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September 6, 2011

September 7th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 6 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for September 7th are Luminous.

                    

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                September 6, 2011

               

Rosaries from Blue Book 6C 

 

March 7, 1995 

Feast of SS. Perpetua and Felicity

Glorious Mysteries 

The Resurrection

1. R. Jesus was locked in the tomb for three days and on the third day, He rose from the dead. Death has no power over Jesus!

2. R. See Jesus in His glorified body! See His gentle eyes! See His body with the wounds in His hands and in His feet! Jesus has truly risen from the dead!

3. Mary Magdalene and some of the others went to the tomb. When they arrived at the tomb, the stone had been rolled back and in His place there was an angel who said:   
Luke 24: 5
‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?’

4. R. The risen Lord is in our midst this very day. He lives in us, His precious ones!

5. R. Look into the gentle eyes of Jesus. Do we look into the eyes of our brother and see Jesus Who lives within them?

6. R. Do we see the hungry? Do we see the old? Do we ever go to the nursing homes and see those poor souls that are there, loved by Jesus, but so rarely loved by some here. Do we give to those souls a hug? Are we so blind that we do not see Jesus in our brothers? He has said to us that what we do to the least of our brothers, we do unto Him!

7. Luke 24: 5  Terrified, the women bowed their heads to the ground. But the two said to them, ‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?’

    R. Why do we not see Jesus in the eyes of our brothers?

8. Song:  Whatsoever You Do to the Least of My Brothers

9. R. How blind we are that we see only what we want to see. God looks at all His children. He looks at all the precious souls. Jesus knows all the precious souls that He gave His life for. The Father created each and every soul with such love. God lives in us today. Do we see or do we cover our eyes?

10. R. Take the blinders from our eyes that we may see more and more with the vision of God!

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts 

    

 
 

The Ascension

1. R. Jesus remained with them forty days, appearing to them and breaking bread with them.

2. R. Jesus gave to the apostles the power to baptize and to forgive sins. It is through baptism that we are made children of God and heirs of heaven. We are given a sharing in His Divine life through Baptism. Our God is so good to us that He gives to a priest the power to forgive our sins. Are we blind or do we not see how Jesus is with us today in Church? We are the body of Christ. He is the Head, we are the members. We are all one body in Him. How He loves each and every precious member of His body. Every person is precious to Him.

Song:  Whatsoever You Do

3. Luke 24: 50-51  Then he took them out as far as the outskirts of Bethany, and raising his hands he blessed them. Now as he blessed them, he withdrew from them and was carried up to heaven.

    John 14:27  Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you.

4. R. Jesus ascended into Heaven. Think of the apostles in the field below as they watch Jesus ascend into Heaven. They were awestruck! Jesus had told them things would happen, but they did not see and they did not hear. Jesus speaks to us this day through His Word. Jesus gives us His Word. We must pray to the Spirit to open our hearts to hear His Word and let it live in our hearts.

5. R. Out of greatest love for each of us, Jesus remains with us this day in the Eucharist. Jesus is as present in the Eucharist as the day He walked the earth. He is truly present in His Divinity and humanity, Jesus remains waiting for us to come and to be with Him. Our beloved Savior, rose from the dead to give us new life. Jesus gives us His Divine Love. Jesus gives us His Body and Blood every day in the Mass.

6. R. These are truly the glorious mysteries that Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven and the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles.

7. Jesus: Meditate on the mysteries of My life and My Mother's life. I give to you the rosary. I give to you this rosary. My Mother and I are one. Meditate on Our lives and you will realize more and more that We are with you this day. We live in your heart.

8. R. See the consecrated host. See the risen Lord, Jesus Christ, Who remains with us. The Son of God! Jesus is no less present than the day that Mary carried Him in her womb. Jesus calls out to us to come and be close to Him. Look at the consecrated host. Pray to the Spirit to open our eyes for we are truly blind and we do not see.

9. Song: I Love You Jesus

10. R. Jesus died so that we may have life and have it to the full in heaven.

Song: I am the Bread of Life

R. Jesus remains with us this day in the Eucharist. Who are we that He gives us His Body and His Blood to eat?

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit  

 

 

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

1. Before Jesus ascended into Heaven, Jesus told the Apostles:
Acts 1: 5  ‘John baptised with water but, not many days from now, you are going to be baptised with the Holy Spirit.’

2. Acts 2: 1-3  When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them.

3. Jesus: Live the mysteries of this rosary in your lives. Pray to the Holy Spirit every day. I beckon you to pray to Him. The Spirit will live within you and lead you to closer union with Me and with the Father. You can not go one day without praying to the Spirit. I beckon all of you to pray to the Spirit to work in your lives. It is so important that you listen to My call.

4. R. They were filled with the Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit prompted them to do.

5. R. They went out to preach the Gospel and all understood!

6. Jesus: It is through the rosary that you know more and more the oneness between Me and My Mother. You should realize this oneness of Our Two Hearts, this intimacy between Our Two Hearts. The Spirit works to transform you more and more into My image and lead you ever closer to the Father. It is in praying the rosary and meditating on Our lives that you know the unity of My Heart and My Mother's Heart. Whenever you pray the rosary, begin the rosary by praying to the Spirit to lead you into a deep meditation into Our lives. Allow the Spirit to work in your heart so that you may meditate more deeply on the mysteries in the rosary. I am Jesus, Your Savior. I forever want to be so close to you. The rosary is My most powerful tool to help bring you closer to My Most Sacred Heart. I am burning and on fire for love of each of you this day. Please beckon to My call. I am with you in such a special way. You are My soldiers that I will send into battle, to fight the battle, to spread the love of My Heart and My Mother's Heart into this world. Meditate on the mysteries of the rosary as given here. Meditate from your heart. Say each prayer and pray to the Spirit to lead you on your way.

7. R. Move in our hearts, O Spirit of God! Come alive inside of us so that we may be filled with the fire of the love of God, so we may know this vibrancy, this deep burning love, the love of God!

Song: Come Holy Spirit

Jesus: My Heart is burning ever deeper and deeper for love of you. I long to bring you so close to My Heart. God is love. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit exist in perfect love. The more you are one with the Trinity, the more you will unite to others. You must forever model yourself after the love of the Trinity. I want you to love your brothers with such deep love. God is love! Love. God loves you!

8. Jesus: There are Three Persons in one God in the Trinity. I call you to be one. As you become more one, you will know greater peace.

9. Song: One Bread One Body

Jesus: I give you My Body and Blood this day! When you receive Me in the Eucharist, you become more one in Me! When your brothers receive Me in the Eucharist, they become more one in Me! You are so closely united in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with those who receive My Body and Blood.

