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Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish
this daily message to the world at 11p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.
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September 24, 2003
September 25th Holy
Spirit Novena
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The Novena Rosary
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Schedule for September
25,
2003
4:00 a.m. - Mass
4:37
a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter
6:08
a.m. - Songs
6:20
a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary
7:24
a.m. - Nursing Home #15
8:02
a.m. - Mysteries of Light from November 2, 2002
8:43
a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary March 17, 1995
9:35
a.m. - Messages & Songs October 24, 1995
10:38
a.m. - Mass celebrated by Father Carter July 5, 2000
11:27
a.m. - Stations of the Cross
11:48
a.m. - Mary's Message
11:55
a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
12:00
p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary Aves
12:32
p.m. - Seven Sorrows
12:46
p.m. - Children's Sorrowful Rosary November 2, 1996
1:44
p.m. - Children's Joyful Rosary March 20, 1997
2:31
p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary January 26, 1996
3:48
p.m. - Morning Offering
3:52
p.m. - Mary's Message
3:58
p.m. - A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
4:00
p.m. - Mass
4:37
p.m. - Blue Book Reading
6:20
p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary
7:24 p.m.
- Children's Sorrowful Rosary November 2, 1996
9:57 p.m.
- Newsletter 2000 Issue 2 (Suffering: A Source of Life)
10:25 p.m.
- Daily Messages August 11-18, 1998
11:55 p.m.
- Glorious Rosary April 16, 1995
12:39 a.m.
- Mass celebrated by Father Carter May 13, 1998
1:54 a.m.
- December 12, 1998 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
2:42 a.m.
- Rosary May 5, 2001
3:55 a.m.
- Ave Maria & Song from Jesus
4:00 a.m.
- Mass
A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb
the Bridegroom of the soul
Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world,
come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for
the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most
intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your
favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and
possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most
intimately.
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September 24, 2003
Jesus speaks: Turn
to Me with all your heart.
Messenger: Oh
how long will the people turn
their face away from Him.
Jesus speaks: Oh
My People would you come to Me
so I could take you to Myself
and caress you, protect you
from the wiles of satan, but
you turn your face away
from Me and I am your God.
You are held captive and you
do not know the snarls
that satan has.
You are like little blind men
that are wrapped in
thorns, thistles and
ropes and yet are too
blind to see your relief, your
peace is found in being united
to Me.
Oh that you would stop sinning and
tell your God you are sorry
and want to be delivered from
those things that hold you bound.
A
night watchman went out into the
night and He saw the enemy
coming. He set out a call in
the night be on guard for the
enemy comes to hurt you —
prepare to defend yourselves —
fill this night with light Oh
God, protect the people I guard,
let those who come to attack
stumble and fall and be
stopped in their path.
Messenger: Oh God heal the evil in our hearts —
Oh God defend us in battle against
the evil one who wants to trip
us up and stop us on our path.
Jesus speaks: Oh
My child pray — I hear your
pleading
and I will answer you, but some
are so blind, they are bitten by
the serpents and the wounds are
big and filled with poison and they
do not even see what ails them.
Oh My little blind babies —
do you not feel the bite of the
serpent, your blindness
is acute —
Oh My people, you are bitten
and the poisonous bite festers —
Oh the bite of the seraph serpents —
how you allow him to devour
your flesh and fill you
with his poisonous bite —
Oh that you would recognize him —
but your eyes are blinded and
you let him nibble at your
flesh —
Oh children, My babies —
I am light —
I bring to you the gift of sight
in My Word and My teachings
and you cover your eyes
and look away.
Turn your face to Me that you
might see —
Do not look away. I am Light —
You turn your face to the darkness —
you hide your eyes —
oh little children —- you cannot
sleep when the devil approaches —
you must be on guard lest he
attack you and you fall into
his trap.
He is a liar and deceiver, he is the
enemy and he comes and you
give into him.
Oh how would it be if the night watchman
did not alert someone when the
burglar comes in the night — oh
people he would attack and go
off in the night with the booty.
Oh little children of the Father —
God
your Father has sent your Mother
Mary to warn you and she gives
this message to you —
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27,
1996
Mary speaks: I stood
beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him
before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my
children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered
for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up
the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this
message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I
stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried
for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls.
How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I
come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and
you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have
been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have
given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I
appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I
cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children,
for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus.
Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer.
I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children
of light.
end of Mary's Message,
August 27, 1996
September 24, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: but
some do not hear the warning of
their mother —
Messenger: Oh
God set the captives free —
that their eyes may be opened
and their hearts swell with
love and they be filled with
wisdom in their hearts to
know Your truth.
God the Father speaks:
Oh My little children —
Listen to the story of Adam and Eve
Genesis Chapter 3
The Fall
Now, the snake was the most
subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman,
‘Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the
garden?’ The woman answered the snake, ‘We may eat the fruit of the
trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the
garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of
death." ’ Then the snake said to the woman, ‘No! You will not die!
God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you
will be like gods, knowing good from evil.’ The woman saw that the tree
was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the
wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She
also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes
of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they
sewed fig–leaves together to make themselves loin–cloths.
The man and his wife heard the
sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they
hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to
the man. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I heard the sound of you in the
garden,’ he replied. ‘I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.’
‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked. ‘Have you been eating
from the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman
you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.’ Then
Yahweh God said to the woman, ‘Why did you do that?’ The woman replied,
‘The snake tempted me and I ate.’
Then Yahweh God said to the
snake, ‘Because you have done this,
Accursed be you of
all animals wild and tame!
On your belly you will go
and on dust you will feed
as long as you live.
I shall put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
it will bruise your head
and you will strike its heel.’
To the woman he
said:
I shall give you
intense pain
in childbearing,
you will give birth to your children
in pain.
Your yearning will be for your husband,
and he will dominate you.
To the man he said, ‘Because
you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had
forbidden you to eat,
Accursed be the soil
because of you!
Painfully will you get your food from it
as long as you live.
It will yield you brambles and thistles,
as you eat the produce of the land.
By the sweat of your face
will you earn your food,
until you return to the ground,
as you were taken from it.
For dust you are
and to dust you shall return.’
The man named his wife ‘Eve’
because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of
skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said,
‘Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he
must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life
too, and eat and live for ever!’ So Yahweh God expelled him from the
garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished
the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged
creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of
life.
Genesis 4: 2-16
Now Abel became a shepherd and kept flocks,
while Cain tilled the soil. Time passed and Cain brought some of the produce
of the soil as an offering for Yahweh, while Abel for his part brought the
first–born of his flock and some of their fat as well. Yahweh looked with
favour on Abel and his offering. But he did not look with favour on Cain and
his offering, and Cain was very angry and downcast. Yahweh asked Cain,
‘Why are you angry and downcast? If you are doing right, surely you ought
to hold your head high! But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at
the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.’ Cain said to his
brother Abel, ‘Let us go out’; and while they were in the open country,
Cain set on his brother Abel and killed him.
Yahweh asked Cain,
‘Where is your brother Abel?’ ‘I do not know,’ he replied. ‘Am I
my brother’s guardian?’ ‘What have you done?’ Yahweh asked.
‘Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground. Now
be cursed and banned from the ground that has opened its mouth to receive
your brother’s blood at your hands. When you till the ground it will no
longer yield up its strength to you. A restless wanderer you will be on
earth.’ Cain then said to Yahweh, ‘My punishment is greater than I can
bear. Look, today you drive me from the surface of the earth. I must hide
from you, and be a restless wanderer on earth. Why, whoever comes across me
will kill me!’ ‘Very well, then,’ Yahweh replied, ‘whoever kills
Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.’ So Yahweh put a mark on Cain, so
that no one coming across him would kill him. Cain left Yahweh’s presence
and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
Oh children let your heart be filled with
joy for you have given into the
suffering too long, the joy that
can fill your heart is yours if
you turn your face to God.
Oh children, you cry like babies —
oh you suffer in heart for your
willfulness —
Your peace lies in embracing
the love of your God.
Oh My people, My babies how
do you want Me to reach
you? My power is Mighty,
but in reaching you, who
are of strong will, you
may get swallowed by
the torrential rains —
Oh it is a question of how to wake
one with crusty eyes and sleeping
in the night.
A mighty trumpet I could sound, but
I want you to come willingly out
of love.
I do not want you to come in force,
I want you to turn your heart to
Me in love.
Oh stubborn ones. What is your god?
Is it your flesh? Is it your
riches, your recognition and
good name? What is it that
you hold on to, that you do not
surrender and come to Me?
A man was prideful, so prideful
he patted his own back and
told himself that he was holy,
but he mistreated his fellowman and his
heart was not filled with love for others.
Oh My people, you must love your God with
your whole heart, your whole mind and your
whole soul and love your neighbor
as yourself.
Oh My people, I am the Father —
God is love —
God is love —
God is love —
Darkness inside comes from satan —
a man isolated himself from
others, but he made a victimizer
of one who was not even connected
to him, of one who smiled and
showed him recognition and love —
how dark is the heart within —
One who knows My love, knows peace
and joy —
One who is dark, aches from their
poisonous heart, trying to make
others suffer and responsible
for their own black, dark pain.
Your heart is yours to fill with
love or darkness —
Oh that your heart was a light to
My people —
For satan will keep many bound
in these last days — self
focused —
like a man tied in ropes —
they go to the inner chamber
of their own mind and ponder
dark things, why walk in
the dark, when you can turn on a switch
and let the light stream in with its
beauty and its warmth.
More and more satan works and people
give into him — that is the key —
you
give into him and he taunts you
and you give into him and he
leads you away and away and
away —
and your heart aches and it feels
like you bleed — you look for
candies in the world and none
fill you for your soul was
made for God.
Oh how are you?
Have you been bitten by the poisonous
serpent and now you nurse
your wound, telling yourselves lies instead
of reaching for the Savior to heal you.
You are in a prison of your own
making. A captive of the bite of the
serpent and your willfulness is the
reason you are held captive —
your
pride keeps you stuck —
like a dark dingy hole you crawl
in and don't look for the doorway
to get released and out of that dark
place.
The night was dark —
The day is light —
What more do I say —
Do you prowl around in a
dark cavern and give into satan —
Oh the cavern of the mind —
It can be a hole to some —
A trap — a place of darkness —
It can be a place of endless
agony where you give into
the tauntings of satan.
Oh endless abyss of endless pain —
you have made your own bed
and now you lay on a bed of
thorns.
Does nothing feel good and you feel
empty inside.
You were created for God.
It is a pit to wonder around and
to not think about life eternal.
Satan can taunt the mind.
I give you the priest to help you.
I give you the Mass.
I give you My words here.
My Son Jesus has spoken to you.
Don't
Wait Until It Is Too Late
January 10, 1994 3:30 a.m.
Jesus: Each knee must bow in reverence to the King.
Each child must realize that he or she will someday be standing at the door
to My kingdom. Each waits for entry and entry is based on your love here.
Did you love God? Did you love your fellow man? Are you ready to claim an
award that is fit for the glorious souls who served Me?
I am the Alpha and Omega. All that seems to give you
momentary pleasure is so passing. The things of this world are so small
compared to the things of God. Ready your hearts for a mighty King. He will
come unannounced and blow His trumpet. All will be called from their places
and all will be unable to leave. You will be summoned and, at that point,
your free will will be gone.
Do you say, "But, Lord, Lord, I meant to serve you
but it was too hard to let go of my selfish things. God, I know you call
now, but I am not ready now. Can I go back and do some more good works? When
You called me to love, I wanted to, Lord, but I wanted to do for myself,
too. I knew I could have loved more and followed my heart, but, Lord, I
don't know why I said no. I just always did."
I am Jesus, Son of God. At this point it will be too late.
When I called and beckoned you in your life to serve Me and serve your
brother, you said, "No, Lord." You watched a sick world parade its
sick wares in front of you and you thought for a moment's pleasure you
needed to be as the world instructed.
And I called you and I prompted you and others stood by
and showed you My ways. And you said, "Oh, no, I need no ways of God. I
love the world, sick or not, and I will be loyal to all its crafty ways. I
didn't like the murder of the babies. I didn't like the homosexuality. I
didn't think the filthy sex on TV was right, but I wanted to be loyal to the
world so I accepted their sick ways and shunned you, Lord.
"At Your name I balked and I went along with a stiff
jaw and a hardened heart and was taught the things of the world. I felt You,
Lord, at the door of my heart. I knew You were there from time to time. I
wanted to let You in someday, but, Lord, that day never came. Now I know You
are truly here and You are beautiful. Let me live again and I will now put
You in my life. Give me another chance, Lord. Now that I behold You and Your
goodness, I see the error in my ways and I want to love You. I don't know
why I turned my back on You. I just did."
You, My child, were willful. You plugged up My line to you
and you chose sin instead of the ways of God. You took your life for
yourself and you never once did My work. You shunned Me. You laughed at Me.
You made fun of Me, but still went to church, just in case it was real.
Blessed are they who have not seen and have believed. I was there at every
turn. I paraded in front of you and I pursued you with a heart of Godly
love, but you turned away and spit in My face. Your hearts became hard and
your jaw stiff and you followed a road that lead you to the destruction of
your soul.
I say to you, My child, now, before you are called by Me:
why do you turn your back on Him Who loves you? Why do you battle for a
devilish world when the tender heart of God waits for you? How can you, with
this beautiful heart created for God and longing to love God, say, "No,
God, I need you not," and turn to such sterile, sick, cold acts that
the world gives you? Money is so cold. Do you feel the change you pick up?
It is like ice! It does not warm a cold heart. It feels as it is, cold and
hard. Dollar bills are paper, little pieces of used, dirty paper. You choose
these things when a heart on fire with love of you waits by your side. You
choose an evil society that murders babies and talk about your rights as a
person when I preach dignity and love for you!
Oh, child, how I love you. If you are reading this letter,
it is not too late for you. I stand hyper-vigilant by your side, with a
heart ablaze for love of you. I wait for you every minute of every day in
the tabernacle. I am all powerful. This world has no power. The world will
vanish like smoke and My ways will last forever. I am so good! I have such
gifts to give your hungry soul. You stand as a starved child who hasn't
eaten in years. What would a meal do for such a person? I can give you what
your soul hungers after. I can give you what you thirst for. Your soul never
stops longing. It roams a cold world and looks for peace and finds none.
Only in God will the searching soul find rest.
Quit going to the world, America. Your money is cold and
your hearts are just as cold. You have lost touch with the warmth of Jesus.
The devil has turned your hearts into ice cubes and you have silenced the
longing for God in your chests so your jaws are stiff and you are
hard-necked. You are going to be sorry. You missed the love of God. Nothing
on this earth compares to His love and His goodness!
You missed peace and joy in your heart. You missed them.
