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February 28, 2008

February 29th Holy Spirit Novena
Scripture selection is Day 6 Period II.

The Novena Rosary Mysteries  
for February 29th are Sorrowful.

 

 

This is a very strong message from Jesus about how Jesus suffered for our sins.

 


September 4, 2004

 

February 28, 2008

 

1 John 2: 3-11

In this way we know
that we have come to know him, 
if we keep his commandments.
Whoever says, ‘I know him’
without keeping his commandments, 
is a liar,
and truth has no place in him.
But anyone who does keep his word, 
in such a one
   God’s love truly reaches its perfection.
This is the proof 
that we are in God.
Whoever claims
    to remain in him
must act as he acted.
My dear friends,
this is not a new commandment 
   I am writing for you,
but an old commandment
that you have had from the beginning;
the old commandment
   is the message you have heard.
Yet in another way, I am writing 
    a new commandment for you
—and this is true for you,
    just as much as for him—
for darkness is passing away
and the true light is already shining.
Whoever claims to be in light
but hates his brother
is still in darkness.
Anyone who loves his brother
    remains in light
 and there is in him
    nothing to make him fall away.
But whoever hates his brother
    is in darkness
 and is walking about in darkness
 not knowing where he is going,
 because darkness has blinded him.

 

        Jesus speaks:

                    When you lied to save your
                face
after you sinned, blood
                red sins, I sweat blood from
                My face for your lies, for your
                sins.

                    If Mary came to you a pure heart
                would you work your games on
                her with your pride, abuse, hatred
                because of your anger you stuffed
                and to save face to those who hurt
                you, which you never really forgave,
                you, because of your pride smiled
                to the person saying 'oh, I am good
                nothing bothers me, I am holy and
                found a person you used,
                a whipping boy, beating Me at
                the pillar as you whipped them
                through pride and anger' —
                why —
                to
save your face

                Your face is your god —
                you lie for
your face
                you lie about your sins and
                    poured them on an ass as they
                    poured Me on Palm Sunday
                Hypocrite
                No matter, how I blessed you, offered
                you My love —
                gave you gifts —
                your pride swelled in you
                    and you always
saved your
                    face

                    while you spread Blood from
                    My wounds on Mine

                Your anger you conceal inside is
                    redder than the blood I
                    shed

                You have sinned, said you are lily
                    white — than tried to destroy
                    My gifts with your red hot
                    smothering anger

 


 
                You don't even begin to understand
                    the Father's Plan —

                Satan has counseled you through your
                    hatred to hurt all I tried to
                    do

                You worked against Me to save your
                    face

                You lied to save your face
                You showed those you needed to forgive
                    your lily white face while
                    you wore the red blood angry
                    face and punished another for your
                    hatred —

                    I watch the wars —
                    Wars for religion —
                    I cry blood for your world
                   
Your face is your god
                    Your pride in your hearts swelled
                        taller than the twin towers —
                        and the terrorist

                Do you see your own hatred you
                    pinned on an innocent
                    other — blood red

                While I asked you to help Me —
                    you turned to Me and gave Me
                    Your lying
mask
                    Your stone heart —
                    Your blood-ridden face — blood
                        ridden not with suffering
                        you suffered — it was from
                        the Blood you got from My
                        face, bleeding for your pride,
                        anger, lust, envy, hatred,
                        possessiveness —

                When I showed you My soft and supple
                    and loving Heart in all My messages
                    of love — you used My Movement
                    of love for your own evil inside

                My face bled for your sins

                SINS    SINS    SINS

                What do you say

                "I have none"
                "I am perfect"
                "I own you"
                "I am possessive"

                What does the Father say
                Your red hot sins you conceal from
                    yourself — your life is always known —
                    always before God —

                You think — one minute — I control
                    you, I stall, I provoke, I
                    want you to get frustrated so
                    I can block the important
                    work of God —

                I say — I watch you
                    I watch you
                    I watch you

                Your heart is packed solid with unforgiveness
                    like a hard rock — you tell yourself
                    your sins do not exist —
                    You have a scapegoat you blame
                        and kick for your pain —

                Then because your eyes are scarlet, like
                    crimson — you say — oh I did
                    nothing —

                Your sins are so deep you have blinded
                    yourself to the reality that you
                    sin — you have a whipping boy —
                    now you are frozen unless you
                    can hurt him so you watch —
                    so you can feel

                Boy you don't get it

                My Heart is an open door
                    A pot-bellied stove
                    A flame of love
                    I looked from the cross and endured
                        your ugly sins

                        lying, anger, hatred —
                        I went to you I cried
                        'Victory' — you cried
                        'Cross - My Savior' —

                    You never learned the Resurrection —
                    Your heart is wrapped, frozen, preserved
                        burial clothes of the tomb —

                    Life is not in that
                    It is Death - Resurrection —

                    When you came —
                    You wore your
mask
                    Your
mask became more convincing
                        as you worked on your glory —
                        not Mine and when I cried to
                        you — you called

                        "Hail, King of the Jews -
                            crucify Him"

 

                    And I said to you

                        "I am God - would you have Me
                            crucified too —
                            You whipped Me for your
                                sins —
                            You crowned My Head with
                                thorns —
                            Your sins purple - red with
                                hatred, anger,
                            But you said
                           
'Crucify Him',  even louder -
                            'for my HONOR and
                            GLORY and for the
sake of my
                            precious face
 

            the man continues
                        I wore the wounds of betrayal,
                            because those closest to me betrayed me,
                            I smiled at those that betrayed
                            me to
save my face because I
                            did not admit the truth about how
                            they hurt me and I wanted to look as if
                            I was strong for the
sake of my face.
                            And I needed to recognize my pain and
                            work into forgiving them so I was
                            not a clogged vessel or one who projects
                            hatred on innocent others. 
                            I should have worked to have a
                            loving heart not a hard one.

