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February 21, 2004
February 22nd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 6 Period I.The Novena Rosary Mysteries for
February 22nd are Glorious
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.
Schedule for February 22, 2004
4:00 a.m. - Mass4:37 a.m. - The Stations of the Cross
4:58 a.m. - Songs from Jesus
5:51 a.m. - The Seven Sorrows
6:05 a.m. - Songs
6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
Rosary7:24 a.m. - Nursing Home #1
8:05 a.m. - Response to God's Love ch.1
9:03 a.m. - Soothing Mary Songs
9:30 a.m. - Mass celebrated by Father Carter
July 5, 200010:20 a.m. - Mysteries of Light October 24, 2002
11:00 a.m. - Sorrowful Rosary January 26, 1995
12:17 p.m. - Songs
12:28 p.m. - Choose Life
1:30 p.m. - Songs to Mary
2:49 p.m. - Sorrowful Rosary Aves
3:20 p.m. - The Stations of the Cross
3:42 p.m. - Songs
4:00 p.m. - Mass
4:37 p.m. - Mary's Message
4:45 p.m. - Consecration
6:17 p.m. - Songs from Jesus
6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
Holy Spirit Novena
Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual7:24 p.m. - Tell My People
8:55 p.m. - Spanish Rosary July 15, 1995
led by Fernando9:43 p.m. - The Stations of the Cross
10:04 p.m. - Retreat Theme and Songs
11:24 p.m. - Newsletter 1999 Issue 4
(God With Us)12:52 a.m. - Live Rosary February 13, 1997
2:15 a.m. - Songs - piano only
3:07 a.m. - Glorious Rosary Aves
3:39 a.m.- Children praying the
Shepherds of Christ prayers3:58 a.m. - Prayer before the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass4:00 a.m. - Mass
The next apostle, associate,
Shepherds of Christ / St. Ignatius Retreat
will be April 12, 2004 (at night)
thru April 16, 2004
Excerpt from January 7, 2004
Messenger:
Hosea
Remember the words to the song, Hosea
"Trees do bend though straight and tall"
Balance
Balance in everything
St. Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises
starts with the discernment of spirits.
In the Reign of the Sacred Heart men will
live according to God's will.
How do we know God's will?
We pray to God, we pray to the Holy Spirit,
we give ourselves purely to God,
abandoning preconceived ideas and
we let God work in our hearts
to reveal His will to us.
If a person is dominated by pride,
If a person is jealous,
If a person is willful, disobeying
their superiors
Their actions after searching themselves
are tainted
They very may will not arrive at a correct
decision inside of themselves what
God's will is for them.
The more we let go of inordinate attachments,
the more we give ourselves to the pure
Hearts of Jesus and Mary
the more we will be accurate in
doing God's will.
A person can be so set in doing what they
want, trying to do a certain thing
they tell themselves they are doing God's will
and in fact it may not be God's will at all,
just their will to do what they want.
A person was told by their superior to do a certain
task. All the time they were at the task they
were thinking of their own pre-given job,
finally instead of doing as they were told,
they found someone else and left the job
given to them.
In their mind they were used to arguing with
superiors to do what they wanted, they
continually justified why what they wanted
to do was right, finally they were so
convinced of doing what they wanted they
didn't even obey, they manipulated others
to free themselves to do their own will.
A person being led by the devil to perform
tasks compulsively against the will of
those in authority can become worse
and worse in their willfulness.
The old forms of convents as when saints
had superiors that directed them for a
common purpose to promote God's Kingdom
may look as if they will soon be
extinct, but Our Lord has told me
these sisters and brothers are a vital
part of serving the Church in some
special ministries and they need to be
renewed.
In a world, as it is today, the devil has tried
to weaken obedience. The devil tempts
children to rise above their parents,
the devil works through media and television
to move people to think obedience to
superiors, those over us, is not too
important.
I love Saint Ignatius Spiritual Exercises
and the discernment of spirits.
The devil is real
The devil is a prowling lion
The devil works in people's mind trying to deceive as
Jesus speaks of in the Blue Books.
What I have seen since I have been in the Movement,
is how secret the devil is
how cunning to deceive
how he works in the mind many times
of those who isolate, when God
has called a person to community
life, the devil may tempt an
individual to live a very private
life concealing things from superiors
and trying to convince themselves
what they are doing is God's will and
they should secretly do it above
their superiors this is not to say
that everything done the superior's
do not know about is wrong.
What makes it wrong is when the
individual uses an institution as a front to
draw people to them and then hides this
involvement with those they have connected
with from the institution conducting an
illicit operation on their own under the
auspicious of the institution.
