The Humble Healer is in USA: FATHER FERNANDO SUAREZ

Great News USA! The miracle man Father Fernando Suarez is in town. Yes the world renowned humble healer himself. He is in California from February 15 till February 26 and will be in Las Vegas Nevada on February 27 and 28.

For those who haven’t heard of him yet, you can read all about him at The Humble Healer. When he visited the Philippines last January, he caused quite a stir with his healing ministry. Father Suarez together with Father Jeff Shannon is on an international healing ministry traveling worldwide and conducting healing sessions to proclaim the greatness of the Divine Healer Jesus Christ.

Ask anything of God and through Father Fernando’s touch, it is done according to your faith. The crippled and lame can walk, the blind regain their sight, and the desperately sick and hopeless are restored to full health. You have to see him perform his healing works in live action to experience and appreciate the miracle of God’s great love for us.

If you want to see, if Father Suarez is coming to a town near you, visit his website, and click on his schedules. The healing power of God is within your reach through Father Suarez’ ministry. If you really want to do yourself a great favor, go see this humble man for your healing needs and God will not disappoint you. For it is to God’s glory that you shall be healed of your infirmities so that you may proclaim His greatness!

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By Rey Garcia

It’s just a few minutes after six o’ clock at the St. Francis de Sales parish church on Burnaby’s Balmoral Street, and people from all walks of life have already filled the place for the 7 p.m. healing mass by the world-famous Catholic priest Fr. Fernando Suarez.

At the main entrance to the church, complaints can be heard from the estimated 2,000 faithful jammed tight inside the archway, or from those left waiting at the church steps outside in the chill evening air.

“Call the fire department. This is not right,” exclaims one Filipino man, who hurriedly leaves the church against the tide of humanity pushing forward.

Moments later, a man tries to squeeze into the church and desperately asks: “Can I go inside?

An old woman answers back: “No! The church is already full.”

None among them recognise the man who wants to pass through the vestibule.

“I am Fr. Fernando Suarez,” says the polite young man, and the crowd quickly parts to let him pass.

He proceeds directly to the altar, where several dozen ailing and wheelchair-bound people are lined in a row.

Who is Fr. Suarez? And why is it that so many people want to see him and be touched by him?

Over 8,000 people — more than 2,000 per mass — attended the priest’s Metro Vancouver healing masses this month in Coquitlam (Feb. 8), Richmond (Feb. 12), Burnaby (Feb. 13) and Maple Ridge (Feb. 14).

Fr. Suarez is a Filipino-Canadian priest who has attracted thousands of followers worldwide with his “miraculous” healing power. In a recent case that galvanized the faith of thousands and garnered the bewilderment of many more, a Canadian woman was declared dead by doctors at the Ottawa Civic Hospital some eight hours before Suarez arrived.

With doctors present and ready to harvest her organs, the Filipino-Canadian priest who was then a seminarian, prayed over her. She opened her eyes and lived.

The woman is now well, Suarez says, and has resumed her normal life. That case, which happened a decade ago, put Fr. Suarez on the Catholic map and today he is roaming around the globe touching millions and working his miracles.

“I just wanted to be a seminarian because probably, it’s better for me to be with the seminary and teach (aspiring priests) how to be seminarians, because it took me 10 years to become a priest,” says Fr. Suarez, reflecting on his early years in the faith when he lacked the confidence to preach to a large congregation.

“I thought my vocation was to be a seminarian because everywhere I go when I left the seminary they’ve been kicking me out . . . everywhere and that’s the story of my life.”

At the time, in his early years, Fr. Suarez was asked to leave the Franciscan Order, the Society of the Divine Word and the Diocese of Winnipeg, which were reportedly uncomfortable with Suarez’ newly-found powers of healing.

“I had reached the point that I got tired of praying to become a priest, but I persisted until I was finally ordained,” Fr. Suarez explained.

In 1997, Fr. Suarez founded the Mary Mother of the Poor charitable organization (www.marymotherofthepoor.org), a Canadian-registered non-profit society dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing food and other basic needs, as well as coordinating heath care and social services for youth.

