Fr Tom Testimony Medjugorje

good morning my brothers and sisters my brother priests sister religious and all other religious men and all my brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus have it ready pleasant day today and wish you a very good morning we are here in this place of pilgrimage where Mother Mary has been sending the message for all of us it is the Lord who has brought us here we believe in a God when we and our God is a living God because he is the Living God he has heard the prayers of all of you people all over the world particularly on my behalf and he continues to hear the prayers of everyone for the various needs that we raise so I wish to thank in Jesus name for your prayers while I was in captivity thank you and praise to you praise to the Lord Jesus hallelujah okay well there was just a two minutes video clipping but the some technical issue with the sound and so we will not have the video but there would be some slides or some pictures connected with Yemen and what went there okay I'm a solution of Don Bosco you know the mission of Don Bosco is to the young the poor youth in particular now I'm from India from the province of Bangalore father shall been to is my fellow priests and in in the province of Bangalore father is a mission procure of the province he knows a little not little little more German and Italian and so on so it is helpful for me I do not know these languages thank you for the shall beam for accompanying and helping me through and you know Yemen Yemen is one of the Gulf countries I just gave a just maybe five or six minutes maybe just a background why or how the solutions of Don Bosco reach to Yemen and then thereafter what happened right I hope I will be am i speaking too fast is it okay for everyone if I speak a little more faster will it be okay okay because as the spirit leads I okay just at the beginning I wish to pray a Hail Mary with all of you that mother Mary inspired me to say those words which are helpful and to each of you to listen it's only the grace of the Lord that would touch us and gave us the right message as the Lord said hearing and hearing but you don't understand seeing and seeing you doughnut you know all that is okay so let's in this place of Mother Mary where she communicated the love of the Lord and forgiveness let us pray to her hail Mary full of grace the Lord is with you blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death mean well you have a picture of Yemen hope you are able to see it just the location from India across the Arabian Sea reaching into Yemen one side the top side is Saudi Arabia on the right is Oman and on the left again the African continent with the Red Sea in between leading right up to the Suez Canal and going up so you see that Jerusalem and Israel under laws right on top in the early century there were Christians in Yemen and he also see makkah medina and so on in Saudi Arabia where Islam took birth and with we know the invasions that came in and all that so Christianity came to Hamas to Anil Yemen was two different nations North Yemen and South Yemen South Yemen was a den or Aydin as it is called was the capital of the South Yemen the South Yemen was under the British rule and the whole Christian missionary work was interested to the Capuchin priests for the whole African region and the Gulf region and the apostolic vicariate the bishops house was placed in Aden and there were several bishops and the cathedral charged several churches schools convents sisters brothers all that were there before it got freedom from the British rule the Apostolic carried the bishops house was shifted to Abu Dhabi where currently Bishop Paul Hinda is the bishop for Yemen Oman and UAE when it got freedom from the British rule the following government that was formed was a communist regime and as we are all aware from the histories they confiscated all the churches schools convents or at all priests and nuns to leave the country or left except one father Angelo a Capuchin priest at that time he hid himself in the Cathedral Church this is the old Cathedral Church of Aden it's more than 150 years old he hid himself in the church of course the doors windows are walled up for safety reasons later on and he sustained for two weeks just with water in the Cathedral Church and he was caught by the military but because of the involvement of some other foreign nations embassy he was allowed to continue there as the only priest in Yemen in South Yemen and North Yemen no one you must be familiar with Mother Teresa Kolkata she was invited by the northern Yemen's Muslim ruler to start her homes in North Yemen for the needy people and mother put only one precondition for starting it she said provided you allow a priest each to each of her homes she would begin the work there and that was agreed and she started the first home for leprosy patients in the city of theis initially from that happened in 1973 73 till 87 a group of priests they were called as white father's I don't know if they were white or black or brown anyway they were called as white fathers from the African continent side the missionaries they were the ones serving the spiritual needs of their sisters in North Yemen from 87 they were not able to continue that service for whatever reason they had the request was made through mother Teresa - Holy Father and Holy Father - the solutions of Don Bosco in Rome or major superior erecta major he in turn requested the provincial superior of bangalore province southern Indian and that's how the solutions of Don Bosco from India began to serve in Yemen first one priest then two and a three were sent into North Yemen when it reached to 1990 his father Angelo who was all by himself in South Yemen he needed a replacement and so the request was made again to the solutions to send one more priest to take up the place in South Yemen and that priest who happened replace was my father's cousin father Matthew Denali well he worked there about 16 years in his time by God's grace and whatever the circumstances he was able to get back of the two con of the churches two of the charges which are confiscated renewed and started to use it in service and 91 the North Indian military attacked the south and there was many killings and and it it merged into unified Yemen with a capital sana in this unified Yemen mother Teresa had four centers sana the capital thighs which was the