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.

August 28, 2000

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.

Messenger: Include Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in 6:20 prayers.

Messenger: We are all in the Church members of the body of Christ.

All act together to help in the spiritual experience of the other.

Some are playing heavenly music which moves our hearts to love for God and others.

Most of all at Mass the priest is celebrating the Mass and the miracle of bread and wine being changed into Christ's Body and Blood takes place. His every gesture, his manner when he walks before the tabernacle and speaks to us in the homily, how he reads the Gospel, how he says the words of Consecration and raises the Host and the chalice, all affect us.

Some mothers or fathers may go through their whole lives silently praying and living the Gospel message, but the example teaches a mighty lesson to the children and others that come in the home.

We all affect each other. A snarly, thoughtless remark may hurt someone for days, weeks and years and yet it was thoughtless and unintentioned.

I come as a messenger from God and I write this Monday morning before the exposed Eucharist after Mass.

I know lots of children, young adults have gone back to school and as I sit here, I hear the words of Mary to please pray for her children. My prayers here can affect the world. I pray for them, I pray for their teachers, I beg for grace from God to help those in my family, at work, in school and I give myself completely to Him, laying my life down as a prayer for them, the priests, the whole Church and the whole world.

We all affect each other. I believe it is God's will for me to be here.

There are people all over the earth helping each other, loving each other.

We truly are one body, what we do every moment affects others all over the earth.

We must realize the importance of that present moment and how our connection to Him can affect souls on the other side of the earth.

We have a man that goes to schools and tries to get them to pray a decade of the rosary daily. He needs our prayers to do this, our prayers will help him fight off the attacks by Satan to want to stop him.

Our founder writes the newsletter for about 70,000 priests, he must be so one with Jesus to do this and a lot of confusion can block this important mission.

It has bothered me that we could not send out the school mailing as Our Lady requested in June. If you know people who are in Catholic schools, tell them about the rosary and how Mary said praying a decade a day will help the ones in school to have peace.

There are so many people we could contact in nursing homes and schools that could pray with us for the Church and the world and our priests.

We send this newsletter to 70,000 priests and many priests and bishops respond.

Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Issue 1, 2000

Letters

• Dear Father Carter,
  
  For years I have received Shepherds of Christ Newsletter; I do not know who put me on your mailing list, but I’m grateful to you both. Since I first began to receive the newsletter I have been assigned as the Director of Formation Advising for the Pontifical North American College in Rome.
  
  I would like to know if it would be possible to make a bulk order so that our seminarians could benefit from the newsletter as well. I will make sure they are distributed to our seminarians. At present we have about 200 seminarians and student priests on our campus, all eager for good spiritual reading!
  
  Please let me know if we can make an arrangement for the delivery of the newsletter here at the college.
  
  Please keep our faculty and seminarians in your prayers.
  
  Sincerely yours in Christ,

Rev. J. Mark Williams
Director of Formation Advising
Pontifical North American College
00120 Vatican City State

• Dear Rev. Father,
  
  Greetings to you from Dimapur. During the past year I have been receiving Shepherds of Christ newsletters from the diocese. Having found it very fruitful and enriching I thought that I would offer it to all my priests of this Province. Will it be possible for you to send me 140 books of your newsletters? I would like to offer it as a Millenium gift to all my priests. From the year 2000 I would like to get regularly the newsletters for our priests. I am sure the contents of the newsletters will inspire my priests to a life of renewal.
  
  Congratulations for the wonderful work you are doing. Yours in Christ, The Good Shepherd

Fr. Varghese Palathingal, sdb.
Provincial
Don Bosco Provincial House
Nagaland, India

• Dear Fr. Carter,
  
  I received the parcel you so kindly sent me. Thank you for the book "Shepherds of Christ" and the set of audio cassettes.
  
  May I request of you this favour. There are more than 100 priests in the dioceses of Cuddapah and also Kurnool where I served as Apostolic Administrator for three years. They love me also and visit me when they come this side. I want to give them all the book, "Shepherds of Christ" and ask them to study and meditate on it.
  