10. Jesus: I call you to unity! I call you to love! If you are to unite, there cannot be hatred or anger in your heart. You must rid yourself of the debris in your heart. There is such love between the Father and the Holy Spirit and Me. You must focus on love always. Your hearts must be pure and holy. Rid yourself of anger and hatred toward your brother. I call you today to clean your hearts, to come to Me with a heart that is pure.

Song: Come Holy Ghost

Jesus: I love you! I love you! I love you!

Song between decades: Come Holy Spirit     

  

 

  

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1. R. Mary remained on the earth many years after Jesus was taken into Heaven.

2. R. Mary loved Jesus so much.

3. R. Mary is one with God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

4. R. Our union in Heaven depends on the union we have with God here on earth. He longs to be close to each one of us. In Heaven we will be united for ever and ever and ever in the deepest union with Him.

5. John 14: 2  In my Father’s house there are many places to live in  

Jesus: I long to be closely united to each one of you, My precious souls! Come closer and closer to My Most Sacred Heart for I am waiting for you with My Burning Heart. I beg you this day, take time in your busy lives and come to Me. As you are in your hearts, you will be in this world. As you become one in Me, you will give My love to this world that is hurting. I want to be one with you. I want to be one in you. Come to Me, My precious ones! How I long and am waiting for you to be joined closely to Me!

6. R. Dear Blessed Mary, if we ever lose our way, please lead us back to the Sacred Heart of your beloved Son through your tender Immaculate Heart.

7. R. Our true home is in Heaven!

8. R. All we have to do is walk down the halls of a nursing home to see how very frail we are and how this life is so short. But what awaits he who loves and serves the Lord!

9. Jesus: I call out to you, My Mother calls out to you this day, to come for Our love and to spread this love in the highways and the byways, to the souls that are hurting, the souls that will be lost. I beg you as My soldiers to take this job seriously. Who will I call if you do not answer? My precious chosen ones, I call you to spread My love throughout this world! I am Jesus, your beloved Savior. I died for you! Will you answer My call to love your brothers?

10. Jesus: How many of My precious children are hungry and in pain, are hurting and unloved? Pray to the Spirit to open your eyes to see the world that is before you, to not close your eyes and your hearts, but to open them wide to see what I am calling you to do on this earth. You are here for such a short while and what awaits is eternity for those who love and serve the Lord. I call to you! Will you answer?

Song between decades:  Come Holy Spirit.      

 

  

The Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. R. How Jesus loves His beloved Mother. He wants us ever closer to her, to realize she is with us. Mary walks forever by our side. She mothers us with such maternal love and wants to lead us closer and closer to His love.

2. Revelation 12: 1  And there appeared in the sky a woman clothed as the sun and the moon under her feet and there were twelve stars about her head. 

3. Song: Immaculate Mary

4. R. We are so frail! Life is so short, the batting of an eye, the dropping of a pin! Jesus calls to us this day to focus on Him, to realize that life is passing. But what awaits he who loves and serves the Lord!

5. Song: Eye Has Not Seen

6. R. The Father sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, into this world so that we might be saved and live for ever in the courts of Heaven.

7. R. God took on a human nature out of greatest love for us. Our God is so good that He wants us forever to live in such celestial bliss with Him in Heaven!

8. Song: May the Angels Lead You Into Paradise

9. R. Jesus wants us holy as saints! Jesus wants us to be His spouse! How is our soul? Is it pure for the marriage of our souls? Jesus longs to be so close to us, to think of Him as our Spouse! Jesus loves us dearly and wants to unite, to be one with us!

10. Song: A Song from Jesus

Song after decade: Come Holy Spirit  


R. This rosary was prayed at the Shepherds of Christ Meeting at the front of the Rosary Chapel.

 

 

March 9, 1995

               

Joyful Mysteries
Feast of St. Frances of Rome
First Week of Lent
, Thursday

The Annunciation

1. R. The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and asked her to be the Mother of Jesus.

2.  Luke 1: 38  Mary always complied to the Father's will. Mary said ‘You see before you the Lord’s servant, let it happen to me as you have said.’...  

3. R. Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

4. R. Let us meditate on the incarnation. God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, into this world out of greatest love for each one of us. He comes to us a helpless little baby in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

5. R. We do not see any of His power and majesty. We see Mary as she carried the child Jesus. Within Mary's womb was God! The visible eye does not behold the majesty of the Almighty God as the visible eye does not behold the majesty of the Almighty God present in the Eucharist.

6. R. When the priest holds up the consecrated Host, when we see Jesus exposed in the Monstrance, this is Jesus Who was inside of Mary's womb and hung for three agonizing hours on the cross. Give us the grace to more and more realize that this is truly God, that He is present with us. Help us to let go, to quit holding on, to let go and experience God that is in our midst this very day. This same Jesus Christ Who hung on the cross remains in the Tabernacle in this room with us in the consecrated host. We should be on the floor in such awe that God is truly present - in this very room in the Eucharist.

7. R. Jesus is truly present here. Minute by minute, second by second, God dwells in our graced baptized soul. God is inside of our hearts with such love. We do not take the time, we keep ourselves at an arms length from Him when He is so close. It takes meditating on His presence, the reality that God dwells in our graced baptized soul in a special way.

8. R. We are immensely blind! The Son of God is in our midst. He asks us to have faith, to know that one day we can be with Him, the Father and the Holy Spirit in such an immense union in Heaven. He comes and calls us to love. Mary always did the will of the Father. We are to live in the Father's will, to be children of the Father.

9. Jesus: Be as little babies at the breast. Let go, surrender. The work that I have for you is work that requires your surrender. You must let go and experience the great grace that I am giving to you to feel My presence with you, to know that I am talking to you. It takes letting go! You must not hold back. Believe! You will be close to My Heart. If you let go and you believe, you can experience such closeness that you will be at joy and peace in your heart. You must let go and realize that I am dealing with you minute by minute, second by second. The very hairs of your head are numbered. I never leave you. I am so close to you. My Mother is forever by your side.

10. R. Mary suffered much ridicule in her life, but she knew the Father's love, she knew the Father's will, she knew what it was to have the Son of God within her.

Jesus: I give Myself to you. I come into your heart in the Eucharist. Who are you, that I, God, come inside of you! You must let go and focus on My presence with you. Let go of all distractions and let Me permeate your being and penetrate your soul for I am truly here in My Divinity and humanity and I fill you abundantly with My grace, My life in you.

(Song between decades: Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria. Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria)

Song: Praise God from who all blessing flow. Praise Him all creatures here below. Praise Him above ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

   

 

The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth

1. R. Mary made haste to the hill country to visit her cousin Elizabeth who was with child.

2. R. When she arrived, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out in a loud voice:  
Luke 1: 42-43
 "‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?"

