[Music] At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves and mountain 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. Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ now and forever and ever a man. Good Holy Sunday morning, my dearly beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ. And welcome to this Sunday, the last Sunday of the month of October, a month that is consecrated to the most holy rosary. Learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart. Learn from me for I am gentle and humble of heart. The words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the Gospel of Saint Matthew, chapter 11, verse 29. These words mean a lot to a person who has been brokenhearted. These words mean a lot to a person who experienced failure in life. Who experienced losses, who experienced things that in this life, they’re not the matter of the nature, the natural order of things in somehow. You know, we have been accustomed in our life as people, as human beings, that we are born and then we grow up and then we become sick, we excel, we succeed. We have failures, we have bad things and good things. There is a time for sickness, time for good health, there is a time for joy, there is time for sadness, there is a time for success, there is time for failure. There is time for going up and time for coming down, there is a time for popularity and a time for isolation, there is a time for movement. And there is a time for immobility in our life, just people who have become paralyzed. There is a time of truth and there is a time of life. There is a time in which we experience the best of life. And sometimes we experience the worst of life. There is a time for love, there is a time for hate, there is a time for understanding and there is a time for ignorance. And somehow, there is a time even to know that we are living within a time and we enjoy what we are doing and there is a time that even seconds of it it seems like it is eye-hole, life we wanted to end and it does not end. And these are the times of sadness. These are the times in which we experience, probably betrayal, probably fear, probably upsetness, probably madness, probably some of the solutions, persecution sometimes run in a way from certain sad and bad things, accusations, realities, falsehood, persecution, envy and jealousy. The time in our life as a human beings, when we look at all of our experience, there is a time to sleep and there is a time to wake up as well. Even, even, emotionally, there is a time to sleep and a time to wake up, even in a brain, sometimes with diseases of brain, the brain sleeps, sleeps before it’s time. Even though you see a human being still living, still acting and organically as an organism basically, but no interpretation, no words can come out of the month of a human being, no understanding, no reception, no perception. I’m describing this whole thing to tell you that the Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, I’m describing all of this simply to tell you how our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, coped with our situation in our life, he really coped with it in depth, coped with our life, held it together, supported us, carried it in a form of a personal suffering. For this is a Lord who is magnificent, this is a Lord God who owns heaven and earth, he is all in all, he said, let it be under was, he said, let there be light and light there was, he said, let there be trees and trees are worth. He said, let this be a come, our image and likeness, he created man in his image and likeness and he breathed in his noise through the breath of life and the man became a living being. He said, let’s make him a companion and Eve was created and man and woman were set to procreate to aid God and the dominance of the creation. And of course God gave the authority for Adam and Eve to name, to call the names for all the animals for every living aspect of the creature. The He, me, was given this entire authority. What we call, of course, and procreation. And with that, look at our daily personal life. Look how large is the cosmos. Look how big are everything around us and look how little we are. Yet in our mind as a human beings we have been given this power to govern the world. We have been given the power to run the world. We have been given the power today. They can change weather patterns. Today they can change the mind of a human beings. Today they create a political system. They can change the body for God’s sake. They can change the way the natural order of things is. You know, with that we as a human beings have been given so much freedom. And with that freedom which we have been given as a human beings, we know for fact that our responsibility over the earth, over life, over freedom, and also towards God, and towards one another, and towards our society, towards the group and the family and the smallest unit to the largest unit, which we govern or we live or coexist with, our responsibility is huge, is a tremendous man. What are you doing with the life that God put in your hands? This is the question today on our show together with Good Samdemon. It was Father André and all these 30 minutes that we’re going to spend with the Lord. I like us to ask and try to find an answer too. But before we do any of that, let us with the humble Lord, learn from him for our Lord is a gentle and humble of heart. And let us pray with Psalm 131. Psalm 131. Let us take a moment. Look at the situation of Lebanon. Look