  I admire this great work that you are doing for the priestly holiness. The holiness of the Church depends on the holiness of its priests. It is a great pity that many fail to be "Christ". Only prayer and love can bring them around. My congratulations to you once again. With love and blessings,

Rev. S. A. Aruliah D.D.
Bishop Emeritus of Cuddapah
India

• Dear Revd. Edward,

May peace of God which transcends all understanding guard your heart and your mind in the name of Jesus the Lord. Amen.

Thank you for Shepherds of Christ which I so much admire, love, value and treasure. In this connection, I humbly request a free copy of cassettes so as to more fully acquaint myself with the Spirituality it teaches to priests in its practicality.

Praying always that the good Lord should imbue you with His Spirit. Amen.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Revd. Fr. Williams Adeforth
St. Gregory’s Catholic Church
Nigeria

• Dear Father,

Greetings from Kenya - Africa. I am grateful that you have continued to send me your most edifying Newsletter which supports my spiritual journey.

May I also request you to send me the newsletter in book form and the audio-cassettes.

With best wishes for your apostolate, I remain,

Yours sincerely in the Lord,

Fr. Francis Gichia Mwaniki
Our Lady of Victory
Nakuru - Kenya

(End of Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Issue 1, 2000)

• Dear and Rev. Edward,

Loving and cordial greetings to you from Most Rev. G. Johannes, Bishop of Kurnool.

I am glad to learn that you are publishing a magazine by name Shepherds of Christ. Recently, I was given some magazines to be distributed to our priests by Most Rev. Bishop S. A. Aruliah of Cuddapah and the magazines are very good and worth reading.

As the magazines are useful to our priests, I would like to get them for our priests too. Presently there are 70 priests in our diocese and distribution of these magazines to our priests will surely help their spiritual life. As your magazine covers so may theological, pastoral themes, it helps our priests in their pastoral life.

Hence, I request you to send at least 70 Shepherds of Christ magazines to us so that we may distribute to our priests. I also request you to send some audio-video tapes which can help our priests pastorally.

With Blessings,

GORANTLA Johannes D. D.
Bishop of Kurnool, India

• Dear Father Edward J. Carter, S. J.

Greetings and good wishes for Christmas and happy New Year 2000!

I am a diocesan priest. I am working in Mbinga Diocese. I, by good chance, came across your Shepherds of Christ, A Spirituality Newsletter for Priests.

After having read it, I decided to ask for a free copy of the newsletter both in cassette form and in book form. I believe that this book and the cassette will continue helping me to fervently renew my spirituality. I hope that this will be useful too to my fellow priests who are engaged in the pastoral activities.

Thanking you in advance, and May God bless your work too,

Yours sincerely,

Father Andrew J. Ndimbo, CARITAS Director
MBINGA DIOCESE
TANZANIA

(End of Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Issue 2, 2000)

Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Issue 3, 2000

Letters

• Dear Fr. Carter,

I have been reading the newsletter book Shepherds of Christ meditatively since it came. All the articles are deep theology and spirituality. If only priests read it properly and prayerfully, a change towards Christ cannot but come. All my Diocesan priests got the book and are reading it. I have sent a few copies to the seminary rector in South India whom I know, asking him to read it and also order the newsletter. I am sure they will profit by it.

Bishop S.A. Aruliah
Cuddapah
India

• Rev. and Dear Fr. Carter,

Compliments of the Easter Season to you! After reading your recent newsletter Shepherds of Christ, I found it very profitable and thought of making a request for subsequent copies as the one I read was given to me by one of our priests.

I shall, therefore, be very thankful if you do me the favour of sending me copies of the newsletter in the future. May God bless your apostolate most abundantly.

In union of prayers in the Lord’s Vineyard, I remain,

Sincerely yours in the Lord
Rev. Fr. Charles Anemelu
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey

(End of Excerpt from priestly newsletter, Issue 3, 2000)

Messenger: What have we done for our school children going back to school to help them be holy?

Look at all Satan is doing to get them on his side.

It would seem that people would understand the importance of reaching the children with the School Rosary Program and want to help us, by praying and making rosaries and giving funds to be used for the School Rosary Program.

