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May 5, 2020

John 10: 22-30

    It was the time of the feast of Dedication in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the Temple walking up and down in the Portico of Solomon. The Jews gathered round him and said, ‘How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us openly.’ Jesus replied:

    I have told you, but you do not believe.
    The works I do in my Father’s name
        are my witness;
      but you do not believe,
     because you are no sheep of mine.
      The sheep that belong to me
         listen to my voice;
    I know them and they follow me.
      I give them eternal life;
    they will never be lost
    and no one will ever steal them
        from my hand.
    The Father, for what he has given me,
        is greater than anyone,
    and no one can steal anything
        from the Father’s hand.
    The Father and I are one.

                R. The little boat tied by a big
                anchor by the shore and
                watching the other boats
                go out on the ocean of life
                doesn't live.

                    God made us to live,
                shaking the roots of an
                old tree petrified in its
                rigid ways can help us
                all see the real meaning
                of life.

                    Life is for letting go and being
                in God's plan for us. Letting go
                to some of the hardest crosses
                can be the way God is trying
                to lift our old heavy anchor
                or shake our petrified roots.
                But who can move some of
                the hardest hearts?

                    The tension in our lives
                is in measure to how we
                are in line with Him and
                His plan.

                    I remember seeing a
                Monsignor in Florida, a dear
                friend, lie on his back, but
                his mind was in there –
                Even our mind can go at the
                end, or drugs effect it –
                God is calling us today to
                let go of control, anger,
                bad patterns in our lives.
                How far do we go to keep the
                same old, same old, anchor
                tying us to the same rigid
                sea shore.

                    God I love You and I thank
                You for Shepherds of Christ, what a
                vocation, what a gift, what a journey
                out on the ocean of life.

                    The mystical is before our
                eyes. It comes in love and
                surrender. It's like walking
                a beautiful land of fragrant
                flowers that go and go and
                go in beauty.

God's road for us is oh
so beautiful, in any season –

                    In the quiet of a day of clamor
                can come the sound of silence
                in our minds and hearts –
                sweetness to those who
                believe in Him, who know
                the Father, Son and Holy Spirit
                dwell in our graced baptized
                soul.

                    Breathe in and breathe
                out the rigid, poison that
                needs to be let go of.

                    In the silence comes the
                Word. In the noise – He
                still walks with us – In running
                legs and in troubled legs
                He walks by our side –
                I see with His eyes, even
                when my eyes don't see
                so good, I know with
                His Heart in the infinite
                love He fills me with –
                My days are His days –
                in suffering and joy –
                He is my rock, my fortress,
                my all –

                    Thank You God for 25 years
                since this Consecration Message.
                Those that saw the moon covered
                with Blood - knew He was
                there.

                They conquered satan with
                the Blood of the Lamb and
                with their testimony.

                When God shakes our roots
                let Him run the show –
                The tree can live a beautiful
                life, even when once afflicted –
                at the hands of the Lord.
                A person can let go of the
                corrupted, stubborn anchors
                of bitterness and pride and
                sail the seas of love and
                life in preparation for
                eternal life.

                Jesus: I love you – I created
                    you to love. This Movement
                    is My gift given in love
                    to help you love and
                    sail the sea of life – so
                    you seek true treasures ahead.

Sing: I Am the Bread of Life

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

Jesus: Surrender!

                The sounds of heaven are
                    a beautiful choir,
                    the birds singing,
                    the everlasting love
                    of being wrapped in
                    the beatific vision
                    forever –

                Life here is but a breath –
                    the wind that passes quickly,
                    the lightening that you
                    can't hold onto –
                    a dream (when you sleep) that vanishes –

                I give you a glimpse –
                    you see a little of the
                    beauty to show you
                    the beauty of My
                    heavenly Kingdom.

Mary appeared in Clearwater
so beautiful –

                My Father called the 5ths
                    and I promised so much
                    grace for the prayer led
                    by My messenger.

So many gifts, I opened
to you.

The little ship anchored at
shore saw nothing –

                The person cutting the grass
                    does not fix an overflowing
                    toilet that needs repair NOW.

