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Today's Readings
Acts 9: 31-42
The churches throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building themselves up and living in the fear of the Lord; encouraged by the Holy Spirit, they continued to grow.
It happened that Peter visited one place after another and eventually came to God's holy people living down in Lydda. There he found a man called Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years. Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you: get up and make your bed.' Aeneas got up immediately; everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they were converted to the Lord.
At Jaffa there was a disciple called Tabitha, or in Greek, Dorcas, who never tired of doing good or giving to those in need. But it happened that at this time she became ill and died, and they washed her and laid her out in an upper room. Lydda is not far from Jaffa, so when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to urge him, 'Come to us without delay.'
Peter went back with them immediately, and on his arrival they took him to the upper room, where all the widows stood round him in tears, showing him tunics and other clothes Dorcas had made when she was with them. Peter sent everyone out of the room and knelt down and prayed. Then he turned to the dead woman and said, 'Tabitha, stand up.' She opened her eyes, looked at Peter and sat up. Peter helped her to her feet, then he called in the members of the congregation and widows and showed them she was alive. The whole of Jaffa heard about it and many believed in the Lord.
Psalm 116: 12-13, 14-15, 16-17
What return can I make to Yahweh
for his generosity to me?
I shall take up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of Yahweh.I shall fulfill my vows to Yahweh,
witnessed by all his people.Costly in Yahweh's sight
is the death of his faithful.
I beg you, Yahweh! I am your servant,
I am your servant and my mother was your servant;
you have undone my fetters.
I shall offer you a
sacrifice of thanksgiving
and call on the name of Yahweh.
John 6: 60-69
After hearing it, many of his followers said, 'This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?' Jesus was aware that his followers were complaining about it and said, 'Does this disturb you? What if you should see the Son of man ascend to where he was before?
'It is the spirit that gives life,
the flesh has nothing to offer.
The words I have spoken to you are spirit
and they are life.'But there are some of you who do not believe.' For Jesus knew from the outset who did not believe and who was to betray him. He went on, 'This is why I told you that no one could come to me except by the gift of the Father.' After this, many of his disciples went away and accompanied him no more.
Then Jesus said to the Twelve, 'What about you, do you want to go away too?' Simon Peter answered, 'Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the message of eternal life, and we believe; we have come to know that you are the Holy One of God.'
R. We see God is a God of miracles. It is
ordinary for God to perform miracles. God
used these men to perform miracles in
His name. But we see in the scriptures
that to act in God's name and have
miracles happen, there must be faith.
Jesus said that. They asked once why they
couldn't perform the miracles – Jesus
told them they must have faith.
We can see the image of Our Lady of Clearwater
on the building. Many come to see it, but
many did not want to change their lives.
There was a movie and a man came
who needed food and work – he went first
to the Church and the pastor turned him
away, then he went to a business man and
he was almost thrown out. After the Sunday
homily – the man entered the Church and
came down the middle isle. The pastor
had just talked on following in the footsteps
of Jesus. The man spoke and said "No one
would help me." With that he fell to the
ground and died. The pastor next Sunday
wanted to have a pledge with everybody
who was willing to live a whole year and
ask yourself before you act "What would
Jesus do?" Eventually the pastor was fired
and those who were living a "new life" suffered
from the rejection of the people in the Church.
The Church had settled in – being a community
which did what the people felt comfortable
with – the deacons fired the pastor for being
more like Jesus.
We can do this – in Churches, in schools,
in our homes and communities – try to
make communities, homes, make us feel
comfortable and be dysfunctional – not
really doing God's will – growing to be
more and more like Jesus. If someone
comes and points out what is more
like Jesus, we can throw them out and
try to force our ways, our dysfunctions
on them so we are comfortable and don't
need to change.
To be like Jesus we must look at Jesus,
and pray for grace from the Holy Spirit to help
us to do the Father's will and grow
more in the image of God.
Take years and years of people
wanting not to change and trying
to mold things so they can have it
their way and things can get more
and more out of line.
God has given us the Commandments,
the Church, the Word. This is how we
know the truth. We need to pray for
the priests, the Church and the world
to be more and more in the image
of Jesus. The Church and the world
and the individual Christian are a
Pilgrim Church and a Pilgrim
world – we are in the state of
becoming more and more Christic.
It is about change. The Pascal
Mystery is about death/resurrection.
Dying to our ways not like Jesus and
rising in our ways like Jesus.
We hear the scripture –
...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.
R. Mary said at Fatima we need to
pray for conversion.
Yesterday I talked about Noah –
we see that the men had become
corrupt and Jesus used Noah to
build the Ark, but Noah had to
do what God wanted and Noah had faith –
Even if people persecuted Noah or
laughed at him.
