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.

September 4, 2000 - Labor Day

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.

Messenger: Dear apostles,

I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love. Unite as a body and offer your day together.

Today is a new day and we may feel everyone else is having fun and we are not and yet today is the day that Jesus has asked us to carry on our duties as apostles even though it is Labor Day. Our labor is a labor of love, of giving up our lives as a sacrifice for Jesus, and so we offer up our frustrations and our fears and we go to that place deep within that we know so well - the very center of His Heart and we feel the presence of God the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit and we are connected to our Holy Mother and all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory. Our love for souls is such a gift. Our heart wants to take all the souls in and love them so deeply. And so Jesus says offer up all those fears and frustrations, laying our lives down, like He did for His precious souls. Our lives are identified with Him in helping in the act of redemption. We can't do it ourselves. Our power and our might to help the souls is in identifying with Him, trusting in Him, loving in Him, BEING IN HIM. We are the apostles of the Sacred Heart, this is our mission to be so identified with Him that He can act in us as St. Paul says, "...yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me." (Gal. 2:20). We are His cohorts, His friends to live for His Kingdom and we surrender ourselves completely to His will and unite to the Mass, live in Him and meditate on the lives of Jesus and Mary in the rosary all through day. FIAT - THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. Pray for Perry, Fr. Ed, Fr. Don, Fr. Smith, MOST OF ALL, OUR FOUNDER - pray for him and the 4 intentions and all the prayers of the other day. I love you and thank you for serving Jesus.

Love,
Messenger

From today's Mass.

From the beginning of the Bible.

Genesis 2: 4-9, 15

   Such was the story of heaven and earth as they were created.

Paradise, and the test of free will

At the time when Yahweh God made earth and heaven there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil. Instead, water flowed out of the ground and watered all the surface of the soil. Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being.
    Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. From the soil, Yahweh God caused to grow every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Yahweh God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it.

Psalm 90: 2, 3-4, 12-13, 14, 16

Before the mountains were born,
before the earth and the world came to birth,
from eternity to eternity you are God.

You bring human beings to the dust,
by saying, ‘Return, children of Adam.’
A thousand years are to you
like a yesterday which has passed,
like a watch of the night.

Teach us to count up the days that are ours,
and we shall come to the heart of wisdom.
Come back, Yahweh! How long must we wait?
Take pity on your servants.

Each morning fill us with your faithful love,
we shall sing and be happy all our days;

Show your servants the deeds you do,
let their children enjoy your splendour!

Messenger: When my mom died, I prayed daily my dad wouldn't die too soon. He died some years later.

We cannot hold onto any human creature.

Our deep love for those who have passed goes on in our hearts. We may be physically separated, but we are still united to them deeply in our hearts even in death. We are united in Him.

We are united in our hearts with all souls of the earth and the saints and angels and souls in purgatory.

We are united in our hearts to His Heart and all He loves.

Eternal life goes on forever.

The seeds we plant live on after we are long gone.

WE ARE ONE BODY IN HIM.

September 4, 2000 - Second Message

Through Him, With Him, and In Him.
 

Messenger: From the end of the Bible.

Revelation 21: 1-10

The heavenly Jerusalem

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, ‘Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God–with–them. He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.’
    Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. ‘Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true." Then he said to me, ‘It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.’

 The messianic Jerusalem

One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came to speak to me and said, ‘Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.’ In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.

Revelation 22: 20

    The one who attests these things says: I am indeed coming soon.
    Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

Messenger: "The hills are alive with the sound of music."

Jesus speaks: On this Labor Day, September 4, 2000, I ask you to proceed with the sisters' mailing.  Help is needed to do this. I request the 2 priestly newsletters be sent and 2 tapes of these newsletters. I love you. Jesus.

Messenger: This is the paschal mystery.

Jesus speaks: I come that you will have life to the full.

Death - Resurrection.

Dying - Rising  ----->  IN HIM.

Messenger: There is such a fine line, a veil between this life and the next.

Our lives here are so fragile.

Messenger: God shows us that our lives develop in light and darkness.

Messenger: There is the Mass - the moments before the Consecration, the moments after the Consecration.

There are those moments before Communion, those moments after Communion.

