Enrich Your Faith by Joining Our Christian Ministry Programs

At our nonprofit organization, we do more than celebrate and bear witness to our love for the Lord. We put our faith into action by develping and implementing various Christian ministry programs. These programs feed the spiritual needs of our sisters and brothers-in-faith across the United States. Kindly read below to learn more about our programs:

The ORACLE Conference: The Path of the Suffering Savior – Jesus Christ

The ORACLE Conference is our most recent program, aiming to empower people to pray with vigor and clear understanding. Participants gather in person or online for this soul-searching event that lasts for 3 days.
Its main highlight is the unique and insightful teachings of Sr. Dr. Oralisa Martin about the meaning of the 15 Stations of the Cross. Each discussion stirs emotions by engaging participants in the suffering of Jesus Christ while empowering them to overcome their crises in life. Prayer services, meditations, testimonies, Scripture readings, spiritual activities, and a Eucharistic celebration are also held. Sr. Dr. Oralisa Martin gives her testimony:The ORACLE Conference: The Path of the Suffering Savior: JESUS CHRIST comes out of my experiences with Catholics who participate in rituals with minimal understanding of the deep meaning behind what they pray, believe, and celebrate. As a result, too often I have heard comments such as: Sister, it doesn’t do anything for me, or I’m not being fed. What I continue to hear is that Catholics don’t understand what is going on in Catholic rituals, and they do not see themselves growing.
What are we to do? What can I do? I can educate. I can take familiar devotions like the Stations of the Cross and teach their meaning. I can bring freshness to the prayer experience; appeal to you intellectually, help you to make informed decisions, and identify with the Stations through your emotions and life’s experiences. I can get you on the Path that leads you into an authentic encounter with the suffering Savior, JESUS CHRIST.

WWW: Well Women Witness

The WWW retreat is an all-day spiritual experience where Christian women gather to meet Jesus at the well. It’s based on the biblical story of the Samaritan woman (John 4:1-42). Coming together in prayer, participants begin the retreat with the waters of baptism. They bless each other in the name of Jesus Christ, invoking the Holy Spirit to “stir the waters” because they “want to be well.” (John 5:1-9) The Lord once said to Sr. Oralisa: “Tell my women to meet me at the well.” With that, the WWW retreat was created in 2014. This event consists of powerful, healing prayer services followed by a keynote address based on the Samaritan woman (John 4: 1-30; 39-42). It also includes testimonies, a “Letter from Jesus,” a rock meditation, a water meditation, and a closing eucharistic celebration.
Commissioned to bear “witness to the glory of God,” the women march with their umbrellas, singing “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Joined by the “cloud of witnesses,” they, like the Samaritan woman at the well, run out and declare to others: “Come! Come and see.” Others will know that “...truly, Jesus is the Savior of the world.” The day officially closes with a Eucharistic celebration. As Jesus Christ speaks to them at the well (John 4:1-42), they realize that they’re the Samaritan woman. They carry seemingly empty buckets that are full of stuff. The biblical teaching of John 4:1-42 allows them to understand the need for both religious and spiritual growth. To strengthen their spiritual faith, they respond to a letter from Jesus Christ who has been waiting for intimacy with them. The full-fledged healing process follows. This program is a ministry on wheels as it can travel anywhere in the US and abroad. Its goal is to enable women to meet Jesus Christ at the well to get “well.” By doing this, they bear witness to their faith and bring others to Jesus Christ and His Church.
Retreat participants also receive a workbook entitled WWW: Well Women Witness – Letters from Christ. This text serves as a dialogue manual containing 10 letters from Christ to His women. It evokes honesty and healing as Jesus Christ turns back time to the moment of conception, prenatal experiences, birth, and a woman’s life journey. For more information about our WWW retreat or to purchase our prayer book, email us today - drmartin@oraclereligious.org
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ORACLE Revivals

In the late Eighties and early Nineties, Catholic Revivals were in vogue, accompanied by gospel music in Black Catholic Churches. In response to this, Sr. Oralisa founded the ORACLE Revivals (1993). She currently designs packets in collaboration with pastors and revival teams to meet the needs of parishes or dioceses requesting ORACLE’s services. As an evangelist, Sr. Oralisa preaches and spiritually ignites a Catholic assembly. The congregations, comprising African-Americans, European-Americans, Hawaiians, Hispanics, Filipinos, and Belizeans, are to their feet.
It’s through the ORACLE Revivals that Sr. Oralisa’s healing ministry took off. People were healed on-site; the blind would see, and the physically disabled would lay aside their crutches and stand up from their wheelchairs to walk. Before COVID-19 more than 25 ORACLE Revivals have been celebrated nationwide. Sr. Oralisa aims to resume the ORACLE Revivals ministry in 2022.
ORACLE National Summer Institute for Youth
The ORACLE Youth Institute is a 2 1/2-week summer, residential, co-ed program for high school students that’s comparable to a retreat with a Christ-centered atmosphere. The prayer services, Bible studies, liturgical celebrations, and fellowships serve as the impetus to a unique, life-changing experience.
The institute enables our Gen Z to encounter Jesus Christ with miracles taking place before their eyes. Participants even learn how to pray and live within a community. The program also serves as a laboratory for life with 17 workshops, 8 seminars, and several field trips. These provide the content and substance for faith development, discussions, value clarification, orations, drama, and debates.
Through the ORACLE process, young people discover who they are in Christ and their purpose in life. The program trains our Gen Z for leadership and service within their schools, parishes, and diocesan boards.
ORACLE Mystagogia Institute
“Mystagogia” refers to an exciting new approach to lifelong Christian formation. In the first centuries of the Church, the newly baptized had a period where they deepened their knowledge of Christ’s birth, life, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension - the events forming the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious, and Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. The ORACLE Institute uses this RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) approach to invite all Catholics to a much deeper plunge into the truths of our Christian faith.
The curriculum for the ORACLE Mystagogia Institute is based on the liturgical seasons within the given year A, B, or C liturgical cycle. The consecutive Liturgical seasons are identified as: Advent covers the memorable expectation of the 1st Coming of Christ to humanity; and anticipation of Christ’s 2nd Coming at the end of time.Christmastime covers Jesus’ birth to His Presentation in the templeOrdinary Time covers Jesus in the Temple, Jesus’ Baptism, and Jesus’ Public Life Lent - 40 days: Ash Wed., to five consecutive Sundays, to Palm Sunday of the Passion, to Thursday morning Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Resurrection Sunday)Easter Season – Resurrection of Jesus to His Ascension into Glory to PentecostPentecost covers the manifestations of the Holy SpiritOrdinary Time – The action of the Holy Spirit forming the Christian Church