Mary has requested that the daily message be given each day to the world. It is read nightly at the prayer service from her Image Building in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.A. This is according to her request. All attempts will be made to publish this daily message to the world at 11 p.m. Eastern time, U.S.A.We acknowledge that the final authority regarding these messages rests with the Holy See of Rome. |
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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.
Jesus speaks: Today is the end of the month of May. Tomorrow begins the month to honor My Sacred Heart.
NOTE: I wish the picture of My Sacred Heart from the front of the Blue Books.
I AM the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
I WISH TO BE honored this month as the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Pray My Shepherds of Christ prayers. (Shepherds of Christ Prayer Manual)
I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.
Isaiah 49:15
Can a woman forget her baby at the breast,
feel no pity for the child she has borne?
Even if these were to forget,
I shall not forget you.
I AM the handmaid of the Lord.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. YOU are so precious to me, MY children.
Luke 1:46-55
The Magnificat
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.
Jesus speaks: Walk humbly and lovingly after the example of your Blessed Mother.
We give our hearts to Jesus and Mary with you in love.
As Handmaids of the Good Shepherd, we live out this consecration. God wants our love. Jesus, our most precious Spouse, is so personal. He is a Person, waiting and longing for our love, outpouring His divine life and His divine love to us. He gives Himself completely to us in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Mass and Communion is the center and essential part of our day. This is the greatest gift to man that God gave His only Son as a sacrifice. The Mass is the most binding prayer for oneness. Gathered in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, we will be one united to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrifice of Calvary sacramentally made present this day. In these moments of intimacy with our Spouse in Communion, He imprints knowledge of Himself on our souls and fills our hearts with great life and love to go out and to spread His love to the hurting world.
"What power, what might, to have each person a personal spouse of Jesus Christ! This is the light to the darkened world. The love of Jesus radiates from the very being of those who love Him. What light when all together are lifted by His love abounding deep within their breasts!"
The Almighty God died for each one of us, can we not give Him our love this day? We respond, as handmaids, to this immense love by giving ourselves completely to Him with Mary as our model. Mary always did the Father's will. "You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said." (Lk 1:38) Our lives, at every moment, are this dying and rising in Him, constantly striving to surrender and let go to His will, to let Him operate us so we can say as St. Paul, "...yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me." (Ga 2:20)
As young and older women, Jesus has taken us as His special spouses, the spouses of the Lamb, women who have given their lives in community primarily to pray for priests, the renewal of the Church and the world, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement. We are not a religious order, we are just women who wish to live a life of deep special spousal relationship with God.
Handmaids
of the Good Shepherd
Handmaids live a life of prayer, praying for the Church and the world, spending much time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament as special prayer apostles praying for the priests and the Reign of the Sacred Heart and triumph of the Immaculate Heart. We work in carrying out what Our Lady asked at Fatima. Her peace plan includes:
1. Pray the daily rosary.
2. Consecrate your hearts to my Heart and the Heart of my Son.
3. Observe the First Saturday devotion.
4. Make reparation to Our Hearts
The Shepherds of Christ Movement is major in helping to bring about the completion of the Fatima mission.
In China, Indiana, and in Clearwater, Florida, the handmaids are a big part of the nightly prayer service Jesus and Mary have requested. At 6:20 PM we begin with the Holy Spirit Novena, begging the Holy Spirit to descend on the earth in a most powerful way, and at 6:30 we continue with the Shepherds of Christ prayers (found in the Prayer Manual). The handmaids in China pray before the Blessed Sacrament while the handmaids in Florida pray under Mary's Image reading and listening to rosaries from the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.
Handmaids are contemplatives in action. When we unite our activity which is according to God's will, whatever it is, (even sleeping and eating ) to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, we are helping in the salvation of souls.
In Florida, the handmaids use their talents in spreading the fire of God's love in direct contact with people that come to the site: giving them the priestly newsletter to give to priests, telling them how to start prayer chapters and allowing them to experience Jesus' tremendous love for them in all our other materials. We also do "behind the scenes" work: publication, duplicating tapes, and many other little tasks all working together for our beloved Spouse.
All handmaids have a special calling to pray for the priestly newsletter and for all the needs of priests the world over.
The China handmaids participate in sending out the newsletter. Now the priestly newsletter goes to some 70,000 priests in the world in English and Spanish. Over and above the U.S.A. distribution, more than 210 bishops, including 4 cardinals, in about 90 countries have responded to the newsletter. The priestly newsletter is centered in consecration. In this newsletter is a prayer for the priests to consecrate their hearts to Jesus and Mary. The China handmaids have many other little jobs to do during the day, but the main focus is Mass, Communion, prayer, and adoration.
We can somewhat summarize a handmaid's life in a prayer from our Holy Spirit Novena:
"We seek to be one in God, to live and dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, our little heaven on earth, to experience life in the all perfect, pure, sinless Heart of our Mother. We want the Holy Spirit to move in us and to be united to Jesus as the Bridegroom of our souls and be a most perfect sacrifice offered to the Father at every moment as we unite in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass around the world to help in the salvation of souls."
To be considered a candidate to join the Handmaids of the Good Shepherd, one must be at an apostle level in the Shepherds of Christ Movement for at least six months. For more information or questions on how to be an apostle or handmaid, please write or call:
Shepherds of Christ Ministries
Handmaids
21649 US 19 N
Clearwater, FL 33765
Call: (727) 725 - 9312
"What power, what might,
to have each person
a personal spouse of Jesus Christ!"
Handmaids of the
"You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said." - Luke 1:38 |
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.
Imprimatur: Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. Archdiocese
of Indianapolis
(Imprimatur only for above prayer)
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.
Imprimatur: Most Rev. Carl K. Moedell, Vicar General and
Auxiliary Bishop
Archdiocese of Cincinnati
(Imprimatur only for above prayer)
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