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October 23, 2004

October 24th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 8 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries
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October 23, 2004

  

Genesis Chapter 3

Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?' The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden. But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden God said, "You must not eat it, nor touch it, under pain of death." ' Then the snake said to the woman, 'No! You will not die! God knows in fact that the day you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil.' The woman saw that the tree was good to eat and pleasing to the eye, and that it was enticing for the wisdom that it could give. So she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they realised that they were naked. So they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths.

The man and his wife heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.' 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from the tree I forbade you to eat?' The man replied, 'It was the woman you put with me; she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.' Then Yahweh God said to the woman, 'Why did you do that?' The woman replied, 'The snake tempted me and I ate.'

Then Yahweh God said to the snake, 'Because you have done this,

    Accursed be you
    of all animals wild and tame!
    On your belly you will go
    and on dust you will feed
    as long as you live.
    I shall put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
    it will bruise your head
    and you will strike its heel.'

    To the woman he said:

    I shall give you intense pain
        in childbearing,
    you will give birth to your children
        in pain.
    Your yearning will be for your husband,
    and he will dominate you.

To the man he said, 'Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat,

    Accursed be the soil because of you!
    Painfully will you get your food from it
    as long as you live.
    It will yield you brambles and thistles,
    as you eat the produce of the land.
    By the sweat of your face

    will you earn you food,
    until you return to the ground,
    as you were taken from it.
    For dust you are
    and to dust you shall return.

The man named his wife 'Eve' because she was the mother of all those who live. Yahweh God made tunics of skins for the man and his wife and clothed them. Then Yahweh God said, 'Now that the man has become like one of us in knowing good from evil, he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and pick from the tree of life too, and eat and live for ever!' So Yahweh God expelled him from the garden of Eden, to till the soil from which he had been taken. He banished the man, and in front of the garden of Eden he posted the great winged creatures and the fiery flashing sword, to guard the way to the tree of life.

     

7 Capital Sins

1. Pride
2. Greed
3. Envy
4. Wrath
5. Lust
6. Gluttony
7. Sloth

   

October 23, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        There are weaknesses in all of us
                                due to original sin of jealousy,
                                pride, lustfulness etc.

                            In dealing with myself and others
                                I know these exist.

    

From The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
    by Louis J. Puhl, S.J.  

55. SECOND EXERCISE
  
   
     This is a meditation on our sins. After the prepara-
   
     tory prayer and two preludes there are five points
   
     and colloquy.

  

October 23, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        I remember a priest saying something
                                like "why do I do the things, I
                                do not want to do" and referring
                                us to Galatians 5.

    

Galatians 5: 13-24

After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for self–indulgence, but be servants to one another in love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in the one commandment: You must love your neighbour as yourself. If you go snapping at one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up by one another.

    Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self–indulgence. The desires of self–indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self–indulgence: they are opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want to. But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. When self–indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements, factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God. On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self–control; no law can touch such things as these. All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires. 

  

October 23, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        I am a messenger, I ask people to do
                                things some times that Jesus wants
                                done — they can do it willingly or
                                not do it — someone can ignore it
                                and act like they may do it and then
                                never do it, not telling me they won't do it.
                                Others may not do it and give me a hard
                                time to try to get out of it.

                            Some people get Alzheimer's and forget things —
                            Some people are so mean through life
                                talking about others and causing
                                problems —

                            Some won't let anyone tell them, even
                                those over them at work, in community
                                etc. — what is a real problem — they
                                are prideful.

                            We are all imperfect —

                            The sooner we recognize this we will realize
                                we will suffer with this human condition
                                in ourselves and in others and we have to
                                continue, despite this, to help promote
                                God's Kingdom.

                                People sin —
                                People are willful —
                                People are jealous —
                                People are controlling —
                                People are prideful

                            Can we then isolate ourselves when
                                God calls us to build His Kingdom —
                                No we must deal with one another
                                and we are all imperfect — we
                                must deal with this imperfection
                                in the human condition.

