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.


I appear my children on this former bank building in Florida, Our Lady Clothed with the Sun.

August 7, 2002

August 8th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 1 Period I.
The Novena Rosary Mystery
for August 8th is Joyful.

               

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.

         


        

        We absolutely do not have
        funds for the Virgin Mary 
        building payment which
        was due on the 1st - $10,000.

Shepherds of Christ
P.O. Box 193
Morrow, OH 45152
1-888-211-3041

  

          

        Pray for 2 very urgent intentions.

        Pray for 1 personal intention.

        Pray for a particular bishop and cardinal.

        Pray for the pope.

        Pray for all the bishops of the world.

               

August 7, 2002

Messenger:        Every day may be a struggle,
                                but every day when offered to
                                God can help to bring down
                                great grace for the souls of
                                the earth.

  

   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        WE NEED FUNDS FOR THIS
                      MONTHS PAYMENT ON THE 
                      VIRGIN MARY BUILDING.

                           It is $10,000 per month.
                     
WE DO NOT HAVE ANY MONEY TOWARD
                           THIS AND IT IS THE 7TH OF THE MONTH.

                            I PRAY THAT ANYONE WHO CAN
                                HELP US WILL DO SO.

                            THE PAYMENT WAS DUE AUGUST 1.

                            WE NEED THE MONEY BY THE
                                TENTH FOR SURE—
                                PLEASE HELP US
                                PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS.

                            ALL the money in the world

                            and we cannot get money for

                            the monthly payment on this

                            great building, which is a

                            gift from God to all of us.

                            Please help us.

     

July 5, 2000

 

during monthly meeting

    

                     August 13, 2002 12:00 China, Indiana time

                      Please come to China

   

  

      

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        God gives us so many gifts.

                            See the beautiful face of the baby.

                            Think of all the gifts we have in
                                our homes
   


   

                                and friends
  


  

                                food
  


  

                                our Churches
  


  

                                and our priests.
  

   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        Oh God forgive our ungratefulness,

                                Please help us.

                            Please see the world and realize

                                that we must pray.

   

   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        Our main mission in Shepherds of Christ is to

                                circulate the Priestly Newsletter to priests,

                            Secondly to begin prayer chapters

                                praying for the priests, the

                                Church and the world.

                            We have been called by Our Lord

                                to help to bring to completion

                                the mission Mary began at

                                Fatima.

                            Mary's peace plan

                                    1. Consecrate your hearts to the Hearts 
                                            of Jesus and Mary.

                                    2. Pray the Rosary

                                    3. Observe the First Saturday devotion

                                    4. Help make reparation to their
                                            two hearts.

 

    

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        Mary appeared to me July 5, 1994 - 
                                September 5, 1995 daily.

                            She gave these messages on a special
                                5th meeting August 5, 1995.

    


              

August 5, 1995

Very carefully discerned by Father Carter

     

Excerpt from the August 5, 1995 Rosary, The Coronation
  1. Mary speaks: My dear children, I am Mary, your Mother and I tell you how Satan is pressing down on this earth. He is causing confusion and division in your hearts. He is keeping you focused on problems and keeping you from your deep union with my Son. Come to my Heart and let me protect you in my motherly love. Give all your cares to me. I am guarding your children, and guarding your lives. I am your Mother of love. More than any earthly Mother, I love you!

    You must surrender and come to Our Hearts for the days ahead will be hard and dark, and as Satan is pressing on you this day, he will press harder tomorrow. You must learn to put aside the distractions, the confusion, the division in your hearts and come to my Heart with a heart that is humble and filled with love. Satan talks in your mind and causes you to be upset. Let go, my little children. I am Mary, your Mother. I am appearing as Our Lady of Light to show you the way is the way through Our Hearts, to the light. Within your heart you will have a light that does not flicker. It is constantly burning, in deep love. You must not give in to the distractions in your mind.

    Come to the tabernacle. My Son will give you all the answers. (Messenger: She is alive in the statue). He is waiting for you to come, come and sit in silence and let Him work in your heart. You will know what you are to do. You must come to the tabernacle. You must come to Mass and Communion. It is there you receive abundant graces from Him. You will be filled deeply with His life. Do not be filled with fear, be filled with hope and joy and pray to the Holy Spirit to give you His wisdom to know the will of the Father. (Messenger: She is alive in the statue - gorgeous).

  1. Mary: As you see me here before you, you know I am with you in all of your trials and all of your struggles. You must discipline your thoughts and come to my Son. It is through the Eucharist that you will be strengthened for all your trials.
  2. Song: Immaculate Mary

    As the rain falls, so too many sufferings will fall around you. You will not be harmed, for I am protecting you with my motherly mantle. You must surrender and come to Our Hearts, be with my Son Jesus, deeply united in your hearts. Meditate on the presence of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit within you. Pray for the grace to know and love God more. Pray to the Father, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit, through the powerful intercession of the Virgin Mary.

