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.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

February 9, 2002

February 10th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 2 Period I.
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for February 10th Sorrowful.

           

    We need the money for the 
   
    
Priestly Newsletter Book II mailing.
      You can use your credit card if you call 
        the Morrow Center. 1-888-211-3041

           


    

  

February 7, 2002

  

To whom it may concern,
  

    We circulate the Priestly Newsletter that goes to 75,000 priests in the world. This has been circulated since 1994 at the direction of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. who had a doctorate in Theology and taught at Xavier University for over thirty years and author of eighteen books on the spiritual life and many other various publications.

    Our primary purpose is to circulate this Newsletter. We are now sending three years of Newsletters in a book of 342 pages to 75,000 priests in the United States and 90 foreign countries. A special Newsletter is enclosed with Father Carter's powerful writing on Grace (2001 issue 1). This writing is also available on tape and on disc.

    Our coequal purpose is to circulate prayer manuals Father Carter compiled for prayer chapters praying for the priests, the Church and
the world.

    All of our printing and postage costs so much money.

    We operate from the Virgin Mary building in Clearwater, Florida, pictures are enclosed. We use the building to spread materials and rosaries
to encourage people to pray for the priests, the Church and the world.

    We also have a church we received from the diocese in China, Indiana where we distribute our materials and pray before the Blessed Sacrament hourly and about two hours or more at 6:20 every day. Monthly adoration before the exposed Eucharist is held for our members for 48 hours on the 12th of each month to the 14th.

    We have a third center in Morrow, Ohio which is our communication center and mailing address.

    We circulate rosaries handmade to Catholic schools all over the United States and meditation sheets and consecration cards. We try to send scapulars too when we have them. We supply many beads to our
rosary makers for this.

    We had difficulty all last summer securing funds for beads for our rosary makers. We were not able to send the 100,000 or more rosaries we usually send in October and May because of funds.

    We need $10,000 every month for the loan on the Virgin Mary building. We pray nightly there usually for about two hours or more at 6:20. We pray all through the day there, hourly, many times before the image. A big prayer meeting is held on the 5th of the month. Prayers are prayed for about
4 hours for the priests, the Church and the world. We broadcast to at least 8 states and all join in the prayers, including Morrow and China.

    We have a nursing home ministry and a prison ministry. We supply coloring books of the rosary mysteries and the Mass to children.

    We desperately need funds for the printing and the rosary making operation and all the postage. Bishops from foreign countries beg for rosaries and prayer sheets with the Shepherds of Christ Prayers.

    Now we are struggling with the monthly rent on the building and the postage for the foreign mailing of the Priestly Newsletter Book II.

    We always need money for the rosary beads for the schools and the Virgin Mary building.

    We also do a Holy Spirit Novena, but the little book has been out of print for some time because of lack of funds. Teachers like to use it for confirmation. We have prayer chapters using it daily all over the world.

    We want to circulate pictures of the crucifix and Mary's image on the building, we are unable to do this because of lack of funds. Enclosed are pictures of the crucifix and the Virgin Mary building.

    A very important part of our Movement is trying to get people to say the Morning Offering. Here is a card we distribute extensively, especially to Nursing Homes and school children.
   

  

  
    Here is a short form of consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary that we circulate extensively.
  

  

   
    Can you help us. It is a real shame to not even have rent on the building Mary appears on.

    We need to tell the world about the Mass. This is another important aspect of our ministry. We have so many writings about the Mass. 
Mass Book I with the Imprimatur—and all Fr. Carter's writings and many other writings discerned by Fr Carter before his death. 

    It is a shame with all the money in the world not to be able to get the rosary beads to the rosary makers for school children who
want them to pray the rosary.

    Our movement is trying to do what Our Lady told us to do at Fatima for peace in the world.

    Can you help us?
  

                            Rita Ring
                            Shepherds of Christ Ministries

  

  


  

February 9, 2002

Messenger:     The world is the way it is.
                        It has influenced our children.

                        Why are not more men being priests?

                        Do the priests realize themselves what a gift
                            the priesthood is.

                        God is God.
                        He is.
                        He is unchangeable.

                        When the world is allowing babies to
                            be murdered in the womb, magazines
                            filled with sexual alluring pictures,
                            all the vices I dare not even mention,
                            the people talk to try to figure out
                            the truth.

