Sagrado Corazón Prayer Center. Mexico City
1. Presentation
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The Sagrado Corazón Prayer Center was founded in 1983 by Elia María Barnetche de Maqueo, Ma. Esther Barnetche and Tesha Prieto de Martínez Báez who at the time, were part of the prayer for the sick ministry at Holy Cross Parish in Pedregal when Fr. Anselmo Murillo, MSpS was the Parish Priest.
Elia, Ma. Esther and Tesha met Fr. James J. Wheeler, S.J at an ACT (Association for Christian Therapists) meeting of which they were part of since 1978. Fr. Wheeler invited them to do the SSG The “School for Spiritual Growth and Inner Healing” program based on the exercises of St. Ignatius. When they finished, they asked his authorization to translate and share it with fellow ministry parishioners whom they thought would greatly benefit from it. |
Fr. Wheeler authorized the translation and invited them to take the SSD (School for Spiritual Direction), each one lasting two years.
While all this was happening, the idea to start a center in Mexico City, similar to the one father Wheeler had in Albuquerque and New York grew. This would allow not only to minister one to one but also to teach the SSG “School for Spiritual Growth and Inner Healing”.
While all this was happening, the idea to start a center in Mexico City, similar to the one father Wheeler had in Albuquerque and New York grew. This would allow not only to minister one to one but also to teach the SSG “School for Spiritual Growth and Inner Healing”.
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In 1989 Maria Esther, Elia and Tesha wrote two books on Codependence: “I want to be Free” and “Free from Addictions”. The first book was broadly promoted and successful. This brought to the center many people seeking to heal through prayer and the invitation to be broadcasted on radio and TV as part of a ministry that would reach a larger number of people who would be exposed to prayer.
Several Prayer Centers have been formed as a fruit of the growth, programs and presence of the Prayer Center in other parts of the country because of the many requests received to bring the workshops. |
We are acknowledged as an Association of Lay Catholic by a Decree signed by Monsignor Felipe Tejeda García MSpS extended by the III Epicospal Vicariate of the Archdiocese of Mexico.
2. Mission - Vision
MISSION
"Be constant in Prayer." Colossians 4,2
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The Sacred Heart Prayer Center has as its Mission the integral growth of the person and the physical, emotional and spiritual healing through the programs, workshops and personal inner healing prayer processes.
It aims to bring people to an encounter with a living Jesus. Therefore all our efforts aim to help those in need of the merciful and healing love of Jesus so that through Him, they can find themselves. |
We tend mainly to the spiritual part of man, through inner healing and working towards the overall integral growth of a person.
From its beginnings Sacred Heart Prayer Center has had as its priority the attention of priests, people in a consecrated life and committed lay people to the Church.
From its beginnings Sacred Heart Prayer Center has had as its priority the attention of priests, people in a consecrated life and committed lay people to the Church.
VISION
"My house shall be called House of Prayer by all people." Isaiah 56, 7
The Sacred Heart Prayer Center is an oasis in the mist of the city where Jesus is present for those who need Him.
3. Workshops and Services
CODEPENDENCE RESIDENTIAL CLINIC
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Intensive treatment for codependence in a secure and separate environment of the participant’s everyday life, in order to fully enter the personal work.
Applying the tools and methods of "The Meadows" Clinic for recovering Codependents in Phoenix, Arizona, we use varied therapeutic tools based on the Post-induction therapy, developed by Pia Mellody, recognized by professionals dedicated to addictions, as an authority on this field. We work in groups of six to eight people. |
FREE FROM ABUSE
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It is necessary to be aware that much of the suffering in our lives is not a given of our human condition but a consequence of a primary hurt against the deepest part of our human essence.
This program leads you to discover the abuse suffered, the abusive behaviors you were subjected to and to heal allowing your true identity to arise, forgiving those that hurt you and starting to be happy. |
FROM DEPRESSION TO HOPE
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This is a workshop that helps you so as to not sink more and more into depression. It helps you to heal little by little the dark moments of your life leading you to the light and to discover that the mission of every human being is to be free and happy. Depression prevents you from seeing the good in your life. It invites you to come out of the hole where this illness has sunk you. It brings you from sadness to seeing that your life has many options if you know how to find them and to discover by your faith that the pain suffered is not permanent, that you can come out of it and realize that you have never been alone, and that you can learn from depression and grow as a human being.