at the Christians who are suffering so much, the innocent people who are being moved from one side to the other side, with all the bombings that is happening, that is happening. I’m talking the innocent people here, of course. I’m talking million, 200,000 people in Lebanon are being moved just like cathars from one side to the other side. Same thing that happened inside Israel, people had to move from the southern borders in the north of Israel, the south of Lebanon because of the attacks between terrorists and between Israel. Just the innocent people from all sorts of sides, they are just being moved around. Like no homes, winter is coming, no stability, people in the millions have to live underground or inside shelters. There’s a lot of sadness in this world today. And of course, these people in the Middle East and us in America come into the experience of the American election, our presidential election, that are happening in less than probably 15 days, probably 10 days from now, most likely. There’s so much worries, there’s so much concerns. We do not know what will happen in our country after the election. We’re worried about cheating, worried about the propagandas, worried about and concerned about God and the principles based on which the people are going to cast their votes, basically. Will we choose God? Will we not choose God? Lots of decisive moments in our lives as Americans, decisive lives matter at this point for the peace in the world, for a possible third world war, which we still pray and I believe it must not happen. It cannot happen because really humanity this time, if they go into a war, they actually can nihilite themselves. They can find, they can finish the earth, they can finish the entire creation. God is not going to allow this to happen and at this time we need to be humble, we need to be gentle towards one another, we need to lean on Jesus’ sacred heart, we need to lean on the prayer of the rosary, we need to lean back to the supreme plan of God who wants to give us peace and tell him Christ’s king of peace, give us a peace that you yourself shared with your disciples, that you yourself want to partake on all of humanity and spread on all of humanity. From Medjugorje, from the land of Mary’s land, where the new Bethlehem is, where the new Nazareth is, where the new Jerusalem is, where the entire plan of salvation of Almighty God is being explained in the most organic and simple way on the level of every individual, in many messages of our Lady in which mostly she repeats the exact same words, “My children, listen to my sons, my children, thank you for listening to my son, my children, pray the rosary, my children, pray for peace, my children, pray for your pastors, my children, go to Mass on Sunday, my children, read the Holy Bible, my children, fast and pray for peace. Thank you for listening my children, 40 years of messages, 90% of which repeat the exact same message that our Lady always is trying to give. And when somebody asks her, “Why is our Lady keep repeating the exact same message, almost in many ways, in many shapes and forms for four years?” We understand, she is the queen of peace, and she’s telling us to pray for peace, and our Lady’s response is because they don’t listen. Had we listened to the peace of our Lord, we would have not fought for two thousand years, we would have not have suffered the, who over 88 million Christians were killed, because of the name of Jesus Christ, religions and civilizations and ethnicities and races and religions in general and nations in general, I think them would have not raised against rose against kingdom. Anation would have not rose against the nation. A people would have not rose against another people. A father would have not rose against his children or children, betrayed their parents. A mother with a soldier, as we say in Italian, with a mother in law, and with a daughter in law, the daughter in law is an a children against their parents. Acts of betrayers all over. There is a mess in this creation, but there are a lot of beautiful families as well. There are a lot of beautiful harmonious nations, probably somewhere as well. Saint Augustine spoke about the perfect city. Plato before Jesus Christ spoke about the perfect city. The city of God, the Saint Augustine speaks it. The Holy Bible in the book of Revelation speaks about the New Jerusalem, the New Heaven and the New Earth, where the sun is God himself. He is the light in a new city. And you know also the Old Testament, God formed His people to be a nation amongst the nations. A source of blessings for all the nations of the earth. With my friends, we want to turn to Almighty God at this time, in which we as Americans are trying to vote in our presidential election, to keep God in a center, in a summit of our nation, to keep the principle of the Ten Commandments, the Constitution honored, and definitely the justice system being based on God’s divine justice, on Judeo-Christian principles that we learned in a Bible, to keep the sanctity of life, to keep religious freedom, to keep the faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to keep our needs of economic prosperity as possibly most likely, I would say, in a balanced form, fair and square for people each according to their needs, but most needs being satisfied, to be hospitable, to strangers, and to accept immigrants the right way, in the way that comes through the law and order, in a way that comes in a legal manner, and to treat the situations