Shepherds of Christ Daily Writing        

January 24, 2016

January 25th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is 
Day 4 Period I.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries 
for January 25th
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                January 24, 2016
 


 


 

                R. God is helping us in life to be all He wants
                us to be. In dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
                we go to Them and the aid we receive is from
                perfection – there is NO Taintedness in
                our relationship coming from Jesus and
                Mary.

                    In relationship people come from a place
                of a wounded human nature and those
                on both sides have a wounded human
                nature. Jealousy and pride in an individual,
                envy, anger is what spoils the relationship –
                a person is guarded, many times, because
                they are afraid, have been wounded,
                fail to trust, do not love themselves,
                are unloving, are closed.

                A person who is helping others – a spiritual
                leader can help us the more perfected they
                are – they operate in love – most like
                Jesus – they want God's will.

                    A person whose actions are performed
                in jealousy and pride, anger and
                envy are operating with satan pressing
                in.

                Actions should be performed with the goal of
                eternal happiness for ourselves and others,
                this is actions that are most perfected
                in God's will, that are done in right
                reasoning, according to God's will in
                love.

                    Actions performed according to God's
                will in love are most perfected. The
                virtuous man living deeply in faith,
                hope and love – being prudent and
                temperant, being just and having
                fortitude and the gifts of the Holy Spirit
                is most like Jesus in their actions –
                their ways of acting are most pure –
                they have joy in their hearts – they
                have the fruits of the Holy Spirit – they are
                lifted up and are people of truth.
                They live the beatitudes, they are
                meek in heart – not combatal,
                argumentative, jealous, angry, closed
                in, prideful – putting themselves and
                their wounded self concept about
                themselves ahead of everything they do
                seeking validation when they act from
                woundedness.

                    The man of purity is more like
                Mary, perfect handmaid of the Lord.
                Mary was conceived without sin –
                Mary is pure in heart – so we
                go to her heart and
                the Holy Spirit in love works forming us
                in the image and likeness of God.

                The invalidators – the guys who are
                down, down, down are operating
                in negativity, pride, anger,
                envy, jealousy, lust, slothfulness
                and gluttony –

                They were probably invalidated in their
                life and they don't heal or come out
                of it. They can stay in that darkness –
                and try to invalidate the righteous
                ones to bring them down to their
                darkness so they can feel raised
                up in their darkness.

                    All this play is the focus of their
                lives – low self-esteem coming from
                not loving themselves, not being
                the person God intends them to be,
                but stilted and guarded and closed
                in. Coming from a place of pride
                and anger and envy and jealousy –
                not having right actions in their
                relationships, but wrong actions –
                unloving actions toward God and
                others.

                    The distorted vision of the closed down
                person who lives in darkness, not
                loving themselves and never feeling
                worth what they should. Knowing
                their ideal-self created by God –
                Knowing they are lovable
                Knowing God loves them and others
                too, but they treat people who love
                and give to them in unloving, tainted
                ways pushing them away and
                there is hate for themselves and
                others.

                    A person who is like Jesus lives
                the truth – they know love –
                they love themselves, they love
                others, they first of all love
                God.

                Love finds a way –

                Love of 1) self, 2) others, 3) God –
                are the 3 loves Fr. Carter says we must
                have.

                To be loving we see a person at
                    the ideal-self –
                    we know God created them and
                    loves them and has a purpose
                    for their life –

                    A person that is closed down – closes down
                in their heart and they feel invalidated
                and they invalidate others. They don't
                want to give for fear they cannot
                trust – they aren't dependent on
                God's love and care as they should
                be.

