R. Baptism of Jesus

INTRODUCTION – (Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7; Acts 10:34-38; Matthew 3:13-17) The words of the prophet Isaiah, in today's first reading, go back 500 years before Christ. This passage was intended for the Jews who were in exile in Babylon. God is, through the prophet, introducing a person referred to only as God's servant to his people. God is quite pleased with his servant. In a non-violent way, God's servant will establish justice in the world, be a light to the nations and liberation for captives. Scholars debate who this servant might have been 500 years before Christ, but with the coming of Christ, there is no doubt who is God's perfect servant. At Jesus' baptism, God introduces Jesus to the world, not just as his servant, but as his beloved Son with whom he is well-pleased.  

HOMILY: If you struggle to understand the baptism of Jesus, you're not alone. Even John the Baptist had difficulty understanding why Jesus came to him for baptism. As John said "I need to be baptized by you, and yet you are coming to me?"

The baptism of Jesus is a mystery worthy of our contemplation. Certainly Pope John Paul considered it as something worth meditating on when he made it one of the mysteries in the new set of mysteries he created for the rosary: the luminous mysteries or the mysteries of light.

When Carol Roosa was taking a course at the Athenaeum to become our pastoral administrator, she had to present a paper on the topic of baptism. The professor was quite impressed with it and so she volunteered to preach this Sunday. I said "no." She said it would only take an hour and fifteen minutes. You will be happy to know I stood my ground. Besides, only priests and deacons are allowed to do a homily. I say all of this to illustrate there is so much that could be said about baptism. I'm not going to say it all. My few words today will, I hope, throw a little light on the sacrament of baptism and might help make the baptism of Jesus a little more understandable.

First I want to point out one way in which the baptism of Jesus by John was totally different from our sacrament of baptism. Then I want to mention one way in which they are similar.

If I were to ask the average Catholic what they think of when they hear the word baptism, most would answer, "Baptism takes away original sin." That's true, but there is a better answer. Let me illustrate. (show wallet) Now many of you know what this is: a wallet. And it's empty, and some of you might relate to that too. That's basically what original sin is. It is emptiness, like this wallet. It's a big nothing. We are empty of God's grace and life. Suppose, for example, by some unbelievable odds, I would win a million dollars in the lottery. I would get that big check (less taxes) and put it in the wallet. If someone were to ask me, "what's in your wallet?," I don't know what I would tell them, but I don't think I would answer "the emptiness in my wallet is gone." But that's what we say when we define baptism as the sacrament that takes away original sin. That definition only emphasizes the emptiness and not the fullness. It doesn't reflect the blessings that suddenly fill us at baptism: the blessings of God's life, of being children of God, the blessings of the Holy Spirit, the blessing of belonging to the family of God, the blessing and hope of sharing in eternal happiness with God. In Jesus there was no emptiness. In him dwells the fullness of the divinity (Col. 2,9) as St. Paul tells us. He was, from all eternity, God's beloved Son. Jesus had no need of baptism in any form. In this respect Jesus' baptism by John made no change in him as the sacrament of baptism did for us. Jesus' baptism by John provides an occasion for us to reflect on our own baptism and the grace that it brought us.

Now I want to describe one way in which Jesus' baptism by John and the sacrament of baptism we received are similar. They are similar in that they are both a commitment. John's baptism was a public commitment people made to live holy lives and to prepare for the coming of God's kingdom. Jesus, in being baptized, was publicly committing himself to do God's will and to preach and build the kingdom of God. Baptism is that for us too. We are committed, in a public event, to belong to God, to be God's obedient child, God's lover, God's representative. It's something like declaring one's candidacy, not for public office, but for the office of Christian in the world. Most likely someone made that commitment for us, most probably our parents. They made that commitment for us with the intention of directing us in God's ways. Eventually, we have to make that commitment our own if our baptism is going to mean anything at all. On this feast of the baptism of Jesus, we have a good opportunity to recommit ourselves to Jesus. The effects and blessings of baptism remain with us as long as we do not turn our hearts away from the Father who long ago chose us to be his son or daughter in the sacrament. In this way Jesus' baptism by John is very much like our own, not a private, secret event but a public, open declaration of our commitment to love and serve God and others as Jesus, the perfect Son of God did. Amen.

                R. What a gift God gives us in baptism –

                We receive a sharing in His life –

                Our knowing and loving capacity is elevated

                And the Father, Son and Holy Spirit remain in the graced
                    baptized soul –

                We can partake in God's loving activity
                    because we are baptized –

                What a gift God gives us, so we can
                    be so loving –

                We have been thinking about Jesus'
                    ministry –
                    Jesus healed and taught –

                His love was shown to us in how Jesus
                    was the servant – going out to
                    the people, loving them and giving
                    them what they needed in His
                    teaching and healing –

                Jesus taught the Apostles and gave them
                    the power to continue His work
                    after Him.

                Jesus is teaching us today in the
                    scriptures, in the Church
                    through His priests.

                Jesus gives us the Church and the 7 sacraments.

