My name is Russel.
I was born in Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico.
I have been living for many years in Mexico City
and this is my Testimony of Faith.
My contact with Christ began when I was very young,
thanks to my grandmother, my maternal grandmother,
who taught us the power of prayer since we were very little;
to love Christ, His Most Holy Mother, and God, our Creator,
the Father, above all things.
From the time I was very little, I began to understand the magnitude
of what infinite love was.
After, in my life's journey, well, things happened to me,
one follows the path, my grandmother died,
life takes you along other paths which perhaps we definitely have to experience,
but are not the correct ones
and things always happened in my life
which were like a call from Jesus and from Mary.
There is something very beautiful that happened to me with the Master.
I was very young when I came to visit my father
and he had three images of the Merciful Jesus.
It was the first time I had seen this image that was so divine and so impactful for me.
Like a child, tears rolled down my cheeks when I saw Him and I said:
"How beautiful, it projects so much love to me, so much light, so much peace, so much mercy."
And I said to my father: "What image is this?" "It is the Merciful Jesus".
"I was given the three images", he told me,
"They say you have to be given the images";
but the image had such an impact on me that I went to buy it,
I still have it, large, at the headboard of my bed.
Some time later I wanted to praise it with the color white,
place white flowers on it, always.
I said to Him: "I am going to place white carnations on You always, Father,
so that Your altar looks beautiful, as You deserve".
One day the carnations died.
Time passed, it was half-past two in the afternoon and I went to pray and I said to Him:
"Lord, forgive me. As soon as I have some free time, I will buy Your white carnations".
At precisely three o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of Mercy,
someone knocks on the door of my house.
was a very beautiful old lady, with her arms full of white carnations.
And she said to me: "Sir, buy a dozen carnations from me.
I will let you have them cheap, as I have financial difficulties
and I have to give food to my grandchildren".
I asked her: "How many dozens do you have?"
"Twelve", she said. "Give them all to me".
I bought the twelve dozen. I felt she was an angel sent by the Lord.
I went and fell on my knees and said to Him: "Lord, how great you are, how great you are.
Gratitude, infinite gratitude and blessings on Your Mercy and on Your Goodness that is so infinite".
I covered Him with carnations, not only His altar, but the whole room.
I eternally thanked Him for those little signs, which are immense, aren't they?
Sometimes we do not realize the magnitude,
the greatness of the King of the Universe before a very little being.
Three and a half years ago, I suffered a cerebral stroke, an embolism.
I was in a wheelchair with few possibilities for walking again,
but my work has always been music.
When I was in those moments right after the stroke,
I would say: "Lord, if you need me, I offer to be Your servant through my music".
I would move the fingers of my hands, I have been a classical piano player since I was a child,
and I would move my feet to see if I could use the pedals and I would say:
"I want to offer You my music, I want to live to be Your servant.
I know that through music, the most beautiful prayer is the sung prayer,
I will consecrate my music to You, if You will allow this;
but not my will be done, but rather Yours".
The Lord permitted me to go on here.
In a very short while, as estimated by medical science,
my recovery was complete, it was one hundred percent.
And I was told: "Tell us what do you do twenty-four hours of the day?
Because this is a unique case in what we have seen; not only in the hospital,
but in our whole life", stated several doctors with a great deal of experience.
So I said: "Well, before anything else, I pray, I dedicate myself to music".
Someday, my Jesus, I will be worthy of touching You,
of washing each of your wounds with my tears.
When I had the embolism embolism and I became an invalid,
I said to Him: "Lord, I want to serve You. What is the path that I must take?
Guide my hands, as You guide them my music when I play the piano".
And I went to the internet and I typed: "Apparitions of Jesus, of the Virgin",
and in that moment, I saw an Apparition.
The Lord was talking through Friar Elías and I fell to my knees and said:
"My Father is there, my Beloved Jesus, My Master is speaking.
That is the Divine Word, my hearts tells me this, I do not need to know more.
I want to be there, I want to be a part of that movement".
Listen to me, Redeemer, place Your Hand on my heart,
liberate it from its restraints
I asked for this, my whole life I waited for this I fell automatically.
From that moment, I began to investigate, I read the whole webpage, I saw all the prayers.
I began a small group of prayer at home, following the indications of the webpage.
Without knowing, I would read the messages, because it is the Word of God, the Divine Word
through Jesus, the Virgin, Saint Joseph, Blessed and Most Chaste Heart.
"It is them", I would say, "my heart knows it,
there is absolutely no doubt, I do not need to know more"
and we began to do the group of prayer.
I did not know of the existence of the Network of Light groups.
I began to investigate.
I sent my little letter.
They sent the information of what it was, and I did not delay, and said: "Yes".
I want to follow Your Path, surrender my will
to find in Your Source the true and eternal Peace,
Redeemer
When it was announced they would come to Mexico,
to have that blessing and that Grace is already such a great dream becoming a reality.
I cried with gratitude and with praise to Our Lord.
To experience, to be alive in a Marathon is such a beautiful vibration of love that forms
among everybody, among the monks, the Association Mary, the audience attending.
The thing is we do not feel it.
It is a blessing, it is a privilege where the soul is uplifted,
the heart is full,
we sing, we pray, we have the music inside us, prayer in the heart".
It is a blessing, a privilege. It is a precious thing.
One is filled with more love, more love,
more love, such infinite love that begins to overflow,
to flow out to the whole world and one cannot stop, it is a gorgeous thing.
I chose the Sacrament of the footwashing,
precisely because at some time, every human being, I mistook the path.
One begins to grow and the world begins to absorb you, the attractions of the world.
Until one day you say: "What am I doing?
I cannot be a servant of Jesus, of His Divine Mother, of the Almighty God
fifty, forty, thirty percent of the time.
What does Jesus ask for? Absolute surrender".
So, I said: "Lord, it is the only path I want to have and everything that I did before,
wash it, Lord, wash it; I am being born again today
for Your service, for You, absolutely".
Wash me, Lord wash my feet, Lord,
and thus I will be reborn in Your Divine Love, in Your Divine Love
We here, in the Network of Light of Mexico, all this I began years ago
out of an infinite love for the Animal Kingdom.
I could not bear to see little wounded animals, suffering, run over, in awful conditions.
I would say: "My Jesus, we have to alleviate their pain.
We have to follow Your example.
The moment we help one, You will be present in it".
And from that point on on they began to grow, to grow,
to grow, until one day I said: "Lord, I believe we have gone too far".
But He is always, always so great,
that on the day we cannot do it anymore there immediately appears a person
who says to me: "I will help you, I will bring you food".
So now I have forty little animals at home.
I have rescued many.
In fact, through a friend that leads a TV program,
he gave us some time to announce about a little animal,
a little dog or a little cat in the evening, for adoption.
And during the three years that I was in the program,
we gave about fifteen hundred animals up for adoption.
And up to now I continue to do everything I can,
but as for the forty animals I have at home,
it is because in general they are no longer adoptable.
They are in wheelchairs, they are blind, or have terminal cancer,
very powerful or contagious diseases, or they are very, very old, toothless.
And sometimes, but not so much, the heart won us over and they stayed.
I believe that the greatest thing about all of this movement is to fulfill the dream of my whole life:
to be an apostle of Christ.
To struggle always, twenty-four hours a day,
as He, He gives us His strength so we are able to lead more and more children to His Heart,
to His Most Sacred Heart.
I believe that here is where we can be apostles and be the example,
that is to say, to preach through example more than with the word.
I want to follow You in my life. With feet covered with blood.
With hands wounded by love for all of my siblings.
I want to follow You in my life. With feet covered with blood
and both arms open
to all of my siblings.
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