                    The Blue Books deal with the whole
                person. Telling them they are lovable
                telling them God loves them –
                telling them about trust and relationships –
                going to the Eucharist so they live
                a more virtuous life –
                praying to the Holy Spirit
                going to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our
                    little heaven on earth –

                But you can lead a horse to water,
                    but you can't make them drink –

                    If they really want to hold onto anger and
                jealousy, pride, envy, slothfulness...
                then they can stay stuck – closed down –
                Pride does that – they think they are
                on top – they don't need any help –
                they are like Eve in the Garden –
                She wanted to be equal to God –
                The prideful person thinks they
                    are on top and they would
                never admit to any weakness before
                anyone –
                that is their greatest fear – that
                anyone would know their
                fear – under the mask –

                The prideful person can seek
                    validation every time they
                    talk to another because
                    they aren't strong in their
                    self-concept and they are
                    constantly invalidating others and
                    living negatively –

                They don't see through the eyes
                    of God, the eyes of pure
                    love –
                    they see with very distorted
                    vision, 1) themselves
                               2) others
                               3) God –      

                They are in the darkness,
                    walking in blindness
                    they are miserable –

                The man who sees through the
                    eyes of God – who is
                    living in love in the Holy Spirit
                    is not constantly afraid of
                    others invalidating himself
                    in front of others –

                He knows his strength comes from
                    God –

                He has comfort in God's presence
                    in him –

                The closed down man in his
                    heart is closed down in
                    heart and soul –

                His focus is his wounded heart
                    inside –

                Like a man with a broken leg –
                    he can't ignore it –
                    it hurts –
                    he can't walk and run –

                He has an inflection –

                He is always dealing with
                    his woundedness –

                A man filled with love in his
                    heart –
                    is vibrant – is on fire
                    with the love of God –
                    is being lifted up –
                    knows God's presence in him –
                    is dwelling in the Hearts
                    of Jesus and Mary –

                A man who is wounded and not
                    seeking healing, stays wounded –

                The more we love –

                The more we are like Jesus –

                The more we come out of
                    the wounded human nature
                    the more we are
                    being what God wants us to
                    be –

                We live the virtuous life –
                    the Christ-life –
                    life in the Spirit –

                We walk with Mary,
                    Mother at our side –                   

                Dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
 

                Written in the hand of a child, May 13, 1993
 


 

 

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993 

Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993

   

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

 

November 4, 2013   

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.

 

  



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                R. Understanding helps us to see. We pray dear Holy
                Spirit for the gift of understanding to see and understand
                through the Heart of Jesus Christ.

                    We pray for presence to know the gift of God
                dwelling in us. To hold tight to Him all
                day in our every breath. To have a real
                love and awareness of Jesus, truly present
                in the Blessed Sacrament, this is a real
                gift, a treasure we cannot even fathom.

                    The truths lie hidden many times
                and we must pray for the gift of understanding
                to know deeply the truth – How God loves us.
                How we are lovable. How God wants to dwell
                most intimately in our souls.

                    We want insight into the hidden mysteries.
                Understanding helps us to see the secrets
                hidden in the mysteries. We pray to the Holy Spirit
                for the gift of understanding.

                We seek to know insights into the hidden
                mysteries – to know more about
                Our Divine Lord who loves us so much.
                He came to this earth, took flesh, walked and
                taught and worked miracles and who
                died and rose. Jesus Christ was a man who
                gave Himself for us. He gave – He came –
                He died for our sins.

 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

    ... In reference to Christianity, God himself is the ultimate mystery. Radically, God is completely other and transcendent, hidden from man in his inner life, unless he chooses to reveal himself. Let us briefly look at this inner life of God.

    The Father, in a perfect act of self-expression, in a perfect act of knowing, generates his son. The Son, the Word, is, then, the immanent expression of God's fullness, the reflection of the Father. Likewise, from all eternity, the Father and the Son bring forth the Holy Spirit in a perfect act of loving.

    At the destined moment in human history, God's self-expression, the Word, immersed himself into man's world. God's inner self-expression now had also become God's outer self-expression. Consequently, the mystery of God becomes the mystery of Christ. In Christ, God tells us about himself, about his inner life, about his plan of creation and redemption. He tells us how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit desire to dwell within us in the most intimate fashion, how they wish to share with us their own life through grace. All this he has accomplished and does accomplish through Christ.
end of excerpt

 

                R. We need the gift of understanding to discover
                    the invisible about God, to understand
                    insight into the hidden mysteries.

