Mary Of The Angelus Association

Aims of Angelus Association

Aim 1:

• * To lead members into a life of prayer based on contemplative prayer, inner healing and intercession.
• ¨ Participate in a Life in the Spirit program, to become empowered by the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
• ¨ Pray daily for an infilling of the Holy Spirit and an increase in the gift of Faith.
• ¨ Understand and embrace spiritual poverty for an increase in faith, hope and charity.
• ¨ Participate in the sacramental life of the Church to nourish spiritual growth.
• ¨ Develop a disciplined prayer life through the practice of meditative and contemplative prayer exercises using Mary as a role model.
• ¨ Pray for the charisms of intercession.
• ¨ Understand the role of Mary as co-operator in Christ's work of redemption and maternal Mediatrix of graces, as proclaimed by the Catholic Church.
• ¨ Pray with Our Lady of the Angels, for healing and freedom from bondages under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
• ¨ Use the liturgical prayers of the Catholic Church through the guidance of the Holy Spirit as a form of intercession.
• ¨ Understand through prayer the redemptive nature of personal pain and suffering, when united with the suffering of Christ.
• ¨ Intercede to the Father by offering our personal sufferings with Christ, as a living prayer action for God's mercy and healing.
• ¨ Understand through prayer the role of the Communion of Saints in heaven, the Souls in Purgatory and the Church on earth and claim through faith the merits of their actions in intercessory prayer for all people, nations and cultures.
• ¨ Use the charisms of the saints to pray for inner healing 
• ¨ Use and develop the gift of tongues and their interpretation for intercession and inner healing.
• ¨ Use and develop the gift of discernment of spirits through the charism of the Feet of Mary.
• ¨ Understand through prayer the role of the angels The truth is they are all spirits whose work is service, sent to help those who will be the heirs of salvation. Hebrews 1:14
• ¨ Experience through both passive and active contemplation the mystical graces that flow from the revealed truths of faith, in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
• ¨ Experience the gifts of intercession under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, by contemplating the word of God as revealed in Scripture.
   

Aim 2:

• * To establish and support a network of intercessory prayer groups.
• ¨ Conduct information sessions to promote the aims of the Association.
• ¨ Join members into communities by establishing prayer cells of two or three members as a minimum.
• ¨ Establish a regional organisational structure to support and administer the ministry of prayer cells.
• ¨ Regional mentors liase with the Charismatic Renewal to affirm and encourage the gifts to be developed for the ministry of inner healing and intercession.
• ¨ Establish a Coordination Committee, the Task Force, to recommend the appointment of a chaplain, select members to be trained as spiritual mentors, provide individual and group spiritual guidance; disseminate information; support groups with resources and teachings; publish a newsletter; undertake administration and set up an evangelisation program through the Internet.
    

Aim 3:

• * To undertake the spiritual formation of members through teaching seminars, workshops and written teachings.
• ¨ Conduct Inner Healing workshops and Life in the Spirit seminars to facilitate an anointing of the Holy Spirit for the prayer ministry of intercession and healing.
• ¨ Conduct Intercessory Prayer seminars to train guides for intercessory prayer groups.
• ¨ Provide Inner Healing prayer tapes for specific healings and issues.
• ¨ Provide a teaching manual and booklets on prayer for inner healing and intercession to assist prayer groups and others in their ministry.
• ¨ Provide a database of prayer teachings for specific intercessory topics collated from the prayer experiences of Angelus groups.
   

Aim 4:

• * To experience the use of active and passive methods of contemplation in preparation for intercessory prayer.
• ¨ Use visualisation and breathing exercises under the guidance of the Holy Spirit as a preparation for contemplative prayer.
• ¨ Use the contemplative method set out in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (paras 2709-2724) to foster a disposition of interior silence. To fix our attention on the Lord, to receive His gift of silent love.
• ¨ Pray inner healing and intercessory prayers using a heart word inspired by the actions of the Holy Spirit to lead to a deeper union with Christ as intercessor, healer and spiritual enabler of contemplative prayer.
   