In the Shepherds of Christ Fr. Carter
discerned ALL communication with priests,
bishops etc. Anyone who writes for Shepherds of Christ
were instructed they were to do so, only after he approved
all communication.
Today I am the one messenger left. We
follow the rules Fr. Carter set down. John, the president
of Shepherds of Christ, always showed Fr. Carter
his letters, Father Carter always discerned them carefully.
Today the main letters we write are
approved by me and then given to a Catholic
priest who discerns the letters. He is
knowledgeable of all the problems,
issues and plan of the Movement and is
contacted daily for conversation and help.
Anyone else contacting priests and
bishops, seminarians for the Shepherds of Christ,
without being designated by John or Rita,
is doing so without authority.
Father Carter believed the discerned materials
were to speak for the Movement.
Because the purity of the Movement is so
important we have maintained this policy
and the information about the Movement is given
in the discerned writings and books of Fr. Carter
and, myself, Rita Ring.
Purity of writing coming from the Shepherds of Christ
is of the greatest importance. All materials,
daily messages, live broadcasts are discerned
by a Catholic priest. Fr. Carter insisted on this.
Any servant and handmaid operating in the
Movement, signing their name ______, handmaid
of the Good Shepherd, ______, servant of the Good
Shepherd, does so because of approval
from those in authority and all writings
must be directed and discerned from the
main leaders and discerned by a priest.
Anyone doing otherwise is violating the
wishes of Fr. Carter and of Jesus.
There are so many discerned materials.
The message of the Shepherds of Christ is in these
discerned messages.
No one is to write freely about the Shepherds of Christ.
We have people answering the phones and speaking
at the Centers who are constantly trained in the
ways of the Movement. We do not operate
"willy-nilly" our Movement and our
ministries are these
directed by Our Lord
overseen by a Catholic priest
MINISTRIES
- PRIMARY MINISTRY - CIRCULATING PRIESTLY NEWSLETTERS TO PRIESTS ALL OVER THE WORLD IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH to promote priestly holiness.
- PRAYER CHAPTERS praying for the priests and the renewal of the Church and the world.
- School Rosary Program and Junior Shepherds of Christ Ministry.
- Nursing Home Ministry.
- Special retreats and adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.
- Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.
- Promoting the rosary to all, rosary meditations.
- Prison Ministry to promote prayer and spiritual renewal.
- Handmaids and Servants of the Good Shepherd.
- Audio/Video Departments (priestly newsletters on tape).
- Prayer books, newsletters, newsletter books, and other spiritual aids.
January 7, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Servants and handmaids and apostles are devoted
to the Shepherds of Christ Movement and limit their activities
to the activities of the Shepherds of Christ Movement.
The discernment of spirits of St. Ignatius
are so important. The devil can tempt people in
prayer. The devil tempts people to be willful
over superiors, the devil tempts people to use
others without their authority.
The devil is cunning, he works in secrecy,
he does not want his activities revealed, the
devil works in some in a noisy way, they
may be argumentative to do their own will
over authority.
In the Reign of the Sacred Heart, people will
know God so deeply in their hearts and be able
to discern His will for them. The more people
are willful, selfish, jealous, prideful,
the more they will make a tainted judgment
of what God's will is for them.
In order to have this great era of peace,
the Age of the Two Hearts, people must see
the light, they must let go of the attachments
that would make them make tainted decisions
about God's will for them.
Ridding oneself of inordinate attachments
is the purpose of the retreats conducted in
China and these writings to help lead the
soul into a most pure way of hearing inside
what God's will is for them.
There will be tremendous harmony, unity,
holiness in the Reign of the Sacred Heart.
We are praying for that purity for ourselves
and for the whole world.
Mary appears, the pure and spotless virgin.
It is purity in the heart, purity of intention
that matters. On the outside we may not see the
willfulness and selfishness, but in the heart
these things are the motive force that
moves people to act.
I write as God directs me in these writings
for the renewal of religious orders and the
purity of the hearts of His people. I write as
a messenger from God.
God has given us the lives of the Saints to follow
but some fail to see who want to perform
willfully the deep elements of obedience to those
over them.
Christ showed us obedience to His Father.
Excerpt from March 17, 1995 Rosary
Jesus: My love is burning and on fire for you. Do you see Me as I hang on the cross with My arms outstretched? I held on to nothing! I totally surrendered to the Will of the Father. I held nothing back. I gave My flesh and My blood. I was born in poverty in a stable and I died on the cross. I came to show you the way so that you might have life and have life to the full. Life is not life if it is not rooted in Me!
