Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

October 1, 2015

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                October 1, 2015 - St. Therese

From the Priestly Newsletter January/February 1995

St. Therese and the Heart of Christ

The following words of St. Therese of Lisieux, contained in a letter to one of her sisters, have an obvious connection with the above act of consecration to the Heart of Christ: “I myself find it very easy to practice perfection, for I know that all one has to do is to take Jesus by His Heart. Even if I had on my conscience every sin it is possible to commit, I should fling myself, my heart broken with sorrow, into the arms of Jesus, for I know He loves the prodigal child who returns to Him.”9

9. J. Beevers, St. Therese, The Little Flower, The Making of a Saint, Tan Publishers, p. 136.

 

Excerpt from Newsletter 1998 - Issue 5

St. Theresa of Lisieux, recently made doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II, has left us these inspiritng words: "Neither do I desire any longer suffering or death, and still I love them both; it is love alone that attracts me, however. I desired them for a long time; I possesed suffering and believed I had touched the shores of heaven, that the little flower would be gathered in the spring time of her life. Now, abandonment alone guides me. I have no other compass! I can no longer ask for anything with fervor except the accomplishment of God's will in my soul without any creature being able to set obstacles in the way." 18

Notes:
18. Story of a Soul, The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, ICS Publications, p.280.

end of excerpt from Newsletter 1998 - Issue 5

   

                Jesus: I am Jesus and I am kind and gentle in Heart.
                I give you life. I give you your talents to use to
                help others, to build My Kingdom.

                    Who is the man who is pompously proud and
                tries to undermine authority to raise himself
                up.

                    Pride is the sin of Eve in the Garden –
 

Matthew 5: 48

...You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.’

 

                Jesus: I am Jesus, I love the little children with
                their pure and simple hearts – God gives you
                children to love. I show you this picture.
 


 

                Jesus: I let you see My tenderness of Heart –
                My Father is loving and tender – the Holy Spirit
                is the Spirit of love – You cannot even understand
                infinite love. I am God, I am All Powerful –
                My Movement, Shepherds of Christ, is given to teach men
                about God, about My love for them, about
                humility and faith and hope and love.

                    You are to recognize I am the gift giver –

                    If you are good, it is because of God's grace –
                you may cooperate with the grace, but the gift
                to be good is given by God who is all good.

                    The more a man gives into the deadly sins:
                pride, lust, anger, jealousy, envy, greed
                gluttony – the more he moves away from
                God – only God can really make a man happy –
                desires of the flesh – pride, anger, lust etc. –
                gives only momentary pleasures –
                sin drives a soul from Me –

                I am meek and tender of heart –

                The man of pride wants dominance for
                dominance sake, he manipulates,
                lies if he needs to – to puff others up
                so they will do what he wants –
                You are accountable before God and
                responsible for your actions –
                You are to grow in holiness – the gifts
                of baptism raise your knowing and
                loving capacity to knowing and loving
                on a supernatural level for the man who
                cooperates with grace given by God for
                them to know and love to be more God-like.

                    Your love is limited – you need God's
                grace to be able to love supernaturally –
                the man who lives to be prideful over
                his brothers is not growing in love
                of God or neighbor.

                    Your gifts were given to you to use
                justly to promote the Kingdom of God – to
                bring those gifts to future generations, not
                for a man to pride himself how he
                is go good – but to give the credit of
                his gifts to God.

                    Tenderness is only known when one
                surrenders to the tenderness of My Heart –
                a man focused on himself, alone, gets
                himself.

                    I have put people in your life to respect
                and work with. God loves you so
                much. You do not even understand My
                infinite love. I give you these writings
                so you will learn about this tender
                love of God, so you will know God's
                infinite love – So you are truthful
                about your imperfections and unloving
                actions and grow more and more in
                My image and likeness.