                Jesus shows us the miracle of the fish –
                He wants us to catch fish to help
                    promote the Kingdom of God –

Luke 5: 4-11

                R. Our whole lives are to be lived to
                    be disciples of Jesus –

                Fr. Joe says a disciple is a learner –
                    So we are always open and ready to
                        learn about what Jesus
                        wants us to learn –

                We just don't know everything –
                    We are here to learn to get along
                    with each other –
                    We are here to learn about loving
                        and relationships and
                        learning about communicating
                        clearly and in love with each other –

                It is God's will we learn to get along, to
                    be kind, to build bridges, to
                    want harmony and unity –

                The Church is a Pilgrim Church

                The individual Christian, the Church
                    and the world is in the state
                    of becoming.

                We are a work in progress –

                We need to be molded more and more in
                    the image of God –

                We are praying for an increase of the
                    virtues of faith, hope and love –

                Our whole life is lived to be like Jesus –
                    to go out of ourselves in love –
                    to not be self-centered and selfish –
                    envious, closed down, jealous
                    of our brothers – or prideful –
                    slothful not doing what God is
                    calling us to do –

                We are to be witnesses of the
                    light –

                Witnesses to be more and more
                    like Jesus –

                This is our call from God
                    in this life –

                To put on Christ –

                To be a witness to Christ –

                Not to be shut-down

                To be in imitation of Christ –
                    who loved so much
                    He gave Himself for our
                    sins –

                We can build bridges and sky
                    scrappers, but God asks
                    us to be molded more and
                    more in His image and likeness
                    and that takes –

                - a willingness to change
                - a love of the Father's will
                - surrendering to our will
                    and living the Divine will –

                thirsting after God
                Meditating on the life of Christ –

                We are to be healers by our ways
                    of caring about others in
                    being like Jesus –

                We see Jesus on the move in
                    His public life – His
                    apostles with Him a lot
                    following in His footsteps –

                Judas could have been there
                    with another plan – doing
                    something different than
                    what Jesus wanted behind
                    Jesus' back –

                Jesus was the leader –

                    Judas could have talked behind
                    Jesus' back and thought he
                    knew more than Jesus so
                    he tried to influence the
                    other Apostles

                The devil is the opposer
                The devil tries to upset the
                    structure God puts into
                    things –
                    the structure God wants –

                The devil works in pride and
                    anger and jealousy and
                    envy, slothfulness, lust
                    and gluttony –

                We must discipline our thoughts,
                    not give into the way the
                    devil wants to lead us off
                    with deception.

                We study the scriptures –
                We study the Word of God –
                We know the prophets in
                    the Old Testament and how God
                    picked them to lead His
                    People and we know
                    that of Joseph of the Old Testament even
                    his brothers sold him into
                    slavery for 20 pieces of silver

                We know Judas was the betrayer
                of Jesus –
                Judas opposed Jesus and went
                    behind Jesus' back –
                    Jesus tried to influence
                    the others –
                    Judas thought he knew
                    more than Jesus

                We are to learn to surrender
                to the Divine will –
                to seek the Father's will for us –
                to follow Jesus

                Jesus shows us how He
                    followed His Father's
                    will to His death on
                    the cross –

                God the Father gave me this
                    message one month after
                    Mary's apparition
                    in Clearwater
   

January 18, 1997
Message given through Rita Ring

2nd Major Message from God the Father

God the Father: My Dear Children,

I am the Father. My plan is unfolding through you, My beloved priest, Fr. Carter, and Rita and the core group in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.

I tell you all to read the accounts concerning Noah. Nowhere in history has God been offended as He is this day by this sinful world. You will suffer a fate for the offenses against God.

Mary appeared at Fatima to warn you, the sinful children, how they were offending God, but you did not listen. The war did not change the hearts of many evil men.

I warn you through My beloved daughter, Mary. You did not heed her warnings. Disobedience against the Mother I gave you displeases Me greatly. Mary is the Mother of all children. Mary is a gift from Me, but you are willful and abuse the gift I send you.

You do not make reparation to her Immaculate Heart; you continue to offend her. I will not tolerate the deeds of evil men any longer.

My plan will unfold. Any disobedience to these messages given by Me, My Son, or your Mother Mary will cause Me great displeasure.

I am the Father, the Almighty God, the Alpha, the Omega; you are a sinful people, a chosen race sinning against a loving God.

I am angered at your ways for they are not My ways, you have run amuck, you have offended your God, you have disobeyed your Mother and My beloved Son who died to save you.

I will act on all who continue in such sin. The sheep will be separated from the goats; the goats will receive punishment for their deed. Heaven and earth will kiss, there will be love in all hearts, justice will prevail and My children will be children of light, children that obey as I intended from the beginning.

Oh indeed My sweet messenger, I look to the earth and see the darkness, I see the disobedience of men against their Mother. I know the deeds committed and the evil in the hearts of so many. Justice will prevail and I will wipe out the earth. Only the children of light will remain, those who have given their hearts to their Mother Mary.

