EWTN Live - 01-04-2012 - St Clare Sisters Retreat Ministry - Fr Pacwa with Sr Briege McKenna

tonight on EWTN live will learn how miracles can and do happen through the power of the Eucharist so please stay with us thank you thank you very much and welcome I'm father Mitch Pacwa and welcome to EWTN live our chance to bring you guests from all over the world before we get to tonight's guests I just want to mention that today is the Feast of one of our American saints st. Elizabeth Ann Seton she was married and um she was a mother and during a visit to Italy her husband became very sick and she herself became interested it was a very difficult situation for her to have a such a sick husband and she eventually lost him but she became a Catholic now this went very much against her social class and the back in America and it meant a lot of sacrifice for her to become a Catholic but she saw needs in the church and she didn't complain about the needs she went out and did something about them she founded a religious order and began teaching catechism and sometimes it was dangerous there was a group called the know-nothings who were very much anti-catholic and it was dangerous at times to be doing what they did but she taught catechism and helped to set the foundation for a new community that would be teaching and they continued on to this day so god bless Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and all of the sisters that belong to a community now tonight's guest is someone who's well known she's been ministering to the Catholic clergy and laity around the world for over 40 years calling Catholics to rediscover the sacraments and the healing power to unlock personal and ecclesial renewal so please welcome a great friend of the network and a personal friend as well sister Brees McKenna sister welcome back thank you father Mitch it's a joy to be here no to have you're really good to have it one of the things I know you'd like to talk about is something that you'll be doing this summer which is going to the Eucharistic Congress we did a program about that Eucharistic Congress earlier this year it's going to be in Ireland this coming summer is that not correct yes it starts on the 10th of June and it ends on the 17th of June great and it's their 50th anniversary it's the 30th anniversary of the International Eucharistic Congress Bulger in the world and father care of myself are speaking on the feast of st. Anthony which is a nice day the 3rd yes it is yes it is and I'm delighted father Mitch because I love the Eucharist I'm very it's the center of my life and I was delighted when I got the invitation that's great well and also it's going back home to Ireland and that's got to be a cool thing to be going back you call it cool it's cool in many ways yeah yeah but yes I go back to Ireland a lot but it it is it'll be but I think I'm praying that there'll be a lot others than Irish there yes that's becoming from all over the world well yeah it's it's an international get-together correct yes it's I heard that there are thousands I know and Honduras there's a crab very large crowd and Toronto and different countries so I pray it well because I think you know for something like this at this time that it's great to especially Ireland we need it why is firstly Ireland well you know um father Mitch Ireland is a country when you think about it that have many martyrs many people who died for the for the sacraments for two sacraments particularly the Eucharist and the priesthood and there are marvelous stories of the martyrs of how they died defending the Blessed Sacrament of you know the stories of people who crawled with hunger during the hunger when when there was a famine potato famine crawled in their hands and knees to get to mass and I think now in in Ireland but not only Ireland in many countries people I become very materialistic and the question the the you Chris I mean all the heresies of old are back what what heresies do you see returning that are having an effect not only not yeah I'd say there are three that that I'm very aware of because my work around the world and the first one is that people say well it's not really the body and blood of Jesus you know it's it's it's a symbol and you know to get across to people know it is a person it is body blood soul and divinity I think that is very common today and you know it by people's external behavior because you know father Kevin my co-worker who's a good friend of yours said that that was just giving an example of somebody walking up chewing gum with their hands in their pockets receive Communion and it just bent over he said you know this is not McDonald's we'll see that's I mean just one of the attitudes that sometimes people have it's you know you come up there because they're giving this away yes and you go out and get one like you would an appetizer at some place and you know that just the reverence that's the first one and it says something more right and the next one is this thing about because of the the crisis in there with scans of the priests children things that have gone wrong people begin to say to avert to to look at the Eucharist and to look at the sacraments and and say oh I don't believe there were a valid because the priest was a terrible sinner are the priests do this and to get across to people that the sacraments that is not that the holiness of the priest that makes present Christ but that the power of the Holy Spirit in through his ordination and and that that's an old hair very old yet Novation ISM was one form of that heresy in the Donatists