                    Souls likened to Mine – Surrender to
                the Father's will – they don't give into
                bad habits to challenge authority, hold out
                for power, are not focused on creating
                negative behaviors to rescue and
                be dominant.

                Souls likened to Mine are promoting My
                Kingdom of love, are working with
                others to bring My Message of love
                and prayer to the members of the
                mystical body of Christ.

                    Your focus is to serve God, first,
                to love God more than your selfish pride –

                To pray for the increase of faith, hope and
                love and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

                    I am the Absolute truth, My love
                is never exhausted, My Heart is
                an endless furnace of love.

                    The Holy Spirit brings unity to families,
                churches, gatherings in prayer in
                prayer groups.

                    The evil one tempts those who are
                prideful to cause division and jealousy
                and envy. Love brings happiness –
                The Holy Spirit pours love into the surrendering
                heart and as one gives themselves
                more to God and to Mary, your spiritual
                Mother – you are formed more and more
                in My image and likeness by the Holy Spirit.

                    My love is infinite, beyond anything
                you can measure. These writings are to
                tell you of My love for you. The Shepherds of
                Christ is to tell the world about the love of Our
                Two Hearts.

                    I gave the Blue Book Rosaries and when times
                are tough they can help your life to be
                holy – I give the grace abundantly when
                one or many pray these Rosaries from
                the Hearts of Jesus and Mary in the Rosary books
                and the Blue Books –

                    If a person is a leader in the Shepherds of Christ they
                live by the prayers and the Blue Books –

                They recite the rosaries and use the meditations
                    in the Blue Books Daily and they will soon
                    know more and more love of the Two Hearts.

                You know how I came and showed you,
                I lived the Father's will –
                a person growing in their image and likeness
                to Me is surrendering to the Holy Spirit to help
                them know and live the Father's will –
                They are not manipulative – holding out –
                argumentative against just authority
                to get their own will over the Father's will.
                I came to do the will of My Father –
                I showed you on Calvary, I lived to do My Father's will.

 

John 6: 38

because I have come from heaven,
not to do my own will,
but to do the will of him who sent me.
 

                In the Garden Jesus said

   

Matthew 26: 39-41

And going on a little further he fell on his face and prayed. ‘My Father,’ he said, ‘if it is possible, let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it.’ He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, ‘So you had not the strength to stay awake with me for one hour? Stay awake, and pray not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing enough, but human nature is weak.’

   

                Jesus: I tell you to love the Father's will –
                I tell you to seek the Father's will –
                I tell you – your life depends on your
                    living according to the Father's will!

                Doing the Father's will brings you
                    peace and happiness –

                    I am all good – If you seek to be good
                like your Heavenly Father, who is perfect,
                your life will be centered in the Father's will.
                If you live by the Father's will you will
                be loving. God is love!

                    The love of God and others is not
                in the heart of the prideful, egotistical
                man – who seeks his own glory first –
                ready to sin and be unloving for
                dominance for dominance sake –

                Look at the saints –

                Their desire to love My Father's will and
                    to do what He wanted of them –
                    even to martyrdom.

 


From October 1, 2002

Messenger:             God has blessed us, truly blessed us. He gives
                            us so many blessings in the every day things
                            we do.

                                A mother may be so busy taking care of her
                            children nursing and loving them, but a mother
                            or father whose children are grown and gone may
                            long for ten minutes on a sunny day when
                            the children cried and just wanted to be held.

                                There are so many tender moments of holding
                            a new born baby, but it may demand tremendous
                            sacrifice on the part of the mom and dad when
                            the babies are so young. But oh, to look at the movies
                            of the little baby long after they are gone brings
                            back memories.

  

  

   

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:             Children may cry, two at a time and demand
                            so much time and attention, but they go from
                            little dependent babies to young very independent
                            adults.

                                (They grow up in a hurry and many are gone with 
                            very little time for mom and dad.)

                                There are so many very special gifts Our Lord
                            gives to us.

