Mary: I stood beneath the cross of my Son
and my heart was in such anguish for the
little ones that would be lost forever —
Mary's
Message
from the Rosary of August 27, 1996
Mary:
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
Mary: I stood beneath the cross of my Son.
R. I unite all day to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass —
the Sacrifice of Calvary - sacramentally made present
I know the oneness of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwelling
in me.
My sacrifice is more pure in the Hearts of
Jesus and Mary.
My place —
oneness with God
At this point of consecration
I give my life —
as an offering
as a member of the body of Christ
in such oneness with God
Father
Son
and Holy Spirit
with all the angels and saints and the souls in
purgatory
St. Thomas we love you
Dear Holy Spirit come to me and give me Your
wisdom
Through baptism we receive this sharing
in His life
The Eucharist nourishes this life —
We feed on the very Body and Blood of Jesus —
In the Eucharist I am united to Christ
Himself.
The Eucharist feeds me.
I see more the vision of God.
I am so one with God —
I am saturated more with His grace
His life
I am more in that image and likeness of God —
I am one with Jesus praying to the Father
in the Holy Spirit with all the angels
and saints and the souls in purgatory —
I am praying for the priests, the Church and
the world.
As a member of the mystical body of Christ
I am deeply one with God and with the members
of the mystical body of Christ —
I beg for grace to be poured out on the
souls of the world —
Excerpt from
Response in Christ
April 29, 2002
Messenger:
Here is an interview with Father Carter
January 20, 1995.
This was the day
after the meeting
January 19, 1995 referred to in
yesterday's
message in which Fr. Carter
attended
and very carefully discerned the
material for the meeting.
Here is an interview
with Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.
January 20, 1995 in his office
in
Xavier University.
This interview was
on video tape.
See the beautiful
building Hinkle Hall
at Xavier University and the
snow covered hill and big trees
along Victory Parkway at Dana.
April 29, 2002 message
continues
Messenger:
Fr. Carter was dressed in his black collar
behind his desk with the blinds
closed behind him.
Interviewer: Father could you tell us
a brief history of
your life, recap your life, through
ordination
and before you had the conversion of
tears
at Lourdes.
Fr. Carter: (In his office at Xavier
University)
Well, I had a rather normal childhood, I
was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio went to
Guardian
Angels grade school, St. Xavier
high school, Xavier University
of which I am now a faculty member,
and after my senior year at Xavier
University I entered the Jesuits.
I was growing up before that period
of
entering the Jesuits.
Fr. Carter: A few remarks about my
interests.
I was always very interested in
sports.
I played much football and baseball,
tennis.
I had some thoughts as I
remember about the
priesthood as early as one of my
years in
high school, I forget exactly which
year
for my high school career, but
certainly after my
freshman year, I believe it was, at
Xavier University,
after my first year of college this
thought strongly
presented itself to me and then
some
complications arose and it seemed
best
to delay my decision, so I did and
to some
extent I forgot about it but then
the
beginning of my senior year the Lord
came
back to me with a rather strong
movement of
grace to reconsider whether I should
become
a priest or not.
Fr. Carter: So I finally decided at
the beginning of my
senior year at Xavier to enter the
Jesuits.
I went through the regular process
of being
accepted and I entered the Milford
novitiate which is the novitiate at
that
time. It was the novitiate for the
Chicago
Province of the Society of Jesus out
here in
Milford, Ohio which is on the
outskirts of
Cincinnati—I entered on August 8,
1951 and
I took my first vows as a Jesuit two
years
later on August 15, 1953. So both my
first
vow date and final vow date, both of
them
occurred on August 15, the Feast of
the
Assumption.
Fr. Carter: So very providentially,
I was very
much linked to Mary in my Jesuit
vocation relative to my vow dates.
I always had a deep devotion to
Mary.
It was obviously the workings of
grace. I
can remember back very, very early
in my
childhood often saying the Hail Mary
throughout
the day, but all this occurred
amidst as they say
a very normal
childhood, adolescence.
Then after I got in the
Society I followed the
regular period of training and in
those
days it was a total 15 years if you
entered out of high school.
Because
of my college I skipped two years of
the
training, so I had 11 years to
ordination
and then I had some years of
doctorate—
doctoral studies after my regular
training.
When I finished my
doctoral work at Catholic
University in Washington which was
in
theology with a concentration in
spirituality,
I was assigned to teach theology at
my
alma mater, Xavier University, and
that was
a happy occurrence to be able to
come back
to my Alma Mater and teach and I
have taught
there ever since. I'm in my 29th
year on the
faculty of Xavier all in Department
of Theology.
Fr. Carter: My specialty in the area
of theology is spirituality
and one of my sub-specialties is the
field of
mysticism.
So I've been
studying mysticism many, many
years as one of my specialties
in theology
and not realizing that specialty
was very
providentially planned by God to
prepare me
for my work now which deals so
much with
mystical experiences, not only
with myself,
but with certain others,
analyzing apparitions,
and so forth and so on and
writing about them.
So I was prepared for this very,
very special
time in my life. I feel called
to carry out a
very special mission which God
has given
to me as originally through His
mother, through
the Mother of Jesus I should
say, and in more
recent months through Jesus
Himself.
Any follow up
questions on that?
Interviewer: Were your parents
important in your decision to
become a priest and do you have any
brothers and sisters?
Fr. Carter: I have one sister, who is
still living, no brothers,
there were just the two of us.
I would say, I received
no real opposition from my parents
and they were very happy in my
decision.
