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.

September 2, 2004

September 3rd Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 2 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
for September 3rd are Luminous.

            

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

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

       

   

 

 

September 1, 2004 at 6:20pm

   

September 2, 2004

     

    

Mary's Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks:  I stood beneath the cross of my Son, and my Heart was in such pain for I saw Him before my eyes. I saw Him covered with blood. I saw Him die. My Heart, my children, my Heart to watch my Son, but my Heart, my Heart, how I suffered for my little children of the world that give in to this world and give up the love of my Son. O my little children of light, I give you this message. Carry this light into the darkness for your Mother Mary, for I stood beneath the cross and I cried. I cried for the little ones. I cried for the young ones, the ones that do not care and will lose their souls. How do I make you see for you will not listen to me? What can I do? I come. I appear. I beg. I plead. I give you these gifts from my Son, and you reject me. I do not deliver messages very often anymore for I have been ignored. The message is the same. You do not read the messages I have given to you. Please help me. Help the little children. I appear. I appear. I appear, and I am ignored. I stood beneath the cross, and I cried. I cried, and my Heart was in such anguish for my little children, for I am searching for them this day as I searched for the Child Jesus. Please, please help me. I cannot hold back the hand of my Son any longer. I am Mary, your Mother. I ask you to help my children. You are my children of light.

end of Mary's Message, August 27, 1996

   

  

Excerpt from August 27, 2004 message

Mary speaks:      My children I stood beneath the
                       cross of my Son and I cried.
                       You know how you love your
                            children and do not want them
                            to die.

                       My children, people are going
                            to hell forever and
                            I appeared 7 years in
                                Clearwater and
                            I cry to you — for you
                                will not listen ——

                       My Son gives you the beautiful,
                            blue skies,

                       My Son gives you the beautiful,
                            blue ocean —

                       Your children are being poisoned
                            by satan —

                       Many souls are being lost —

                       HOW PRECIOUS IS THE
                            LIFE OF A SOUL

                       I AM a Messenger sent
                            by God

                       You will not listen.

                       If a child dies you feel the
                            loss — what about a
                            soul that goes to hell
                            forever.

                       You will not listen.

                       Your job here on earth is
                            to love God.

                       Listen to the First Commandment.

  

I, the Lord, am your God.
You shall not have other gods besides me.

  

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      Do you tell God you love Him?

                       This is the first commandment.

                        We have asked for 24 hour
                            adoration in China.

    

    

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      Who even comes?

                        You have 24 hours a day to love
                            and serve God —
                            many just want God to
                            serve them ——
                            and they don't give
                            any love to God and
                            call themselves
                            Christians ——

                        WHAT LOVE DO
                            YOU GIVE TO
                            GOD?

                        Do you realize He is
                            truly present in the
                            Eucharist — He is
                            there.

                        China is the Eucharistic
                            Center for the world —
                            you can't even spend
                            one hour with your
                            Divine Lover —

   

   

Matthew 26: 40-41

He came back to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, ‘So you had not the strength to stay awake with me for one hour? Stay awake, and pray not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing enough, but human nature is weak.’

      

August 27, 2004 message continues

Jesus speaks:      Can't you spend one 
                            hour with Me?

Mary speaks:      Do you think God should
                            give you more and more and
                            more, but you do
                            not come to the Blessed
                            Sacrament and do
                            not show tender
                            love to God?

                            Oh my People —

                            Do you love God?

                        A son and daughter is
                            so precious and yet
                            you are missing
                            the boat many times —

   

   

Our Lady of Clearwater Florida
 
 During the 5th of the month gatherings with Rita Ring


July 5, 2000


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une 5, 2002


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We chose to put more than just one of each of these 5ths because of they're importance.


October 5, 2003
 
 


November 5, 2003
Jesus instructed the prayer service
be done inside

November 5, 2003
Jesus instructed the prayer service
be done inside

December 5, 2003
Jesus instructed the prayer service
be done inside

December 5, 2003
Jesus instructed the prayer service
be done inside

December 5, 2003
Jesus instructed the prayer service
be done inside

December 5, 2003
 
   

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July 5, 2004

                                 

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      I APPEAR, I APPEAR

                        AND I AM IGNORED.

                        Souls are going into
                            hell like rain.

                        Please watch — do an
                            honor guard —
                            come to China and be with
                            Jesus 24 hours
                            a day to help make
                            reparation for your
                            sins and the sins of
                            the world.