If you have eyes to read, listen to Me. Stop it! It isn't too late. Your
world leads to the destruction of your soul. You are never going to be able
to come back and live your life for Me again. I come as a thief in the night
and you will not know the time or the hour. I will come unannounced. All
that remains for you are the things of God. Your money, your house, your
clothes, your car are all passing. Like the grass of the field, they die and
you will live. You cannot take one thing with you on your journey to Me
except your good works and the love in your heart.
Turn your life around. I wait for you at this moment with
eager arms. I am alive in the tabernacle this day, waiting for your return.
I am truly present, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, waiting there for you
with all My gifts. Take the wall from your heart and let Me fill you. Your
jaws will become tender and supple and you will know relief in your breast.
You are holding yourself away from that to which you are
pulled. It is a magnetic attraction which the soul has to Me. You make a
conscious effort to say "no" and pull yourself from Me. Silly
ones, what will you do on that last day when I call you from your sleep and
say, "Now your time is over"? Then it will be too late for you to
come. Then your life will be over and you will have lost the reward of
everlasting life. For a few years of willfulness you lost everlasting life.
I have pursued you like an ardent lover. I walked before you and sent others
to teach you the errors in your ways, but you were willful and you went your
own way. Now you will pay the price for your willfulness forever. Is it
worth that? For what?
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
OH BLIND MEN —
WHEN WILL YOU SEE?
OH BLIND MEN —
How is your darkness?
Oh Blind Men —
Do you see in the dark night?
A blind man can see more than one who
is blind if he is connected to
God.
A blind man can have clear vision —
he can see with the eyes of God.
Here is a prayer I give you —
Song: Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my
heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You
work in my heart.
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my
heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You
work in my heart.
(refrain)
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be
selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be
an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live
only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to
myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my
heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You
work in my heart. (refrain)
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I
want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the
world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire.
Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your
work.
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my
heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You
work in my heart.
(refrain)
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and
placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to
change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I
adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my
heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You
work in my heart. (refrain)
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my
heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You
work in my heart. (refrain)
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
Satan wants you to get stuck
focusing on yourself — focusing
on details, blaming others
being filled with unforgiveness
and pain.
It is a habit with some to remember
everything and work out their
sordid persecuting stories in
their own minds, according to them —
Life on this earth is so short
Litany of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
(For public or private use.)
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Jesus, hear us.
Jesus, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Son of the living God, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, splendor of the Father, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, brightness of eternal light, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, King of glory, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Sun of justice, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Son of the Virgin Mary, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, most amiable, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, most admirable, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, mighty God, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Father of the world to come, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Angel of the great counsel, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, most powerful, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, most patient, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, most obedient, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Lover of chastity, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Lover of us, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, God of peace, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Author of life, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Model of virtues, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, zealous for souls, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, our God, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, our Refuge, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Father of the poor, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Treasure of the faithful, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Good Shepherd, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, true Light, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, eternal Wisdom, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, infinite Goodness, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, our Way and our Life, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Joy of Angels, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, King of Patriarchs, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Master of Apostles, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Teacher of Evangelists, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Strength of Martyrs, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Light of Confessors, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Purity of Virgins, Have mercy on us.
Jesus, Crown of all Saints, Have mercy on us.
Be merciful,
Spare us, O Jesus.
Be merciful,
Graciously hear us, O Jesus.
From all evil, Jesus, deliver us.
From all sin, Jesus, deliver us.
From Thy wrath, Jesus, deliver us.
From the snares of the devil, Jesus, deliver us.
From the spirit of fornication, Jesus, deliver us.
From everlasting death, Jesus, deliver us.
From the neglect of Thine inspirations, Jesus, deliver us.
Through the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy Nativity, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thine Infancy, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy most divine life, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy labors, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thine Agony and Passion, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy Cross and dereliction, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy faintness and weariness, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy death and burial, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy Resurrection, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thine Ascension, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thine institution of the Most Holy Eucharist,
Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy joys, Jesus, deliver us.
Through Thy glory, Jesus, deliver us.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Jesus.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us, O Jesus.
V. Jesus, hear us.
R.
Jesus, graciously hear us.
Let Us Pray
O Lord Jesus Christ, Who hast said:
"Ask and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you"; grant, we beseech Thee, to us who ask, the
gift of Thy most divine love, that we may ever love Thee with all our
heart, and in all our words and actions, and never cease from praising
Thee.
Make us, O Lord, to have both a
perpetual fear and love of Thy holy name, for Thou never failest to govern
those whom Thou foundest upon the strength of Thy love, Who livest and
reignest, world without end. R. Amen.
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
The Name of My Son is misused by
so many today.
Say or sing this Litany often with love
and devotion.
Say or sing the Litany of the Precious
Blood.
Litany of the Most Precious Blood of
Jesus
(For public or private use.)
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God the Son, Redeemer of the world,
Have mercy on us.
God the Holy Spirit,
Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God,
Have mercy on us.
Blood of Christ, only-begotten Son of the Eternal
Father, save us.
Blood of Christ, Incarnate Word of God, save us.
Blood of Christ, of the New and Eternal Testament, save us.
Blood of Christ, falling upon the earth in the Agony, save us.
Blood of Christ, shed profusely in the Scourging, save us.
Blood of Christ, flowing forth in the Crowning with Thorns, save us.
Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross, save us.
Blood of Christ, Price of our salvation, save us.
Blood of Christ, without which there is no forgiveness, save us.
Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of souls, save us.
Blood of Christ, river of mercy, save us.
Blood of Christ, Victor over demons, save us.
Blood of Christ, Courage of martyrs, save us.
Blood of Christ, Strength of confessors, save us.
Blood of Christ, bringing forth virgins, save us.
Blood of Christ, Help of those in peril, save us.
Blood of Christ, Relief of the burdened, save us.
Blood of Christ, Solace in sorrow, save us.
Blood of Christ, Hope of the penitent, save us.
Blood of Christ, Consolation of the dying, save us.
Blood of Christ, Peace and Tenderness of hearts, save us.
Blood of Christ, Pledge of Eternal Life, save us.
Blood of Christ, freeing souls from Purgatory, save us.
Blood of Christ, most worthy of all glory and honor, save us.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us, O Lord.
V. Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord, in Thy Blood,
R. And made of us a kingdom for our God.
Let Us Pray
Almighty and Eternal God, Thou hast
appointed Thine only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to
be appeased by His Blood. Grant, we beseech Thee, that we may worthily
adore this Price of our salvation, and through its power be safeguarded
from the evils of this present life, so that we may rejoice in its fruits
forever in Heaven. Through the same Christ Our Lord. R. Amen.
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
Oh the cavern of the mind.
Oh the heart filled with darkness
and evil.
Pray for the souls to be released.
Pray to set the captives free.
Oh My People, I cry to Thee.
I am your Father, I have given this
Movement and these writings to you
My little children through My
Son Jesus.
Listen to Me —
Oh My people
Listen to Me
Oh My people
Listen to Me
Here are messages given to you from
heaven
Tell My People
Messages from Jesus and Mary
as given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
Published by:
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 193
Morrow, Ohio 45152-0193
In conformity with the decrees of Pope Urban VIII, the
Publisher recognizes and accepts that the final authority regarding these
messages rests with the Holy See of Rome, to whose judgment we willingly
submit.
-The Publisher
This book is published by Shepherds of Christ
Publications, a subsidiary of Shepherds of Christ Ministries, a tax exempt
organization. Shepherds of Christ Ministries is a religious public
charitable association organized to foster devotion to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Copyright © 1994 Rev. Edward Carter, S.J.
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May be copied in its entirety, but neither re-typed nor edited.
Scripture texts are taken from The Jerusalem Bible,
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ISBN: 0-9635852-7-4
First Printing: March, 1995
Second Printing: July, 1995
Table of Contents
Introduction
In recent years there have been reports from all over the
world regarding alleged visionaries and locutionists. One question which
immediately comes to mind is, "Why would there be such a great number
of visionaries and locutionists supposedly receiving private revelations at
the same time?"
I myself asked this question about two years ago when I
was doing research regarding the writing of a book about our Blessed Mother.
Initially, I myself was quite skeptical concerning the great number of
persons allegedly receiving private revelations. However, the more research
I did, the more convinced I became that many of the messages being received
by the reported visionaries and locutionists could be authentic.
We apparently are living in one of the most critical
periods of human history, and many of the messages, in one way or another,
bring out how a great number of people have seriously strayed from God.
Never before has there been such alienation from God. Has there ever been a
time in the history of the human race when sin was so widespread?
I am convinced that God, in His great love and mercy, is
going to extraordinary lengths to try to wake up the multitudes concerning
the seriousness of the situation. This, to me, explains why there are so
many claimed visionaries and locutionists in these our times.
We can say, in summary fashion, that the messages they are
delivering have to do with the call to conversion. The messages are
addressed to two basic kinds of people. The messages are calling back to God
those who have seriously wandered from the path which leads to eternal life.
In reference to those who are in a basically good relationship with God, the
messages are calling for an ongoing conversion--to a deeper relationship
with God.
I think at this point it is beneficial to say a few words
about the different kinds of visions and locutions (messages). I quote here
from Fr. Joseph de Guibert, S.J., one of the most eminent mystical
theologians of this century:
A distinction is made between corporeal, imaginative,
and intellectual visions. This distinction can also be applied to
locutions. In corporeal visions and locutions there is a real perception
by the external senses; the person who is seen or heard may be really
present, or (in corporeal visions) the body which appears may be formed in
the air, or a change may be affected at the moment the light-rays impinge
on the eye, or (in corporeal locutions) a real acoustical vibration may be
produced in the ears. In imaginative visions and locutions there is no
perception by the external senses but, rather, a Divine action on the
imagination or the internal senses. . . . In intellectual visions and
locutions the Divine action directly affects the intellect (from The
Theology of the Spiritual Life, pp. 355-356).
Often, a visionary receives a locution (message) together
with an apparition or vision. However, a vision can be received with no
accompanying locution. A locutionist is usually understood to be a person
who receives messages without an accompanying external vision. Still, a
locutionist often does experience an internal type of vision when receiving
messages.
In the history of the Church there obviously have been
those who claimed to be visionaries and locutionists who, in reality, were
not having authentic mystical experiences. This reminds us that we must have
a set of criteria at hand which helps us to discern whether or not the
messages coming forth from reported visionaries and locutionists are
authentic or not. There are specific guidelines which mystical theologians
have traditionally employed to help discern the authenticity, or lack
thereof, of alleged private revelations.
First, one must look to the credibility of the alleged
visionary or locutionist. Does the person seem to be well balanced mentally
and emotionally? Is the person generally known to be a truthful person?
Second, is there anything against faith or morals in the alleged visions or
messages? Third, what fruits are being produced by the alleged visions and
locutions? Are they helping to bring people closer to God? Jesus tells us in
the Gospel: ". . . a sound tree produces good fruit but a rotten
tree bad fruit. A sound tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a rotten tree bear
good fruit" (Matthew 7:17-18). Fourth, at times external
signs are given by God to help confirm the authenticity of visions and
locutions. It is appropriate to look for these, although if they are absent
one cannot conclude that a particular alleged vision or locution is not
authentic.
If the first three of the above criteria can be favorably
attested to, a person can prudently give consideration to the authenticity
of the particular visions and locutions involved, while always being willing
to submit to the final judgment of the Church in the matter.
I myself began receiving locutions on a regular basis in
the summer of 1993. For a number of months, these were given to me for my
own spiritual development and guidance in my ministry. On Holy Saturday,
1994, Jesus told me that on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to
receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that some of these were
eventually to be published in a book--and here is that book.
I humbly make the following statement: I recognize and
accept that the final authority regarding private revelations rests with the
Holy See of Rome, to whose judgment I willingly submit.
Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J
Professor of Theology
Xavier University
Cincinnati, Ohio
"What I say to you in the dark, tell in the day-
light; what you hear in whispers, proclaim
from the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)
Jesus Has Come to Give Us Life
Jesus: "This is the day celebrating My Resurrection
(Easter). The day of newness of life. I am Lord and Master. I am the Way,
the Truth, and the Life. Tell My people to come to Me if they wish to
experience life in abundance. I want to give all an ever greater share in
the life of My Resurrection. Without Me you cannot be happy, nor have
peace, nor have real joy. Tell My people to surrender to Me more and more.
The more they do so, the more they will experience My love, wisdom, power,
peace, joy, happiness, mercy, and goodness. Within My Heart My people will
find these riches. I am Lord and Master! Please listen to My words."
Reflection: Through His life, death, and resurrection, Jesus has
come to give us life, and to give us this life in abundance.
When we were baptized, we were incorporated into Christ and His Church.
When we were baptized, we received the life of sanctifying grace. This
life is a created sharing in the life of the Trinity. Truly, we are called
to live a God-like existence according to the teaching and example of
Jesus! It is our duty and our privilege to develop our life of grace—our
Christ-life—through our participation in the Mass, through the reception
of the sacraments, through prayer, and through all other good works.
Indeed, we are called to love God and neighbor more and more.
What a glorious life has been given to us! In a spirit of thanksgiving,
and together with Mary our Mother, let us always strive to know Christ
more intimately, to love Him more ardently, and to follow Him more
closely, so that He will always bring us to a closer union with the Father
in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
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.
Trust in Jesus
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people to
trust Me unreservedly. I am Lord and Master. I am their God. So many fail
to trust Me as they should. I love all My people much, much more than they
love themselves. This great love of Mine should encourage the greatest
trust. The more you realize how much a friend loves you, the more you
place your trust in the friend. I am your perfect Friend! I love you
infinitely more than your best earthly friend. Tell My people to give Me
their trust. Tell them to say often, 'Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my
trust in You.' I am Lord and Master. Please do as I request."
Reflection: How can we fail to trust Jesus, this Jesus Who has
given His life for each of us? During His passion, He knew each of us by
name. Today, He calls each of us, by name, to the refuge of His Sacred
Heart. Today, He calls each of us, by name, to a greater trust in His
Heart.
Mary Our Mother
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to come to My
Mother. From the cross, as I was suffering indescribable agony, I gave
Mary as spiritual Mother to the world. My great love for My people
prompted Me to do this. I am Lord and Master, and I want My people to come
to My Mother and their Mother. If you wish to be close to Me, come to
Mary. Consecrate yourselves to her. In this way you will grow into the
closest union with Me. Through her Immaculate Heart, you will be drawn
more and more into My own Heart. It is My desire that you allow My Mother
to place you within My Heart which loves you with an unfathomable love!
This is My wish—that you come to Me enfolded by Mary's mantle, cradled
in her arms, pressed against her Heart."
Reflection: It is God's will that we approach Jesus in union
with Mary. Enough said!