A little strange side
mark here—really a lay
professor at Xavier University was
very influential in my deciding to
enter—
I was having a lot of doubts—should
I enter,
should I not enter. I imagine a lot
of people
in trying to discern and decide
whether they
have a vocation or not go through
those periods
of doubts, and I respected this man,
who
was a professor of philosophy, a
very, very
spiritual man. And I just ask him if
I
could talk to him one day about it
and I told
him the doubts I was having. I told
him I was
thinking of entering the Jesuits. He
said, "Well
go to the novitiate and see what
happens, if
you don't go you will never know."
So for some
reason and God's providence that was
a very, very
decisive factor. I'd always thought
its somewhat,
if strange is the right word,
perhaps its not the
right word, but I thought it worth
remembering
that it was really a lay person who
played a very
decisive part in my deciding to
become a priest.
Interviewer: Yeah, that's wonderful
Father.
The next question I have is could you
describe
the first time you received a
message from
Jesus in your thoughts at that time.
Fr. Carter: Well, perhaps its better
to distinguish between
when I began to receive them on a
regular basis
which was in the summer of 1993 and
compared
to the very, very, very, very, very,
very first time
when I think I received one. The
very first time I think
I received one was soon after my
ordination in 1962,
but at that time I did not recognize
it as a locution,
I just took it as a strong
enlightenment and inspiration.
But as I look back now knowing what
I do about
mystical theology, I think it was a
legitimate locution,
but then after that all those many
years from 1962 up
until 1993 there may have been a few
other occasions
which, as I look back now, I could
designate as
locutions, but I'd like to say that
I began to receive
them on a regular basis in the
summer of 1993. And
the one I remember most vividly was
the last day
of June of 1993, and of course we
all know that June
is the month of the Sacred Heart. It
was the last day
of June. I was sitting at my desk
and I was looking
at a picture of Jesus, that one
which is reported to
resemble His or be His true image
and I was looking
at that and not thinking about
anything in particular and
I had the real strong message, "I
want you to go to
Paray-le-Monial." And that just hit
me so strongly.
And it was not the exterior type of
locution which
you hear with your external ear but
it was one of the
4 types of inner locutions.
Mystical theologians
divide the locutions into the external
type which you hear with your
external ear and the
internal type and they divide those
into 4 major types.
So mine have always been the
internal type. It was a very,
very strong and clear locution.
Jesus said, "I want you
to go to Paray-le-Monial." Well,
what or where is Paray-
le-Monial? It's a small town in
France not too far from
Paris and that is where Our Lord as
the Sacred Heart
appeared to St. Margaret Mary
Alacoque and gave His
famous revelations concerning
devotion to His Heart.
I'd always wanted to get
there because Jesuits have a very,
very special connection with the
experiences of Margaret
Mary because her spiritual director
was St. Claude de la
Columbiere, a Jesuit. In the Society
of Jesus and the
Congregation of the Visitation of
which Margaret Mary
was a nun, was a member, were given
a special commission
by Our Lady and Our Lord to spread
devotion to His Heart.
So I always wanted to
get there and thought I'd miss my last
opportunity when I was in Europe
when I was there about
4 months in 1989. I came close to
getting there but I didn't
make it.
So here I am June 30th,
1993, sitting at my desk and Our Lord
said, "I want you to go to
Paray-le-Monial." So I began to
make the arrangements and I got over
there in October on
a pilgrimage with a pilgrimage tour
group in October of '93
and lo and behold I was scheduled to
go there on another
tour earlier in September but things
didn't work out and the
tour company had to re-arrange
things so I ended up going
later in October. And can you
imagine on what dates we arrived
in Paray-le-Monial? It was October,
I'm a little bit ashamed if I
forget it, the 16th, I think its the
16th, we arrived there on the
very feast day of St. Margaret Mary
Alacoque, and we made
our holy hour there in the chapel of
Apparitions where St.
Margaret Mary received
the apparitions from Our Lord and
the messages, at least some of the
messages connected with
devotion to His Heart.
So that is one of the
very, very first, that I would say is, I would
like to look upon the time I began
to receive locutions on a
regular basis, June the 30th, 1993.
And it was as I say the last
day of June which is the month of
the Sacred Heart and it was
a call to go to visit this very,
very, very special shrine of the
Sacred Heart in Paray-le-Monial.
And so much of my
calling, my own spiritual life and my work
now is connected with promoting
devotion to the Heart of
Christ and to the heart of Mary. So
you can see the wondrous
workings of Providence.
Interviewer: Do you still have a hard
time believing that you're still getting
messages from Jesus?
Fr. Carter: No. He gives you
conviction, internal conviction, and internal
peace, internal visions, just as
there are exterior type
locutions and internal type of
locutions, so there is a same
division relative to visions. There
are the external types.
And there are the interior type of
visions of the imagination of
the intellect and when I receive the
locutions I always have the
interior vision of Our Lord under
the image of the Sacred Heart.
And they always come under the
tremendous sense of peace
which is one of the great signs
which mystical theologians always
give for the discernment of spirits
whether the experience is
from the Lord or from one's self or
from the devil. So they always
are accompanied by this very, very
significant peace and authority
really. Sometimes they're stronger
than others but they always
come with that note of authority and
peace and they always lead
to good, which is another great
criteria for spiritual discernment.
By their fruits you shall know them
as we have so often heard.
So these locutions have led me to an
extremely close union, that's
a gift, with Jesus. So they have
promoted my own spiritual growth
tremendously and they have been very
much connected with my
ministry and my work for others. So
they have enabled me to help
my neighbors in so many different
ways.
Interviewer: That's a wonderful gift
Father. Thank you so much.