He carried a heavy cross, He mounted it, He died. On the third day, He rose from the dead.

I tell it as it is in reality.

We all want to be satisfied here, we crave to have this fullness of life, and yet it comes in light and darkness, in death and resurrection.

And that final day, we walk through that curtain between this world and the next. On the way we walk with Christ as He walked the earth. We walk in His footprints.

Jesus took the three Apostles to a high mountain and He was transfigured before their eyes.

He carried a heavy cross laden with the sins of the world.

Jesus showed me Himself transfigured several times.

Yesterday during 6:20 a.m. prayers Mary appeared to me, September 3, 2000. The light and her beauty literally blinded me. When I looked away I couldn't see and there were dark shadows similar to what happens when you look at the sun. I see her and I am so present to God, and yet the world goes on around me and others may not see what I am seeing.

When I see her I am blinded, when I saw Christ transfigured on February 5, 2000, after we opened the Rosary Factory, I was blinded by the light and could not see afterward, as it is when you look at the sun. And in seeing Mary yesterday I am thinking how this works, that I see her and am so blinded by her light, and the shadow of her image is what I see sometimes when I look away.

This is how it was when I received the live rosaries those 14 months. I was taken to a place deep in their Hearts, out of this world and they spoke to me. When I do a live rosary I exist in this other place and they use my voice and speak and sing through me. When I come back I can't remember all that happened. I am in another big state of transition. My energy is spent and for days I feel the effects of the experience. It is hard to explain, any of it, but I know it so well.

I saw Jesus transfigured at Holy Cross - Immaculata Church, and I saw Him at the point of death, which was worse than seeing Him already dead. I saw Him in those anguishing moments before He died and He showed Himself to me with His mouth open and His jaw moving with no words coming out. He was trying so hard to speak. I was horrified at His efforts to try to speak because of His state. It looked impossible that anyone so bad off could even move His mouth as He was doing. I see it before me always. The experience never dies in my mind and heart. All these experiences are as if they just happened to me, fresh and dug deep in my soul, embedded in my being.

That is how it is regarding the knowledge He plants in me. It's more than words.

It is a cognitive reality that exists in my every cell. It is a knowledge of God implanted in my being.

I know the glory of heaven as He has implanted this knowledge of Himself deep in my soul, and my heart cries to tell the earth.

We are so caught up in this world, our very bodies hold us back from existing in that transcendent self that wants to exist in Him completely and fully. At times my whole being is so elated at Mass and in ecstasy that I think I cannot take the experience within me. Grandeur, ecstatic heights of glory, what are the words to express the top of the mountain of God's embrace? There are none. There is not color to describe mystical lights. The picture of Mary, July 5, 2000, is only a picture, the beauty cannot be captured with lights and colors man produces. The top of the mountain is that of God's celestial gifts. There is an awe that only comes when one is at the top of the mountain and looks down on the earth below. Even gazing upward, although quite beautiful, is not like the view looking down the mountain from the summit of the place to what is here below.

Ups and downs, nights and mornings, green fir trees and burned up twigs, little tender skinned babies and old wrinkled men...

I learned about the interior life when my mother died. I knew the veil of death. I knew when something so dear to me was taken away that I had to reach for something else beyond. I knew in my heart that my beautiful mom existed. I knew she was living with God, she told me about Him in her love and holiness. Yes, at five I learned about the curtain of death and the life hereafter. I could have gotten in the casket of the dimly lit funeral home and been with her body, but I knew she wasn't in the casket anymore, only her body, clothed in a brown Franciscan garb of the 3rd order of St. Francis. When they let me touch her body and told me to kiss it, it was cold, dead in that casket, and I ran around the funeral parlor and played games, but inside I was facing a mighty jolt and no one was talking to me about how I felt. I felt alone and scared and I smelled the roses so strong that for a good part of my life I didn't like the smell because it reminded me of the funeral parlor and my mom.

But now I know that the roses meant Our Lady was there with me and it was Our Lady telling me that although my heart ached and I wanted love, someday, Jesus would reveal Himself to me and she would appear when I was 48, the same age my mother was when she died. It took a life of searching for love, I felt a sword in my heart at that early age of five. In reality, I found that God gave me a great gift in my mom's death, helping me understand about that curtain of death between this world and the next. And when Jesus spoke to me in 1991 and showed me His Heart, December 17, 1991.

