 ministry team for the invitation to be here you know it's a great blessing I'm from Medellin Columbia you know I live in New Jersey but I'm from Medellin Columbia and I think the next hour and probably tomorrow you are gonna be used to an English Latin American accent okay you know that is very important because we are in a very multicultural church here in the United States I was so happy to see one of my brother from Columbia Priests he are present and I know is the reality most of your diocese to have this very multicultural reality in the church they asked me to to share with you this afternoon this presentation about knowing and sharing Jesus I have some poor pointed lies probably I'm gonna go over some of them the other I just gonna pass pass them but the idea about this presentation is that we can't talk about unity between a catechism and evangelization you know so many times we put catechism in one side and evangelization in the other side I did director of evangelization for the diocese of candin and very often I receive calls about what we need to do for evangelization what programs do you have about evangelization but really we know evangelization is not about the program evangelization is not about an office evangelization is the role of all of us as Christians just I know what I'm gonna be doing like you know a la formation about catechesis and evangelization but one that we keep in mind during this toll this afternoon how we can bring those things together not just to think about catechesis in one side and evangelization in the other side but how we can be authentic evangelizers I just gonna be showing to you just a couple of slides about evangelization and I'm gonna move to a process about the the unity of evangelization and catechesis when I arrived in candin in 2009 my former bishop is Bishop Joseph Galante I came to the diocese as the director of Ion Adola and campus ministries but I was in my office like three months later after I arrived to New Jersey I didn't know anything about New Jersey by the way you know and I don't know New York I have never been in New York okay you know and I arrived to the diocese to know the reality I was there like three months and one day Bishop Galante called me to my office I say hey Andres can you come to my office and I say yeah sure when I arrived to his office he has my resume in his hands and he say Andres I'm doing some changes here in the in the pastoral center in the diocesan offices and I was reading your resume and I have seen your experience working with the charismatic renewal you know I has I see that you have been involved with the renewal for so many years and I doing some changes I just want to ask you if you can be the director of evangelization let me tell you something while I telling you this to be sincere with you I was not doing anything in the diocese I was just trying to figure out the culture of New Jersey the reality of the different parties I was not the best evangelizer they were only three months I was just learning but my bishop has in his mind that charismatic renewal is connected with evangelization and I think that is a really good team however I think it's not just the role of the charismatic renewal is not just the role of the ecclesial movements here in the church I think it's the role of all of us and in the first meeting that I had with him he told me very you know something very powerful I don't know you know too much about the reality in Latin America but let me tell you a couple of things about the faith formation in Latin America and I know saying that is better than that here or that is better here than there but for example if in Colombia let's put the example you are gonna do the first communion you just go to catechesis for a couple of months and that's it after that you get the first communion you are gonna receive the sacrament of confirmation you just prepare for a couple of months and after that you receive the sacrament of confirmation if you want to get married in the church you just go you call the priest say father we want to get married you have a couple of conversation with the priest and he said okay when do you want to get married so it's very interesting reality it's not like the faith formation that we have here you know we have our children two years to prepare for first communion probably another three years to prepare for confirmation if you want to get married the church you call the secretary answer the phone and the first question is are you registering the parties and the other person in the other side of the phone it doesn't have an idea what it means to get registered in the church but they are gonna tell you okay you have to get registered in the church and after six months we can talk about to get married let me tell you something I have several friends my friends that have been getting married in the last three years they have no beating getting married in the church no because they don't want it but because we put all these regulations they went to go to get married in the ocean they ask a friend to get married I have a lot of friends that they have been getting married in Protestant churches basically because they didn't feel a place you know in the Catholic church I'm not saying that is wrong about the regulation no no no but it in the conversation could be different you know answer the phone hey we are so happy that you are gonna get married when do you have time to call to speak with the priest and okay when they feel welcome we can talk about the other things but my beach of say something very interesting I say Andres we team because we have all our children here in our classrooms in faith formation in religious education we think that we are doing a really good job but the reality