LOVE BEYOND LOVE IS FOUND IN THEIR HEARTS

Such an experience: a piano tuner was at Holy Cross-Immaculata Catholic Church and I had to wait in the car a long time before I could pray because it was so noisy.

I envisioned Our Lady of Lourdes, so young and beautiful in the Lourdes grotto. It was so gorgeous. I was meditating on the Joyful Mysteries. My insides are filled with such love of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I love Him. I long for Him. I thirst for Him. I love His life. All I want is Him. I want a deeper union with Him.

I unite to my beloved God in this deep union on the fifth of October of 1995. I have special experiences with Our Lady here on the fifth of the month. I think it was a little after twelve-thirty that I experienced the penetrating love of the Trinity. I felt saturated with immense peace.

I experience His presence so strong in this church. I long and thirst and want such union with Him. My whole body and soul calls out to be one in Him. My soul calls out for the courts of the Lord, to be united more and more deeply with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

I love to pray at Holy Cross-Immaculata Catholic Church before the Lourdes grotto and the big crucifix in the back of the church. I experience special graces there. We are all God's creatures. He is our Creator. We are sinful and have offended God by our sinfulness. We need to pray the Divine Mercy, especially at 3:00, and beg for mercy for our sins and the sins of the whole world.

Mary's heart was invisibly pierced with a sword. Think of the sword deeply entering her precious heart of love. Think of the lance deeply piercing Jesus' Heart. Whenever we go through deep suffering, we suffer with Him. If I dwell deeply in Their Hearts and you dwell deeply in Their Hearts, we are united in deep love in Their Hearts. The more you live in Their Hearts and I live in Their Hearts, the deeper we are united. All people who want to know love, will find real love in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I am deeply united to my brothers that are greatly saturated with divine grace. Love beyond all love is found in Their Hearts. Life comes to us from the Father, in the Holy Spirit, through the pierced Heart of Jesus, through the heart of Mary that was invisibly pierced by a sword seven times. We act as channels of this life to all.

I see the love between Jesus and Mary all through the rosary. I see the great love of these two Hearts. I want to be in this great love existing between Them, therefore I go to the heart of Mary and she places me deeply in the Heart of her Son. She dwells most perfectly in His Heart. Look at the mysteries of the rosary. See the Hearts beating in the same body during the Annunciation and the Visitation. See Mary hold that little baby Jesus, the Christ Child, and nurse Him with her milk. Jesus received His physical life through the body of Mary. We receive a sharing in His divine life through Mary, the Mediatrix of all graces, Mother of our Christ-life, most holy Mother of our love. I see this interaction of deepest love all through the rosary. It is in meditating on the love between Them that I am filled with such satisfaction when I dwell in Their Hearts.

At Fatima, Mary told Jacinta that Jesus wants His Heart venerated next to His Mother's heart. We receive the deepest love when we dwell in the two Hearts. Look at Their Hearts in the fourth Joyful Mystery of the rosary, the Presentation in the Temple. Simeon told Mary that a sword too would pierce her heart. From that moment on, Mary knew sufferings were to come. Each time she looked at baby Jesus, she remembered the prophesy of Simeon, and she had a constant ache in her heart. Jesus knew all things. Mary's and Jesus' Hearts were joined in greater union knowing the sufferings to come. Look at the picture of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Look at the faces of Jesus and Mary. They shared the deepest intimacy. Jesus and Mary want us to consecrate our hearts to Their Hearts. This is the message of Fatima: unless a sufficient number of people consecrate their hearts to Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace in the world. All through the rosary we see what deep love really is.

The highest human person unites in deepest union with the Almighty God in His Divinity and humanity. When we unite to these two Hearts, we are caught in love's deep embrace. This is our little heaven on earth-being in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He took me to the inner chamber of His Heart, and there I experienced the all embracing presence of God.

This book is to help us to unite more deeply to the greatest sacrifice there is on this earth this day. This book is to help us to be joined in this one sacrifice all over this world. This book is to help us to live according to the Father's plan as children of God, as one body in Him. As we consecrate our hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, as we dwell within Their Hearts, They live in us in this world today. We are lights to this world. Our hearts are lighted with the power of "…the light of the world…" (Jn. 8:12), Jesus Christ, Son of the living God. When we dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we are plugged in and shine with His burning love. We are caught in love's embrace. The Father looks at this world, and He sees the darkness. His little children consecrated to Mary's and Jesus' Hearts are lights shining in the dark world.