first then herida on the Red Sea caused a pod City and Arden in the South these were the four homes mother Teresa sisters were running for all four Muslim people only men women differently able mentally challenged or the kind of work you know what they do so in each of these place there were one one solution priests each and they we had one parish each so there were four Catholic parishes in Yemen and they the solutions of Don Bosco were the only priests in Yemen and mother Teresa nuns were the only religious nuns in Yemen the parish nurse where all people will come from other countries not people of that place well in you know priests get transfers after a number of years of work and service they're two of the solution priests got transfer back to Bangalore in 2010 that was the time I got the opportunity to go as missionary to Yemen I went along with Father MK charge and things were fine in the beginning we could go any time any place any part of the country day or night the sisters also could move and the bad times began in 2011 we are aware of the Arab Spring like Egypt Libya and so on the rulers were thrown out apart like that the Muslim ruler who ruled about 32 years Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen he was thrown out of power his vice-president become president but the ruling did not go well so by 2014 and a tribal group of Yemen called as Houthis they began to revolt against the Hadi the president this the older President was ousted from power founded as an opportune time he joined the Houthis the military 2/3 was supporting the old president and so all of them together took Hadi the president in house arrest in sana the capital but he escaped from there in a month's time and then when they reach to Aden he escaped by Red Sea into Saudi Arabia asked the help of the Saudi King and the Saudi King from the car lines of the Gulf countries and was about to bomb the positions of the Houthis in Yemen that's the background well another interesting or important thing is we are getting one month a holiday each priest only one at a time to go to India and come back have a spiritual retreat for two week and then get back to Yemen to work on I went for a holiday in 2013 I was diabetic I was taking tablets before I went for a general checkup and executed checkup in one of the hospitals in Kerala and I was having a little bad cough the doctors examined my diabetics condition and said father it is better that you be put on the insulin you need your kidney liver all that don't you and so just admitted for two days to fix how much insulin to take so I agreed and I was admitted and in the meanwhile the ENT Specialists examined my throat and they discovered there were two small growths inside the throat since I was admitted they said a surgery biopsy and the result came doctor that you must meet an oncologist well you understand it no I don't need to explain that Allah the careless specialist a doctor gangadharan happened to be visiting in the nearby hospital and I got the opportunity to meet him on that same evening he ordered all these tests to be redone in an another hospital another big Hospital where he functioned but tests took more time my holiday got over I went back to Yemen when the result came I was called back one more biopsy was advised and it was done more elaborate tests but no medication given no radiation no other tablets or anything of that in a meanwhile of course all my family the solutions the missionaries of charity all prayed for me at the end the doctor said you must have follow-up which meant every six months I must come to the hospital to get my throat examined so I went back and kept coming two or three times already by 2014 beginning my provincial superior told me for the term it's better that you come back because every six months you had to come no for the tests so I was given a transfer back to Bangalore in the month of May of 2014 as the administrator of our theology College in Bangalore now of all the priests in Yemen only one priests of the four was given the visa from the Shah from the Religious Affairs as the official priests in the whole country that was whoever was replacing father Angelo I happen to be having one such visa I was in the Cathedral Church as a parish priest and that church being very old one the roof a little fell off in the month of January 2014 it needed repair initiated the work in the meanwhile provincial gave me the transfer order so Bishop our requested the provincial to hold me back till the what gets over if you don't want to go back what you do don't finish the work no well not intentionally the work went on till the end of 2014 December the work was complete Bishop came blessed put another priest father Antony in my place as the new parish priest having introduced him to the place I returned to Bangalore in the month of February 1st week 2015 that time there were four Silesian priests in Yemen having reached Bangalore just a month went by by the end of March end of February beginning of March the political situation grew so bad Saudi was about to bump the Indian government sensing it as a serious issue ordered all Indians to return to India more than 5000 were brought back to India from Yemen by the efforts of the Indian government in shape and by flight and so on along with those evacuated of the four priests three who were new to the place were also advised by the embassy to return of course all were advised but for the judge with whom I went in 2010 he decided to remain back because the mother Teresa sisters numbering about 22 in all the four centers together they were given the option but they said if he come away who will look after these who have no bond so they all of them unanimously decided that they all will remain back even if they have to die so also for George remained back now this evacuation took place in the holy week of 2015 it was Easter time you may call it an inspiration or inner voice or whatever that prompted me to go back I was still having a valid visa for Yemen and asked the permission from the provincial superior after having lot of questions he gave me the blessing of Mary Help of Christians with Silesians don bosco much devoted to mother mary under the title mary hello Christine so he gave me the blessing America for Christians and gave me the permission by now already pumping began in Yemen there were no more direct flights to Yemen I went