                        Some say everyone has their own truth.

                        People on retreat need to focus on the
                            gifts of the Mass and the importance
                            of His Word, the importance of
                            the ten commandments. It should be
                            a time to see the evils in the world
                            and how many are being taught
                            by these evils. They should consider
                            what is true and right and what is not
                            true and not right.

                        I quote from St. Ignatius

  


                   

Excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
 

136. THE FOURTH DAY

        A MEDITATION ON TWO STANDARDS

The one of Christ, our supreme leader and lord,
the other of Lucifer, the deadly enemy of our
human nature

PRAYER.   The usual preparatory prayer.

window at a former Jesuit Seminary

137. FIRST PRELUDE.   This is the history. Here it will be that Christ calls and wants all beneath His standard, and Lucifer, on the other hand, wants all under his.

138. SECOND PRELUDE.   This is a mental representation of the place. It will be here to see a great plain, comprising the whole region about Jerusalem, where the sovereign Commander-in-Chief of all the good is Christ our Lord; and another plain about the region of Babylon, where the chief of the enemy is Lucifer.

139. THIRD PRELUDE.   This is to ask for what I desire. Here it will be to ask for a knowledge of the deceits of the rebel chief and help to guard myself against them; and also to ask for a knowledge of the true life exemplified in the sovereign and true Commander, and the grace to imitate Him.
   

FIRST PART

THE STANDARD OF SATAN

140. FIRST POINT.   Imagine you see the chief of all the enemy in the vast plain about Babylon, seated on a great throne of fire and smoke, his appearance inspiring horror and terror.

141. SECOND POINT.   Consider how he summons innumerable demons, and scatters them, some to one city and some to another, throughout the whole world, so that no province, no place, no state of life, no individual is overlooked.

142. THIRD POINT.   Consider the address he makes to them, how he goads them on to lay snares for men and bind them with chains. First they are to tempt them to covet riches (as Satan himself is accustomed to do in most cases) that they may the more easily attain the empty honors of this world, and then come to overweening pride.

   The first step, then, will be riches, the second honor, the third pride. From these three steps the evil one leads to all other vices.
   

SECOND PART

THE STANDARD OF CHRIST

143.   In a similar way, we are to picture to ourselves the sovereign and true Commander, Christ our Lord.

144. FIRST POINT.   Consider Christ our Lord, standing in a lowly place in a great plain about the region of Jerusalem, His appearance beautiful and attractive.

145. SECOND POINT.   Consider how the Lord of all the world chooses so many persons, apostles, disciples, etc., and sends them throughout the whole world to spread His sacred doctrine among all men, no matter what their state or condition.

146. THIRD POINT.   . . .
   

end of excerpt of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

               


    

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:     What is truth?

  


  

John 14: 6

                                    Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life...

     


    

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:     I see Jesus hanging on the cross and
                            I see what they did to Jesus for
                            speaking the truth.

                        Let's listen to the Prayer of Jesus before
                            he was taken to His bitter passion.

  


   

John 17

The prayer of Jesus

After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:

Father, the hour has come:
glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you;
so that, just as you have given him
   power over all humanity,
he may give eternal life
   to all those you have entrusted to him.
And eternal life is this:
to know you,
the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
I have glorified you on earth
by finishing the work
that you gave me to do.
Now, Father, glorify me
with that glory I had with you
before ever the world existed.
I have revealed your name 
to those whom you took from the world 
   to give me.
They were yours
   and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now at last they have recognised 
that all you have given me
   comes from you
for I have given them 
the teaching you gave to me,
and they have indeed accepted it
and know for certain
   that I came from you,
and have believed
   that it was you who sent me.
It is for them that I pray.
I am not praying for the world
but for those you have given me,
because they belong to you.
All I have is yours
and all you have is mine,
and in them I am glorified.
I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you. 
Holy Father,
keep those you have given me 
   true to your name,
so that they may be one like us.
While I was with them,
I kept those you had given me
   true to your name.
I have watched over them
   and not one is lost
except one who was destined to be lost,
and this was to fulfil the scriptures.
But now I am coming to you
and I say these things in the world
to share my joy with them to the full.
I passed your word on to them,
and the world hated them,
because they belong to the world
no more than I belong to the world.
I am not asking you
to remove them from the world,
but to protect them from the Evil One.
They do not belong to the world
any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world,
I have sent them into the world,
and for their sake I consecrate myself
so that they too
may be consecrated in truth.
I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.
Father, Upright One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known
that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me
may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.

