SPEAKER_00: Muy buenas tardes a todos.
SPEAKER_00: For those who don't know what that means, it means good afternoon.
SPEAKER_00: Good afternoon.
SPEAKER_00: Before Father Ben gives his homily in English, he has permitted me to say a few words in Spanish.
SPEAKER_00: And so in Spanish in English.
SPEAKER_00: Is that okay if I say a few words in Spanish?
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: In Spanish, in this padecemos de muchas enfermedades.
SPEAKER_00: How many people here suffer from some kind of sickness?
SPEAKER_00: Padecen de alguna enfermedad.
SPEAKER_00: Did anybody not raise their hand?
SPEAKER_00: Alguna persona no levantó su mano?
SPEAKER_00: You're already holy, you're already in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: Todos padecemos de alguna enfermedad.
SPEAKER_00: Ya sea enfermedad del cuerpo, ¿verdad?
SPEAKER_00: Cuerpo, dolor de cabeza, dolor de la espalda, dolor del estomac, dolor de rodillas, dolor de todo.
SPEAKER_00: Dolor de todo en el cuerpo.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedades del cuerpo.
SPEAKER_00: Y ah, mejor yo le doy el micrófono.
SPEAKER_00: Usted da la humildad, ahí voy.
SPEAKER_00: Del cuerpo.
SPEAKER_00: También tenemos enfermedades de la mente.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness of the mind.
SPEAKER_00: Ansiedad.
SPEAKER_00: Depresión.
SPEAKER_00: Esquizofrenia.
SPEAKER_00: Las químicas in balance en la cabeza.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad de la mente.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness of the mind.
SPEAKER_00: Ahí voy donde usted va.
SPEAKER_00: Luego, enfermedad del corazón.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness of the heart.
SPEAKER_00: Soledad.
SPEAKER_00: Corazón roto.
SPEAKER_00: Una falta de sentido en el corazón.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad del corazón.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad en el alma.
SPEAKER_00: Espiritual.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness of the soul.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness of the heart.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness of the soul.
SPEAKER_00: I said I would do Spanish, but I'm mixing English and Spanish, yes.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermed corazón.
SPEAKER_00: Loneliness.
SPEAKER_00: Broken heart.
SPEAKER_00: Sin above all.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad el corazón.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad del alma. ¿Qué tal?
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad en familia.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness in the family.
SPEAKER_00: Cuantas personas padecen enfermedad en la familia.
SPEAKER_00: How many sickness in the family?
SPEAKER_00: What do I mean?
SPEAKER_00: Problemas.
SPEAKER_00: Distancia.
SPEAKER_00: Rabbias.
SPEAKER_00: Rencores.
SPEAKER_00: Resentimiento.
SPEAKER_00: Falta de perdón.
SPEAKER_00: Enfermedad in la familia.
SPEAKER_00: Family sickness.
SPEAKER_00: Sickness in the world.
SPEAKER_00: Guerra.
SPEAKER_00: Odious.
SPEAKER_00: Resentiments.
SPEAKER_00: Hatreds.
SPEAKER_00: Padecemos de allá class of enfermities.
SPEAKER_00: We suffer from all kinds of sicknesses.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus has come to heal us of our sickness.
SPEAKER_00: Now for some of us, for all of us, la sanación viene immediato.
SPEAKER_00: For some of us, the healing comes immediately.
SPEAKER_00: If that's going to be you today, what a blessing.
SPEAKER_00: For others, la sanación va a tomar tempo.
SPEAKER_00: For some of us, healing will take some time.
SPEAKER_00: And still for others, I'm going to brace you with some bad news, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Mala noticia.
SPEAKER_00: For some of us, healing will not yet come in this life.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we don't understand why.
SPEAKER_00: It's in the perfect plan of God.
SPEAKER_00: We only find perfect healing in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: La sanación perfecta solamente viene in el cielo.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: I've talked too much, I've taken away time for Father.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Let's open our hearts today to receive the healing presence of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Now we're going to hand it over to Father Ben.
