 ugly shirt day and we can thank Father Frank Black for that. Amen. Let's give it up. Amen. And those of us who are friars, we highly encourage you to wear an ugly shirt and I've got my ugliest one on today. So, brother, you want to join us? Andreas is going to be joining us again this morning so we want to welcome him, ask the Lord's blessing upon him. Heavenly Father, we pray that you continue to shower your Holy Spirit on our brother, that he would proclaim a word that comes from your heart and that word would penetrate ours. Lord God, that we would know your presence, know your anointing, know your spirit through the grace that you're operating in our brother. Fill him with your Holy Spirit and your blessing. May Almighty God bless him, the Father, the Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. Bless you. You're very welcome here again this morning, brother. Thank you, Father. Thank you for the day. I have this one here. No, no, no, fine. Okay, it's a blessing again to be here this morning and today we are going to be sharing how to be agents of unity and in the church and in the world today. And basically, the ministry team asked him to be a very, very practical presentation. Okay, yesterday we were reflecting more about unity in our life, unity inside of us, unity in our relationship with Jesus, and now we are going to be moving more like to the missionary part, to more the apostoral area, how we can be really a practical agents of unity in the church and in the world today. So, I'm going to try to talk in this presentation about three different areas of how we can build unity in our ministry. First, how we can build unity in the church. Second, how we can build unity in Christianity. And the third one is how we can build unity in the world. But before to go into those details, let me share a little bit about my personal testimony in the contents of unity, because probably when I'm going to enter to the presentation, probably it can look like, you know, some kind of professional, yeah, we know how to do ministry, we know how to do these things, but I think we need to keep in mind is the power of Jesus, the transformational power of Jesus, the power of prayer, how Jesus can transform the life through us. Yesterday I mentioned a little bit how I met Jesus, and again I was baptized when I was two months old. I went all my life to the Catholic school, from kindergarten to high school, and we used to go to Mass every Sunday, and we used to pray the rosary every night. Really, my mom used to pray the rosary, because I have only one brother, you know, in the Second Mystery, my dad, my brother, and I, we were sleeping, you know, but my mom always finished the rosary. I was in a very Catholic environment, but it was a moment, four years in my life, since I was 14 years old until I was 18 years old, I didn't have a father in my life, I didn't have a dad in my life. He was alive, he was living with me, but I didn't have a father, and that was moment in my life that I feel my family was failing apart, you know, completely apart. My dad, he was a very serious mental illness. He was in a big mental depression. No, the depressions that we had, that, you know, sometime in the morning, we wake up, we say, you know, I'm so sad, I don't want to live anymore, I don't want to continue doing this ministry, but in the afternoon we are so happy, like nothing happened, you know? No, no, my dad, four years in a big depression, he lost his job, he lost his business. He was, for years, several times in mental clinics. He used to be two weeks without going out of his bedroom, without wanting to take a shower. He was several days without eating anything. I used to arrive from the university, and my dad said, hey, son, I'm dying, please, I'm dying, take me to the doctor, and I have to take him to the emergency room. The doctor said, you know, don't worry, you are okay, nothing is going to happen, and that was the solution just for three days. Three days I have to go back again to the hospital. A very difficult moment in our life. Again, I have a father in my home living with me, but I didn't have a dad. And that was a very, you know, crucial years in our lives, 14 to 18 years old. I didn't have a dad to tell, hey, what is happening in my life, what is happening in my body, what is happening with the attraction that I love this girl, what's happening in the school, nothing. My family was failing a part, completely. I admired my mom, because my brother at that time, he was only seven years old, and my mom said to both of us, no, you continue studying, I'm gonna take care of my home. I admired my mom, how she, I don't know how she was doing to support the family, I just started to find the solution for the illness of my dad, and we went to several places. My mom was looking in several things, nothing was the solution, and one day the parents of a classmate of my brother turned my mom, hey, Gladys, we know a priest. He prayed for the people and God healed through him. If we were Catholics and we were looking at the solution in so many places, why we cannot go to a Catholic priest? I'm never gonna forget this day. This priest used to live like one hour from Medellin, my city, and he used to come every Wednesday to pray for people, and the place where he was praying for the people was a car shop, a car shop. You know, he came because the coordinator of one