    Pray all through the day and offer all of your actions to the Father with your petitions in the morning. I am Mary, your Mother. You are being guarded and I am appearing to you to deliver this message - that your hearts will be quieted and you will be about the work of the Father in spreading the love of my Son Jesus into this world. The Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph and the Sacred Heart of Jesus will reign. You should pray for the spread of the devotion to Our Two Hearts, and consecrate yourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary every day.

I am Mary, your Mother, and I am guarding you.

end of excerpt from August 5, 1995 rosary

   


   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        The last 9 months Mary appeared daily
                                in 1995, she begged me to reach
                                the school children.

                            I really tried to do this.

                            We have rosary makers making
                                homemade rosaries for the
                                Catholic schools.

                            The beads are scarce now.

                            If you want rosaries for your
                                school and consecration cards
                                call us.

                            If you can help us with funds for
                                beads and shipping for the school
                                rosary program, please help us.
                                Morrow can take a credit card
                                donation specifically for this.

                            If you specify you want to help with
                                the school rosary program we
                                will honor this request and gladly
                                use the money for this.

                            If you can give a donation for the
                                Virgin Mary building, you can
                                specify for this and we will help.

                            A lot of small donations could help us.

                            When we don't receive any donations
                                we don't have the money for the
                                payment.

                            Here is a picture of Our Lady of
                                Guadalupe and Our Lady of
                                Clearwater.

       

   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        All the big palaces in the world and
                                we do not even have the money for
                                our monthly payment.

                            Tomorrow is the Feast of St. Dominic.

                                Remember St. Dominic and the rosary.

                            We have these awesome videos for the
                                school children. The rosary led
                                by Fr. Mike who has led the rosary
                                twenty years on the radio, weekly,
                                and he still does.

                            The rosary has the rosary aves which
                                are sent to Catholic schools and
                                they have the Imprimatur. They are
                                translated in Spanish, French and
                                Portuguese with the Imprimatur.

                            These are available for schools
                                on videos like this.

      

     

     

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        Also they can be downloaded from
                                the computer and school
                                children can watch them on
                                the computer.

                            All school rosary program
                                materials we have and send
                                to the schools have the Imprimatur.

                            In addition to this we have coloring books.

                            The English coloring books for the
                                rosary do not have the
                                Imprimatur however they were very
                                carefully discerned by Fr. Carter
                                before his death and their
                                publication.

                            The Spanish coloring books translated
                                from the English coloring books
                                have the Imprimatur.

                            Please help us promote the rosary
                                and make rosaries.

                            We have a rosary making factory in
                                the Clearwater building.

     

      

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:        What do we use the building for.

     

Prayer services

  

Gift Shop

    

Rosary Factory

   

Video Room

   

August 7, 2002 message continues

Messenger:            To Spread devotion to the Sacred Heart
                                    and the Immaculate Heart.

                                (1) Spread the Priestly Newsletter to priests
  

     
  

                                (2) Help begin prayer chapters praying
                                    for the priests, the Church
                                    and the world.
  


  

                                    (prayers are available in Spanish
                                     French and Portuguese with
                                     the Imprimatur)

                                (3) Rosary Factory

                                (4) distribute rosaries to all Catholic
                                     schools in United States who
                                     request them

                                (5) distribute school rosary program
                                     to all Catholic schools who answer
                                     our mailing and materials they request.

all
have
imprimatur

(a) Rosary Aves - short rosary meditations
(b) Consecration cards
(c) short morning offerings
(d) stations of the cross
(e) short consecration to the Holy Spirit

                                (6) Lots of daily prayers
                                (7) Gift store to promote rosary and devotion
                                     to Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart
                                (8) Monthly 5th service—pray united to ten states
                                     for the priest, Church and world

  
                            You know it is so hard to just
                                spread the material about the
                                rosary and the prayer manual
                                and meditations Mary and Jesus have
                                given to us for the Catholic schools
                                that have the Imprimatur.

                            We see the shape the world is in
                                and Mary appears to me everyday
                                July 5, 1994—September 5, 1995
                                and I get run from the place
                                she appeared at.

                            Then Mary appears on the building
                                December 17, 1996 to present
                                and she and Jesus tell us
                                what to do.

                            Fr. Carter S.J. was my spiritual director
                                a Jesuit priest with a doctors
                                in theology author of 18 books
                                on the Spiritual Life and the
                                Priestly Newsletter that has gone
                                to 75,000 priests for a long
                                time stood behind me and
                                discerned the material.

