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 8, 2000

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.

August 8, 2000 - Given August 7, 2000 during 6:20 (Florida time) prayers

Messenger: Faster daddy, faster, I am on a journey, it isn't that I wake every morning and then I start anew. God has been teaching us about life whether we paid attention to Him or not. His hand was upon us and many times like a disobedient child we said to God - "Don't tell me anything, I am on my own now." The truth is we are never on our own apart from God, and the more we struggle to get loose of Him and think we really have freedom, the more we should realize that He is a Supreme Being that is our guide on this journey. He knows what we need in our lives to help us to grow - advance in the spiritual life. He gives us as we need. And we think we can learn it all in a day - someday at the end of our lives, before it is too late. Consider a person who knows he will perform in a rodeo in late August, 2000. He has never been on a horse. He is a procrastinator. He lives every day having fun. He doesn't like to assume his responsibility... It is now late June, 2000, he has not yet mounted a horse...It is now August 6, 2000, Feast of the Transfiguration and he has not yet mounted the horse. A knowledgeable friend coaxes him to go to Mass on the Feast of the Transfiguration. He has lived making fun of people, making others foolish and himself wise, always competing with his brothers for a top position in life. Always making others beneath him, always raising himself up by making fun of others, talking about others. Certain things are in, certain things out. Smart people think like him, others that aren't smart don't think like him. He is in a race with his brothers. He feels his importance depends in raising above others and putting others down.

Jesus speaks: Oh, My child, you have begun speaking of the rodeo as I so directed you to do, and now I wish to finish the story. It was a cold and blustery day outside as Oscar's body lay in the coffin, for many that walked by the light of My sunlight did not know how tainted were their souls, and if lightning struck and they died as they walked about, they would have never been ready for the rodeo. Your friend who was to perform in the rodeo must become wise if his income depends on his fame and glory he receives from the rodeo. The days ticked on in August and the friend had a day that was set. August 28, 2000 was the day for him. On August 27, 2000 he had knowledge that the rodeo would be the next day. You would say "What a foolish man indeed, he better learn something quick." The people will cheer or boo at the rodeo. What will happen to him on that day?

And you say faster Daddy, faster, I want it all in a day. You eat chocolate cakes, take pills that kill your every ache and pain before you have one, drink alcohol, use sexual pleasures for fun that is unlawful by My rules, and I watch the minutes of your lives click away, and many do not see the real picture.

And if I appeared to them today, would it make a difference? It isn't a rodeo that you will attend, it is a pass to My Divine Kingdom or condemnation for souls that sinned seriously against God and hurt their fellow men and remained unrepentant.

My men, you are a family indeed, you know not the day, nor the hour, but the day will come and your body will be laid to rest. All your pushing ahead to make yourself king of your kingdom, will it matter, if you stepped on innocent people and ignored your God, some only using Him to get a laugh or using My name in vain?

I am the Divine Reaper. I come to collect the fruit and from some I find withered sticks that are as fruitless as a burned up fruit tree.

Look at your world around you. The sun comes up everyday. At the top of the mountain they saw Me transfigured before them. Oh men, the white of My garments you do not know. You are like the man the day before a rodeo that has not mounted the horse yet.

You walk this barren earth. The little trees that are being brought forth are being eaten by the bugs that bite at their branches and infect their trunks. My little shoots. So they wither and die at such a young age.

The lessons are taught from your God from the world around you and you do not even make a connection to the Creator and the lesson He teaches.

You know all your states and countries and every kind of bug and sports star, movie star, songs on the radio and discs in the store, and you don't know the Ten Commandments given from God to Moses.

How many years do you need to know what is important?

You walk by the light of My sun and breathe in the air I give you, you eat the fruit from the vine, you experience the living things of the earth, and yet you see with such limited vision.

The miracle of life is seen in the baby in the womb, the little trees that come up in the once full beautiful forest that has been destroyed by fire.

The miracle of life is in your God. You see a moose and you do not even see the reflection of the Creator.

Men run to see the most foolish things, rock stars, sports stars, and when Mary appears on the building you do not take notice.

Well My little children, say to your Father, "Faster daddy, faster," and I cry, for so many have fought the plan of the Creator and they do not see at all.

They are like the teenage son that says, "Don't tell me anything."

Never can you truthfully live as God intends without feeling that authority above you at all times. A loving God watching the people play on a stage and soon the performance is over.

What happens when the hands of men quit clapping for you?

What happens when you who thought your days would never end are snapped by a tree that comes down on you and stops you dead?

What happens?

I see you walk a big hill, huffing and puffing, being anxious, fighting your crosses, feeding your soul garbage and abusing your body, making your body an instrument for sin. I see, I see, I see, I cry. The Father has allowed Mary to appear. But you don't want anyone over you. Many are like Eve in the garden, all these years later.

Eve thought she could disobey God, and it affected all her children.

When you disobey God it affects all your children. When people get up and support abortion, it affects all their brothers.

A mom and dad can try to raise a good child and the brothers and sisters can take over and mislead the child if they themselves have strayed.