                                Our life may seem very difficult at times, but in
                            the most difficult times we may have very dear
                            memories of how God blessed us in the struggle.

  

     

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:             We may think we are the only one enduring hard
                            ship and then at a parish picnic we can go from
                            one person to another that is experiencing deep
                            pain and suffering.

                                I remember all the trips to China with Fr. Carter —

    

way to China

    

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         sometimes there were so many problems
                            just in running the Movement and
                            dealing with people and problems and I
                            discussed everything with him. John and Father
                            and I worked very closely together making all the
                            decisions of the Shepherds of Christ.

                                When Father Carter said — "It is a sunny day",
                            that whole last year on the rides to China — I never
                            dreamt those days with him on the way to China
                            would soon end, but they seemed to end so quickly
                            for me.

  

   

                                His guidance was always there and he would say
                            I am not going to be around forever and you and
                            John are going to be running the Movement.

                                Our Lord helped the transition very easily to
                            give us another priest to help us. Jesus picked him
                            long ago. He told me to ask him to say Mass on
                            September 15, 2000 for all of us — the Feast of the
                            Sorrowful Mother. Then September 22, 2000
                            Fr. Carter found out he only had about 3 months
                            to live.

                                When I look back over the times of trial and
                            struggle I see many blessings God gave me, but
                            because of my own self I did not enjoy some
                            of those precious moments as I could have.

    

   

                                How would it be to have 10 minutes on a sunny
                            day with the one we loved husband, wife, child, 
                            father, mother, close friend who has departed 
                            or with the little children that are now grown
                            and gone.

  

  

   

                                I watched a little child today outside the restaurant,
                            jumpy, full of energy, longing for love of their
                            mom or dad and I watched an old lady walk so
                            slow down the steps from the restaurant holding on
                            like she could hardly move with a cane and
                            clutching the banister in the other hand.

  

                                Sunrise --
   

    
                                Sunset
  

                                

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         I think it is most fitting Fr. Carter's life slowed
                            down in the autumn and the night he died
                            when we arrived at Columbiere it began to snow.
                            By morning a white blanket very deep had
                            covered the earth.

    

    

  

  

  

  

    

Mary speaks:  I am Our Lady of Snows. I come to cover the earth with a soft white blanket of my love.

I come to bring peace to the earth. I tell you to let go of the anxiety in your heart and experience my peace and His love.

I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.     - January 2, 1999

  

  

  

      

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         It was so quiet and so beautiful and I felt I had
                            been "sucked up" closer to heaven than ever before.
                            My heart still aches for I long for the gentleness
                            and wisdom of our most holy founder, but God
                            has endowed us with very special help and 
                            guidance and after Fr. Carter's death I first saw
                            Jesus' image on the window — I felt very strongly —
                            Fr. Carter was helping us in heaven and Jesus
                            was saying "I am running My Movement."

  

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October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         We have had very good help from Catholic
                                priests and one in particular that
                                really helps us.

   

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-11

Death

There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven: 

A time for giving birth, 
a time for dying; 
a time for planting, 
a time for uprooting what has been planted. 
A time for killing, 
a time for healing; 
a time for knocking down, 
a time for building. 
A time for tears, 
a time for laughter; 
a time for mourning, 
a time for dancing. 
A time for throwing stones away, 
a time for gathering them; 
a time for embracing, 
a time to refrain from embracing. 
A time for searching, 
a time for losing; 
a time for keeping, 
a time for discarding. 
A time for tearing, 
a time for sewing; 
a time for keeping silent, 
a time for speaking. 
A time for loving, 
a time for hating; 
a time for war, 
a time for peace. 

    What do people gain from the efforts they make? I contemplate the task that God gives humanity to labour at. All that he does is apt for its time; but although he has given us an awareness of the passage of time, we can grasp neither the beginning nor the end of what God does.

          

      

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Here is the quote I love from Cardinal Bernardin
                                from the Newsletter.

