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.

 April 9, 2006

April 10th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 1 Period II.
The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for April 10th are Luminous.

  

     

   

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Excerpt from March 25, 2005 message

 

 

I was in the Vatican Chapel at 11:00am Good Friday last year --
and finished at noon where the Blessed Sacrament was exposed.
I received this message --

 

March 25, 2005 - On Good Friday 11:00 - 12:00 am

Messenger:     And He saw before Him all the men that would be
                            lost forever.

                        Into the darkest night I have gone my God and seen the
                            sufferings of the souls in sin, for it is for You we
                            live and are born here to this valley of tears.

                        Into Your hands I commend my spirit -
                            Oh God hear my prayer and be attentive to my supplication.

                        Dark nights are just these - a condition, a state
                            that God allows us to share in to experience
                            His passion.

                        I look into the soul, God, and see as You have asked
                            me to read and plead for the innocent, the depraved,
                            the ones You gave Your life for.

                        Oh God hear my prayer and let my cry come unto Thee -
                        A dark night is a night without light -
                        the dark nights may
                            be the very openings to the door that leads to
                            Your precious light and showering of grace
                            upon us.

                        A night was richly blessed when the Savior
                            shed His Blood from His pores, in such
                            anguish seeing before Him the souls that
                            would be lost forever despite His suffering
                            and death.

                        Oh Heart of Jesus hear the plaintiff cry of Your servant
                            suffering and in pain for the sin in the world and
                            Your Blood You shed to save us.

                        Oh Savior, Incarnate, born of the Woman, Mary Immaculate,
                            outpour Your gifts on the poor banished children
                            of Eve for we are the children walking in the
                            shaded light of imperfections and sin offending
                            You by our arrogant and prideful ways.

                            When it is docility and obedience You desire of us -

                        Oh Blood shed on the cross, from You our precious
                        Savior, wash us in Your Blood and feed us with
                        Your Body and Your Word that our hearts will
                        be filled with You, our Divine Precious God.

                            Sufferings are sufferings and looking into His
                        face we see the Head of the Savior crowned with thorns,
                        the Blood pouring out of His precious wounds and
                        we see Him - His "yes" in suffering - suffering so
                        severe, suffering of the God-Head for His precious
                        souls - suffering from the love outpoured by
                        His unquenchable Heart of love.

                            Oh God let us Bleed as we watch You with the
                        Blood of love for the souls You gave Your life for -
                        Can our partaking in that Holy Sacrifice of the Mass be
                        such an offering to You our precious God that the
                        streams of grace will flow with unquenchable
                        love for the souls He gave His life for.

     

April 5, 2001

 

March 25, 2005 message continues

Jesus speaks:        Look into My face and see Me before You, suffering for
                        love of you - For you suffer from knowing My gifts
                        given to men and they are as blind men running some on
                        a race (headed) for hell. Oh let their eyes be opened that they
                        would see with the light of 7 suns, but they close
                        their eyes and see little for they have painted the gold of
                        the earth like pictures on their eyes-lids and they
                        gaze at them the day long.

                            Oh let My Spirit fill your souls and your souls be filled
                        with My grace and My Blood wash you in the robes of
                        salvation.

                            Blood is on your hands, but is it the blood of deceit
                        and hatefulness, the bitterness one holds for your brothers,
                        the pride of indecency and you ignore the speck in your
                        eye and the rocks in your hearts. Rocks of hatred,
                        rocks to clog the vessel far more than the grease
                        you consider so important to your life here below.
                        It is rocks that clog the vessels of your heart to
                        embrace the things of the Savior.

                            Oh the well cared garden - one flowing with milk and honey,
                        water trickling from a little vine, sweetly given the
                        dew of morning - oh you and your sour grapes, you watch
                        them shrivel before your eyes and count calories for your
                        bodies neglecting the things of the soul -

                            Let the courtyard ring with the song of angels
                        and the blossoms hear the sound and display the
                        dew of morning like a dress adorned for the
                        King of Glory.

                            You pick My blossoms, shaking off the dew
                        of the new day - you stamp on the grapes and
                        use My gardens for sounds that shake the earth with
                        terror.

                            When I gave you the birds to sing to you - you came
                        in with a chainsaw and cut down the tree that
                        carried the quartet and they flew away like the
                        grapes you have tramped underfoot.