                            A movie having witch craft gets more
                                attention then Mary appearing on
                                the building.

                            People don't want me to tell them
                                how Mary appeared daily for
                                nine months and told me to
                                reach the children with the
                                school rosary program—
                                meditations—rosaries—scapulars,
                                but our children are bombarded
                                even by school teachers supporting
                                movies that are just not good
                                for children and so many other things.

                            We have a shortage of priests.

                            Mary appeared to me daily for 14 months
                                and she appears on the building in
                                Clearwater, Florida and wants us
                                to spread the Priestly Newsletter for
                                priests from the Virgin Mary building
                                and begin prayer chapters praying for
                                the priests, the Church and the world
                                and spreading the rosaries and
                                meditations and consecration cards
                                from there.

                            She told me April 5, 1995 to have
                                public gatherings on the 5th and pray.

                            Now here is how the image window
                                appeared on the 5ths as we
                                prayed in Clearwater.

  

    

July 5, 2000

        

    

September 5, 2000

    

    

October 5, 2000

    

    

November 5, 2000

             

    

December 5, 2000

        

December 17, 2000 4th anniversary

     

January 5, 20001

   

January 5, 2001

      

February 5, 2001 face of Jesus

   

    

March 5, 2001 white Mary

     

April 5, 2001

  

    

May 5, 2001

        

June 5, 2001

June 5, 2001

                

July 5, 2001 July 5, 2001

      

August the 5th prayer meeting - 6:20
  

August 5, 2001
  

           

September 5, 2001 September 5, 2001

        

     

October 5, 2001

         

November 5, 2001

November 5, 2001

                    

    

December 5, 2001

        

     

January 5, 2002

    

    

February 5, 2002

     

     

March 5, 2002

    

    

April 5, 2002

     

    

May 5, 2002

    

    

June 5, 2002

   

    

July 5, 2002

        

August 7, 2002 message continues
  
                
Messenger:        Please help us.

        

Excerpts from March 30, 1995
Rosary Meditations

(Very carefully discerned by Fr. Edward Carter)

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

5. Mary:  Pride is an evil that ruins men's hearts. Speak to all men of pride. It is only a loving heart that will unite with the Heart of my Son. A heart of love will light up this darkened world. I send you as soldiers into a world that is godless! You are fighting a battle with this world, with hearts full of the love of my Son. Look at all the souls that are lost! Look at the children of these parents who have gone astray! Little children! Look at their lives! I am so sad for the lives of my children. I call to you this day. Look at your world, America! You are so blind! You do not see! You have turned deaf and you have closed your eyes! I come and I appear! My Son talks and so many do not pay Him heed! I beg you! I beg you to heed my words for I truly am Mary, and I am speaking to you!

6. Mary:  Hearts that are hard, hearts that are godless, hearts that are lifeless, hearts that are dead in sin! Look at your world, America! Can you turn your head and look the other way? I come and I plead with you to turn your hearts back to the love of my Son, and who listens? Three come to pray my rosary with me! How do I shake those into listening to me here for I am truly speaking in this rosary to my beloved children? Listen to me! All those who come to this rosary will receive abundant graces from me and my Son!

end of March 30, 1995 rosary

             

  

Excerpt from July 15, 1995
Rosary Meditations

(Very carefully discerned by Fr. Edward Carter)

The Resurrection

2. Jesus speaks:  Let the little children come to Me. My dear ones, let the children come and pray, pray the rosary. I am sending you children to go into the land and tell other children about the love of God. Satan is pressing so hard on the youth! The youth are so open and thirsty! Older people many times are set in their ways. Children are young. They can hear about the love of God and change very quickly. Reach the children and the children will carry this message for many, many years.

4. Jesus speaks:  Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Always on your lips should be words of forgiveness for your beloved brothers, for I came to show you the way. I forgave all those who persecuted Me. It is in loving God and loving one another that you will have peace, joy and love within your hearts.

5. Jesus speaks:  As you are in your hearts, so shall you be in this world. I call you to holiness, I call you to prayer. Let go and release yourself to Me.

7. Mary speaks:  I see before me the starved children of this world, their skinny little bodies. My dear ones, there is such suffering in this world today. You hold back from talking about the love of God for fear of what people will think. See, My dear ones, see the men who will be paraded into the fires of hell for their willfulness. You must speak and tell all of the love of God. It is through these rosaries that I will touch many hearts.

10. Jesus speaks:  Let the little children come to Me. My beloved ones, I come to this earth to give you life. I love the little children. Their hearts are so pure and so gentle! This world is teaching mighty lessons, mighty lessons of evil. You must go out into the world and draw the little children to My Heart. I am calling you to bring the little children to Me.
   

