Nov. 2005: mission in Canada - part II +Pictures
Father George Beaune, a Basilian priest in the city of Windsor, teamed up with a very special couple by the name of Jeff and Susan Cada to bring me to Windsor for a mission. We had spoken about this mission a few times in the last year or so. Jeff and Susan have put together a powerful ministry through a prayer group they have at their home on Mondays. This ministry has turned into a very wide mission, involving a series of activities even overseas. We have missioned together in St. John, New Foundland and also in Colombia. They are very dear brothers in Christ to me, a great support to my mission with the poor in south America.
This time I traveled from Toronto to spend the night in Windsor. On my way there, I stopped to pick up a very dear Canadian priest by the name of Martin Johnston. He has been a mentor of my mission in Canada and has recently retired from the diocese of London where he was serving as a parish priest for a great number of years. He is of great anointing and has been given a precious gift of charity by our Lord Jesus. He joined me and together we spent two blessed days of missioning.
The following day very early in the morning we started with a meeting with a very special apostle of Christ from Detroit. John Maher. His ministry is so powerful. I was very happy to get to know him. He introduced us to a ministry of serving the priests who are in legal troubles around the world, regardless of the nature of their cases. It is something our Lord Jesus inspired in his heart and the heart of his wife. They renounced a promising career as CEO of a profitable corporation, and entered the service of God with true unconditional love. They are actually holding cases of more than thousand priests from around the world. John has met with our pope Benedict the XVI on numerous occasions; he met him before as a cardinal and later as a Pope. What a great blessing was it to get to know his mission.
Providentially so, that same day at 1:00 pm I was to give a talk to priests from Windsor's diocese and some from Detroit. I spoke to 19 priests about my conversion story and at the end introduced John to them. They were delighted to meet him and to get to know his ministry.
Speaking to priests is for me not only a great honor, but it is also a great blessing. The good Lord Jesus showed me a mystical view of the priesthood and I think that it says it all. I know the precious gift that a priest is for the church and the earth as a whole. I know the responsibility that they carry and the great need of support and prayer that they are in need of. So it was wonderful to meet with them. Even though my testimony of conversion involves a mystical experience, they were kind and receptive and asked very good questions at the end, some of them about the existence of Hell.
In the evening I went to give my testimony of conversion at father George's community church. It was a full house and we had a very anointed talk. Father George is a true gift to the church. He is in his eighties and he still works as hard as if he were in his 50's. I love his spirit of loyalty and firmness with the church and the faithful. A true and reliable priest.
I returned to Toronto and gave another talk on Victim Souls at the Carmelite convent of Missisagua before I traveled to Colombia.
May the Lord Jesus bless all of these great apostles I just briefly mentioned. Please keep them in your prayers.
CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF THE MISSION IN WINDSOR, CANADA
This time I traveled from Toronto to spend the night in Windsor. On my way there, I stopped to pick up a very dear Canadian priest by the name of Martin Johnston. He has been a mentor of my mission in Canada and has recently retired from the diocese of London where he was serving as a parish priest for a great number of years. He is of great anointing and has been given a precious gift of charity by our Lord Jesus. He joined me and together we spent two blessed days of missioning.
The following day very early in the morning we started with a meeting with a very special apostle of Christ from Detroit. John Maher. His ministry is so powerful. I was very happy to get to know him. He introduced us to a ministry of serving the priests who are in legal troubles around the world, regardless of the nature of their cases. It is something our Lord Jesus inspired in his heart and the heart of his wife. They renounced a promising career as CEO of a profitable corporation, and entered the service of God with true unconditional love. They are actually holding cases of more than thousand priests from around the world. John has met with our pope Benedict the XVI on numerous occasions; he met him before as a cardinal and later as a Pope. What a great blessing was it to get to know his mission.
Providentially so, that same day at 1:00 pm I was to give a talk to priests from Windsor's diocese and some from Detroit. I spoke to 19 priests about my conversion story and at the end introduced John to them. They were delighted to meet him and to get to know his ministry.
Speaking to priests is for me not only a great honor, but it is also a great blessing. The good Lord Jesus showed me a mystical view of the priesthood and I think that it says it all. I know the precious gift that a priest is for the church and the earth as a whole. I know the responsibility that they carry and the great need of support and prayer that they are in need of. So it was wonderful to meet with them. Even though my testimony of conversion involves a mystical experience, they were kind and receptive and asked very good questions at the end, some of them about the existence of Hell.
In the evening I went to give my testimony of conversion at father George's community church. It was a full house and we had a very anointed talk. Father George is a true gift to the church. He is in his eighties and he still works as hard as if he were in his 50's. I love his spirit of loyalty and firmness with the church and the faithful. A true and reliable priest.
I returned to Toronto and gave another talk on Victim Souls at the Carmelite convent of Missisagua before I traveled to Colombia.
May the Lord Jesus bless all of these great apostles I just briefly mentioned. Please keep them in your prayers.
CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF THE MISSION IN WINDSOR, CANADA
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