                    We see fragmentally – we don't see
                the big picture. We want to be able
                to grasp the reality of how good God is and
                how He loves us. We are lovable, God
                is all merciful, but we must walk in
                the truth and not walk in the ways of
                pride denying our faults. We need to
                change.

                    On the back of Fr. Joe's book: Trust and Transform –               
 

When Jesus called people to change their lives, it didn’t always happen. We have a free will to accept what God has spoken to us or to reject it. Every other time Jesus told something to change, however, it always happened, whether he was changing a blind person into a person with sight, or a lame person into one who was ambulatory, or whether it was a storm on the sea that he told to calm down.

Why do many people then not believe in the Eucharist? Because he said at the Last Supper as he handed the apostles bread: “this is my body,” and likewise with the cup of wine: “this is my blood.” We can believe that the bread and wine were truly changed when he said those sacred words. We just can’t see it. I might add, we can’t always believe what we see, but we can always believe what Jesus said.

 

                R. When Peter took his eyes off Jesus
                he would sink in the water.

                    Man can understand how a business must
                balance their books. Put in entries,
                accounts payable, accounts receivable,
                end of the year, profit and loss.

                    What a waste to not take inventory of
                taintedness building in the hearts – year
                after year, closing down – hearts of envy
                and pride and darkness –

                    Negative energy is just that – Jesus says
                how much energy you use opposing God's
                will –

                    Balancing our books of our hearts. If all
                I do is give into anger, jealousy, envy,
                pride, negative thoughts – it's like having
                a negative, negative, negative balance in
                our checkbook –

                    You can't live without your heart
                functioning and

                    You can't live in the spiritual
                life ignoring heart-felt love centered
                in Jesus.

                    So here is an accountant – he just keeps
                adding years and years of envy, unloving
                ways, tricks to his heart.

                    How will his balance be when God
                called him to love – live virtuously –
                go out – spread the Good News –
                trust others outside the family of
                origin and be more and more likened
                to God. How will his end of the
                life statement show – in the
                red or in the black –
                in the light or in the darkness –

                It is a gift of understanding when God
                gives us a light to see in our lives –
                in prayer – in the Eucharist.
                It is a gift of understand when God
                helps us to see another view through
                His eyes when man is stubborn
                and closed down, jealous and prideful
                towards others.

                We can know deeper and deeper insight
                    into the supernatural from gifts
                    and lights given from the Holy Spirit to know
                    how awesome God really is and how
                    we are loved by Him – we are
                    lovable.

 

  

                R. A man has a clean page every day to do
                God's will or go down the same path
                that is familiar and may be taking him
                away from God.

                    Can we really meditate on how much
                God loves us by meditating on the fact
                Jesus took flesh, the Divine Almighty
                God took flesh and came to this
                earth because He loved us so much.

                Song: A Song from Jesus –


 

                R. The gift of understanding can help a man
                    understand how he can distance himself
                    from God and live in misery because
                    of living prideful, jealously, enviously
                    and in anger –

                Understanding enlightens the soul. Understanding
                    helps a person see how they have lived in
                    misery by giving into sins and unloving
                    prideful ways.

                    If we saw ourselves with God's light
                on us – would we see how loathsome
                jealousy and pride is when God calls us
                to holiness and love.

                    If we walk in the darkness we don't
                see our sins as too bad – in fact a
                person can see the offences that he
                gives to others as punishable by him
                when they don't accept their abuse.

                How dark is the dark when the man of offenses
                    is put out because when he blocks a
                    work God wants, the leader is directed
                    by God to find someone to do it and he
                    wants to punish them for not begging
                    and crawling on bended knee when
                    he said no to serving.

                A man of darkness thinks he has a right
                    to abuse God's will in a family or
                    Church and can expect others to
                    block God's will or put up with his abuse.