                You should Zig when I call you
                    to Zig.
                And Zag when I call you
                    to Zag –

                Life is measured not by
                    controlling, prideful hearts,
                    but by loving and doing
                    My Father's will – as
                    a little obedient child.

                    Jesus: Welcome what I send you to
                live with, to be your life an
                listen to the sounds of
                silence, the whisper of the
                wind, the quiet of a fallen
                snow flake, the clamor of
                hale balls - listen and
                live in the Lord –

                Breathe in light and energy
                and breathe out the old,
                rid yourself of the
                clamor of control, pride,
                isolation, manipulation –

All anchors –

                    I ask for so, little many,
                times and you miss the gift
                of giving yourself in love.

December 23, 2015

                R. The snow was coming hard and it was
                beautiful and it lay even and it was
                crisp and it sounded like you could
                even hear a whisper.

                    We walked through the soft snow –
                speechless and the flakes landed, ever
                so softly, even on my eyelashes
                as I walked.

                    It was a night when the moon was
                full and the sky above looked hazy
                with a soft fuzzy light from the moon
                above and the snow falling was
                indeed a beautiful winter, wonderland
                and it was awesomely quiet as it
                fell and yet it gathered quickly as the
                earth preparing the land for something
                magnificent with this blanket of
                soft beautiful white snow.

                    What can one say when God lets
                us see its beauty, dressed, the earth
                before us, like a white fluffy blanket of
                beauty.

                    All that was once uneven and
                old or green or brown or
                junk-like – now was covered with
                this magnificent white blanket –
                making things look even and clean
                and white as uniform.

                    The night was a quiet night, like
                nights can be, but this night had a softness,
                I cannot even describe here – a softness,
                a beauty, a smoothness, all the uneven
                corners filled in, the browns and dirty
                now glistening like a bride prepared
                for the bridegroom.

                    I think of the scripture of the white –
                washed tombs – looking good on the
                outside and tainted on the inside,
                but all I could see was a purely
                beautiful cover of soft white.

                    One night I woke coughing and
                where I was dreaming and sleeping
                I discovered almost a new time
                and space to explore in the wee
                hours of early morning.

                    Had the night, now, with the snow,
                not spread such a beauteous blanket
                of white and I been there to see it
                while it happened, I may have missed the
                beauty of that snowy, white, beautiful
                earth.

                    Like one waken coughing and discovering
                that there is a time going on now, a
                quiet night, no noise and seeing
                lights of night dancing like shadows
                on the wall, one would have missed
                it they weren't disturbed in their
                sleep by the cough that summoned
                them to get up and see the night and
                its beauty.

                    Eyes are in the eyes of the beholder
                and God can shake an old tree from
                its roots and show it the growth and
                glory of a new day.

                    Sleeping may deprive us of one
                thing and yet give us a new dream of
                a brighter tomorrow – a serenity of
                working through the messes we may
                see in our dreams.

                    Well we don't see everything, so
                clearly and we can't see everything
                because we can't be in two places
                at one time.

                    But can you meditate on the
                omnipotence of God – who knows
                everything, the hidden secrets of the
                man closing down for a long life nap –
                because he is a fool to not know
                God and His ways. God knows my
                heart and your heart and all
                that is and He doesn't slumber
                or sleep. He knows and we are
                fools to try to hide from Him –
                guess what, we can't do it –
                He knows the secrets and the hidden
                ways – we might think – nobody
                could see our scheming and
                deception.

                Adam and Eve hid themselves after their
                sin. They were used to walking with
                God in the Garden – then sin entered
                the world. In the beginning they were naked
                and were not ashamed, but after they sinned
                they knew they were naked – they
                needed covering.

                    I never understood exactly all what
                Jesus meant when He woke me January 5, 1997
                and gave me this message –

January 5, 1997

Baby, Bare Baby, Laid Bare

R. On January 5, 1997, I was wakened by Our Lord and He was mumbling as He was around my bed as He did on October 8, 1997, when He delivered the "Seedless, Barren, No Fruit on the Vine" message.

I heard Him and He repeated the words over and over again. I had a copy of the all-night message on the floor, I jumped from the bed and began to write around the message, for it was the only paper available and He was speaking very plainly and direct. I wrote this message in the margins of the paper. He kept repeating "BABY, BARE BABY, LAID BARE".

