Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome. |
 |
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.
Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.
Jesus speaks: I GIVE YOU MY MOVEMENT.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.
I ASK YOU TO PRAY the Shepherds of Christ prayers for the priests, Church and the world.
I love you, please, pray for one another and unite in Our Hearts, the perfect Hearts of love.
MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY
AND THE WORLDI _________________ give my heart to
You Jesus and Mary on this day
_________________
I promise to help spread the devotion to
the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
(Hearts diagram coming soon.)
February 17, 2000
Rita, HAPPY 17th!!!
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.
Yeh! Yeh! Yeh!
I'm so excited! A group of 9 of those kids from that school came today! It was so wonderful! It was like a youth retreat! Just for a couple of hours but it was so wonderful! When they first came they didn't look too enthusiastic at all. So they started doing different jobs, then we gathered them up to pray the consecration and the Morning Offering and they were transformed! It was neat. They went to the Rosary Factory and learned a few things, for they already make rosaries and now they're going to send some to us! At 12:00, we did the prayers and prayed the rosary with the children's rosary book. They all read meditations and were singing! And I just begged during the rosary that grace would be outpoured! After the rosary Jane and I talked about the Eucharist and a few things. It's so neat, we went to the table of materials and one girl was pointing to the 2nd Blue Book and said, "I always wondered why Jesus' Heart has thorns around it, now I know because of the rosary we read." And another boy asked for a Blue Book and said, "That's a good book!" It was so heart-warming. They all wanted the materials and kept the rosary books. It was great! Finally, a youth day! I've been begging Jesus to help us with this new endeavor of youth retreats! I can't wait for one more elaborate, longer, at least all day! You just see their hearts transformed before your eyes! Now one of them wants to bring the family!
Thank you for your prayers!
I love you!
Emily, at the Image Building in Clearwater, Florida
Jesus speaks: My men, things will fall apart if all do their own wills.
You have your free will, what do you do with it?
Your focus is not pleasing the people and forgetting authority, you must obey authority.
Authority must walk in God's name and not come for their own name.
I write for religious orders, I write for businesses, I write for families, I write for schools, I write for organizations, I am Jesus Christ, Chief Shepherd of the Flock, I ask you to follow Me.
I am the Good Shepherd.
I write to you of My Church. The priest cannot focus on pleasing the people and forget the authority above him. The Church is My bride, the priest acts in My name. "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
He does not come in his own name, he is there as an authority acting in My name.
To focus on pleasing the people and forget the duty that one has to lead them as a shepherd is not to follow the Good Shepherd.
I will shepherd My flock, they follow Me. The priest does not follow the people's lead, the people should follow the priest, an authority in the Church, the authority in the Church following My lead. I am the Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
John 10:1-6
The good shepherd
'In all truth I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a bandit. He who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gate-keeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out all those that are his, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they do not recognise the voice of strangers.'
Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he was saying to them.
Jesus speaks: In the world today where everyone is to try to make everyone else happy, many times those in authority do not say what they need to say.
The priest must lead as one who delivers the message of the Gospel and teaches men to obey the 10 Commandments. The priest cannot take his directions from the people. He cannot operate only to please the people. He must come in My name.
I am the Authority in My Church.
1 Corinthians 15:20-28
In fact, however, Christ has been raised for the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. As it was by one man that death came, so through one man has come the resurrection of the dead. Just as all die in Adam, so in Christ all will be brought to life; but all of them in their proper order: Christ the first-fruits, and next, at his coming, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he will hand over the kingdom to God the Father, having abolished every principality, every ruling force and power. For he is to be king until he has made his enemies his footstool, and the last of the enemies to be done away with is death, for he has put all things under his feet. But when it is said everything is subjected, this obviously cannot include the One who subjected everything to him. When everything has been subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the One who has subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.
Jesus speaks: Authority is under My feet.
I speak to leaders, whether bishops, mothers and fathers, those in charge of schools, classrooms, religious orders.
A leader is one who walks in My name. My Catholic Institutions must follow Me. It is most difficult when one, it can be a mother, a father, a school principal, a school teacher, anyone in authority, puts himself as the head leader and he does not see himself as always under Me.
He may be the leader, but I am Head of My Church. She is My bride.