                        Beg for mercy.

                        Tell God you are
                            sorry.

                        Look at the 10
                            Commandments —

    

The Ten Commandments
 

  1.   I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides me.

  2.   You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.

  3.   Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.

  4.   Honor your father and your mother.

  5.   You shall not kill.

  6.   You shall not commit adultery.

  7.   You shall not steal.

  8.   You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

  9.   You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.

  10.   You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

    

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:          do you obey them?

                        Read them again —
                            see how they are
                            disobeyed by the people
                            of the earth.

                        So many souls are going
                            into hell —

                        You must pray for the
                            souls.

                        Pray for the priests to be
                            holy priests.

                        Pray for the Church and the
                            world as my Son
                            Jesus has told you.

   

   

Given to Father Carter
on the Feast of St. Ignatius

July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:

"My beloved priest-companion, I intend to use the priestly newsletter, Shepherds of Christ, and the movement, Shepherds of Christ Associates, in a powerful way for the renewal of My Church and the world.

"I will use the newsletter and the chapters of Shepherds of Christ Associates as a powerful instrument for spreading devotion to My Heart and My Mother's Heart.

"I am calling many to become members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. To all of them I will give great blessings. I will use them as instruments to help bring about the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the reign of My Sacred Heart. I will give great graces to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates. I will call them to be deeply united to My Heart and to Mary's Heart as I lead them ever closer to My Father in the Holy Spirit."

- Message from Jesus to Father Edward J. Carter, S.J., Founder, as given on July 31, 1994,
feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus (The Jesuits)

end of July 31, 1994 message given to Fr. Carter

   

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      Please go to China.

                        Great grace of healing
                            is given for all who
                            come on the 5th to
                            Florida and
                            to China to pray —
                            pray with the live picture
                            of the Church in
                            China — pray with
                            those before the
                            Blessed Sacrament.

 

Messenger:            Mary shared the life of
                                   Jesus with Him.

                                    She suffered the poverty,
                                she suffered with Him in the
                                Passion.

                                    We are able to share the life
                                with Jesus more deeply when we
                                meditate on the mysteries. (of the rosary)

                                    Jesus is with us today in the
                                Blessed Sacrament, waiting His
                                beloved souls, the ones He gave 
                                His life for to come and be with
                                Him.

                                    Mary is Mother of the Eucharistic
                                Jesus. We should come to the
                                Eucharist with a heart likened to Mary
                                and beg for her purity to love her
                                Son so deeply.

                                    How is it that God, the Son of
                                God remains with us today and we,
                                so many of us, ignore this great
                                gift given to us.

                                    Read the Blue Book Messages,
                                the letters of His love and hear Him
                                call us to Himself, truly present
                                in the Eucharist.

                                     We can search for our answers
                                from books and people and yet when we
                                realize more and more that God, the
                                Divine God is truly present in the
                                Eucharist, we will go to Him more
                                and more and prostrate ourselves pouring
                                out our deepest love.

                                    He so desires this.

   

 

Introduction

April 13, 1994

    Words of Jesus. Read before the Tabernacle.

Jesus speaks:  How, child, do I, Jesus, tell you I love you? You hold on to silly things when God is in your midst and is ardently loving you. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God. I am writing to each precious child this day. I am on fire for love of you. I remain in the Eucharist to be with you with My ardent love. I did not want to leave My beloved ones at the Last Supper. I love you so, My dear and ardently loved children. I remain with you this day in the Blessed Sacrament, the same Jesus Who died a brutal death on the Cross.

end of excerpt

     

A City on a Hill Shines to the World

February 23, 1994 5:30 a.m.

Jesus: I am the light of the world. A city on a hill will shine to the world. You at the Center will be this city when you are filled to the brim with the love of Jesus. What power, what might, to have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep within their breasts!

end of excerpt

     

August 27, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        God is love —

                            If He delivered a message to the
                                cold hearts of today do we
                                not think it would be
                                a cry to reach the souls
                                with His love message and
                                tell them how He longs for their
                                    love and wants them to come to
                                    the tabernacle and before the
                                    exposed Eucharist and adore
                                    Him for all the neglect He
                                    is getting.

                            The angel appeared before
                                the Fatima apparitions
                                here is what the angel said.

   

From the Spirituality of Fatima
by Father Carter, S.J.

