When I was little my mom, a non Catholic, worked at a nursing home called "Our Lady of Fatima" so I had an early experience of the name Our Lady of Fatima. I must have been 3 or 4 or up to 5 years old. I never knew what it meant, but I sensed Our Lady of Fatima, was someone very noble and beautiful. Decades later I would become a Catholic. Now I am obsessed with the message of Fatima, a grand obsession!
Bless you Father. At the very end, “Ask Mary for the miracle of the Son”. These 3 years 2022, 23 & 24 are to Adore the Eucharist. I’ve started going and truly, Miracles of the Son have been happening to me. It took 1-1/2 years of suffering, total darkness of the Soul. Not understanding it or when it was ever going to end but I offered it up for the souls in purgatory when I remembered. I still (maybe not everyday during this time) prayed the Rosary by the Grace of God. God is center of everything in my life now. I’m a completely different Catholic and it’s all due to prayers and the Graces from our Lord✝️🙏📿♥️
Thank you, Father Chris for your inspiring talk and explanation of this miracle. I finally have a picture in my mind of the infamous Cameraman Giuseppe and his sense of humor. We already know our dear Fr. Chris has a sense of humor. Thanks for all the things both of you do to bring us closer to God in your own special and gifted ways. Ciao ❤❤✝️🛐 🙏🏼🌹
I just love these teachings and Divine Mercy. Thank you Fr Chris and all your team. I hope someday to meet you. God bless you, all the Marian fathers, seminarians and all the Marian workers 🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️✝️✝️✝️
I was privileged to see The Miracle of the Sun in Medjugorje in October 1988. People were on their knees crying at the sight of witnessing something scientifically impossible. I am forever grateful for this amazing blessing.
Fr Chris, thank you for this important message from Our Lady of Fatima. May we hear her warning and stop offending God. And may we ask her to place the miracle of her Son in our hearts and the hearts of our loved ones. God bless you and God bless all Marian Helpers around the world. 🙏
Well said Tanya, may you be blessed by the Holy Trinity. Immaculate Conception, pray for us Marian Helpers and all the sinners enfolded in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. 🙏
Incredible stories behind the Miracle of the Sun. Our Lady of Fatima please pray and intercede for us the miracle of Your Son into our hearts , into our families, into the whole world, amen. Thank you Fr. Chris. God bless!
Thank you Rose for giving to this wonderful Catholic ministry, I have been greatly blessed by the Fathers here and the message of Divine Mercy the message of Jesus Christ for our times:)
Blessed Mother Mary, thank you for the Miracle of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior! For my children, families and the whole world, that they return to Your Holy Catholic Church and Her Holy Sacraments. Thank you Father Chris for all you do to bring us closer to Jesus! 🙏🙏🙏❤️🌹
Thank you Father Chris! I finally found a church that prays the St. Michael prayer. It is run by monks, perhaps Padre Pio help me find this church. You have probably already covered the importance of going to confession, but perhaps you could cover it again in a short talk and let people know that they should not be afraid of confessing, that they don't have to explain, just confess. I tell people to make a list and confess maybe 10 things every week if it helps. Many blessings and answers to your prayers.
Thank you Fr. Chris for all your inspiring explanations of our spiritual needs, may we grow more deeper in our trust in our Lord Jesus Christ,and ask the Mother of God to place the miracle of her beloved son in our hearts and the hearts of the whole world.
I will never forget it that I saw my Lord he extending His hand toward me . Now I have this cross in my window at the garage then at the garage of my garage door and nobody put it there not me or my husband because it just me and him living here
This was great. Thank you for expanding and teaching us the message of Fatima. (The most recent movie (2020) didn’t present the many different experiences of those present). Blessed Mother, please intercede for me today and bring your Divine Son into my heart and set it on fire ❤️🔥God bless you Father Chris ✝️
Thanks Fr Cris teaching us explaining about 10/13, it gives us knowledge finding miracles about the sun and Fatima our mother for us to keep praying for the world 🙏
Father Chris Alar thank you for your insight and inspiration in details for Why the Miracle of the Sun is more than a Miracle! May our Lady of Fatima Protect you dearly.