The Ascension

5. Jesus speaks:  There are so many pure and tender hearts in the little children of this world. The children this day are being taught such vile things! How people hold back! They do not talk about the love of God with reverence. My dear little ones, I am asking you to speak to the children. They do not realize that the children need to receive this message of love. They listen to the messages themselves and tell their children so little. I am sending you into the world. I am sending you to talk to the children about the love of God.

6. Jesus speaks:  My soldiers are mighty soldiers. I am fortifying them with My special graces to carry this message to the youth.

7. Jesus speaks:  See before your eyes a group of children with their hearts filled with the love of God and singing. Dear ones, the children's hearts are open and pure. They can turn many children's hearts to the love of God. For they have not yet turned off their hearts, not yet turned their hearts to hearts of stone. Go to the children and tell them about the love I have for them. Tell them about the Eucharist. I ascended into heaven, but I remain with you this day, in My divinity and humanity, in the Holy Eucharist. And I remain in the hearts of men who are in the state of grace, in a very, very special way. Let the little children come to Me. Do you want the world to change? You must reach the children and the priests. You are My soldiers. It is through your example that this world will see the mighty lessons of My love.

8. Jesus speaks:  Mission, My dear ones, this is your mission. You were commissioned in baptism to carry out My life, death, and resurrection in your lives. Will you follow this calling? I am Jesus, your Savior. I am asking you to go forth to this Godless world with your banner held high, with the love of God across your breast.

9. Jesus speaks:  You make things so difficult! They are so simple! If you go to the scriptures, you see exactly what I am saying. I am saying the same thing here. If you read the Acts of the Apostles, you see how the apostles went from town to town and many were converted. It is through your efforts to spread this love of God that many will be converted. Let your hearts be fervent and on fire for the love of God. Reach the children and you will reach the world.
  

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

4. Jesus speaks:  I call you again to bring the children to Me. Have the children baptized in the Holy Spirit. Have the children pray to the Holy Spirit! Children need to have the courage to stand up for God in the circles wherein they mix this day. Many children are Godless. Many other children are mocked for professing the faith or making the sign of the cross or saying grace. Bring the children to Me and teach them about praying to the Holy Spirit. It is through the Holy Spirit that they will be transformed from fear to fearlessness. As the apostles carried out the Gospel message, so the children too will carry out the message of God's love.

5. Jesus speaks:  Many children sit idle all summer and are looking for things to do. Tell them to come to the Junior Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters. I want this movement spread throughout the world among the youth. This is My movement to touch the youth of this world.

6. Jesus speaks:  Circulate this rosary on the love of God and the love I have for My blessed, little ones.

8. Jesus speaks:  Do not worry about the circulation of these messages, for I am sending to you key people to help you to do this work. You must remain fearless and unattached, surrendering and yielding. I am giving to you abundant graces to carry out this work. Surrender and let go and watch things happen around you. I am Jesus, your beloved Savior. My youth will march on this world with hearts filled with fire for the love of God.

9. Jesus speaks:  I will give to you rosaries such as these for children to use in the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement. I want the children in this movement to have these meditations, to use them and to know exactly what I am telling them. I am Jesus. I will give the youth great graces to be drawn ever closer to My Heart through My Mother's Heart.

10. Jesus speaks:  Many are called, but few are chosen. I am calling My children to unite under the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement and to carry this movement across the United States to children who are hurting and in pain. Many children this day are suffering far beyond your realization. I am Jesus. I am begging you to be open to all the children I send to you and to tell them about the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement.
  

The Assumption

3. Mary speaks:  Go to the children now, My dear, dear ones. I am Mary, your mother. I am asking you to go out to the children. Many children will lose their souls and be condemned to the fires of hell. It is through your efforts to spread this movement, the Junior Shepherds of Christ, that these children will be saved from their own doom.

4. Mary speaks:  Little children's prayers are so powerful! I am Mary, your Mother. I am asking you to man the forces and have my little army of children ready and marching on this world with their pure little hearts and talking about the love of God. Children love to sing and they will love to pray when they know about the lives of my Son Jesus and myself, when you teach them about the Mass and the great gifts they are given. Give to children the first Blue Book and let them hear the personal love letters my Son is delivering to them.

5. Jesus speaks:  You are missing a big source of your power by not contacting the children. When children pray, there is power. Children joined in numbers are a vital force for spreading this movement across the United States. Your land is a land that is very sick. It is in curing the children of their illnesses that your land will prosper.

6. Mary speaks:  Think of the little children coming to Mass and longing to receive my Son Jesus in the Holy Eucharist. Think of them coming with their little hearts and telling Jesus of their love. I am Mary, their Mother, and I want to rock them and hold them tenderly, close to my Heart, to rock them and cuddle them in my Heart. I love each precious little young child. Will you tell them for me? I am Mary, and I am calling you to reach out to the children.

