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                Given May 13, 2014 - Our Lady of Fatima
 

                R. And so we ask ourselves, "What is life"
                and we begin to answer – when I think of life,
                I think of a little new born baby and I think of the
                beauty of new life – now – the green beautiful
                trees, that looked dead with the cold, barren
                winter here and lots of ice and snow.

                    I think of life – I am moving around and its
                like a little battery in me – I go and I go.
                Life is a wonderful word and in it all I see
                God who gives us life behind the living thing.
                Life under the water – oh how beautiful all
                the life under the sea, in the ocean, I
                see flowers and bugs and dogs and cats, they
                are alive.

                    I love to watch little children, they are such
                a surprise, they tell you so many things from
                their little minds how they are putting things
                together. It must be a great joy for God to
                see a man – here below – who is so obedient
                to God, praising Him for his work and gifts,
                and excelling at something because of his
                God - given talents and living to great
                heights with the gifts and talents God
                has given the man.

                Likewise, we know God knows the depth of our
                hearts, our motives, everything about us –
                we offend God when we are hateful toward him,
                our brother (God loves and made) and hateful
                in our heart, greedy, jealous, envious,
                prideful, when God is so good to us and is
                watching us and made us in His image and likeness,
                for a purpose to know, love and serve Him and
                we independently rebel against God and are
                listening to satan, the father of lies.

                    It gives Christ great joy to see us walk
                in His footsteps, to be truthful and loving
                toward Him and our brothers and

                    we can offend the Heart of Jesus and
                Mary when we hate and are vicious and
                violent and lie –

                    God wants a relationship with man. Like
                any relationship – we are to love and be
                trustworthy. What about God giving us each
                other to love and somebody lives to stand on
                top of the other's head in jealousy and
                envy and just trying to get over them and
                push them down – a constant argument with
                the person – when God gave both of us as
                gifts to accomplish a powerful work for
                building His Kingdom and helping souls and
                what is happening that a man doesn't see
                through God's eyes at all, but sees that the
                other person should be put down, challenged,
                fought with so they can win over – and
                be over them – rebelling to God's Plan of why
                He created them to bring peace and love and
                joy to others – to show honor to Himself
                because of their creaturehood and obedience
                and love –
                and instead a person doesn't want anybody
                over them so they fight like two men in a
                ring to get the other down and then stand
                up themselves as a winner –
                What winner is that when satan runs the
                show because someone rebels against
                God's Plan for selfish combatal pride –
                wanting their will, over God's will at
                all cost.

                Yes God has a Plan – He created us uniquely
                to serve and love Him, as He desires, as He
                deserves. He enlists our help in the work
                of redemption. He gives the baptized soul a
                sharing in His life. Through baptism we
                become incorporated into Christ and His
                Church and Confirmation perfects this
                incorporation.

                    And the willful, rebellious man who
                sees not through the eyes of Our Heavenly
                Father – living by His will – makes a
                rival out of his brothers, a boxing match
                because his brother is in authority over
                him.

                    Good, as God intends, is not accomplished
                when a man gives into his pride and jealousies
                and envies and greed. It is like Eve in the Garden –
 

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face
    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

                R. The man who is jealous and combatal is busy
                not for helping souls, but standing on the
                head of the one over them in a boxing ring.
                It is a deficiency on their part to not see
                the Plan of the Creator and have a wide vision
                of how beautiful we all are in God's design
                and satan wants to manipulate through
                power and control to make disorder, and
                fighting and threatening life giving needs
                people have as power tools to force their
                battles, not on a playground, battles
                that tear at life, that tear people trying
                to do God's will, down.

                    Can you see satan, instigating his
                disorder – like the disorder in the Garden –
                Satan hates order, it is because of the sin
                of Adam and Eve disorder entered the world.
                The once orderly world God created was
                disrupted by the sin of Adam and Eve.
                The disorder in the elements, the disorder
                in the world because of Adam and Eve sinning –
                the harmony God gave them, was now disharmony,
                as they acted against God, for their own
                independence and pride.

