Embrace of God's Mercy: Mother Elvira and the Story of Community Cenacolo

by Michele Casella

Overview

On July 16, 1983, in an abandoned house on an Italian hillside, Sister Rita Petrozzi, known today as Mother Elvira, opened Comunità Cenacolo. That dilapidated building quickly became God's hope-filled answer to the desperate cries of the many lost, lonely, drug-addicted young people who soon began knocking on its door, seeking to be reborn. A potent apostolate was born.

Today – barely thirty-six years later – Comunità Cenacolo consists of seventy houses stretched across the globe that welcome thousands of young people struggling with drug or alcohol addictions as they search for meaning in life. Mission houses in Africa, Central America, and South America shelter abandoned and orphaned street children, inviting them, too, on a journey of rebirth in love. Each house is imbued with God's mercy and forgiveness. There young people live in a simple Christian family environment, transformed by the healing powers of prayer, work, friendship, sacrifice, and love.

For decades now and on a daily basis, Mother Elvira's humble spirituality has awakened hope and joy in the souls of the troubled and the lost, giving each of them new life. Open the pages of this wise, uplifting book. That same hope and joy can be yours.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781622828326
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	11/19/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Michele Casella is a contributor to The Embrace of God's Mercy.

Table of Contents

Foreword Most Rev. Robert J. Baker, S.T.D vii

Introduction xiii

Start to Count 3

1 To Serve Is to Reign 7

2 The First Steps 19

3 Finally, You Have Arrived 27

4 The Door of the Heart 37

5 The Beautiful Lady 51

6 Children of the Same Womb 61

7 A Family of the Resurrected 73

In Order to Embrace Humanity! 81

Appendices

A Decree of Recognition 83

B Intervention of Mother Elvira 89

C God Exists! I Have Met Him! 95

Resources 107

About the Author 109