From Blue Book 16 

The Resurrection

R. And so we see Jesus came forth victorious from the tomb, but we do not realize that we are to live His life, death and resurrection in our life. One day it may seem as if we are dying inside, suffering from the greatest pain, and the next day the light steals across the sky and we see that the victory is won. The Father said, “the movement will blossom in the spring.” The phones are ringing off the hook and we cannot keep the people supplied with the materials. We do not have funds in order to do all the things that Jesus has asked us to do, and so many people are calling. Jesus has separated the sheep from the goats. Jesus gives us the truth. Jesus has rooted out the good and the bad fruit. The bad fruit has fallen from the tree and what remains is the good fruit – the fruit that knows that this is the truth.

    Alleluia! Hosanna in the Highest - for He has come and given us new life!

 

The Ascension

R. Jesus comes to us in the quiet of the darkest night and He lifts our ruffled feathers and He smoothes them out and we know His peace and His love. Where there was anguish and suffering and our screams were screams that were so deep within our soul that we thought we could not last but just screamed out, He came with His gentle and His soft touch and He wiped our weary brow and He relieved us of our suffering and pain. And He leaves us a garden filled with the most beautiful flowers and He gave to us a cool breeze and we were washed by the cool of the night and we felt His love deep within our hearts and we know that He lives and that He is alive this day.

Jesus: Come away with Me, My young ones. Come into the field and taste of the beauty of the air and the beauty of this day with the most beautiful flowers that I have created for you. Do you see the beauty in each petal of the flower, or are your eyes covered with mud that you do not see? I have lifted the veil for you today and I have showed you My way. My way is the way of trust and faith and I told you in the message on Sunday that you must have faith and endurance, for I took you to the darkest night to the pointiest tunnel, to the place where you thought that you would never return and at that point I opened up through a little hole the light of day and it came streaming in and you perceived and you felt My presence, which is greater than all the things of this earth.

    Wipe the grin off your face you silly earth, for you have ran after so many foolish things, when I stood there adorned in white before you, in the most glorious robes and you did not perceive that the Almighty God was alive and so I have called and I have told you and I have allowed you, My shepherds, to suffer, but the days ahead will be days of great victory, for I come to you clothed in white and adorned in a gold veil and you see that God lives and you will carry the white flag across this earth. You My shepherds, have won and the victory is yours.

    Did you fall in the mud and did you skin your knees, did you feel your head ache as Mine ached in the garden, did you feel the thorns poke deeply into your skull, and did you feel the ripping of your flesh as the sword went into your skin?

    I am Jesus, I am God, I will not be undone. I am Almighty and all powerful to the ends of the earth. You will know My might and you will not be afraid, but you will not know this if you do not trust, for I have told you the secrets in My messages, but you do not read as if you believe, you read half heartedly. You must believe with all your heart that I speak to you to be heard, for you truly are the shepherds that will go across this earth and carry the white flag, but you do not have this conviction within your heart, so therefore you do not do all that I have asked you to do, your belief is wishy-washy and you do not believe with a conviction of a strong heart.

    I am calling you My shepherds this night to renew your faith and your endurance to realize that I am God and I have spoken here to you this evening. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive and I am with you, I am your God.

    You wanted the light all the time and the light was not in the plan of the Father. It comes in light and it comes in darkness, it comes in death and it comes in victory, it comes in death and it comes in Resurrection, it comes in pain, and it comes in joy, but this world tells you today to look for only the joy and when you do not find it to do everything that you can to fill your selfish pleasurish whims that you have within you.

    I tell you that you must fall to your knees, that your knees will be scuffed and that you will suffer and your flesh will be torn and your head will be crowned with thorns, but you will come forth from the tomb with a veil of white across your face and you will say this is the victory that we have won because we have lived in Him.

 

Descent of the Holy Spirit Upon the Apostles

R. The Mass is the Sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally made present. Every word is rooted in the truth and every word spoken must be that in which there is great feeling for it is the greatest way that we can share our immense love with God when we give ourselves to Him as we unite in a spousal union with Him.

