Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A. We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome.

May 19, 2000

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.

Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.

Messenger: Jesus has asked us to put on the following messages today.

Excerpt from Blue Book V:

November 10, 1994

An Urgent Message

Jesus speaks: Be wrapped in the arms of My loving Mother whom I love so dearly. I write here about all My love given to you, but who listens? I give to you messages of My love and they are treated so lightly. Souls will be lost for not reading these messages. I beg you to publish My letters. Every word I write to every human soul. I want them to read these letters of My intense love.

I died for you on the cross. I came, I was born a mere human. I gave My life for you. I give these letters of My intense love. I tell you, souls need these letters! They need all the letters. To hold up My letters is to deprive souls of personal love letters I write to them.

Faith, My child, I tell you to have faith. I am Jesus Christ, I am writing to My beloved souls. I beg you, I beg you, to take Me seriously. I write everyday, I tell you how to be holy, I tell you of My love. These letters will draw men’s hearts to My Most Sacred Heart. Your answers of loving each other lie in these letters. My Heart is so sad for the souls that will be lost because they did not know My love.

I, Jesus Christ, write every day. My beloved ones are missing My words of love I give to them! Nothing is more important than spreading the love of God. You are operating to draw souls closer to the Sacred Heart, yet you tend to other details and hold up My letters. Are you operating to lead men to heaven? I am calling out for the holiness I teach you in these letters. You miss the golden gift I give you here.

Your answers are found in these letters. I call, I knock, I write, I beg, I am God and I am ignored. Souls will be lost if you do not spread these letters of My intense love. I teach you so sweetly how to love one another.

You cannot love each other if you do not know the intense love I have for you. The answers to My love are found to a great extent in prayer. I am truly present in My Divinity and Humanity in the Eucharist. I am alone there most of the time. Can you find one soul to be with God? What is more important than God? I am your beloved Jesus that died on the cross, no less present than the day I died and who spends one hour with Me? If you loved Me you would wait with Me, you would come with hearts full of love and anxious to be with Me.

You are missing our love affair because you are not reading My love letters. I profess day after day in every word how I love you. How it wounds My Heart to see the cold hearts of My faithful ones. Your answers are found in loving Me. I am the Sacred Heart. You are drawn closest to Me in the Blessed Sacrament, in the Eucharist. My Heart is a symbol of My intense love for you. I cry out for our love affair. Men will be drawn close to My Heart and to holiness when you circulate My love letters.

I am Jesus. I come to you with greatest love in songs and messages. I am God and I am ignored. Souls need these messages. The devil has created this confusion . You do not go to My tabernacle, you argue with one another for solutions. You try to figure your answers out and I sit with all the answers. I write these letters to you everyday and no one listens.

I want My letters of love to be circulated. I have given you four books of My love letters. I want the messages circulated. Your city will be lighted with My love when you circulate these letters given to you by Me. I am Jesus. Your answers are in holiness. My letters will lead men’s hearts to such burning love for Me. Play My love songs. I love you so much!

Publish the messages on the rosary. My Mother appears, day after day, and tells you how to make the rosary alive in your life. You will not be Christ-like if you do not meditate on our lives. Our lives are your key to living Christ-like lives. If you pray the rosary as We have instructed, you will live Our lives in your lives everyday. These meditations need to circulate.

I am Jesus, I am writing to you every day. I am ignored. I beg you to light your city with the love of Jesus in your hearts. I want My books published. I will provide the funding for books three and four. Book three is your answer to your problems of loving one another. You need to circulate these messages on hate and anger and love! I ask you, I beg you, please publish all My books! Your answers lie in these books. I am Jesus. I am writing to you this day with My Heart a burning furnace of love. I show this Heart to Rita. I ask you, please to listen. I have been ignored. Your sweet ones need these messages. I love each person. I want to have a love relationship with each person.

Every word I write here is of My intense love. These messages need to be read so people realize I am writing every love letter to them. It makes Me so sad to love so much and to write these letters to My beloved ones and for them to not be circulated.

I love as I say here and much more. The insights into My life and My Mother’s life, into her suffering and My suffering, are in these letters. You hold up messages of such love I pour out day after day.