                            Mary has told us to pray the rosary as a
                                weapon against satan —
                                Jesus has given us these prayers

  

   

October 23, 2004 message continues

Messenger:        Over and over again we are disappointed
                                with people who are dishonest,
                                lie, deceptive — even people close
                                to us, who have had patterns of
                                behaviors that are deceptive "little
                                white lies" their whole lives.

                            Someone had a habit of telling someone
                                what they wanted to hear, but never
                                did what they said.

                            Another took pay unjustly and when
                                asked for a service it was not
                                rendered, but they did not see
                                squandering funds as an injustice.

                            So many hidden faults of ours even from
                                our own eyes and yet —

                            See the devil and how he worked with
                                Eve in the garden — she was
                                tempted — she gave in —
                            See Cain — he killed his brother — he
                                was tempted — he gave in —

                            Why do you think God has this in the
                                beginning of the Bible?

                            In the beginning of the Bible —
   
                                     The Fall of Man

                            Going to the Blessed Sacrament — to the
                                tabernacle can be such a
                                rich source of grace —

                            One hour everyday to help us cope with
                                the human condition.

                            The bottom line is we all want to be
                                more like Jesus —

                            That is why we were created.

                            Satan has tried to get people to think
                                they do not sin —
                                to think they are perfect —
                                to not look at their own faults —

                            When the faults show up is in intimate
                                relationships —

                            God has put in us a desire to be one —
                            We long for union —

                            We try to get close and our selfishness,
                                pride, jealousy sticks out like
                                ragged edges when we try to
                                get close to another and the pointy
                                ends of the ragged edges pierce
                                the skin of the other and they cry in
                                pain —

                                A woman had 5 "husbands" — she
                                did the same things with each and
                                felt they were all alike and had a
                                bad problem.

                            She never looked at her own ragged
                                edges — she was blinded — she
                                didn't see she had any faults —

                            One hand reaches out to another in
                                kindness — the other hand may
                                slap someone on the face —

                            Are we two-faced —

                            Are we hiding our own sin and imperfection
                                from ourselves and yet everyone
                                around us sees the way we need
                                to change.

                            I come as a messenger to deliver a message
                                of peace —

                            People must recognize they are imperfect
                                when you see how imperfect we —
                                are we can see how
                                beautifully full of grace is Mary and
                                how God is perfect —
                                God the Father, God the Son and
                                    God the Holy Spirit are perfect —
                                    they are one —
                                    no ragged edges

    

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

                                 1

The Mystery of Christ and
            Christian Existence

   ...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. St. Paul tells us: "I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from ages and generations past but now revealed to his holy ones. God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond price which this mystery brings to the Gentiles—the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory. This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ" (Col 1:25-28).

    

                            Sing:  Immaculate Mary

  

Luke 1: 46-55

And Mary said:

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,
for the Almighty
    has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his faithful love extends age after age
    to those who fear him.
He has used the power of his arm,
he has routed the arrogant of heart.
He has pulled down princes
    from their thrones
        and raised high the lowly.
He has filled the starving with good things,
    sent the rich away empty.
He has come to the help
    of Israel his servant,
        mindful of his faithful love
—according to the promise
    he made to our ancestors—
of his mercy to Abraham
    and to his descendants for ever.

      

                            The Penitential Rite

    

Ephesians 4: 7-16

    On each one of us God’s favour has been bestowed in whatever way Christ allotted it. That is why it says: 

    He went up to the heights, took captives, 
    he gave gifts to humanity.

    When it says, ‘he went up’, it must mean that he had gone down to the deepest levels of the earth. The one who went down is none other than the one who went up above all the heavens to fill all things. And to some, his ‘gift’ was that they should be apostles; to some prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, pastors and teachers; to knit God’s holy people together for the work of service to build up the Body of Christ, until we all reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son of God and form the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself. 