and earlier centuries where when when a priest would betray the faith you know by you know under persecution under pressure and he would you know give up his practice or would offer some incense to the Roman gods in order to not to be martyred and tortured then people you know said well those priests sacraments are not valid and the church taught the opposite of that that it doesn't depend on the goodness of the priest it depends on the promise of Jesus Christ right and now the holiness of the priest even though I mean I said to the priest number it is very important you know I I often use the example to priest you know that when when they're celebrating the Eucharist how important it is they themselves are men of faith and reverence and how they I often use the example if I invited you to dinner at father Mitch and and you were really hungry and I brought you to dinner and I put the turkey on the table but I didn't bother to cook it and I put all the vegetables you might be hungry but you I won't eat the dead turkey I might eat the raw vegetables but the dead turkey is going to stay there until somebody cooks you know but let me finish but you know I said to them now all the vitamins and proteins and everything's in that but it's not prepared in the proper way and I said now if I invited you to dinner and I girl maybe I did not the best of a cook but I would do my best make it beautiful for you and really appetizing now you might come and you might say you know bridge I'm really not hungry but when you see the food you'd really want to eat it because you'd you know it is really attempt attack we see I'm convinced that even though we know it's not the priest but that the priest has a lot to because how he celebrates the Eucharist his love for Jesus his devotion for the Blessed Sacrament is outer expressions also tell and so I say that and yet at the same time I tell people you know don't be saying I go to Ma I don't like the priest because he's not charismatic I don't like the priest because listen I said listen I got one of the best teachings of my life many years ago when an elderly priest came to the intercession in Dublin he had spent many years and in prison in China and he had only one desire he cried he begged her lady that he would be able to to say Mass he said there was no possibility because he had nothing but a mouse as his friend he had nothing in the cell he went blind he started going blind for lack of food and he maybe you know the story about him it's the priest paddy Reilly I think was his name it's an Irish Columbia or don't know him and he told the story how he received he prayed to a lady before I died I just want one if I could celebrate just one Mass and he told the priest he said you know Here I am I have the power I'm a priest nobody else can do this but we have this great gift I I can celebrate the must but I can't because I don't have bread and I don't have wine and he said he begged her lady he said you know I don't want a party I don't want what you had at the wedding feast of Cana I just need a thimble and a little few crumbs will do and he said would you believe it that the the astrum maybe wanted to make him feel good the soldier said to him you know and you were we were advised to give you some fruit you know because of his conditioner what would you like what did he ask for grapes and he told the story of how he prepared the grapes in that dungeon and how he got his bread and he was starving but he saved his bread and I'll never forget him saying to us you know I had no Basilica I had no altar I had the sleeves of my shirt I washed them in my drinking water and let them dry and I celebrated Mass in this dungeon and he said it was the most powerful experience and he said the couldn't my doors were locked nobody was allowed into me but my Savior came to me and he looked at all the priests and he said fathers don't take for granted he said what you take for granted there are others dying in prison cells and he said do you know what feast it was the 15th of August so our lady came through there you go so that really touched me deeply because I I often say to people you know you don't miss the what is it water the well runs dry we take for granted the Eucharist is available in many places and we can be I also knew a priest who was a prisoner in the concentration camps he was an American Jesuit and his mother was finally able to send him a little package of things of food and things and it was a bottle of medicine and some Necco candies ever seen that go candy no it's a powdered sugar chocolate kind of flavored kind of wafer but what she had done is she had put a communion wafer in between each neck oh and the medicine was wine and he was able to use the cap of the bottle as a chalice but because he had enough host he would take and consecrate the host and break it into his many tiny pieces he could so that the other priests imprisoned when he passed him by in the the play yard you know that when they wouldn't go out for recreation he would give them each a little fragment of the host so that they could go to communion and that's how precious it is you know that the end the taking risks like that you know and this is this is the story of the church from st. tarcisius you know back in the Roman persecution days to the present and the Nazi concentration camps communists all these places this is see father Mitch I think in Ireland you know I love the stories of the martyrs and I love the stories of our ancestors and then I think how sad today so many people don't go to Mass so so many people