I am Jesus. This is the mighty medicine. Time is so short. Your answers for your Center are in these messages. You are My city of love. I love each person with the dearest love I profess in the letters. My Mother wants all there to pray the rosary as she has instructed. I beg you to listen to My letters. These are My letters given to you. You will stay divided if you do not circulate these messages. I write every day for 10 months of My intense love and you have only circulated two letters. I beg you, I beg you, I beg you to take Me seriously. These are My letters given to you. Unless you circulate these letters of My love people will continue to be divided. They need to realize My intense love. I appeared in the grotto to show you that Jesus and Mary are united to spread My love at your Center.

I tell you, I ask you, you try to answer your questions, when your answers are found in My letters of love. Release these messages and you will have hearts on fire for love of Me. Hearts that are holy do not hate one another. Hearts that realize the love of God operate with love. I died for you. I gave you these letters today to spread My love. I beg you, beg you to publish all My letters. I am Jesus. I am writing to each soul, My precious love.

It wounds Me so, you do not believe Me. If you truly believed Me, you would read My letters and circulate them. Pray the Prayer for Union with Jesus… in it lies the secret to your city of love.

Excerpt from the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Issue 3, 2000

We live out our Christ-life in an atmosphere of love. Indeed, the life Jesus has given us is centered in love. It has its origins in the mysterious love of God (Jn 3:16).

Our new life in Jesus has arisen out of God’s fathomless love. Christ, in His descent into human flesh, has established a milieu of love. The life He came to give can flourish only in the framework of love. Indeed, we can summarize the meaning of the Christian life by stating that it is our loving response to God’s love. The pierced Heart of Jesus, this Heart which shed its last drop of blood in the greatest love for each one of us, is the symbol of God’s tremendous love for us. Christ’s Heart also calls us to respond by giving ourselves in love to God and neighbor. Yes, Jesus invites us to respond to God’s love by giving ourselves in love to Him in an ever closer union. The more closely we are united to Him, the greater is our capacity to love God and neighbor. The more closely we are united with Jesus, the more closely He unites us to the Father in the Holy Spirit, with Mary our Mother at our side.

(End of Excerpt from the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, Issue 3, 2000)

I Ask You to Obey

May 11, 1994 5:00a.m.

Jesus speaks: Put your trust in Me. I do not ask you to analyze what I am doing. I ask you to obey. I truly will take care of you. If the whole world goes one way, you do as you are told. I want obedience even when you do not want to do what I am asking you to.

I ask for a clean heart. I ask you to act as I have acted. This is hard in this world. The world tells you to stand up for yourself and be aggressive. I tell you to love your brothers and be kind to them, to love your brothers as yourselves, to be willing to die for your brothers. This takes submission. It takes letting your ego go and yielding to love. It hurts sometimes to let go of self and love your brother. This is My way. They tore My flesh and I forgave them. Like an innocent lamb led to the slaughter, I was crucified. Did I fight back and justify Myself? Live to love. When others are haughty and mean, you think of Me, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and how I love you. Then forgive them and let go.

The way you act when you model yourself after Me is not the way the world acts. Do not be attached to this world. Be attached to Me. Your purpose is to love. No one has any power over you. They may persecute you but I am guarding you in your suffering. Suffer with Me. Be a fool for Christ. Love for Me. This world needs the love of Christ. If you respond as the world does, I cannot love through you.

Your will is entirely free. I call you to model yourself after Me. I in no way took up the sword! My way is love! I cannot love your brothers through you if you choose to follow the world. The way of the world is the self. My way is selflessness. This takes submission of your self and yielding to a higher cause.

Rita, this is the way to peace in your heart. When you do My Will, even when you do not want to, you have peace. You will not have peace until you deliver the letter I told you to. You must obey Me, child, in every detail. You do not know My mind and My ways and it is not up to you to analyze them. I want obedience from you. You are making things harder by stalling. You, My sweet one, will be tested in fire. You will be molded in My special oven. I will melt you in the oven of My Heart. Come and enter there and put all your trust in Me.