over to Abu Dhabi to the bishops house UAE took his blessing with his help I went across to Djibouti a small country on the African side hoping to get into Aden by a ship there was a ship going the next day the captain agreed to take me but reaching the port to see seaport the official said you are an Indian you must get a no objection letter from your embassy only then we can allow view so I couldn't go well it must have in the Lord's will because I learned the next day of the ship arriving to our then the Saudis aeroplanes were bombing the seaport and out I did escape the church and was just adjacent to the port he can see the ship coming and going and so on well had I gone in that one I may not have been here perhaps that's why the Lord did not allow me to go no I waited there one month in Djibouti now when what takes place in the Red Cross humans Red Cross what they do I don't need to describe there was a flight carrying miracle medicines to son of the capital of Yemen on the 2nd of June 2015 so they agreed to take me under the banner of Caritas Djibouti and so in that flight as the only passenger I reached a sauna on the 2nd of June well I could see only the destructions in the airport and all other places I had to wait one month there before I could come into Aden where I was before 650 kilometers only by Road then was having severe war at that time so after waiting one month by Road I reached to are then on the 1st of July 2015 earlier I was staying at the Cathedral Church presbytery now it's no more safe shootout bombing all that and no Christians to come there and I to give mass only for the sisters so I was staying in the guest room of the sisters where they were carrying 420 all people all Moslems men and women and that's the events - the ecology home by the time I reach to the sister's place of course my reaching back was a big moral encouragement for them because they were not having mass or sacraments for nearly three four months till July no from February end till July the priest before leaving whatever host was there here consecrated and interested - the sisters before leaving by the time I reached they were only just two left so they were very happy that I reached back well reaching back time goes so fast how much is time now okay half an hour more okay praise the Lord reach in there the sister shared one of their special experience with me this 120 people being looked after because of the war there is no gas no electricity no water supplied no food available even if you have the money the sisters gave the last dinner - all these 120 elderly people in the home they did not know what they will serve for the next day's breakfast the five sisters prayed in the chapel went to rest early morning somebody knocked at that gate and they opened they found a Muslim man waiting with bread for not one or two for this 120 people and that too free of cost and he kept bringing that quantity of bread for two weeks every morning without fail at the end he seemed to have brought two three bags of wheat flour and told sisters I'm not able to bring bread anymore somehow you prepare this and give them no gas no electricity how will you cook any solution you have firewood you you see some trees in the compound behind no there were a few five or six big tree all neem trees and they managed to get the branches cut in two days because of the heat it turns into firewood with that they make kind of bread and fed the whole people for one more week so this why till three weeks of the war time is taken care of all these hundred and twenty plus the sisters and the few workers there by the Lord what will you call this experience as divine providence well that was the experience of the sisters and if you look in another way this Muslim man must have been sent by the Lord like an angel and he must have been visiting this home several times before and knew precisely how many people are being looked after there and appreciated the work done by the sisters otherwise who do you ever think of bringing bread like that no there are good Muslims we all know we also may be having cut Muslim friends too let us pray for all the good that they remain good and pray for the bad too that they may become good well situation improved after my reach in there the Houthis were still controlling to get the Houthis out from Aden the Allied forces they had taken the help of all terror groups like al-qaeda ayahs and all fundamentalist group the Houthis were chased out the very next day of the three churches one was burned with petrol another one was bomb was planted and blew up and this Cathedral which was renovated was vandalized inside someone would inform this and then one good friend of the sisters used to take me in his car earlier enough half an hour to reach now it took 3-4 hours because road blocks all such things and on returning I could see like in a war movie you see people dead no in bombing and so on in the war movie well similar I could see in reality on the road people dead in this direction that direction all that well all this never gave me any nightmare or fried situation name wrote the Red Cross people provided enough food and other essential requirements for this home more peace are returned we did not think that such a thing would happen on 4th of March 2016 it was the first Friday in Lent the five sisters and me we did not have Holy Mass that morning we kept it for the evening for the sake of three people who are working in the operation theater in the hospital they would come for the mass if it is in the evening so for they say we kept it for the evening but as the sisters practice we had one hour of Eucharistic Adoration in the morning and I gave the Eucharistic blessing I just give a little idea about that campus you'll find on the Accord this is a military vehicle which came in after these things happened you find on the right of the gate a small window which is the window to the security room security room would mean the government the formal government had given two gunmen of soldier category as safety for this home and behind that security room is the sisters convent and the chapel and with another enclosure with a gate and so on straight to this main gate is a hundred meter in is the entrance to the old-age home where this 120 elderly people being looked after well this morning I finished there after the blessing had my breakfast and finished all my