As the Shepherds of Christ Movement moves across the land and more and more of God's children join the fold, more and more hearts will be lighted with the fire of God's love. There will be one flock and one Shepherd. There will be an era of peace in which the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign. The Shepherds of Christ Movement is trying to help renew the Church and the world. It is centered in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We are saturated with grace when we dwell in Their Hearts. We are helping to bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of the Sacred Heart. We want to be deeply united to Jesus' Heart and to Mary's heart as we go ever closer to the Father in the Holy Spirit.

We are as lights on a Christmas tree. If we are plugged in, the whole tree lights up. God has all the power. He is an endless Source of power and light. If each person in this world was as a light on the Christmas tree, if each person was plugged into the Source of power, the Heart of Jesus through Mary's heart, the whole world would shine as the brightest Christmas tree.

The Father looks to this earth and sees much darkness. Darkness has covered the earth. Satan is pressing down on this earth. Satan causes confusion and division in our hearts. He keeps us focused on problems when we could be talking to Jesus. Mary protects us with her motherly love. She guards us, her children. More than any earthly mother, she loves us. We can go to her heart for protection. We must put aside distractions, confusion, and division in our hearts. We come to her heart with a heart that is humble. Satan talks in our mind and causes us to feel upset many times. We must let go.

The way to the light is through Their Hearts. His love burns deeply for us. We must not give into the distractions in our minds.

Go to the tabernacle. Jesus will give us our answers. He is waiting for us to come. We must come and sit in silence and let Him work in our hearts. We will be filled deeply with His life. We must not be filled with fear. We should be filled with hope and joy. We must pray to the Holy Spirit to give us His wisdom to know the will of the Father. Mary is our Mother. She will help us with all our trials and all of our struggles. We must discipline our thoughts and go to the Heart of Jesus. It is through the Eucharist that we will be strengthened for all our trials.

We may have to face many sufferings. We will not be harmed. We are being protected by our heavenly Mother. She spreads her mantle over us. We must surrender and go to Their Hearts. We must be deeply united in Their Hearts. We must meditate on the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit within us. We must pray for the grace to know and love God more. We should pray to the Father, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of the Virgin Mary.

We should pray all through the day and offer all our actions to the Father with our petitions in the morning. It is our job to spread the love of Jesus to the world. The Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign. We should pray for the spread of the devotion to Their two Hearts and consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary everyday.

Our hearts are as the light bulbs on the Christmas tree, ready to be lighted with His light and His love. We will light this world with the fire of Jesus' love burning in our hearts. The earth remains in darkness. Mary spoke to us at Fatima, but many people do not listen to her message given there.

Mary said at Fatima that until a sufficient number of her children are consecrating their hearts to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we will not have peace in the world.

When many lights are lighted on the Christmas tree, the whole tree will appear to be lighted.

The Father wants the whole earth lighted with the fire of God's love. He gave His Son as a sacrifice that we would have eternal life. When many light bulbs are dark, the whole tree looks dark, but the few that are lighted stand out against the darkness.

We must stay rooted in Him. We must plug our hearts into Mary's heart and she will plug us into her Son's Heart. He is the power Source. His power never runs out. His power is never dimmed. Only in Him will the light shine. Mary our Mother, we give you our hearts. Place them in the Heart of your Son that we will be one body in Him, that we will light up the earth. The lights shown as the brightest light, and they covered the earth. The light to this world is the fire of God's love.

The priest needs to feed the people with the love of God. When people come to the Mass and the Sacraments, they are spiritually fed.

The world cries out to be fed. The Church is the body of Christ. Jesus has chosen each priest and anointed him as Christ alive in this world today. The greatest calling is to be called to be a holy priest by Our Lord Himself. How dearly He loves His beloved priests and longs for their love. As He suffered so during His bitter Passion for the lack of love of some of His chosen priests betrothed to Him, He was comforted by His holy priests. Jesus truly loves His sacred priests.

Jesus must live in the priest. The priest's every action must be one with Jesus. He is a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

When a priest is filled with the love of Jesus, He will unite more deeply with Christ in the great sacrifice being offered to the Father. In the holy sacrifice of the Mass, the faithful will see Jesus through the priest offering sacrifice to the Father. We will lift our eyes and we will feel, at this great sacrifice, the presence of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We unite in offering sacrifice to the Father. We all unite as one and give ourselves in such oneness with Jesus, in such love to the Father, in the Holy Spirit. We die to all those things that are not of Him and join in this great miracle taking place. The Father looks down and He sees the sacrifice of His beautiful Son through the consecrated hands of His holy priests. Heaven unites to earth. Earth cries out in such jubilation at the great gift given from the Almighty God, and we unite as creatures giving ourselves as a sacrifice to our beloved Creator. Do we experience the presence of God as His power flows through the hands of a man, the priest who takes ordinary bread and wine and changes them into the Body and Blood of Our Lord? Do we hear Jesus cry out, as He did at the last supper, with the intensity in His voice reflecting all knowledge of the upcoming events of His passion and death?

