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September 14, 2006

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September 14, 2006

Messenger:      Oneness means I open my heart and I am
                    not afraid to love.

                        Because we are the creatures
                    God created who have been damaged by original sin,
                    even though we are baptized, we have the tendencies,
                    the weaknesses Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Lust, Gluttony, Sloth.
                    So therefore — a human person to grow
                    in the spiritual life is always in the state
                    of change.

                        People who have lived in intimate relationships
                    learn interaction — some can be helping us
                    on our spiritual journey, some can be dysfunctional.
                    To not grow is to stop progressing in our deeper
                    life in Him — the purpose of this life.

                        A person that is level headed — even
                    tempered may tell themselves I am in
                    control and provoke in passive-aggressive
                    ways, others, until they get others to act out
                    their anger or pain.

                        Projection can be a major issue that
                    blocks us. Blaming, like in the garden.
                    We are continually in a spiritual battle —
                    God opens up doors for work to be done.

                    A man who wants a solid, loving relationship
                    with his wife may have to recognize how
                    wounded she is, for example, from childhood
                    relationships and in love he continues his
                    journey of giving and taking because he knows
                    it is God's will he remain married. A lot is
                    learned in married relationships when two
                    people deeply love each other and realize they
                    are imperfect. The children, if they
                    have them, learn how love is paramount —
                    working to resolve issues is taught to
                    them.

                        In many homes problems are not addressed,
                    misery mounts and solutions do not follow.

                    Jesus told me
                        "In the problem is the solution."

                        When people do actions and do not take responsibility
                    for their actions time after time after time — wounds build
                    up and over time pain can be almost unbearable.

                        Women think different than men —

                        We see this tension from the garden.

                        Only in docility and love can some issues
                    be resolved.

                         I saw a big wreck on the way to Mass
                    today — one car was completely engaged in the
                    other car from the back — It looked like
                    someone could have been killed. I thought maybe
                    a person was unconscious in the car laying over
                    the steering wheel — the ambulance
                    was coming.

                        Relationships can be like wrecked cars —
                    words do not show up like wrecked cars, nor
                    does appointments ignored and actions that
                    some may disregard — or when people fail to
                    tell the truth and act like something that hurt
                    didn't happen — maybe it is ignorance, or habit
                    to act a certain way, but regardless wounds
                    occurs in interactions and sometimes they are so
                    unnoticed by the other, one has to forgive and move
                    on or never accomplish the work God intends
                    of us.

                        I know religious life has dwindled because
                    authority is not recognized as it once was,
                    people may not want to change —
                    they have an attitude I don't care about the
                    big picture — or really loving to work things
                    out, accepting imperfections and helping each other
                    grow, but they are much like the brothers who
                    fought in a family over spaghetti for 60 years and
                    never talked again. All the families suffered
                    and suffered, but they were like stiff
                    boards — being right and not
                    bending or loving.

                        I have learned much running a community
                    of mostly single people — We could not do this
                    work  1) if people were not holy and wanting to change
                                 their imperfect ways.

                             2) if they did not love.

                             3) if they did not forgive —

                        Not loving and working as one, produces
                            in this Movement — almost
                                nothing.

                        Have you ever seen a family in which
                 one is dysfunctional and will not change —
                like one being alcoholic and the whole family
                may do a dysfunctional dance — the children
                are hurt and the parents can become more and
                more dysfunctional.

                        Not communicating can make a very stiff
                dysfunctional environment!! A person, mom
                and dad may not change their life long and force their
                rule on the family — the children are not taught
                acceptance and love — they are not taught to work
                out simple problems, they may never be able to
                open up and share feelings that can help them understand
                God loves us in our imperfections —

                    What happens if we talk about love and
                forgiveness at arms length, but we never
                get close and work deeply as one with others —
                can we really understand oneness and what
                Jesus meant in John 17.

John 17: 20-23

I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

  

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:     The first Blue Book started this way in the
                            first writing.

