In this enlightening episode, Father Andre discusses the global impact of the Mission of Hope and Mercy. From addressing systemic issues in Africa to advocating for religious freedom worldwide, Father Andre highlights the necessity of media in uncovering untold stories. Explore how embracing the teachings of Christ can guide us in tackling today’s social and humanitarian challenges.
00:00:00 Opening Blessing and Father Andre’s Background
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Amen. At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and president of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, now and forever and ever. Memorial Day, which is a day of tomorrow, and we celebrate this long week as a federal holiday in our beautiful country of the United States of America. We mourn. We are happy yet. We are consoled yet. We feel safe because of the major sacrifices of many U.S. military personnel, even with their families, sometimes who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. We congratulate our president, President Trump, and the US government and the US people, every branch of our government, our military, everyone in our family of the militaries in the United States of America. We congratulate them on this beautiful and wonderful feast day. It is strange how sometimes sad occasions turn to become memorized, memorized in a way that they become a source of power for us, right? They become a source of reflection for us. They become a teaching school for us. They become somehow days in our lives that impact our behavior, impact our relationship and connection with each other, with the land on which we live. with a country where we pay taxes, where we do our due diligence and duties, and we receive, as we say, also our rights, our human rights, the entire Bill of Rights, as we say, according to our United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It’s amazing to see that how many soldiers in the history of the United States have died serving our freedom, serving our faith, serving our family, serving our interests. You know, because of them, we are the largest economy in the world. If you come to think about it, Because of them, we are sometimes considered to be the police, the conscience of the world. I know many people may not like to hear the word, we are the police of the world. But, you know, it’s a role that isn’t somehow that comes with the greatness, right? That comes with us being exceptionally involved in the world history and the world’s affair and the world’s security issues. in the words of future, in the words of prosperity, by all means, you see that there is always a hand for the United States in the world. So I want to wish everybody a wonderful and happy and blessed Memorial Day. May God console the families of all the soldiers who might have lost soldiers. May God heal the wounded soldiers as well, who probably in battles Throughout the years, whether in active military or whether now in retirement or as veterans, they still hold in their bodies white martyrdom, injuries from the past, whether physical injuries or emotional injuries or psychological injuries, or unfortunately, injuries that go in their memories as well, not necessarily psychological by means of something bad, but they hold dear some memories. My mind and my heart goes in a very particular way to every soldier in our U.S. military who might suffer from PTSD, from post-trauma, and somehow, whether severe or whether it’s manageable, may God bless them, bless their families, their friends, and all those who are supporting them. I like us in honor of this beautiful Memorial Day weekend, which also begins officially, you know, in an unofficial way, yet officially, but you may know, in an unofficial way. It’s the beginning of the summer in the United States. And here in Denver, we feel the beauty every day of the summer, the blossoming, the trees, not counting the allergies, of course, and the pollens that we see basically flying around sometimes, floating around. Beauty comes with a little bit of a pain, but nature is turning green. There are beautiful days. There is a beautiful breeze sometimes. The temperatures are rising, but it’s still tolerable. It seems we are having a springtime that is remaining with us. so far for a while. May God keep it that way as a balanced temperature. I want us to pray, one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be, for the rest of the souls of the fallen soldiers, and for healing, for consolations, for whoever, if they left behind a mother, a father, children, a wife, people who they meant in their lives essential things, essential support that today if they feel and somehow the void of the absence of their fallen soldiers. I want you to know this is Father Andre and this is Good Sunday Morning with Father Andre. And this is 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day as well that we spent together. We are thinking about you. We embrace you. We hug you. We bless you. May God protect you from all evil. May God grant them rest to all those beautiful soldiers who probably died in the line of duty, believing, trusting that they were doing something good for our nation. For us, that our life will remain to be protected, will remain to be secure. Our land will remain to be the land of the free. And that we can prosper and we can live and express ourselves and continue to be a leading society, a leading beings in this whole world. Not by means of greatness through wars and through violence and through major acts of violence. leading the world, probably just economically or militarily, but also leading