If
you suffer, and you can no longer fight, if the world abandons you...
God bless you.
In the word of God, the Gospel according to St. John, chapter 8, verse 32 says,
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
There are many truths, but the truth in Christ sets us free, changes us,
and in the Gospel of Christ there is power and might.
My brothers and sisters, for 39 years I was a Roman Catholic priest.
At the age of 12, I entered the seminary in San Antonio.
At the age of 18, I went to Rome.
There I lived in the Latino Pio, I studied in the Gregorian Synagogue.
At the age of 27, I was ordained Roman Catholic priest in Rome.
During all those years, I was also a missionary in Africa.
I worked with the lepers.
And I had an experience, the Lord made me go through an experience in Durango,
where we fell in a place called the Devil's Thorn.
We fell to a precipice, two priests died, and I was in a coma for more than six
months.
I was in a wheelchair for more than three years.
And one morning, at four thirty in the morning, I was listening to a message on
television.
An evangelist said, Christ heals, Christ changes, Christ forgives.
And since I was in a wheelchair, I felt very bad.
And I looked at the evangelist and said, yes, crazy fanatic, Christ heals,
Christ changes.
Look, I'm getting covered.
He doesn't heal me or change me, this crazy man.
And so time passed, and I came to the plants of Christ.
The Lord raised me, healed me.
And in Santiago de Chile, it was where I became Christ.
And now I am an evangelical pastor, who preaches the word of God all over the
world.
Now, my dear brothers and sisters, we are going to present some slides from
my past life, from what I was before.
And after I finish these slides, I will give you a short testimony.
God bless you, and now we go with the slides.
When I left the Catholic Church, the priests and my superior burned
everything I had, so that no one knew that I had been a priest.
But this fire was kept by a sister of mine, who had been a nun before,
and she had it kept in Dallas, and she gave it to me.
And these are taken from a magazine.
To order a priest, it can only be one bishop.
But to consecrate a bishop, it has to be three bishops who consecrate.
Here I am going up to the Altar Mayor.
Here the Archbishop of Rome is anointing me.
Here they are putting the pectoral.
Here they are putting the mitra.
Here they are blessing me the ring.
Here I am giving the apostolic blessing.
Here I am translating from Italian to Spanish.
Here I am blessing the baptismal salt, and the baptismal water in the time of
Lent.
Here I am in a blessing in the chapel.
Here I am ordering diacons.
Here I am going to put incense in the incense burner to bless the Altar Mayor.
Here I am receiving an Archbishop of Granada.
And here I am ordering diacons.
This is a group of priests and diacons who were in charge of my diocese.
Here I am ordering a priest who is on the floor, lying down, taking oaths to the
Church.
And there I am.
You see how I am dressed.
I am ordering a priest.
Here I am in a moment of Confirmation.
Here I am blessing the Easter Syriac.
And here I am in a preaching.
Here I am blessing the pilgrims in Jerusalem.
Here, this picture that you see, this ornament is used to visit the Pope
and special matters.
The ring that I have in my hand is called the Wife.
And it has relics of the Holy Martyrs, pieces of the Cross of Christ and bones of
the Martyrs, and land of Jerusalem.
This is the ring that the Bishop wears.
Here, this is the habit that I wore every day.
I was very close to the deputies, senators, presidents, and governors.
I didn't hang out with poor people.
I was very proud, as you can see in this picture.
I never laughed at anyone.
Here I am a little smiling, and here they made me smile to take this picture.
The pectorals that I have on my neck are emeralds, diamonds, rubies, and they have
a value of 350,000 dollars.
This is another habit.
This was the category that I received when I was consecrated a Bishop.
I didn't leave the Roman Catholic Church because I was short of money.
I had money in abundance.
I didn't leave the Roman Catholic Church because I got married.
I am single, I am not married.
And I didn't leave because I liked alcohol, cigarettes, I never smoked,
I never drank.
I just came to the consecration.
I lived in an Episcopal Palace, and this was my category, my home.
I only left the Roman Catholic Church because no one could lift me up from a
wheelchair.
Only the message of Christ Jesus, our Lord, made me get up from the
wheelchair, walk.
They were going to cut my two feet, they were going to impute it to me because
my feet were gangrene.
And the Lord healed me from the gangrene, He healed me from diabetes, from high
blood pressure.
I had a heart enlargement, cataracts in the eyes.
Diabetes had brought me all this disease.
But listening to the Gospel of Christ one day, the Lord lifted me up and changed me
and made me another person.
That is why I now preach the Gospel of Christ.
Neither any evangelical organization pays me.
I live by faith, and I have been living by faith for nine years.
Bread and water have never been short of me.
Christ Jesus is glorious, and He gives life and lives in abundance to whom He
asks.
This photograph is very old, it is mine.
When I was 27 years old, I was a newly ordained priest.
This lady is my grandmother, and there is the Archbishop.
The Archbishop is an Apostolic nun, and I was 27 years old.
Here I am working in the Apostolic nunnery.
A Capuchin priest accompanies me when I was 50 years old.
Here I am working with the Sauca Indians.
These Indians are wild, they walk naked.
They fight with their enemies, they cut their heads off, they make them
small, a secret that they know, and they eat their bodies.
The boy there with an Indian is my nephew, who later became a priest.
I am working here in the missions.
The first missionaries who came here were the Jesuits, and then the Baptists.
Here I am in Cagua, Puerto Rico.
Here I am in Puerto Rico.