Do you think I send your Mother Mary as a messenger to be disobeyed by willful children? What do you think about at night, the cat, the dog, the fish? You don't know love. You don't love God or one another. This is My command to you, to love. You are a sinful, willful race, and the devil will vanish from the hearts of the children of light for they will be under the protection of her Immaculate Heart, the other children will be wiped off the face of the earth.

Disobey My messenger, ignore your Mother, ignore the Son in these messages. Ignore My Son who died for you.

Oh you sinful people filled with pride and disobedience, I give you the directions here to turn your hearts to love.

My Son has revealed Himself as never before in history into His tremendous love for men and you treat Our gift with such indifference.

I am angered at the lack of support to spread the messages of My Son's love for all.

You worry for funds, worry more, I am God the Father, the Almighty God. You disobeyed Mary, you disobeyed Jesus, now you will disobey Me?

You must obey My directions, the directions given through My Son, Jesus for the unfolding of the Father's plan.

No longer will I wait while willful men check and deliberate and disobey.

My plan will unfold through the Shepherds of Christ Movement.

I am talking through these messages given by My Son and Mary to tell you how to accomplish this task of carrying out My plan.

You must obey. The directions are given in these messages to spread the fire of God's love across this earth, to renew the Church and the world.

Because of willful men these messages have been held in check.

I am God, the maker of all things. You have made money your god. I want obedience, the funds will come when you obey all of the directions I have given to you.

Anyone who interferes with these messages will be removed.

These are the messages I give to the world. Fr. Carter's newsletter will teach the priests, all they need to know to be holy, loving priests.

Many priests are not loving, they are cold in their hearts. I will instruct the clergy through the newsletter.

My Son is the Chief Priest and Teacher. He has taught the world the secrets of His Heart through the writings of Fr. Carter and Rita, to go to men to check the value of these writings displeases Me.

You must have faith, you must study the entire revelations given here. You are not valuing My great gift to you.

I am the power, I am God, to the ends of the earth, I will be with you. My plan will unfold. You must think big, not on a human level. You must come to Me.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

I am telling you to circulate the tape of January 13 (1997) as soon as possible. This tape must be released to the world. It is the message to go with the apparition on the building in Florida.

You must make every connection with Mary's message given December 12 (1996) and the messages given by Mary with the apparition of her on the building in Florida.

Time is very short and My patience is very thin. I will strike the earth and the evil men will scatter and there will be a reign of peace where men will love God as I intended. The evil men will be chastised for I sent your Mother to warn you and you disobeyed. I gave My Son as a sacrifice and you treated Him with indifference. I am angry at the creatures on this earth. I will lessen the chastisement if you make reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Oh willful children, you disobey your Mother, you are unloving and willful and your ways are evil. You are a sinful race.

I am sending water, rain to quench your thirst, My beloved children of light; I am sending fire to burn the fields for the sinful children, they will suffer drought and will fall to the ground dead, they will know fire, they will know the wrath of God. For I speak and I am ignored.

I am using the Shepherds of Christ Movement to majorly carry out the plan begun at Fatima. Every day lost is a lost day. I give to you Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary as your directions to help the plan unfold. Circulate these rosaries to all chapters and stress their importance.

The tape of January 13 (1997) is important to the world. The tape must be circulated with the apparition in Florida and the messages typed and put on the Internet with the rest of the messages I have given. The connection must be made between the apparition and the Shepherds of Christ Movement.

Satan will attack you strongly, he will create division and give messages through other visionaries to get you off coarse. You must obey My directions given in these messages to help bring about the completion of the Fatima message.

I will weed out anyone interfering with My plan.

I will tell you when you have deviated from My plan, do not taunt My messenger, this displeases Me. Read the messages for direction and obey them.

The directions given are strong to correct a sick world. You must quit focusing on the messenger and obey Me.

I am the Father, these are My messages to bring about the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart.

You think of money and miss the gift given. You are men bolted to the earth. You must obey Me. I have all the power.

end of January 18, 1997

                R. This is from Blue Blue 14

                God the Father calls this
                    His book –

                We know on January 21, 1997
                    God the Father's message
                    was still in our hearts
                    and at Morrow I received
                    the following rosary –

                This is a rosary from Blue Book 14 –

                Jesus wanted us to pray it
                    today.

 

January 21, 1997

This rosary was received on Tuesday, January the 21st, 1997at an International Shepherds of Christ Associates Meeting at the Shepherds of Christ Center in Morrow Ohio. The rosary was led by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J., spiritual director of Shepherds of Christ Ministries at Morrow. The meditations and messages were given to Rita Ring during the rosary. This rosary was received live and transcribed from the recording.  All of these meditations have been discerned by Fr. Edward Carter S.J. It was a Tuesday night.