if you asked them they don't even know the Eucharistic Congress is coming to the country you know we're having this celebration and this is why you know and I it at my office I was really asking the Lord for somewhere in my mail to send out and it came to me in prayer you know our Lady appear to knock right honestly it's the one shrine in the world where the lamb is that the Blessed Eucharist you know she our Lady appeared with Saint Joseph she appeared with beloved decide on dress as a bishop with the book of the power of the the Gospels in his hand and the very center was the the Lamb of God on the altar of sacrifice with angels all around and that had a powerful impact on the Irish people at that time when that apparition happened you know from then on and I think to myself I'm praying so I asked the people I sent those of you who are listening over there in Ireland I sent the the little novena patron idiot I told him pray to Our Lady of knock for a great revival of Eucharistic fear because I'm convinced that and of course I'm a sister st. Clair and as you know Sinclair is always seen with the monstrance word that if we are Eucharistic that many many things will change in our personal lives yes and this is one of the things about why we have to have a strong sense of the importance of the Eucharist you know we're not one of the problems that we've seen is the way people treat Eucharist as a community event instead of a Jesus Christ event yes and they come for community but they don't focus on the one who makes the community who's Jesus yes and this is one of the things that we need to have a sense of even if the priest is a yo-yo and he can't preach a lick still come yeah look at the Stations of the Cross if he's boring yeah look at the stained glass windows or something I meditate on the gospel stories and the stained glass windows of the stations or something but you go there for Jesus not for the priest yes well you know I could tell you many beautiful stories about you know what my own personal experience of the Blessed Sacrament ah I'd love to tell you to go ahead one of them was and I was sharing with one of my sisters some years ago I made a 30 day retreat at the Jesuits in Ireland oh and after the retreat I was back at my convent and I was sitting at nine o'clock in the morning and from the Blessed Sacrament less darkness exposed and I just sitting looking at Jesus and I got this sense it was just like transmitted into my heart and I won't say who the person was was an official in the country some person this person came to my mind and said he wants to talk to you but I want to talk to him please remember the government and I thought all this 30-day retreat is really getting me I'm getting imagine a she's just running away with me I thought I put out in my mind I looked at the clock it's quarter past 9:00 so I finally third thought well I'm going to go out so I called one of the people who worked a senator his wife but I told her this story and she said I want to be in the doll today so she said listen I look I'll talk that person so anyway that night she called me and she said you are not going to believe it I went in and I met this person and I said to him Bridge McKenna oh my god he said breach McKenna and she said why do you act like that he said you know at a quarter-past not he didn't have any idea what she was going to tell him at a quarter past 9:00 this morning I put my head on the desk and I said God wouldn't I love to talk to sister bridge and get her to pray with me because he had really medical problems well and she said with sister bridge called me at half nine but we say an hour at half 9:00 9:30 and said the cheek of this word and then he thought it's my room bugged and began to sew of course he was wanted to talk so I went to make long story short and we array I thought I really don't have anything to say to him that's all I got so I prayed for about three hours I got this prompting to buy him a new Testament thought I know he probably has a little New Testament and I got scripture passage and I underlined so I brought them in and he kept saying how did you know I mean how was it telepathy so I said no I was sitting in front of Jesus you know Jesus is a person I said do you believe in the resurrection he was Catholic I know how good but he was Catholic and he said oh yeah I believe her well I said always remember that what you said what you told me he said Jesus I was in the right place I was with Jesus and he thought well I can use her and I remember praying with him and he cried he was really moved and you know Mitch it made me realize that has happened to be so many times in front of the Blessed Sacrament where I'll get a prompting in my kind of ministry you know and like another time I got this prompting about this priest and you know I love the priest and I work with priests and I pray for them lot and I got this prompting go and call that priest and he was about I hate to say it but he was really in despair over something had I not call him god knows what would have happened true and so that's the first thing the other thing is that you know father Cavanaugh myself very early in my own ministry I realized with father Rick Thomas whom you knew oh yes matter of fact father Rick Thomas was the judgment priest who got me back to Santa Rosa after I had neglected it for some of my college years he back in 74 he he got me saying the rosary again and he didn't such a wonderful gentleman great church oh one friend oh well father Rick asked me to go to Juarez to pray with the poor at the garbage