a journey here below.
                                Every day may seem a day of struggle
                                    and suffering.

                                Where are the flowers and the rich
                                    linen for His bride?

                                Oh but He says it is in the suffering
                                    you are brought closer to Me.

                                He may strip us of those we feel close
                                    to.
                                He may allow our legs to ache and our
                                    heart to feel broken and in
                                    the thorns we reach for the
                                    Savior.

                                We see Him our Bridegroom, the
                                    one with the deepest love, the
                                    one with His arms open wide.

                                We see Him adorned in a red garb
                                    and His white tunic, arms
                                    outstretched always waiting for
                                    us to come.
                                    His eyes are gentle, soft and
                                        loving.
                                    His Heart burns on His chest
                                        with a golden glow and
                                        His Heart is surrounded not
                                        by a wreath of flowers, but
                                        a crown of thorns.

                                    His Heart has a pierced mark and
                                        Blood drips from His Heart.

                                    The day is a day of closeness with
                                        our beloved God, our
                                        Beloved Jesus and His Sacred
                                        Heart.

                                    When I looked for the love my heart
                                        craved, I saw that only He
                                        could give me what I desired.

                                    I ask what is life and I know
                                        the life I seek is life in Him.

                                    I know He fills me with love.
                                    He is the Divine Bridegroom,
                                        I am His bride.

                                    I seek, I want, my heart is filled
                                        with a desire to be filled
                                        with His deep love.

                                    I hunger, I thirst, I want Him and
                                        His love.

                                    Oh we do not know the gifts God has
                                        for those who love and serve
                                        the Lord.

                                    This is the day the Lord has made,
                                        let us rejoice and be glad.

                                    What we are dealt today may be a
                                        thorn, it may seem of tremendous
                                        proportion and yet we see the
                                        Savior, His Head crowned with
                                        thorns, His Heart pierced with
                                        a lance.

                                    We see the thorns that surround His
                                        burning Sacred Heart.

                                God is Love.

                                    I see the evil in the world and I feel
                                        overwhelmed and saddened.

                                    I want the Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

                                    I want all the men of the earth to make
                                        the Sacred Heart the King and Center
                                        of their hearts.

                                    I long for this.

                                    I long for completeness in Him.

                                    I feel I am in a desert land.

                                    I feel my heart is so empty at times,
                                        longing to be filled by Him.

                                    I see the emptiness it seems of so many,
                                        their focus on all the sports and
                                        bizarre movies and the focus on the
                                        lives of their movie heroes and singers,
                                        many who live very unholy lives.

                                Our model is Christ.
                                Jesus is the Divine God.
                                We don't need our children trying to
                                    model their lives after some actors
                                    and singers and talk-star hosts.

                                It is serious.

                                I see Jesus hanging on a cross.

   

    

August 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            I see His feet nailed to the cross.

  

  

August 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            Well I don't even know if I should
                                    say this, but in about a week
                                    3 big windows bigger than a
                                    door just broke in the
                                    Virgin Mary building.

                                The last was today over the front door—
                                    very large, glass was all over.

                                Today is my birthday.

                                I want to put the letters I received
                                    in my fax and e-mail just since I
                                    have been gone a few days.

                               On August 5 right before the prayer
                                    service 6:00 a whole glass
                                    was knocked out at the
                                    building—much bigger than
                                    a door.

                                Well, who notices the gift God has
                                    given us?

                                A handful of people come daily.

                                We pray fervently every day at Mary's
                                    Image Building at 6:20.

                                What a gift God has given the earth
                                    a sign and who really cares?

    

May 5, 2002

  

January 5, 2001

  

    

February 5, 2002

  

    

March 5, 2002

    

    

April 5, 2002

   

July 5, 2002

   

July 5, 2000

      

August 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with
                                    you in love.

    

  

see the triangle

  

  

  

 

  

  

  

   

August 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            Please help us.

                                The devil wants us stopped.

                                Look at your world.

                                We could send so very many prayer manuals
                                    to the Bishops and Priests of
                                    Africa and India and the children.

                                    All this takes money.

   

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India

25 July 2002

Dear John Weickert, President

    Loving greetings to you from Bishop _____.

    Received your kind letter and the parcel of Newsletter Book II specially sent for me. Thank you for the same. Previously I had been receiving the Newsletter for my priests in the diocese. I am at the receipt of the red Associates Prayer Manual (prayer for priests) too. I will be happy with you kind help, to translate these books of course with the Imprimatur into our _____ language, which is known as the Italian of the East, so that the books may reach to every corner of this region and thus people making use of the books pray for the priests. I too feel that all must pray for the priests and for his holiness.

    I would be happy to join with the mission of Fr. Edward J. Carter. In the meantime you please send me another set of 100 books II for my religious sisters and brothers in the region.