3. R. Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit and called out in a loud voice the Magnificat.

4. Luke 1: 46-48

My soul proclaims
    the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit rejoices
    in God my Saviour;
because he has looked upon
    the humiliation of his servant.
Yes, from now onwards
    all generations will call me blessed,
 

5. Luke 1: 49

for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,

6. R. The child within Elizabeth's womb leapt for joy at the sight of Mary and Jesus. Even before his birth, John the Baptist proclaims the glory of the Lord from the womb of his mother.

Song: A Voice Cries Out in the Wilderness

7. R. As John the Baptist prepared the way for the coming of Christ, Jesus asks us to be witnesses today — spreading the good news. Jesus died! Jesus rose. He will come again!

8. Luke 1: 76

     And you, little child,
     you shall be called
         Prophet of the Most High
      for you will go before the Lord
      to prepare a way for him,

9. R. Shout it from the highways and the byways that Jesus is Lord — He has died — He has risen!

10. R. Zachary's tongue was loosed. He could speak and he said: "He name will be John"! Jesus calls us by name. He calls us to go out into the world and to spread the Gospel for it is truly the Good News! He is in our midst this very day and His love is without bounds. We have such Good News to spread. Who are we that God loves us so much and why would we want to hold this Good News back from the world? God is a good God. In His Majesty and Might, He came into this world a helpless baby for greatest love of each and every soul. He gave His flesh, He gave His Blood, He gave His all that souls might have eternal life and have it to the full!

Song: I come to you with greatest love

(Song between decades: Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria. Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria)

   

 

The Birth of Jesus

1. R. Jesus came into this world in a stable in the town of Bethlehem. He laid His head in a manger because there was not room for Him in the
Inn. He died on a cross, hanging on bare wood. Jesus came to show us the way, to show us that the way to eternal happiness is not with the things of this world, but the way to eternal happiness is to surrender our lives totally to Him, to God the Father's will. This is the way to everlasting life! Our goal is to love God with our whole heart, our whole soul and our whole being and love our neighbor as our self. But our goal is to love and obey God to go to heaven. We are children of God. God wants us to know His immense love. He wants us to love Him and to love one another. Jesus' birth is love, the immense love He has for us. The Father sent His only begotten Son into this world. Who are we that God loves us so much? When we feel love in our hearts, we can get scared and shut our hearts down. God is Love! Let His love permeate our being and fill our hearts with warmth and joy. Love as Jesus loved us, always giving, always caring, always kindness. He comes to each one of us to be His spouse, to be so closely united to us that minute by minute, the Bridegroom of our Soul waits in our heart, waits for us to realize His immense love for us.

2. R. Jesus is the Bridegroom of our soul. We can unite with God Who wants intimacy with us. God is love. God is all holy and pure. He calls us to holiness, to be more and more perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect. But to realize that when we sin, we can go to Him and tell Him as a small child "I am sorry", and to move on to love again in this world which is in need of God's love coming through us.

3. R. Love cannot unite with hate. The reward of ridding ourselves of bitterness and anger, of coming from a place of kindness and purity and gentleness, is a closer and closer union with our Precious Lord. Jesus died and rose!

4. R. He is truly present in the Eucharist. Think about the Incarnation. See the immense love that the Father has for us, that He sent His only begotten Son into the world.

5. Song: I come to you with greatest love

R. Jesus is in our midst this day, no less present than the day He was in the stable in Bethlehem. He is in the Tabernacle, the same Jesus. His presence is the same with us in this room in the Eucharist.

6. R. Picture the child Jesus in the manager in Bethlehem. See the baby! See Mary and Joseph! Would you like to be there, to be with Jesus? Jesus is with us this day and He is here in the Eucharist in His Divinity and humanity no less present than He was in the crib in Bethlehem. How blind we are! How we turn off our hearts and He knocks and knocks and knocks to enter and be ever closer to us!

Jesus: If the world hates you, remember how they hated Me!

7. R. The angels sang and the shepherds watched! The Child Jesus, the little child, was born in a stable in Bethlehem. The Child Jesus is so much with us. In praying to the Child Jesus we can become closer and closer and closer to God. To want to know Jesus from His childhood through His whole life until He ascended into Heaven. To meditate on this. Praying to the Child Jesus is so powerful.

8. R. We want to live the mystery of Jesus' life, death and resurrection in our lives. He remains with us with greatest love today!

9. Song: Oh Burning Heart, O Love Divine

10. Sing: Silent Night

(Song between decades: Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria. Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria)

 

 

The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple

1. R. Jesus was taken up to the Temple. Joseph, Mary and Jesus met Simeon.  We are given the sacrament of baptism. God lavishly gives His love to us. In baptism we receive a sharing in His life.

2. R. Focus now on the love God is outpouring in your heart, the oneness God wants with us. Let go! Believe in what you are hearing here! Just experience the love that Jesus and Mary want to outpour to you. Empty your mind of any distractions with your family, with your work, and be focused on God's presence in you. Believe with all your heart.

3. R. Mary and Jesus' eyes peered into each other's eyes!

Jesus: Such love I have for My Mother! Such suffering I saw on her face! Her face covered with tears, reddened and so sorrowful! Do you know what it is to see someone you love in such pain? This is the love that My Mother and I have for you.

4. Jesus: Focus on the Passion, focus on Our sufferings. Take time this Lent and be with Me in the Passion. Your rewards will be so great for I will give you abundant graces to meditate on My Passion. Let the mystery live in your lives. Will you let go as I ask you?

5. Jesus: Think of Me in your heart! See My Mother as she held Me in her arms and see her now as Our eyes meet on the way to Calvary. This oneness between Me and My Mother is so great. You will know more and more of My Love when you pray to be united ever closer to My Mother. She is your key to intimacy with Me.

6. Jesus: Always pray to the Holy Spirit before every rosary. Sing the song "Come Holy Spirit" often throughout your day.

7. Jesus: Keep your minds pure, holy and upward lifted. Do not give in to yourselves. Do not let satan taunt you. Keep your minds always rooted in Me for I am outpouring abundant graces to each one present in these rosaries. I am truly here with you in these rosaries. Listen to Me speak, speaking in every letter that I write. Every word that I speak of My love are My words to you. You will have greater union with Me if you will read these letters with such intense love in your heart. Pray to have faith. Believe. It is in this belief you will be united closely to Me. I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and I want you to do this work.

8. Jesus: Do you want union with Me? I speak to Rita over and over again. Read these letters. When you read these letters with faith, you will experience a presence that you cannot explain. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is in your graced baptized soul. When you read the letters, focus on this indwelling of the Trinity in your heart, for God is present in a special way in the graced baptized soul. It is in your belief that you will experience greater union.

9. Jesus: Seeing and hearing are not the keys to this union. It is deep seeded in your hearts. You must let go. Believe! Focus on your hearts! Do not focus on miracles! Do not focus on signs! Focus on the presence in your hearts. Read the letters as coming from Me so that every word is a light that radiates in your being, a light that will shine to the darkened world. You do not know the seriousness of the problems of this world. Souls are blind, deaf and dumb!