    But many in the Church are blind for they do not comprehend what is going on at the Mass. From the beginning to the end it is this immense love affair that a soul has with the Almighty God. Many times when I go to Mass I am so wrapped in the presence of God and when the homily begins it is a homily that is rooted deeply in the head with lots of thinking and lots of facts. It is a homily that does not tie together anything about the relationship between me and Jesus – this personal love relationship, and this pulls me out of my heart as I am forced to listen to the loud speaking and to try to think and to follow with what he is speaking about. I know this so well, but I cannot express what I am saying in my heart. Day after day I go to Mass and day after day I am so excited to go in there and to share deeply in the mystery of His love and my heart is filled with the greatest joy to be there, to know that I will be so one with my Divine lover, and I go there, and I start to cry many times and I am filled up with such love and I know of the grace that I am receiving – the sharing in His life – and I hear the Word of God and I cry because every word rings within me and I feel the feelings, the words that are in the Scriptures, the feeling words that are used, the talking about the heart, the talking about despair, the talking about fear, the talking about all feeling words and the priest gets up and the priest begins to speak about facts – a train of facts, things that are following, line after line and then, when he speaks, many times he draws the people to finding God in other people and skipping intimate union with God – to go out and to do good works, when in the Mass, we are to be focused on our love relationship with God and it is so upsetting because it is almost like we should hurry up through the Mass and go out and encounter God in others and we ignore the connection that God is right there wanting to give Himself to us and wanting us to give ourselves to Him.

    There are so many things that happened at the homily at the Mass. Not that I am above him – what I am doing is accounting what Our Lord is saying and knowing what Our Lord is saying about the Priestly Newsletter and why it is important that we pray for the holy priests, why it is important that the priests give their hearts in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and be taken deeply into the Heart of Christ where they know God most intimately because now, as it is, is it love or is it on the surface with the head? For once they give their hearts to Jesus, especially saying this consecration from the Shepherds of Christ in which Jesus promised a great grace, once they give their heart to Jesus and pray this consecration, it takes them into His Heart and they join more and more in an intimate union with Him.

    It is so frustrating to go to Mass because I can be so connected in the Heart of Jesus and then the homily comes and I am just knocked out into whatever level the homily is at, talking about whatever – going out – doing good, and forgetting to make a connection at all that Christ is there. The priest this week said, “Christ is not here, we have to go out and find him in others” and I couldn’t believe it! I was all set in my heart to be so intimate with Jesus and then it was like the rest of the Mass was so hurried, let’s hurry up and get out of here and encounter Christ in one another. We have a job to do, given to us by Jesus Christ, to help lead the priests through this Priestly Newsletter in which we are using this as a teaching tool, through Fr. Carter.

    Humility is truth and that does not mean that we must hide the gifts that were given to us. The gifts that He gives to us is to be shared with this world and we are to be most grateful for these gifts. We must thank God from the depths of our hearts for allowing us to know Him more intimately, not that we know it all, we have an immense way to go for God is infinite, but He is unveiling the scriptures to us, He is taking us deeply into His Heart and letting us know Him more intimately and we must share this gift with others for the gift is not given to us to hide under a bushel basket – it is given to us to put it on a lamp-stand and let it shine to all in the house.

Jesus: It is in prayer, hourly prayer and begging for the funds, realizing that it is in your prayer, that it is in your endurance, that it is in your faith and your sacrifices that your prayers will be answered. You must pray hourly the Novena to the Infant of Prague and I will answer your prayers, and you, My beloved ones, will know the results when you pray.

 

Mary is Assumed into Heaven

R. Satan is working to try to block this. I know that all kinds of things go wrong. And, when it gets worse you kept trudging ahead with all the battle wounds all over you, but it is because I recognize that satan is working. If I didn’t recognize that I would feel like running in a corner and screaming out in despair. God is revealing to us what we need in order to move ahead, believe me, brothers and sisters - this is His mission.

    I know they say things about me - but it doesn’t make any difference for the truth is there. He is speaking here to us. He has separated the sheep from the goats. And He said the rotten fruit would fall to the ground and all that would remain would be the fruit of heaven.

