Nov. 2005: mission in Canada + Pictures
Traveling from Windsor to Toronto on the 6:00 am train was beautiful and peaceful. A snowy and very cold winter morning. I truly love missioning in Canada. It has been five years since I started missioning here. This time the preparation is for another encounter with the "Servants of the Holy Trinity". A very anointed lay community in Toronto who have been blessed with a great charisma. They have received the gift of supporting the prophets and visionaries of the Catholic church from around the world. A mission that is not a simple one. Private revelation presentations are a for sure a scenario of persecution. The liberals hate it. The conservatives fear it and the Orthodox watch it very carefully. Regardless of what they all think, the Servants open their hearts to these instruments of God, always of course in faithful obedience to the Church.
This particular time I was asked to speak on Obedience. A theme that calls for a serious deepening in a very subtle and intrinsic part of the human being. One has a tendency to avoid perfecting obedience, due to the fact that it demands giving up self, and positions one in a stage of renunciation to all preconceived notions of self. Not an easy task. People are not very kin to work in this matter, much less to obey it. What a great reason for this to be an important area to challenge face to face.
What I love about the Servants' missions is the daring of inviting the speakers to touch on topics that are usually the matters that make preachers unpopular and unwelcome. I absolutely love it. Our church is in great need of a naked message of truth. In need of a gospel that is not negotiated with the times. In need of speakers that are willing to lay down their lives for the sake of the kingdom of God. In need of missionaries of the love of God that come to deliver the message of truth without worrying about being accepted or loved by everyone, but focus on serving He who sent them: Jesus our Lord. Priests are in a very difficult situation in countries like Canada and the USA. The regular faithful aren't willing to put up with sacred tradition and are protestantising themselves more and more; something welcomed by liberal priests, but for sure not a joy for priests that are faithful to the true teachings of the Church. That is why a lay community like the Servants is a vital cell of today's church. They provide the mouthpiece of God, through the lay missionaries that they reunite in their conferences, who have the rough job of exhorting the people of God to shake up their mediocrity and lukewarmness, in order to make real soldiers of the Church, so they can go out and defend the millions of souls that are lost in this world and are marching in chains, straight to Hell.
I've missioned with the Servants in Ireland, England and other countries in Europe. I recommend the reader highly to take a look up these Servants of God and to be attentive to their future events.
I had the honor to mission again with John and Carol Leary whom I hold dearly as true brothers in Christ. The list of the speakers I met through the Servants is long. I can only say that they are all very valuable soldiers of today's Catholic church.
May the Lord Jesus and the Holy Virgin Mary protect the Irish and French Canadian Carmels who guide this community of Servants and everyone else that supports them in all aspects. The Servants are allied in the missions I have in Colombia for the poor and the needy. Our next mission will be India God willing. Please visit the Servants' web site at: www.servantsoftheholytrinity.com
CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF THE MISSION IN TORONTO, CANADA
This particular time I was asked to speak on Obedience. A theme that calls for a serious deepening in a very subtle and intrinsic part of the human being. One has a tendency to avoid perfecting obedience, due to the fact that it demands giving up self, and positions one in a stage of renunciation to all preconceived notions of self. Not an easy task. People are not very kin to work in this matter, much less to obey it. What a great reason for this to be an important area to challenge face to face.
What I love about the Servants' missions is the daring of inviting the speakers to touch on topics that are usually the matters that make preachers unpopular and unwelcome. I absolutely love it. Our church is in great need of a naked message of truth. In need of a gospel that is not negotiated with the times. In need of speakers that are willing to lay down their lives for the sake of the kingdom of God. In need of missionaries of the love of God that come to deliver the message of truth without worrying about being accepted or loved by everyone, but focus on serving He who sent them: Jesus our Lord. Priests are in a very difficult situation in countries like Canada and the USA. The regular faithful aren't willing to put up with sacred tradition and are protestantising themselves more and more; something welcomed by liberal priests, but for sure not a joy for priests that are faithful to the true teachings of the Church. That is why a lay community like the Servants is a vital cell of today's church. They provide the mouthpiece of God, through the lay missionaries that they reunite in their conferences, who have the rough job of exhorting the people of God to shake up their mediocrity and lukewarmness, in order to make real soldiers of the Church, so they can go out and defend the millions of souls that are lost in this world and are marching in chains, straight to Hell.
I've missioned with the Servants in Ireland, England and other countries in Europe. I recommend the reader highly to take a look up these Servants of God and to be attentive to their future events.
I had the honor to mission again with John and Carol Leary whom I hold dearly as true brothers in Christ. The list of the speakers I met through the Servants is long. I can only say that they are all very valuable soldiers of today's Catholic church.
May the Lord Jesus and the Holy Virgin Mary protect the Irish and French Canadian Carmels who guide this community of Servants and everyone else that supports them in all aspects. The Servants are allied in the missions I have in Colombia for the poor and the needy. Our next mission will be India God willing. Please visit the Servants' web site at: www.servantsoftheholytrinity.com
CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES OF THE MISSION IN TORONTO, CANADA
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