    Then we shall no longer be children, or tossed one way and another, and carried hither and thither by every new gust of teaching, at the mercy of all the tricks people play and their unscrupulousness in deliberate deception. If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow completely into Christ, who is the head by whom the whole Body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each individual part to work according to its function. So the body grows until it has built itself up in love.

  

Psalm 122: 1-5

I rejoiced that they said to me, 
    ‘Let us go to the house of Yahweh.’ 
At last our feet are standing 
    at your gates, Jerusalem! 

Jerusalem, built as a city, 
    in one united whole, 
there the tribes go up, 
    the tribes of Yahweh, 
a sign for Israel to give thanks 
    to the name of Yahweh. 
For there are set the thrones of judgement, 
    the thrones of the house of David.

  

Luke 13: 1-9

It was just about this time that some people arrived and told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices. At this he said to them, ‘Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than any others, that this should have happened to them? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, killing them all? Do you suppose that they were more guilty than all the other people living in Jerusalem? They were not, I tell you. No; but unless you repent you will all perish as they did.’

He told this parable, ‘A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it but found none. He said to his vinedresser, "For three years now I have been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and finding none. Cut it down: why should it be taking up the ground?" "Sir," the man replied, "leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down." ’

    

  

       

  

      

   

October 1, 2004

My dear friends,

    I give my heart to Jesus and Mary with you
in love. In these troubled times of the election and war
and wonders of peace — we have suffered many hurricanes
since Mary's image head was knocked off.

    Florida appeared to be squeezed like a wet wash cloth
August 13, 2004 a hurricane, September 5, 2004 another hurricane,
September 13, 2004 another hurricane. Jesus sent me to Florida last
Thursday to take the path across Florida, 60 and 70 to bless
the state before the hurricane. It was terrible — I was on
the west side all through it. On September 5th I was in the building
in Clearwater and on August 13, 2004 the hurricane was averted as
we prayed in China.

   Mary's message of peace must be sent to the priests.
A Jesuit with the blessing of his provincial and his rector has
completed the Priestly Newsletter — he studied in Rome and can
teach in the Pontifical Colleges — The Newsletter is literally a
work of art dedicated to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary based on
the Word and the writings of the Church. It will be a special
issue and surprise to you. It is ready to go to 75,000 priests.
We need at least $7,000 for the postage in the United States and
then the foreign mailing. It can really help the world in
these decisive times before the election.

   October 13, 2004 is the 87th anniversary of Mary's last apparition
at Fatima. We need to make reparation to God for how Mary's
image was destroyed. We are about to put protection over Jesus'
face which is costly. Please we desperately need your help to do this.
MARY IS THE QUEEN OF PEACE — spreading the consecration
to the 2 Hearts to 75,000 priests can help the peace of this world.

LOVE in Their Hearts, Rita

   

 October 1, 2004

     We have had many trials in Florida .

 

     Mary appeared 7 years every day before her image head was knocked off.

 

 

     We pray from Clearwater and all our centers for the priests the Church and the world united on the internet and with many others.

 

     Fr. Carter our founder circulated the Priestly Newsletter for over 8 years.

 

     A Jesuit of over 40 years and who can teach in the Gregorian colleges in Rome and all pontifical colleges has written the new Priestly Newsletter to continue the work Jesus gave to Fr. Carter 10 years ago. Fr. Carter died.

 

The day he accepted was Pentecost Eve - here is the picture taken.

   
 



     At 6:20 our prayer time. He accepted with the blessing of his provincial and rector.

     Here is a message from Jesus to Fr. Carter when Fr. Carter began the Newsletter that finally went to 85,000 priests.

 

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)

 

August 1, 1994

Pray For The Success Of The Priestly Newsletter - Shepherds of Christ

Messenger: The following is the first official message I received before the statue of Mary at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center. It is a personal message for Father Carter.