It is kind of like the 3 pigs – they knew
they had to prepare for the dangerous
wolf –
but 2 pigs played around – one built
a house of straw, another a house
of sticks and the wolf blew their houses
in –
only the pig that didn't play around,
but built a house of bricks had
a place to withstand the attacks of
the wolf –
We know we must change our ways –
not give into a weak will, the deadly
sins, live to be more one with God –
We are pilgrims on a journey – We need
to have a strong will – we need to be
strong and God gives us baptism –
we receive a sharing in Divine Life in
baptism, but we must work hard and
go to God – pray for an increase in the
infused virtues of faith, hope and love we
received in baptism. We pray to the Holy Spirit
for the increase in the other virtues
and for grace to live by them and
we pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We have been told by Jesus to
Consecrate our hearts to Jesus and Mary,
but we are dying to the ways not
like Christ – to be more and more
likened to Christ –
We have not arrived in the spiritual
life – we are changing to be more like
Jesus until our death – we are to be
growing in greater holiness every
day – more and more like Jesus.
This is our calling.
We see in baptism we are commissioned
to go out and spread the Good News.
Jesus got me up yesterday 3:30 or 4:00
to give yesterday's message –
Would people follow Jesus by watching
how we witness to God in loving
others and working with those Jesus
asked us to work with in love –
Are we witnessing to Christ – that
people would follow us and we
could grow more and more like Jesus –
as individuals, as communities,
in families, in Churches and in
the world?
Are we a light to the nations –
showing faith – how we believe in
God with our whole heart, our whole
soul, our whole being – or do we
talk about God and then do what
is comfortable for us – living our
will and our dysfunction –
Are we disciples – learners, listening
and seeing ourselves 'under' God and
wanting to change to please God because
we love Him.
We can live our whole life trying to
change the whole world and everybody
around us to accept our selfish
ways, our prideful ways – living
like Eve in the Garden who wanted
God to do what she wanted – put up
with her eating the forbidden fruit!
God is unchanging – God has
called us to be prepared, to be converted –
We are pilgrims on a journey trying
to be more and more in the image of God,
helping to shape the world more in
this image by spreading the Good News
of Jesus.
We are to look to God, our eternal salvation
why we act – look up – not decide we
want and then try to make others put
up with our pride and deadly sins
so we don't have to change –
We are on a journey to grow in
greater holiness, we are pilgrims on
a journey –
God is with us. Jesus gives us
Himself in the Eucharist – we
are living to serve God – to love
God – to live more and more in the
image and likeness of God – this takes
the Holy Spirit – this takes grace – this
takes docility – this takes love –
From the Priestly Newsletter Book III by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
The Holy Spirit And Mary
The late Archbishop Luis M. Martinez of Mexico strikingly speaks of the ongoing cooperation of Mary with the Holy Spirit regarding the reproduction of Jesus within us: "Christian life is the reproduction of Jesus in souls…
"Now, how will this mystical reproduction be brought about in souls? In the same way in which Jesus was brought into the world, for God gives a wonderful mark of unity to all His works. Divine acts have a wealth of variety because they are the work of omnipotence; nevertheless, a most perfect unity always shines forth from them because they are the fruit of wisdom; and this divine contrast of unity and variety stamps the works of God with sublime and unutterable beauty.
"In His miraculous birth, Jesus was the fruit of heaven and earth…The Holy Spirit conveyed the divine fruitfulness of the Father to Mary, and the virginal soil brought forth in an ineffable manner our most loving Savior, the divine Seed, as the prophets called Him…
"That is the way He is reproduced in souls. He is always the fruit of heaven and earth.
"Two artisans must concur in the work that is at once God’s masterpiece and humanity’s supreme product: the Holy Spirit and the most holy Virgin Mary. Two sanctifiers are necessary to souls, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, for they are the only ones who can reproduce Christ.
"Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary sanctify us in different ways. The first is the Sanctifier by essence; because He is God, who is infinite sanctity; because He is the personal Love that completes, so to speak, the sanctity of God, consummating His life and His unity, and it belongs to Him to communicate to souls the mystery of that sanctity. The Virgin Mary, for her part, is the co-operator, the indispensable instrument in and by God’s design. From Mary’s maternal relation to the human body of Christ is derived her relation to His Mystical Body which is being formed through all the centuries until the end of time, when it will be lifted up to the heavens, beautiful, splendid, complete, and glorious.
