Way of Life
Community of Love Crucified
The vocation of the Love Crucified Community is to live passionately His love revealed at the Cross. There we receive the gift of His thirst, His gaze, His tears, His radical love which holds nothing back. Now He calls us to respond.
The Lord has given our Community this standard:
“ Suffer all with Me, no longer two but ONE, in my sacrifice of love"
As brothers and sisters we enter into a covenant with Christ and with each other to live fully this love in the heart of the Church, according to our spirituality (The Simple Path to Union with God) and mission.
At first, commitments may seem to be a burden, but the Lord promised: "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." -Matthew 11:30. "Sanctity does not consist first of all in doing extraordinary things, but in letting God act" -Pope Francis. God's grace makes this way of life liberating and joyful through love. It disposes us to receive a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Our way of life embraces the following commitments:
1. Lives centered on the Eucharist
2. Marian Consecration
3. Docility to the Holy Spirit
4. Live The Simple Path to Union with God: Our Spiritual Formation Book
5. Victims of Love + Offering life for others; for priest
6. 5 Stones: Humility, Purity, Simplicity, Trust, Courage
7. Repentance and Conversion
8. Community Life
9. Obedience to Mother Church
10. Fidelity to our state in life
I propose to do ever what is most perfect. I propose to seek in all things Jesus and His Cross, in conformity with His holy will. I propose in my actions to pursue the interests of Christ and not my own. ...I will never be disquieted should circumstances prevent me from observing my 'Rule of life.' I will go on tranquilly. I will be flexible in the face of difficulties, humbly... then onward, ever onward! -Extract from her "Rule of life", Ven. Concepción Cabrera de Armida, Aug 21, 1894
1. Lives Centered on the Eucharist
The Eucharist is Christ, our life, the source and summit of all we are and do.
We seek to participate in Holy Mass daily, if possible.
At Holy Mass we unite with Jesus as His victim souls in His sacrifice of love to the Father. We go to die to self and receive new life in Him. We become living hosts. We offer ourselves with Jesus to the Father after the consecration of the Precious Blood with this prayer.
We commit to a minimum of once a week of adoration before the Blessed Sacrament to listen, adore, praise, intercede, give thanks, and accompany and CONSOLE Jesus and Mary in their suffering for souls.
For their work, prayers and apostolic endeavours, their ordinary married and family life, their daily labour, their mental and physical relaxation, if carried out in the Spirit, and even the hardships of life if patiently borne-all of these become spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ (cf. 1 Pt 2:5). During the celebration of the Eucharist these sacrifices are most lovingly offered to the Father along with the Lord’s body. Thus as worshipers whose every deed is holy, the lay faithful consecrate the world itself to God. John Paul II
See teaching Fr Jordi Rivero>>
2. Marian Consecration
To come to the most perfect intimate union of love with Christ—victim united to Victim— we need to consecrate ourselves to Mary, Mother and Bride, with the understanding and abandonment that she will bring us to the foot of the Cross. We commit to be forever "Totus Tuus" (All yours).
See “Importance of Consecration” letter from Lourdes Pinto to community>>
33 Days to Morning Glory -Preparation to Marian Consecration. by Fr Michael E. Gaitley, MIC; Marian Press.
Renew our consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Daily Recitation of the Rosary
3. Docility to the Holy Spirit
We live in the Spirit attentive to God and submitting to Him everything we do. We ask of Him in every situation, “Lord what do you want of me?” We trust in the Holy Spirit and invoke Him constantly.
See “Importance of Consecration” letter from Lourdes Pinto to community>>
“Yet there is no greater freedom than that of allowing oneself to be guided by the Holy Spirit, renouncing the attempt to plan and control everything to the last detail, and instead, letting him enlighten, guide and direct us, leading us wherever he wills.” Pope Francis p. 13
We welcome the Holy Spirit as our teacher and guide through living the Simple Path. It is He who leads us through the passage -- from the feet of Jesus crucified to receive the gift of self-knowledge, into the Sacred Heart of Jesus and brings us into the unity of the Most Holy Trinity.