                            I heaped my hatred, my lies,
                            my games, my usury,
                            my need to rescue, for my
                            weakened power, on their
                            backs —

                        As long as I dominated the holy
                            ones
                            and
saved my face for the hungry —
                            I wore a white dress
                            A hard heart
                            My games became more advanced
                            My deception ever greater
                            My rule —   To RULE
                                at all cost

                            I said

                                Crucify, Jesus, King of the Jews

                            and I prided myself and said
                            I am the king —
                            I lie to
save face

                        When you said Jesus 'follow Me'
                        I said "no way"

                            I'm too mad
                            I have a life of stuffed anger —
                                I never used my heart for
                                loving

                            And I used my life for games to
                                cover up my bitter, angry,
                                heart
                                games — more advanced games

                        Hatred —
                        to
save face

                        And I wore a mask except to
                            those I used to act out my
                            anger, I let it rip —

                    I used passive-aggressive, confusing
                        manipulating games —
                        I made them beg for anything
                        frustrating them
                        frustrating them

                        until I pressed so hard they
                        acted out my pain from my
                        stone heart — because I never
                        felt — my heart was a rock,
                        locked in a tomb —
                        When I hurt I went to the
                        whipping boy — provoking and
                        provoking the gentle, soft
                        loving heart — using them
                        to do my suffering — I whipped
                        them and I never faced the
                        truth about my whole life

                    My face

                        Oh my face
                    Oh my mask
                    Oh my white shoes
                    Oh my white shirt and pants

                    Oh my face —
                    lets sing to me
                    sing glory to me I said and
                    I never gave any glory to
                    God — I was selfish —

                    hateful — I did my acts for my own
                    pride and
                    I hated the whole time
                    whipping — projecting my pain,
                        my hatred on failed relationships,
                        the job on another
                        so my collar was never wrinkled
                        I wore the white overalls —
                        They wore my blood"

                Jesus:
                    Eyes that see into the soul
                    God knows everything you silly
                       
mask man —
                    In the end the maggots eat the face
                    You lived your life to feed your
                        precious face to the maggots

                    What about your soul
                    Some store up money that they cannot
                        ever take with them

                    You lived a lie to save your 'bloody face'
                        and your pride was your crown
                        of glory

                    You sat on My throne "masked man"
                        and said to Me the Savior
                        louder then every one
                       
crucify my God, but save my
                       
precious face,  (an attendant) page  — come and
                        shine my crown of pride —
                        adorn my crown with jewels of
                        sapphire and jasmine and emeralds
                        and rubies —
                        give me seats of glory —

                    I live for what the world thinks of me
                        'I am holy' — Look at my sparkling
                       
face

                    Your face was your god
                   
Your mask, your treasure
                    You worried what she thought and
                        forgot about real holiness —
                        what God thought —
                        instead of obedience
                        you acted out of your wounded human nature
                        to try to bring down the authority
                        to weaken the structure
                        you shook your own floor
                        you stood on a wobbly base
                        one problem following another
                        like someone dropping a crate of eggs
                        your own control was paramount
                        while the structure I provided was weaken
                        as you turned the hour glass upside down

                        If you had your way
                        would you tell the birdies to fly upside down
                        would you turn the trees to rest on their foliage
                        then pride yourself in stupidity,
                        your feeble mind is trying to recreate the universe.
                        My dear son
                        the plan of the Father I have imparted to you
                        God is Omnipotent
                        God is all Powerful
                        God is all knowing
                        God is a Supreme Being
                        God is Divine
                        God's fanthomous love for you
                            created you in His image and likeness

                        Do you remember the story of Eve in the garden?

                         

Genesis 3: 5-6

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.

   

                        Now let me tell you a riddle:

                            A man went to buy an object
                            It had many pieces to assemble
                            He was given a book of instructions
                                for assembling the object

                            His wife came tiding up her house

                            The man came to assemble his
                                object and he had no clue
                                of what do do

                            Dear he said, where are my things
                                in the box

                            She said oh, I threw the extra
                                papers away —
                                my club girls were coming
                                tonight —
                                the instructions I used as a
                                hot pad and spaghetti sauce
                                made a mess on them so
                                I threw them out as the
                                waste man came

                                What?
                                What!
                                What*

                            She said, oh dear can you go to
                                the shed, I want to vacuum
                                under your feet

                        I have given to you My book of life,
                            I have given you My Word —
                            It begins with Genesis
                            Man is created in My image and
                                likeness

                            In the end — the Book of Revelation.