of the human health, and to treat the situations and the questions of many things that are all the interests of our nation, and the duty and relationship between citizens and between the nation. Many things are being addressed today on a table, for many things people are trying to vote in the United States, but what they need to vote most for is to make sure we are voting for a country to remain one nation under God, indivisible with justice, with justice for all. We have to make sure that the justice system in the United States always protects the people, not only United States, but in the world as well. We have to remain a shining city on the hill, that people will learn from the outcome of our freedom and live a life that is responsible, know how to grow and know how to share, know how to toil and know how to share at the same time, know how to labor and know how to honor and adore God and keep the Sabbath at the same time, know how to give what to God to God and what for Caesar to Caesar. My friends, when we vote this time in our United States, we want to vote according to our Christian conscience, in which the Holy Spirit lives and abides and calls Abba father. We want to vote to maintain the world in more peace. We want to vote to maintain the world in more hope. We want to vote to maintain America and the blessings of Almighty God. We want to vote to keep the Spirit of unity, solidarity, the Spirit of joy. We want to vote for the sake of a pardon. We want to vote for the sake of restoring our nation and to be in a holy nation again and to be in a nation that recognize the outcome of our responsible freedom is that we can share God in the most perfect and impactful way with all other humanity who is lacking the presence of God. You know this great nation of the United States of America one day will come and we will lead the world in purity and in charity. This great nation of the United States of America one day will come for it to repent in front of the whole world and to reject anything that is evil, anything that has been a lie, anything that has caused it to cause demolition or acts of evil in this whole world. This time we want to vote for the project of the peace of God to be shared with all of humanity in all of the nations of the world. This time we want to vote so that America will rise to its spiritual destiny, its spiritual destiny and through that spiritual destiny America can share the blessings that are locked in heaven before Almighty God’s throne so they can be imparted and shared with all of humanity. We want to vote this time so all of humanity will feel the love and the mercy and the justice and the peace and of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. O Lord my heart is not proud nor hearty my eyes. I have not gone after things too great nor marvels beyond me. Truly I have set my soul in silence and peace as a child has rest in its mother’s arms even so my soul. O Israel hope and the Lord both now and forever. Glory be to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without and amen. I want to tell you again good Sunday morning my daily beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ and today on this beautiful morning the last Sunday of the month of October from the land of the Medi-Gorgy where people are doing candle lights and they do overnight adoration this whole this entire week and from people where there is a million million and a half pilgrims coming from all over the world to pray. I’m here with the mission of hope and mercy doing a pilgrimage of peace, doing a pilgrimage of repentance, doing a pilgrimage to bless the United States of America to make up for the sins of the past. I have an invitation for us all in the United States. This is the week in which we can humble ourselves. This is the week in which have you ever thought about going to confession before you go to elect for instance? I want to try to think outside of the box. I want to try to propose to you a way that we can make something very unique in this nation and leave the vicious circle and crush the evil our enemy by the grace of God, by the power of God in the name of the most holy Father of heaven. I want to try to propose on you. If you are Catholic, if you are Christian, read the Bible, go to confession before we go to even try to practice our duty for those who still do not go to vote. It will be so lovely if we can go and go to confession and make an examination of conscience. That’s my other invitation to you, my friends. Have you ever thought that before you make the most important decision, do you know the consequences of our voting in America? Our voting in America affects the entire world. When we American votes, basically 300 million people, let’s say 240 million vote or 180 million vote. I’m not sure how many people actually end up voting in the United States. But from that statistic, the vote of the people in the United States of America is one of the most important factors that governs and affects the future and the engine of the entire world. What we vote for and who we vote for will turn the engine of this world overshadowed off. What we vote for or return our votes to will make peace or will break it. Who we vote and what we vote for will bring food to the table or will cause famine. What we vote for or who we vote for in the United States will make the most global impact on technology, on engineering, on resources, on energy, on food, on human health, on principles, on morality, on medicine, on