Song: Come Holy Spirit

Glorious Mysteries

God Has Gifted Us in the Shepherds of Christ

The Resurrection

R. Let us offer this rosary for the intentions that Our Lady asked us to pray for, first of all, for the spread of the rosary throughout the world, the rosary aves, the Rosary Books for children, the Mass Books and also for Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, that the plan of the Father will unfold as He has told us that it will, that anyone that He is addressing in these issues will receive the grace, especially to obey the messages that Jesus has given for the unfolding of His plan. So I ask for a special prayer for that purpose. We also ask for this center that the chapel (in Morrow) will proceed according to the Father’s plan, that we will be able to reserve the Blessed Sacrament here, that we will receive major amounts of funding and that we will have the lights to follow whatever it is that the Father wants us to do and also for the Priestly Newsletter, that Fr. Carter receives the inspiration and the ease to accomplish this task soon.

1. Song: Come Holy Spirit

2. R. We see the little baby in Bethlehem and we see above His bed the star. He is the Light of the world. We see our beloved Jesus as He comes forth from the tomb adorned in the brightest light with such brilliance that our eyes could not even take the brightness of the Almighty God. Jesus is the Light of the world.

3. Jesus: So you suffer My beloved ones. I watch you at every second I’m watching everything that you are doing. And you feel so alone so many times but I am by you and I am guarding you and I am watching you. I am telling you at this moment, you must come to the heart of My Mother, for it is there that you will find refuge, that you will be protected against the snares of satan who aims to stop you. You are My children of light. It is through you that the Father’s plan will unfold. You are children of the Father but you are a chosen race. I have chosen you My beloved ones to carry the light into the darkness. You must go to the heart of your Mother. You must give your heart to her.

4. Song: The Rosary Song

Jesus: I love you. I love you. I love you. My beloved ones, open your heart that I may speak to you and you will hear the words, for I am calling you, at this moment for the time is urgent. You must listen and you must pay attention to all that I am saying to you.

5. R. I see how the Father’s plan unfolded in the lives of Jesus and Mary. We see the angel appear to Mary and ask her to be the Mother of God. We see the child is born. We see that the child lived a quiet life and that Jesus went to His death out of greatest love for us. He gave Himself and now we see Him as He comes victorious as He gives to us a sharing in His Divine life.

6. Jesus: My beloved ones, you must go to the heart of your Mother. It is there that you will be protected for the devil aims to stop you. You are the light that I am sending into the dark world. It is through you that many will know Me.

7. R. My beloved Jesus, I try so hard and the devil seems like he presses harder and harder. And so many times he wins, and I am trying so hard to be so close to You. I remember at the Holy Spirit Center, Mary, on August 12^th appeared to me and her face was so beautiful and she was adorned in the greatest light. And I looked up at her face and I was crying and upset because of many of the things that were not happening that Our Lord was telling me that needed to happen, and she told me needed to happen. And she told me, she said, “My child, come to my heart.”

8. R. The Almighty God came to this earth a little baby and He gave Himself for love of us. It is today that we carry out His life, death and resurrection in our lives. The plan of the Father is unfolding and it is unfolding through us. And the Father has communicated to us for He has chosen us as major in bringing about the completion of His plan, in bringing about the completion of the Fatima message. He is telling us of the seriousness of the situation at this time. We must study the messages that He has given to us and read them as from the Almighty God, for He is counting on us. The plan will unfold through the Shepherds of Christ Movement and we are the core members. We are so important, each one of us, to the plan of the Father.

9. R. Jesus rose from the dead, victorious on the third day. We see Him in the passion. We see Jesus, He looks like a man that is suffering. We see Jesus in compliance to the Father’s will. We see Him, He carried the cross on His back. He did not worry about what other people thought about Him. Jesus just did exactly what the Father wanted Him to do. How many times today do we worry about what other people are thinking about us. And we do not do what the Father is telling us to do. Are we even aware of how many times we are thinking about others and how they are sizing us up and so, therefore, we really do not obey? Our life must be lived in doing the Father’s will. We are the teachers that are going into the world that are leading others to His Heart. It is in living according to His will that the Reign of the Sacred Heart will come about.

10. Sing: The Rosary Song

 

          The Ascension

1. R. The first Shepherds of Christ meeting was on a Tuesday night, the last Tuesday in August, and I saw Saint Margaret Mary. She appeared to me in the sanctuary at St. Peter in Chains and she was holding a white book. And as I drove to the Holy Spirit Center that night, Jesus said that the people at the meeting were His apostles that He would send out into this world. We are those apostles. Here we are. From August of 1994 until January of 1997 and the teacher has taught us many things that we will know His ways, that we will go into the world and we will carry His teachings.  He has given to the world these teachings in these rosaries. But He taught them to us. You must be grateful for the gifts that He has given to us.