Being Loved by Jesus
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have given you a
special experience of what it means to be loved by Me. I have drawn you,
through Mary, deeply within My Heart. There you experience a deep peace,
joy, and security—all this results from your realizing how much I love
you! Tell My people about My great love! Tell them I desire that they come
to My Heart. There they will experience the wonders that only My Heart can
give. I am Lord and Master. I desire that all listen to My words."
Reflection: We know what a glowing feeling it is to realize that
we are loved by a human person--by a friend or by a spouse, for example.
Jesus loves us much, much more than any such person can possibly love us!
Why don't we, then, allow ourselves constantly to be immersed in the joy
which results from realizing how much Jesus loves us?
On Being Thankful
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, because I love you
with a very special love, I have showered you with great gifts. You have
cried out to Me in joy. You have told Me how thankful you are for My many
special favors. Allowing you to be so thankful is itself a gift I give
you. Tell My people that I want them to thank Me every day for all the
gifts I have given and continue to give them. Tell them I want them to
give themselves to Mary. In her company I want them to approach My Sacred
Heart each day. Here I will give them ever greater gifts.
"How much I love My people! How much I long to shower them with My
love-laden gifts! Sadly, many do not want to receive My gifts. Those who
do, let them come to My Heart, and they will be amazed at what I will do
for them! My Heart is an inexhaustible source of graces. Please, My
people, I long for you to come and draw from its riches! I am Lord and
Master. Please do as I request."
Reflection: Giving thanks to God for all His gifts is one of our
great duties as children of God. We should be continually offering thanks
to God for all the gifts He has given us and continues to give us through
the Heart of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to
the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people
must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit
desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who
are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He
performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells
in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The
Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts,
then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own
Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all
this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous
gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to
receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless
My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever
more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus,
the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy
Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each
day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the
spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the
Holy Spirit within us.
Prayer
Jesus: My beloved companion, tell My people about the great
importance of prayer. Prayer plays an indispensable role in the process of
sanctification and ultimate salvation. Let My little ones come to Me daily
in prayer. I especially want My people to pray before the tabernacle. When
they do so, I give them special graces. The prayer of My people should be
filled with love for Me, My Father, the Holy Spirit, and My Mother.
Pressed against their Mother's heart, and under her guidance, let My
people come to My Sacred Heart. Each day they should take up their refuge
in My Heart, and there enter into the deepest prayer. They should put all
worries and anxieties aside and pray from the heart. I take their prayer
to the Father in the Holy Spirit. My people, I want you to pray, pray,
pray! During prayer I make you especially aware of My great love for you.
During prayer I ask for your return of love. During prayer I especially
allow you to experience peace and joy. The crosses you bear are no
obstacle to this. In fact, when you bear your crosses properly—that is,
according to My Father's will—you experience increased peace and joy. My
people, listen to My words. I am Lord and Master. I love you with the most
tender love!"
Reflection: In the above message, Jesus reminds us of the great
importance of prayer. Our greatest prayer is our participation in the
Mass. Outside the time of Mass, Jesus tells us how important it is to pray
before the tabernacle. The practice of prayer is extremely important for
ongoing growth in our love relationship with Jesus, the Father, the Holy
Spirit, and with Mary. It is also critical for our growth in love of
neighbor.
Images of the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people that I desire
them to have pictures or statues of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate
Heart in their homes. This will greatly help them to give honor to Our
Hearts. All My churches and chapels should also have these images. I will
bestow great blessings on all those who heed My request. I am your Lord
and Master. Please do as I ask."
Reflection: We all know the role pictures of loved ones play in
maintaining and developing our relationships with these people. Is it
strange, then, that Jesus makes the above request?
Age of the Two Hearts
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have allowed you to
experience in extraordinary fashion the riches contained in My Heart and
My Mother's Heart. I desire that you tell all My people about these
riches. I desire that My people consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart
and to Mary's Immaculate Heart. My people are living in the beginnings of
the age of the Two Hearts.
"After the time of the purification is completed, this new era of
the Church and the world will become firmly established. This era will be
characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My
Sacred Heart. All those who consecrate themselves to My Heart and to My
Mother's Heart will help to establish this glorious new age. I am Lord and
Master. Please listen to My urgent request. Within Our Hearts you will
experience the love and security, the peace and the joy, which you all
desire. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in My love I give
them this message!"
Reflection: This is the Age of the Two Hearts! The surest road
to sanctity in these our times is through consecration to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary. In making this consecration, and striving with God's grace
to live it as best we can each day, we are contributing to the
establishment of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and to the arrival of
the reign of the Sacred Heart.
The Joy of Christ
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people that I am a God
of joy. I have come so that My people's joy may be complete. So many of My
people seek for joy in the wrong places. So many seek their joy and
happiness in material things. Joy can spring from material things only
when they are used according to My Father's will. Many use material things
against My Father's will. Come to My Heart, My people. Come to My Heart in
union with your Mother Mary. She will place you within My Heart, and we
will teach you the secret of joy. We will show you that joy is meant to be
yours at all times-even in the deepest suffering.
"Come to Me, My people. I am your Lord and Master! I am
all-powerful! When I say I will give you joy in abundance, I have the
means to fulfill My promise. But you must come to My Heart, and you must
trust Me. I ask for your total trust. The more you trust Me, the more you
will be filled with My joy!"
Reflection: In the Litany of the Blessed Virgin we say,
"Cause of our joy, pray for us." Mary is cause of our joy,
because, under God, she gives us Jesus, the Source of all joy. Mary is
cause of our ever-increasing joy, because she always unites us—if we
allow her—more intimately to the Heart of Jesus. And as Jesus tells us
above, within His Heart, He and Mary teach us the secret of joy.
The Peace of Christ
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My beloved people
that I am the Divine Giver of peace. I want so much to give My people an
even greater sense of peace, but many refuse My offer! They think they
know their own way to peace and happiness—a way which is not My way. The
further they stray from Me, the more restless they become, and the less
true peace they have. My way is the only way to peace.
"My people, come each day to My Sacred Heart. Let Mary lead you to
My Heart. The more you dwell within My Heart, the more peace will be
yours. I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My words! Do not seek your
peace and consolation in worldly pursuits. Come within My Heart, and you
will be filled with the peace you so much crave. I will press you to My
Sacred Heart. I will tell you how much I love you! The more you realize
this love, the more My peace will possess your soul!"
Reflection: The chief fruit of love is peace. The more we open
ourselves to the burning love of Jesus' Heart, and respond by loving God
and neighbor more and more, the more peace we experience.
The Two Hearts and the Mass
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people that they are
living in the Age of the Two Hearts—that of My Heart and My Mother's
heart. My people live in the initial stages of this great era. I call all
My people to take up their refuge in My Heart and My Mother's heart. In
Our Hearts they will become more and more transformed into My likeness.
"The greatest source for growth in devotion to Our Hearts is the
Eucharist. I wish My people to attend Mass often, daily if possible. What
a great gift I have given to My people in the Eucharist! Yet many of My
people are indifferent to the treasures contained in the Mass. Think of
it! My people are privileged to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass together
with Me! And yet how many prefer to do other things rather than attend
Mass. How this attitude offends My Sacred Heart!
"I long for My people to participate in the Mass and to receive Me
worthily! Think of it! I, Who am your God, long to come to you each day!
In the Eucharist I come to you in My Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
Present within you, I long to take you close to My Sacred Heart, this
Heart which is truly within you. The more you allow Me to do so, the more
closely I press you to this Heart. I shower you with its riches. I
abundantly give you great graces which increasingly form you in My
likeness.
"I am Lord and Master! Please listen to My words. Pray, pray for a
deeper understanding of the Mass. In union with Mary, approach Me daily in
the Eucharist. I, your God, long to come to you. How much do you long to
receive Me?"
Reflection: Everything in the life of the Church, and in the
Christian lives of each of us individually, is centered in the Mass.
Vatican II, in a few words, makes a powerful statement concerning the
Church's Liturgy--at the center of which is the Eucharistic Sacrifice:
". . .in the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the
Church is directed; at the same time it is the fountain from which all her
power flows" [The Documents of Vatican II, Constitution on the
Sacred Liturgy, No.10 (American Press edition)].
The Riches of the Immaculate Heart
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how often I have pressed you
to my maternal and Immaculate Heart in the greatest love! How often I
allow you to taste the sweetness of this Heart. How often I make you aware
that my Heart is your refuge where you feel so much loved, where you feel
so secure, where you feel bathed in peace! I desire that you tell all the
people about the riches contained in my Immaculate Heart. Tell my people
to come to my Heart each day. I will caress them with my maternal love. I
will lead them ever closer to the Sacred Heart of my Son. I will tell them
to listen to Jesus. I will remind them that He is their Lord and Master. I
will remind them to do whatever He tells them to do.
"Yes, my dearly beloved son, tell my people all these things. Keep
reminding them of my great love for them. Keep reminding them how I love
to draw them to my maternal and Immaculate Heart!"
Reflection: Is there anyone who, listening to these words of
Mary, does not long for a closer union with the loving Heart of our
Mother?
The Tears and Sorrows of Mary
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have given you a great
devotion to my sorrows and tears. Tell my people about this devotion. Tell
them I promise great blessings to all who say seven Hail Marys each day in
honor of my tears and seven sorrows. Included in my promise is that of
granting special assistance at the hour of death. At this moment, all who
practice this devotion will see my face."
Reflection: Listed below are the seven sorrows of Mary. Let us
each day recall these sorrows as we pray the seven Hail Marys as Our Lady
requests.
- The prophecy of Simeon.
- The Flight into Egypt.
- The loss of Jesus in the Temple.
- Jesus and Mary meet during the way of the cross.
- Mary witnesses the crucifixion of her Son.
- Jesus is taken down from the cross and laid in Mary's arms.
- The burial of Jesus.
Children of Mary
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how often I have embraced
you! How often I have told you how much I love you! How often, at your
request, I have held you in my arms as my child. You have told me you
realize how helpless you are of yourself, but how strong and secure you
feel dwelling in my heart and Jesus' Heart. Your sense of your littleness
and helplessness endears you to me all the more. I take you ever more
securely to my maternal and Immaculate Heart. Tell all my people of the
riches you have found within my heart. Tell them how I place you within my
Son's Heart. Tell them that, because of my motherly action, you are now
more closely united with Jesus than ever before. Tell my people to come to
my heart and draw forth similar riches. Tell all my little ones that
Jesus, Who is Lord and Master, bids me to lead all to His Sacred Heart.
The more my little ones dwell within my Immaculate Heart, the more I place
them within Jesus' Heart. Oh, how I love all my little ones! How I love to
bring them to the Heart of Jesus!"
Reflection: Again, let us remind ourselves that we live in the
Age of the Two Hearts. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are inseparable. The
more we dwell in Mary's heart, the more she places us within Jesus' Heart.
Within these Two Hearts, the Holy Spirit fashions us more and more in the
likeness of Christ, and the more we become like Christ, the more closely
He unites us to the Father.
The Eucharist
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people how I
long for them to come to Me in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the great
Sacrament of My love for My people. So many are indifferent to My
Eucharistic presence. So many have no real desire to receive Me in the
Eucharist. So many have no desire to visit Me in the Blessed Sacrament.
How I long for My people to come before the tabernacle and to talk with
Me!
"I am offended, many times seriously, by all the outrages,
sacrileges, and indifferences committed against My Eucharistic presence. I
ask My people to make reparation for all this. I especially ask that they
often say the prayer of Eucharistic reparation given by the angel to the
three Fatima visionaries.
"I am Lord and Master. Please do as I request. My Eucharistic
Heart is beating with unfathomable love for My people! Let them come to My
Sacred Heart. How I long to take My people to My Heart and shower them
with Its abundant graces! I love My people with a tremendous love, and I
give them this message with the greatest love!"
Reflection: Pope John Paul II has often expressed his belief in
the importance of Fatima. It also appears that the Fatima prayer of
Eucharistic reparation is meant in a most special way for the present
times
Reparation for Sin
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people that
the ugly face of sin covers the earth as never before in the history of
the human race. My image, which should shine forth brilliantly over the
whole earth, is seriously marred by the hideousness of sin. My Father's
justice demands reparation. Tell My people to offer their actions in
reparation for all the sins whereby the Triune God is so much offended. My
Heart cries out for reparation, especially for sins committed against My
Eucharistic presence. My Heart hates sin, but loves the sinner. All who
are sorry for their sins will find in My Heart overflowing graces of
mercy.
"My people should receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation often,
even if they have no serious sins to confess. The graces of this Sacrament
give powerful graces for the fight against temptation. I am Lord and
Master. Please do as I request!"
Reflection: In our determination to avoid sin, let us often
recall the terrible sufferings which sin caused Our Loving Savior: the
cruel crowning with thorns, the tearing of His sacred flesh by the
soldiers' merciless scourging, the heartless hammering of nails through
His sacred hands and feet, and all the rest. Who can prayerfully look upon
the suffering Christ and not be repulsed by the hideousness of sin?
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.
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.
"What I say to you in the dark, tell in the day-
light; what you hear in whispers, proclaim
from the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)
The Two Hearts and Sanctity
Jesus: "My beloved priest companion, I and My Mother have
given you a consuming desire to spread devotion to Our Hearts. Tell My
people about the great riches contained in My Sacred Heart and Mary's
Immaculate Heart! Tell My people that they live in the age of the Two
Hearts. What I and My Mother said at Fatima has been gradually unfolding.
The Fatima message is centered in devotion to Our Hearts. The triumph of
Mary's Immaculate Heart, foretold at Fatima, is soon to take place. This
triumph will coincide with the era of peace for the world which My Mother
foretold at Fatima. This great new age of peace for the Church and the
world will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the
reign of My Sacred Heart.
"Because this is the age of the Two Hearts, the quickest and
surest way to sanctity is through devotion to My Heart and Mary's Heart.
Such devotion reaches its highest point in consecration to Our Hearts.
Within Our Hearts My people will be clothed with great graces! Their love
for God and neighbor will deepen tremendously! They will be fired with a
holy and burning desire to love God and neighbor in all their daily
activities as guided by the Holy Spirit. Dwelling within Our Hearts, My
people will long to help bring back an alienated world to conform to My
Father's will.
"My friend, I and My Mother have allowed you to experience in an
extraordinary way the riches contained in Our Hearts. Tell My people about
these riches! Tell them that I and Mary long for them to come within Our
Hearts! I am Lord and Master. Please listen to My words. Come to Our
Hearts!"
Reflection: Jesus tells us that we live in the age of the Two
Hearts, and that within His Heart and Mary's Heart we receive graces to
raise us to great sanctity. What is sanctity? It is doing God's will out
of love, and God's will is summed up in love of God and love of neighbor.