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:     The Mass helps us to be one —

                      Communion helps us to be one in Him.

                      The members of the body of Christ needs to know the union

                                IN HIM —

                                not words we do not live —

                                The Trinity being our model.

                                God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit —
                                    3 Persons, one God in perfect love —

                                You — Him — Her in community —
                                    working together —
                                    well if I think you are imperfect then
                                        I DO NOT BEND —

                                because "I AM PERFECT

                                              NOT EVER IN NEED OF

                                                    CHANGE."

                            Song:  One Bread One Body

                            I know this Mary appeared in Clearwater
                                7 1/2 years and to not admit it when we were
                                given the building is not to tell the truth.

                            God wants us to tell the truth.

                            When people say — I do everything perfect and
                                if there is a problem — I won't budge
                                then we are operating as a unit and unable to
                                do the mighty work if we work as one.

                                I remember one day in China, Indiana
                            Fr. Carter had just said Mass and we had married
                            couples running the centers — it was difficult —
                            we had the building in Florida, Morrow and
                            China and I was hurting from all the potential
                            servants and handmaids and the men heads of
                            centers that wanted their way and not talking
                            to each other —

                                I felt such pain in my heart and I said to
                            Jesus "Is there no end to these problems?
                                      Will they ever end?"

                            Jesus said "No — you will have, always, problems."

                            And I have since 1993 when I began the first
                                Blue Book — I lost my voice and quit my
                                teaching, my organ job, singing at
                                the seminary
                                and God called me to be alone with Him and
                                write the Blue Books —
                                I said "yes" or they would not be here —

                            In the beginning of 93 crying on my knees
                            by my bed because I couldn't breathe or talk
                            because of swelling in my throat —
                            "I want to do Your will — God
                            How can I do that and not talk"
                            I am a mathematician, a vocalist —

                            Yes I bended — and after I quit all my jobs
                                and prayed I could talk — I wrote
                                the Blue Books — I had to give up
                                those people I loved, adults in my math classes
                                at UC for 5 quarters, I had to quit Xavier, I
                                quit my seminary choir (professional) after I
                                couldn't talk and sing —

John 10: 11-15

I am the good shepherd:
the good shepherd lays down his life
    for his sheep.
The hired man,
    since he is not the shepherd
and the sheep do not belong to him,
abandons the sheep
as soon as he sees a wolf coming,
    and runs away, 
and then the wolf attacks
    and scatters the sheep;
he runs away
    because he is only a hired man
and has no concern for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd;
I know my own
and my own know me,
just as the Father knows me
and I know the Father;
and I lay down my life for my sheep.

 

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:     John the Baptist's father was struck so
                        he could not talk —

                      I carry a message for the stiffness —
                            We must recognize our imperfections and
                            help each other and listen.

                      Before Mary appeared in Clearwater

                            12 days before
                            Jesus appeared on the cross
                            after Mary appeared on the 5ths for 2 1/2 years

Excerpt from April 4, 2003

Messenger:    I saw Him at the point of death on the cross December 5, 1996, after Mary appeared 500 times.

He hung, all battered, greatly weakened. His mouth moved very clearly. It seems that a man in His condition could not move His mouth to that extent.

Later in the rosary that night, He gave messages and said: "No one was listening."

end of excerpt

 

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:     On December 17, 1996
                            Mary appeared like this

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:       John the Baptist was beheaded
                        My voice was taken away before I got Blue Book I

                        Then Mary's head was knocked off

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:     I cannot do this work by myself —
                        I have cried to form this community to
                        be one body singing and praying for the
                        priests, the Church and the world.

                      Jesus called these people —
                         we must all pray one body, deeply
                            united in our hearts in the Hearts
                            of Jesus and Mary —

                        Mary said over and over again

                            "Souls are at stake, dropping into
                                hell like rain"

                        FROM FATIMA

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.

