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

May 16, 2003

May 17th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 4 Period II.
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for May 17th is Sorrowful.

             
   

Hebrews 9: 11-15

    But now Christ has come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has passed through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is, not of this created order; and he has entered the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurred defilement, may restore their bodily purity. How much more will the blood of Christ, who offered himself, blameless as he was, to God through the eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can worship the living God.

Christ seals the new covenant with his blood

This makes him the mediator of a new covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an eternal inheritance may receive the promise.

     

  

May 16, 1998 - Prayer to the Father

My Father,

        With my whole heart I desire to consecrate the whole world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I wish with my whole being for the salvation of souls and that man live according to Thy Holy Will. I pray my Father that we may be one in You and Your Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit that we may intercede to You for this cause.

        It is this burning desire within my soul to spread the consecration to the far ends of the earth, that the cries of Your children are cries of glory and honor and adoration, praising God as their God.

        My Father, at this moment a soul hangs on the edge of death. For all eternity they will go to a place. It is not the plot of this soul as it trods this barren land to decide on the edge of death. You created us that we would grow in our oneness with God, that we would mature more and more in our image and likeness to God.

        And so My Father, I pray with every cell in my body for this earth. In the name of Your Son Jesus I consecrate all the souls of this earth to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Holy Spirit in union with the Holy sacrifice of the Mass with all the angels and saints and the souls in Purgatory.

        I beg You Father for mercy.
        I beg You Father for assistance.
        I beg You Father to help us to spread this consecration to the far ends of the earth.

        Please help us. We are helpless little ones coming in the heart of our Mother, bleeding from our wounds and our sins.

        Your Son, Jesus Christ, shed the last drop of His Blood for the salvation of mankind. We wish to unite in this sacrifice, sacramentally made present in the Mass all over the world at every moment. Help us to make reparation to You for the sins of men.

        Please my Father, help us. Held in the heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus we come as the children of Eve to beg for the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the Triumph of Mary's heart. Look upon our love, Your shepherds in the Shepherds of Christ, our sacrifices and devotion to You Our Beloved Father. Come by the means of the Holy Spirit and sanctify us and make us whole, that we are one in Your Son Jesus, praying to You, Father, in the name of Your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit united with all the angels and saints, in the heart of Mary. We beg for help for special intentions concerning the Movement. We beg for help to reach the Churches to give these prayers of Jesus to them, to reach the schools and the family. Help we cry as poor banished children of Eve. Help us Father to do this work the Good Shepherd has entrusted to us. Help us to be one in You that we act as intercessors to help this world to be turned to God as their God, loving, honoring and adoring Him as the Lord of Host is truly present on His throne.

        We are Your children Father, we implore You to answer our prayer.
        We love You, we worship You, we adore You, we thank you and we sing from the bottom of our hearts, Holy God we Praise Your Name. Alleluia

end of prayer to the Father

  

    

May 16, 2003

Messenger:      I love the consecration at Mass so much I

                            cry because I just love God so much

                            and the power of that moment and

                            I am so close to God at that moment —

                            all of heaven and earth and what

                            follows in the Mass,

                            To be one...

                            Oh my God I love you so much —

                            This is life to me —

                            This is for what I live —

                            I want the consecration to last —

                            I want to ponder how priests all

                                over the world are offering

                                sacrifice all day.

                            It is so wonderful because of

                                the days and nights being different

                                all over the world, that the

                            Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is going

                                on all day.

                            God gave us this gift, it is night

                                here when it is morning some

                                place else and Mass is being

                                offered all over the world at

                                different times.

                        I cry at the word "one".

                        This is what God wants.

                        The Persons of the Trinity are one.

                        The Perfect Community.

                        We see how our imperfections in

                            community keep us from

                            being one.

                        God wants us to strive for perfection.

                        God is perfect. It is imperfections

                            and lack of genuine love that

                            separates us.

                        A mother that truly loves her

                            children loves them wheather

                            they love her or not. Some children

                            do not do good things, a mother

                            that loves her children still loves 

                            them but not their actions. She 

                            loves them deeply in her heart

                            and wants what God wants

                            for them and prays for this.

                        Oh that we would be one as God

                            intends.

                        Oh my Savior I long for the lights

                            of heaven, my soul cries for

                            completeness in Thee —

                        To receive Thee is my delight —

                        My heart is full of love.

                        I am engulfed in such love

                            I cry and can scarcely breath —

                            not in words, could I ever

                            express my love for Thee —

                            love for all —

                        He embraces me, He is the

                            initiator, He fills me with

                            His love and knowledge of Him,

                            The Holy Spirit fills me with

                                love, My heart burns.

                        My brother is the priest where I

                            just went to Mass.