is that after they receive the sacrament of confirmation they disappear from the church they think that is the graduation and sometimes we think hey don't worry you know don't worry they are gonna come back when they are gonna get married yeah now they are getting married in their 40s 50s you know we have a this big gap of how to bring the presence of Jesus to so many people my beach so I remember this war he say Andres we don't need to bring just information to our children we need to bring a personal transformation a personal encounter with Jesus I think in my opinion it's a blessing that we have our children so many GRs in our religious education programs but what we are doing really to bring them into a personal encounter with Jesus I don't know my brother priest but around late August I get very nervous very afraid about the party's announcements at the end of the month because one of the announcements late August is something like this the religious education program is gonna begin in a couple of weeks and we don't have enough you know catechesis to teach we don't have enough people to be involved we are still are missing who is gonna teach the seven great catechesis if you want to volunteer please go in the back and you can register and I know we have really good people in our parishes we have really good volunteers we have really nice people that they are gonna go back and they are gonna register because we are feel so sorry for the pastor I feel so sorry for the religious education it's easy for me to get a book and read I gonna learn the prayers I can teach the children but the reality is if they don't have their own personal encounter with Jesus is they don't have a personal relationship with Jesus we are just gonna give in information to our community information to our children it's no easy to be to catechize it's no easy to be a teacher in the religious education program let me tell you a couple of example about my daughters and we go inside all these process about evangelization as father they say I'm the father of twin daughters yeah right now at this time one of my daughters she's been Moana you know singing a song to the whole school and my other daughter is watching her because it's a blessing they are six years old but one of my daughter she has special needs she doesn't speak she just learned to wall a couple of years ago this I have twin daughters but they are different age but let me tell you a couple of example how difficult is to be a teacher of religious education because I can speak in this conference but sometime my challenge is with my children a couple of months ago we were doing one of the home wars from the school they go to a catholic school and she showed me a picture of the holy family and see a she told me a dad we were learning today about Mary Joseph and Jesus so okay nice and what did you learn say hey daddy really I don't understand because you told me that God you know is the father of Jesus but in the school they told me that Joseph is the father of Jesus you know I don't understand daddy how is that possible and we went to a long conversation and at the end she said daddy I don't understand but it's okay just continue with the home war you know they are reality with this okay wow I think I lost my master in theology when I started but the second one you know she came home one day and she told me hey dad you know that Jesus has a pet I said Jesus has a pet I never see Jesus with a pet what kind of pet a dog a cat tell me no no daddy have you seen the the photo of Jesus you know he's always with a pet he has a really cool pet I said what are you talking about Giovanna and she told from her backpack a picture of the holy trinity you know so me daddy look the father Jesus and a really cool pet you know he's a bear that is always with Jesus I was thinking that I was an expert about the Holy Spirit but you know I didn't know how to explain to my dad we have a nice conversation and again at the end she said hey daddy I don't get it but let's just pray and we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit what I'm telling you this because we have a real challenge in front of us it's not just to bring concepts because sometimes we think because the children they learn how to pray they learn the concept about the holy trinity they learn about Jesus you know truly God and truly men but really we are bringing them not too much to know about this concept but to really being into a personal relationship with the Lord I think it's very easy to measure if we are being successful in our caracases and in our evangelization how many of the kids that receive the sacrament of confirmation are staying in our parishes are coming to our Sunday masses are coming to son of our programs that we have a really challenge in front of us but everything is gonna make sense everything is gonna get fruits it's about how we are living our personal relationship with Jesus how we are having a personal encounter with Jesus every day let me move and again I will show just some son of lies that I'm not gonna concentrate in then you know you are very familiar with the evangelicals is say the mission of the church is to evangelize in other words if I translate this into a Colombian language he's saying if we are no evangelizing is no reason to have a church if we are no evangelizing is no reasons to have a church in my diocese when I arrived nine years ago we were in a process of mergers we were 128 parishes and when I arrived we ended only with 62 parishes it was a very painful process and my digital he was very pastoral you know bringing parishes together he didn't close any parties he brings them together but was no easy but I remember one party is when we were in the whole process they told my