Aim 5:

• * To encourage the spiritual and personal growth of members through inner healing prayer.
• ¨ Pray inner healing prayers in order to be liberated from fears or hurts associated with mental, physical, spiritual or emotional distress experienced in the womb, during early years and in relationships.
• ¨ Use faith visualisation exercises to claim the graces of Christ's life, passion and resurrection.
• ¨ Understand through prayer the effects of generational sin and pray for deceased members of the family.
• ¨ Understand through prayer the difference between petition and intercessory prayer when praying for healing.
• ¨ Establish inner healing prayer teams in each region.

Anawim Partnerships is a progression from the fruits of prayers for Inner Healing and a disciplined contemplative prayer lifestyle.  As the groups grow in the Aims and Objectives of the Angelus, this Aim becomes an integral part of the Association's expression of God's love flowing through us into spiritual and corporate acts of God's mercy and love.

Aim 6:

• * To lead members into a prayer partnership ministry for the Anawim based on the virtue of spiritual poverty; a partnership in which members will be nourished and nurtured by the beauty of God in the poor.
• ¨ Cultivate the virtue of spiritual poverty for the purpose of active ministry to the needy.
• ¨ Nurture and embrace one's own brokenness through forgiveness, inner healing and reconciliation.
• ¨ Imitate Mary's action at the Visitation by offering physical, emotional and spiritual support to those in need, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
  
  



 

Angelus Membership & Consecration

Blessed are the poor in spirit the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs
Matthew 5:3

If God is calling you to a deeper prayer life with Him and places upon your heart a desire to pray for others, the numerous booklets, tapes, and CD's may be of benefit to you.  They are simply written from the personal prayer experiences of Angelus members.

1. Membership costs $30.00 / year and is open to everyone, who proclaims Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. 
2. Membership entitles you to the Angelus Herald Newsletter every three months and free access to download all Angelus Teaching Resources.
3. These teachings cover many topics, such as

• Developing the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the ministry of healing.
• Spiritual Warfare.
• Praying for nations and cities, conversion of heart and those in bondage to the power of darkness.
• Power-point presentations for Intercessory Prayer Workshops.

5.   If you discern you are called to a vocation of prayer and desire to belong to a Spiritual Prayer Army for the Lord, do not hesitate to contact us.                                                                                                  

Membership & Consecration

Praying the Consecration Prayer each day in honour of Mary of the Angelus will enrich and empower your spiritual life with her prayer Charisms for this ministry.

Activities of the Angelus Association

Historic Ramornie Homestead Australia

Prayer For Our Convict Heritage

Throughout the years the co-founders of the Angelus Association have been invited to present prayer workshops for groups nationally and internationally.

These workshops have evolved from members' own experience of seeking God's help in ways to pray for healing of families and their relationships.

Through these workshops participants have hands-on experience in praying with and for each other, developing the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the ability to hear God's guidance in prayer.

The participants experience the joy and the pain of forgiving those who have deeply wounded them and become aware of their spiritual and emotional burdens being lifted through the prayer ministry of Inner Healing.

Through the Angelus way of contemplative prayer, we are humbled in our faith walk, and through the way of spiritual poverty we remain in awe and reverence of the love God has for everyone.

We discover the prayer jewels of the higher gifts of the Holy Spirit through the prayer ministry of intercession.

Members recognise the role of Mary, Queen of the Angels and Saints in their prayer ministry.

Mass being offered at an Aboriginal massacre site

Angelus Activities & Workshops

Aboriginal  Blessing 

Lenore Parker is a Aboriginal  Elder and the Indigenous Representative for  the Anglican Church of Australia At this Mass of the Annunciation she is praying for God's blessings to continue to descend upon Father Doyle and Steve.

Lenore has a great devotion to the Mother of God and continues to witness to her people about the many blessings Mary brings to them.

She is their mother and their spirits are wounded from the rape and pillaging of their land, culture and the loss of their identity. 

She is asking both priests to continue to reach out with prayer ministry to her people.

Todd River

Alice Springs  Northern Territory

Steve, Paul and myself  ministering to the desert Aborigines in this dry river bed.  They live in the sand dunes in the scorching heat seeking shade under the tree. We asked permission if we could say Mass with them.