Fr. Suarez is a member of the Companions of the Cross, and a priest in good standing with the Archdiocese of Ottawa.

In his healing mass homily Feb. 13, Fr. Suarez proclaims aloud: “The truth of the matter is . . . I am not a healer. We only have one healer and that is Jesus.”

“Last night (in Coquitlam), I heard a very powerful testimony. I remember one gentleman approached me and was very, very eager to share his testimony in front of thousands of people and said, ‘Father . . . you prayed over me last year here in Vancouver.’

The man continued: ‘My daughter was a year and half last year . . . she cannot walk, she cannot talk, her kidney and brain are full of cancer, but after you prayed-over her we went to a doctor and there is no more brain cancer and no more cyst in her kidney . . . now look at her she is walking and talking.’”

During the homily, Fr. Suarez makes people laugh, applaud, cheer, cry, and constantly chant: “Praise Jesus.”

“Sometimes we’re always looking for a sign, sometimes we’re always looking for miracle,” says Fr. Suarez. “But the miracle is here right now. Jesus is always here. There is always a great miracle happening every time we go to mass.”

“Jesus is the greatest miracle in our life.”

Fr. Suarez also explains how when he became a priest, he was challenged by so many trials. “I myself taught that miracles only happen during the time of Jesus that the blind was able to see, the deaf able to hear, the cripple was able to walk that happened only during the time of Jesus.”

“Since I became a priest and in my ministry, I saw it every day . . . everything that Jesus did.”

On his website www.fatherfernando.com is a growing collection of testimonials from people from all walks of life — all praising and thanking the man they claimed cured their back pains, stabilised their cancers, and mended their broken spirits.

Soon after the celebration of the mass, the “healing session” starts, with the wheelchair-bound, the ailing elders and the sick children coming forward first.

Among them is 80-year-old Milagros Gastambelo of Bacolod City, Philippines, who has been paralyzed for the past five years.

As soon as Fr. Suarez touches and lifts her up from the wheelchair, she is able to walk down the aisle to the altar.

“This is really a miracle!” tearful Gastambelo tells the Asian Pacific Post.

Josie Tuzon, 44, who was diagnosed with ortho-arthritis, a chronic disease causing pain and stiffness in the joints, claims to be healed the same night.

“I can barely walk and there is so much pain around my knees before I went to the church for the healing mass,” says Tuzon, who is still shaking, crying and in shock as she talks to the Post. “Now, believe me, it is all gone.”

A lot of people follow and speak out at the podium near the altar, giving their own testimonies about the “healing miracle” done that same night by Fr. Suarez.

The majority of those who have been touched by Fr. Suarez either collapse for few seconds or fall seemingly unconscious to the ground.

In addition to his tireless work among the church-going faithful, Fr. Suarez, through the Mary Mother of the Poor society, is currently building a 33-story-high monument called the Oratory Blessed Virgin Mary at Monte Maria, Batangas in the southern Philippines.

When completed, the Mother Mary Monte Maria – overlooking Btangas Bay – will feature a Rosary Garden, Stations of the Cross, several chapels, a conference centre and retreat houses serving as way stations for pilgrims as well as an international center for the poor.

“It is a refuge where the tired soul withdraws to find peace and solace,” says Fr. Suarez. “And thereby discover how Mary comes to the aid of those in need of strength and consolation, the poor in society and the poor in spirit.”

In order to personally experience the “healing power,” this reporter queues and follows the instructions given . . . “Close both eyes and say a prayer while in front of the altar before receiving the ‘healing power’ from Fr. Suarez.”

Surely, I sense a different force striking through my mind and body. My knees wobble at first when Fr. Suarez mildly touches me.

I think, ‘I can resist this force.’ But when Fr. Suarez again touches my head and body . . . I can’t move even an inch of my body.

(Rey Garcia is a visiting journalist from The Philippines who will be writing more dispatches for Metro Vancouver’s Filipino Diaspora in the near future.)