                How distorted is the dark thinking – when
                    darkness, the sinner thinks, should be
                    accepted by the community and he
                    feels he has a right to punish them
                    for anyone standing in his way.

                God called a man to do a task – He held out,
                    he played the game of non-commitment –
                    God wanted the task done so God's
                    will was to go to another to do it
                    since the first man held out,
                    refused commitment and wanted
                    to belabor the situation with
                    no commitment. When the man
                    in charge went to another to help him –
                    the man holding out and playing games
                    with the situation then brought down
                    punishment and tricks to punish the
                    leader for doing the task God asked for.
                    The man refusing wanted to show his
                    power to make people suffer.

                Well darkness does this to a man – if he
                    sins and opposes God's will – he can
                    become angry when another
                    does it and he can try to further
                    sin to show his way of darkness
                    is to be obeyed. Punishment by men
                    to force darkness on righteous
                    men is not only opposing God's will,
                    but trying to force darkness through
                    additional punishment of those acting
                    righteously.

                That is how pride and distorted thinking
                    works. A man of sin can become
                    darker and darker as he sins
                    more and more expecting people
                    to succumb to their force to
                    force darkness on the righteous.

                    The saints saw themselves in the light of
                God's eyes and didn't want to offend Him
                with the slightest sin (the gift of fear of God).

                    A man walking in darkness and not
                repenting or recognizing his sin goes
                deeper and deeper down into satan's camp.

                    God wants presence in our hearts –
                God wants to dwell in our souls –
                God loves us – with a constant love –
                God doesn't want us to sin –

                    The man living in sin and not admitting
                it – is not free and lives in misery.

                    Do you know the beatitudes?

                    "Blessed are the clean of heart, for they
                shall see God."

                    There is peace in the man's heart even
                when he suffers if he has God's
                presence in Him. He is not alone.
                The man of darkness and anger is not
                connected to others and may seek to
                trying to project his darkness on others –
                because he feels miserable and invalidated
                he tries to make others live in his darkness –
                he can use force – he can invalidate
                others because it raises himself up
                in his darkness. In darkness he has
                very low self-esteem and he does
                not see how much God loves him,
                or even that he is lovable.

                    God speaks of blind men in the
                scriptures. What do you call a man
                who clings to pride and anger and jealousy
                and envy?

                    We see the blind man was cured by Jesus,
                but first Jesus forgave their sins. Do you
                know what a gift it is to have our
                sins taken away?

                    One of the great desires of our heart
                should be to have our sins forgiven,
                but we must admit them.

                    God gives us the examination of conscience.

                Do you know how hard it would be
                    to be blind and in the dark –

                What a gift it is to see – a gift to see the light.

                Dear Holy Spirit give us the gift of understanding, please.

                    God's work is in perfect order. If we study the
                tremendous order God gives to what He creates
                we would be in such awe. We see Divine
                intelligence at work. God is all knowing.
                We see how even in nature how things
                work out that are in trauma.
 

Romans 8: 5-9

Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

 

                R. God is absolute truth. God is infinite goodness.
                God is all perfect. God is infinite intelligence.

                    Why would any man try to invalidate
                the Might of God at work. Why would
                a man cling to security in looking at
                the glass as 1/2 empty – when God
                gives us the glass at least 1/2 full.

                    Why does a man enslaved to the deadly
                sins – cling to them –

                    We watched a Fr. Brown movie and a woman
                was lured by an evil man to look at the sun.
                The sun is so bright to look at it hurts
                our eyes – We cannot take it. The woman's
                vision was impaired because of this.
                The evil man told her of the open
                elevator and told her to go there – the
                elevator was broken and she went in
                and died because she fell several
                floors because the elevator was
                not there.

                    The picture showed an eye at the different
                parts of the movie, but her eye was damaged
                by the sun and she trusted the man of
                darkness. The man of darkness had lured
                her to give a will with her money going
                to him, but the sister was one step
                ahead of the evil man – the fountain
                pen she gave her sister who eventually
                died had no ink in it so the will
                giving her money to the evil man was
                not written with no ink in the pen.