10. Jesus: I am calling you to intense union with Me so that I can operate from your very being. The situation is so serious. People's hearts are cold and dark. I cry out to you from the depth of My soul to listen to My pleading for souls will be condemned to eternal damnation and you contain personal love letters from Jesus Christ, the Son of God, love letters that will melt the hardened hearts. I ask you to help Me spread this message to the world.

(Song between decades: Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria. Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria)

 

 

 

The Finding of the Jesus in the Temple

1. Jesus: Make a place for the Child Jesus in your heart, now. I stand at the door of your heart and I tap ever so gently. You do not realize the immensity of My love. Open up your hearts to Me for I am here and in your midst. I want to give you My love.

2. Song: Come unto Me all who are weary

3. Jesus: I call out to you from the depths of My Heart and you block My union with you. I want to be so closely united. This is My life that I am outpouring to you. You will feel me filling your soul. Nothing in your world compares to this — I outpour My grace.

4. Jesus: Total peace! Total surrender! I am Jesus, your Savior. You must come to Me, for I truly want to be one with you! I send you into the world as My special soldiers to spread the light of My love in every corner of this world.

5. John 14: 6  Jesus said: I am the Way; I am Truth and Life... 

Jesus: I come to you with greatest love. I am All Powerful! I am All Knowing! I remain with you in the Tabernacle this day. I outpour to you grace and wisdom as you come and sit with Me. Grace and wisdom as you will never find in this world. Come to Me! Come to Me in silence throughout the day, little periods of silence. When you feel unsettled, come and sit for three minutes and let go and focus on Me and My love, the love in My Heart. Come through My wounded side into My Most Precious Heart.

6. Jesus: Through My pierced side, I give Myself to you. You come to My pierced side and enter into the abundant love that I outpour to you in My Heart. Come and rest in My Heart. As you yearn to be ever closer to My Heart, come deeply into the wound in My side and you will enter the love of My Most Sacred Heart.

7. Jesus: You are children who need to be taught. I teach all My precious ones with such wisdom. Do not tell yourselves that you will not understand. As I give, you will receive. I outpour My grace to you. I outpour My grace abundantly to those who come to Me and sit with Me in front of the Tabernacle. Do you want to know Me more, then you will come and be with Me. Be with Me after communion and stay with Me. I outpour My grace to you after communion, My abundant grace, I give you wisdom and you know Me more intimately

8. Jesus: How many of My precious souls are so lost and cannot find their way? I send you out into this world. I send you into battle, with your hearts filled with My love.

9. Song: Come unto Me all who are weary

10. Jesus: Minute by minute, second by second, I provide you with all you need.

(Song between decades: Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria. Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria)

 

R. This rosary was prayed before Jesus and Our Mother of Sorrows in the Holy Spirit Chapel. Rita, Cathy, Joe and Marty were present.

Both Rita and Marty were deeply experiencing special gifts. Rita stated after the Second Mystery that Mary was glistening in white - light all around her. Rita privately thanked Mary and stated that Mary responded: "thank you for all the work you are doing".

 

 

March 12, 1995

Glorious Mysteries
Second Sunday of Lent

The Resurrection

1. R. Jesus died and was locked in the tomb for three days. On the third day He rose to bring us new life. Jesus is the Victor!!

2. Mary Magdalene and some of the others went to the tomb and an angel was there and asked them:  
    Luke 24: 5 
...‘Why look among the dead for someone who is alive?

3. R. They did not understand all the references in the Scriptures and all the things Jesus had said about how He would rise from the dead.

4. R. Three days He was locked in the tomb! Three days He was lost in the Temple! Three times Peter denied him. He died when He was thirty-three! There are so many "threes" throughout His life. Three stands for the Trinity.

5. R. His life is poured out in such abundance to us. God gives us a sharing in His life in baptism. Through baptism we become children of God and heirs of Heaven.

6. Sing: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

7. R. The apostles had locked themselves in the Upper Room and He appeared to them and they did not recognize Him at first. They thought they were seeing a ghost.

8. John 20: 24-29

    Thomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples said to him, 'We have seen the Lord,' but he answered, 'Unless I can see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.' Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you,’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Do not be unbelieving any more but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him: 

    You believe because you can see me. 
    Blessed are those who have not seen 
        and yet believe.

9. R. We see before us the visible world, but many things about God are mysteries. It is through faith that we believe. Strengthen our faith and help our unbelief.

10. R. We walk this earth and we want to be so sure. Jesus asks us to trust and to have faith.

(Song between decades: Come Holy Ghost)

 

The Ascension

1. R. Jesus rose from the dead, His body glorified, glistening in light! Think of how it would be to see Jesus in such glory before our eyes and to know what we believe is true. When we go to Heaven we will see God. We will know things that we want to know. Think how it will be to see the glorified body of both Jesus and Mary.

2. R. Reach beyond that which is visible. Reach and see through the eyes of God. See through the eyes of faith. Ponder the mystery — pray to know Jesus, truly present, in the Eucharist. Jesus comes to us truly present in the Eucharist — Jesus is present in the Eucharist in His Divinity and humanity.

3. R. Jesus is calling us to a great mission. He sent the apostles out into the world to preach the Gospel. He calls us to spread the Good News. He has chosen each one of us especially to go out and carry out this mission. We follow Jesus.

4. R. Jesus raised His arms and ascended into Heaven. The apostles were awestruck as they looked from the field below. Jesus remains with us this day. He remains with us. Jesus is present in the Eucharist. Jesus is telling us His truths in His Word. He gives us the Church.

5. R. Open up our eyes! Where we are blind, help us to see. Dear Spirit, help us to comprehend more and more insight into the divine mysteries that only You can impart to us.

6. R. Their hearts were opened and their minds filled with wisdom as He outpoured His grace to them. He gave them so many gifts that only God can give. Open our hearts God — please give us wisdom. Work in us —

Galatians 2: 19-20  ...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.

7. Jesus: I shower you with such great blessings. I remain with you forever present in the Eucharist. I pour out to you abundant graces as you sit in front of the Tabernacle and receive Me in Communion. Do not be discouraged. Know that I am here minute by minute, second by second, with My overabundant love that I outpour to you. You are in the presence of the Almighty God and you sit bowed down and fret and feel miserable in your hearts. I look at you and I love you with great love. God is here and in your midst in this room before the Eucharist. Open up your hearts. Forget about the distractions that satan has planted in your head. Totally trust. Ask for more and more faith. Believe!

R. Oh God I love you!!

8. Song: I come to you with greatest love

Jesus: As you live more and more in the Father's will, you will be as the Father intended you to be: My special, special loving children that I send into this world to carry My message and spread My love to all those who are hurting. Feel the strength that I impart to you. You will fly on eagle's wings. Let go of the confusion and doubt that satan has tried to make and trust in Me.