    We should see substantial growth now that this has happened. Think of the 13th of September when Fr. Carter celebrated the Mass and last Sunday we got the card that has Father as the Pillar of Light and we could send it with that John Bosco vision - a Dream.

    This will make us stronger than ever because it will sound like, “you have been tested and you have been tried and you have been found okay”.

    Let us have the vision in our heart - the vision that Christ wants us to have that we are the apostles that will help to majorly spread devotion to the Eucharist throughout the land. And that is why He has given us all this immense love of Jesus in the Eucharist. You know how it is - you know how you love Him so much in the Eucharist – that is the grace He is giving to us so that we will spread this devotion to the far ends of the earth. Wait till you see what happens in the Shepherds of Christ Movement to lead the souls to the Eucharist!

    Believe and we will move ahead. There is only one place to go - it is to Him. “I am the way, the truth and the life” – and what He gives to us here, is the truth. It was somebody in our core group and they said, “oh it is really good,” And so He said, one day they wane in and out - one day one way and another day - another way. We don’t do it that way. We know the truth from the Mass, from the Eucharist, from the Scriptures. It is the same mind that writes.

 

Excerpt from the Priestly Newsletter July/August 1997

Thoughts on the Eucharist

St. Peter Julian Eymard, founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, tells us:

“It is true also that the world does all in its power to prevent us from loving Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament with a real and practical love, to prevent us from visiting Him, and to cripple the effects of this love.

“The world engrosses the attention of souls; it finds and enslaves them with external occupations in order toeter them from dwelling too long on the love of Jesus.

“It even fights directly against this practical love and represents it as optional, as practicable at most only in a convent.

“And the devil wages incessant warfare on our love for Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

“He knows that Jesus is there, living and substantially present; that by Himself He is drawing souls and taking direct possession of them. The devil tries to efface the thought of the Eucharist in us, and the good impression made by it; for in his mind, that should decide the issue of the struggle.

“And yet God is all love.

“This gentle Savior pleads with us from the Host: ‘Love Me as I have loved you; abide in My love! I came to cast the fire of love on the earth and My most ardent desire is that it should set your hearts on fire.”7

7. St. Peter Julian Eymard, The Real Presence: Eucharistic Meditations, published by Eymard League, as in The Treasury of Catholic Wisdom, Fr. John Hardin, S.J. ed., Ignatius Press, p. 584.

 

Scriptural Reflection

    Why Should We Be Afraid? “Can you not buy five sparrows for two pennies? And yet not one is forgotten in God’s sight. Why, every hair on your head has been counted. There is no need to be afraid: you are worth more than hundreds of sparrows”. (Lk 12:6-7)

    The fear of financial insecurity, the fear of not being accepted by others, the fear of professional failure, anxiety concerning whether one is capable of handling an inevitable crisis, the spectre of academic failure, the fear of being rejected in love- these are a few of the myriad worries and anxieties which can burden people along the varied path of life which now twists and turns, now stretches out straight, now descends into the valley, now ascends where the horizon can be clearly seen. To encounter circumstances during the course of life which can give rise to worry and anxiety is to be expected. To allow various fears to conquer us and rob us of basic peace of mind is to react incorrectly. To face fears and worries with Christian courage and trust, and thus fundamentally control them, is to live by the words of Jesus.

    To react incorrectly to fear-causing occasions can give rise to all sorts of problems. It can obviously detract considerably from one’s joy. It can stunt personality growth, lessening our attractiveness to others. It can disturb mental and physical health. It can prevent us from being proper witnesses to the fact that we are the bearers of the Good News, of the fact that Jesus’ truth is meant to make us free from all sorts of enslavements, including morbid fear and worry.