Excerpt from June 23, 2000 daily message

Mary speaks: Now I request the mailing be sent to the approximately 9000 Catholic schools offering them Walter rosaries for the youth and the Rosary Aves and consecration cards. Already more than 9000 rosaries have been requested for October. I am Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. I want my school children praying. The Parents and Children's Rosary Book is provided for these schools, the Rosary Aves, scapulars, consecration cards and a brochure about my message of Fatima that I ask be sent.

(End of Excerpt from June 23, 2000 daily message)

Messenger: Look at all the emphasis on sports and movies and having fun.

I want to quote the last message of Fatima from our founder's book. It was given at the great and final Fatima apparition, October 13, 1917. There was the miracle of the sun.

Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje

The October 13 vision was accompanied by the great Miracle of the Sun described in the previous chapter. In her message that day, Our Blessed Mother told the children:

I am the Lady of the Rosary. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend Our Lord any more, for He is already too grievously offended by the sins of men. People must say the Rosary. Let them continue saying it every day.(17)

(End of Excerpt from The Spirituality of Fatima and Medjugorje)

Messenger: Mary said we must pray the rosary.

October is a special month of Mary when she wants us to pray the rosary.

October 7, 2000, will be the Feast of the Holy Rosary.

Can you help us reach the schools and reach others so we all really pray the rosary this October?

In 1917, Mary said we must pray the rosary for peace.

I saw her appear over and over again daily for 14 months, July 5, 1994, to September 5, 1995.

Her message is embedded in my soul about the souls going to hell, and those last nine months she directed most of her apparitions to reaching the school children with the rosary and the Aves.

I felt my hands were tied. I would go to Holy Cross-Immaculata Church and I would go before the Lourdes grotto right next to where Jesus appeared on the cross at the point of death, and where Mary appeared on a lot of 5th's in the grotto, and I felt my insides were bleeding and swords were inside of me because I couldn't reach the children with this rosary program as she requested.

She appeared over and over again, and I tried to reach others and they didn't help me and just didn't believe. This was when I was receiving the Red Rosary Book.

When she appeared on the building in Florida, I thought we could reach the people. December 17, 1996, she appeared, now here it is almost September, 2000, and reaching the schools is not a whole lot better than before.

God has given us this magnificent wonder to show us, the Lady Clothed with the Sun is appearing, and it is just like at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center, people just do not really want to listen to her, even after she appears daily in plain view on a busy corner.

When Mary appeared to me daily, the rosary meditations were so blocked and the school program was so hard to start. Mary was appearing and I would try to give people $50 to run off the Rosary Aves so we could get them and the consecration cards in schools.

We cut the cards ourselves, ran to the copy places, folded them to save pennies on each one, the folder always malfunctioned, but we tried.

No one would ever know how we tried to do what Mary said and I would go to Holy Cross-Immaculata Church and just cry before Mary, because people would focus on me and not even hear what she said.

One man said after Mary had appeared so many times and the corner of the building fell off, something like, referring to the room where Mary appeared, "Are you still going in there, when nobody believes you."

I told him, "If Mary was appearing to you, would you care what people thought?"

And we tried more and more to do what she said. That is why Mary was angry on March 30, 1995. After she appeared almost nine months in the Rosary Chapel, the statue was moved and she was put in a classroom that is now the Sorrowful Mother Chapel. But there were only three people present and she appeared for the length of hours in the most beautiful splendor and I and Marty saw her the whole time. She spoke delivering the following rosary dated March 30, 1995, and wanted every soul of the earth to have it and pray it daily.

She said children would suffer. It was the only time I ever felt her that strong. Her voice was so strong. I still remember it. I remember her visions and her pleading and it makes me cry today.

This rosary will follow after the message. On April 19, 1995, a catastrophe happened in Oklahoma and a lot of children were killed or hurt.

But Mary referred to our children suffering today and she cried out to reach them in the strongest voice I ever heard.

Think if I could have made headway in 1995, how our children would be today.