Remember the furnace of My Heart. Come to Me. It is hot with the fire of My love, but it is your refuge. You enter there, you are changed into My special soldier of love. Nothing to fear for it is a vat of love. You jump in where others fear to tread. I am the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He who enters My Heart will be refreshed and molded by My love. Nowhere else will you find such love and peace!

Oh, child, I love you. Please do not tarry. Trust the God Who loves you and talks to you daily. How will others trust and have faith if you do not have it yourself? You preach the gospel in your being. When you surrender to Me, you will be free.

You are running your life. Let go, child. You will feel a surge, as if someone lifted a load. Let go to Me. I will not lead you astray. You are holding on when you need to let go. Do not test Me. I know every little thought you have. You cannot fool Me. I know your heart better than you.

Tell Me your faults and ask for help. Don't hide any. I am there to help you. If you do not admit them yourself, you cannot improve. I know every way you need to improve far better than you. Come to Me. Come into My Heart. Be free in My love. This is the way, the only way to peace of mind.

If you go to the heavens, I am there. You, child, can never run from Me. I ardently love you. Surrender and be free.

Excerpt from Blue Book IV:

August 11, 1994 - Before Mass

He Loves Us, No Strings Attached

(Sitting before Mary’s statue)

Messenger: Jesus, You died for each and every one of us. You love us so much. Your love is shown by Your giving of Yourself. You gave Your very Blood in Your veins and the flesh of Your very Body. Beaten, bruised, bloodied, for such ardent, burning, undying love for us!

To love us without any strings - just love us! I do not even know how to love someone without any strings. You love us. We constantly offend You and neglect You and sin against You. In Your love for us you paid the price for our offenses!

How many times, over and over again, You pour out Your love to us, especially in the Blessed Sacrament, and You are ignored, forgotten, and You watch us offend our brothers with such hatred.

You, O Savior, showed us the way. You loved those who tore the flesh on your Body. You loved those who spit on You. You loved those who drove nails in your hands and feet. You loved those who crowned your precious head with thorns. You, O my precious loving Jesus, loved and love each one of us despite all our sins, to the point of death on the cross. You showed us the way. When they persecuted you and hollered every slander against You, You still loved them.

Oh Jesus, how hard this is to follow Your way. Give me the grace to love as You want me to love all those who persecute me. I, of myself, cannot be like You. Let me realize the love of my Father more fully. Fill me with knowledge of love of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit so I can more fully act as you want me to.

Realizing your immense love fills me with such fullness. When the world is cold and mean, the fire of the love of God that burns in my heart keeps me focused on You.

Oh Spirit, open up my heart to the ways of God. I am weak and need your direction. Jesus’ ways are so loving: Total surrender of His whole self in love for us to the point of bitter persecution and death on the cross.

Jesus speaks: Love, My little child, when they persecute you and holler every slander against you, when they do their vile deeds. See Me as I walked the way of Calvary. See My beautiful Mother, see her suffering, My dear beautiful one, for such love of you. This is your Mother. She is by your side, this very day. When you walk the way of Calvary, she never ever leaves you, she stays constantly by your side. This is your beloved Mother. My child, she truly mothers you as she mothered Me. No mother was ever sweeter than this Mother, whom I give to you this day at your side. She knows your pain. She knows your sorrows. She knows what sufferings are. She watched them, she watched all the horrid events of what they did to Me. She walks with you, this day, little sweet one. She is joined in her Heart with My heart, ardently loving you.

You, child, need to pray to your Mother this day. You know how I loved you to My very death. You know how I suffered so for you. Did you realize how My Mother walks by you constantly and loves you? Pray to her, sweet one. She is so close to you. She never leaves your side. As she watched My passion and death, she watches you in all your trials. She loves you so much, My little child. Run to her arms and be so close to her breast. This is your Mother, My little child. Such tenderness and love she has for you! Your Mother goes with you on this journey.

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

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

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

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MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY AND THE WORLD I _________________ give my heart to You Jesus and Mary on this day _________________ I promise to help spread the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How does my love for Jesus help me love you more?

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