Jesus: 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 cloth 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.

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                R. I just don't know, as God knows,
                God is teaching me more about the infinite,
                more about Himself and the shame
                from sin and the darkness covering
                a soul giving into the deadly sins,
                is a place of being not in beauty
                but in darkness, misery, clamor of
                unrest, bitterness and a yearning
                for that clamor of unrest, even though
                it was self made, to stop – it
                is blaring in the ears, troubling
                a broken heart, like not walking
                in pure, white soft snow on a
                misty breathless night, but being
                in the darkness of sin is like
                screaming to the restless soul made
                for God and when the noise gets
                too blaring – the sinner can make
                havoc to release the tension of
                the tightness of opposing God's
                will for him – excitement, release,
                pressing on innocent others – like
                getting out of the self-made prison
                of their own making, for a moment
                of feeling something – where the mundane
                darkness of sin can leave one
                numb and frozen and complacent and
                without the vigor of life in him.

                    Why does the sinner cling to the darkness
                of being frozen and locked in remorse?
                One who does not admit the truth about
                their sins and stays locked in
                anger and pride and deception –
                projects this disharmony on others
                and the world.

And there is an unsettledness of
opposing God – no one can describe.

                    They can be screaming inside from
                that state of disconnection and on
                the outside making the isolated, disharmonious
                path they trod and blaming an innocent
                other for their self-made prison.
                Deception inside about oneself is
                an unsettling place to be – it is
                a place of ones own choosing where
                they could have lived in the truth
                and unity and knew love and connection –
                They convinced themselves – nobody
                is trustworthy and they should
                not feel what comes natural living –
                really living in the moment, connected
                to God and others –

                    but instead they chose disharmony
                and distrust of those God sent
                to them to work and love them and
                they heard the chains and darkness
                of the night and they invited this bleakness,
                opposed to God's will, to be their
                guest inside to share the enclosure
                of not trusting, not sharing,
                not loving and living and being not
                alive, but frozen, frozen in
                the past, in pain, in misery –
                clung to like a branch of a tree
                they held onto above a ravine far
                below them –

Life is for living –

                The snow flakes really fall making
                a soft and beautiful wonderland
                in the dark night and the earth is
                covered with a mystical light
                even in the darkness.

                Jesus: Do you know what you missed
                    while you stood guard of
                    your heart so it became
                    frozen and closed off –

How does a man who is blind know
what he missed seeing?

                A man who is blind, doesn't see,
                    so he doesn't know what
                    he missed seeing, not really –
                    and a man encased in his own
                    self-made isolating darkness
                    of the deadly sins – really
                    hates the misery it entails,
                    but many remained locked there because
                    of pride and failure to love or trust
                    those they need to reach out to –
                    Locked in a hidden tower, they
                    clamor at its darkness and
                    when I send someone to help them,
                    the man who keeps himself stuck,
                    says "go away man, I need no one,
                    I am invincible, don't you
                    see my superiority"

                Closing down in pride and anger and
                    jealousy and envy is a very
                    dark hole and in it is
                    misery, misery, misery, isolation,
                    boredom – for the connection to
                    God is in going out – is in
                    loving and giving and working
                    out problems.
                    The frozen man is very rigid –

                He is on guard against anyone
                    getting in –
                    like a frozen old tree, it
                    doesn't move, but stays
                    static – it is heavy against
                    the wind –

                When a soul is open to the Holy Spirit –
                    the wind blows and they are
                    ready to be as God wills them
                    to be – God is the author of
                    life –

                God paints the corners of the dark
                    night with the new fallen
                    beauty of a wonderful, white,
                    soft blanket of snow

God is the artist –

                Man is the one waiting His favors –
                    the nights are still bright and
                    beautiful even in the struggles –

                The earth is clad in beauty and
                    light and man sees it –
                    he is not blinded by darkness
                    and locked in a dark tower
                    of his own choosing.

                Positive imaging –
                    Your minds can paint the picture
                    of beauty –
                    Your minds can be thoughts of
                        loving unity with others –
                        trusting those I send you to love
                        and working with others in
                        the building of My Kingdom.