January 7, 2004 message continues
Jesus speaks:
I must tell you, that satan is noisy, he wants
disharmony, ...
Think of the water rolling over the rocks
on a beautiful sunny day. There is the glistening
of the sun on the water, almost blinding, but
yet still pleasing to the eye such precision
such awesomeness, such beauty
A violin has strings it can be an
instrument of such beauty, but one whose
strings are loose cannot play a beautiful
tune, nor does one whose strings are too
tight
It is in the adjustment of strings, the type,
the fine tuning of a well trained violinist the
music is played with such beauty
Now I tell you of a man trying to tune
an instrument and over his shoulder is
the evil serpent doing all he can to make
havoc with the strings, coupled with a
prideful, selfish, hateful violinist
What will the sound of the music be?
If My Mother sat at the harp and plucked a
song of love how would it sound
her purity of heart, her love, her selflessness
would be the arm that moved to play
the tune
Oh you look at the actions, you look at the
wrapper, I look at the heart
What motivates a man to act
Does he truly do it for the honor of God and
to promote the Kingdom?
Does he do it for his own vain glory?
Does he do it in secret over those over
him?
Is he using materials that he has taken without
authority?
Has he justified his actions?
Does he do it for affection?
Does he do it for wealth?
Does he do it for recognition?
Does he do it to be the leader over others?
I look into the heart
I know your every intention
The devil acts in secret
The devil will work harder when his perverse
actions are revealed
The devil wants to continue pulling the wool
over well intentioned people's minds
he is cunning, deceptive, he doesn't
sleep, he wants to wear you down
he wants you to be willful, prideful
I can do more with My Might than you
can do in 1,000,000 years
Listen to the song Hosea
Trees do bend though straight and tall
Fr. Carter said
You are to do God's will
don't do too much of a thing
don't do too little
whatever God's will is for you.
end of excerpt from January 7, 2004
Excerpt from January 8, 2004
Jesus speaks:
In the Reign of My Sacred Heart men
will act like pure little docile children
of My Father.
Mary lived to do the will of the Father.
Some will try to manipulate events to
be as they desire, they are willful and
have a world of their own in their
heads.
They can be so self-willed they can
block out community gatherings and
meetings while they willfully block
superiors out and pray inside themselves
to themselves ignoring everything around
them. They have given themselves an agenda
of prayers prayed daily and they really
fail to be part of the community or obey
the rules, they justify what they do by telling
themselves they don't have to listen to superiors,
but need to pray four rosaries. They completely
run their own program and want things
their way.
Grace is granted to those who follow
their superiors, ones who as the song says
can bend, though straight and tall.
I taught you about obedience.
I died on the cross.
I sweat Blood.
I did the will of My Father.
Messenger:
All day we make decisions about what we
will do.
Someone may direct us or help to direct us,
but our will is ours.
The purity of intention is in every
action we perform.
St. Ignatius talks about the 3 classes
of men.
I saw a person in a store ringing out
groceries. They were very present to the whole
situation loving, kind and doing their
job whole-heartedly serving the shopper.
Another checker in the grocery acted angrily
at the shopper, throwing the items being bought
around and never having eye contact with
the shopper.
How would Jesus and Mary serve if God
asked them to have this interaction with
the shopper? How would Mary serve to
do anything if she knew it was God's will.
I have seen some people pray when
we were having an important meeting and
later hurting things because they weren't
listening when the meeting took place.
A young novice must learn to listen and
follow directions. She doesn't ignore the
superior and pray the rosary when
directions are given to her.
Christ obeyed the Father.
He shows us about obedience.
Christ, the Son of God, washed the feet
of His servants.
What an awesome thought that God
the Son of God washes men's feet. St. Peter
said something like wash me all over
why didn't St. Peter just obey what
Jesus said first.
Some people have to have control.
Some use the opportunity of trying to
ask a question when someone is doing
something else surrounded with people.
It reminds me of children asking
their mom a question while she
is on the phone talking to someone
else.
The devil works in willfulness.
The devil wants a person to disobey their
superiors, argue with them, manipulate
things to get their own way.
One thing I have learned through the
messages, God tells me what to do and
I do it then as He has told me.
Another person may try to demand a
schedule which can block the messages
God gives me.
I am a messenger, I am available for
the message. I do not tell God when to
act on my soul and what to give me. He
is the initiator, I am the soul waiting His
favor.
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 January 8, 2004
Excerpt from January 9, 2004
Messenger:
True leaders are out for the good of the
Movement. They know that they do not
do all things perfectly and try with all
their heart to do what they can for
the good of the Movement and to help
save souls.