                            For you, many, are so prideful in your hearts and
                        your songs are not songs of love to Me - to one hanging
                        on the tree of life - you missed My tree - you
                        see only a man and don't even look to the wood
                        of the cross. I carried your sins on My back -
                        and My Blood was hanging on the tree -
                            Oh the tree of Adam and Eve -
                            Do you see it?
                            Now look at your trees of scrupulous pleasures -
                            Nobody can get you to look at your
                                money trees hanging with clumps of gold and
                                I long to see the sweet grapes - full and
                                    plentiful, healthy, sweet for
                                    the Father.

                                Oh your apples are your gods -
                                    your hands are not pierced with nails -
                                    likened to the Savior -
                                    They are decorated with nails of stars and
                                        blues and rainbows - long and gaudy -
                                        gaudy - not hands that are God-like

                                Oh look at the hands and see how the hands of
                                    My creatures have sinned

                                    And the head that has robbed Me of
                                        the talents to help promote My
                                        Kingdom - when brains were given
                                        to the men how many used them to
                                        sin and lead others to sin -

                                The Blood teamed into My eyes - how
                                    many have used their eyes to sin and lead others into
                                    sin

                                And the tongue by which I enter your body -
                                    How very dishonorable has many tongues become -

                                The ears I gave you to hear - My Blood poured
                                    into My ears from My thorns and
                                    you have sinned with your ears, making
                                    movies and songs for others to sin majorly
                                    with ears and eyes.

                                My Blood I shed - My eyes caked with dried
                                    Blood - My ears welled up with the
                                    Blood of the Savior for your sins

                                My feet - they pounded nails into My feet - for
                                    all the ways you have walked that
                                    led you to sin -
                                    Why do you not walk the way of the Savior -
                                    Why do you not see with your eyes -
                                    Taste My Body and Blood with your tongue -
                                    Listen to the birds sing songs of love and

                                My Heart was pierced with the lance -
                                My Heart, how I suffered for those who would
                                    reject Me, the anguish to My Heart
                                    was far greater than the pain to My
                                    Body, wrought with suffering
                                    for your sins -

                                Oh you have dishonored the image of Mary
                                    the Father sent you and ignored the
                                    gifts of Our Love outpoured.

      

    

January 2, 1999

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

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

I am your heavenly Mother. I come to hold you and caress you and take you to my Immaculate Heart.

       

      

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996

  

March 25, 2005 message continues

Jesus speaks:             Come to Me - My Heart is ablaze for thee -
                                    My love for thee is real and
                                    I am your God - I have given you
                                    Myself - I am your God - I have
                                    Shed My Blood for you and I give you
                                    Myself in the Holy Eucharist.

 

Messenger:   At the end at 12:00
                            a person came up about 1 foot from me in
                            my pew and they hit their head on
                            the floor continually and jerked
                            all over the floor.

                        4 men came up and took the person out.


                        When I left at noon Good Friday -- it was so crowded
                            I could not move, barely, to leave the Vatican.

   

Matthew 17: 14-20

   As they were rejoining the crowd a man came up to him and went down on his knees before him. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘take pity on my son: he is demented and in a wretched state; he is always falling into fire and into water. I took him to your disciples and they were unable to cure him.’ In reply, Jesus said, ‘Faithless and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.’ And when Jesus rebuked it the devil came out of the boy, who was cured from that moment.

   Then the disciples came privately to Jesus. ‘Why were we unable to drive it out?’ they asked. He answered, ‘Because you have so little faith. In truth I tell you, if your faith is the size of a mustard seed you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there,” and it will move; nothing will be impossible for you.'

    

March 25, 2005

Good Friday

     

September 4, 2004

 

   

   

   

    

 

  

 

 

 

 

Blue Book 6

    

January 16, 1995

Messenger:  Jesus loves us. Jesus wants our love in return. Love to love, do not love to get love back. Love freely. I cannot be angry at any man or it blocks my union with Him. It is in loving we are made whole. He loved those who persecuted Him and put Him to death.

Jesus:  I am love, My way is love, always love.

Messenger:  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, to put on Christ we love those who we feel have wronged us or misunderstood us, we LOVE always.

    The fire of the love of the Spirit can melt the cold heart. One soul operating from the love of God, has such power.

