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September 6, 2003
September 7th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period II.The Novena Rosary Mysteries for September 7th are the Glorious.
We desperately need funds.
Rita Ring will do a Blue Book Reading Live
in Clearwater, Florida at 1:00
on September 7th
and sign books at 3:15 to 4:30.
Rita Ring will be in China, Indiana
on September 13, 2003
for a live rosary
Hopefully the carpet will be
done for 13th.
Call to apostles, servants, and handmaids
will be in China on the 13th of October.
Adoration will begin on Saturday
and end on the 14th.
More details will be available soon.
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Please call 1-888-211-3041
or 1-513-932-4451.
We accept credit card donations.
Schedule for September 7, 2003
4:00 a.m. - Mass4:37 a.m. - Morning Offering
4:41 a.m. - Tell My People read by Father Carter
6:12 a.m. - Morning Offering & Prayer for Union with Jesus
6:17 a.m. - Ave Maria
6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 a.m. - Rosary of Light from November 14, 2002
7:56 a.m. - Newsletter 1998 Issue 4 (The Peace of the Lord)
9:21 a.m. - Morning Offering
9:25 a.m. - Children's Joyful Rosary December 25, 1994
10:00 a.m. - Songs & Messages October 1, 1995
11:03 a.m. - Handbook read by Father Carter
12:37 p.m. - Morning Offering
12:41 p.m. - Mary's Message
1:00 p.m. - Blue Book Reading
4:00 p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m. - Blue Book Reading from August 10, 2003
6:20 p.m.
- 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
7:24 p.m. - Children's Glorious Rosary July 15, 1995
8:16 p.m. - Songs & Messages October 24, 1995
9:19 p.m. - Children's Glorious Rosary April 25, 1995
10:01 p.m. - Children praying the Shepherds of Christ prayers
10:19 p.m. - Mary's Message
10:25 p.m. - Morning Offering
10:29 p.m. - Songs
11:15 p.m. - Newsletter 1998 Issue 4 (The Peace of the Lord)
12:40 a.m. - Rosary of Light from July 10, 2003 #2
1:12 a.m. - Nursing Home #2
1:49 a.m. - Choose Life
2:51 a.m. - Glorious Rosary Aves
3:23 a.m. - Songs
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 6, 2003
Messenger: There is the anticipation of going to the
Eucharist.
There is the joy to receive, Jesus, truly
present in the Eucharist.
My heart is consumed with joy and I cry
to receive my beloved the Son of God.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Come Saturday, tune into the radio for the
13th gathering.
Pray for the priests, the Church and the world
Jesus speaks: I want little books of Spouse of Lamb
for Servants and Handmaids and Apostles.
They should read this everyday.
October 13, 2003
I am calling you to China.
I am calling My Apostles of My Sacred
Heart in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to
renew their commitment.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: I want My Mysteries of Light books
to circulate. Little books,
coloring books.
My Apostles of My Eucharistic Heart —
please do your weekly two hour
devotion.
Messenger: Here is the message about the Apostles of
the Eucharistic Heart Jesus gave
to Fr. Carter.
Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus
My dear fellow Associate Members,
Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:
My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.
These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.
I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.
I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.
I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.
end of message given to Father Carter
September 6, 2003 message continues
Messenger: We do not have funds for the building
payment. Please help us — there
are not funds for the rosary beads
for the school rosary program.
Mary speaks: My school rosary program needs to continue.
Please help me.
My children are little and impressionable
they need the coloring books —
(English)
(Spanish)
September 6, 2003 message continues
Mary speaks: Help me and my Son Jesus reach the elderly.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Mary speaks: Pictures are available for the elderly.
Inexpensive videos for the elderly.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Mary speaks: Please get my videos and DVD's to the
school children with the rosary
aves. These can be viewed on the
web TV — downloaded under
rosary aves — led by a priest.
Also these rosary aves are in Spanish
Jesus speaks: And so I speak of love, of gentleness, of
sweetness. My homes must be that of kindness.
I am calling servants and handmaids and
apostles and some do not respond. I want
holy ones who want to live deeply their
spousal union with Me.
Here is an excerpt from the Spouse of
the Lamb book.
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Ash Wednesday, February 25, 1998
1st Day (Excerpt) ~
Spouse of the Lamb
Jesus is always with us even in deep suffering.
He gives us the greatest graces to know His love. He acts on our soul. He is the Bridegroom of our soul.
Oh Jesus, He took me to the heights of ecstasy in Him in realizing how He is the Initiator and He acts on my soul. How foolish I am indeed to think it is I who control the workings of God on my soul, when in fact He is the Bridegroom of my soul.
I envision Him looking at me with the greatest love. I am dressed in white. He is my Bridegroom, He loves me so much. He thinks I am beautiful. I am the little child of the Father. He is the Bridegroom. I envision Him dressed in black, tall and handsome, and He looks down with the most loving eyes upon me. I know the love of the Divine Creator.
Today I knew how it was, how He acted on my soul.
I see how it is when someone really acts in love and does something for me because that person loves me.
I see myself as open, letting go, putting myself entirely in the hands of the Creator, the God I love, and the Bridegroom comes with the greatest love and His grace. He gives me Himself. My job is to be, just to be, a soul, waiting for the Bridegroom to just give me Himself in the greatest love. I know it is He Who acts, and when He acts His presence overtakes my soul. I let go and I reminisce about all the times He just overtook my soul.
