Easter mission in Canada and the USA 2007

After ending the lent retreats in South and Central America, and spending the Holy Week in Bogotá, I traveled to Toronto and preached there and in a few other cities in Ontario during the first week of Easter. Every season of missioning in North America leaves me with a sense of the pulse of the times. North America because of being a consummated society within the depths of materialism is the perfect mirror of the actual spiritual ecology of the whole of humanity. I can really see what direction in which the earthly and worldly body of humanity, who walks on its own outside the will of God, is leading to. For the last nine years of me being a missionary and traveling throughout the five continents, I have noticed clearly how the spectrum of humanity's destiny turns more and more bleak and hopeless in relation with the hope of salvation of their souls. The system, in which the main stream of today's society was built on, is one of self-destruction. They have turned into a selfish body. The people of God, the faithful, the remnant, are facing more and more enormous pressure. On one hand, it has contributed to the sanctification of the remnant and on the other hand it leaves one with a sense of sadness where Christianity faces a progressive persecution which has been escalating especially in countries like Canada. In Canada, for example, the government is mostly run through the hands of godless people, and with time it has grown more acceptable of passing laws which are specific abominations against God. Such an example is the "hate literature", a law that was designed by freemasons by which they limit the reading of the Sacred Scriptures from the pulpit on any area where God condemns homosexuals or the crime of abortion or divorce.

I am not saying that everything is lost in North America, but I'm presenting a picture which hasn't been presented by the Church there, due to the fears planted by the system itself, where one can be literally put in jail for proclaiming the Gospel as it is, in a public place. Newcomers ( converts ) could easily be deceived by the impact it creates to see a priest negotiating the preaching of an open Gospel for the sake of pleasing people or for the fear of getting in trouble. This is a terrifying image, where the word APOSTLE is highly in question at this time. Very few Christians are willing to die for Jesus, willing to sacrifice their own lives for the Lord and the Church.

We, as Catholics around the whole world, have to unite in prayer so that God gives strength to those Catholic Churches of the industrialized countries, which are all in danger of falling into the most devastating state of weakness and mediocrity.


I missioned throughout the East coast of the USA: Rochester N.Y., Baltimore Maryland, Providence and Newport Rhode Island, Boston Massachusetts, Detroit Michigan, Orlando Florida, Tampa Florida, Ocala Florida, Melbourne Florida, Clearwater Florida, Miami Florida, Raleigh North Carolina, and Saint Louis Missouri. The USA mission ended in California in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which is the largest in the USA. It would take a missionary a few months to be able to visit half of this diocese. The main population of the Catholic Church in California is of Spanish and Filipino origin.


There are powerful apostolate in the USA. Real warriors of the Church who are willing to give it all for the Gospel cause and bring in steadily a large number of conversions to the Church. They are confronted with a population possible as large as 300 million people, of whom no more than 60 or 70 millions are known to be Catholics, and not necessarily active ones. This gives one an idea of the enormous task and spiritual warfare they are confronted with.