2. Jesus: And so My beloved ones, the plan of the Father has unfolded. The plan has unfolded as you came to each meeting each week. And I gave to you My teachings, My teachings, My beloved apostles. Think of how it was in August of 1994 and where you were in your spiritual life. Think of how it was when you read the scriptures and you attended the Mass and you went to the Holy Eucharist. Think of how you were in your spiritual life in 1994 and think of how you are this day how My love is burning within your chest, within your heart you know My love. And I have taught to you the intimate secrets of My Heart that have never been taught before. Think of how dry and inactive your love relationship was with Me in 1994. These are My teaching that I am giving to the world to help bring about the Reign of My Most Sacred Heart. The hearts of many will burn when these teachings are released. You must spread My letters of love to the far ends of the earth for men will know Me and they will love Me in such an intimate way. I will be so close to them and My Heart will Reign. I am the King of all Kings. I will Reign in men’s hearts. You must spread the letters I give to you to the far ends of the earth that men will know how much I truly love them. How was your love relationship with Me in 1994 and how is it today? You must not hold on to these writings, My beloved ones. I give them to the world to help bring about the Reign of My Sacred Heart.

3. R. And the Apostles went forth and they carried the good news and many were converted and many knew God. Today, a new era is at hand and you the apostles will go forth and many will know Jesus in an intimate love affair, in a way that man has never known Jesus before. Through these writings that Jesus has given to us. Jesus asks us to circulate these writings to the world, He will write the messages of His love on their hearts. He will write the messages of His love on the hearts of the priests through the Priestly Newsletter that He writes through Fr. Carter. What great gifts we are given for His love truly burns within my heart. And when I go to the Mass I know a little heaven on earth. I love You Jesus and I thank You for the great gifts that You have given to us. You truly are the teacher. And You have made the Word of God live within us as a two-edged sword for we love Your Word and we love You and we love You Jesus, in the Eucharist.

4. R. And look at us little and naïve, look at us before the teachings Jesus revealed to us. Look at how we attended the Mass and went to the Eucharist. And think of the first love letter that Jesus wrote to you in God’s Blue Book. And you heard, you heard Him pour His love out to you. This is the love that He wants the world to know so that His love will burn in their hearts and that His Heart will truly Reign in the hearts of all men. It will not be dry and inactive and sterile. It will be vibrant. Their hearts will pulsate and they will love God with the deepest love.

5. R. And so we see the wounded hearts, the wounded hearts of so many hungry for love. For we are creatures of love created by God the Father to love God and to love one another. And so many do not go to Him or know His love. And the only love that they know is the love that they have received from their parents or from their lovers that did not treat them very nice. And so their hearts are wounded. Their hearts are in pain and they search a barren desert looking for love to fill their starved soul, and Jesus has given to them the mighty medicine to bind up their wounds, to heal their wounds. And it is His love letters. It is the messages that He has given in Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. For He said in the first message in the Blue Book that My life will be alive in you, that it will live within you. He is alive in our hearts. I heard Him on Ascension Thursday in 1995. After much agony I heard Him calling out, “I am alive. I am alive. I am alive.” Is He alive in our hearts? Is Jesus alive in a way that He never was in our whole life? He is alive because of these teachings that He has given to us. Do we see how our spiritual life has progressed because we have been taught by the teacher, the Almighty God. And it is up to us. He gave us these great gifts and He is asking us to go into the world and to spread these teachings that all hearts will be alive with this burning love inside of them. 

Jesus: You are My apostles that will carry the light into the darkness and the wounded hearts will be healed through the fire of My love. 

6. R. And so we crave love and we want love. And so many today can not find what they are craving in the world and they suffer. They do not know where to go. God the Father said that He is displeased how these writings have been held in check. But they were held in check because the devil did not want them to help lead into the Reign of the Sacred Heart, these are Jesus’ letters that He wants to give to us. He loves us so much. His letters of love written on the hearts of men. And so the devil blocked these letters which would help bring about the Reign of His Most Sacred Heart. We must obey everything that the Father is telling us to do in order to get out the messages that Jesus is giving to us today to help bring about the Reign of His Heart.

7. R. And so God the Father speaks and He says, “You disobeyed My messenger, You disobeyed My Mother and you disobeyed Jesus, Now you will disobey Me?” The time is urgent for the Father has not spoken except on rare occasions and He has spoken now, on Saturday January 11^th and Saturday January 18^th. But it is a feeling of great relief for there is such power in knowing that the Father is so close to us and that it is His plan that we are trying to spread to this world. 

8. R. Do you feel the oneness of the Father and Jesus? The oneness of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit?  Do you know love radiating from the Trinity? Meditate on the love of God: Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Three Persons in one God. And meditate on each one of us here. Each one of us, a person, but we are one in Him. We are so close to this burning love of God. Love must reign in our hearts, the burning love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, love for others as ourself. How can we even express what we know of the depth of God's love?

Sing: One Bread, One Body. 

Sing: Give Me Your Heart Oh Jesus

R. Let us meditate on the love of God. Let us feel the presence of God within us. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dwell in our graced baptized soul. Let us think about God’s love enfolding us. His love, His presence, filling our whole being as we exist in Him. We are one in Him, in this great love of our beloved God. 
 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).
 

9. R. And so He gives Himself to us, gives Himself to us in the Eucharist. We are filled more and more abundantly with His grace, His life in us. We become more and more one in Him. He gives Himself to me and He gives Himself to you and we become united in such a deep way in Him. This is the unity that He wants for this world. For love is oneness. UNITY, UNITY, UNITY.

