[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. Good Holy Sunday, my dear fellow Americans, my dear brothers and sisters, and the Lord, the Savior Jesus Christ. I hope that everybody is resting now from the election day that we had in the United States. It was on that Tuesday morning of November 5, 2024. Pray, make the sign of the cross, remembering that in this sign we shall conquer all of our enemies. In 300 and 6 to 313, there was a vicious war somewhere in a Roman Empire. It wasn’t the Holy Roman Empire. It was in Christian. Between the year 20, almost until the year 313, the Roman Empire sponsored 10 waves minimum of large prosecutions against Christians throughout the entire Echumene. Echumene at that point meant the federal states forming the United States of Rome, which is the Holy Roman Empire that we know today, but in the past it was simply the Roman Empire, which governed and occupied the territories as in Africa, as in Asia, and as in Europe, all the way to the four great rivers of the world, basically. And then at that time, there was a big conflict in the sign-drome, two emperors fought between democracy and freedom, the unity of the nation, and the politics of corruption. And there is a king. He knew he was orphan. Yet his mother was Christian at the time. She was actually one of the confessors who were being led to the slaughter, just like sheep. But it happened that as she was in jail, she was praying for the conversion of her son, who was a general in the Roman army, leading the fight to conquer Rome and to free Rome and to liberate Rome. We’re talking about a queen, mother Helen, the saint Helen, and her son, King Constantine the Great. And during the war, as Constantine the Great was preparing to siege Rome and to enter Rome, coming from beside the river in Rome, he saw a miracle in the sky, a great line shining, a great light shines in the sky, and voices heard, “Each sign you shall conquer.” And then, in quiet and about the sign, this sign was actually vivid sign of the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, shining in the sky, and pointing towards that light of the cross, Constantine the Great heard clearly that with this sign, he shall conquer his enemies. So, he ordered that his entire military would put the banners in the form of the cross, made in yellow and white, depicting the light that he saw in the sky, which came later to become the flag of the Vatican state, the yellow and white, reminded us of the light that Constantine the Great saw, and the plain day in the middle of the sky. This beautiful bright sign of the cross, telling him, “With this sign you shall conquer your enemies.” And of course, he went into a war of 20,000 soldiers to try to fight against Lucius, who was inside of Rome, with 60,000 soldiers. And not knowing how, when he got to the Emilia’s bridge, coming from the side of Rome to cross the river, people popped up literally from under the ground. And he did not know who those people are. They broke under the gates, as they were coming down, like ants from under the ground. These were the people who opened the bridge for Constantine the Great. They were inside the city of Rome, not outside, many of them, thousands of them. They burst just like the grain of wheat, like that people rising from under the dust. And guess who those people were? They were the Catholic people who lived since the year 70, until the year 306 and 313, underground in the catacombs. The catacombs, known famously as the catacombs of Saint Calisto, and the catacombs of Saint Sebastian, that we visit in Rome. I visited these catacombs myself. You could go up to nine floors underground, and only in a little hole, where people would go up through those little holes to go to the river, and they bring fish and use them baskets and ropes. And they would hand down these baskets all the way to nine floors. And what’s so beautiful, all the actual kitchens were lined up with that beautiful hole that was coming from the top of the ground, letting sunlight come in, and then they will cover it, and then they will open it back up again to breeze, and then to hand down baskets of bread and water and fish. Yes, Christians lived underground just like the grain of wheat, praying for the conversion of an entire empire. Until a time came by the choice of God, where an emperor himself saw a direct revelation from God, the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and he was told with this sign, “You shall conquer your enemies.” And reordering Christianity and the empire of Rome. And meeting his mother, Queen Helen, who was only inside, she was actually leading the Christian resistance inside the city of Rome to tell the Christians how to help her son, the king Constantine, who was outside of the city of Rome. Does that ring a bell about somebody? The mother of the king, she always gets her nose into the business of her son. For good reasons, though. For good things. For the good outcome. To secure the safety of the success and the victory of her son. Similar story happened in the Gospel of John chapter 2 verse 1 to verse 11. When Jesus was invited to a wedding feast in Canaan of Galilee, and then in that wedding they had no more wine. Jesus was still a normal human being. He would do his miracles all in hiding, was not known in public. And all of a sudden, his mother tells him, “Look in at him. Hey, they have no more wine.” And her son going like, “Woman, what’s up with you? My hour has not yet come.” It’s like today somebody telling jokingly to his mother in a kind way, “Mom, have you gotten crazy? Do you know what that means? That means the people are going to know my power. That means that