Here is the message Mary gave August 27, 1996, several months before she appeared on the building. You can hear the audio as it was delivered. She spoke through me in a live rosary on Tom's farm. The message was transcribed from this live recording I received August 27, 1996, at the Shepherds of Christ prayer meeting on Tuesday night.

Click on to listen, it may take about 2 1/2 minutes to download. This is the message coming through my mouth live as I received it from Mary for the group gathered there.

This is what happens on the 5th in Florida. I receive a live rosary with messages like this for all gathered there. On July 5, 2000, at the end of the live rosary Mary appeared in gold on the building and this is the photo taken during that apparition, July 5, 2000.

We will present the transcribed messages from that rosary and what Mary said very soon.

Messenger: Anything you can do to help us reach the world with the Rosary Aves and to reach the schools with the Rosary Aves and consecration cards would be appreciated.

Mary wanted these two photos circulated, so people would know her message. Can you help us?

Excerpt from August 14, 2000 daily message

Mary speaks: I desire the following photo pictures be circulated. 

The picture of Mother and child.

The picture July 5, 2000.

       

Mary speaks: I ask anyone that can to help with this.

The website on a sticker, phone number, Shepherds of Christ Ministries can be placed on the back of the photo.

I wish this message to be made available.

(End of Excerpt from August 14, 2000 daily message)

Messenger: You can click onto the School Rosary Program which tries to get rosaries and scapulars to school children, and also consecration cards. We have a beautiful rosary Mary refers to as Walter's rosary after Walter who helped us get this beautiful rosary, and is helping us get it to the world and to schools with his Rosary Makers in Dale, Indiana.

Walter's rosary

Messenger: These little cards we have will help people to consecrate their hearts.

Messenger: On October 12, 13, 14, we will have a special retreat in China, Indiana, in honor of the last apparition of Fatima. Mass will be celebrated all three days.

As usual, there will be a retreat September 12, 13, 14, but this retreat October 12, 13, 14, Thursday, Friday, Saturday -- Thursday noon to Saturday about 2:00 China time, will be a special commemoration of the final Fatima apparition.

Please come if possible. If you do not come, please join in your places, in churches from 2:00 to 5:00 on October 13, 2000, to make reparation to their Hearts for the offenses against them, and to tell God we are sorry for offending Him and to beg for grace and mercy.

On September 5, 2000, Tuesday, there will be special healing graces as we gather for a live rosary in Florida under the image.

August 30, 2000, will mark the anniversary of the first prayer meeting held by the core chapter of the apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the Shepherds of Christ Movement, Tuesday, August 30, 1994, 6 years ago.

The actual meeting was the last Tuesday of August.

This last Tuesday of August is a special time for Jesus and Mary. It was a Tuesday, the last Tuesday of August, I received Mary's Message.

Put Mary's Message again, Cathy's picture and then rosary, March 30, 1995. This Joyful rosary can be prayed especially on Wednesday at the 6:20 prayer service.

Mary's Message from the Rosary of August 27, 1996

Mary speaks: 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.

Song: O Lady of Light, shining so bright, be with us this day, guiding our way, O Lady, O Lady of Light.

Mary speaks: I appear to you as Our Mother of Sorrows.

^{(End of Mary's Message)}

Messenger: On Tuesday night, 6:20, August 29, 2000, I am requesting you do the rosary of October 13, 1996, two months before Mary appeared on the building.

October 13, 1996, Jesus began the 13th meetings to help in the completion of the Fatima mission begun by His Mother.

This rosary, October 13, 1996, is on tape as it was received and is available to you. The transcribed rosary can be gotten by clicking on here. It is in the Apostles' Manual.

Jesus delivered this rosary that special day at Tom's farm.

ROSARY MEDITATIONS
MARCH 30, 1995
THE JOYFUL MYSTERIES

To be used at 6:20 Wednesday.

Messenger: Mary appeared in the Sorrowful Mother Chapel for two hours. The whole corner was adorned in the most brilliant celestial light with a pink hew. Marty and I will never forget the experience of this evening. Jesus illuminated in the Sacred Heart statue during the litany and the promises of the Sacred Heart. Jesus requested that this rosary be circulated to all.

