LENT MISSIONS IN COLOMBIA, CANADA AND THE USA, February and March 2008
 
Lent is a season for preachers. The opportunity for a speaker to be a true active vessel of the Holy Spirit. If there is a liturgical season most appropriate for a missionary to test his true commitment with the Church, it is lent. The faithful are placed by the Holy Spirit in a state of grace that allows them, if willing so, to obtain a true clarity of their state of being with God and within themselves. It is a real challenge and a real solid gift for the Church as a whole. I'll say that it is the time of preparation for what lays ahead in the spiritual battle one has to be confronted with in the immediate future, especially the responsibilities as a Catholic, a committed one.
 
It is a joy for me to see those that come to the gatherings in the different missions I have the blessing to be a speaker at. They experience the gift of lent, many not even knowing that God provides especial graces for the repented Church.
 
This lent I felt the urgency of reaching out into the deep of the new evangelization of the baptized. We need to learn our faith all over again and that includes de clergy also. We are clearly more of a weak church than a healthy one. I know that God is always on our side and waiting for us to realize these things and He comes to our aid immediately.
I can only say that when you hear the word modern theology you hear the words of doom and this is probably the most devastating disease of the Church today. It is like for a wife referring of her husband as a modern husband a progresist, a man that has negotiated morals and traditions, laws and values. It leaves a bad taste and it is the cause of the most grave problems of today's Catholic Church. When ever I visit a place and ask a local priest about his bishop and he sais: He is an intellectual, a modern theologian, very bright and intelligent. The chills go through my whole being, because speaking in spiritual terms who are the intellectuals of the gospel? who are the modernist of the times of Jesus? who were siding with the romans for political and economical reasons, for social reasons? 
 
If we do not acknowledge that we have to evangelized our clergy too, we'll be in bad shape in a very immediate future. The whole Catholic Church has to come into an open conscientization of the great need to return to the basis and to pick up the pieces of the true building of the Church to put it back together again.
We have a very solid Pope: Benedict XVI. If we really understand his message and his spirituality, we'll be able to gain our direction back.
It is a good opportunity to find out for sure who is going in which direction at this time by observing those that are not in obedience with the Holy See. If you really look at those not in line with the present Pope, you find those called the intelligent, the modern theologians, the good friends of the politicians and the social movements and revolutions of the times.
Perhaps our Church is going to become much smaller, but it is going to be a real Church. Those living under the modern laws belong to reformist of the times of Martin Luther and if not converting soon, we should pray to the Lord so that they leave and establish themselves in their independent temples of modern religion out side the grounds of the true Church of God, The mother Church.
 
Traveling through those countries during lent was a beautiful uplifting and challenging experience. There is much hope even though the remnant seams to be so small.
 
It is time for the faithful to go out and work. We have to bring light into the darkness of this world. Who else is going to do it? for sure not the modern theologians or Pharisees of today.
Let's all pray for the future of our very Holy Catholic Church!