the people are going to know and they are going to identify that I am he, and he, that I am God.” And then his mother looking back to the steward, she tells them, “Do what he tells you.” And Jesus orders them to fill up those six stone jars with water. He gives the blessing and the water turns into wine. And at the consequence of this miracle, everybody, if his disciples and the version Mary and his followers and the city, they knew that he is the Messiah, the Son of God, the anointed one, the Savior of Israel. Oh, the mother does something, right? Right away before that, the mother of Solomon, the king, Solomon would make two thrones, one for him and one for his mother next to him. And Solomon, the king actually would listen to the good counsel of his mother, who of course we know that when he went to pray to God, when God told him, “Come to my house of the seeders of God of Lebanon.” And tell me, “What do you want to pray for? What do you wish Solomon got said?” And Solomon said, “You know, gold, I can’t wish for enough gold. Treasures, I’m not going to wish for enough treasures. But I want to tell you what I wish for. Give me your wisdom, God, so I know how to lead your people.” These are my friends. I turn and points the stories of our faith. Those stories allow Solomon, the king, to really confirm the kingship and the kingdom that his father, King David, had started from whose whose version Mary and Sir Joseph come, and the line from which the Messiah, the son of God and the king of Israel, “Hozana to the God on the highest.” Blessed is the who comes in the name of the Lord. Blessed is the son of David. That’s the Lord of Jesus Christ. Turning points in the history also, is can constant time do great. After a few millions, many millions of people died under severe persecutions led officially by the Roman Empire. Amperers used to run their campaigns on how many Christians they wanted to kill. Blavorners in every sector, in every district of the big empire of Rome, from Africa, all the way to North Africa, all the way to the Middle East, to Asia, all the way to the Eastern European countries, and to the Greek countries, all the way to Rome, to Etude to Great Britain. They used to run campaign on how they’re going to hurt more Christians until an emperor said enough is enough. So in 313, on September 14, he signed a verdict. He made an executive order, a presidential executive order, known as the AD Dermila, the basically executive order of Milano, in which he declared Christianity as a religion that is safe and is accepted in the Roman Empire, and the citizens who silently privately had adopted the Christian faith, and they were living it in silence and in hiding. He told them, rise up now to the surface, and you will keep your jobs. And he freed the people who were held captive in jail, being put in line to be killed, to be executed. There were thousands of these people. Amongst whom, it happened that at the time, there was a bishop from Eastern Asia, from East, the little Asia we call it, in Turkey today, between the Iskanderon Gulf, that is between Syria, Antioch and Turkey, and he was a bishop, and his name was Nicholas. Does that name rank a bell? Santa Claus. He was that bishop of Nairo, and he was actually set to be executed as a martyr, and he was to be killed. But because he didn’t end up getting killed, he was freed from jail, because Constantin and the great said, “We’re not going to kill any more Christians.” All the people who were lined up after they had confessed publicly, their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, so they had accepted willingly, responsibly, to wear on the crown of martyrdom, they ended up not being martyred, because God had different plan. Therefore, in the history of the Church, those saints in the Roman Empire, at the time of Constantin and the great, after he won the war, and he freed the people who were lined up to be martyred, we do not call them martyrs, we call them kinfacers. So, the category of saints, who we call them kinfacers, of whom, Saint Helena, Queen, of whom, Saint Nicholas, who is Santa Claus, who’s now coming to the season of Christmas, and the season of giving. They went out, they turned back into freedom, Queen Helen came to the Middle East, and she ran the largest campaign to look back for the relics of the Lord Jesus Christ, first and foremost, the cross. And of course, she found the cross, and the very first such a she would build in the Middle East, in honor of our lady of the awaiting, in honor of the lady of the awaiting. Before, about a hundred years, before the West ever build an official church, after the Council of Ephesus in 331, in the city of Rome, on the Esquilino Hill, the beautiful church of our lady Maria Maggiore, about a hundred years before, about probably in the year, 313, 431 actually, before that 313, 325, it was the church of South Lebanon in Makdushi, where Queen Helen went to the cave, where our lady used to sit there and wait for her son, every time he came to Sidon and to Tyre, and she would sit there, Queen Helen ordered to paint the image of our lady who had sit there, on a rock waiting for her son. Today in Lebanon, all these places are under attack. Unheard of capacity of bombings is coming down in forms of fire and broomstones against poor people. Unfortunately, the context of this war is ugly, is corrupt, is filled with hate, is filled with terrorism. A country is defending itself, on the southern borders with Lebanon, from a terrorist who occupied Lebanon, and the people of Lebanon have no stake in this fight. They do not know what to do, except they hide, they become refugees, they become internally displaced