"In an utterly singular way she cooperated by her obedience, faith, hope, and burning charity in the Savior's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace." (Vatican II).²

Mary is the Mother of Jesus. She is also our Mother. The above words of Scripture and of the Second Vatican Council attest to this.

Jesus has given us Mary as our spiritual mother. As He hung upon the cross, Jesus told John to look upon Mary as his mother, this John who represents all of us. In His moment of deepest anguish arid suffering, Jesus was thinking of us. As the indescribable physical pain racked His body from head to toe, as the unfathomable spiritual anguish penetrated to the depths of His Heart, Jesus was thinking of us. If we allow this scene to penetrate into our hearts, if we take the time to contemplate the depth of Jesus' and Mary's love for us as Their Hearts were pierced with grief, we are truly overwhelmed with the magnificent greatness and tenderness of the scene. Jesus was proclaiming Mary to be Mother of the Redemption. He was telling us that Mary is Mother to all peoples.

The fact that Mary is our mother, the fact that she has such a powerful role to play in our salvation in no way detracts from the mediatorship of Christ. Vatican II states:

"We have but one Mediator, as we know from the words of the Apostle: "For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all." (1 Tim. 2:5-6). The maternal duty of Mary toward men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. For all the saving influences of the Blessed Virgin on men. originate, not from some inner necessity, but from the divine pleasure. They flow forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rest on His mediation, depend entirely on it, and draw all their power from it. In no way do they impede the immediate union of the faithful with Christ. Rather they foster this union."³

In saying that Mary is our spiritual mother, we are saying that Mary is the mother of our Christ-life. What is this life? Can we define it?

At Baptism the Persons of the Trinity communicate so intimately to us that, as a result, they leave their imprint or image upon us. This Trinitarian image is our life of sanctifying grace. This life of grace is a created participation in God's life, and since this gift of grace is mediated by Christ in His humanity, this Trinitarian image also has a Christic aspect. Christ as man has shown us how to live a God-like existence. He has shown us how to live the life of grace. This life of grace we possess allows us to enjoy the special presence of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Truly, the divine Persons dwell within us.

Whether we refer to this life as the Christ-life, the life of grace, life in the Holy Spirit, or by Other names, we are referring to one and the same reality. This reality, again, is the Christic, Trinitarian image given us through the Trinitarian communication.

St. Paul speaks of our life of grace in terms of our being baptized into the depth and resurrection of Jesus (Rom 6:1-11). Again, Jesus mediates our life of grace. He has shown us how to live a Christ-like existence. Since Jesus' paschal mystery of death-resurrection sums up His own human existence, so it sums up our own. This is what St. Paul is telling us. Paul tells us that we live our life of Baptism, our life of grace, by continually dying and rising with Jesus--rising to a greater share in Christ's resurrection. Indeed, we live resurrection now and hereafter. Living death-resurrection involves all of our Christian activities. While not giving an all-inclusive list, we do include the following: the reading of Scripture, prayer, the performance of daily duties, the doing of penance, making sacrifices, our jobs, periods of rest and relaxation, sharing meals with loved ones, reception of the sacraments, and, especially, participation in the Eucharist which is both sacrifice and sacrament.

(This scripture is not part of this excerpt, but provided for your reading convenience.)

Romans 6:1-11

What should we say then? Should we remain in sin so that grace may be given the more fully? Out of the question! We have died to sin; how could we go on living in it? You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life. If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shall be by a resurrection like his; realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin. Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin.

But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shall live with him too. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power over him any more. For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God. In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.

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This is our glorious existence made possible by God's great love for us and a major truth of this glorious existence is the fact that Jesus has given us Mary as our spiritual mother. Mary is the Mother of our Christ-life. In her loving, maternal role, she cooperates with the Holy Spirit in forming Christ in us. Pope John Paul II tells us:

"The Church knows and teaches that all the saving influences of the Blessed Virgin on mankind originate from the divine pleasure...This saving influence is sustained by the Holy Spirit, Who, just as He overshadowed the Virgin Mary when He began in her the divine motherhood, in a similar way constantly sustains her solicitude for the brothers and sisters of her Son. ⁴

Mary our mother is ever with us, guiding us, teaching us, caring for us, protecting us, loving us. With her maternal assistance we go to the Father through and with Christ in the Holy Spirit.