In the above message Jesus refers to this love of God and neighbor. In the
Gospel, Jesus expressed it in this way:
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees
they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question,
"Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?" Jesus
said, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the
first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor
as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the
Prophets also" (Matthew 22:34-40).
Sanctity, then, is centered in love of God and neighbor. Thus, to grow
in sanctity is to grow in love of God and neighbor. Jesus tells us in the
above message that within His Heart and Mary's Heart we find the graces to
achieve great sanctity. Dwelling within the Two Hearts, we receive the
capacity to become tremendous lovers!
Surrender to the Heart of Jesus
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people how I want them
to surrender to My Heart. I have taught you that the more you surrender to
Me, the greater is your peace, joy, and happiness. I have shown you that
the more you allow Me to control your life, to direct your life, the
happier you become. I have shown you how fruitless it is for a person to
want to control one's own life. A person has a choice: as a finite, weak
creature to try to control things himself, or in humility to throw himself
into my arms, the arms of One Who is all-loving and all-powerful.
"I give you the grace to increasingly surrender to My Heart. In
doing so you experience My love and power in an extraordinary way. Teach
My people these lessons. Tell them to listen to My words. I am Lord and
Master, and I desire all to heed My request! I give this message out of My
great love for My People!"
Reflection: We have a tendency to want to control our own
destiny. We find it difficult at times--sometimes very difficult--to
abandon ourselves to God. We find it difficult to let go and to surrender
completely to Christ, to trust Him completely.
And yet, this is what we must do to achieve our ongoing sanctification.
Why should we be afraid to surrender? As Jesus tells us above, who would
you rather depend on--a weak, finite self, or the loving and omnipotent
God?
St. Paul tells us:
So I shall be very happy to make my weaknesses my special boast so
that the power of Christ may stay over me, and that is why I am content
with my weaknesses, and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and the
agonies I go through for Christ's sake. For it is when I am weak that I
am strong (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
Jesus Asks for Our Love
Jesus: "My beloved companion, tell My people how I long for
them to say that they love Me! When they do this, it gives Me great joy.
When they tell Me they love Me, I take them close to My Heart. I give them
the desire to love Me more and more. I clothe them with fresh graces,
increasing their capacity to love God and neighbor. Tell My people to
express their love for Me often! I am Lord and Master. Please do as I
request!"
Reflection: What a gracious invitation Jesus extends to us! He
tells us how much He wants our expressions of love for Him. Perhaps a
person has to admit that his or her spouse, or children, or friends,
receive expressions of love from him or her more often than does Jesus.
This should not be! Jesus has first command on our love. To love Jesus, to
tell Him we love Him--this is our privilege and our duty.
Mary as Our Mediatrix
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have given you a profound
conviction of how necessary it is to realize I am your motherly mediatrix
with Jesus. I have been appointed by the Triune God. Constantly remind all
my little ones of this great truth! The more my little ones give
themselves to my maternal and Immaculate Heart, the more I bring them to
the Heart of Jesus!"
Reflection: Some mistakenly think that Mary "gets in the
way" of their relationship with Jesus. How far from the truth is this
erroneous attitude. Mary's role in our salvation has been willed by God.
Enough said!
I Have Died for All -
You Must Love All
Jesus: "My beloved companion, tell My people that all in
the human race have been marked with My Precious Blood! I died a brutal
death for all! Since all have been touched and redeemed by My Precious
Blood, no one can be excluded from your love. My people must love each and
every one. They must look beyond the exterior of a person and see the
God-image of each. Each one has been created in God's image. Each one has
been raised to a new dignity through My redemption.
"Tell My people to be conscious of all this in their dealings with
others—especially those marginalized little ones who are so forgotten
and abandoned by many. Each person is precious to My Sacred Heart! Treat
everyone accordingly. Be kind, and patient, and, above all, loving toward
everyone. In union with Mary, come to My Heart each day and I will give
you the light and strength to love your neighbor with a mighty love! I am
Lord and Master! Please heed My request. In My great love for you, I give
you this message!"
Reflection: If we are consistently conscious of this
teaching of Jesus, it becomes relatively easy to love everyone--even those
who, for various reasons, are not particularly attractive to us in the
external order of things. Let's remember that Jesus has told us that we
must love all--even our enemies: "You have learned how it was
said: You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say this to
you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you..."
(Matthew 5:43-44).
Come to Our Hearts
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how I love you! You give me
such great joy because you love to dwell in my Immaculate Heart. In my
great love for you, I have obtained this grace for you—that you love to
dwell in my Heart! In my Heart, I caress you as a little child. I shower
you with expressions of my motherly love. I take you each day to the Heart
of Jesus and place you deeply within His Heart. How you love for me to do
this, and how I love to do it! Tell all my little ones of the riches you
have discovered in my Heart and Jesus' Heart. Tell them to come to Our
Hearts in order to experience similar riches. Oh, how I love all my little
ones, and how I long for them to come to me!"
Reflection: Again, we are reminded that we live in the age of
the Two Hearts. Great graces are given to those who practice devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. These Two Hearts are given to us as our
special refuge during this most critical stage of human history.
Live Your Consecration
Jesus: "My beloved friend, I have taught you what is
involved in living out your consecration to My Heart and to My Mother's
Heart. I have taught you to renew your consecration each day. I have led
you to be aware of your consecration many times during the day. I have
taught you to pray frequently during the day for the grace to grow in the
life of consecration. I have impressed upon you that your consecration to
Our Hearts includes your being aware of how much I and Mary love you! I
have given you a great desire to respond to Our love. I have greatly
increased your desire to love Me, the Father, the Holy Spirit, Mary, and
all your fellow human beings! I have taught you that to grow in your
consecration you must surrender more and more to My Heart and My Mother's
Heart—that you must give yourself completely to Us. And I have given you
a great desire to do so! I have given you a great trust in Our Hearts.
This trust is so important in making the act of consecration and living
it.
"My beloved companion, tell My people about these lessons I have
taught you. Lead them to consecrate themselves to My Sacred Heart and to
Mary's Immaculate Heart. Tell them of the great love, peace, and joy they
will experience if they make this consecration and live it! I am Lord and
Master. I urgently request that My people listen to My messages and live
them! I love My people with a tremendous love, and, out of this love, I
give My messages through you and others in these most critical
times!"
Reflection: At Baptism we are consecrated to the Triune God. To
consecrate means to make holy. At Baptism Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
consecrate us with Their own holiness. This sharing in divine holiness is
our life of grace. Through our Baptismal consecration we are called to
live a God-like existence according to the teaching and example of Christ.
In our times, God has given us a most attractive way to live out our
baptismal consecration--through consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary. As we strive to give ourselves totally to Jesus each day with the
assistance of Mary our Mother, Christ continues to lead us to the Father
under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Yes, each moment of each day we are
called to live our consecration. This is our privilege. This is our
responsibility.
The Cross Leads to Life
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people that
they must keep the lesson of the cross fresh in their consciousness.
Remind them that I am the Christ of the Cross as well as the Christ of the
Resurrection. I suffered tremendously on My way to death on the cross. My
sacred flesh was so cruelly lacerated by the scourging. My sacred head was
so cruelly and mockingly crowned with thorns. I was spat upon and made fun
of. Exhausted by terrible suffering, I still had to carry the heavy cross
to Calvary. There My sacred hands and feet were mercilessly pierced with
nails. Oh, what pain this caused Me!
"I suffered all this most willingly—out of love for My Father
and for all My people! Through My cross, through My suffering, I obtained
new life for My people. Through My cruel and brutal death, I achieved
Resurrection for Myself and all My people. My suffering was not an end in
itself. It was a necessary passageway to obtain the life I came to give.
"My people must share in My cross, so that they may share more and
more in My life. Remind My people, My dear friend, that suffering, when
embraced according to My Father's will, leads to greater life here and
hereafter. The cross, properly carried, always leads to a greater share in
My Resurrection.
"Tell My people that the more they are united with Me in love, the
easier is the carrying of the cross. The more one dwells in Me, the more I
help that person to carry the cross. In this way, even the heaviest cross
becomes relatively light.
"Carrying the cross does not mean to be in misery. Carrying one's
cross in union with Me always allows a person to remain in peace. The
cross does not take away peace and joy. Despite the pain involved, the
cross gives increased peace and joy. I am Lord and Master. I eagerly
desire that all listen to My words and live them!
"My people, come each day to My Heart and I will give you the
light and strength to carry your cross according to Father's will! I love
My people with an overwhelming love, and in this great love I give them
this message."
Reflection: One does not have to reflect on the human condition
for very long to be reminded of how much suffering exists in all parts of
the world. And yet, the great tragedy concerning human suffering is not
that there is so much of it, but rather that so much of it is apparently
wasted. In God's plan, suffering is meant to lead to greater life, a
greater share in Christ's Resurrection here and hereafter. Suffering does
just that, if we relate to it according to God's will. To the extent we
don't relate to the cross as God's will would have us, we miss the
opportunity for suffering to be growth-promoting.
Jesus tells us about the cross and its linkage to life in the Gospel: "Then
to all he said: 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him
renounce himself and take up his cross everyday and follow me. For anyone
who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for
my sake, that man will save it'" (Luke 9:23-24).
And St. Paul tells us: "We are in difficulties on all sides,
but never cornered; we see no answer to our problems, but never despair;
we have been persecuted, but never deserted; knocked down, but never
killed; always, wherever we may be, we carry with us in our body the death
of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may always be seen in our
body" (2 Corinthians 4:8-10).
Come to My Heart
Jesus: "My beloved companion, how I love to hold you
against My Heart! Each day, as you dwell in Mary's Heart, she places you
against My Heart, and within My Heart. I have given you a great desire to
allow your mother to do this. As you dwell within My Heart, I tell you how
much I love you! I give you a great desire to love God and neighbor. I
increase your trust in Me—something so necessary for your growth in Me.
Within My Heart I make you feel so loved, so secure, so strengthened, so
much at peace!
"Tell My people I wish them to come to My Heart each day, in union
with Mary, in order to experience similar riches! Oh, how I love for My
people to come to My Heart! How I desire to tell them how much I love
them! How much I desire to ask for their return of love! I am Lord and
Master. I give this message out of My great love for My people, and I
request that they listen to My words."
Reflection: How much Jesus loves us! He shows us His Heart as
symbol of this love. He asks us each day, united with Mary our Mother, to
come to His Heart. There He inflames our hearts with love for God and
neighbor. There He gives us the conviction that we can do whatever He asks
us to do--and He gives us the desire to act on this conviction.
My Father's Will
Jesus: "There is so much disunity, hatred, and lack of love
which covers the face of the earth today. My Father's will is being
seriously violated in all sorts of ways. There are so many
murders—including all the ones killed by abortion—thefts, all kinds of
violence, all kinds of impure actions, lies, blasphemies, and much more.
"My Father's will is so much violated because there is so little
love. The more one loves God and neighbor, the more My Father's will is
being accomplished. Love and conformity to God's will are inseparable.
"Tell My people, My beloved friend, to come to My Heart each day.
The more they come to My Heart, the more I will inflame their hearts with
a burning love to do My Father's will. The more they come to My Heart, the
more I will teach them concerning My Father's will. The more they come to
My Heart, the more I will allow them to realize that happiness consists in
doing My Father's will out of love in all things. The more one does My
Father's will out of love in union with Me and My Mother, the more I lead
them to the bosom of the Father in the Holy Spirit. Safe in My Father's
arms, they experience great happiness, peace, and joy.
"I am Lord and Master. In My great love for My people, I give this
message. I desire that all hear My words and live them!"
Reflection: The more we do the Father's will out of love, the
more we are at peace. Peace is the tranquility of order. The more we do
God's will--the more we conform to the order He has established--the more
we are at peace. Jesus has told us: "It is not those who
say to me, 'Lord, Lord,' who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the
person who does the will of my Father in heaven" (Matthew 7:21).
The Present Moment
Jesus: "My beloved companion, tell My people to concentrate
on living in the present moment. Tell them to depend on Me from
moment to moment. My people should want to fill each moment with as great
a love of God and neighbor as possible! So many of My people fail to
concentrate properly on the present.
"Come to My Heart each day, My people, and I will give you the
light and strength to more and more realize the greatness of the present
moment. The more you dwell in My Heart, the more content you will be to
live in the present. I am Lord and Master. I want to fill you with ever
greater peace and joy! But to experience this, you must listen to My words
and live them!"
Reflection: We can't relive the past, although we are
meant to profit from it in various ways. We must make plans for our future
on this earth, but how much of it can we be sure will be ours? Literally,
one's life could end in the coming moment. The saints knew the secret of
living in the present moment. That's why they became saints. Let's always
remember the words of Jesus: "So do not worry about tomorrow;
tomorrow will take care of itself" (Matthew 6:34).
How Much I Love You!
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, how often I tell you
how much I love you! And what great joy and peace I give you when I tell
you this! How often I press you closely to My Heart! Daily I draw you ever
more deeply within My Heart! There I allow you to experience the
overwhelming riches of My Heart. I have shown you, as you dwell within My
Heart, the secret of finding amazing peace, joy, and happiness. I have
shown you that to dwell within My Heart is to experience a foretaste of
Heaven!
"I allow you to dwell so deeply within My Heart because I have
given you the gift of dwelling within My Mother's Heart. The more one
dwells within Mary's Immaculate Heart, the more she places that person
within My Sacred Heart.
"My beloved friend, keep telling My people about all the wondrous
riches contained in Our Hearts! Keep reminding them that they live in the
age of the Two Hearts. Keep telling them that the quickest and most secure
path to the highest sanctity is to dwell within Mary's Heart and My Heart!
"I am Lord and Master. I plead with My people to listen to My
words and to live them! I love My people with a tremendous love, and in
this love I give them this message."
Reflection: Jesus again begs us to come and experience the
riches contained in His Heart and Mary's Heart. How foolish we are if we
fail to accept His invitation! How many pursue the false riches of this
world, and refuse the true riches which Jesus offers. We must determine
each day, with God's help, not to be included among those who reject the
riches which Jesus offers in order to pursue the false promises of
happiness which the world holds before us. The world can't give us
happiness. Jesus can.
Spiritual Childhood
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, how I love to enfold you in
my arms as my little child! Enfolded in my arms in my maternal embrace, I
press you against my Immaculate Heart. I draw you within my Heart. There,
through my maternal intercession, I clothe you with Jesus' graces. As you
dwell in my Heart, I place you ever more deeply within Jesus' Heart and
there the Holy Spirit fashions you increasingly in the image of my Son. As
you grow in the likeness of Jesus, He takes you ever closer to the Father.