Father Fernando Suarez’s healing sessions for this month:

Feb. 21, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Vincent de Paul Church
8345 Talbert Ave. Huntington Beach, CA 92646
Contact Persons:
Fr. Jerome Karcher 714-842- 3000
Dorli Buto 714- 962- 9736
Feb. 22, Fri. @ 7:00 pm
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Benedict Church
1022 W. Cleveland Ave. Montebello, California 90640
Contacts:
Jun & Norma Apostol, 323-724-1572
Frances Atienza, 323-728-7286
Feb. 23, 2008 @ 7:00 pm.
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Catherine of Sienna Church
18115 Sherman Way Reseda, CA 91335
Contact Person:
Hedy Daulo 818-456-2647

Feb. 24, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Anthony Catholic Church
710 E Grand Ave El Segundo, CA 90245
Contact Person:
Fr. Robert Victoria 310-788-7073
Feb. 25, 2008
6:40 pm: Rosary & Divine Mercy
7:30 pm: Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church
435 Berkeley Ave.Claremont, CA 91711
(In Los Angeles County)
Contact Persons:
Mary O’Connor 909-621-5904
Gloria – 909-626-7017
Feb. 26, 2008 @ 7:00 pm.
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Paschal Catholic Church
155 Janss Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Contact Person:
Cecille Zagala: 805-372-3998
Feb. 27, 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Bridget Catholic Church
220 N. 14th St. Las Vegas, NV 89101
Contacts:
Celeste – 702-785-3895
Roger & Jorie – 702-869-4428
Fr. Sullivan – 702- 735-1210
Feb. 28, Thur. @ 7:00 pm
Eucharistic Celebration followed by Healing Service
St. Bridget Catholic Church
220 N. 14th St. Las Vegas, NV 89101
Contacts:
Celeste – 702-785-3895
Roger & Jorie – 702-869-4428
Fr. Sullivan – 702- 735-1210

By Allison Lopez
Inquirer
Last updated 02:09am (Mla time) 12/02/2007

MANILA, Philippines — It was in August that Fr. Nap Baltazar of the St. Francis of Assisi parish in Meycauayan, Bulacan, first heard about the phenomenal gift of healing of Fr. Fernando Suarez, from a Mass the latter celebrated on television.

Baltazar recalled experiencing a strange, compelling sense to find out more about Suarez. He searched the Internet and found out that the Canada-based Suarez was planning to build in five years a mega-shrine dedicated to Our Lady of the Poor in Montemaria (Mary’s Mountain) in Batangas.

There were a dozen or so YouTube videos of Suarez, including one where he recited a healing prayer in Montemaria ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= 8UP3LHBgtIc ). It is part of a ” Cyber Healing Center ” being posted on the Internet, intended for those who need healing but cannot travel.

Baltazar spent sleepless nights mulling over his discoveries. Something was pushing him to go to Montemaria.

And so, on Aug. 30, accompanied by four parishioners and armed with a crude map, he embarked on a trip, a pilgrimage, to Montemaria.

There, amid a strong wind, Baltazar went to the very edge of the cliff and contemplated the mesmerizing panorama of Verde Island and the passing ships looking like tiny toys below.

The hilltop was bare except for a white wooden stage where Suarez said Mass back in 2006, when it was erected.

This would be dwarfed by the planned mega-shrine on the five-hectare pilgrimage site, which would include a statue of Our Lady of the Poor as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York or that of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro .

Healing stones

By compulsion, perhaps wanting a memento of what he believed was sacred ground, Baltazar picked up a number of stones.

He gave a stone to each of his companions before embarking on the trip home.

The next day, he received a phone call from one of them.

The frantic, weeping parishioner was saying that on the previous night, he rubbed the stone on his shoulders, which he had not been able to move for years. And now, he said, he could move his shoulders and even lift his arm.

The news spread like wildfire. People came to Baltazar asking for a stone. He handed six more stones to them.

More reports of healing flooded the parish—cancer cells disappearing, pain vanishing instantly, chemotherapy schedules cancelled, dead kidneys revived.

Baltazar soon found himself running out of stones. On Oct. 11, he embarked on a second trip to Montemaria.

He took only 12 stones—after the 12 apostles, he said.

Pilgrimage

After three days, Baltazar had only three stones left. One was sent to Italy for a parishioner’s ailing brother.

