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The work that you are holding in your hands now is the result of a human life full of drama, mysticism and experiences that may seem certainly contradictory for those who are far away from God. In these pages you will find a human life intertwined in the most serious errors and dangers resulting from an existence that lacked spiritual awareness and was flooded with the mundane ambitions of a heart that always wanted to do good and was able do so only after great effort. You will also find the fruit of the author's encounter with his Creator; in it, God's mercy and forgiveness rescued a wasted life from the ashes of sin and transformed it into bread of evangelization for the whole world. You will also be able to appreciate the Gospel telling us as how God takes the fool to embarrass the sage.

Marino Restrepo never studied theology, neither was he educated in the religious sciences. However, during his life as a missionary, he has made possible for theology academicians and high-level ecclesiastic scholars to hear the simplicity of a Gospel infused in the author's heart by the Holy Spirit.

You are kindly invited to navigate through the paths of God's miracle.

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Date de parution	15 juin 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456603830
Langue	English

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From darkness
into the
light

MARINO RESTREPO
© 2014 Marino Restrepo Hernández
Cover and design:
Lida Natalia Herrera G.
Alexandra P. Castellanos T.
© All rights reserved Mission “Pilgrims Of Love”
All rights are protected by the international author’s law. The contents or cover-page cannot be reproduced partially or totally in any way, or through any media, or translation without written permission of the editor.
Note to the Reader:
Throughout the book, the words “man”, “men”, “mankind”, “he”, “his”, “himself”, “brothers”, “sons”, are denoted as being all-inclusive, respecting both genders.
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In homage to the Catholic Church
and to the mission of
Pilgrims Of Love
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Testimony
Colombia, September 12, 2000
My life in this world, separated from God until I was 47 years old
My Mystical Experience Led by the Vision and Revelation of Our Lord
Encounter with the Lord’s Image and Person
My Own Trial
The Role of Evil Forces in Our Lives
Our Lives with God’s Angels
The Saints: Their Presence and Actions in Our Lives
Continuation of My Own Trial
Mercy
Economy of the Soul
The Holy Virgin Mary
Conclusion

Acknowledgments
T o our Lord Jesus Christ who rescued me from darkness and led me into the light. To my children, Nicolas and Santiago, who have shared my life both in darkness and in light.
To Carmen María Navarro, Clemencia de González, Juan Manuel González (Sr), Juan Manuel González (Jr), María Fernanda Maragua de Rozo, Martha de Higuera and Jorge Higuera, all of them pilgrims of love.
To Hortensia Navarro, Mónica de Quintana and all my friends in Jesus Christ who have supported me in different ways.
To Father Rafael Vall-Serra, spiritual guide of this book.
Last but not least, to Monsignor Germán Morales, Father Fernando Umaña, Father Martin Johnston, Father Alfredo Arias, to all the priests, bishops, clergy men and women, and to all consecrated and committed lay people who have been a blessing to this work and to my new life in Jesus.
Preface
I t is quite satisfying for me to write a prologue to this testimony, which has been written as a sincere and audacious confession, full of humility and love for the truth. These traits are evident very negatively in the first part of the book and quite positively in the second part. It is a resurrection that would not have happened without dying first.
Three references can lead the reader to meditate about the Love of God that keeps human hearts alive today. The references — taken from the apostle Peter, St. Augustine and St. John of the Cross — are twenty, sixteen and five centuries removed from us.
Saint Paul says:
“...as all have sinned and have the need of the glory of God. They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth as a propitiation by his blood through faith, to manifest his justice, God in his patience remitting former sins; to manifest his justice at the present time, so that he himself is just, and makes just him who has faith in Jesus”.
1 Romans 3: 23-26
Saint Augustine says:
“You would have died for eternity, unless he had been born in time. You would never be set free from the stain of sin, unless he had taken to himself the likeness of the flesh of sin. You would have been in the grip of everlasting misery, had it not been for the occurrence of this great mercy. You would not have come back to life, unless he had adjusted himself to your death. You would have faded away, if he had not come to the rescue. You would have perished, if he had not come. Let us celebrate with joy that our salvation and redemption have come”.
Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop
Sermon 185 PL 38
Saint John of the Cross says:
“Truly, this soul is lost to everything else but love, its life being dedicated to nothing but love. Therefore, active life and other external actions weaken on account of that ‘one single thing’ that her Beloved deemed ‘necessary’: the presence and continuous practice of God’s love”.
St. John of the Cross.
The Spiritual Canticle, Stanza 8.
Translation of commentaries nn 1-3,
pp. 934-935, Edic. BAC, 1960
At the age of 47, God’s light entered into Marino’s brilliant artistic career and showed him his own darkness and that of other human beings who had violently deprived him of his physical freedom.
Paradoxically, that loss turned into true spiritual freedom due to the merciful gift Marino received from Jesus Christ. The radical change that the Lord caused in him gave him understanding of his own life and turned it into a joyful apostolic mission.
Marino’s actions have been notably supported by divine inspiration ever since. The warmth, advice and spirit of the Church have provided him with great security and doctrinal vision. In all his lectures, he is always ready to give advice to enthusiastic priests, willing to sacrifice himself to do God’s will in his own life and that of others who, moved by his testimony, have joined the regeneration movement of thousands of people in different countries.
I am grateful to Marino for his friendship and his brave example.
Rafael Vall-Serra, S.J.
Director of ECOM
(Spanish acronym for ‘Gospel Communicated’)
Bogotá, April 2003
Introduction
T his past decade has witnessed the publication of many works of faith, testimonies, of personal experiences that diverse men and women have written to share, the mysteries of grace, love, forgiveness and one of these is this present testimony of the conversion and the faith of Marino Restrepo.
Marino was born in the highlands of Columbia. At the age of 19 he moved to Germany, where he married and had two sons and studied the arts. He soon succumbed to the allure of Hollywood and was immersed in everything that Hollywood had to offer — success, money, pleasure, beautiful women and the new age. His was the story of a prodigal son. In 1997, he returned for a visit to his native homeland and soon after was caught up in the drama of being taken hostage by the rebels and kept prisoner for 6 months in caves and jungles, expecting death at any moment.
Here, he experienced the love of Jesus Christ that transformed his life, and washed away his sins, and that called Marino to a life of witness to the power of faith and the love of Christ. His was not only the story of his personal conversion; the Lord called him to proclaim his Gospel of Mercy which he has done in many countries around the world. With the story of a lost faith rediscovered and the story of the Father’s loving embrace that washes away his sins with his Father’s tears and the blood of his Son, it has become as his lyre-trumpet of the Holy Spirit who continues to witness the saving message of the Gospel of Christ through the world of today.
I commend and recommend this story of faith and the love of Christ to everyone.
15th day of August 2005.
Bishop Roman Danylak.
Titular Bishop of Nyssa.

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