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Misericordia de Jesús Prayer Center. Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico

The Misericordia de Jesús Prayer Center, established in Guadalajara, Jalisco on September 1996, is part of a secular society committed to church called “Our lady of Guadalupe’s society” founded in 1983 in New York, U.S.A., by R. P. James J. Wheeler, S.J. and integrated by three centers in U.S.A, eight in Mexico, one in Spain and one in Costa Rica.

In the city of Guadalajara, it was started by Mrs. Emma Fernández, Ramona Castro and Irma Magaña who invited Mrs. Marie and Elia Barnetche Pous to give the first “CODEPENDENCY” workshop.

Later two groups were formed: the Emma and Ramona group who stayed in Guadalajara, where they gather every week at Emma’s house to pray and work on their healing process through the book and manual “Quiero ser libre” (I want to be free) (Codependency) and the Rebeca Gutiérrez Nieto and Irma Magaña´s group, who went each week to Mexico City to take all the workshops in their personal process.

Two years later, in Puebla, the four of them concide and Ramona suggested to open a Praying Center in Guadalajara, for which Mrs. Marie Barnetche summon them in México City to give them the guidance on how to form the center.

And the first request was to take “Wheeler I” and have a minimum of 17 people who were interested in the same process. A year after, it was authorized to teach “CODEPENDENCY” and from then on until now, with the workshops that we will mention later.

Authorized by Mr. Bishop José Trinidad González, in charge of seculars in the Archbishopric of the Diocese of Guadalajara, currently we are working in the following Parishes:

  • San Javier de las Colinas
  • Santa María de Guadalupe
  • San Ignacio de Loyola
  • María Reina de la Paz
  • Divina Providencia
  • San Martín Obispo

We are also collaborating in a direct way with the secular’s integral and permanent formation Institute for the New Evangelization of the Guadalajara’s Archdiocese, serving with our charisma.

MISSION


Offer special attention to the people that approach us to grow in their faith, hope and charity; to be each day better members of the mystical body of Christ and to procure its integral growth through physical, emotional and spiritual healing trough teachings, workshops and companionship in personal praying processes.

VISION


VISION That every person achieves our personal growth, becoming responsible of our own integral healing process in body, mind and spirit

WORKSOPS

All workshops count with a similar methodology: weekly 2 hour sessions, it is offered theoretical information, make a personal and praying work about each theme.
We use text, books and work manuals written by experts in each subject, every material is authorized by the general management located in Mexico City.

​SELF-ESTEEM

This workshop let us discover how a low self-esteem lead us to sabotage our life accomplishments, establishing wrong beliefs about dignity and worth as a person, affect in the conducts, capacities and the way we interact in familiar, work and social environments hindering our goal accomplishments.

​CODEPENDENCY

We are co-dependent when we feel our life revolves around another person and we feel we don’t have a life of our own and we are victims of others. The workshop’s objective is to train us to choose and establish healthier human relationships.

SPIRITUALTY COURSE

Following the Spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius, the R.F. J. Wheeler, S.J. structured this course in 28 steps as an instrument to learn to live as seculars in the spirit of Jesus and to lead us to Sanctity.

FROM DEPRESSION TO HOPE

The experience of the two great depressions of our founder. In this workshop you learn what depression is and how it manifests; the different ways to battle against it and to help both, the people suffering from it as well as their families.

FORGIVENESS

Make known what is forgiveness and live its process through the five steps that leads us to accept the responsibility part that we have within the conflicts we have in our emotional relationships. Forgiveness is something personal.
One of the biggest society problems is violence, physical or emotional. To overcome it is necessary to forgive with a “forgiveness from the heart”.

STEPS TO RECOVERY

The requirement to participate in this workshop is to have taken the previous workshops and have started a recovery process which allow us to broach in a deeper way the topics about abuse, limits, money management and role usurpation. It offer us concrete tools to lead our steps to healing.

LOSS AND MOURNINGS

The objective of this workshop is to learn a way to process losses living one mourning at a time...

