The Jesus Rosary (Given by Our Lady to Jelena)


Pray the Creed
1. Mystery: Contemplate the birth of Jesus 
Intention: pray for peace. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
2. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus helped and gave all to the poor 
Intention: Let us pray for the Holy Father and for the Bishops 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
3. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus trusted in his Father completely and carried out His will 
Intention: pray for priests and for all those who serve God in a particular way 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
4. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus knew he had to give up his life for us and He did so without regrets because He loved us. 
Intention: pray for families. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
5. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus made his life into a sacrifice for us 
Intention: Pray so that we, too, may be capable of offering our life for our neighbor. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
6. Mystery: Contemplate the victory of Jesus over satan. He is risen 
Intention: let us pray that all sins may be eliminated so that Jesus may relive in our hearts. 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
7. Mystery: Contemplate the ascension of Jesus into Heaven 
Intention: let us pray that the will of God may triumph, so that his will may be done 
5 Our Father's 
Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us.
After this, contemplate how Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit. 
Intention: pray so that the Holy Spirit may descend upon us. 
7 Glory Be's

Where do you need to find God?

You will never actually see a God, nor find any objective proof/Evidence that thatGod exists. All you can do is worship or pray to the God of your choice, thus finding the God in your heart.

God cannot be seen with your eyes. He can only be seen with eyes that show purity, faith, love and dedication
If you believe in God, your faith in Him will prove His existance to yourself. 
To have faith in Him, there is no loss. But no faith there is great loss.

Once you begin to seek and obey God, things about Him that were unclear become very understandable.
He does what He pleases. No one can oppose Him. Everything God does is right. How unsearchable is His wisdom. His plan is working out perfectly.
He's GOD, He can do whatever pleases Him. But by His own Nature, He will never interfere with Time. Until it ends.

LOSING YOUR FAITH?


Some of us have lost our faith slowly, letting it slip away as grains of sand in an hourglass, unnoticed and unrealized until it recedes to a minimum.  And there are many who never had a faith to lose.  For those proclaiming it, when times get tough and the answer hoped for is not forthcoming from God some begin to doubt the faith they insist they have.

Faith is the foundation of our Christian belief and the main tenet of our church.  The strength of that faith relies on how and what we feed it, and most importantly how we react when it is being tested.  Many feed it by going to church, doing good deeds, through prayer or generally just being a good person.   But, the critical validation will come in the midst of a severe crisis when we most need it to sustain us for it is during times of hardship that doubt can take hold and weaken it.  And the truth is, most of us undergo periods when trust in God becomes threatened by Satan, making faith fundamentally and literally inoperative.

Does this mean that my faith is not working, is limited or faulty?   Maybe it is so screwed up by life that I cannot believe God really cares about me.   What is even more disturbing is that this yardstick measure follows after a dire experience making us believe we cannot find God to ask for help.  During these moments when our faith should be at its strongest point it instead loses credibility and strength, leaving us feeling God has abandoned us.  Try as we might to get help from God it seems He is silent, uncaring or elsewhere occupied.

How could this happen if we profess to be Christians?  The common thought is, "what good is God if you cannot find Him when you need Him in times of trouble"?  This reasoning looms large and continues to grow if we can’t see anything changing.   We become angry with God.  We feel betrayed and rejected.  Losing faith and certainty that life itself has any great significance intensifies and some people even begin to wonder if there is indeed a God.

Loss of faith can involve questioning ourselves.   When our purpose of living is shattered and left in tatters, and there is no meaning to our lives we feel we have lost our mainstay, our all in all for everything we do in this uncertain life.  We feel adrift, with no one to care about us. This loss and separation makes us question everything. We become angry and fearful, alienated, full of anxiety and hopelessness for without a sign that God’s hand is in our lives we feel an overwhelming sadness of deception.   We feel empty and devoid of joy; joy that has turned cynical, leaving us empty and deflated with a sense of isolation so strong that many times we lose our desire to continue on.

But I believe it is only when we have faced the most drastic suffering in our lives that we can recognize and gain a true revelation of the greatness of our God. It is easy to fall to our knees in gratitude when His answers are as swift to come as we want them, but on the other side of the coin, doubt insidiously sets in when we don’t receive our  answers immediately.  Consider this however: I cannot appreciate God's power if I never get sick and experience the healing touch of His almighty Hand.  I can never see His miraculous strength until He opens doors that could not be opened before by any man to let me go through.  I could never recognize His mighty love unless He has delivered me from the jaws of death.  I would never know my footsteps were faltering on the brink of disaster if He had not changed my course.

