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March 30, 2004

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb
the Bridegroom of the soul

    Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

   

4:00 a.m. - Mass

4:37 a.m. - Soothing Mary Songs

5:05 a.m. - Joyful Aves

5:35 a.m. - Morning Offering and prayers

5:47 a.m. - Fr. Carter' Messages

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

7:24 a.m. - Response to God's Love - Chapter 1

8:23 a.m. - Nursing Home #3

9:05 a.m. - Blue Book Reading from August 10, 2003

11:10 a.m. - Songs from Jesus

11:50 a.m. - Stations of the Cross

12:11 p.m. - Sorrowful Aves

12:43 p.m. - Songs

2:03 p.m. - Children Rosary April 25, 1996

2:45 p.m. - October 1, 1995 Songs & Messages

3:49 p.m. - Songs

4:00 p.m. - Mass

4:37 p.m. - Intimacy

5:57 p.m. - Mary's Messages

6:03 p.m. - Songs

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

7:24 p.m. - Children's Rosary July 15, 1995

8: 17 p.m. - Mass by Fr. Carter July 5, 2000

9:07 p.m. - Songs

10: 27 p.m. - Nursing Home #7

11:04 p.m. - Piano Songs

11:56 p.m. - Newsletter 2000 Issue 1 (Christ is Our Strength)

1:16 p.m. - Choose Life

2:18 p.m. - Spirituality of Fatima

3:00 p.m. - Seven Sorrows

3:14 p.m. - Songs

4:00 p.m. - Mass

    

    

May 16, 2004

Jesus speaks:        Fear can be a crippling thing to
                        an individual.

                            Pride keeps someone stuck.

                            First to thine own self be true.

                            Truth is paramount to peace.
                            There are so many problems because
                        some project past problems, old
                        wounds etc on others.

                            Man has many imperfections.
                        Recovery is a time, a special time
                        when people look at themselves
                        honestly and live as they ought.

                            Many have used the 12 steps
                        of alcoholic anonymous.

The Twelve Steps of AA

            Here are the steps we took, which are suggested as a program of recovery:

                    1.  We admitted we were powerless over alcohol,
                            that our lives had become unmanageable.

                    2.  Came to believe that a Power greater than
                            ourselves could restore us to sanity.

                    3.  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
                            over to the care of God as we understood Him.

                    4.  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

                    5.  Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human
                            being the exact nature of our wrongs.

                    6.  Were entirely ready to have God remove all
                            these defects of character.

                    7.  Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

                    8.  Made a list of all persons we had harmed,
                            and became willing to make amends to them all.

                    9.  Made direct amends to such people wherever possible,
                            except when to do so would injure them or others.

                    10.  Continued to take personal inventory and when we
                            were wrong promptly admitted it.

                    11.  Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our
                            conscious contact with God as we understood Him,
                            praying only for knowledge of His will for us and
                            the power to carry that out.

                    12.  Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps,
                            we tried to carry this message to alcoholics,
                            and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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

Messenger:       This message was first given through
                            the hand of a child —

                            I dictated it to her as I drove
                                away from Conyers.

Luke 10: 21-22

Just at this time, filled with joy by the Holy Spirit, he said, ‘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. Yes, Father, for that is what it has pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’

May 16, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:    The pruning must take place, let me
                            tell you a story.

                        A man and woman were married — when
                            the imperfections of each surfaced
                            they worked in love to change
                            themselves, so they could be
                            more perfected themselves and
                            thus be deeply united.

                        In the Trinity there are 3 Persons
                            in one God.

                        God is perfect.

                        The 3 Persons are one.

                        There are no imperfections in God.

                        Another man and woman got married,
                            she was from a dysfunctional
                            home and so was he. He had
                            stronger controlling measures,
                            the relationship they had was very
                            dysfunctional, she bended to
                            his dysfunctional ways because
                            of the control mechanism
                            he used. Life was miserable, painful
                            and there was not harmony or visible love shown.

                        A third man and woman married — he
                            was dysfunctional and so was
                            she. Neither would bend from
                            their dysfunctional ways — finally
                            because of great pain and strong
                            wills they got a divorce.

                            It is difficult for men and women
                        in love to work out problems
                        if they do not love deeply and
                        are from very difficult homes and
                        if they are controlling.

                            Look at a man as a room and
                        a woman as a room. Both have
                        imperfections, both have different
                        talents.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:        Think of them
                        marrying and uniting as 2 rooms
                        with a common wall.

                            That wall can more and more
                        dissolve as people grow individually
                        and in greater oneness.

                            Two rooms united as one. As
                        problems arise it may seem that
                        you need to draw back and the wall
                        may feel as if it is back thicker and
                        taller, but with prayer and grace two
                        people can work in love and in oneness,
                        sharing feeling, loving to serve and
                        honor God and live according
                        to God's will.

Genesis 3: 16

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.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:        Here is a picture of a room

as two become united as one the wall disappears more rough edges come off — each grow in greater perfection more like your Heavenly Father.

Genesis 1: 27

    God created man in the image of himself, 
    in the image of God he created him, 
    male and female he created them. 