                A boat was very small on the big
                    ocean but it was parked
                    close to shore with a heavy,
                    big anchor that was never
                    lifted.

                The ocean was vast and beautiful
                    and boats came and went around
                    the little boat – parked with
                    a heavy anchor –

                The other boats saw the sites –
                    day in and day out and
                    what sites to see with the
                    painted beauty of the ocean
                    and the beauty of the sky
                    above –

                The little boat with the heavy
                    anchor never left the landing
                    and it was jealous and envious
                    and mad –

                It just never saw anything at
                    all
                    while the other boats went out
                        every day – every day
                        and every day the beauty
                        was its own days beauty –
                        skies of red and golden,
                        skies of blue, sunlit skies,
                        star-studded, moonlit
                        nights – the ocean was never
                        the same – white - caps – waves,
                        calm, green and blues, oh
                        blues you never could imagine,
                        painted by the Creator daily for
                        that days splendor –
                        And the boats left the shore
                        they giggled as they went away –
                        to be led by the hand of God to
                        a new day's journey on the seas
                        of life –

God the artist –

The man the one waiting His favor –

November 4, 2013

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

Sing: 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.

Song: A Song from Jesus

                R. In the words of the song – we hear
                    I COME –
                    The man of love –> Comes
                    he is not a heavy anchor –
                        set on the shore life long –
                    The man follows Jesus –
                        He is in motion –

                Every day is like a precious dream –
                    being united in their hearts
                    to God –
                    they sail the sea of life in
                    wonder to be ready for their
                    Captain running the ship,
                    by day, by night – every day –
                    every night –
                    In harmony with God –
                    Not "zigging" where God called him
                        to "zag"

                And darkness covered the land and
                    one could see that blood
                    covered the moon –
                    but many were afraid –
                    but the men, one with God,
                    knew it was the Blood of the
                    Lamb and were not afraid –

In the darkness is the clamor of teeth
and the noises of chaos

                In the dark of the just man is
                    a white blanket of snow
                    and even the darkness is
                    beautiful

For God never slumbers or sleeps
God is love –

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus I place my trust in Thee –

He says
"I come to you with greatest love"

                The word come shows He is
                    in motion –
                    going out in love –
                    not static and frozen in fear –
                    anchored by a heavy anchor,
                    missing the days of life.

Jesus says:

I come

                He is the Light in the Darkness –
                    like the Christmas Trees –
                    He shows us the Light of Life –

Even in the struggles of life –

I know presence

Song: Your Presence Pervades My Soul

Song: I Love You Jesus

Song: Little Child

Song: Live This Day

Song: Why Do We Hurt The Ones We Love

Song: Glory, Glory, Glory Lord

Song: In My Heart

Song: I Am Your Sacred Heart

Song: Teach Me to Love With Your Heart

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

Holy Spirit Novena

Daily Novena Prayers

Opening Prayer

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Dear Father, we come to You in the name of Jesus, in union with Him in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the Holy Spirit. We come to You united to the Child Jesus of Good Health and the Infant of Prague. We come to You in the perfect, sinless heart of Our Mother Mary, asking her powerful intercession, uniting ourselves to her holy tears. We come to You united to all the angels and saints, and the souls in purgatory.

Prayer for Holy Spirit

We pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on us, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit, that He will descend mightily on us as He did on the Apostles at Pentecost. That the Holy Spirit will transform us from fear to fearlessness and that He will give us courage to do all the Father is asking of us to help bring about the Reign of the Sacred Heart and the triumph of Mary's Immaculate Heart. We pray for the Holy Spirit to descend mightily on the Jesuits and the Poor Clares on the Shepherds of Christ leaders and members and on the whole Body of Christ and the world.

Protection by the Blood of Jesus

We pray that the Blood of Jesus will be spread on us, everyone in our families, and the Shepherds of Christ Movement, that we will be able to move steadfastly ahead and be protected from the evil one.

Healing

We pray for healing in body, mind, and soul and generational healing in ourselves, in all members in our families, and in all members of the Shepherds of Christ Movement, the Jesuit Community, the Poor Clares, the Body of Christ, and the world.

Prayer for Strength and Light

We adore You, oh Holy Spirit. Give us strength, give us light, console us. We give ourselves entirely to You. Oh Spirit of light and grace, we want to only do the will of the Father. Enlighten us that we may live always in the Father's will.