    HE IS LOVE! I LOVE TO LOVE not to get things in return.

    Oh Dear Lord fill me, overwhelmed with Your DIVINE LOVE. Oh Burning Heart oh love divine how sweet You are to me. I see the host, I know You're here to love and care for me.

Sing Song:  I Love You Jesus

 

 

Messenger:  The more I realize the love of God, all Three Persons and Their presence, I am in awe, no words, I am just overwhelmed.

    Overwhelmed with the love of God, but He is love, His love is unbounded.

    The Father sent His only Son into this world to be a man.

    My heart feels as if it will burst.

    Outpour Your grace to know You more and more, for I long and thirst after Thee, ever to be closer and closer united, to have You more, to know You more, to love You more.

    Nothing compares to Your Divine Love --  You live in me. You are alive in others. I seek You. I want to be saturated with Your grace. I search, I seek God. I search for You more and more. YOU ARE MY LIFE.

Song: Your Love is Finer than Life

Messenger:  Jesus feeds me.

Jesus:  I call you to speak.

Messenger:  If you had a house and the generator went out, you would repair the generator.

    But the power is in the Eucharist, the power is in the tabernacle and some are removing it and putting it in the corner.

 

     

 

       

January 18, 1995

Model Yourself after Mary

Jesus:  My child,

    Make your hearts pure. My Mother is a heart that is so pure. Model yourself after her My dear child. You do not know of the sufferings that will befall this earth.

    Ready your hearts for My time is at hand. My child, let go into My arms, let go of anger, hatred, pride, past sins, purify your hearts, go to confession. Your heart should be free for union with Me.

    As I live and dwell in your heart, I will be closer to a pure heart. Your hearts must be free of anger from years past. Any anger toward any man blocks your union with Me.

    Be of a clean heart, wash away all the debris in your heart.

    As you breathe and live, live only as the Father wills you to live. Come to Me and be in union with Me, pray constantly to the Spirit to open your hearts and your minds to the wisdom of God. Oh child, I hate to tell you of the sufferings to befall this earth. You sleep to avoid My notes. Child, child, the time is near. Pray, pray, pray. Pray for the priests, pray to be heard. Your brothers have plugged up their ears and want only their ways. Nothing will shake the blind ones. I am the Almighty God, My power I will use to shake some senseless ones. Oh child, pray and be forewarned. It is your prayers that will help your brothers turn from their ways.

    I am Jesus.

    Pray, pray, pray, the time is near and you will know the Might of God.

    I love you. Jesus

 

January 11, 1995

Before the Sorrowful Mother Statue

Transcribed from a tape as Mary appeared in immense light during her daily apparitions.

 

Glorious Mysteries
 

   
The Resurrection

1.  Messenger:  On the third day Jesus rose from the dead. Death has no power over Jesus.

2.  Messenger:  Jesus died to bring us new life.

3.   Messenger:  Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. She did not recognize Jesus. He told her not to touch Him and to tell the other disciples. 

4.   Messenger:  Jesus appeared to the apostles in the upper room, and they thought they had seen a ghost.

5.   Messenger:  Imagine their joy at seeing Jesus in His glorified body.

6.   Messenger:  Jesus appeared to the apostles a week later and Thomas was with them and Thomas said he would not believe until he put his hands into Jesus' hands and feet.

7.  
                                   John 20: 29

Jesus said to him:

You believe because you can see me.
Blessed are those who have not seen
   and yet believe.

8.   Sing:  Your Presence Pervades My Soul

9.   Messenger:  God communicates to us in our heart.

10.  Messenger:  We pray to the Holy Spirit to help us know and love more deeply.

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts ..

    

   

  

The Ascension of Jesus into Heaven

1. Messenger:  It is through Baptism that we are made children of God and heirs of Heaven.

2. Messenger:  Jesus gave to the apostles the power to baptize. Through baptism we receive a special sharing in His life. 

3.  Messenger:  Jesus gave the apostles the power to forgive sins.


Luke 24: 50-53

Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven. They worshipped him and then went back to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the Temple praising God.

4. Messenger:  And Jesus ascended into Heaven.

5. Messenger:  Imagine how the apostles were awestruck at the sight of Jesus ascending into Heaven; and a cloud took Him out of sight.