   

Revelation 21: 1-2, 9-10

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband.

... 'Come here and I will show you the bride that the Lamb has married.' In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.
 

                        You have thrown out the baby
                            with the bath water

                        You have said nay to obedience
                            to your Creator —

                        How many plagues would it take
                            to change an obstinate -
                            willful, disobedient -
                            race

                        You are children of Adam and Eve
                            you are from the seed —
                            The tainted human nature —
                            You ignore your jealousies —
                            Your sins —
                            the devil works through your pride —
                            Your anger,
                            Your jealousy
                            You hid the truth from yourselves
                            about your lies

                        Oh my people

                        to save your face
                        to be supreme on the land
                        you hung the Savior on a
                            tree and you cried
                       
"Crucify Him"

                        In today's world people cry

                        We have only a king in ourselves —
                        We are to be chiefs
                        Seeking dominance for dominance
                            sake

                        You have hid your evil sins,
                            blamed others
                            done evil deeds

                        You are sinners
                        Why do you lie to Me
                        I am God
                        I created you

                        Oh My people of Zion
                        Aren't you sick of mud puddles
                        Go to the Mountain Top
                        Breathe in the gifts
                        Get your head out of your sick
                            shoes


                        A land was full and all over
                            people became sick with
                            a flu —
                            some coughed and coughed and
                            the germs, spread and spread
                            because people are vulnerable to
                            illnesses —
                            Oh watch it spread — the FLU
                            Oh watch the Power go out
                            Oh watch the storms
                            Oh watch a roof blow off
                            Oh watch the earth quake
                            Oh watch the fires in Florida

                            Oh watch people killing babies
                            Oh watch them fighting —
                                fighting until it is
                                not nice at all and

                            So many watch fighting on the News
                            So many watching fighting over
                                killing an innocent baby
                                Remember

Exodus 1: 15-22

    The king of Egypt then spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was called Shiphrah, and the other Puah. 'When you attend Hebrew women in childbirth,' he said, 'look at the two stones. If it is a boy, kill him; if a girl, let her live.' But the midwives were God-fearing women and did not obey the orders of the king of Egypt, but allowed the boys to live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, 'What do you mean by allowing the boys to live?' The midwives said to Pharaoh, 'Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women, they are hardy and give birth before the midwife can get to them.' For this, God was good to the midwives, and the people went on increasing and growing more powerful; and since the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

    Pharaoh then gave all his people this command: 'Throw every new-born boy into the river, but let all the girls live.'


Matthew 2: 16-18

  Herod was furious on realising that he had been fooled by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or less, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise men. Then were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: 

    A voice is heard in Ramah, 
    lamenting and weeping bitterly: 
    it is Rachel weeping for her children, 
    refusing to be comforted 
    because they are no more.

 

                                Remember the Prophets
                                Remember how they were
                                            rejected, persecuted

                        You men have tainted human natures
                        I bled for your lies
                        You lie
                        You try to save your face
                        You are imperfect

 

1 John 1: 6-10


If we say that we share in God’s life
while we are living in darkness,
we are lying,
    because we are not living the truth.
But if we live in light,
as he is in light,
we have a share in another’s life,
and the blood of Jesus, his Son,
cleanses us from all sin.

If we say, ‘We have no sin,’
we are deceiving ourselves,
and truth has no place in us;
if we acknowledge our sins,
he is trustworthy and upright,
so that he will forgive our sins
and will cleanse us from all evil.
If we say, ‘We have never sinned,’
we make him a liar,
and his word has no place in us.

   

                        Now listen "Oh Jerusalem for I
                            called a city to come and
                            to be renewed —"
                            Oh Listen all you men of
                                this earth

                            Mary came —
                            not like Eve in the garden
                                spreading any pride,
                                jealousy —

                        Mary came and appeared —
                        Mary most pure
                        Queen of the Sinful Race
                        She came a gift of your Heavenly
                            Father

                        You broke her image head —
                            the image of Mary —

                        Oh sinful people of Zion
                        Oh I cried over My city
                        Oh I see blood in the streets
                            the slaughter of babies

                        You know not the wounds of your own
                            hearts —
                            You are prideful
                            You blame each other
                            You want dominance for
                                dominance sake

                        If only you cared that God
                            was watching your
                            every thought —
                                     action —

                        You are tainted

                        TURN TO ME WITH
                        ALL YOUR Heart

                        You seek your glory in
                            your mask

                        You carry your wounds like
                            old men with a cane
                            unable to walk

                        ADMIT You are
                        Wounded
                        Be laid bare

    

January 5, 1997

 Jesus: BABY, BARE BABY, LAID BARE

Bare, Bare Baby, Laid Bare

Open yourself, Oh Jerusalem, your time is come you will be a light to the people in darkness, many will walk whence you come and the earth will be shakened and the light will come across a dark sky and enlighten their minds.

Oh stiff-necked people, you are so stiff in your ways, let the Spirit envelope you and lead you on your way.

A country of stiffs, a people of planning and prodding, of deliberating and wondering--you lack faith, Jerusalem, you lack faith in God.