Eternal Spirit fill us with Your Divine Wisdom that we may comprehend more fully insight into Your Divine Mysteries.

Give us lights, Oh Holy Spirit that we may know God. Work within the heart, the spiritual womb of the Virgin Mary, to form us more and more into the image of Jesus.

Prayer to Be One with God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit

We long for You, Oh Spirit of Light, we long to know God, we want to be one with Him, our Divine God. We want to be one with the Father, know Him as a Person most intimately. We want to know the beloved One, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and live and dwell in Him at all times, every moment of our lives. We want to be one with You, Oh Spirit of Light, that You move in us in our every breath.

Prayer to Be One in Jesus

Let us experience life in the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so we can say as Saint Paul, "I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me...." Let us live, united to the Mass, all through the day being one in Him. Let us be able to love and know in this elevated state of oneness with our God. We long for Thee, oh beauteous God, we love You, we love You, we love You. We praise You, worship You, honor You, adore You, and thank You, our beloved God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Prayer to Dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

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.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit and His Gifts

Come Holy Spirit, come, come into our hearts, inflame all people with the fire of Your love.

Leader: Send forth Your Spirit and all will be reborn.
All: And You will renew the face of the earth.

We pray for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, we ask for perfection in our souls to make us holy, holy souls likened to God.

Dear Holy Spirit, we give ourselves to You soul and body. We ask You to give us the Spirit of Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord.

Prayer for the Word Alive in Our Hearts

We know, dear Holy Spirit, the Word in His human nature was brought forth within the womb of the woman. We pray that His word will be brought forth in our hearts as He lives and dwells in us. We want the incarnation to go on in our lives. Dear Holy Spirit, work in us.

Little Prayers to the Holy Spirit

Dear Holy Spirit, help us not to be ignorant or indifferent or weak, help us to be strong with the love of God.

Dear Holy Spirit, please pray for our needs for us.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to respect God and to avoid sin. Help us to live in the Father's will.

Dear Holy Spirit, help us to keep Your commandments and to respect authority. Help us to love all things as You will us to love them. Help us to want to pray and always serve God with the greatest love. Help us to know the truth. Help us to have the gift of faith, hope, and love. Help us to know what is right and what is wrong.

A Prayer for Intimacy with the Lamb, the Bridegroom of the Soul

Oh Lamb of God, Who take away the sins of the world, come and act on my soul most intimately. I surrender myself, as I ask for the grace to let go, to just be as I exist in You and You act most intimately on my soul. You are the Initiator. I am the soul waiting Your favors as You act in me. I love You. I adore You. I worship You. Come and possess my soul with Your Divine Grace, as I experience You most intimately.

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Morning Offering

My dear Father, I offer You this day all my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every breath, my every heartbeat, my every thought, all my actions, in union with Jesus in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in the Holy Spirit. I pray the Holy Spirit is with me every second today, enlightening me to do the Will of the Father and filling me with the fire of God's love.

I ask Jesus and Mary to be one in me in all that I do and I unite with all the angels and saints and souls in purgatory to pray continually to the Father for these intercessions, in this prayer, for this day.

For myself, I pray for grace-abundant grace, to know and love God more and more and to follow the Will of the Father. I pray to the Holy Spirit to transform me in the heart of Mary to be more and more like Jesus. I pray that I can forever dwell in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. I pray for conversion of all those I hold dear who need conversion. I pray for each member of my family that they will be filled with Your abundant grace to grow in their knowledge and love of God.

I pray for all my friends that they will receive abundant grace to carry out the great plan of the Father, that they will grow forever closer to Jesus' Heart through Mary's heart, that we will all be led by the Holy Spirit to do His work, that we will, together, carry out the plan of the Father as He intends us to, to spread the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary's heart to this world.

Jesus, I pray for myself so the Holy Spirit descends upon me and opens my heart to Your love so I will grow more and more deeply in union with You. I pray that I do not worry what other people think but try always to please the Father and do His Will. I pray that I may help lead many to Your burning love.

