Groups

Mission Statement:
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a current of Grace in the Church, invites all people to experience the Holy Spirit who opens us to a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ and the love of the Father. The Holy Spirit empowers us for personal holiness, renewed Catholic life, and evangelization. The mission of the CCR is to foster the dynamic grace of baptism in the Holy Spirit(Acts 1:5) which empowered the members of the early church at Pentecost”.

Leader or Contact:
Frances Moreno and Freddie Muscat– Renewal Service

Contact info:
https://www.charis.international/en/

Mission Statement:
“To be at the service of families and help them grow in holiness”

Location:
In family homes

Leader or Contact:
Denise Duo

Location:
St. Bernard’s Church: Hall

Leader or Contact:
Rosemarie Isola

Mission Statement:
“The Cursillo in Christianity is a movement of the Catholic Church that is committed to spreading the Gospel message utilising a specific method and strategy. The Leaders of the Movement are committed to communicating, supporting, and enabling everyone that has experienced a Cursillo to live their Fourth Day. The Cursillo Movement is an agent of change that serves as a catalyst for the Christian transformation of society’s moral and ethical values”.

Leader or Contact:
Derek Sene

Mission Statement:
“To Journey with Jesus to the fullness of life”.

Location:
Catholic Community Centre, every Monday at 8pm

Leader or Contact:
Henry Earle

Mission Statement:
Faith and Light is an international Catholic Movement started by Jean Vanier and Marie Helene Mathieu in Lourdes in 1971.
In Gibraltar it started in 1989.

Faith and Light are communities made up of persons with an intellectual disability, their families and friends, particularly young friends, who meet together on a regular basis in a Christian spirit, to share friendship, pray together, fiesta and celebrate life”.

Location:
St. Bernard’s Church

Leader or Contact:
Matthew Ferrary (Upon This Rock Community)
Natasha Passano (Covenant of Love Community)

Mission Statement:
“Help and support after miscarriage and stillbirth”.

Location:
Bay View House, Line Wall Road

Leader or Contact:
Anna Breen

Mission Statement:
The Houses of Adoration is an association which invites all baptised Catholics to respond to our Lord’s call for holiness. It is comprised of Catholics who have consecrated themselves to the living person of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.

By leading a life centred around the Eucharist, we become bearers of “the light of the world” to all those we come into contact with, as we work towards the fulfilment of the reign of the Holy Eucharist globally, in preparation for His Second Coming.

Location:
The Adoration Chapel, St. Bernard’s Hospital

Contact Person:
Tessa Laguea, Moderator

Mission Statement:
“The cooperation with the Holy See and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem to protect and keep the Holy Places and the presence of the Catholic Church in The Holy Land, The Cradle of our faith through assistance in maintaining churches, schools, seminaries and other Christian points of assistance”.

Location:
M H Bland, Cloister Building and Cathedral

Leader or Contact:
John A Gaggero KC*HS, Lieutenant

Christopher Cortés KHS, Secretary

Contact info:
 http://eohsjgibraltar.com/

Mission Statement:
“We are a group of lay Christian people committed to the Church and the world who share the charism and spirituality of Mary Ward, foundress of the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM).
What are our goals?:

• Be cheerful, FAIR, ACCURATE and FREE to serve the Kingdom in our world, encouraging a commitment to solidarity towards the most needy in our area and beyond it. … in conjunction with other charities helping them gain their goals to help others.
• Know and deepen the charism of Mary Ward from our secular identity.
• Make us aware of our needs as a group, sharing faith and life from the experience of prayer and friendship.
• Being responsive to current needs of the Church and specifically our Diocese trying to respond to specific situations whenever we’re asked to it.
• Annual celebration of Mary Ward Week – 23rd Jan [MW birth] to 30th Jan [MW death] – meet as a group or do something extra during this week”.

Location:
Shrine of Our Lady or Europe

Leader or Contact:
Maria Louisa Aguilera

Contact info:
https://www.localprayers.com/GI/Gibraltar/124376640998247/Mary-Ward—Gibraltar-Group

Mission Statement:

The object of the Legion of Mary is the glory of God through the holiness of its members developed by prayer and active co-operation in Mary’s and the Church’s work. The unit of the Legion of Mary is called a praesidium, which holds a weekly meeting, where prayer is intermingled with reports and discussion. Persons who wish to join the Legion must apply for membership in a Praesidium. The Legion sees as its priority the spiritual and social welfare of each individual. The members participate in the life of the parish through the visitation of families, the sick, both in their homes and in hospitals and through collaboration in every apostolic and missionary undertaking sponsored by the parish. Every legionary is required to carry out a weekly apostolic work in the spirit of faith and in union with Mary.

The Legion of Mary is a lay apostolic association of Catholics who …serve the Church and their neighbour on a voluntary basis in about 170 countries”. It was founded in Dublin, Ireland, on 7 September, 1921.

“The general and essential means by which the Legion of Mary is to effect its object is personal service acting under the influence of the Holy Spirit, having Divine Grace as its moving principle and support, and the glory of God and the salvation of souls as its final end and purpose. Evangelisation, especially the seeking of conversions to the Church, should be a priority for the Legion. Through the visitation of homes and by other means, the Legion must, as a first principle, set out to establish a contact of some sort with every soul everywhere. Seeing and serving Christ in the sick and marginalised is another vital part of the legionary apostolate. While not engaging in the giving of material relief, legionaries will often find opportunities to do works of service for the needy”.

Leader or Contact:
Yolanda Fabre

Contact info:
25 Ross House, Alameda Estate

Website:
https://www.legionofmary.ie/

Mission Statement:

“Caring for marriages: Better relationship, better lives”.

