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SCTJM News- Go out into the deep |
"At the beginning of the
new millennium, and at the close of the Great Jubilee during which
we celebrated the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of Jesus
and a new stage of the Church's
journey begins, our hearts ring out
with the words of Jesus when one day, after speaking to the crowds
from Simon's boat, he invited the Apostle to "put out into the deep"
for a catch: "Duc in altum" (Lk 5:4).
Peter and his
first companions trusted Christ's words, and cast the nets.
"When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish" (Lk
5:6).
(JPII- Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte,
Jan. 6, 2001)
News- November & December 2006
11/1 STRONG FOUNDATION
On the 60th anniversary of what would have been the Servant of
God, John Paul II’s priestly ordination, Roberto Suris & his workers
laid the foundation for the long-awaited construction at Two Hearts
Convent. Within the base of the foundation Mother placed all the
miraculous medals that had been blessed & placed on JPII’s tomb.
We are so greatful to Domingo for all his support and to Roberto for
being so generous.
11/1 LITTLE APOSTLES
The Little apostles and parents gathered for an “All Saints Day”
party at St. Raymond’s & to help plan the Christmas play.
11/3
TWO CENACLES
While Mother & sisters celebrated our first-Friday cenacle at
St. Brendan’s, Fr. Jordi Rivero celebrated Mass & another group of sisters
sang & led a consecration to the Sacred Heart during a Mass & Holy
Hour at Immaculate Conception Parish in Hialeah. Father joyfully
recalled he had been sent to this parish
24 ½ years ago as his first assignment and what a blessing it was
for the parish to have had from their prayer group-Mother Adela,
united by other young women, give birth to a Religious Foundation.
11/8 MISSION IN CUENCA ECUADOR
Mother, Sr. Ana Margarita, Sr. Maria Jose
and Father Jordi went to Cuenca, Ecuador on mission. It was a real
time of grace, especially during the ministry with the youth.
11/8 SR. ANA PIA GIVES A TALK AT SEPI
Sr. Ana Pia shares with the Post Camino group at Sepi.
11/9 SR. JUANA MARIA TALKS AT ST. AGATHA
Sr. Juana Maria gave a talk on “Discernment,” which included
“Vocational Discernment” to Carlos Lama’s young adult group at St.
Agatha.
11/ 6, 7 & 9 FORMATION HOUSE AT ACND
Sr. Faustina and the sisters in formation spent the week
singing, praying and sharing with all the religion classes at
Archbishop Curley Notre Dame High School. The students were very
receptive to the time spent with them.
11/11 SR. JUANA MARIA TALKS AT OUR LADY OF THE LAKES
Sr. Juana Maria gave a talk to the Parish’s Pastoral Counsel on
“The gift of Service.”
11/10 MORNING REFLECTION AT ST. AGATHA
Sr.
Martha Maria & Sr. Elena led a time of reflection for the 40
teachers at St. Agatha School & Parish. They prayed the rosary; Sr.
Martha gave a talk on “The Mystery of the Church Militant, Suffering
and Triumphant.” The sisters led a time of praise and worship.
11/10-11/13 CONFERENCE IN CLEARWATER
Sandy & Mike Tobin heard Mother and the sisters singing a Mass
in Medjugorje. Needless to say after the Mass they connected with
Mother and that is how the sisters led the music ministry for their
12th annual “Pilgrim's Peace Center's Conference” in Clearwater. The
conference ended with the Tobins & the audience asking the sisters
to do the music ministry again next year.
11/17 CENACLE AT OUR
LADY OF LOURDES
Our Friday Cenacle was moved to Our Lady of Lourdes parish where
the Lord spoke to us about removing obstacles in our minds that keep
us from believing that we can actually change, that we can actually
be holy.
11/18 TALK ON VOCATIONS TO CAMPUS MINISTRY AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S
Sr. Maria Jose gave a talk on vocations to the St. Augustine’s
campus ministry group. Sarah joined her and also shared a few words.
11/21
FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY &-MOTHER’S BIRTHDAY
We celebrated Mass at St. Raymond’s in thanksgiving for Mother,
for her life and generous fiat to the Lord. Sr. Ana ended with words
of gratitude to the Lord and Mother for her generosity, love,
humility, unconditional service & love to the extreme. Mother then
shared how special it was to have been with the entire family of the
Two Hearts united in the Eucharist; she knew that all over the world
all her spiritual children had been offering holy hours, Masses and prayers on
her behalf. On this the Feast of the Presentation of Mary, Mother Adela explained that she modeled her own maternity on the Maternity
of the Blessed Mother, the Church, and her own mother’s maternity.
