2006 Missions

A MISSIONARY'S REFLECTION OCTOBER 2006

We are living times that are most unique in essence. We can’t possibly ignore as a people of God that we are confronted with the eminent signs of the end of the end times. This couldn’t possibly be a secret for any child of God that is living a life of obedience and therefore wares a clear discernment of the times.

We need to support the missions and missionaries spiritually by interceding before The Celestial Court for the well-being of the messengers, so that we can be strong enough to face the gigantic and aggressive attacks of the forces of evil against humanity today.
These are not the regular times of missions. These are the total emerging of all hell creeping into the Church of God and into the hearts of the youth and humanity in general.

Lets place our hand right in the heart, so that we can clearly feel the pulsation of the Sacred Heart who lives within and beats perfectly to the tempo of the battle.

Let's be aware that these are not the times for mediocrity, lukewarmness, wandering or doubting. These are not times for self indulging in our humanness, or forgetting our military duties as an army of God.

These are the true times of the radical conversions. If we do not absolutely convert, we’ll be broken down by the evil one. Let us hear the trumpet call right now and not tomorrow, it could be already too late for many of us.

The spiritual darkness has a peculiarity: It shows in the midst of a glorious and glamorous material world. That is why many fall and do not notice that the whole abyss has come up from under, and everything is damp from the putrefactions of its evil nature dressed up us light.

Let us wake up, soldiers of Christ. The time is here and now to face the mission we were sent to fulfill. No fear should we ware, only trust in God and courage to die for the calling of the Cross, for the calling of the Gospel!

Let us go now, lets show the whole world that Jesus is Lord and His coming back is in our midst.

We are the Army of Christ and He is our King and Lord. Amen.

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Mission in Venezuela October 2006

I arrived to Punto Fijo via Caracas on the 29th of September to start my third mission in Venezuela. Punto Fijo is an oil production city on the north Caribbean coast of the country. A beautiful city with many enthusiastic Catholics and very hot weather. Temperatures where high during the weekend I was there.
I was welcomed by a priest and a group of lay people called "Couples for Christ" that was founded in Brazil and now is part of the Catholic church worldwide.
We started the next day with a retreat for the whole day in which I presented first my testimony of conversion, the central matter of my mission, and thereafter we went on to different topics like Divine Infancy relating it to the dying to self and the becoming like children in order to enter the Kingdom of God. We spoke about being true soldiers of Christ and about the mystery of the silence of the Cross. We agreed on setting up a retreat for the upcoming lent in March.

Sunday I was taken to Coro; the city for my next mission. This is a pretty city that is a little more commercial and industrial. There I was welcomed by a group of ladies who prepared a very busy mission and was given shelter by an Italian family who have a special dedication to the hearts of Jesus and Mary.
It was a true Joy to be with them. I preached in a few different parishes and we had a very anointed journey consecrating the whole nation to the Lord Jesus and our Lady the Virgin Mary. Everybody was intensely supplicating to the Lord for a new Venezuela, for the end of the evil ruling of the devil. I left with my heart filled with hope after sharing with a people of God that was humble and repented, willing to fight hard for the goodness of the Gospel amongst them.

Next, I traveled to the city of Barquisimeto, mainly a business city with a Marian center that houses the largest marian devotion in a nearby town: Our Lady Divine Shepper. I was told that over two million pilgrims gather every year for her feast day. It is known as one of the largest Marian congregations in the Church worldwide.
I missioned with a group of laity who are highly committed to sheltering abandoned children; some who were left by parents who couldn't take care of them, others were left by people that did not love them, who just left them behind. It is a magnificent act of charity, it made me very sad and yet very happy, because of the contrast with human misery at its lowest and God's Mercy in its splendor. One has to cry before such a scenery, but one has to remember also that these children are not the only ones abandoned.

I moved on to the city of Valencia where I teamed up with the lay group who was responsible for organizing my mission in Venezuela this time. We were happy to meet again. right away we engaged in prayer, consecrating the next three days of the mission. We had a weekend retreat and were able to touch many hearts that were truly hungry for Jesus. It is a very beautiful thing to see so many people truly attentive to every detail that The Holy Spirit has for them. They work hard at asking many questions after the talks and deep reflections took place for long sessions.
The whole mission was blessed by a spirit of hope and conversion and also like in many other cities in the country at this time, a spirit of supplication for the freedom of the country from the hands of the evil one. We received very reliable information about the fact that the actual president and part of his cabinet is consecrated to an African cult called Babalao which deals with very heavy magic, spiritualism and divination. It is said that they consecrate the whole country every month to Satan but they name the demons with the name of saints, something that is known as Santeria, which is supposed to be Fidel Castro's cult also. It is the official satanic spirituality of Cuban nationals. The stories about it are endless and beyond scary. We Catholics truly need to unite and pray for a change in the upcoming elections of that country.

I traveled to Caracas and held four different venues in parishes and convents. It is a city of beautiful cathedrals and churches of all kinds. Churches are presently full to capacity in all of masses around town, daily and on Sunday masses. One will guess that it is due to the pressure of the times they are enduring, but I'll add that it is also a feverous people and it is time for a special spiritual battle where every spiritual weapon has come out and has to be put to use. Even though it is sad to see people go through what Venezuelans are going through, it is somehow a great experience to share this moment due to the seriousness of the battle they are fighting, so the whole ground is trembling and prayers are powerful, filled with the Spirit of God. One can sense the wings of Mercy hovering all around the faithful.
I truly felt the blessings everywhere of a Faithful God who never abandons His people.

From Caracas I flew to the Caribbean Isle of Margarita, a very beautiful vacationers place for locals and tourist from all over the globe.
I had a very blessed mission of three days giving a day retreat at a Catholic school which was open to everyone, and then a few other talks in different churches and prayer groups. There was no much difference with the rest of the country with the urgency of prayer for a drastic change in the nation. I teamed up with their intentions and dedicated every venue for the liberation of the country. We plan on setting up a retreat for the upcoming lent God willing.

I returned to Colombia on the 15th of October where I'm presently missioning until the 31st.

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MISSION IN COLOMBIA SEPTEMBER 2006

I arrived in Bogotá, Colombia on the 30th of August and began a series of retreats and spiritual assistance to many. Bogotá has a Pilgrim's of Love house which is the main mission house for all the Spanish speaking countries. Many people come with different needs. Life in south America is one of contrast. On one end the faith is much more on fire spiritually. On the other hand, one has to endure the climate of social injustice that still reigns in many areas. It just tells you that there is not a happy and harmonious place on earth. It does help to make one to strive more for the things that are from above. Being in countries like Europe or North America, or even some places in Asia, gives one a very scary view of the world because of the coldness, indifference and distance from God, so if one compares both areas of underdeveloped countries and industrialized ones, spiritually speaking, there is no other solution than to go on our knees and repent fast, go through penance and sacrifices to repair for all those that do not pray, for all of those that do not adore, for all of those that do not believe, as the Angel in Fatima taught the little shepherds to do. There is no time to waste; the Angel of chastisement has been set loose for a while already, and the only force that possibly holds his hand back from hitting hard in some places as he should, is true conversions of the heart, where the spirit of true penitents can produce a level of spiritual light which crosses the commands of chastisement into the Celestial Courts finding intercession from the ones above who are close to the Father, the Son, and The Holy Spirit, such as The Virgin Mary, Saint Michael, and all the saints, giving license by God through the gift of canonization for the needs of the faithful and the request for a truce made by the saints on earth with the promise to fight harder for the truth and the love of God amongst humankind as reparation's souls. I'm not presenting a picture of doom with the intention of exiting the innate superstitious nature of people due to original sin, as false prophets of end times do. I'm reflecting on a picture of a reality that is eminent in our world, where the signs are clear: North America is in great danger of becoming much lower than any third world country in all aspects. Due to its degeneration in morals and values, the horrifying crime of abortion, and the decadence of the media and entertainment world, God is going to take away every single grace and blessing given through the faithful founders of those countries like the USA and Canada if they do not absolutely enter on a path of radical changes towards God, and as a matter of fact, it has to be done immediately, because there is no time left for them. Europe is turning towards a total apostasy and serious manipulation of world powers in the hands of terrifying satanic freemasons. Where do these reflections lead us? To the understanding that the forces of nature are shifting to an unexpected world order that is far from being humankind's plan. What appears to be below today, will end up being above, and what so surely remains above is collapsing to the very below. Every thing can change and will change if people do make a change of heart, but the colors of human conduct today, are so blair within the spiritual realms related to God and His commandments, that there seems to be very little hope so far.
I met with the missionaries of "Hope of The Heart" from Italy (Esperanza dei Cuori)that came to Colombia to mission in the jungle area of the Choco, a rain forest of the country in the pacific side. For a few years this mission has been steadily growing in evangelization and also in providing a better living for natives from the Embero Katiro's tribes. Many were in the hands of the horrifying lies of the evangelical sects, which come to Colombia to plant the most terrifying hatred against the Catholic Church. Some have been in the hands of esoteric and magical sects as the Jehovah Witnesses and the Mormons, but in general, many have returned to the Catholic faith, and many didn't have a faith at all. Today, some of the tribes, thanks to this mission, have a school for the children, a medical center, a Chapel, electricity and some better means of survival. What is even better: a relationship with God that is so beautiful and sincere that will put a lot of cradle Catholics to shame in many of the places I mentioned above.
Missioning in those places is a true challenge. The first thing a missionary has to do, is to really decide if one will be able to give one's life for Jesus. You are talking about walking in areas that are mined by violent and cruel guerrilla groups, serious exposure to different kinds of threats, and in the midst of all of that, it is a good challenge for a true Christian to find out how much spiritual growth he has really achieved. We find today in our Church a lot of good people that provide a sincere generous heart and help many missions around the world, but very few brave missionaries that will venture beyond the cement walls of the cities. The great adventure of missions today, is to go to the ghettos and deal with prostitutes, alcoholics, prison ministries and drug addict rehabilitation programs, but if called to go a little further than that, very, very few answer the call. We are not exactly populated by a brave church today unfortunately.
We'll continue to go to the jungle areas and many other places where only very aggressive protestant and magical, esoteric sects go, or where human beings have been completely abandoned to starvation.
Let's pray so that our Catholic Church has missionaries that are willing to go all the way into bringing Jesus to the hearts of those that are so far away from civilization, and who end up being ignored completely.