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HEALING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
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It is never late to clear our own history, how it affected us, what we learned from it and the consequences that made us fear to love unconditionally. This program helps people to gain awareness of the quality of their relationships with their father, mother, brothers and sisters, and to learn how all this formed their personality acknowledging that sometimes it is necessary to start a deep process of forgiveness in order to be freed of resentments that threatens to destroy our health and sometimes our lives.
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HEALING OUR HISTORY
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We have worked for more than twenty years with persons addicted to unhealthy relationships through Codependence Workshops. We have come to realize that although we have been created to be happy, to love and be loved, through the course of our life and for many reasons we lose contact with this purpose, and what is worse, with ourselves making ourselves miserable.
Erik Erikson’s work through the eight stages of development of a healthy, integrated person helps us understand the nature of a person in each stage. It shows us the virtue we aim to acquire in each stage, so that we can acknowledge what we missed, and in faith, ask for the grace needed to heal and obtain what we missed. We believe in the Healing Power of Jesus Christ and in His wish to restore in us our ability to love and be loved, to remember the way to reconnect with Him and to enter in contact with our life purpose. This workshop allows us to realize what we missed, for whatever reason in order to obtain it now, in the present. It is never too late to help our inner child to grow, obtain what he missed, live his losses and enter into a forgiving process. |
HEALING MY INNER EMOTIONAL VOID
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The goal of this workshop is to help people enter in touch with their real feelings, know them, know their origin, and learn to work with them through different techniques.
We will touch deeply in the following feelings.
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HEALING MY WOUNDS
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This workshop "healing my wounds" gives us the opportunity to learn to pray and know the wonderful power of prayer in inner healing. The purpose is to heal various wounds that have marked us in our lives and that today affect our relationships and us. These wounds have to do with our history, hence it is important to touch them with the healing love of Jesus. The only way to deal with so much pain is through the presence of Jesus and the help that is so valuable, prayer.
In this course you will be able to recall significant moments in your life that left you marked, and hear the experiences of others that put you in touch with memories that perhaps have been forgotten by the enormous pain they caused you. God's grace will be revealed gradually and you will be accompanied in this process. You will also have the opportunity to see His face and feel His presence and magnificence in you. There will be times when you can meet and express all your feelings to him, or the life you've lived, resulting in a healthier relationship with God. |
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP: BIRTH TRAUMA
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Prenatal studies have shown with certainty, that all our experiences in the womb, from conception to birth, produce a significant and prolonged effect on our lives, forming a template in which our physical, emotional and spiritual development is supported.
In this way, stressful events experienced by parents during the pregnancy of the baby such as: stressful relationship, difficult economic situation, family problems, illness, losses of all kinds, abuse, etc., cause a great deal of suffering and stress in the baby. Much greater suffering and stress will be brought to the baby if it was a high-risk pregnancy, there was separation from the mother for several days, the baby was put in an incubator, not to mention when the baby was an unwanted child, the parents were afraid to lose the baby or had thoughts of or attempted abortion, he/she was given up for adoption. Even if the pregnancy developed in the best of conditions, the process of birth itself is a stressful and traumatic event for the baby, especially when there were obstetric interventions such as: Caesarean section, forceps, anesthesia, use of inductors, etc. ., that many of them are necessary to save the life of the baby or the mother, but many others could have been avoided. In any of the above situations, such events are potentially traumatic and produce shock, leaving the baby pre and perinatal memories which have negative and lasting impacts, that affect the child’s development. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO RESOLVE This trauma or shock can leave physical scars as orthopedic problems, other diseases, motor disorders, cerebral palsy, neurological damage, etc. It can also manifest itself in psychological and emotional aspects such as hyperactivity, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, excessive crying or inability to cry, difficulty feeding, lack of sleep, sudden anger, phobias, a tendency to leave things unfinished, problems with authority, inability to form healthy bonds, inability to perform work, difficulty making decisions, among many others. These consequences will not disappear while the shock is not resolved and remain limiting the integral development of the person: baby, child, youth or adult. In our experience the gains that have been achieved with this treatment are that the person discovers the roots of his/her limitations, the treatment help solve the shock and the person acquires power to change what he/she feels the need to change. Treatment of Birth Trauma brings hope because it is never too late to live better |
LOSS AND BEREAVEMENT WORKSHOP
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The human being is born with the purpose to love and be loved. These experiences of love from earliest childhood, allow us to feel connected with ourselves, with others, with God and the universe. Sometimes, for different experiences in life, these bridges that connect us to the sources of love are broken, creating a deep sense of loss and grief.