Here we are doing parishes.
Here I am with an Ukrainian Archbishop.
Here I am going to bless a chapel.
Here I am giving the blessing with the Most Holy.
What I have in my hands is called custodia.
It is all gold, what surrounds me, my back, is called palio.
The Roman Catholic Church says that Jesus Christ was imprisoned for loving the world
in the sanctuary, there in the host.
The word of God says that where there are one, two or three congregations in his
name, that he is in the middle.
Here I am going to start the mass in Jerusalem.
Here I am taking out the chalice.
Here I am giving the wine.
Here I am giving a little wine and water for the consecration.
Here I am raising the paten.
Here I am in a bigger moment, the consecration.
Here is when Christ descends into the Host, and the priest is a Christ on earth.
Here I am giving the consecration.
And with the chalice, here is when the wine becomes the precious blood of Christ.
This is a tradition of the Church, the wine is still wine.
Here after the communion is given, he drinks a little more wine and a little
water.
Here I am going to read the last gospel according to Saint John.
Here I am reading the gospel of Saint John.
Here I open my hands and say, Lord, with us and with your spirit, the mass is
over, you can go in peace.
Here I am with some friends from Puerto Rico.
This photo is more than 30 years old.
Here I am at a party in Guadalupana.
Here I am in Jerusalem.
Here I am more or less 33 years old.
Here I am preaching the day of the Pure Conception.
Here I am crowning the Virgin of Fatima.
This is called Cilicio when we are 15 years old.
We put this on our feet and on our knees.
We have nails that nail very hard.
What is below we put on our waist, on the sole of our feet.
And with that whip, at ten thirty at night, the days come and we hit our body.
This is a sacrifice that the Church makes.
Here I am in my office and there I have all the titles that Rome gave me.
Here I am preaching.
This woman is 90 years old and she is my mother.
Here I am in Oaxaca working with the Indians of Oaxaca.
Here we are eating tortillas.
Here I am starting to say the Mass to a girl who turned 15 years old.
Here I am preaching.
Here I am giving communion.
This is the Body of Christ.
Here I am giving wine to drink.
And here I am with a daughter of my sister, preparing a face to put it in the
chapel.
This blue jacket is my sister, she belongs to the order of the Carmelite
Mothers.
And the other is the daughter of my sister.
We are preparing a face to put it in the chapel.
This is a day of Christmas.
These three nuns that you see here belong to the order of the Carmelite Mothers,
they are my sisters.
The one in the middle is me and the other is my brother.
We are nine brothers, six women and three men.
Three of them are nuns and two priests.
This is a party that is done to the charity of copper.
They put money on their backs and it is a one-week party.
Here is the Virgin mounted on pure money.
Here I go in procession, we take the Virgin to a procession.
Here I go in procession with the Virgin of Fatima.
Here we are going to take out the charity of copper in procession.
Here we are putting together the money, counting the money.
It is a one-week party.
In one week they collect 7 to 8 million dollars.
This is a Virgin who cries, she is called the Virgin of Fatima.
This Virgin is called the Pilgrim Virgin.
She travels all over the world and there are villages where the Virgin begins to
cry.
Here the Virgin is crying, she is shedding her tears.
The word of God says, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
The Virgin does not cry, it is a trick that they have on their backs with a
bottle of water and some tubes that go to her eyes and people believe that the
Virgin cries.
This is a trick that the priests do to deceive the people.
This other Christ that you see is crying here.
Here the Christ is crying, he is shedding blood on his side.
On his back he has a hole, he has a bottle of synthetic blood and water that goes to
his eyes.
This is a trick and this is not true.
The word of God says that there is only one mediator between God and men,
Jesus Christ man.
This is a painting from the time of the Inquisition that is in Rome.
The Catholic Church teaches that no one has the security of his salvation.
That is why here we look at the Pope with his head in the flames of a purgatory,
we look at the bishop, we look at the nun, we look at the king and we look at the
limbo.
The Catholic Church says that no one leaves after he dies of purgatory without
the limonades that are given to the church and the mass that is ordered to be done.
Here is a painting also from the time of the Inquisition.
We see St. Anthony with an azucena, St. Francis on this side.
We see the Pope with a papal bulla and we see Jesus Christ who is asking the Pope
for mercy, to take the souls out of the purgatory.
The Catholic Church says that no one leaves without the papal blessing.
The Lord says that of the Lord is the fullness of the earth, the world and all
that dwells in it.
It is not the Pope but Christ.
Here on the day of Corpus Christi I am saying a mass and two priests,
the General Father of the Jesuit Fathers is helping me and the Provincial Father.
My dear brothers, in the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 9, and if we read the
whole chapter, we see how Paul became Christ.
Paul was a man who persecuted, he persecuted the Christians, he
imprisoned them and made them kill.
He was the first to give the order to kill the first martyr, Stephen.
And he says that when he asked for a letter to go to Damascus to look for all
the men who would invoke the name of Jesus.
My dear brothers, they say that on the way to Damascus a shining light falls on him
and falls on earth.
And he hears a voice that says to him, Saul, Saul, why are you chasing me?
And he says to him, who are you, Lord?
And he says to him, I am Jesus whom you are chasing.
Hard thing is to give you against the strong.
So, my dear brothers, we see that the Apostle Paul was a very religious man.
He knew of the Holy Scripture, but he did not have an experience with
Christ.
This is what happens to each of us who become the Lord Jesus Christ.
