Our way of life, Community of Love Crucified Total love oblation to Christ
-Jesus is Love. At the cross His human heart reveals His divine love. He reveals true love.
-Jesus, Love Crucified is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
-Jesus our head was crucified and we, his body, are crucified with Him. "I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me" Gal 2,19-20.
-We embrace the cross for love and offer ourselves to God as VICTIMS WITH CHRIST THE VICTIM who loved us first.
-Our body, soul, will, thoughts, opinions, words, time, work... ALL that we are belongs to Christ and is subject to Him.
-He must reign on our hearts so that we live to love in and through Him.
-We do REPARATION and SACRIFICE in union with Him as requested by the Blessed Mother in Fatima and other places. Also as Jesus taught Venerable Conchita and St. Faustina.
-In Christ we live as sons and daughters of the Father, in loving obedience. This is our identity and joy.
See more>> Docility to the Holy Spirit
-We believe that the remedy to the miseries of the world caused by sin is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Jesus died for this and we need to respond fully to this grace.
-Having received the sacrament of baptism, we pray for the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
-We pray for the H.S. to transforms us poor sinners into saints, giving us the virtues and charisms to glorify God and serve the Church.
-The Holy Spirit shall direct our whole being:
-MIND: The Spirit renews our minds and enables us to know Christ.
-BODY: Our bodies are His temple. We honor God offering our bodies as a living sacrifice (Cf. Rom 12). Our way of looking, speaking, listening. Our faces and all in us shall reflect the presence of the Lord.
-SOUL: Our souls are the temple of the Holy Spirit, where Christ reigns.
-The Spirit is manifested in JOY. "Rejoice if the Lord always" Cf. Rev 19,7.
See more>> Eucharist
-The Eucharist is our life.
-We go to mass to unite with Jesus in His total love sacrifice to the Father. We go to die and receive new life.
-We shall desire to go to daily mass and daily holy hour. For many this is not possible so they offer this desire to the Lord and make a spiritual communion.
See more>> Marian consecration
-Mary gave herself to God completely in union with her Son, sharing His passion as a victim with the Victim.
-We make our total consecration to Jesus through Mary, according to Montfort. We commit to be forever "Totus Tuus" (All yours). Our consecration is a renewal of our baptismal promises. We place ourselves as children under the maternal care of Mother Mary.
-We are a living chain forming a family, a rosary permanently offered to the Father with Our Lady.
-Pray daily the rosary
-We consecrate each day to her.
See more>> Prayer + Fasting
-Pray always. We can grow in awareness of God with us even as we do our duties and apostolates.
-Also we need time dedicated just to pray.
-Listen, adore, praise, thanksgiving to the Lord.
-Our gatherings include the above forms of prayer. We are open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit, including words of knowledge, tongues, silence, etc.
We have a special intention for each day of the week:
Mondays: Children born and unborn
Tuesdays: Elderly, dying and souls in purgatory
Wednesday: In union with St. Joseph, for fathers and all men
Thursday: for priests, bishops and the pope
Friday: reparation and fasting. We pray for the conversion of sinners and for all who suffer. That all suffering may be united to the Lord´s.
Saturday: In union with the Blessed Virgin Mary, for religious, mothers and all women.
Sunday: For an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
See more>> Offering for priests
-We offer our prayer, fasting, sacrifices and reparation daily for priests, in union with Jesus the Eternal Priest and Mary who offered herself in union with Him.
-That through the renewal of the priests there may be a new Pentecost (cf. Conchita) Obedience to the Church
-Obedience based in love and fidelity to Christ who speaks through the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
-Obedience to the Pope and the bishops united with him. Pray for them and for all priests. Sacrifice for them.
-In all matters that pertain to the Church, such as theological, liturgical or moral, we want to be humble, obedient sons and daughters Church.
See more>> Study
-Love desires to know the beloved. Love seeks understanding. We desire to know all that Christ teaches through His bride the Catholic Church. The Bible, the Catechism, the document of the magisterium, the life of the saints are an endless source of wisdom. Fidelity to our state in life
-We embrace our state in life (single, married, widowed, priest...) as gift from God, our way to union with Him.
-We strive to live it to the fullest perfection, as our path to holiness and happiness.
-Those who are married seek to sanctify their families through their love and example. Humility
-God lowered Himself to become man.
-In Humility we realize that our life and all we have is from God and become grateful for all, including the trials and suffering.
-Humility liberates us from the burden of vanity (attention to self) so that we give glory to God (Cf. Gal 6,14).
See More>> Poverty
-Jesus became poor to make us rich.
-Poverty is an emptying of self to be filled with the Spirit and become Christ like.
-Since Christ is the Lord of our lives then He is Lord of all that is ours. We are only administrators of what belongs to God.
-Mary and the saints show us true poverty. We learn from them.
-The call to Christian poverty does not require that we be deprived of basic needs but rather it is a freedom from attachment to material things for the sake of the Kingdom. It is a gift that develops by the grace of the Spirit and is based on our love for Christ and solidarity with the poor. See more>> Servant heart
-Serve in imitation of Jesus who lived as a humble servant, gave us example by washing feet and came to serve and not to be served.
-solidarity with those who suffer.
-Works of mercy Confession and forgiveness
-Regular confession. "Confession periodically renewed, the so-called confessions "of devotion", has always accompanied the ascent to holiness in the Church" -1
-Seek conversion
-Having received forgiveness from God we shall forgive others. Evangelization
-We shall witness to God by our example, and by sharing our faith when possible. To honor and not to criticize
-Do not speak negatively of others, not even as a joke. If necessary to help a person, go talk to the person directly.
-If wrongful behavior needs to be brought to a community meeting, the person needs to be informed.
-We shall not gossip. Spiritual Accompaniment
Each member chooses a mature member of the community, of the same sex, for accompaniment. With this special friend we share our struggles in the journey of life . This person may offer us advise but it is not a relationship of authority. We are responsible to make our own decisions before God in prayer. Those who are married should include their spouses in the discernment process. In addition, if possible, we have a spiritual director.
-Keeping a spiritual journal helps us to focus on the Lord´s guidance. We journal what He tells us, our concerns, responses and resolutions. Then we can return to our journal to see how we have followed through. The journal is private but we are free to share as we deem appropriate in accompaniment. Community covenant
-We have committed to live this way of life, motivated by love, to be faithful to our covenant in Christ, His Church, our domestic family and the family of Love Crucified. Cf Catechism #953
-Our homes may be far from each other but our hearts are united by the same Spirit to live the same covenant. As one body, we are attentive the needs of all and show this in prayer and service.
-We serve but do not expect to be served. Anything others do for us is a gift for which we are grateful.
-We participate in the life of the community according to our possibilities. This includes weekly cenacles, living this way of life and other responsibilities.
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NOTES
1- John Paul II, Address to the Sacred Apostolic Penitenciary, Rome, January 30, 1981. See also Catequism #1458 |