Early in the morning, mother shared with us that, she presented
through her hands and heart each one of us by name to the Lord
before the Blessed Sacrament!!! After Mass we gathered to share, eat
and listen to the surprise Mariachis, and plenty of other surprises.
11/23 HAPPY THANKSGIVING
We had a scrumptious meal donated by the Veterans. We met at St.
Therese to enjoy it and each other’s company. After the meal we
gathered around an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe that represents
the fruitful tree that she is. We sang psalms, songs and each shared
three things we were grateful for this past year.
11/28- 12/4 MISSION IN ORANGE COUNTY
Mother, Sr. Ana Margarita, Sr. Maria Jose and Sr. Juana Maria
went to give a fruitful Advent
Retreat at Ireneaus Parish in Orange County, California. It
was a great joy to be with Fr. Patrick Moses during those days of
mission.
THE
LORD OPENS THE DOOR AT JACKSON
In the short time Sr. Maria Teresa has been receiving training
to become a full Chaplain at Jackson Memorial Hospital, she has
captured their heart with the Love of God and teachings on
redemptive suffering. She has been asked to join the pastoral care
team as a full time Catholic Chaplain. The sad news for Sr. Maria is
the beautiful time she spent in Southeastern Mental Health Clinic
has to come to an end. Let us rejoice at this gift from the Lord &
pray for a smooth transition.
December
12/2
“GRITERIA”
The sisters sang and participated at the “Griteria” in honor of
the Immaculate Heart of our Blessed Mother at Socorro’s, Alexandra’s
and Nydia’s home and on December 12 in the “Griteria” hosted by Doña Myrna outside
of Our Lady of the Rosary School.
12/7 ST. AGNES- CONSECRATION
Susana
Cervalli gathered a group of kids at St. Agnes. They had been
getting prepared with their parents to consecrate themselves to
Jesus through Mary. Sr. Juana Maria explained the meaning of
consecration to the kids, and then led them in a consecration. The
kids each brought flowers to the Blessed Mother symbolic of their
giving their hearts to her; the sisters sang and prayed over all the
children and parents. The children were very receptive the prayers
and the parents were moved with tears in their eyes during this
beautiful event.
12/8 FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Mary’s intercession and presence was felt as we celebrated the
importance of her spiritual maternity in our lives on the Feast of
the Immaculate Conception at Cenacle in St. Raymond’s. Deacon Rafael
de los Reyes celebrated his anniversary to the Deaconate- hoping he
could give the Lord many more years of service.
12/8-10 RACHEL’S VINEYARD RETREAT
Sr.
Maria Jose, Sr. Michelle and a Respect Life team lead a group of
women on a Project Rachel retreat at “Casa Chalis Retreat House”
behind Corpus Christy. The sisters felt a very powerful marian
presence, grace & mediation. Our Lady manifested herself to the
participants -especially in the area of healing as mothers. One of
the participants went to confession for the first time in 23 years
and was able to receive the Eucharist during the retreat. Our
Blessed Mother manifested her presence throughout the weekend, which
began on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and took place
within the novena of our pregnant lady of Guadalupe!
12/8 HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH
Sr. Ana Pia & Sr. Enma traveled to West Palm Beach to Holy Name
of Jesus Parish for a mission that lasted all through the night and
early morning hours. Sr. Ana Pia gave two talks to over three
hundred college-age students from the Palm Beach County regarding
the Blessed Mother’s role of taking us to Jesus, most especially
during Advent.
12/9
ST. JEROME PARISH
We were invited to St. Jerome parish to give an advent retreat.
Sr. Teresa and Sr. Faustina gave talks on the joyful mysteries of
the rosary at a mission in St. Jerome Parish in Ft. Lauderdale. The
sisters lead the music and rosary.
12/12 CONSECRATION AT ST. AGNES
Sr.
Ana Margarita explained the meaning of consecration and led the 55
kindergarten kids at St. Agnes School in a Consecration to our Lady.
The kids sang with the sisters and listened to Sr. Maria Jose’s
sharing the story of our Lady of Guadalupe. The kids then brought
flowers to our blessed mother on the altar symbolizing their giving
their hearts to Mary, and then the sisters prayed over each child.
At the end, Sr. Ana Margarita asked the kids to give a testimony
regarding what they felt in their heart at that moment. The 4 and 5
year olds shared things like: “My heart is full of grace,” “My heart
is full of joy,” “My heart is full of love, “ “I love Mary,” “I love
God” and “I took a step to Jesus….” It was beautiful to see the Lord
acting in their open hearts.