6. Messenger:  Jesus remains with us this very day, the same as the day He walked the earth. Jesus is truly present in His Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist.

7.  Messenger:  It is through His most Precious Eucharistic Heart that we are led to such deep union with Jesus.

8. Messenger:  What flowed forth from His Pierced Heart was blood and water; Blood for the Eucharist, water for baptism.

9.  Messenger:  The Christian is initiated into the mystery of Christ, into his or her role in prolonging the Incarnation, through Baptism.

10.

Romans 6: 3-4

You cannot have forgotten that all of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into his death. So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.

        Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts ..

       

   

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1.  

Acts 1: 5

John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’ 

2.   Messenger:  A gigantic wind came upon them and above their heads there appeared parted tongues of fire.

3.   Messenger:  And they were transformed from fear to fearlessness.

4.   Messenger:  It is the Holy Spirit that transforms our hearts more and more into the likeness of our Beloved Jesus.

5.   Messenger:  The Holy Spirit fills our hearts full of the love of God.

6.   Messenger:  Outpour to us Your gifts; outpour to us Your grace. Mary join us ever closer to your heart so that the Holy Spirit can transform us more and more and more into the image and likeness of Jesus. Jesus takes us to the bosom of the Father.

7.   Song:  Come Holy Ghost

8.                                    

Romans 8: 14-17


All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering, so as to share his glory.

9.                                   

Romans 8: 5-9


Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

10. 

Acts 2: 1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts ..

   

   

The Assumption of Mary Into Heaven

1.   Messenger:   Mary is taken body and soul into Heaven.

2.   Messenger:   Mary is one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3.   Messenger:   Dear Mary, through your Immaculate Heart, take us to the Heart of Jesus. We want to be one with God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

4.   Messenger:   The Mother of God was taken up into Heaven.

5.   Messenger:   Do we see with this limited vision? Only see the here and now?

"But our homeland is in heaven and it is from there that we are expecting a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transfigure the wretched body of ours into the mould of his glorious body, through the working of the power which he has, even to bring all things under his mastery."  Philippians 3:20-21

6.  Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.  Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

7.  Sing Prayer Glory Be.

8.   Messenger:  What joy to see Mary and Jesus. To embrace God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

9.   Messenger:  What joy to have the beatific vision, to experience the fullness of life -- to be united to the Trinity -- to know Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

10.  Sing:  Immaculate Mary

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts ..

  

   

The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

1.   Sing:  Hail Holy Queen

2.  

Revelation 12: 1-2

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.  

3.  Messenger:   Spirit of God, fill our hearts with the fire of Your love so that we may be transformed from fear to fearlessness to go out and preach the Gospel, to do the plan that the Father intended for us. Mary lead us ever closer to the Most Sacred Heart of your Son. Help us to realize the reality of this world: that this world is run by God; that He has the Power and the Might to help us to become selfless and unattached, to allow Him to permeate our beings so that we may be one in Him and operate as He operates through us to spread this immense love of the Most Sacred Heart to this world; to light up this world with the fire of His Love. Through your Immaculate Heart, lead us ever closer and closer to this Heart that is burning and on fire and open to love.

4.   Song:  Eye Has Not Seen

5.   Song:  May the angels lead you into paradise

6.  Messenger:  How abundantly blessed are we that we can share in His Life. God outpours His grace in such abundance when we go to the Eucharist worthily. How abundantly blessed are we that we know the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell in us if we are baptized and in the state of grace. And the Holy Spirit pours out to us such grace to fill us, to lead us. The Holy Spirit operates in us. He is alive in us.

7.  Sing:  Hail Holy Queen

8.  Messenger: God loves us so much.

9.  Sing:  Glory and Praise to Our God

10.  Sing:  How Great Thou Art 

Song after last decade:  Come Holy Spirit, fill ...

 

The statue of Our Mother of Sorrows was illuminated from the beginning and became brighter and brighter as we continued. Times that Rita noted that Mary was so filled with light as she appeared -- so bright Rita couldn't believe it - no way to describe her face. Mary was so big. The light whitest light ever.

Rita, Cathy, Joe and Marty were present. Marty led the rosary

 

January 14, 1995

Mary appeared in the whitest light -- her face came so alive in the statue
as I received the meditations. Also Jesus appeared.