He thought: “Why wait for the future when Father Suarez returns? We can get the Lord’s healing now. Montemaria is a sacred place of healing, just like Lourdes and Fatima . The stones are related to the Holy Eucharist.”

Although Baltazar had never met Suarez, he asked permission from the latter’s aides to conduct a parish-wide pilgrimage to Montemaria.

Instantly, 250 parishioners enlisted. In the end, there were 400 of them in a convoy of six buses and four vans, coming from Meycauayan, Obando, Valenzuela, Malolos and Plaridel.

On his third trip to Montemaria on Oct. 22, Baltazar brought an army of believers.

He asked the pilgrims to bring stones to replace what they were to get. He told them: One must give back something in return, not just take. What if the place runs out of stones?

In Montemaria, the pilgrims took about 5,000 stones, and replaced about 4,000.

A Mass was celebrated, after which the pilgrims wrote their names and illnesses on the stems of white roses that they placed at the foot of a steel crucifix.

A woman gave a tearful testimony of how her stage-4 cancer of the ovary had vanished into thin air, shocking her doctors.

The pilgrims released balloons before returning home to proclaim the love and mercy of the healing Lord.

Healing reports go global

A week later, a doctor who was healed of cancer had stampitas of St. Francis of Assisi printed and distributed to parishioners.

An ailing woman eventually reported that because the healing stones were hard to come by, she put a stampita on her belly and found that her pains had disappeared by the next morning.

As of this writing, more reports of the healing stones of Montemaria are spreading beyond Bulacan.

Recently, I went to Meycauayan to interview on camera Baltazar and five women who have been healed. This is for a new Youtube video for the Cyber Healing Center , for the whole world to see, especially Filipinos abroad who have seen the first Youtube on Suarez’s healing prayer.

Lolit Esguerra writes: “I prayed with Father Suarez his Youtube healing prayer and the pain in my shoulders, which no medicine could remove, disappeared.”

The Lord’s healing is becoming global through the Internet. He heals by touch, by cellular phone, or by land line.

Too old to go to church, 87-year-old Rosella Purugganan said all her pains vanished after she heard Suarez’s healing Mass on television.

In Medjugorje, Mary’s message was that the Philippines would one day become a global spiritual center. Was the message about Montemaria?

Healing of the poor

Suarez, who hails from Taal, Batangas, is a member of a small congregation in Canada called Companions of the Cross.

He says his mission is “the healing of the poor.”

He lives in a suitcase, travelling to bring the healing of the Lord to other Third World countries in Asia, Africa and South America .

In his visit to the Philippines in December 2006, his healing Mass in Marilao was attended by a staggering 10,000 people and covered live by Radio Veritas.

Suarez plans to return this month from his base in Canada .

Si Bischop Cruz az Bischop Olivarez ay hindi against sa ginagawa ni Fr. Suarez, lalong hindi ito dahilan ng pagkakahiwal-hiwalay ng pananampalataya ng Katoliko. Sa kanila ay miscomminication. Subalit lumaki ito dahil sa gawa at against na mangyari sa Pilipinas lalo na Montemaria Shrine. Kailangang mangyari ito dahil isa ito sa hula, prophecy ito na magkakaroon ng Global Healing Center sa Pilipinas at katulad ng gusto ni Satanas hahadlangan niya ang ano mang gustong mangyari ng Dios sa ano’t-anong paraan. Marami siyang kakampi sa atin, nariyan iyong gumawa ng sariling relihiyon na ang pinananampalatayanan ay nakalagay sa Bibliya subalit sa puso at aral ay walang tuntungan at malabo ang foundation.

Magising po tayong Pilipino at mga mananamplataya ni Kristo, huwag na nating pabayaan na hindi muli makilala ang gingawa ng Dios katulad ng sinabi ng Bibliya sa Isaias 53:4-5, Dahil akala nating ay pinarurusahan si Jesus ng Dios dahil siya pagsawalang-alang niya sa aral, kaya siya nabug-bog at ipinako sa Krus. Dahil sa ating sala kaya naipako si Hesus sa Krus. gusto ba nating mangyari io kay Fr. Fernando. Mahal natin siya.