As we begin this journey toward the Heart of God, through the Love of God, we hear His voice calling us through Holy Scripture: “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
It is time for each of us to declare whether we are children of God or children of the world. If I answer that I am a child of God, then I must do everything in my power to honor and respect that relationship, that responsibility. My first act, of free will, is to consecrate myself and my family to this love and protection that God the Father promises us. Only in this way will I have the necessary weapons to enter into the spiritual war that surrounds us of good versus evil; the weapon of the prayer of the consecrated.
'Lord, turn us back to you, and we will return; renew our days as of old' (Lam 5:21)
Man's obsession with doing what he wants when he wants and the illusion of freedom, results in a journey into the things of this world that puts our destiny as co-heirs of the Kingdom of God at risk. However, it is through this journey of Free Will that we understand that we are not complete without God and His love in our daily lives. We then realize that we must declare ourselves before God as His repentant children. The process of returning to the protection and unity with Our Father is that full circle journey, where the Grace of God is always the instrument. His love is always gently calling His child.
The heart is the meeting place with God. In this Mission, we teach:
“Go now and open the door, my child. Enter this place I have made for you to meet your Father.
Close the door behind you and call out to Me from this place, your heart, and I will come.”
The Father dwells within us with a love that waits for our call to Him in faith, hope, and trust. When our prayer is built layer by layer upon these elements, the result is a relationship with God that only the loving prayer of a child to their Father can achieve. This is why prayer must come from the heart. If our hearts are far from God, the sincerity of our words cannot contain the essential elements needed for this relationship to exist, and our prayers become words of little or no value.
As beings created in God’s image and likeness (once lost but found again through the desire to change), we are now placed in a relationship with God. It is at this next level that we find a covenant being established: The Prayer of the Heart.
The Mission has only two main prayers it asks to be said daily on an individual level and once a week in community gatherings called cenacles of prayer:
The Morning Prayer and The Sorrowful Mysteries for Conversion and Peace.