   


    

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:     I want to quote the scripture—

  


    

Sirach 3: 11-14

for a person’s own honour derives from the respect shown to his father, 
    and a mother held in dishonour is a reproach to her children. 
My child, support your father in his old age, 
    do not grieve him during his life. 
Even if his mind should fail, show him sympathy, 
    do not despise him in your health and strength; 
for kindness to a father will not be forgotten 
    but will serve as reparation for your sins.

  


    

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:     Today in the world children are taught by
                            the world to not respect authority,
                            parents etc. Movies are shown where
                            children are obnoxious and where the
                            parents are weak.

                        When I received this message
                            December 19, 1993, it sounded strong
                            to me. 

  


             

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

The World Has Become Evil 

God's Blue Book I CoverDecember 19, 1993

Jesus speaks:  My heart is sad and I am drawn to pain from what the children see. Little, beautiful children watching hate among people, hate on television, brutality, right in their own homes. You live in this world and, even though you don't watch TV, you have been numbed by how truly evil your world has become. To live in this world is to be numbed to evil. It is all around, like a red flag, and what is not being acted out on TV and in movies is in games and toys, comic books, Nintendo, little action figures that depict ugly creatures with hate all over them, deformed and mean. Even the good guys look evil! Toys are evil. Children are playing with evil things. Ugly things-cute, ugly things. No, ugly things entirely! And they are playing with them.

    A child gets a fun meal and gets an ugly action figure. Oh, how lucky! Violence in your hamburger! You just don't even know how evil your world is because you live in it!

    People watch an evil TV and read evil magazines and papers. Acts that are committed by your brothers are so evil that it is almost unbelievable. Murdering an innocent baby so a mother can have her freedom. Why not go in and murder your toddlers because they get in your way? Where does this selfishness stop? Nothing is evil enough for Satan! He aims for the jugular vein.

    If you could even comprehend how evil your world has become! Men's hearts are so hard and their ways reflect the evilness in the world. People are reflecting an evil world. If you go from Me and try to make sense of this world, if you want to be a part of this world, you must become a part of the evil. There is no way you can be of the world and not be sick. The world is really sick. If the world is your main goal-and making it work-you become very sick. There is no way to straddle the fence. You are Godly or worldly. There is a division as distinct as black and white. So how can you in your families experience anything but division right down the middle-those who are for God and those who are in the world!?

    The world is evil. If people choose the world, their lives become evil. They watch bad movies, bad TV in eating places, violent Nintendo games, violence while they eat. It isn't that My children are bad. They are beautiful souls created by God, but they don't want to give up their world. They put it before God, so they reflect the evil they live with minute-by-minute, day-by-day!

    Those who choose Me first can no longer watch TV or go to the movies. They have trouble at their work with people in the world. People in the workplace are just people of the world. The world is evil so they accept evil things. Those of God are shocked! Language that is disrespectful, disrespect for one another, violence, hardness in people's ways, emphasis on a "me first" attitude, a "deceive and use your brother" attitude. These are anything but God-like. They are evil! You, My children, are in a very evil world. To interact with anyone who has chosen the world is to deal with the evils the world has implanted in hearts as okay.

    Your battle is very hard. The division is so deep between those who choose God and those who have chosen the world. They who choose the world are blocking their aching souls, telling themselves lies about what is happening around them to stay fixed to the world. The truth is so distorted in the papers and on TV. What is right is made wrong and what is wrong is made right. Deception, over and over again! Evil wins out as being okay at the movies. In this particular case, evil is okay. The whole movie plays up to the end which is evil, acceptable in this case. Evil is never acceptable. The truth is the truth. I am the way, the truth and the life. He who abides in Me will have the light of life. Woe to those who twist the truth and teach it to others. They are responsible for the souls of those they injure. The promoters of evil and deception will pay for their influences, not only by their deeds but also by their example and the souls they injured through their deception!