Assuring my prayers and blessings for your prayer mission, I remain.

Yours in the Lord,

+ ________

   

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August 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            Here is a letter we received!

                                We don't even have the money for the
                                    building payment.

                                Priests and Bishops and Archbishops
                                    are asking for the Priestly
                                    Newsletter Book II and prayer
                                    manuals.

                                We need prayer manuals in Spanish.

                                What a struggle.

                                  

PSALM 44 (V 43)

National lament

For the choirmaster     Of the sons of Korah     Poem

God, we have heard for ourselves, 
our ancestors have told us, 
of the deeds you did in their days, 
in days of old, by your hand. 

To establish them in the land you drove out nations, 
to make room for them you harried peoples. 
It was not their own sword that won the land, 
nor their own arms which made them victorious, 
but your hand it was and your arm, 
and the light of your presence, for you loved them. 

You are my king, my God, 
who decreed Jacob’s victories; 
through you we conquered our opponents, 
in your name we trampled down those who rose up against us. 

For my trust was not in my bow, 
my victory was not won by my sword; 
it was you who saved us from our opponents, 
you who put to shame those who hate us. 
Our boast was always of God, 
we praised your name without ceasing.             Pause 

Yet now you have abandoned and humiliated us, 
you no longer take the field with our armies, 
you leave us to fall back before the enemy, 
those who hate us plunder us at will. 

You hand us over like sheep for slaughter, 
you scatter us among the nations, 
you sell your people for a trifle 
and make no profit on the sale. 

You make us the butt of our neighbours, 
the mockery and scorn of those around us, 
you make us a by–word among nations, 
other peoples shake their heads over us. 

All day long I brood on my disgrace, 
the shame written clear on my face, 
from the sound of insult and abuse, 
from the sight of hatred and vengefulness. 

All this has befallen us though we had not forgotten you, 
nor been disloyal to your covenant, 
our hearts never turning away, 
our feet never straying from your path. 
Yet you have crushed us in the place where jackals live, 
and immersed us in shadow dark as death. 

Had we forgotten the name of our God 
and stretched out our hands to a foreign god, 
would not God have found this out, 
for he knows the secrets of the heart? 
For your sake we are being massacred all day long, 
treated as sheep to be slaughtered. 

Wake, Lord! Why are you asleep? 
Awake! Do not abandon us for good. 
Why do you turn your face away, 
forgetting that we are poor and harrassed? 

For we are bowed down to the dust, 
and lie prone on the ground. 
Arise! Come to our help! 
Ransom us, as your faithful love demands.

  

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Letters

India

24 July 2002

Dear John Weickert,

Greetings and prayerful wishes from Bishop _____.

Thanks for your letter dated July 16, 2002; the information regarding Shepherds of Christ Ministries Movement and the book The Priestly Newsletter Book II, which I received in good order.

I do appreciate your service you are rendering to the priests, the Church and the world and it is inspiring to note that you are continuously praying for the priests and the Church by establishing prayer chapters. Of course, prayer is the primary and vital necessity for the religious life and all things can be wrought by prayer. May God bless you abundantly in all your endeavors.

127 diocesan priests and 50 religious priests are working in the diocese of _________ and if you could send me more copies of the book--the Priestly Newsletter Book II, I would give them to my priests, which will be of great help in their spiritual life.

Thanking you,

Yours Sincerely in Christ,

+Bishop of ________

 

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Sri Lanka

1 August 2002

Dear Mr. John Weickert,

   I am in receipt of the 30 Books--Shepherds of Christ, Spirituality 2 Newsletters sent to me. Thank you very much for taking all the trouble to send them to me free of charge. I appreciate very much your gift of those books and your apostolate. I distributed them among 25 priests and the other copies are in our library. Once again thank you so much. I always pray for the success of your apostolate. May the abundant blessings of Jesus our Master be upon you now and always.

Yours Sincerely in Jesus

Fr. ________
 

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23 July 2002

Dear Mr. John Weickert

Many thanks for your letter of April 7th and July 16th enclosing Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters and Prayer Manuals.

Happy to read about your special movement, dedicated to the renewal of spiritual life, with emphasis on prayer for priests, the Church and the world.

I assure you all of my prayers for fruitful success in spreading your message and request you to pray for me, and our Archdiocese.

With my cordial blessings

Devotedly yours in Christ

+Archbishop ________

 

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         To:            info@sofc.org
        Sent:        Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:24 AM
        Subject:    Picture in Document1

                What are the requirements for membership & I like love the Newsletter & wish more people can receive the copy of the booklet for the newsletter. See my address below.  My Parish is St. Hubert's in _______ under Fr ______

South Africa

 

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 To:            info@sofc.org
 Sent:         Sunday, July 21, 2002 4:05 AM
 Subject:    Thank You

  
The Director,
Shepherds of Christ Ministries,
P.O.Box 193,
Morrow,
Ohio 45152-0193
USA

Dear Rev. Father,

On behalf of His Grace Archbishop ______, the Archbishop of ______ and the Priests Commission of the Archbishop of _______ I express my sincere thanks for the books titled: SHEPHERDS OF CHRIST: Spirituality Newsletters 2 by Father Edward Carter. They have been given to the  Priests of the Archdiocese to be the wellsprings of Spirituality.

