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.

June 23, 1999

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.

ROSARY OF FATHER’S DAY - 6/20/99, continued (Some personal directions and information for the core chapter have been deleted).

This rosary was delivered before a group of apostles. It was received live and transcribed from the tape.

1. Mary speaks: I am not encouraging you to stop on any of the endeavors that you are focusing on already. I am asking you to continue everything that you are doing. I am asking that a more fervent effort be made from my apostles to encourage people to begin prayer chapters. I am asking you to send the information of prayer chapters to the apostles of the Eucharistic Heart, that a letter be sent to them, that they will be encouraged more and more to spend this two hours weekly before the Blessed Sacrament and that more and more people are encouraged to be apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. You do not properly know the great power that is in the Eucharist. Even after all these years you do not properly realize how the power is always in Him, in His Eucharistic Heart.

2. Messenger: Holy Mary, Mother of grace, help us, help us the poor banished children of Eve.

3. Messenger: Our beloved Father, help us to be one, help that people come to us and that they help us to do these things that You have asked us to do.
   
   God the Father speaks: In no way am I asking you to accomplish all of these things on your own, My children. I am asking you, My children to work, to work, and to work, but to realize that many have said, "no" and to pray to Me to ask Me for the help that you need to accomplish this mission. I am the Father. I have spoken to you this day. You are My beloved children, My children of the earth. You have come to Me and you have told Me that you are sorry for the sins of the children of this earth. How this has pleased Me, your Father.

4. Messenger: I am not afraid, my Lord. The fear is in not doing what You tell me to do...
   
   ...They will hear the message of this rosary when He calls, "Come out of your tombs and follow Me." We all answer and we plead to the Father as a body, united every hour on the hour if only briefly. We realize that we’re powerfully united, praying for the intentions of the Shepherds of Christ, that the Blood of Jesus is spread on the world. It’s most important that we stop on the hour and realize that we are united together, that we are united in our Morning Offering and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as members of the body of Christ praying with one another. For all of these intentions, the power is in that connection, the power is in the oneness of all of our hearts, in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The power is in this family, for we are the family of the Father. And we want to merge more and more into that image and likeness of Jesus so that we will grow as brothers and sisters in Him.

Excerpt from 6/13/99 rosary - messenger speaking

How would Mary speak? And how would she act? And when would she be silent? She would never sin. And so there are many things in the world today that she would not partake in because it would be offensive to God.

"God Our Father, help us to make Our Mother our model more and more and to be molded more and more into the image and likeness of Your Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God."

SONG: A Song From Jesus

Messenger: Who is my mother and who is my brother? Scripture says:

'...Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.'

And so in the Shepherds of Christ Movement we have become more and more this family united as we are molded more and more in His image and likeness. We truly have a long way to go, but as we live more and more according to the Father's will, living in the depths of His Heart, we have become more and more one as the Father wishes. And we can sing:

SONG: One Bread, One Body

Messenger: May we be one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. There will be one flock with one Shepherd, Jesus Christ, the Chief Shepherd of the Flock. We pray for our priests that they will be the shepherds to lead the world into this great oneness where there will be life in Him, life according to the truth, the word and His Commandments. We want to be one, the more that all live in accordance to the Father's will, the more that we will be one, brothers and sisters in Him. We pray from the bottom of our hearts:

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

(end of excerpt from 6/13/1999 message)

Messenger: This is from 5 years ago, July 5, 1994.

Jesus and Mary give me little insights into the Father's plan, little pieces of the puzzle. They do not tell everything that will happen. In order to understand the plan, we need to study all the messages and see how the Father's plan is unfolding. We are all threads of the great tapestry, all little puzzle pieces of the big picture, all so important to His plan.

We are all being called to spread His love to this world. Each soul is so important to His plan. I see now many events as they unfold. I see where Jesus and Mary told me many things and I at the time did not understand. I was told in June that I would see as never before.

On July 4, 1994 I prayed with the children in front of the Our Lady of Grace statue in the sanctuary. On July 5, I recorded our experiences. The statue of Mary continued to glow and come alive. Jesus and Mary told Fr. Carter to pray with the children and me on July 10.

I would see Mary glow. Several weeks later I realized she was appearing in the statue as "Our Lady of Light." She then began to say she was appearing as "Our Lady of Light." She would show me a parade of faces, her clothes would all turn glistening white, and her attire would change. She would appear as a parade of different ladies. Her veils and head coverings would change. She has appeared as many different Marys. Her emotions have varied, her age has varied and her clothing has varied. She has shown me her life in the rosary. In the rosary, we meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary, from Their young lives to Their older lives, from Their sorrows to Their joys. She takes on many roles as our mother, her mantle forever covering and protecting us.

July 5, 1994 6:30 p.m.

I was told to go to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center to pray the rosary with my children. (My daughter wrote this message too. She wrote the message of May 13, 1993. I was so exhausted from the experience she wrote this for me.) There were people in the front of the church, so we decided to pray the rosary in the back before the Sorrowful Mother statue. I had the following vision at the end of the rosary.

The statue of the Sorrowful Mother was lit up as if she had fire around her. The light was very bright. Her whole gown was all-white, but the statue's gown is blue and pink. She was all aglow. It looked like the glow that comes off of a fire. Her face kept changing but remained totally sorrowful--the sorrow of an older woman. She was in such pain and sorrow! (And her face was this dark color. It looked as if she had cracks on her face.) (It was hard to explain how she looked--extremely pained!) Her face looked as though she was in such pain that she could hardly bear it.

The vision remained like this for about ten minutes, having begun during the last Hail Mary of the Sorrowful Mysteries of the rosary. She was holding something--it was all bright white--the brightest light ever!

- From Blue Book IV

July 6, 1994 6:30 p.m.

Vision (in front of the Sorrowful Mother statue): I was told by Mary to go alone at 6:30 p.m. to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. I prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries again, saying a sentence at each Hail Mary. She was aglow, all in white. She remained like this for at least 10 minutes.

July 9, 1994 6:30 p.m.

Vision: I was going to Dayton to a party. I stopped at the Center around 6:25 p.m. and prayed the Sorrowful Mysteries with my children. I prayed on each bead. Toward the end of the third mystery, Mary's statue became illuminated. Her face was brilliant, so bright! Her gown was white. Her face was beautiful! I could hardly talk for the next two mysteries. She stayed like this for a long time afterwards.

Explanation of Rosary Meditations and Visions

On July 10, Jesus and Mary told Fr. Carter to go to Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center and pray the rosary with my children and me. He came to the Center every day and led the rosary. Mary told me to say a meditation on every bead.

On July 14, I prayed a meditation on every bead as Fr. Carter led the rosary. During the middle of the fifth mystery, Mary started to change faces. I saw all different expressions, all different ages--older, sorrowful, young, beautiful, mostly joyful. The faces would first be old, then young. Lights would flash on and off.

There was a constant shadow of the cross, with Christ on it, behind the statue of Our Lady. The veil around her head would change from bright whites to darker shades. Her head cover would change with her many faces. I was so weak that I could hardly move the chair when the rosary was over. I felt totally exhausted.

Father Carter continued to pray the rosary every day with us for about 3 1/2 months. Jesus and Mary told him to come and pray. We were taught more and more about the lives of Jesus and Mary through the rosary.

In October of 1994, as Father Carter became more involved in Shepherds of Christ Ministries, Jesus and Mary told him to make his holy hour at his residence. Mary sent another precious soul and told me that she was my rosary partner and that Father Carter was asked to help us with the rosary.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q:  How do you feel we can more fully focus on God and His will for us?

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