Many times we think that we are in the truth.
We believe that we have the truth and we fight for it.
But when Christ comes into our lives, we have a personal experience with Christ.
This is what happened to me.
I entered the seminary at the age of 12.
I loved my religion.
I thought it was the only true church of Christ and that without it there would be
no salvation for anyone.
But my dear brothers, at the age of 18, when I went to Rome, and I was there until
the age of 27, when I was ordained a Roman Catholic priest.
My dear brothers, for me, the greatest thing was to become a priest.
I had the vocation, and when I was ordained a priest, I stayed another two
years in Rome, and at the age of 30, I left as a missionary to Africa to work
with the lepers.
For me, when I looked at the lepers, and I always asked God that I wanted to be
a leper saint, I looked at the saints at the altars, and I said to God,
I would like one day to be in an altar as great as the saints are, and I asked him a
lot to help me.
And we had to put on special gloves to heal the lepers.
And sometimes I didn't put them on, and I healed the lepers with my hands.
I took the pus, the blood of the lepers, and then I put it on my feet, on my arms,
so that the leprosy would hit me, because I wanted to sanctify myself and be
a leper saint.
But it wasn't like that, it didn't happen, the leprosy didn't hit me.
Then I went to the Philippines to work at another leprosary.
And so I went to many countries, and the biggest fear for me as a Catholic
priest, whenever my family would come and tell me, Father Jose, because that was my
religious name, they would tell me, my mother or my brother died, and I was
terrified to see a dead person.
And I knew that with the Masses, with the responses, these people could one
day come out of the flames of purgatory.
And I was terrified to go one day to that place of torment.
But when I understood the word of God, that the Lord says that there is only one
mediator between God and men, Jesus Christ man, my brothers and sisters, when I came
to Christ, and I had that certainty, that certainty that Jesus Christ was my
Savior, was my Lord, I, inside the Roman Catholic Church, every morning at Mass,
in the blessings, I would take Jesus in my hands, Jesus sacramented in the Host,
I would commune every day, I would give Communion to millions of people,
but I always saw that people were communing, but their lives did not change,
they were still the same, although they took the body of Christ.
But my beloved brothers and sisters, now that I am a Christian, and now that I
have understood, my beloved brothers and sisters, that Jesus is my Savior,
that I can say, as the Apostle Paul said, I no longer live, but Christ lives in my
life, Jesus lives in my life, Jesus lives with me.
And that is why, my beloved brothers and sisters, that when the Lord Jesus Christ
calls me, I am sure that I will go with Him.
When I was a Catholic priest, I prayed my divine office, at night I prayed my
Rosary, because I was afraid of death.
But my beloved brothers and sisters, now that I know the Lord Jesus Christ as
my personal Savior, as my Lord, the Lord of my life, I can say every day,
as the Psalmist said, in peace I will lie down, and likewise I will rise,
because only your Lord makes me live in confidence.
My beloved brothers and sisters, when I came to Christ, when I had the
accident in Durango, where I was in a coma for more than six months, when I was in a
coma for more than six months, I had a dream.
I had a dream, my beloved brothers and sisters, that I was inside a tunnel,
and a man was coming and taking me out of this tunnel, and I was starting to fly,
and I was flying very high, and I got into a very big crystal river, and there were
many fish, and I was afraid of the fish, but they didn't do anything to me.
Then I got out of that river, I was flying very high, I was standing like on a
pedestal, and I fell, I was falling down slowly, and I fell to the ground,
and my rosary fell into a mud, and when I was going to pick it up,
the man said to me, look, don't pick up the rosary, because if you take it out of
the mud, you will perish along with it.
My beloved brothers and sisters, then this man took me where there was a
multitude of people, of people, and he took me to a throne, there was a
man, and the man looked at me and said to the one who was taking me, take him to the
place that belongs to him, and when this man took me to the place, and I found
myself in the flames of hell, I found myself burning, and there were many people
that I knew, many people, and these people blamed me, they said to me, because you
never told us the truth, you never told us the truth, we are here in hell.
And I looked at many of my fellow priests in the flames of hell, and the people
wanted to throw us, they wanted to lynch us in hell, because they accused us that
they had died without hope, without Christ, because of us.
Then the man came and took me by the hand, he took me out of hell, and he took me
back to where this man was.
My beloved brothers and sisters, when this man took me to the presence of
this man, who is in a shining throne, the man said to me, you are not yet
prepared to be in this place.
You are going to return, and you are going to preach the truth.
When I returned from the coma, and I remembered this dream, and after
being a Christian, I came to understand, my beloved brothers and sisters,
that during the time I was in a coma, I died for a while.
My spirit was taken to the same hell, to know what was prepared for me,
if I did not preach this holy word, which is the word of God.
I have nothing against any priest, any nun, I have nothing against the Pope,
but my beloved brothers and sisters, I pray to God for my nun sisters,
my brother priest, I pray for all the priests, I pray my beloved brothers and
sisters, even for the Pope, so that one day he also knows this truth, this
glorious truth.
We, as Roman Catholic priests, have taken millions of souls to hell,
because we have not preached the truth, we have preached the life of the saints,
we have preached traditions, man's dogma, and the word of God, my beloved brothers
and sisters, teaches us so clearly, I am Yahweh, I am Jehovah your God.
You will not have other gods before my presence, you will not bow to them,
nor will you honor them, because I am Jehovah your God.
God does not want, my beloved brothers and sisters, that we worship any image.