I pray for the following people in particular that they will be filled with the Spirit and grow deeply in their union with You, that they will receive abundant graces to know, love and serve You more. (Include special friends by name...)

I pray for priests the world over, for the success of the Priestly Newsletter, the Chapters and for the finances needed for the Newsletter. I pray for the circulation of the Blue Book messages, rosary meditations and tapes. I pray for all those involved in the publication of these messages.

I pray that You will shower Your abundant graces onto the priests reading the Newsletter the people reading and hearing the Blue Book messages and rosary meditations and all of Fr. Carter's publications.

We pray for the intentions we hold deep within our hearts, for our families and friends, for those requesting our prayers. We pray for children the world over and for the souls in purgatory. We ask God to shower His abundant grace on us and the members of our Shepherds of Christ Chapter so that we may grow more and more in our knowledge and love of God.

We consecrate ourselves to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We pray for Father Carter, for Father Smith, for Rita Ring, and for John Weickert, for all leaders and helpers in the Shepherds of Christ Movement, for Shepherds of Christ Ministries, and Our Lady of Light Ministry. We pray for all those who are working in these ministries.

We bind ourselves and our children and our friends to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. We place the precious blood of Jesus on ourselves, and all we touch, so that we will be protected from the evil one. We pray to St. Michael to cast the devil into hell.

We love You, God, we love You, we love You. We beg that we may receive the grace to love You more and more deeply. We adore You, we praise You, our beloved Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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A Prayer before the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

    Let me be a holy sacrifice and unite with God in the sacrament of His greatest love.

    I want to be one in Him in this act of love, where He gives Himself to me and I give myself as a sacrifice to Him. Let me be a holy sacrifice as I become one with Him in this my act of greatest love to Him.

    Let me unite with Him more, that I may more deeply love Him. May I help make reparation to His adorable Heart and the heart of His Mother, Mary. With greatest love, I offer myself to You and pray that You will accept my sacrifice of greatest love. I give myself to You and unite in Your gift of Yourself to me. Come and possess my soul.

    Cleanse me, strengthen me, heal me. Dear Holy Spirit act in the heart of Mary to make me more and more like Jesus.

    Father, I offer this my sacrifice, myself united to Jesus in the Holy Spirit to You. Help me to love God more deeply in this act of my greatest love.

    Give me the grace to grow in my knowledge, love and service of You and for this to be my greatest participation in the Mass. Give me the greatest graces to love You so deeply in this Mass, You who are so worthy of my love.

-Mass Book, December 27, 1995

R. Fr. Carter said that China was like a little Bethlehem.

Words of Fr. Carter February 18, 2000 - excerpt

...I think all of you here at China give a great witness to life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph at Nazareth and to the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem. Your life is so simple. It is so hidden and yet like the life of Jesus at Nazareth, it is meant to be redemptive. His life certainly was redemptive those first 33 years of His existence. And I think I said in a homily to you some months ago, that if we had it to plan we certainly would have arranged, I’m sure all of us, Jesus’ life here on earth differently. I don’t think in the depths of our heart if we’re honest with ourselves, if the Father says, “you map out the way you think Jesus, My Son, should live here below in the time allotted,” who of us, who of us would have had Him hidden away for 10/11ths of that mortal life span. We would have given much more time to His public life. And here Jesus under the Father teaches us a great lesson—that we share in His redemptive efforts proportionate to the depth of our love and as that life of love is supported by faith and hope so Jesus takes the most humble places and ...

Holy Family of Nazareth pray for us.

end of Father Carter's Talk

Excerpt from Sidney Rosary June 26, 2007

The Birth of Jesus

                R. China is like a little Bethlehem
                We send this prayer from here before
                    the exposed Eucharist to all the
                    world —

Oh God please help us —
Please God — we love You

In China, Indiana we have cows
and sheep —

                    I was in the yard in China, which
                    is surrounded by creeks and I heard
                    some big cow

                    R. The property surrounding the church
                        is lined with
                        creeks and trees

I thought the cow was in the creek
he was so loud —

                    R. The music of the cows - was the music
                        the Father willed would be played
                        at the birth of Jesus, the Son
                        of God-made-man

                    The beast of the earth were there making
                        their music and providing the music
                        for the birth of the Savior —

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Song: China Song