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

5. Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan from Heaven [Rockford: TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., 1983]. p. 2.

    

August 27, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        Not more philosophical things,
                                but tender hearts of love.

                            God is so powerful.

                            We the children of Mary should go
                                and be with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

   

   

   

August 27, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        Let us come in silence to the tabernacle
                                and adore Jesus, the King of Kings,
                                the Son of God.

                            God who is love —
                                Who desires our heartfelt love —
                                Do we show Him love?

                            Jesus gives us Himself in the
                                consecrated host.

                            God gives us Himself in such a
                                humble form.

    

     

August 27, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        How can we ignore the Son of God, so many
                                of us — truly present in the
                                Eucharist.

                            God has all the power.

Jesus speaks:     to those who come to Me
                                before the exposed Eucharist and
                                before the tabernacle and receive
                                Me in the Blessed Sacrament —
                                I outpour My richest graces
                                to you for all your needs.

                            You wonder down empty roads
                                searching for the song of your
                                soul, which you can only find
                                in Me.

   

    

August 27, 2004 message continues

Messenger:            We offer sacrifice in the Mass —
                            begging for mercy from God

   

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
    have mercy on us.
 Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
    have mercy on us.
 Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
    grant us peace.

   

August 27, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        Mary is the perfect disciple of Jesus.

    

    

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      The Heavenly Father
                                wants you to worship
                                and adore Jesus in the
                                Blessed Sacrament.

                            Jesus remains here to give you
                                love — He remains for the
                                precious children of the earth, the ones
                                He loved so much He gave His life
                                for them.

                                You are to be souls going to Mass and
                            to the Blessed Sacrament, begging
                            God to outpour His grace on the
                            priests, the Church and the world.
                            You are to be special intercessory
                            souls in the Shepherds of Christ Movement —
                            begging God for mercy — praying
                            as God has taught you and asked you
                            to pray — showing such love to God.

                                Do you want the Reign of the Sacred
                            Heart in all hearts? Jesus is truly
                            present and with you in the
                            Eucharist, no less present than the
                            day He walked the earth.

                                Tell God you want to help
                            make reparation for the offences
                            against Him. Help make reparation
                            to my Immaculate Heart. I am the
                            Immaculate Conception, the New
                            Eve, I am a gift given to the
                            children of the earth.

   

Mary by day
July 5, 2000

by night
July 5, 2000

       

Revelation Chapter 12                 

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman, robed with the sun, standing on the moon, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant, and in labour, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth. Then a second sign appeared in the sky: there was a huge red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and each of the seven heads crowned with a coronet. Its tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and hurled them to the ground, and the dragon stopped in front of the woman as she was at the point of giving birth, so that it could eat the child as soon as it was born. The woman was delivered of a boy, the son who was to rule all the nations with an iron scepter, and the child was taken straight up to God and to his throne, while the woman escaped into the desert, where God had prepared a place for her to be looked after for twelve hundred and sixty days.

    And now war broke out in heaven, when Michael with his angels attacked the dragon. The dragon fought back with his angels, but they were defeated and driven out of heaven. The great dragon, the primeval serpent, known as the devil or Satan, who had led all the world astray, was hurled down to the earth and his angels were hurled down with him. Then I heard a voice shout from heaven, 'Salvation and power and empire for ever have been won by our God, and all authority for his Christ, now that the accuser, who accused our brothers day and night before our God, has been brought down. They have triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word to which they bore witness, because even in the face of death they did not cling to life. So let the heavens rejoice and all who live there; but for you, earth and sea, disaster is coming-- because the devil has gone down to you in a rage, knowing that he has little time left.'

    As soon as the dragon found himself hurled down to the earth, he sprang in pursuit of the woman, the mother of the male child, but she was given a pair of the great eagle's wings to fly away from the serpent into the desert, to the place where she was to be looked after for a time, two times and half a time. So the serpent vomited water from his mouth, like a river, after the woman, to sweep her away in the current, but the earth came to her rescue; it opened its mouth and swallowed the river spewed from the dragon's mouth. Then the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, who obey God's commandments and have in themselves the witness of Jesus.

      

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:          The Church is mother.
                                God has given you the Church.
                                I cry to you as your spiritual
                                Mother to pray for the priests,
                                the Church and the world as
                                God has told you.