Before receiving the six apparitions of Our Lady, May through October of 1917, the three Fatima visionaries were visited by an angel on three different occasions during the preceding year. He appeared to them in the spring, summer, and fall. Lucia (now Sr. Lucia) describes the springtime apparition of the angel:

On reaching us, he said: “Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.”

Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead touched the ground and made us repeat these words three times: “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You.”

Then, rising he said: “Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.”

His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them. ³

During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:

Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal. Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you. ⁴

In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:

The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.” ⁵

Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:

Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:

“Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” ⁶

---

NOTES:

3.Our Lady’s Peace Plan, op cit., p.2. (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
4. Fatima in Lucia’s Own Words, op cit., pp.64-65.
5. Frere Michael de la Trinité, The Whole Truth about Fatima (Buffalo: Immaculate Heart Publications, 1989), pp. 85-86 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Ibid., pp.112-114.
 

end of excerpt from Spirituality of Fatima

 

 

Excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Carter, S.J.

May 13, 1917 

    "Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm..... I am from Heaven.

    "I have come to ask you to come here for six months in succession, on the 13th day, at the same hour. Later on, I will tell you who I am and what I want

    "Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners?

    "Pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war." ⁽⁸⁾

  

June 13, 1917

    "God wishes you to remain in the world for some time because He wants to use you to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace it, and their souls will be loved by God as flowers placed by myself to adorn His throne." ⁽¹⁰⁾

  

July 13, 1917

    "During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again, the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "O my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." ⁽¹¹⁾

    "During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:

    "You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

    "The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. ⁽¹²⁾

    "To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....

    "But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world." ⁽¹³⁾

  

August 19, 1917

    She told them she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor. As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned. ⁽¹⁵⁾

 

September 13, 1917

    More than 30,000 people were present in September, and saw a shower of mysterious white petals fall to within 10 feet of the ground before dissolving into the air. Many also saw the globe of light bearing the Lady come to rest atop the tree, and the branches bend as though someone were standing on them. Later, they saw the cloud depart into the east, from whence it had come.⁽¹⁶⁾

  

October 13, 1917

    I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.⁽¹⁷⁾

    While the people in attendance were beholding the great Miracle of the Sun, the three young visionaries, and they alone, were privileged to see striking visions in the heavens:

    As Our Lady had promised, St. Joseph had come with the Holy Family and had blessed the world. Then, Our Lady appeared as the Mother of Sorrows, accompanied by her Divine Son, Who also blessed the world. Finally, Lucy had seen the Blessed Virgin, dressed in the brown robes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth, holding a brown Scapular in her hand, with her infant Son upon her knee. However, in none of these visions had any of the figures spoken to the children. ⁽¹⁸⁾

    Besides the messages associated with the major Fatima apparitions, there were other revelations given by Our Lady. Before Jacinta died, she told of other messages given her (during her illness) by Mary:

    More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.

    Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.

    Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God.

    Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests, to their superiors and to the Holy Father, is very displeasing to Our Lord.

    I can no longer restrain the hand of my Divine Son from striking the world with just punishments for its many crimes.

    If the government of a country leaves the Church in peace and gives liberty to our Holy Religion, it will be blessed by God.

    Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. ⁽¹⁹⁾

---

NOTES:

8. Frere Michael de la Trinite', The Whole Truth about Fatima 
    (Buffalo: Immaculate Heart Publications, 1989), pp.112-114.
9. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to 
    Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN 
    Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.30.
10. Ibid., p.3.
11. Ibid., pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.
14. Rev. Edward Carter, S.J., Mother at Our Side: Mary's Role in 
        the Spiritual Life (1993: Faith Publishing Co., Milford, Ohio), p.21.
15. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.6.
16. Ibid., p.6.
17. Ibid., p.7.
18. Ibid., p.8.
19. Ibid., pp.9-10.

end of excerpts from The Spirituality of Fatima

 

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:      The devil wants us to focus on ourselves.
                        God wants us to be other focused.

Genesis 3: 1-24

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, ‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ’ Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig–leaves together to make themselves loin–cloths.

    The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied, ‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’

   Then Yahweh God said to the snake, ‘Because you have done this,

Accursed be you
of all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.’

