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August 26, 2004
| August 27th Holy Spirit Novena | The Novena Rosary Mysteries | 
Rita Ring will be in Clearwater
for a live rosary on September 5, 2004.
Mary asked a public gathering on the 5th
 since April 5, 1995.
We have done this since this time.
Here is how Mary appeared February 5, 2004.

From Jesus
You are asked to come
on the 5th to Clearwater, Florida.
To pray as I have directed
for reparation to Our Two Hearts,
and beg forgiveness for the sins
of the people of this earth
and beg your Heavenly Father for mercy.
I am Jesus Chief Shepherd of the Flock.
I appear to you in Clearwater, Florida.
You must pray as never before.
This is a warning and a gift I give to you.
Listen to Me.
Rita will be there through the weekend to sign books.
God wants us to pray as He has asked us
to pray begging for mercy
and that the world will be the way
that He desires. Jesus gives us His face.

April 5, 2004
The next retreat will begin on the
night of September 12th at 6:20 pm
September 13th thru the 16th.
There will be a very special day and night service
for the Feast of the Sorrowful Mother
on September 15, 2004.


September 14, 2004
Feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross
August 23, 2004
       
Jesus speaks:  Special grace will be granted
            graces of
healing, physical and spiritual 
            during the
retreat. Come to China, 
            for I will
outpour My grace to you.



Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima & Medjugorje
by Father Carter, S.J.
More than 30,000 people were present in September, and saw a shower of mysterious white petals fall to within 10 feet of the ground before dissolving into the air. Many also saw the globe of light bearing the Lady come to rest atop the tree, and the branches bend as though someone were standing on them. Later, they saw the cloud depart into the east, from whence it had come.(16)
16. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.6.
September 13, 1917
August 26, 2004
Excerpt from October 24, 2002
Messenger:         
Oh
light of heaven —
                                 
Oh heavenly embrace.
                                 
Oh Sacred Heart Divine ——
                                 
Oh mystical lights of heaven —
                                 
Oh anguish of a dark night —
                            
Oh I call on Thee for My 
                                  
refuge my God — My Sacred Heart 
                            
I want to
be filled with Your life
                                 
I want to know You —
                                 
I want to be embraced by You —
                                 
I want the rapture of that
                                      
heavenly embrace —
                            
I want to see the lights of heaven —
                                 
and know the deep embrace
                                 
of My Beloved God more and more —
                            
And our days come in light and darkness —
                                 
our days come and our life
                                 
here lived below is to help
                                 
take us to the summit —
                                 
there we will be embraced by Him
                                 
and know His Divine Love.                  
                            
Oh sing, Oh giant coastlands —
                                  
sing a song of joy —
                                  
for our God has ransomed His people,
                                  
He has taken them into His Heart
                                  
There they have tasted the sweetness 
                                     
of His Heart on fire for love of them.
                            
Oh giant coast lands —
                                 
I pray the day long and at night
                                 
and in the sweetness of the 
                                 
black night, I feel Him
                                 
so close to me and I want to be
                                 
embraced by Him and know
                                 
more deeply about my heavenly reward
                            
And yet — young men ——
                                               
woman
                                              
children ——
                                 
the days come as they are —
                                 
a mixture of light and darkness —
                                 
the hours of celestial joy and
                                 
quiet peace within our being —
                                 
of knowing Him and what
                                 
that means to us.
                            
He is always with me —
                            
In suffering I know, no matter
                                 
how very black — that
                                 
He is always with me.
                            
He is there in some precious
                                 
moments to lift me up and
                                 
let me touch Him so deeply
                                 
in my heart
                            
And now these moments of consolation
                                 
may seem few, because I long for Him
                                 
so, but on a quiet day — He reaches
                                 
down and takes me into a deep
                                 
place in His Heart and gives me
                                 
His favors
                                 
and I sing for Thee
                            
My heart consumed with joy to be
                                 
touched by Him and to know
                                 
Him at all times in the 
                                 
comfort of consolations and the
                            
My King is always with me —
                            
He is the King of my heart —
                                 
the Light of my soul —
                                 
the one I seek after —
                                 
the One I know —
                                 
the One I am so united to
                                      
in my love of others ——
                            
He is my all I know His love in
                                 
the morning and the evening,
                                 
I know He is with me,
                            
His presence and love I know as I experience
                                 
the dew kissed grass  —    
                                 
the purple sky —
                                 
the blue, beautiful, sky in which
                                       
the autumn leaves are
                                       
laid across from the tall trees
                            
Oh my Love, can I sing of this moment 
                                  
to know and embrace You —
                            
Will you hear the sweet tones of
                                 
deep in my heart —
                            
Will the sound travel out into
                                 
a noisy world — one with
                                 
the clutter of noise to the
                                 
human ear — will the
                                 
melodious notes I sing to You
                                 
raise above and float
                                 
against the beautiful
                                 
autumn sky.
                            