of the prayer groups of the renewal, he was the owner of this body shop, you know, when they fixed cars. And he arrived, I was at that moment again, 18 years old, my dad went to an office, I stayed in the car, listened to music because, yeah, I sold for my dad, but I was living the war at that moment. I saw that the priest, you know, speak with my dad probably for 30 minutes. After that, he lay enhancing on him. My dad came out, he went to the car, I said, Dad, how are you feeling? And he told me, no son, I feel the same. I told, you know, this priest doesn't have the power neither, you know, to heal my dad. Three days later, I was having breakfast to go to class to the university. My dad came out of his room with a briefcase, you know, very, you know, dressed up. He sit down in the table with me and say, Dad, where are you going? And he told me, hey, son, I'm going to my job. I didn't say anything, but interior I was, I don't know where he's going, you know. He lost his job four years ago. He lost all his business. But tell me, let me tell you, my brothers, since that day, the life of my dad changed completely. I don't know where he went that day. But since that moment, my dad is the most happy man in the world. And again, you know, that was not just the healing of my dad. Not just, yeah, give claps to Jesus, because he was not a priest. He was Jesus doing this. It was not just the healing of my dad, you know. It was, again, the unity in our family. My brother, okay, he was only at that moment, probably 11 years old. I was, that was the moment for me to come to God, to come back to a prayer group. And I say this to Simone, because probably when we enter into the presentation, it's going to be like very practical. But we need to train through our prayer, through our intercession, to you, my brother priest, Jesus can bring unity to so many families that are destroyed today. So many families that they don't have unity. And I'm not talking just about separation and divorce. We know that big reality in this country. But I'm talking about families that they are living together, but really they don't live in unity. They don't live in unity between then, they don't live in unity between then and Jesus. Let me tell you something, my dad, he lives now in Miami and he loves to fish, you know. He loves to go fishing. Every time that he knows that I'm going to go to Miami, he prepares the fishing like three months in advance. He told me, I know the best place. I know by the base, you know, cane, you know, everything, he prepares everything. For me to go fishing with my dad is like to be in heaven. Because my dad is a living gospel. My dad is a living gospel because I sold my dad dead for four years. And now I see that he's alive by the power of Jesus. And I go to fish with my dad, you know, and we sit down, you know, in the ocean in Florida. We sit down for two hours and he told me that I cannot speak, you know, because I'm going to scare the fish. We are sit down two hours without speaking anything. But you know, just seeing my dad, he's a living gospel. He's the power of Jesus to bring in unity. Let me tell you a secret here between 200 of us. I have been fishing with my dad probably, I don't know, for 35 years, 35 years. And let me tell you, we have never caught anything, never, never. But for me, you know, for me, being with my dad is that sense of the presence of God, because I ensure God brings unity to my family, God brings unity to my life. Because I want that we keep, you know, beside our mind. Yeah, we need to do these practical things, but I think it's going to be the power of Jesus. It's going to be the power of the Holy Spirit, who is going to bring unity in our families and in our communities. I want to read a couple of verses in Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2, verse 42. I ensure you are very familiar with these passages, speaking about the first Christian community. Because I think we always need to go back. Hey, how was the first Christian communities? How are their testimony? How they were living? And I think we need to reflect that, not just in our church, but in the world today. Acts 2, 42. They devote themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers. All came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common. I'm going to move to Boyer's 46. They ate their meals with exultation and sincerity of heart, praising God and enjoying favor with all the people. And every day, the Lord added to their number, those who were being saved. It's very interesting because Jesus in the Gospel also said, they are not recognized that you are my disciples. He didn't say because all the extraordinary gifts that you have, they are going to recognize that you are my disciples if you love one another. And I think the people, they were, oh wow, what an awesome community. We want to be part of this community, not just for the signs and wonders that they were doing, but for the communal love, for the fraternal love. Let me tell you about one thing how we can bring unity in our church today. You and you priests, you know, especially I speak from the Latino community, but also for the church in general, you know, people really see you as these agents of unity in our communities, of unity in our communities. I speak in again, I preach into the choir, but you know sometimes the division that we live in our partishes, in