Christian Women In Action

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

• Our next CWIA Prayer Breakfast Meeting will be on Saturday, September 29th at 9AM at the Holiday Inn-Carlyle. The meetings are always on the last Saturday of the month, and there just happens to be five Saturdays in September. Pre-registration is required.

• REGISTER NOW for the Annual CWIA Catholic Charismatic Conference on October 12-14, 2018. Click HERE for registration info and other details. 

• UPDATE:  We are happy to announce that Father Ignatius Mary Okoroji will be one of our featured Conference speakers in October! Currently the Chaplain at Princeton University, many healing, blessings, deliverance, conversions, and breakthroughs have accompanied his preaching and Holy Masses. In all these, he gives "all credit to God (Ps.115:1-2) who has chosen him, one of the weakest among all priests, to show His power."

• UPDATE:  You are now able to reserve your room at the Holiday Inn - Carlyle at the special CWIA conference rate by clicking HERE, or by calling call their central reservations team who have access to the group rate at (855) 857-9861. NOTE THAT THE SPECIAL REDUCED CWIA GROUP RATE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 28TH. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS RATE WHILE ROOMS ARE STILL AVAILABLE.

• Our dearly beloved CWIA friend Margaret Heckler went to be with the Lord in August. “The daughter of Irish immigrants, Heckler was born and raised in New York. She attended
  Dominican Academy, an all girls Catholic High School, and Albertus Magnus College. She was the first woman elected as the Speaker of the House in the Connecticut Student
  Legislature. She attended Boston College Law School and was the first woman graduate there. Margaret rose to fame in public office: as a congresswoman from Massachusetts, as Secretary of Health and Human Services under Ronald Reagan, and as the first woman US
  Ambassador to Ireland. She was an inspiration to all who knew her.” We at CWIA will certainly miss her. 

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

• Our "own" Bishop Tamayo, speaker at the upcoming annual CWIA Conference, was recently honored as Captain of Ship. We extend our congratulations for this distinguished honor, and encourage all to meet him and hear his words at the Conference in October:   

  "National Navy granted the position of Captain of Ship to Mons. Víctor Tamayo Betancourt, Bishop Aux. Emeritus of Barranquilla. As part of the 195th anniversary of the Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo, the Colombian Navy, the Naval Aviation and the Coast Guard Corps, awarded Monsignor Víctor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Barranquilla as Naval Reserve Captain. The ceremony was held at the Naval School of Sub-officers ARC Barranquilla. Monsignor Víctor Tamayo was Chaplain of the Naval School of Sub-officers ARC Barranquilla of the National Navy, time in which he was inserted, as a priest to the military life, since then the sailors have always found in this cleric, a support in their spiritual life. We unite as a Church in prayer for all the men and women who serve the country in the custody of the security and the order in its seas and rivers."

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.