JMJ's Rosa Mystica and Shield

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Ministry in Crisis - We need your support more than ever...

We are now facing the worst crisis we have encountered in all these years of ministry. To provide the pilgrimages for Priest’s we use companies to obtain group rates. Within the last two weeks of our last pilgrimage the President of the company we were using literally blackmailed this ministry into sending over $32,500.00. This was money they knew we had collected for the next trip that they were providing for us or she would not release the air or land for the pilgrimage (that would have cost us over $90,000.00 loss).  The President of the company left us with the impression that we could sell the Passion Play “tickets” to recoup our money. The company’s “invoice” was a lie, the tickets were a lie as well and with only 10 days I had to send the money. All requests to return our money to date have been ignored.  The company blatantly stole $32,500.00 from this ministry.

Now we have the people from the France/Italy trip needing their money. We have an attorney but that is not going to get the money fast enough for the pilgrims. We are to requesting anyone that can to please give a donation to help save this ministry. Please add your intentions to the donation page to allow us to pray specifically for your intentions.

We are also now in the process of getting our Youth Group ready for the Southern California Charismatic Conference. The bus is going to cost $3,000.00 plus registration, rooms and meals. Any help you might give for them will aid their fund raising efforts.

We are also starting to plan to take them to World Youth Day. This is one year away and any donations for the once in a lifetime chance for our youth will be greatly appreciated.

The Prayer for 2010

Father, we thank you for revealing yourself to us in Jesus the Christ, we who once were not your people but whom you chose to adopt as your people. As ancient Israel confessed long ago, we realize that it was not because of our own righteousness, or our own superior wisdom, or strength, or power, or numbers. It was simply because you loved us, and chose to show us that love in Jesus.

As you have accepted us when we did not deserve your love, will you help us to accept those whom we find it hard to love? Forgive us, O Lord, for any attitude that we harbor that on any level sees ourselves as better or more righteous than others. Will you help us to remove the barriers of prejudice and to tear down the walls of bigotry, religious or social? O Lord, help us realize that the walls that we erect for others only form our own prisons!

Will you fill us so full of your love that there is no more room for intolerance? As you have forgiven us much, will you enable us with your strength to forgive others even more? Will you enable us through your abiding Presence among us, communally and individually, to live our lives in a manner worthy of the Name we bear?

May we, through your guidance and our faithful obedience, find new avenues in ways that we have not imagined of holding the Light of your love so that it may be a Light of revelation for all people through this year of 2010.

We thank you for your love, we thank you for the gift of our Blessed Mother and St. Joseph,  ask for your continued Presence with us and especially for our Priests, and bring these petitions in the name of your Son, who has truly revealed your heart.  AMEN