Ephesians 5:21-30
The morals of the home
Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subject to their husbands as to the Lord, since, as Christ is head of the Church, and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church is subject to Christ, so should wives be to their husbands, in everything. Husbands should love their wives. just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to make her holy by washing her in cleansing water with a form of words, so that when he took the Church to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless. In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself. A man never hates his own body, but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats the Church, because we are parts of his Body.
Jesus speaks: I am the Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
"For the Lord Yahweh says this: Look, I myself shall take care of my flock and look after it. As a shepherd looks after his flock when he is with his scattered sheep, so shall I look after my sheep. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered on the day of clouds and darkness. I shall bring them back from the peoples where they are; I shall gather them back from the countries and bring them back to their own land. I shall pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the inhabited parts of the country. I shall feed them in good pasturage; the highest mountains of Israel will be their grazing ground. There they will rest in good grazing grounds; they will browse in rich pastures on the mountains of Israel. I myself shall pasture my sheep, I myself shall give them rest -- declares the Lord Yahweh. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the injured and make the sick strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them.
Jesus speaks: There must be that network of power coming from Me.
Have you seen dads and moms that have made themselves dictators, who make everything run according to their rules which are not in My name, but their own names?
Have you seen dads and moms that let the children run the house, the children set the rules by the world's standards?
I give to man a free will. The story in the Garden of Eden tells of the problems with doing your own will over God's.
Immediately you see in Genesis 4, how far that evil streak can go.
Genesis 4:6-7
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.'
Jesus speaks: Cain killed his brother, he took another's life.
This is an extreme where one, because of free will, chooses to actually take the life of another.
This writing in Genesis 4 shows the contrast of one who was "out for himself" and Abel, a keeper of the flocks.
This writing shows how immediately after the Fall of Adam and Eve in Genesis 3, the children were affected. The devil worked in the imperfections in Cain.
I ask you to print the Our Father here. Say it. It is the Child's Prayer to the Father. I give it to you to study and pray.
Our Father
Our Father, Who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. * Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Jesus speaks: I want you to live by this prayer.
"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done."
Oh Father, you say, we want your will "on earth as it is in heaven".
Oh Father, you say, "deliver us from evil".
The fallen children of Adam and Eve.
The devil attacks authority. The devil did not want Eve to obey God. The devil wanted Eve to do her own will.
In the world today, children are being taught to "badger" their parents until they compromise.
Some children are "bossy" and very willful, wanting to be in charge.
The parents are giving in, in many cases, when it will hurt the young children. Parents, many of them, are besides themselves because of the pressure from television and movies and other youth and parents.
My men, it is a sorry state you have. Only prayer as we have told you will help you.
How can you living in the world affect the whole world, if the whole world is veering more and more from the truth?
I give you these prayers to pray for your Church and your world.
My Mother gives you the rosary.
The world must consecrate their hearts to Our two Hearts.
This can be done by the simple prayer:
"I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love."
In saying this your imperfect hearts are more confined to doing God's will.
The Heart of Mary is impeccably pure. She is the New Eve, her Heart is Immaculate.
My Heart is the Heart of a Divine Person.
In giving your hearts to Our two Hearts, your imperfect hearts are more perfected in love.
My men, authority is important.
Working to please people is not the answer. The answer is to love one another and do God's will.
The priest, father, mother, teacher, etc., are the authorities. They are to model their lives after Jesus, Who is the Son of God, and after Mary, who is the only human person conceived without sin. You must follow authority. All authority is under Me.
This is My Movement for the renewal of the Church and the world.
The Lady told you at Fatima to give your hearts to Our two Hearts and pray the rosary.
Mary is the Queen of Peace.
The Lady told you at Fatima you must pray the rosary.
Mary appears here to lead you to My Heart.
I will reign as King and Center of all hearts.
All men must be under My feet.
All power comes from God.
Genesis 1:26-27
God said, 'Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.'
God created man in the image of himself,
in the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.
Q: How do you feel we can make an effort to do these writings to each other and Jesus, daily?
Copyright © 2000 Shepherds of Christ. Shepherds of Christ Ministries
PO Box 193
Morrow, Ohio 45152-0193
Telephone: (toll free) 1-888-211-3041 or (513) 932-4451
FAX: (513) 932-6791