10. R. There will be one flock and one shepherd. And this oneness will be known throughout the earth and it will majorly come through the Shepherds of Christ Movement. And as priests read the Priestly Newsletter and the Mass Books (Blue Book 9, Blue Book 10, Blue Book 11, Blue Book 12, Blue Book 13, Blue Book 14) they will realize more and more, the oneness that comes through the Mass, through the Eucharist. For it is all of us being united at every second to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, that we will be one with each other in such intense love, the love of God. Love is oneness.

Song before the Glory Be: A Song from Jesus

 

        The Descent of the Holy Spirit Upon the Apostles

1. Song: Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I care for you. Jesus, I love you. I want to be with You.

2. R. And so it was on that first day that we came to our Shepherds of Christ meeting as if we were young and were ready to be trained by the Divine Master. And we came to that meeting and He began to tell us, to tell us of His burning love, the love that He has for us, a love that I did not know before He started to write these letters to me. For it was all there before, but I was so blind that I did not know the love that I knew when He started to teach me about Himself in such an intimate way as He did in His letters of love to me.

3. R. And I pray to the Holy Spirit to fill me – to come to me. And the Holy Spirit came to me and I started to feel the fire of God’s love as it would well up within my chest. 

Song: Come Holy Spirit

4. Hail Mary
5. Hail Mary
6. Hail Mary
7. Hail Mary
8. Hail Mary

9. August 11th, 1994 - I Watched You

Jesus: Oh, how I watched you, child. I watched you as I gave you each little sign of My love. I watched you grow in your faith and trust in Me. I watched you suffer and stood so close you could have touched Me, but you didn't know that this suffering would be that which led you to My tender love for you.

    I watched you when you surrendered and turned your will over to Me and I watched you cry, knowing this was the most joyous day of your life. I watched you see visions of doors and knew you would want to go through those doors, but they were not the doors you thought, they were the doors I gave you for greater union with Me. I watched you, child, when you wrote down My first letter to you and I saw your confusion and joy, knowing what these letters would do to touch so many hearts.

    I watched you, child. I watched you when I showed you My Heart and you were so warmed by this Heart and so awed by its vision, but you didn't know what this vision would mean for many to draw their hearts to My burning love.

    I watched you surrender each time as you let go of each little thing, as you were dying to self. I watched you through this surrender grow closer to Me.

R. And this is the journey that He has taken us on in the Shepherds of Christ Movement and He continues and He says –

August 11th, 1994 - I Watched You continues

Jesus:  I watched you grow in this deep love for Me, step by step. I watched our love grow as you gave more of yourself in prayer. I watched you, child, and I loved being ever closer to you.

    I watched you struggle in such trials that you thought tomorrow would never come, knowing that this trial was what would give you more freedom and love for Me. I watched you learn each lesson through hard tests and I was so close while you struggled, but did not remove the struggle, knowing you would not learn your lesson if I had.

    I watched you, child, through each joy and pain and I loved you silently, always with you, and you never knew how close I truly was to you.

Song: From the Day you were Born

Jesus: From the day you were born, I watched you. Forever by your side, I guarded you, I loved you. I know the most secret desire of your heart far better than you yourself know. I know the Father's plan for you. I know the Father's love for you. I know the love poured on you from the Holy Spirit and how Mary is forever by your side.

    I watch you, child, constantly guarding you and your ways and you do not know the love I have for you. You do not know how My Heart burns for love of you. And, someday, My beautiful child, you will know what I have in store for you, My beloved.

    Come and be with Me. Grow in your love with Me. I never leave you, My beloved. Remember, I am forever watching you.

10. Song: From the Day you were Born

 

        The Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven

1. October the 3^rd, 1993, Jesus told me the Talent Message.

Use Your Talents -  October 3, 1993 Chicago Marian Conference 11:30a.m.

Jesus: I have a divine plan for you. I created you with special gifts and talents to be used to do My work. They are not for your own self-promotion. You, My child, are nothing except as I created you. Why try to promote yourself? It is none of your own doing. I gave you the talents you are using. You had nothing to do with it. These talents were given to you to do My work. To use these talents to make yourself feel better than your brother is indeed a sin. You must realize they are loaned to you to work for Me. As you give someone a car, or loan them a place to stay, I loan you your talents to use to work for Me. If you do not work for Me and use them to make yourself better than your brother, you are offending Me. Likewise, if I give you talents and you do not use them because you think you are not as good as your brother, you are not being thankful to Me for My gifts to you. You are not using My gifts and that offends Me greatly. Each person was created by Me to do My work. Each person has all he needs to do My work. To be envious of others is fruitless. They have their job. You have yours. You are not supposed to do their work. That is why you were not given their talents.

Do your own work. Don't be envious of your brothers. Don't hide your talents. You did not earn them. I gave you your talents. You must sing because I will it. Others must do as I will them to do. It displeases Me to give you a gift and watch you hide it and make light of it. I give the gift. You must use all your gifts. They were given to you to do My work. Your brother has his gifts. Be grateful for your brother and he should be for you. You are all chosen by Me for a special mission. You know what to do. It feels right. I plant little seeds in your heart and all you do that is for you in the end feels right. You are not to be doing your brother's work or he yours. Talk to Me that you might know just what your work is and do it.

