FREEDOM TO FOLLOW JESUS - Catholic Charismatic Renewal

JUNE 2015
FREEDOM TO FOLLOW JESUS
T
he CCRO Summer Conference is a presentation
of the Unbound model, a Catholic approach to
setting people free from the bondages of sin,
unforgiveness, and woundedness, to have a deeper
relationship with Jesus Christ. Developed by Neal
Lozano, Unbound treats the whole person—
psychological, emotional or spiritual—allowing that
person to live the abundant life that Jesus desires for
them, explains Lloyd and Nancy Greenhaw, who will
present the model in a weekend charismatic conference,
Friday evening and all day Saturday, August 7 - 8, at
Trinity School in Eagan, MN.
According to the Unbound website
(heartofthefather.com) Unbound is a model that uses
Five Keys to help people experience freedom from the
influence and power of deception and lies and receive
the Father’s great love for them. Each of the Five
Keys—repentance and faith, forgiveness, renunciation,
authority, and the Father’s blessing—incorporate
practical direction about how to respond to God’s grace
that is always working in us to set us free. Knowing the
Father through the Son is our place of deepest freedom;
it is where broken humanity is healed.
The time is right to teach Unbound, particularly in the
context of the New Evangelization, says Lloyd.
“As we travel around, more and more people are
coming to the awareness that there is more for them.
There is no point in leading lives of mediocrity and
partial freedom when they can be totally free and live the
abundant life that Jesus Christ came for, not only to be
evangelized, but to evangelize other people. Priests are
also seeing a huge need for this as a way to help people
get free and stay free.”
spirits.
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The Greenhaws ((pictured above) have been in
Catholic evangelization ministry for 24 years, ministering
through parish missions, conferences and retreats,
working in prison ministry and with the homeless. As
Country Coordinators for Renewal Ministries, they have
taught the Unbound model to priests, religious and lay
people in Africa, Turkey, Haiti, Samoa and Papua New
Guinea, and work closely with Church authorities to
teach catechesis, apologetics and the New
Evangelization. Early in their ministry as they travelled
around, they started encountering problems in people
that were rooted in different things. Some of these
problems stemmed from cultural issues, witchcraft,
ancestral worship and animism, but also from tribal
violence, hatred, poverty and sickness.
The Greenhaws started seeking ways to help them and
found that some ministries were effective, but not fully.
When Renewal Ministries sent them Neal Lozano’s
book, Unbound, it was an eye-opener.
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C ATHOLIC C HARISMATIC R ENEWAL O FFICE
this idea. They don’t consider that it might be evil
“We thought, ‘Wow,’ this is what we do, but
influences that are causing their problems.”
(Unbound) is more succinct and we can replicate it,”
recalls Lloyd. He met with Neal
That is slowly changing,
and invited him to Rwanda where
however. More and more clergy
the genocide had occurred in
are starting to see this model as a
Deliverance is
1994. For three years they went to
solution to problems they are
removing the power of
Rwanda and trained priests,
encountering in their ministry. The
the lies so that we can
religious, lay people, doctors and
Greenhaws have been teaching the
hear the voice of our
psychologists from all over the
model to priests in Louisiana,
country in the Unbound model.
Father that has always
New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.
“They never really had a way to
been speaking deep
More and more priests are seeing
deal with the byproducts of the
the need for a Catholic approach
within.
genocide,” says Lloyd. “We saw
to deliverance.
(www.heartofthefather.com)
remarkable things happening.”
“There is a hunger for this and a
The Greenhaws also invited
need because they have a real
Neal Lozano to Uganda and
heart for their people, but they’re
Sudan and started teaching Unbound regularly as part of
stymied—‘How can I help them? What is a model that
their ministry of setting people free.
is Catholic in its whole structure that I can be
comfortable with that can help the people?’” says Lloyd.
Says Nancy, “In Africa, we do not have to convince
“This model has become our ‘go-to’ model. This is what
people that there is an evil one who wants to destroy
we teach as part of the new evangelization.”
them, but in Western cultures people are not as open to
The charismatic conference is based on Ephesians 3:14—4:8, which reads in part:
For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through
his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted
and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth
and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge so that
you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Eph. 3:14-19).
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June Happenings & Announcements
LIFE
IN THE
SPIRIT SEMINARS
HAPPENINGS
Final session Tuesday, June 9, 7-9 pm. St. Peter’s
Prayer Group, St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 2600 N.
Margaret Street, North St. Paul, MN. 651-353-4311
COR JESU, NET Ministries LifeLine Masses
and Emmaus will resume in the fall.
Final session Thursday, June 4, 7-8:45 pm. Jim and
Rita Hanson’s home, 3128 Leyland Trail, Woodbury,
MN. [email protected]; or 651-321-3056.
June 2 (Tuesday) HEALING MASS at Church of
St. Peter, 2600 N. Margaret St., No. St. Paul.
Celebrant Bishop Andrew Cozzens. Rosary 7pm,
Mass 7:30PM. Call Peter 651-353-4311.
Watch for more opportunities for Baptism in the Holy
Spirit and Life in the Spirit Seminars.
Here I Come Ready or Not
“Behold I am coming soon.” Rev. 22:12
Magnificat invites all men and women to a retreat with
international evangelist preacher, teacher and author,
Saturday, June 20
9 AM—3 PM
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
301 1st Street N., Hwy. 371
Hackensack, MN
Maria Vadia
June 5 (Friday) FIRST FRIDAY WITH THE
FRANCISCANS, 7PM. 1289 LaFond Ave., St. Paul,
MN. Adoration, Franciscan Crown Rosary, Compline
and Benediction. Fellowship follows.
June 5 (Friday) HEALING MASS at St. Nicholas
Catholic Church, 412 4th Street West, Carver, MN
55315. Celebrant, Fr. Jim Livingston. Rosary 6:30PM;
Mass 7PM. Call Jodee, 952-448-2345.
June 16 (Tuesday) HEALING MASS at St. Patrick’s
Church, 1500 Vine Street, Hudson, WI. 6PM. Call
715-381-5120.
June 25 (Thursday) AREA-WIDE CHARISMATIC
PRAYER MEETING, sponsored by New Life
Renewal Ministries, St. Albert the Great Catholic
Church, 3200 East 29th Street, Minneapolis, MN,
55406. 7:30 PM. Enter church side doors to the
social hall. Call Vince Dorazio, 612-243-9411.
$20.00 (incl. continental breakfast and lunch)
Reservatioins: Contact Lorri Henning, 218-507-0953
Or mail to: 3080 20th Ave. NW, Hackensack, MN 56452
Payment must be received by June 16, 2015
For more information, call Jean Bauerly, 218-547-3111
Looking ahead: Magnificat will also host Fr. Richard McAlear,
OMI, on Fri/Sat, October 9 & 10, 2015.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
ANNUAL EVENING OF HEALING PRAYERS AND MASS
Tuesday, June 2
Healing Mass with
Bishop Andrew Cozzens
St. Peter’s Catholic Church
2600 N. Margaret
St., North St. Paul,
MN 55109
Monday, July 27, 2015—6 p.m.
CATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY
2801 East 4th Street, Duluth, MN 55812
Rosary 7 pm.
Mass 7:30 p.m.
Adoration: 11 a.m.—4 p.m.
Celebration of the Mass 6 p.m.
Individual prayers for healing following Mass.
Priests of the Diocese of Duluth & St. Cloud Fraternity of Priests
Contact Kayline 218-729-7717
Call Peter, 651353-4311
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