"Thus, as you grow in the sense of your helplessness without God,
the stronger you become in Jesus. Childlike thus becomes strength. The
smaller you become in living out spiritual childhood, the taller you stand
beside Jesus. Weakness becomes strength, your sense of helplessness
becomes spiritual maturity!
"Tell all my children about the wonders of spiritual childhood!
Tell them to come to me and I will school them in its ways. How I love all
my children! Oh, how I love to exercise my motherhood toward them
all!"
Reflection: In the Gospel, Jesus speaks emphatically to us about
spiritual childhood: "At this time the disciples came to Jesus and
said, 'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' So he called a
little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, 'I
tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you
will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself
as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven'" (Matthew 18:1-4).
Humility
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, keep telling My people
of the great necessity of humility in the spiritual life. My saints, oh,
how they realized the importance of this virtue!
"The world is filled with pride. Pride is the refusal to serve
God. It is the refusal to do My Father's will. There is so much sin in
today's world because there is so much pride.
"Tell My people to come to My Heart each day. There I will teach
them the lesson of humility. There I will show them the riches which flow
from humility! There I will teach them that the more they grow in
humility, the more peace and joy and happiness they experience. Yes, let
My people come to My Heart and learn these lessons. I am Lord and Master,
and I desire that all respond to My request. I love My people with a
tremendous love, and in this love I give them this message!"
Reflection: Humility is an important aspect of the Gospel
message. Following are three such examples:
"Come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened, and I will
give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is
easy and my burden light" (Matthew 11:28-30).
"Anyone who chooses the world for his friend turns himself into
God's enemy. Surely you don't think scripture is wrong when it says: the
spirit which he sent to live in us wants us for himself alone? But he has
been even more generous to us, as scripture says: God opposes the proud
but he gives generously to the humble" (James 4:4-6).
"What do you have that was not given to you? And if it was
given, how can you boast as though it were not?" (1 Corinthians
4:7).
Depend on Me
Jesus: "My beloved friend, I have been teaching you how
necessary it is to depend upon Me completely. I teach you to keep your
focus on Me, to do everything in union with Me, with complete dependence
on Me. I give you the light to see how strong you are when you surrender
to Me and depend completely on Me. I allow you to share in a special way
in My power. I greatly enhance your ability to do so many things in My
service.
"I draw you into My Heart, and as you depend on Me completely, I
allow you to draw forth from the riches of My Heart. You become clothed
more and more in My likeness. With an ever greater love you give yourself
to the service of God and neighbor. I also allow you to realize that your
growing dependence on Me is proportionate to your growing dependence on
Mary your Mother. The more you live out your consecration to her Heart in
giving yourself to her, the more she leads you to live out your
consecration to My Heart. This consecration includes and demands an ever
greater surrender and dependence upon Me.
"Tell My people of the joy and peace and security which results
from this growing dependence on Me. Tell them I wish them to come each day
to My Heart and surrender themselves to Me. Tell them to trust Me, and to
depend on Me for all their needs. In My great, burning love for them I
will care for them to the extent they trust Me and depend on Me! Oh! how I
long to care for all My people! Many refuse My help. To those who accept
Me, I give them peace and joy and happiness to the degree they surrender
to Me and depend on Me.
"I am Lord and Master. I desire that My people listen to My words
and live them! I love My people with a tremendous love, and in this love I
give them this message!"
Reflection: The above message of Jesus ties in beautifully with
what He tells us in the Gospel of John:
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with
me in him, bears fruit in plenty; for cut off from me you can do nothing
(John 15:5).
How beautifully Jesus points out our utter dependence on Him! This is
not always an easy lesson to live. We have a deep-rooted tendency to try
to be our own masters. We have a tendency to want to feel in control so
that we might feel secure. Jesus tells us that the only real control and
security we have is to allow Him to control our lives! The more we live
this truth, the more secure we feel, for we are thus living more within
the loving Heart of Jesus!
Pray, Pray, Pray!
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I have taught you many times
the great importance of prayer. I have obtained for you the gift to love
to pray—not only during your set periods of prayer, but also during the
day in a manner which permits you to perform your daily duties. I have
taught you to always be aware that all prayer should be made in union with
the Mass. Indeed, the Eucharistic sacrifice is itself the greatest prayer.
All other prayers should be consciously united with the Mass which is
constantly being offered throughout the world. I have taught you the great
importance of praying before the tabernacle. My Son is really present
there in the Eucharist—Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. Special graces
are given to those who pray before the Blessed Sacrament.
"There is so much to pray for in this most critical era! The
Church and the world exist in most difficult times. I desire that all my
children pray daily for all the needs of the Church and the world. I ask
special prayers for the conversion of sinners.
"I ask that my children pray the Rosary each day. Very special
graces are given to those who do so. During these times of great
purification, I promise special protection to those who regularly pray the
Rosary. I also promise protection to their loved ones.
"The more one is united with me, the more I lead them to make
their prayer in the Heart of my Son, Jesus. He, in turn, places all prayer
in the bosom of the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
"My dear son, please keep reminding all my little ones of the
great importance of prayer for their own needs and the needs of all
others! Keep telling them of the great necessity of prayer for growth in
love of God and neighbor! I love all my children with the most tender
love. I desire that all listen to my words and live them in their daily
lives!"
Reflection: All the great spiritual masters throughout the
history of the Church have echoed the words of Mary in stressing the great
necessity of prayer for growth in the spiritual life. Prayer is becoming
aware in a special way of our relationship with the Triune God. In prayer
we open ourselves once again to the awareness of God's great love for us.
In prayer, we respond to this great love with our own love, telling God
that whatever He wills for us, we want to do with all our hearts.
All prayer, in one way or another, should be centered in Christ. He is
our Mediator with the Father. As our Mother tells us above, we should also
include her in our prayers to Christ, Who leads us ever closer to the
Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Build up My Church
Jesus: "My beloved friend, remind My people that the Church
was born from My Heart, pierced with the soldier's lance on Calvary. From
My pierced Heart the Church with her sacraments was born. Two of these
sacraments, the Eucharist and Baptism, were symbolized by the Blood and
Water which flowed forth from My pierced side.
"As the Church was born from My pierced Heart, so does the
Church's life grow from the graces I continually give her from My pierced
Heart—this Heart which is now glorified. "I call all the members of
My Church to help build up My Body, the Church, by coming to My pierced
Heart. United to My Heart, and dwelling within It, I will give to each one
the light and strength to carry out My Father's will in the building up of
My Church.
"Mary is Mother and Model of the Church. As 'Mother of the
Church,' she intercedes for all the graces the members need to contribute
to the building up of My Church. As Model—as perfect imitator of
Me—she shows the children of the Church how all, individually and
collectively, are to be increasingly formed in My image. As all come to My
Heart for the building up of the Church, let them do so united to the
Heart of Mary.
"My Church is experiencing critical and very difficult times.
There are many divisions. There are many false teachings, including some
put forth by certain theologians. These false teachings occur because
those responsible are not in proper union with My vicar, the Pope, and the
Church Magisterium. I want all My children to pray daily for the cure of
the many and serious ills of the Church. With increased prayer and
sacrifices for the health of the Church, that day will soon come when the
Church will be purified and revitalized. When that day comes, the Church
will be a light to all nations as never before. When that day comes, the
renewed Church will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate
Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. Thus the message of Fatima will
have reached fulfillment.
"I am Lord and Master. I request that all My people listen to My
words and respond to them. I love My people with a tremendous love, and in
this great love I give them this message!"
Reflection: In speaking of the Church, St. Paul tells us:
"Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is
a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it
is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptized, Jews as well as
Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all
to drink....
"Now you together are Christ's body; but each of you is a
different part of It. In the Church, God has given the first place to
apostles, the second to prophets, the third to teachers; after them,
miracles, and after them the gift of healing; helpers, good leaders,
those with many languages. Are all of them apostles, or all of them
prophets, or all of them teachers? Do they all have the gift of
miracles, or all have the gift of healing? Do all speak strange
languages, and all interpret them?" (1 Corinthians 12:12-30).
In His message above, Jesus reminds all of us that we have a
responsibility to help in the building up of the Church. St. Paul reminds
us that we each have our own role. He names many of these roles and there
are many who share in them. For example, there are many teachers of
various kinds in the Church. But each teaches according to his or her
personal uniqueness. Consequently, we can truly say that each one has a
mission, has a role, in the life of the Church which no one else can
fulfill. To the extent each of us gives his or her life to Christ, we
continue His work upon earth through the visible, tangible humanity each
of us possess. To the extent each of us fails to surrender to Jesus, to
that extent we refuse Him the opportunity to live through our personal
uniqueness. What an awesome privilege has been given to each of us! And
what an awesome responsibility!
Your Protection Against Satan
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people to take
special means in these present times to guard against the snares of Satan
and his followers. He is more active now than at any stage of human
history.
"He is leading many of My people away from the path of the Gospel.
Never before has sin blemished the face of the earth as it does today.
Satan and his forces are leading many along the path to perdition. Many
souls are being lost each day. Satan is helping to create divisions
everywhere within My Church, among nations, within nations, within
families, within individuals themselves. He does this by leading many to
refuse to love God and neighbor. In place of love, he is sowing the seeds
of hatred. Divisiveness is caused by a lack of love. The less love, the
more divisiveness, the greater lack of unity.
"As a remedy against the snares of Satan, I call all to the refuge
of My Heart and My Mother's Heart. The more you dwell in Our Hearts, the
less influence Satan has over you. In Our Hearts, you are more and more
clothed with the power to love God and neighbor. The more you love, the
safer you are from the snares of Satan. The more you love, the more you
help bring about the great era of a renewed Church and a renewed world.
This era will be characterized by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and
the reign of My Sacred Heart. In this new era of splendor, love will reign
in the hearts of My people as never before!
"I am Lord and Master! Please listen to My words and carry out My
requests. I love My people with a tremendous love and in this love I give
them this message!"
Reflection: In The First Letter of Peter we read: "Be
calm but vigilant, because your enemy the devil is prowling round like a
roaring lion, looking for someone to eat. Stand up to him, strong in faith
and in the knowledge that your brothers all over the world are suffering
the same things" (1 Peter 5:8-9).
In the above message, Jesus tells us that the efforts of Satan and his
followers are greater now than ever before. If this is the time of great
satanic influences, it is also the time of great grace. As we head for the
great new era of peace for the Church and the world, foretold by Our Lady
of Fatima, the merciful love of God is being showered upon us in great
abundance. In His great love for us, the Father is offering to us the
Hearts of Jesus and Mary as the safest refuge against the snares of Satan.
Their Hearts, bulwark against the attacks of Satan, are the source of the
great graces God is offering in these critical times. Within the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary, the Holy Spirit deepens the image of Christ within us,
strengthening us increasingly for the great battle being waged between the
forces of Satan and the followers of Jesus.
"What I say to you in the dark, tell in the day-
light; what you hear in whispers, proclaim
from the housetops." (Matthew 10:27)
The Two Ways
Jesus: "My beloved friend, remind My people of the
seriousness of life. Two paths stretch before them. One way is My way, the
way which leads to eternal happiness in Heaven. The other way is the way
of Satan, the path which leads to everlasting punishment in Hell.
"I have laid down My life for each of My people so that they could
possess eternal life. I paid a great price to do this! But I did so gladly
because of My great love for My Father and all My people. As I was
suffering the excrutiating pain of My brutal passion and death, My Sacred
Heart beat with overwhelming love for each of you! I knew each of you by
name. How I long for each of you to love Me in return, and to follow Me on
the path to eternal life! Do not waste the graces which cost Me such a
great price. Resolve each day to grow in knowledge and love of Me. Resolve
each day to make use of the precious opportunities to love God and
neighbor. Resolve each day to become saints! Oh! how much the Church and
the world need saints in these the most critical of times!
"Be in communion with those in Heaven and Purgatory. They have
successfully completed their earthly journey. They followed My way, and
now eternal life in Heaven is theirs, or will be. Pray that those in
Purgatory may soon join the blessed in Heaven. Pray to the blessed in
Heaven and the souls in Purgatory that they in turn, may help you in all
your needs.
"I am Lord and Master. Listen to My words! United to My Mother's
Heart, come to My Heart each day for the light and strength to follow the
path of life I hold before you—the path which leads to eternal bliss.
"I love My people with an overwhelming love, and in this great
love, I give them this message!"
Reflection: Here are some Scripture passages which speak to our
subject at hand!
"... you will reveal the path of life to me, give me
unbounded joy in your presence, and at your right hand everlasting
pleasures" (Psalms 16:11).
"Yahweh, make your ways known to me, teach me your paths. Set
me in the way of your truth, and teach me, for you are the God who saves
me" (Psalms 25:4-5).
"Let the wicked man abandon his way, the evil man his
thoughts. Let Him turn back to Yahweh who will take pity on him, to our
God who is rich in forgiving" (Isaiah 55:7).
"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one can come to the
Father except through me" (John 14:6).
The Indwelling of the Trinity
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have given you a
great desire to pray to the Divine Persons many times during the day. This
can be done in a way which does not interfere with your daily duties.
Rather, you have learned that this prayerful contact with Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit enhances your ability to work for God and neighbor. Remind My
people that when one is in the state of grace, Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit dwell within that person in a most special way. We are within those
in the state of grace to receive their acts of faith, hope, and love.
"So many of My people are not aware of the precious treasure which
dwells within them! Tell My people to pray for a growing awareness of this
marvelous truth! Through the graces which flow from the great love of My
pierced Heart, My people are called to develop the greatest intimacy with
the Divine Persons. Please, do not waste these graces! I am Lord and
Master, and in My great love, I ask that all comply with My request!"
Reflection: In the Gospel of John, Jesus tells us:
"If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will
love him, and we shall come to him and make our home with him"
(John 14:23).
Jesus does not explicitly mention the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in
this particular passage. However, we know that, where the Father and Son
reside, so also does the Spirit.
In the above message from Jesus, He speaks to us about this truth of
the Indwelling of the Blessed Trinity in the souls of the just. What a
tremendous gift! How much do we appreciate this gift? Do we take the means
to develop our relationship with the Divine Persons Who dwell within? Many
would go all out for the opportunity to receive one of the world's
dignitaries into their homes. When we are in the state of grace, the
Divine Persons grace us with Their presence. What a tremendous dignity is
bestowed upon us! Sadly, many seem to be more enthused about being in the
presence of this world's dignitaries than they are regarding the presence
of the Triune God!
The Power to Love
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people how much I long
to draw all of them to My Mother's Heart and to My Heart! I do this to the
extent they allow Me to do so. The more My people come to Our Hearts, the
more I empower them to love God and neighbor.
"I desire that all within the human family be united through deep
bonds of love. Many refuse to enter into this union of love with their
neighbor. That is why there is so much hatred and division in today's
world between nations, within nations, within families, between
individuals.
