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.

August 14, 2000 - Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe - Vigil of the Assumption of Our Blessed Mother

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: We go to the temple of the Lord to praise Him and honor Him and love Him, yes to petition Him to help us to spread the Good News of the Kingdom.

Messenger: After Communion I saw Jesus on the top of the mountain transfigured and I was there in gasping wonder, wanting only to be taken up with Him for all eternity in this celestial bliss.

I see myself His bride and my mission that of carrying on His work here below. I see myself His apostle. I see how in the batting of an eye He can change men's hearts if He so desires.

I see His power, His might, His glistening splendor as the transfigured Lord before me.

I feel the emotion of being so wrapped in His embrace from Communion, from the Mass. Oh, the glory of the Mass to be here to write for Him to you. For He beckons me to write to you of His deep love and the glory of the magnificent, all pure, all holy God.

Oh, He calls us to be one in God. The perfect community - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit - three Persons - one God.

Oh, the splendor of the Mass, the glory of the moments there where He gives Himself to us in holy wedlock and once again our feeble spirits are lifted high as we exist so deeply in Him. Our troubled souls are quieted, our feeble hearts know the feeding of the Son of God Who gives Himself to us.

Oh, I cannot believe I am here, for I am in awe of His divine presence within me and seeing the exposed Eucharist before me makes my heart jump for joy and tears well up in my eyes.

I feel like crying, for our God is so good, and that goodness is seen in this Holy Mass when He gives Himself to us.

My joy is complete in Him. My heart filled with such love for all my friends given to me from Him and for all souls.

My heart feels the joy of His presence enveloping my soul and my desire is to never, ever leave this spot, but to stay here at the mountain top and be with Him forever.

And He beckons me to realize this is real and to know the reality of life eternal, but for today my mission is here on this earth to struggle with my own imperfections, to learn and mature more in my ways of loving, to plant seeds that will go on in hearts as long as the world, and even though I touch heaven now, it is for me to be here as an intercessor praying so hard, offering sacrifice by uniting my life to His so deeply in the Mass as it is celebrated around the world.

And the devil will make our journey here more difficult, and yet I feel as the Apostles, for they saw Him. His garments were whiter than anything they could describe, and they knew the reality of the transfigured God. They wanted to stay there.

I want to stay here forever, and Mary and Jesus tell me to go plant seeds, my time of glory is not ready yet, it is His will I am here. And yet the picture at the top of the mountain and my life lived in Him so deeply at this moment, linger in my heart and soul, and I want Him, I want the beatific vision, I want my soul to be possessed by God, I want to behold His glory in the deepest connection as I live in Him for all eternity.

I am dressed in white as I approach the altar of sacrifice and one more time Jesus, the Son of God, gives Himself to me. He is the Almighty, all powerful God and I receive Him so intimately in my soul.

The presence of Him fills my soul as I write here in my notebook through tear-filled eyes, for I so desire to write it so explicitly as He wants, that you too may know Him more intimately and love Him so deeply as His bride, and treasure the Eucharist, our greatest treasure here below. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is truly present in the Eucharist and I don't want to quit writing, for I feel I haven't said anything yet of what I know from today's experience.

I am a daughter of the Father and a spouse of Jesus and the love of the Holy Spirit penetrates my soul. I experience the overwhelming power and might of God. I feel the depth of God's love so deep in my soul. My soul is at rest in the Father's love and the depth of my union with God is because of a deep connection I have with Mary in my heart and soul and dwelling in her pure Heart.

But I can hardly write about it, for it is an existence of being in Him and to talk about it does not do justice to the unique oneness of the mystery of dwelling so deeply in God and dwelling in Mary's heart.

In the experience of December 15, 1995, I knew it so well and yet for days my soul tried to write what I knew as you can see in the entries of the Mass Book, December 17, 1995, and December 18, 1995, and to put it into words seems almost impossible, but it begs to be expressed because of its glory and He told me to do so.

And so I write to you and I ask you to see the mountain and see Jesus atop it transfigured, and nothing I write here will do it justice, but His grace working as you read this will help the soul to experience more fully the glory of God.

Oh, glorious God, transfigured Lord, resurrected Jesus in light and glorious splendor. On the mountain tops of Medjugorje Mary appeared and in other sparsely inhabited places she came, and now a Lady with the sun dancing on her robes appears on a simple bank building on a busy corner in Florida. One so fair, a Woman of heaven, one to announce the coming of her infant King in the hearts of His precious souls.

For as long as He scolds and tells men of His wrath, His love for them does not teeter. It is constant and always there. It is the men that do not recognize Him as the world ignores the Lady Clothed with the Sun.

We have a "mind slot" and we close ourselves off, many times, and only the open hearts will see with eyes unveiled.

A ray of light cannot get in for those who have closed their hearts so tightly to God's grace. And we must continue praying for them.

Oh, Beauty of all beauties, a King, the King, the Son of God come to reign in the hearts of His beloved creatures. Oh King, our God, open the locked hearts that your light might fill them with your divine peace and love.

Oh, temples of God are we. Oh, the capacity of a human heart to love when He lives in them, is far beyond anything we can imagine. He elevates us to such heights of knowing and loving.

Oh, God, I sing the praise of You, my Creator, and I beg of the churches that they will be turned into mountains where glistening grace will trickle and flow on the hungry earth below. And it will be as a sponge, soaking up such a welcome guest.

Oh, God, that men would go to the mountain top and speak to their God in voices lifted in songs of praise and thanksgiving and honor and love. That man would chant to God from that holy place their sorrow for sin for the men of the earth and plead and beg for mercy from the all perfect, heavenly God.