    Oh, poor, poor little children, don't get bogged down by your brothers. You know the truth. It is planted in your hearts. Pray constantly and don't ever watch TV or listen to those who boast of their sick ways. Your hearts need to remain pure and fixed on Me. If you do not pray in front of the tabernacle you get bogged down in this world. Have a prayer corner for time alone with Me at home. Pray the rosary together each day to protect your family. It is your umbrella against an evil reign.

    Oh, little ones, I am so close to you. You need to pray to Me constantly. Satan is out to trip you up. He is there and gets you in a split second and you wonder, with your pure hearts, "What hit me?" You know he comes like a thief in the night and without warning attacks, hard and fast, your little hearts. Then he tries to make you feel guilty for what he just did to you! And sometimes, My sweethearts, you listen to him. Cast him out by the precious Body and Blood of Jesus! Keep these words on your lips as your defense and then see Me bloodied from head to toe for love of you.

    Watch your children. If he is this cunning with adults, think how he attacks the young and innocent without a whimper. He hits them hard. They see TV and games and other children who are mean and their innocent minds get distorted views of the truth while they are still tiny babies. An evil world makes evil hearts. It is a sick world. It raises a sick culture which has sick children.

    Oh, what a setup! You have a chance, America. You have Me and I am here with you every day in the Eucharist. I have all the power. Satan does not have My power. He uses people and gets their power. Guard against his ways. You are under attack from the very culture which bore you. You have a chance. You have Me and I have you. With My might, one person fixed to God can lead an army. Never, ever, doubt your commitment to Me. It is a 24-hour, minute-by-minute commitment in this world. You need never to let your commitment to Me down for a split second. I am He Who sustains you in an evil world. You, America, don't know how truly evil your world has become. You are about to be shaken off your rocker. How can such evil continue?

    Prepare the way of the Lord. I will come like a thief in the night and those who stay fixed to their evil ways will be swallowed up. Prepare your hearts for your God. He is all that matters. The world is very, very sick. Don't go to the world to feed your heart. It will swallow it up and you will be heartless. This world is heartless. Oh, little babies, protect your children. Teach them about Me at their first day here. I am all that matters. Other teachings will not save your soul. Your children need to be taught about God. Pray to the Holy Spirit every day. You need to receive all My gifts. He will make your way clear like a snowplow on a winter evening. You will see the road clear ahead, but only by the direction of the Spirit. Pray for His gifts and profess your love to Him. Love My Father and the Holy Spirit. They want you to profess your love to Them. We are three persons in God. Love each of Us!

    We love you so. Know Us all and pray to Mary. You need her strength against the devil. She is ready to battle with you in this evil world. You are in battle. You are under attack. Your supplies are given in front of the tabernacle in quiet moments alone with Me. I give you your arms to fight this evil war. If you do not come, you are going into battle without ammunition. You need your arms. Come to Me and let Me give you your supplies. Your children need your committedness to Me. The world needs every last soul to be holy to fight this battle. It is a heritage you pass on to others when you come and pray with Me.

    You are the light to the darkened night. You are little but mighty because you are powered by God and His light is the brightest light. Be vigilant. Do not put down your guard. You are under fire by a sick world. When you are fired at, it is sudden and abrupt. You are not warned. You are just fired at. Come to Jesus to get your arms. Only He can give you what you need. Oh, how I love you. I love you to My death. I love you with intensity. I am your Savior, your one, true God. Alleluia. You have warded off another attack!

end of December 19, 1993 message

          


  

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:     We cannot do what we want.

                        God is the One in charge.

                        The commandments are given to obey.

                        The Word is given by God to live by.

                        Any teacher that tries to change
                            God's ways to fit the world
                            fails.

                        God is unchangeable. God is. God is
                            Almighty, all powerful, in charge.

                        Look at the teachers of the world—

                            T.V. talk shows
                            media
                            television games
                            newspapers
                            magazines.

                        God is.

                        We have a shortage of priests.

                        The Eucharist is a gift.

                        The Power is in the Eucharist.

                        Where once the seminaries were full
                            of young men, there are very
                            few men becoming priests.

                        There are hardly any sisters.

                        Listen to what John says in the
                            third letter.