Oh walk naked into the cold night, you are cold in your hearts and naked in your clothing--I clothe you with glory, I light your face with light, but you turn your cheeks to the darkness and stay stiff-necked in your hearts. Oh cold and dark hearts, reach for the light that you may know the glory that awaits the sinners and enlightens their minds.

end of January 5, 1997

     

                        If you lost the ability to breathe
                            how much control have you
                            then —

                        Would you worry for your face
                            before others —
                            would you worry for your
                            masks

                        The batting of an eye
                        The dropping of a pin and
                        your life has ended

                        Do you control this?

                        Can you stop an accident as a
                            tractor trailer is about
                            to run into your car

                        Think of your soul
                        Focus on God
                        Not on what tainted others tell
                            you when they are lying
                            to you

                        Discern your promptings —
                        Are they truly from God
                        Are they truly from the devil
                        Are they your own thoughts
                       
                        I want you to be a light in the
                            market place

                        Live to serve God
                        Focus on the beauty of your own graced
                            soul

                        You see God imperfectly
                        You see others imperfectly
                        You see yourself imperfectly

                        Prophets were rejected —
                            do you listen to the daily
                            scriptures at Mass

                        I am the Chief Prophet

                            I am your King

                        I was rejected and hung on a tree
                            for your sins —

                        The devil is waging war
                            division
                            pressing down — marriages
                            weak authority
                            Authority not rooted in the
                                truth

                        You must pray

                        Your floors are wobbling
                        You think — Oh hurricanes
                        You don't see the fingers reaching
                            out crippling more and more —
                            fingers of evil —
                            networks that carry evil and

                        You are sick, sucked in as
                            satan works through your
                            wounds

                        When you were a victim — you
                            suffered
                            To have an army of victims
                            you hurt is a big spiritual problem —

                        You are here to grow to be more and more
                            perfected as your heavenly
                            Father is perfect

                        STOP IT

                        FOR THE

                        SAKE OF

                        YOUR SOUL

                        You are bogged down by
                            unhealed wounds —
                            bleeding wounds you lied to
                            yourself about —
                            forgive
                            and proceed in love as
                            a healer
                            as one empowered with
                            a holy heart of LOVE

                        You were created to LOVE

                        It is the greatest commandment.
                               
                       

Matthew 22: 36-40

'Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?' Jesus said to him, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and the Prophets too.'

 

                        In seeing through My eyes you will
                            be empowered to do My work —
                            Lovers — not sick spiritually wounded
                                            children

                        You say

                            Oh you are sick, the flu?

                        I say

                            Oh you have a spiritual flu
                                a broken heart
                                a gut of pain
                                you nurse it
                                you blame others
                                you hate innocent ones

                        You say

                            "Oh Jesus help me"

                        I have laid you people bear —
                            you are sick with more than
                            a flu —
                            you don't even know it

                        Like a fog it has covered you
                            and you hang under the
                            blanket and cough and chokes
                            and don't even notice
                            anymore how insensitive you are —
                            passing your ugly lies off to save
                                your face
                                holding a stone heart
                                A heart harder than
 
                                   
BAKED CLAY
                              LIKE A ROCK

                        You have imperfect vision
                        Use My Blue Books —
                        I speak to you of My love

                        I give you My vision to help
                            your imperfect vision of yourselves
                            and others —

                            I give you My Blue Book to tell the
                                world the TRUTH

                            My vision is seeing you
                                the beautiful creation
                                molded in the image
                                and likeness of God

                        I AM LIGHT
                       
                                 

Colossians 1: 15-20

He is the image of the unseen God,
the first–born of all creation,
for in him were created all things
in heaven and on earth:
everything visible
    and everything invisible,
thrones, ruling forces,
    sovereignties, powers—
all things were created through him
    and for him.
He exists before all things
and in him all things hold together,
and he is the Head of the Body,
that is, the Church.

He is the Beginning,
the first–born from the dead,
so that he should be supreme in every way;
because God wanted all fullness
    to be found in him
and through him
    to reconcile all things to him,
everything in heaven
    and everything on earth,
by making peace through his death
    on the cross.

 

John 1: 29-34

The next day, he saw Jesus coming towards him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. It was of him that I said, "Behind me comes one who has passed ahead of me because he existed before me." I did not know him myself, and yet my purpose in coming to baptise with water was so that he might be revealed to Israel.’ And John declared, ‘I saw the Spirit come down on him like a dove from heaven and rest on him. I did not know him myself, but he who sent me to baptise with water had said to me, "The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is to baptise with the Holy Spirit." I have seen and I testify that he is the Chosen One of God.’

 

                        Jesus:
                        I looked to them at play
                            on the surface of the
                            earth and I said —
                            Oh it is good

                        I look at this world today

                        You wanted to shine before the kids
                        and the palace
                        you betrayed the real King of glory
                        in your eyes - you were the king —
                        so you had no problem —
                        no vision to cry aloud
                       
"Crucify Him"
                       
"Crucify Him" you cried louder than
                            any voice

                    You never wanted Me on the throne — you
                        used Me for your
mask — your glory —
                        you betrayed, Me, the King, you
crucified
                        Me
and you sat on My throne while
                        I bled for your 'bloody face'

                    Save your face
                    You said
                    Make everyone think you are good while
                        you disobey, lie, abuse,
                        hold on years of anger, meditate
                        to win My crown

                My crown - you wore
                the thorns — you pounded into My Head
                    with a sledge hammer

                You never learned the messages of love,
                    of My Perfect love in the
                    Blue Books

                The message was this to you

                You said

                    "I am the king
                    I want the crown

                    Crucify, Jesus!!"