If there is one leader that resist any correction
and pouts for days at any correction he is,
besides weakening the Movement with
lack of cooperation, future work accomplished,
giving a very bad example to all those
around him.
Jesus gives us many gifts and directions
to accomplish this work at hand. The leaders
are most faithful. This can be measured
by their willingness to continually do what is
best for the Movement. If correction is needed
there is little focus and it does not alter
their behavior afterward in any way at
all. They continue to make decisions for
the good of the Movement for their focus
is to serve God and operate for His
honor and glory.
A person from wounded relationships can
pout for weeks and may never forget
that they were corrected for doing
something incorrectly. They harbor
resentment inside and their work
is majorly affected because they will
not get over being corrected. How can
you deal with someone who is so attached
to wanting their performance to be
spotless and if they do their own thing
when asked to do something else how can
you ever get them to do what you
need done.
First of all they do what they want, their
own way, when asked to do a specific
thing leaving what needed to be done,
done incorrectly,
then when they are told what they did,
they pout for weeks and won't get
over the problem being addressed.
Where St. Ignatius talks about the three
classes of men we see one doing everything
for the honor and glory of God, wanting
what needs to be done and giving their
all to it.
Where one can not be told to do something
without doing it their own way
and then punishing others for weeks
for correcting them the bottom line to
the story is they won't do what you
ask them to do.
A leader that is the class that wants the will
of God, will act with the best interest
of the Movement, two seconds after they
were corrected. They act for the good
of the Movement and to please God
and do His will always.
A person acting above others as a leader,
in this case Jesus, is a go between for
people. Why should they lead with such
behavior.
The purity of intention of the three
classes of men can be seen in this
meditation of St. Ignatius in the
Spiritual Exercises.
end of excerpt from January 9, 2004
Excerpt from January 11, 2004
Messenger:
Today is the Feast of the Baptism of
the Lord
Matthew 3: 13-17
Then Jesus appeared: he came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John. John tried to dissuade him, with the words, It is I who need baptism from you, and yet you come to me! But Jesus replied, Leave it like this for the time being; it is fitting that we should, in this way, do all that uprightness demands. Then John gave in to him.
And when Jesus had been baptised he at once came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And suddenly there was a voice from heaven, This is my Son, the Beloved; my favour rests on him.
Excerpt from January 10, 2004 message
Messenger: We must do these things to be holy
1) Thank God for our gifts
2) Ask for grace to know our sins
and stop sinning.
3) Examine our conscience all through the
day to see how we have acted against
God's will in dealing with others, thoughts
words, actions etc.
4) To ask God for forgiveness for our faults
5) To ask God for help not to sin anymore
Pray the Our Father
Our purpose for living is to love
not for our own vain glory, but
to genuinely love God and others
because God wills it.
We are acting most like God when
we love and live to promote
His Kingdom.
Those who serve falsely for their own power
and glory are not happy when their
little plan is interrupted.
In marriages Father Carter said many married
to get love for themselves rather than
give love.
At the bottom of every action we perform, it
must be to give honor and glory to
God to give God love and to be thankful.
If we operate without love we are a sounding
gong, because God is love and to
be part of a religious organization
we must live to love, not to sacrifice
purity, but to love and do it according
to God's will.
Loving can be hard when someone is
doing things wrong and we need to
correct them for the good of the
family, institution etc.
Love is serving according to God's will
Love is telling the truth
Love is helping to promote God's Kingdom
Love is being wise
Love is thanking God and others and
forgiving
Say the Our Father
If you want Me to forgive you, you must
forgive one another harboring
resentments is poison for your soul.
I want docile hearts
hearts of love
hearts living by God's will.
end of excerpt from January 10, 2004 message
January 11, 2004 message continues
Jesus speaks: Examine
your conscience
daily Say you are sorry for offending
Me and hurting others.
Be truthful to yourself
Pray for grace
Messenger: The Prep prayer of the St. Ignatius exercises
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 2546. PRAYER. In the preparatory prayer I will beg God
our Lord for grace that all my intentions, actions,
and operations may be directed purely to the
praise and service of His Divine Majesty.
January 11, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
The purpose of these exercises
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 1121. SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Which have as their purpose the conquest of self
and the regulation of one's life in such a way that
no decision is made under the influence of any
inordinate attachment
January 11, 2004 message continues
Messenger:
Lets review the First Principle and
Foundation
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
328. RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
II
Further rules for understanding the different movements produced in the soul. They serve for a more accurate discernment of spirits and are more suitable for the second week
329. I. It is characteristic of God and His Angels, when they act upon the soul, to give true happiness and spiritual joy, and to banish all the sadness and disturbance