  


 

3 JOHN

THE THIRD LETTER OF JOHN

From the Elder: greetings to my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in truth. My dear friend, I hope everything is going happily with you and that you are as well physically as you are spiritually. It was a great joy to me when some brothers came and told of your faithfulness to the truth, and of your life in the truth. It is always my greatest joy to hear that my children are living according to the truth.
      My dear friend, you have done loyal work in helping these brothers, even though they were strangers to you. They are a proof to the whole Church of your love and it would be a kindness if you could help them on their journey as God would approve. It was entirely for the sake of the name that they set out, without depending on the non–believers for anything: it is our duty to welcome people of this sort and contribute our share to their work for the truth.

Beware of the example of Diotrephes

I have written a note for the members of the church, but Diotrephes, who enjoys being in charge of it, refuses to accept us. So if I come, I shall tell everyone how he has behaved, and about the wicked accusations he has been circulating against us. As if that were not enough, he not only refuses to welcome our brothers, but prevents from doing so other people who would have liked to, and expels them from the church. My dear friend, never follow a bad example, but keep following the good one; whoever does what is right is from God, but no one who does what is wrong has ever seen God.

Commendation of Demetrius

Demetrius has been approved by everyone, and indeed by Truth itself. We too will vouch for him and you know that our testimony is true.

Epilogue

There were several things I had to tell you but I would rather not trust them to pen and ink. However, I hope to see you soon and talk to you in person. Peace be with you; greetings from your friends; greet each of our friends by name.

  


     

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:     The Church is so important.

                        Are we taught to treasure the
                            Church?

                        Time is spent on looking at why
                            we are bleeding inside.

                        We bleed inside because people
                            have made other men gods.

                        We bleed inside because of the evils
                            that exist in the world.

                        Some have tried to adapt the basic
                            teachings of the Church to the
                            world—
                        Sometimes the Word has been 
                            interpreted in ways to make 
                            it more like the people.

  


    

Hebrews 10: 16

    No, this is the covenant 
       I will make with them, 
    when those days have come.

the Lord says: 

    In their minds I will plant my Laws 
    writing them on their hearts,

  


    

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:    We can be enveloped in fear over our children and what
                            they may have been taught.

                        Being so filled with grief about the evils in the world,
                        I cried out to the Father who promised me on May 25,
                            1995 that if I asked He would answer my prayer.
                        I cried out to Him.
                        I know God is just.
                        I told Him many of us do all we can to raise our
                            children according to Your way and teach them
                            about You and the Eucharist and then someone
                            can influence them through untruthful thinking—
                            even berating our strong religious teaching.

                        God directed me to open the Blue Book and here was 
                            my answer given to me. So profound and so simple.
                        
                        I realized that God is peace, love and joy, even though
                            we suffer, we maintain that peace, we continue always
                            to love and our hearts are filled with joy because we
                            trust in Him.

                        I know that they crucified Jesus.
                        I know God is almighty.
                        I know God is just.
                        I know God will answer my prayers for the good of
                            the souls.
                        I trust in His goodness and His love for the souls.
                        My intercessory prayer is so very powerful.
                        In the state the world is in and how the devil has
                            influenced so many, I know it is so necessary to pray
                            for the grace needed as Jesus has instructed.

                        Here is the profound letter I opened up to.

 


   

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Happiness Is Not Something You Can Touch

God's Blue Book I Cover

Excerpt from November 11, 1993 
St. Gertrude's After Mass

Jesus speaks:   ...I give you peace and love and joy. I give you lightness and wisdom. I give you a smile for your troubled heart. I give you all things you cannot touch, but which you crave. Clothes, cars, house are all things you touch, but their presence lasts a moment and then you ask, "What do I get next for my happiness."

    Happiness, my daughter, is not something you touch. It is not an item you can buy. It is a spiritual thing in your heart. Your joy, your peace, your love are all things of the spirit. Only I can feed you with the things of the spirit. Only I can feed you with the things of the soul. I created the soul and I make it work. To try to work the spirit with the things of the body is useless. It does no good. I made the soul, I feed the soul. To go elsewhere to feed the soul is useless.

    Come to Me, My little ones. How I love you and want to feed your souls. I want to give you all your hearts crave. I want to fill you with My peace, love and joy. Only I can give these things. Go to the world and they will supply you with objects. These do not feed your soul, your spirit. Come to Me and I feed the spirit. I feed the soul. I give you the greatest love there is-the love of the one, true God.