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

                            Sing: Let There Be Peace on Earth

imperfections like sticks into our neighbors or intimate others

May 16, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:        I call you to purity and peace.

                            I have called religious communities
                        to grow in great oneness for a
                        particular purpose.

                            These people may be thought of as
                        many rooms united in one house.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:    The imperfection can be as pointed
                            sticks that come back again
                            and again and again until one
                            admits their problems to themselves
                            and prays for tremendous grace to get over
                            them —

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them put a question, 'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets also'.

John 17: 20-23

I pray not only for these
but also for those
who through their teaching
will come to believe in me.
May they all be one,
just as, Father, you are in me
   and I am in you,
so that they also may be in us,
so that the world may believe
it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory
   you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so perfected in unity
that the world will recognise
   that it was you who sent me
and that you have loved them
as you have loved me.

     

May 16, 2004 message continues

May 16, 2004 message continues

May 16, 2004 message continues

Messenger:       There is joy in the vocation —
                            Serving Jesus —
                            being a handmaid
                            like Mary —

                        Giving oneself for the joy
                            of serving Jesus —
                            not for selfish pride —
                            not to get old wounds
                            worked out on others
                            in the community —

                        A handmaid and servant is
                            humble and docile
                            serving Jesus as His
                            bride in the Movement.

                        A handmaid and servant does their hour.

                        They do not sleep during this hour
                            every day.

                        They attend daily Mass.

                        They pray the 6:20 prayers.

                        They pray hourly.

                        They pray the rosary.

                        In the Mass we offer ourselves
                            as a sacrifice.

                        The Mass talks about our sin. In the
                            beginning of Mass we ask forgiveness
                            for our sins and for grace.

                        Christ died for our sins.

                        He came to this earth and gave
                            Himself to His death on the
                            cross for our sins.

1 John 1: 8-10

If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.

   

May 16, 2004 message continues

Messenger:           Christ died for our sins, He
                        took our sins on His back, He
                        was whipped, crowned with thorns,
                        nailed to a cross, and hung for 3
                        hours for our sins.

                            Look what Judas did. Christ
                        loved Him even though He knew
                        He would betray Him.

                            It is pride to think we have
                        arrived and we do not have to
                        work on our imperfections. When
                        we act wrongfully, habitually in
                        relationships we hurt others and
                        our own spiritual life.

                            Many communities today have
                        dissolved because people do not
                        want to live under anyone, they
                        want to do things their own way.
                        The world teaches us to be out for
                        #1.

                        Jesus wants communities as the Shepherds
                        of Christ living for a common purpose in
                        oneness —

                        Living as the spouse of Jesus.
                        Living to please our spouse.
                        Living our vocation in love and with
                        commitment.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Messenger:     Does that mean that I rattle it off
                            and do what I please —

                        Or does that mean during retreat and
                            daily when I commit I kneel
                            before Jesus in the tabernacle
                            or before the crucifix and I
                            commit to my vocation.

                        Then I live my vocation, committed
                            to my vocation in love, playing
                            power games, passive-aggressive
                            games with others and the superior
                            is a far cry from living ones
                            vocation in holy love to please
                            Jesus our spouse.

                        The spiritual exercises are key in
                            helping one look at sin and their
                            attachments, praying for grace
                            to not be blind and to change
                            from hidden destructive habits,
                            doing all things for the honor and
                            glory of God, meditating on the
                            lives of Jesus and Mary.

                            The St. Ignatian retreat/Shepherds of Christ
                        retreat is centered around a different set of
                        mysteries of the rosary every day.
                        Jesus has promised tremendous graces
                        for healing from the retreats in
                        China.

                            Lets look at a dark room with lots
                        of furniture. A man goes into the room
                        in the dark and keeps hitting himself on
                        chairs, lamps, the sofa, a table. Unless
                        a path is cleared and he moves some furniture
                        so he can follow it — he will keep stumbling
                        into the furniture in the way as he walks
                        in the dark.

                            Our hidden imperfections are
                        like that. We keep stumbling into
                        them, they are usually habitual
                        behaviors from childhood and if some
                        friend or others tell us about our
                        ways, or a confessor, we like to
                        blame them and continue the same
                        way resistant to change.

                            Couple that with a community of
                        men and women living in different
                        houses, but working together, some
                        have broken marriages, some are fathers
                        and mothers of children who have been
                        real problems, some have grown
                        up in an alcoholic house, some
                        are very controlling and prideful,
                        some have lived alone for 60 years,
                        some are babies, or rescuers,
                        some are very angry people, sex offenders.

                            No wonder community religious life is
                        on the down side in a world that
                        is so secularistic and prideful,
                        with so many evil ways, luring
                        sexual pleasures on newsstands
                        everywhere even — health magazines
                        in the mailbox.

                            Convents and seminaries have
                        closed, Churches etc. and yet more and
                        more million and 1/2 dollar houses
                        are built every day as a second
                        home, hotels in Las Vegas that cannot
                        even hardly be envisioned, marble,
                        gold, so many rooms to accommodate
                        the pleasure city.

                            Where have all the sisters gone.
                        One, two or maybe none in some Catholic
                        schools. Many Catholic schools merged
                        or closed.