7. Mary speaks:  Children are being taught at such an early age about sex, but they are not being taught about the love of God. I am Mary, your Mother. You must have courage to stand up and talk about the love of God. Think of how the children are being taught this day about all the vile things. People have the courage to stand up and spread such filth, but so few speak to the children about the burning love of my Son Jesus. How my Son Jesus loves the little children.
Jesus speaks:  Let the little children come to Me.

8. Mary speaks:  I want this rosary to circulate among the children. I want you to encourage children to pray the rosary with these meditations. I want to tell the children how I love them with the tenderest, motherly love and how I am protecting them and guarding them and watching them. I am spreading My Motherly mantle over them. I am Mary, the Mother of Jesus and the mother of all the children of this world.

9. Mary speaks:  Think of how a mother loves her children. I love my children with the tenderest motherly love. Will you help me lead these tender young hearts to the Heart of my beloved Son, on fire for love of them? Many souls will be condemned to hell for their sinfulness and their willfulness. I am asking you to go out and to talk to the children about the love of my Son.

10. Mary speaks:  These rosary meditations and the Blue Books should be circulated among the children. I am asking you to carry the Blue Book to the children and have them read it so they know how much Jesus, my Son, loves them.
  

The Crowning of Mary

1. Mary speaks:  The soul was created by God the Father to know and love God. Nothing on the face of this earth will feed the starved soul except the love of God. Make it clear to the children that their souls were created for the love of God. Their souls are hungry. They need to feed their souls with the love of God.

3. Mary speaks: The ways of this world are very evil ways. The little children are being taught young such evilness! I am your Mother. I am calling out to you to carry out this mission, for the children need to know the love of my Son. You will be given great graces to reach the children. You must know that Satan will press very hard to try to stop any efforts that you may make in trying to reach the children. I am Mary, your Mother, and I am protecting you with my motherly mantle.

4. Mary speaks:  If you instruct the children, as I have instructed you, on the lives of Jesus and Mary, they will love to pray the rosary.

5. Jesus speaks:  It is through the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement that I will reach the youth throughout this world.

6. Mary speaks:  Children every day need to consecrate their hearts to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

7. Jesus speaks:  When you are tired and weary, know that Satan is pressing on you. You are receiving abundant graces to carry out this work. I will see to the publishing of these messages. You must release yourself and pray as you have never prayed before. Pray that the Father will answer your prayers. Pray in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, through the intercession of the Sorrowful Mother.

8. Mary speaks:  I am so sorrowful for the little lost children of this world, for the slaughter of the little innocent babies within the womb of their mothers, for the slaughter of the minds of children in many classrooms. I am Mary, your Mother. Speak out, pray for the courage from the Holy Spirit to speak out for the love of God. If this world can talk about so many vile things, if it shows movies in the movie theaters where Satan is coming out of the screen, my dear ones, you can surely talk about the tender, burning Heart of my Son Jesus.

9. Mary speaks:  Many young hearts will be converted and, in that conversion, the power of their prayers will be magnified far beyond your comprehension. I am Mary, your Mother. This is a rosary given from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary on July 15, 1995. This is a call to reach the children in the Junior Shepherds of Christ Movement, to bring them to my Immaculate Heart, that they may be consecrated in my Heart and consecrated in the Heart of my Son.

10. Mary speaks:  Tell the children to pray to my Son and the Holy Spirit for the courage to go into this world, for they are fighting a battle every day in this world and my Son will reward them with abundant grace and great gifts of His tender love. I am Mary, your Mother. I have called out to you. Harken to my call and tell all involved of my request here. I love you, my sweet little children, and I love the little children of the world. Let the little children come to my Son Jesus and let them forever rest in His burning Heart of love.
Song: Little child, little child, come and rest in My arms. Be with Me, little child, I want you with Me, you are hurting, My loved one. I am waiting for you, come into My Heart now. I love you.

end of excerpts from July 15, 1995

  

  

  

  

  

  

                          
  


   

Kenya

  
July 2002

Dear Fr. Carter,

I am writing this letter in confidence that you will assist us in our efforts for the spread of the devotion to the two
hearts of Jesus and Mary.

We are an association of 850 Youth and junior youth by the name "Little Shepherds of Christ".

Kindly send us:

- Shepherds of Christ prayer manual and spiritual books.

- Rosaries

- Prayer chapter information packet and Shepherds of Christ
  prayer cards.

YES WE
WILL PRAY WITH
YOU!

With Mary, to serve and to Love.

_______ Co-ordinator

 


 

24 July 2002

Dear Weickert,

Greetings from Kenya.