Thank you so much for the wonderful message!!! The video will be even greater if it is with subtitles..so that it will lit light on many souls who couldn't understand the native accent...I humbly request you to do this favour in our Redeemer Jesus Christ ❤
So happy to learn more and more about God’s love for us. Bless Father Chris and all Marians responsible for this talk. Jesus, please bring me closer to your merciful heart. Holy Family please pray for me , family and souls in purgatory.
Today (Oct 13th) is my birthday and I love Mary with all my heart. Please pray for me to do well for my beloved Mother. 🙏 🌞 Thank you and may God bless you. 🙌 🕊
Oh Father Chris you are wonderful! You explain and talk about things so easily and beautifully!! May God bless you and your family always!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😇😇😇😇😇
Thank you Fr. Chris. I was telling my adults grandson about today on our way to noon Mass. ❤ I'll share this with him because you told of it so much better than I... God bless you 🙏🏼💙🙏🏼
Salve, salve cantad a Maria que mas pura que Tu solo Dios.... Y en el cielo una voz repetia..... mas que Tu solo Dios, solo Dios. I learned to sing this as a child back in my homeland where I was born ( Honduras ). Thank you so, so much Father Chris Alar. My homeland Patroness is La Virgen De Suyapa. In Sonaguera, Colon we have La virgen De los remedios. I am so, so thankful for my faith and the opportunity of being able to be part of The Church. There is only one God and One Church. Viva Cristo Rey.
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder just like what one sees won't be the same as what another sees, hold in faith and love in God the father blessed mother Mary and st Joseph 🙏 ❤️
Thank you for this video Father Joseph, and thank you for giving us your blessing at the end of each program/video. It means a lot to me. God bless you!
This is such a powerful message! During times of trials and tribulations, reminders of God's grace bring me back from some dark places in my soul. I believe in Jesus's mercy. Question: how do we forgive ourselves????? GOd bless you.
I knew a woman, Marie Wieglande, who went to Medjugorje in the early 1980s. She and three others watched the sun dance. They even looked at the sun with binoculars. She said she wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't seen it. It opened and closed, becoming a host and becoming the sun. Only their small group witnessed this. Others around them saw nothing extraordinary. I'm not surprised that different people saw different things in 1917.
Hello Father Chris. I really appreciate the way you explain these very important events to us, in a way that is always engaging and inspiring. I always believed in the Miracle of the sun, and I always thought there was a significance to the 13th of October. May God Bless you, Father Chris.
I agree 1000 persent, queen mother Mary thank you uor Jesus Christ your son he is the only one who can will bring me good and anointing light 🕊️ life he has my heart minde soul forever Amen
I love to focus a bit on the mud. People can speculate about what could happen in the air to make the sun appear to do things, and yet, how would children predict such an event? However, the mud... The capillary effect would make draining the water from the dirt impossible. Farmers and scientists today still can't figure out how to dry out a field that quickly, or we wouldn't lose so many crops to flooded fields. If there was energy released to bake the land, it would have fried the people, too, who are also made mostly of water, and would feel the excessive heat. If it was a chemical, it seems like it should also dry out the eyes, noses, mouths, lungs, and throats of those present. If it was a heavy gas that reacted, then still, the children would suffer such effects, while adults might not. But what chemical that would almost have to be airborne could work so far down into the ground and dry up the water? Although people may try to explain away most other things, just as they do the plagues of Egypt (also without explaining how Moses could know of it in advance without the others also recognizing a common cycle if that's what it was), I've never heard a good explanation for a non-miraculous mud drying. And like I point out, it would be very difficult to ever come up with something, since humans were present, and should have felt the effects of drying. That helps rule out entire categories of possible causes.
Good point, it was an equal though less spectacular miracle than the sun, but does add another unexplainable mystery, just how much would it take for people to believe, I wonder. Rationalists are so irrational.
Father, last night I dreamed exactly the same event and I saw the Virgen Mary too. She said that is going to happen in the day of the Virgen of Nicaragua but I don’t know what is the day.
Father, please explain and promote the practice of the Five First Saturdays, as requested by Our Lady. She said we'd have peace in the world if we did this relatively easy practice. Why are we not doing it?
