Virtual Retreats (Table of Contents)

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The “virtual retreats” of Good News Ministries are online prayer and reflection experiences that you can enjoy wherever you are. Some are interactive. Some are prayer-poems. Some are multi-media. Some are in Virtual Reality (and you don’t need headgear to see it). Some are also available as printable PDF documents we’ll send you upon request. Find a quiet time and a quiet place to prayerfully enter into the following opportunities:

Have an Intimate Conversation with Jesus

Open your prayer life to this intimate conversation you can have with Jesus. Speak to Me, My precious one! I want to have a conversation with you. Tell Me about those who are closest to you, the sorrows they cause you, and your fears for them. How would you like Me to help them? And what...

How to Find God in Times of Waiting (Course Description)

A free video course How to find God in times of Waiting: Course Description What are your waiting for? Life is one wait after another. We wait for prayers to get answered. We wait for people to change and make our lives easier or happier. We wait for the return of good health. We wait for a better...

Our Lady of Miracles Virtual Shrine for Meditation

Welcome to the Marian Shrine at Good News Ministries in Tampa. Entrust your prayers to Jesus through the loving partnership of Mary, our Blessed Mother. Use this video and the music in it as a background for your Christian meditations while you watch the candle burn down. (Scroll to the bottom of this...

Prayer for God's Guidance

Dear God, I get up every morning now, and thank You for another day. As I shower I always pray. I think of You and there You are, telling me what You want me to know. Then I get ready with the day's scripture reading; You always have more to say. I never leave the house, before I kneel down...

Prayer of Sorrow for the Blessed Mother

Offer up this prayer in reparation for the sins of the whole Church. O Blessed Mother! What have we done? We have nailed your Son into the Cross. We have not loved those that the Father has given us to love. We are blind, We are fools, We are controlled by the pains of our wounds instead ...

Prayer to Overcome the Messes We Made

No matter what messes we've made with our lives , Jesus is standing by, ready and eager to help us rise above them. God loves to make good come from everything -- even our messes! It shows us how much he really cares about us. O Lord what a mess we make of our lives! We see You but...

Rejected: Did You Feel This Way, Jesus?

Did you ever feel so rejected, Lord, Your love so neglected, Lord, Before your ministry began, Before your baptism into the Spirit of Divine Mission? Did you ever feel the pain of a friend leaving you Or a relative refusing to care about you While you lived the human journey like I do, While...

Vigil of the Night

In the sleeplessness of the dark night You are with me, Lord, A comfort to my soul. Your love is a pillow for my head Though the trials of the day swirl and pull my attention from the peace You give. In the sleeplessness of the dark night I am with You, Lord, Sharing in your deep concerns For...

And from our WordBytes site:

The Healing Wounds of Jesus

Mystical and Scientific Insights into Christ’s Actual Passion, a series of descriptions of how Jesus suffered for you, as revealed by saints and mystics through the centuries and by scientists today. The wounds inflicted on him can be healing for you if you meditate on what he did for you.

Christ’s Passion for you: A Virtual Retreat

This retreat can provide healing from your sufferings. Take time to meditate and reflect on each segment. Use the photos to help you imagine what the experience of Christ’s sufferings was like for him. As you do this, remember that he did it for you. This is how much he cares about you. You are about to enter into the timelessness of what Christ did for you, when the experiences of Jesus during the first Holy Week are also the now moment of your life.

Passion Spirituality (Intimacy with Jesus)

Passion Spirituality is the joining of our sufferings to the Passion of Christ. When we meditate on this, we enter into a much deeper intimacy with Jesus and we even discover great joy! This section of Good News Ministries WordBytes is a virtual, self-paced retreat tailored to your own needs. In your dive into passion spirituality, Jesus is here with you, ready to provide you with healing and recovery from the hurts and sufferings of your life.

Who is Jesus to you?

“Who do you say that I am?” This question in Matt. 16:13-23 is what Jesus asks each of us. We especially need to answer this whenever our relationship with him needs to improve. Oh, isn’t that everyday? This reflection contains a spiritual exercise. You can find healing and renewal in your friendship with him by meditating on the different names for Jesus or attributes of his nature. (Use this like a private retreat.)