I wish to thank you very much for yours of April 7, 2002 and the lively book "Shepherds of Christ Spirituality 2 by Fr. Carter S.J. which reached me yesterday July 23, 2002.

I appreciate your gesture and promise you my prayers for the good work you are doing for the Church. I shall encourage my Christians to join in prayer for the intentions as per your prayer manual.

Wishing you God's blessings and assurance of prayers.

Yours in Christ,

Bishop of _______

  


   

                                                            May 2002

    Dear Ones in Christ,

                                    Peace and Health to you all.

                                    I am happy to assure you all that I have
    received the precious books that you have so generously sent to
    us. I have distributed to the priests of ____ diocese free
    of charge. I only ask them to thank you all and offer a Mass
    on every First Friday of the month. The only thing we can return
    you.

                                    I pray to the good Lord to love, bless and
    reward you all for your awful charity, generosity and fraternal
    solidarity.

                                    I am a retired bishop now. But I still go
    around to see my old and new catholics. From 18 to 28 of April,
    I went to ____ and ____ borders to baptize and confirm. The
    four priests baptized about 600 persons while I confirmed about
    450 persons. There are many more ___ pagan villages want to 
    become catholics. Please pray for them and for me too. Thank you.

                                    With prayerful wishes and God bless you
    and your wonderful works for the greater glory of God and
    salvation of souls.

                                                Yours in our Lord and Lady


  

   

August 7, 2002 message continues
  
                
Messenger:        People in Africa want materials
                                to pray, we don't have the
                                money we need to print it
                                and send all the rosaries and
                                materials and prayer manuals to
                                Africa as we want to. Shipping
                                is so expensive.

                            We get so many letters from Africa everyday.

                            Please help us.

                            Please help us.

                            Please help us make the payment
                                on the Virgin Mary building.

    

     

August 7, 2002 message continues
  
                
Messenger:        Here is a message I got from Jesus
                                September 6, 2001 when I cried to him
                                because we didn't have money for
                                the building payment September 1, 2001
                                and rosary materials for the schools
                                in October 2001.

   


     

Excerpt from September 6, 2001 message

Jesus speaks:        You must pray for your donors.

                        I appeared and my mother appeared

                            for the whole world.

                        The apparition is not appreciated.

                        The fact you cannot even make

                            the rent payment for the

                            building is proof.

                        So much money in the world and the

                            state of Florida.

                        Look at your news on television.

                        Look at what the news is on the
                            television.

                        MARY HAS APPEARED ON THE
                            BUILDING FOR 5 YEARS AND
                            YOU DO NOT EVEN TAKE 
                            NOTICE....

                        It is not the responsibility of 100
                            people to support such a vision.

                         It is a gift from God.

                         This shows you the focus of men
                            and your news.

                         Your eyes are blind.

end of excerpt from September 6, 2001 message

   


    

August 7, 2002 message continues
  
                
Messenger:        September 5, 2001—Mary appeared
                                dark on the building during
                                the whole prayer service.

                                Then look what happened
                                September 11, 2001—
                                WE NEED TO PRAY
                                as Mary and Jesus have told us.

                                We need to pray the rosary.

         

Excerpt from
The Spirituality of Fatima

October 13, 1917

                In her message that day, Our Blessed Mother told the children:

    I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.(17)

  
NOTES:

17. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to 
    Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven
(Rockford: TAN 
    Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983). p.7.

      

 


        

Excerpt from
The Spirituality of Fatima

by Father Edward Carter, S.J.

  

Before receiving the six apparitions of Our Lady, May through October of 1917, the three Fatima visionaries were visited by an angel on three different occasions during the preceding year. He appeared to them in the spring, summer, and fall. Lucia (now Sr. Lucia) describes the springtime apparition of the angel:

On reaching us, he said: "Do not be afraid! I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me."

Kneeling on the ground, he bowed down until his forehead touched the ground and made us repeat these words three times: "My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love You! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You."

Then, rising he said: "Pray thus. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications."

His words engraved themselves so deeply on our minds that we could never forget them (3)

During the summer of 1916, the angel again appeared to the three visionaries. He said to them:

Pray! Pray a great deal. The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have merciful designs on you. Offer prayers and sacrifices continually to the Most High. Make everything you do a sacrifice, and offer it as an act of reparation for the sins by which God is offended, and as a petition for the conversion of sinners. Bring peace to our country in this way.... I am the Guardian Angel of Portugal Accept and bear with submission all the sufferings the Lord will send you. (4)

In the fall of the same year, the angel visited the visionaries a final time:

The angel came...bearing a golden chalice in one hand and a Host above it in the other. The amazed children noticed that drops of blood were falling from the Host into the chalice. Presently, the angel left both suspended in mid-air and prostrated himself on the ground, saying this beautiful prayer: "Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly. I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and [the intercession of] the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners." (5)

Sr. Lucia relates how the angel gave them Communion:

Then, rising, he took the chalice and the Host in his hand. He gave the Sacred Host to me and shared the Blood from the chalice between Jacinta and Francisco, saying as he did so:

"Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men! Make reparation for their crimes and console your God." (6)

   

May 13, 1917, marks the first appearance of Our Lady of Fatima to Lucia, Jacinta, and Francisco. On this occasion, she said to the visionaries:

Do not be afraid, I will do you no harm..... I am from Heaven.