                    God wants us to go to heaven. We don't see
                many things in knowing God we are like
                blind men, we see fragmented pieces
                if we keep going to God and He gives us
                light.

                    God gives us rules to follow, He gives
                us the Scriptures, He gives us the Church,
                He gives us spiritual guides to lead us.

                    How sad it is when a man shows
                himself as a leader, a guide and is
                evil like this man. He told her she could
                look at the sun that destroyed her
                vision – he was a bad guide –
                then he lured her in the elevator
                to her death. He was a bad guide –
                It was like the blind leading the
                actual blind, but she followed.

 

Revelation 13: 2-4, 10

I saw that the beast was like a leopard, with paws like a bear and a mouth like a lion; the dragon had handed over to it his own power and his throne and his immense authority. I saw that one of its heads seemed to have had a fatal wound but that this deadly injury had healed and the whole world had marveled and followed the beast. They prostrated themselves in front of the dragon because he had given the beast his authority; and they prostrated themselves in front of the beast, saying, 'Who can compare with the beast? Who can fight against it?'

Those for captivity to captivity; those for death by the sword to death by the sword. This is why the saints must have perseverance and faith.

   

                R. The sister had an eye for seeing
                    the evil of the man – so she
                    gave her sister a pen with no ink –

                The evil man was arrested and Fr. Brown,
                    of course, helped solve the case.

 

Revelation 13: 11-18

The false prophet as the slave of the beast

Then I saw a second beast, emerging from the ground; it had two horns like a lamb, but made a noise like a dragon. This second beast exercised all the power of the first beast, on its behalf making the world and all its people worship the first beast, whose deadly injury had healed. And it worked great miracles, even to calling down fire from heaven onto the earth while people watched. Through the miracles which it was allowed to do on behalf of the first beast, it was able to lead astray the people of the world and persuade them to put up a statue in honour of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and still lived. It was allowed to breathe life into this statue, so that the statue of the beast was able to speak, and to have anyone who refused to worship the statue of the beast put to death. It compelled everyone– small and great alike, rich and poor, slave and citizen–to be branded on the right hand or on the forehead, and made it illegal for anyone to buy or sell anything unless he had been branded with the name of the beast or the number of its name.

There is need for shrewdness here: anyone clever may interpret the number of the beast: it is the number of a human being, the number 666.

 

               

Revelation 14: 1-3

The Lambs Companions

Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was like the sound of harpists playing their harps. There before the throne they were singing a new hymn in the presence of the four living creatures and the elders, a hymn that could be learnt only by the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the world.
 

 

 

All Saints

November 1, 2013

INTRODUCTION – (Rev. 7:2-4, 9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Mt. 5:1-12a) In its four and a half billion years, our planet has seen an overwhelming number of catastrophes, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, collisions with meteors, ice ages, plagues, etc. Somehow, under God’s creative hand, planet earth continues to survive while life on this earth not only survives but thrives greatly. We not only have natural catastrophes to be concerned about, but we humans, through our brilliance, have discovered ways to annihilate all of creation if we are not wise and prudent. Will our planet, and life on this planet, continue to survive the many disasters that could come our way, forever? The Book of Revelation, right before the passage we will hear today, is a description of the end of the world and it asks a critical question: “who can survive?”

The answer to that question is not all doom and gloom but a message of hope. The answer is described in today’s first reading: Those who have followed Christ faithfully will survive. They will be identified and marked as faithful followers of Christ. As such they will receive his special protection during that time when the end of the world is to come. The first group of those who are to be marked and saved from the ordeal that is to come are from among the Jews: 144,000. It is a symbolic number representing completeness – 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes. The following vision is a vision of all of Christ’s followers, a number that was impossible to count because there were so many. Along with the Jews who came to believe in Christ, they will share in Christ’s victory over death and enjoy the blessing of eternal happiness forever.