dump and I said to him I'd only like have a half a day he said God doesn't need half a day just come I will never in mind it was my conversion I'll say because I had been to mass since I was like two three you know it's into our babies and I on carry Tomas I had never experienced and like the Eucharist I saw miracles I saw a little boy Muraki see he did the consecration I saw it on syndrome child I mean as all these things happen and I'm sitting and I was always be there to evangelize them and you know the thing that at that mass when I talked to the people afterwards they were not in awe because they said I said to this woman what happened to your child and you know what she said to me looking at me and these people couldn't read her and these were people father Mitch had in the rasa-lila garbage dump they live in the cabin they didn't have a chance to go to see me and said to me what didn't Jesus come and he had done such a powerful job and I thought I cross smell past so I've seen at the Jesuit residence I crossed over into that poor place and we would all feel sorry we all feel sorry for the poor and father Rick told me he said you know papers know God help your father must be awful hard he said these people they know they know what the Eucharist is they don't have a cathedral the don't of a church that night when I went back to to the over to the Jesuit house I couldn't sleep I was really disturbed because I thought why all my life I've gone to Mass and yet I've never seen the devotion the merit just the reverence I'm in the middle of the night I got up and I left the side of my bed and I thought there must be a reason I'm here and I have felt the Lord speaking to me now and I said the Lord spoke to me no it was like an inspiration in sorry I brought you here to teach you many people will run after you me many people seek signs and wonders in the world many people look for healers and you know all kinds of things and I am on the altars of the world I'm in every tabernacle I want you from this time on to go into the world and speak to my people tell them if they will come to me in the Eucharist I will change their lives tell them I will give them strength and that night father me - god bless father Rick I made a commitment now I didn't know how it was gonna happen because I hadn't worked with dear father Kevin at that time but how the Lord led me because I know father Kevin is listening back in Ireland tonight but he he and I the Lord brought us together and he is such a love for the Blessed Eucharist and now all these 35 years we minister in the context of the Eucharist and we see miracles no miracles you know I mean I could well I am going to write another book when I get around to it but off Eucharistic miracles not just physical because people think immediately physical healing but you know people you know been completely cleaned of drugs of all kinds of you know problems that are not physical but are spiritual and emotional and mental what and this is one of the things you know sometimes even we we talk about the you the the temptation can be to no put the Eucharist as if it's some thing I know and we always have to be brought back to the reality that it is not something it is someone well you know father Mitch I'd ask you a question if you don't mind you know it always puzzles me why in churches you know look I believe jesus is alive and he's a person why in some churches you know is Jesus not the center you know when one of the things if you want me to answer that I do what part of a certain type of theology that was developed in the 1970s is that the center should be the community and I think that there was a loss of trust that Jesus really could be effective and so we'll have something that is effective which is a community experience and we focus on the community and instead of on Jesus and what we don't realize is that Jesus is the one who was the center of the Apostles yes we say always see the Last Supper with them around him and if they're around the table but he's the center and this is one of the things that got missed by number of people that Jesus has to be the center the church is not a great organization for rock bands fun music things like that if you want to use certain types usually not figure it out but that is not going to make community Jesus does yeah yeah you see that's what what what I believe true but I often you know it because I know that you know many times people have said to me you know Oh sister you know I we want so much of Eucharistic Adoration or we'd love to be able to go - at the church but we can't find you know and and that's why I asked you the question would the other thing I want to just share with you is that you know father Kevin myself went to that we're in the Far East right and you've been to the Far East yes yes and this was an experience that we never expected we were at a giving mission healing service and it was in either Taiwan they was maybe in Taiwan and father Kevin had said to them another one very many Catholics but to bring you know the Catholics in the different places when a beautiful little place and one of the Daughters of Charity brought all her people that she worked with I had a German translator she was translating in from Mandarin English into Mandarin and then a Taiwanese at the other side of me and during the Eucharistic healing service when we I was saying to the people know look up this is Jesus the translator stopped and she said oh my God look what's happening what we didn't know was that they brought a group of Buddhists and his father