"There are, however, many of My people who, because of their
growing union with Me, are increasing their capacity to love each other.
There is being developed a strong core who are helping to spread love
around the world. As these people dwell in Mary's Heart and My Heart, they
are helping to bring about the great new era of the renewed Church and
world. When the purification of Church and world is completed, this great
era of peace and love, predicted by My Mother at Fatima, will be
characterized by the triumph of her Immaculate Heart and the reign of My
Sacred Heart, and love will pervade the earth as never before.
"I am Lord and Master. Listen to these words I am giving to you.
Live these words! As you dwell in Mary's Heart and My Heart, love one
another with the deepest love! I love My people with a tremendous love,
and in this love I give them this message."
Reflection: In Christ, God calls us to the most profound union
with the Persons of the Trinity and with each other. In The First
Letter of John we see the enormity of this calling:
"We can be sure that we know God only by keeping his
commandments. Anyone who says, 'I know him,' and does not keep his
commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth. But when anyone
does obey what he has said, God's love comes to perfection in him. We
can be sure that we are in God only when the one who claims to be living
in him is living the same kind of life as Christ lived....
"Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother
is still in the dark. But anyone who loves his brother is living in the
light and need not be afraid of stumbling; unlike the man who hates his
brother and is in the darkness, not knowing where he is going, because
it is too dark to see" (1 John 2:3-11).
Scripture Nourishes You
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, tell My people that I
wish them to read Scripture every day. They should read a passage from
the Gospel each day and should read from other sections of the New
Testament as time permits. They should also read from the Old Testament as
time allows.
"The writings of Scripture guide you according to the way My
Father wants you to live. Since I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, all
Scripture centers around Me. Scripture converges on the teaching contained
in My life, death, and resurrection."
"Many of My people say they do not have the time to read from the
Bible each day. Do they have time to read newspapers and magazines and to
watch TV? Yes! And much of what they read and watch is harmful to their
souls! People have time for what they think is important. If a person says
he does not have time to read from the Bible daily, what is he actually
saying?
"Come to My Heart each day and ask Me to give you a deeper
appreciation of the Bible. Ask Me to give you a deeper love of Scripture.
The more you prayerfully read the Bible, the more closely you are united
to Me.
"I am Lord and Master. I desire that all heed My requests. I love
My people with an overwhelming love, and in this great love I give them
this message!"
Reflection: In giving us the writings of Scripture, God has
given us a great, great gift. What is our attitude toward this great gift?
If we rarely take up the Bible and read from it, we have our answer!
Let's resolve here and now to respond to Jesus' request by reading from
the Bible on a daily basis.
Mother of Our Christian Virtues
Mary: "My beloved priest-son, I wish all my children to
come to my Immaculate Heart each day. I cooperate with the Holy Spirit in
helping all my little ones to grow in the life of the Christian virtues.
As my children dwell within my maternal Heart, the Holy Spirit leads them
along the path of the virtues. Faith, hope, love, prudence, justice,
fortitude, temperance, humility, chastity, and the other virtues take
deeper root in the hearts of my children. Above all, the queen of the
virtues, love, increasingly rules the lives of my little ones.
"I am ever at the side of my children to help them grow in the
life of the virtues. As I do so, I place them more deeply within the Heart
of Jesus, the source of growth in all the virtues. The Holy Spirit, then,
desires that my children dwell both within my Heart and Jesus' Heart.
Within Our Hearts He clothes you with growth in the life of the virtues.
The more you dwell in my Heart, the more ready you are for my placing you
deeply within the Heart of Jesus where the Holy Spirit clothes you more
and more with the splendor of all the virtues. Thus you grow in the
likeness of Christ, and Jesus unites you more closely to the Father."
Reflection: Since Mary is our spiritual Mother, she has a
special God-given role in helping us grow in the life of the Christian
virtues. As she tenderly and lovingly leads us in the life of the virtues,
she is our great model in how to follow Christ. She lived the Christian
virtues perfectly. She is so eager to help us increasingly put on Christ
through a more dynamic living of the Christian virtues, especially the
virtue of love.
Work to Make Your World Better
Jesus: "My beloved companion, remind My people of their
responsibility toward the world. They have a duty to try to make this a
better world for all to live in.
"Today there is much which is wrong with the world. Sin covers the
face of the earth. Sins of all kinds blemish the goodness of My Father's
creation.
"However, My Mother and I are increasingly gathering our forces
for the battle against Satan and his followers. We are more and more
forming Our followers to wage the battle to win back that part of the
world dominated by Satan's influence. We are forming our followers in the
ways of love. We are forming Our followers with the grace which flows from
the bosom of My Father, through My Heart, given in the Holy Spirit, and
distributed through the intercession of the maternal and Immaculate Heart
of Mary.
"We are forming Our followers to give themselves in the greatest
love for God and neighbor. We are bringing them ever more closely to Our
Hearts so that they may draw from the flames of love of My Heart and
Mary's Heart! The more My followers dwell in Mary's Heart and My Heart,
the more they are enlightened and strengthened to give themselves for the
salvation of the world.
"I am Lord and Master. I ask all to follow Me and My Mother to
help us bring forth the great age of love and peace for the world. This
age will emerge after the phase of purification has been completed. This
age will be characterized by the triumph of Mary's immaculate Heart and
the reign of My Sacred Heart. In this great new age, soon to come, My
people will love and praise My Father, with Mary and through Me and in the
Holy Spirit, as never before!
"I love My people with a tremendous, burning love, and in this
love I give them this message!"
Reflection: The world belongs to Christ. St. Paul tells us about
this:
As he is the Beginning, he was first to be born from the dead, so
that he should be first in every way, because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him, and all things to be reconciled through him and for
him, everything in heaven and everything on earth, when he made peace by
his death on the cross (Colossians 1:18-20).
Since the world belongs to Christ, we, who are His followers, must have
a great love for the world as created and redeemed by God. We must labor
through our participation in the Mass and through all our other prayers
and good works to more and more help the Christic image of the world to
shine forth in ever greater splendor. This is our duty and our privilege.
Out of love for God and neighbor, let's resolve to get on with the task!
Follow the Way I Have Given You
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I have given you this
book of messages for the spiritual instruction of My people. I have put
before My people the path I wish them to follow. The messages I and My
Mother have given all converge upon devotion to Our Hearts, and, in
particular, upon consecration to Our Hearts. Ideally, devotion to Our
Hearts culminates in the act of consecration to My Heart and My Mother's
Heart. Living out this consecration day by day leads to the highest
sanctity.
"My people who make and live out the consecration to Our Hearts
are helping to bring about the great new era of peace which the Church and
the world will experience after the period of purification has been
completed. This period of splendorous peace will be characterized by the
triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart!"
Reflection: Jesus and Mary, in Their great love for us, have put
before us this book of messages for our spiritual instruction. The Hearts
of Jesus and Mary ask for our response of love. They ask us to live the
messages. They ask us to incorporate all the messages into the living out
of our consecration to Their Hearts. Who would want to refuse Their
invitation?
Act of Consecration to the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary
Lord Jesus, I consecrate myself to Your most Sacred Heart. You reveal
Your Heart as symbol of Your love in all its aspects, including Your most
special love for me as this unique individual. Help me to always love You
in return. Help me to give myself entirely to You. Help me always to pour
out my life in love of God and neighbor. Heart of Jesus, I place my trust
in You!
Dear Blessed Virgin Mary, I consecrate myself to your maternal and
Immaculate Heart, this Heart which is symbol of your life of love. You are
the Mother of my Savior. You are also my Mother. You love me with a most
special love as this unique child of yours. In a return of love, I give
myself entirely to your motherly love and protection. You followed Jesus
perfectly. You are His first and perfect disciple. Teach me to imitate you
in the putting on of Christ. Be my motherly intercessor so that, through
your Immaculate Heart, I may be guided to an ever closer union with the
pierced Heart of Jesus, this Jesus Who leads me ever closer to the Father
in the Holy Spirit.
Shepherds of Christ
Jesus has asked that chapters be formed to pray for the needs of
priests around the world. The chapters are to pray in a special way for
the spiritual success of the priestly newsletter, as well as to aid in the
financial support of this publication. The chapters and members are to be
called Shepherds of Christ Associates.
Our Lord has stressed that Shepherds of Christ Associates become an
international movement.
Words for Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates
Jesus: "My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the
priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of
Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the
world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ
Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and
My Mother's Heart.
"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ
Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as
instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and
the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My
Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the
Holy Spirit."
-Message from Jesus to Father Edward J.
Carter, S.J., the Spiritual Director, as given on July 31, 1994, feast of
Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits).
end of Tell My People
Excerpt from Blue Rosary Book
Excerpt from September 24, 1998
Messenger: Sometime between
Ascension Thursday, May 21, 1998 and Pentecost, May 31, 1998.
I saw a vision of an open door, the light
within it resembled the light of the vision of March 26, 1996 that can be
found in the Apostles’ Manual (p. 34-36).
The open door was glistening with this
reflective golden color mirror-like light. I cannot describe, as I could not
describe concerning the 3 main visions, the first being March 26, 1996.
The closest light I can describe to this
is the sun reflecting on the water at Tom’s farm but this too leaves an
emptiness to its description.
There was a little white sheep at the
bottom of the open, glistening door and the little sheep hobbled over a
small threshold and went in.
The door was rounded on the top, no
corners, like a semi-circle on the top, and the wall surrounding this door
was black. The light I describe was within this door and peered out to me in
the vision.
I heard our Lord over and over again cry
out during this period, "Come out of your tombs, dead, dead, dead, you
are dead."
I heard the words similar to the message
of May 21, 1998.
I was walled in on all sides – BARS –
a prison of my own making. I turned and there was a wall missing and I gaily
walked into the free night and the sun followed me as I walked.
I hear Jesus speak: "I am the gateway
that leads to freedom."
I know the sea of glass from the vision of
March 26, 1996. I know the open door from the vision.
I know the Power, I know the Intimate Burning Heart of
Jesus in the Mass.
Jesus: (Ascension Day May 21, 1998)
Your earth is enclosed in a wall of their
own making. They have put up walls to enclose themselves. They have traveled
around in their little boxes and spit at the freedom that I wish to give
them.
Freedom is in living according to God’s
will, Freedom is in Me.
Talk of chains, for you have some. Your
have bars and are enclosed in your stone or brick houses. A mighty fortress
is your dwelling, you think. A mighty fortress is in the walls of My Heart.
I am the Gateway that leads to Freedom. I
am the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy One of the Virgin Israel. I am the
Gateway to heaven. I am God.
Come out of your tombs, I am alive, I am
treated as a dead object.
Sing a new song, the dead shall be
raised.
They conquered the devil with the Blood
of the Lamb.
Pray to the Holy Spirit to come mightily
on you.
Jesus: I wish to refer you to
Revelation Chapter 4.
Revelation
4
Then, in my vision, I saw a door
open in heaven and heard the same voice speaking to me, the voice like a
trumpet, saying, ‘Come up here: I will show you what is to take place
in the future.’ With that, I fell into ecstasy and I saw a throne
standing in heaven, and the One who was sitting on the throne,
and the One sitting there looked like a diamond and a ruby. There was a
rainbow encircling the throne, and this looked like an emerald. Round the
throne in a circle were twenty-four thrones, and on them twenty-four
elders sitting, dressed in white robes with golden crowns on their heads.
Flashes of lightning were coming from the throne, and the sound of peals
of thunder, and in front of the throne there were seven flaming lamps
burning, the seven Spirits of God. In front of the throne was a sea as
transparent as crystal. In the middle of the throne and around it
were four living creatures all studded with eyes, in front and
behind. The first living creature was like a lion, the
second like a bull, the third living creature had a human
face, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was studded
with eyes all the way round as well as inside; and day and night they
never stopped singing:
Holy, Holy, Holy
is the Lord God, the Almighty;
who was, and is and is to come.’
Every time the living creatures glorified and honoured
and gave thanks to the One sitting on the throne, who lives for ever
and ever, the twenty-four elders prostrated themselves before him to
worship the One who lives for ever and ever, and threw down their crowns
in front of the throne, saying:
You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honour and power,
for you made the whole universe;
by your will, when it did not exist,
it was created.
end of excerpt from Blue Rosary
Book
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
THIS WAS TEN DAYS
BEFORE MARY
APPEARED ON THE
BUILDING IN CLEARWATER
December 17, 1996
AND THE RED ROSARY
BOOK WAS RELEASED
December 17, 1996
December 7, 1996 First
Saturday -
Revelations on the Light
Isaiah 30: 19-26:
Yes, people of Zion living in
Jerusalem,
you will weep no more.
He will be gracious to you when your cry for help rings out;
as soon as he hears it, he will answer you.
When the Lord has given you the bread of suffering
and the water of distress,
he who is your teacher will hide no longer,
and you will see your teacher with your own eyes.
Your ears will hear these words behind you,
'This is the way, keep to it,' whether you turn to right or left.
You will hold unclean the silverplating of your idols
and goldplating of your images.
You will throw them away like the polluted things they are,
shouting after them, 'Good riddance!'
He will send rain for the seed you sow in the ground,
and the bread that the ground provides will be rich and nourishing.
That day, your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
Oxen and donkeys that work the land
will eat for fodder wild sorrel,
spread by the shovel-load and fork-load.
On every lofty mountain, on every high hill
there will be streams and water-courses, on the day of the great slaughter
when the strongholds fall.
Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight
and sunlight itself be seven times brighter
-like the light of seven days in one-
on the day Yahweh dresses his people's wound
and heals the scars of the blows they have received."
Isaiah 40:1-8:
'Console my people, console
them,'
says your God.
'Speak to the heart of Jerusalem
and cry to her
that her period of service is ended,
that her guilt has been atoned for,
that, from the hand of Yahweh, she has received
double punishment for all her sins.'
A voice cries, 'Prepare in the desert
a way for Yahweh.
Make a straight highway for our God
across the wastelands.
Let every valley be filled in,
every mountain and hill be levelled,
every cliff become a plateau,
every escarpment a plain;
then the glory of Yahweh will be revealed
and all humanity will see it together,
for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.'
A voice said, 'Cry aloud!' and I said, 'What shall I cry?'
-'All humanity is grass
and all its beauty like the wild flower's.
The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of Yahweh blows on them.
(The grass is surely the people.)
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God remains for ever.'
Song: A Voice Cries Out in the
Wilderness
Adam and Eve are given great gifts and insights into God.
They sin, the light of knowing God is dimmed because of their sin. They do
not know God as they did before the sin.
Christ comes, He is the Light of the World. He dies, He
gives Himself. He shares His life with us through sanctifying grace.