SPEAKER_00: Let's give him a round of applause.
SPEAKER_02: I'm going to preach in English and Father Jorge, he's going to preach in Tagalog.
SPEAKER_02: Just kidding.
SPEAKER_02: The greatest healing is not physical.
SPEAKER_02: It's spiritual.
SPEAKER_02: The physical don't doesn't last.
SPEAKER_02: The spiritual is forever.
SPEAKER_02: How many of you want to experience more peace?
SPEAKER_02: Raise your hand.
SPEAKER_02: We want more peace.
SPEAKER_02: We need peace.
SPEAKER_02: How many want more hope?
SPEAKER_02: How many want, as you can see in this beautiful chazu, divine mercy, Jesus, I trust in you, right?
SPEAKER_02: How many want more trust?
SPEAKER_02: How many want more faith?
SPEAKER_02: Forgiveness.
SPEAKER_02: Be careful what you ask for.
SPEAKER_02: If you want more peace, you're going to face problems.
SPEAKER_02: If you want more faith, you're going to face frustrations.
SPEAKER_02: If you want more hope, you're going to face hardships.
SPEAKER_02: If you want more trust, get ready for trials.
SPEAKER_02: Why do I say that?
SPEAKER_02: Because in order to have faith, trust, hope in God, God will not make us comfortable.
SPEAKER_02: He will stretch us to where we trust in him and him alone.
SPEAKER_02: Not by our own power, but his strength.
SPEAKER_02: The greatest obstacle in faith and trust is fear.
SPEAKER_02: We all in life will face fear.
SPEAKER_02: What is your biggest fear?
SPEAKER_02: Rejection?
SPEAKER_02: What else?
unknown: Purgatory.
SPEAKER_02: Purgatory.
SPEAKER_02: Hell, I'll put hell in there.
SPEAKER_02: Purgatory, there's hope.
SPEAKER_02: You're still on your way to heaven.
SPEAKER_02: Father Martin, what's your greatest fear?
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't have any fear.
SPEAKER_02: This guy's fearless.
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: I know.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, do you fear?
SPEAKER_00: Not open to God's will.
SPEAKER_02: Not open to God's will.
SPEAKER_02: I know another fear you have.
SPEAKER_02: We're really close.
SPEAKER_02: He's afraid of getting sick.
SPEAKER_02: As a priest, the last thing you want is to be sick.
SPEAKER_02: I remember COVID.
SPEAKER_02: You remember COVID?
SPEAKER_02: How many were sick?
SPEAKER_02: We're very afraid of COVID.
SPEAKER_02: He got COVID because of me.
SPEAKER_02: But he was such a good friend.
SPEAKER_02: He was fine.
SPEAKER_02: So many fears.
SPEAKER_02: Fear of spiders.
SPEAKER_02: Fear of darkness.
SPEAKER_02: Fear of death.
SPEAKER_02: How many afraid of heights?
SPEAKER_02: I used to be not afraid of heights, but as you get older, something happens.
SPEAKER_02: A few years ago, a friend of mine, a confirmation director, he invited me to go on a trip with his confirmation teams for a conference.
SPEAKER_02: And it was held at the great amusement park of Magic Mountain.
SPEAKER_02: And so he said, Father, the teens would love to have you with them.
SPEAKER_02: And I said, Okay.
SPEAKER_02: But don't expect me to get on your rides.
SPEAKER_02: But how can you say no to these cute teens?
SPEAKER_02: And they they convinced me to go on a couple of rides.
SPEAKER_02: I went on Colossus and Batman.
SPEAKER_02: And that was it.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, that was it.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_02: So I thought.
SPEAKER_02: Until they persisted.
SPEAKER_02: They said, Father, there's one more ride.
SPEAKER_02: You have to try it out.
SPEAKER_02: It's the best ride in the park.
SPEAKER_02: And I said, no, no.
SPEAKER_02: And then they kept persisting.