   

  

Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

My dear fellow Associate Members,

Jesus is calling special apostles to join a new division of the Shepherds of Christ Movement. Here is a message from Jesus given to Father Carter:

    My beloved priest-companion, I am requesting that a new prayer movement be started under the direction of Shepherds of Christ Ministries. I am asking for volunteers who are willing to pray before the Blessed Sacrament for one hour, twice-weekly. Members of the Shepherds of Christ prayer chapters, as well as others, are to be invited to join this movement.

    These apostles are to pray for the intentions I am giving you. For part of the hour they are to use the prayers of the Shepherds of Christ Associates Handbook. They may spend the rest of the hour as they so choose.

    I will use this new prayer movement within My Shepherds of Christ Ministries in a powerful way to help in the renewal of My Church and the world. I will give great graces to those who join this movement. The name, Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, is to be given to this movement.

    I am inviting My beloved Rita Ring to be coordinator for this activity.

    I pour out the great love of My Sacred Heart to all. I am Jesus, Chief Shepherd of the flock.

    This is indeed a special calling for us to unite in one heart with His Eucharistic Heart and pray for the following intentions:

  1. For the spread of the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary culminating in the reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of the Immaculate Heart.
  2. For the Pope.
  3. For all bishops of the world.
  4. For all priests.
  5. For all sisters and brothers in the religious life.
  6. For all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, and for the spread of this movement to the world.
  7. For all members of the Catholic Church.
  8. For all members of the human family.
  9. For all souls in purgatory.

end of Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart message

    

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:         You must go to Jesus and pray
                            before the Blessed Sacrament with
                            the prayers He has given you.

    

   

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      Oh my children — the gift God
                                gives you in the Mass
                                and you miss it many
                                days.

                            Jesus remains truly present in
                                the Blessed Sacrament.

                            Jesus outpours knowledge in
                                your hearts in the 20 minutes
                                after you receive Holy
                                Communion. He remains
                                with you and gives you
                                intimate knowledge of Himself
                                and insights into the hidden mysteries —
                                it is imprinted deeply in your
                                soul — not in words, but in
                                the deep intimate love of
                                sharing deeply in His life and
                                knowing Him as He outpours
                                His abundant life to you
                                and you grow more saturated
                                in His life.

                            Oh my children, the gift if yours,
                                souls are being lost because
                                of your silence to speak
                                out about the Eucharist.

                            The power is in the Eucharist.

                            The souls are longing to be
                                fed.

   

John 6: 35-59

Jesus answered them:

I am the bread of life.
No one who comes to me will ever hunger;
no one who believes in me will ever thirst.
But, as I have told you,
you can see me and still you do not believe.
Everyone whom the Father gives me
   will come to me;
I will certainly not reject
anyone who comes to me,
because I have come from heaven,
not to do my own will,
but to do the will of him who sent me.
Now the will of him who sent me
is that I should lose nothing
of all that he has given to me,
but that I should raise it up
   on the last day.
It is my Father's will
that whoever sees the Son
   and believes in him
should have eternal life,
and that I should raise that person up
   on the last day.

    Meanwhile the Jews were complaining to each other about him, because he had said, 'I am the bread that has come down from heaven.' They were saying, 'Surely this is Jesus son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know. How can he now say, "I have come down from heaven?" ' Jesus said in reply to them, 'Stop complaining to each other.

'No one can come to me
unless drawn by the Father who sent me,
and I will raise that person up
   on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They will all be taught by God;
everyone who has listened to the Father,
and learnt from him,
comes to me.
Not that anybody has seen the Father,
except him who has his being from God:
he has seen the Father.
In all truth I tell you,
everyone who believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your fathers ate manna in the desert
and they are dead;
but this is the bread
   which comes down from heaven,
so that a person may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread
   which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread
   will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.'

    Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' Jesus replied to them:

In all truth I tell you,
if you do not eat
   the flesh of the Son of man
and drink his blood,
you have no life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh
   and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise that person up
   on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh
   and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in that person.
As the living Father sent me
and I draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me
   will also draw life from me.
This is the bread
   which has come down from heaven;
it is not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
   will live for ever.

This is what he taught at Capernaum in the synagogue. 

   

August 27, 2004 message continues

Mary speaks:      Gems — outpoured to you —
                                the precious souls He gave
                                His life for.