                        All the little children just came and

                            gave him cards and they made

                            today Fr. Joe _____ at St. _____

                            School.

                        He got up and told all the children

                            how he loved it at the church

                            and he said it would be a good

                            life for anyone who thought

                            they were called to be a priest

                            or sister. He said he loved being

                            being a priest. He said it tenderly to

                            the grade school children.

                        I never heard a priest tell the children

                            this. It was so beautiful.

                        I know the school my son went to

                            was a big boys high school, Catholic,

                            maybe 1600 boys — I used to

                            pray in the chapel and cry before

                            the tabernacle that there would

                            be priests that came out of there.

                        God wants us to be one.

                        When we stay united to the Mass we

                            grow in deeper oneness.

                        When we consecrate our hearts to

                            the Hearts of Jesus and Mary we

                            grown in greater oneness.

                        Then my brother said at Mass —

                            one thing I really want on

                            Sunday is for more to come to

                            Mass, so many do other things,

                            I wish the Church was full.

                        My brother is really holy, he holds

                            the host up and it is so

                            reverent and I feel so deeply

                            connected to God in the Mass

                            when he celebrates.

                        I wish I had a movie of that touching

                            gift of the school children and respect

                            and love for their pastor.

                        I wish priests would tell the children

                            in schools about being a priest and 

                            sister and what a good life it is. At the Catholic 

                            all boys school that prepare the students

                            for all the jobs that they may have I

                            wish they would very strongly speak

                            about the Church and what a great

                            gift God has given to us in the priest.

   

     

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     I would love to talk to people about Jesus

                            in the Eucharist and the priest and

                            the gift of our Church, I do this

                            when I write. I speak to the world

                            of the message of Jesus. I deliver

                            the Blue Book messages, Jesus

                            speaks of His love for souls and the 

                            gift of the Eucharist. Jesus also wants 

                            these writings to be spread after I die 

                            and Fr. Carter's writings also.

                        I love the Eucharist so much, my heart burns

                            to write about it, my heart burns to think 

                            about the anticipation of

                            this deep gift of union with God.

                        This was the first message Jesus gave

                            me for God's Blue Book —

                            written in the hand of a child.

   

   

 

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993 

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

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

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

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

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

end of May 13, 1993 message

 

      

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     We don't need a doctor's degree to learn

                            about loving God and others.

                        From the hand of a child, Jesus writes

                            the mission I have been called to.

                        "I will be one in you" and "you will

                            be one in Me"

                        Such intimacy —

                        Then He gives us Himself in the Holy

                            Eucharist —

                        The Divine God comes to us and is so

                            one with us.

                        Here is an excerpt from Fr. Carter on the

                            Trinity.

    

Excerpt from Response to God's Love

The Mystery of Christ and

Christian Existence

 

  Etymologically, the word mystery basically means that which is secret or hidden. It was used in a religiously technical sense even before Christianity. Mystery was used, for example, to designate certain religious rites of pagan Hellenism, secret rites that were closed to outsiders unless they had been properly initiated into them. In relation to Egyptian hermeticism, the word mystery was applied to initiation into secret religious ideas or doctrines. 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).

end of excerpt from Response In Christ

  

 

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     We just don't realize how wonderful

                            it is to be so deeply united to God.

                         God is Our Father and He created us to be

                            so one with Him.

    

Luke 10: 21

‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children'

   

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     Look at the hard metal and loud piercing

                            tones, the dissonance, disharmony,

                            selfishness, self-focus of being #1

                        God is light and in Him there is no darkness

                            at all.

                        In the Trinity there are Three Persons and

                            One God.

                        God wants married couples to live as

                            one.

                        We see the devil in the garden of Eden.

                        The devil tempts Eve, Eve tells Adam,

                            they both give into the devil.

                        We see Cain and Abel.

                        Cain gave into the devil.

    

Genesis 4: 7

...But if you are not doing right, Sin is crouching at the door hungry to get you. You can still master him.’

   

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     God told Cain, but he gave in.

                        What makes the people Victors in

                            the end of the Bible?

  

1 Corinthians 15: 57

 Thank God, then, for giving us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.

   

1 John 5: 4-5  

because every child of God 
overcomes the world. 
And this is the victory 
    that has overcome the world—
our faith.

Who can overcome the world 
but the one who believes 
    that Jesus is the Son of God?