 

Glorious Mysteries

Resurrection

1.  R.  These are the Glorious Mysteries. Christ, who was locked up in a tomb for three days, a lifeless body, rose on the third day to bring us new life.

2.  R.  In Baptism, we become children of God and heirs of Heaven. He gave to the Apostles before He ascended into Heaven, the power to baptize so that we may have a special sharing in His life.

3. 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love, by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

   ...In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

4.  R.  God, in His Goodness, created man out of love. God is love. We were created out of love.

5.  R.  But sin entered the world through Adam and so Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to the earth to save man from sin. Baptism frees us from original sin, but we still have weaknesses to sin.

6.  R.  Jesus rose on the third day and He appeared to His Mother St. Ignatius says. Think of the joy in her heart for her to see the glorified body of her Son after she had held His lifeless body taken down from the cross only three days before.

7.  R.  This is the glory of this mystery: that Jesus Christ, once dead, has risen.

8.  R.  Jesus came that we might have life and have it abundantly. Now He remains with us this very day in the Eucharist.

9.  R.  Jesus gives us a special sharing in His life through baptism.

Song: I am the Bread of Life

10.  R.  Jesus gave to the Apostles the power to forgive sins; a priest can forgive our sins. A person dead in sin can be saved from eternal damnation!  

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

  

The Ascension of Jesus into Heaven

1.  John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’  Acts 1: 5

2.  Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.  John 14: 27

3.  Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven.  Luke 24: 50-51

4.  R.  And the Apostles were awestruck in the field below as they saw their Beloved Jesus leave. And they were filled with fear and sorrow to see Him go.

5.  R.  God the Father sent His only Son into the world so that we could be saved.

Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?’ The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.  Luke 1: 31-35

R.  Jesus is no less present in the Eucharist, today, then He was the day that Mary carried Him in her womb. Jesus is no less present this day in the Eucharist than He was the day He hung on the cross. Jesus remains with us with the greatest love in His Divinity and humanity in the Eucharist.

6.  R.  Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to descend upon them.

The angel answered, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God.  Luke 1: 31-32

R.  Mary shouted out in a loud voice the Magnificat. The Holy Spirit would descend upon these apostles who had locked themselves in the upper room out of such fear because their Beloved Jesus had gone.

7.  R.  Before Jesus ascended into Heaven, in Emmaus, He sat with the Apostles and He broke bread.

8.  R.  There is such love between the Father and the Son and the Son and the Father. I believe in the Holy Spirit who proceedeth from the Father and the Son (from the Creed). It is the fire of this Love of God that comes forth. The Holy Spirit fills us. Dear Holy Spirit, fill us with the fire of Your Love so we may more and more realize the immense love between the Father and the Son.

9.  R.  God dwells within us in a special way if we have been baptized and remain in the state of grace. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit dwell within us.

10.  R.  As our heart beats and as we breathe, God is so close to us with His immense burning love, always in love, in deepest love with us.

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

  

The Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles

1.  R.  The Apostles had locked themselves in the upper room and there was a gigantic-like wind, and there appeared over their heads, parted tongues of fire.

2.  R.  And they were transformed from fear to fearlessness.

3.  R.  And they went out to speak and all understood.

4.  R.  Holy Spirit, fill us with the fire of the Love of God and fearlessness to preach the good news of Jesus. Fill us so that we have the courage to spread this love of God to this world this day.

5.  R.  Holy Spirit fill us with fire. We beg You to fill us with Your light and Your fire so that we can radiate to this world and tell the world about the love of God.

6.  Song:  Come Holy Spirit

7.  R.  Dear Holy Spirit, transform our heart more and more into the image of Jesus and lead us ever closer to the Father.

8.  R.  Mary help us to join so tenderly with your heart so that the Holy Spirit can transform us more and more into the image of Jesus, your Beloved Son.

9.  Song:  Come Holy Ghost

10.  Sing:  Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

   

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1.  R.  Mary remained on the earth many years after Jesus ascended into Heaven.

2.  R.  Think of the immense joy of Mary to be reunited with Her Most Precious Son.

3.  R.  Mary is the singular vessel.

4.  R.  We are here to unite with God. It is through Mary that we unite ever closer to the Trinity.

5.  R.  Mary is our model. She was a human person. She was created without sin to be the Mother of Jesus. We can more closely imitate Jesus by watching Mary and how she lived her life.