people, and they all have great hopes that in the United States, when people have voted according to gas divine will, when people have voted according to the good conscience and away from hate, that after people had voted in accordance with the plan for peace of heaven, of which our lady, in fact, he must spoke in 1917, when people have voted on behalf of all the persecuted, the poor and the oppressed in all the world, both East and West, when the people have voted for the sake of the true peace, amongst all the nations and the peoples of the earth, when the people have voted on behalf of all the humanity, who is aspiring that in this election Jesus, who is to be born, comes and free the people who dwell in darkness, and in a shadow of death. When the people have voted to bring back America, who has once lost to be found again, and America who has once died to come to life again, remember in this election, be in Maculathard of the Virgin Mary, did triumph, and the battle against the evil, did reach now and use summit, and our lady is telling Jesus, who is the fruit of her womb, who is the triumph of her in Maculathard, please help them, they have no more peace. The same way she told them over 2000 years ago, they have no more wine. And what does Jesus respond with? He listens to the prayer of his people. Therefore we say today that in this US election, from spiritual perspective, from perspective of divine revelation, heaven was involved, heaven was blessed, the people, heaven was listening to the good conscience of the American people who proved to the whole world that we as Americans, despite corruption, despite the ugly machine of war, despite the narcotics, despite the big farmer, despite the deep state, which has been shattered, and it will be shattered more and more, because it is God’s will. Despite the fight that we led for years against the unborn, and unfortunately in many of our state who are still leading such war, not us, but the people who are on the wrong side, the wrong side of life, the wrong side of health, the wrong side of goodness, the wrong side of the light. We still have to win many battles, but the big piece has been achieved. We have been given again an emperor, and I’m not saying that the president of the United States is an emperor, and this is not a political show, but as a person of faith who wants to stop the murder of people, as a man of faith and a father to many people spiritually, who I see just in Lebanon, we have 1,200,000 people have been in turn in this place and winter is coming, and the snow is coming, and tough weather is coming. They are being moved from side to side just like cows, just like sheep. This is not right. It has to stop. People in Africa have been murdered by the thousands, by Boka Haram, inside Nigeria. Christians are being burned. I mean, that’s a great, the churches are being burned. 6,000 Christians are being killed every year. Yes, I am consoled when I hear that the president of the United States of America is promising that he will help and support the persecuted Christians. Yes, it can solve the heart of the Virgin Mary to see that there is a public leader who’s gonna say enough for war machine, enough for hate, enough killing the Arbor, enough to give a big pharma access to peoples DNAs and to create medication, or to deny the people the right to be healthy and to be treated with the right medication so people can live and say, thank you Lord. I honor you and I love you and adore you Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Yes, our hearts are being consoled when we hear a peace saying and shouting out loud from the rooftop. I do not want to raise war. I want peace. Yes, he’s putting the big guy is the real president of the United States. When he puts out to heaven during his election season and he stays, I’m not the big guy. God is the big guy. And when he says, I cannot imagine a United States without the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is the center of the United States. He is in the heart of the United States. So, pray, my friends. May God bless all of America with illumination of conscience, with virtues, kindness, righteousness, pardon, humility, unity, repentance, charity. Pray, my friends, that God will bless the United States of America that now it has a chance for two years at least not for four because we’re coming for election. As you know, in the Congress and the Senate and many offices in the land in two years from now, again, there will be some form of election in the US. We need America to rise to its spiritual destiny. And that is to lead the world in charity and purity and forgiveness of sins, spiritual awakening towards peace and healing. We need faith, hope and love. So, my God, bless us all. Protect us from all evil. Forgive us from our sins and give us peace, joy and victory in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And truly in this election, may God restore our land and bring us all to everlasting life. I hope to hear a big amen from every listening to Good Sunday morning, Father André, and 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day. Before we continue with our show and tell you about who are my beautiful and with my beautiful guests who next to me here in our studio in Medjugorje, I like us to take a moment to start our prayer on the Sunday morning after this election is being finished. For all the sake of the public officials, I want to dedicate this beautiful song for the people who have been persecuted severely. You know how much I person in suffered persecution. And I don’t know, one I’m victimized myself, nor I want to seek pity for myself. But I want to tell