God is an unexpected God and His comings and goings cannot be understood by humanity.   The belief we as Christians must hold is that He is constant and His promises are steadfast.  The longer we wait in trust and faith, the greater His answers can be. If I  truly believe and hold steady, I will be able to see His loving kindness that has brought me to this day.  I will recognize His Holy Spirit within me buoying my courage and hope when nothing seems to be coming my way.  I will be made to see that some of the things I wanted immediately were things that today seem frivolous, if downright dangerous in retrospect.

Our bible is full of afflictions, problems and tribulations.  We are not the first to suffer the slings and arrows of an imperfect world.  We are not the first to face the hardships of a sin sick earth.  But yet, and through it all, God still has the reins.  Our Christian character must be forged in the fires of adversity. It is only when we find ourselves in the depths of despair that the stronghold of our faith can begin to shine.

Is your faith real because your pockets are full so it is easy to praise God?  Does your faith waver and bend when hard knocks knock at your door?  Remember it is only when you have walked through the valleys and shadows of defeat that you can know if your faith has been victorious and true; that your faith can truly be judged and measured worthy.

Be still and wait upon the Lord.

When we can’t see any reason for hope, we must hope on anyway, because God has promised never, ever to leave us.  Our every breath that He breathes into us is a blessing, but He does not stop there.  He gave us promises that transcend time and man, and He never takes anything back that He gives.  And we cannot see the ending until God is ready to offer it.

Never mind that we feel that we have been singled out for unique trials and suffering.   Never mind that we feel that we have been chosen for all the bad stuff while your neighbor gets all the good things.  Never mind that every single step we take forward, we get pulled ten steps back.  Even though these trials seem to frequent our lives, we must keep in mind that God has already warned us our Christian walk with Him would not be a smooth and even path, that we have to be willing to suffer our own little crucifixions. We will see that even as we stumble, His grace and strength is sufficient to  hold us up and carry us through.

Remain strong in the face of calamity and plant your feet firmly on the road God set before you with the knowledge that He still is and always will be in control of each and every situation, and nothing that happens He does not know about or allow.  Through all life’s baggage, hang on with trust to the hem of Jesus’ garment, knowing that He will share each and every little thing.

God has told us many times through scripture, “Am I not God Who can do everything?”  With faith believe in it!

God is true and is worthy to be praised forever.

Kathy Bernard

Comunità Cenacolo Florida

Comunità Cenacolo America is part of the international Comunità Cenacolo, Community of the Cenacle, founded in Italy in 1983 by a dynamic, vibrant, and faith-filled religious sister named Elvira Petrozzi. Mother Elvira felt certain that God was calling her to serve the poor of the modern world: disillusioned young men and women who live in desperation and hopelessness, convinced that life has no meaning or value. Unable to find peace or joy in their lives, they seek to fill the emptiness with the illusory pleasures of the world, only to find themselves steeped in an intense interior isolation.

Trusting unwaveringly in the direction of the Holy Spirit, Mother Elvira proclaims to all those who live in darkness that only Jesus Christ can heal and transform their shattered lives, changing despair into hope, sadness into joy, hatred into forgiveness, and death into life.

Our Way of Life
To everyone we welcome, we propose a simple, disciplined, family style of life, based on the rediscovery of the essential gifts of prayer and work (''ora et labora''), true friendship, sacrifice, and faith in Jesus. The spirituality of the Community is profoundly Eucharistic and Marian. The day is structured around times of prayer (Eucharistic Adoration, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Rosary), work, deep sharing about one’s own life in the light of the Word of God, recreation, and times of celebration. We believe that the Christian life in its simplicity and fullness is the true answer to every restlessness in the human heart and that, in the living encounter with God's Mercy, man is reborn into hope and is freed from the chains that have enslaved him, thus rediscovering the joy of loving.

Medjugorje Message


Dear children!
Today I invite you to decide every day for God.
Little children, you speak much about God, but you witness little with your life.
Therefore, little children, decide for conversion, that your life may be true before God, so that in the truth of your life you witness the beauty God gave you.
Little children, I invite you again to decide for prayer because through prayer, you will be able to live the conversion.
Each one of you shall become in the simplicity, similar to a child which is open to the love of the Father.
Thank you for having responded to my call.