                I wore your sins
                You wouldn't budge
                Like trophies you took all your
                    dysfunctional ways and
                    forced them on others

                Your trophies are nails in the coffin
                    in the end —

                You are locked in a tomb of doom
                    marked "I am the king"
                   
                    Listen to Me

                    Now you lay in a box

 

Galatians 4: 21-31

Tell me then, you are so eager to be subject to the Law, have you listened to what the Law says? Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave girl and one by the freewoman. The son of the slave girl came to be born in the way of human nature; but the son of the freewoman came to be born through a promise. There is an allegory here: these women stand for the two covenants. The one given on Mount Sinai-that is Hagar, whose children are born into slavery; now Sinai is a mountain in Arabia and represents Jerusalem in its present state, for she is in slavery together with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and that is the one that is our mother; as scripture says: Shout for joy, you barren woman who has borne no children! Break into shouts of joy, you who were never in labour. For the sons of the forsaken one are more in number than the sons of the wedded wife. Now you, brothers, are like Isaac, children of the promise; just as at that time, the child born in the way of human nature persecuted the child born through the Spirit, so now. But what is it that scripture says? Drive away that slave girl and her son; the slave girl's son is not to share the inheritance with the son of the freewoman. So, brothers, we are the children not of the slave girl but of the freewoman.

 

Romans 4: 1-12

Then what do we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are descended physically? If Abraham had been justified because of what he had done, then he would have had something to boast about. But not before God: does not scripture say: Abraham put his faith in God and this was reckoned to him as uprightness? Now, when someone works, the wages for this are not considered as a favour but as due; however, when someone, without working, puts faith in the one who justifies the godless, it is this faith that is reckoned as uprightness. David, too, says the same: he calls someone blessed if God attributes uprightness to that person, apart from any action undertaken:

    How blessed are those
        whose offence is forgiven,
    whose sin is blotted out.
    How blessed are those
        to whom the Lord imputes no guilt.

Is this blessing only for the circumcised, or is it said of the uncircumcised as well? Well, we said of Abraham that his faith was reckoned to him as uprightness. Now how did this come about? When he was already circumcised, or before he had been circumcised? Not when he had been circumcised, but while he was still uncircumcised; and circumcision was given to him later, as a sign and a guarantee that the faith which he had while still uncircumcised was reckoned to him as uprightness. In this way, Abraham was to be the ancestor of all believers who are uncircumcised, so that they might be reckoned as upright; as well as the ancestor of those of the circumcision who not only have their circumcision but who also follow our ancestor Abraham along the path of faith that he trod before he was circumcised.

  

John 1: 1-18

In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came into being,
not one thing came into being
   except through him.
What has come into being in him was life,
life that was the light of men;
and light shines in darkness,
and darkness could not overpower it.

A man came, sent by God.
His name was John.
He came as a witness,
to bear witness to the light,
so that everyone might believe
   through him.
He was not the light,
he was to bear witness to the light.

The Word was the real light
that gives light to everyone;
he was coming into the world.
He was in the world
that had come into being through him,
and the world did not recognise him.
He came to his own
and his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God,
to those who believed in his name
who were born not from human stock
or human desire
or human will
but from God himself.
The Word became flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that he has from the Father
   as only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.

John witnesses to him. He proclaims:
‘This is the one of whom I said:
He who comes after me
has passed ahead of me
because he existed before me.’

Indeed, from his fullness
    we have, all of us, received—
one gift replacing another,
for the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth have come
   through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son,
   who is close to the Father’s heart,
who has made him known.

        

                Mary says:

                    I cried for my little ones

  

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  August 27, 1996

  

 

Excerpt from January 22, 2008

                    When Jesus appeared to me in the mural
                over the altar in China — light was on
                Him — like a bolt of lightening coming
                down

                First I saw this light as if it came
                    upon Him, His whole body shown
                    lighted — so brightly, but it was
                    as if a light came as a beam from
                    the direction shown — from
                    above

                LIGHT, LIGHT, LIGHT

                Jesus spoke through me then —

                Then the blackest, black around
                    the left arch particularly the
                    left side

                end of excerpt

 

                Mary says:

                    I stood beneath the
                        cross of my Son
                        and I cried for the
                        little ones lost
                        forever

 

           

 

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

   

 

Here is what Mary said the day Mary's image head was knocked off.

  (during the 6:20 prayer service under the image)

 

transcribed from a tape

 

March 1, 2004

Mary: I am Mary your Mother, and I appear to you my children, because of my love for you. My dear children, my Son Jesus, still appears to you today, and I am with you. He has called you to tell the world of His love. Do not be afraid. Tell God you are sorry for your sins. Oh my children, how I love my children of this world. Tell them, tell them of the sufferings of my Son, how He gave Himself, how He died and rose on the third day. Oh my children! My children, I love you. I am Mary, your Mother.