How glorious it is when we think that the Virgin, by Mary to Jesus, by Mary to
salvation, but if the same Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, says these beautiful
words, my soul rejoices in God my Savior, she felt that she needed a Savior.
My beloved brothers and sisters, it also says, I am here the slave of the
Lord, the jungle of the Lord, and later it tells us to do everything that He tells
us.
And the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to go around the world, to preach my gospel to
all creatures, my beloved brothers and sisters, I know that Christ Jesus lives.
We as priests send all people to hell, and no one leaves there if it is not for
money, if it is not for a payment of a first, second mass, of a response,
but my beloved brothers, where is Christ?
Where is the blood of Christ?
If we have to pay for all this, why did Christ die for us?
And why does the Lord say that his salvation is worth more than all the
treasures of the world?
That this salvation is not bought with money, it is not bought, my beloved
brothers, with a requiem nandonaidomino, the perpetual light, the ethereal light,
requiescat in pa, but with the precious blood of Christ.
He cleanses us and washes us from all sin.
So, my beloved brothers, what are we looking for in our parts when the precious
blood of Christ is enough?
The precious blood of Christ is enough for the sinner.
How glorious, my beloved brothers, when we have this personal encounter with
Christ.
My beloved brothers, when I was in a coma for more than six months, after six months
I came and returned, I found that I was paralyzed, I have a broken foot in more
than 36 parts, I have broken bones, I have the bones of the ankles out,
I still have them like this.
And after three years in a wheelchair, I asked a lot of the saints to help me,
I went to visit the Virgin in France, to bathe in the grottoes of Lourdes,
I did many things to seek my health with the most powerful saints, but I did not
find it, my beloved brothers.
I went to the Basilica of Guadalupe, I said Mass, I went with the Holy Child of
Atocha, I went with the Virgin of La Salud, I went with the Virgin of San Juan,
with the Virgin of Zapopa, I went, my beloved brothers, to Oaxaca with
Soledad, to Esquipula, with the Lord of Esquipula.
Nobody could give me this health that Christ gave me.
But my beloved brothers, when I heard this preacher at four thirty in the morning,
he said, Christ heals, Christ changes, Christ forgives.
And I said, yes, crazy fanatic, look, I'm covering myself with gangrene,
they are going to cut my feet, and you say that Christ heals,
that Christ changes.
And I turned it off, I said, this crazy man, and after a while I learned it again,
just to laugh.
I was like that for months, but one day this preacher gave a message when Peter
and John went up to the beautiful temple, when Peter said to the paralytic,
I have neither gold nor silver, but what I have I give you.
My beloved brothers, I took that this message was for me, and I said,
look God, if you heal me, Lord, if you change me, lift me from this
wheelchair, I promise you, Lord, that I will serve you every day of my
life.
And the Lord at that moment lifted me, changed me, forgave me, healed my
diabetes, healed my high blood pressure, my heart, the cataracts, and lifted me
from the wheelchair.
How glorious, brother, this Christ.
How glorious it is when he lifts us up.
My beloved brothers, I had to be a very crazy man to have left the Catholic Church
and come to a religion that for me was not the true Church of Christ.
But I can tell you at this moment that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth,
and the life.
And only he, my beloved brothers, can transform us.
Only Jesus can change his life, my beloved.
Only Christ Jesus can change his children from the drug, the vice, the liquor,
the alcohol, because Jesus Christ has power.
He lifted me up from that wheelchair, and he has power.
It is yesterday, today, and forever the same.
Jesus never changes, my beloved brothers.
I went through many terrible things that in another video I will tell you about all
the problems I went through with a brother of mine who is a Caballero de Colón.
I went through all the suffering.
They thought I had gone crazy.
They put me in the house of the crazy for two years because they said I was crazy.
But I was crazy, my beloved brothers, for the love of God.
And I thank God.
I have no hatred against my brothers or against the priests who put me in the
house of the crazy for two years.
I went through many things, many sufferings, but I know that my Redeemer
lives.
I know that Christ lives.
My beloved brothers, look for the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ says, I am the way, he is the way, he is life.
My beloved brothers, at this time, may the Lord bless you.
May the Lord come to shine his praiseworthy face on you.
And now, my beloved brothers, to finish, I am going to say a prayer.
Lord Jesus, I am before your presence, Heavenly Father, because you are great,
Lord.
Oh, Jesus of the heavens, bless each person, Heavenly Father, who watches this
video.
Change their lives, Heavenly Father.
Give work to those who do not have it.
To the widow, Lord of the heavens, give them the bread of every day.
Bless, Lord, so many children, Heavenly Father, who are orphans,
who ask for lemon on the streets, on the bridges, Lord.
Transform their lives.
Bless the United States, Lord of the heavens, transform it, Heavenly Father.
May Mexico be for Christ, Lord.
Remove idolatry, remove sin, Heavenly Father.
Bless the whole nations, Lord of the heavens.
Put your hand of health on each sick person.
Heal their bones, their eyes, their pains, because you are powerful, you are holy,
you are blessed, Lord.
Oh, Jesus of the heavens, powerful is your name.
Thank you, Lord, because you took me out of the darkness to the admirable light.
Thank you for your word, Lord.
Thank you because you made me understand, blessed Lord, that you were the way and
that there is no other greater way than yours, Heavenly Father.
Transform the souls, heal the sick.
Bless, Lord of the heavens, bless, Heavenly Father, this station,
this place here, Lord, this television, bless it.