“God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us” (Rom 5:5). Nevertheless, it is not enough to know the Spirit; we must welcome Him as the guide of our souls, as the “Teacher of the interior life” who introduces us to the Mystery of the Trinity, because He alone can open us up to faith and allow us to live it each day to the full.” Pope Benedict XVI, XXXIII World Youth Day, 2008
4. Live The Simple Path to Union with God: Our Spiritual Formation Book
Each Mother of the Cross (MOC) and Missionary of the Cross (MC) must be willing to allow The PATH to lead them through the painful purification and healing of their hearts into the depth of self- knowledge. Each person must persevere to:
Follow Christ daily to the Cross,
To die to self—to what we have become that we are not,
To make ourselves vulnerable and stripped of our masks and false identity
And suffer ALL with Christ, in order to be transformed into Love.
5. Victims of Love
Our life is an offering of love. Our crosses, including the injustices we suffer, as well as the daily duties, are powerful when done with great love and united with Christ. God waits for the FIAT that signals our total surrender. We don’t just offer something; we offer ourselves without reserve, our entire being, our will, our heart, our body and soul, one with Him. This is to be with Christ victims of love.
It is a victim soul's 'yes' that 'stirs into flame' the power of the Holy Spirit so that the Holy Spirit can lead a docile and willing soul to die with Me. It is this voluntary death that brings the soul to new life…I continue to thirst for love, but it is only the love of My victim souls that satisfies My thirst… Therefore, bring Me many victim souls. 2/1/11 Simple Path #124 p.331
See “Victim of Love” by Fr Jordi Rivero>>
6. 5 Stones: Humility, Purity, Simplicity, Trust and Courage
The MOC and MC must be committed to growing in these five virtues as we persevere in living the Simple Path and taking to heart the teachings of this community.
Virtues Needed as Warriors of Love
My little one, the time draws near. You hold the sword of the Spirit in the mission given to you. My family of LC are My warriors of love that will defeat the dragon in the decisive battle that draws near. Be ready to approach this evil in the same way that David approached Goliath. You will conquer the dragon in your littleness and purity because it is.
God who is with you. You must not fear and believe with the innocence and zeal of David… You each must also approach the battle with five stones.
1. First, the stone of humility, possessing the perfect knowledge of your nothingness and of My power and majesty.
2. Second, the stone of purity, purity of mind, heart, intention, word, desire…
3. Third, simplicity, detached from all, most especially from your ego.
4. Fourth, trust perfectly abandoned to My will.
5. Fifth, courage, courage rooted in love of Me to be perfectly obedient to My commands.
These stones are your weapons for battle, for the dragon will not be defeated according to the standards of the world but in the Light of Love… 1/18/12 Simple Path #148 p. 436
7. Repentance and Conversion
As Love Crucified, we are committed to go daily to the Cross to kiss the feet of Jesus crucified and beg the Spirit for the gift of self-knowledge, so that we can come in truth to know our sins, wounds and disordered tendencies. It is then, through this self-awareness, that we receive the gift of repentance.
Repentance is the gift of God that serves to pry open the hardened human heart so that My seeds of conversion can grow. Repentance is the Sword of the Spirit that opens the darkness within the human heart to be filled with God’s Light of truth, and the truth sets you free.
To live in repentance is to live clothed in the knowledge of who you are, which is misery, and the knowledge of who I Am, which is Love and Mercy.
To live in repentance is to live in the freedom of living in the embrace of Abba, Our Father.
Tell My souls to seek true repentance at the foot of My Cross and the power of My Love Crucified will set them free to live in My peace and the joy of My promise. 2/18/18
The soul that lives wrapped in the gift of knowledge grows in true humility and is then able to advance in My path on the wings of the Holy Spirit… It is here, at My feet, that you must persevere… 12/12/11 Simple Path #10 p.40. see full message >>
Confession: We are encouraged to go regularly to confession. There is no better way to make progress on our spiritual journey than by returning in humble repentance and love to God’s infinite mercy.
