PRAYER CENACLES

Come, Holy Spirit,

come by means of the powerful intercession

of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

your well-beloved Spouse.

To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons  — Messages 226k, 426a, 521bn, 604w

Cenacles of the Marian Movement of Priests

“Cenacle” is a word for the upper room where Jesus’ apostles gathered together in Deep and Continuous Prayer with his Mother Mary, and the Holy Spirit powerfully descended upon them. It was during this First Pentecost that the Catholic Church was born. 2,000 years later, Our Lady renews the call to gather together with Her in Cenacle of prayer – in anticipation of the Holy Spirit.

• “Just as in the Cenacle of Jerusalem, the Apostles, reunited with Me in prayer, prepared for the moment of the First Pentecost, so also, in the cenacle of my Immaculate Heart – and consequently in the Cenacles where you are gathered in prayer – you Apostles of these last times can, with your heavenly Mother, obtain a new effusion of the Holy Spirit.”
• A Second Pentecost is a future reality in the world.
  (284p, Jan. 28, 1984)

A Cenacle of the Marian Movement of Priests consists of the following:

• Invocation to the Holy Spirit
• Recitation of the Holy Rosary
• Prayers for our Holy Father, the Pope.
• Reading and meditation on one of more of the messages given in the book,
  
• “To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons.”
• The Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

As a time for invoking the Holy Spirit through Mary, the Cenacle ought to begin with either a hymn to the Holy Spirit such as, “Come Holy Ghost,” or with the short invocation given by Our Lady herself in her messages of June 7, 1981 and June 3, 1990.

“. . . I invite you to repeat often: ‘Come Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well-beloved Spouse.”  (226k, June 7, 1981)

1. The Rosary

Since the cenacle is where we gather to pray with Mary, the recitation of the rosary, Mary’s prayer par excellence, is characteristic to all cenacles.

“When you recite the Rosary, you invite Me to pray with you and, each time, I truly join in your prayer.” (148p, Feb. 11, 1978) – * The recitation of the rosary must always be accompanied with meditation on the mysteries.

III. Prayers For The Holy Father

Unity with the Pope and the Church united to him remains an indispensable characteristic of the cenacles of the Marian Movement of Priests.

“You must support him with prayer, with your love and with your fidelity. You must follow him, carrying out to perfection whatever he determines for the good of the Church.” (162e, Oct. 17, 1978)

*With the recitation of the rosary, it is customary to pray one Our Father, one Hail Mary and one Glory Be for the Pope’s intentions.  These fully satisfy the conditions for obtaining the indulgence attached to the rosary.

Reading and Meditation on Our Lady’s Book

Within the Cenacle, there is always a reading of a message from the book, “To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons.” Meditation on Our Lady’s messages is necessary for they trace out a simple and luminous way which we are to travel in order to grow in Her love and in life with Her through the Consecration to her Immaculate Heart.

“Read it, My beloved sons, Meditate on it, Live it!

Have no doubt; I am speaking to you. Through these words I am present in it and manifest myself.” (284j, Jan. 28, 1984)