is holding the monsters he didn't know them but he held were Ellen people held a mass in front these people started shouting you're alive we feel you we know you're alive well and the fellow underneath the chairs went every place and afterwards became to ask now that has happened to us several times in in Singapore their Archbishop Archbishop young and we had a big stadium session and we couldn't have mass because they're going to be many from other faiths and so we had the blest sock with decorated it was beautiful and then it was carried around and Archbishop young met with us a couple of weeks later were passing through Singapore and he told us do you know that my phone has never stopped ringing many people want to learn about the real presence Muslims Buddhists Hindus and what father cabinet said to the bishop said what do we do is Catholics we can't of mass and we're not like the Full Gospel businessman and father Kevin said no but we don't have to weaken if the Blessed Eucharist we can have a big Eucharistic procession and a healing service exam don't apologize for what we would we believe so I got up there and I said now I know you may not all be Catholic but this is what Catholics believe how does amazing how grace works no and the archbishop said that he said he was starting the RCIA particularly for all of these people who were at this big rally to teach them about the Catholic faith particularly about the Eucharist see this is going to be one of the great things you know that Jesus our Lord wants to be loved by us and that he calls us to this love and this is where were to fall in love all over again at the Eucharist and get to know him we need to take a little break we're going to come back in a couple of minutes we want to get your questions and 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Joseph get yourself a big statue of st. Joseph in your home and make him the guardian you know with you in your home and certainly I will pray for you but I would also say that you know you're never alone I know it's a tough time and it's a hard time but you know your children will by your example and your faithfulness and what you do they will learn and I will certainly pray for you Louise god bless you thank you I have another question from our studio audience ma'am were you from hence fill Alabama good to have you down here this part of Alabama and what is your question sister I was wondering if you could tell us some stories about how God's used you in healing to build up our faith in the Eucharist and then also remember and being some of your conferences where you talked about as having Jesus in a special form maybe five or ten minutes after we receive him in Communion and we don't hear anything from our peers priest a lot of times its music so can you talk to us about how we can avail ourselves more well the first thing I know Debbie Debbie is that I think talking about when you receive Holy Communion course is the most intimate and beautiful woman st. Faustina talks about it a lot you know about receiving and I think those moments we are always telling the the music men just to be quiet just to let us adore Jesus it's so important because it's probably the high point of our lives i am ii do you realize that people clamor to get close to jesus to the person of jesus i think the woman said if I could just touch His garment and here we are Jesus actually comes inside us and what a gift the second part of your question about healing I just tell two brief ones one and I was speaking up to you on the Eucharist in at least and if you ever heard of the father Mitch called Waterloo in Belgium if you heard of it and I was there was a but maybe a hundred people there there was a bishop there and and some priests and I was telling them I said you know now this is Jesus and when you come up to Holy Communion you know whether you whether you take it on your hand or your tongue I said you know this is the person and you asked Jesus and all of a sudden as Holy Communion has been given out this nun started shouting oh my God look what happening and what had happened was that she had a paralyzed arm and when she came up to receive whole community was very you know touched by my talking and I'm convincing them and saying to them you know it's a person he's alive talk to him ask him she said I was coming up to community never saying you know I wasn't even thinking of my paralyzed arm I was thinking of all the things that I want if I was saying you know Jesus if I could just believe and you know just asking the Lord and the next thing as the host was later in her hand a power went through her arm and the power came back no so that she could move her oh it was perfect so the bishop so I brought over to the bishop and the bishop said to her well I hope it'll last I said of course if last bishop I said of course and then I realized as a bishop I'm talking to I said of course the last bishop it's Jesus he doesn't do things half he healed me 30 years ago and I've never had any artresin and the bishop smiles at her sorry sister that's the first one the other and and I often tell there are so many stories you know but this is another miracle father Kevin myself we're in the South Sea Islands and this happened the year that we went there I didn't see it but it's a Eucharistic miracle and I tell it because there's another aspect of healing people's faith and helping them and this there was a terrible attack in one of these islands way back in the early part of the 20th century and some people came with the intention of destroying small