prayers in the Chapel of the sisters was coming out from there around 8:30 the sisters had already moved to the elderly people's home to give them breakfast and medicine and so on I made a round of the sisters house and was coming out from that house into the general drive of the decent maybe half the distance of this hall by the time we reached the middle I heard two gunshots from near this main gate near the security it did not frighten me because you are used to hearing huge explosions the bombing and constant gunfire there as I stepped out the gate I could see already three gunmen with all automatic weapon garland around the shoulder all bullets and one such caught hold of my hand my immediate response was to say that was the only Arabic I knew I am an alien ana Indy I don't know if anyone knows Arabic here well hidden pointed gun at me he ordered me to go and sit in the chair placed in front of the security room again I was going to sit maybe from here to that door that much is the distance from where they caught me to go to sit in the chair I was going to sit in the meanwhile almost reaching the middle our gardener who was watering the garden in the sister's house it was a Muslim man he was running a cross that drive to cross to the other side to switch off the water pump one of these men shot him Eva there on the drive being a gardener not wearing any shirt or rahbaniya Northey I could see the one on the Left could see him okay description takes a long time well he didn't die immediately after a little time maybe after all the initial shock because blood was there he lifted himself on the hand short like this request him for some water no one to give any water anyway if Albert can died another young man who was a worker there he was resting in his room because he was not well he didn't join the others one of these gunmen brought him also meanwhile I'm sitting in the chair in front of the security room just behind me he was shot inside actually the first two gunshot was the the two security men being shot inside then they open that gate parked the car inside closed the gate and I could see the man with a silencer gun which doesn't make much sound out set walk that hundred meters into the old age home in a short while I could see him bring two or the mother Teresa sisters the both on the extremes on the right extreme is Margaret and on the left is an cell with hands fastened with a plastic fastener made them walk reach to the car put them inside the car in the meanwhile of course someone else is guarding the gate and another that I don't get up and go and all that or with guns okay he went back a second time and brought then the middle to Judith and reggienet in the same way placed them in the car he went a third time back came back after a little while I thought he killed the fifth on that end but I never remember having heard any gunshot coming back to the car he took them forces is out from the car I could see the middle to Judith and resonate being taken along the drive some distance and then into the garden I heard two gunshots and the other two may be from here to the back of the hall like that much away maybe 100 150 feet first was Margaret and then last was handsome being shot on the head from behind I could see them just fall with a face down all what I could do was just to pray Lord Jesus have mercy on the sisters and those who were killing them because we used to pray even that morning for the end of war and for the conversion of all terror groups and so on after this was over the men came back to the car and called me to the car now I thought it's my turn going to the car I prepared myself with the Jesus Mary and Joseph in my heart reaching the car the men asked me if I'm a Muslim I was not with any collar or anything clergy dress I said I am a Christian he didn't point a gun or injure me he didn't point the gun at me or injure me after a little time I don't know if he made any telephone call I I am NOT able to recall well now after little time he opened the trunk or boot of the car the door and then ordered me to get inside I never got in anytime before have you know if you're going to try ask somebody else to help you otherwise you may not be able to come out now well he made me sit in the middle when my head and put in one direction lifted the leg and put in the other and closed the door after a little time somebody opened the door again and threw towards my feet side into the trunk the white altar linen and after the mess under we covered with another piece of cloth no altar cover these two clothes I could see something wrapped in it was dropped towards my feet side I thought it was the tabernacle of the sisters chapel if so I knew there would be five or six small species they closed the door and with in it draw out the car I thought Jesus and the Blessed Sacrament is accompanying me after some distance they stopped the car took me out from the boot and blindfolded me and put me into another cart no more in the trunk or boot and drove further and reached me to a house a mare in Aden I think it was the first floor of the building because I remember having climbed some steps because they let me by hand reach in there they said don't worry and so on initially he gave me some food made me sit there after some more time things changed you know well they took away all my clothes all my personal belongings the rosary the chain from the neck everything except my body and soul and gave me another set of clothes to wear because I am blind folded hands and feet also tied with a piece of cloth that's my one and a half year in captivity began in this one and a half year period they have shifted me five or six times a different period of time of course blindfolded and taken in vehicle in the last place I think I stayed more than one year and they have also made videos of me five or six times in which I'm asked to say request help from Holy Father Pope Francis Bishop Paul of Abu Dhabi and the Indian government authorities in in the words please help me please save me and so on I think that's one one of such kind on appeal maybe after five or six months I am not sure which month exactly I never knew which month or date when they made such a video they would ask me to say they would propose a date I thought that must have been true date or they would write on a piece of paper and make me hold it and then take the picture one such date which