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Marino Restrepo is a Catholic lay missionary who has been preaching the Gospel message throughout the world since 1999, with the full approval of his bishop. He is the founder of the Church-approved foundation, Pilgrims of Love. Formerly a wealthy Hollywood film producer, who sank into serious sin and the New Age movement, he was abducted for ransom by Colombian guerilla rebels and held captive in the Amazon jungle for nearly half a year. At the beginning of his torturous kidnapping, he underwent a mystical conversion. In the span of one night, Marino was given a complete illumination of his conscience, which revealed to him the sinful state of his soul. He then endured experience likening t...
The work that you are holding in your hands now is the result of a human life full of drama, mysticism and experiences that may seem certainly contradictory for those who are far away from God. In these pages you will find a human life intertwined in the most serious errors and dangers resulting from an existence that lacked spiritual awareness and was flooded with the mundane ambitions of a heart that always wanted to do good and was able do so only after great effort. You will also find the fruit of the author's encounter with his Creator; in it, God's mercy and forgiveness rescued a wasted life from the ashes of sin and transformed it into bread of evangelization for the whole world. You will also be able to appreciate the Gospel telling us as how God takes the fool to embarrass the sage. Marino Restrepo never studied theology, neither was he educated in the religious sciences. However, during his life as a missionary, he has made possible for theology academicians and high-level ecclesiastic scholars to hear the simplicity of a Gospel infused in the author's heart by the Holy Spirit. You are kindly invited to navigate through the paths of God's miracle.
In this book, Marino Restrepo travels as deeply as he can into the heart of today's real Catholic Church. He explores the spiritual state of the Church in her relationship with God and with her God-given responsibilities. The challenges to be faced are not simple and cannot just be left to resolve themselves over time. On the contrary, every single Catholic needs to become actively involved in healing the many wounds inflicted by the serious sins in the Church that have hurt millions of the faithful around the world. Times are difficult and the very heart of the Catholic Church has been contaminated at many levels since the great cultural and sociological shifts of the 60's. The author invites you to accompany him along his missionary path and to discover the true state of the spirit warfare confronting all Christians today.
Esta novela es una escuela del alma, porque desnuda la realidad humana desde su infancia hasta su vejez. La coloca frente al espejo de su consciencia y se examina por dentro y por fuera sin escrúpulos, ni prejuicios. Cada capítulo desafía al ser humano a observarse con más cuidado y atrevimiento hasta las fibras más internas de su ser. La historia envuelve un sinnúmero de personajes que se entrelazan a través del tiempo, formando un tejido de realidad que toca lo trascendente en medio del inevitable drama humano de cada carácter. La vida que acá se desarrolla, es una común y de naturaleza en principio provincial y campesina en su esencia, pero a través de los eventos que envuelven todas estas vidas entrelazadas entre sí, se llega a una dimensión universal en donde se identifican todos los caminos de vida. Esta novela es una escuela donde la calificación final queda en manos del lector, pues termina exponiendo su propia vida y queda en sus manos su conclusión. Es en verdad una novela fascinante y de extraordinaria picardía literal.
This book is written to enrich the knowledge of Catholics about the wonderful gift of the mercy of God for souls. Who, on dying and appearing before the Divine Tribunal of our Lord Jesus Christ, without a perfect and holy preparation, are rescued from the punishment of eternal damnation and taken to live in a state of purification or purgation. Where, after passing through a trial by fire, they have the opportunity to enter into the fullness of the eternal glory of Paradise. The first part of the book is a compilation of excerpts from the Councils, in which the existence of Purgatory is established as a dogmatic reality for the Catholic believer. The second part is a collection of testimonie...
Authentic accounts of saints and mystics of the Church who have spoken of a day when we will all see our souls in the light of truth, and fascinating stories of those who have already experienced it for themselves."With His divine love, He will open the doors of hearts and illuminate all consciences. Every person will see himself in the burning fire of divine truth. It will be like a judgment in miniature."- Our Lady to Fr. Stefano Gobbi of the Marian Movement of Priests
El autor de este libro le ofrece al lector la oportunidad de vivir una experiencia espiritual de carácter mística y de aguda profundidad en medio del dolor y las dificultades causadas por la venganza de un ex-socio colombiano, por asuntos de su vida pasada, los cuales lo llevan a una experiencia drástica y difícil tras las rejas de una cárcel en el estado de California, Estados Unidos, por espacio de 7 meses. En un lenguaje sencillo nos invita a escuchar la voz del Divino Maestro dirigiéndose a su siervo en un momento de prueba y dolor.
In this seemingly loveless world of ours, we might wonder if true love is attainable. Is it real, or is it perhaps a dancing illusion captured on Hollywood screens? And if this love dares to exist, does it satisfy as the poets say, or fade in our hearing like a passing whisper?The souls are few who have discovered these answers, and one of them is Nicolina, a feisty, flirtatious girl who fell in love with the most romantic man in all of post-war Germany. Little did they imagine the places where love would take them. This enthralling, real-life short story is a glimpse into the grand secrets of true love-secrets that remain a conundrum to most, but become life itself for a grateful few. These hidden treasures wait in hope to be discovered, resting in chambers of the Heart of Love. Through this little book, may you, like Nicolina, enter their mystery, and find life, too.
The book traces the role of Judaism and the Jewish people in God's plan for the salvation of mankind, from Abraham through the Second Coming, as revealed by the Catholic faith and by a thoughtful examination of history. It will give Christians a deeper understanding of Judaism, both as a religion in itself and as a central component of Christian salvation. To Jews it reveals the incomprehensible importance, nobility and glory that Judaism most truly has. It examines the unique and central role Judaism plays in the destiny of the world. It documents that throughout history attacks on Jews and Judaism have been rooted not in Christianity, but in the most anti-Christian of forces. Areas address...
Turn these pages, and you will find yourself surprisingly inspired by a murderer locked up in prison, a drug-using football player who dreamed of the pros, and a selfish, womanizing dare-devil who died and met God. You will root for a husband and father whose marriage was a battleground, a homosexual man searching desperately to belong, and an innocent lamb who lost, in a single moment, everyone he cared about most. And you will rejoice that their sins and their pasts were no obstacle for heaven. All of these men became living beacons of hope, walking proof of the triumph of the human spirit over darkness. In the heat of the fiercest of spiritual battles, when all seemed lost and these men w...