Catholic Church and the the the Catholic is not fatiguing a catechist came and he took this to bore him because every once a month the priest came because there was no mass and so under the be a service she said they hadn't enough priests but he was somebody said to him you better be careful because there's somebody planning to break the church into the church and take get into that tabernac that gold box you have so he was very afraid so they took they they ciborium and he dug a hole in a Protestant Baptist Church and buried it there I thought they'll never find it now go back for it but he was killed and it was never found seventy years later was little Irish nun who worked on this island in terror who told me about the the year before we give vent there seventy years later a woman from the parish by this time things have changed and they had the priests and everything but it was never found and nobody ever knew it were that it was law where it was this woman had a vivid dream that she was to go to a church which was now a Presbyterian Church and she was to dig and she was sure today I'm not gonna turn that think I'm crazy and she told the priest and priest said to her I know come on he was kind of dead she went there after three different consecutive dreams with a neighbor and they hit something I'm through Gerard it wasn't airtight it was there for over 70 years opened the lid and the hosts were perfect and the little sister said to me you know sister this island needed this miracle you know to do it and then of course I could tell many physical healings but no that's a good start that's a good start we have another caller on the line hello Joan yes I'm sorry Parkway a Happy New Year and a holy nearer to you and sister preach McKenna are you from by the way Yonkers New York great and what's your question and I'm just and want a sister breach that them you know sister and a lot of people aren't aware of what adoration is and them you know I was just wondering how we could bring adoration into our parishes you know because then I have seen an adoration and supposedly coming on after mass has been ended and I love the priest forget to mention adoration and people walk out and they don't know what adoration is all about how as we how can we as their laypeople to help the priests and you know the spread the word about adoration and how to bring it into our parishes and they're not gonna wait for your call well first of all I must say you're Irish yeah that's good Irish brogue I'm from County Cork well um first of all you don't have the priests are the ones I think father Mitch would you say also that you know and that would would I hope we be teaching about adoration what to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament but you know what I would advise you to do is to go to your priest and to ask the priest and you know some priests will say oh you know you don't need you can adore Jesus in the tabernacle and that is true it's not wrong Jesus is in the tabernacle I say I love to see him I love to see the monstrance and and Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul and this present Pope our Holy Father has absolutely encouraged that every diocese should have Perpetual Adoration Church chapel not one several and two what I would do is I would first of all talk to a group of my friends who are of the same mind and who want Eucharistic Adoration because one of the things that the priest is often said to me when I go to them say well you know I find the Blessed Sacrament with nobody there and then my advice to the people is look at you go to the priest and say father we want your Christic adoration we want to sit with Jesus we want to come and pray but I'll tell you a great way to do it is to get families I tell the priest look father it's not always easy to get people to cover all the hours but there is one way you can do it if you're really seeking and that is that you can say the mechana family you have one hour whether it's your mother your father your grandmother but you come and spend that time with Jesus or your family the different families and you're responsible to watch with Jesus and I know that in in parishes where I've been in Ireland the down in Cork your own place there are many parishes there with that did it this way and it has really been very effective and the other thing is that you keep interceding and in your own way because we're all called as Pope the Pope says and this recently we're all called to witness to the faith and so you if you know what Eucharistic Adoration you know the value and the power of it it is powerful King booed when the Belgium king whom I had the privilege to know spent three hours every day in Eucharistic Adoration he got up at 4:30 in the morning and he went down to his palace Chapel and he spent three hours with Jesus and he told me himself he said it's like sitting in the Sun now for you just look at me I'm pale if I went out and sat in the Sun for three hours now I would look like a dynamo you would know because my fears would be read I would know because I'd feel it the King said I was beautiful from somebody that that had such a low fatigue he said you know the only thing you need to do is get yourself to Jesus be motivated that you want to be with Jesus and if you come and sit with Jesus it's not what you do for him it's what he will do for you and he said it's like sitting in the Sun his it is bathing in the love and the power of the person who loves you most and see sometimes we think that we have to be saying things to make Jesus feel good