LEARN TO PRAY AND LIVE
A warm invitation to take part in the Workshops from the Capuchin Priest, Fr. Ignacio Larranaga. Learn to establish an intimate relationship with Our Lord Jesus Christ through Bible readings, Doctrinal messages and the practice of 15 Methods of Prayer during a period of 15 weeks with only 2 hour weekly meetings.
We are currently running running a workshop, but if you are interested in taking part in our next workshop or for more information, please contact: plwwatford@gmail.com
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For the Year of Prayer – A new Young Adult workshop will be running from Friday 19th January 7pm-8.30pm in the Parish Centre for 10 weeks. All young adults welcome!
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Prayer and Life Workshop “PLW” is a new evangelization program, it was founded by Fr Ignacio Larranaga, a Capuchin priest in 1984, and approved by the Vatican in 2002.
Prayer and Life workshop has spread over 50 countries, being delivered in twelve languages and came to the UK in 2004.
Our Holy Father in most of his recent speeches encourages us Christians to read the Bible every day. He encourages Christian Evangelization, and the Diocese of the Westminster in January 2020 launched the “God who speaks” program.
The focus of Prayer and Life Workshop is to enable us to establish an intimate relationship with the Lord, through reading and meditating upon the word of God in the Bible, listening to doctrinal messages from our founder, and the introduction of fifteen methods of prayer.
Key points
1. Based on the Bible: the central focus of each session is reading and meditating on the word.
2. Christ-centred: in the workshops Jesus Christ is the beginning, the centre and the end, in order that the participants feel, act and love like Jesus did, with the eternal question in their hearts: What would Jesus do in my place?
3. Nursery of Apostolic vocation: Every experience ends in a testimonial. The Workshop not only wants to be a school of formation but an apostolic school as well: in such way that the participants, once constituted into disciples and friends of Jesus, participate directly in the priestly, prophetic and regal mission of Jesus Christ and that wherever they make themselves present, by their conduct and deeds they plant the Kingdom of God. In this fashion, the workshops are an instrument of revitalization for the local Church.
4. Exclusively a lay service: the Workshops, convinced that only with total autonomy they would be able to have a mature laity, opted from its beginning to have a lay government: giving it the entire responsibility to organize and govern the Workshops worldwide. Being eminently a lay service, the Workshops have always firmly insisted in maintaining fluid and cordial relations with parish Priests and Bishops.
5. Practical and Experimental character: The workshop is not a doctrine; neither is it a theory or theology. It is an experimental pedagogy, applied both in session and in weekly practice. Praying does not consist in an intellectual reflection… it is a vital activity and things in life are learned by living them and putting them into practice.
6. Step by step prayer activity – adapted to the person: Praying – while a gift of grace is also an art. For this reason, it is subject to a methodical and progressive learning process.
7. A liberating and healing Workshop made possible through the knowledge of God and on oneself: through the life experience of Surrender, the participant nears a profound peace; and through messages and exercises, the participant slowly is able to liberate himself from sadness and anxiety; to heal the wounds; to surpass fears and complexes, while recuperating the meaning of life and the joy of living.
8. Transformation enlightened by the Word: the workshop takes the participant and enlightened by the Word, introduce him into a complex frame work of reflection, prayer, evangelical message and a self-analysis of one’s life. In this context, the participant without realizing it, it’s driven into a vital transformation. Good and evil are born in the heart. The Workshop invades the heart and transforms it into a bastion of harmony, serenity and peace.
9. Commitment to the poor: Christ wanted to identify himself in a preferential way with the needy of the world (Mathew 25:31-46). We also want to descend from the mountain of prayer and make ourselves present with word and presence, preferably amidst the poor and needy, in order to defend the weak, liberate the captives and announce a year of Grace and Salvation.
10. Promotion of Gospel values: The workshops wish to present participants with a way to unlock the Beatitudes through prayer and to help them discover the Gospel Values lived in our everyday lives.
For more information, please contact: plwwatford@gmail.com