September 14, 2016
 

Triumph of the Cross

                R. God has called us to love, to be kind, to
                be other focused, to give of ourselves –
                We can say "yes" to God – or "no" to God.
                Jesus has showed us how He loves us
                    today in all that He gives to us
                    in our lives.

                God created us in the image and likeness
                    of God –

                We will be judged how we loved –

                How we lived virtuously, walking in the
                    footprints of Jesus.

                Jesus loves us so much.

                Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist –

                Life is about giving –

                Life is in God –

                Life is surrendering to be likened
                    to Him –

                To live our lives according to God's
                    will for us in love –

                Jesus: I call you to love.

                    Live everyday as if it is your last.

                    Live in the moment –

                    Know I am with you in the cross
                    you carry and I will take you
                    to the resurrection –

                    Carry your crosses and love
                    your brothers –

                    I am your God, I never leave you.

This rosary was received on Sunday, September the 14th, 1997 at an International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at Morrow, Ohio. These meditations and messages were given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and transcribed from the recording.

Feast of Exultation of the Cross

Sorrowful Mysteries

Song: A Song from Jesus

The Agony in the Garden

1. R. The victory is not experienced because we are being persecuted and pressed on. We must live united to God even in suffering. We are to be united deeply as members of the Body of Christ with Jesus our head. The priest is another Christ. We want a mystical marriage with Jesus. They will be torn apart on the surface, but deep in their hearts the cries of victory will be sent forth for they will be one in Him. You will wear a white robe of glory on the last day for the faithful will be united in heaven and with the Almighty God for all eternity. A banquet is prepared. You have contacted the guests to the feast, clad in the richest garments of glistening white. It is a cry of victory for the faithful are dressed in the finest robes for the feast.

Jesus: Pray little ones. What you do will help bring about the renewal of the Church and the world. Your efforts will help to reach the faithful. It will teach them how to dress their souls. It is in purity and sacrifice that you come to the table to offer sacrifice for this feast.

2. Jesus: Oh, you, faithful ones, you see Me in the garden with the Blood on My brow and you see the stiff-necked faithful in your Churches. It is in giving yourself completely to Me in selflessness that you will be one in Me. I am telling you now that you must give yourself completely to Me for the road ahead will be most difficult as long as you hold on to the desires of the self. Give yourself to Me. I knelt in the garden and the blood that beaded on My head fell to the earth. This is the love I have for you. Look at your Churches. Are their hearts filled with love or are they filled with self? Thinking always of the self. And how is it at the end of the Mass when so many stand around and they clamor and they speak and they laugh and they talk and I am the Almighty God, Son of God. I remain on the throne and I am treated with indifference and disrespect.

3. R. Doing the will of God is doing God’s will and many times it is very difficult to do what we know He is asking us to do. It is that, that will make the difference. It is that, that will help bring about the Kingdom of God for in our hearts all of them are living for this, that the Sacred Heart of Jesus will Reign in all hearts and it will become hard, harder than it is. You say, “Oh, how could this be?” But 6 months ago it was hard and we thought it would never become more difficult yet it has. But inside of our hearts we have this oneness, deeper and deeper to Him, for there truly is a joy within us for in an instant we can become one, more and more, in Him, if we are pressed on or stepped on or whatever is going on in our life, there is that place in our heart that is forever lighted as the most golden lamp and our hearts dwells in the Heart of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. And no matter how we are pressed on and how we may feel that we are isolated from others, there is that immense warmth in being within His Heart and knowing that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit truly, truly, truly dwells within us within my heart.

4. Hail Mary
5. Hail Mary
6. Hail Mary
7. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

Song between decades: Sing: ASong from Song

 

 

The Scourging at the Pillar
 

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

Call of the Sacred Heart

Jesus: “Tell My People that I wish them to come to My Sacred Heart. I show My Heart as symbol of My great love for My people. So many, however, are cold and indifferent concerning My love for them. Consider all I have done for My people! I suffered a brutal passion and death for them. My Body was unmercifully scourged, My head cruelly crowned with thorns, My hands and feet mercilessly pierced with nails. Oh, how much I suffered in all this— out of love for My Father and the whole human race! Finally, My Heart was pierced with the soldier’s lance. From My pierced Heart flowed forth blood and water, symbols of the Eucharist and Baptism. How much My pierced Heart still loves My people! How I long for each to come to My Heart in a return of love! All who do will experience My love in a special way. All who take up their refuge within My Heart will experience love, security, peace, joy. The world cannot give My people these gifts. I, Who am Lord and Master, am the One Who gives these gifts.”

Reflection: Jesus tells us how much He loves us and to what lengths He went in His passion and death to show us this great love, this love symbolized by His Heart.