    Come unto Me, all who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Those things you seek in this world will all pass away. What I give will never pass away. What you carry in your soul goes on with you to eternity. Carry My gifts in your soul and you will soon be with Me in heaven.

end of excerpt from November 11, 1993

    


  

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:    It is in having that deep love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
                            and that realization nothing satisfies us but
                            Our God, serving Him, loving Him, wanting deeper
                            oneness with Him.

God the Father said to me: 

                            What is in your children? How have you taught 
                            your children? I am almighty, I am All Powerful,
                            I outpour My grace when you pray to Me for your
                            children. You must have faith and trust in your God.

Messenger:     Do I trust when I pray that God will answer my
                            prayers when I pray so deeply for the spiritual
                            needs of those I love so deeply?

                        Can I get into the layers of untruth that is permeating
                            our culture as the devil makes greater strides
                            twisting truth and promoting evil?

                        What of the pure, innocent little babies that have
                            the sweetest smiles and the most gentle ways?

                        Do I have to feel I am in control and must rescue
                            all the people I love or after I do what I can
                            do, I rely on His Might and pray for grace?

                        I am His light. I live in the truth. My rudder is found
                            in the ten commandments and His Word. His
                            Spirit lives in me. His truth is in Me.
                            My treasure is found in Him. The Church is a
                            treasure to me. The Eucharist is my life. The
                            priests are precious to me.

 


      

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Cling to Me

God's Blue Book I Cover

May 13, 1993 

Jesus speaks: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993 message

     


    

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:    I would like to give a retreat to priests and young men
                            and tell them about my love I have found in
                            my God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I would
                            like to tell them how powerful the Mass is.
                            That no matter how much headway it seems the
                            devil has made in massacring the truth, the
                            healing power is in the Eucharist.
                            I would like to share what it means to me to
                            have His life in me. To know the presence of
                            the Divine God alive in me. God is.
                            He is unchangeable.
                            The parents were given by God as a gift to raise
                                the child.
                            The commandment is given to honor thy parents.

  


    

Sirach 3: 11-14

for a person’s own honour derives from the respect shown to his father, 
    and a mother held in dishonour is a reproach to her children. 
My child, support your father in his old age, 
    do not grieve him during his life. 
Even if his mind should fail, show him sympathy, 
    do not despise him in your health and strength; 
for kindness to a father will not be forgotten 
    but will serve as reparation for your sins.

  


     

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:    There is a gift God gives to parents and children of the
                            parents—a gift of oneness, for the child
                            comes from the parents.

                        The devil wants to divide. He wants children to feel
                            they must be smarter than their parents.
                            An older person can suffer their whole life
                            because they fail to make peace in their
                            own hearts in their relationship with their
                            parents.

                        A person can have such hatred in their heart
                            because of a sour relationship with
                            their parents that are dead. To have peace 
                            inside we have to forgive and love our parents
                            and stay rooted in God's truth. Sometimes we
                            have to look at how we feel, but we end in
                            deep love, loving our parents and thanking
                            God for them.

                        If we are going to do an inventory with our children,
                            rooting out how their relationship with
                            their parents have affected them, if we feel
                            we have the right to get into the core of the
                            person and deal with that, we better be
                            sure that after we get deep in there we fill
                            them with the truth. We are responsible
                            before God when we try to be wise and point
                            out interior things deep in a person between
                            parents and children. How do we know
                            we are so right? If we see the thinking
                            of the world today, if we judge by the
                            consensus of opinion of a lot of others who
                            were taught by the world—is it the truth?

                        The truth is found in Him.
                        Jesus says "I am the Way; I am Truth and Life."

                        It is power for some to look into another life
                            and try to listen to a person's story and then
                            after they become vulnerable and stripped
                            down to the core, to give them advise from 
                            our thinking. The truth is found in God, in
                            His commandments, in His Word, not in the 
                            consensus of opinion of people in the world.

                        God gave the children their parents. They came 
                            from the body of the mother. God allowed
                            that child to be born from those parents.

                        Children are filled up with all these basic ideas that
                            are poured in first. The child learns so
                            much those first six years of life. That is why
                            it is so important the parent is with them.

                        Then a school can have a retreat and get into the
                            personal insides of the youth and focus on
                            the parents.

                        Maybe this is good, all I say, is anyone coming
                            between a child and their parents when the
                            child isn't even asking for it and then
                            filling them with a new solution better
                            be sure what they say is the truth.