Oh how could we remove the picture
                                  
of the Sacred Heart from our
                                  
homes.
                            
On a cold and wintry evening sitting
                                 
by the fire, with the snow
                                 
freshly laid on the ground
                                 
outside, below the roofs
                                  
little flakes that falls so 
                                  
sweetly to remind us —
                                  
that we cannot even
                                  
imagine what our beloved
                                  
lover, Our God, has in store
                                  
for those who love and serve
                                  
Him —
                            
Oh God, my love Divine —
                               
  You come to me in the sweetness
                                  
of a dark night and in the blue
                                  
sky filled with a reddish hue
                                  
from the fall leaves —
                            
Oh God You are my beloved —
                            
Oh my God You are 
my Father —
                                 
my beloved Jesus, the bridegroom of
                                     
 my soul
                                 
my beloved Holy Spirit, the one
                                      
 who fills my heart with
                                     
 the fire of love
                            
Oh my God You are three Persons
                                   
in One God and I 
LOVE YOU SO MUCH —
                                     
FILL ME and
let 
                                     
me Sing Your praises
all the days of my life —
Alleluia — Amen —
                            
God is with us! !
                            
Truly present in the Eucharist
end of excerpt from October 24, 2002 message
October 26, 2002 early a.m.
Moments with Jesus when I awake
in the morning praying in my bed
Messenger: My beloved,
                           
In the quiet of the night You come to me and my heart
                       
is embraced by Your Divine love.
                           
The world sleeps and I seek after only Thee.
                       
I love the quiet time when I can focus on Thee —
                       
being so one with My Beloved Father, You my
                       
beloved Spouse, the Bridegroom of my soul and
                       
my beloved Holy Spirit. Oh my God for a heavenly
                       
embrace. For moments when I can be silent and
                       
with Thee to ponder Your Divine Mysteries.
                       
I long to be united to the heaven I feel I know
                       
so well from all of the ecstasies and I
                       
lay deeply there telling myself — no one can
                       
disturb my moments when I gaze so
                       
deeply upon You, my beloved, so very deeply
                       
existent in my soul.
                           
Oh, I say as You direct me at this
                       
moment, that my thoughts are always of Thee,
                       
I want to live in a spiritual communion
                       
with You, I see the lights of heaven, I
                       
know the deepness of what it is to be
                       
embraced by Thee and yet I know it is
                       
so shallow still — for my heart like a
                       
hungry desert, cries, literally cries to
                       
be so deeply embraced by You, to delve
                       
so deeply into the Divine Mysteries,
                       
to see the lights of heaven, to be united
                       
so very deeply with all the angels and
                       
saints.
                           
I live in this place of knowing (to the degree
                       
He has allowed me) the reality of Thee and
                       
the magnificence of the life here after.
                           
I live in this place to steal the moments
                       
when I can lay quiet and just be in Thee,
                       
know Thee, ponder Your Divine Mysteries.
                       
Oh my God to know You more deeply, to
                       
exist more deeply in my relationship
                       
with You, knowing the Persons of the
                       
Trinity so very deep in my soul. Oh
                       
I could ponder this alone in moments
                       
never ending.
                           
I see the sky with its blue beauty
                       
and the velvet darkness of a star studded
                       
night and in all its grandeur it
                       
can not tell me of the grandeurs of Thee.
                           
My heart is consumed with love
                       
for the One, so magnificent and true,
                       
who created these beautiful things for me to
                       
gaze upon, but the depth that I can go in
                       
my soul to know Thee is inexhaustible.
                       
I see the vastness of the ocean and I hear
                       
the waves that go in and out and they
                       
swell in my soul and remind me of
                       
the mystery of Thee.
                           
Oh how can I ever write, when You beckon
                       
me from my bed to write as I do. How
                       
can I write of the depth of my heart
                       
living in a desert land and longing
                       
in the completeness of Thee. And yet
                       
I am not empty, but full because I behold
                       
Your love inside of me.
                           