Father Chris has been doing it live stream on UA-cam every first Friday and Saturday since at least the middle of 2020. If you click on the words Divine Mercy under the title of this video here you can view all the videos of the past by then clicking "videos" and look for the ones titled First Friday or First Saturday. Also you can attend the livestream by going to Divine Mercy youtube channel on those dates, when the live one begins it will be at the head of the list of videos, the times for streaming are 8pm Eastern Time for First Friday and 11am Eastern Time for First Saturday.
Great video! I'm thinking of the relevance of the SUN. The SUN had a significant role when Prophet Muhammad (SWT) was in the cave, the SUN was mentioned by St. Gabriel therein...
The different sightings of Miracle of the Sun do all have that commonality of how long they lasted and that the ground dried up. The different descriptions in the Gospel doesn't deny the fundamental fact that Jesus rose again from the dead, so too does the witness differences do not deny that it didn't happen.
Thank you for the clear explanation, Fr. Chris. I believe that by asking Mother Mary for a miracle of the Son is first of all learning how to listen to God. Am I right?
@@DivineMercy_Official Fr. Chris, thank you for your assurance,this is important to me as I was seeking God in my whole life. Prayers for you my spiritual guide.
When I was little my mom, a non Catholic, worked at a nursing home called "Our Lady of Fatima" so I had an early experience of the name Our Lady of Fatima. I must have been 3 or 4 or up to 5 years old. I never knew what it meant, but I sensed Our Lady of Fatima, was someone very noble and beautiful. Decades later I would become a Catholic. Now I am obsessed with the message of Fatima, a grand obsession!
...how utterly sad...poor you! I hope someone explains to you what it is to be deluded and how it happens!
Lovely experience! Ignore the troll. He’s obviously looking for his bridge and wandered into UA-cam by mistake.
😞
Bless you Father. At the very end, “Ask Mary for the miracle of the Son”. These 3 years 2022, 23 & 24 are to Adore the Eucharist. I’ve started going and truly, Miracles of the Son have been happening to me. It took 1-1/2 years of suffering, total darkness of the Soul. Not understanding it or when it was ever going to end but I offered it up for the souls in purgatory when I remembered. I still (maybe not everyday during this time) prayed the Rosary by the Grace of God. God is center of everything in my life now. I’m a completely different Catholic and it’s all due to prayers and the Graces from our Lord✝️🙏📿♥️
Thank you, Father Chris for your inspiring talk and explanation of this miracle. I finally have a picture in my mind of the infamous Cameraman Giuseppe and his sense of humor. We already know our dear Fr. Chris has a sense of humor. Thanks for all the things both of you do to bring us closer to God in your own special and gifted ways. Ciao ❤❤✝️🛐 🙏🏼🌹
I just love these teachings and Divine Mercy. Thank you Fr Chris and all your team. I hope someday to meet you. God bless you, all the Marian fathers, seminarians and all the
Marian workers 🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️✝️✝️✝️
Thank you and God bless you!
I was privileged to see The Miracle of the Sun in Medjugorje in October 1988. People were on their knees crying at the sight of witnessing something scientifically impossible. I am forever grateful for this amazing blessing.
The sun shone bright and warm today through those dark storm clouds forming on the horizon and that was a miracle from above!!!🇨🇦
Thank you and God Bless you Father Chris.....
Always inspiring with a bit of humor LOL. Fr Chris & G-man are a modern day Bud & Lou 😂😂😂
Lol ... God bless and thank you for the support!
Thank you father Chris Alar,🕊️🐑⚓❤️🔥🕊️🕊️💗💚🇺🇲🔔🌈🌤️😎✨👍
Fr Chris, thank you for this important message from Our Lady of Fatima. May we hear her warning and stop offending God. And may we ask her to place the miracle of her Son in our hearts and the hearts of our loved ones. God bless you and God bless all Marian Helpers around the world. 🙏
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Well said Tanya, may you be blessed by the Holy Trinity. Immaculate Conception, pray for us Marian Helpers and all the sinners enfolded in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. 🙏
Incredible stories behind the Miracle of the Sun. Our Lady of Fatima please pray and intercede for us the miracle of Your Son into our hearts , into our families, into the whole world, amen. Thank you Fr. Chris. God bless!