What is Faith?

by Ernest O'Neill


What really is faith? One little boy in Sunday School was asked that question and quick as a flash he replied, "Believing something you know isn't true." And I don't know what you feel about it. I often thought that that's what faith was.
It's believing something that you know with your mind isn't true. It's some kind of overdrive that you push in with a button of some kind in your mind or your emotions. Or, somewhere as "they" say down in your heart, to get you to accept something that you know with your intellect could not possibly be true. And so many of us, in this world today are sceptical of the whole idea of faith, because we think of it as something not connected with the ordinary processes of the mind at all. It's actually opposed to the convictions of the intellect. And so many of us who have been through some kind of education and especially some kind of scientific education, get the idea that to have faith you have to in some way close your mind, or put your intellect to sleep, or ignore the conclusions of science and research.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Faith is not that kind of an irrational thing at all. Faith, in fact, is something that you and I exercise every day in our lives. And we've exercised it from the very moment we were born. I suppose it's true that your mother even encouraged you to feel that we could trust her when we lay in her arms. And we learned day by day that was true, she would not drop us, that she was reliable, and we could put our faith in her arms.
And so as we grew up and came to the age of two or three or four years old and our Mom would ask us to jump from one chair into her arms, we would jump, because we would feel, "Yes, we can put our faith in her because she has never let us fall before. And every time we have observed her, every time we have experienced the stability and the safety of her arms we have not been disappointed, and so we learned to put our faith in her.
It was the same when we began to ride on a bicycle. We started to find out that the bicycle would carry our weight. Then as our Dad taught us how to balance we found that it was possible, amazing though it was, to push the bicycle along on the ground in such a way that we could stay up even though it had only two wheels. And we began to put our faith in the bicycle and in our ability to ride it and to stay up all the time. 
And so in all of our lives we have gradually come to put our faith in all kinds of things. If I ask you, "Would you put your faith in that chair that is sitting opposite you in your office or in your home?" You will probably reply to me, "That chair?
Yes, yes I would put my faith in that chair. That is, I wouldgladly go over and sit on that chair, because I have observed it holding other people. It has held me myself on many occasions, and I'm prepared to bet my life on the strength of that chair." 
It's so in the car this morning. If you're sitting in your automobile and you're in rush hour traffic, and you see the guy's lights in front of you or the woman's lights in front of you brighten up, you put your faith in the fact that the car in front of you is going to slow up. And you immediately move your foot from your accelerator over to your brake becauseyou put your faith in the stop light of the car in front of you working properly. Now sometimes, of course, it is not working properly and sometimes it fails to work. Then you find you are in real trouble at that moment. But even that failure of the car's tail light is proof that you actually do normally live by faith in that mechanism working efficiently. 
And so it is in all kinds of situations. You lift the phone when you hear the phone ringing, and you're absolutely certain that you will hear somebody speak on the other side of it. And it's the same when you hear the doorbell sounding, you're pretty certain that when you go to that door and open it you have faith that there will be someone standing on the other side. 
And so it is in all kinds of more important and vital matters. In connection with your bank account you have absolute faith that when you write a cheque out and send it to a certain person your bank will forward to them thenecessary amount of money as long as it's in your account. You put faith in your bank to do that.
Then we have all kinds of complicated expressions of faith when you get to the stock exchange floor. And you get to the buying of stocks and shares and you find that all kinds of massive purchases of stocks and shares in companies and investments are made simply on the word of one man. Often on the wild waving hands of some man on the stock exchange floor. And they shake the handand that's the deal done. Often, even thousands and millions of dollars change hands because they put faith in the shake of the other person's hand, or they put faith in what the other person has said is going to happen.
So it is of course every time we step into a plane. We put faith in the incredible theory of aerodynamics that assures us that the mass of metal is going to lift into the air and going to cross thousands of miles of ocean. Then it lands us safely in another country, even though to our ordinary eyes and to our ordinary intellect we cannot understand why that plane could possibly rise off the ground like that. And yet we put our faith in it because we've seen it happen again and again.
And so it goes on throughout all of our life. We'll often allow ourselves to be put to sleep by some stranger in a hospital because we'll have absolute faith in what the hospital has done with other people. We have even seen other hospitals do this with our own relatives and we have seen doctors and surgeons do. We'll put our faith in a great many unknown people and unknown eventsand unknown techniques, simply because we have observed in the past and we have good grounds for putting our faith in those things.
So practically everyday in our life we exercise faith a thousand times. We breathe because we put our faith in the fact that the air is clean enough to breathe and is not filled with poisonous gas.
So in all kinds of manifold situations we put our faith again and again in people, in things, in events, in techniques, in strategies, in processes that actually on many occasions we have not tried before, but we have observed other people trying them. So when we think of faith let's not think of something strange and superstitious; let's not think of something religious or something non-rational. Let's see that faith is something that we practise every day in our lives.