The Annunciation

1. Messenger: The Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and asked Mary to be the Mother of Jesus.
2. Mary always complied with the Will of the Father. Jesus always complied with the Will of the Father. In looking at their lives we see how they always lived according to the Father's Will. It is in living according to His Will that our true joy and happiness lie.
3. She was filled with the Holy Spirit and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
4. Picture the Virgin Mary as vividly as you possibly can and see Mary as she carries the child Jesus within her womb.
5. She conceived the child Jesus. Mary, a spotless virgin, conceived Jesus, the Son of God. He was inside of her! She was bursting with the life that was God's life radiating from her very being!
6. Do we realize how God wants to be one with us? The more we become united to Him, the more His presence radiates from within us and shines to those that we come in contact with. God is so good that He sent to this world His only begotten Son through the Virgin Mary. He sent His Son because He loves us and He yearns and longs and thirsts for us to be ever closer to Him. It is in His presence within us that we will light up this world. It is in our oneness with Him that we will shine as little lights to the rest of the world.
7. Song: O holy dwelling place of God. O holy temple of the Word. O holy Mary, holy Mother of God!
8. Messenger: God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son into this world, incarnate in the womb of the Virgin Mary. The Word became flesh! God took on flesh!
9. As Mary contained the presence of the Almighty God, as He grew within her womb, His Sacred Heart was formed in her womb through the power of the Holy Spirit. He remains with us this day in the sanctuary of the tabernacle. His same presence is there. God, in His divinity and humanity, truly present in the tabernacle, longing for us to come and to share our lives and our time with Him.
10. I see before me so clearly the Virgin Mary as she carried the child within her womb. It seems beautiful to think of Mary carrying the child Jesus within her, but the risen Lord is with us this very day! He remains with us in greatest love but His Heart is wounded by the indifference and the neglect of His chosen souls, the ones He loves so dearly, that totally neglect Him and treat Him so coldly.
    
    Messenger: Who are we that God is so good that He sent into this world His only begotten Son and that He loves us so much that He created us in His own image and likeness? We are His creatures but He raises us to such heights in His divine life.

Song between decades: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts. Enkindle in us the fire of Your love. Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts. Enkindle in us the fire of Your love.

The Visitation

1. Messenger: Mary made haste to the hill country to visit her cousin Elizabeth who also was with child.
2. When she arrived, the child in Elizabeth's womb leapt for joy.
3. And Elizabeth cried out in a loud voice, "Of all women you are the most blessed and blessed is the fruit of your womb! Why should I be honoured with a visit from the mother of my Lord?" (Lk 1:42,43)
4. And the child in her womb leapt for joy!
5. Mary cried out in a loud voice the Magnificat!
6. Song: My soul rejoices in God, my Savior. My spirit finds its joy in God, the living God.
7. Messenger: For He Who is mighty hath done great things to me and holy is His name!
8. John the Baptist, even in his mother's womb, leapt for joy. Prepare ye a way for the Lord! He is truly coming and He is in our midst this day. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is truly present and we stand around and balk and do not realize the immensity of the great gift that He has given us. Fill our hearts with Your grace so that we may be gifted with courage to go out and spread the Good News, the news of His great love to all the souls that He longs to be close to. For truly, if we love Him, it is our duty to go out and tell others of the immense love He has for them!
9. Jesus speaks: I call out to you this day, My beloved ones, for I am truly present. You are My chosen ones that I call upon to unite ever so closely to My Heart. I send you into this world among the wolves that will bite at you and grab at you. You must be strong soldiers to spread My love throughout the world. Will you not answer this call for I am calling with such an ardent plea? Please, I am begging you to take this plea seriously.
10. Messenger: Prepare ye a way for the Lord for He is truly coming! He is in our midst this day. Go into the highways and the byways and spread the Good News for you truly possess the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven!
    