Give it everything it needs, this station, Heavenly Father, this television program.
Bless, Lord, those who direct it, those who guide it, Heavenly Father,
each cable, those who do each thing, those who are sitting in the office,
bless this television channel, Heavenly Father, may it be for the honor
and glory of your name.
All this I ask you in the glorious name of Christ Jesus, amen and amen.
Why did I become an evangelist?
We belong to the order of the Jesuits, and it is very difficult for a Jesuit to
become an evangelist, because we believe that we have the truth, and we study a
lot.
And the congregation to which I belong is a political congregation that works with
governments, and also rebels against governments, as happened in San Salvador
with Monsignor Romero, and as happened also in Nicaragua, as happened in
Colombia, as has happened in different countries of the world, that the Church
has rebelled against governments.
And for me the Catholic Church was the only true Church of Christ, and I did not
believe in the evangelicals, and I always said that they were sons of the devil,
that they did not have the truth, that they took away from us the Catholics.
And I never thought of leaving the Roman Catholic Church, nor did this happen to me
in my mind, to leave the Church, and all the priests who are within the
Roman Catholic Church, although within the Catholic Church there is a lot of
deception, there is a lot of lies, and most of the Catholic priests are
drunk, alcoholics, are effeminate, rapists of children, and I am not lying to
you, because this has come out a lot on television lately, we have the Archbishop
of New Mexico who raped more than 300 children, we have the father of Corpus
Christi who raped more than 500 children, we have the Archbishop of Wisconsin who
raped a child, he raped a little girl, and he is being tried right now by the
court, and he is being processed for 70 million dollars to pay all the people who
offended him.
And the Catholic Church in this time is in decline because of all these things that
people can no longer hide, as in the countries of Mexico, that the priest is
the mayor, the priest does everything he wants, and the people have to shut up,
they can't say anything because he is the little priest.
Although we know that all these things exist, we know about the deceit that we do
in making virgins cry, in making saints appear, we know that we do all these
things with the purpose of keeping people in the Church, of keeping people with
their faith alive, because when a virgin appears, everyone goes to see where the
virgin appeared.
When a virgin cries, everyone gets emotional, but it is a temporary emotion,
but the emotion that Christ gives us is permanent, it is forever.
This emotion never ends until we go with the Lord Jesus Christ.
When we die, when a person dies who without Christ dies in despair,
he does not want to die, he anguishes himself, and the priest, we are going to
give him the extreme option, we give him a response, but for all that, it has a
price, we charge.
We don't go anywhere just for free, they have to give us money for gas,
they have to give us everything.
And the salvation of man, the word of God says, cannot be bought with all the
treasures of the world.
His salvation, because it cost a price, the precious blood of Christ.
And when the word of God says that when a sinner repents, the angels sing in the
heavens.
Not when you repent in front of a confessional, when you repent in front of
a confessional, that we absolve you, pray three times to our Father,
three times to the Holy Mary, ask her to give you her heart, and you pray the next
day, Corpus Domini Jesu Christus, this is the body of Christ, receive the
body of Christ.
But you are still the same, you still have the same sins, your life does not change.
Why in the Gospel do people change?
Because when we come to Christ, we come and go directly to him,
we open our hearts to him, we confess to him, we speak to Jesus, and then Jesus
changes us.
He transforms us, cleans us, makes us new men, new women, new young people.
If the young man has been drunk, he is no longer drunk.
If he has been an adult, he does not do that anymore.
Why?
Because Christ changed him, Jesus changed him.
That's what happened to me, Christ Jesus changed me, transformed me.
And this is what my brothers and sisters cannot understand.
And this is what I could not understand either, that Jesus really changed man.
I thought that prayers, penances, Masses, could one day lead me to God.
I thought that the sacrifices I made could one day reach the forgiveness of God.
But my dear brothers and sisters, it is not like that.
We do not need any of those things to do, just say, Lord, have me here.
Here I am.
What does the Lord want from me?
Forgive my sins, change me Lord.
And the Lord changes you right away.
My dear brothers and sisters, when I was ordained a priest, for me, the greatest
thing in life was to be a priest.
I went through many sacrifices, many trials, and I became a priest.
At the age of 18, I went to Rome.
At the age of 27, I was ordained a priest.
It was the greatest thing for me, to be a priest.
I said, what else can I wish for?
Now I can take Jesus in my hands.
I have the power to bring him down from heaven to the higher altar.
My dear brothers and sisters, and so, I had this power, but a false power,
because I could not sacrifice Christ every day in the altar, because he had already
made a sacrifice, just one, and forever.
There was no need to sacrifice him every day in the altar.
There was no need to do that.
But how did I come to Christ?
I had an accident in Durango, where I fell from a precipice, a very high precipice,
in Durango, which is called El Espinazo del Diablo.
I don't know if there are people from Durango here.
I fell from that precipice down, we fell at 4 in the morning, and the truck
hit us, we went to a precipice, we fell, the two priests died,
I was in a coma for more than 6 months, I did not know about me.
After 6 months, I could open my eyes, I could realize that I was paralyzed,
I had half of my body dead, I had a broken spine, my arms, my feet, my neck was all
torn.
So I felt that way, when I felt like that, I could not move, I could not walk,
I could not speak, I did not know what had happened, I had lost my mind, and when I
was recovering, they began to explain to me what had happened to me.
And one day, the specialist came to me and said, Father José, we are going to have to
cut your two feet, we are going to have to cut them.