My heart is like a little child wanting
                       
Thee, longing for Thee, wanting
                       
to know You, seeing the sky, the autumn
                       
leaves, the water, the grass, the dainty
                       
flowers, the beautiful colors of the leaves
                       
and mums, the flowers still here from
                       
the spring and summer days and knowing
                       
so deeply, my Creator the One I love,
                       
created these for me to enjoy. He gives
                       
me my breath and, I feel the wind
                       
blow my hair and caress my face
                       
and I am reminded of His presence
                       
always with me.
                           
I feel the sun and its warmth and
                       
I know it is nothing compared to
                       
the burning embers of His fiery Heart.
                           
What I see in His creation
                       
reminds me of Him and I am overjoyed
                       
within my soul that I can go to this
                       
place here below and just be with Him.
                           
He is always with me. My thoughts are
                       
always of Him. But my thoughts are always
                       
thoughts of oneness with all men, of how
                       
it will be in the Reign of the Sacred
                       
Heart when He is recognized
                       
as the King and Center of their hearts.
                           
Oh do I dare dream now of how
                       
it would be to have the whole world
                       
focused on our heavenly King. The
                       
whole world to be one happy family,
                       
living to love and serve Our beloved
                       
God. And He surely deserves this
                       
honor and praise.
                           
Oh the story of Adam and Eve and
                       
the earth. The story of the fallen
                       
race. The story of the One Who
                       
comes to save them.
The story of the Bible!!!
Revelation 19: 1-10
Songs of victory in heaven
After this I heard what seemed to be the great sound of a huge crowd in heaven, singing, ‘Alleluia! Salvation and glory and power to our God! He judges fairly, he punishes justly, and he has condemned the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her prostitution; he has avenged the blood of his servants which she shed.’ And again they sang, ‘Alleluia! The smoke of her will rise for ever and ever.’ Then the twenty–four elders and the four living creatures threw themselves down and worshipped God seated on his throne, and they cried, ‘Amen, Alleluia.’
    Then a voice came from the throne; it
    said, ‘Praise our God, you servants of his and those who fear him,
    small and great alike.’ And I heard what seemed to be the voices of a
    huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder,
    answering, ‘Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun;
    let us be glad and joyful and give glory to God, because this is the time
    for the marriage of the Lamb. His bride is ready, and she has been able to
    dress herself in dazzling white linen, because her linen is made of the good
    deeds of the saints.’ The angel said, ‘Write this, "Blessed are
    those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb," ’ and he
    added, ‘These words of God are true.’ Then I knelt at his feet to
    worship him, but he said to me, ‘Never do that: I am your fellow–servant
    and the fellow–servant of all your brothers who have in themselves the
    witness of Jesus. God alone you must worship.’ The witness of Jesus is the
    spirit of prophecy.
      
October 26, 2002 message continues
Messenger:       
How can we not live to be
                       
embraced by the Divine Bridegroom.
                       
How can we say "no" to such an invitation
                       
to feast on His Divine Love, to be
                       
wooed by One Who loves us as only
                       
He can love us with His 
                       
Heart filled with Divine love.
                           
Oh lights of heaven, my gaze is
                       
always upon Thee. My heart is
                       
ever one with the Divine God.
                       
He is with me here below.
                           
My moments of slumber are fewer,
                       
my valor to run the race to help
                       
lead His precious souls to His
                       
fiery Heart on fire for love of men 
                       
consumes my soul.
                           
I sing a song, in the clamor of
                       
noise and the deepness of my
                       
conviction to tell them what You
                       
have told me, my heart is quieted
                       
on a most confusing day, by the
                       
thoughts of Thee.
                           
Always a stillness, a peace, in the
                       
turmoil, in the grief, in the unending
                       
search of how to better serve You,
                       
my soul is quieted, my soul is
                       
consumed with love for Thee. My
                       
eyes are forever on the Fiery Heart of
                       
Your love.
                           
I am in an army here below. I am
                       
a shepherd, one herding the sheep for
                       
Thee, I am the one who follows
                       
Thee, I am the one that sees only
                       
the path behind You.
                            
You walk out front and I follow
                       
and follow and follow for the
                       
sound of Your voice goes before
                       
me and I do not falter from Your
                       
voice for my delight, my life, is
                       
found in Thee.
                       
My heart is consumed with 
                           
this love for Thee.
                       