    

Excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    Shortly before he was to die from cancer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin left us these inspiring words about peace: "It is the first day of November, and fall is giving way to winter. Soon the trees will lose the vibrant colors of their leaves and snow will cover the ground. The earth will shut down, and people will race to and from their destinations bundled up for warmth. Chicago winters are harsh. It is a time of dying.

    "But we know that spring will soon come with all its new life and wonder.

    "It is quite clear that I will not be alive in the spring. But I will soon experience new life in a different way...

    "What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have foundGod's special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is non-essential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord."
3


Notes:

3. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, Loyola University Press, pp. 151-153.
    

end of excerpt from Priestly Newsletter 1998 - ISSUE FOUR

    

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Oh there are so many blessings in each day.

                            So many beautiful gifts

                                The eyes of the children

                                The soft skin of the little tiny baby

                                The beautiful sights of nature —

  

  

  

  

  

     

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         Oh there are gifts given —

                                gifts given in each other —

                            Every day may be very difficult and yet in the
                                suffering it may be like the pearl
                                in the oyster.

     

Death

Resurrection

   

October 1, 2002 message continues

Messenger:         In the death — there is the resurrection

                            Sunrise
  


  

                            Sunset


                            Little seedlings —

  

Mary speaks:      There is the softness of the velvety sea

                             when one gazes upon the water —

                             There is the grass that may appear

                                greener on the other side.

                            Do you know about St. Therese,

                                She is the Little Flower

    

     

October 1, 2002 message continues

Mary speaks:         She never was married nor bore

                                    babies, but her holiness

                                    has affected souls for so

                                    much time.

                            A sister in the religious life has

                                many children.

                            Jesus called St. Therese to special

                                intimacy with Him.

                                She taught many about loving Jesus

                                    through her intimate love for Him.

  

Excerpt from Newsletter 1998 - Issue 5

St. Theresa of Lisieux, recently made doctor of the Church by Pope John Paul II, has left us these inspiritng words: "Neither do I desire any longer suffering or death, and still I love them both; it is love alone that attracts me, however. I desired them for a long time; I possesed suffering and believed I had touched the shores of heaven, that the little flower would be gathered in the spring time of her life. Now, abandonment alone guides me. I have no other compass! I can no longer ask for anything with fervor except the accomplishment of God's will in my soul without any creature being able to set obstacles in the way." 18

Notes:
18. Story of a Soul, The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, ICS Publications, p.280.

end of excerpt from Newsletter 1998 - Issue 5

  

October 1, 2002 message continues

Mary speaks:     You may feel you struggle every day trying to
                                bring forth fruit for the Kingdom, but
                                in your heart must be joy for — what
                                else would satisfy your hungry soul
                                but that love you have for Jesus?

                            Having kissed a beautiful flower, one
                                may know the tenderness of
                                love and yet one may not be
                                permitted to live their days on
                                earth in that same capacity
                                they once knew.

                            Oh that you would accept God's
                                will for you.

                            Oh that you would realize your
                                life must be lived for Him.

                            Sunrise, Sunset, Autumn, Winter

   

Fall leaves

  

White beautiful snows

  

Oh the beauty of the sunny days of summer

  

The budding of the trees in spring

   

  

October 1, 2002 message continues

Mary speaks:     Oh sweet children,

                                Your Father has blessed you, you do
                            not look for the blessings many times, you
                            complain and do not pray as you should.
                            Oh my children, enjoy your blessings today
                                and thank your heavenly Father.

  

  

                            LIVE IN THE MOMENT!!

                            Oh my children, God gives you so

                                very much.

Jesus speaks:         You must have the pictures of My Sacred
                            Heart and Mary's Immaculate Heart
                            in the store. Tell all to have Our pictures
                            (images) in their homes.

   

    

  

                                                

                               I love you

                               I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus

 

 

 

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                    Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
               
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                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple
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