Mary speaks: (in front of the glowing statue of Our Lady of Sorrows) I am the Immaculate Heart. My Heart is glowing for love of all my beloved children. I am your most loving Mother. I am with you this day. Pray for the success of the priestly newsletter Shepherds of Christ. I am guarding your way. You will receive such graces to accomplish this task! Grace from God is so abundantly bestowed on you and will lead to the success of this endeavor! Pray for this cause at the Center. The priests will lead the people to the love of My beloved Son. This is no little task. It will take many prayers and graces. Pray hard, little one. Your prayers will change many hearts.

I am Mary, your Immaculate Mother. I bring this message to My beloved priest-son.

end of August 1, 1994 message

 

 

     The New Priestly Newsletter will be ready to mail in about one week. It is so very awesome. The new Jesuit edited it and quotes from scripture and the writings of the Church.

 

     For the 87th anniversary of the last Apparition at Fatima October 13, 2004 we ask if you can help with the postage.

 

 

April 5, 2004

 

     Also we must spend thousands and thousands of dollars to protect Jesus’ face with the proper structure. We are presently repairing the sink hole under Mary's image and Jesus’ face and then we will put up the bullet proof glass for protection from vandals and hurricanes.

 

Here are some of our ministries -

 

            1) Supply priestly Newsletter to 75,000 priests centered
                        in Consecration to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.

 

            2) Send about 50,000 homemade rosaries to
                        the schools twice a year with
                        consecration cards to the 2 Hearts and meditations.

 

            3) Prayer Chapters to pray for the priests, the
            Church and the world - all over the
            world in 6 languages.

 

            4) Monthly retreats before the exposed Eucharist
            in our Church from the diocese for
            for 4 days, with Masses from priests
            who support the ministry daily -
            praying for the priests, the Church and the world.

 

            5) People praying in China , Indiana before the
            tabernacle for the priests, the Church and
            the world - 24 hours a day,   live on TV web camera.

 

            6) Live radio - 24 hours praying for the
            priests, the Church and the world.

 

            7) Prayer daily at all centers at 6:20 daily

 

            8) Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus - all over
            the world praying before Blessed Sacrament.

 

            9) Nursing Home Ministry

 

            10) Prison Ministry

 

            11) 10 years of service in all of our ministries-

                        including supplying 75,000 priests regularly
            6 times a year with the priestly Newsletter.

 

     Come to Florida October 5, 2004 for a special prayer service praying and singing for special grace to be outpoured on the priests, the Church and the world.

 

 

Excerpt from October 1, 2004 message

 

God the Father speaks:

                            I sent Mary as a messenger to
                                you --
                            You ignored her
                            You defaced the rainbow image
                                Remember Noah's arch --

                        Remember the sign of the rainbow

   

Genesis 9: 12-15

    And this’, God said, ‘is the sign of the covenant which I now make between myself and you and every living creature with you for all ages to come:  I now set my bow in the clouds and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds, I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature, in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all living things.

   

God the Father speaks:
                            I sent the rainbow 1996.
                           
Florida has had to deal
                                with many hurricanes
                                and floods.

                            I am God the Father -- you refuse to
                                listen to Mary. …

                           This is My sign sent to you --
                                the sign of the rainbow 

                            You will not listen --

                           peace is found in
                               listening to Mary

 

 

   

Mary's Peace Plan

1.   Consecration to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary –– 
until a sufficient number of people make and live the 
consecration, we will not have peace in the world.

2.   Praying the rosary.

3.   Observing the First Saturday Devotion.

4.   Making reparation to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

 

 

God the Father speaks:

                        I want the Newsletter
                            sent out.

                        Please help Me.

                         This, Shepherds of Christ, is My Son's 
                            Movement.

                         I am God the Father.

end of excerpt from October 1, 2004  message

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

We have DVDs available of the
Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries
of the Rosary with short mediations
especially for schools.

These DVDs can be shown on
a projector for classrooms.

It is really wonderful!

 


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