Jesus feels wonderful he lead us perhaps in a way so just as sit like I went today when we were out in Mother Angelica update of their sisters with monastery you know that beautiful place you know you know you just could sit there and just be in adoration and it's like sitting in the Sun but when you go out to the beach you just sit there I think of who you're sitting in front so I don't think you need to be taught how to adore if you love Jesus it'll be there yep and father before can I can I make a request for the next one I have a brother and a sister in-law in Ireland in case I forget and a first cousin married and they're all it's their birthday today okay and so heather and kathleen and marian i want to say happy birthday to you and i love you and i'm praying for your father I told father Mitch that I did the same last year and you're still here with your horses and smoking away and I also want to say greetings to sister trays and sister Philippa who I live with and I love very much my religious community thank you thank you you're welcome all right let's go to our studio audience and where are you from I'm from Birmingham great and what's your question okay sister bridge when we go to Mass and we received the Holy Eucharist can we receive a healing and how should we be disposed to receive that healing Wow the biggest and most important thing jesus said was to believe to have faith because every miracle that happened if you believe and not always will you get the miracle that you're asking for but you'll get even greater and many times when people say to me no sister bridge and I I prayed for a miracle but I didn't get it and I said to them no maybe you didn't get what you thought you needed but I can guarantee you that Jesus will never disappoint you and I yesterday somebody asked me the question is it fair to ask Jesus for healing maybe it I should not ask because maybe it's not God's will and I my explanation is amiss look at God's will will always come to pass he wants you to pray whatever the intention is and as you pray God doesn't change you change and he opens us like a flower to him so that whatever his perfect will is we love the grace to accept it but we should never be afraid to ask for healing because health is a gift and we should ask and God will always give us the grace and I see this all the time many people phoned me up and his sister my brother didn't get healed but he had a beautiful happy death are you know another time I was asked for the mirror to pray for a miracle which I'll tell you in the next question okay what's your question ma'am I was you brought up Perpetual Adoration the other caller did as well and I was wondering if you could explain the difference between someone who commits to a holy hour signs up for a holy hour as opposed to someone who'll just go and do a holy hour when it's convenient for them which is wonderful and beautiful but the difference of having that committed holy hour we have about two minutes well all I can say is that I personally think that you know people have to not everybody like for example not everybody it's important to to make a commitment but then not everybody can make the commitment because of commitments for example my Jackie here has is a mother and she's here with me she's are saying she's eight children and she might love to make a commitment but when you have a family and you have all the other choice so I think that if you can it is important it is important if you have made signed up that you keep the commitment but I think also that we should never discourage because I think people get promptings to go to the Blessed Sacrament that's the beautiful thing about the Catholic Church that you know you can go em any time now I still believe as you said you know that it is important but you can't say that one is very near I think whenever you can go to the Blessed of me you can make the commitment and go other times as well ya know that's one of the things where sometimes people are retired and they don't know what to do well a great way to use your retirement is to spend extra time and Blessed Sacrament adoration oh yes you know before we go we have just a little bit of time left I want to mention that you've got a number of books and that these are available at religious catalogue and we'd love people to to get a hold of some of these books on miracle and other issues by calling religious catalogue' at 1 800 850 463 16 1 885 4 631 6 or you can also go to our website EWTN religious catalog com that's one word e WWE WT n religious catalog com you can order those books and many other things that are available you know at the website we've got lots of great things to help you grow in Eucharistic Adoration and love sister breeze it's always a delight to have you I want to thank you very much for being with us tonight and I want to give all of you a blessing know mighty God bless you and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit amen you know last year was a rough year for everybody you know it's been a tough economic situation and it's tough for us to EWTN is trying to save as much money as we possibly can but you know is it we still need your help and this network is brought to you by you you make it possible so please keep us in between your gas bill your electric bill in your cable bill and we'll be able to pay a lot of the bills that we've got and right now can't pay so please help us thank you

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Length: 56min 32sec (3392 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 05 2012