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AUGUST 2006 MISSION IN IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND UK + Photos

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 Northern 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 Northern 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.

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England's mission July & August 2006 + PHOTOS

I arrived to London on the 13th of July after ending the mission in Italy. The first venue I participated in was the "Life is for Joy" ecumenical weekend conference at Wintershall estates, on the 15th and 16th of July. I had the opportunity to share with Peter and Ann Hutley, whose great spiritual inspirations led them to use their beautiful property in the country for the service of the Lord. They hold numerous events, among them the dramatization of the nativity and the life of our Lord Jesus. Events that take place all around the many acres of land they own, giving it a perfect scenario around the lakes and numerous barns and fields, for a display of sacred Christian history, supported by actors and actresses that with great love perform their parts, making the faithful live a true experience of Christ. So much of this is missing in our church today. Thanks God for the Hutleys and their team, that make it possible for such anointed activities to take place. I'll extend an invitation to Catholics and Christians of all orientations, around the world, to imitate them and for sure we'll expose our faith to all, making it more accessible to people of this busy world, who will not be interested to read or find out much about the faith and in some cases their own faith. A great tool for evangelization, a great way of celebrating the wonders of Christianity, a powerful way to worship and praise our Mighty God in Jesus our Savior. Please visit their web site at:
www.wintershall-estate.com
May the Lord Jesus and the Virgin Mary bless them and their team, so that they keep on celebrating the gifts of our faith.

On the 17th I visited the Church of Christ The King. A Charismatic & ecumenical group. It was the second time I preached there. I spoke about being a true soldier of Christ. It is wonderful to follow-up on these missions with the parishes one has visited. It gives one a sense of continuity, which is necessary for the spiritual growth of the speaker and the whole congregation, which at the end are nothing more than one body in Christ. I find as a speaker, that what I speak is nothing less than what is in everyone's heart; except that I am the instrument whose voice is the congregations' inner life of the heart in a mystical way, fusing it together into one train of thought, turning everybody's gifts of the spirit into one. God is wonderful!. The magnificent work of The Holy Spirit among us!

On the 19th I visited for the first time the parish of Saint Peter the Apostle in southeast London. A beautiful church with the blessing of a very anointed and faithful parish priest who has his church on fire with the spirit!
We had adoration for one hour before mass and after mass we gathered together in the hall. The turnout was great and father introduced me with great encouraging words and his blessing. I gave my testimony of conversion and we had a very inspiring questions and answers hour. We agreed on meeting again on my next visit God willing next summer 2007.

On the 18th I visited Saint Joseph's church in Highgate Hill in Northern London.
Mass was at 6:30 p.m. and after, a beautiful venue with a good turnout, after which I shared my testimony followed by a time for prayers and healing.

On the 20th I visited Saint Ignatius Church prayer group on Stanford Hill, Northern London. We had mass at 7:00 p.m. and then a talk furthering my last visit. Again, we had a good turnout and a very attentive congregation hungry enough for the Lord to assimilate everything given by the Holy Spirit with love and humility. It was a joy to be there.

On the 21th I visited the city of Pool and spoke for the first time at Saint Mary's church. I gave my testimony of conversion. I was welcomed by a very anointed prayer group of ladies who are courageous soldiers of the church. We had a great turnout filled with a spirit of contemplation throughout the conference; a very attentive and respectful congregation. We spoke afterwards about getting together for a one day retreat for my next visit next year God willing. It was a very nice visit. We had a private retreat on the following Saturday and concluded the visit with prayer and healing ministry. A joy to be there among them!

On Sunday the 23rd I went to Bristol and spoke at Saint Anthony's church. We had a four hour meeting between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. I was able to present extensively my experience with the Lord. We had plenty time to share all questions and answers and to do a closing to the meeting with anointing and grace from the Holy Spirit.
The Parish priest kindly donated a monstrance for the poor parishes of South America where I mission, I was also given rosaries and medals for the poor. It was a very generous parish, with a heart open for the poor and very sensitive to my mission. May the Lord continue to bless them. I enjoyed their Latin Mass prior to the meeting.

On the 25th I visited Our Lady of Willesden Shrine and gave a talk in reflection to being a true soldier of God. It was my third time visiting them. A prayer group working very hard on interceding for the city of London; true prayer warriors. In union with our Lady of Willesden, they truly rebuke great legions of demons from the city. Without groups like this one, the city would have been in flames a long time ago. Please pray for them, they are an important part of our army.

On the 26th I went back to visit the Church of Saint Sebastian & Saint Pancras. we attended mass at 7:30p.m. followed by a talk on Angels of the Lord. It is always good to follow up on the teachings and in this opportunity, speaking of Angels, gave us a very good view of our relationship with them and how we are to unite ourselves with them to consciously fortify our strength against the enemy of the soul. Many Catholics unfortunately ignore this relationship and it is sad, because it could enrich greatly their spiritual lives and no telling about the amount of protection that it will bring into their lives. Let's pray for that intention, so that we are more conscious of the presence and action of our Angels in our lives.

On the 28th I visited the Padre Pio Bookstore in Central London close to Victoria Station. Here I was in a very blessed spot in the middle of a very busy and worldly area of the city, just like a pearl in the mud. What a great place of prayer. We had an enormous turnout for a little place, people were sitting anywhere where they could and many standing, the heat was high on a sunny day and we had mass prior to the talk. We had five priests at one time before all started; two concelebrated and another heard confessions, the other two left before the mass. A very hungry congregation, hungry for the right food, hungry for God. Oh it is the greatest pleasure to find a remnant like this in the midst of my mission, it gives me so much strength and it is like a feeding ground for me. There were also colorful characters along the activities. Some people were not able to enter, because there was physically no space left. One person who was standing outside had a gigantic picture of Divine Mercy hanging from his neck and another one was carrying a big statue of our Lady. Some people would find them odd, but I think that all of this is part of the impact this world made in some hearts, due to the materialistic and decadent ways of people living their lives away from God today. It gets some people to act in what appears to be unusual manners. I see this as a silent and incomprehensive grace for humanity. I admit that my view on this matter is merely a mystical one, far from being psychological, but I had to say it. Overall, Padre Pio's bookshop talk was a very special one filled with blessings for everyone that came. May the Lord bless them all!

Saturday 29th. From 10:00 am until 4:30 p.m. we gathered to share what the Pastor called: A quiet day led by Marino Restrepo. It was my third time to mission with father Paul at the Five Precious Wounds church in Stonebridge, London. Father has been a great support to my mission. We had two talks and then mass, confessions and adoration. It was a very anointed Saturday. It is an honor to have a priest like father Paul Brophy, he is in tune with the solid teachings of the Church and always comes across like a true servant of God, his great reverence to the sacred liturgy, his awareness of what the Church wants from him and his understanding of his mission as an apostle of Christ. May the Lord keep him among us for a long time to come. We need priests like him badly in our church today. I run into extremely sad cases where priests are in clear disobedience to the sacred traditions of the Church and send the most horrific messages to their congregations pushing the sheep entrusted to them by the Lord Jesus, to the hands of wolves, scattering them into the wide open dangers of this world of today. Praise the Lord for father Paul and all faithful priest of our Church. Lets truely pray hard for the conversion of the unfaithful!

