Christian Women In Action

• The prophecies from the 2018 CWIA Annual Catholic Charismatic Conference are now available and can be found by clicking HERE.

• CALLING ALL CHRISTIANS!!!  If you've been listening to the news this week, you know that we have an URGENT CALL TO ACTION!!!  Join us for a Jericho walk around the White House and the Department of Justice - this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 2018. You can leave your car at 2907 Popkins Lane, Alexandria Virginia and ride with us in our bus to Washington DC. There is no charge to ride, but pre-registration is required so that we know how many busses to get. Call Stella at 703.971.3633 or email us at cwiaholyspirit@gmail.com. We will be leaving at 10:30am.

• Intercessory Prayer Meetings: Mondays at 10:30am. Call Patti for schedule and details.

• Our next CWIA Prayer Breakfast Meeting will be on Saturday, November 17th at 9AM at the Holiday Inn-Carlyle. Note the change in date due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Pre-registration is required. 

• Our dearly beloved CWIA Recording Secretary Claire Satta went home to be with the Lord on September 17th. "Clare S. Satta, 75, a devoted wife, respected teacher, and loving Godmother, graduated with a Bachelors degree in English from Holy Family College in 1964. The next day she married the love of her life, Frank Satta. She achieved her Master of Arts in English cum laude from Westfield (Massachusetts) State University, and taught for a total of 46 years. In 1980 Claire was a teacher for the Henry E. Lackey High School in Charles County, MD where she was an English and Drama Teacher until she retired in 2012. A dedicated Catholic, devoted parishioner and support of St. Louis Catholic Church, she served as a Lector, Eucharistic Minister, an Auxiliary member of the Legion of Mary, a member of the St. Rose of Lima Guild."  We love and miss you Claire.

• A writeup about the CWIA pilgrimage to the Holy Land can be found by clicking HERE.  

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, 
I greet you in His wonderful name! For some time I have being thinking about the importance of preparing ourselves before we go to Mass, on Sunday or for that matter daily Mass. How much time and effort does it takes for us to get ready to attend Mass? This varies according to your stage in life - especially if you have young children. But, we all generally arrive groomed and well dressed as we walk into the sanctuary - into the presence of the God of the universe! How much time is spent preparing Spiritually before we gather to worship our Lord?

Is it possible to come into God's presence corporately and truly worship Him if we haven't prepared our hearts beforehand? Think about the baggage we often bring with us. Maybe we didn't have time for prayer and Bible reading before Mass so we arrive in a spiritual deficit. Or perhaps the morning was filled with frustration and conflict, and we come in to church cranky and angry. Without a worship attitude, we have to wonder if we are truly ready to worship God and listen to the prayers and scripture reading and the homily.

Jesus had an interesting conversation about worship with a Samaritan woman in John 4:20-24. She wanted to know where to worship. The Samaritans had built an alternate temple on Mount Gerizim. but the Jews worship in Jerusalem. Jesus' response was undoubtedly surprising to her: "An hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor Jerusalem will you worship the Father.” (v.21). He was introducing an entirely new way to worship that wouldn't be centered in a particular place, but in human hearts: "But an hour is coming and now is here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.” (v.23).

Yet we must be careful to worship Him in truth, or we'll veer off into shallow emotionalism. Jesus told the Samaritan woman, "You worship what you do not know, we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” (v.22) Sincerity is no replacement for truth. Therefore, worship must always be in accordance with Scripture since it's the only way we will accurately know who God is and how He desires that we approach Him. When we worship our Lord it should be a response of praise, adoration, and reverence, based on who we know the Lord to be. Although it involves our emotions, it flows from our knowledge of God. I believe one of the primary reasons we don't praise and worship the Lord as we ought is ignorance. That's why it's so important that we grow in our knowledge of God as He revealed Himself in His Word. Otherwise, our sincere worship may be for a god of our own making rather than the one true God. Jesus also tells us to worship in spirit, which is our inner being. God is more concerned about the state of our hearts than He is about all our external acts. That's why it's so important to prepare ourselves spiritually before going to Mass.

Again, I say read your Bible. We learn to know Him through His word, and as our knowledge and understanding of Him increases, so will our love for Him. When God becomes our greatest delight, worship is our joyous response! God Bless you all.

Your Servant in Christ,  Stella Davis 

Our Prayer Breakfast in July was phonomenal and the Holy Spirit rested on us in a mighty way! Some have been calling me to provide the prayer of protection for our homes that I read. This prayer is as follows:

Dear Lord Jesus, please surround us, our families, friends and our homes with  a perimeter of Your love and protection throughout this day and night and every day - 100 yards in all directions. Lord Jesus, render any demons that are here or should try to come deaf, dumb, and blind. Strip them of all weapons, illusions, armor, powers and authorities. Disable them from communicating or interacting in any way. Bind, sever, and separate them, binding them directly to the foot of the cross, without manifestation or harm to us, or to anyone else, to be dealt with by You, Jesus, as You see it fit. May Your precious blood cover us. May the Holy Spirit fill us, and Blessed Mother, place your mantle of love and protection around us in our homes, from any event of fire, theft, vandalism, flood, storms, elements, and accidents of any sort, distress, hardship, curses, and all unwanted things. I ask all this in Your name, Jesus Christ, and through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and in the power of the Holy Spirit. We call upon St. Michael, St. Joseph, St. Padre Pio, and St. John Paul II, and all the saints and angels, to pray for us. Amen.