Marriage Care was established as a charity in the U.K. in 1946 and in Gibraltar since 1983. Our mission is “to help people build and sustain healthy couple relationships… The Catholic understanding of the person as loved by God, and as called to love, relationship and deeper community lies at the heart of why Marriage Care exists. For Catholics, as for many others, the call to marriage has a special place in this understanding. Informed by this perspective our vision dares to hope for a society in which all adults can build and sustain strong, fulfilling, healthy couple relationships. It is our mission to share relationship skills and knowledge, and support couples and individuals in the best and worst of times in their relationships, regardless of their ability to pay. We have a Christian ethos, by which we mean that:

• We acknowledge, with others, the value and uniqueness of every human being. Love, respect, forgiveness and the need to work for peace and justice underpin our work.
• Inspired by our Catholic heritage, we embrace and uphold the Christian vision of marriage as an example of a vocation of life and love. In Christian marriage this vocation is shaped by the whole-life commitment of a man and woman, whose love is open to embrace family life.
• We believe that at the heart of a healthy marriage is a relationship of astonishing power and richness, for the couple, their children, their wider circle of friends and relations and society.
• We believe that preventing couple separation and maintaining an intact family where healthy relationships can exist and grow in goodness is of fundamental importance to the flourishing of family life and society at large.
• We believe that supporting adult couple relationships is a matter of social justice and has the potential to make a real difference to children’s life chances, to adult wellbeing and to the emotional and economic health of our society. As such it is a positive response of care to relationship poverty.

We welcome as members of Marriage Care all who can subscribe to and share in this ethos, our values, our passion for relationship education and support and the difference it makes to people’s lives”.

Leader or Contact:
Melonie Parr, Chairperson

Contact info:
melonie@gibtelecom.net
Tel: 200 71717
https://www.marriagecare.org.uk/centre/gibraltar/?tab=infomation

Mission Statement:
“The mission of Opus Dei (the Work of God) is to spread the Christian message that every person is called to holiness and that every honest work can be sanctified. It provides spiritual formation aimed at helping people develop their spiritual life and apostolate. These activities are held in Opus Dei centres or in a church, office or private home. Work, family life, and the ordinary events of each day are opportunities for drawing close to Christ, and making Him known to others. The work of spiritual formation complements the work of local churches. People who join Opus Dei or attend its activities continue to belong to their local dioceses”.

Location:
Shrine of Our Lady of Europe

Leader or Contact:
Isaac Wahnon

Contact info:
http://www.opusdei.org/en/

Mission Statement:
“Co-Workers are part of the Missionaries of Charity family, who seek to love God in their fellowman through wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor and through prayer. The Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, who are unable to join in activities but will become a link with a sister by offering prayers and suffering for that Sister or Brother. Lay Missionaries of Charity are Co-Workers who wish to deepen their spiritual life and unite themselves more fully with the Missionaries of Charity”.

Leader or Contact:
Valerie Triay

http://www.motherteresa.org/about.html

Mission Statement:
From our Rule:-

1. The Franciscan family, as one among many spiritual families raised up by the Holy Spirit in the Church, unites all members of the people of God — laity, religious, and priests – who recognize that they are called to follow Christ in the footsteps of Saint Francis of Assisi.
   In various ways and forms but in life-giving union with each other, they intend to make present the charism of their common Seraphic Father in the life and mission of the Church.
2. The Secular Franciscan Order holds a special place in this family circle. It is an organic union of all Catholic fraternities scattered throughout the world and open to every group of the faithful. In these fraternities the brothers and sisters, led by the Spirit, strive for perfect charity in their own secular state. By their profession they pledge themselves to live the gospel in the manner of Saint Francis by means of this rule approved by the Church.
3. The present rule, succeeding “Memoriale Propositi” (1221) and the rules approved by the Supreme Pontiffs Nicholas IV and Leo XIII, adapts the Secular Franciscan Order to the needs and expectations of the Holy Church in the conditions of changing times. Its interpretation belongs to the Holy See and its application will be made by the General Constitutions and particular statutes.Chapter Two: The Way Of Life
4. The rule and life of the Secular Franciscans is this: to observe the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ by following the example of St. Francis of Assisi who made Christ the inspiration and the centre of his life with God and people.
   Christ, the gift of the Father’s love, is the way to him, the truth into which the Holy Spirit leads us, and the life which he has come to give abundantly.

Secular Franciscans should devote themselves especially to careful reading of the Gospel, going from Gospel to life and life to Gospel”.
“The members of the Franciscan Youth consider the Rule of the OFS as an inspirational document for the growth of their own Christian and Franciscan vocation either individually or in a group. After a suitable period of formation, of at least one year, they confirm this option with a personal pledge before God and in the presence of the brothers and sisters.
The Franciscan Youth has a specific organization, methods of formation, and teaching methods adequate for the needs of the world of youth, according to the existing realities in the various countries”.

Mission Statement:
“To serve God by following Christ’s footsteps. Live the Gospel message, of helping the needy with love, respect, justice, hope and joy. Listen to their needs and respond accordingly”.

Mission Statement:

“The mission of Women of Grace is to transform the world one woman at a time by affirming women in their dignity and vocation as daughters of God and in their gift of authentic femininity through ongoing spiritual formation. Exploring all aspects of the ” feminine genius,” Women of Grace promotes the dignity of woman, the gift of true womanhood, woman’s fundamental call and mission in the world, and presents the Blessed Virgin Mary as the exemplar of all women.

Women of Grace is a Bible Study Programme, rather than a Prayer Group as such. It provides a catechetical course for woman. The programme is a one-off study course, which seeks in this way to help women discern where God wants them to be or act in their current state and circumstances of life.”.

Location:
Held at our various Churches and the Catholic Community Centre, as and when arranged

Contact Person:
Dr. Monique Risso

Contact Info:
http://www.womenofgrace.com/en-us/default.aspx