I remember much well in my mind even today is 27th December 2016 that's how I knew Christmas got over two days before otherwise no information whatsoever what happens outside nomads nothing to read nothing right most of the time I am blind for hakim thanks to the price of all of you people all of the world even even Hindus and Muslims prayed for me I learned later the Lord has heard the prayers thanks to the price of everyone I did not suffer any nightmare no frightful dreams right from that day till today I don't know even it when it's going to come I do not know I hope it won't come again nor did I have any mental breakdown or depression or any of that so I could sleep well I just give you my one day's activity the rest of the days are something very much similar since I did not have any nightmare and these people they gave me food whatever they were eating in that particular house I was not kept in any jail or dark room or anything it must have in the homes or some of those men they gave me for whatever they ate in that home has not in any jail or any formal such kind of setup there were in any other prisoners along with me I was the only one taken from there so I say woke up I thank God God for the day pray the Angelus and then I thinking that all the five sisters were killed I prayed one our Father Hail Mary glory be and eternal eyes for each of the sisters and the others whom I thought were killed that day there then a Divine Mercy chaplet two or three or four rosaries as Stations of the Cross meditated and I spiritual Holy Mass no bread and wine no books I'm blindfolded either sitting or lying down ask Jesus spiritually for the bread and wine say all the prayers of the mass which I know by heart and that's a spiritual Holy Mass and a spiritual holy communion in which I prayed for everyone well I have been a teacher in the technical so after all this I used to exercise my mind with some lessons which I used to take earlier and so on that's in bracket okay that's how my days went one after the other all through this one and a half year period I could hear aeroplanes going overhead at some distance bomb explosions and gunfire but nothing fell in the place and ever prayed that such thing would happen either maybe around three months through my captivity I think or two and a half mmm it was the close of the stay end of the stay in that third place where I was kept one day the man who used to speak to me little English and was giving me food and so on he brought his smartphone mobile phone with my facebook profile picture that happened to be my facebook profile picture and showing me he said you look very nice do I I asked him from where he got it and he said from Google and then another interesting question he asked me are these women not afraid of life so I thought to myself he might be meaning that the nuns the sisters with all my fingers I said all the five were dead and to my surprise he says no not on five only four are dead one escaped hiding in the refrigerator and he did not use the English word refrigerator I don't know if anyone knows Arabic here the larger the larger I learned that meaning of that word also while being with him they are supposed to be bad people but there are some goodness in them now this man used to give me hot water in a thermo flask the place where as kept was a rather cool cold place so for my throat is good now if you drink some warm water so he used to give me a refill the flask and give me water like that and I could hear them say the larger the larger that's how I learned the meaning of that word well since the information came from them voluntarily I thought it must be true and I thanked in my heart Jesus thank you Jesus for preserving sister sadi she was the superior of the community after this was over more than one year went by on the 12th of March 2017 after 557 days in captivity I was freed by those men who came from they received me from these men who were keeping me they passed me to them at some place Samir in Yemen these men after verifying that it is me throw all the way by morning around 3:30 of 12th reached the border of Oman and said welcome to Amman then only I realized that I am truly freed of course I had to they took me by a helicopter half an hour and then another flight and reached me to Muscat the capital of Oman that's where you see me coming down that flight on that same day from there they took me to a hotel in the capital Muscat gave me new shirt shoes salts perfume shaving machine all that after a long time I had a good charge in the hotel and shaved off all the beard and for my curiosity there was a small weighing machine there now you find it in the hotel's right so for curiosity I just stood on it I it recorded fifty six and a half kilos today I think I'm 82 or 83 maybe one or two more increased after come into Europe I may have to go back again to Yemen to reduce it I think he permitted I am ready to go also well after that after four and somewhat time they said they are sending me or taking me to Rome in the same day reach to Rome - I was taken to Don Bosco Vatican Community the adjacent building was the Vatican Hospital they had all checkup medical checkup and all all the things and certified that all my kidney liver everything is ok I was taking insulin two times a day before this captivity in the captivity no insulin now I take only four times a day ok after reaching the room of course on the 13 I met Holy Father Pope Francis it was a very very emotional meeting for me a couple of days after the first I met also Pope Benedict and two days later two or three days later the first press conference in general eight and to three days after one of the solutions of Don Bosco who had again connected me over telephone to that sister Sally who was saved and so she was in Beirut in Lebanon on that day and this is what she told me when I spoke to her over the phone she said I told you that I saw two sisters being brought first by those men no they could see from the window of their ward in which they work the main gate and they saw they heard the sound of the gun fire or something and saw the gunmen rushing in and told their superior to go to hide and in the in the old-age home close to the kitchen there is a small room three meter by three meter or ten feet by ten feet sighs a small room which is having four or five big freezers all filled with fruits and vegetables she only