I have come to ask you to come here for six months in succession, on the 13th day, at the same hour. Later on, I will tell you who I am and what I want

Are you willing to offer yourselves to God and bear all the sufferings He wills to send you, as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended, and in supplication for the conversion of sinners?

Pray the Rosary every day in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war. (8)

To the end of each decade of the Rosary, she added the Fatima prayer, "0 my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fire of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who have most need of Thy mercy. " (9)

In Mary's first message, we immediately see two aspects of the Fatima message--prayer (especially the Rosary) and reparation.

On June 13, the Blessed Virgin again appeared to the three children:

There were about 70 people present, though only the children could see the apparition. She told the youngsters that many souls go to Hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them. She said Francisco and Jacinta would soon leave the world for Heaven. Holding out her heart, surrounded by thorns which pierced it from all sides, Our Lady told Lucy: "God wishes you to remain in the world for some time because He wants to use you to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. I promise salvation to those who embrace it, and their souls will be loved by God as flowers placed by myself to adorn His throne." (10)

This shows how devotion to the Immaculate Heart is central to the Fatima message. Subsequent events reemphasize the importance of Our Lady teaching this devotion at Fatima.

In her July apparition, Our Lady further revealed her plan to the children and to the world:

During her appearance in July, Our Lady, in answer to Lucia's plea, promised that in October she would work a great miracle so that all might believe and know who she was. Again, the Mother of God told the children to sacrifice themselves for sinners and to say many times, especially when making a sacrifice, this prayer: "0 my Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of poor sinners, and in reparation for all the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." (11)

During this same July apparition, Mary showed the three children a vision of Hell. She told them:

You have seen Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish, in the world, devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.

The war (World War I, then raging) is going to end. But if people do not stop offending God, another and worse one will begin in the reign of Pius XI. When you shall see a night illuminated by an unknown light [January 2, 1938], know that this is the great sign that God gives you that He is going to punish the world for its many crimes by means of war, hunger, and persecution of the Church and the Holy Father. (12)

To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart and the Communion of Reparation on the five first Saturdays. If my requests are granted, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. if not, she will scatter her errors throughout the world, provoking wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, and various nations will be destroyed....

But in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, Russia will be converted, and a certain period of peace will be granted to the world. (13)

In the above, Mary speaks of the five first Saturdays. Here is what the practice involves:

  1. Go to confession, which may be done from eight days before to eight days after the first Saturday. Of course, if a person is in the state of serious sin, the confession must be made before receiving communion.
  2. Receive Holy Communion.
  3. Recite five decades of the Rosary.
  4. Meditate for 15 minutes on the mysteries of the Rosary.

All of the above (except confession) must be done on the first Saturday of five consecutive months, with the intention of making reparation to the Immaculate Heart. For those who make the five first Saturdays, Our Lady of Fatima has promised to assist them at the hour of death, with all the graces necessary for salvation. (14)

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)

Next came the September appearance of Our Lady:

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)

The October 13 vision was accompanied by the great Miracle of the Sun described in the previous chapter. In her message that day, Our Blessed Mother told the children:

I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.(17)

While the people in attendance were beholding the great Miracle of the Sun, the three young visionaries, and they alone, were privileged to see striking visions in the heavens:

As Our Lady had promised, St. Joseph had come with the Holy Family and had blessed the world. Then, Our Lady appeared as the Mother of Sorrows, accompanied by her Divine Son, Who also blessed the world. Finally, Lucy had seen the Blessed Virgin, dressed in the brown robes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth, holding a brown Scapular in her hand, with her infant Son upon her knee. However, in none of these visions had any of the figures spoken to the children. (18)

Besides the messages associated with the major Fatima apparitions, there were other revelations given by Our Lady. Before Jacinta died, she told of other messages given her (during her illness) by Mary:

More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than for any other reason.

Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.

Many marriages are not good; they do not please Our Lord and are not of God.

Priests must be pure, very pure. They should not busy themselves with anything except what concerns the Church and souls. The disobedience of priests, to their superiors and to the Holy Father, is very displeasing to Our Lord.