"These two, then, the Holy Spirit and Mary, are the indispensable artificers of Jesus, the indispensable sanctifiers of souls. Any saint in heaven can co-operate in the sanctification of a soul, but his co-operation is not necessary, not profound, not constant: while the co-operation of these two artisans of Jesus of whom we have just been speaking is so necessary that without it souls are not sanctified (and this by the actual design of Providence), and so intimate that it reaches to the very depths of our soul. For the Holy Spirit pours charity into our heart, makes a habitation of our soul, and directs our spiritual life by means of His gifts. The Virgin Mary has the efficacious influence of Mediatrix in the most profound and delicate operations of grace in our souls. And, finally, the action of the Holy Spirit and the co-operation of the most holy Virgin Mary are constant; without them, not one single character of Jesus would be traced on our souls, no virtue grow, no gift be developed, no grace increased, no bond of union with God be strengthened in the rich flowering of the spiritual life. mm
"Such is the place that the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary have in the order of sanctification. Therefore, Christian piety should put these two artisans of Christ in their true place, making devotion to them something necessary, profound, and constant." 18
18. Archbishop Luis M. Martinez, The Sanctifier, op. cit. pp. 5-7.
From Tell My People by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.
Jesus: "My beloved friend, tell My people to pray daily to the Holy Spirit. They are to pray for an increase in His gifts. My people must realize that the Holy Spirit comes to transform them. The Spirit desires to transform you more and more according to My image. Those who are docile to His touch become increasingly shaped in My likeness. He performs this marvel within Mary's Immaculate Heart. The more one dwells in My Mother's Heart, the more active are the workings of the Spirit. The Spirit leads Mary to place you within My own Heart. In both Our Hearts, then, your transformation continues. The more you are formed after My own Heart, the more I lead you to the bosom of My Father. Tell My people all this. Tell them to pray daily for a greater appreciation of these wondrous gifts. I am Lord and Master. All who come to My Heart will be on fire to receive the gifts of the Spirit in ever greater measure! I love and bless My people!"
Reflection: The Holy Spirit is given to us to fashion us ever more according to the likeness of Jesus. And the more we are like Jesus, the more Jesus leads us to the Father. Do we, each day, pray to the Holy Spirit to be more open to His transforming influence? Do we strive each day to grow in union with Mary? The greater our union with our Mother, the spouse of the Holy Spirit, the greater is the transforming action of the Holy Spirit within us.
end of excerpt
R. We see with distorted vision
because of original sin. We see
God and others and ourselves
distortedly. We want to see through
the eyes of God. This takes the Holy Spirit.
Seeing through the eyes of God is
living in faith – We want the
Father's will – We need the gifts of
the Holy Spirit –
We hope for our eternal salvation
for ourselves and for others. We
pray for an increase in faith, hope and love.
We are commissioned in baptism to
spread the Good News. We see the witness
of Peter and Paul and those in Acts in
the Church as it grew. They were
driven by the fire of God's love –
They had the Holy Spirit working in them –
There was growth –
They were one in Christ – They were
full of faith to work the miracles
in today's readings.
Do you remember the 4th of July –
when I was young we had some
fire crackers and we had a
big driveway and we could set
them off there. Some fire crackers
were "duds" and some went way
high and were so beautiful and
everybody saw them and enjoyed
them.
God wants to set our hearts on
fire with His love. So we are lights
before men. The Second Blue Book
really tells us –
A city set on a hill will shine
its light to the world.
We can be duds – with our
self-will and what we want to get out
of Jesus' Movement Shepherds of Christ –
it's like pouring water on the fire crackers –
Or we can learn and listen. Fr. Carter said
the whole second Blue Book was on surrender
and Fr. Carter loved it. We must surrender
and let God run the show. We can
spend 20 years trying to regulate people
to be like us and that will be like
putting water on fire - crackers.
It takes faith – look at the
beautiful sunset
and sunrise – look at the magnificent
oceans and the high mountains –
See Jesus taught from the mountain –
Luke 6: 20-23
Then fixing his eyes on his disciples he said:
How blessed are you who are poor:
the kingdom of God is yours.
Blessed are you who are hungry now:
you shall have your fill.
Blessed are you who are weeping now:
you shall laugh.‘Blessed are you when people hate you, drive you out, abuse you, denounce your name as criminal, on account of the Son of man. Rejoice when that day comes and dance for joy, look!—your reward will be great in heaven. This was the way their ancestors treated the prophets.
R. When we live a virtuous life and have
the gifts of the Holy Spirit, we grow more and
more in the image of God and
we have the fruits of the Holy Spirit –
Galatians 5: 22-23
On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self–control; no law can touch such things as these.