This workshop has the purpose to help us learn how to process losses, living one loss at a time, such as:
The list of losses and grief can be endless and therefore the need to learn to process them, in order to be able to live in the present moment. |
LOVE TOWARDS ONESELF: HEALING OF SELF ESTEEM
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Who loves himself is capable of loving and acknowledging others. This workshop has as its goal to help you:
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MI BODY'S WISDOM: BIOSPIRITUAL FOCUSING
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"It is not what you live that sickens you, but the way you carry these experiences in your body"
¿Did you know that your body holds the memory of what you have lived, even when your mind has denied or forgotten it? This workshop is based on the technique of Biospiritual Focusing, it teaches, in a simple and respectful way, the body language and the way feelings are expressed, enhancing therapeutic processes and favoring the Physical, emotional and spiritual integration. Whoever learns to get in touch with his / her feelings and what is real in him / her, everything changes in him even if nothing else changes for him. |
SCHOOL OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND INNER HEALING
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This program has as its goal acknowledging and freeing the person of the existing blocks that affect his spiritual growth and true joy of life. It is directed to persons interested in integral healing, both psychological and spiritual, through Ignatian Spirituality.
It aims to get in touch and experiment Jesus in contemplation, establish Christ as the center of your life and commit to an intimate union with Him in order to be able to offer a selfless service to others. It is also directed towards priests, religious or committed lay people, prayer centers, community development and every person that wishes to have a more intimate relationship with God. The program lasts 18 months (four periods of four months each) plus retreats and it consists of 28 steps. The program meets weekly for two hours, alternating every other week to receive a lecture and the following week to share in small group. |
SPECIALIZED WORKSHOPS IN CODEPENDENCE AND RECOVERY
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Codependence is a disease that manifests itself, in the inability to relate in a healthy relationship, since codependents are not in touch with others because they are not, in touch with themselves. A codependent has self-esteem problems, setting functional boundaries, caring for their own needs and issues with maturity and dealing with reality.
Codependence Workshops aim to help the participant to choose and engage in freer human relations:
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UMBILICAL IMPACT WORKSHOP NEW!
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Life and consciousness (awareness), start in the womb, from the moment of conception.
The baby feels all the feelings of the mother, from conception to birth just as she experiences them. How? Through chemical reactions! If the mother feels fear or anxiety, at the time when she gets pregnant , the brain (hypothalamus) will send a message to the adrenal glands, which will secrete adrenaline - cortisol and adenocortitrofa (hormones responsible for fight or flight response), which will run through the bloodstream to the placenta, almost immediately they reach the umbilical cord and then the baby, which will FEEL (but not understand) ALL THE EMOTIONS of his/her mother, and also those of the father and environment. These substances called neuropeptides flood our body during the pregnancy with feelings that are beyond us and which we cannot handle. 70% of adult disease begins to take shape in the uterine life. The key is to make a deep introspection and clean step by step all these harmful behaviors (often inherited) that we carry with us unconsciously and which we project in our daily lives. If we undo these emotional knots that formed during the pregnancy, we will release tension, stress, pain, anxiety, feelings of rejection and not belonging, insecurity and many other issues that have paralyzed our lives. |
WALKING TOWARDS FORGIVENESS
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Lack of forgiveness is having an open wound and making it present every time it pops to my mind, Resentment towards the person who hurt me. Resentment binds me to the person who hurt me making forever present the hurt and the anger. It is unreal to think that forgiveness comes with only desiring to offer it. It is a grace and therefore we need to ask God for it: knowing that we need to go through a process to obtain it.
No one wants to remain bound to the person who hurt us and that is exactly what we do when we are unable to forgive. In order to be free, we need to leave that wound that torments us behind, and in order to do that, we need to leave behind the chain of resentment, whishing at least to want to have the desire to forgive. This process will help you to rid yourself of the poison of resentment that so affects you and that enables you to be happy so that you can choose to have a compassionate and merciful heart like the heart of Jesus. |
4. Contact
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SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE JESÚS Y MARÍA PRAYER CENTER
Perla Ma. Montaño Sánchez
E-MAIL
info@centrodeoraciondelsagradocorazon.com |
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