Dear Readers
This Sunday (December 17th) I found out some unfortunate news. My Spiritual Director Father Gerry who was just diagnosed with cancer four months ago has died. He was the most influential Priest that I've had in my life. He wasn't only my Spiritual Director but a good family friend.
Father Gerry and I met on the Feast of Divine Mercy in 2009. That was a time when I was questioning everything...my visions and messages.
In 2009 I came out of the Church and Father Gerry was sitting on the bench and he said to me "there's something special about you". God is using you in some way. He had never even heard of me or heard of my experience.
I had a Spritual Director at the time...Father Joe McDermott from the Immaculate Conception Church in Stoughton Massachusetts.
But at this time I was receiving messages every single day but Father Joe was too busy to help me. So after the Feast of Divine Mercy I went to God the Father and I asked him that "I need guidance"... "I really need help" to discern these messages.
God said to me "I will use Father Gerry" and he will be your Spiritual Director. Whatever he tells you...I am speaking through him. Thats what God told me. And from that week forward I got his phone number and we started to talk. And, he started to visit me in the Massachusetts hospital where I was staying during the week and I would tell him everything I was receiving.
He believed me but was skeptical at first and I showed him my journal that I had that was filled with tons of writing in it. He wanted me to keep writing in it and to record everything that God was telling me.
One time he came over my house and we were praying the Rosary and I told him that sometimes when I pray the Rosary I get a Vision and that I had a Vision of the Blessed Mother.
After the Vision that I had he asked me who I was speaking with? I told him who it was. He said he never seen anything like it. He said that my Face Went Pure White and thats when he really believed when he saw me in Ecstacy during the visit.
Than he invited me to do Healing Services at the Church and I got Word of Knowledge for the people. Father Gerry even sent my messages to Cardinal Sean O'Malley in Boston. He didn't approve the messages but didn't disapove of them either or stop me from speaking about my messages.
As a matter of fact Cardinal O'Malley placed Father Gerry as my Official Spiritual Director.
As you know...I am human and was stuggling with some things in 2013 and 2014 but I was affraid to confess to Father Gerry because I was affraid he would look at me differently.
One night I told him everything that I was affraid to tell him. Than I confessed. It was through Father Gerry I was able to understand the true importance of confession.
He was a great friend and cared deeply for everyone. Was a great speaker and I think about him everyday. I feel saddened that he is gone but I know he is up there in Heaven. Everytime I call upon him I get a warm feeling throughout my body. During prayer I had a Interrior Locution where he said "I will always be with you".
I don't think I would ever be able to find a Spiritual Director like him. He was one of the best and would socailize with everyone whether they were religious or not. He was my brother and was open to everyone.
Father Gerry was truly a man of prayer and I miss him dearly. My heart is broken. I pray to the Holy Spirit and pray for the Intercession of Father Gerry that I will be able to find a good Spiritual Director that is loving, caring, and pastoral as he was.