SPEAKER_02: And then I got that little FOMO, fear of missing out.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, okay, I'll go with you guys.
SPEAKER_02: And so we get to the ride.
SPEAKER_02: It's called X2.
SPEAKER_02: I knew right the name of it.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, it's like execution, X2.
SPEAKER_01: Like.
SPEAKER_02: So I get on, and I was a little gung-ho, and I was with another teenage boy, and I said, let's go in the front.
SPEAKER_02: And so we get on the front.
SPEAKER_02: And you know when this is not a good ride, when the seat is not face forward, it's in reversed.
SPEAKER_02: And then it reclines.
SPEAKER_02: And so when it's starting to ascend, up the I'm looking at the sky.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like, is this the damn meeting with you, Lord, today?
SPEAKER_02: And then when we get to the very top, how many of you get into X2?
SPEAKER_02: Anybody?
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
SPEAKER_02: Brave, brave.
SPEAKER_02: So I get it to the top.
SPEAKER_02: And then the thing I didn't realize was they designed this chair, it swivels.
SPEAKER_02: It moves right, left, forward.
SPEAKER_02: And so when it went to the top and it went down, it flipped.
SPEAKER_02: And I saw my life flash before my eyes.
SPEAKER_02: I looked down and we plumbed my face to the to the earth.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, and I closed my eyes.
SPEAKER_02: I said, Lord Jesus, I trust in you.
SPEAKER_02: I trust in you.
SPEAKER_02: I closed my eyes the whole time.
SPEAKER_02: Except for once.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not peaked.
SPEAKER_02: I was like, oh no, no, I can't just watch it.
SPEAKER_02: We got to the ground safely, and I told the teens.
SPEAKER_02: That was awesome.
SPEAKER_02: I want to show you a picture.
SPEAKER_02: Right there.
SPEAKER_02: Okay, you look at me.
SPEAKER_02: Look at the boy next to me.
SPEAKER_02: Who's having fun?
SPEAKER_02: Who's not having fun here?
SPEAKER_02: I am scared.
SPEAKER_02: And why am I afraid?
SPEAKER_02: What am I afraid of?
SPEAKER_02: Heights and dying.
SPEAKER_02: This boy was not afraid.
SPEAKER_02: He was having the time of his life.
SPEAKER_02: In our lives, we will go through circumstances that are out of our control.
SPEAKER_02: And it's very human to experience fear.
SPEAKER_02: Anxiety.
SPEAKER_02: But here's the powerful thing.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus gives us the grace to still have peace.
SPEAKER_02: That boy.
SPEAKER_02: Where's the picture?
SPEAKER_02: You can either choose to be like me, or you can be like this boy in the roller coaster, having a time of his life.
SPEAKER_02: He's not scared.
SPEAKER_02: He was part in praying to the Holy Spirit more than I was.
SPEAKER_02: Well, what I'm saying is this, brothers and sisters, the resurrection of Jesus is not a moment that happened two years ago, 2,000 years ago.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus wants to be resurrected in our hearts.
SPEAKER_02: We hear in the gospel today that the disciples went on a roller coaster ride with Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: They were in one moment joy.
SPEAKER_02: Remember Jesus coming to Jerusalem?
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: And in one instance, he's on the cross.
SPEAKER_02: And he died.
SPEAKER_02: And so we hear in the gospel today, they are huddled together in the room.
SPEAKER_02: And it's powerful that the gospel says they were huddled in the room.
SPEAKER_02: And the doors were locked.
SPEAKER_02: And they were locked inside the ruins because of fear.
SPEAKER_02: Fear.
SPEAKER_02: Fear, persecution.
SPEAKER_02: They were followers of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Would they end up like him?
SPEAKER_02: They don't want to be exposed to be his followers.
SPEAKER_02: Peter denied Jesus three times.
SPEAKER_02: Fear of the unknown.
SPEAKER_02: They had their whole life already planned out.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, the Messiah, remember their vision of Jesus was a political ruler.
