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August 8, 2024 - Feast of St. Dominic

August 9th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 1 Period II.

 

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for August 9th
are Luminous.

 

Happy Birthday, Rita!!

 

Pray for the mailing of Fr. Joe's homily book. 

Please Pray for Bob & special intentions.
 

Consecration Prayer for Peace

I consecrate Russia and the Ukraine to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I further consecrate the priests, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary.

I do this in the name of Jesus in as far as I am able, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying to the Father, in the Holy Spirit, with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory through the powerful intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace. Amen.

I further consecrate myself, all members of my family and ask the Holy Spirit to fill us. I spread the Blood of Jesus on all above, I cast the devil into hell away from all of us and consecrate all persons, in as far as I am able,  to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

 

Prayer for Grace for Election and our Country

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

 

                         Morning Offering

    Dear Father,
    I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus
    in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
    the powerful intercession of Mary, our
    spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
    saints, and the souls in purgatory, for
    the priest, the Church, and the world.

    We love You God so much.
    We thank You and adore You and
    petition You for our needs. Amen. 

 

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August 8, 2024 - Feast of St. Dominic!!

 
The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary,
sacramentally made present.


 

June 16, 2024

     Happy Father’s Day to you and to our Heavenly Father. Thank you for all you do for us.

     Fr. Carter, S.J., our founder, wrote the Priestly Newsletter before his death – he loved this quote from Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS, XXXV, 232-233:

     “Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church's universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer,
while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, 'in this clean oblation' He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart.”

     In the Morning Offering we unite all our prayers, works, joys and sufferings to the Mass and offer our lives to our Heavenly Father, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for love of the Trinity and all our needs.

    In the Mass we know that the Father accepts the sacrifice of Jesus. As members of the mystical body of Christ we are united to the Mass going on around the world.

    Dear Heavenly Father, we are Your little ones and want to be united to You all day offering up what we do as an offering united to the Mass.

    From the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy … “the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows.”

    The Heavenly Father created us in love. We are so precious to Him. We can be faithful little children of our Heavenly Father, all day, offering what we do, united to the Mass.

    At the Baptism of Jesus the Father tells us about Jesus His Son “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” Matthew 3

    He tells us about Sonship to our Father. We want to please Him.

    At the Transfiguration, He says:
“This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, listen to Him.”
Luke 9

    Again, we want our lives to be united to Jesus and our lives to be pleasing to the Father.

    The Father tells us to listen to Jesus, disciples of Jesus listen to Him.

    Oh Heavenly Father, we want to do Your will and live in love to please You, please help us, outpour Your grace.

    In the Mass, we die to our self-will more and more to live more the life of Resurrection.

    Death/Resurrection are so linked, dying to our selfish will to be more and more in the image of Jesus and live more and more, the life of resurrection.

    We may have tried in Lent to have a more pure interior disposition at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and unite more in pleasing our Father in unity with Jesus.

    What we did in Lent should be working more and more now as we seek greater holiness in these days after Easter living more the life of Resurrection.

Mark 3:31-35

Now his mother and his brothers arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Look, your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking at those sitting in a circle round him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’

    We see what Jesus says here, how important it is living the Father’s will.

    The Father’s family living in the Father’s will.

    We can live the Mass out every day, in our lives, dying to self-will and rising in Him.

    The pascal mystery.

    We live the life, death and resurrection of Christ in our lives lovingly, according to the Father’s will and the Father is pleased.

    The more we die to selfish-will, the more we live the life of resurrection.

    We see death and resurrection as linked, if I die to my selfish ways, I grow more in the life of resurrection.

    We as Christians should live constantly dying to ways not like Jesus to rise in the life of resurrection and greater likened to Jesus.

    We constantly seek greater life in Him, day by day, to be greater filled with His life.

    His grace is His life in us.

    We live the Mystery of Christ in our lives.

    In the Mass, we die more and more to self-will.

     We seek the interior disposition of greater purity at Mass, dying to bad habits of sinfulness to rise to greater purity in Him and offer a more pleasing sacrifice in oneness with Jesus, to the Father in the Mass.

    Death / Resurrection!!

    We are fed by the Bread of Life in the Mass, we are fed with the Word and eat His Body and drink His Blood.