bitch what are you gonna merge our parties we are doing good economically we have enough priests to serve the community you know we are doing fine what you are gonna merge us with that other neighbor parties and the bishop told them two things the first thing that is a poor party's they don't have the financial resources and I think as a sister parties will be your Christian responsibility to help them you know to continue their mission and the second question which of us then how many people you have in the Sunday mass they say hey we used to be like probably five hundred in the Sunday mass but in the last year we are down to 40 people every Sunday mass you know what was the answer of my bitch you know that is no a party that is a social club and yeah you have the money you have the priest but you are no evangelizing you know you need to go out not just to be here with the nice 40 people that we have but what we are doing to going out if we are no evangelizing is no reason to have a church I'm not saying that you know it's Paul the six Paul Francis you know you know this guy here I can't I can't get another picture but I like this one you know I think was time magazine or one of these secular magazines that they put this cartoon of Paul Francis basically when we read Evangelical Dion he speaks about evangelization as a lifestyle as a lifestyle and later I'm gonna mention some quotes about this let me move forward and let me be here I'm sure you are familiar with this process in so many places we use this process to talk about evangelization but I want to make the connection today about the unity of evangelization and caricices Paul Francis in Evangelical Dion he said something like this we have spent too much time talking about the church and not talking about Jesus we have spent so much time talking about the Pope and not talking about the war of God our role our mission is not to bring people into our churches our mission is to bring people into a personal relationship with Jesus that means that the center of any of our ministries especially you as priests decon seminarians is to bring people into a personal encounter with Jesus that Jesus is the center Father Joe was mentioning in the mass you know sometimes we fight what mass is better but you know it's only about Jesus is not what church is growing faster it's not what parties has more money our role our mission is to bring people to accept Jesus as the Lord and Savior and I'm gonna spend a few time in each of these process here because first we need to discover Jesus and bring people to discover Jesus second we need to follow Jesus and it's not a follow just 20 years ago 40 years ago how we are following Jesus right now and there we need to chair Jesus and let me get a little bit about this the first one I call discover Jesus in other words to have a personal encounter with Jesus let me tell you a personal testimony here how you hear about the fifth Encuentro the fifth encounter anyone has heard about the fifth Encuentro okay this is really an evangelization process that the USCCV the Catholic Beaches of the US are doing with the Latino community particularly but with the whole church we are gonna have the national Encuentro in September in the diocese of forward Texas but has been a process of probably like three years ago as Father they mentioned I said as a consultant for the USCCV the subcommittee on Hispanic Affairs and a couple of years ago I received a phone call and I say Andres are you able to go to the Vatican because we are gonna have some meetings in different decasteries with different cardinals to chair there about the fifth Encuentro process because we went to Rome and you know I go often for meetings in Rome but this one was very very special we were one week and we stay in Santa Marta house you know the place where Paul Francis lives probably some of you have been there and we stayed there for a whole week but really when they told me I say I told you know Paul Francis is gonna be over there and we are gonna be here in the other rooms but really was a very special week because was one week living with Paul Francis you know we were having dinner in the same dining room he was taking the same elevator you know was very a very humble man you know he was doing the line to get his food nobody's serving him by the way he was getting in line to get his food he stand up and being like in the microwave to hit his food you know it's unbelievable but of course they are some regulations you cannot talk with the Pope every time that you see him don't ask the Pope for a selfie okay you know they are several regulations one day and I talking this testimony to talk about discover Jesus mean to have a personal encounter with Jesus one day I was coming late for a meeting we have a meeting at 3 p.m. and we were supposed to meet you know in the outside house Santa Marta and as a Latino I was running down the stairs because I was like three minutes late and when I arrived to the first floor Paul Francis was talking with the receptionist when I saw him I saw him and I saw the Swiss guard you know one of the Swiss guard was you know very near to him when he saw me he made me two signs he'd say this and after that he say this I don't know but in Colombia I don't understand what is this okay I understand they have part he said like that I just saw that you know I just thought like this when Paul Francis told around I told you know if I speak in Spanish of course I gonna get his attention more that's when he told I say hey in Spanish of course you know his holiness can I say hi to you and he said sure something very interesting he didn't wait for me to go to him he began to wall and he was coming where I was standing at that moment the Swiss guard was like red