Mary nourishes our growth in Christ with a very tender and specialized love for each of us. She regards each of us as a precious, unique individual. John Paul II again speaks to us:

"Of the essence of motherhood is the fact that it concerns the person. Motherhood always establishes a unique and unrepeatable relationship between two people: between mother and child and between child and mother. Even when the same woman is the mother of many children, her personal relationship with each one of them is of the very essence of motherhood. For each child is generated in a unique and unrepeatable way, and this is true both for the mother and for the child. ⁴

The Holy Father then applies these ideas to Mary and us:

"It can be said that motherhood in the order of grace preserves the analogy with what in the order of nature characterizes the union between mother and child. In the light of this fact it becomes easier to understand why in Christ's testament on Golgotha, His Mother's new motherhood is expressed in the singular, in reference to one man. Behold, your son.'' ⁵

This is the awesome and consoling truth--you and I are very precious to Mary. She loves us much more than we can ever fathom. It is our great privilege and responsibility to love her in return. She asks for this love, she asks for our trust. As we give our love and trust to our mother, she wants us to come to her at all times and in all circumstances.

Are we sorrowful, anxious, troubled? Let us go to Mary our mother and ask her to console us. Let us ask her for the grace to handle our sorrow, our anxieties, our troubles properly--according to God's will. In this way our suffering will bring us closer to Christ as it simultaneously allows us to contribute to the ongoing Christianization of the world.

Are we joyful, happy, basking in the glow of a goal successfully accomplished? Let us go to Mary and ask her to help us handle our joy, our happiness, our success as God intends. Let us petiti6n her not to allow our joy to make us forgetful of God, our God Who is the source of all true joy, success, and happiness.

Are we finding it particularly difficult to follow Christ in the here-and-now? In child-like trust we can approach our mother. Let us ask her for the grace to realize that the following of Christ is not always easy--that at times being a follower of Christ challenges our courage in a special way. We can also ask Mary to help us realize that even at such difficult times, Christ's grace makes our burden relatively light. Jesus has told us:

Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light. (Mt. 11:28-30).

Are we finding it is particularly easy to follow Christ in the here-and-now? Let us go to Mary and ask her for the grace to remain humble. Let us beseech Mary to keep us from being inflated with pride, and ask her to help us realize that without Jesus we can do nothing.

Mary, then, asks for our complete trust. She wants us always to seek shelter under her maternal mantle. She invites us to come to her in all circumstances--whether it be in joy or sorrow, success or failure, laughter or tears. Mary wants us to share in her maternal wisdom so that we may understand how to use our various experiences to come closer to God in Christ. Sharing our lives with Mary in this fashion, and on a consistent basis, requires that we love her, that we trust her, that we surrender ourselves to her maternal love.

Mary speaks: My dear little ones,
I stood beneath the cross of my Son and I cried tears of sorrow and of joy. I appear on this building that you will stand with me under His cross and live your life in love.

His lesson is love to His death on the cross. He loved His enemies, those who persecuted Him. Do you see Him my children with His hands outstretched before you? I wish a crucifix to be placed at the site in the main window beside my image. My eyes are always on my Son Jesus crucified and my Heart knows His resurrection from the dead.

Stand with me under His cross. He is your King. His Sacred Heart will rule this earth, all buildings and hearts must be consecrated to Him. On July 5, 1998 Our Lord asked that this place be consecrated to His Heart and my Heart, He descended on this site in the place of His statue. He will rule all kingdoms of this earth.

I am Mary your Mother, I ask that the 10 Commandments be read at every prayer meeting here.

I give to you the rule which God commands you to live by. I ask you to pray for the children of this earth for they are being taught so many sinful things in their own homes through the television. I am so sorry for the little ones and what your world has taught them.