                            Go to China, Indiana, go before the
                                Blessed Sacrament —
                                make China a place
                                of fervent adoration to
                                the Blessed Sacrament —
                                Jesus wants this ——

 

Revelation 22: 1-2

Then the angel showed me the river of life, rising from the throne of God and of the Lamb and flowing crystal–clear. Down the middle of the city street, on either bank of the river were the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year, one in each month, and the leaves of which are the cure for the nations.

    

Excerpt from November 12, 2001

                        Father Carter said, as he recalled Jesus born
                    in poverty in the stable, "Jesus picked this
                    little Church here and so much has
                    come out of this little humble place."
                    (We have sent the Newsletter from China to China)

                        I would hear the water, it sounded
                    like a falls when Father Carter went to
                    China to say Mass.

end of excerpt

  


   

Excerpt from July 27, 2001

Messenger: 

            Father Carter went to China twice a week all the way to September 8, 2000
                our Blessed Mother's birthday, that was his last visit
                to China to say Mass.

end of excerpt

   

  

Father Carter's Talk
February 18, 2000

    Well, what should I say to you. It comes to my heart that I should start off telling you about the Holy Family’s house, the little home they lived in, in Nazareth which is now situated/surrounded by a Basilica Church in Loreto, Italy. And I had the privilege of visiting that shrine. How did their house get there—their little home all the way from Nazareth to Loreto, Italy? There’re different theories on it. One which seems very plausible to me is that during one of the crusades, when the crusaders were in the Holy Land, they had great reason to fear that the home of the Holy Family, the little house would be destroyed by the enemies of Christianity. So they dismantled it and brought it back by ship and then it was reassembled there at Loreto. And there is scientific proof to back this up, for instance they say that the stone out of which the Holy Family home/house was built is that which is used in the Holy Land and it’s not indigenous at all to Italy. So I really do believe that is the house where Jesus and Mary lived at Nazareth. And one of the first things that strikes you about it is how tiny it is—very, very smallone more indication that Our Lord did not need the trappings of this earth, wealth and palatial surroundings and so forth to prove to show His greatness. He was and is great simply because what He is in Himself, who He is. And we get the same lesson, that’s one of the lessons which comes out of His birth at Bethlehem; the kings of this earth come into this world with great palatial showings and all the fanfare which surrounds the life of royalty and yet the King of kings comes in this world in the simplest surroundings. Again He teaches us many lessons from this, one of them certainly is where does true greatness lie. It doesn’t lie in the things which are outside of you, the things which surround you, it lies within your very depths.

    I think all of you here at China give a great witness to life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. Your life is so simple. It is so hidden and yet like the life of Jesus at Nazareth, it is meant to be redemptive. His life certainly was redemptive those first 33 years of His existence. And I think I said in a homily to you some months ago, that if we had it to plan we certainly would have arranged, I’m sure all of us, Jesus’ life here on earth differently. I don’t think in the depths of our heart if we’re honest with ourselves, if the Father says, “you map out the way you think Jesus, My Son, should live here below in the time allotted,” who of us, who of us would have had Him hidden away for 10/11ths of that mortal life span. We would have given much more time to His public life. And here Jesus under the Father teaches us a great lesson—that we share in His redemptive efforts proportionate to the depth of our love and as that life of love is supported by faith and hope so Jesus takes the most humble places and He takes the most simple living people and He uses those simple places and those simple people to accomplish great things. So glory in your existence here at China, in its hiddenness and ask for the faith to realize more and more the great good you are doing for the Movement and the Church and the world.

    There are so many lives of the saints which are at witness to this hidden life of Jesus. And the one that usually comes first to my mind is that of St. Therese of Lisieux, who lived that very, very very hidden life in the cloistered convent at Lisieux and only for nine short years. She entered, as I’m sure you know it, with special dispensation from the pope. She entered at 15 and died at 24. And the good she accomplished in those nine years at Carmel, that was already achieved before she was canonized and people came to know about her great life of holiness. But during those nine short years at Carmel she was doing so so so much to help in the salvation of souls. And her life was so ordinary, so much so in its external framework, so much so that I think it’s, if I remember correctly, her sisters—the nuns with whom she lived with in the Carmelite convent there were surprised when the her cause for beatification was introduced. And why was her life so great—because she did the simplest things, everything with the great depth of faith and hope and love, those gifts which the Holy Spirit showered her with in tremendous depth.