In the quiet of the night, I taste Your
                       
sweetness, I ponder the goodness of
                       
Your Heart consumed with love for
                       
me. To be so one with Thee
                       
my beloved Jesus, is to be
                       
one with the Father and the
                       
Holy Spirit. I know the Trinity more
                       
and more every second, every moment,
                       
my relationship grows ever deeper,
                       
my knowledge of that Oneness of God
                       
I know the Three Persons of the Trinity
                       
deeper and deeper and I know the
                       
oneness in my soul.
                           
Nothing here below will ever satisfy
                       
the longing of my soul for completeness
                       
in Thee and yet at every second,
                       
even in the suffering, I am consumed
                       
with joy and love for Thee.
To know You is to have joy.
                           
Oh my God, a sonnet I feel I
                       
cannot write nor describe anything
                       
of what is within me. I long
                       
within my soul to record here in
                       
these writings as You have asked me,
                       
to record the depth of my soul
                       
and how I love You.
                       
Fr. Carter said, that is ineffable.
                           
My moments alone with Thee are far
                       
beyond my pen and paper and my deep
                       
relationship with my Divine God, Father,
                       
Son and Holy Spirit I cannot describe.
My God is the Light of my soul.
                           
My God is what I seek after in my
                               
life — to be possessed by
                               
Him and live in Him
                               
for all eternity.
      
Prayer for Union with Jesus
Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.
I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.
I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.
When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.
-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994
October 26, 2002 message continues
Messenger:        
My Jesus is the Bridegroom of
                               
my soul.
The Church is so very dear to me.
                           
The love of the Eucharist consumes
                       
my soul.
                           
My connection is always to the
                       
Mass being celebrated around the world.
                       
I am always aware of Jesus 
                       
in the Eucharist in the Churches 
                       
here on this earth.
                           
The priests, to us, are a treasure —
                       
a treasure God gives us — they
                       
are human men and not perfect
                       
they are a treasure God gives us.













  
October 26, 2002 message continues
Messenger:        
We must pray for them and
                       
be thankful to God for all our gifts.
                           
Oh I want to write of my soul as He
                       
has asked me to do and I know
                       
when I am finished I can just
                       
go and be with Him so deeply in
                       
my heart.
                           
This desire of deeper union with
                       
Him consumes my soul.
Oh my light is in Thee.
                           
Oh my God You are the
                       
Bridegroom of my soul and I am
                       
the bride waiting Your favors.
                       
Come and fill my heart with
                       
Your Divine Wisdom — oh
                       
my God I seek You and
I LONG FOR THEE
GOD IS
REAL.
HE IS WITH
US.
GOD IS.
There are 3 Persons
in one God.
OH GOD I
LOVE
THEE. AMEN
                           
Oh I see the snow fall gently to the ground
                       
and in the beauty my thoughts
                       
are of Thee.

October 26, 2002 message continues
Messenger:        
Oh I see the blue sky and the star
                       
studded night and I long for those
                       
quiet moments in my heart when
                       
I can just be with You and enjoy
                       
Your favors.
Oh my God, you are real.
                           
Oh my God, I love Thee.
 
                       
Green grass, little bugs, babies, little flowers,
                           
beautiful towering trees, clouds of puffy
                           
white, sun lit days and star studded
                           
nights — none of these give me the joy
                           
I feel from Your heavenly embrace.
                           
I know You God at every moment in the
                           
depth of my soul — I will not be shaken
                           
by the things around me — for in the
                           
depth of my soul is the tranquility
                           
of being united always to Thee, Father
                           
Son and Holy Spirit.
I LOVE YOU
SO MUCH !!
Soon it will be All Saints Day.
                           
My soul is forever united to heaven and
                           
all the saints. I love the souls in
                           
heaven so very deeply. A love I
                           
can never describe to anyone here
                           
below and I know them in
                           
great depth in my soul.
                               
Every day is a day to celebrate
                           
the glory of God and the life
                           
hereafter.
                               
Every day is a day to follow Him and
                           
to help lead souls to Him our beloved
                           
God. AMEN ALLELUIA
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.
end of excerpt of October 26, 2002 message

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From August 6, 2004
Jesus speaks:           
I have called for 24 hour
                              
adoration in China, Indiana.
                               
(1) to pray for the priests, the
                                       
Church and the world.
                               
(2) to pray for the Priestly Newsletter
                                       
and all involved.
                               
(3) Always to pray Friday
                                       
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and priests who help us.
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servants, handmaids and apostles.
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Servants, handmaids and apostles
                                   
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