Matthew 5: 3-12
How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.
R. To grow, to prosper – we must
have love! We turn to God to grow –
not live in fear and trembling and
try to mold everything like ourselves,
the bad example of generations past,
the way the people of the world are
deteriorating away from God.
The members of the body of Christ
should be growing to be more and
more Christic and through their
example lifting up the people
of the world – so they want to
have the light the members of
the mystical body of Christ have.
We are to witness and help the
world to grow more and more in
the image of God.
If the members of the mystical
body of Christ aren't growing
themselves, they won't be
witnessing to the world –
God is love – Do people know
about the love of God from
watching us?
God has called us. We are to
respond to God's love for us.
We are to live in love.
Mary shows us. The incarnation
goes on in us. We are to be more
Christic, not more like the dysfunctions
and darkness of the past.
We are to be growing in God's Plan.
We are to be surrendering, not
willful.
We are to live our lives following
Jesus and the Father's Plan
for us –
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell
in the graced, baptized soul.
It is about presence.
Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul
Song: God's Love
R. We are to be Easter People –
We are to be people, living and
going out to others – witnessing
and spreading the Good News of
God's Love –
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
April 16, 2016
R. Dear Father,
We offer You all we do all day –
all our prayers, works, joys and
sufferings, united to Jesus in the Mass,
in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful
intercession of Our Lady of Clearwater.
What a gift to unite with Jesus in
our days, so little compared to what
Jesus did for us. Does it matter if
God asks us to carry a pebble or
a boulder. If we love someone we
do what He asks us to do. God asks
us for a little and how do we
respond to Him asking us for putting
Him first.
The devil tells people to oppose
God's will, think about themselves
and God can be calling them to do
things that may be difficult, but
He will give us the grace and help
when He does, that if we keep
God where He belongs, first in
our life.
The wise person keeps things in
order. God is first in our life –
When we put ourselves first
we have conflict inside ourselves
and we can blame everybody
else when we are the ones making our
own conflict by our bad habits of
not working in love for God.
God calls – God calls us to our
vocation – God calls us to work in
love with those He calls us to
work with –
Out of order is out of order –
We can live our whole life with
conflicts in ourselves because we
put ourselves first in our lives,
or isolate ourselves –
When we see Jesus on the Cross –
we see His example given to us.
How Jesus, the Son of God, died
doing the Father's will.
Could people say we are following
in God's footprints by how
we act?
Are we witnessing before others
so people see Jesus in our
works and want what we
have?
Jesus: I am the way, the truth and the
life. What good does it do you
to win your control and lose your soul.
You are here to learn –
You are here to obey the Father's Plan –
Putting yourself before Me –
is out of order –
and you have conflict inside
of you.
I am Jesus –
I have blessed you so much –
I would like it if you were
grateful and tried to
spread My Message and
My love and My light –
God the Father sent
Our Lady of Clearwater –
How did you change after
all Mary gave to you –
Mary came as a messenger
from God the Father –
Did you listen and
help spread the message
and love to her children –
I am Jesus – You have one
life to live – One day today –
God is first! You are pilgrims
on a journey.
R. Jesus ascended into heaven. We are
always to be prepared – constant
vigilance, always ready to meet
the Lord.
My sister had a knee operation –
she said it was very painful – I
look at the people that suffer
sometimes the most – that bear
witness to how good God is to
them. I have watched Dan and
Melanie and how they weathered
the suffering of his sickness and
he has gotten good reports.
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We need constant vigilance. We
never know the time or the place –
Many Cardinals from around the
world write to us and thank us
for our prayers and what we do.
Nobody can tell us what to do –
We have a free will. Jesus says
when we are selfish and do our
will over His, we have conflict
in us and it isn't anybody's
fault we blame.
We are here and we are to
work in order. God is first
and we will have sufferings
and disappointments, but it
is how we live to answer God
and serve Him and we are to
be prepared, accountable for our
actions and responsible for the effects.
We are to ask God to forgive us and
forgive others.
In the St. Ignatius exercises the
First Principle and Foundation is this –
From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius,
by Louis J. Puhl, S.J. p. 12
23. FIRST PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God
our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.
R. The Purpose is this –
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
R. The message of the Apocalypse the
last book of the bible is
hopeful –
We see how John suffered
in imprisonment at Patmos
and how positive He was –
how God used him to write
the book of Revelation –
It tells us about the Era of Peace,
of God's Reign –
The Jews were suffering for they
tried to get them to give up
their religion –
sufferings were unsurpassed –
John and others remained faithful
to God even in such suffering.