    And so your life here at China is in such great imitation of Jesus, Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and such great saints as St. Therese of Lisieux, those saints who lived such a hidden existence. And so first of all I thank you for persevering in this life. I think I have some more than ordinary insight into the greatness you are contributing towards the Movement and the Church and the world. So I thank you very profusely and I also highly encourage you to persevere in this life and to pray for the grace to get a deepened insight into just how great your life is here at China for the cause of Christ.

    God’s ways are not our ways nor His thoughts are not our thoughts. And so contrary to the way that so much of the world thinks and even many in the Church it puts such great emphasis on those activities which attract public attention and acclaim and so forth. We know that God looks first of all to the depth of love, a love of His will, the depth of loving conformity to His will—this is how He measures the success of a life. The external framework of which that life is lived as it were as secondary, always secondary to the depth of faith, hope and love, a depth of a loving conformity of one’s will to the Father’s will in Christ, through Christ in the Spirit with a prayerful assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.

    So in summary, thank you for persevering in your life here. Secondly, pray for a deepened insight into the greatness of your life here, what it means for the Church, the Movement and the world. And thirdly, pray for a great sense of joy for the vocation, the calling Jesus has given you, at least at this time of your life, to your life here in China.

Holy Family of Nazareth pray for us.

    Heavenly Father, I ask your most special blessings on your specially chosen ones here as I have just put before them and requesting them, suggesting to them to pray for an increased light of their greatness here and strength to live by that light. So I ask You Heavenly Father abundantly to give them that grace. Give them great sense of peace and joy here despite the trials they have to endure as Your Son showed us suffering, even deep suffering is not contrary to peace in the Lord. Father, let them know how special they are to You. Bless them most abundantly now and all the days of their life. Father, I put this petition before you through your Son Jesus in the Holy Spirit with the prayerful assistance of Mary our Mother. Amen.

    May the Blessing of Almighty God, Father Son and Holy Spirit descend upon you and remain forever. Amen.

end of Father Carter's Talk

   

    

God, to the soul that
           loves and serves You
 You give us the
gift of eternal
life

What a gift

   

Mary speaks:      I am Mary 
                            Jesus loves His precious
                                souls. He died for them.

     

 

  

 

 

end of excerpt from August 27, 2004 message

       

  

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
                                        12:00 - 3:00

                                (4) Pray for little peoples books

                                (5) Rosary Program

                                (6) Retreats in China and 5ths
                                        and priests who help us.

                                (7) Internet Ministry and all ministries

                                (8) All Shepherds of Christ
                                        needs including leaders,
                                        servants, handmaids and apostles.

                                (9) Special Intentions

                              (10) Florida and funds

                                I call you to prayer ––
                                    Servants, handmaids and apostles

                                    a) 6:20 prayers
                                    b) daily Mass and adoration
                                    c) pray hourly

   

From Jesus:

    I invite you to spend an                
afternoon, an evening,
in the morning with Me.
                _________________________

Special Soul:
I want to spend these hour/hours     
            
in China, Indiana with Jesus.

                                                              weekly ___

Other
12:00 am to 1:00 am ___ 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ___
1:00 am to 2:00 am ___ 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm ___
2:00 am to 3:00 am ___ 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm ___
3:00 am to 4:00 am ___ 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm ___
4:00 am to 5:00 am ___ 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ___
5:00 am to 6:00 am ___ 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm ___
6:00 am to 7:00 am ___ 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm ___
7:00 am to 8:00 am ___ 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm ___
8:00 am to 9:00 am ___ 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm ___
9:00 am to 10:00 am ___ 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm ___
10:00 am to 11:00 am ___ 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm ___
11:00 am to 12:00 pm ___ 11:00 pm to 12:00 pm ___

Retreats are held monthly.

       

 

Excerpt from April 20, 2004

Jesus speaks:          To those who come to Me
                            during the retreats before the exposed Eucharist
                            in China, Indiana, I will outpour My great
                            grace for healing physical and spiritual and
                            a promise that you will receive special
                            graces to be drawn into deeper intimacy
                            with Me.

                                I long for you to come to Me in the Eucharist,
                            I long for you to come and adore Me before
                            the Blessed Sacrament.

      

April 15, 2004

  

End of excerpt from April 20, 2004

            

  

  

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of the Rosary with short mediations
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It is really wonderful!
  

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Please Pray for the 

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special priest and all involved

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urgent intentions.

       

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