one door to the room she went to hide in that room and a window to the out reach in the room by this time she could already see the gunmen rushing through the window she could see and she says she could hardly stand because her hands and legs were shaking with fear and the last phrase she uttered she says was the prayer to mother Mary the memory and as soon as she finished that prayer she says she had a special experience she felt as though a white sheet of cloth was covering her like at that instant her shivering stop was able to stand behind the door quietly and she says three times those gunmen one after the other walked into that room opened each of the freezer boxes there looked and searched and went out through that same door and not seeing sister standing behind the door well we know if you are going to a small room as you enter if you don't see you turn back and coming back you will see right well a lady or our Lord worked that miracle of blocking these men's eyes from seeing such - otherwise she would have been killed this is how she was preserved not escaping now after waiting several hours she came out of the hiding mode to the wards he found the this man did not kill any of the elderly people there but they killed all the workers there were 12 workers they are all Muslim men and women Yemeni people this had killed all the twelve all the workers were killed then she looked for her sisters found their bodies in a garden then she thought of me came looking for me into the chapel normal workers and all others gone and she says she as she entered the chapel she thought she saw the tabernacle open their altar cloth and cover not on the altar on the altar there's a podium sitting with some water saw a sheath and my prayer book throne and a crucifix lying there so she concluded I must have heard the gunfire or something and come to was must have been in the act of consuming the holy spirit these men must have come wrapped me in the clothes and taken away that must have been the first news that you receive that isn't true only then I come to realize that what they dropped in into the trunk along with me was not the tabernacle if you ask me what it was I do not know holy species who had desecrated there she had just enough energy to died - father Jorge with whom I went in 2010 he was in thighs 180 kilometers away she informed that this has happened and father Jorge inform the rest of the world well this is the Tori in in short well more details it would take much more time and I have my autobiography in because on compulsion I I was putting it into writing but by the grace of God is the title autobiography which it describes or my vocation life to Yemen and the captivity and freedom and so on unfortunately all the copies we brought is over only one sample now if someone wishes to have you can give the names to father shadi you can make a donation of 10 euros if you like to give more welcome and we can ship it to the place where you request okay and that's in English because it is translated into Malayalam we don't have the Malayalam with me in case somebody is here I think I heard there are some from India here if they are needing in Malayalam Oriya English again request a father shopping you can have the copy from him we shipped it to your place and to the the Italian in Rome our solutions in Rome had translated into Italian we don't have the copies anyway those who are in Italy moving there you may get the Italian copy this Spanish is done in Spain and here and in this is Croatian language you don't have the money copies with us just two or three here now but it's available in this country and ok so this is the books regarding the books now in all these experience of mine I have learned a few things first thing is the Lord God is our Living God isn't he and he has heard the price of all of it is the price of all of you that the Lord heard and has brought me here to bear this testimony so first thing is how more faith I'm more convinced in the Lord's presence and his is the Living God and the power of prayer the Lord Jesus was given as the most powerful weapon is the prayer right you are used as seen let's continue to use it first thing secondly and today's Gospel must have been no sending two by two the disciples ahead and to give the good news is each of us are to be missionaries to take the good news to everyone and I was safe in Bangalore it was the Lord who prompted me again to go the Lord wanted me to come back here I think so I'm here I understand my mission first one was to be of help to the sisters before their end second I thought when they did not kill me and took me in the car in a boat and reached me and kept me and fed me I thought the Lord want me to pray for them I used to do that towards the end I asked in prayer what Lord you wanted me next in two three weeks time I was freed I understand now my mission is to proclaim that the Lord is our living god and that's testimony that I am doing here so I understand the Lord Jesus as a mission for a unique mission for each one of us and where can we find it well I realized that I said in a voice prompted me to ask the permission and go of course with all the blessings of the superiors yes not like a rebellious one but so well where could I find that voice at Easter time it is in the quietness in prayer that we will be able to find what Jesus wants of us God wants of us as the mission that is for us certainly the Lord would call some people as priests some to be religious but the vast majority the Lord calls to be good parents right if no parents none of us would be here so that is also a great vocation may we be able to say yes generously to the Lord and within that mission the Lord may give special assignments like me going again to Yemen so listen in the in the quietness in prayer what that mission is may be to do something to the members in their family may be something to do in the church to our brothers and sisters may be in the factory or in the society which I would that be has the Lord directs yet we know mother Mary appeared here right we are I don't need to repeat that through those children give the message right those children were given that special mission and mother Mary is her mission is to take us all closer to the Lord to experience the forgiveness and love of the Lord and secondly or thirdly we all take medicines right I think all of us take at one time or the