   To the woman he said:

I shall give you intense pain
   in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
   in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.

   To the man he said, ‘Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

Accursed be the soil because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.’

   The man named his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, ‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:     We look at Adam eating the apple on the tree.

                       We see the prayer of the New Adam before
                            the bitter passion.

I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

 

September 14, 2006 message continues

Messenger:            I have a lot to learn, but if we don't help
                        one another, how can we grow.

                            God put Adam and Eve in the garden and they
                        sinned and He allowed this tension for
                        punishment and growth —

                            Some people say "I will do it my way —
                        this is how I believe" and somebody else
                        says "Oh you do it that way, I believe this
                        way."

                            Jesus wants us one in the Hearts of the
                        New Adam and New Eve —

                            God the Father gave His only Son for
                        our sins — He carried them on His back —
                        He mounted it —

                            Forgiveness and love is not always easy —
                            I have known people that could not bend
                            never wanting any one to know they
                            are imperfect —

                            A person can be caught with hand
                        in the cookie jar and try to tell someone
                        else they didn't take the cookie and lie
                        to prove it, blaming the other for seeing
                        them.

                            Pride is from the garden —
                            It is a weakness
                            Admitting what is going on inside of
                                us can help us deal with wounds
                                or we can stuff the pain and not be open because
                                we can't trust —

                            I remember something Jesus told me
                            September 3, 1994 —

                            Jesus told me I must trust Fr. Carter and
                            we wouldn't be here today if I didn't
                            learn to do so —

                            Look at the Trinity

                            3 Persons
                            One God    — united in perfect love

                                I have had lots of experiences in forming this
                            community and we are not stiff — we are deeply
                            one praying so deeply united, singing for
                            our beloved priests, the Church and the world,
                            but when the devil tries to divide us we
                            don't forget our imperfect nature — we have
                            to work every minute to try to be pure — to
                            change — to unite as a body in oneness
                            seeing the wider vision and knowing we
                            absolutely can't do it by ourselves —

                            Everybody is important —

                            We must thank everyone for answering the
                                call and focusing on the vision —

                                The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign in
                                    the people of the earth
                                and the Immaculate Mary will triumph
                                    in their hearts —

                            This would bring unity and oneness
                                for the poor banished children of Eve —

                            Why have the religious congregations dwindled —
                                married singles not living in oneness —
                                people must grow in deeper holiness —
                                realizing the power in the Eucharist —
                                In loving and forgiving.

                            A person can remain unchanged as far as
                                growing in greater holiness — a lifetime —

                            They believe they are perfect.

                            Wounds are wounds —

                                    they need to be recognized and
                                    a desire made to forgive and move
                                    out of it — not run after a person
                                    inflicting the wound,
                                    but praying for them and
                                    loving them, just the same

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

                            Let's do God's will today and not give
                                    into negative tapes that keep
                                    us stuck —

                                    let's see the light and
                                    rejoice about our gifts and
                                    thank and pray God
                                    petitioning Him for grace and mercy
                                        and peace for the human race.
 

                            From the Holy Spirit Sequence

                                Bend the stubborn heart and will
                                    melt the frozen
                                    warm the chill
                                    guide the steps that go astray

                            God give me a heart of love
                                    likened to Yours —
                                    You forgave those who put You to death —
                                    You carried our sins on Your back
                                    and You died for me.

                            I love You Jesus —

                            Give me grace to answer Your call
                                for greater holiness and
                                to do Your will
                                not mine when it is not what You
                                want.

                             Holy Spirit impart to me wisdom!!
                             Wisdom to know God's will !!

                              What do you want child?

                             Rita:  I want the world to be one —
                                      I want them to know Jesus —
                                      I don't want souls to be lost
                                        to hell.

                                      I want to be in the deepest
                                        union with God for all
                                        eternity —
                                      I am Your child, Rita Ring
                                   
                     

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1-888-211-3041

We accept credit card.