                    So in life – God gives us a Plan – and
                we remember how satan was in the
                reading the first Sunday of Lent –
                he just wanted Jesus under him –
                he wanted Jesus to bow to him –

                So we see a Plan of God – to bring so many
                gifts to the world, help souls to get to
                heaven, bring gifts and we see one
                so jealous, prideful

                    stand on the head of the one God
                called in combat – wasting all the
                energy and time while the person just
                wants to raise up in disorder over
                just authority – to do what they want –
                put themselves first over God's will –

                    Remember Joseph's brothers – they hated
                Joseph because God chose Joseph –
                Remember Cain and Abel? Abel was murdered
                by Cain –

                Things were out of control so much at the
                    time of Noah –

                    God had Noah build an Ark and
                All that survived the great flood was Noah and
                his family and the animals on the Ark.

                    Remember Jesus' enemies put Him to death!

                    When God calls us we can say – I followed Your
                will God, I did Your Plan for me – I used the
                gifts You gave me as You wanted and I brought
                You these people I loved and trained and
                these, I built up to build Your
                Kingdom for Your honor and glory –
                OR we can say – I fought to be on top –
                I wanted it my way, I used your things
                You gave me to rebel against Your own
                plan and then when I had my whole life
                to love, I was selfish, trying to be
                first and I stood on top of those over
                me like in a boxing ring and used my
                time and energy for the sport, I made
                my life's work.

                Jesus: And you did not serve Me. You wasted
                    My beautiful gifts to you and rebelled
                    like your ancestors and I called you
                    to help renew the earth – to reach
                    out to men and to build up My Kingdom
                    in love and peace and harmony.

                I have called 8 days of prayer at both centers
                    a month.

                I have called for these Ministries to be spread,
                    the Blue Books spread, the Prayer Chapters
                    spread.

                Do you remember the holocaust?

                Mary appeared at Fatima to warn them –
 

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                Jesus: In August they interfered with the Blessed
                    Mother's Apparition by jailing the
                    children – !!

                Do you see the murder of the innocent babies
                    in abortion –
                    the homosexuality –

                I am God –

                I have a Plan –

                I have given the Shepherds of Christ Movement
                    to help in the renewal of the Church and
                    the world –
                    while spreading My books –
                    while spreading My Shepherds of Christ Prayers –
                    while spreading the Priestly Writing –
                    while spreading the School Rosary Program –
                    while spreading the Nursing Home Ministries –
                    while spreading the Morning Offering,
                        Holy Spirit Novena and other prayers.

                I give you life - to live as God wants you
                    to live according to His Plan –

                You can hold out in rebellion to force
                    your evil ways that tear at
                    the Plan.

                I give you the sign of the Rainbow –
                Mary appeared in Rainbow color –
                I sent the rainbow as a sign –

  Genesis 9: 11-17

And I shall maintain my covenant with you: that never again shall all living things be destroyed by the waters of a flood, nor shall there ever again be a flood to devastate the earth.’ 

    ‘And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come: I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth, that is, all living things.’ 

    ‘That’, God told Noah, ‘is the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living things on earth.’

                Jesus: Remember the Tower of Babel – they
                    were willful – they thought they would
                    reach the sky –

                Abraham was faithful to My Plan and I
                    put him over many nations –
                    he was obedient – ready to
                    sacrifice his son, Isaac, because I
                    put him to the test –

                You test Me –

                Waste time and some fight in a boxing
                    ring what is opposed to My order,
                    against harmony –

                How can you fight God and expect
                    to win –

                If it is of God - it will survive
                    and you were fighting God –
 

                Jesus: Foolish men – they jailed the children –

                Look at World War II – I haven't forgotten
                    what they did to block My Plan
                    and there was World War II.

                Devastation, Destruction, Death at
                    the hands of men serving satan for
                    their own pride and glory –
                    men did what they did killing people!!

                Joseph was called by Me and his brothers
                    tried to kill Joseph –

                Moses was a shepherd and he led the
                    flock – they rebelled against
                    Moses and made a golden calf!

                Salvation History –

                    Rebellion and Prophets who suffered
                    by the men who rebelled against God!

                Do you not see the rebellion today and
                    God the Father sent
                    the Lady of Clearwater to tell you

                Don't stand on My Head!