Messenger: Oh, God of splendor and might, we do indeed love Thee and worship You and want to see our Church as a holy high mountain in which we go to talk to our God with an open heart and sing His praises, worshipping and honoring Him.

I would put a mountain here, if I had a picture, with a church gleaming in celestial light, so blinding one could not see, and inside that church the Son of God would sit on His throne like this and all would be in awe, worshipping and honoring their God.

Mark 9: 2-3

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them up a high mountain on their own by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his clothes became brilliantly white, whiter than any earthly bleacher could make them.

Mark 9: 7

And a cloud came, covering them in shadow; and from the cloud there came a voice, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved. Listen to him.’

Messenger: There is the death and the resurrection.

Jesus died that we would share in His divine life. 

We more and more die to our false selves that we can live more fully in Him.

At the end of life we are meant to live for all eternity with God.

The depth of union we will have with Him depends on the maturity of our love union with God and all others. We are here to be more perfected.

John 17: 20-24

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.

Father,
I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see my glory
which you have given me
because you loved me
before the foundation of the world.

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Messenger: God wants us to grow in our perfection and our oneness. 

We aren't islands.

What is the lesson He teaches? It is to grow in our ways of loving and be more perfected.

We need to break down the walls that separate us and be one in holy love as the Father desires.

In the Church we need to be more aware of what it is to be one body, worshipping and praying to God with united hearts as never before. Praying in one mind and one heart. Really singing united from all our hearts to our God.

The plan of the Father is so beautiful. The plan of the Father is so perfect to lift our hearts and souls to such heights in Him.

The Son of God is truly present and before me as I sit in this church and write to you. If we could see the beauty of our own graced souls we would fall to our knees and thank Him. He could lift the veil and our eyes would be blinded to see the Eucharist, for He is truly present there. 

There was a vision I got of a little church and it looks like the one in China, Indiana. I had the vision long before we got this church. It was about January, 1995. 

Messenger: God is the power.

We must unite as a body and sing and pray to Him.

We must lift our voices in one heart.

Here is a vision I had of our founder about the same time.

Messenger: Let us worship as a community with all our hearts, praising Him, loving Him, telling Him how sorry we are for our sins and the sins of the human race.

At Mass cry out, "Holy, Holy, Holy" - sing from the depth of your hearts, praising God; sing aloud together, "Lamb of God who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us."

Sing "Amen" - united as a body after the Consecration - 

Sing the Psalm, "All the ends of the earth have seen the glory of God".

Psalm 98: 1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6

Sing a new song to Yahweh,
for he has performed wonders,
his saving power is in his right hand
and his holy arm.

Yahweh has made known his saving power,
revealed his saving justice for the nations to see,
mindful of his faithful love and his constancy
to the House of Israel.

The whole wide world has seen
the saving power of our God.
Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth,
burst into shouts of joy!

Play to Yahweh on the harp,
to the sound of instruments;
to the sound of trumpet and horn,
acclaim the presence of the King.

Messenger: "Taste and see the goodness of the Lord".        

Psalm 34: 1-2, 3-4, 9, 8

I will bless Yahweh at all times,
his praise continually on my lips.
I will praise Yahweh from my heart;
let the humble hear and rejoice.

Proclaim with me the greatness of Yahweh,
let us acclaim his name together.
I seek Yahweh and he answers me,
frees me from all my fears.

Fear Yahweh, you his holy ones;
those who fear him lack for nothing.

Taste and see that Yahweh is good.
How blessed are those who take refuge in him.

Messenger: Sing Alleluia - God has given us such gifts - we receive the Bread of Life.

Let us boast of the gifts God has given.

Let us sing praise to His name. Others will mock Him and use His name in vain, but we will go to the high altar and honor Him.

We celebrate the Mass in our hearts all day, making spiritual communions and staying connected in our Morning Offering.

God is good, we must love Him, He is our Creator.

Today is the Vigil of the Assumption, August 14, 2000.

Mary appears to lead us to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.

Social begins at 6:20, August 17, 2000, at the Morrow Center with the 6:20 prayers, social follows about 7:20 - 7:30, please come.

There is a live rosary in Sidney, Ohio, for healing Tuesday, August 22, 2000, Feast of the Queenship of Mary. Prayers begin 6:20 p.m.

There is a live rosary in Florida, September 5, 2000. Prayers begin 6:20 p.m.

Mary speaks: I desire the following photo pictures be circulated. 

The picture of Mother and child.

The picture July 5, 2000.

Mary speaks: I ask anyone that can to help with this.

The website on a sticker, phone number, Shepherds of Christ Ministries can be placed on the back of the photo.

I wish this message to be made available.

A message from Mary: please help circulate these photos to my children. Please tell them to pray as indicated by my Son at 6:20 p.m. if possible. Prayers given from Jesus are the Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual and the Holy Spirit Novena.

Mary speaks: Please pray my rosary.

Please consecrate your hearts.

Call Shepherds of Christ 1-888-211-3041

e-mail - info@SofC.org

web site - www.sofc.org

Please, my children, I appear to teach you how to pray.

I love you, Mary.

Great healing is promised on Tuesday 6:20 p.m. when you pray these prayers. Parishes that pray these prayers will become little centers of light. My Son has attached tremendous graces to His prayers for the priests, the Church and the world and for yourselves and your families.

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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Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How can I live more my life of consecration to Their Hearts by trying to get along in love with you and others and praying for greater grace to do so?

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