SPEAKER_02: He was the new King David.
SPEAKER_02: He was going to overthrow the Roman government.
SPEAKER_02: But now Jesus is dead.
SPEAKER_02: What's the future hold for them now?
SPEAKER_02: Fear of uncertainty.
SPEAKER_02: And then on a deeper level, the fear and shame of disappointing Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: They were his most trusted friend.
SPEAKER_02: Peter said, Even if I should die, I would never deny.
SPEAKER_02: And so they failed Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: And then all of a sudden, Jesus appears in the midst of the chaos.
SPEAKER_02: And the first words he says is, He doesn't say, What kind of friends were you guys?
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't say, you guys are disappointments.
SPEAKER_02: You failed me.
SPEAKER_02: He doesn't say that.
SPEAKER_02: He says, peace be with you three times.
SPEAKER_02: And then he goes beyond expectations.
SPEAKER_02: He breathed.
SPEAKER_02: He breathed the Holy Spirit and gave him the power to forgive sin.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus of the resurrection wants to break the doors of our hearts.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: What locked doors are we carrying?
SPEAKER_02: What have we locked ourselves in that is not allowing the grace of God to change us right now?
SPEAKER_02: I want to reflect on three locked doors.
SPEAKER_02: Unforgiveness.
SPEAKER_02: Resentment.
SPEAKER_02: You know, Jesus says you must forgive not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because Jesus understands that when we have resentment, we have bitterness, unforgiveness, it hardens our hearts.
SPEAKER_02: When we have resentment, we are replaying the past of the injury or the wound that that person inflicted.
SPEAKER_02: We're living the past, we're not living in the present.
SPEAKER_02: It's robbing us of the peace.
SPEAKER_02: And so when we forgive, it leads us to freedom.
SPEAKER_02: When we don't forgive and we have vengeance, it's like someone said, we wish the other person were dead, but we're drinking the poison.
SPEAKER_02: So how many of us right now are carrying unforgiveness?
SPEAKER_02: The locked doors that we're locked in right now.
SPEAKER_02: So I want to invite us.
SPEAKER_02: Who wants to be free of unforgiveness?
SPEAKER_02: Raise your hand.
SPEAKER_02: I invite us, I want to lead you to this prayer with me.
SPEAKER_02: We're here for healing.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus comes to set us free.
SPEAKER_02: I invite you to close your eyes.
SPEAKER_02: God came to not make us nice people.
SPEAKER_02: He came to make us new creation in him.
SPEAKER_02: I invite you to place your right hand upon your heart.
SPEAKER_02: And I invite you to make an act of faith and trust.
SPEAKER_02: Forgiveness is not easy, but it's an act of faith.
SPEAKER_02: And I invite you to think about that person that has hurt you.
SPEAKER_02: Person that has wounded you, betrayed you, with their words, with their actions.
SPEAKER_02: Could be a family member, dad, mom, brother, or sister, a friend, a co worker, someone in the past, an uncle, an aunt, teacher.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus is here.
SPEAKER_02: He wants to invite you to have the courage to forgive this person.
SPEAKER_02: And I want you to think about what that person did that wounded you.
SPEAKER_02: That really hurt you.
SPEAKER_02: When you think of that person, think of his or her name.
SPEAKER_02: And I invite you to repeat these words with me.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus wants to heal us tonight of this locked door.
SPEAKER_02: Repeat these words in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: I place myself under your authority.
SPEAKER_02: Under your power, your lordship.
SPEAKER_02: And I surrender my control.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: And think about that person and what they did.
SPEAKER_02: I want you to repeat these words to Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: I forgive.
SPEAKER_02: And if you can just whisper the name, I'm going to say out loud.
SPEAKER_02: Whisper the name of that person to hurt you.
SPEAKER_02: Lord, for instance, I forgive my brother for abusing me physically or verbally.
SPEAKER_02: I forgive my dad for being absent in my life.
SPEAKER_02: Forgive my mom.