And when he told me that they were going to amputate my two feet, I said,
you know, doctor, let me die with my whole body, I do not want to die in pieces.
So, he told me, but you can do a lot of good to the Church, you can live many more
years.
Because of diabetes, I had a sprained foot, so when I told him this,
he left me, and one day I turned on the television, and at 4.30 in the morning,
they woke me up, they bathed me, they put diapers on me, because I got
dirty, I got wet, I did not feel my body.
So, when I look at the television, and I start to think, and a preacher comes
out, and he said, Christ heals, Christ changes, Christ forgives,
Christ reforms.
So, I look at him, and I say, yes, crazy fanatic, I told him, Christ heals,
I told him, Christ changes, I told him, look, I am getting poorer, I do not get
healed, nor do I change, I told him.
And he said, this is crazy, and I turned it off.
And after a while, I said, let's see what the crazy says, and I turned it on.
And so I was for a long time, brother.
And at one point, when I was listening to this preacher, one day I said,
I would like to see what a evangelical pastor tells me.
I worked in the second neighborhood, in Paso Teja, in the Church of the Sacred
Hearts, and I said, I'm going to see what a Protestant tells me.
I had fought a lot, I had gone to many places to seek my health, and nothing had
happened.
So I called him, and he answered a pastor named Amador Valenzuela, and I began to
talk to him about my problem, about my illness, and he began to pray for me,
to speak to me, and to explain to me.
And that happened, time passed, every day I almost spoke to him.
And one morning, when I turned on the TV, the preacher said, in the name of Jesus
Christ, get up and walk.
In the name of Jesus Christ, get up and walk.
And he is preaching when Peter and John went up to the temple of the Almosa,
when Peter said to the blind man, I have neither gold nor silver,
but what I have is in the name of Jesus Christ, get up and walk.
And when he said that, I felt a very bad impression, and at the same time I felt a
pleasure.
I said, I am going to heal myself.
God is going to heal me.
I went to the desk, and I tried many times to stand up, but I couldn't.
And when I tried to stand up, I couldn't, so I fell to the ground, the chair turned
to one side, and they get me up, and the priest tells me, Father Joseph,
if the Virgin did not heal you, how can that Protestant heal you?
How is he going to heal you?
Brother, when he told me that, I turned to the desk and said,
look God, if you really are the true God, and you have the power, as this man says,
to heal me, if you heal me, I promise you that every day of my life, I am going to
serve you, and I am going to be like the man on television.
At that moment, I began to feel a tingling in my feet, that I was dead.
And I began to feel like a game in my whole body, and I got up from the
wheelchair.
The feet were like this, and they began to do like this.
The ankles were crooked, there were the marks, part of the marks of the gangrene,
there were the signs, the holes where the gangrene ate me, and I was healed.
Brother, and the other day the specialist came to see me,
and said, Father José, how did you heal?
And I explained to him how I had healed, what I had asked, and then he looked at me
and left laughing.
And he shook his head and said to me, you know Father José, you are not healthy,
what happens to you is that you are excited, and the excitement has made you
walk, but when that excitement ends, you will return to the wheelchair.
Brother, I thank God that several years are going to pass, and the excitement has
not ended.
The excitement is the same.
I am healthy.
When I was healed, I watched the preacher every day, I watched him on television the
first days, and then one day I watched him, another day I didn't, one week I did,
another week I didn't, and one day I said, I got bored of listening to him.
I said, how stupid I am, how is this protestant going to heal me?
When my little Virgin of Guadalupe healed me, and my saints healed me, how is this
one going to heal me?
Brother, I never listened to him again.
But I want to tell you tonight that we have fallen into the hands of a living
God.
Of a real God.
And we cannot play with Him.
With Him we cannot say, one day I will serve you, and tomorrow I will say no.
We have to be faithful to Him.
Because this Christ is not made of paper.
He is not made of silver.
He is not made of plaster.
He is real.
And He is here tonight, next to us, touching your heart, your life,
healing your body.
That is what Christ Jesus is doing right now.
And one Saturday, the day of the heart of Mary, I had to say Mass at six thirty in
the morning, and I found that I was paralytic again.
I could not move from my bed.
And I did not want to tell anyone that I was paralytic again.
And I asked God a lot to heal me, to help me.
And I said, look God, if you heal me, I promise you that I will serve you,
and I will be like the man on television.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, the Lord raised me up, I stood up,
I began to walk, and I ran to the altar.
And I said, look God, I cannot serve you like the man on television.
I am a Catholic, I am a priest, and look at him, he is a Protestant.
Look at my sister nuns, my uncles, my brother priest.
What are they going to say if I become like him?
But I said to the Lord, here in my parish I am going to serve you.
I became charismatic, I was president of the charismatic movement in El Paso.
On Thursdays I had a mass for the sick, I put oil on them, I prayed for the sick,
and the Lord did great miracles.
But I saw that every time people spoke a language, they left the church.
They did not stay in the Catholic Church, they went to the Evangelical Church.
And this gave me a lot of sadness.
Brother, one day I began to say Mass.
When I was saying Mass, I felt a voice saying to me, I am Jehovah your God.
You will not have strangers before my presence.
You will not bow before them, nor will you honor them, because I am Jehovah your God.
And that voice, every morning when I was going to say Mass, began to speak to me.
I began to confess, and the voice told me, look at them, every week they come with
their own sins, their own faults.
They do not change because you do not change.