Messenger: I didn't know how truly important that date was for the world, or that Mary would appear on the building for all her children to see. Five years after I saw Jesus' Heart on fire Mary appeared on the building that same day of the same month, December 17, 1996. And I did not know the first message Jesus gave me would be published December 17, 1993, with the title, "Children Need Time and Attention".

Well, I want you to look at the picture again of the graveyard, because I was directed to take it on Friday, September 1, 2000, First Friday - along with the church next to it.

Sept. 1, 2000 - FIRST FRIDAY

Messenger: Jesus' Movement helps to turn churches into little cities of light. All around us might look merry and happy, and yet the blood of the lonely souls soon runs dry, and they go through that curtain of death.

It is up to you and me to see the graveyard and the church and see our mission. It is one of helping to renew the Church and the world. It is one of praying for our priests, of loving souls so deep in our hearts that at every moment we lay down our lives for them in the Morning Offering.

My God sent me a soul to help me on this journey when I was 48 and to be a theological consultant. The gifts God has given to us all from one so quiet who dedicated His life to God as a holy priest I cannot even express. God has given us a body of people working with me to bring you these messages and pray for you all through the day, and if my name is out there because it is Ring and that is what Jesus wants so you will associate these writings with a spousal union with Him, it is not I alone that has brought this revelation to you. It is a body of people who have laid down their lives as apostles of the Sacred Heart and have given their money and have believed in these revelations and loved God and you so much that they have contributed themselves so fully to this work. We are a body of messengers delivering with one voice His message. Our president is quiet, and walks with me, giving his all for this work. So I wear a white dress and Father wears a Roman collar. John, our President, is one with us in leading the apostles to do this work and pray. He works hard to get the priestly newsletters, and prayer chapters and the rosary, etc., to the world.

Long hours are spent and lots of sacrifices are given by all the apostles of the Sacred Heart. They have been formed and trained by Jesus. They have loved Jesus and Mary these past 6 years in a special way. We operate as a body of people to bring this message to you, and I thank God for Himself and you and them and all His gifts given to us.

Study the picture of the cemetery. We are here to bring honor and glory to God. Our life here below passes so quickly. We can't take our possessions with us. Our children grow and have babies, our houses grow old, our most treasured loved ones die, and we stay rooted in Him, for He is God, constant and always with us.

Mary, our Mother, Queen of the Roses, help us get this message to the world.

Messenger: Here is the message Mary gives with the Rosary from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Excerpt from March 3, 2000 daily message

Mary speaks: My children, I give you this message with every image rosary, as you pray it see my loving face looking at you.

Mary speaks: My dear little ones,

See my face looking down upon you as a mother gazing into the little eyes of the infant she loves. ALWAYS see me looking upon you and caring for you spiritually. I am the most loving Mother. I love you so much. Look into my face. I am forever guarding you, I am with you leading you to my Son, Jesus. Give your heart to me and to my Son, Jesus. Say, "I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love."

I am Mary, your Mother

(End of Excerpt from March 3, 2000 daily message)

Messenger: Mary, our Mother, protect us.

Jesus speaks: PLEASE COME TO FLORIDA SEPTEMBER 5, 2000, FOR A Special Healing Rosary.

Messenger: Jesus says pray for this.

Messenger: Retreat in China, Indiana, September 12, 13, 14 (special prayers, rosary and messages 12:00 p.m., September 13).

Social Morrow, Ohio, September 17.

Big retreat in China, Indiana, October 12, 13, 14, three Masses will be said.

Special rosary and message, October 13.

Excerpt from August 14, 2000 daily message

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

The picture of Mother and child.

The picture July 5, 2000.

       

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

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

I wish this message to be made available.

(End of Excerpt from August 14, 2000 daily message)

(Please copy and pass out to family and friends.)

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

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

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

^{(End of Mary's Message)}

MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY AND THE WORLD I _________________ give my heart to You Jesus and Mary on this day _________________ I promise to help spread the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How do the shades of light and dark weave in and out of our lives?

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