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Portiuncula Oratory, Inc.
Portiuncula Oratory, Inc.
A School of Jesus-Centered Healing and Dialog
Portiuncula Oratory, Inc. is a lay-initiated, Catholic-based nonprofit recognized by the IRS as an adult religious education school and as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.
Our Mission
Portiuncula Oratory, Inc. shares the Gospel of Jesus with Christian leaders, with a prime focus on developing vocations through evangelizing outreach, as well as workshops for faithful replication by trained priests. Our workshops model and teach inner restoration, healing, and conversion through Positive Christian Dialog / Connect-Talk®, restoring justice as the basis for love, with implementation within self and with others, based on a straightforward, Scriptural, Catholic-Universal Franciscan application.
Our Style of Teaching
We teach through workshops. Workshops are not lectures. They are an experience of small Christian community that involves a lecture and follows Jesus’ Spirit-inspired model of teaching. Jesus’ public ministry was, in reality, a yeshiva-style school: He taught, He modeled, and He developed community with those who followed Him. This is the style of teaching by which we have constructed our school.
Our workshops are grounded in both Old and New Testament Sacred Scripture—especially through Bible, Love Letters from Your Father, Books of John, the exegetical works of Romuald B. Simeone. These were assigned to our school in early formative years by our mentor who collaborated with Romy in creating a verse by verse commentary and exegesis of the Book of John to serve as a comprehensive catechesis on Who Jesus is, What He did and taught, and what was Modeled correctly and incorrectly in the first century development of Christian community. This syllabus, together with accompanying materials, videos, and workbooks, presents a Biblical blueprint of ongoing conversion: turning from the seven capital sins, practicing the opposing virtues, and living from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Our workshops present Gospel-centered principles, attitudes, and method that foster Positive Christian Dialog and Healing of Memories and comprise the essentials of Connect-Talk®.
The psychoeducational and catechetical workshops allow for healing of negative memories and experiences that every human being has experienced, encourage the development of your identity and friendship with yourself in who Jesus has made you to be, and help you connect in healing and positive ways with others. Read more about them on our Workshops Page.
YOur Mission!
YOur Mission!
To be "Connecting-Ports" for Jesus
Research-Based and Practice-Tested Application of Positive Christian Dialog™ and Healing of Memories Through Lectio Dialog™
Our founders developed this corpus of materials over more than 60 years at a high level of professional development in Scriptural exegesis, the Church Fathers, genetic (cause & effect) history, doctoral-level psychological practice, and applied pastoral theology.
The evangelization component has also been tested across many different fields and has proved fruitful in parishes, retreats, jails, children and youth groups, parenting, adult faith formation, Bible study, prayer groups, leadership development, religious communities, and especially marriage healing.
Its goal is to help people move beyond temporary groups, surface-level relationships, and isolated Christian living into stable, ongoing connections. In that kind of community, spouses learn to become true daily best friends, children begin to receive the love they are seeking, parish groups develop into safe and honest friendships where people can share more openly, and religious men and women form support groups marked by unconditional acceptance, mutual help, less triggering, and a culture committed to eliminating the negatives and inequalities, even though no one lives that perfectly all the time.
This work is further supported by books and videos published by our ministry partner, Dialog International Press, LLC.
Who We Serve
Who We Serve
Our ministry helps persons connect personally with Jesus and with one another through collaboration between ordained Catholic priests and trained laity. Participating priests bring priestly formation in theology, philosophy, morality, and ethics, and may serve as spiritual fathers, spiritual directors, and leaders of small groups according to their role and availability, while laity trained in Positive Christian Dialog™ / Connect-Talk® guide its interpersonal and intrapersonal practice. Together, we form a training community that seeks to model and pass on what we have received from Christ through workshops and ongoing Christian community.
Married Couples
Married Couples
Married couples and families, moms and dads, seeking Jesus‑centered connection and love in their home, reconciliation of family ruptures, and restoration of shared partnership participation in interactive family life.
Priests
Priests
Priests and religious living in community who desire deeper fraternal communion, relationally safe sharing, and renewed missionary zeal for marriage and the Domestic Church.
Professionals & disciples
Professionals & disciples
Professionals and disciples who want to witness Christ and evangelize within their own sphere of vocation, learning how to be effective through Positive Christian Dialog principles and attitudes.
What We Do
What We Do
Workshops, books, and videos that teach and model Connect‑Talk® / Positive Christian Dialog (PCD), as well as structured sharing groups—whether a marital dyad or a small group—that provide guardrails to create emotional safety and protect vulnerability.
Refresher workshops and certificate-level training at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels for Connect-Talk® Dialog.
Expert workshops and biblical catechesis that give participants practical tools to pass on and practice affirmative attitudes through which people experience being seen, heard, and validated in a way that aims to protect against rejection, keep things positive, and promote equality and commitment as friends.
Leaders are also trained in containment techniques and de-escalation strategies.
Replicable teaching model that can be implemented by trainees in their homes, parishes, convents, and religious communities. Priests can create follow-up Lectio Dialog sharing groups in their parishes and even in their religious communities, according to our specific research-based techniques that have been piloted over the past 60 years in the founders’ development and in private psychological practice.
Providing resources designed for implementation in parishes, Christian organizations, and businesses.
Franciscan-style Lectio Dialog communities centered on the Books of John.
Join the interest list for upcoming workshops and Scripture‑based groups.
Support the work financially as we build the infrastructure for sustainable formation.
Notice of Racially Nondiscriminatory Policy as to Students: Portiuncula Oratory, Inc. admits students of any race, color, national origin, and ethnic origin and does not discriminate on that basis in its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship or financial assistance programs, or other school-administered programs.
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