                You foolish men

                Listen and be taught –

                Help spread this Movement – now
                    throughout the world –

October 5, 2003

November 5, 2003

December 5, 2003

January 5, 2004

                Jesus: David was a great leader –
                David was a shepherd
                David led the flock –
                    but David was not perfect –

                Solomon was given the gift of wisdom –
 

                    From the Introduction of Blue Book 12

R. I listened to the readings yesterday about Solomon. His life became very complicated because he made bad choices and he bankrupted the country. He was given a great gift of wisdom, like never given to any man, but his lust and greed and building temples to false gods got the best of him. From being so richly favored and blessed by God he turned to so many bad things that hurt relationships for sure.

God gave us the 10 commandments.

The first 3 tell us about relationship with God.

The rest about relationship with each other.

We have been given a sharing in God’s life in baptism. Our knowing and loving capacity is elevated in baptism.

We can pray for an increase of the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love.

Remember as a child we would make acts of Faith, Hope, and Love. We knew these by heart.

                Jesus: The King listened to the false prophet
                    and they persecuted Jeremiah and
                    there was the Babylonian Exile –
   

                Mary: On this 97th Anniversary of my first apparition
                    at Fatima –
                    I beg you to see the gift God the Father has
                        given in this Movement and
                        to ask yourself how you have
                        listened to the messages from God, through
                        the Founder and Co-founder to help renew
                        the Church and the world –

                Through the ages God has called men to be
                    founders of orders and communities
                    to do a work God was calling and
                    satan has interfered with these
                    messages through willful men
                    and caused sufferings and heartache –

                Read the messages of Jesus given to
                    Fr. Carter and Rita.
 

July 31, 1994

                Mary: And listen – do not give
                    into satan fighting the Plan
                    God is giving because of pride and
                    jealousy and envy –

                From Blue Book 13 

                From Blue Book 14 

                May 13, 2014 continues

                Mary: On this day
                    May 13, 2014
                    My Son Jesus gives you these
                        messages –

                God the Father has sent these
                    messages to you to warn
                    the faithful of satan's evil plan and
                    to tell you what to do to
                    avert any future destruction
                    at the hands of the evil one –

                I am Mary your Mother –

                Listen and don't fight me –

                I have appeared for 20 years
                    delivering these messages

                Please my children –
                    listen to me

                Help me do as God the Father
                    asks – Obey Him and
                    listen.

                I am Mary your Mother May 13, 2014.

                May 13, 2014 - 97th Anniversary of Mary's 1st Apparition at Fatima

                R. Paul was imprisoned and put in chains.

                Paul suffered so much for love of Jesus.

                Paul has given us the great gift of his writings.

                When we look at the Gospel of John 21: 15-19
                    we see Peter – Shepherd of all the Lord's sheep – 

John 21: 15-19

When they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?’ He answered, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my lambs.’ A second time he said to him, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ He replied, ‘Yes, Lord, you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Look after my sheep.’ Then he said to him a third time, ‘Simon son of John, do you love me?’ Peter was hurt that he asked him a third time, ‘Do you love me?’ and said, ‘Lord, you know everything; you know I love you.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep.

                Sing Song: Do You Really Love Me?

                Sing Song: Valleys of Green
 

                From Sunday's Readings

Then Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed them in a loud voice:

    ‘Men of Judaea, and all you who live in Jerusalem, make no mistake about this, but listen carefully to what I say.

    ‘For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that the Lord and Christ whom God has made is this Jesus whom you crucified.’

Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, ‘What are we to do, brothers?’ ‘You must repent,’ Peter answered, ‘and every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God is calling to himself.’ He spoke to them for a long time using many other arguments, and he urged them, ‘Save yourselves from this perverse generation.’ They accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.

        

1 Peter 2: 20-25

but what glory is there in putting up with a beating after you have done something wrong? The merit in the sight of God is in putting up with it patiently when you are punished for doing your duty.

