July 2022
THE POWER OF RESURRECTION, WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH YOU? I encounter the Lord through the Holy Scriptures. The Lord captured me through His word, and my heart experienced a revolution like never before. This story continues after I was called to serve Him and surrender my life to Him. My apostolate is aimed at having many souls come closer and have an encounter with Him through His blessed word. I have the privilege of hearing many of your testimonies where you explain that God's never-ending Love has touched you through the thoughts I share with you in the show "La Hora del Encuentro," featured on ESNE Radio and TV every Tueday and Friday. I am always amazed by your messages or calls that reflect the magnificence of the Love Jesus Christ has for all of us and the miracles that He continues to perform in your lives as the result of the evangelizing work that we continuously do for the Glory of God and the Salvation of our souls. The greatest thing I see and will always elicit praise and gratitude to God for is His Faithfulness, manifested in support of all the people called to serve and contribute their seeds so His work will continue to bear fruit. When writing these lines for you, I found this passage in the Holy Scripture that deeply touched my heart and considered important to share with you, my brothers and sisters in Christ: “I am the true Vine, and My Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit while every branch that does bear fruit He prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the Word I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself, it must remain in the Vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. If you remain in Me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing”. (John 15:1-5) I want to point out what the Holy Spirit inspired in my heart through this passage about the vine and shoots in the Gospel of St. John, the pinpoint words spoken by our Lord Jesus inviting us to remain together with Him and warning that "apart from Him we can do nothing". Remain linked to the vine, i.e., the Lord. This was a wonderful way to confirm what we will experience in July at the Praying Conference, whose motto focuses precisely on the food par excellence for our body and soul, the Holy Eucharist. The Vine (Jesus) nourishes us (the shoots) with the sap of the Body and Blood in the Holy Communion. Every time I read and think about this passage of the Scripture, I get even more convinced of the forceful power of God's Word that nourishes us…