you, the Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want. He makes it me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me by the still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in the path of righteousness for his name. And say, yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will feel no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, thy comfort me, thou preparest the actable for me in the presence of my enemies, thou anointedest my head with oil, my cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of my Lord forever. Amen. Amen. Good Holy Sunday morning, my dear beloved brothers and sisters, in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And may God bless all of America again and again, with me here in this beautiful small room where we have the same statue of our Lady of Fatima, which was for a few times, many times. And for a time actually in a white house, and I pray she will make her way back very soon to the white house. I have with me a wonderful friend. She is from Great Britain. She does ministry with divine mercy. And she’s been here in a place where Pope Francis, as you know, in early September declared the sanctuary of our Lady in Medjugorje is actually with the Nullausta, meaning with the official stamp of the church, is actually the sanctuary of the Regina Pache, the Queen of Peace, the Virgin Mary. And here she would receive English-speaking pilgrims. Over 40 million pilgrims have visited Medjugorje since 1981, since June 24 and June 25 until last year. Every year about 1,750,000 came in are being distributed. Half a million people will go to confession and more actually stand in line on daily basis. Masses being celebrated in multiple languages and people come up here to learn about the five stones that our Lady gave to the people that they should take these stones and with them they would defeat every break and break every bone of the devil and of evil. And these five stones, our Lady said, they are her plan to establish and to confirm the nations in a peace, starting with the family, starting peace in our hearts, starting peace in our cities and in our nations. The first stone be in, go to Mass and do the adoration. The second stone be in, read the Bible and proclaim it and now sit and share it. The third stone be in the confession, always do examination of conscience, repent and come to confession. The fourth stone be in the confession and be in the prayer of the Rosalie and the fifth stone be in the fasting, the prayer of the Rosalie and the fasting. These are the five stones that our Lady gave. They are just like the five stones of David, basically, and he killed Goliath with these stones. And these five stones, our Lady tells us, they will confirm the plan of peace in the world. I encourage every one of us that we have to use these stones today in America and we have to grow them more and more and to big mountains. We have to grow them just like the seed of mustard seed. We have to grow them just like a little grain who once died is going to flourish and blossom in 30 folds, in 60 folds and in 90 folds. But I want the Hydra, my dear friend and spiritual warrior and the Lady who’s in charge of this ministry and she travels the world after her own personal life have changed tremendously in her own family, in her own experience who also experienced so many disappointments and sadness, betrayals and hate, yet she came and she brought the plan of God into her heart. And from her heart to the heart of Jesus, she actually transports the people just like in a transportation, like you’re taking a limoride. You come in with your sin, you leave with God’s mercy, you come in with your sadness, you live in with your joy, you come in with your poverty, you live in with your richness. And that comes from the beautiful, merciful heart of Jesus and the graces that have been given to our Lady that she here in Mediogoria bestows on all the people of the earth. So they drag it sandemone to you. Hello, thank you for so thank you for inviting me. Okay, so my name is Deirdre. I’m from Ireland, but I’ve lived in London for 35 years and I got a calling when I was in Abyssin Hill to be our ladies extended hands. So I’ve come to Mediogoria since 1990 and then two and a half years ago, I followed that call to come to Mediogoria and and work for our lady, she’s my boss. So it’s a blessing to be here. I love what I do. I’m very passionate morning, noon and night. I have the pilgrims, but my number one is I take care of the priests. I look after the priests, they’re my number one. And as long as they’re happy, I’m happy. So yes, it’s extraordinary. It’s a very special time to be here. We’re getting shoured with special graces from our head to our toes. It’s so peaceful. It’s in infectious. It’s it’s incredible. You can, our lady is close enough to touch. She’s coming down down, down from heaven and she’s coming closer to us now. You can feed her, come and closer. I’m an Abyssin Hill every morning at five o’clock. We’re called the 365 group and our lady, we said three rows race at five o’clock every morning for our lady’s intention and she’s so close. You can touch her. It’s incredible. Today I was out divider see and I felt very strongly. I’m not a don’t study politics, but I felt very strongly. I was thinking about Donald Trump and I was just, you know, praising and thanking the Lord. And I felt very strongly that our lady was all all from. I could feel it all around him. I could feel it very, very strongly that she’s protecting him and I feel the words that’s coming out of his mouth. It’s like that Jesus is speaking. I can feel it and trust me. I don’t know anything about politics, but I do feel our