you know he didn't understand what we were talking about everything in Spanish he gave me his hand and I say his holiness I am Andres Arango I'm with the delegation of b-chops from the U.S. about the fifth encounter he's very familiar with the fifth encounter he sent a video to the U.S. CCB assembly last year you know he knows what is happening here with the fifth encounter they say I am dressed Arango with the delegation of b-chops for the fifth encounter you know they were like probably ten seconds but for me was an eternity you know what he's gonna answer to me he's gonna give me a blessing what he's gonna say you know I was thinking all these things in my mind all the people that told me hey Andres if you speak with the pole please tell these these you forget everything in that moment but I was waiting okay what he's gonna tell me you know he's joking most of the time you know he wants to be funny most of the time and he told me something that at the beginning I was very disappointed he told me it's very difficult for me to translate this into English I gonna say in Spanish for the one who speaks Spanish and after that I'm gonna try to do a translation in English don't worry it's only one phrase okay he say oh ha la se encuentren oh ha la se encuentren in English is something like I hope you have an encounter I hope you have an encounter remember I say I with the delegation of the fifth encuentro fifth encounter he say I hope you have an encounter and he walked away you know and I was very disappointed I say was hoping that he was gonna ask me about my family he was gonna give me a blessing he was gonna say good job I'm so happy to be here but he just say oh ha la se encuentren I hope you have an encounter I walk out and the first beach of that was outside was a beach arch of each of Gomez from Los Angeles from LA and he saw me with that biggest mile I say Andres what happened you are late you met with the Pope or what I say yeah I was having a conversation with the Pope and he say and what he said and he say no he just say I hope you have an encounter and I went very disappointed they took the picture no with the pole what with the arch of each of Gomez okay and we walk to our meeting but let me tell you something my brothers that wars have been in my mind and in my heart for the last couple of years because are we really having an encounter every day with Jesus because I think we are we are used to be with Jesus we are working for the church 24 hours you know you are priests decon seminary another layman working full-time for the church and we are getting used to be with Jesus and that wars are in my mind and in my heart hey Andres are you really having a personal encounter with Jesus every day or no are you really having a conversation with the Lord accepting him as your Lord giving your life to him or we are very busy in the teens of God but no having every day a personal encounter with Jesus I don't want that you raise your hands but did you have already a personal encounter with Jesus today I don't know this is a personal answer for each of us did we have already a personal encounter with Jesus today did we have a personal encounter with Jesus yesterday last week because it's not about to share Jesus it's not about to share the church it's about to have a personal encounter with the Lord and sometimes we are very busy in the teens of God but we don't have time to be with God we don't have time to encounter God and today we are here this week you know trying and I'm sure having that personal encounter with the Lord but our role is how to bring that presence of Jesus to others let me tell you another testimony about how to bring that personal encounter with Jesus to others he used to live in California I live in California probably six years as Father they mentioned I went to the University in Berkeley and I live also in Sacramento it was a parish in the city of Sacramento but they used to invite me probably like every six months to give a talk to the Jude group it was a Jude charismatic prayer group and I remember in that group was a man that you always notice his presence in that group because he was a man that he was always like saying yes to all the things that you were saying he was very you know deep in prayer but also I remember the first time that I went to that group he has his hair it was like green and was like this you know it was green to him the second time that I went his hair was orange and was to this size completely orange the first time that I made him he has a earring here the last time he has severed all his face you know but was a man that you saw him very involved in the prayer group one day you know in one of the times that I was there after I finish you know we finished the prayer group he came and he told me hey Andres can I tell you something say yeah of course tell me Andres I I don't want to come anymore to this prayer group I don't want to be here anymore and I said but why I see that you are very happy here you are very involved in the prayer you are very involved you know in the teaching say Andres since the first time that I came here the leaders of the groups they have been telling me that I cannot have the my hair green that I cannot have my hair orange that I had my natural hair that I have to remove all these things from my face I told him you know you are a holy man you are a holy man he opened his eyes I think nobody told him that before so you are a holy man and after a few seconds I told him you are a holy man because if I was you I was gonna be out of this prayer group a long time ago you know you are a holy man that you have been here for several years you are a holy man because you have this space to be here I told him you have two options I know another prayer