And I said, I am going crazy, or God is punishing me because I do not want to
serve Him as I promised Him.
And I went to speak to the Superior.
I told him, Father Superior, I want you to give me permission, because I promised
God, I told him, that I was going to be like a man on television.
And I want you to give me permission, I told him, to go and give my testimony to
all churches.
And Father Jose tells me, like what man on television?
And I told him, like Jimmy Swagge.
And when I told him like Jimmy Swagge, he stopped and told me, are you crazy
Father Jose?
Are you mad?
How can you come to ask me permission to become a Protestant?
He thought that I wanted to be a Protestant, but I did not want to become a
Protestant, I just wanted to be like man, but to remain inside the Roman Catholic
Church.
And he says to me, are you crazy?
Are you mad?
And then he calls my brother by phone to San Antonio.
I have an older brother, he is an industrialist, he is married, he has five
children, and he is a gentleman from Colón.
And then he calls my brother, and my brother comes quickly and says to me,
you know, brother, we are going to go to Mexico, we are going to go to Monterrey,
from Monterrey we are going to go to Saltillo.
But he does not tell me that he spoke to him, that the superior spoke to him,
he just took me by surprise.
And there I was in Monterrey for a week in the parish of Our Lady of the Pilar,
and he tells me, now we are going to Saltillo, he says, we are going to the
convent in Saltillo, a very old convent that exists there, of the Jesuits.
And then we entered the convent, we are, I am very happy, greeting the
superior, when from behind two men come and grab me from here, from my arms,
and my brother tells me, you know, he tells me, damn dog, he says,
you don't get out of here anymore, son.
We don't want protestants in the family, we don't want protestants in the family.
My brother, when my brother told me that, they grabbed me and forcefully took me
underground, and locked me in a room, and they had me a month without eating,
a month without eating, and during that month that I spent there, I meditated a
lot because they had locked me up, and my brother arrives with a tray,
and he tells me, brother, he says, I bring you food, he says, are you hungry?
And I told him, yes, brother, I am hungry, and then he throws the tray at my feet,
and when they fall to my feet, my brother brings a knife, and he throws
me the knife, he tells me, die, you damn dog, he tells me, and he throws
me the knife, and I grab the knife with my hands, and he throws the knife down,
and he cuts the tendons of these fingers, because these fingers I have to do like
this to bend them, not like this, I can't bend these fingers, so they take
out my sotana, they take out my habit, they take out my shirt, my t-shirt,
and they start kicking me, they kick me in the face, they took out my teeth from up
here, they took out four teeth from down here, and they told me, my brother,
die, you damn dog,
I have my teeth out, they kicked me, and they took out my hands, and they told
me, damn, you don't deserve to die with those consecrated hands, and with the
knife, they started tearing my hands, and the others, making fun of me,
with the scissors, they cut them, and they put the knife to one side,
to the other, and the last thing my brother did, he said, die, you damn dog,
and he buried the knife here, when my brother buried the knife, it fell to the
ground, bleeding, and they left, and then the superior came to see me,
he was lying on the ground, and he said, Father José, what do you want to do?
Do you want to die there like a protestant dog, or do you want us to cure you and
take you to the infirmary?
And he said, I forgot to be a protestant, actually, I was not interested in being a
protestant, I was a catholic, and then I said yes, and a doctor came looking at me,
and he saw me, all the mouth, all that strip, all bleeding, stabbed, and he said,
you know, I can't touch this man, he said, this priest, I have to make a
report of what happened to him, what happened to him.
And then the superior got scared and said, you know, leave him like this,
we are going to take him to a clinic.
And as it was in them, they stopped my blood, and they took me to a plane to
Zapopa, Guadalajara, in Guadalajara they locked me up in a mental illness clinic,
of the brothers in San Juan de Dios, in a madhouse, and they made me go crazy
for two years, I went crazy.
And, brothers, when you are in the madhouse, I don't know if you have ever
been to a place like that, but it is terrible when a madman gets sick,
all the other madmen in the pavilion get sick.
They strip, they take off their clothes, they do their needs in whatever part,
and the other madmen come and start eating them.
I lived like that for two years.
After two years, the superior called me and said, you know, Father José,
you are already healthy, you can go back.
He said, but here is the provincial priest, and the master priest,
they are going to take him.
They put me in the habit again, and they brought me here to Monte
California, to the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
There I was, in the parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and one day some friends came,
a priest friend said to me, today there is a meeting, he said, and they are going to
see all the churches.
They were charismatic.
And then I go, there were about 70,000 people in the stadium.
I sit down, and a man comes with a Bible under his arm, and he sits next to me,
and he starts talking to me about God.
And I said to him, you know, sir, I do not believe in God.
Brother, during the time I was in the house of the madmen, and looking at
everything that had happened to me, I dried up.
And everything that had happened to me, I blamed God.
I believed that God, I said, look God, I served you at the age of 12,
and why has all this happened to me?
So, brother, when I am like this, and you go up to the platform,
you go up to a wedding dressed in a charro, and they start singing
thanksgiving.
When they sing thanksgiving, it seems like life has changed me.
It changed me, and I returned to the parish, and I could not sleep at night,
I was not calm, I was nervous.
Then I came and said, God is going to speak to me, and I took the Bible.
And when I took the Bible, it speaks to me of mountains, of steel, of copper,
of autonomy, that clothes will never get old, that I will never run out of food.
And I said, God is talking to me, and I am going to go out tonight.