On the 31st I began my first visit to the most important charismatic gathering in the Catholic UK: The New Dawn conference. A week of conferences in a little historical town 3 hours away from London called Walsingham, England's national Marian Shrine. This was their 20th anniversary. The week long gathering is held in the outskirts of town, on the fields of a land owner as they are known in England. They put up a very large tent as the main meeting one. Around in close by areas, you'll find a set of different size tents all dedicated to different activities, among them, one tent for the blessed sacrament adoration which is held for long periods during the day.Many families come with the children and camp in a designated camping area. It is a very different type of Catholic congress as one may call it. I found it very refreshing and uplifting, especially because of the families, which are the true salt of the Church. Seeing these loyal Catholic families with large numbers of children, gives one hope that vocations will be coming in the future, because these children are growing with in faith involved with Jesus and by the hand of our Lady the Virgin Mary.
Miles Dempsey who is the founder and organizer of this event, is a remarkable personality whose testimony I wouldn't be able to tell in a few sentences, I can only tell you that it was a joy and a blessing to be invited to participate in such a beautiful piece of work of God's gifts to the Church. Miles' work, shows you what following God's will is all about. A true soldier of God and an honorable servant of the Kingdom, that goes to all his team who have been with him for years going through all of the battles they have to weigh time after time, when setting the ground for each year's conference. May the Lord Jesus continue to bless this anointed work of Miles and his team and God willing I'll be back with them next year for the 21st conference.
Please visit their web site for more information at: www.newdawn.org.uk/introduction.htm

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June 2006 mission in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand

PHILIPPINES

I flew from Los Angeles, California on May 29th to Manila, Philippines. After meeting so many Pilipino Catholics in so many countries while Missioning these last seven years, it was an honor and a joy to be able to visit such a blessed country. It is rather unique to find the Philippines as a true Catholic jewel in the midst of a true ancient pagan continent. Philippines shines in the midst of it, because it has received Christ with obedience and observance to sacred tradition and to the Hierarchy of the Church, in spite of so many years since the Spaniards left, after evangelizing them. They remain faithful to Christ and the Catholic faith. You find small groups of protestants here and there, rather isolated and mostly embracing newly convert Asian foreigner and confused Philippines who didn't grow up in solid families. New age is a force that like in many Catholic countries throughout the world, is appearing to be threatening, due to the lack of knowledge as to what it really is. The whole universal Catholic church needs to be evangelized in this regard. But in general, I was very confident about the Philippine's faith. I met with a very generous and kind family who welcomed me and introduced me to different prayer groups in the city. I met brother Anthony and his community in the outskirts of Manila. They gave me a warm welcome and introduced me to their very anointed work of charity where they host an orphanage, nourished by a number of monks who devoted their life to mission with the abandoned children; some of whom were picked up from the trash as babies.
The work is so immense and so beautiful, that words will not suffice by any means. I can only tell you, that it will humble the most proud one.
I met with the charismatic and after five days in the country I left with the commitment to come back soon to continue with a much larger mission throughout the country. One thing in particular that I highly admire about Asian Catholics, is the reverence they have in the temple. At the moment of sharing the peace during the celebration of the Eucharist, they bring both palms of the hands together to their chest and bow to the person on the right and the one on the left, acknowledging the peace without a word, but in a very solemn way, making you aware of the sacredness of the whole celebration, keeping the mystic of the sacrifice alive. This being one of the many other particulars of their ways of venerating.
It has been to me very difficult to be part of masses in North America, where at the moment of sharing the peace, the whole church turns into a social gathering where what is sacred is no longer there and people become so important, that the greetings could extend for a while, interrupting the sacredness of the sacrifice.
It was a very uplifting experience to visit Philippines and I'm looking forward to my next mission there God willing. IT was agreed with brother Anthony to form a group of my mission Pilgrims of Love for the continent of Asia, a missionary group, to be sent throughout the continent to evangelize.
Please pray for this courageous country, so that they maintain the faith in spite of these times.

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MALAYSIA June 06

After Philippines, I flew to Malaysia, to Penang and then to Kuala Lumpur. A beautiful country run by a Monarch with a democratic parliament. I must say that even though it is a Muslim country, I didn't feel that the Christians there were under religious pressure, persecution or oppression, as in some other Muslim countries. Thank God!

The Catholic population is very small. The church is wealthy due to the fact that Catholics there are mainly middle class and are well off financially. They are converts from Buddhism and Taoism mainly. I found these converts and especially the new converts, so hungry for Jesus and Mary and all the treasures of the Catholic faith, that it really inspired me and gave me a lot of hope for the conversion of Asia to Christ.
The Lord Jesus showed me with great clarity how it was that these people were chosen by Him to be the missionaries that will enter China in a very large way to evangelize them. They are all of Chinese descent and they all speak mandarin or Cantonese. They know the Chinese culture well and will be able to fuse themselves with the people there making the missionary work much more effective that that of a westerner. The Spirit of the Lord Jesus is at work in a very large way in that continent and I can see how it will rapidly spread throughout the land, now that the Chinese are free to come and go out of the country as they please.
I was able to preach at the Immaculate Conception Church in Penang, two nights in a row and spoke in different prayer groups. It was a very anointed opening of a mission that already began and it looks as if the Lord Jesus will keep it on fire for a good while to come.
Please keep in your prayers all of these Catholics of Malaysia, they really need your prayers, so that they will have the courage to follow the calling of the Lord to go and take the Gospel to the main land.

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THAILAND June 06

I united in prayer with the missionaries of the Golden Chain of the Holy Rosary from London, England who were on a beautiful and powerful mission to pray for the suffering souls of the tsunami victims. We were Missioning in those countries around the belt where the tsunami struck. It is devastating to see the decadent and immoral life of Thailand. They are living a business sexual life, where they sell to tourists their little children and there are so many moral issues in the country that one will need a great treaty to present it. Catholics need to be brave and evangelize these poor souls that are in great danger of eternal perdition. Thousands of souls were trapped by the tsunami, unprepared and without having the least knowledge of God. The missionaries of the Rosary Golden Chain went throughout the places where they felt many suffering souls needed prayer. We all have to pray for those souls and make sure that we place them all at the foot of our Lady's intercessory prayers, so that our mission as a Eucharistic family in Christ is fulfilled.

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Saint Louis, Missouri. Georgia, California, North Carolina and Florida May 06

Being back in Saint Louis, Missouri for me is meeting with a group of Catholics with whom I have developed a beautiful mission in Christ Jesus. We agree in the Immaculate Heart of Mary and praise the Lord through her, sharing the wonders received by all of us from our Lady Queen of Peace of and other many miraculous holy sites around the world. And when this is said and done, we concentrate on spiritual growth.
We held a two-day retreat directed by father Mark Bosada. We were able to internalize our faith in a way that brought us to a most humble state of reflection, bringing all of us to a personal realization of our sinfulness, limitations, and much more. It was good to be able to look at each other knowing how much we all have to work on changing so many things that are still within us and that do not belong to God, nor please God in any way. It was great to re-discover that with new eyes, knowing also a bit more about God's mercy and forgiveness in Jesus. Knowing that we have to do much more. That we haven't done enough. That the way of the Cross with Jesus is much more demanding than any other way. But realizing that it is the only way of eternal graces, of eternal salvation.
The Lord was so present in every second of the retreat! We felt great company from all heaven. We came out renewed and enjoying new blessings to face what lies ahead of us.
Please pray for all of these families in Christ, so that they may continue as strong soldiers of Christ!

CALIFORNIA May 06
North Hills was the first mission this time and I went back to MOM ; the Gospa prayer group.
A Filipino community guided by a very strong and faithful Catholic lady by the name of Juliet. It is a strong place for deepening the faith. During a two-day retreat we worked very hard on growing beyond being religious. We talked about realizing how long we have been in the church as Catholics and how much we have really grown as a persons of Christ. How much better as human beings we have turned out to be through the many or little years of being Catholics. How much have our hearts really changed. Have we really understood above religion what being spiritual means.
I spoke about Purgatory, presenting my mystical experience on Purgatory, leading everyone to understand the seriousness of this very painful state of the soul where we all good Catholics can end up, if we do not pay attention to what meticulous means. We spoke about Christ Jesus never padding on the shoulders his apostles about any thing. He kept them always on their toes, alert and awaken at all times. We meditated on doing so much more, on giving so much more, on growing so much more. Oh! It was a blessed retreat. We pray that everyone that was present and everyone that will be able to listen to the retreat in any of the recorded formats, will highly benefit from it. The Lord was demanding of a much stronger commitment, of a much deeper faith. He was demanding much more than being a practicing Catholic. He was demanding Sainthood and perfection.
Please pray for all of these souls that come to this great community and for their leader, so that the good Lord Jesus keep her faithful and strong.