group that they are not gonna judge you you know they are just gonna save you as you are or don't worry you are coming here to have a personal encounter with Jesus you are coming here to be with the Lord okay don't put too much attention about what they are telling you we move out of California I went to live in Florida and like three years later they invite me to a conference in the parties in that parish in Sacramento when I finished the first day a young man came to me and he said Andres you remember me and I said no I'm sorry I don't remember you please please tell me where we met before he told me Andres you remember this youth prayer group and when he began to talk he looks like the man with the green hair you know he was very similar he continued talking yeah he was the man with the orange hair I said yeah of course I remember you he told me Andres remember our last conversation at that moment I remember what was our last conversation the man dress I listen to you I said yeah you went to the other prayer group that I recommend you he told me no no no I stay in this prayer group and one day after the teaching after the preaching we were in a moment of prayer and Andres I experienced the love of God has never before I don't know what happened in that moment I have never encountered Jesus really in that moment I I felt the presence of Jesus that he's alive and at that moment my life could not continue the same and he looks completely different you know very well dressed up you know completely different I gave him a hug he told me Andres my life the external part you know was not important thing but my life was a very disorder life I was in drugs I was with different woman every week and I believed him because he was a very handsome man that all the women you know all the girls in the prayer group were looking to him say a very life in sin but since that night since that evening my life changed completely I a new person I give him a hug I say I'm so happy for you thank you for sharing that the Simone I said no Andres but it's more and I thought what more could be here you know what more could be here this conversion this transformation about a personal encounter with Jesus and he told me Andres since six months ago I'm the coordinator of June ministry in the parties in the church you know what a powerful transformation when a person have a personal encounter with Jesus we need to really when they came to our parishes when they come to our prayer groups when they come to our son they mass what we are doing not just to bring information to them not just to talk too many things about God but really that they have can have a personal encounter with Jesus you know I can be here chairing several testimonies about personal encounters but I always remember this quote from Evangelica of you tree Paul Francis a I invite all Christians everywhere at this very moment to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus or at least an openness to letting him encounter then it's very interesting he's no inviting everyone he's inviting all Christians and you think because we are Christian that means that we follow Christ that means that we have a personal encounter with Jesus but the Pope Francis say we need to renew that personal encounter every day I have a priest and I a friend that he's a priest he told me a few years ago he told me Andres I have been a priest for 33 years I have been a priest for 33 years but I met Jesus only 20 years ago I have been a priest for 33 years but I only met Jesus 20 years ago say what are you talking about father and he started to share his testimony about how you know he really have a personal encounter with Jesus before he just have information about Jesus yeah he was a seminarian he was a decon he was a priest but his ministry you know a lot of his time was just talking about Jesus but no habit a real personal encounter with the Lord the spheres how we are doing with our personal encounter with Jesus every day but it's not just about to have a personal encounter with Jesus it's how we are following Jesus how we are being disciples of Jesus let me tell something here to the connection between disciples and missionaries in 2007 I have the blessing to be in a parisita Brazil you know one of the conference of Catholic bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean they made in different places and the last meeting was in a parisita Brazil I don't know if you are familiar with a parisita but a parisita is like the Guadalupe in Brazil you know there's a kind of thing you know millions of pilgrimage goes every year to a parisita in Brazil in 2007 was the last conference and they write the document of a parisita a poor Benedict system was there you know to close the conference and in 2007 like three months after the conference and we were there to celebrate the 40 anniversary of the Catholic charismatic renewal and we were in a parisita for different reasons but one of the reasons was a we don't want that is just another document we want to see how we can bring this into our reality and I sure that you know that the main editor the main editor of the document of a parisita was Cardinal Bergoglio Cardinal Jorge Maglio Bergoglio now Paul Francis in Latin America we were very used to here since 2007 we need to be disciples and missionaries you know and there is a continental mission going in Latin America about evangelization and we were very familiar about that when Paul Francis rise the apostolic exhortation the joy of the gas spell he says something very interesting he say he's no disciples and missionaries it's like only one war we are talking about unity we are talking about unity with with caricacys and evangelization unity between disciples chief and missionaries he say