    Why, then, don’t we decide once and for all to take Jesus at His word? He tells us not to worry. He tells us to flee from anxiety. He loves us. His Father loves us. The Holy Spirit loves us. They love us much more than we love ourselves. Their love can cut through the bonds of any fear, any worry, any anxiety. Yes, Their love can do this, if we so permit. end of excerpt
 

R. Do you hear the priests speak about the feelings in the Mass - about the things of the heart? This is the purpose of the Priestly Newsletter – to lead the priests into the hearts. Think about the Age of the Two Hearts in which men will be living from their hearts. It is through the Newsletter that the priests will be led into their hearts as Jesus teaches them. It is through consecration that priests are brought into their hearts.

 

Mary is Crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

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

    Because of the excitement caused by the apparitions, the civil authorities were so alarmed that they kidnapped the three young visionaries and put them in jail. The incarceration period included the day of August 13. Consequently, Our Lady did not appear to the children on this particular 13th. The authorities, fearing reaction on the part of the people, quickly released the children. Mary appeared to them on August 19 near Valinhos:

    She told them she was greatly displeased by the action of the mayor. As a result, the miracle promised for October would not be as impressive as originally planned. 15

15. Our Lady of Fatima’s Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983), p. 6.

R. Today is August 19th. Today is the feast day of a great saint that loved the Sacred Heart so. Today is the day that Mary appeared to the three children at Fatima. She appeared on the 13th of every month but she appeared on the 19th of August because they had been locked in jail.

    Jesus has taught us how to be people that can pray and that He will truly respond to these prayers. Jesus has given to us a great gift and a great suffering and now He gives to us a greater gift for He opened up the heavens and in all of our sufferings, He came forth all in white and in victory.

Jesus: Your Movement will spread forth to the far ends of the earth, but it is faith that I am calling you to My beloved ones, you must have faith in your hearts, for this is a sign that I give to you this day. If you do not believe, you will not be able to continue ahead, for you must move ahead in faith. It is the only way that you must operate. You cannot operate trying to logically think your way across this world. It is only in believing and obeying the messages that the job will get done. It is My might that will lead this Movement to the far corners of the earth. Open your pockets and let us see your money. Do you have the money to do the things that I have asked you to do? It is in prayer, hourly prayer and begging for the funds, realizing that it is in your prayer, that it is in your endurance, that it is in your faith and your sacrifices that your prayers will be answered. You must pray hourly the Novena to the Infant of Prague and I will answer your prayers, and you My beloved ones will know the results when you pray.

Song: This is Holy Ground

Jesus: I have given to you the greatest gift this day. I am Jesus, and I have come to you and I have asked you to open wide your heart and to thank Me for the gift I have given, for if the answer would have been different how would your hearts be this night, and how was it with the lepers, when I gave to them the great gift and they did not come and say thanks, but you are My holy ones that I am sending into this world and your hearts must be filled with joy. I have asked you over and over again to sing to Me with a heart that is filled with joy. I have given to you songs that I wrote Myself for you to sing of the love of My Heart. I am Jesus, the Son of God and you are the apostles of this new era. As you go out into the dark night the light will shine behind you and many will know the light of My Heart. Do not be discouraged, for the very hairs of your head are numbered and I am with you at this very moment, guarding and watching you, give Me your heart My shepherds. I have given to you a great gift this day, give Me your thanks and continue to pray. It is through prayer that you will accomplish all that the Father intends you to accomplish.

    I am Jesus, the Son of God. I have chosen you, I have called you and you will accomplish the work that the Father intends you to through prayer. Do not be discouraged, but encouraged for I am God and I am with you. Think of how it was before, when you did not share your love with so many others, but I have given you each other and I have bound your hearts in one heart and you come here because your hearts are filled with great joy. The more you love and the more the Movement spreads, the more will be the blessings, for as the love expounds and gets larger, the love is more full, for your love is rooted in Me and the more you love deeply the more full the love you will have. This is how it will be, one body in Me, and you will love many and you will know them deeply in your heart and your heart is full My shepherds, because I have taught you My ways of love and given you each other. You are My holy family and I love you. I have called you and so you say “why me?”, and I say to you “why this Saint, or that Saint or why the Blessed Mother, why were you called?”. You were called because I love you and I have given to you a great grace to be My shepherd in the Shepherds of Christ Movement.