the world by being the most charitable people, probably, amongst nations on Earth. It is important to know that we in the United States as well, we have so many ways in which we can argue that actually we are a great people. Well, yes, I know, I could hear the criticism. Sometimes we are great in corruption, unfortunately. we are seeing the work of Dodge and what they did, what they discovered as far as things that our government was spending from our tax money and from the public funds on what programs in the world. Yes, greatness sometimes comes in a bad way, not necessarily in a good way, but nonetheless, taking all aspects of our behavior, if we look at every single aspect of our conduct, our behavior, our actions as an official nation in the world, the United States is still the best country on earth, by all means. And we are somehow the promoters, the engines that runs the entire world. And hopefully, because of the many sacrifices as we mourn today, yet we honor our U.S. military who fell in the line of duty, who died while serving us, serving in the United States Armed Forces. Hopefully, we will not disappoint them. We will make them always look like real heroes, which they are real heroes, regardless of what combats they will found themselves in. We know that through our behavior, by us clinging to the mind of Christ, being more children of light, being more obedient to the will of God, our divine Father in heaven, and stepping away, running away, and staying away from the spirit of the world, we will be actually realizing their dreams, and their falling in the line of duty will not be in vain. Let us be this nation on earth that also realizes much of the work, not only for its own personal independence, sovereignty, and freedom, but also a nation that serves the kingdom of God here on earth. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as you forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, now and forever and ever. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the martyrs and all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen. Then again and again, happy Memorial Day. Now we go back to our radio show. Good Sunday morning with Father Andre and 33 Minutes on the Lord’s Day. Beautiful programs during which today we’re going to be meditating, doing some contemplations, some reflections together. You know, I decided, of course, we have been talking about Rome and we have been following the news regarding the Holy Father and all the doings and happenings. Now we give time and we follow and we pray and we support through prayers and the spirit of holy obedience, regardless of our personal pain, regardless of injuries, regardless of betrayals that we might have suffered ourselves sometimes within our church, regardless of the pain from within and the pain from outside. Lord, where do we go? and you have the words of life with you. And this is what the Holy Father represents for all of us Christians in the world. The Holy Father represents the most concrete reality of Jesus who stays within his community, inside his community. He is the glue that connects the community, even though who may not believe in the fullness of the revelation, the way it has been given in the hands as a deposit of faith to the Catholic Church. all branches of Christianity. I do believe the Holy Father still is this one concrete symbol through which the authority, the service of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in his sacred person still represents Peter, the apostles, the apostolic succession, the roots of our Holy Church. And of course, it makes us look with him as he guides our ship towards the future to fulfill the will of Christ for us. So with that, my brothers and sisters, we continue to pray every day. And please try to follow the news, missionofhopeandmercy.org. I would love to encourage you. Please listen to my plea. Go on our website, that is missionofhopeandmercy.org, and sign up with your emails. And we always send updates. Follow us on our X page, you know, Twitter. on our x page if you look for mission of hope and mercy subscribe please and sign up of course it’s for free we don’t have subscriptions but try to follow us on our twitter account on our x account as we say in the last year so please my friends i encourage you to remain always in touch with us and yes i want to say please keep supporting the work of the mission of hope and mercy in the Middle East, in Lebanon, in the United States, in Africa. Our work goes beyond just being a simple charity. We suffer sometimes as we try to confirm people in the hope of physical and concrete support. But you know, there is deeper suffering. I have been following the situation in Congo, and I have a crisis room open for Congo and for Africa. I have followed the South African situation, problem, and the massacre against the farmers. I have seen much of these problems, and Africa is a big case for us at the Apostolate of Our Lady of Hope, which is also known as St. Ravka Mission of Hope and Mercy. And you know our website, missionofhopeandmercy.org. That is missionofhopeandmercy.org. I’ve been following the case of Africa. And I can tell you, things are very complicated. And there is a huge amount of violence, of course, that is happening in that part of the world. Earlier this week, I commented after the meeting, and you know how some journalists, some reporters from certain media said, After President Trump had showed and has demonstrated to the president of, as we say, South Africa, he had showed him by videos and by news reports, basically, and printed articles, the amount of violence