    God is the ultimate mystery, we seek for greater understanding of this by living more this magnificent mystery of Christ in our lives.
  

 

Through Him, with Him and in Him

    We live this in different ways in our vocation.

    A mother is united to the Mass caring for her children in loving conformity to God’s will.

    A religious is living in loving conformity to God’s will in serving as a sister, brother, priest, etc.

    From the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy

… the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows.

    Our heart should be transformed when we come to the Mass.

    We seek the heavenly Father to accept the sacrifice of ourselves united to Jesus in the Mass.

    Death / Resurrection

    Dying to sin and the Father accepts our sacrifice (living the life of Resurrection).

...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. 
Galatians 2: 19-20

     Dying to self-will
     An even more perfect victim in union with Christ in the Mass….

Through Him, With Him and In Him

    The Mass Lived Out all Day!!

    We offer up all we do all day living in loving conformity to the Father’s will in the Morning Offering. This is dying to self- rising to new life in Him. (Our constant offering all day, doing the Father’s will in love in our lives united to the Mass going on around the world for the salvation of souls).

     We say in the Mass
     “May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
     for the praise and glory of His name,
     for our good, and the good of His holy Church.”

     To know God is to love God. Deeper and deeper He makes Himself known to us in our hearts at Mass.

     Jesus is the Light of the world, the Light of Life.

     I love Him so much, so deep in my heart, in my being and He loves me, I know this in my being.

     Love is beyond words, it is oneness in our heart and soul with Him.

     “It is no longer, I who live, but He who lives in me.”  Galatians 2   And I want to be with Him, someday, in the fullness of life in heaven, in union with the one Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in the beatific vision. Embraced with Divine Love. Amen.

     We think we’re doing things ourselves, but we need God to do things. I feel so needy here, but I have to do what God wants and that pleases Him, everything is an offering united to the Mass, to the Father, even my attempts when I feel frustrated and tried, think of how perfectly Christ did what He did in the Passion and death.

     Perfect Love, perfect gift to His Father and the Father is well pleased.

     Basically I need God and others a lot!

     Thank you for all you do.

     Without the priest we wouldn’t have the Eucharist. 

     We pray for you!!      

        Love and Prayers,

        Rita Robinson Ring, Co-founder
                  Shepherds of Christ Ministries

 

From the Priestly Newsletter Book II

Thoughts on the Eucharist

In his recent book, Gift and Mystery, Pope John Paul II speaks of the Eucharist and the priest: “In the Eucharist, the Son, who is of one being with the Father…offers himself in sacrifice to the Father for humanity and for all creation. In the Eucharist Christ gives back to the Father everything that has come from him. Thus there is brought about a profound mystery of justice on the part of the creature toward the Creator. Man needs to honor his Creator by offering to him, in an act of thanksgiving and praise, all that he has received. Man must never lose sight of the debt, which he alone, among all other earthly realities, is capable of acknowledging and paying back as the one creature made in God’s own image and likeness. At the same time, given his creaturely limitations and sinful condition, man would be incapable of making this act of justice toward the Creator, had not Christ himself, the Son who is of one being with the Father and also true man, first given us the Eucharist.

“The priesthood, in its deepest reality, is the priesthood of Christ. It is Christ who offers himself, his Body and Blood, in sacrifice to God the Father, and by this sacrifice makes righteous in the Father’s eyes all mankind and, indirectly, all creation. The priest, in his daily celebration of the Eucharist, goes to the very heart of this mystery. For this reason the celebration of the Eucharist must be the most important moment of the priest’s day, the center of his life.”4

4. Pope John Paul II, Gift and Mystery, Doubleday, pp. 74-75.


This came from Pope John Paul II
It is so beautiful.



    

From the Priestly Newsletter Book III - Overview of the Spiritual Life

The Eucharist

  • The death-resurrection of Jesus, which is encountered in a special way through the sacraments, is most especially renewed in the Eucharistic Sacrifice. Consequently, we can see the logical connection between the sacraments and the Mass. Indeed, all of the sacraments point to the Eucharistic Sacrifice.