    This, in fact, is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps. He had done nothing wrong, and had spoken no deceit. He was insulted and did not retaliate with insults; when he was suffering he made no threats but put his trust in the upright judge. He was bearing our sins in his own body on the cross, so that we might die to our sins and live for uprightness; through his bruises you have been healed. You had gone astray like sheep but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

 

John 10: 1-10

‘In all truth I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a bandit. He who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gate-keeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out all those that are his, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they do not recognise the voice of strangers.’
Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he was saying to them.
        So Jesus spoke to them again:

In all truth I tell you,
I am the gate of the sheepfold.
All who have come before me
are thieves and bandits,
but the sheep took no notice of them.
I am the gate.
Anyone who enters through me
   will be safe"
such a one will go in and out
and will find pasture.
The thief comes
only to steal and kill and destroy.
I have come
so that they may have life
and have it to the full.

                Sing: Valleys of Green

                R. The image figure of the Shepherd is very common –
                The Psalm is a Psalm of the living –
                The Lord will lead His people to safe pastures –
                Moses and David were great Shepherds
                God considers those who are bad shepherds
                    who are doing it for themselves –

                Jesus: The sheep hear My voice and they follow Me –

                R. The sheep listen to the voice of their Shepherd and
                    they follow him –

                The sheep follow the voice of their shepherd –

                A Good Shepherd leads the sheep where God
                    wants them to go –

                Jesus Christ says: Take up your cross and follow Me –

                R. Some sheep were afraid to cross the waters –
                    The shepherd picked up a sheep and
                        carried him –
                    So they knew they were safe and followed –

                The Shepherd was the Sheep - Gate –
                    He protected the sheep – so
                        they would not get hurt –
                    Jesus is the Good Shepherd –

                Jesus came to show us He loves us
                Jesus came to show us God the Father loves us –

                Bad shepherds
                    save their own lives rather than
                    helping to save the sheep –

                Jesus condemns the shepherds of
                    His day –

                The Pharisees acted like thieves
                    and marauders –

                The Pharisees are concerned about
                    themselves –

                The 4th Sunday of Easter is Good Shepherd Sunday –

                Today is Vocation Day –

                God calls us to our vocation –
                    single –
                    married life –
                    religious

                God is calling us to our vocation –
                That we give our life to God's calling –

                Jesus was willing to give Himself –
                Jesus calls us to our vocation –

                Jesus tells us to come follow Me –

                The Lord is our Shepherd –
                    He has showed us the way –
                    Jesus gave His life for us –
                    Jesus leads us to green pastures –

                The Lord loves us –
                He is our Shepherd –
                Jesus is the Good Shepherd

                Easter Joy –

                He brings new growth out
                    of what appeared to be
                    dead trees of winter –

                His sky is open - telling us of
                    the limitlessness of
                    meditating on the
                    omnipotence of God –

                Easter Joy –

                The wideness of the road that
                    leads to perdition is
                    seen in contrast to the
                    road ahead which is
                    the way, the truth and the life –
                    a road of one –
                    following the Good Shepherd –

                The Good Shepherd who lays
                    down his life for His sheep.

                Christ is our friend –

                We see the love of Christ
                    for Peter and John

                Christ loved Peter in a different
                    way than He loved John

                His love for John we see from
                    John's writings –
                    "the disciple He loved most" 

                R. All disciples were loved –

                John was sensitive

                John was gentle –

                John the Baptist was
                    different than St. John
                    the Apostle –

                We see Jesus' love for the
                    people –

                When He was tired –

                Jesus shows us love –

                We can see more and more in
                    the Blue Books how
                    Christ is calling men to
                    the tender love of His Sacred Heart.

                We see the gentleness of Jesus'
                    love for His Mother –
                    We see the gentleness of
                    love of Jesus for John –

                We see Jesus gives to us His Church
                    not in a cold way –
                    Christ gives us the Church
                    through His pierced Heart –

                Jesus wants this intimate love of
                    His Sacred Heart

                How Jesus is wounded by
                    Sisters and Priests and brothers
                    who approach their marriage
                    to Jesus, like a cold job rather
                    than a marriage to Him and
                    devotion in love to His Sacred Heart.