no two different wars is no disciples and missionaries is missionary disciples missionary disciples how we are following Jesus and again I preaching to the choir here but how is our life as disciples and I was you know hearing Mary Healy you know this morning telling us about how we are believing you know in the power of Jesus in the power of Jesus how we are being forming as disciples and I can tell you so many things about disciple chief that I'm not gonna spend the time here because we know we need to pray we need to listen to God we need to be familiar with the world of God and I sure we do that every day but my point about disciple chief is we are allowing Jesus to really teach us how to be like him how to be like him disciple chief is not just about to know what Jesus was doing it's about what Jesus is doing today through my life through my ministry when was the last time and again I don't want to see any any hand just in our heart when was the last time that somebody told that we were Jesus when was the last time my brothers priests seminarians deacons lay people when was the last time that somebody told that I andres was Jesus that you were Jesus I know saying that we are God I sure you are understanding what I'm talking about but when was the last time that somebody told that we were Jesus because we speak like Jesus we love like Jesus we forgive like Jesus we give our life as Jesus when was the last time that knowing the chores no one we were doing the liturgy but when was the last time that probably outside somebody told hey who are you because you live in a different way you look in a different way you love in a different way we need to be not just followers of Jesus you know outside the world is tired to hear about God they hear about God every day the world today they need to see God through us they need to see God through us disciple chief it means how we allow Jesus to for us that we can bring his presence to others you have the blessing to bring the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist every day you especially you my brother please but how we are bringing the presence of Jesus not just in the Eucharist but in the society every day in the world every day we need to be missionary disciples for the reason Paul Francis said is no disciples and missionaries because to be a missionary is not just to talk about Jesus that is easy you can go to a university all of us most of us here a master in theology probably some of you have a PhD that is easy you learn things about God and you go to talk about God but the real thing is to impact the life of a person it's by the power of the Holy Spirit and we are being really disciples transformed by the power of Jesus when we are missionaries talking about Jesus people are gonna experience a transformational thing in their life and to be a disciple is not just to learn from God it's not just to learn about God it's not just to be you know in the in the feet of Jesus as Mary but when we have that encounter with Jesus automatically we are gonna be sharing with others I always put the example of a couple of teenagers they are dating from the for the first time and when they are dating for the first time they want to talk all day you know all day they want to be I don't know if they told right now probably it's was sad or you know but they want to be in communication the whole day usually when I go to some retreats or conference I ask the people one question and usually I ask them to raise their hands I know gonna ask here to raise their hands because I ensure all of you are gonna raise your hand but my question is very easy are you in love with Jesus are you in love with Jesus usually the people raise their hands you know and I ask the question again are you really in love with Jesus that every Saturday you can no sleep you know you are in your bed and you can no sleep because you are watch you are seeing you watch every five minutes because you want to wake up to go to the Sunday mass to have a personal encounter with Jesus you want to have a conversation the whole night to go into intimacy with Jesus the next day and people start to put their hands down you know because the real question and I think is for us here also the real question is no we are in love with Jesus I'm sure we are in love with Jesus because if no I was gonna be seeing my daughter to see about Moana or I was gonna be watching the soccer game you know Spain versus Iran in this moment you know I'm probably we're watching some baseball games in this moment but we are here because we love Jesus but the real question is how much we love Jesus how much we love Jesus to be a disciple of Jesus it's not just to be with Jesus it's to allow Jesus to transform our life is to allow Jesus to him into us and we can share his face his love with others let me tell you and I'm gonna end with this testimony one moment what even in the chain my life completely you know I don't have time to share my whole testimony of my life here but I was baptized when I was two months old I went to a Catholic school from kindergarten until I graduated from high school all my life had been with God but I always say I just encounter Jesus when I was 18 years old when I went to a charismatic prayer group after a miraculous healing in the life of my dad my dad was sick for four years very sick lost his job in hospital in clinics for years and a miracles healing after a priest pray for him his life was transferred I had my personal encounter with Jesus when I was 18 years old but I have a second encounter with Jesus a powerful encounter with Jesus that changed my life a few years ago at that time I was living in California and they are some of those moments that we think that we are very holy very holy you know and