HOMILY – From the earliest days of the Church, believers always had deep respect for those who willingly gave their lives for Christ. And many did. They were called martyrs, a word that means witnesses, for when the Roman emperors started persecuting Christians and tried to get them to give up their faith, the martyrs witnessed to Jesus by choosing to die rather than turning away from Jesus. The first martyr was St. Steven. Most of the apostles were martyred. Three hundred years after Jesus ascended, the Holy Father established a feast for all the martyrs, to be celebrated every year, so we don’t forget the heroism of these holy men and women. Two centuries later there were too many martyrs as well as too many holy men and women whom the Church wanted to honor that there were not enough days in the year to honor each one individually. So the Holy Father made that feast a feast for all saints, men and women whose lives were examples of holiness for all of us, whether they were martyrs or not.

Three months ago, before my knee operation, my friend and classmate, Fr. Jerry Bensman went on vacation. It was an interesting vacation in that we visited places neither of us had ever seen, Yellowstone National Park with all its geysers and buffalo and elk in Wyoming. We drove on to the majestic high mountains of the Grand Tetons, then on to Salt Lake City and ultimately to Aspen and then to Denver, Colorado. Often I wondered how we would have found all these places without maps and GPS. There were various roads we could have taken, but without the map showing us the right roads, we would never have gotten where we wanted to go. I think of the saints somewhat that way. Through their holy lives, they have shown us the way to serve God and to be with God forever. Their lives were different in many ways, some lived for a long time, some died young, some lived active lives, some lived quiet lives of prayer, some were brilliant, some were just average, some were married and had children, some lived a single life, some were great sinners, some lived devout lives most of their lives. But like the many roads that would take us where we wanted to go on vacation, the lives of the saints may have followed different routes – some such as dedicating their life to prayer, some by dedicating their life to helping the poor or the sick, some by dedicating their life to teaching, etc., but they all led to the same place: loving God and loving others.

Their lives give us an example of how to live, and we need that example for without it we may be trying to make a long trip without a map. Where they have gone, we hope to be with them some day, with God and with each other in God’s kingdom. Someday, hopefully, we will be part of that countless group of people in heaven, for being a saint is the vocation each of us has. Amen.

 

                R. Did you watch the crumbling of the Twin
                    Towers and the lives left –

                That will be 15 years on September 11th.
                I remember the message I received on
                the Blessed Mother's Birthday that year.
                The person helping me put out the
                messages went to Florida that year
                September 10, 2001 and I didn't put
                out the message He gave me because
                she just up and left –

                    After seeing Mary appear 21 years
                I deliver the messages of Blue Book 16 –
                7 months after Mary's
                apparitions in Clearwater.
 

                R. When they opposed Mary's warning
                at Fatima – 66,000,000 people
                were killed in World War II.

 

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July 31, 1994

Words of Jesus to Members of
Shepherds of Christ Associates:

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

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

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

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

 

                R. Lots of times we know God is telling us to
                do something by obeying the authority and
                we hold out and try to oppose God's will
                just to do our own obstinate will.

                    When God really is telling us to do
                something under obedience of just
                authority – did you ever see the mess
                somebody can cause by opposing
                what God is making clear through
                those over us.

                Disobedience to authority has consequences.
                    God gives us laws to love to prepare
                    us for our eternal reward in
                    heaven.

                    Being enslaved to a stubborn will
                    and opposing God's will takes a
                    lot of negative energy and it
                    has consequences when we set
                    ourselves up to our plan against
                    God's.      

                R. We are to ask God to help us to
                    transform our negative
                    thoughts and behaviors
                    into positive loving ways.

                We want to be empowered to be
                    Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
                    in this world –

                We want to change the darkness in
                    our hearts to hearts that are
                    full of the presence of God –

                We want God to dwell in our graced baptized soul.

                We want the Holy Spirit to give us His gifts and
                    to live virtuously.

                We want to focus on the ideal self
                    created by God.
    

Genesis 1: 26-27

God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’

God created man in the image of himself,
    in the image of God he created him,
    male and female he created them.