our diocese, in our communities. You know, some, it's still what some people say, I am from Peter, I am from Paul, and I'm from Apollo. That happened still today, you know. I follow this priest, I follow the beaker, I prefer this order, and we are only from Jesus. We belong to Jesus. I think we can be instruments of unity in our communities when we help the people to find their place in the community, to find their place in the church, that everyone can have a sense, not just of belonging to the church, but they can have a sense of ownership in the church. So many people go to the Sunday Mass, okay, not so many people, but some people go to the Sunday Mass, you know, and that is just, you know, I have to fulfill my day of obligation, they told me that I have to go, but really know a deep sense of ownership and being sense of belonging to our church. And so many people probably are in our pews, that they are waiting for us to embolden in the service of the church. We have all this division about, for example, between the movements, you know, I'm part of this movement, I'm part of this movement, like this, like this, and we forget to build the community together. When I was living in Sacramento, California a few years ago, I used to go to the Sunday Mass to a party. What was known by parties, you know, and by the way, I think the concept of party's boundaries is disappearing here in the U.S. With the new generation, with the new ethnic groups, people, they are gonna go wherever they want, wherever they feel welcome, wherever they have a sense of belonging. You know, before, this is my party, I have to go here, no anymore. People, they can drive 20 miles if they go to a place where they feel welcome, where they have a sense of belonging. As I used to go to these parties, it was like 30 minutes from my home, but the pastor and the vicar, they were from Colombia, really good friends of mine. I used to go to the Sunday Mass there, and after the Mass, you know, we used to go to have lunch, you know, to spend Sunday together. But at that Mass, when the Mass finished, I was completely stressed out, completely, you know. And the reason was that at that Mass, it was a man that he used to do everything. When I say he used to do everything, it's everything, and was not a priest, okay? It was a man that in the Mass he used to do everything. Let me tell you, hey, Andres, what do you mean? You know, the Mass was going to begin, and he was the one who needs to enter with the cross, you know, in the procession. Before that, he said, okay, we are going to sing the song since 124, and he began to sing with the worst boys in the world, but he has to sing, you know. After that, he was doing the readings. After that, he was going the collection. After that, he was the altar server. He was the extraordinary minister of Eucharist. He was making the announcement, and I'm not joking, he used to do everything. You know, when that Mass finished Sunday, I was completely tired, you know, completely stressed out to see these men doing everything. I thought I was very picky, you know, because I was serving in the church, but as one of my friends, hey, do you like the Mass here? And they told me, yes, Andres, we love it, but have you seen that man rolling all over, you know, the church during the Mass? Say yes. You know, the Holy Spirit sometimes speaks in a very crazy ways, crazy ways. Hey, by the way, don't try this, okay? I don't want to tell this testimony, but don't try this in your parties, please, okay? But sometimes he speaks in very crazy ways. I arrived one Sunday to the Mass. I entered to the sacristy to say hi to my friend, you know, the priest. He was getting ready to celebrate the Mass, and in the sacristy was this man there, and he was running in the sacristy, you know, organizing what's on, I'm going to sing, putting together everything. That day, my friend, he's a really good priest, but a really, really strong character. He was completely, you know, tired of what was happening in the sacristy. He took his best man, you know, he was already dressed up. He took his best man, he put the best man in a table and told him, you know, if you want, you can celebrate also the Mass. You know, I went back to the back door, you know, I see you late. The Holy Spirit sometimes speaks in crazy ways. Please don't try in your parties, okay? But that was the solution. That was the solution. That week, this man, he went to the Jude grove in the parties, and he said, you know, we need, you know, Eucharistic ministers, the priests open to send Jude men and women to prepare in the diocese and son of the, you know, Jude, you know, in their 15, 16, 18 years old, they went to prepare to be extraordinary ministers of Eucharist. He went to the religious education class and he told the sister, hey, sister, can we train some of your children to be altar servers? And they trained some of the children to be altar servers. He went to the Marriott's encounter group. There was a beautiful couple of really good singers, and he told them, hey, please, are you able to sing the Sunday Mass? They say, sure, we have been waiting 10 years for this opportunity, you know. Okay, to be sure this testimony, that Mass after that was a beautiful liturgy. You see the children being altar servers, the Jude for the group being, you know, giving the Eucharist this beautiful couple singing the Mass, you