                Jesus wants me to talk about
                    the mystery of His love –
                    the depth of the love of
                    the Heart of Christ –

                This is the message of Jesus.

21 Years Ago

                May 13, 20014 continues

                R. We give our hearts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and know
                    the Holy Spirit, her beloved Spouse will outpour
                    His grace and mold us more and more in the
                    image of Jesus.

                Oh Father of love and mercy, You created us
                    and love us so much – send Your Holy Sprit to
                    come and fill us with the fire of God's love –
                    Holy Spirit work in us –

                97 years from Mary's First Apparition at Fatima –

                Dear Holy Spirit please come to us and give us Your gifts.
                We seek Wisdom in our minds to have insights into
                    the Divine Mysteries; Understanding to see through
                    the eyes of God from the side He wants us to see,
                    not being closed in, on one side. We seek
                    counsel to follow the spiritual guides God sends
                    to us to help us grow correctly as God wants
                    in the spiritual life. We pray for fortitude
                    to have courage to do what God asks us
                    to do and to do what He wants done.
                    We pray for knowledge – to know God more –
                    to develop in our capacity of knowing God, grow
                    in our loving and knowing capacity – elevated in
                    baptism – We seek knowledge to operate in
                    the best way to accomplish what God asks
                    of us in our way of life – in our vocation –
                    We seek piety – we know God has a purpose for
                    our life – we seek this purpose –
 

                R. We seek fear of the Lord, that is having basic
                humility under God, we want to know and
                love and serve God as He desires.

                Dear God help us to grow in our knowing and loving
                capacity, help the season of Lent and Easter
                to live in our lives. We want to live the Pascal
                Mystery of death/resurrection in our lives.
   

                R. Oh Father of mercy, we are sorry for our sins,
                    please forgive us for our pride and anger,
                    our envy and jealousies, competition with
                    those You have sent as gifts for us to work
                    with to build Your Kingdom –

                Oh Father we are sorry, when we are envious and
                    seek dominance for dominance sake we
                    move away from intimacy with You who
                    has called us to humility and not pride. Oh Father
                    of mercy forgive us for our offenses against God.
                    Outpour Your healing grace and help us to die to
                    the tendencies of the wounded human nature that
                    offend You and divide us from others You have
                    called us to work with and to appreciate their
                    love given to us.

                Oh Father help us not to be selfish and closed
                    in on ourselves, but open to all the
                    gifts You want to pour on our soul,
                    now.

                Sing: Veni Sancte Spiritus

                From the Lectionary

                        Pentecost Sequence

Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
    Shed a ray of light divine!

Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
    Come, within our bosoms shine!

You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul's most welcome guest;
    Sweet refreshment here below;

In our Labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
    Solace in the midst of woe.

O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
    And our inmost being fill!

Where you are not, man has naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
    Nothing free from taint of ill!

Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
    Wash the stains of guilt away;

Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
    Guide the steps that go astray.

On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
    In your sev'nfold gift descend;

Give them virtue's sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
    Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.

                R. Christ calls us to witness.
                Christ witnessed to the Father.
                Christ is truth and love.

                Our entire life is to witness to the Father's truth
                    and love.

                God has called us to live the Christ-life in
                    baptism – to be witnesses of the Father's
                    truth and love, given to us through Jesus
                    in the Holy Spirit.

                We must live the Christ-life –
                    not talk about it – be as Christ
                    wants us to be in the world –

                Come to me Lord and Possess my soul

                There are to be graced communities throughout
                the world as we members of the mystical body
                of Christ live His life, death and resurrection
                in our lives. We must live out the
                mystery of death/resurrection in our lives.
 

Death  -  Resurrection
 

                R. Our life of grace is our life of
                resurrection, being more abundantly filled
                with God's life in us.
   