9. Song: I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

10. Song: O Burning Heart, O love Divine 

(Song between decades: Come Holy Ghost)

 

Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles

1. Song: Praise God from Whom all blessing flow

2. Acts 2: 1-4

When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to express themselves.

3. R. Give to us Your spirit. Fill our hearts with the fire of Your love. Help us to have more and more faith to do the work that the Father has planned for us. Help us to have strength. Dear Mary, lead us ever closer to the Heart of your Son through His pierced side. In suffering, we can be close to Jesus. Because it is in suffering that we seek Him so much and we can sometimes, feel Him so close through the suffering. Even though we suffer, there is joy in this suffering because we are so close to Him.

4. R. Dear Holy Spirit, You are the spouse of the Virgin Mary. Help us to realize the intimacy between Jesus and His Mother and as we realize this oneness, transform us into the image of Jesus, our Precious Savior and lead us to our Father.

5. Song: Come Holy Ghost

6. Jesus: You may weep and feel forlorn, but you must come to My Heart. Come through My pierced side into My Heart. Find your rest and your shelter in My Heart.

7. Jesus: When you pray, go to your room, close the door and be alone with Me. Allow Me to speak in your heart. Even for small moments during the day, when you feel frustrated, you must come to Me and let Me replenish you.

8. Jesus: Hold tightly, My beloved ones, because time is so short and I am with you at all times. Turn your minds and your hearts to Me. If you feel discouraged, you must come to My Heart. Do not let satan talk in your head because satan surely wants to stop you. You are My soldiers that I am sending out to this sick world. If he can influence you, whom I am talking to, who will do the work that I am calling you to do?

9. Song: Come unto Me all who are Weary

10. R. The world has closed their eyes and plugged up their ears and satan is working on you to try and get you to stop. You must be strong. You must come and dwell in My Heart for I give you My abundant love, I nourish you, I protect you, and I love you, I love you, I love you!

(Song between decades: Come Holy Ghost)

 

The Assumption of Mary into Heaven

1. R. See Mary as she is taken up to Heaven, body and soul.

2. R. Mary's Heart is filled with such joy to be united with her Son, and the Father and the Holy Spirit.

3. R. Mary's glorified body is in Heaven along with Jesus' glorified body.

4. 1 Corinthians 15: 50-52

    What I am saying, brothers, is that mere human nature cannot inherit the kingdom of God: what is perishable cannot inherit what is imperishable.

5. R. Focus now on the glorified body of Jesus Christ.

6. R. See Him clothed in light.

7. Jesus: You will know abundant peace in your trials.

8. Jesus: I am truly with you and giving and providing for all your needs.

9. Jesus: Trust totally in Me, My beloved ones.

10. Jesus: Surrender to the will of the Father as Mary, My Mother, surrendered to the Father's will.

(Song between decades: Come Holy Ghost)

 

Coronation of Mary as Queen of Heaven and Earth

1. R. Jesus loves us so much that He remains with us in the Eucharist in His Divinity and humanity. Go to Him.

2. R. Jesus loves His Mother so much. He wants us close to her, to realize she is with us, we must pray to her. She walks by our side and mothers us with such maternal love and wants to lead us closer and closer to His love.

3. Revelation 12: 1

    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.

4. R. Mary is Queen in the courts of Heaven with her beloved Son.

5. R. Mary was always humble and obedient to the will of the father. Mary is Queen of Heaven and Earth.

6. R. Mary, the sinless one has this pure relationship with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

7. Song: Hail Holy Queen

8. Song: Immaculate Mary

9. R. Dear Holy Spirit, please transform us into the image and likeness of Jesus within the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary and lead us to the love of the Father.

10. Song: May the angels lead you into paradise.

R. Mary is the singular vessel —

(Song between decades: Come Holy Ghost)

 

R. This rosary was prayed before Jesus in the Tabernacle and Mary in the statue of Our Mother of Sorrows in the Holy Spirit Chapel at the Holy Spirit Center. Rita, Cathy, Joe and Marty were present.

 

They had moved the Statue of Our Mother of Sorrows in the Holy Spirit Chapel for a very short time —

Mary appeared to me in the Sorrowful Mother statue in the Rosary Chapel from July 5, 1994 every day then she continued to appear — they had moved the statue to the other side of the chapel in the back of the Rosary Chapel — then Holy Spirit Chapel — then in the front of the Rosary Chapel and finally they moved her in the Sorrowful Mother Chapel — On March 21st Jesus told me to pray before the Pieta in the Rosary Chapel and on March the 28th before the Pieta in the Rosary Chapel. Fr. Carter was at both rosaries. I was in the Rosary Chapel and Holy Spirit Chapel for 9 months, then in the Sorrowful Mother Chapel, March 30 of 1995 until September 5th of 1995.

 

 

 

 

March 14, 1995

Shepherds of Christ Meeting
 

Joyful Mysteries

 

Annunciation

1.  R.  These are the mysteries of the rosary from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Let us meditate as we proceed through each mystery of this rosary. Think of the mystery and pray for the grace and the aid of the Holy Spirit to receive insights into the lives of Jesus and Mary.

2.  R.  The angel appeared to Mary and asked Mary to be the Mother of God!

3.  Mary said, 'You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said.'...  Luke 1: 38
R.
  Mary  always complied to the Will of the Father. Jesus stood condemned to death. Jesus did the Father's will. Each one of us every day can surrender our lives to God, can live as the Father wills. By living as the Father wills as little children, we will be more one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Our joy and our peace lie in living as the Father wills.

4.  R.  And Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
    as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth. John 1: 14

5.  R.  Think of the mystery that God the Father sent His only begotten Son into this world. Jesus was formed in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

6.  R.  Think of Mary, a spotless virgin, untainted by any sin. Think of these mysteries and ponder them as we pray each Hail Mary - meditate on the mystery of God!

7.  R.  Think of the mystery that Jesus, the Son of God, took on human flesh, Jesus had blood in His veins! God comes in a human body!

8.  R.  Jesus is our Mediator with the Father. Jesus has two natures: a Divine nature and a human nature. God the Father communicates His great love to man through His Son, Jesus Christ.

9.  For this is how God loved the world:
    he gave his only Son,
    so that everyone who believes in him 
        may not perish
    but may have eternal life.  John 3: 16

10.  R.  Jesus was carried in the womb of the Virgin Mary.
       Song:  O Holy Dwelling Place

Song between decades:  Ave, ave, ave Maria. Ave, ave, ave, Maria

  

  


Visitation

1.  R.  These are the mysteries of the rosary from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Think of the mystery that Elizabeth, in her old age, had conceived of a son.

2.  R.  All things are possible with God! Mary made haste to the hill country to visit her cousin Elizabeth with Jesus in her womb.