    Jesus speaks: Let your hearts not be heavy but light, filled with the fire of My love. Ascend upward and upward. Do not be dragged down by the perils and the sins of this world for I am filling you with My divine life and My divine love. You must forever ascend upward, always with your eyes cast upward toward heaven for you are My soldiers that I send into this world to spread the Good News to all those that are hurting and in pain. I call out to you. Do not worry for what is happening around you.

Song between decades: Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…

The Birth of Jesus

1. Messenger: The child Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in such poverty. He was born in a stable because there was not room for Him in the inn.
2. See a little, tiny baby, so helpless! A baby that cannot do anything! God, in all of His might and power, came to this earth as a little, tiny baby!
3. His way always was to comply with the Will of the Father. Mary always lived according to His Will. It is in complying to the Father's Will that we will know true peace and joy in our lives.
4. Mary speaks: I am the Immaculate Conception. I am here with you, my beloved ones. I call out to you to pray fervently, for the days ahead are days filled with suffering. This world has lost its way. You must pray fervently for all beloved souls. I call you to pray this rosary every day. Pray the rosary as you have never prayed from your heart before. Be filled with the love of my Heart and my Son, Jesus. Be forever wrapped in our lives. Come, come to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary and be led deeply into our immense love for you. Pray, my little ones, for sufferings are to come, deep sufferings. This world is disobedient. They will not obey the laws and commands of my Son. I have come! I have called! I am ignored! My dear ones, my sweet ones, I tell you, I tell you to pray. Listen with your ears open and your hearts filled with the love of God. It will be your strength for the dark days that are ahead. I am the Immaculate Heart. I call out to you, my beloved. This rosary is a tool that will draw many hearts to the Hearts of me and my Son.
5. I pray with you, my little ones. Each prayer that you pray should be connected with me and my Son and the angels and saints and the souls in purgatory. You are praying as one with the courts of heaven. Lift high your hearts! Lift your voices and join with us!
6. I pray for this world, for this world that is sinful and godless. I ask you to pray fervently and to come to my Most Immaculate Heart.
7. How my little children suffer, little children that are so young! Men's hearts are so cruel and filled with self. I beg you to go out and spread the love of my Son to this world. You must stayed fixed on Him!
8. My Heart bleeds and I cry bloody tears for the slaughter that is happening to the young ones. As my child was a baby in my arms, I call out to you to pray fervently for the little ones, for they are being persecuted far beyond anyone's comprehension from the ways of this world. My precious little children!
9. I am the Mother of all!
10. I am the Immaculate Conception and I am truly present and with you. Men will not listen. They will not turn from their ways. You must pray as you never prayed before. The times at hand are times of great suffering. I am calling out to you to spread this message to the world, for this world is not listening. Who is here to pray with you? Three! Three of you are here and I am in your midst! Men do not care for their world. They hold on to their world and I tell you over and over again to pray the rosary. I am truly present and I am here with you!

Song between decades: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…

Mary speaks: I am the Virgin Mary and I wish for you to pray in this room tomorrow night.

The Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple

1. Messenger: Mary and Joseph went to the temple with the Child Jesus in their arms. Simeon, the prophet, was there and told Joseph and Mary of the sufferings that Jesus and Mary would have to undergo.
2. Mary speaks: My Heart was pierced with a sword so many times through my Child's life. My dear ones, people will suffer because they will not listen. They are willful in their ways. I call out to you to spread these messages in any way that you can, for I am truly speaking to you here and times are so short. My dear ones, carry this message out to this world, for sufferings are at hand!
3. I call you to come on the fifth of April and pray the rosary here in this room.
4. Bring with you all that will pray, for sufferings are at hand. You will suffer such immense sufferings. You need to pray! Pray the rosary! Tell all to come and be with me in this room to pray the rosary!
5. I have held back the hand of my Son! He will call upon the earth and there will be such suffering, my beloved ones. You tarry too long! These messages of His love must circulate! You do not know what is about to befall the earth. I call out to you this day to listen to me for, as you see me illuminated before you, you know that what I speak to you is true.
6. Pray! Pray! Pray!
7. I am Our Lady of Light and I appear to you to take this message to this world this day! Carry this message to every person and tell them what I tell you here!
8. My Heart was pierced with a sword as I stood beneath the cross of my Son! As He gave His life, His flesh and His blood for love of you, my Son loves each and every soul. He died for them! I beg you to go into this world and to spread His love to every corner of this world. You can not hold back! Souls will be lost because they did not know the love of my Son. You are in a position, for He is speaking to you, to carry this message to those who are hurting. Feed the hungry souls with the love of my Son!
9. Let your hearts be filled with my light! May you have the courage that the Holy Spirit will give to you so strongly to transform you from fear to fearlessness, to carry out the plan of the Father. You are my lights to shine to this darkened world! Let your hearts be opened and go, my children! Go! I summon you to go and to not hold back!
10. Song: I come to you with greatest love, I am your loving Savior. I am your God, I died for you. I come to you this day.