Little do I do, for it is the Bridegroom loving me, loving my soul and acting most intimately on my soul.
I sit and surrender myself entirely to Him. He is the Initiator. He is the One Who acts with His grace and NOTHING - no intimate experience, nothing here can fill the soul with this love and satisfaction.
For the Bridegroom acts and the soul is satisfied, the only desire is that it will never end. Sometimes there is such a longing and realizing the temporariness of it all. Sometimes He gives my soul such satisfaction, comfort and love, and I am filled with the greatest peace and satisfaction with less awareness of the temporariness, just peace.
He gives me His peace. He is the Sacred Heart. He acts on my soul. I am His spouse. Jesus is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world. He is my Spouse. This book will be entitled the Spouse of the Lamb. He acts on my soul most intimately.
The key is surrender. We are His spouse, we know His love. We must pray for this grace, to be possessed by the Lamb, the Bridegroom of our soul. What lesson did He teach us this day but that it is He Who acts upon us. We surrender to Him. A grace is given, a grace is received.
Our surrender is the way to allow the Bridegroom, the Lamb, to act on our soul.
Yielding, so we allow ourselves to just be in Him.
Oh my God - how to explain that which happens when You act on my soul and what I experience. Are there any words that could do this justice when the Almighty God finds favor with me most intimately, and gives Himself to me?
We must be open. We must empty ourselves and let Him act on our soul. We want Him to possess our soul. We want to experience our Divine Lover most intimately. We must surrender to Him in the Mass, give ourselves to Him.
We will know days of darkness and joy as the shadows and lights fade in and out of our lives. He reveals Himself to us more and more in the moments we spend with Him in the Eucharist.
Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom of our soul. This is the marriage of our soul to the Lamb.
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.
end of excerpt from Ash Wednesday, February 25, 1998
September 6, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: Come to China October 11 - 14 for a retreat
and the special day October 13.
Also Rita Ring will be in China,
September 13, 2003 for a special day of prayer.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Jesus speaks: I love you so deeply. I want to be the
King and Center of your hearts. I want you
to come to Me.
Messenger: Mary and Jesus were so beautiful last
night during the 5th prayer service.
Here are some pictures from the video.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Messenger: We are called to live in the moment.
Here is a homily of Fr. Carter's on Living
in the moment.
From a Lenten Homily, March 24, 2000
Live in the Moment
Today’s Gospel in its story certainly points ahead to Jesus in His Passion and death. And as we read passages such as this during the Lenten season, we are reminded once again that the Church in her Liturgy of the Word gives us an opportunity to undergo a purification, an ever deepening cleansing of ourselves so that we may be a more fit instrument
for receiving the great graces which are to be given to us at the time of the Resurrection memorial on Easter. And so all in all, Lent is a time of purification to prepare us for ever-greater gifts of the Lord. It’s a time of self-discipline, a time to renew our efforts to be self-disciplined in the service of the Lord. Self-discipline is an aspect of purification. And I suggest that one of the most difficult acts of self-discipline in the spiritual journey is to concentrate on the present moment. We have a very strong tendency to disregard the importance of the present moment by focusing in a wrong way on the past or in a wrong way on the future. There are proper occasions for thinking of the past and the future. For example, we have to learn from the past and we have to prepare for the future, but our great emphasis has to be upon the present. There is a Latin axiom which says, age quod agis, age quod agis, which means: do what you are doing, concentrate on the present. And of course we are familiar with that term in the history of spirituality: the sacrament of the present moment. And so the discipline of Lent certainly encourages us to include in a deeper self-discipline a greater determination to get as much as we can out of the present moment. People with a terminal illness have an opportunity as they prepare for death for increased prayer, contrition, love of God. However, some are taken very, very quickly. But for those who have the opportunity of knowing with some certainty the time of their death, I’m sure as they look back on their lives, they are saddened by the many times they did not use time and opportunities for the service of the Lord properly, and are overjoyed at those times in which they did use the present opportunity properly. A great means we have of living in the present properly is a greater focus upon our Lord. For if I have that awareness of the fact I am united with Jesus here and now, why should I be concerned so much about the future or the past? Yes, a great help in living in the present and deriving all the good we can from it for ourselves and others is an ever greater focus upon Jesus, because the more I focus upon Jesus and the more I live with Him in the present moment, the more I am satisfied with the present moment. And so let us in our Lenten activity resolve to grow in that self-discipline - which is very difficult at times - to really live in the presence with the fullness of our being as much as is possible, with the help of God’s grace. Now is the day of salvation. Now is the day of salvation.
end of Father Carter's homily
September 6, 2003 message continues
Messenger: Jesus gave His life for us.
September 6, 2003 message continues
Messenger: He asks us to give our lives to him daily
in the Morning Offering, Praying for the
priests, the Church and the world.
We're desperately in need of
funds.
Envelopes are ready
to be mailed for priests
but we don't have
any postage money.
We need money for the
English speaking priestly mailing.
You can put it on your credit card,
call Morrow.
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
P.O. Box 193
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Revised: September 6,
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