ladies protecting him and she’s guiding him and I think he’s just going to change everything. I think we need him. We need him so badly because at Mass today, the church was full of Americans and they were on fire with the Holy Spirit because they were so happy that Donald Trump was supposed to say and they were in ecstasy. So today’s Mass was in thanksgiving and it’s very important that we keep thanking. We have to be full of gratitude from when we get up in the morning. We have to say thank you for our faith. Thank you for our health. Thank you for our friends and family and we have to keep we have to be full of gratitude and even if we feel miserable, just knock it and just keep praising and keep panking the Lord and a prayer that I say is dear Lord, please guide and direct me this day. Please put people in my path that can help me and put people in my path that need my help and I go through the day, help them hundreds of people but it’s like the Lord is just all over us. So if you haven’t been to Mechagoria and you want a taste of, I would suggest you come and it’s just we’re walking in heaven here and it’s a privilege. It’s a huge, huge privilege. I lived in New York. I love Americans. I love the accent. I love the people. So I’m very. I love your accent. Thank you very much. Thank you. And in New York, I was treated very well with my accent. Everybody wanted me to work for them because they just love the accent. So I’m just I feel so privileged. I cry tears of joy every day. You’ll see me in Mechagoria with my rosary beads. I constantly say the rosary and I walk down the road and I cry tears of joy because I feel I’m going to burst. I changed my life. I was into material things in London. I worked for the rich and I give it all up. I walked away from it all because I heard the voice of the Lord saying, build up your treasure in heaven. And that’s what I’m doing. I’m building up my treasure in heaven. So all day long, I’m just pelted full of beautiful graces and and I help a lot of people. But if you have a problem, you have to pray for the grace. If there’s somebody you can forgive, you ask the Lord to give you that grace. And if it’s somebody that like, you know, you don’t feel good about, you say, Lord, you help me. Give me the grace to love that person. And then your heart starts changing. So even now when I’m persecuted, which I am here in Mechagoria, when I’m persecuted, I just say, Lord, give me the grace to really love love these people. So if somebody isn’t kind to me, I just smile at them and I say, I’m going to pray for you. I’m going to up the hill, I’ve reached in hill, advised the morning and I’m going to pray. I’m going to offer up my mass for you and I’m going to say the rose we for you. And then they’re so shocked. They just look at me and they’re like, how can you pray for me? I’ve just insulted you. And I said, because that’s what the Lord wants us to do. So I think for those of us that’s had this massive conversion in our life, you would just do anything for the Lord. And we pray morning, noon and night, but we also do works of mercy. And I think this is very, very important. Sister Muriel St. Joseph the worker fed thousands of people in Mechagoria. And I worked for her. And she said, there is no point praying all day long, dear, you have to do works of mercy. And this is why when I met my beautiful friend here, and he told me about his project, I could feel it in my heart. I need to help him. I’m a professional photographer. My images are used around the world, promote Mechagoria. And I love speaking in places like Paris and Rome and New York. And because I know our ladies appear in here. I know she is. And so then I speak for my heart. And this project, I just, I need to learn more about it. But the more I’m here at the about it, the more a lady walked up today. And her son was healed of Mechagoria. Darren was healed of the blue cross. And she hands 200 euro. And I said, what is this for? And she said, it’s for Father’s project. I want to have the people of Lebanon. I was absolutely gump smacked when this lady handed me 200 euro. I was the holy spirit just prompted her to do it. And I think we all need to change our lives. I think we need to walk a bit, walk away more from material things. And I think we all need to give back. We need to give more, we need to pray more. My secret is fasting. I fast for priests. And every morning on the hill, we fast, we’re fasted for our ladies’ intention. But for me, I do nine days fasting at a time for priests. And our lady rewards me with special graces and special blessings. And I’ve seen miracles in my family. Dear dear, thank you so much. And thank you, I didn’t know. Really the effect of your minister until I saw it myself today. I want to show how this group of beautiful American people are praying with you. And they were, as if they were drinking from a living water. Truthfully, I want to tell you my friends, thank you. This ends our radio show for the Sunday. Make sure you go on the mission of hope and mercy.org, mission of hope and mercy.org. And follow our projects and we have been doing to put the words of God through prayer and after fasting and after personal examples and to become good deeds of charity. Because this is how our soul and body come together to form together a true, functional and through living mystical body of Christ. That tends for the poor in this world, but also brings us all to everlasting life with God in heaven. Thank you for listening to 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day. To hear previous programs, visit the show page at missionofhope and mercy.org. 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