Brothers and sisters affect each others' lives, do you see that?

Well, it is like that in the human family. I am the perfect Brother, and there are those who do the work of the evil one.

Do you see Cain and Abel? Do you see competition, jealousy, hatred? The pure are stepped on by those giving in to the devil. A pure shoot is strengthened by the Eucharist and helped by the rosary. The grace is outpoured through My Church.

Your little shoots are being stepped on by many big brothers that have chosen a life of sin. And not only by their example, they get the little ones off to the side and whisper in their ears.

Satan is at work, and I wish there were more good people working against him.

I am Jesus, the perfect Brother, the perfect Son, the perfect Man, God-made Man and I come to you today.

I give you My prayers to pray. I am the Good Shepherd, My sheep hear My voice and follow Me.

I will reign in their hearts.

You see a petrified tree, and go "Oh, ooh." Do you see the earth, man? Do you see My hand in all the beauty of the ages? Do you see generation after generation?

I write the songs and this is My song today.

This is My Movement to help renew the Church and the world.

Listen while I sing it to you. Hear My voice. See My mountains, see the beauty of ages past, right before your eyes. And you follow a clanging band as it goes by with a colorful clown because it is different. You see the beauty of a snow-covered, sun-lit mountain before a beautiful lake and you miss the God that creates and comes with the message. And I cry to you, I literally cry to you a song sung from the depth of My Heart.

Jesus speaks: My Heart will reign in the hearts of men on this earth and they will recognize Me as the God of their people.

Please listen to Me here, I cry to you.

August 8, 2000 - Second Message

Jesus speaks: I request the writings from the Mass today appear here. Study these scriptures!

Jeremiah 30: 1-2, 12-15, 18-22

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, as follows, 'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this, "Write for yourself in a book all the words I have spoken to you.

    Yes, Yahweh says this:
    Your wound is incurable,
     your injury past healing.
    There is no one to plead your cause;
    for an ulcer there are remedies,
    but for you no cure at all.
   All your lovers have forgotten you,
   they look for you no more.
   Yes, I have struck you as an enemy strikes, 
   with cruel punishment
   (because of your great guilt
      and countless sins).
   Why cry out because of your wound?
   Your pain is incurable!
   Because of your great guilt 
     and countless sins,
   I have treated you like this.

   Yahweh says this:
   Look, I shall restore the tents of Jacob
   and take pity on his dwellings:
   the town will be rebuilt on its mound,
   the stronghold where it ought to stand.
   From them will come thanksgiving
   and shouts of joy.
   I shall make them increase,
      they will not decrease;
   I shall make them honoured,
       no more to be humbled.
   Their sons will be as once they were,
   their community fixed firmly before me,
   and I shall punish all their oppressors.
   Their prince will be one of their own,
   their ruler come from their own people, 
   and I shall permit him
     to approach me freely;
   for who, otherwise, would be so bold
   as to approach me, Yahweh demands?

   You will be my people
      and I shall be your God.

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Psalm 102: 16-18, 19-21, 22-23

Then will the nations revere the name of Yahweh,
   and all the kings of the earth your glory;
when Yahweh builds Zion anew,
   he will be seen in his glory;
he will turn to hear the prayer of the destitute,
   and will not treat their prayer with scorn.

This shall be put on record for a future generation, 
    and a people yet to be born shall praise God:
Yahweh has leaned down from the heights of his sanctuary,
    has looked down from heaven to earth,
 to listen to the sighing of the captive,
    and set free those condemned to death,
to proclaim the name of Yahweh in Zion,
    his praise in Jerusalem;
nations will gather together,
    and kingdoms to worship Yahweh.

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    Matthew 14: 22-36

Jesus walks on the water and, with him, Peter

And at once he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side while he sent the crowds away. After sending the crowds away he went up into the hills by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, while the boat, by now some furlongs from land, was hard pressed by rough waves, for there was a head–wind. In the fourth watch of the night he came towards them, walking on the sea, and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were terrified. ‘It is a ghost,’ they said, and cried out in fear. But at once Jesus called out to them, saying, ‘Courage! It’s me! Don’t be afraid.’ It was Peter who answered. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘if it is you, tell me to come to you across the water.’ Jesus said, ‘Come.’ Then Peter got out of the boat and started walking towards Jesus across the water, but then noticing the wind, he took fright and began to sink. ‘Lord,’ he cried, ‘save me!’ Jesus put out his hand at once and held him. ‘You have so little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’ And as they got into the boat the wind dropped. The men in the boat bowed down before him and said, ‘Truly, you are the Son of God.’

Cures at Gennesaret

Having made the crossing, they came to land at Gennesaret. When the local people recognised him they spread the news through the whole neighbourhood and took all that were sick to him, begging him just to let them touch the fringe of his cloak. And all those who touched it were saved.

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August 8, 2000 - St. Dominic- Third Message

Messenger: Today is a special day to me for it is my birthday and today is the feast of St. Dominic.