know, everyone has a place in that church. Everyone has their role. Everyone has something to bring to that church that brings unity only the body of Christ. Let me tell you, that party was in one of the most poorest areas of Sacramento, California. Outside that party during the nine was all sale of drugs, prostitution, everything. But that parties became the most active church in the diocese of Sacramento. People used to walk to dry 45 minutes, one hour to go to Mass to that parties, because everyone find a place. Everyone feel part of the body of Christ. Everyone has a role to set in the church. My brother, please, it's not an easy job. And I know saying that I have the magic formula. But I think one of the ways that we can hail our communities, our parties, to build unity is to help people recognize what are their gifts, what are the caressants that the Lord is giving to them, and not just to recognize what they have, but how they can use it in the church, how they can be part of our parties, how they can be part of the community. And that way they are not just going to go to the Sunday mass. They are going to have a sense of belonging, of ownership to be part of our community. I'm sure the Lord is giving gifts to the people in our parties. I'm sure the Lord is giving different caressants, ordinary and extraordinary to set in the church. But so many times, we have several people sit down in the pews, and we are not giving them the opportunity to set. Or probably we have these Paul Francis called them like dictators, these people that you can never remove. I have been there all year for 80 years, nobody's going to remove him. And sometimes this division, the new generation that they want to share the new people in the community. But on the other side, we have these dictators that they are the only ones who can do the job, that they are the only one who can say who are part of the church, who are part of the community. Other times, we struggle, we struggle to find people with the gifts, with the caressants to set in the church. But ensuring we ask God, if we believe in the power of God, He's going to give people the gifts, the caressants that they need to set in the church. Let me tell you another testimony and we move to another part of the presentation. Used to belong to a Jude prayer group a few years ago. And you know, the Jude groups, they move very fast. What I mean by this, you know, they are very dynamic, they move because some of the members of the group, they got married, probably they moved to live in another city. You know, here in the U.S., when, you know, and you know this, when people get away from high school, they want to go to the university as far as possible of their homes, you know. In Colombia, I never thought to go to a university in another city. I thought to be in my city, but by here, you know, as far as possible, they moved to go to the university. I used to go to this prayer group and it was a beautiful music ministry, beautiful, amazing. But in a period of six months, the music ministry disappeared. And it disappeared, no, because they went apart of the church. No, no, no, because one got married, the other went to the university and the music ministry disappeared. Talking this in the sense of community, we began to bring music ministry from other parishes. Nothing wrong with that. It was fine. One Monday, we bring one music ministry from one party, the other Monday from another. And it was, it was nice. It was okay. But we were losing the sense of community. We were losing the sense, okay, how we can ministry, how we can pray together. Not just somebody came to minister to us, but how we can ministry together. Amen. He was in his early 20s. When he saw that the music ministry disappeared, he started to ask God for the gift of music and to prepare to sing. One day he came to our prayer group and he said, hey, I have been six months praying to God that he can give me the gift of music. And not just that. Six months ago, when the music ministry disappeared, I bought a guitar. You know, I bought some CDs. I bought some books. And when I arrived home after my job, every day from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m., I have been practicing. Could you give me the opportunity to sing in the next prayer group? Sometimes we are like the sanedrin, you know, the sanedrin in the gospel, you know, the Pharisee, all this group. So we say, no, no, no, no. You are only 20 years old. How you're going to sing? You know, you don't receive the sacrament of confirmation yet, because he was converted for the Pentecostal church. You know, we know that your life is not like the best life. No, no, no. Then we start to do these judgments, that we convoke to an extraordinary meeting, you know, to decide if we allow these men to sing in the prayer group or not. We start with all these judgments about him. But one man, the youngest man of the ministry team of the prayer group, he says something very simple, but with the discernment of the Holy Spirit. He says something. Why we don't allow him to sing next Monday? We are not going to lose anything. If he sings well, praise be to God. You know, we have now a music minister in our community. If not, we say thank you so much and we don't allow him to sing anymore in the group. We call him, we say, okay, you can sing next Monday. He arrived, he brings on speakers, he