R. Dear Mary, we are sorry. We're sorry, Mary.

Song: Ave Maria gratia plena

R. Dear God, please outpour Your grace, forgive us for our sins. We are sorry that this has happened, to this great gift that You have given to us, and we ask You to please outpour Your grace to us, and help us to spread the message of Your love to this world. Forgive us God.

Mary: I am Mary your Mother, and I want you to tell my children, how my Son Jesus loves them. This is the message that I deliver to you this day. You have been called here to spread this message of my love to the world, for there are souls, that need the message, that need to turn their lives to Jesus. Give this message to the world — that Jesus loves — He gave His life for all souls, and He rose on the third day. Jesus wants the souls in heaven with Him forever. Oh my children, if you knew the glories of heaven, and that, that awaits those, who love and serve the Lord. Oh my children, Jesus loves the children. I am Mary your Mother, and I ask you to deliver this message to the world — that Jesus wants the souls in heaven with Him for all eternity. And do you know what eternity is — for eternity is forever and ever and ever — a few short years of this life, given in love and service of God, to be with Him in this great bliss for all eternity. Oh my children, deliver the message, Jesus is the Savior of the World.

Song: Ave Maria gratia plena

Mary: I am Mary your Mother, and I have appeared to you all this time, to tell the world, of the love of My Son, Jesus. Jesus has called you to be the messengers of this message. Will you deliver this message? Jesus is the Son of God, the Savior of the world. Tell my children.

 

 

 


               
               

               

This was transcribed from a tape on Ash Wednesday.

It was recorded live and

Jesus appeared during this rosary as it was received.

   

February 6, 2008

Sorrowful Mysteries

 

Jesus is Crowned with Crown of Thorns

1. R. This was really a crazy thing for me to do. But I was going to bake some thing in an oven that I wasn't used to. And so therefore, I turned the oven on, and then it didn't look like it was on, so I put my fingers on the coils. Well it didn't take me, but about a whip of a second, to get my fingers off of the coils. But then I soaked my hands, my fingers in some Jesus water, for about 4 hours afterwards. And luckily, do you know, that nothing happened. It was just, a gift that nothing happened. Because as soon as I did it, oh there goes the retreat and I can't play the piano. That was the first thing into my mind.

Jesus says - Do you think about how it is, if we step even on a little stone, a little piece of glass, if a pin accidentally, pricks our finger, and then to think about the pain and the suffering, of the pounding of the thorns within His Head - pounded, pounded - the thorns into the Head of Jesus.

2. R. And the Blood ran down His face and into His eyes and His ears. And His Head pounded — A crown of thorns, the Savior wore - for you and for me. For the sins of pride, of the possessiveness, for the jealousy, the envy, the greed, the lust, the rage, the anger, all the imperfections. And there's a myriad of difference ways, that we can be impure, the seeking of dominance for dominance sake, the laughing at others that are suffering, instead of helping them.

    Dear God, we know that we made You suffer, to Your Head, for sins that we did. God, we're sorry. Today, help us to die to these sins, these imperfections, these tendencies, these bad habits, that are not like You want us to be, in growing in greater purity. Help us as a body of people to be more one like the Trinity, more one in perfection because we're all working to be more perfect and more holy. So that we will help each other to do the mission and die to pride and selfishness, that we will not give into satan.

    Help this to be our Lenten resolution, to pray harder to the Holy Spirit to enlighten us, that we will see more, what Your will is for us, to grow in greater holiness, to be more united, to do what God is asking us to, with love.

    Help us God, as we look upon You and we see Your Head crowned with thorns, and they gave You an ugly purple robe, and Your Blood was matted in Your hair, and the robe stuck to Your Body, from the bad sores You had. God help us. Sometimes at night, when we want to get angry at somebody else, to have that picture pop into our mind, and to help quiet our thoughts of division, and see how You died, so that Your family would be loving and united.

    Dear Holy Spirit, please impart to us Your gifts, especially, wisdom and joy, in our vocation in life, for we have been richly blessed and we want to smile and be a light in the world, but it takes Your grace God. For when we act good, it is because You gave us Your grace. Fill us with Your life and help us.

    Please God, help us now. Help us to have a good Lent. Help us not to cause problems for ourselves, by being suspicious or angry or bitter or unforgiving. And if possible, help us to always go to the Eucharist and to Mass, so that we can be filled more and more, with Your grace, and that we can be instruments of light, because Your life is abundantly alive within us.

3. Jesus: And I want you to see the chalice with the host over it, in the hands of the priest, and as you gaze upon this, the chalice and the host, think of what it is, a joy for you to go to the Eucharist. But I long for you to come and to receive Me. In this rosary, pray for the grace, to quiet thoughts of division and other things when you receive Me. And just focus on My love for you and being with Me.

    For it is such a gift that I come to you. Put aside those thoughts of division, for satan tempts you before you go to Mass - right before Mass, while you are at Mass, to think about things, that can lead you from deeper union with Me. And I am longing for you to pray fervently for the priests and the Church and the world, and for the grace by being united so deeply, in the Holy Sacrifice.