 Once the Mass began over forty of them emerged from the trees and dunes.  They were all Catholics having been educated at one of the Missions but had returned to live in the area of their birth.

 Many  of them suffer from sight impairment caused by the sand . 
They asked us to pray for their health. 

Angelus Activities & Workshops

Mass at the Olgas

Father Doyle celebrating Mass with the American Angelus group  at one of the sacred sites at the Olgas. It was late morning and we were exhausted from the heat.  We still had quite a climb ahead of us to reach the Valley of the Winds.  The formation of the rocks, are quite unique.

Angelus Activities & Workshops

The Valley of the Winds

Centre of Australia

I visited this sacred site a few years ago and marveled at the physical beauty but experienced the oppressive spirits of pagan rites and rituals still overshadowing the land.

It was dusk when this Mass was offered to re-consecrate this land again to God's glory and we experienced God in a very profound way.     

Father Steve prayed for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit to be released upon this nation and for the prayer mission of Mary of the Angelus Association.

Whenever I feel weary in God's service I always return to this memory scene of God's grace and majesty waiting for those who continue to love and serve him in others.

  
Angelus Activities & Workshops

Praying in Cemeteries and Sacred Grounds

The Angelus Association encourages all members to pray for departed souls.

On car trips to the various Angelus communities Father Doyle and I will visit and pray at the numerous country cemeteries and sacred grounds. Time permitting a Mass will be offered at a massacre site or a Rosary prayed with spontaneous prayers of intercession for the land and the succession of settlers in the district

I have often been asked why it is necessary to physically visit cemeteries or sacred places.  Can't the prayers be prayed in front of the Blessed Sacrament or privately in our daily rosary?

Yes, I believe they can but when the Holy Spirit prompts an intercessor to pray they pray for all generations, the past present and the future. They sit, wait and listen for God's guidance and pray with their mind body and spirit.

Often they pause to pray specifically for a deceased soul and the Holy Spirit may prompt them to pray for the many generations that went before them for their loss of hope and trust in God's mercy.  The gifts of the Holy Spirit may inspire them how to pray specifically for the residents of this area. Tragedies may leave a family bitter towards God or the Church from accidents, natural disasters, floods, famine, exploitation, dispossession, financial hardships and property rights.

Intercessory prayer is prayer evangelization, a way of love by praying for those who no longer can pray for themselves. Many families also carry the burdens of hate, resentment, racism, and spiritual bigotry.  These attitudes may be formed or inherited through a culture, or family values that are not Christ like.    We may be educated to think differently, but God's grace is necessary to respond continuously   with love and acceptance of all people from all faith, cultures and nationalities.

Praying for the deceased is one way of transforming a nation's attitudes and heart to receive the beatitudes of Christ.  As we pray for the departed, they in turn pray for their living descendants. This silent army of intercessors in the heavenly realms becomes a living grace for the evangelization of God's children.
 

Angelus Activities & Workshops

Prayer Workshop

Workshops Include:

Developing our spiritual life through the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Prayer for the Holy Spirit's release of the senses - to increase our sensitivity to the movements of the Spirit.

Discovering our Inner Beauty - Healing the wounds of emotional abuse.

Walking the way of the Beatitudes - Growing in the attitudes of Christ.

Seeking Spirituality Poverty for Intercessory Prayer.

Inner Healing through the Womb of Mary.

Praying in the Language of Love.

Developing the gift and interpretation of Tongues.

A New Life - healing the hurts and wounds from sexual abuse.

Discovering the Angelic Charisms.

Praying with Mary, the Angels and Saints for our deceased loved ones.

Healing life's hurts through the prayer ministry of Inner Healing.

Learning how to be still contemplative prayer.

How to form and nurture intercessory prayer groups.

Intercessory Prayer for Localities, Cities and Nations.

Mary of the Angelus

Under her patronage they sit / wait / listen for the Holy Spirit to speak and guide their prayer with God's grace, they conceive and give birth to Jesus in the hearts they are prompted to pray for.

Prayer Ministry

From this prayer mission evolved a prayer ministry to teach and assist Christians how to pray releasing the gifts of the Holy Spirit through visualisation prayer exercises.

Angelus Silk Painting from Creative Workshop