I like the way this priest gets me thinking about god everytime I watch him speak. Especially the divine mercy mass.
Thank you, Fr Alar...
Awesome
I have supported the Marians in Stockbridge, Ma since 1984...good and faithful priests after the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. JESUS, I TRUST IN YOU.
Thank you Rose for giving to this wonderful Catholic ministry, I have been greatly blessed by the Fathers here and the message of Divine Mercy the message of Jesus Christ for our times:)
Thank you Fr. Chris. Awesome message.❤
Thank you Fr Chris. I am praying for that miracle!
🌞🙏🏻✝️
It will happen, if it has not. That's the prayer that God cannot say 'NO' to. :)
I do believe……. 💙💙💙✨💫✨💙💙💙
10.13.22
Nice explanation father..... thanks.. God bless you
Jesus I trust in you yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever, Amen.
Blessed Mother Mary, thank you for the Miracle of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior! For my children, families and the whole world, that they return to Your Holy Catholic Church and Her Holy Sacraments. Thank you Father Chris for all you do to bring us closer to Jesus! 🙏🙏🙏❤️🌹
Mary give me a miracle of the son ❤💯🙏💯🙏💯🙏☘️🌹
Thank you Father Chris! I finally found a church that prays the St. Michael prayer. It is run by monks, perhaps Padre Pio help me find this church.
You have probably already covered the importance of going to confession, but perhaps you could cover it again in a short talk and let people know that they should not be afraid of confessing, that they don't have to explain, just confess. I tell people to make a list and confess maybe 10 things every week if it helps. Many blessings and answers to your prayers.
Thank you. Yes, we have many talks on confession on this channel. God bless
Thank you Fr. Chris for all your inspiring explanations of our spiritual needs, may we grow more deeper in our trust in our Lord Jesus Christ,and ask the Mother of God to place the miracle of her beloved son in our hearts and the hearts of the whole world.
Thank you Father Chris, it is so important that we have you answers important questions about our Faith 🙏🏻🕊✝️🕊🙏🏻
Thank you for this video. Mary please help us all. 🙏🙏🙏
I will never forget it that I saw my Lord he extending His hand toward me . Now I have this cross in my window at the garage then at the garage of my garage door and nobody put it there not me or my husband because it just me and him living here
Thank you Father Chris.
Thank you so much Fr. Chris. I love that ask blessed Mother to bring Son Jesus into our hearts ❤️ which we desperately need 🙏
Hey🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 at last we get to see our beloved camera man Guisseppe, the most famous in the world. 🥰🥰🥰. God bless you all, from UK and Africa.
Lol.... yes, we love our camera man Giuseppe!
Thanks Father Chris 🙏 FIAT
Father Chris, thank you and God be with you today. David
THANKYOU FR CHRISE , for tell about this oct 13 th miracle.
Thank you so much Fr Chris
Thank you and God Bless Fr. Alar🙏
This was great. Thank you for expanding and teaching us the message of Fatima. (The most recent movie (2020) didn’t present the many different experiences of those present). Blessed Mother, please intercede for me today and bring your Divine Son into my heart and set it on fire ❤️🔥God bless you Father Chris ✝️
Amen Karyn!❤️🔥
Fr Chris.......You're always 👌, May The Almighty remember you and your family, you're doing a great job for God's people🙏🙏
Thank you and God bless you
Blessings Father Chris
Thanks Fr Cris teaching us explaining about 10/13, it gives us knowledge finding miracles about the sun and Fatima our mother for us to keep praying for the world 🙏
Mama Mary bring us your son into our heart!
Our lady of Fatima pray for us ❤ Jesus I trust in you 🙏
God bless you Fr Chris I love listening to the mass with you ❤
Father Chris Alar thank you for your insight and inspiration in details for
Why the Miracle of the Sun is more than a Miracle!
May our Lady of Fatima Protect you dearly.
Thank you so much for the wonderful message!!! The video will be even greater if it is with subtitles..so that it will lit light on many souls who couldn't understand the native accent...I humbly request you to do this favour in our Redeemer Jesus Christ ❤
I pray for miracles everyday, Fr. Chris. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙌🙌🤲🤲
That's wonderful!!!!🙏❤
So happy to learn more and more about God’s love for us. Bless Father Chris and all Marians responsible for this talk. Jesus, please bring me closer to your merciful heart. Holy Family please pray for me , family and souls in purgatory.
