IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND UK AUGUST 2006

I arrived in Dublin on Monday the 7th of August and met with Camila McLaughlin who is a committed laywoman of Churchtown with many years of Missioning with the Catholic Church. I gave a talk that Monday evening at her prayer group in Churchtown. She invited other guests from different areas of the Dublin Church and we had a very anointed gathering. We spoke about the signs of the times and worked on discerning the spirits of so many messages and messengers in our church today.

On Tuesday the 8th I traveled to Northern Ireland to the city of Lurgan. I have a beautiful family in Christ there. We met at the hall of the Church and were able to share two hours of reflecting on being truly spiritual. We navigated deep into the high waters of the Lord Jesus bringing about His invitation to face our mortality always with the sense of being immortal. Something we often forget, being this the reason for falling into a grave state of lukewarmness. Northern Ireland is not a haven for Catholics; in some areas are English protestants that are still extremely aggressive towards them. A lot of the Northern Catholics have martyrs in their families. It shows in their serious commitments with the faith. It is always an honor and a blessing to be with them; true soldiers in the midst of hard persecutions because of their faith. Pray for them and also give thanks to God for them.

On Wednesday the 9th I traveled to Donegal; a beautiful city on the Northern west coast of the Republic of Ireland. I met with Mary Stuart and Rose Glyn of the Golden Chain of England. They put together a talk supported by the parish priest and we had a very well attended gathering with the assistance of four priests; one of whom was an 84-year-old American priest. A very well known and gifted priest, who played a great role at getting deeper in the continuation of the evening gathering during the question and answer period. The parish priest was very loving and enthusiastic too, he also presented a series of discernments in light of what I preached, which raised level of the night to a very spiritual. We were all very happy and thankful with the Lord Jesus for all the gifts He poured upon us all throughout the evening. We planned to put together a day retreat for the youth and one for adults in 2007 God willing.

On the 10th I traveled to Charlestown, a city 2 hours away from Donegal towards the southwest of the Republic. I was met by Mary Brennam, a committed lay woman of many years of service with the Catholic Church of the Republic. She invited me to visit the Holy Shrine of Knock, where a mass for the Holy souls of purgatory was being held and a healing service for the sick at the end of the mass was being offered. Following the mass, we traveled back to Charlestown and met with the parish priest. We sat with him and prepared the evening talk over Lunch. Before I left Donegal, I was interviewed by a west coast commercial radio station and that night the result of the interview proved to be very effective: The Church was filled to capacity and we had people coming from many different cities of the west coast. We had a very anointed talk and everyone was graciously moved by the Holy Spirit. We spoke about getting together next year in 2007 in a bigger setting and a longer venue.

on the 11th I went to Abbeylara in Longford. I met Anna Brady. We gathered at St. Bernard's Church. It is always great to meet committed communities. It makes one remember how much we have to pray for laity that give their lives to the service of the Church, and make it possible for many souls to know God and to return to the faith after being lapsed for many years in some cases, they make it possible for the Kingdom of God to continue reaching every soul on earth. Our evening was blessed and filled with the Spirit of the Lord. We had a great attendance.

On the 12th I went back to Dublin and had another gathering put together by Camila McLaughlin. It was a very mystic night and we continued to speak about rising above our religious lives and reaching out to be more of the spirit, coming out of the shelf of the devotional traditions and doing much more than that: Changing the heart, working hard at becoming better persons every day, turning to be those lanterns of light we where created to be. The Spirit of the Lord was pushing hard to tell us not to be content with what we were doing and to do much more, not to fall sleep and to become stronger in the faith every day.

On the 14th I went to Killkeny to the Millhill Fathers, an old monastery where missionary priests who spend their whole lives in Africa and India come back to spend the last years of their lives. It is a great honor to be able to sleep under the same roof with them and to sit at the table at meal times, to share all of the wonderful anecdotes of their missionary lives. We had a very blessed evening and a great attendance. It makes one understand how much we have to pray for the missions and the missionaries. Please do. It is through these missions that the Kingdom of God gets to every heart on earth.