  • At the Last Supper, on the night He was betrayed, our Saviour instituted the Eucharistic Sacrifice of His Body and Blood. He did this in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the centuries until He should come again, and so to entrust to His beloved spouse, the Church, a memorial of His death and resurrection: a sacrament of love, a sign of unity, a bond of charity, a paschal banquet in which Christ is consumed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (Vatican II, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 17)26

  • The Church, therefore, earnestly desires that Christ's faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers or silent spectators. On the contrary, through a proper appreciation of the rites and prayers they should participate knowingly, devoutly, and actively. They should be instructed by God’s word and be refreshed at the table of the Lord’s body; they should give thanks to God; by offering the Immaculate Victim, not only through the hands of the priest, but also with him, they should learn to offer themselves too. Through Christ the Mediator, they should be drawn day by day into ever closer union with God and with each other, so that finally God may be all in all. (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 48)27

  • Through the Eucharistic Sacrifice Christ the Lord desired to set before us in a very special way this remarkable union whereby we are united one with another and with our divine Head, a union that no word of praise can ever sufficiently express. For in this sacrifice the sacred ministers act not only as the representative of our Saviour, but as the representative of the whole Mystical Body and of each one of the faithful. Again, in this act of sacrifice, the faithful of Christ, united by the common bond of devotion and prayer, offer to the eternal Father through the hands of the priest, whose prayer alone has made it present on the altar, the Immaculate Lamb, the most acceptable victim of praise and propitiation for the Church’s universal need. Moreover, just as the divine Redeemer, while dying on the Cross, offered Himself to the eternal Father as Head of the whole human race, so now, ‘in this clean oblation’ He not only offers Himself as Head of the Church to His heavenly Father but in Himself His mystical members as well. He embraces them all, yes, even the weaker and more ailing members, with the deepest love of His Heart. (Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis AAS, XXXV, 232-233)28

  • Pope John Paul II states: "This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic Liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic Mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them.

"Adoration of Christ in this sacrament of love must also find expression in various forms of Eucharistic devotion: personal prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, Hours of Adoration, periods of exposition—short, prolonged and annual (Forty Hours) - Eucharistic benediction, Eucharistic processions, Eucharistic congresses. A particular mention should be made at this point of the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ as an act of public worship rendered to Christ present in the Eucharist, a feast instituted by my predecessor Urban IV in memory of the institution of this great Mystery.

"All this therefore corresponds to the general principles and particular norms already long in existence, but newly formulated during or after the Second Vatican Council.

"…The Church and the world have a great need of Eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease."29

  • The following words of Fr. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O., emphasize the great importance regarding personal holiness and one’s participation in the Mass: "Mass, insomuch as it is Christ’s offering, is not only always acceptable to God, but is of infinite value as well.

"But, inasmuch as it is your offering and mine, and that of every other member of the Mystical Body ... we can limit the effectiveness of God’s great Act of Love; we finite beings can set bounds to the veritable flood of God-life made possible by the Infinite Son of the Infinite Father." 30

Yes, the effectiveness of each Mass, which makes the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally present, depends in part on the holiness of the entire Church offering it with Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit, including the holiness of the individual priest offering and the holiness of his participating congregation.

Yes, the effectiveness of each Mass, which makes the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally present, depends in part on the holiness of the entire Church offering it with Christ to the Father in the Holy Spirit, including the holiness of the individual priest offering and the holiness of his participating congregation.

  • Fr. Maurice de la Taille, S.J., formerly professor of theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and a universally recognized authority on the Mass, also points out the great importance of personal holiness in the Church relative to the effectiveness of the Eucharistic sacrifice: "It is, then, of the greatest importance that there should be in the Church many holy, many very holy persons. Devout people, men and women, who should be urged by every means to higher sanctity, so that through them the value of our Masses may be increased and the tireless voice of the Blood of Christ, crying from the earth, may ring with greater clearness and insistence in the ears of God. His Blood cries on the altars of the Church, but, since it cries through us, it follows that the warmer the heart, the purer the lips, the more clearly will its cry be heard at the Throne of God. Would you wish to know why for so many years after the first Pentecost the Gospel was so marvelously propagated, why there was so much sanctity amongst the Christian people; why such purity in heart and mind, such charity, the sum of all perfection? You will find the answer when you recall that in those times the Mother of God was still on earth giving her precious aid in all the Masses celebrated by the Church, and you will cease to wonder that never since has there been such expansion of Christianity, and such spiritual progress." 31

If all, then, have a responsibility to grow in holiness in order to render the Mass more efficacious, the priest has a special duty to do so. His goal must always be to grow in holiness -- to grow in union with Christ the Priest, this Christ Who leads us to the Father in the Holy Spirit with Mary at our side.