  

Revelation 2: 26-29

To anyone who proves victorious, and keeps working for me until the end, I will give the authority over the nations which I myself have been given by my Father, to rule them with an iron sceptre and shatter them like so many pots. And I will give such a person the Morning Star. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

  

Revelation 3: 12-13

Anyone who proves victorious I will make into a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and it will stay there for ever; I will inscribe on it the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem which is coming down from my God in heaven, and my own new name as well. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

   
 

July 4, 1996

   This message was received before a live statue of the Sorrowful Mother after Communion.
   Message from Jesus: "Peace will abound when nations, churches, families and individuals are consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
   "Fr. Carter is a pillar of light to the dark world. This is the explanation of the photo. It is through him, I will turn darkness to light. Circulate this message with the picture. Encourage all to consecrate their hearts to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to join the Shepherds of Christ Chapters, and the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Movement to pray for your Church and your world. This is My Movement for renewal of the Church and the world, based in consecration, joining your every act to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, praying the rosary, and making reparation to Our Hearts, especially on First Fridays and First Saturdays. It is through your prayers and sacrifices many souls will be helped to be saved. Grace will flow from those whose hearts are consecrated to Our Hearts and the fire of My Love will light up this darkened world."
   As you look at the picture, you see Fr. Carter's arm and hand on your left. This picture of Fr. Carter was taken July 2, 1996 at the Tuesday Shepherds of Christ Meeting at Tom Arlinghaus' Farm.

end of July 4, 1996 message

   
 

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     The victors are the ones who consecrate

                            their hearts to the Sacred Heart

                            of Jesus and the Immaculate

                            Heart of Mary.

                            The ones who make Jesus the King and Center

                                of their hearts.

    
 

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

    ...Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. (19)


NOTES:

19. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to
        Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven
(Rockford:
        TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.9.

 

  
  

       

 
 

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:     The first Blue Book Message was

                            written May 13, 1993 in the hand of

                            a child.

                        Jesus' message is not complicated.

                        When we go to the tabernacle and go to

                            Communion we can get lots of grace.

                        When Jesus gives us special grace we

                            can know Him deeper and deeper

                            it doesn't take a lot of

                            education, when we are one

                            with Him, we are more loving —

                            He is love.

  

Revelation 3: 5-6

Anyone who proves victorious will be dressed, like these, in white robes; I shall not blot that name out of the book of life, but acknowledge it in the presence of my Father and his angels. Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."

   

Luke 1: 46-55

The Magnificat

And Mary said:
My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;

because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.

Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.

He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love

—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

   

   

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.

  

January 5, 2003

  

January 5, 2003

  

January 5, 2003

      
 

  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.’

    

January 5, 2003

   

Revelation 3: 15-16

I know about your activities: how you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were one or the other, but since you are neither hot nor cold, but only lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth.

  
 

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:      God doesn't want us to say one thing one day

                             and then do something else the next day —

   
Matthew 5:37

All you need say is "Yes" if you mean yes, "No" if you mean no; anything more than this comes from the Evil One.

     

May 16, 2003 message continues

Messenger:      God is light and in him there is no

                            darkness at all.

Jesus speaks:  Don't give into satan.

                        Don't you see the story of the Bible.

                        I appear and My Mother appears in

                            Florida.

                        I do not want you willful, disobeying

                            God's will for you.

                        You must pray to the Holy Spirit to know

                            the will of God.

                        Pray for grace all day to do

                            God's will —

                        You can pray and be very cruel to others.

                        I tell you to obey Me and to be

                            loving.

                        All things are to be done for the

                            honor and glory of God.

                        I am Jesus King and Master —

                            honor Me.

      

      

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Here is the schedule for our web radio
May 17, 2003.

4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - November 13, 1996 Live Rosary

5:57 a.m. - Songs from Jesus

6:20 a.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                 Holy Spirit Novena
                 Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                 Rosary

7:23 a.m. - Grace by Father Carter
                    read by Father Mike Paraniuk

8:31 a.m. - August 20, 1996 Rosary
                    from the Mass Book

9:43 a.m. - Spirituality Handbook
                    read by Father Carter

11:17 a.m. - January 13, 1996 Live Rosary

12:47 p.m. - Newsletter 2001 Issue 2
                    read by Father
Mike Paraniuk

3:26 p.m. - Songs from Jesus

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Tell My People
                    read by Father Carter

6:08 p.m. - Songs from Jesus

6:20 p.m. - 6:20 prayers led by Father Carter
                  Holy Spirit Novena
                  Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
                  Rosary

7:23 p.m. - Spirituality Handbook
                    read by
Rita Ring

8:38 p.m. - Choose Life

9:40 p.m. - Mary's Message

10:37 p.m. - Response to God's Love chapter 1

11:35 p.m. - Messages from December 12, 2002 
                    feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

12:23 a.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 1
                    read by Father
Carter

1:42 a.m. - Love Songs and Messages
                    October 1, 1994

2:46 a.m. - Rosary of Light led by Rita Ring

3:40 a.m. - Songs from Jesus

4:00 a.m. - Mass

       


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