On Tuesday I went to Killarney to the Parish Center at the Church of The Resurrection. I met with Angela Leary and we exchanged many things about our faith and prepared for the evening gathering which was very well attended. I gave my testimony of conversion and prayed over people after the talk. It was a very blessed evening, and everyone left high in the Spirit of the Lord. It is amazing how being part of the same Catholic Church and living under the same traditions and teachings, we are so different and have so much to offer. Each of us, each one of us having such a different Charisma. Let's pray for unity, for the love we are to share in Jesus our Lord, for the understanding we are to have with one another so that we, together in one body, glorify only God and do everything only for His Kingdom and to praise Him forever together with all of the celestial Court and the suffering Church of Purgatory.

On Wednesday I went to Cork and met with Carmell Cleary. We gathered in a hotel hall (Rochestown Park Hotel). It seems that there is difficulty with logistics as far as receiving permission to bring a foreign speaker to the parishes due to prior experiences that left the clergy's authorities being very careful about it. I understood it and had no problem speaking at the Hotel Hall. We had a large attendance and the evening was filled with blessings and healings.

On Thursday I drove to (North of) Ireland again to the city of Amtrim. I met with Maireid Evelyn. A mother of eight children. A beautiful Catholic committed family.
I couldn't say enough when I meet people that are so loyal with Christ and that are so hungry for anything that would make them better soldiers of the Church, better human beings. We gathered at a place that was built by the local government where there were several conference rooms. This city is Catholic in its majority, something very rare in (North of) Ireland. The attention of the congregation was so great that I felt I was floating the whole time I was speaking. There were children, youth of all ages, and adults from young to very old. They were all without exception, completely concentrated on what I was preaching. It was a very, very special gathering. We spoke about a much larger retreat for next year God willing.

On Friday I flew from Belfast to Glasgow, Scotland to begin a three day mission.
I met with Chris, a very committed lay man who runs the Charismatic renewal in the city. We had a day retreat on Saturday and on Monday I spoke at a prayer group in a church hall.
I met with Catholics that were committed and some were converts from the Anglican church and other denominations. Conversion stories that will fill books relaying them, magnificent testimonies of our Lady the Virgin Mary and the Eucharist, endless arms of God extended to souls He chose mysteriously and brought them to the Catholic faith in a country where protestants have been since Henry the VIII, very aggressive and violent to death against Catholics. Other protestants that are not real Christians buy masons who hate the Eucharist and have as a permanent target the persecution against the Catholic faith as an offering to Satan their God.
I greatly admire those Catholic of Scotland and ask you to pray for them, because under the same token as the northern England Catholics, they suffer greatly under the evil of mason conveniently dressed up as Christians, who in the end are only demonized human beings who have no doubt of martyring any Catholic when ever their God so demands in one of their satanic masses.

I left Glassgow and flew to London during the terrorist scare and security at the airports was extremely high. Not a very comfortable time for traveling; a good sacrifice to offer. I went back to Walsingham the next day after arriving in London to participate in the Youth 2000 weekend conference.
The Youth 2000 conference is held outside the town by the Catholic shrine of our lady of Walsingham at the same site where the New Dawn conference is held. The youth and their parents in most cases, camp out in the fields and as in New Dawn, all of the conferences are held in a large tent. They have the blessed Sacrament permanently exposed in the middle of the big tent and they call it the burning bush. It is an amazing site. One can see the transformation during the weekend, of so many youths, some coming for the first time. Many priests participate, and the sacrament of reconciliation is held all throughout the day. We were honored to have the Bishop of Lancaster come on Saturday night and hold confessions, and co-celebrate the mass the next day with many other priests. It was a great conference, and I was honored and blessed to be part of it as a speaker. It is wonderful to share our faith with the youth, the future of the Church.
With this weekend conference for the Youth, I finished the mission of this year 2006 in the UK, Ireland and Scotland. I traveled on the 29th to south America, to begin a two month mission, mainly in jungle sites of Colombia and Venezuela.