The purpose of this small group is threefold:          1) To deepen our union with Jesus through prayer and adoration, under the guidance and intercession of Our Blessed Mother.  In the words of Pope John Paul, to be a small “school of prayer.”         2)  To support and pray for each other in the daily struggle to remain faithful to Jesus wherever we are and in whatever we do.         3)  To pray for others, for the whole world, that each soul may be united to Jesus and so that He may pour out His Mercy on all mankind.   This is a group for young women of high school and college age.   This is not meant to be a ‘fun’ group or a social group.  It is a serious group because the challenges and attacks that young women today face are serious.  It is a group in which to learn how to be docile to Jesus in prayer, so that He Himself, with Our Blessed Mother, will teach each one what it means to be His in today’s world; what it means today to be a young Christian woman.   God has put in the hearts of young women a desire to care for and help others.  But our world and our society face so many serious problems today that it can be overwhelming and seem almost hopeless.  What can we do to help so many people out there that are suffering? Humanly, we can do very little.  We can help those immediately around us, but there still remain multitudes in need of help and hope.  That is why we turn to prayer.    In prayer we can do what we are unable to do physically or humanly…because it is God Himself that does it, God Himself who acts.  In prayer we can reach every soul, every situation, every problem, and bring Jesus to them.  The power of prayer is beyond comprehension.  That is why we want a prayer group.     God has given women a special grace of openness and docility to His work; a special grace of concern for others, of tenderness, of compassion, of empathy; a special strength to love and to suffer.  But only He can reveal these graces to each one of us and show us how to use them; how to cooperate with Him.    We place this little group at Our Lady’s disposal and under the patronage of St. Philomena, so that They may guide, teach, help, and form each one of us for Jesus, for whatever mission and vocation He has prepared for us.   For further information please contact Sr. Amapola.   “For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from Whom every family in Heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who by the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, to Him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever.  Amen.” (Ephesians 3:14-21)