CONYERS, GEORGIA May 06

Going back to the Farm for the fifth time was a joy. We had a series of talks in English and one in Spanish. I was blessed to be there for May 13. Many pilgrims from all over came to the celebration of this wonderful gift. The Gift of Fatima. It was so uplifting to see so many Spanish immigrants that came from so many places in big buses, some came as far as from New Jersey.
It was clear that it was not necessarily about a specific geographical place anymore. It is about the thirst for God. His people are looking for nourishment everywhere. Getting together to celebrate a date as trascendental as the apparition of our Lady of Fatima, gets us to contemplate a sad picture of the world today: It has not changed much since the last warning of Fatima. After that warning world war II began and devastated a great part of the whole world. We wonder what is going on today?. Is it possible that today's world is already undergoing the last chastisement and it could easily be the total degeneration and secularism of the people? The great apostasy! People are either growing hungry for Jesus or desperately hungry for the things of the world. The ones hungry for Jesus are a very limited number comparing the total world population. God's Mercy is so large, that the handful of faithful that receive Holy Communion daily, had made it possible for this world to still have another chance in spite of being worst than any evil empire in the whole human history.
One thing is for sure. Growing spiritual is concentratingon being prepared to see Jesus today! Not tomorrow.
May the Lord Jesus and our Lady of Fatima bless all of the pilgrims and their families who travelled a long way to come and praise the Lord at the Farm.

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA May 06

My second visit to Raleigh. This time we reunited at Avila convent in the outskirts of town. A beautiful set up surrounded by a lush greenery filled with beautiful trees. We had a two-day retreat. The retreat was concentrated also on internalizing the faith. We began by setting up a spirit of reflection on realizing the sense of eternity of our soul. The Lord Jesus was present very strongly throughout my conferences, making sure that we all focus deeply on what is eternal. Leading us way above our mortality, so that we can begin to grasp the real air of the spirit, to be able to cope with the times. He was showing to how vital it is to fix our eyes on Him, exactly the same way Saint John the apostle did. He didn't understand a thing about why the good Lord Jesus his master, whom he knew to be God Himself, was allowing this whole thing of Calvary to take place. But he remained put to the stations of the cross, in spite of his not understanding it. It was his love for his master that kept him moving along side by side until Golgotha. Jesus wants us to be alike in our daily life. To be real warriors of His army by living a life filled with a sense of direction focused on the celestial home. The City of Jerusalem from above.
It was clear to all of us that Jesus wanted to make us understand how vital it was to view each other as souls. That alone will bring about a transcendental change in our behavior towards one another. If we lift our eyes up to what is spiritual and begin to be less and less of the flesh, our whole life will take a definite turn to the light. Jesus was very clear on showing us how it is that today, one cannot afford to be a lukewarm Catholic. One will not be able to stand what is coming upon us in the very near future.
Please pray for all of the persons that came to this retreat, because if they went out to fulfill the mission with their lives, that was clearly pointed out by the Lord, they will definitely transform their environment around them, they will bring about transcendental change in every one they will meet and their families.

MIAMI, FLORIDA May 06

I came to preach again in this city. This time to the Spanish community only, to prayer groups.
I can see how each one of the cells of the parishes they belong too, are real lanterns in the midst of this darken desert of materialistic living. There is very little doctrinal formation in this groups from the hands of the clergy. Most of them have to find their own way of educating themselves in the faith. One sees that most don't know what the Church wants from them and how much are they allowed to do and not to do. Even though this is what is happening, I observed a meticulous desire to be obedient to the Church in all aspects. This is a very good sign all around. I noticed how the Catholic church in North America, has grown more and more corporate like and less and less spiritual. Priests are petrified to think about losing their parishioners and having to face their Bishops afterward. Bishops are putting pressure on the priest to be "prudent" and charitable to the faithful. They have been known to say: "We do not want to scare them away with sermons of demons and tales of hells. We do not want to call them a bunch of sinners want to make them feel welcome and to meet a mercifully Jesus". Unfortunately, all of this is nothing other than the Protestantism of the church. A church that is more and more a feel good church than a true fighting one looking to become a Holy and perfect church.
There are hardly any local Spanish priests in these Spanish communities in Florida. Most of the priests are borrowed from abroad. These priests have to be careful as to what they say from the pulpilt. If they are very spiritual, they will have to tame their holiness and be subjected to rules and regulations of politics. Fortunately this is not the case with every parish or with every Bishop, it's just a factor that has becomed more and more common over the years.
I finished the mission in Florida in the city of Orlando with the charismatic renewal. I preached in several churches for a whole week and then met for the Charismatic assembly in the Saint James Cathedral. A very large congregation gathered from all parishes in the area. The Bishop of this diocesis is of Polish and Cuban descent, he has been very open to the ethnic groups and kind and giving to the Spanish community. Hope is in the area and please pray so that the good Lord Jesus continues to bless this Bishop, so that he understands the importance of reaching out to this very large community of Spanish people who need their shepherd.

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CLEVELAND, OHIO AND MICHIGAN + PHOTOS April 06

I began missioning in Detroit on April 19th at the Opus Angelorum, the order of The Holy Angels and the Holy Cross. I gave talks to some of their guests and then to the brothers and sisters of the congregation. I was able to spend two nights at the convent of the brothers, which was a great blessing to be among a very deep spiritual order where one can actually rest from the constant traveling and receive a spiritual uplift for what lies ahead.
I had four more venues in Detroit in different parishes for the English speaking Catholics. I was invited for Divine Mercy Vigil on Saturday the 22nd at Catholic Radio where I spoke about being a true soldier of God.

May the Lord Jesus and Our Lady The Virgin Mary bless all of these people that I encountered during these days of mission in Michigan and Ohio. Let's pray hard for the clergy that is weak in the faith and creates so much confusion in our church and let's pray even harder for the faithful that stay firm in the faith in spite of these times.

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CANADA APRIL 14TH THROUGH THE 18TH 2006

I flew from Caracas, Venezuela to Toronto on Good Friday, and the next day I went to Kitchener, Ontario, a city one hour away from Toronto, to give a talk to the Spanish community. I met with a group of Spanish speaking Catholics from different countries who are truly hungry for God and have been working hard on bringing about a true renewal of their faith. It is a joy to see this happening among immigrants. I'm usually saddened by what I encounter in the immigrant communities. A lot of them lose their identities and are consumed by the materialistic ways of living in these industrialized nations. Along with that they also lose God and therefore lose themselves. We shared a beautiful moment of reflection of our faith and the Easter liturgical season to come.
That same evening I met with the Servants of the Holy Trinity in Mississauga and shared a reflection on obedience. Through Carmel, the leader of this lay community, I have been able to mission in different fronts of the faith. She has the charisma of reuniting people of great diversity and it brings a spiritual element that challenges one to get even deeper in the contemplation of the mysteries of our faith. It was an anointed reunion and we are looking forward to the mission we'll be sharing in Ontario this coming October God willing.

On Easter Sunday, I was driven to Ridgetown, Ontario to meet with father Martin Johnston and to prepare for a two day mission in Windsor. In Windsor we teamed up with father George Bune of the Basilian order and Jeff and Susan Cada, to hold three different venues.
It was a blessing to be with them again and to see their struggle to stay firm in the midst of an area of the Catholic church where churches are being closed down for the lack of priests and where clergy in great numbers have gone into new age and corporate mentalities. In the meantime, there are the remnants of God always alert and courageously fighting for the truth and the proclamation of the Kingdom of God.
On the evening of the 18th I went to Detroit to begin a 45 day mission in the USA.

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Venezuela + PHOTOS April 06

I arrived in Caracas, Venezuela on April 4th to start a 5 days mission. Venezuela is a dear neighboring country which is going through a very difficult purification in all aspects: politically, socially, economically and spiritually. It reminds me of Colombia a while back, when starting a trial, a purification that hasn't ended yet, but is getting to a much lighter level nowadays. A time when life is worth nothing, where danger is out there hunting every one and killing the innocent. A time of martyrdom. A time of persecution to the morals and values, to religious believers. A time when government officials are worshipping the devil in all aspects. I was told by dear Catholic friends how so many government officials and high rank militaries, are practicing Babaloo, which is an extremely dark spirituality originally from Africa and managed by high sorceres from Cuba. It is also known as "Santeria". It involves long rituals where a great variety of animals are sacrificed and in some cases human sacrifices. It is a long story not possible to narrate right now.