                            My sister who commit suicide on
                        the Blessed Mother's birthday after
                        being a Sister of Charity for 26 years
                        went from a postulant outfit using
                        only a wash bowl to a red dress
                        at 24 years and not living in a
                        convent any more. She had taken a
                        vow of poverty, required, many new
                        sisters did not have to.

                            Jesus is talking about servants and
                        handmaids loving their vocation.
                        Fr. Carter said he thanked God everyday
                        when speaking to us and prayed for
                        perseverance every day.

Excerpt from February 1, 1998

Talk by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J.

    Perseverance in the Movement—all vocations, all callings need perseverance. I pray for perseverance as a Jesuit every day of my life. I pray for perseverance. I’m suggesting to all of us that we pray for perseverance in the Movement and not just a status quo type of perseverance, but pray for a perseverance which will allow us to dynamically grow and be greater apostles in the Movement. And we have to take the means to persevere.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Messenger:       This is a vocation in the Shepherds of Christ.

                        How do you think Jesus likes whiners,
                            working out their games on the
                            leaders, leaders giving bad
                            examples in religious communities.

                        Jesus wants special spouses.
                        Living to love and please Him.

                        Here is a message I got January 2, 1999.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Messenger:       On December 18, 2000 Fr. Carter died —

                        As John and I arrived at Columbiere right
                            after his death it began to snow
                            heavy big flakes —

                        By the next morning when we left
                            everything was covered with snow.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Messenger:       Last month after we prayed all day in China
                            April 13, when we came out
                            around 5:00 pm big flakes — so
                            big came down and had
                            covered the ground.

                            Here are pictures

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

China retreat April 13, 2004

  China retreat April 13, 2004

May 16, 2004 message continues

                        It usually never snows in Indiana
                            there on April 13.

May 16, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:        I want big pictures of the
                        crucifix in Clearwater
                        circulated. I have attached
                        tremendous grace to those
                        who pray fervently before the
                        crucifix —

                        Under the crucifix it must say

                        From St. Ignatius

                            "What have I done for Christ?
                            What am I doing for Christ?
                            What ought I do for Christ?"

                        On the back it should say

Cardinal Newman tells us: "Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not born at random... God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, He lodges it in a body, one by one, for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us."¹⁰

10. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations, Longmans, Green and Co., pp. 111-112.

                        Some should be laminated.
                        Some about size of prayer manual.

Messenger:     Our vocation must be lived with
                            a pure intention to be
                            whatever God calls us to —
                            to love and serve God.

                        We must strive to live each day
                            in joy, in love.
                        We must see the gifts God
                            gives us —
                            See His grace given to us.

                        Pray for grace to live our vocation.

                        Do we identify with the passion
                            and forget about meditating
                            on the joy?

                        Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.

                        Think of the 40 days of lent —
                            the 40 days of joy after Easter.

                        We are in those days of joy.

                        We are imperfect — we must
                            strive to be more perfect,
                            but be loving for we are
                            imperfect and so are our
                            brothers.

                        Think of a mom or dad getting
                            up with the baby. The mom
                            breastfeeding it after she is
                            already exhausted, cleaning
                            up vomit for a sick child when
                            you have just had a new baby and are
                            breastfeeding a new baby.

                        THIS IS LOVE OF HER VOCATION.

                        Shouldn't a religious nun or
                            brother, love their vocation —
                            serve Jesus and show love —

                        Why are they a religious if they
                            complain about everything
                            they are asked to do —

                        They are in the wrong vocation
                            possibly they should go
                            out to the world where they
                            can "call the shots".

                        Convents and seminaries are empty —
                            don't you think you should
                            pray like Jesus said.

Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

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

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter

A message for the Earth from Jesus

January 22, 1998

    I am the Good Shepherd, these are My prayers, the prayers I give to help renew the Church and the world, all prayer chapters are asked to include these prayers (found in the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual). As My Apostles and Shepherds I ask you to encourage all existing Chapters to try to encourage all existing prayer groups to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Encourage all Churches to pray these prayers. It is most urgent that the people of this earth concur with the Father's wishes to begin Prayer Chapters. This is an urgent request from the Good Shepherd. The flock will become one when they have given their hearts to Jesus and Mary. Encourage all priests to pray the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Your world will be lighted with great light as the people of this earth pray these prayers.

    My promise is this to you My beloved earth: When you give your heart to Me and spread the devotion to My Sacred Heart, I will write your name In My Heart. I promise to give the greatest graces when you pray these prayers for renewal of the Church and the world and take all who pray them deeply into My Heart. The prayers I give will bring about the reign of My Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. I am Jesus Christ, this is My message of January 22, 1998, Please circulate this message to your world. I am the Good Shepherd, I know Mine and Mine know Me and they follow Me. Grace My Shepherds, I will give you the greatest graces for spreading these words to this earth and to your Church. I love you, I am Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, it is the Plan of the Father that Prayer Chapters are begun immediately and the Priestly Newsletter is given to all priests. The Voice of the Good Shepherd speaks through it.

end of January 22, 1998

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

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