                        The parents have authority over their children.

                        Did you ever see the old uncle that befriends
                            the child and gets them to complain about
                            their parents and then the child can hardly
                            go home and live there. The uncle becomes
                            the best friend and the child is divided
                            with the parents from then on.

                        Intimacy is a strange thing.
                        I was five years old and my mother died.
                        She taught me a lot about God before she died.
                        She was my primary teacher.
                        When she was taken out of my life, I became
                            very interior because my only way of
                            handling it was to become very close
                            to God. It was then I smelled roses
                            in the funeral parlor.
                            I soon had a step-mom to raise me
                            being the youngest of five children. She was
                            very holy and my dad saw we went to
                            daily Mass.

                        I received so much grace from the daily communions,
                            what a gift to give to a child, to take them
                            to God truly present in the Eucharist.
                            When other kids were going to daily Mass
                            and some not going to communion,
                            my dad made sure we went to communion,
                            but I wanted to. I loved the Eucharist then.
                            I received Jesus almost every day of my
                            life except during those years when I
                            was raising my children.
                            All those Holy Communions.

                        It may be good to help youth to look at their 
                            relationships and their life, but it should be 
                            done only as God would want it done.

                        My other thing is this. What we have been
                            taught at home is drilled in us.
                            I know God in my soul. God has outpoured
                            His grace to me to know Him most intimately.

                        Others can influence others through conversation,
                            but the might of God and His grace is
                            most powerful.

                        Mary has promised when we try to lead others
                            to Jesus then she would help us with
                            our children.

                        I guess the bottom line is fear and
                            do we trust God.
                        Do we know how powerful His grace is?

                        That is what the Shepherds of Christ is all about,
                            intercessory prayer.

                        And this Movement is Jesus' movement to teach
                            us how to pray so we are deeply united
                            to Him, living in Him in deep oneness.

                            Jesus has promised special graces from the
                                beginning to Fr. Carter to those who
                                pray these prayers.

  


     

13th Promise

Jesus speaks: "I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- July 31, 1994

     


  

February 9, 2002 message continues

Messenger:    We pray for the priests, the Church and the
                            world.

                        Let's go back to the Blue Book messages.

                        These messages are profound and they can
                            give us an answer from God many
                            times in a few sentences.

                        His word was to me

                                "I give you peace and love and joy."

                        And we can look at that when satan is pressing
                            down and trying to get us to go off and
                            we can say maybe

                                            "oh I want to be worried"
                            or             "oh I want to be mad"
                            or maybe  "I want to be indulgent and
                                                blame it on this problem"

                            and the words stand clear

                                "I give you peace and love and joy."

                        His might is the Might of the Almighty God.
                        He has things under control, even when
                            lots of people may be going off and 
                            influencing our children.

                        He gives us sufficient grace to be saved.
                        We must trust in Him and rely on His might.
                        We must do all we think He wants us to do,
                            but in the end, the answer is peace, love
                            and joy because all we want is Him and
                            want to please Him.

                        We really have to get the proper rest.
                        One night missing sleep can get us off. 
                        But God may call us from our sleep sometimes
                            and give us lots of grace that it doesn't
                            bother us.

                        But we must see that we get the proper rest.
                        Some people think they can go against the
                            basic rules of nature. We must
                            realize, we have bodies and we
                            need sleep. To not realize that is to
                            not face the truth.

                        The devil wants us to be unbalanced.
                            How is our heart. We must love God.
                        If we want God and love Him with all our
                            heart and trust in Him and put our family
                            in His hands, loving Him so deeply and
                            relying on Him, He will help us. Our lives
                            are given to help us get to heaven and to
                            help others to get to heaven.

                            We can have peace, love and joy
                                because we love Him so much
                                and trust in His might——
                                no matter what happens.

                            The devil wants us to be tempted to give up 
                                on God when we are having problems.
                                That is when we need Him the most!!

                            The bottom line is to pray to know
                                the truth, don't blame others
                                for our own anger, but learn
                                to deal with our own hurts and
                                learn to love God and others
                                deeper and deeper.

                            No matter how hard it is we have to
                                keep communicating about the truth—
                                God's truth—because we know satan
                                is communicating and he isn't
                                going to give up and we have
                                a responsibility by baptism to help
                                save souls.

