Fr. Fernando Suarez: Priest Like Jesus
To God be the glory!
-written June 01, 2019-
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We give God all the glory for what He is doing in India and the Philippines.
From one drastically different mission field to another, we journeyed from India to the Philippines. We started with some R and R in Manila, then partook in a glorious healing Mass with Fr. Fernando Suarez, our friend and founder of Mary Mother of the Poor foundation and the Missionaries of Mary Mother of the Poor. In the words of one of his seminarians, since the people are coming to church less and less, the community has discerned to have Mass in the mall: "we go to them now."
The seminarians were like angels, dressed in white. They led the approximately 1,000 people in attendance in beautiful worship. The Tagalog worship music is soaring and sing-song, so affectionate towards the Lord. It is easy to enter into worship from the heart with this sound of romance with Jesus.
Father Fernando's ministry is marked with uncommon miracles. ( Acts 19) His life is completely supernatural and favoured of the Lord. We ourselves, and many of those we know, have received tremendous blessings from the Lord through the ministry of this humble priest, who always claims he is only the "instrument of the Lord."
His ministry as a priest began with leading retreats and Life in the Spirit Seminars, until his gift of healing exploded and launched him into an international healing ministry where literally thousands of people have been healed. We keep hearing more and more supernatural stories. At a healing Mass in Africa, feathers began to fall from the sky onto the congregation! Cancer, addictions, you name it and it has probably been healed by the power of the Holy Spirit through the ministry of Fr. Suarez.
A long time friend of our ministry was healed of near-paralysis when her husband simply touched the TV screen upon which Fr. Fernando was being broadcast, and prayed. Alleluia!
When we attended The Send in Orlando last February, we offered our lives totally to the Lord in prayer that was the culmination of a journey of nearly 2 years of seeking God and His will for our lives. We knew His call to serve, but so many trials sought to prevent us from following Him.
Only 2 days after The Send, Fr. Fernando called us and invited us to join the mission in India. We were praying, "absolutely anywhere, Lord!" (but thinking most likely Ontario, Canada)
The Lord took us at our word and we were truly sent. As you know, India was a blessing. But, we felt that our ministry was fully activated in the Philippines.
To our great honour, we were first invited to lead the worship during the healing service following the Mass in the mall. Beforehand, Fr. Fernando called us up in front of the whole congregation to introduce us. He said that the reason he invited us into his ministry is because of our love for Jesus- that he has never met a couple so in love with Jesus before! Wow. Praise God.
He told the people that our marriage is true love, and a sign that nothing is impossible for God! (check it out in this video: "Who We Are")
We were privileged then to attend Fr. Suarez's 17th anniversary as a priest. Lee Anne had attended his 7th priestly anniversary. Their paths had crossed many times in Canada, where Lee Anne attended many healing Masses.
What was before a convergence of streams has turned into a raging river as the anointings of two ministries are united to shake the nations.