the space in the sea, under the water, on war and peace, on justice and criminality, on narcotics and a fight against it, therefore, on human trafficking and the saving of the lives of the children from being traffic on every single aspect of life. The whole world count on our voting behavior. We are the project for the peace of the world and we could be the tools of the devil in this world. It all happens in the way we as Americans vote. This is a great privilege has been given to us as Americans yet it is the biggest responsibility in the life of a humanity. We shall be judged or we shall be rewarded. We’re not the first and the last nations of this earth. We’re not the first or the last nation in this world that was being set on to big things that has a big destiny for the world. But I want to tell you something. The time in which we were founded back in the 1786 and 1789, and to that time in which we were founded as the United States and we signed our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, as Americans. Then there was this statement in our Constitution which is the last in a paragraph when the fathers of the United States who signed the Declaration when they said it is us in our hands and with each of everyone’s personal sacrifice and counting on God’s divine providence that we sign and we decree this declaration. Our fathers were aware of the divine providence. So at least now when you go to vote as an American citizen, don’t go and be filled with the noise of the propaganda of the media. Don’t go and be filled with confusion, exercise the power in your hearts and free yourself, liberate yourself, deliver yourself from confusion before you go to vote. And as God, God, how would you want me to vote? How do I vote according to that? I will be done. God, how can I vote that? I can’t come. God, how can I vote that your holy name is sanctified? You, the holy one, that daily bread will be found on every table that our sins will be forgiven. As we forgive the trespasses of others and for others, how can I vote so you deliver us from temptation and be delivered from evil and not led into temptation? How can we vote my friends? It all that matters for the entire world now is awaiting the vote. That’s why we need to prepare ourselves not only get informed about the issues about the matters, about what’s happening in the world, but we need to also vote knowing that on the spiritual level, in the way we vote, God speaks or God is being silenced, in the way we vote, the plan of peace that has been given, as our lady revealed it in 1917, in Portugal, in the little town of Fatima Toulucia, Tujasinta, Tufrancisco. And then when our lady came to these streets of this little town in Mediagolje, and when the little children ate of the children when they saw her six and then two with them and then four, you know those little children who saw our lady, she kept telling them, “I am the queen of peace, Regina Pache, I am the queen of peace.” And then she would tell them, “Go pray, go to Mass, do adoration, read the Bible, pray your whole your rosary, pray, and both as if you can, for peace in this world, and fast, and go to confession.” You know those little five things that our lady said, she said through those little five things, the peace of my son, the Savior of the world, will happen in every home or each every heart, and will restore every broken family, every broken hearted person will be restored. It’s an invitation to conversion. It’s the same time as if our lady is a planning and activity and action that will affect the entire world, not only to make up for our sins, but also to overcome all forms of evil and to save the human life from the womb all the way to the tomb. How interesting is that? Our lady with the plan of peace that she wanted to share with all of the humanity is actually telling us it is with simplicity of heart, with the joy of heaven, that God had offered everything for us. It is enough for us to pay attention to that and our life will be blessed. It is just with the simplicity of knowing, you know we have done things of which we are not proud. You know we have done things that will like to close our eyes, not seeing, and definitely we have not set ourselves gone after things that are so great in our lives. And you know we did not do too many marvels probably in our lives, but with that the best marvel that our Lord wanted us to do is definitely to place ourselves in a mighty hand of God in the Holy Spirit and form ourselves again in His image and likeness and say, God, am I Lord? You are my Savior. If you wish you can make me clean. This is the examination of conscience. I invite us to make before we go to vote and before we go to this election. My friends, be the extended arm of God. With us I want to thank all those who have joined us this morning and let us take a moment of silence. So as we’ll do examination of conscience and again I beg you, go to missionofhopeamersi.org that is missionofhopeamersi.org and continue your support for the work of the mission of hope and mercy in Lebanon and everywhere in the world. And at this point I want to give us a little, little, little blessing together by saying, may the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be blessed now and forever. And yes my friends, after we took this little moment of peace to pray together for the sake of peace in the world that we prepared ourselves through our little silence to examine our conscience and to turn off the engine of empty