12/12 MASS FOR
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
The evening started with delicious Mexican food purchased by
Monsignor Ron Scierra and prepared by our mexican postulant, Rossy. Then,
we went to the Night Celebration we had prepared at St. Raymond´s
parish to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe Feast Day. The
celebration began with Mariachis!! Mariachis along with Lucia de Fatima and the crowded
church sang with all their hearts to our Lady of Guadalupe. The
serenate was followed by a beautiful Mass celebrated by Fr. Jordi
Rivero and concelebrated by Monsignor. We were in charge of
the music ministry. Around 750 roses adorned the big image of
Our Lady.... These roses were at the end distributed to each person. Also, on
this special day dedicated to our Lady, Sr. Laura prepared a special
celebration for St. Michael´s parish, and and Sr. Martha and Sr. Elena
for St. Agatha.
12/13 ADVENT REFLECTION
Sr. Ana Pia gave an Advent Reflection to a group of women from
the covenant community, The New Jerusalem.
12/14
TWO MINISTRIES COME TOGETHER
Sr. Ana Pia’s class of 10 & 11 year olds went to visit Sr.
Maria’s & Sr. Delia’s group of elderly at Southeastern Community
Mental Health Clinic as a Christmas field trip. The kids put on a
play, sang, danced and made Christmas ornaments for the elderly. It
was a real time of joy for all.
12/14 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
All the sisters were generously invited to see the outstanding
movie- the Virgin of Guadalupe. Not only was it a beautiful movie,
it also helped us to enter into our “Mother of Advent’s” womb.
12/15 LAST CENACLE OF THE YEAR
At this last cenacle of 2006, the Lord revealed Himself to us
saying: “I am your sign.” Mother invited us to go and worship Him at
the altar, there for us hidden in the form of a baby, in the form of
bread!
12/17 ADVENT RETREAT AT TWO HEARTS
Sr. Juana Maria gave us an Advent reflection on The Blessed
Virgin Mary in the Mystery of Christ and the Church. She shared that
the Blessed Mother’s Advent did not begin at Christmas but at the
Annunciation. Sister invited us to reflect on the Annunciation that
though brief, gives us a synopsis of God’s love for man: His
constant, powerful and personal search for each person to grace us
with Himself. Also, in Mary’s response even in the midst of being
surprised, the Lord reveals the beauty of her humble charitable and
servant Heart, a heart that we, as Servants, need to imitate.
12/18 TELEVISION MASSES
The sisters sang at a Mass celebrated by Bishop Estevez that
will be aired by Univision’s television network on Christmas and New
Year’s.
12/18
CHRISTMAS PARTY FOR THE APOSTLES OF THE TWO HEARTS AT ST. RAYMOND’S
Mother, the Sisters, the Little and the “bigger” Apostles sang,
danced and put on Christmas skits. We
thank Mother Adela for forming us into a spiritual family that
strives to console the Two Hearts by being witnesses to love. What a privilege!
12/19 CCD PARTY AT ST. RAYMOND’S
The sisters hosted St. Raymond’s CCD’s Christmas party for
approximately 150 kids and their parents. They watched a Christmas
movie, ate, shared and played games.
12/20 MASS AT KROME DETENTION CENTER
The sisters sang for a Mass celebrated by Fr. Pierre for
approximately 90 prison inmates at Krome Detention Center.
12/20 SISTERS MINISTER AT CAMILLUS HOUSE
The sisters helped feed approximately 400 meals for the homeless
at Camillus House.
12/21 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Sr. Carmen and Sr. Maria Teresa celebrated their 21st
anniversary of consecrated life. We thank the Lord for their fiat,
all their love and generosity in doing God's will. We love you
sisters.
12/21 “AGUINALDO” MASS AT ST. RAYMOND’s
The sisters sang and participated at the Mass Fr. Jordi
celebrated for our Lord and Blessed Mother at St. Raymond’s at 5:30
AM
Sharing in the joy of the Two Hearts
12/16 DINNER AT ST. THERESE’S CONVENT
Fr. Wilfredo Contreras, Seminarian Nick Tocco and Sr. Martha joined the Formation house for
vespers, dinner, laughing, singing and sharing. What a gift is to be
united in the love of the pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary!!!
11/3-
11/5 YOUNG WOMEN VISITING SCTJM
Margie, Julie and Christie, three young women from Melbourne,
Florida,
came to spend the weekend with us to get to know our community. They
visited us from the youth ministry at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in
Melbourne.
Coming soon....January...... more news !!
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