other the best medicine the Lord has provided as his forgiveness the most effective one and the Lord said forgive ear enemy and pray for and he was the first example for us those who are nailing him to the cross he prayed to the Father Father forgive them for they do not know what doing forgiveness is the best medicine prayer is the most powerful weapon and the mission for unique mission and the last which I say is the Lord also said do not judge we often judge people right and all our brother-sister leads everyone we make from seeing all the what is around us we make judgments my judgment that it was the tabernacle was strong only when I spoke to that sister had she died I would have still said it was the tabernacle had I did you not still believe that I consumed all these species and I was taken from the church both these are in truth the media puts in we that's of course the judgments are different people let us pray when we hear that the newest different things those who are accusing those who are accused all that pray for all people and use that most powerful weapon or prayer take the best medicine of forgiveness and in not judging but praying will help us to fulfill the mission the Lord has for each of us I want up with this one I give you the time for you to ask if any any doubts or clarification any question I hope that's we some limit to it but okay you can ask whatever question that you want it will not disturb me praise to the Lord for His mercy and yet fulfilling this mission any questions wish to ask anyone yes please well I was thinking it was put into the trunk with me but when I spoke to the sister I realized sister said the tabernacle was opened their sister thought I must have consumed it both these are in true of course desecration took place there how what we do not know yes ma'am Mother Teresa she died long back yeah Mother Teresa died I don't remember the year but of course she has visited this place and all that okay any other they did not kill any of the old people what I learned later is that the the so called the government has appointed somebody new and they took all new workers because all the workers were killed seem to be functioning but it will never be as the sisters were carrying for my prayer my prayer well I told you my routine I used to pray to the Lord Lord Jesus if it is your will free me as early as possible but don't allow me to be a mad person in their hand as a ridicule that used to be my prayer of course the the gospel words where Jesus says do not worry about what you eat what you wear what you put on and then finally saying every hair on our head is counted and not one will fall to the ground without the heavenly father's knowledge well I told you my story of coming back to Yemen at that time too so I knew nothing is going to happen to me I thought they would kill me then and there it what happened when they took me in the boot of the car I thought they are going to kill me outside that also did not happen so these gospel verses where my strength while I did not have any operations but if you ask again that information about one sister is alive after three months information from them voluntarily all these are things which strengthen me to remain calm and the the grace the Lord gave me to forgive kept me calm and did not try to wish even any death or injury to them nor did I attempt to run away well the question is what was their purpose of course they have come to destroy this home because it is run by the Christians now they killed all the Muslim workers also it seemed I am NOT able to to confirm it and say what I heard through sister Sally early it seemed they all people who are asking those who are killing the workers why are you killing the workers then the reply seemed to have been because they are helping the Christians and the Christians are looking after all the Muslim suka but there are she said her so many good Muslims it is the bad group which has come they came to destroy and why they did not kill me even after I said I am a Christian up they killed all the others only they called me to a car while the O'Leary's I did not ask them why they did not kill me why are you not killing me I understand the Lord Jesus wanted me to be present here to bear this testimony that is the only reason I find why they did not kill me even after saying that I'm a Christian initially I said I'm a Christian and that the first place when they reached me to a house I told him no they stripped me and all that and in that house they asked me all details who I am when I when I came what I am doing all the all those questions so there I told I am a priest okay I was asking what what happened to the throat issue well after all this captivity coming back I went for a check-up and doctor said that time is okay now enough to come after two years just a month before last I went for after two years now is that everything is okay so far no problems praise to the Lord and I was taking insulin before in the captivity not not possible for them to provide insulin but still all my vital organs my kidney liver everything is okay I am taking insulin four times now but yeah yes and coming here for the first time well I don't know how to express it it is the grace the Lord gave me to come to this place where Mother Mary gave that message as I mentioned here it's a place of message and today's mission the gospel speaks about to be missionaries and mother Mary has passed that message to the children and it is that operation that brought us all here to the together and the praise is morning I went to the Mount where he had the operation and the people climbing all that we the elderly ones with steak all that I don't know nobody will go except when you have the faith in the Lord and in the mediation of mother Mary made mother Mary continue to draw more to take us all closer to the Lord Jesus it's I don't know what word to use okay praise to the Lord and tomorrow Mary our God is a compassionate God he is not a God who is waiting to punish us but he is waiting for us to say sorry and willing to forgive it's God who is a forgiving God that's what we see in the whole of the Bible right yes please at the moment there are seven mother teresa sisters working in ha da de and in sauna together but there aren't any priests I was the last to come away the war is still going on there might be some other people from other countries who are