                            And we are Shepherds of Christ
                                praying deeply for the
                                priests, the Church and the
                                world.

   


              

Jiffy Sheet: 108 day Novena beginning February 9, 2002 to May 27, 2002

You will need:          1. This sheet
                                2. Holy Spirit Novena Book
                                3. Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual

I. Begin at 6:20 p.m. by singing, "Come Holy Ghost" (verse 1).

  1. Say, "I want to make a Spiritual Communion."
  2. "I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love." (This will unite us in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.)
  3. Cast out Satan: "We cast Satan into the fires of hell, far from us, our families, our Movement, Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."

Holy Spirit Novena and Rosary Novena Chart

Day: 1 Joyful 2 Sorrowful 3 Glorious 4 Joyful  5 Sorrowful 6 Glorious  7 Joyful 8 Sorrowful 9 Glorious
Period I Feb 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
II 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Period I 27 28 Mar 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
II 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Period I 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
II 26 27 28 29 30 31 Apr 1 2 3
Period I 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
II 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Period I 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
II May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Period I 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
II 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
  1. Pray the Holy Spirit Novena using the Holy Spirit Novena Booklet.
  2. After the novena, read the appropriate meditation. For example: period 1, day 1; period 1, day 2; etc. This will continue until further indicated.
    • It is enormously important that you feel as a body praying together, asking for the special coming of the Holy Spirit.
  3. After the meditation say: "We consecrate the Movement, Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
  4. Ask that the Blood of Jesus be spread on the Movement, Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world.
  5. Begin the 6:30 p.m. prayer service as usual.

II. Begin the 6:30 prayer service

  1. Begin praying:  Dear Father in the name of Your Son Jesus, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of the Virgin Mary, with all the angels and the saints and the souls in purgatory, we join in one mind and one heart and ask the Holy Spirit to come to all the world in a special way, especially to our priests. We pray all prayers for the priests and the renewal of the Church and the world and for the Shepherds of Christ intentions. By the precious Body and Blood of Jesus we cast out Satan far from this place, our families, the Shepherds of Christ Movement, Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world. We ask the Blood of Jesus be spread on us, the Shepherds of Christ Movement, Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, the Church and the world. We beg for grace and mercy for the world and wish to make reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We give our hearts to Jesus and Mary with all gathered here in love. We wish to be forgiven for offending one another. We love You God, help us.
  2. Sing A Song from Jesus.   Refrain:  "I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior.  I am your God, I died for you, I come to you this day."
     
  3. Then begin the prayers of the Good Shepherd (Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual).
  4. Sing The Rosary song   Refrain:  "Oh the rosary, the rosary is the love of Their two Hearts,   Oh the rosary, the rosary is the love of Their two Hearts."
     
          1) Ave Maria, Ave Maria.
          2) Jesus we love You, Mary we love you.
          3) This is her peace plan, Children must pray it.
          4) We turn to Mary, She is the Queen of Peace.
          5) Oh Sacred Heart Divine, Oh Heart of Mary pure, Ave Maria, We love to pray it!
     
  5. Begin the rosary. Please use the Rosary Books and the Rosary Aves.  The important thing is to pray the prayers and the rosary at 6:30 p.m., if possible. (Rosary mysteries need to be according to the Rosary Novena.)
  6. Read the Ten Commandments.
     
    1.   I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.
    2.   You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
    3.   Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
    4.   Honor your father and your mother.
    5.   You shall not kill.
    6.   You shall not commit adultery.
    7.   You shall not steal.
    8.   You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
    9.   You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
    10.   You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
       
  7. Pray A Prayer of Thanksgiving then read the Daily Message for the day.
III. List of Important Feasts - 2002

February
11–Our Lady of Lourdes
13–ASH WEDNESDAY
14–St. Valentine
22–
Chair of St. Peter, Apostle

March
19–St. Joseph
24–PALM SUNDAY

28–Holy Thursday
29–Good Friday
31–EASTER SUNDAY

April
7–DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY
8–ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
11–St. Stanislaus
25–St. Mark, Evangelist
29–St. Catherine of Siena

May
1–St. Joseph the Worker
3–Sts. Philip and James, Apostles
9–ASCENSION
OF THE LORD
14–St. Matthias, Apostle
19–PENTECOST SUNDAY
27–St. Augustine of Canterbury

    


    

      

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