 

                R. We are to love and not fear –

                See ourselves as a child of the light –

                Be set free from the bondage of habitual sin.

                I have the goal to be with God in heaven eternally
                    in all my actions –

                I am a child of God, thus a child of love –

                I live in the present –

                Song: Live This Day

 

23 Years Ago

Picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Cling to Me

May 13, 1993 

Jesus: My dear child, if you stay close to Me, then I live in you and you live in Me. I am He Who created you and I love you with such an intensity that you will never know. My words are your truth. You must abide in My heart in all things. There is no room for doubt. My ways are steadfast, direct, and without error.

    You must stay rooted in Me to ward off the power of the evil one. His grip is paralyzing and crippling. His power is stronger every day.

    When you live in Me, I am in your heart and he has no power over Me. I am your God. I am your true lover. I want to protect you. I want to guard you from this force. Stay rooted firmly in Me and he will have no power.

    I am He Who comforts you. My hand is upon you. Hold tight to Me, My child. My eyes are fixed right on you. You are My most precious child. I love you as no other can. My arms are about you. My tenderness surrounds you. My love is in your heart. You go not alone. I walk with you.

    I share every aspect of your life with you. Cling to Me, feel My presence. It is warm and secure within your chest. There is no room for fear, for I cast out fear and bring you comfort and joy.

end of May 13, 1993

 

Prayer for Union with Jesus

Come to me, Lord, and possess my soul. Come into my heart and permeate my soul. Help me to sit in silence with You and let You work in my heart.

    I am Yours to possess. I am Yours to use. I want to be selfless and only exist in You. Help me to spoon out all that is me and be an empty vessel ready to be filled by You. Help me to die to myself and live only for You. Use me as You will. Let me never draw my attention back to myself. I only want to operate as You do, dwelling within me.

    I am Yours, Lord. I want to have my life in You. I want to do the will of the Father. Give me the strength to put aside the world and let You operate my very being. Help me to act as You desire. Strengthen me against the distractions of the devil to take me from Your work.

    When I worry, I have taken my focus off of You and placed it on myself. Help me not to give in to the promptings of others to change what in my heart You are making very clear to me. I worship You, I adore You and I love You. Come and dwell in me now.

-God's Blue Book, January 17, 1994

 

                   

               January 14, 2016

Dear Friends,

I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you in love.

If you read Fr. Joe's book like I did on the 13th you can see how awesome it is.
 

It helps me understand what is happening in the writings during the liturgical year.

It is so very good, it makes me so eager to live the liturgy in my life,
live in the liturgical year.

Well we have sent over 13,000 of Fr. Joe's new cycle books since the beginning of November to priests and hierarchy
all over the world.

It can enrich so many lives with the weekly sermon rooted in the Word, the Eucharist,
the liturgy,
the Mass,

Baptism, love and unity.

When a priest uses the book weekly he focuses on the Bread of Life to feed the people.

Say a priest says 4 or 5 Masses weekly
Think of how many souls could be reached with the people attending Mass.

Fr. Joe speaks of love and being a member of the body of Christ, living in relationships
all in the context of the scripture.

We see salvation history and its ups and downs -
we see our calling from God
and we see our part in salvation history.

God calls - we respond.

The body of Christ can help the world to raise up to greater perfection.

What are you doing to help this coming election in the United States.

This book of Fr. Joe's can help so many people every week.

We have sent over 13,000 books out to priests and hierarchy to every priest in your state.

We have sent the books to so many priests in the United States and all Bishops.

Can't you help us.

We also send a Prayer Brochure with the Shepherds of Christ prayers praying for the priests, the Church and the world.

We pray in adoration 8 days a month with usually 6 Masses for you, your family and the priests the Church and the world.

We pray in 24 hour adoration before the Exposed Blessed Eucharist in China for all this and for you.

The China mortgage is due tomorrow

and we are struggling because of giving so much money to the Ministries.

Can anyone help us with a donation.