Do not hide your talents. Praise your God Who gave you these talents. Embrace and use them. This is not pride. This is My plan. I love you. I give to each of you, My precious children, as a mother who buys special Christmas gifts for each child. To buy gifts all the same for all your children is not to respect their specialness, their individuality.

Oh, I love you, little ones, so much. Please come to Me. I am so good and I wait to be with you and share My love with you. Come now. This is your top priority. All else will work when you come to Me first. I love you. You are My chosen children. Come and be filled and I make your loads light and I fill you with the Spirit of Salvation.

All roads that lead to Me are the right roads. Praise Me for I am good and I love you, little dear ones.

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2. Hail Mary

3. R. And we see the plan of the Father unfold in the life of Mary. We see the angel come to Mary and ask her to be the Mother of God. And we see Mary as she is taken into heaven. We see all of the days in our life from the beginning when we were born until this time. Do we see ourselves as we came to the first Shepherds of Christ meeting, not really knowing what was going to happen there? But, oh, how our hearts have changed, how He has written the messages of His love on our hearts, how our hearts burn for love of Him. And the greatest of all is, there is more to come that we will know Him more and more, and we will be more and more satisfied with what our hearts crave. 

4. Jesus: Oh children of light, you must dwell in the heart of My Mother for it is there that the Holy Spirit gives to you lights to know and to love Me more. I am Jesus. You must give your hearts to your Mother Mary. It is there that you will feel such love of God. 

5 Jesus: It is there that you will be protected against the evil one.

R. For we see the statues of Mary with her foot on satan. When we give ourselves to Mary, she crushes the head of the serpent. We must realize that we must consecrate ourselves continually all through the day to Mary and ask the Holy Spirit to move in us. The Holy Spirit will be that motivating force within us. It is in Mary’s spiritual womb, Mary’s heart that we are protected from the evil one that we will know peace, that we will be able to go into the world as His apostles, and to carry out this great work that the Father has given to us. For He is the Father. He has spoken to us. He truly is with us. He has called us. We are the chosen race. It is in doing all that He has told us to do that we will help greatly in bringing about the Reign of the Sacred Heart. Jesus is the King of all Kings and Jesus will Reign in the hearts of the beloved children on this earth.

6. R. Think of the altar and the tabernacle, how majestic and beautiful it is. Jesus is the King of all Kings. Jesus is on His throne in the tabernacle. We want to make Jesus the King and Center of our hearts. "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name." Now listen to this. "Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done." Thy Kingdom come. The Reign of the Sacred Heart is at hand. Thy Kingdom come and it will only happen when men are obeying the will of the Father. When we are living according to the Father’s will, there will not be any bumping of heads. Thy Kingdom come. "Oh Father, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

7. R. And the children of light were brought forth from the womb of their Mother. And she appeared there at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center as Our Lady of Light. For it is there that the children of light were to go forth and to go into the world. It is through the Shepherds of Christ Movement as we give our hearts to Mary and to Jesus that we will truly be the lights that are shining in the darkness. For He has given to us great gifts and He has taught us. The Divine teacher has taught us individually in these Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, secrets into His Heart that He has never shared before. And think of how Jesus feels that He has opened up His Heart to us, and to such intimacies and to such an outpouring of His intimate love. And think of how His love letters have been treated and rejected. How would we feel if we open our heart to a lover and they do not accept the gift of ourselves. Think of Jesus. He gives to us the intimate secrets of His Heart and He is rejected by many. The Father is displeased that these letters have not been circulated. We are the children of light. We must carry these messages of His love to the wounded hearts that are suffering, that are bleeding and they will be mended with the fire of His love. The messages of His love will be written on their hearts where the wounds once were and they will be healed. And the Sacred Heart of Jesus will Reign and the Immaculate Heart of Mary will Triumph. And the children of light will be children that will shine brilliantly in what once was a dark world.

8. Song: Oh Lady of Light

R. On August the 12^th Mary appeared the entire night and I looked up into her beautiful face as I whined and cried and begged and laid on the floor because I wanted so much for God to hear my plea. And Mary said to me, “My child, come to my heart.”

9. R. And the children of light were protected from the evil one and she smited the dragon. And those that survived were the children of light, the ones that were obedient to Mary. For she appeared, the Father allowed her to appear. How do you think the Father feels about Mary appearing and us ignoring and disobeying our Mother? The fourth commandment says that we must obey our mother. Is the Father going to reward us with gifts? Is He going to reveal Himself to us if we are disobeying what our Mother has told us? The children of light will know God in a way as no other children. The others will remain blind. It is only in doing what Mary said at Fatima, that is giving our heart to Mary that we will know, that we will see light, that the Holy Spirit will work in the heart of Mary and we will see lights that we have never seen before. 

