Colombia between January and February

Colombia is the country where I lead the largest mission. The reason being is that it is here where my whole conversion story begins, where my mission opens up after being released from captivity in the jungle and returning to the faith. So it seems as if it grows every year. I do concentrate mainly with the poor. I spent many years coming to missions in Colombia and giving hundreds of conferences in the cities, small towns and villages, and also working missions in the slums of the cities. In the last three years I have visited the jungle sites and the very remote areas where missionaries do not go any longer. There used to be catholic missionaries from all over the world, who will risk their lives for the cause of the gospel and for the sake of the poor. They seem to have all past away. They do not come any more. I travel miles and miles of jungle all around Colombia and do not find missionaries at all. Once in a while you see a few here and there. The protestant sects are the ones that are capitalizing in Catholic missionary laziness and indifference and are buying the poor with food and clothing, filling them with horrible errors of faith and planting hate in their hearts against the Catholic Church.
Not all is lost though. We have started a great body of missions all around the country and together with the Legionaries of Christ and other missions of new communities, new blood is coming in. Traveling through North America and Europe is not surprising that we do not get any missionaries from those countries as we used to. They do not even have vocations for the priesthood any longer. It appears to be that Missionaries from this side of the world will have to travel to those countries to take the faith back and to evangelize those who once were the evangelizers.
I have visited a few of the Clarisse nuns in different cities, they are cluster nuns, who together with the Visitation nuns, are some of the very few catholic religious congregations that are not polluted with new age practices from the old traditional communities of the mystics and doctors of the church. Thank God for the new communities and the proliferation of perpetual adoration chapels, which come to replace what seems to be falling apart and away. The life of a religious community even if it is spread all over the world, is a very small one. They know of each other in detail, no matter how far they could be from one another, due to technology today. So, when one of those communities falls into new age practices, it is as if cancer hits the congregation. Little by little they begin to lose it and vocations are short, they stop praying the liturgy of the hours, stop adoration, get rid of the habits, buy a tv. and get plugged away with the world as any ordinary citizen. No longer cluster life, no more giving their lives for Christ, no more obeying sacred tradition. The whole community in a few years falls apart. You find nuns living by themselves in apartments that were bought with the money they get after selling the convents and their facilities.
Reading this report, any one will think that the church is falling apart, but it is far from the truth. If anything, the church is growing stronger. God is good with those who are faithful. The fact that there are countries loosing their graces because of their pagan ways and materialistic habits doesn't mean that God is not showering those faithful ones on other sides of oceans who are firmly there in obedience to His will. The Church will always prevail against all circles of humanity.
It is untouchable, because it is the mystical body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Generations of people come and go by the millions. Cultures crumble to sinful ways, hundreds of religious expressions of the Church also come and go with the centuries, but there is something that never changes with time and never will and it is the word of the Lord written in the Holy Scriptures. The Holy Spirit traveling with the people of God through the centuries, always inspire the Church with the new winds and the movement of the spiritual tide of the Catholic Faith's sea.
Traveling through the poorest areas of Colombia I find hope. Those very poor people of God, His favorites, are so Holy and so spiritually strong, that there is no doubt in my heart at all, that they are the reason the Ire of God hasn't unleashed yet. Not only because of these humble-hearted poor people of Colombia, but those equal to them from all over the world. They are probably not masses of them, but enough to bend the Almighty’s Heart into waiting a little longer.
Tomorrow I travel to a mission in Ecuador for ten days. It is going to be my third mission in that country. I'm looking forward to coming back to the mission there. It is easy to develop a great brotherhood of true love of God, with the people who are fighting the good fight of the gospel.
May the Lord Jesus and the Virgin Mary bless you and please pray for the missions, so that we find kind and generous people who are willing to help and aid the needs of the poor.