Through Baptism we receive this sharing in His divine
life. The more He shares His life, the more we are saturated with His life,
the more we know Him. He reveals Himself to us--we see the light.
The Kingdom of God is at hand. It is all here: the Mass,
the Eucharist, God giving Himself.
To partake more in His life we must give ourselves to Him.
Mary appears to Bernadette. She tells her she is the
"Immaculate Conception." We are sinners, but through Mary, the
pure and sinless one, we can unite deeply in Him.
We are in darkness in varying degrees. The more we are
saturated with His life, the more we see.
The reign of God is at hand. Since He came to the earth,
everything is in place to see the light.
God is giving to us great graces to see the light now. He
is lifting the veil.
There will be the era of peace.
Isaiah 30:26:
"Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight
and sunlight itself be seven times brighter
-like the light of seven days in one-..."
We see the darkness. As at night, we do not see the
colorful leaves, they are there, we do not see them.
In the morning light, we see the glory of the beautiful
day, the colorful leaves.
As the light steals across the sky, we see more and more.
As the sun gradually comes up, we see more clearly the beauty of the leaves.
At first, our vision is not so clear because the light
does not show in its deepest intensity. As the sun comes up we see more and
more vividly until finally we see clearly the beauty of the colorful leaves.
Isaiah 30:26:
"Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight
and sunlight itself be seven times brighter
-like the light of seven days in one-..."
In a message to Fr. Carter on July 31, 1994, Jesus has
promised us: "I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of
Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to
Mary's heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy
Spirit."
As stated above, the more we are saturated with his life,
the more we are one in Him, the more clearly we see. It is in this union, in
the depth of His Heart, that we receive such life, that we know Him with
great clarity, that we are given this vision of God.
It is not with "eyes" that we see, but the
illumination is in the knowing power that He gives to us. He reveals
insights into the divine mysteries. We share most intimately with Him when
we are one with Him in the Mass and after Communion. These are treasured
moments in which He gives us a special sharing to know Him, our Divine
Lover.
We see clearly when our hearts are hearts of love. We see
vividly when our hearts are filled with love and peace. We were created to
love, to love God and love each other.
Adam and Eve sinned. They lost the great gift given to
them. The light of knowing God was dimmed because of their sin.
Christ comes into the world. He is the Word. He is the
light of the world. He comes to save man from his sin. He comes in the womb
of the Virgin Mary. Mary is the pure and sinless one. Jesus comes to pay the
price for the sin of Adam and for our sins. We are all tainted by this sin
of our first father and mother. Mary is the Immaculate and pure one, the
highest human person. Divinity unites with humanity in the womb of Mary.
They are one. Jesus is carried within the body of His mother. Such unity
from the beginning, for His life is formed within her body. Is it surprising
to us, then, if Christ comes within the womb of the Virgin Mary, that we too
must go through Mary to unite to Him? Where is the pride in the hearts of
men that think they do not have to go through their Mother Mary? If Christ
comes in the womb of Mary to pay the price for man's sins, and we are
tainted by the sin, in order to unite to the Almighty God who is all holy,
we must go through the pure and sinless one.
Adam and Eve sinned. The Father sends His Son into the
world to pay the price for man's sins. Jesus is the New Adam; Mary is the
New Eve. Man continues to sin, greatly displeasing God. The Father allows
Mary to appear to Bernadette at Lourdes as the Immaculate Conception, as
having been conceived without original sin. The Father then allows Mary to
appear to the children of Fatima as the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
We are sinners, we cannot unite closely to Him unless we
go through Mary.
Mary is the pure and sinless one. We can unite deeply to
Him. We are in darkness in varying degrees. The more we are saturated with
His life, the more we see.
The reign of God is at hand. He came to the earth, He
died, He rose on the third day. He gave to the Apostles the power to change
bread and wine into His Body and Blood. He gave to them the power to forgive
sins. He established His Church pouring forth from His pierced side. We do
not see the great gifts that He has given to us. He is giving to us great
insights into these gifts. God is giving to us great graces to see the light
now. He is lifting the veil.
There will be an era of peace and all will see with such
light as Isaiah speaks of in chapter 30, verse 26:
"Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight
and sunlight itself be seven times brighter
-like the light of seven days in one-..."
Man sinned. Jesus came to redeem us. Man is still so
sinful. Mary appears at Fatima. She tells us that we are offending God, that
we must make reparation to her heart and the heart of her Son.
She gives us the peace plan for the world. She tells us
that the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and her Immaculate Heart will
triumph but we must do what she says. The Church has approved Fatima. The
devil has blocked the message. How can we disobey our Mother? How can we
ignore her? Mary appeared at Fatima and was ignored. Mary appeared to me
almost daily for 14 months--she does not appear as she once did. Jesus has
told me that He will handle these messages, that He is in charge, that the
plan of the Father will unfold despite any person's willfulness.
In August 1996, Mary spoke in the rosary: she said she
could not hold back the hand of her Son any longer. On the 5th of this
month, instead of Mary appearing as she had in the past, Jesus appeared
alive on the crucifix with His mouth moving for twenty minutes. We are not
listening to Mary or to Jesus. Man has sinned. Jesus came to redeem us. Mary
tells us what we must do. Men are disobedient. They disobeyed their Mother.
They do not do what she told them what they must do at Fatima. When hearts
are consecrated to Jesus and Mary they become holy hearts, deeply one with
God. The reign of the Sacred Heart is at hand for He has given to us
abundant grace that we are seeing with such clarity this vision of God. He
has imparted to us understanding into His divine mysteries.
The more we focus on what Jesus and Mary have told us, the
more we will have peace. He is angered by the willfulness of man. He will
get their attention. We are spreading the good news when we spread the
consecration.
We must heed the words of our Mother. She will not go away
because of willful men. We have angered God more by ignoring her. There is
only one way: it is the plan that Mary has given to us at Fatima. He is
lifting the veil for those whose hearts are consecrated to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary.
Many in the Shepherds of Christ Movement are fervently
loving Him. In the Shepherds of Christ Movement, as the apostles spread the
consecration to the Church, the family, and the school, the fire of His love
will cover the earth and it will be lighted with this love coming from the
Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the
Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph.
We, in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, are spreading the
fire of His love across the earth through the consecration.
The hearts of men will turn from their sick and desolate
ways to hearts gentle as a little lamb. There will be one flock and one
Shepherd and His staff will rule over all. Hearts consecrated to Their
Hearts will lead the light across the earth. This light will be a light of
intense brightness, brighter and hotter than any light from a flame. It will
be the fire of God's love. The Spirit will move in all hearts consecrated to
His Heart, and we will know how fire truly spreads, for the love of God is a
fire, it is vibrant, it is encompassing, it is smoldering, burning deep
within and speedily spreading on the outside. No fires on this earth can
ever describe the burning embers that burn from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
No fire burns like the fires coming from His Heart and hearts filled with
the love from the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
On October 13, 1917 Our Lady gave to Lucia and 70,000
spellbound people, a great vision: the sun spun in the sky, casting off
great lights. This happened three times in about 12 minutes. As quoted from Our
Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven:
It seemed that the whole world
was on fire with the sun spinning at a greater speed each time. Then a gasp
of terror rose from the crowd for the sun seemed to tear itself from the
heavens and come crashing down upon the horrified multitudes...just when it
seemed that the ball of fire would fall upon and destroy them, the miracle
ceased, and the sun resumed its normal place in the sky, shining forth as
peacefully as ever.
Mary gave this tremendous sign at Fatima and people did
not listen. The events that followed were as she had predicted since we
disobeyed her. There was a brutal war, WWII. Mary appeared to me (Rita Ring)
almost daily - very few have listened. She told me over and over again of
the souls going to hell. She told me in August she could not hold back the
hand of her Son anymore. Adam and Eve sinned. God, the Father, sent His Son.
Man continues to sin--the Father sends Mary but she is ignored!
On July 2, 1996, my son, Joseph, was taking pictures of
all of the Shepherds of Christ members at Tom Arlinghaus' farm. He took one
picture of each person. Jesus told me to tell him to take two pictures of
Fr. Carter. The first picture was a normal picture. The second picture was
of Fr. Carter covered with a pillar of light.
In front of a statue of Our Sorrowful Mother, Mary was
alive in the statue.
Jesus: "Peace will abound when
nations, churches, families, and individuals are consecrated to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Shepherds of Christ
Movement...is a pillar of light in the darkness."
R. We must encourage all to consecrate
their hearts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and to join the Shepherds of Christ chapters, and the Apostles of the
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement, to pray for our Church and our world.
Jesus: This is My Movement for renewal of
the Church and the world, based in consecration, joining your every act to
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying the rosary, and making reparation to
Our Hearts, especially on first Fridays and first Saturday. It is through
your prayers and sacrifices many souls will be saved. Grace will flow from
those whose hearts are consecrated to Our Hearts and the fire of My love
will light up this darkened world.
R. Many are living in darkness because
they are not obeying Our Lady. The people will see the light when they obey
her and consecrate their hearts to her heart and the Heart of Jesus.
To have this intense union with Jesus, with God, we must
give ourselves to Our Lady. It is there in the intimacy with Him that we are
saturated with His life and that He reveals to us great lights, great
insights into His divine mysteries. Yes, indeed, the light will steal across
the earth and the hearts of men will be hearts filled with His love. They
will know their God with great light imparted to them by the Holy Spirit
given to them because of the deep union that they have with Jesus. The reign
of the Sacred Heart is at hand. He is giving to us these great lights at
this time for He has lifted the veil and we see many things and the light
steals across the sky and we see with clear vision.
Isaiah 30: 26:
"Then moonlight will be bright as sunlight
and sunlight itself be seven times brighter
-like the light of seven days in one-..."
Isaiah 30: 25:
"On every lofty mountain, on every high hill
there will be streams and water-courses, on the day of the great slaughter
when the strongholds fall."
Truly His Heart is the fountain of divine life. It flows
through the Church, through the hands of His holy priests. When priests are
consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and celebrating the Mass, and
administering the sacraments, an immense amount of His grace will be
outpoured on the earth.
A people in darkness have seen a great light. Jesus,
Jesus, Jesus, the Light of the World!
Our Father...thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven. We will all love as the Father intends, for now He looks
to the earth and He sees it covered with darkness. As hearts are consecrated
to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, the earth will be covered with His light.
Revelation 12:1-12:
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 labor,
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 he 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 scepter, 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.
And now war
broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The
dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of
heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan,
who had led all the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his
angels were hurled down with him. Then I heard a voice shout from heaven,
'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all
authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day
and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over
him by the blood of the lamb and by the word to which they bore witness,
because even in the face of death they did not cling to life. So let the
heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster
is coming-because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that he
has little time left.'
We are in her spiritual womb (heart). She is pregnant,
bringing forth her children of light. As we go to her heart, she crushes the
head of the serpent. Some of the brightest stars that will light up the
earth are in the Shepherds of Christ Movement. We are the children of light.
We are being sent forth as she brings us forth her children of light to
stamp out the darkness. We must give ourselves to Mary.
end of December 7, 1996
September 24, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: I
give you the Mass.
So much grace is released in
the Mass when you pray
deeply.
John 1: 1-14
In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.
A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.
The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.
But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
(Apostle's Manual pg 204)
...We, His people, have not yet seen His glory in its
fullness.
Until we go to the womb of Mary, we
will not be children of light to the degree God desires. We are walking in
partial darkness. She told us at Fatima what we must do to bring about the
reign of the Sacred Heart, when men will see with the light that will be
brighter than seven suns.
December 19, 1996
Jesus speaks:
And the light shown in the darkness and the darkness
grasped it not, but to as many as responded, they became the children of the
light and from them His life flowed into the hearts that were cold and dark
and slowly, very slowly, the light began to steal across the darkened sky
and the moon was covered with blood. The blood was the blood of the Lamb.
The blood represented the blood He shed to give us life. But the blind just
saw ordinary blood and were scared to death.
end of December 19, 1996 message
December 22, 1996:
Jesus:
And the moon will be covered with blood. It was the blood
of the Lamb and it poured forth on a sinful world to cleanse them of their
sin, and I give you My Body and Blood in the Mass and I am ignored.
end of December 22, 1996 message
First Friday - December 6, 1996
Jesus speaks: I am calling you as a
family. You will be joined in one heart, acting as My Heart beating in this
world. All the apostles in the Shepherds of Christ Movement are joined in
one Heart.
Messenger: The core leaders will contact
the coordinators. The coordinators will contact the individual apostles. All
are apostles with a job directed by Jesus to do. Her peace plan was given at
Fatima:
- Until a sufficient number of people have consecrated
their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace in
the world.
- Mary has requested all to pray the daily rosary.
- We must observe the Five First Saturday devotion:
- Communion, confession (within 8 days before or after the Saturday),
recital of the rosary, meditating for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the
rosary. All this is to be done in spirit of reparation.
- We must make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary.
His plan centers around this.
We have heads functioning in the individual ministries.
Everything we do leads to consecration of hearts. As the apostles press on
the three institutions, the Church, family, and school to help spread the
consecration, the strayed ones will be led home to His Heart.
Mary said at Fatima until a sufficient number of people
have consecrated their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we will not
have peace in the world.
The present condition of the world
Peace will come when hearts are hearts of love. The scales
must shift. It will happen through the consecration. Mary's peace plan:
until a sufficient amount of people consecrate their hearts to the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace.
The Father looks to the earth; He sees much darkness.
The Father looks to the earth. There are few hearts
fervently in love with God. The hearts of love light up the earth. It is as
lights on a Christmas tree. It is sparsely lighted by a few hearts.
Therefore, the tree looks dark.
As the Shepherds of Christ Movement spreads (as well as
other movements focused on spreading consecration to Their Hearts) the tree
is covered with more hearts and the earth becomes more lighted.
The tree is covered with hearts consecrated to the Hearts
of Jesus and Mary. The tree is illuminated.
As the Shepherds of Christ apostles spread the
consecration to the Church, the family, and the school, the tree is covered
with lights and the earth is covered with the fire of His love.
The Father looks to the earth now. He is displeased with
the hearts of men. The Father wants us to love God and love each other. He
wants us to live according to His will in love.
Mary appears at Fatima. She tells us that we are offending
God. She tells us what we must do. Mary's peace plan:
- Until a sufficient number of people have consecrated
their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace in
the world.
- Mary has requested all to pray the daily rosary.
- We must observe the First Saturday devotion.
- We must make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and
Mary.
Mary said there will be an era of peace, no matter what we
do, in which the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign and the Immaculate Heart
of Mary will triumph.
Man disobeys, the devil blocks the Fatima message. World
War II happens just as Mary said.
Mary appeared to me for 14 months daily. She gives us the
same message as Fatima. Jesus and Mary give us God's Blue Book and Rosaries
from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He writes His message of love on
our hearts. His life lives in our hearts. The Scripture and the Mass live in
our hearts.