I say to me Andres you know because on time I Andres 40 see I have 40 see many times I was thinking that was very holy because it was a normal day in my life in the morning I was doing my master in theology you know I oh I was studying the things about God you know what are really good things in the afternoon I used to work part-time with the sister of mercy I don't know if you are familiar I'm sure you are familiar with the sister of mercy they used to have a company called Mercy housing that basically we will build in homes for poor people in the morning I was in the university in the afternoon I was working building homes for poor people and in the evenings I was a volunteer serving at the coordinator of the charismatic renewal in the diocese this all my day was about God studying about God serving the people and after that giving my free time in meetings prayer groups but one night changed my life completely after finish my job I went to a party some we finish a meeting like around 10 p.m. at that moment I was single at that moment I said I'm gonna go to eat something and at that time 10 p.m. in California the best place to go is a Mexican taqueria you know a Mexican taqueria this I went to a Mexican taqueria and you know I was gonna enter the restaurant and I saw a homeless woman was a homeless woman with a shopping cart she was walking down the street and when I saw her andres farisi farisi andres I run faster to enter to the restaurant but she saw me and she say hey sir can you give me something I'm told to her you know with a big smile I put my hand in my pocket I give a couple of dollars to her and after I say God bless you and I again wrong to enter the taqueria when I was gonna enter she called me again say sir I told she's gonna tell me that I give you a few money she's gonna tell me that daddy said no enough I'm told to her no with a big smile now because I was losing my patience you know more serious say yes how can I help you that moment was probably 10 30 11 p.m. knowing one of the best neighbors of the city of Sacramento and she told me sir will you give me a hack will you give me a hack in that moment so many things came to my mind farisi andres farisi I say well probably this woman is gonna have a knife and she's gonna give me something to me that was the time of this like H1N1 flu you know something like that say for sure this woman is gonna have that I'm not gonna give a hack to her so many things in my mind farisi and I telling you because when I remember this testimony every time I cannot believe it I still I cannot believe it and I telling you no because Andres I telling these because Jesus because the power of the Holy Spirit when he moved inside us can you give me a hack that a few second of those many things in my mind I give her a hack she hugged me she start to cry to weep and people say men don't cry no I cry more than anyone you know and it's okay to cry you know it's okay to we are you as crying weeping with that woman in that parking lot I don't know probably we were like that probably you know a minute like that after that you know we finished she told me God bless you at that moment I I don't have to I don't want to eat anything I just want to go to my home I went to my car I was driving home I never saw this woman again and let me tell you I used to go to that taqueria probably three days per week I don't know why she was living on the streets I don't know if she was married I don't know where were their children her husband I don't know I hope that something happened in the life of that woman that evening I hope so but the thing that I can tell you my brothers is that something happened in my life I was the lucky man that was in that parking lot that day at that time because she didn't want a hack from Andres she didn't want she won a hack from a human being and I was the lucky one that was at that moment in that parking lot because again I hope that something happened in her life but for sure something happened in my life I have never experienced the love of God the presence of God as I say speaking in that parking lot and I changed my life because hey Andres what extraordinary are you doing you know you are losing your time a student a master in theology building homes for the poor people giving your free time to the chores in the charismatic renewal you are losing your time if you don't have a couple of seconds a couple of minutes to give love to those who need love that night something happened in my life because I was wasting my time yeah 24 hours per day I was thinking that was a holy man I was going to heaven I was the perfect one but it really was losing my time because I was doing the things of God but I was not having time to be a missionary disciple not just to know God but to bring the presence of God to others my brothers catechesis and evangelization yeah we need to bring the message of God we need to present God but in a transformational way we need to bring together catechesis and evangelization and we need to bring together disciple chief a mission no to be any more disciples sometimes and missionaries other times because the authentic missionary the authentic disciple has every day a personal encounter with Jesus and every day is something inside of us that move to share the presence of Jesus with others heavenly father thank you for your love for your kindness for your providence this afternoon we ask you that you give to us the gift of the Holy Spirit that every day we can have a personal encounter with Jesus that every day we can fell in love with Jesus and that every second of our life we share the presence and the love of Jesus with our brothers and sister around us thank you Jesus for your presence thank you Holy Spirit for your love amen bless you