God has watered the barren earth... This is what we long for. I feel very close to St. Dominic and the Virgin Mary, especially on this feast, because of our connection with the rosary. We received a beautiful e-mail from a man, who thanked us for the image rosary. He said how beautiful he thought it was, and how he likes to pray it so much now, thanking us again and again with such excitement. He said he likes holding it at night and feels its beauty in the dark, and does not put it down. He loves it so much, and is praying his rosary more. He called it something like "LINKS of LOVE sent from HEAVEN to touch my heart". I read this note from him today August 8, 2000, early morning. What a way to start this special feast!

I wait with such eagerness the Reign of His Sacred Heart.

Today it is important we honor St. Dominic and recall the gift our Lady gave him in the rosary.

Messenger: The songs at Mass were so beautiful, and I could identify with Peter sinking into the water. Jesus takes us to the heights in the Mass, and we are elevated to great heights in Him, and then we fall when we do not have faith. And yet the world proceeds as it does. We become afraid and are dragged down.

God the Father speaks: I have called you on this special Mission to help bring about the Reign of My Son's Sacred Heart. What good will it do you to try to make yourself a king over your God?

John 19: 1-15

Pilate then had Jesus taken away and scourged; and after this, the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head and dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him and saying, ‘Hail, king of the Jews!’ and slapping him in the face.

    Pilate came outside again and said to them, ‘Look, I am going to bring him out to you to let you see that I find no case against him.’ Jesus then came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said, ‘Here is the man.’ When they saw him, the chief priests and the guards shouted, ‘Crucify him! Crucify him!’ Pilate said, ‘Take him yourselves and crucify him: I find no case against him.’ The Jews replied, ‘We have a Law, and according to that Law he ought to be put to death, because he has claimed to be Son of God.’

    When Pilate heard them say this his fears increased. Re–entering the Praetorium, he said to Jesus, ‘Where do you come from?’ But Jesus made no answer. Pilate then said to him, ‘Are you refusing to speak to me? Surely you know I have power to release you and I have power to crucify you?’ Jesus replied, ‘You would have no power over me at all if it had not been given you from above; that is why the man who handed me over to you has the greater guilt.’

Jesus is condemned to death

From that moment Pilate was anxious to set him free, but the Jews shouted, ‘If you set him free you are no friend of Caesar’s; anyone who makes himself king is defying Caesar.’ Hearing these words, Pilate had Jesus brought out, and seated him on the chair of judgement at a place called the Pavement, in Hebrew Gabbatha. It was the Day of Preparation, about the sixth hour. ‘Here is your king,’ said Pilate to the Jews. But they shouted, ‘Away with him, away with him, crucify him.’ Pilate said, ‘Shall I crucify your king?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king except Caesar.’

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God the Father speaks: I am God. God has all the power. Be humble. Live in the truth. Live to love and serve your God. I am Almighty. You are My creatures, I love you so much. I am your loving Father.

Songs from Mass- All the Ends of the Earth, Be Not Afraid, Glory and Praise to Our God

Messenger: The Mass is so beautiful. Music helps create a beautiful drama. God, the Son of God, gives Himself as a sacrifice at the hands of the priest, to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

Jesus speaks: Every Mass should be the greatest celebration. Would that the priest and all those in attendance at Mass saw the glory of one Mass.

The Mass is a special drama that builds to the climax found in the consecration of the Mass and reaches a great fullness in the communion.

Would that men would flock to Mass as they go to other events. They are so excited about one movie, one sports game, one rock singer.

Oh, My men, you do not know the glory of the Mass and the responsibility you have to partake so fully and completely, so joyfully and intently in the celebration of the Mass.

Mary speaks: My children, this is my Son, Jesus. My children, hear Him and listen to Him. I ask you to put in the quote from the writing of the transfiguration....'This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.' (Mark 9: 7)

Mary speaks: My children, you will be transformed when you go to Mass and receive my Son. 

The gift is in the Eucharist.

My children, you must listen to the words of the Father.

...'This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.' (Mark 9: 7)

My children, His sheep hear His voice and follow Him. He takes you to the mountain top in the Mass, and God, the Son of God, gives Himself to you.

I am Mary your Mother, hear me.

...'Do whatever he tells you.'  (John 2: 5)

I love you, I am your Mother Mary.

August 8, 2000 - Message given on First Saturday August 5, 2000

Jesus speaks: My dear sub-centers, My special ones in Sidney!
 I cry to you to hear Me, but so many never even come.

Your world is so far from what I desire. I ask you to meditate with all your hearts on the mysteries of the Rosary.

Unless the sub-centers are begun with competent apostles running them, you will continue to stay locked in a box. You must reach the world with the prayer chapters. "Newer" associates are needed and must respond.

Oh My children, My children, you need healing so much. It will take a lot of pleading and uniting in deepest love to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for great grace to be outpoured.

I love My beloved ones to pray on Tuesday as I have asked, and I outpour My grace. 

I love obedience.

I want you to show Me your faith.

Think of how it would be if everyone lived according to God's will.

My Sidney Center, you have a special place in bringing about the Reign of My Heart.

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.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

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Question for married couples:

Q: How do I feel attending Mass has helped us be closer in our marriage?

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