Do we hear the priest say the words of consecration with the emotion of Jesus, about to give His life for His beloved souls? And the earth stands still. There is, at that moment, the sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present through the hands of the priest. Oh, that God so loved this world to give His only Son as a sacrifice and that God wants us in this deep oneness with Him. I give You myself, my beautiful God, as You so willingly gave Yourself to me on Calvary. I want to die with You.

Love between two persons is mutual giving. It is interaction between two people. It is intimacy. It is dependent on how much we give. We receive intimacy, interaction, according to how much we put into it. God gives His all. We see Him hanging, covered with blood, crowned with thorns, hands and feet pierced. We see His precious heart, font of life and love and mercy, pierced. This is freedom. He shows us the way. We give ourselves. We sacrifice and beg to be made holy, beg to be like Him in this holy sacrifice. The most important aspect of our offering sacrifice is how we are in our heart. Are we one with Jesus, giving ourselves to our beloved Father Who is all worthy of our love? Who are we that God loves us creatures so much that He, Almighty God, becomes present, no less present than the day He walked this earth, through the hands of a man, and we take it so lightly. Think of Jesus calling out. Raise the Host high, beloved priests. This is the Son of God and you have been given the greatest honor on this earth.

God comes to us. He gives Himself to us. Let us see ourselves as one in Him. Let us unite. Let us look at ourselves, all creatures of our beloved God, God, all Holy, all Magnificent, Almighty, all Powerful, and see what He gives us. Let us see ourselves as His creatures and Him as the Creator, and look at ourselves and see how we, and all men, are offending our precious God. As we unite, we beg, beg, with this holy sacrifice of His Son, for mercy. We watch it flow from the Father, in the Holy Spirit, through the font of grace and mercy, the pierced Heart of Jesus, through the heart of Mary, by the hands of the priest, who is one with Jesus, to us. We are so joined in such oneness with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We have given ourselves to Them. It is here, united to Christ in such oneness, that my sacrifice is received by the loving hands of the Father. It is in this oneness that He pours out His grace. We unite through Him, with Him, and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, and we beg for mercy as His creatures who have offended our beloved God. This is our gift to You, our beloved Father. As Vatican II says, in union with the priest, we offer the Son to the Father. We give Him the greatest thanks for this holy and living sacrifice. We unite with the whole Church. We ask to be nourished by His Body and Blood, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and increasingly become one body in Him. We join with Mary and all the saints and constantly plead for help through this sacrifice. Through this sacrifice may we make peace with You and peace for the salvation of the whole world. We pray in love and faith for your pilgrim Church, for the Pope, our bishop and all bishops, all clergy and all people. We ask the Father to hear the prayers of His family and ask Him in mercy and love to unite all children the world over. We ask the Father to take all our brothers and sisters that have died, that were good, into heaven. And we pray that we will have the vision of Your glory, through Christ, Our Lord, and we pray through Him, with Him and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit. All glory and honor is Yours, Almighty Father, forever and ever.

We pray to the Father, with all our hearts and all our love, the 'Our Father.' We say every word. We say with such love, 'Our Father,' we pray that Thy kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven. We want this kingdom here, we are all brothers and sisters and God is Our Father and we want all men doing His will. We ask to be fed both spiritually and physically every day. We beg to be free from evil and have peace. We ask Him to keep us free from sin and anxiety and hope for His coming. We pray that the kingdom and power and the glory are God's now and forever. We give to each other peace and we beg for forgiveness and mercy. We are sinful, but we want mercy. We stand. We should shout out to the Father, "Look how sinful we are!" We beg for mercy for our sins and those of all men.

I experience the action of the Holy Spirit in a special way from the Consecration of the Mass. It fills me with such anticipation to receive Jesus, and I want to be holy. From the Consecration, I give myself to the Father, united in the Holy Spirit, in a special way. Consecrated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, I experience God. I love the Mass so much. The rest of this book that follows are my experiences during Mass, after Communion, and other times. Many are experiences at Holy Cross-Immaculata Catholic Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. For four months straight I experienced special moments with my beloved Jesus there daily.

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