Love Crucified is a Catholic community called to live Christ's infinite love at the cross. He gave Himself as Love Crucified for His Father and for His bride the Church. We seek to respond will all our being to His love so that we can say with St. Paul: I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. -Galatians 2, 20 We pray and dispose ourselves for the grace of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon us and upon the Church, so that we can renounce to the mindset of the world and live a new life in Christ. We seek the Holy Spirit's guidance, actions and gifts. We seek to hasten a new Pentecost which will bring the Triumph of the Immmaculate Heart of Mary as promised by our Mother in Fatima. Thy Kingdom come! We seek to live the Christian life as Benedict XVI teaches it: Christian life consists in living fully the grace of baptism in the total gift of self to the Love of the Father, to live like Christ, in the fire of the Holy Spirit, his very love for others >> -Benedict XVI It is not an idea or a strategy that unites us but love of Christ and his Holy Spirit. The effectiveness of our service to the Church, the Bride of Christ, depends essentially on this, on our fidelity to the divine kingship of CRUCIFIED LOVE >>- Benedict XVI We consecrate our lives to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as victim souls (complete offering of love) in Jesus Christ, to Our Father in the Power of the Holy Spirit. We live our consecration in full communion with our Mother the Catholic Church and in covenant with our community brothers and sisters. We offer our lives specially for the pope, bishops and priests. ...I want souls who are dedicated with fervor, with determination and without looking for rest, to plead day and night for My priests. - Jesus to Venerable Concepcion Cabrera de Armida. The community is open to all states of life. The men are called Missionaries of the Cross and the women Mothers of the Cross. Not all members live in geographical proximity. We have several patron saints and venerate and treasure the witness, teaching and intercession of all the saints. We give special attention to the spiritual way of Venerable Conchita Cabrera de Armida Gratitude to Christ for the Cross With seek the power of the Cross to put to death the rebelliousness of our flesh so that we can live the new life in Christ. "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God" 1 Corinthians 1:18. The verbs 'to love' and 'to give' indicate a decisive and definitive act that expresses the radicalism with which God approached man in love, to the total gift, to the threshold of our ultimate solitude, throwing himself into the abyss of our extreme abandonment, passing through the door of death,.....And precisely by faith in the superabundant love that has been given to us in Christ Jesus, we know that even the smallest force of love is greater than the greatest destructive force and can transform the world. -Benedict XVI, XI-4-2010 Jesus told Conchita: St. Ignatius of Antioch: Catechism |