that is happening against the white farmers, right? And many people somehow, also on the media, we saw that reporter immediately after showing the thousands of crosses and how victims are being laid across highways in South Africa to prove that there is violence against the white farmers in South Africa. This is a nation of Lara Logan. This is a nation of Elon Musk. This is a nation of many of our friends as well. This is a nation of Nelson Mandela. This is a nation that really had a lot of strife in the past when Nelson Mandela was for years and years in a prison. And then he saw the light of freedom and he was hoping and dreaming of freeing and uniting a South African nation. to be one nation under God for all his children, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of where they came from, when did they come. He was trying to reconcile through his personal pain, his personal persecution from which he suffered, the future hopes for the South African nation. So I followed all of this. I will say that we do need we do need journalists who be the voice of the truth to bring hope to thousands of families in South Africa, for instance. You know, there are many families who have been rejected, killed in Congo, in South Africa, in Nigeria, in Sudan and South Sudan. Listen, the situation in Africa and in the Middle East always carries within it complexities between tribal culture and tribalism, right? Old kingdoms and new governmental regimes and terrorist cartels or terrorist groups as well as bands of thieves. And somehow it is still a wide open land. There are many people in Africa dream of law and order, just like what we have in the United States and are reaching out to many people, including to our president, Donald J. Trump, in the U.S., to help them confirm their lands and the justice and the peace and the law and order in respect of the rule of law, and to believe and to follow and to adopt and to somehow practice specific constitutions that would guarantee and secure the freedom, the faith, the family, the liberty, the peace, the security, the safety, the equality, and equal rights and equal protections for all its citizens, and of course, prosperity as well. So, you know, we do need a journalist to start covering the issues of the massacres, whether based on racism or religious massacres that are happening in Africa. And we do not have many. And it’s so unfortunate. It’s so sad to see on the world stage at the Oval Office. At the Oval Office, how after the president has demonstrated and shown in a movie the massacres that have happened in South Africa, a journalist comes and asks totally unrelated questions. An American journalist, an American reporter. It’s like the blood of these people who are the innocents does not count. It’s like it has no smell. It has no effect of fear. It doesn’t move their conscience. It doesn’t open nor convert their heart. That’s sad. We have to pray for such people because American media is a leading media in the world, and we have such an important role to be the friends of the innocent, to be the friends of the persecuted, to be the friends and the voice and the defenders and the advocates of those who have been insulted, who have been rejected, who have been kicked out of their homes, who have been forced for migration to seek refuge elsewhere. Of course, many of us will sponsor and would want to be the heroes of a specific case. But when a case is being discussed, it’s good to focus on that particular case, give it its due time, treat it well, and then you can move to another subject, for instance. I want to say, and somehow, I pray that new journalists will be on the rise, like my friend Lara Logan, to continue to open the eyes of the blind to see. But it is our sacred duty, whether us in the mission of hope and mercy, or you, you know, KNUS, KLZ, the local radios that we have here in Denver, in Colorado, and across other nations, the printed papers, the social media papers, media influencers, you know, Everybody, the Gazette, the Denver Post, all the famous papers, I do not want to keep naming, so I don’t forget any, but all of those who I did not even name, I beg you, I beg you, look to the world affair with the light of God, with the light of the truth. with not a mind from the prince of the sword, but with the mind of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I know many of us in the media, they care for justice, right? I mean, look at the example of Jesus Christ, how he treated sinners, how he treated falsely accused people, how he himself was mistreated and misjudged and was publicly executed as an innocent victim of corruption. And I know you care to dig out the real corruption. Trust me, my friends, for all the media personnel, we want to pray today that there will be a conversion in the United States and our friends in all levels and all sorts of media reports will start covering the stories that are untold and the biggest secrets that are really kept in this world, which are the real suffering of innocent and vulnerable human beings on planet Earth. who are being persecuted, whether because of their faith, whether because of their color, because of their race, because of their political affiliations, but they have no voice. Let us be their voice. Also, we want to pray that we continue the work, we in ourselves, in our sacred duty, to work and to ask God to open the hearts of those who do not want to see. that they will repent, convert, and make a change towards a true unity, peace, coexistence, liberty. I believe, through their suffering, God now is allowing many people in Africa, in many nations in the