words. Let the Holy Spirit fill us in with mighty words from heaven, with wisdom from heaven, with knowledge from heaven. And let us be merciful towards one another. Let us live in the truth of Christ. And let us want to go to vote this week and the next. Go as apostles. Go with the power of your guardian angels. Talk to your guardian angel. He is your best advisor. Ask God that your guardian angel will speak to you and will inspire you what to vote for. Who to vote for and may also the guardian angel speak to those leaders as well. So they are yourselves as well will live abide and practice their authority ship in accordance with the divine will. I pray that all the candidates who are running to be president in the United States or on any level of responsibility at Congress or as Senate or local governments in the US that all of them now will submit themselves totally into doing the will of God that really they will be done. Not abusable of God and then again and abdunder own will. No, but a true submission was internal conversion. I pray that President Trump and Kamala Harris whoever wins in this election their first plan will be to come to Mediagol J and be on the head of a conference that addresses the escalation of fights in this world and to promote peace the true peace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the world. A day of a pardon of Metanoia, a day of a wonderful healing for the all the populations of the world. This is my prayer. And now my friends in a few moments that we’re going to remain together as well. I want to try to listen to your prayer. So please send us emails to info@missionofhopeandmercy.org that is info@missionofhope andmercy.org. And if you have a special intention, special prayers to pray for, to pray to special requests, if you have questions you want to ask, I’d love to hear from you. I wanted to also go onto our website that is missionofhopeandmercy.org and I would truly appreciate your continuous support for the mission of hope and mercy. We count on your aid, we count on your help, we have lots of things that we want to do to help and assist in this world and all of it counts on your support, counts on your help. Then my friends, please make sure you visit missionofhopeandmercy.org and I will truthfully appreciate every help you will do for us. What is it some of the things that we would like to do with the people that we are helping? You know our organization, the Apostolate of our Lady of Hope, the Rough Commission of Hope and Mercy known shortly as the mission began its work in 2015 and is well acquainted with responses to crisis, to disasters, wars, persecutions. In fact, since 2015, we have served approximately 120,000 people with various needs including food, medications, urgent surgeries, housings and safety, education for children, additionally awareness and advocacy are so always essential for our community and for the people who we serve and on your behalf. We communicate to two religious leaders, we communicate to two civil leaders, we communicate to the highest offices of the land, for the United States, to the Church, to the Middle East and definitely we always put in front of the leaders the following, the following, I would say truth from God. On your conscience, on your conscience depends the future of life, of peace, of faith, of freedom for the whole world and today on the conscience of the leaders, I say on the conscience of every person who’s gone as old also depends the food for the poor, the safety for the poor, the clothing for the naked, the medicine for those who are sick, a home for the homeless, to secure education for the children who have the right to be educated, to have medication and to embed the human health of the human person who many of them are dying unnecessary that because they have no access to medication. The advocacy, many people are being unjustly treated in the sword, many people are being abused in the sword, many people are being framed and people can you believe how many people falsely accuse other people and they do things, they actually fabricate a crime, this happens inside the church even by major leaders, any person now who they want to put away one way or the other, they fabricate those horrible things and because the people they simply talk, because people have good hearts and people just believe they don’t investigate, they don’t double check, lots of sadness, lots of injustice is committed, so our job and our task as a mission of hope and mercy is to defend the people, that’s why we tell you, lean on Jesus’s heart, come to the Jesus’ heart, learn from me for I am weak and humble of heart, said our Lord Jesus Christ because he identified with every sufferer in this world, this is my message to you, I pray that you know how essential it is, a good American person, a good American citizen, the good American voter, your vote in alliance, submitting to the will of Almighty God is so important for the peace, the joy, the harmony, the light, the life, the freedom and most of all for the glory of God who is man alive in this world, Amen. And now Almighty God bless us all, protect us from all evil, so give us our sins and bring us out as a blessing once. Thank you for listening to 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day, to hear previous programs visit the show page at missionofhopeandMerci.org. Listen to Father Andre every Sunday morning at 730 on KLC 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 missionofhopeandMerci.org.