brings his guitar. Let me tell you something. He was not the best singer. He was not the best musician, but that has been one of the most anointed prayer group that I have been. Because in that moment, he was not the best musician, he was not the best singer, but he was anointed by the Holy Spirit. When he was singing, when he was praising worship, you know, all these Jews in this group, really they were having an encounter with Jesus. Really, they were going to intimacy with the Lord. Now he has recorded, I don't know how many cities and he's going around the U.S., you know, praising and worshiping several conferences. Because when the Lord knows that we need somebody to bring unity to setting the partitions, we need to pray, and I'm sure the Lord is going to provide, the Lord is going to give the gift of charisma that we need. I'm just going to mention this, you know, you're very familiar, the body of Christ, everyone, we have a part in the church. Let me tell you about this reality of unity in a multicultural church. We are in a very multicultural church here in the U.S. Here, where I see, I see brothers from Africa, brothers from Philippines, brothers from Latin America. We are living in a very multicultural church. How we can build unity in our church here in the U.S. today. You know, these national parties, they is not a model anymore. You are very familiar with the history, you know, they arrived in Italy and we built this church. The Irish will need to be a bigger church, you know, and we have all these competencies who built the tallest church in the U.S. And we are just Italian and the community of the Italian, the community of the of the Irish, the community of the Polish, and nothing wrong with that, you know. But it's not anymore the reality here in the U.S. about the national church. Now it's the reality about the challenge that we have with the shortage of priests, of vocations, less churches every time, less parishes, and we have to ministry together. I told that this kind of second-class Catholics were just some decades ago. I'm not going to mention the place, but probably a couple of years ago, they invited me to give a conference in X diocese of the U.S. And when I arrived, you know, the Latinos told me that they are not allowed to use the church. They have to celebrate the Sunday Mass in the basement. They need to have all the teens in the basement. They asked, why they have masses all day in the open church? I said, no, they have only one mass in English, but the priest told us, you cannot use that. That is for the English speaking, you need to use the basement. I told that last, you know, four decades ago. That is happening still today in some places around this country. And on the other hand, let me tell you, because I want to see both sides, you know. In my diocese, now every time more, more, more and more Latino priests have become impastors. And sometimes it's the other side. And now I'm the Latino pastor, I suffer. Okay, now everything for the Latinos and the others, no, no, because we are doing that challenge. You know, we are only one church. Still, I don't understand. We have, you know, yeah, I am the beaker for the English speaking. I am the beaker for the Spanish speaking. I am the pastor, I serve the English speaking. I have the Latino beaker serving the Latino parishioners. No, we are only one church. We are only one party. We are only one community. We are no parallel churches. I know in the practical teens to do ministry, yeah, because somebody speaks, I don't know, Tagalog, Indy, Spanish. Yeah, okay, they need to share that community in the language. But we are responsible for all the people in our community. How we can build unity in our multicultural church. Let me show you some numbers. I'm not going to go into detail. Yesterday when I was doing the workshop for the seminarians, we went into detailing these numbers. But I just want to get a sense about the multicultural church and how we can bring unity. Because we are not Latinos, Irish, Filipinos. We are Christians. We are Catholics. We are only one family. Let me show you these more recent numbers. And let me move this. I don't know if you can see. This, I received this just two weeks ago when I was in the assembly of the beaches of the United States. We had the meeting in Fort Lauderdale two weeks ago. And in the meeting, they give us these numbers. If you see, okay, the total population of the country, this is the percentage of change from 2000 to 2016. You know, you see how it has been growing, especially the Latino population. But you can see the Black, African American, Asian, Native, others. I'm not going to go into detailing those numbers. I'm just going to show you that is the Catholic Church in this country. You can see Estimei Catholics in 2016. And you can see how many of them, they are migrants, you know, not just Latinos, but in general. I think you know this number. In the last seven decades, the Catholic Church in the U.S. has been growing. You know that in the last seven decades, the Catholic Church in the U.S. has been growing. Let's be sincere. It's not because we are the best evangelizer. It's not because we are the best evangelizer bringing people into our churches. It has been growing due to immigration, due to immigration. Especially, you know, we Latinos, we want to have big families, you know, three children, four children, five children, especially like me, that we want to have two at the same time, you know. We have to have twins at the same time. We grow very fast. But this is the reality of the church. Let me tell you something, and I came into a practical team. This image I ensured, and don't worry if you can read well, I just came last week from the Emirates. I was invited to be the speaker with my wife of the Pentecost Rally in Abu Dhabi. It was the Pentecost Catholic Feast for all the vicariers of the south of the Persian Gulf, Oman, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates. You know, a beautiful experience. A beautiful experience to live a multicultural church. 