Patrick Reis and Fr. Mathias Thelen co-founded Encounter Ministries after they both had profound encounters with Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration. It was founded to counter the Church’s rapid decline in the West. Fr. Thelen notes that there are areas of rapid growth, and those are areas where Christianity is “deeply rooted in a biblical worldview, believes in the gifts of the Spirit, expects God to intervene in miraculous ways, and is committed to personal evangelization. … The Lord is indeed performing signs and wonders just as He did in the Acts of the Apostles.”
This book details the lives of six saints: Vincent Ferrer, Philip Neri, Catherine of Sienna, Francis Xavier, Padre Pio, and Serephim of Sarov. Detailed records exist, and are cited, how these saints encountered the Holy Spirit even as the Apostles did on Pentecost, and lived lives much like the apostles.
The book’s introduction concludes: “This book… is yet another confirmation of what the Holy Spirit is doing today to renew the Church…. What would happen today if God granted the whole Church a new Pentecost?... Disciples would once again experience the Spirit’s inspiration and boldness…. What would it be like to be part of such a renewal? Open your eyes. It’s here.”
This book also describes the Encounter Ministry’s two year class to learn how to encounter the Holy Spirit in faith, and spread His works. I personally have met many people who have taken those classes, and participate in the miracles of the Holy Spirit today. The renewal is here.
Open your eyes. Buy this book, and read it with an open mind. And then give praise and thanks to God, and ask: “Lord, what would you have me do?” You are alive now, in this critical time, for a reason.
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