R. Dear God, give us the grace to be more focused on this greatest act of love that we can give to You in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Help us all to take that Prayer Before Mass with us and to pray it before Mass and to look at Your Heart and Mary's Heart on the other side during Mass — that we focus on what a great act of love that is, our loving You and You loving us and coming to us. The Mass is such a gift.

4. R. And you can go to the Nursing Homes and you can tell them how they can offer up what they are doing united to the Mass, and tremendous grace will be outpoured to them. Take the Morning Offering card to the Nursing Homes.

5. Jesus: I died for My precious souls, for you My beloved. Will you not be the light in the world today? I love you so much. You are so dear to Me. I have filled you with My grace, that you will be a powerful light in the darkness, that people will see you and know that I live in you, and that you are holy, that you are good, that you are authentically united to Me.

6. Jesus: The heart is the life of the body. And yet if the heart is filled with debris — hate, anger, bitterness — the heart will not be able to operate, as freely as it can, for the body. Teach people about My joy, the joy that comes from knowing My love, from the Blue Books. Give the people that are open, a Blue Book, that they will know how much I love them and they will come to Me in the Eucharist.

7. Jesus: And they pounded into My Head, a crown of thorns. And today I ask you to pray to the Holy Spirit, that His life will be alive in you, that you will know more, the fire of God's love, that you'll be an instrument to the cold world, that you'll answer the vocation in the Shepherds of Christ as I have directed, to help renew the Church and the world, that you will help to bring to completion the mission Mary began at Fatima, as she has asked you here today.

8. Sing: Come unto Me all who are Weary

9. R. And dear Jesus, I want to pray for all the intentions that I have and for the Movement, for the things that I have in my heart that are very important. And for the intentions of the people that are here, and for all of our healing in the way that we need healing, especially in our imperfections and that we will have the greatest Lent ever, and the most glorious Easter.

10. Hail Mary

  

  

The Carrying of the Cross

1. Sing: Lord Let Me Walk that last Mile in your Shoes under the Weight of the Wood

2. R. And He carried the cross on His back and it was so heavy that He fell underneath it.

Jesus: How is your cross today? Does it seem that you are carrying a cross, that is invisible and yet it feels like it is very, very real. Look at Me carrying My cross, and know that I am with you, and your Mother walks by your side. Have faith. Keep on - keeping on, for the sake of souls. In that lies your peace. There is peace in suffering. When I died on the cross, I died in perfect peace.

3. Jesus: This is the Building of the Two Hearts, that I have given to you, where I have appeared and My Mother has appeared to you, that you will spread the message that I have given over these 16 years, that you will help to bring to completion the mission that Mary began at Fatima, that My Heart will Reign and My Mother's heart will Triumph. I have called you by name. You are Mine, My precious one. Do not be afraid.

4. Jesus: I ask you to pray your Shepherds of Christ prayers with great love. Pray the Litanies with love, to the Sacred Heart and to My Mother's heart. Pray the promises and meditate on the importance. Pray for the priests and all the Shepherds of Christ people and the newsletter and for the world. Pray with all your heart and ask the Holy Spirit to fill you.

5. Jesus: In these days of Lent, if it is possible, pray the Red Prayer Manual every day, for it does not take long and the blessings you will receive will be numerous.

6. Jesus: Go to the Blessed Sacrament when it is possible, and you know it is God's will — stay one in My Heart and My Mother's heart all day. Know that I am always with you.

7. Jesus: My Heart is on fire for love of you.

8. Jesus: When I carried My cross on the way to Calvary, My thoughts were of you and your love to pray here, and to be more holy for the sake of souls.

9. Sing: I have Called You by Name

10. Hail Mary

   

  

Jesus is Crucified and Died on the Cross

1. Jesus: I am giving to you, great grace, that you will be courageous in your mission, that you will not be afraid in your lives, that you will turn your hearts to Me in great love. I will give to you My messages of love in My Blue Books. Open them and read, a little, and you will be full of the courage to do what you know you must do.

2. Jesus: As you read the Blue Books, you will know more and more, how I long for you to come before the Blessed Sacrament. You will know that I am waiting for you, that I want you to come to be with Me, and to just sit quiet for a while, and let Me outpour My love to you and fill you with My life.

3. Jesus: I will strengthen you and you will know greater peace than you ever knew before. It is in the time of Lent, that you want to grow in deeper intimacy with Me, and I long for you to talk to Me and be with Me, to tell Me your problems and to just sit awhile.

4. Jesus: I will fill your heart with the confidence that you need to do the Father's will. I will fill you more and more, as you read the Blue Books and come before the Eucharist, and give your heart to Me and to My Mother. I will fill you more and more, with that confidence and love, but you must not forget one day - pray every day, love every day. Just as you will exercise your body, make sure that you do these spiritual exercises every day, for peace in your life, for the courage that you need, for the confidence to be My light in the world. That people will know Me as they  see you, for I will live in you and they will know Me as you operate in the world.

5. Jesus: I love you, I love you, I love you. You have been a faithful servant to Me. For this I tell you, I am grateful.