I went to the city of Valencia first to mission at a beautiful church run by the Scalibrinian missionaries originally from Italy. I gave a talk to a large audience that night and contemplated a sad congregation that was mourning the killing of three young adolescent brothers and their driver who were kidnapped by some corrupt policemen and executed after being severely tortured. They were part of a very good Catholic Maronite Middle Eastern family. There were no words that could encourage the audience to forget such a horrendous crime, but there was a sense of reparation while I was relating to them the story of my kidnapping in Colombia by the rebels of the FARC, during which I was called by God to return to my faith. I was able to convey to them some of the suffering we have had in Colombia and how we all had to kneel and dress ourselves like in the old testament in times of trials: with sack cloths and ashes, asking God for forgiveness. I spoke about the need of a true conversion, the calling of God to humanity for a drastic change. It is not only Venezuela and Colombia and a few other obvious countries which will be purified. It will be the entire earth. The whole world has gone astray from God and the trumpets from high above are sounding louder, for a while already, but there are not many ears to hear through the noise of this corrupted world.
We came to the end of the two hours conference, with much more hope and strength to fight the good fight of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit inundated the room with much love and a Grace of mourning for the conversion of all sinners, for a true change of heart. For the real love for the Eucharist. I was talking about asking God the Father, to give us hunger for Jesus, for the Eucharistic bread, so that we wont hunger and thirst at the moment of departing this body. I spoke about how important it was to make sure it is Jesus we are hungry for and not hungry for our poor selves for which only food we are able to provide is the poison of sin. We had an audience which was rich in the variety of age groups. Two couples had organized the event, both very committed to the church and filled with love and enthusiasm for spreading the Kingdom of The Lord our God everywhere. We had two radio interviews during the day, prior to the evening talk at the church. I was highly taken care of by these dear brothers in Christ.

The next day I went to Barquisimeto, an industrial city and also a musical city, famous for a great artistic talent of its people. I was able to get acquainted with our Lady of The Divine Shepherd. It is a wonderful testimony of a priest who 150 years ago during the time of the plague of Cholera, came to this area and brought the statute with him and asked a favor from our Lady saying: Let it be that I'll be the last one to die of Cholera, make me the last one, let's ask God to end it with me. And so it was, he died shortly after his request and the whole area knew about the great intercession of Our Lady before the Divine Tribunal and how such a horrifying plague was stopped. After this, the devotion to her has been so great that each year on her feast, close to two million pilgrims come to the procession.

We were driving to a place where I was to give my first talk, when we ran into a pilgrimage of the statute of our Lady of The Divine Shepherd, that was being taken to another parish. It has been a tradition of many years, that during this liturgical time of lent, she visits several parishes and the faithful give her enormous respect.
I asked her silently as she passed me by: Lady, could you make sure that I get a statute of you before I leave town tomorrow morning, I want to take you home and introduce you to the servants of the house of prayer in Bogotá, who do not know you in this avocation. Needless to say, the next morning as I was being driven to the bus station to go to Caracas, my host stopped at a house and they invited me in for a minute. The lady of the house walked me into a little chapel she had in her beautiful house and after saying a prayer for me and my mission, she went to the altar and picked up a beautiful statue of our lady of the Divine Shepherd and told me: Our Lady wants you to take this back to where you are going.

I gave my first talk at a church downtown, run by a Spanish priest who came to Venezuela 50 years ago as a missionary and stayed on with a wonderful mission all of these years. He is 80 years old and he told me that he is happy and in excellent health. He is a very holy man, I was able to gather that from him. He built a church in a very poor and difficult area of town, he is charismatic and has a great following from the humble and simple, he has so many testimonies of his priesthood in Venezuela, I'll need an encyclopedia to write about him. He was happy with my talk to his congregation and invited me to come back next September God willing for a two day retreat.
In the evening, I spoke at a house where many faithful meet, it was a good size congregation and I spoke a lot like the talk in Valencia, about the Eucharist; especially stressing the point of giving it all to Jesus and Mary, to stop mediocracy and to begin a real construction of the house of God in the heart. Talking about how difficult it is going to be for those who do not nourish themselves spiritually now, because they will not have enough strength to hold the ground for God in a time not very far from today.
I parted town early the next morning . The brothers in Christ that hosted me in Barquisimeto were especially committed. One of them had a mission of picking up children that were autistic and retarded and who no one was helping. It is a great and beautiful work of charity.

I was happy to meet them all and left with a heart filled with their love, which was authentic love of Jesus, promising to return in God's will next September.

I took a bus to Caracas, which is a relatively short drive. Saturday the 8th I spoke at a church in a two session conference for four hours total, to a good sized audience.
The people in Caracas where also very receptive and open to the message. It was very obvious that they knew what they were facing as a family and as a country. It was not easy to face it. But the Lord worked wonders throughout the day and I could sense the deliverance and healing presence all around them. It was a very anointed day and everyone left with a share of Jesus' touch in their hearts. Heaven was present in a very special tender and merciful way, during all of my mission in Venezuela. Where there is so much suffering of the people of God, there is always a consoling Christ that shows up with the Celestial Court to tell His people: Do not be afraid, all things will come to pass. Follow my words and you will find eternity, a permanent source of truth.

I left Venezuela with a prayerful heart fill with much love for all the brothers and sisters in Christ I got to know and see again. They need our prayers, so that God gives them strength and keeps them faithful and brave in the midst of these present trials they are going through right now.
May the Lord Jesus bless the remnant of Venezuela, May He keeps them all together. I have to say that the Venezuelan family that invited me to mission there, I met in Vancouver Canada, they are an exemplary catholic family and I highly appreciate their love and dedication to the Kingdom of God. May the Lord bless them in a very especial way.

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Ecuador+ Pictures April 06

It's a blessing and a joy to mission in a Catholic country like Ecuador. Due to the range of my mission that takes me to so many different countries and cultures, every time I have the opportunity to travel through a Catholic country, my heart expands towards the Lord Jesus and His kingdom and I recharge my self for what is before me in the immediate mission's future.

This is my fourth visit to Ecuador. My book on the testimony of my conversion has been widely promoted throughout the country along with some other teachings, which makes the mission easily known to many Catholics.

I missioned in Ecuador, first in the city of Quito. A beautiful tropical city surrounded by four very tall volcanoes. The city is built on top of the highest mountain in the country, and placed within the foot of the volcanoes as a long strip that develops itself throughout the slopes of the mountains. Some of the strips fall way down to the valleys where upper-class citizens suburbs are built secluded from the noisy central areas of the city. On one of the mountain tops, we see a magnificent statute of the Virgin Mary, a gigantic one brought by the trapist monks from France a long time ago. One can enter the statute and through her eyes see the whole scenery of the city and beyond. It is a representation of our Lady of the book of revelations.

I visited four different convents in the city and gave the cloistered nuns talks on monastic life. I wouldn't be able to describe the joy that I received when I had the honor and the opportunity to talk to them. I was the main beneficiary. I missioned with the Claire nuns, The Visitation nuns, The Conceptionist nuns, The Dominican nuns and a new religious community called the mother of unity. The first three are traditional order of nuns of the Church, all with a history that goes back centuries in time. All these nuns live in convents that are on average four to five hundred years old.
The holiness of these nuns gives one hope and shows us God's mercy with all of the unfaithful believers that benefit from the blood of the Church by living a lukewarm Christianity. These nuns give their lives for the Church. They make reparations for those who do not love, do not believe, do not adore, do not pray, who live a life of sin. Three of these convents have treasures like the bodies of uncorrupted Holy nuns who died centuries ago and left valuable accounts of God's wisdom revealed to them by Jesus Himself, our Lady and many Angels and Saints.
The conceptionist nuns have an oratory on the second floor of the four hundred and some year-old convent located in the very heart of the city, a statue of our lady
of good success was ordered to be sculpted by a Spanish artist of high stature in his craft. This was the year 1610. When the statue was almost finished, the artist left the convent in search of special paints for the face of our lady and the Holy child she was holding in her arms. To the great surprise of the nuns who were praying at four a.m. at the oratory, the place where the statue was placed by the artist, was illuminated and the Archangels Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael finished painting the faces of the Lady and Child.
A majestic work of art as never seen before. Only with a very special permit from the Archbishop can one enter the oratory. It was a great privilege to me, that after the talk I gave the nuns, I was taken to witness such a wonderful miracle. I was able to visit also the three uncorrupted bodies of the nuns who died four hundred years ago. They looked as if they were perfectly sleep. Among them was the body of the great mystic Mariana de Jesus Torres y Berriochoa. She was the instrument of God to receive many messages from heaven throughout her religious life in Quito at the convent. She was originally from Spain and came at age 15 with her aunt who was the mother superior and founder of the order in Ecuador. Shortly after her arrival, she also became a nun. She was able to see our Lady of good success and our Lord Jesus all the time. She left great prophecies written that have all been proven to be true.
It is not possible to share through the limitation of human language, the experience I had amongst these very holy nuns of this community. They are a true treasure of the Church.

