Six reflections that bring us to understand and live the 3rd nail of Jesus’ crucifixion.

Lourdes shares from her heart with the mothers of the cross what it means to enter spousal union with Christ.

The essential attributes of a man’s intimacy with Jesus and the key to get there.

My gratitude for the life of St Francis and, like the Simple Path to Union with God, is the means that the Holy Spirit and my Mother Mary have given me to deepen my understanding of and embody the key aspects of St Francis’s life, which have attracted me since my youth.

Lourdes shares the message the Lord gave on Easter Sunday & Maria shares from her heart her process of living with cancer as a mother of the cross for the glory of God.

Love Crucified Encounter USA, Sept. 2025

Pictures from the 2026 Encounter in Colombia are published, under Community/Photo Gallery/Encounters/2026

Video for the song "Trovadores Tristes" by Maria V. Hickein.

This testimony from a mother of the cross, shared with our community, reveals how the teachings of the Simple Path to Union with God are manifested and lived out in concrete ways in the hidden and ordinary lives of every woman and man who responds with their daily “yes,” united with Mary’s “Fiat.” Through this generous response, the Lord transforms the hearts of these new men and women, turning them into living hosts and chalices through which He makes all things new.

This reflection to the women of our community reveals the truth of how our formation as victim souls united to the Mother of Sorrows and Love crucified expands our maternity as spiritual mothers, bringing life to a holy, transformed priesthood and manhood. The second audio is a powerful testimony from Maria Hickein, a Mother of the Cross!

A testimony from a Mother of the Cross!

The Path is the formation of the heart of the mystic. We push through shame by vulnerability/authenticity to uncage Love crucified in us.

This collection brings together the three parts of the "Valuable Lessons from the Book of 1 Samuel" series.

In this 3rd and final part of the series, we enter and remain in God’s desolation, for His deepest longing is to be our Father, protecting, guiding, and lavishing us with His love and grace, yet mankind continues to seek its own ways that are not the ways of God.

This reflection brings to light the immensity of God’s desire to bless all His children with an overabundance of graces from His Fatherly Heart, and His profound grief, when instead we choose our self-destruction.

As you listen to this story of 1 Samuel narrated through the eyes of the teachings of the Simple Path, does it challenge you to see things differently?

What is the “work” I must do, and you, to help rebuild the Church? What does it mean to “resist the Holy Spirit”? These questions are answered in this reflection through meditation on a passage from Haggai and on the words the Lord has given the Love Crucified Community.

Amid the chaos of caring for my grandchildren all week, the Lord inspired me on the Feast of the Epiphany to write from my heart about the gift of wisdom, the precious gold we have received through the wisdom of the Cross. I invite you to unwrap this gift as you listen to this reflection.

This simple meditation helps to refocus us on the true meaning of Advent and Christmas. Lourdes reminds us of three simple questions Jesus gave us in one of His messages as a means to help keep our minds and hearts focused on Him.

God continues to seek the child-like souls, those who are humble, docile, pure, and do not resist the Holy Spirit’s work of transformation. These are the souls God is granting the “new and divine holiness” that John Paul II prepared the Church for.