I can no longer restrain the hand of my Divine Son from striking the world with just punishments for its many crimes.

If the government of a country leaves the Church in peace and gives liberty to our Holy Religion, it will be blessed by God.

Tell everybody that God gives graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask grace from her, and that the Heart of Jesus wishes to be venerated together with the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Ask them to plead for peace from the Immaculate Heart of Mary, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her. (19)
    

Notes

1. For background material on Fatima, I am particularly indebted to Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven (Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983).
2. Ibid., pp.7-8.
3. Louis Kondar, SVD, editor, Fatima in Lucia's Own Words (Fatima: Postulation Center, 1976), p.62. Distributed in the U.S.A. by the Ravengate Press, Cambridge, MA.
4. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., pp.1-2.
5. Ibid., p.2 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
6. Fatima in Lucia's Own Words, op cit., pp.64-65.
7. Frere Michael de la Trinite', The Whole Truth about Fatima (Buffalo: Immaculate Heart Publications, 1989), pp. 85-86 (The words in brackets are my own-added for clarification).
8. Ibid., pp.112-114.
9. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.30.
10. Ibid., p.3.
11. Ibid., pp.3-4.
12. Ibid., pp.4-5.
13. Ibid., p.5.
14. Rev. Edward Carter, S.J., Mother at Our Side: Mary's Role in the Spiritual Life (1993: Faith Publishing Co., Milford, Ohio), p.21.
15. Our Lady's Peace Plan, op cit., p.6.
16. Ibid., p.6.
17. Ibid., p.7.
18. Ibid., p.8.
19. Ibid., pp.9-10.

end of excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima

      


    

August 7, 2002 message continues
  
                
Jesus speaks:        Give the people My Blue Book
                                    Messages. I want them to remain
                                    after Communion and pray to Me.
                                    So many get up and run from the
                                    Church after Mass and I am
                                    with them in a special way.
                                    Stay and pray to Me—be with Me.
                                    I love you, Jesus.

       

  

Picture of the Sacred Heart of JesusTeach Your Children My LoveGod's Blue Book III Cover

May 2, 1994 After Communion 7:15a.m.

I am inside of you. Read this letter to your children and their friends. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. At My name all knees should bend. In My presence you should be in awe and ardent devotion. I am Jesus. I want to be adored and worshiped. I want to be honored as God. Do you honor Me after Communion? I am God, child. Where do you rush in a hurry? To eat? Children need to spend time with Me. Do not teach them the bad habit of running for food. Tell them about My True Presence. Bring your breakfast and eat later. You have time. I want your time afterwards for 20 minutes. Teach the children this. They need to be alone with Me, too. I do not come to you and them in a different way. I am present, truly here. If they can spend 20 minutes with their best friend, they can spend 20 minutes with Me also. This is your opportunity to teach them a good lesson and not a bad one.

I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. You are a tabernacle. Do not run from My altar to please the children. Teach them a lesson for life. Nothing compares to the time after Communion. God is in your breast. God, child! Do you hear Me? Nothing compares to God! I can do all things in My divinity and love. I come to you, a mere human, and you think you have to tend to worldly things. This offends Me so. You do not know. I come in love. Receive Me in love and reverence. Teach your children of My love.

                    end of May 2, 1994 message

  

  

Picture of the Sacred Heart of JesusI Am Here in the Tabernacle

God's Blue Book II Cover

January 15, 1994 9:15 a.m.
St. Michael Church

Jesus: You come here and I am waiting. Let go of all distractions Satan busies your mind with. You have come to adore your King. Block out all and focus on the King of Glory.

I am Jesus. I am God. I am your all. I am God. Worship, honor, glory--all is My due. Blow the trumpets, sound the horns! There are others to walk about, but no thought, not even a prayer, for the King of Glory.

I am very sad and hurt by all who neglect Me and do not come to Me as I sit here. Where are they? I am Jesus, Son of the Living God. If for one instant I were to cease to think of them, they would cease to be, but they do not even realize Who I am. My heart is so sad. What do they think, for their busy lives? They are in the presence of a King and they don't even recognize Me!

It delights Me so that you have come to Me. I love you with such intense love and I want to give you so many gifts. Come and be with Me in silence. Sit and I will help you block out distractions. I am the King of Glory. I am God. If people come to My house here, it is not to pray, outside of Mass. They come to fix the church and miss the King of Glory. Blind! How blind they are!

Blessed be the name of God. At His Name every knee must bow. I am Jesus, Son of the Living God and have spoken to you, My child. Be with Me. Tell your friends to come and bang on the doors to My church. The priests lock Me up all day. Those who want to come cannot get in! Tell them to come and adore Me and open My doors.

end of January 15, 1994 message

    


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