Thank You

Yours sincerely in Christ,

Fr. _____

Priests Commission
  

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To:            info@sofc.org
Sent:         Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject:    A request for Editor.

  
6.8.2002

Dear Fr. Edward,

I came across 'shepherds of Christ' newsletter and enjoyed it immensely. As a newly ordained priest, I found 'sofc' very useful. I will be obliged if you send me your newsletter regularly.

My Address:

            Fr. ______
            INDIA

Thanking you in anticipation.

In Christ,

Fr. _____
  

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    To:            info@sofc.org
    Sent:         Tuesday, August 06, 2002 6:37 AM
    Subject:    Request about Newsletter   

    Dear Father Carter,

   Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

   Sir, I am interested in your newsletter Shepherds of
   Christ, Please send me regularly the newsletter by post.

   Note my postal address.

   __________  
   
   I hope that you will respect my wish.

   Yours in Christ,

   _________

   Pakistan
 

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To:            info@sofc.org
Sent:         Wednesday, August 07, 2002 9:07 AM
Subject:    gratitude

Diocese of ______

Dear President, Shepherds of Christ
Beloved John Weickert

I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.
Hereby I am acknowledging the receipt of your goodness to send
me the Prayer Manual Shepherds of Christ (the little red book)
given to you by the late Rev. Fr. Edward Carter SJ. Thank him and
you and all the group members.
I am sure  that my priests all over the diocese are getting in touch
with the grace of our Lord because of  all the prayerful members
action. Rev. Father Edward requiescat in pace !
Cordially yours in the Lord

Bishop of ________.

  

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To:            info@sofc.org
Sent:         Monday, August 05, 2002 7:41 AM
Subject:    Letter for Mr. John Wieckert from Bishop _____

Dear Mr. Wieckert,

I am in receipt of your letter dated 13.5.2002 which seems to have reached me very late, indeed, just a few days ago.

I would like to say the following:

1. I was very sad to learn of the death of Fr. Edward Carter. He died in the year 2000 but I had not realized this till I got you letter. I think Fr. Carter was an extraordinary man, doing an extraordinary work. I am so glad that you and others continue this inspiring ministry.
2. Over the past few years, I have been the recipient of many kindnesses from your organization which I wish to acknowledge with warm thanks and appreciation.
3. I feel sorry that, for various reasons, I can do little to help financially. However, if I can offer some masses (about 15) for the intentions for your organization for which stipends may be available at your end and which could be used as a contribution to your finances, I would do this with great joy. Please let me know if this helps.

Please convey my warmest good wishes and thanks to all the members of your organization. May Lord continue to use Fr. Carter, in his newfound union with Him to renew the priesthood across the entire world.

                                                    Gratefully,

                                                                +_______
                                                                 Auxiliary Bishop
  

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To:            info@sofc.org
Sent:         Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:13 PM
Subject:    Thanks

Syrian Catholic Archbishopric of ______

2 0f Aug. 2002

John Weickert, President, Shepherds of Christ

Thank you for your letter of July 16, 2002. My communion with you in your aim to renew the faith and love of Our Lord

Sincerely yours

^+__________
Syrian Catholic Archbishopric of _______

  

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Nigeria

26 July 2002

Dear Father,

On behalf of the Archdiocesan Council, the Parishioners of the under listed Missions and the Commission, I sincerely appeal to you for sacramental assistance.

Your noble devotion has favoured so many souls. Parishes, Schools, homes and other saintly groups in the most rural areas in _____ Province wants to enroll and be receiving the Sacred Heart Mission packets and as well join in the blessings.

Please, the entire list are officially for enrollment. I beg you to enroll them among your list of membership. Kindly send directly to them the prayer chapter packet as you sent to other members. They are seriously waiting to receive the packet for the good fight of faith.

I hope your good offices will consider my official request for enrollment, consider their addresses to be permanent. Acknowledge my mail.

In Union of prayers,

Rev. Msgr. ______

  

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India

26 July 2002

My dear John Weickert,

Greetings from the Diocese of ______!

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your kind letter dated 16 July 2002 together the photo and prayer manual. Sincere thanks.

I appreciate your movement very much. Today above all we have to give priority to the sanctification of priests. People are in fact looking for men of prayer who can share their God-experiences with others. I request you to continue to pray for our priests.