Tell the children about their Mother. Encourage youth to come on Sunday to pray with me for their Church and their world. All the hours of the day spent on so many useless things. I want to teach them to pray as I taught my Son Jesus from an early age. I am their heavenly Mother, I love them more than any earthly mother. I want to teach them to pray my rosary and to pray for their Church and their world, I want to teach them to pray for my priest-sons. I want them to know about my Son Jesus. I want them to know about God and I want to teach them to be children of God.

I appear here to teach the children of this earth through my rosary and the prayers of the Good Shepherd.

I want to teach you my children. I am Mary your Mother, I repeat the request I first made to this earth two days after I appeared.

December 19, 1996
Read from Mary Image Card

Mary speaks:

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

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

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

Mary speaks: I am teaching my children through the Rosary Book - Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Many of the teachings you hear have come from my Rosary Book. Another book with short rosaries for parents and children will be used here.

I ask you to help me reach my children with this rosary material. I ask you to duplicate the rosary aves and encourage children and all to pray the rosary with these meditations. The rosary aves and consecration cards have the Imprimatur and can be used in schools and churches. I ask you to help circulate the prayer cards to churches, the Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Prayer for Union with Jesus and the Prayer for Priests (within the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual).

I ask you to spread my Son's prayer manual to all the churches that the world and the Church will pray these prayers.

I am Mary your Mother. From my site in Florida, I want to teach my world to pray.

I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I wish you to play the Mary's Message now and continually from this site. I wish you to tell the children I cried beneath the cross, tears of sorrow and great joy for my children. Tears of sorrow for the little ones that would lose their souls despite all my Son did for them. Despite His love, they lost their souls. And tears of joy for all that would go to heaven forever and be with God for all eternity.

I appear without any eyes, for you are my eyes. It is through your eyes, I will reach my children.

Your world is blind, come to my Immaculate Heart through consecration and you will see as the Holy Spirit gives you great lights to know God.

You were blind, but now you will see. My Son Jesus is the Light of the World. You walk in partial darkness with blinders on your eyes. You must give your hearts to me and to my Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit will enlighten you.

I brought forth my Son Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. I will lead you to the Light, you will see, you will be transformed anew, you will know the intimate love of My Son through the consecration and the rosary.

Help me my little children.

Revelation 12:1-6

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.

Mary speaks:   I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun. I ask you to circulate my Mary's Message tape made on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 1996. The message given to my messenger from me and my Son Jesus was to make the tape that day and label the tape made on December 12, 1996, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. I appeared on the building five days later, looking as Our Lady of Guadalupe.

You wish a sign, my sinful world. I, Mary your Mother and my Son Jesus give you a sign. He gave Himself on the cross. I tell you today the heavenly Father gave the sign at Guadalupe and He gives this sign today and you ignore the sign.

The fires in Florida are a sign. Do you wish the fire from His Heart to get your attention or do you wish the fire that can destroy all those things you hold on to?

When I appeared at Falmouth I was ignored and even after the flood they did not respond.

When I appeared at Fatima, 1917, you did not obey the messages I gave you and there was World War II which has hurt your hearts more than your earth.

We give you the sign, you do exactly as you wish.

You must obey the Commandments, my children.

Many of your television's programs have become as a beast invading the minds of my children and a second beast is your video games. Many are so vile.

The devil has wiped away stars in my crown. Do you see the serpant, the evil one that wants to destroy your hearts?

I give to you this Rosary Book with a message dated November 12, 1996 from my Son Jesus. He states:

This is a great Christmas gift for the world. Please be grateful and thank God for these revelations that I give to you. These are insights to take you into Our Hearts.

Mary speaks: After World War II many men made their minds their gods. They lost the sensitivity in their hearts. More than the devastation that occurred from the war was the spiritual loss of love in your hearts.

You have disobeyed the requests I gave at Fatima, now I tell you today to listen to the words of my Son, to pray the prayers for the renewal of the Church and the World given in the prayer manual.