3.  R.  Usually the servant goes to the master. But Jesus the Master, in Mary's womb, goes to Elizabeth to visit her and John in Elizabeth's womb. Elizabeth said:

Now it happened that as soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. She gave a loud cry and said, ‘Of all women you are the most blessed, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?   Luke 1: 41-43

R.  John prepared the way for Jesus. Think of this mystery!

4.  R.  Mary was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out in a loud voice her Magnificat.

5.  Song:  My Soul Rejoices in God, my Saviour.

6.  R.  For God Who is mighty hath done great things to me and holy is His Name!

7.  R.  A visit from Jesus! Jesus, in Mary's womb, went to visit her cousin, Elizabeth and John in Elizabeth's womb. Jesus outpours His grace to us in such abundance during the Mass and when we sit in front of the Tabernacle. Dear God, help us to be more sensitive to the gift of Your grace. God gives us His grace in the sacraments.

8.  R.  There was such oneness between Jesus and Mary from the first moment of conception. The Sacred Heart of Jesus was formed within Mary's womb through the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is God made man.

9.  R.  Mary was overjoyed at carrying the child Jesus, God, inside of her! Think of that! Then realize that when you receive Jesus in communion, He gives Himself to us. Jesus gives us Himself. He wants to be the Bridegroom of our souls. Jesus wants us to be so close to Him. Jesus wants to operate in us. Jesus acts through us. We are never alone!

...I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me... Galatians 2: 19-20

10.  R.  Mary carried the child Jesus within her womb. Help us realize more and more deeper oneness with Jesus. Help to be more pure for Jesus Who wants us to be one with Him. Jesus is the Bridegroom of our Soul!

Song between decades:  Ave, ave, ave Maria ...

  

 



 

The Birth of Jesus

1.  R.  Jesus is God. Jesus was carried in the womb of His Mother. This is how it is this day - Jesus remains in the tabernacle today. The Divine God is in the consecrated host - He is in the tabernacle.

2.  R.  Jesus came to show us the way. His birth was in such poverty. He was born in a stable. From the very beginning there was suffering. He had only the animals to keep Him warm!

3.  R.  Jesus took on flesh and blood! He gave to us His Body and Blood when He died on the cross. Now He gives to us this day His Body and Blood in the Eucharist.

4.  R.  Jesus came in quietness. But the angels sang: Glory to God in the highest and peace to men on earth! God was on the earth in the form of a little baby! We see the consecrated host and know Jesus is truly present.

5.  R.  This is Jesus Christ, the Son of God! Out of greatest love for each one of us, He came to this earth as a little baby.

6.  Song:  What Child is This

7.  R.  Do we realize, even a minute amount how much God loves us that the Father sent His only Son! Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was born and came to this earth!

8.  R.  It is in our hearts that we know Jesus. Jesus came quietly on the earth and was born in a stable, Jesus comes quietly each time we receive Him in the Holy Eucharist. The blare of trumpets and the roll of drums are there within our hearts. Do we realize what is truly happening in the sacrament of the Eucharist? Jesus outpours His grace in the Eucharist. How sensitive are we to this grace? Do we realize that when we receive the Eucharist that we are receiving Jesus that was born in the town of Bethlehem, that Jesus remains with us with such great love? He cries out to each one of us today: I am God and I remain with you with greatest love!

9.  Song:  A Song from Jesus

10.  R.  Jesus was born, He died, He rose and ascended into Heaven. He is truly present in the Eucharist today.

Song between decades:  Ave, Ave, ave, Maria...

  

 


 

Presentation

1.  R.  Joseph and Mary took the child Jesus to the temple.

2.  R.  Simeon had been promised that before he died he would see the Messiah. He was led to the temple by the Holy Spirit and when he saw the child Jesus, he came to Mary and told her that he was now ready to die. He told Mary that Jesus would suffer and that a sword, too, would pierce her Heart!

3.  R.  From that point on, whenever Mary looked at her infant child, she knew the sufferings He would undergo. It tore her Heart to look at her child knowing this.

4.  R.  It is in Baptism we receive a special sharing in God's life. We are made children of God and heirs of Heaven.

5.  R.  God outpours to us His life, His great love. Who are we that He loves us so much?

6.  R.  Mary suffered intently: when she remembered the prophecy of Simeon - when she and Joseph had to flee in the middle of the night into Egypt to protect Jesus - when she lost the child Jesus in the Temple - when she peered into His eyes on the way to Calvary - when she stood under the cross and watched Him die - when she held His lifeless body under the cross - when she saw Him locked in the tomb. And a sword, too, shall pierce your Heart, O Mary!

7.  R.  Mary appears to tell us of the immense love of her Son. I have seen her sorrowful face, her joyful face, her old face and her young face. This is what we meditate on in these mysteries of the rosary - the lives of Jesus and Mary. The rosary from Their Hearts. Mary says to see through her eyes: see her Son as He played, see her Son as He preached, see her Son as He went through all the agony and suffering that led to His death and then His resurrection and ascension into Heaven. This is the love that He has for us and how Mary's Heart knows the love in the Heart of her beloved Son. See through Mary's eyes! Feel with Mary's Heart what she felt! It is through her Heart that we are led to the deepest recesses of Jesus' Most Sacred Heart.

8.  Song:  See the Eyes that Look at Mary

9.  R.  The love of these Two Hearts! Mary's Heart was pierced with a sword. Jesus' Heart was pierced with a lance. In any love there is suffering. It is through these Two Hearts that we will be drawn closer to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

10.  Song:  I wish they all could see through a mother's eyes.

Song between decades:  Ave, ave, ave, Maria ...

 

 

 

Finding of Jesus in the Temple

1.  R.  When Jesus was twelve years old, He was taken up to the Temple for the feast of the Passover.

2.  R.  Joseph and Mary left Jerusalem and didn't realize they had left Jesus behind.

3.  R.  With their hearts in sorrowing, they returned to look for the child Jesus.

4.  R.  Mary and Joseph found Jesus teaching the doctors in the temple. A twelve year old child! They were all astonished at His wisdom and His answers.

5.  R.  Jesus teaches each one of us this day. In front of the Tabernacle many scholars are born. Jesus is our Teacher. In our hearts He is constantly teaching us through the Holy Spirit. If we pray more and more for His gifts, we hear what Jesus wants to teach us.

6.  R.  If we ever lose our way, dear Mary, our Mother, lead us back to the Heart of your beloved Son.

7.  R. As we realize this oneness between Jesus and Mary, the Holy Spirit transforms us into the image of Jesus and we are led to the Father. Teach us Your ways!

8.  R.  The more we become like Jesus, the more we become the person the Father created us to be. Each one of us is uniquely special, so gifted, so precious to Him, our beloved Father. Dear Jesus, lead us ever closer to Your Mother and Holy Spirit, transform us more and more into the image of Jesus so we can become closer to our Father.