10. Mary: My little children of light, I bid you to come to my heart.

 

        The Coronation of Our Lady 

1. Song: Oh Lady of Light

R. The light will steal across the sky and the earth will be covered with intense light as hearts are consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. 

Revelation 12: 1  And there appeared in the sky a woman clothed as the sun, the moon under her feet and there were twelve stars about her head.

2. R. And men will see with a light that is brighter than seven suns. The moon will be bright as the sun as we give our hearts to Our Lady, the woman clothed with the sun. The Holy Spirit works within her womb and we see such lights and we know God, our Almighty God, in a way that we did not know before. Men are blind and they do not see. Mary has told us exactly what we must do but we disobey our Mother. Will the Father give us gifts when we are disobedient to our Mother?

3. R. “You disobeyed My messenger. You disobeyed My Mother. You disobeyed My Son. And will you disobey Me?” This is what the Father says in the message on January 18th.
 

From Fatima Peace Plan — Tan Books p.4-5. 

July 13, 1917

THE CHILDREN SEE HELL

    As she spoke these words, Our Lady stretched out her hands, and bright rays came forth which seemed to penetrate into the earth. All at once the ground vanished, and the children found themselves standing on the brink of a sea of fire. As they peered into this dreadful place, the terrified youngsters saw huge numbers of devils and damned souls. The devils resembled hideous black animals, each filling the air with despairing shrieks. The damned souls were in their human bodies and seemed to be brown in color, tumbling about constantly in the flames and screaming with terror. All were on fire within and without their bodies, and neither devils nor damned souls seemed able to control their movements. They were tossing about in the flames like fiery coals in a furnace. There was never an instant's peace or freedom from pain.

 

4. R. And the plan of the Father will unfold. The Father has told us through the Shepherds of Christ Movement that He is behind these messages, that He is behind the writings He has given in God’s Blue Book and the Rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the writings that He has given to Father Carter especially in the Priestly Newsletter to help renew the Church. We indeed have received such great gifts from heaven. And we must be so grateful and obedient as little children always trying to please their Father, always trying to love their Mother and to do what their Mother tells them to do. 

5. R. For we are the children of the woman clothed with the sun. We are the children of light for we have indeed given our hearts to the heart of Mary. But we see that so many times we still seem to fall and give in to the tauntings of satan. We must, all through the day, give our heart to Mary. We must realize that it is in giving our heart to Mary that she crushes the head of the serpent. 

6. Mary: I am bringing forth my children of light in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. You will walk into this dark world and you will carry the light of My Son in the darkness. And all will know how God is alive and the great gift that He has given to man, the gift that man has rejected, the Son of God. 

R. He is alive and we treat Him as a dead object. Look at how willful and disobedient man is this day. The Father has spoken because He is serious. His plan is about to unfold. And we are the ones that He has called in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to be the leaders to lead the light in the darkness.

7. R. And the children of darkness and the children of light walked next to each other. But only the children of light survived the attacks of the devil.

8. R. Mary is the woman clothed with the sun. Mary is Queen of heaven and earth. Mary was chosen by the Father to be the Mother of His Son. Mary is the pure and the sinless one, the spotless Virgin, highest human person. And Mary comes to warn sinful men of the deeds that they do and they ignore their Mother. Eighty years later she has spoken to us. Mary has called us, the children of light, and she has asked us to carry the light into the darkness.

Mary: My beloved children, I am your Mother Mary. I am asking you to make the connection with my appearance in Florida with these messages. I am asking you to do all that you can to spread these messages and to connect them with my apparition on the building in Florida. I am your Mother Mary. I have appeared on the building that men will take notice, that men will come to the heart of My Son.

9. Mary: I am the Queen of Heaven and earth, and I give to you my message in the Mary message tape. I am asking you to circulate my message to the world that my children will come to my heart and they will be children of light.

10. Mary: Oh my little children, many will lose their souls. I am asking you as the Queen of Heaven and earth to heed my wishes. My little children of light, you are given such gifts. Be grateful to God the Father for what He has given to you for His plan is unfolding around the Shepherds of Christ Movement. I am Mary your Mother. You are my children of light who will light up a dark world.”

Message before the Glory Be:

Song: From the Day you were Born

Jesus: My beloved ones and here you are this day in January 1997. Think of how you were when you came to the first Shepherds of Christ meeting. Think of how you were in your spiritual life. Think of how I have given to you great gifts and you have blossomed and you are so close to My Heart. You must carry these letters out into the world. You must do all that you can to lead men to My Heart for these are My writings given here, secrets to lead men to the inner most part of My Heart. I have taught you about Myself in a way that I have not given in all human history. I have called you the chosen ones. I have given to you great gifts and I am asking you to spread these writings to the world that they will know how much I love them, and that they too will intimately love Me. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus and My Heart will Reign. There will be an era of peace. I am King of the Kingdom.

Song: A Voice Cries out in the Wilderness

"Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Meditation at the end of rosary:

R. And Jesus taught us to pray. Jesus told us to pray, “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

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