Use the rosary meditations We have given from Our Hearts to lead you into your hearts where Christ will come alive in your hearts.

I appeared over 500 times to my messenger giving Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

I wish these rosary meditations to be teaching tools for the world to know God alive in their hearts. Your world has offended God. You must pray. I wish the rosary to be recited from this site with these meditations, I wish the world to turn to prayer. I wish this message to be published immediately on the picture paper, A Gift, A Warning, A Solution.

On December 17, 1991 my Son gave to my messenger a vision of His Sacred Heart on fire, ablaze with love for men (This appears on the front of God's Blue Book II). On December 17, 1996 I appeared on the building, looking as Our Lady of Guadalupe. This apparition was 5 days after my request to circulate the Mary's Message tape which states this tape was made on December 12, 1996. This tape was circulated at my request and the request of my Son on December 13, 1996 at Tom's farm. It was played and given to all present.

After I appeared on the 5th of the month from July 5, 1994 to October 5, 1996, my Son Jesus appeared at the point of death in my church, Holy Cross - Immaculata. For a period of twenty minutes He appeared in anguishing pain to my messenger with His mouth moving because no one was listening.

I appeared to this messenger over 500 times delivering these messages to lead men to the light.

We gave the direction to make Mary's Message tape. Five days later I appeared on the building in Clearwater as a permanent sign to this world, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun to lead the men to the light where they would see with the light of seven suns.

I appeared in a rainbow which matched the rainbow of the Rosary Book. This book was to arrive from the publisher on the same day as my apparition December 17, 1996.

Will you listen to my Son Jesus? See Him as He hangs on the cross giving His life for you. His mouth is moving and you do not hear Him.

I appeared, I appeared, I appeared and you did not listen.

I do not appear as I once did.

The sign is given, will you help Us reach the world with the prayers of the Good Shepherd and the Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary? I and my Son Jesus wish this to be a place of prayer to help to bring to completion the mission I began at Fatima.

Please my children help me. I am Mary your Mother.

My Son has revealed the deepest secrets into His Heart through the messages of God's Blue Books, the Mass Books, the Spouse of the Lamb Book.

We have given to you the priestly newsletter to lead the priests into Our Hearts, to lead them into the deepest love for the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus and the deepest love for the Church.

It is given to the priests that they will be the followers of the Good Shepherd, loving His Word and the Mass. My Son Jesus gives these instruments to the Church: the priestly newsletter and the prayers of the Good Shepherd. Help us reach the children of the earth.

Souls are at stake. Do you wish to respond to sufferings or to gifts? God is calling the children of the earth to be as He intended from the beginning, little children of the Father, loving God with their whole heart, their whole mind and their whole being. I am Mary your Mother, I want to mother you and lead my priest-sons deeply into His Heart.

You are children, willful in your ways, you must, must do the will of the Father. Live according to the Commandments and according to His Word.

Please help me reach the children of this earth with this message. I wish this message to be circulated by all means possible to reach my children.

I appear, I appear, I appear and I am ignored. I do not appear as I once did.

From Mary's Message December 19, 1996:

My dear children,

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

I am the Lady Clothed with the Sun. I am the handmaid of the Lord. I wail aloud bringing forth my children of the earth and you my children that will help me create a garden in Florida.

I am the New Eve. In this garden in Florida, I wish to bring forth good fruit, children loving God who have given their lives in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Eve sinned and they were banned from the Garden. My Son shed the life saving Blood. He sweat Blood in the garden for the children of Eve.

I give to you my Son Jesus. A sign is given, Jesus hanging on the crosses of the world and the sign that appears for you is myself, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun. I am Mary your Mother. I ask you to circulate this message immediately.

I ask the children of the earth to respond to the messages I have given and to the words of my Son.

I ask you to consecrate your hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, to pray the rosary, to observe the First Saturday devotion and to make reparation to God for the sins committed against Him.

I am Mary your Mother, will you help me?

The Sign of Jonah  (Matthew 12:38-42)