Thank you fr Chris .. 💜🕊🕯💜
Today (Oct 13th) is my birthday and I love Mary with all my heart. Please pray for me to do well for my beloved Mother. 🙏 🌞 Thank you and may God bless you. 🙌 🕊
Happy Birthday!!!🎂🎈🎉🎁🎊
Hope you have a blessed and bueno birthday!
🎆🍰🎶🏅🎃🌝🌠
O Blessed Mother Mary, Thank You for the Miracle You Blessed me January 20, 2019. In God's Time the whole world will "See" You. Thank You Mama Mary🙏🙏
Woow!! thank you fr.!
Thank you Fr Chris Alar for this interesting topic.
God bless you and your family always.
😇😇😇😍😍😍
Thank you so much Fr. Chris. This is so fascinating! God bless.🙏
Thank you, Father Chris. I've learned so much from you. God bless you always.
You too!
Fr. Chris, thank you!
God bless us Amen.
Oh Father Chris you are wonderful! You explain and talk about things so easily and beautifully!! May God bless you and your family always!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😇😇😇😇😇
Thank you Michael for joining us and God bless you!
Thank you Fr. Chris. I was telling my adults grandson about today on our way to noon Mass. ❤
I'll share this with him because you told of it so much better than I... God bless you 🙏🏼💙🙏🏼
I truly enjoyed this. I’m a big fan of Fatima. Wow. Found this very interesting, father. Keep these educational videos coming. 🙏🏼✝️
Thank you Fr Chris for this wonderful explanation of the miracle of the sun …May God bless you abundantly Amen 🙏
Thank you father Chris ♥️🙏🏼
Salve, salve cantad a Maria que mas pura que Tu solo Dios.... Y en el cielo una voz repetia..... mas que Tu solo Dios, solo Dios. I learned to sing this as a child back in my homeland where I was born ( Honduras ). Thank you so, so much Father Chris Alar. My homeland Patroness is La Virgen De Suyapa. In Sonaguera, Colon we have La virgen De los remedios. I am so, so thankful for my faith and the opportunity of being able to be part of The Church. There is only one God and One Church. Viva Cristo Rey.
Love to you Fr Chris
Great video as usual Father Chris! 🙏🏻 ❤
Thank you for watching and God bless you
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder just like what one sees won't be the same as what another sees, hold in faith and love in God the father blessed mother Mary and st Joseph 🙏 ❤️
This video clears lots readings for me and cameraman Giuseppe bit was super funny
Love this holy priest.
God bless you dear father for explaining so clearly.
amazing..many thanks,
🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻 thank you Father Chris
God bless your good work, Father Chris, all Marian Fathers and Brothers and Family ❤
Thank you for this video Father Joseph, and thank you for giving us your blessing at the end of each program/video. It means a lot to me. God bless you!
Thank you, Father. 🕊🕯☀
Thank you so much Father Chris for another inspiring talk. May God bless you and keep you safe.
Thank you Fr Chris 🙏🏽
Love from Australia 🇦🇺
This is such a powerful message! During times of trials and tribulations, reminders of God's grace bring me back from some dark places in my soul.
I believe in Jesus's mercy. Question: how do we forgive ourselves?????
GOd bless you.
I knew a woman, Marie Wieglande, who went to Medjugorje in the early 1980s. She and three others watched the sun dance. They even looked at the sun with binoculars. She said she wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't seen it.
It opened and closed, becoming a host and becoming the sun.
Only their small group witnessed this. Others around them saw nothing extraordinary.
I'm not surprised that different people saw different things in 1917.
Thank you father Chris praying now in Fatima and the most Holly place in 13/10/2022 …I had never seen so Holly like this day …bless you🙏🕯
Amen , pray always.
Always great to hear what you say!🙏❤️
Thank you Father Chris.God bless you more❤
THANK YOU FATHER! I CAN LISTEN TO YOU ALL DAY 👍🙏
God loves all miracles of the sun 💍🌞
Hello Father Chris. I really appreciate the way you explain these very important events to us, in a way that is always engaging and inspiring. I always believed in the Miracle of the sun, and I always thought there was a significance to the 13th of October. May God Bless you, Father Chris.