80% of the population in the Emirates are migrants. 80%. Only 20% are locals. You go to the Catholic church there, and we are talking about a Muslim country, so you can have churches wherever you want. You have churches only when the government tell you you can have a Catholic church here. But the very interesting thing, they are this big complex of churches, because they say that these 10 blocks are going to be for the Christian churches. You have the Catholic, a Pentecostal, a Lutheran, a Grigor to those, everyone together. They share the parking lot. They share some of the facilities. You know, a beautiful sense of Christianity. A beautiful sense of unity. A beautiful sense of connection with the government. You see that bell there? That was a donation to St. Mary's Church in Dubai for the check, for the president of the Emirates. They say that the Dubai parties, St. Mary's, is the largest parties in the world. The largest parties in the world. They have, I cannot count here, but they have approximately, okay, by the way, the day of obligation there is Friday, no Sunday, because Friday is the holiday in the country. Sunday is a regular day. So the Sunday masses are Friday masses. And they have, on Friday, they had probably in these parties 20 masses packed in 15, 15 different languages, different languages. You go to that, and that is beautiful to see the multiculturality of the church. You see people from Africa, Philippines, India, Latinos, a beautiful, everyone live together. Everyone share everything. This is no problem. It's, I have to use this space, this space. We just want to praise God. We just want to worship God. This is unity between the different Catholic, Catholic rise. In the same church, you have the Mero Nair Rai, the Melchai Rai, the Syrian Malabarra, and no problem with that. Everyone lives together. I think when I came from there, I say, oh my God, we need to learn so many things about how to live in unity here in our church, because probably here most of us, we speak the same language. Doesn't matter if we are from different ethnic groups, a great percent and speak the same language. My brother priests, my brother priests, how we are bringing unity in the multicultural church in this country. We need to be instruments that everyone feel welcome, that everyone feel at home, that everyone have a part in the church. Let me tell you one small testimony, and I move to the other part of the presentation. My dad is six years old. We usually go to mass in English, because the parties where I belong, they don't have mass in Spanish. Sometimes I have to be traveling in other parishes on Sunday to visit some of the Hispanic ministry parishes. But if we are in our home, we go to mass, you know, English mass six p.m. on Sunday. One day, my daughter told me, one of my daughters said, hey, daddy, when are we gonna go to mass in the White Church? In the White Church. I didn't have any idea what she was talking about, you know. I know the White House, but the White Church, you know. Hey, daddy, when we are gonna go to mass to the White Church? I say, hey, what are you talking about? Is the White Church? Yeah, the White Church. When she started to speak, at that moment, she was three years old. Three years old. And I figured out that, yeah, my party is white, you know. It's white outside and inside. I just said, hey, sweetie, you know that sometimes we need to go to mass in other churches because of my job, but yeah, we are gonna go, you know, next week to the White Church. I just said, why do you want to go to mass to the White Church? And see, answer this, hey, daddy, because I miss George. I miss George. George, what the hell? Who is George, you know? Maybe you're gonna say, I miss Jesus. I miss the fire. I miss George. Who is George? Trying to figure out, George is this who shared. At that moment, my daughter, they didn't speak English because at home we speak Spanish. Now they speak more English than Spanish because in the school they speak English, but we want them to be bilingual. At that moment, three years old, she didn't speak any English, just Spanish. Who was George? George was a man. I'll share that he is always in the door of the church. Welcome, everyone. And since my daughters, they were babies, every time that we arrived, George took them in his hands, you know, give a kiss to them, say, I love you. Doesn't matter if they didn't speak any English. My daughter, three years old, she didn't understand who is Jesus, what is the eukary, she didn't understand anything about that. But she was missing the church because she was missing the love of George. She felt welcome in that place. She was feeling at home in the white church. My brother, priest, my