                R. I love Blue Book 11. It is so important – Jesus
                    woke me one night and told me to put this
                    Introduction in Blue Book 11 –
                    This is the theme of Blue Book 11 –
                    so important in our life –

                    From the Introduction of Blue Book 11

Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

In schematic outline we have discussed the manner in which the baptized Christian extends his Mass to his daily existence. As he so lives out his Mass, he is becoming more Christlike. He becomes a more perfect priest and victim for his next participation in the eucharistic sacrifice.42 The beautiful cycle which the Mass contains lies exposed before us. As part of this cycle the Christian is intimately involved in the process of continued redemption. The Mass is the center of the Christian life: “. . . the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows.” 43

42. For a current treatment of the varied richness of the Eucharist, cf. J. Wicks, “The Movement of Eucharistic Theology” in Chicago Studies, Vol. 10 (1971), pp. 267-284.
43. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 10.

 

November 21, 2013

Jesus: I call you to live your lives as devout members of the mystical body of Christ. I have given these writings that men will realize that they are to live united deeply to the Mass going on around the world. Your lives, given as an offering, a sacrifice every moment in union with the Mass going on around the world. Your life, a sacrifice, offered to the Father, in union with the Mass in oneness with Me, in the Holy Spirit through the intercession of the Blessed Mother with all the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory.

Your lives given as members of My mystical body can help to bring down great graces for the priest, the Church and the world.

Excerpt from Response in Christ - Chapter 4 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

“How does the Christian help Christ redeem the world? (Henceforth the term “world” is to be understood as including both rational and nonrational creation.) As previously stated, the Christian helps Christ redeem the world by reliving Christ’s mysteries. The same “events” or mysteries which accomplished the objective redemption further the subjective redemption also. Since at the heart of Christ’s mysteries are His death and Resurrection, it is especially these that the Christian must relive. As the Christian dies mystically with Christ through loving conformity with the Father’s will, he rises with Christ to an ever greater share in the Resurrection, in the newness of life, in the life of grace. As the Christian in this manner relives the paschal mystery of Christ, he is accomplishing not only his own redemption, but he is also, in a mysterious yet real manner, helping Christ redeem the world.”

                R. As we live the Father's will – we die to those
                    things not like Jesus and we rise to
                    greater life in God!

                    Our ultimate goal in the spiritual life
                    is to live a greater life of resurrection –
                    to prepare for our heavenly reward
                    in the beatific vision.

                From the Our Father

                    "Thy will be done on earth as it is
                        in heaven"

                Fr. Carter says:

                    "The members of the mystical body of Christ,
                the Church, are called to re-live Christ's entire
                life as centered in Death-Resurrection."

                St. Ignatius leads us in the Spiritual
                Exercises to live the mysteries of Christ's
                life in our life.

                To me, Jesus has led us in the Shepherds of Christ
                    to live the mysteries of the rosary
                    in our lives
                    in the Blue Book, in the retreat.
                    We are called to live the mystery of Christ
                    in our lives!

                One time I had a vision at Mass in the chapel
                    when Fr. Carter said Mass at the Faber
                    House –

                R. How are we to put on Christ in our vocation?

                God has called us to different vocations
                    in the Church.

                Each Christian lives out his vocation and
                    lives the mystery of Christ in their lives –

                As we live in our vocation we project
                    Christ into the world in our lives –

                This is our calling to live His life,
                    death and resurrection in our lives!

                We are one in Him. We receive the Body and
                    Blood of Jesus, the sharing in His life we
                    receive in baptism is nourished
                    by receiving His Body and Blood.

                We say to Jesus when He asks us –
                    Do you love Me?
                    We shout – Lord we love You!

                Thank You for the Bread of Life!

                We are to bring Christ to the world as
                    God has called us in our vocation
                    with our uniqueness, our gifts and
                    talents in the vocation He called
                    us to – our gifts and talents in
                    living our vocation and building
                    the Kingdom of God –

                We are one body in Him. The Mass is
                    the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
                    made present.

                    We are to work with others in our lives.
                Man does not go to God alone. We were
                created social beings. God in Salvation
                History communicated to man in
                a framework of community.

                    We pray united as one in the Mass.
                We come together as one. We are united
                as members of the mystical body of
                Christ to all the Masses going on around
                the world.

                    We unite in the Morning Offering to all
                the Masses going on around the world.