And I took two pieces of clothing, and I took $800, and I went out hiding.
When I went out hiding from the parish, I was walking in the California mountains,
and from there I went to Los Angeles.
And I said, well, and with whom am I going now?
With whom am I going?
I could not go with my relatives, my brother priests, my sister nuns.
I could not go with my uncles, they were all Catholics.
And then I said, what do I do?
And I said, well, I am walking in the center, and I look up like this,
and I look at an ad, a very large ad, and it says, Land Chile.
And I said, well, I'm going to Chile, I'm going to Chile.
I came and took the plane to Miami, from Miami I went to Santiago de Chile.
And when I arrived in Santiago de Chile, it was winter, it was terribly cold.
And I said, well, what madness did I commit here?
I came to enter a country in the middle of winter, I do not know anyone, what am I
going to do here?
Then I remembered Archbishop Silvas Enrique, and I said, I'm going to go with
the archbishop, I'm going to ask him for money to return.
Brother, when I was thinking about that, and I went to the cathedral, and I arrived
in front of the Plaza de Alma, where thousands of people pass there,
there are all the government offices, the cathedral, and I felt for a while,
I said, what do I tell the archbishop?
Why am I here,
with a plastic bag, with two pieces of clothing, without money?
And he is going to ask me, what did you come to do to this country?
And I was there thinking, when in that I feel a voice that tells me, here you are
going to start, here you are going to start, here you are going to start.
Well, and what am I going to start here?
Brother, and something mysterious stops me and I start preaching in the street,
in front of the cathedral.
And I start giving the testimony that I am giving to you here.
Brother, when in that, that I am giving the testimony, I finish, and people start
to leave.
Many people gathered around me, and three men stayed.
And one tells me, brother, glory to God, he says, I am Pastor Edito Espinosa of the
Church People of God, he says.
The other tells me, I am the pastor of the Methodist Church Pentecostal.
The other tells me, I am the pastor of the Pastoral Breakfast.
Well, brother, and which one are you?
Well, I told him, I am a Catholic priest, I told him.
And look at the madness I did, I told him.
Just because of an announcement I saw in the United States, and because of a word
of the Bible, I came to this country, I told him.
And now I am going with the Archbishop, I told him, to ask for money to return to
the United States.
And Pastor Edito Espinosa tells me, no, brother, he says, no way, he says.
You are not going with him, he says, you are going with us.
He says, the Lord brought him here to you, he says.
He says, you are going with us.
And when he told me like that, brother, I did not like the Protestants.
I did not love them at all.
I was a priest.
So, I had no choice but to go with him.
And I went with Pastor Edito Espinosa to his house.
And at night he tells me, you know, he tells me, that today we have a cult,
he says.
He does not want to go with us.
Brother, I had never entered a evangelical church, never.
And I had no other choice, and I told him, yes, I am going.
They put a winter poncho on me, they gave me winter clothes.
And I got to the church, there were about 3,000 people in the church.
And when I got to the church, I began to look at it and observe it.
And I said, truly, I said, these are heretic goods.
They do not have a saint, they do not have a Christ, they do not have a crucifix,
they do not have anything, I said.
I, tomorrow, first thing in the morning, I get out of here.
I'm leaving here.
Brother, and the pastor gave such a beautiful message that night, that I was
the first one to walk in front of him, and I surrendered to Christ.
I surrendered to Christ, I took off the priest's collar, the crucifix.
And I had three years in Chile preaching the gospel, all over the center and south
of Chile.
And when I went to Arica, to the north of Chile, I saw the great metal copper mines,
as the Bible had told me.
The great lakes in the south of Chile.
And so, I had three years in Chile, and I went through all the countries of
Central and South America, preaching the gospel of Christ.
This is my testimony that I have given you tonight.
I have many things to say about my testimony.
I would spend about three hours here with you.
But another time, I will say it as it is the testimony.
But now I'm going to go down for a while with you.
Thank you.
If you could pass me the other microphone, please.
Here are the blades that my brother gave me.
Here are the scissors.
When they started to cut with the scissors.
The hands.
The soles where they put the blade inside.
The fingers, where I have the cuts.
Here are the fingers, where they cut my fingers.
That's why I can't move these fingers.
This is where my brother put the blade inside.
Can you look at it?
Here is where he put the blade inside.
He told me, die, you bastard.
How much do you pay me?
Here is where he put the blade inside.
Can you look at it?
The hole where they put the blade inside.
Here is where he cut me with the blade.
He told me, die, you bastard.
Here is where he cut me with the blade.
He started to tear my hands.
Here are the scissors.
The soles where they put the blade inside.
Here is where he put the blade inside.
And here are the marks where he cut my fingers.
Here are the feet, where he ate my gangrene.
Here are the spots of the gangrene.
The ankles are like this.
Here is where he ate my gangrene.
Here are the marks of the gangrene still on my feet.
Here are the marks of the gangrene.
The soles where he ate my gangrene.
The crooked ankles.
Here is where he ate my gangrene, the crooked ankles.
This is my testimony.
Listen to me.
If you suffer and you can't fight anymore.
If the world has hit you non-stop.
And the pain accompanies your life.
I don't want to promise you more
love than to keep suffering.
There is no time to lose.
It's time to tell the truth.
The only one that can save you.
Jesus is the one you are looking for.
Don't deny him anymore.
Jesus is the one you are looking for.
Don't deny him
anymore.
He has you to give you.