To meditate often upon the passion and death of Christ is to allow His love to more and more take hold of us. The more we allow Jesus to embrace us with His tremendous love for us, the more He draws us within His pierced Heart. Within this Heart is our refuge. Here is our source of enlightenment, of strength, of peace, joy, and happiness.

Prayer: Jesus, never allow me to forget how much You suffered out of love for me. Never allow me to forget that You now love me with that same love which carried You to a brutal death, that love which led to Your Heart being pierced with a soldier’s lance. end of excerpt

2. Hail Mary
3. Hail Mary
4. Hail Mary
5. Hail Mary
6. Hail Mary
7. Hail Mary
8. Hail Mary
9. Hail Mary
10. Hail Mary

Song between decades: Sing: A Song from Song

The Crowning with Thorns

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

Mary, Model and Teacher of Love

Mary: “My beloved priest-son, I have led you to greatly increase your prayers and sacrifices for others. I have often reminded you of my teaching at Fatima— that many souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. My Immaculate Heart longs that all my little ones be saved. Tell my little ones that they must love their neighbor through prayer, sacrifices, and other ways, too. All should learn from me. My Heart is symbol, not only of my great love for God, but also of my tender love for all my little ones. Imitate my love for God and all my children. If you love Jesus and me, this means you also love all of God’s children. Jesus died for all. You cannot exclude anyone from your love.

“My Heart is the perfect imitator of the Heart of my Son. I will teach you how to love the Father and all mankind after the example of Jesus. All my little ones, I long for you to come to my Heart so I can teach you the ways of love! I love you so much! Come to my Immaculate Heart. Pressed against my Heart, I will hold you in my arms. I will clothe you with my motherly and protective mantle. As I hold you close to my Heart, I will teach you the ways of love!”

Reflection: In the above message, our dear mother tenderly reminds us that the following of Jesus is summed up in love of God and neighbor.

Prayer: Mary, in your great love for us, teach us the ways of love. Help us to surrender more and more to your Immaculate Heart, so that you can lead us to an ever closer union with the Heart of Jesus, the source of our being able to love.  end of excerpt

3. Hail Mary
4. Hail Mary
5. Hail Mary
6. Hail Mary
7. Hail Mary

8. R. “The time is nigh.”, Mary says in December. But now Jesus appears as this victorious Jesus and speaks of the new era and speaks about the Reign of peace. And the Father said that He would do whatever He has to do. We must pray so hard for the Reign of the Sacred Heart for what happens needs to happen to help us spread this movement so that hearts will turn to hearts consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, filled with love.

9. ‘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.’ Luke 2:34-35

R. Look at the head of Jesus. Do you see it? Do you see the crown of thorns pressed on His head?

10. Song: Oh Sacred Head Surrounded

Song between decades: Our Lady of Fatima

 

The Carrying of the Cross

1. Song: Our Lady of Fatima

2. R. This is the picture from China and this is the thumbprint the Father said that He gives to us, this church, to help us to spread this movement and Eucharistic devotion. To the left of the altar there is a statue of Mary and she is holding the Child Jesus horizontally. In the beginning I had so many experiences in the priest house, at the Holy Spirit Center, with that little statue of Mary holding the Child Jesus horizontally. He would give me the agony of holding this little tiny baby in her arms and then in contrast seeing Him under the cross in her arms or seeing Him dying on the cross touching the little baby flesh, looking at His little toes and then looking at His feet on the cross with the nails. And I’ve never seen that statue where she’s holding Him horizontally like that.

China, St. Anthony’s is really a gift for us. So we walk the way of the cross with Jesus as He did up to the end where He mounted the cross, which is the tree of life. And that’s how it is with us. We are walking with our cross on our back many times and it is so hard and we fall to the ground because it feels so heavy, but what ends up happening in the end is the glory, the life in many hearts that are being touched with what we do in this Movement.

Jesus: Do you realize, My beloved ones, My sweet ones in this room that there are so many souls, that you cannot even count how many have been touched because of the efforts you have put forth in the Shepherds of Christ Movement? And so you are walking and you are stubbing your toes and you are getting mud on your knees, but there are so many priests, there are so many lay people, there are so many children that are being affected because of the Rosary Aves and the rosaries in the schools, and the rosaries you have given out at My Mother’s site in Florida. There are so many that are being affected because of all that happened down in Florida.

R. We can not even count all of the ways that we have affected the lives of so many. And I still remember what Ellen said to me the night on Holy Saturday when Chris made His First Communion. And she said, “you don’t know how many people are making their First Communion tonight because of reading the Blue Book.” And it just made me cry. Can you imagine knowing about Jesus in the Eucharist from reading those Blue Book messages, knowing about how much Jesus loves you from those Blue Books and we don’t really see the fruits of our labor, but the fruits are really out there.