SPEAKER_02: Whoever it is, tell Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus, I forgive this person.
SPEAKER_02: I'm about you to take a deep breath.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus, I forgive him.
SPEAKER_02: I forgive her for not being perfect.
SPEAKER_02: For hurting me.
SPEAKER_02: For not meeting my needs.
SPEAKER_02: For betraying my trust and disrespecting me.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus, I surrender this person to you, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: You are just God.
SPEAKER_02: You are in control.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus, I ask you to bless.
SPEAKER_02: Say the name of that person, whisper them, to bless them.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes the unforgiveness is not just towards a person outside of us.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes the person we need to forgive is ourselves.
SPEAKER_02: Many of us carry shame and guilt for our past mistakes.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus didn't come to condemn the disciples for their mistakes and failures.
SPEAKER_02: He came to forgive them.
SPEAKER_02: And so we need to forgive ourselves.
SPEAKER_02: And so I want to invite you to pray for forgiveness for yourself.
SPEAKER_02: Whatever mistakes in the past, failures, invite Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Think about whatever that moment that caused you to feel like you deserve condemnation, you don't deserve love, made you feel like you're not good enough or unworthy.
SPEAKER_02: Whatever that happened in the past, Jesus invites you to forgive yourself.
SPEAKER_02: And so repeat these words.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus, I forgive myself from my flaws, my mistakes, from my imperfections.
SPEAKER_02: In the name of Jesus, bless me, heal me, in the name of Jesus, I receive your love and your presence.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: You're open up your eyes now.
SPEAKER_02: That's the peace.
SPEAKER_02: Second door is more.
SPEAKER_02: Control.
SPEAKER_02: Self-sufficiency.
SPEAKER_02: You're like me.
SPEAKER_02: I want control.
SPEAKER_01: I want control.
SPEAKER_02: We want everything to be comfortable and convenient.
SPEAKER_02: We want to follow our agenda.
SPEAKER_02: It's the American way, brothers and sisters.
SPEAKER_02: You know the specshanatra song.
SPEAKER_02: I did it my way.
SPEAKER_02: But the road to freedom is doing it God's way.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And that means we have to ask the Lord to break down the doors that lock us into control and self-sufficiency.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Like the other day, I was in my house and I woke up and I started the day.
SPEAKER_02: It was going to be a perfect day.
SPEAKER_02: I had my coffee and my breviary.
SPEAKER_02: I'm praying.
SPEAKER_02: And I say, Lord, thank you for this day.
SPEAKER_02: And then my phone rang.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Father, you have mass right now.
SPEAKER_02: I usually don't have mass on that day.
SPEAKER_02: But it woke me up.
SPEAKER_02: And I said, You're in control, God.
SPEAKER_02: And the Lord, somehow the Holy Spirit got me there on time.
SPEAKER_02: And uh I think my homily was okay.
SPEAKER_02: We'll see.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
SPEAKER_02: But it made me realize in life, there's gonna be moments where we're not in control.
SPEAKER_02: And God wants us in those moments to cling on to Him.
SPEAKER_02: He's in control, amen.
SPEAKER_02: It's not my life.
SPEAKER_02: It's God's life in us.
SPEAKER_02: Comfort.
SPEAKER_02: The third and last door, lock door.
SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
SPEAKER_02: Busyness.
SPEAKER_02: As Americans, we pride ourselves in busyness.
SPEAKER_02: More efficiency.
SPEAKER_02: To the point where when we relate to each other, sometimes we don't realize it.
SPEAKER_02: We don't look at each other as as human beings anymore.
SPEAKER_02: We're like transactions.
SPEAKER_02: You ever feel that way?
SPEAKER_02: People walking around.
SPEAKER_02: We can't even sit still.
SPEAKER_02: After a moment, we're on our phones.
SPEAKER_02: We're so busy, you know the acronym for busy?
SPEAKER_02: B-U-S-Y.
SPEAKER_02: Being under Satan's yoke.
SPEAKER_02: Ooh.