I was able to talk at a university named San Francisco which was founded by three scientists. A beautifully built place of unique architectural taste. This institution is known among Christians to be an atheist university. The Head of the university, one of the founder scientists, publicly declared that Catholics were cannibals, because we claim to eat the body of a man and drink his blood. This will probably give you the idea that he has of the Eucharist. He is labeled as an eccentric by many of his peers.
I was invited to talk about the Columbian guerrillas of the Farc and the 70 years of social injustice. It was an opportunity to speak about values and morals and any chance I had, I tried to present a word or two about the spiritual side of life. The person who invited me is a believer and a very sensitive and kind human being, which made the challenge of facing such an audience a little easier. I was gladly surprised to find some students with a sensible heart for God and a true concern for human morals and values. It shows you that regardless of the environment, God touches people any where He so pleases.
I visited also high schools which were once Catholics and now are a combination of ecumenic and new age Schools. Not an easy place to convey a naked message of the Gospel.
But not everything is lost, wherever you go within the church today, you'll find a remnant which follows the true and sacrifice their lives for Jesus' Kingdom.

I was also able to share the company of different missionaries like the Pilgrims of Saint Michael and The Lazos Marianos of Medellin Colombia. Two missions that combined their work together in Ecuador for the sake of the conversion of the youth.

I went to Guayaquil, a beautiful city by the pacific sea, at sea level, with high temperatures and a humid climate. I visited a shrine of our Lady of Schonstadt where I gave a day retreat, and the following day we held another retreat in town at a school auditorium.
Guayaquil is a fast moving business city and new age is a strong influence in some of the upper-class Catholic circles and also among a few priests and nuns. There is a place run by a Catholic priest where they exercise oriental meditation traditions combined with Catholic prayers like the Our Father and also practice Yoga as a relaxation exercise; it is called "Christian Yoga" if you can believe it.
Just the mention of such wrong practices in the church caused for a couple of ladies to walk out of my retreat in Schonstadt in a rage. In general, there is a true intention of being a faithful Catholic in most of the people, but just a few unfaithful ones, make the noise of what appears to be many.

The team working with me were seriously committed laity, outstanding in all of their efforts to get the message across to their people. Strong and brave soldiers of the Church. I could only feel proud of each one of them. The generosity of many of them made it possible for this mission to continue to its next step.
I could write pages and pages about this last mission in Ecuador, especially about mystical experiences in the convents. I can only say that visiting the Catholic Church in this country gives one hope especially because of the holiness and miracles that occur behind closed doors in those holy convents and monasteries, many of which I wouldn't be able to share at this time.
Please pray for Catholics in Ecuador so that God continues to bless them. They are a true army of God and in spite of the unfaithful, they stand firm at sunrise and sunset every day for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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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.

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JANUARY 24TH MISSION DAY AT THE FOYER DE CHARITTE, COGUA, COLOMBIA + Pictures

In Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada, there is a parish named St. Michael the Archangel. The parish priest for the past 14 years, Father Martin Johnston, just retired last June. The history behind this parish priest is the center of this report. It was at The Foyer De Charitte Catholic religious community, where I met Father Martin 5 years ago. I have missioned since then with Father on many occasions and in different countries. Father has an admirable charitable heart and a true commitment to Missioning with the most needy and underprivileged. He teamed up some 30 years ago with a Colombian priest by the name of Father Fernando Umaña, who is the Priest Father of this Foyer community. They both have achieved a great deal of work throughout the years. Father Martin has provided great financial support and spiritual partnership to Father Umaña and in return, Father Umaña has provided a great deal of inspiration to Father Martin’s priesthood. Father Martin travels yearly to Colombia with a group of Canadians, who come with two suitcases each, filled with goods for the poor. At the same time, this group usually experiences a great change of heart and in many cases a transcendental conversion.
There are many Foyers around the world and each one for sure has, like in everything that comes from God, a particular Charisma. This one especially, has been the kind of monastery where hundreds of people that come for retreats, leave with a heart that has been touched by God. So I’ll say that it’s a much anointed place.
I came here on this date, to give a retreat to Father Martin’s Canadian group. The retreat was for a whole day that included four conferences, and ended with mass.
I usually meet in Canada during my missions, with some of the Canadians that come to Colombia, so it was a joy to be able to share a day retreat in such a special place with all of them.
Father Martin has supported my mission with the poor in Colombia, and each time he comes, he brings aid for them, like rosaries and liturgical vestments for the poor parishes in the jungle areas, and many other goods. Father Umaña has also been a blessing for my mission since I began being a full time missionary 6 and a half years ago.
In the retreat, I spoke about my testimony of conversion, The Eucharist and the Church, Fallen angels and Angels of God and the sense of Christianity.
There is a great Charismatic spirit in both priests' lives, so that makes being with them a very unique and anointed opportunity.
The Foyer De Charitte was founded in France by a mystic by the name of Marta Robin, who was a victim soul and lived on the Eucharistic bread alone for many years. It is truly a mystical experience to get to know all of the blessings that she received from the Lord Jesus and how it is being carried by these communities around the world through magnificent silent retreats that enlighten and challenge the faithful in a big way.
Please say a prayer for Father Umaña and Father Martin as they continue to serve The Lord.

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Peru December 25th through 31st 2005 + PICTURES

Peru is mainly a Catholic country. I was invited to mission there by two great apostles of Christ who reside in Conyers, Georgia: Michael, an American citizen, and Maria del Rosario a Peruvian citizen. This couple has worked their way into a true commitment with the church.
I arrived in Lima on the 25th of December and connected to another flight to a city on the pacific north coast by the name of Chiclayo. There I met Michael and Maria who drove me to a village of about 5,000 people called Luya. We missioned in the cities of Tuman, Chiclayo and Luya until the 28th and then went to Lima where I missioned with them at prayer groups.
It was a beautiful experience to be able to share with so many humble and simple hearted people. I had a great interest in finding out more about the Baby Jesus of Cuzco. I was given a beautiful picture of Him and obtained a statute with a thorn in the sole of His left foot. You can see a picture of this statue in the front page of my web site.
The story says that in Cuzco a long time ago, the children used to play in the front yard of the church and the priest got annoyed because sometimes they ruined the garden. The priest ordered a fence of thorns to be built in the front yard. A few days after this was done, he found the Baby Jesus statute that was in the main altar, with a thorn in the sole of His left foot and was bleeding. The priest realized that the Baby Jesus was one of the Children that used to play outside and immediately repented and ordered for the fence of thorns to be taken down.

I'll be back, God willing, to mission in Peru in the month of March. I visited the sanctuary of the Peruvian Saints in downtown Lima. Quite a site! The remains of Santa Rosa de Lima, Saint Martin of Porres and San Juan de Acasias. All three in one altar together. It was a great blessing to pray by them. The miracles that The Lord Jesus performed through these three saints are uncountable. Saint Martin de Porres was seen flying to mass on a few occasions when he was late, and he brought in on two occasions, a few of his brothers with him. The stories of these miracles are so unreal that it make you wonder where faith has gone in today's Christianity. It is a combination of sadness for this materialistic life we are living today and a sense of hope to know that God uses all of us regardless of race and culture, when we are willing to give ourselves truly to His kingdom.
It is also great to know how large our church is. Peru is a Catholic country that will make many dishearten Catholics around the world very happy. There is hope when you travel throughout the church in Latin-American countries. Even though the protestant sects exported by the thousands from North America get to buy people's attention with food and horrifying stories against the Catholic faith, still we have a very large population of Christian Catholics that remain very faithful.
Freemasonry infiltrated through these so call "Christian churches" is continually attacking the heart of our church and will continue until the end of time because it is the very spirit of Satan dressed up as a Christian angel of Light.
The flirting of Catholics in North America with a misguided ecumenism has created a grave threat against the weak in the Catholic faith that do not know how defend their faith because they themselves do not really know it well. We have to learn our faith and re-evangelize our faithful by teaching them the Social Doctrine of the church and the true context of Catholicism. I strongly believe that if we do this, we'll be able to rescue thousands of Catholics that were stolen with emotional sermons, great spiritual tv evangelist spectacles and so many other lies against the mother Catholic church. Let's do it. We can with the help of the Holy Spirit and by becoming stronger spiritually through the sacraments: Sacred weapons giving to us Catholics. The Eucharist!. The real power against all evils. The path, the truth, the light. Eternal life. Praise the Lord Jesus forever and ever!.