6. 

John 3: 16

For this is how God loved the world: 
          he gave his only Son, 
          so that everyone who believes in him 
             may not perish 
          but may have eternal life.  

The Holy Spirit

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.  from Tell My People

7.  R.  Mary, we intercede to you to help us to grow in greater union with the Holy Spirit. We want to be transformed more and more into the image and likeness of Your Precious Son.

8.  R.  Mary is our Mother, Mary is the Mother of the Church. Mary, who mothered Jesus with such love, mothers us with this love this day.

9.  R.  Mary's heart is sinless. Mary loves us so much. If we follow Mary, if we study her life, we will be led more and more into what God wants us to be.

10.  Song:  Immaculate Mary

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit

    

The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

1.  Song:  O Holy Mary

2.  R.  Mary, the Mother of God conceived the child Jesus within her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit. Mary raised Jesus as a child. Mary walked with Him through His Passion and watched Him die on the cross. Mary saw Him after the Resurrection and saw Him ascend into Heaven. Now she is crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth.

3.  Revelation 12: 1

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

4.  R.  Mary is Queen in Heaven with her Beloved Son and the Father and the Holy Spirit, with the angels and saints.

5.  R.  Mary is Mother of the Church.

6.  Philippians 2: 6-11

   Who, being in the form of God,
   did not count equality with God
   something to be grasped.

   But he emptied himself,
   taking the form of a slave,
   becoming as human beings are;
   and being in every way
      like a human being,
   he was humbler yet,
   even to accepting death,
      death on a cross.

   And for this God raised him high,
   and gave him the name
   which is above all other names;

    so that all beings
    in the heavens, on earth
       and in the underworld,
   should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
    and that every tongue should acknowledge
    Jesus Christ as Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.

7.  Song:  Eye Has Not Seen

8.  Song:  May the Angels lead you into Paradise, may the martyrs greet you on your way, may you see the face of the Lord this day. Alleluia, alleluia.

9.  R.  Our soul craves union with God. The little we know here is little compared to what we will know in Heaven.

10.  Song:  Hail Holy Queen

Song after last decade:  Come Holy Spirit

  

The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1.  The Prophecy of Simeon.    See Mary and Joseph as they take the child Jesus to the temple. And Simeon greets them and so thrilled to see the child Jesus, but prophesies the sufferings of Jesus and Mary. From that point on, every time Mary beheld her Beloved Son, she had before her the prophecy of Simeon. She knew when she looked at her child that He would suffer. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

2.  The Flight into Egypt.   Joseph and Mary were awakened in the night to flee with the child Jesus. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

3.  The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple.   Joseph and Mary: their hearts were in such sorrowing to lose the child Jesus in the Temple in Jerusalem. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

4.  Jesus and Mary meet on the Way to the Cross.   And Their eyes peered into one another's on Calvary. In that peering look is the summation of Their lives from the time that Mary conceived Jesus in her womb to the look when They beheld each other on the way to Calvary. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

5.  Jesus Dies on the Cross.   See Mary as she stands under the cross; her Beloved Son hangs against the darkened sky. His body is withered. There is not a breath left to His body; there is not any blood left in His veins and she watches for three agonizing hours as He slowly dies. She calls out to us today to spread the love of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who gave His life that all men might know His love and that they can live eternally in Heaven. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

6.  Mary holds Jesus' lifeless Body under the Cross.   He was dead in body, but He rose on the third day. She held her Beloved Son as she held Him as a child. She now holds His battered, bruised, bloodied body in her arms; her heart torn in her chest. This is Our Beloved Mother that Jesus gave to us on the cross. Think of holding your own child lifeless in your arms. She watched Him die and now she holds Him so close to her. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

7.  Jesus is Placed in the Tomb.   And they laid Him in a tomb and she saw where they laid Him. And then they pushed the stone up against the tomb. And a sword, too, shall pierce your heart, O Mary.

Song:  A Song from Jesus

Song:  To Jesus Heart All Burning

Song:  I Love You Jesus

    

Mary appeared in the whitest light — her face came so alive in the statue as I received the meditations. Also Jesus appeared. Rita, Cathy, Marty were present at the rosary.

 

 

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