brother, decline, my brother, seminarians, sometimes we don't need to speak the language. We don't need to know all the reality about the whole church. We need to have just a ministry of presence. Hey, the priest is mine to me and they are heaven for them, you know. The priest say hi to me and that is just enough for different cultures to feel part of the community, to feel part of the church, how we can build unity within our church, how we can build unity in a very multicultural church. I talked about a community. Let me mention, I already mentioned something about ecumenism. But you know, Paul Francis is very powerful in ecumenism, especially for the charismatic renewal. He thinks that we charismatic are the solution for the unity of Christians in the church. Every time that we have a meeting with Paul and I know, you know, Father, they can testify this, he has speak about a spiritual ecumenism. Sometimes he says it's an scandal, the division that we have still within Christians. Here in the U.S., we are more used to the ecumenism. You know, I went to a ecumenical university, I was with the Franciscan School of Theology, but was the Graduate Theological Union, you know, people from different denominations and no problem about that. But sometimes we are still distanced here. And let me tell you something, okay, you know, we believe in the Catholic Church. I believe in the Catholic Church. I believe in the gift that we have in the Catholic Church. But sometimes we fight too much between Christians when we are missing so many people outside to have a personal encounter with Jesus. How we can show the face of Jesus to the world. Let me tell you two things that Paul Francis said that for me has been very powerful about how we can be unity within Christians. And when he speaks about the spiritual ecumenism, it's how we can pray together. You know, how we can evangelize together. Sometimes we have just this theological discussion, you know, with the orthodox, we fight because of how they feel awkward. The father and the son, the son proceeds from the father, the Holy Spirit proceeds from both. Who understand that? Nobody of us understand that. And we are divided for centuries for one theological concept that nobody understand and nobody take care about that. And people are there in drugs, in sin, missing the presence of Jesus because we are fighting the Holy Spirit from whom proceeds and not bringing the presence of Jesus to others. Paul Francis said it's a scandal that the orthodox celebrate Easter in one day and we Catholics and the other Christians in other date. He shared a couple of testimonies. He said it was a priest that he was in charge to do the process of canonization of a priest that he died during the holocaust. The Nazis killed him and they killed him because he was teaching religious education. And they killed him and this priest that was in charge of the process of canonization when he was going, you know, to the archives to see what happened. Thank you for that. When he saw what was happening, he was reading something that this priest was killed and his blood, you know, was in the floor of the room where he was killed. And he continued reading the archives and he read that five minutes later, if he was killed and five minutes later, they killed a Lutheran pastor and they killed a Lutheran pastor for the same reason because he was teaching religious education to the children. This priest said my image was the blood of this Catholic priest in the floor and five minutes later the blood of this Lutheran pastor in the floor. He said the blood mix was the blood of the Catholic priest and the Lutheran pastor that mix because they were just proclaiming Jesus. They were just bringing the presence of Jesus. This priest said I will continue investigating this process if you canonize both, if you canonize both because both were bringing the presence of Jesus. Paul Francis several times say, you know, remember this, a Coptic orthodox that they will kill, you know, in the Middle East. Paul Francis always say, they are not asking, are you Catholic? Are you Lutheran? Are you Presbyteran? Are you Pentecostal? No. Are you Christian? Yes, I'm Christian and they kill you. My brothers, what we are doing to build unity, unity within Christians today. We need to bring the presence of Jesus and again, I at least have the hope that here in the US we are building more that unity. I already told about the interrelious dialogue mission, but let me tell you and I finish with this how to be building unity in the world today. I could bring another image about immigration, separation of families today. Yesterday I could have lived a little better because I don't know what Trump signed but he signed something, at least some hope. But I have been a couple of days without sleeping because you have seen these images of children being separate from their parents. These images when people arriving, they took the children, they put, yeah, at the detention center, yeah, because they don't want to call a jail and you see all these children crying, weeping, two years old, three years old. I have father, two daughters, six years old. I can't no imagine. I just read an article two days ago, a man, a permanent resident, they took him and they separate from his daughter. Separation of families, broken this unity. I'm not going to be here about politics, okay? I'm talking here