“And to some, His ‘gift’ was that they should be apostles; to some prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, pastors and teachers; to knit God’s holy people together for the work of service to build up the Body of Christ, until we all reach unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God and form the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ Himself.” (Ephesians 4:11-13)
“The Church's history is marked by interventions of the Holy Spirit, who has not only enriched her with His gifts of wisdom, prophecy and holiness, but has endowed her with ever new forms of evangelical life through the work of the founders and foundresses who have passed on their charism to the family of their spiritual sons and daughters.” (Pope Benedict XVI, Live in Conformity with the Gospel, 2005)Overwhelmed with gratitude at this rich outpouring of grace in the form of an apostolic charism, in around the year 1990, our founder earnestly prayed to be shown the source of this gift. In a heavenly vision, he was shown the saintly Pope John XXIII praying in the Sistine chapel and the Spirit coming down on him as a 'ray of light.' He was also shown the date of January 25th, 1959. This same Pope was shown then as opening the treasures of the Scriptures to the Church and interceding for our founder.
Because of this revelation and the great esteem and love our founder had for this saintly Pontiff, our Community has taken the Blessed Pope John XXIII as our heavenly patron to guide our Community in effectively participating in the 'New Evangelisation' to which the Church has committed herself as a fruit of Vatican II.