  • The Sacrifice of Calvary is sacramentally made present in the Mass. When we pray the Morning Offering Prayer, united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we act as intercessors, pleading to God that great graces be released all day through our prayerful actions as we act in love according to the Father’s will. Whether we are eating, taking care of a sick parent, enjoying time spent with a friend, working at our job, we can help bring down great graces for the world.

When we pray the Morning Offering Prayer we offer our lives to the Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit, with the prayerful assistance of Mary, our Mother. Let us pray together united in our hearts in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There follows a Morning Offering Prayer.

"My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit.

"I unite with our Mother, Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member of my family, for my friends, for all the people throughout the world, for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the Sacred Heart.

"I love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I give you my heart. Amen."32

  • Fr. Edward Leen, C.S. Sp., tells us: "Unless we are pleasing to God we cannot be saved, we cannot realize the purpose of our divine adoption. We cannot please God unless we resemble Jesus Christ, and the Blessed Sacrament is instituted for the very object of perfecting in us this likeness. Bodily food is transformed into the flesh of him that receives it; this heavenly food, the food of our souls, which is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, has the directly opposite effect: it changes him who receives it into Itself. It must not be forgotten that the presence in us which follows the reception of Holy Communion is a living active presence. Our Lord is more present with us than is a person with whom we are speaking. As He influenced whilst on earth those who allowed themselves to fall under the charm of His Personality, so He exercises a profound effect on the soul of the communicant, if that soul wishes to submit to His action. We cannot be in the society of one who is good without being incited to goodness; we cannot be with Our Lord—and we are as close to Him as our desires extend—without receiving the effects of His virtue and without being stirred to become as he was, without being drawn, in a mystical sense to become one with Him, to become ‘Christified’."33

  • From a spiritual journal: "Go to the tabernacle. Jesus will give us our answers. He is waiting for us to come. We must come and sit in silence and let Him work in our hearts. We must not be filled with fear, we should be filled with hope and joy. We must pray to the Holy Spirit to give us His wisdom to know the will of the Father. Mary is our Mother. She will help us with all our trials and all of our struggles. We must discipline our thoughts and go to the Heart of Jesus. It is through the Eucharist that we will be strengthened for our trials.

"This is how I am with Jesus. I am empty. I want Him to make Himself known to me. I didn’t have much theological knowledge when I started sitting in front of the tabernacle. I was looking for love from Jesus. Nobody loved me the way my soul wanted to be loved. I craved to be with Jesus. I wanted my heart filled. I wanted the craving I felt inside satisfied. I thirsted for love. I sat with Him present in the tabernacle and He filled me. He revealed Himself to me. He was the Bridegroom of my soul and I His bride. As I became more intimately united to Him, sitting there in silence and going to Him, I cried. I was so filled with love. I found what I was looking for all my life. He wrote the knowledge of Himself on my soul. He wrote this knowledge in the intimate moments I spent with Him at Mass after Communion and before the tabernacle.

"I struggle intently to do His work, and I am weary from running the race. I am tired, I am truly human, but the unquenchable love I have for Him in my heart is at the core of my existence. It is in Him I exist and in Him I love. I love Him so intently and yet I am so unworthy of His gifts given to me. I long more for the desire to help souls, and His desires become mine through my deep union with Him especially after the reception of the Eucharist. On this day (Feast of the Assumption), I felt the unquenchable purity of the Heart of Mary and the joy of dwelling deeply in His Heart in her pure love. It was a special gift He gave to me, to be wrapped in Mary’s Heart despite my faults. He gave Himself so completely to me. I only long for this, knowing this presence. 34

  • Mother Teresa of Calcutta shares these thoughts with us: "I make a holy hour each day in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. All my sisters of the Missionaries of Charity make a daily holy hour, as well, because we find that through our daily holy hour our love for Jesus becomes more intimate, our love for each other more understanding, and our love for the poor more compassionate. Our holy hour is our daily family prayer where we get together and pray the Rosary before the exposed Blessed Sacrament for the first half hour, and the second half hour we pray in silence. Our adoration has doubled our vocations. In 1963, we were making a weekly hour together, but it was not until 1973, when we began our daily holy hour that our community started to grow and blossom."35

