April 2007

As we approach Holy Week, Easter Sunday and then Divine Mercy Sunday I felt this was a good month to write about some miracles that have happened in the Ministry. As most of you know, we have a large number of prayer intercessors in this ministry, a book here in the store for people to sign up for prayer requests as well as the ones that ask us for prayers by coming in or by requests to some of the ministry and over this web site.

One of the stories I have shared as I have been in charge of Divine Mercy Sunday at Santa Cruz for several years happened the first year I was requested to put the program together by Father Fernando (he was then a brother). As we discussed it and he got permission from Father Cyprian to do it he remembered he had to leave to do a retreat and left it up to me.  I had two weeks to “get it together”. I had to work hard, print up the flyers, make the program and all this without the technology of today. Copy, paste and all the old ways of doing things.

I made up the flyers and wrote the mysteries of the rosary with reflections from Saint Faustina’s diary. It was the year she was canonized in Rome that same day. There was no problem with doing the work as I had been in charge of numerous conferences, healing masses etc. over the years; however, this particular time my grandson was in the hospital with some major health problems. They could not find out exactly what it was but he could not eat, he had an inoperable blood clot between his stomach and kidney and some form of bacteria they could not identify in his blood. I felt real bad that I could not be at the hospital with him as the rest of the family and his other grandmother was. He had not been baptized so I arranged that for him but the rest of the time I had to work on the program.

The day before Divine Mercy Sunday, the last day of the Novena my daughter called and said that his situation was worse. He might go home but have to have a feeding tube for at least six months. The doctors could not figure out what was wrong with him.

I arrived at Santa Cruz and only a couple of my real close friends knew what was going on. The day was awesome, in fact Father Cyprian was so overjoyed by the people that were going to confession that day that he wanted to know if that Feast couldn’t be celebrated more than once a year. The Rosary was led by 15 different individuals for each reflection, the Divine Mercy Chaplet was chanted by Brother David Guzman, Brother David did one of the talks. What an awesome day and I just prayed and asked the intercession of SAINT FAUSTINA for my grandson’s health.

It was only about two hours after we finished and I had gone home and my daughter called to tell me that my grandson was going home from the hospital the next morning. He had no more signs of the illness, the doctor’s could not figure out what happened. His blood was fine, no more sign of the blood clot, he could eat regular meals and his health was perfect. His greatest treasure to this day is the picture I gave him of our newly canonized Saint Faustina.

Just a few more answered prayers for this month are:

• Ruben Rodriguez came in for prayers for a health issue two years ago. That prayer was answered and he is still doing great.

• One of our associates is a Deacon’s wife from New Mexico, a prayer partner and long time member of the ministry was having anxiety attacks. She came in for prayer and David Galaz and myself prayed with her and she revealed to us the root cause of her problem and has been free of it ever since.

• We had a young man from the Youth Group have some major problems that stemmed from intergenerational problems. He was having so many problems that as Lupe determined that we needed to pray immediately she called and Richard Rodriguez and myself met her at the store in the evening to pray with him. It was not completely taken care of that evening; however, the follow-up was revealed to me to pray for every year of his life in a very special way. As we went through his years he began to heal of all the problems he had. He is now doing very well, engaged to be married and leader of a Youth Group.

• From the prayer book we have two young men that have been released from the brainwashing of a very bad cult. The mother is very happy that the book is here for her intentions.

• Dolores Quihuis requested prayers for her niece who was to have a kidney transplant. She was listed in the prayer book and we prayed as she approached her surgery (she had a live donor). She did so well that they had to scold her for doing to much to early. She did better than the donor.

These are just a few of the answered prayers.  In later months I will share more about some of our special prayer warriors (those that will let me tell who they are) as well as ongoing answered prayers.

If you have requested prayers and have something to share, please let us know.

REMEMBER THE NOVENA FOR DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY STARTS ON GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2007.

God Bless You.

Happy Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday.  (There is more information on Divine Mercy Sunday in the archives if you did not see it last year.