9.  R.  Who are we that God loves us so much?

10.  R.  Dear Holy Spirit, we pray to you to open up our minds to help us to understand the mysteries of the rosary, to be drawn ever closer to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We consecrate ourselves to Your Two Hearts and with such love, we thank You for all the gifts You have given to us this day. We praise the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!

Song:  Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow

Song after last decade:  Ave, ave, ave Maria...


This rosary was prayed in the Holy Rosary Chapel of the Holy Spirit Center during the Shepherds of Christ meeting. Jesus appeared during the meditations of the entire rosary. Our Lady also appeared.

 

 

 

               

 

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Mass Book
A Journey Into the Heart of Jesus - Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur
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  Mass Book, by Rita Ring: Many of the entries in the Priestly Newsletter Volume II from a spiritual journal came from this book. These entries
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Rosary Meditations for Parents and Children
From the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur
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The Fire of His Love. Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S. J.
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Love God, Love One Another. Author: Rita Ring. Discerned by Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
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The Love of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary Author: Rita Ring
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So Deep Is the Love of His Heart. Author: Rita Ring.
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He Calls Us to Action Author: Rita Ring.
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He Calls Us to Action Author: Rita Ring.
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Short Meditations for the Rosary
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Inspiring Homilies Covering Cycle B of the Liturgical Year
$ 10.00 plus postage

Guiding Light - Focusing on the Word - Cycle B — At times we may feel that our path to Christ is a bit "out of focus". Like the disciples in the Book of Mark, this ordinary life clouds our vision of Christ's Divinity. We may doubt the practicality or possibility of applying His teachings and example to our modern life. Cycle B's homilies are a "guiding light" to help us realize Jesus' Messianic greatness and His promise of better things to come. $15

Guiding Light - The Word Alive in Our Hearts
Inspiring Homilies covering partial year of Cycle A by Fr. Joe Robinson
$ 5.00 plus postage

Guiding Light - The Word Alive in Our Hearts. - Cycle A (partial) Homilies by the Reverend Joe Robinson given at St. Boniface Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is a tremendous honor Fr. Joe has allowed us to share these great gifts with you – for greater holiness and knowing more and more about God. $10

Fr. Edward J. Carter
Books written by the founder of Shepherds of Christ Ministries

Response to God's Love
...God Himself is the Ultimate Mystery
$ 10.00  plus postage

Response to God’s Love by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. In this book Fr. Carter speaks of God as the ultimate mystery. We can meditate on the interior life of the Trinity. Fr. Carter tells us about our uniqueness in the Father's Plan for us, how the individual Christian, the Church and the world are in the state of becoming. Imprimatur. $10

Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters 1
Selected Writings on Spirituality—for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur
$ 10.00  plus postage

Shepherds of Christ - Selected Writings on Spirituality for all People as Published in Shepherds of Christ Newsletter for Priests. Contains 12 issues of the newsletter from July/August 1994 to May/June 1996. $15

Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters 2
Selected Writings on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimatur
$ 12.00  plus postage

Shepherds of Christ - Volume 2: by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains issues 13-29 of the newsletter (September/October 1996 - Issue 5, 1999) $15

Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters 3
Selected Writings on Spirituality — for All People Editor: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
$ 10.00  plus postage

Shepherds of Christ - Volume 3 by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. Contains Newsletter Issues 1 through 4 of 2000 including Fr. Carter’s tremendous Overview of the Spiritual Life $10

Tell My People
Messages from Jesus and Mary Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest  
$ 10.00  plus postage

Tell My People. Messages from Jesus and Mary (As given to Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.) — One of Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.'s Synopsis of the Spiritual Life — From Jesus to Fr. Carter "On Holy Saturday, 1994, Jesus told me that on the following day, Easter, I would also begin to receive messages for others. Our Lord also told me that some of these were eventually to be published in a book—and here is that book." $10

Spirituality Handbook
Shepherds of Christ Associates Spirituality Handbook - A Way of Spiritual Life
Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J. Imprimi Potest

$ 3.00  plus postage

Spirituality Handbook. Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. did 3 synopsis of the spiritual life. The Spirituality Handbook, the Priestly Newsletter 20he Tell My People book. The way of spiritual life proposed to the members of Shepherds of Christ Associates is centered in consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All aspects of the spiritual life discussed below should be viewed as means to help members develop their lives in consecration to Christ, the Sacred Heart, and to Mary, the Immaculate Heart. $3

The Spirituality of Fatima
Fatima: The Setting, The Message, The Spirituality of Consecration
$ 5.00  plus postage

The Spirituality of Fatima by Fr. Edward J. Carter, S.J. The Fatima apparitions and messages received official Church approval in 1930. In giving her official approval to the Fatima event, the Church tells us that what took place at Fatima involving the three young visionaries is worthy of our belief. $5

 
  Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual
  Shepherds of Christ Associates Prayers
  Author: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.

  $ .50
 plus postage

Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual. The Shepherds of Christ has prayer chapters all over the world praying for the priests, the Church and the world. These prayers that Father Carter compiled in the summer of 1994 began this worldwide network of prayer. Currently the prayers are in eight languages with the Church’s Imprimatur. We have prayed daily for the priests, the Church, and the world since 1994. Associates are called to join prayer Chapters and help us circulate the newsletter centered on spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart and helping to renew the Church through greater holiness. Please form a Prayer Chapter & order a Prayer Manual.

 
 

 

Shepherds of Christ 6:20 Prayers CD
Holy Spirit Novena, Associates Prayer Manual and the Rosary Led by: Fr. Edward J. Carter S.J.
$ 10.00  plus postage
Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 1
Audio CD - Read by Father Edward J. Carter
$ 10.00  plus postage

Priestly Newsletter - 2000 #1 - CD. - Christ is Our Strength - Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. read it the year he died. It is so beautiful. "This brief passage contains one of the greatest lessons of the spiritual life. As we progress along our spiritual journey, we become increasingly aware of how weak we are in our-selves, but how strong we are in Christ. To experience our weakness involves suffering. The degree and kind of suffering can vary. The suffering can include the experience of the classical dark night of the spirit as described by St. John of the Cross. One of the main purposes of the dark night is to make a person keenly aware of his or her helplessness without God." quote by Fr. Carter from the newsletter $10

Priestly Newsletter 2000 Issue 2
Audio CD - Read by Father Edward J. Carter
$ 10.00
 plus postage

Priestly Newsletter - 2000 #2 - CD. - Suffering: A Source of Life - Fr. Edward Carter, S.J. read it the year he died. Fr. Carter knew suffering that year. His voice is so powerful as he read each Newsletter from his heart and soul. "Every man has his own share in the redemption. Each one is also called to share in that suffering through which the redemption was accomplished. He is called to share in that suffering through which all human suffering has also been redeemed. In bringing about the redemption through suffering, Christ has also raised human suffering to the level of the redemption. Thus each man in his suffering can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ..." quote by Fr. Carter from the newsletter $10