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Christmas in Bogotá's mission main house of Prayer + PICTURES 12-25 - 31, 05

It has been a tradition for the last six year of my missionary life, to spend the time during the Christmas Divine Infant's novena in Bogota, Colombia. As I mentioned in the past, the Divine Infancy of Jesus is the center of my mission and spirituality. Through it the Lord Jesus has shown me the right path of my missionary duties.
The novena begins on December 16th and ends on the 24th at midnight mass. I do give talks on Divine Infancy some of the nights of the novena and have masses celebrated during the novena at the House of Prayer.
The Holy Manger of Bethlehem is the very womb of our Christian life. The most pure expression of love from God the Father. Simplicity and absolute humility reunites around the hay of the Baby Jesus' manger's bed. A God that created all and is capable of all lays His body on hay, the simplest and most elemental pieces of nature. It is so simple that it's so hard for the human eye contaminated with the esthetics of this material world, to see. God is perfectly visible and we are to strive for perfection every day so that one day we are able to perfectly see Him, in order to fuse our selves with Him eternally.
How much I would love to have every Catholic on earth get closer to the Divine Infancy of Jesus, so that He can teach all of us how to become little and how to die to self, a primary condition for achieving true Holiness.
If you have not done the Christmas novena this past Christmas, prepare yourself to do it next year. You can find the novena in my website.
May the good Lord Jesus pour on all of you the Graces of His Divine Infancy today and forever.

The Servants of The Holy Trinity from Toronto sent Christmas gifts for the children; they were donated mainly from a kindergarten where the main servant and founder works: Carmell Harrasum. May the Baby Jesus fill with love and peace each one of the benefactors of these gifts for the poor. It is easy to bring joy and hope to our brothers and sister in need. All we have to do, is to get together and love one another as the Servants of The Holy Trinity do every year for the ones in need.

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Colombia. Caribean coast of Coveñas + Pictures 12-18-05

It has been exactly a year since I came to visit two little villages by the names of La Parrilla and Pijaito. These two villages are populated mainly by African Colombians; people of very humble upbringing and with very little economical resources. I am talking about a very simple and humble community where peace and love among the people is not strange to see. Due to the long absence of the Catholic church in the area, the Protestant sects have made an impact on many of them. Curiously enough, even though they lended their ears to some of these preachers, most of which are extremely aggressive against the Catholic faith, they, in their hearts remain very Catholic. How did I find this out?
The first visit was an invitation by a lady whose family owns property in the vicinity. Some of these people have been workers for her family for many years.
Acting upon an inspiration of the Holy Spirit, this lady friend invited me and the parish priest from the nearest church at San Antero, just 15 or 20 minutes away from these villages, to come with her to provide a Sunday activity at her house by the sea shore. She expected to have her own workers and those of her family join a mass service. She invited them to listen to my testimony, hoping that those living in common law would be willing to get married, those not baptized to do so, those willing to receive first communion, to receive it. When the time came to reunite at her house, we found out that many more people joined from the neighboring areas, and we had a very blessed evening where many got married, baptized and received first communion.
That beautiful docility of hearts deeply touched the heart of my lady friend and that of the priest, as well as mine. Immediately she proposed to her workers the idea of building a church right in their village. Their own church. Their eyes opened wide with joy. The plan was set right there without a second thought. she was to provide the finances and they would provide the labor. Everyone agreed. It took one year and many trips and opposition by some regarding the materials with which the roof was to be built. Her idea was to build a church that would not be any different than their own homes. A rectangular building with a straw roof. This was exactly how it ended up being built.
On December the 8th of this year, following a procession through the town with our Lady's statute while praying the rosary, the church was inaugurated by two Legionary of Christ missionary priests.
During the course of the year she had contacted the Legionaries of Christ missionaries and asked them to join her with a visit to Coveñas.
They visited the area a few times during the year and set up a very well programmed family missionary visit. Thirty-six families came with the two priests to mission door to door throughout the two villages.
The results of five days of Missioning were so amazing that it was hard to retain the tears of joy that wanted to pour out of everyone's eyes. All our hearts where bursting with joy. Many, many got married, baptized and received first communion, this time the numbers tripled. We were able to distribute Christmas gifts to more than 400 children as well as offer great recreation. We had a medical brigade with a team of doctors. Unfortunately, the benefactors of the medications didn't make it this time with their donations, but more than 500 people received medical attention.
The church and the people couldn't possibly look any better, it was a true piece of heaven. I was able to provide the liturgical vestment and altar vessels that were donated by a good benefactor in San Francisco, California and also more than a thousand rosaries donated in Canada and the USA. It was a joy to see people that a few days earlier were afraid of going to confession or praying the rosary, because of the errors taught by the protestants. Some were praying the rosary again and going to confession and to communion for the first time in 60 years.
I consider this mission a true get together of the church. We can truly make a difference if we all work together. We can rescue many brothers and sisters from the hands of the Christian sects and from the hands of witchcraft and superstition and so many other dangers.
May the Lord bless all of the benefactors that made it possible for this mission to take place. The Lord Jesus will provide each one of you with a thousand fold.

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Canada - part II +Pictures November 05

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 Mississauga 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.

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Canada Part 1+ Pictures November 05

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

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Miami, Florida. November 05

Florida is a strong presence of the Catholic church in the USA together with California, both states being the home of a very large Spanish population. On the Spanish side, you can find a very devoted group of Catholics in some of the parishes, but you also find a massive presence of lukewarm Catholics that have been badly impacted by the materialistic life they are facing as immigrants from third world countries, where the majority don't have the comforts and opportunities in their countries of origin as they have here. It's very common also in the Caribbean Catholics, to find them very irreverent to the Blessed Sacrament. Some of them will hold a conversation aloud right at the pew of the church in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Something very difficult to stand. Not to judge them, because, no one can tell the true state of holiness of any individual other than God.
It is only very painful to see.
There is another factor among the Catholic Spanish immigrants and that is in the dangers they face with the Christian sects. All these Protestant churches are the home to a water down Christianity where the Catholic faith is their main target of persecution. They recruit Catholics from the third world by the hundreds, because most of them come to America with very little knowledge about their faith and their Catholic church. The opportunists will take them and strip them of the sacraments and talk down about all Catholic devotions and sacred traditions, and turn them into simple worshippers of the word of the Lord and singers of praises focused on a gospel of abundance and deliverance. A gospel that does not speak about Calvary, pain or suffering. Only about the resurrection of the Lord and salvation. A typical preaching of a materialistic society that does not want to deal with pain, because for them: Christ paid it all for everyone already. This creates a very weak society where psychologists are more prominent than the sacrament of confession, which is erased from these weak Catholic hearts.
There is hope though. We need to evangelize our Catholic brothers and sisters. We need to teach them about their faith and give testimony of our Christianity to them in everything we do in our daily lives.
On the English-speaking Catholic side, we find a large group of commuters from the north of the country who come to spend winter in Florida, and a small share of locals. They are your typical American Catholics where you find a liberal church which practices Yoga and Reiki and at the same time prays the Rosary and participate in all of the sacraments and of the orthodox Catholics who faithfully follow the true teaching of the faith and who are the pillars of the Catholic church.
There are great charismatic activities and missions of many different spiritualities with the Catholic church of Florida.
I do speak at many different places and groups of the church in the Spanish community as well as in the English speaking one. During this visit I recorded two TV Catholic programs based on the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. This year I had the opportunity to mission in Florida three times.
Let's pray so that the Catholic immigrants from third world countries do not fall into the hands of these water down Christian churches that do not pay attention to Saint Paul when he said: "I do not lay down a foundation where one already has been laid before. God forbid I ever do that". These Christian evangelists forget that we Catholics are Christians too, and that we have been already baptized in Christ our Lord. So they are laying a foundation where there is already one.
Let's then intercede for these intentions in the name of our Lord Jesus and our Lady the Virgin Mary.