LIFE PROJECT

The purpose of this workshop is to be conscious of the need of planning, in the actual moment, our existence for a responsible, fulfilling and transcendent life.

HEALING THE WOUNDS OF LIFE​

This workshop take us to a Forgiveness process to our own selves and to the people or circumstances of life that have wounded us deeply.
It is the beginning of my personal healing and lets me know the unconditional love God has for me and the beginning of my recovery. It is necessary as a pre-requirement to take KERIGMA, which is the renewal of baptismal and confirmation promises.

KERIGMA

Fundamental evangelization retreat, is the first announcement that encourage faith, opens the heart and lead us to conversion. Revives our commitment as confirmed in faith. It is not given here in Guadalajara.

MY BODY’S WISDOM: BIO-ESPIRITUAL FOCUS

From Priests Peter Campbell and Eduard McMahon, PhD.
It is a psychological technique the authors made BIO-SPIRITUAL. “It is not life experiences which sickens life itself, but the way we carry them in our body”. This workshop teach us a respectful and simple way to listen our body language and learn how feelings express within it.
Listen to your body here and now, because is the only thing real, the PRESENT. “Being here and now.”

THE 8 STAGES OF LIFE

The objective is to learn the maturity features of each stage of life to understand our own shortcomings and needs, ease their resolution and healing in the present to recover all we didn’t have at the time.

PRAY WITH SAN IGNACIO OF LOYOLA

As an Ignatian Pray Centre, this workshop offer us several ways of praying taken from Saint Ignacio’s spiritual exercises book, to find our own style.

CLINIC: Intensive Workshops

The Praying Center of Jesus Mercy has dedicated a specialized area for children, youth and adult attention and guidance for parents. Rebeca Gutiérrez, Emma Fernández and Dora Zurita, under the guidance of Mexico City’s CEDI, offer several treatments and workshops among which stand out:

Individual workshops, for babies, children, youth and adults


  • COURSE OF PARENTS EXPECTING A CHILD
  • CRANEO-SACRAL THERAPY
  • THERAPIES TO OVERCOME LEARNING PROBLEMS
  • Youth and adult workshops:

  • INTRODUCTORY
  • DIVINE LONGING 1
  • DIVINE LONGING 2
  • PRENATAL STAGES
  • UMBILICAL IMPACT

  • There are given approximately 320 therapies per person every year covering a total of 960 work therapies per year between the three of them.
    They come from Mexico City to teach them.

    CODEPENDENCY CLINIC

    It is an intensive treatment for the codependency, in a safe environment and separated from our daily living to enter fully into the personal work.

    PRE AND PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY: BIRTH TRAUMA

    Through this clinic, we can experience in an experiential way the own birth; know its stages; how it has impacted and molded patterns in our life; how to heal the negative patterns that were formed in us and that are repeated until the present and discover the way to change those patterns through working with birth trauma.

    OTHER MINISTRIES

    EXTRAORDINARY ACTIVITIES

    Each week the female prision of Guadalajara is visited, with the aim of encouraging and give hope to the inmates.
    At the request of Mr. Cardinal Jose Francisco Robles Ortega, the team is supporting the "IFL", Institute for the Formation of Laity, of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, in the human dimension, accompaniment and inner healing.

    ​MINISTRY OF PRAYER FOR HEALING

    "There is no sin or disease that you cannot cure… There is no wound whatsoever that could not be healed by you…"
    The objective of this ministry is to accompany us on our way, during our personal process of inner healing, FOR people, physical, psychological, emotional or spiritually sick that need to be heard and ask for prayer. Travels in prayer through our life from the moment of our conception until the present time.

    MINISTRY OF PRAYER OF INTERCESSION

    "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them." Mat.18, 20.
    For this reason, prayer acquires a special force to unite our intention to the intercession of Jesus and of Mary, for all the needs of the Church: being that the Church we are ourselves, we pray in group for each other.