  • St. Peter Julian Eymard, founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, tells us: "The Eucharist, behold the Christian's treasure, his delight on earth. Since Jesus is in the Eucharist for him personally, his whole life ought to be drawn to it like a magnet to its center."36

26. The Documents of Vatican II, "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy", America Press Edition, No. 17.
27. Ibid
, No. 48.
28. Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, Mystici Corporis, AAS XXXV, pp. 232-233.
29. Letter of Pope John Paul II, The Mystery and Worship of the Eucharist, Pauline Books and Media, No. 3
30. M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. This Is Love, Bruce, p. 106.
31. Maurice de la Taille, S. J., The Mystery of Faith, Book 2, "The Sacrifice of the Church", translated by Joseph Carroll and P. J. Dalton, Sheed and Ward, p. 240.

32. Rita Ring, 
Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children, Shepherds of Christ Ministries, p. 189.
33. Fr. Edward Leen, C.S..Sp., In the Likeness of Christ, Sheed and Ward, pp. 250-252.

34. Rita Ring, 
Mass Book - A Journey Into the Heart of Jesus, Shepherds of Christ Ministries, p. 101.
35. Mother Teresa, Rosary Meditations from Mother Teresa, contact Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament, PO Box 1701, Plattsburgh, New York.
36. St. Peter Julian Eymard, Eucharistic Handbook, Emmanuel Publications, as in Adoration, Ignatius Press, p.97.

 

Jesus is our Savior.
We have a free will.
 





God sends the Rainbow
Thank you.
God loves us.
The miracle comes every day.




And they clothed Jesus in a dirty purple robe.
God gives us this beauty



God gives us such beauty.


May 5, 2019 Clearwater

Devotion to the 2 Hearts

          

        From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

        Age of the Two Hearts

Jesus:  "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of the age of the Two Hearts.

    "After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give them this message!"   end of excerpt

 

 


 

March 19, 2024

Happy Easter!

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

John 3:16
For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may have eternal life.

Jesus lived the quiet life for 30 years and the public life for 3 years.

God’s ways are not necessarily our ways.
He came in love so we could be with Him, someday forever in heaven.

Jesus loved us so much He went through the bitter Passion and death so we could have “new life” in Him.

He paid a precious price for our sins.

In the death, there is the resurrection!
The Pascal Mystery - Death / Resurrection!!

The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present.

Without the priest, we would not have the Eucharist.

It isn’t that there is too much suffering in the world, but so much is wasted,
Fr. Carter S. J., our founder, would say.

We live the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, in our lives, united to the Mass in the Morning Offering and grace is outpoured, praying to the Father, united to Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of Mary, our spiritual Mother, with all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory. We offer our joys, suffering, all we do like this, (it is the intention of my heart always to be united to the Mass going on around the world), I pray for this, offering it up for the priest, the Church and the world.
I love the priest and the Church and the world so much. The world belongs to Christ, even though the world has been marred by sin.

The world, the Church, and the individual Christian are in the state of becoming more Christic, (that is more in the image of Christ). We help in this (a pilgrim Church, a work in progress). We are members of the body of Christ, with Christ, our head.

We help build the Kingdom of God.
When we are weak, we are strong in Him, and grace is abundantly outpoured through the Mass.

So good!!!

So beautiful!!!

Here is a prayer to say daily “Morning Offering”.
 

Dear Father,
I offer up all I do all day united to Jesus in the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through
the powerful intercession of Mary, our spiritual Mother, with all the angels and
saints, and the souls in purgatory, for the priest, the Church, and the world.

We love You God so much.
We thank You and adore You and petition You for our needs. Amen.


The victory has been won, we must follow Jesus and walk in Jesus’ ways. Alleluia!!!
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
Follow Jesus, love God.
Obey and love the Heavenly Father.
Pray to the Holy Spirit to infuse in our intellects: wisdom, and knowledge and understanding.
Come Holy Spirit fill us with the fire of God’s love.
Life is in Him!
This is the precious gift, Jesus suffered so, to give us a sharing in His life in Baptism.
And He feeds this life with Himself in the Eucharist.
Blood and water came forth from Jesus’ pierced Heart:
Water for Baptism -
Blood for the Eucharist.