working in the hospitals in essential services maybe but they have no mass no sacraments even for the sisters it's the price that all of us can raise just as your prayers help me it's our prayers which will bring an end to the war in that place the Muslims are killing Muslims thousands of millions perhaps and there is starvation sickness all that is there young people in 2015 there were so many big universities school medical colleges engineering colleges I don't know where what happens to all those young people now this what the d40 year of 5th year of the world let's pray that the war may come to an end and those warring people made a lot touch them and bring the change in their heart the war is still going on said ok yeah please how long ago I was released on the 12th of September 2017 now it's just 2 years are just over 2 year and maybe yeah today is 17 now 18 the one month let's see what okay I'll answer that one more dsm well first question was about my family my parents were all both of them gone before of course I have we are seven siblings I am the fifth I have two elder brothers two elder sisters two younger brothers okay of this one brother died when he was before my priesthood all the others are there I met them well forgiveness the problem perhaps a mom you are asked is one thing is to forgive another is to forget right even if you have forgiven from the heart when we see the person who was hurt the memory will come back to you that is an instinct but when it comes back can we be saying Lord bless I have forgiven bless that person then it comes from the heart and until we forgive we will be tortured by that thought when we are young we are young or old we coddle with somebody and if we are not forgiven and prayed for that individual that hurt that fight that quarrel is going to work in your mind in our mind disturb our our peacefulness our sleep we all concentration we won't be able to make the right decisions but if you can be forgiving the day you forgive and pray for that individual then you will be able to rest well maybe I don't boast that it is my credit that I could do it was the grace from the Lord and the fruit of the price of all of you that must have been what kept me calm serene and be able to pray and not try to escape nor wish even bad for them that's why I'm here with the sane mind normal condition is quite different in which such experience one may have post-traumatic symptoms or syndromes or so many other syndromes or whatever technical terms you may put or you may go totally crazy if I'm able to answer or speak several times I am speaking or repeating this whole thing but it doesn't disturb it doesn't mean that I don't feel for the sisters and that is yes well so that's it I think yeah yes Father okay are you okay with the red cap well that's a question we all ask you know why Lord me why not the other you say I prayed and I got the answer didn't the other sisters pray like sister Sally I am sure they are and just to say this they are all in heaven I only feel that I was not fortunate to be dying with them why the Lord kept me was only to share with you this even with a sane mind to share it so to be a mater is is a gift from the Lord everybody doesn't get that and one is prepared for that by the Lord yes as for me my cancer of the throat and the diabetes all these were in one one way a preparation I remember also before all these things happened one day when in my I left I had buzzed maybe blood pressure increased of course treatment was done once more it had happened while in captivity also I think it happened once maybe why that thing was broken the eye not in the brain if it were to be in the brain would have been different maybe the Lord gave me that at that time made that portion week so that prepared me to go through the even this I don't say it is a pleasant time to be taken captive right you can imagine right so in the first two to three days not because they hit me or injured me that way it had burst so and said but not the inside of the eye they the white of the eye it was all red so that I mean I only just point out that the Lord strengthens people who are chosen to be martyrs in so many different ways why did the Lord prompted me and make made me possible to go through that UN's flight and then by all that are describing it takes more time to be preparing these sisters for that perhaps okay I hope that's sufficient answer right is that time to plot them yes mom praise the Lord I don't know if they are changed I used to pray for them I could hear them pray that the Muslims pray five times I'm blindfolded and kept I know when they pray they prostrate I used to give a small blessing quietly okay so you can sit don't need to stand I say a prayer and a blessing name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit I mean Heavenly Father I thank and praise thee for this day for having heard the price of all these brothers and sisters of mine and be able to thank them directly to on this day do continue to hear and the prayers the requests that each of them have here they make it through mother Mary in this visit here to the to the apparition place of Blessed Mother Mary in Madhu Cory bless the parents the families the children the youth everyone dear Lord and heal the sick those who are present here and those in our homes perhaps and all the intentions of each person's present here my brothers and sisters do here as you heard their prayer and answered and brought me here to bear this testimony may they continue to grow in faith and like you send the disciples to by - may they be sent forth to take to the world - their friends their neighbors but all those whom they meet the love and the forgiveness that you extend and bring more people closer to the Lord with the good news that you are the Lord the Living God who our life and light and love I make this prayer through Christ our Lord with a Hail Mary we conclude Hail Mary law grace the Lord is with you blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of young Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of I mean the Lord be with you may Almighty God bless you the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit come down on you and remain with you forever amen praise the Lord hallelujah in case you near the books you a contact father Schaben [Applause]

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Published: Thu Oct 24 2019