SPEAKER_02: And God wants to break the stronghold of busyness and distraction that rob us of communion.
SPEAKER_02: Of love.
SPEAKER_02: COVID didn't help with that.
SPEAKER_02: But now we're, praise God, we're coming back.
SPEAKER_02: People coming back to church.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because they're hungering for communion.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus didn't create us for comfort.
SPEAKER_02: He created us for communion.
SPEAKER_02: And we need every day to make choices what leads us to communion with God or to isolation.
SPEAKER_02: And God, the Holy Trinity, is a communion person.
SPEAKER_02: And he created you and I in his image and likeness.
SPEAKER_02: And in order to experience freedom is to be in communion.
SPEAKER_02: That's why the whole thing of I'm spiritual but not religious doesn't work.
SPEAKER_02: Because we're not meant to be Lone Rangers.
SPEAKER_02: We're meant to be connected in community with one heart and one mind.
SPEAKER_02: That's why the first reading is so powerful.
SPEAKER_02: The early church, they live in a community.
SPEAKER_02: They sold everything they have for one another.
SPEAKER_02: They experience the joy.
SPEAKER_02: And we need to rediscover what it means to be a community again.
SPEAKER_02: By breaking the locked doors of busyness.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And so I'll invite us to stand right now.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm going to just say a prayer to renounce these strongholds, these locked doors in our hearts.
SPEAKER_02: Invite you to just place your hand again on your heart.
SPEAKER_02: Come, Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Repeat these words.
SPEAKER_02: Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02: You came that I might have life and have it in abundance.
SPEAKER_02: You came to proclaim freedom.
SPEAKER_02: Lord, I stand before you.
SPEAKER_02: I renounce every stronghold that has enslaved me, that has locked me in.
SPEAKER_02: I renounce the lie of self-sufficiency.
SPEAKER_02: The belief that I do not need you.
SPEAKER_02: That I only need to rely on myself.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, I surrender my control.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus, draw me into communion.
SPEAKER_02: Your sacred heart that I might see my brothers and sisters.
SPEAKER_02: With the eyes of compassion and love.
SPEAKER_02: In Jesus' name, I renounce renounce the idol of busyness.
SPEAKER_02: The lie that my worth is measured by what I produce.
SPEAKER_02: What I accomplish.
SPEAKER_02: Free me, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: And teach me to slow down and be present.
SPEAKER_02: I renounce a spirit of comfort.
SPEAKER_02: That I am what I have.
SPEAKER_02: My possessions, my compulsions, my addictions, my unruly attachments, to social media, to television, to news, to gossip, to shopping, to gaming, to gambling, to drugs, to alcohol, to food, to lust, I renounce the spirit of addiction that robs my intimacy and friendship with you.
SPEAKER_02: Holy Spirit, come and fill the places of my heart that is empty.
SPEAKER_02: Heal my wounds.
SPEAKER_02: Soften what is hardened.
SPEAKER_02: Awaken what is numb.
SPEAKER_02: Come, Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: I humble myself.
SPEAKER_02: I trust and surrender my life to you.
SPEAKER_02: Take a deep breath.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus is here.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just going to say a closing prayer for all of you.
SPEAKER_02: Heavenly Father, we just thank and praise you.
SPEAKER_02: We ask, Father God, that you anoint each and every one of your children tonight.
SPEAKER_02: You have called them here, Lord, for a reason.
SPEAKER_02: And you, Jesus, coming to them where they're at, Lord, whatever their struggles, their burdens they're facing right now, meet them where they're at.
SPEAKER_02: Just as you enter the locked doors, touch us, heal us, renew us, transform us.
SPEAKER_02: Set us free, Lord, and deliver us, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: That we might know and be convicted that you love us, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: You would never abandon us.
SPEAKER_02: You are walking with us.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: We praise you, Lord.
SPEAKER_02: We ask all this through Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And in the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: What's next?
SPEAKER_01: Praise the faithful.
SPEAKER_02: Praise of the faithful.
unknown: Okay.