Vatican II points out to us: “…the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fountain from which all her power flows…”
The Documents of Vatican II, "Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy", America Press Edition, No. 10.

Oh God You are so good to us!

Without the priest we wouldn’t have the Eucharist!!

We say the Morning Offering, thanking God and praying for the priest, the Church and the world.

The Mass is such a gift.
I receive Jesus truly present in the Eucharist.
I thirst after this precious treasure.

Praise Him, Thank Him, Love Him.
Give yourself to Him, who gives us so much.

It’s all God’s grace:
“You are the initiator, God, I am the soul waiting your favor.”

We pray for grace to see what gifts God is giving us in the Mass.

Thank you for all you do.
“New Life”

God loves us so much!!!
Alleluia,
Praise and Worship God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Love and Prayers,

Rita Ring, Co-Founder
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
 


 

July 29, 2024

R. Dear Mary,
My Mother, I love you so much.
Please take care of my needs in my family.
Ask your precious Son Jesus to help me
and my family.
You are the Mother of Jesus. You cared
so lovingly for Him in your life on earth.
You are His most perfect disciple.
Oh Mary, I love you so much, you are my
spiritual Mother.

There are many of my friends I ask you
to pray for, too.
I know your powerful intercession from
the wedding of Cana.
You stood beneath the cross on Calvary,
after you endured the bitter treatment of
your precious Son Jesus.
Oh Mary, you know so well the trials and
pains of life. Help me now, I turn to your
powerful intercession.

You stand by the alter at Mass and intercede
for Grace for us all day long, please never
abandon me, your little child.

Oh Mary I love you so, so much.

Oh Mary you are the Queen of Peace, please
help us in peace in the world, the Churchs,
the family, the work place for all your little
children of the world.
We need your help for peace now, hear our
pleas as we turn to your powerful intercession.

We pray especially for our beloved priests,
Oh Mother of the Eucharist we turn to you.

Amen.


God is love, please take us to your Immaculate
Heart of love and place us in the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, there to know the riches of God's love.
Amen. Alleluia

 

Fr. Joe and Rita



Grotto in Clearwater




 

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.

 



Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my trust in Thee.



 
Fr. Carter, SJ Our Founder
Doctorate in Theology
Professor at Xavier University over 30 years


Fr. Carter entered the Jesuits August 8, 1951 on my birthday.

 

    

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994





Holy Spirit infuse in my intellect wisdom,
understanding and knowledge.

Come Holy Spirit possess my soul.


Clearwater


Doris

Sheila

God is Almighty.


The Mass is the sacrifice of Calvary,
sacramentally made present.

June 13, 1929  Lucia's Vision


Printing Blue Book 1


Our Lady of Clearwater
December 17, 1996


R. Memories of the way we were.

It’s the Little things that count!!!

Love is kind, love gives for the good of the other.
Love has its source in God.

Jesus is the Sacred Heart.
His Heart is on fire with love.


 

May 14, 2024

R. Dear Holy Spirit come to me, possess
my soul, I love You, Holy Spirit.
When I am weak, I am strong in You.
Outpour Your precious love to me. Amen.
I love You, God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Holy Spirit infuse in my intellect
wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Counsel me Holy Spirit from the mind of
God.

Help me, dear Holy Spirit to know the loving
embrace of God all the days of my life.
I turn to You. Amen.

When I find doing God's desire for my life
difficult give me the gift of fortitude, dear
Holy Spirit.
Sanctify my heart to act purely for the
honor and glory of God.
I may be willing, but I need Your gift to
give me courage to act as You desire.
Help me to know and love the heavenly
Father's will for me and to do it in love
for the honor and glory of God.

Help me to always put God first in my life,
in love for God in my heart.
Help me to walk realizing, I am the creature,
God is the Creator.

Help me to be patient and strong and
persevere in my life until I rest with Thee
forever in heaven.

Please Holy Spirit give me the gift of fear
of God that I do not offend you in sins
of unloving ways against God.
You are so good and deserving of all my
love.
I worship You and love You -
Help my interior disposition at Mass to be
that of purity in pleasing the Heavenly
Father, in my offering united to Jesus in
the Mass.
Dear Holy Spirit please help me in the gift
of piety to do that which pleases my Heavenly
Father with the tenderness as His little child.
Thank you God for all You give to me.
I pray this "All for the honor and Glory of
God". Amen.
 

Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'


Dear Holy Spirit, strengthen our will and
move like a Divine breath in our soul, to
be docile sons and daughters of our
Heavenly Father. Amen.

Alleluia.

 

March 10, 2024

Novena to St. Joseph, Patron and Father (2024)

Begins March 11, 2024 - March 19, 2024

Dear Saint Joseph,

I turn to you, you who cared and
protected the child Jesus and the
Virgin Mary.
You taught men and women, the
love of God by your example in life,
and by your faithfulness of living
your calling in greatest commitment
and love.

You loved Mary and Jesus with the
most gentle, bonds of love.

You showed us how you
lived in loving conformity to the
Heavenly Father's will.

You guided Jesus and Mary's precious
lives with the Holy Spirit, Spouse of
the Virgin Mother of God.

Protect us and our family this day and
every day of our lives, like
you did the Holy Family of Nazareth.
We seek your powerful intercession.

How intimately you knew and loved
Jesus and Mary. You were so close to
them. You showed us love.

Your heart was pure and gentle and
yet you were strong in being their
manly protector on earth, intercede
for us to depend more and more on
God for all our needs, for when we
are weak we are strong in God.

St. Joseph please intercede for a
peaceful and holy death for us and
our sick loved ones.
Amen.

St. Joseph help us now in this nine
day novena to you.
Amen.

 

March 23, 2024

Prayer for Sick and Caregivers at Home

R. Dear God,
I pray Heavenly Father with all my heart,
in the Name of Jesus, united to the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit,
with all the angels and saints and souls
in purgatory, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater
to come to my aid now.

My loved one is very sick and he (she)
needs your help, God.
Outpour Your grace for me in this time
of need to have patience and wisdom to
deal with this now.

I give this sickness up to You, my God.
Please help me in dealing with this and
helping them in doing the right thing
and dealing with this.

I surrender this problem to You, my
Divine God.

Please send Your angels to help me.
Spread us all with the Precious Blood of
Jesus, cast the devil into the fires of hell,
dear Holy Spirit come to my aid.

I consecrate my home, ourselves to the
Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, Thank You.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my
trust in Thee.
Child Jesus of Good Health, help us.
St. Joseph, Patron of a Holy Death
come to our aid.
Amen.

 

July 30, 2024

Joyful Mysteries

The Annunciation

1. Luke 1: 26-38

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, you who enjoy God’s favour! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her, ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?’ The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ Mary said, ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.’ And the angel left her. 

2. Mary, you said "yes" to the Angel Gabriel, "yes"
    to the Father's calling.
3. Help us to say "yes" to our calling from God.
4. Dear Mary, you are the most perfect disciple
    of Jesus.
5. Help us to be a servant disciple of Jesus, now.
6. Dear Mary, intercede for us now in our lives
    to serve God as He calls us to serve.
7. Dear Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, help us
    to love the Eucharist, more and more, as the
    precious gift the Eucharist is.
8. And Mary said "yes".!!
9. The Word was made flesh!!

10. John 3:16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

Amen Alleluia

 

    The Visitation

1. Luke 1: 39-45

Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah. She went into Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. Now it happened that as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, ‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord? Look, the moment your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leapt for joy. Yes, blessed is she who believed that the promise made her by the Lord would be fulfilled.’ 

2. Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth.
3. "Nothing is impossible with God."
4. Elizabeth was carrying John the Baptist.
5. Mary cried out the Magnificat.
6. "My soul doth Magnify the Lord."
7. "My spirit rejoices in God my Savior."

8. Sing: Our Lady of Clearwater

9. Sing: See the Eyes That Look at Mary

10. Sing: Ave Maria

 

The Birth of Jesus

1. Luke 2: 8-14

In the countryside close by there were shepherds out in the fields keeping guard over their sheep during the watches of the night. An angel of the Lord stood over them and the glory of the Lord shone round them. They were terrified, but the angel said, ‘Do not be afraid. Look, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people. Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. And here is a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.’ And all at once with the angel there was a great throng of the hosts of heaven, praising God with the words:

    Glory to God in the highest heaven,

2. Jesus is the Savior of the world.
3. Jesus loves us so much.
4. Jesus wants our love.
5. Dear Jesus, we love You so much.
6. Dear Jesus thank You for being our Savior.
7. Come to me Lord and possess my soul.
8. Sing: Silent Night
9. Sing: Away in a Manger

10. Sing: In my heart

 

The Presentation in the Temple

1. Luke 2: 25-35

Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to the restoration of Israel and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:

    Now, Master, you are letting 
        your servant go in peace 
    as you promised; 
    for my eyes have seen the salvation 
    which you have made ready 
        in the sight of the nations; 
    a light of revelation for the gentiles 
    and glory for your people Israel.