Thank you, you too!
May the Holy Mother of our LORD our SUN, Shine within us and hug us so that all of our sorrows and worries will be faded away.🙏🙏🙏
Cameraman Giuseppe 😂😂😂 God bless you in your work for Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Faustina 🥰
:)
I agree 1000 persent, queen mother Mary thank you uor Jesus Christ your son he is the only one who can will bring me good and anointing light 🕊️ life he has my heart minde soul forever Amen
Great video
I love to focus a bit on the mud. People can speculate about what could happen in the air to make the sun appear to do things, and yet, how would children predict such an event? However, the mud... The capillary effect would make draining the water from the dirt impossible. Farmers and scientists today still can't figure out how to dry out a field that quickly, or we wouldn't lose so many crops to flooded fields. If there was energy released to bake the land, it would have fried the people, too, who are also made mostly of water, and would feel the excessive heat. If it was a chemical, it seems like it should also dry out the eyes, noses, mouths, lungs, and throats of those present. If it was a heavy gas that reacted, then still, the children would suffer such effects, while adults might not. But what chemical that would almost have to be airborne could work so far down into the ground and dry up the water?
Although people may try to explain away most other things, just as they do the plagues of Egypt (also without explaining how Moses could know of it in advance without the others also recognizing a common cycle if that's what it was), I've never heard a good explanation for a non-miraculous mud drying. And like I point out, it would be very difficult to ever come up with something, since humans were present, and should have felt the effects of drying. That helps rule out entire categories of possible causes.
Good point, it was an equal though less spectacular miracle than the sun, but does add another unexplainable mystery, just how much would it take for people to believe, I wonder. Rationalists are so irrational.
Yes
Father, last night I dreamed exactly the same event and I saw the Virgen Mary too. She said that is going to happen in the day of the Virgen of Nicaragua but I don’t know what is the day.
Amen. Thank You Jesus
I lost my concentration with that skit with CameraMan Giuseppe 😂
Amen!
Father, please explain and promote the practice of the Five First Saturdays, as requested by Our Lady. She said we'd have peace in the world if we did this relatively easy practice. Why are we not doing it?
Father Chris has been doing it live stream on UA-cam every first Friday and Saturday since at least the middle of 2020. If you click on the words Divine Mercy under the title of this video here you can view all the videos of the past by then clicking "videos" and look for the ones titled First Friday or First Saturday. Also you can attend the livestream by going to Divine Mercy youtube channel on those dates, when the live one begins it will be at the head of the list of videos, the times for streaming are 8pm Eastern Time for First Friday and 11am Eastern Time for First Saturday.
Thank you Charles but we have been promoting it heavily for almost 2 years now including live streaming at every first Friday and first Saturday
Great video! I'm thinking of the relevance of the SUN. The SUN had a significant role when Prophet Muhammad (SWT) was in the cave, the SUN was mentioned by St. Gabriel therein...
Thank you father Chris! May our lady Fatima bless, heal and protect us ! Amen!
Cameraman Guis being a scapegoat for Fr.Chris's Videos everytime 😅😅😅
Lol.... he is a good sport! :)
Hi Fr Chris, don't be so hard on Guiseppi, he's doing a fantastic job!
God bless 🙂🙏🌹
Yes, we love Camerman Giuseppe! He's a great sport
Amen 🙏
The different sightings of Miracle of the Sun do all have that commonality of how long they lasted and that the ground dried up. The different descriptions in the Gospel doesn't deny the fundamental fact that Jesus rose again from the dead, so too does the witness differences do not deny that it didn't happen.
Let the Miracle of the Son happen now and always. It does. It is we who do not perceive it. At Mass. In the Eucharist.
Thank you for the clear explanation, Fr. Chris. I believe that by asking Mother Mary for a miracle of the Son is first of all learning how to listen to God. Am I right?
Yes, doing his will is of ut most important
@@DivineMercy_Official Fr. Chris, thank you for your assurance,this is important to me as I was seeking God in my whole life. Prayers for you my spiritual guide.