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Los Angeles, California + Pictures November 05

Missioning in California could be phrased as Missioning in a place where I spent 25 years of my life living for myself and away from God. This new life in Christ presents obvious and very rewarding signs and wonders, as I drive through the freeways and so many sites that used to be my daily pagan life of the past. It is amazing what the Lord does with us, when His hand touches us and He lifts us up from the dungeons of worldly living, placing us safely in His hands of Mercy and Love. Praise the Lord! for He has done in my life wonders.
I missioned with MOM Gospa prayer group of Van Nuys California. They put together a congress every year where they reunite speakers from all over to share with a very hungry-for-God congregation. Juliette is the heart of this group. She is originally from the Philippines. A woman filled with the Spirit of the Lord. She has been a lay apostle for many years now and has a great discernment as to the needs of her congregation. It has been a true joy and blessing to my ministry every time I am
invited to be a part of her activities here in California. We had two days of retreat at the Marriott Hotel in Woodland Hills. The Blessed Sacrament was exposed during the two days, 24 hours a day. Four different priests were part of the speaker series and mass celebrants. The sacrament of confession was available during the two days. The themes were very different and the speakers were from very different walks of life. Wonderful testimonies. Tales that will turn someone's life, someone who's willing to challenge oneself to a true change of heart.
California is a very peculiar place to mission at, not only because of the latter annotations, but also because this state has been the capital of new age. So here more that any where that I preach, I find more cases of Catholics that have been deeply involved in New Age and absolutely know in a very personal way, the amazing dangers behind all of these practices, due to the fact that these practices are so widely spread throughout this land. The land of the magicians and collectors of all kinds of superstitions. In a way it is good to see the expressions of those who were freed by God from those prisons and slaveries of the dark. One who has really understood what lies behind all of these deceiving forces, can relate to the urgency to teach our brothers and sisters in the faith, that our God is a very jealous God and does not like us to dwell into the territory of false gods and fairy tales of superstitions and magic. It is not a good idea to tempt God in such a way. Most of the people of God died in the desert while going to the promised land, because they tempted God. It should be a warning to all of us.
I truly love to see people like Juliette, who are brave enough to go through all of this work of calling the herd of the Lord, especially the stray, to group and listen to what the apostles of today have to say about our faith and the Lord Jesus.
Mary is a very important center of spirituality for this group of people. The Virgin Mary has given them a tender and steady hand of maternal love. A love that can clearly be sensed through the work they do and put together, sometimes against all odds, as it is common in every work that is inspired on proclaiming the Kingdom of God.
I only spent five days in California, but it was a blessing. I had the chance to visit with my two sons Santiago and Nicolas and to go to Willmington area in San Pedro, to preach at a Mexican prayer group which I'm so kin of. Great and humble warriors of the Lord Jesus' army. Every time I visit this state, I make sure I visit them. They re-charge me with love and strength to continue this journey with the Gospel.
In other words: California has been for me an intimate mission where I have more than one interest, all of it for the Glory of God though. If you have a chance, Please pray for the conversion of so many actors, musicians and people of all angles of the entertainment industry. Many of them are in great danger of going to hell. I know why I am able tell you this. So please include them in your prayers.
May the Lord Jesus and our Lady the Virgin Mary bless you all.

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Conyers, Georgia + Pictures November 05

Conyers, Georgia has turn into a traditional visit of my mission; for the last four years I have been giving talks at "The Farm" which has been the site of an apparition of our lady known as "Our Loving Mother". This site has become a center for evangelization, the house of different evangelists who come here to speak to a great variety of pilgrims and local Catholics. Here and there you will run into people of other faiths whom are drowned by the spirit of curiosity and come to participate in the spiritual activities of the site.
This past Friday and Saturday evenings, I gave a talk to the English speaking pilgrims. Both venues were truly blessed with a very strong presence of the Holy Spirit. Today, Sunday the 13th was a special day. Every month on this day beginning at noon, five rosaries are prayed and followed by the Divine Mercy chaplet. At 4 pm I spoke to the Spanish speaking pilgrims. Some came from as far away as Tampa Florida, a seven hour drive. They drove this far even though most of them have to drive back to Tampa by tomorrow morning for work. The venue today was filled with the spirit of joy and prayer and at the end was truly anointed. I spoke about my conversion. Tomorrow I'll be meeting with the Archbishop of Atlanta Monsignor Wilton Gregory, to ask for his blessing in order to speak to a larger range of parishes within this diocese.
To conclude the report on this mission I'll say that it is a great feeling to come here and see pilgrims from all over the USA, that still come back after years now of having our lady appear for the last time to the visionary Nancy Fowler. The blessings still are here and still are being poured down on the faithful that come here. I do feel the peace and the love of Our Lady all over this farm. May the Lord bless this site and keep it as an instrument of evangelization for many years to come.

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Continuation of Italy's mission + Pictures

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Italy 2005

I just came back to Rome last night from Missioning in Pompeii. I went to the Church of Saint Peter apostle to share my testimony of faith with a very large congregation which gather there on Tuesdays. Mass was co-celebrated by three very anointed priest, among them, father Salvatore D'Outuomo the parish priest of the sanctuary of our Lady of Pompeii. The people of this parish of Saint Peter are blessed to have a priest, a good friend of father Salvatore, that have been through a transcendental renewal of faith in , bringing so much life to the parish that new faces are found every week looking for the true water of the Lord Jesus.
Father Salvatore presiding the Eucharist, presented a vivid gospel through a homily that clearly transpire the life of a faithful servant that has been through the mill and back. It is a joy to be among true and faithful priest. Especially on a time and age where good and loyal to the sacred tradition priest and religious are so rare. The blessed Sacrament was exposed after mass and stay during my whole testimony of an hour and a halve. People breath thirst for God. It was a joy to give and give more and more insights of my mystical experience with a congregation which was no less than a true sponge that was only wanting more of God in every word that was said. There is no doubt in my heart that I was for a few hours in the company of a good share of the remnant of this area of the catholic world.
Father Salvatore was my welcoming priest to Pompeii. I met him in during one of my missions there this last summer. We agreed on working together on a few conferences in his diocese, so it was a joy to begin this journey of missions with father in this area of Italy. He invited me the next day to share a day of prayer and took me to meet our lady of Pompeii in the basilica where he is the parish priest. A beautiful basilica, what a blessing for the church. Blessed Bartholomew Longo who founded this mission is a true treasure: see www.santuario.it
My conclusion to this mission in Pompeii will be: I was told that Pompeii is the host of great Roman ruins which I didn't visit. I'm sure that this particular historical site is the most interesting attraction for many, but I can say that after having a personal experience with Jesus and realizing how large are the treasures of our catholic faith. Life becomes much more than a historical site, than a tourist and pleasurable trip. Life all of a sudden takes a whole different meaning. It transforms itself into a joyful simple constant getting deeper into the ocean of an immeasurable God that doesn't seem to amaze us the more we thirst Him. He suffices, He fulfill us. He atracts us more that anything we ever hunger for. That is why the meaning of Pompeii to me was to meet Our Lady at the Basilica. To speak at Saint Peter's Church. To meet the people that are making it possible for the Mercy of God to stay close to all of the ones that aren't faithful yet: "The reparation crew". That is Pompei for me: Father Salvatore and all of the workshippers of the Blessed Sacrament. It is great to serve the Lord Jesus and to walk by the hand of Our Lady the Virgin Mary.
One of the other compliments of the trip was to be able to meet father Luis Alfredo from Colombia my native land. He is the parish priest of Saint Joseph church in San Cesareo and travel with me to Pompeii and was a great interpreter for the conference and a powerful prayer support. This coming Saturday I'll be in his church here in Rome, giving a talk after the evening mass. He went to school here in Rome and was ordained as a priest and remained for the last 20 years in this area.
There is one more person who is the motor behind all of my missions in Italy; Madre Rosaria on whom I'll be writing a whole profile, because her mission has to be presented properly and with time due to the gifts behind it.
I'll be back in Pompeii God willing, next summer. I received aid for the poor priest, like liturgical vestments and some utensils for the celebration of the mass. This aid goes toward my missions in South America.

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Lebanon + Pictures Oct. 2005

I have been Missioning in Beirut since October 11th. It has been a true joy and religious experience. The Eastern Church brings in an element of reverence and tradition that has been sadly lost in great part in the Western Church. It is a blessing to participate in a Maronite mass, a Coptic mass, a Byzantine mass, a Greek Catholic mass and then a Roman Catholic mass that has kept the love and the true reverence to sacred tradition. All of this is found in Lebanon. This country as John Paul II said when he visited this land. " Lebanon is not only a country, but it is a message to the world". I can see clear the tracks of the apostles of Jesus on their way to Rome so many times and under so many different circumstances most of them fill with persecution and all kinds of dangers. I can appreciate the nearness to the Holy Land which lays alive only a few ho