world, and in South Africa, talking in the example about the white farmers, for instance, in South Africa. that now it is our duty with them to carry the torch for the true unity, equality, human rights, freedom, independence, sovereignty, and the fight to win the fight against racism, to win the fight against anti-Semitism. I want to open a parenthesis. I want to give my condolence for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., also for the family, unfortunately, of two wonderful people who were killed or shot earlier this week in washington dc two messianic jews who believe in the lord jesus christ yet they kept the old calendar of the jewish religious calendar as well my heart really goes to sarah milgram’s family to yaron Lashinsky’s families as well in Israel, and if they have family members here in the United States, too much violence. I cannot believe that those people were shot in the heart of our nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., as they were probably on the ground or exiting the Israeli embassy. See, all these are victims of hate, whether because of a fight because of hate for a specific race or revenge. tactic or anti-semitism we must fight my friends together join the mission of hope and mercy in our fight for true peace for true unity for true coexistence and true freedom and join us to carry the torch for the true unity equality human rights freedom and the fight against racism You know, this is what Nelson Mandela dreamed about. This is what Mother Teresa, for many people on Earth, she represents that symbol to fight for the poor. Pope John Paul II to fight for freedom in a world who played a major part, like President Ronald Reagan, to take down that wall. to take down the wall of the Duma, to take down all of communism in Europe and in the world as a matter of fact. Today, in fact, if you look at the activities, actions of President Trump, you know, somebody can interpret, can say logically that President Trump, by showing the South African president at the Oval Office the proof of the genocides, walked in the footsteps of heroes for peace and freedom, just like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and others. We must be proud to see that our president actively, regardless if we voted for him, not voted for him, if we like him or not, but we really must be proud to see our president actively making leaders in the world see that they have a moral problem in their own country. and that they have a moral obligation to put an end to strife among all of their people and to make a peace between them, regardless of race, creed, politics, or other factors that in the past or currently divide them. So we shall continue for Christ’s peace with the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, who said on the day of his election, you know, the peace of the risen Jesus Christ be with you all. and all the nations of the world. Let us continue to work for that peace and the world. For our friends at the KNUS radio station, who now will leave us to continue this beautiful day of Sunday, I want to tell you, do not forget to go online and support the work of the Mission of Hope and Mercy. That is missionofhopeandmercy.org. And I want to tell you towards the last minute, before you leave us on this holy, beautiful Sunday morning, You know, we’re going to begin now talking about a different theme on our radio show. So I will be giving reflections regarding the mind of Christ, the spirit of the world, and us. Us meaning the human beings in our personal freedom, in our personal conscience, in our personal lives, in our relation with one another as a humanity. Again, we want to start talking next week, and now we open a little bit the path to it, about the mind of Christ, the spirit of the world, and us. Hopefully we will always remain close to the mind of Christ, hopefully we will always reject the spirit of the world, and hopefully us as human beings, we will demonstrate that we have conquered all evil through the one who died, was buried and rose for our sake, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And mighty God bless you all and have a wonderful Sunday. To our friends on KLZ who continue to be with us for a few more minutes, let us begin to introduce this major reality of our life. I wasn’t sure what to call it. Do I call it the original players? You know, us being the original player in this life. The human being, original player, yes or no? Are we a consequence of players that we cannot see? Or actually it is us who deduce and who also intellectually try to interpret that there are powers over us who govern us or govern this world. The fact is we are an original player. because we have been created by God. We are the ones who drew the maps of the world. We are the ones who, even though we say God named the stars, but we gave them names. We draw their lines in the space. We even created ships as Elon Musk has been rapidly doing to try to travel to far away new planets where humanity can soar and develop and probably live We anticipate that there is probably life somewhere in the universe, according to many scientists and many people who somehow are very specialized in space studies and life outside the planet Earth. You know, we gave the names to nations. We gave the names to people. We gave the names to seas, to oceans. We gave the names to mountains. We measured every distance. We created the planes and means of transportation. We created the most fantastic and complex means of communication in a fascinating way through the technology to communicate through the entire world. Can you believe today in