                    Here is a long Morning Offering Jesus
                gave me June 8, 1995 – 19 years ago –
 

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and Rosary Meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
 

                R. Here is a very short Morning Offering.
 

                R. We like to send to Nursing Homes in
                    big print the Say Daily Card
                    to put by their bed –

                Unity – Unity – Unity

                The Church is

                    One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic –

                We are united at Mass –

                We respond individually to God at Mass.

                We as members of the mystical body of
                    Christ, the Church, are members
                    of a religious community –
                    the People of God –

                "Through Baptism the Christian becomes
                    incorporated into Christ and His Church"

                Davis, Sacraments of Initiation  pp. 30-83

                "Confirmation perfects this incorporation"

                Ibid, p. 127

                Fr. Carter says:

                "Through these two Sacraments the image
                    of Christ is indelibly imprinted upon
                    the soul. The task of the Christian is to
                    grow in this likeness of Christ more
                    and more through the development
                    of the life of sanctifying grace, the
                    Christ-life."

                Baptism primarily initiates us into Christ's
                    Paschal Mystery, His Death and Resurrection.

                St. Paul tells us:

Romans 6: 3-5

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.

                R. Baptism incorporates us into Christ's
                Death and Resurrection and it unites
                us with Christ in all His mysteries.

                R. Here are the Mass Books Jesus gave me for
                    the Church and the world.

 

Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

e) Relationship with Members of the Church

There is but one true Church of Christ. Yet this one Church has three different states of existence. There is the pilgrim Church, the Church of this world, composed of members who have received the grace of Christ and strive for its development. They have not yet obtained the goal of their efforts, as have the members of the heavenly Church, who enjoy God in eternal happiness. The Church suffering is an intermediate state of existence necessary for those who had not achieved the required purification as members of the pilgrim Church. Although there are these three phases of the Church’s existence, there is a profound union existing between all the members. All these members possess the same basic life of grace in Christ, and this common life establishes the most intimate bonds of love. In our preceding chapter, we discussed the pilgrim Church. Let us now consider the Church suffering and the heavenly Church.

The members of the Church suffering are those who have departed from this life in an incomplete state of Christian development. Their development is incomplete in the sense that grace has not fully taken possession of them, and, as a result, they are yet closed in upon themselves to a greater or lesser degree. They as yet cannot open themselves out in complete love to the Triune God in the beatific vision. They must undergo a further purification, a purification which could have been achieved upon earth with merit. Now the purification must be achieved with no merit attached. The pain of this purification is mixed with the certain expectation of achieving the vision of God. We can hasten the advent of this vision for this people by the offering of prayers and other good works. Scripture itself refers to our action on behalf of those in purgatory in Chapter 12 of the Second Book of Maccabees beginning with verse 38.

The members of the heavenly Church are those in whom the life of grace has taken full possession and has reached its completion in the life of glory. Faith now is unnecessary, as the light of glory gives the human intellect a new strength and capacity for seeing God face-to-face. While the Christian was a wayfarer, he received the imprint of the indwelling Trinity as he shared in God’s own life. Now in heaven that grace-life and possession of God reaches its completion—the absolute completion is not achieved, however, until the resurrection of the body. The divine persons give Themselves to the beatified in a profound union far surpassing that of the indwelling of the Trinity experienced here below.

This life of heaven is still the Christ-life, for just as we possess a share in Trinitarian life here below as mediated by Christ, and exercise this grace-life as structured by Him, so also in heaven is the mediation of Christ present. In the words of Rahner, "One always sees the Father through Jesus. Just as immediately as this, for the directness of the vision of God is not a denial of the mediatorship of Christ as man."¹⁴ And not only does the humanity of Christ unite the blessed to God, but also, in some way, to the whole of creation. This is merely a completion of what is begun here below, namely, the union with Christ in His humanity establishing the Christian in a special relationship with God, with other men, and with the whole of creation. We have a glimpse, therefore, of the fullness of life which members of the heavenly Church possess.

The heavenly Church, as St. Thomas says, is the true Church.¹⁵ The Church of this earth and the Church of purgatory are, each in its own way, reaching out in loving hope for the heavenly Jerusalem. Vatican II puts it very simply: "The Church, to which we are called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain her full perfection only in the glory of heaven."¹⁶

The members of the heavenly Church can help us in living our life of grace until we too share its fullness with them. Their power of intercession on our behalf is but another ramification of the communal aspect of Christianity. We are meant to help others grow in Christ. We, in turn, are intended by God to receive aid from others—yes, from members of the heavenly Church, as well as from those with whom we dwell here below.