3. Song: On this Day, oh Beautiful Mother

R. See ourselves as a little child walking next to Mary as she walks by the side of Her Son as He carried His cross and Mary is crying, but we are with her and even as the tears stream down her face, the beautiful Immaculate Mary, has a comforting hand that she places around our little waist and we feel comforted and safe by her love.

4. R. How many today do not even know the love of their Mother, for satan has blocked this revelation to so many of the children of this world. Is this not why we hear the cries of Mary under the cross? But some do not even know about Mary.

5. R. I think that it is time that we truly thank God for this great gift that He has given to us and the gift of one another, for we all have been called and been given a lot of grace to be here and to stay here and to love as He has taught us to love and as He keeps us in His Heart helping us to love each other more.

6. Song: Oh Lady of Light

7. R. And in the end He mounted the cross and she stood beneath, but He died for us, always throughout the whole Passion He was at perfect peace, He is perfect love, perfect in all things to His death on the cross. Jesus is love.

8. R. And in the darkness, there was this light that shone from the cross and I saw on the cross when He appeared as the victorious Jesus, for it is a great victory that God gave Himself, gave His life for us that we would share in His life.

9. R. And her cheeks were red and her eyes were all filled with tears, but the thing of it is, she was still Our Lady of Light and she stood beneath the cross and she cried.

10. R. And she said, “All generations shall call me blessed.”
 

Message before the Glory Be:

R. Let us today, on this eve before the Sorrowful Mother and on this Feast of the True Cross, vow in our hearts to love Jesus and Mary with the greatest love, to offer up all of our trials that are so hard. Pray to not give into satan as he taunts us. Satan tempts us to sin – then tells us how we sinned afterward and tries to get us to be bowed down. We must be thankful that we can do all that we do and although it is not perfect and although we do not accomplish what we wish to accomplish, many times, God is majorly pleased with all our work and many, many, many souls have been affected by this and our loving God.

 

The Crucifixion

1. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet - Refrain

2. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet - verse one

3. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet - Refrain

4. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet - verse two

5. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet - Refrain

6. Song: Little Baby Hands and Feet - verses three and four

7. Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord - verse one

8. Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord - verse two

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

Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

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

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

Reflection: In the above message, Jesus describes what is involved in living our consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. What beautiful truths He puts before us! We know that the living out of our consecration is not always easy. Sometimes it is very difficult. At all times, and especially in most difficult times, we should remind ourselves how much Jesus and Mary love us, and that living out our consecration is our “thank you,” our return of love.

Prayer: Jesus and Mary, help me each day to live my consecration. Help me to concentrate on the present moment. Help me not to race ahead and try to live tomorrow and next week and next month before these times actually arrive. Help me to live the present moment of my consecration in the deepest faith, hope, and love. end of excerpt

R. See Jesus hang on the cross and see His Heart, pierced with a lance and underneath see a burning fire beneath the cross, for this is the fire that He gives to us in the fire of His love, that He truly mounted the cross, spread His arms and He allowed them to put Him to death that we would share in His life.

9. Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord - verses three and four and refrain

R. See Jesus Christ hanging on the cross and see the priest celebrating the Mass with consecrated hearts and we unite to all the Masses going on around the world. We say the Morning Offering and immense grace is being released on this world. This is what we are doing in this movement, and when this grace is released from all hearts consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, there will be grace in abundance to help us to live as He wants us to live. But so few today are praying and this grace is not released and it is very difficult for us, for the devil is having his field day at blocking us. We are so blessed to be given all that He has given us and the more the movement spreads, the more that the world will be watered with His precious grace.

     

Jesus: My beloved ones, the Mass Book is very, very important to this world. I am asking you to pray for that and the Priestly Newsletter Book. I am asking for you to pray for the Children’s Rosary Book and for the Apostle’s Manual. These four books are very, very important that they are released and that they are in the hands of the faithful. I beg you today to pray especially for the Children’s Rosary Book and the Mass Book.

R. I see the priest on the high mountain and there are water courses that are flowing on the earth below and the priest is not a stiff priest but he is a priest that is natural in his body movements. His body is filled up with the love of God. He is intently connected with the Almighty God, offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, holding the consecrated host ever so tenderly in his hands, as he raises the consecrated host to the faithful to see and the priests says “This is the Body of Christ”. We must pray fervently for all that we are doing. We do not even comprehend how much is being done through our efforts. It is so hard but there is so much being done for they said that this is so.

10. Jesus: Please do not stop, My beloved ones. Do this work. You will be pressed on in your homes and in your personal relationships. There is a battle that is going on in each of your lives. The devil is there and the devil is trying to stop you. You must pray for endurance and you must pray for faith. What you do will have such an affect on so many of My beloved souls. I love you and I thank you for all of your efforts that you have put forth. Rest in My Heart and I will bathe you in My precious Blood. I am the Lord Jesus, the Bridegroom of your soul.

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the Will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the Will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His Will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and rosary meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ Chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.