In the Shepherds of Christ Movement, our focus is on the
priest.
end of December 6, 1996
message
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
Oh it is Light you must seek.
Jesus is the Light of the World.
Listen to Him.
Messenger:
After Mary appeared 2 1/2 years on
the 5th Jesus appeared December 5, 1996
(12 days before Mary appeared in Clearwater)
at the point of death on the cross.
Then Mary appeared December 17, 1996.
This is what I accounted from the
vision —
Excerpt from December 1, 1999 message about December
5, 1996
Messenger: After she appeared for almost 2 1/2
years on the 5ths, on the 2 1/2 year anniversary Christ appeared at the
point of death, His mouth open and moving. His jaw kept moving.
I was horrified as I saw Him. I cried and could hardly
stand it.
What was so awful was here was my Jesus at the point of
death on the cross. He looked as if He could do nothing because of His
condition and His mouth kept going up and down, and no words came out.
At the traditional rosary (I had done them now for 2 1/2
years of 5ths) that evening at 6:30 with all the Shepherds of Christ people
there, He said He moved His mouth because no one was listening.
This was December 5, 1996, after all those visits of Mary
on the 5ths when very few came and listened.
end of excerpt from December 1, 1999
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
I have sent My Son to you.
This is My Son's Movement to help bring
about the Reign of His Sacred
Heart on this earth.
A
City on a Hill Shines to the World
February 23, 1994 5:30 a.m.
Jesus: I am the light of the world. A city on a
hill will shine to the world. You at the Center will be this city when you
are filled to the brim with the love of Jesus. What power, what might, to
have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the
darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who
love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep
within their breasts!
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. My life is the life
inside that cannot be contained. It is bursting and budding forth. My life
is the real life. To possess the life of Christ within your breast! Such
power! I am the city set on a hill that will stand united and shine to this
world. You at this Center will be this city. You will be the true Center
that places the mark on this world.
The love of Christ, abounding deep within the breasts of
all, will be the power and the might. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus.
I will operate in the hearts of all there and minister to My sick world. I
am the Heart of Jesus. I am on fire with love of each and every soul. When
My love is found in all the hearts there, the light of God will shine to
this world!
You are the city, set on a hill, that shines to the
darkened world. I will light the world with the love of Jesus that shines in
the hearts of those who are fed there. My light is so bright. My power is
endless. You are the light to the dark world. You contain the mighty
medicine to bring My sick ones to Me. You will bring so many back to Me and
My intense love, burning so brightly for all!
I am the power. I am the might. He who abides in Me will
have the light of life. I give Myself to you that you will live. You will
radiate My presence from your very being. My light is the brightest light. I
will live in the hearts of all who come to you for their feeding. Enkindle
in them the love for My most Sacred Heart. It is on fire for love of you. It
cannot be contained. It will live in all hearts who come to you to be fed.
You are the key to enkindle this burning love of Jesus in
the hearts of so many. Many will know Jesus through your love of Me. Read
these letters every day for I am truly speaking to you here. I love each
child so dearly and want to have an intimate union with that child. Teach
all about the burning love of Jesus. Read My messages with your heart on
fire so you can tell all of My ardent love for them.
I long to be close to them. I am a person. I am God, on
fire for love of My people. Bring all to the ardent love of Jesus. Mary is
by My side constantly. Where I am, she is there. She wants all to be led to
My ardent, longing love. Teach all about My love. Fill them so they are
overflowing in their hearts. This is the mighty medicine. It is My letter of
intense, ardent love for My people.
I am truly here, little ones. I am Jesus, Son of the
Living God. I will live strongly in the hearts of all who come to you. You
will be the key. Focus on your intense love of Me. Read My letters as a
cookbook for intimacy with Me. My love waits for each person and I tell you
here how to be close to Me. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus on fire for love
of you. I am longing for you to come and be with Me in silence. I will give
you all you need.
I am the Alpha. I am the Omega. I am your all. I am God,
one, true and magnificent, and I come to you with ardent love in Holy
Communion and in the tabernacle. I am present, Body and Blood, Soul and
Divinity. I am waiting. Our love affair waits and it depends on you. I am
there and I am waiting. You keep us apart.
Tell them how I long for them and have all they need. The
love of Christ will light their city. You will stand as the lighted city in
darkness. My love will be that by which you light this dark world. Oh, such
power, such might! The love of God will reign in the hearts of all you
touch. You are My vessel to draw this world to the love of Jesus.
Read and study My letters and be taught about My ardent
love. I am Jesus Christ and I am teaching you about My love on fire for all.
Come and be powered by the hand of God. My love will rock the world off its
rocker when it reigns in the hearts of those who come to you. I love you so!
You are My beloved. I will use you to light My dark world. You will shine as
candles in the darkest night and you will be the instruments I use to light
their wicks. I am God and I love them so dearly!
This is My love for all. Power and might will shine forth
on the land. I am the brightest light. Look into the light for the light.
Look into the arms of Jesus. I will light this world through you. Alleluia.
And the angels sang and the choirs of heaven were heard for the earth
proclaimed the Love of Jesus. Alleluia
end of February 23, 1994 message
September 24, 2003 message continues
God the Father speaks:
The birth of the Shepherds of Christ came from
this old seminary.
On March 22, 1994, Lucia's birthday
the corner fell off.
Matthew 21: 42
Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read in the
scriptures:
The stone which the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this is the Lord’s doing
and we marvel at it?
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God the Father speaks:
WHEN WILL YOU LISTEN?
PRAY THE CAPTIVES ARE SET FREE
Some are locked in their twisted minds
Pray for grace.
Circulate the morning offering.
Circulate the morning offering
and consecration prayers
Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 2001
Issue #1
Yes,
the Good Shepherd laid down His life for us. And it is in this that we must
lay down our lives daily in the Morning Offering, offering all we do as a
sacrifice united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and great grace will be
released for souls. We can identify with Him in this that we offer
everything we do in trying to please Him and serve Him as a sacrifice united
to the Mass. The more we tell others to pray the Morning Offering, the more
people will lay down their lives for souls and the more grace will be
released for the troubled hearts.
Jesus’
Heart is pure and holy, our hearts are tainted.
Mary’s
Heart is pure and sinless. The more we unite our offering with Their pure
and holy Hearts, the more pure our offering and the greatest grace will be
released for the troubled souls.
Souls,
it is souls He came to save. Do we want to identify with our beloved Savior?
Then we must not miss an opportunity to lay down our lives as a sacrifice
for His precious souls.
Oh,
how His Heart burned with love for the souls when He mounted the cross,
covered with Blood and gave Himself as a sacrifice for souls.
Yes,
the Good Shepherd laid down His life for His flock and we as His faithful
shepherds must lay down our lives for His flock today.
There
are millions of elderly that cry out daily, "Oh, God why am I here
today?" In giving them a small card as simple as the ones that follow,
they can offer their lives for souls which can help bring down great grace
for the souls of this earth.
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Say daily
God, I give you my life in union
with the Mass as an offering for
the souls, the Church and the
priests
Help us!
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Your life is so important for souls,
you can help bring down great grace.
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Morning Offering
My
dear Father, I offer you this day all my prayers, works, joys, and
sufferings in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit.
I
unite with our Mother Mary, all the angels and saints, and all the
souls in purgatory to pray to the Father for myself, for each member
of my family, for my friends, for all people throughout the world,
for all the souls in purgatory, and for all other intentions of the
sacred Heart.
I
love You, Jesus, and I give You my heart. I love you, Mary, and I
give you my heart. Amen.
Imprimatur: Most Reverend
Daniel E. Pilarczyk, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati,
January 22, 1997. (applies to this prayer only)
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Written May 29, 2000:
When
we come to Mass we make an offering of ourselves, all our sorrows, wounds,
joys, our complete selves. We see our lives and we put ourselves in Mary’s
Heart, ask to make the offering in greatest purity. In His Heart we offer
the sacrifice IN HIM and WITH HIM.
We
become one with Him as deeply as possible. We dwell in His most perfect
Heart offering sacrifice to God for our sins and the sins of men. Our whole
being is very active in the Mass as we realize more the power of this
Sacrifice most worthily offered. We want to give ourselves as completely as
possible, our past, all of ourselves, now become so one in the moment of
sacrifice as we become one in Him pleading and begging to our God for
purification, for help, for love of Him and all others. We give
thanksgiving, worship and honor to Him, our whole being given as a sacrifice
on the altar IN His pure and holy Heart. Being in the Immaculate Heart of
our Mother, we offer sacrifice for the Church and the world.
We
offer every precious moment of our lives, united to the Masses around the
world, being one in Jesus. Every moment is a moment of sacrifice united to
God. This is what we do in the Morning Offering.
The
pages of the book of our lives are being written. These moments of our lives
are so dear to God, for we offer our lives as a sacrifice for souls.
Are
we spending the precious moments of our lives offering sacrifice to God for
His honor and glory and giving our lives as a sacrifice for souls?
Write
a short page every day or the following day, similar to an examination of
conscience, seeing the good (so much good we accomplish we overlook, so many
precious moments of joy we forget) and the times we were troubled.
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The
devil tries to keep us focused on the problems.
We
are His shepherds, helping to shepherd His flock, there is so much
good we can accomplish every day.
We
should write a short page every day, date it, read over it when we
are troubled, keep it in a book, see how many joyful moments we
have every day.
Give
them to God as a bouquet of flowers placed at His feet on that
last day, the pages of the life of our book.
We
will want all pages to be done in love, all for the honor and
glory of God.
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Through Him, With Him
and In Him
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We
should pray the prayer from Jesus before His bitter passion.
I
pray not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will
come to believe in me. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may
believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they
be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who
sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.
Father,
I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may
always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the
foundation of the world. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you,
but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have
made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the
love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them. (Jn
17: 20-26)
Jesus’
Heart is on fire for love of us.
God
the Father loves us so much, give Him the moments of our lives as a
sacrifice.
Peace,
Love, Oneness – One Body In Him.
Our
prayers are answered. We must pray from the depth of our hearts. Giving
ourselves in consecration to Jesus, consecrating our hearts to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Offer
sacrifice.
Put
the flowers as gifts beneath the throne of God.
Plead
and beg for souls.
Offer
sacrifice. Be united as a body.
And
the bell tolls.
Do
you hear the bells toll?
The
moments of our lives we cannot live again.
We
are here to love and honor God and to serve Him, to prepare ourselves for
the life hereafter and to help others get there.
He
is the Son of God.
He
showed us how to be children of the Father.
He
laid down His life for His flock.
He
is the Good Shepherd.
We
lay down our lives in our Morning Offering.
We
lay down our lives and unite to the perfect Sacrifice of the Savior.
The
moments go by with such swiftness and now here is the day, the kids are
grown, the grandchildren have come, and we still say, "TOMORROW I will
be about my union with God."
There
are so many precious moments that could have been united as a sacrifice for
special grace for ourselves and others.
When
He was here on earth, He merited grace by His life and death.
We
need to tap into this grace our Divine Savior came to earth to gain for us.
We
must tap into this sacrifice.
The
moments of our lives tick away. There are millions of souls in nursing homes
that could be offering up their lives for souls. We have to unite ourselves
and reach them, all the souls that will hear us and unite to this Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass. He is the Head, we are the members of His body, the
Church. We must be united in the Mass, praying every moment together, being
one in Him in this Holy Sacrifice so that great grace will be released.
All
our most difficult trials, when we endure them with love, can help to bring
down great grace.
The
moment is now.
The
bell is tolling.
I
can only live in this moment.
I
must unite it to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying for souls.
Every
moment, whether of joy or suffering, can be a moment of grace being released
for our needs, for the salvation of souls, to make reparation to God, to
honor and love Him and obey Him.
OUR
LIVES ARE INDEED PRECIOUS, every moment, a moment that our Father gave us as
a child of God for His honor and glory.
Alleluia
– God, help us unite as a body.
Alleluia
– God, help us to see ourselves all one as the family of the Father with
Mary our loving Mother.
How
will the page of our book look for the Father? Whether we write or not, we
lived it as He willed or we lived it against His will.
Were
our moments, moments to give Him honor and glory, to help promote the
kingdom, to help save souls and lead others to God? Did the moments help us
have a higher place in heaven? Did we mature more in our love relationship
with God?
end
of excerpt from the Newsletter
Revelation 12: 1-18
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.
And now war broke out in
heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon
fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of
heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan,
who had led all the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his
angels were hurled down with him. Then I heard a voice shout from heaven,
‘Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all
authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day
and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over
him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness,
because even in the face of death they did not cling to life. So let the
heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster
is coming— because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that
he has little time left.’
As soon as the dragon
found himself hurled down to the earth, he sprang in pursuit of the woman,
the mother of the male child, but she was given a pair of the great
eagle’s wings to fly away from the serpent into the desert, to the place
where she was to be looked after for a time, two times and half a time.
So the serpent vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman,
to sweep her away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue; it
opened its mouth and swallowed the river spewed from the dragon’s mouth.
Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the
rest of her children, who obey God’s commandments and have in themselves
the witness of Jesus.
And I took my stand on the seashore.
Revelation 19: 5-10
Then a voice came from the throne; it said,
‘Praise our God, you servants of his and those who fear him, small and
great alike.’ And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a huge
crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering,
‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun; let us be
glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time for the
marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to dress
herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good deeds
of the saints.’ The angel said, ‘Write this, "Blessed are those who
are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb," ’ and he added,
‘These words of God are true.’ Then I knelt at his feet to worship him,
but he said to me, ‘Never do that: I am your fellow–servant and the
fellow–servant of all your brothers who have in themselves the witness of
Jesus. God alone you must worship.’ The witness of Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy.
Revelation 22: 12-21
Look, I am coming soon, and my reward
is with me, to repay everyone as their deeds deserve. I am the
Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the
End. Blessed are those who will have washed their robes clean, so that
they will have the right to feed on the tree of life and can come through
the gates into the city. Others must stay outside: dogs,
fortune–tellers, and the sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, and
everyone of false speech and false life.’
EPILOGUE
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to
you for the sake of the churches. I am the sprig from the root of David
and the bright star of the morning.
The Spirit and the Bride say,
‘Come!’ Let everyone who listens answer, ‘Come!’ Then let all
who are thirsty come: all who want it may have the water of
life, and have it free.
This is my solemn attestation to all
who hear the prophecies in this book: if anyone adds anything to them, God
will add to him every plague mentioned in the book; if anyone cuts
anything out of the prophecies in this book, God will cut off his share of
the tree of life and of the holy city, which are described in the book.
The one who attests these things
says: I am indeed coming soon.
Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all. Amen.
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