Not only can we be aided by the saints’ intercession, but the example of the canonized saints can also be of great value to us. They have concretely proved that full holiness is possible. Such an inspiration is of real worth when we are tempted to think that Christian sanctity in its higher degrees is impossible of attainment. Moreover, the canonized saints, in their diversity, teach us that there are many authentic versions of Christian holiness. They can be innovators in showing us that there are numerous possibilities in assimilating the mystery of Christ, although the basic assimilation remains the same for all Christians of all times. In the opinion of Rahner this is one of the chief roles the canonized saints exert in the life of the Church.¹⁷

 

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NOTES:

 ¹⁴Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Vol. III (Baltimore: Helicon, 1967), p. 44.
 ¹⁵ Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, In Ad Ephes., c. 3, Lect. 3.
 ¹⁶Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 48.
 ¹⁷Cf. Karl Rahner, Op. cit., pp. 100-101.

    

                Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Carter S. J. pp. 99-100

     Each Christian, according to God's plan for him, must have a vital and dynamic desire to help Christianize the whole world. Perhaps he can do very little through direct, external apostolate. But his prayers and sacrifices – indeed, his entire life – can touch the whole world. Through an intense Christian life the individual can help Christ further the redemption of the family, the business world, the social structure and the like. The Christian is called to have this deep desire: to see the whole universe imprinted with the name of Christ. How true it is to say that the Christian's vocation, rooted in the liturgy, calls for deep involvement in this sacred activity.⁴¹

     In schematic outline we have discussed the manner in which the baptized Christian extends his Mass to his daily existence. As he so lives out his Mass, he is becoming more Christlike. He becomes a more perfect priest and victim for his next participation in the eucharistic sacrifice.⁴² The beautiful cycle which the Mass contains lies exposed before us. As part of this cycle the Christian is intimately involved in the process of continued redemption. The Mass is the center of the Christian life: ". . . the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the fount from which all her power flows."⁴³

1. Cf. Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Church, No. 36.

2. For a current treatment of the varied richness of the Eucharist, cf. J. Wicks, "The Movement of Eucharistic Theology" in Chicago Studies, Vol. 10 (1971), pp. 267-284.

3. The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, No. 10.

                 Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Carter S. J. p. 188

    In conclusion, we repeat that every state of life within the Church is fundamentally a particular life-form of Christian love. According to his vocation it is the primary task of the Christian to open himself to God's love and to respond to that love, to love man and to open himself to receive love from other human persons. These various dimensions of love are at the heart of our participation in Christ's death-resurrection. It is in trying to love properly that we really learn what it means to die with Christ. Receiving God's love and giving ourselves in return can cost us much, very much, at times. And to love others and open ourselves to their love can involve its own share of pain, hurt and frustration. Yes, to love properly truly means to die with Christ. Yet more importantly, to love properly also means to share in His Resurrection, His newness of life. Life here and hereafter is essentially a life of love. Without love there is no real happiness, no real joy, no real peace. If we are not willing to pay the price of loving, then we do not really wish to experience life in its fullness. For the Christian especially, to live is to love.

                 Excerpt from Response in Christ by Fr. Carter S. J. p. 226

We hereby arrive at the conclusion of our study of the Christian life. We have seen all the various facets of this life, both in its fundamental structure and in its means for expression and growth. Christ is the one who gives unity to all these facets; Christ is always central. In Him God continually gives Himself in loving self-communication. In Christ we make our own response in love. In Him we also exercise the other dimensions of our God-life. In Christ we love people and the creation which serves man. In Christ we likewise open ourselves to the love which others give us. Cutting across all these dimensions of our life in Christ is the pattern of death-resurrection. It is an important pattern, as we have often stressed. But remember, it is a pattern of love. The true Christian is one who is continually trying to love, who is always opening himself up to love. For the authentic Christian, life is a life of love.