God bless you.

Your in Jesus and Mary.

+ Bishop of _______
  

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Argentina

24 July 2002

John Weickert

    I thank you the book written by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. that I have received in these days. I have sent it to our Public Library so it can be known for many people.

    I bless you and the work of this Movement and I ask you to pray for this Bishop and this Diocese.

Sincerely in Sacre Mary's Heart,

+__________
  

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India

25 July 2002

Dear Mr. John Weickert,

Greetings from the Bishop of ______.

I sincerely thank you for your kind letters of 07.04.02 and 16.07.02, a Book-'Shepherds of Christ-Spirituality 2 Newsletters' and a 'prayer manual'. Please convey my special thanks to Rev. Edward J. Carter S.J. Noted all the contents of the above letters.

Rev. Fr. Carter's mission since 1994 in sending the Newsletter to the priests and to have prayer chapters all over the world praying for the priests, the Church and the world is much appreciated. Happy to note that the prayer manual have been translated into many languages of the world.

If the copies of the English language version of the Newsletter Book II are available free of charge, please send them to me.

Wishing every success in your noble work.

Yours sincerely in Christ,

Bishop of ______

  

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Republique de Cote d' Ivoire

26 July 2002

Object: Your letter of July 16th.

Dear friend in Christ,

        I have just received the "Shepherds of Christ Associates Prayer Manual" and I heartedly thank you for it. Of course, I agree with you to "help begin prayer chapters praying for the priests, the Church and the world".

        May I recommend to you, in a special way, the six deacons I shall have to ordain to the priesthood next January 2003 and also eleven seminarians who, normally, will be ordained as priests by the beginning of the year 2004.

        Once again, thank you for thinking of me, my priests, my diocese and the whole world. May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you. May the heart of the Virgin Mary protect you always.

        Yours very prayerfully,

        + Bishop of _____
  

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India

23 July 2002

Dear John,

Thank you for your letter. I am pleased to know the wonderful work you are continuing to do what Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. was doing during his life time that is Editing Newsletters: Shepherds of Christ's Ministries. Since a couple of years I was getting the packet which I was distributing to my priests. My priests were using it profitably for their own spiritual life. Lately I have received a few copies- Shepherds of Christ spirituality 2 Newsletters which I am sharing with my priests. Thank you very much for the photograph the image of Our Lord. It is indeed wonderful that the image of the Lord appears in the background of the building. I am sure the Lord is telling something to the Church specially to the Clergy all over the world. These days we have been challenged by the Media with the publicity against priests in the United States. I wonder how much truth is in such negative publicity except to denigrate the Clergy. The apostolate of Fr. Carter which you are continuing through the Newsletters contacting 75 thousand priests in 90 Countries in several languages is indeed God's work. I only encourage you and pray for your work.

Please continue to send literature on Shepherds of Christ or any material which helps my priests spiritually. I thank you and remain grateful.

Yours sincerely,

+Bishop of ____
  

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India

Dear Fr. Carter,

    Greetings from Fr. ____. I happened to come across your spirituality Newsletter for priests, titled "Shepherds of Christ". Having gone through, I am very much interested to read this newsletter. Therefore, I request you kindly to send me the Shepherds of Christ Newsletter whenever the issue is printed. As my contribution I assure you a special place in my prayers and Holy Eucharist.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours Sincerely,

Fr. _____
  

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India

21 July 2002

Dear Fr. Carter

    I shall be very grateful to you if you could give me a copy of "Shepherds of Christ Spirituality 2 Newsletters" for my personal use. My address is given above. Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours sincerely in the Risen Lord,

Fr. _______
    

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Dear Kathleen Wren,

        It is a great pleasure for me to write this letter to you.

        In life I'm still keeping well under the mercy of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

        I just want to inform you that I received your letter dated May 11, 2002 and a bag of booklets. (Spirituality 2 Newsletters)

        So from now on my address is as above. I'm working at the Youth Centre for the Diocese of _____.

        And I would like you to send more materials and video cassettes because the booklets I have from you, I am using them for groups meditations and prayers.

        Trusting in your kindly response

         I remain _______

     

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August 8, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            Please pray for 2 very urgent intentions.

                                2 personal intentions for me.

                                Today 33 years ago, I received
                                    my engagement ring, that
                                    made my name soon

                                    RITA RING.

                                WE ARE THE BRIDES OF JESUS.
                                I WRITE OF THIS AND THE MASS.

                                The engagement ring was given for my
                                    birthday.

                                Today August 8, 1951 

                                    Fr. Carter went into the

                                        Jesuits.

   

    

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Here is Fr. Carter's tombstone

  

   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Fr. Carter—

                                Thank God for Fr. Carter—

 

Father Carter

  

Father Carter

  

Father Carter

  

Father Carter

    
    

         

   

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