As the child’s father and mother were wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, ‘Look, he is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is opposed—and a sword will pierce your soul too — so that the secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.'   

2. A sword too will pierce your heart, Oh
    Mary.
3. Mary: I am the handmaid of the Lord.
4. Mary: I love you, so much.
5. Mary: Come to my Immaculate Heart,
    I will take you to Jesus' Sacred Heart.
6. Mary: Pray through my powerful
    intercession.
7. Mary: My little child I love you, I
    care for your needs.
8. Mary: Jesus was my little baby on earth.
9. Mary: Jesus has the most tender love
    for you. Jesus has Divine Love.
10. Mary: In the Eucharist Jesus comes to
    you: Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. I
    am Mother of the Eucharist, your
    spiritual Mother.

 

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

1. Luke 2: 41-52

Every year his parents used to go to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up for the feast as usual. When the days of the feast were over and they set off home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing it. They assumed he was somewhere in the party, and it was only after a day’s journey that they went to look for him among their relations and acquaintances. When they failed to find him they went back to Jerusalem looking for him everywhere. 

   It happened that, three days later, they found him in the Temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions; and all those who heard him were astounded at his intelligence and his replies. They were overcome when they saw him, and his mother said to him, ‘My child, why have you done this to us? See how worried your father and I have been, looking for you.’ He replied, ‘Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?’ But they did not understand what he meant. He went down with them then and came to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people.

2. Jesus was found talking to the doctors.
3. Mary and Joseph were in such sorrow
    because they could not find Jesus.
 


 
 

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4. Jesus was about His Father's business.
5. The Father said at the Transfiguration: "This is
    My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased,
    listen to Him."
6. Jesus passionately loves His Father.
7. The Father loves Jesus, He is most precious to
    the Father.
8. We need to obey the Father and live to please
    Him.

9. John 3:16

For this is how God loved the world:
he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him 
    may not perish
but may have eternal life.

10. Love isn't love until you give it away.

 
   

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Messages from Jesus and Mary Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest
$ 10.00

Tell My People. Messages from Jesus and Mary (As given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.)    One of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.'s Synopsis of the Spiritual Life    From Jesus to Fr. Carter "On Holy Saturday, 1994, Jesus told me that on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that some of these were eventually to be published in a book  and here is that book." $10

Spirituality Handbook
Shepherds of Christ Associates Spirituality Handbook - A Way of Spiritual Life
Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest
$ 3.00

Spirituality Handbook. Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. did 3 synopsis of the spiritual life. The Spirituality Handbook, the Priestly Newsletter 20he Tell My People book. The way of spiritual life proposed to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates is centered in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All aspects of the spiritual life discussed below should be viewed as means to help members develop their lives in consecration to Christ, the Sacred Heart, and to Mary, the Immaculate Heart. $3

The Spirituality of Fatima
Fatima: The Setting, The Message, The Spirituality of Consecration
$ 5.00

The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. The Fatima apparitions and messages received official Church approval in 1930. In giving her official approval to the Fatima event, the Church tells us that what took place at Fatima involving the three young visionaries is worthy of our belief. $5

  Shepherds of Christ Holy Spirit Novena CD
  Holy Spirit Novena Read by: Rita Ring
  $ 10.00 
plus postage


  Holy Spirit Novena CD. Prayers and scripture readings from the Holy Spirit Novena Booklet read by Rita Ring. $10

 

Statues/Religious Items

 
 
Blue Crystal Rosary
  Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater
  8mm - $ 40.00
plus shipping

 

  Red Crystal Rosary
  Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater
  8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping

 

 

  Clear Crystal Rosary
  Rosary with the Image of Our Lady of Clearwater
 
8mm - $ 40.00 plus shipping
 

 

 

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                    R. Pray for these things

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

 


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