Mary speaks: I will make myself known to those who come and pray this rosary!

Song between decades: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…

The Finding of Jesus in the Temple

1. Mary speaks: I would like my Son Jesus present in the tabernacle when you pray this rosary!
2. My Son was taken to the Temple for the feast of the Passover. We lost my Son in the Temple. So many souls this day are in deep darkness and have lost their way. They are dead in their hearts! I pray to you to go out to this world and spread the good news! You are so favored by God that you are given such great gifts! To hold them to yourself is not to His liking! I beg you to spread this news, to pray for courage, to do what He is asking you to do!
3. He has chosen this Center to be apostles to go out into the world and to spread the love of His Most Sacred Heart through my Most Immaculate Heart. Can you not answer the call that I give to you this day? You are so favored, so chosen, so gifted by God Himself and you bicker and you fight and you complain! You, my chosen ones, the chosen race, look at you!
4. You look at each other with eyes of envy when God is speaking here! Each person that receives this message is receiving a grace, a gift from God Himself! You do not even see! You are so blind!
5. Pride is an evil that ruins men's hearts. Speak to all men of pride. It is only a loving heart that will unite with the Heart of my Son. A heart of love will light up this darkened world. I send you as soldiers into a world that is godless! You are fighting a battle with this world, with hearts full of the love of my Son. Look at all the souls that are lost! Look at the children of these parents who have gone astray! Little children! Look at their lives! I am so sad for the lives of my children. I call to you this day. Look at your world, America! You are so blind! You do not see! You have turned deaf and you have closed your eyes! I come and I appear! My Son talks and so many do not pay Him heed! I beg you! I beg you to heed my words for I truly am Mary, and I am speaking to you!
6. Hearts that are hard, hearts that are godless, hearts that are lifeless, hearts that are dead in sin! Look at your world, America! Can you turn your head and look the other way? I come and I plead with you to turn your hearts back to the love of my Son, and who listens? Three come to pray my rosary with me! How do I shake those into listening to me here for I am truly speaking in this rosary to my beloved children? Listen to me! All those who come to this rosary will receive abundant graces from me and my Son!
7. My lost children, how the fires in hell burn, burn so brightly for the souls that were willful and had their own way. You do not see! You do not comprehend! You focus on little details here in your lives! Focus on the fires of hell, my dear, sweet children. Souls are burning in the fires of hell for their own willfulness and sin, and many more will be lost despite the sufferings of my Son. Many souls will be lost. I call you to unite with the Heart of my Son, to go into this world and preach the Gospel at every highway and byway, to spread the love of my Son, Jesus.
8. My little, lost children, I am your Mother, and I lead you on your way, closer and closer to Heaven!
9. Song: O holy dwelling place of God. O holy temple of the Word. O holy Mary, holy Mother of God!
10. Mary speaks: Tomorrow is the 31st of March and I tell you to come to this chapel and pray the rosary in this chapel at 6:20 p.m.

Song after the last decade: Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts…

(Please copy and pass out to family and friends.)

MY VALENTINE FOR JESUS AND MARY AND THE WORLD I _________________ give my heart to You Jesus and Mary on this day _________________ I promise to help spread the devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Question for married couples and others in intimate relationships:

Q: How can I help Mary to reach the world? How do you feel helping Mary helped our family and our relationship?

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