one second I can, like this radio show, 33 minutes on a lowest day every Sunday morning with Father Andre. You know, people can in just one search or one click, one button, one click on the computer somewhere on the server, they can actually see and hear us regardless of the difference of time anywhere in the world, anywhere, sometimes in a space. We brought the world closer. We brought the world and somehow to truthfully be the little village, the little town, the backyard of our bedrooms, of our little office. Can you believe that now humanity has this potential that we could work from our homes because of our phones? We could work as we are probably sitting in a cafe. We could work while sitting in the church sometimes. We will be doing probably. I hope you don’t do that during the homily. Some people probably would look on their messages and try to respond. Communication is complex. Do not do that, please, when you are in a service or in a church or in a praise and worship. Do not do that. Of course, try to put everything away because this is one of the ways we will stay away from the spirit of the world. Beginning on Sunday. beginning on Saturday, keep the Sabbath. And on Sunday, the first day of the week, we go and we honor Christ. We honor God. We worship our Lord. We commemorate his passion, his death, his burial, and his resurrection. Whether in our Catholic form, when we pray with the Holy Eucharist, we celebrate the summit of all forms of worship as we celebrate the Holy Liturgy of the sacrifice of the Mass. We call it the Divine Liturgy. representing the final victory of our Lord Jesus Christ over death and evil, when he killed Satan, our enemy, when we sit around the banquet table with him, him, the bridegroom, him, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. There are a lot of beautiful meanings that we can sit on Sundays and celebrate. But in order to do that, we have first to reject the spirit of the world. by sometimes putting in limitations to how much we want to listen to poisonous news, to how much we want to listen to probably to things that could really create anxiety in our hearts, to lies, to manipulated or manipulative media sometimes and somehow, or stories or gossip. Just by practicing the Ten Commandments to the best of our abilities, we are trying to stay away from the spirit of the world. And if you look at the epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, the epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians, he actually invites us in that epistle that we do need to be encouraged to stay, to stay. in the mind of christ and so this is what i would be covering with you on our next sundays and a few sundays you know we are leaving a beautiful month the month of may has been beautiful by many means hopefully not too many people had hail damage from hailstorms hopefully not too many people experience sadnesses but a lot of people had graduations first communions confirmations Whatever you celebrated, whatever we celebrate, we share your joy. Whatever you suffered from, I am sharing your suffering in many ways, personally and privately. But I carry you all in my daily mass. I carry you all in my daily rosary. I carry you all. and my daily meditation before the blessed sacrament and my chapel at our center for the mission of hope and mercy myself personally and privately and the team of the mission we carry you in our prayers may god turn all sadness into joy into consolation the mind of christ Saint Paul says, if then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete. Be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. My friends, we will continue covering this beautiful mind, which is the mind of Christ. I want you to know this is Father Andre. I am with you in one mind, the mind to always make the world a brighter place, the mind to always heal the sick, tend to the poor, feed the hungry, give drink to those who are thirsty, cover the naked, host the strangers. and free those who have been imprisoned, and be nice to one another. Forgive, bless, and do not curse. This is the mind of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I hug you in the Lord. I give you a big, big, big hug. And know that in my private suffering and my daily pain, being joined to the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, yet to the fullness of faith, hope, and love. I unite myself to you and to our Holy Church and to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, be in his mystical body in the world. Let us continue to crush Satan. Let us continue to make the sun rise. Let us continue to wipe the tears of every person who’s sad. and to feed the hungry, and to do what is good. And most of all, let us continue to bless the name of the Lord, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the one God to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. You have a blessed Sunday, and do not forget to go online and support the work of the Mission of Hope and Mercy by visiting missionofhopeandmercy.org. Amen.
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Thank you for listening to 33 Minutes on the Lord’s Day. To hear previous programs, visit the show page at missionofhopeandmercy.org. Listen to Father Andre every Sunday morning at 7.30 on KLZ as he speaks on the unity of Christians, religious freedom, and the biblical foundation of Judeo-Christian values and traditions. Join him in bringing hope and freedom to people across the globe while also strengthening your own faith, family, and community right here in Colorado. Reawaken the spiritual strength of America. Go to missionofhopeandmercy.org.