Light, Happiness, & Peace
Journeying Through Traditional Catholic Spirituality Author: Fr. John J. Pasquini
$ 10.00 plus postage

This book Light, Happiness and Peace is a journey into the spiritual life — an awakening of deeper life IN HIM. Here are some of the comments we received from bishops and cardinals about the book. Cardinal – Pontifical Council for Culture – Vatican City “I am sure that this book, Light, Happiness and Peace through a discussion on traditional Catholic Spirituality will contribute in bringing back prayer into the mainstream of life.” $10

In Imitation of Two Hearts
Prayers for Consolation, Renewal and Peace in Times of Suffering Author: Fr. John J. Pasquini
$ 10.00  plus postage

In Imitation of Two Hearts - Prayers for Consolation, Renewal and Peace in Times of Suffering Fr. John J. Pasquini leads a suffering soul to the gentle Hearts of Jesus and Mary. In these most loving Hearts - the prayers by Fr. John Pasquini - help the person suffering to know more deeply the pascal mystery of death/resurrection. President of the Pontifical Council for Health $10

Authenticity
Authenticity - Prayers and Meditations Author: Fr. John J. Pasquini
$ 10.00  plus postage

Authenticity, the Yellow Book of prayers by Fr. John Pasquini, can lead the soul into deeper intimacy with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, can lead to greater love of Mary which leads to the unitive life and greater holiness. The book of prayers Authenticity by Fr. John J. Pasquini is to help one grow ever deeper in the Unitive life. Apostolic Nuncio – Archbishop – Philippines “With Authenticity, much is gained in prayer, and much is accomplished through prayer. More especially if prayer is directed in behalf of the Church.” $10

Medicine of Immortality
Prayers and Meditations for Mass and Eucharistic Adoration Author: Fr. John J. Pasquini
$ 10.00  plus postage

“In Medicine of Immortality, Father John Pasquini offers his readers the richness of Catholic devotional prayer, the wisdom of the Fathers and, most of all, the fruits of his own prayer and meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I recommend this book to all who wish to grow in their love for the Lord, who sustains the life of His Church through the precious gift of His Body and Blood.” Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago $10

Ecce Fides
Pillar of Truth - Dedicated to defending Catholic beliefs through reason, Scripture, and the life of the Holy Spirit Author: Fr. John J. Pasquini
$ 10.00  plus postage

Ecce Fides is a work dedicated to defending Catholic beliefs through reason, Scripture, and the life of the Holy Spirit. "It is important that we (as people of God) return to the source of life, our faith, which is usefully exposed in this volume, and take it out to our contemporaries, evangelizing them and their cultures and inculturating the Gospel." Cardinal – Pontifical Council for Culture – Vatican City $10

 
Shepherds of Christ Spirituality Newsletters
Author: Fr. John J. Pasquini

$ 35.00  plus postage

Shepherds of Christ, a book of Spirituality Newsletters, is a compilation of the first nine newsletters from Fr. John J. Pasquini begining in August 2006. The Newsletter has been circulated to the priests and hierarchy spreading devotion to the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart, promoting love for the Eucharist, greater love for the Church, the Priesthood, Mary and the Holy Spirit, the Mass, Prayer, and greater intimate relationship with God. $35

Authenticity Ocean DVD
The Authenticity Prayer Book is read with the Ocean as a backdrop.
$ 10.00  plus postage

DVD - Prayers from the Authenticity Book read by Rita Ring on the ocean — it is beautiful. 410

Nursing Home Mass DVD
A special mass by Fr. John J. Pasquini for those in nursing homes or homebound.
$ 10.00  plus postage

DVD - A beautiful Mass was done by Fr. John J. Pasquini for Nursing homes and assisted living. It was done at St. Joseph's magnificent chapel — St. Joseph's assisted living in Jupiter, Florida. It last about 33 minutes. We call it the golden Nursing Home Mass from St. Joseph's. $10

Consolation DVD
Give this DVD as a sympathy present.
$ 10.00  plus postage

Consolation by Fr. John J. Pasquini — upon the passing of a loved one. Fr. Pasquini has done a beautiful gift of his most wonderful homily given when someone dear has died. It can be given as a tremendous gift. $10

 
Divine Mercy Chaplet CD
Give this DVD as a gift.
$ 10.00  plus postage

Divine Mercy Chaplet CD. Prayed by Fr. John J. Pasquini $10

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OL-Mt. Carmel
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IH-Mary
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IH-Ivory
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SH-Jesus
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SH-Blessing
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Sorrow M
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Inf.-Prague
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OL-Lourdes
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OL-Mt. Carmel
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I Heart
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I Heart - Ivory
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OL-Grace
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SH-Jesus
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PV-Fatima
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PV-Fatima
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OL-Fatima
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PV-Fatima
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OL-Fatima
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Pieta - Marble

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St. Joseph - 18

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St. Rita - 18

St. Clare - 12
 

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 St. Joseph

 24"

$125

 

 St. Jude

 24"

$125

 

 St. Padre Pio

 24"

$125

 

 St. Therese

 24"

$125

 
 Divine Mercy

22"

$125  
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22"

$100  
 St. Philomena

20"

$100  
 St. Philomena

16"

$65  
 St. Joseph

18"

$65  
 St. Francis

18"

$65  
 St. Anthony

18"

$65  
 St. Rita

18"

$65  
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18"

$65  
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12"

$100  
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9"

$100  
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11"

$40  
 St. Rita

12"

$40  

 Divine Mercy

12"

$50  
 St. Claire

12"

$40  
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 Pieta - Marble 8" $75  
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8"

$25  
 Our Lady of Guadalupe w/glass

28"

$500  
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24"

$500  

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 24"

$500  

 Immaculate Heart - Ivory w/glass

 24"

$500  

 Infant of Prague w/glass

 24"

$500  

 Our Lady of Grace w/glass

 24"

$500  

 Our Lady of Lourdes w/glass  

 24"

$500  
 Sacred Heart of Jesus w/glass

 24"

$500  
 Sacred Heart -Blessing w/glass

 24"

$500  

 Sorrowful Mother w/glass

 24"

$500  
 Immaculate Heart of Mary w/glass

18"

$300  
 Immaculate Heart - Ivory w/glass

18"

$300  
 Sacred Heart of Jesus w/glass

18"

$300  
 Our Lady of Lourdes w/glass  

18"

$300  
 Our Lady of Grace w/glass

18"

$300  

 Our Lady of Mt. Carmel w/glass

18" $300  
 Our Lady of Guadalupe w/glass

12"

$200  

 Fatima w/glass

11"

$150  

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 18"

$250  
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