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SAN JUAN BAUTISTA PRAYER CENTER
Iglesia de San Pedro de Barva
Heredia, Barva,
Costa Rica
Correo:
info@centrodeoracioncr.com
sanjuanbautistacentro@gmail.com
During April 2007 Manuel Pérez and Josefina Ordóñez, from the Prayer Center of “San José” (Chihuahua, México), visit Costa Rica for the first time to give the Jesus frees I workshop at the San Pedro de Barva parish, invited by the Parish priest Father Eladio Solano.
At the time Jesús Sánchez and Lilliana Carballo, husband and wife, hosted Mr. and Mrs. Pérez Ordóñez, thus creating a bond to the San Jose Center. One year later Mr. and Mrs. Pérez Ordoñez return to Costa Rica to give other workshops and training and the Prayer Center for Inner healing in Costa Rica is formed under the direction of Mr. and Mrs . Sanchez Carballo, our founders, and with the active participation of other people who helped initiate this.
It wasn’t officially named as a Prayer Center until the year 2008, when the center is visited by Dr. Elia María and Dr. María Ester Barnetche, the General Director of the Society of Our lady of Guadalupe which connects all the other Prayer Centers within the Catholic church.
The group begins with FATHER JAMES WHEELER’S program: School of Spiritual Growth and Inner healing. Father J. Wheeler, is a Jesuit priest who was inspired to create this 28 step healing process, based on the Ignatius spirituality and the spiritual exercises of ST. Ignatius of Loyola, aiming his whole work to inner healing, with the purpose of knowing Jesus:
"To know Him is to penetrate His Word, to understand it, and to make it a part of our lives. We follow previous generations in the Church who have sought the meaning of His life in the New Testament and have tried to read it, interpret it, and become part of it. Knowing His Word helps us undertake the communal journey and the search in the Church until we find the presence of Christ. In the same way that the members of the Body have given their lives for Him and have discovered that He already gave it for them first, we want to give our own lives and thus find our union with that entire Mystical Body." Fr. James J. Wheller S.J. "School of Spiritual Growth and Inner Healing." .
COMMUNITY
The active communities at our Prayer Center are located in the provinces of Cartago, San José, Heredia, Alajuela, and Limón, corresponding to the following dioceses: Diocese of Cartago, Archdiocese (San José and Heredia), and Diocese of Alajuela.
The communities are as follows:
We also have bridge processes, which are actually future communities that continue to review the Jesús Libera I and Jesús Libera II workshops. Once the process is complete, we will have new communities to serve. Currently, we have the following bridges:
Our San Juan Bautista Prayer and Inner Healing Center in Costa Rica underwent a change of direction this year. After a process of discernment and prayer, the Rodríguez Durán couple, Roynel Rodríguez Prendas and María Lorena Durán León, were proposed as new directors. They assumed the direction of the Center on March 8 of this year with a consecration mass, where our spiritual director, Father Eladio Solano, was in charge.
This beautiful event also extends its gratitude to our beloved former director, Rocio Goyenaga, and her team for all the effort, love, dedication, patience, and service they provided during their tenure. May God continue to bless her.
We highlight two basic objectives, internal and external to the center respectively:
Centered in discovering the roots of destructive and ill relationships so as to be able to live in a healthier and more balanced way asking for Jesus’ mercy to heal the wounds and fill the voids with this love.
Centered in discovering the roots of destructive and ill relationships so as to be able to live in a healthier and more balanced way asking for Jesus’ mercy to heal the wounds and fill the voids with this love.
This workshop helps recognize, confront and heal the different types of abuse that a person could have suffered throughout their lives. It aims for the person to heal the effects of the abuse they suffered from the womb and childhood, until their present stage in life, through prayer, based on scripture, with bio spiritual focus techniques.
The Prayer Center has grown internally as well as externally through the many members which have the charisma of service and the gift of listening.
Throughout the healing process, we have seen how the majority of the people come to the workshops to learn, but more than this, with a great need to be listened to, and so this has been a great part of our mission.