Oraciones al Espíritu Santo
Oración de San Agustín de Hipona
Respira en mí, oh, Espíritu Santo,
para que mis pensamientos puedan ser todos santos.
Actúa en mí, oh, Espíritu Santo,
para que mi trabajo, también pueda ser santo.
Atrae mi corazón, oh, Espíritu Santo,
para que sólo ame lo que es santo.
Fortaléceme, oh, Espíritu Santo,
para que defienda todo lo que es santo.
Guárdame pues, oh, Espíritu Santo,
para que yo siempre pueda ser santo.
—Atribuida a san Agustín de Hipona
Consagración al Espíritu Santo
Venerable Felix de Jesús Rougier, M.Sp.S.J.
Recibe, ¡Oh Espíritu Santo de Amor!
la consagración perfecta y absoluta de todo mi ser
que te hago en este día,
para que te dignes ser en adelante
en cada uno de los instantes de mi vida
y en cada una de mis acciones:
Mi Director, mi Luz, mi Guía, mi Fuerza,
y todo el Amor de mi corazón.
Yo me abandono sin reservas
a tus divinas operaciones,
y quiero ser dócil a tus santas inspiraciones.
¡Oh Santo Espíritu, dígnate formarme con María,
y en María, en Cristo Sacerdote y Víctima
que pueda consolar Su Sagrado Corazón
y extender su reino de santidad
para gloria del Padre y la salvación de los hombres.
Jesús, Salvador de los hombres,
¡Sálvalos!
Acto de consagración al Espíritu Santo
De rodillas ante la gran multitud de testigos celestiales,
Me ofrezco alma y cuerpo, a ti, Espíritu Eterno de Dios.
Adoro el resplandor de tu pureza, la agudeza infalible de tu justicia y el poder de tu amor.
Tú eres la fuerza y la luz de mi alma.
En ti vivo y me muevo y soy. Deseo nunca entristecerte por infidelidad a la gracia, y oro con todo mi corazón para alejarme del más pequeño pecado y no agraviarte.
Guarda misericordiosamente cada uno de mis pensamientos y concédeme que siempre pueda contemplar Tu luz, escuchar Tu voz y seguir Tus inspiraciones.
Me acojo y entrego a ti y te pido, con Tu compasión, que me cuides en mi debilidad.
Sosteniendo los pies traspasados de Jesús, contemplando Sus Cinco Llagas, confiando en Su Preciosa Sangre, y adorando Su Costado abierto y Su Corazón herido, te suplico, adorable Espíritu, Auxiliador de mi flaqueza, que me mantengas en Tu gracia y que nunca peque contra ti.
Dame la gracia, oh Espíritu Santo, Espíritu del Padre y del Hijo, para decirte siempre y en todas partes: «Habla, Señor, que tu siervo escucha». Amén.
Oración por los 7 dones del Espíritu Santo
Oh, Señor Jesucristo, que antes de ascender al cielo prometiste enviar al Espíritu Santo para completar tu obra en las almas de tus Apóstoles y discípulos, dígnate concederme el mismo Espíritu Santo para que Él perfeccione en mi alma el trabajo de tu gracia y tu amor.
Concédeme el Espíritu de Sabiduría para que yo pueda despreciar las cosas perecederas de este mundo y aspirar sólo las cosas que son eternas, el Espíritu de Entendimiento para iluminar mi mente con la luz de tu verdad divina, el Espíritu de Consejo para que pueda siempre escoger el camino más seguro para agradar a Dios y ganar el Cielo, el Espíritu de Fortaleza para que pueda llevar mi cruz contigo y vencer con coraje todos los obstáculos que se opongan a mi salvación, el Espíritu de Conocimiento para que pueda conocer a Dios y conocerme a mí mismo y crecer perfectamente en la ciencia de los santos, el Espíritu de Piedad para que pueda encontrar el servicio a Dios dulce y amable, y el Espíritu de Temor de Dios para llenarme de reverencia hacia Dios y que pueda temer de cualquier modo descomplacerlo. Márcame, amado Señor, con la señal de tus verdaderos discípulos y anímame en todas las cosas con tu Espíritu.
Amén