about Christianity. One of the things that we can build unity is when we are embolling social justice. It's when we are putting our voice for our brothers and sisters that they don't have a voice. It's when we don't care what religion we are but we know that we want the families to be together, to be in unity. That picture there is, I was in Egypt a couple of years ago with Catholic Relief Services. We went to see and those children, they are from Sudan and South Sudan. You know that Sudan and South Sudan, they are fighting, you know, they cannot see one another. This Catholic school, they are children from both countries, parents from both countries and they live together. They live together in love. One of the things that we can bring unity in the world today is how we can go to the marginalized, how we can go to those people in the perispheres, how we can bring unity, hope that they can stay together. Let me finish with this testimony about bringing unity in the world, about social justice and charity. This same trip to Egypt. We visit the combing of the religious sister founded for Mother Teresa of Calcutta. There were seven religious sisters there from the US, Europe. This place was a nursing home. They were people with a lot of physical illness, physical disabilities. We enter, they have a beautiful church there, you know, I have the image of the church, yeah, the image of the church there, a beautiful church, no seats, you know, a beautiful chapel just to be with Jesus. They were only at that moment four religious sisters in Dankovenin and we asked them, where are the other three religious sisters? They told us they are in the city of the dead, the city of the dead. What is the city of the dead? El Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, is around about 20 millions, the population 20 million. But in the city of El Cairo, there is a cemetery that they estimate they are 2 million, 2 million tombs in that cemetery, 2 million mausoleums, you know, small, like little homes, you know, they are the tombs. That is the city of the dead. But they call that the city of the dead? No, because it's a cemetery. It's called the city of the dead because they estimate that thousands, some people say probably one million of people live, live in that cemetery. People from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Syria, they are right to El Cairo. They don't know anybody. The father, the mother with a couple of children, they go to the cemetery, they see this tomb, oh yeah, we can't live there, and they live there. The city of the dead, hundreds of thousands of people live in the cemetery. Where are the other sisters? Oh yeah, they were praying with us this morning and now they are in the city of the dead. What they are doing in the city of the dead? You know, during the day, the men, the women go to the city to ask for some money or to find a job for one day to get some money to buy some food for their children. Meanwhile, the sisters stay in the city of the dead, playing with the children, teaching the children how to read, how to sing, if they are ill, giving them some medicine, trying that they can't forget that they are living in the city of the dead. Every day, they are there bringing unity in this family, bringing hope to these children. Do you think, my brothers, that every day these sisters, they wake up and say, okay, we need to do a word of mercy today? What we are going to do today? Yeah, let's go to the city of the dead. No, the same blood of Jesus is running in their veins. The same DNA of Jesus is running in their veins because they know that a Christian, a follower of Jesus is serving the whole society, is bringing unity, is bringing hope. Hey, Andreas, how many of those children are Christians? 0.1% are Christians because the sisters say, we are doing that now because they are Christians. We are doing this because we are Christians and we are called to bring home, to bring unity in the society. My brothers, I bring this testimony from Egypt, but I can bring so many testimonies about the reality of the world that we are living today. This unity, division in the world, in the church, in Christianity. I don't have the magic answer, but I know the Holy Spirit is going to give us the hope, the power, the encourage, the discernment, the gift that we need to bring unity today. Heavenly Father, thank you because you are a father of unity. All of us, doesn't matter our culture, our religious belief, doesn't matter where we are coming from, we are sons and daughters of you, Heavenly Father. Today we ask you for the gift of the Holy Spirit, that we can be instruments, agents of unity in the church, in the world today. Jesus, that we can be one, the people, they want to be part of our churches because they see how we love one another, how we love without condition, without interest. Jesus, we ask you today that you give us the gift of the Holy Spirit, the love between you and the Father, that love that is the Holy Spirit, that He can dwell in our hearts, that He can move us, and that each of our partitions, each of our dioceses, each of our states can be a sign of the love and the peace that you can only bring. Thank you, Jesus, for your presence. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for your power. Thank you, Heavenly Father, because you are a father of unity. Amen. God bless you. Amen. Thank you, Andres.