6. Jesus: I am outpouring My healing grace to you now, that you will know greater courage, that you will know greater love. You must let go when you pray. Let go of some of the things that keep you bound, for that deeper intimacy with Me, that you crave and that I want to have with you too.

7. 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. My children, you do not know what it was like to stand beneath the cross and watch my child die - die. Help me to reach the souls.

R. How awful it is that one soul is lost.

8. Mary: I stood beneath the cross of my Son and I saw Him - I saw Him die, my children — for love of you, He died.

9. Mary: For love of His precious souls, He died. His thoughts were of you — your prayer, your help, your love. Being as Christ to others in the world, being a light, praying for the grace this Lent to be more holy. I am Mary, your Mother. Will you help me here? This is the Building of the Two Hearts. Come and pray. Pray at home. Pray together the Shepherds of Christ prayers. Pray, pray, pray.

10. Mary: You will receive special grace, when you pray, to go deeper into the Heart of My Son and my Heart — special healing grace will be yours. Pray and have faith. Pray for My Son's mission. Pray for the Newsletter when you pray the prayers. And believe that God will hear your prayers, and that He will help you as you help others all over the world. I am Mary, your Mother. Queen of Peace, Queen of the Universe. I love you my children. Thank you for answering my request.

  

Hail Holy Queen

    

R. And this will conclude my participation here, until, I guess, the end of this month. I will be back for the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, and the 5th of March. I'll be in China, Indiana for a retreat, in front of the exposed Eucharist, the 10th, the 11th, the 12th, and the 13th is the big day. We have Mass every day, except for the 10th, Monday the Mass is at 6. The other days it's either a 11 or 12. I'll put it on the internet. You can actually see the prayer service, when I'm there, because the camera is on the piano or the front. And whenever you can join in, join in with us if you can. I try to put it on the internet, after I do it and it is important to Jesus whenever you can pray with us, to try to.

    Doris has been transcribing these rosaries, and the messages that Mary and Jesus give me, especially when They appear. And Jesus really appeared all through this rosary and spoke to us. And she has been transcribing them. She's still working on the 5th. But when we get the rosaries transcribed and checked, and everything that has to happen for them to go out, then we put them on the internet. You can print them up, take them with you to church, pray them at home.

    Pray them with somebody in your prayer chapter, and it'll be like you're doing the rosary again. Mary and Jesus said whenever you do that, especially if you can use a candle, that's good, if you can't, though - They said They were with you like when I got the rosary, and there would be lots of grace given. So those rosaries are real important, because I don't even have to write the message, it's just I can be in an ecstatic state, see Mary, deliver the message, and Doris is the one that puts it in the hard copy.

    Just be with us because we really need you. Pray hard and we'll be this great Shepherds of Christ family, but I know we are doing a lot of work, because we would never have got the 8 inches of letters back, and circulated 1,800,000 newsletters and 100,000 of Fr. Pasquini's books in the past year and a half. But they are still out there, that's the thing. I got this new newsletter on the Beatitudes. I still have like a $2,600 bill on the Mary newsletter, but John was going to take that to the printer tonight and we are going to try to send out as many of those as we can with maybe one of Fr. Carter's Priestly Newsletter Book II.

    So you can keep that in your prayers, and help us for sure if you can. We are asking anybody in a prayer chapter, if they can give $5 a month for the newsletter, that would help us a lot, toward the price of the newsletter, if it was just $5 a month. That would be $10 towards every newsletter. It's real important to Jesus, and I know that we're doing what Mary asked for at Fatima — we're reaching the whole face of the earth. It's a miracle. You see the letters come back in and realize what we are doing. It's a miracle.

    So we need your prayers because it's only by the prayers, that we keep doing this. If you know that Jesus is calling you, just keep praying the prayers, and stay united to us and help us as much as you can. When you say your Morning Offering, offer it up for us too, because that's a lot of grace. And all of us, this Lent have to go to Mass, when we go, and not give in to that distraction at Mass, because it's just too important, there's so much grace given at Mass. That's what Jesus is telling Me. You just got to see yourself participating at the Mass, don't let that stuff go through your head. We can control our minds and our wills, especially at Mass, that's our time to be with Jesus. And it's such a gift. We got to really be close to Him.

    And I thank you and I thank all the people that prayed with me here and I know that you got great blessings. And if you can keep into the internet, we put the message out every day, or the letter, the daily writing. I've been doing that for 9 years. So Laverne said something, she was up from Texas. And I said, "Well, I never even get a card in the mail. I do this every day, and nobody says nothing. She said, "Oh Rita, I'm going to send you a card." It's like, she says, "Well, I think they just take it for granted." I thought "No kidding!"

    But that's O.K. I'm not doing it for a card, I just want you to know. But it's nice once in a while when somebody drops you a card. Sometimes it gets lost though. People have said to me, "Oh, you got a card about 3 months ago from so and so" and I'm thinking, "Gee, thank you!" Thanks a lot. I hope you got blessings from everything that went on while I've been down here. I'm going back to Cincinnati tomorrow, to do the retreat in China the next week. But at least there I can go home every day. So that's good. Thank you and I'll be back. You got to pray for me that I do. Thanks.
 

 

 

 

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