We are to be prepared to meet our
Maker always –
Remember the scripture of the
foolish virgins –
Matthew 25: 1-13
‘Then the kingdom of Heaven will be like this: Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil with them, whereas the sensible ones took flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, "Look! The bridegroom! Go out and meet him." Then all those wedding attendants woke up and trimmed their lamps, and the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, "Give us some of your oil: our lamps are going out." But they replied, "There may not be enough for us and for you; you had better go to those who sell it and buy some for yourselves." They had gone off to buy it when the bridegroom arrived. Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other attendants arrived later. "Lord, Lord," they said, "open the door for us." But he replied, "In truth I tell you, I do not know you." So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.
From Fr. Joe's Homily Book
Response to God’s Love and Response in Christ.98th Anniversary of Fatima
October 13, 2015My dear priests, hierarchy and members of the mystical body of Christ,
I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.
Fr. Carter our founder wrote two very important books
The following thoughts are inspired by these two books.
God first loved us.
We receive a sharing in Divine Life in baptism – our knowing and loving capacity is elevated.
We are human creatures and yet we see God’s loving self-communication to us with our concomitant response to Him in love.
Man rejected this self-communication of God in original sin.
God on His part communicates His own life through grace and man in return gives himself to God and his fellowman in loving service.
We can respond to this marvelous gift God gives to us as members of the mystical body of Christ – with Christ our head.
We can be witnesses of Christ alive in us both in the Church and in the world because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in a special way, in our graced, baptized soul.
God wants such intimacy with us.
I, Rita Robinson Ring, have learned a lot about the spiritual life from Our Lord in daily Mass and in spending at least one hour a day before the Blessed Sacrament where Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity, no less present than when He walked the earth.
I have been guided by Fr. Carter our founder and had the gift of my brother, Fr. Joe Robinson at Mass, Sunday, week days, funerals etc. and other priests who have helped us on our journey in Shepherds of Christ.
Through the Priestly Newsletter of Fr. Carter we circulated 17,000,000 Newsletters to Priests and Hierarchy since 1994. This is Fr. Joe’s 9th book. We sent out most years to about 38,000 priests and hierarchy. We have circulated about 300,000 of Fr. Joe’s homily books over 8 years to priests and hierarchy.
What a gift these homilies of Fr. Joe’s are as he teaches us about Responding to God’s love, being Christ a-live in this world as a witness to Jesus and teaching us about the Bread of Life: the Word and the Eucharist.
We pray for the priests and have since 1994 in prayer chapters. Our prayers have been translated in 8 languages with the
Imprimatur. We especially pray 8 days every month with Mass and the Holy Eucharist exposed most of the days for the priests, the Church and the world. We pray 24 hours every day and night in China before the exposed Eucharist for the priests and the Church.Please pray with us, the prayers, Fr. Carter, our Founder, gave us in 1994 centered in Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary praying for the priests, the Church and the world. Life is in Jesus.
With love,
Rita Robinson Ring and all at Shepherds of Christ
R. Please help us – we have sent this
weekly homily book now to
all Cardinals, all Bishops in United States,
most of the priests in United States –
about 30,000, please help us
for this weekly Priestly Newsletter –
Think of all the people we can
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We pray for the Priests, the Church
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Jesus gave Fr. Carter 22 years
ago.
July 31, 1994
Words of Jesus to Members of Shepherds of Christ Associates:
"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.
"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.
"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."
- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)
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Cycle C –
Feed My Soul
Cycle A –
Inspired to be Genuine4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95
These books can be given to:
1) All Priests
2) Good for Music Ministers
7) Good for Mom and Dads
3) Good for DRE's
4) Good for Deacons
5) Good for Principals of Schools
6) Good for Teachers
Given March 21, 2014
R. Pray for These Things
1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
6) People going to Florida and China.
7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
9) Pray for pope helping us.
10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
For our Publisher and all involved
12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
15) Donors and members and their families.
16) Healing of the Family tree.
17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
18) All who asked us to pray for them.
19) All we promised to pray for.
20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple, Rosie & all involved.
21) 2 babies and moms.
22) Funds and insurance.
23) Jerry's garage.
24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
26) Consecrate all hearts.
27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.
The Wedding Rosary
Crystal Image Rosary
$40 plus shipping
Original Image Rosary
8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box$40 plus shipping
Give the gift that counts.
Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.
Tell My People $5.00
Response to God's Love $8.00
Response in Christ $8.00
Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur
$2.00 plus postage
New Mass Book with Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage
Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage
Give the gift that keeps on giving!
Give to your priest.
Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage
Get a canvas print of Mary's image
with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
back of the picture.
$200.00 plus postage
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