Also we are printing another 20,000 of Fr. Joe's books
going to all the priests in the United States.

This can enormously help for this coming election.

A weekly Priestly Newsletter used about the scriptures and everything at Sunday Mass.

Please we need your help.

If you want to know what to do to help the world and especially all active priests in the United States please help us with a donation.

We need your help today.
Thanks for your prayers and help in advance.

God Bless you and love you.

Rita Robinson Ring

 

 

 

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Books available in limited supply for this sale.

 

The more you use the Blue Books and
    become one with Jesus – more
    intimate with Jesus –
    the more your lives are a blessing and
    everything you do in life can help
    to bring down great grace for the world
    because of your being so
    one with Jesus.

 

Guiding Light Homily Book Series

Fr. Joe’s Books


Cycle A –
Steadfast to the Son


Cycle B –
Focusing on the Word


Cycle C

Feed My Soul

 
Cycle A
 
Inspired to be Genuine

4 for $20 plus postage of $5.95 

 

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1) All Priests

       2) Good for Music Ministers
       3) Good for DRE's
       4) Good for Deacons
       5) Good for Principals of Schools
       6) Good for Teachers
       7) Good for Mom and Dads

     


 

                Given March 21, 2014

                R. Pray for These Things

                1) Pray for the Pope & hierarchy to help us start prayer chapters.
                2) Pray for Dan, Sally Jo, Richard, Carol, Margaret, Sue,
                    Jack, Jean, Amanda, Matthew, Special intentions.
               
3) Pray for the priests, the Church and the world!
                4) Pray for the spread of prayer chapters,
                    also for the spread of priests doing prayer chapters.
                5) Pray for the spread of Blue Books.
                6) People going to Florida and China.
                7) Vocations to all 7 categories.
                8) Pray for spread of Consecration and Rosary.
                9) Pray for pope helping us.
               10) Pray for Jeff - sales & health. Pray for Nick.
               11) Blue Book 16 and cover and all involved.
                    For our Publisher and all involved
               12) All intentions on my list, Jerry's list.
               13) Priests getting Fr. Joe's book.
               14) Pray for Fr. Joe's new book, cover & funds for printing & postage.
               15) Donors and members and their families.
               16) Healing of the Family tree.
               17) Dan & Melanie, Catherine & mom, Gary, Mary Jo,
                    Jim & statues, Fr. Ken, Monsignor, Kerry, Tom & wife.
               18) All who asked us to pray for them.
               19) All we promised to pray for.
               20) Rita, John, Doris, Sheila, Jerry, Regina, Sanja,
                    Betty, Sophie, Lisa, Eileen, Fr. Mike, Louie, Laverne,
                    2 Dons, Mary Ellen, Fr. Joe, all priests helping us,
                    Ed, Jimmy, Steve, a special couple
, Rosie & all involved.
               21) 2 babies and moms.
               22) Funds and insurance.
               23) Jerry's garage.
               24) In thanksgiving for gifts, graces, & blessings received.
               25) Spread the Blood of Jesus on all of us here.
               26) Consecrate all hearts.
               27) Cast the devil out of all of us here and all in Movement.

 

 

 The Wedding Rosary 

Crystal Image Rosary

$40 plus shipping

 

Original Image Rosary

8mm glass beads
in a matching gift box

$40 plus shipping

 

  

Give the gift that counts.

                Give to your priests Fr. Carter's Books plus postage.

Tell My People                    $5.00
Response to God's Love    $8.00
Response in Christ              $8.00

      

 

Old Mass Books with the Imprimatur 
$2.00 plus postage


 

New Mass Book with Imprimatur   
$8.00 plus postage


 

New Parents & Children's Book with the Imprimatur
$8.00 plus postage


 

Fr. Joe's Cycle A – Steadfast to the Sun – Starts in Advent
$5.00 plus postage

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Give to your priest.


Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletters Book II
$6.00 plus postage

     

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with a sliver of glass and a little
bottle of Jesus and Mary water.
The glass will be fixed behind the
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