True prayer must begin with the humble recognition of our weakness and need for God.

When you pray, how do you pray? What is the disposition of your heart, and for what do you pray? Begin by considering the physical position in which you pray. Though we can pray standing, sitting, kneeling, or even lying prostrate. It doesn’t mean we have to do so the entire time we pray, but it is a good practice to kneel, bow your head or fall down prostrate before God at least for a moment each day. Do you do this? If not, consider making this a daily habit.

O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. I bow before You, most glorious and merciful God. I offer You my praise and gratitude for Your abundant mercy in my life. I am not worthy of You and Your grace, but You bestow it anyway. For that I thank You with profound gratitude and beg for the ongoing gift of Your grace. Jesus, I trust in You.

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The Third Order of Eric Michel Ministries International (OFS) is a religious family comprising friars, sisters, and lay people. We lead a community life in the tradition of the Franciscan Order, a mendicant order. We dedicated ourselves to Mary under her title of High Grace. We have provinces in Africa, America and Asia. In Canada, there is one of the Three Marys provinces with its headquarters in Brownsburg.

Mission:
We gather in fraternal missionary work as a small community to be with those in need and support our chaplains.

With Mary as our model and St. Francis as our companion, we commit ourselves in a particular way to comfort those who suffer. We strive to heal the broken and reconcile those in our world divided by age, nationality, race, religion, wealth, and education.

Are you hearing Holy Mary calling you?
Contact us at ofs@ericmichelministries.org

A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus. While sometimes described as a type of vision, apparitions are generally regarded as external manifestations, whereas visions are more often understood as internal, spiritual experiences. Throughout history, both Marian apparitions and visions have been associated with religious messages, devotional practices, and pilgrimage traditions.

In the Catholic Church, for a reported appearance to be classified as a Marian apparition, the person or persons who claim to see Mary (the “seers”) must claim to see her visually present in their environment. If the person claims to hear Mary but not see her, this is known as an interior locution, not an apparition. Also excluded from the category of apparitions are dreams, visions experienced in the imagination, and the claimed perception of Mary in ordinarily explainable natural phenomena.

The Catholic Church believes that supernatural Marian apparitions can occur, but also believes that many claimed apparitions are fabricated by the seer or the result of something other than divine intervention. For this reason, the Catholic Church has a formal evaluation process established for assessing claimed apparitions.

The 1978 norms were superseded by new guidelines issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in May 2024. Investigations into alleged apparitions still typically fall first within the jurisdiction of the local ordinary (i.e., the diocesan bishop). The document recommends that incidents of phenomena be carefully assessed to ensure that they are not fraudulent or motivated by monetary gain.

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) is a department of the Roman Curia responsible for the religious discipline of the Catholic Church. The Dicastery is the oldest department among the Roman Curia’s departments. Its seat is the Palace of the Holy Office in Rome, just outside Vatican City. It was founded to defend the Catholic Church from heresy and is the body responsible for promulgating and defending Catholic doctrine.

This institution was founded by Pope Paul III on 21 July 1542, as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. It was then renamed in 1908 as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office of the Roman Rota. In 1965, it became the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF; Latin: Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei). Since 2022, it has been named the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. It is still informally known as the Holy Office (Latin: Sanctum Officium) in many Catholic countries. The sole objective of the dicastery is to “spread sound Catholic doctrine and defend those points of Christian tradition which seem in danger because of new and unacceptable doctrines.”

Marian shrines

Apparition request from Mary for the construction of a shrine on the place of the apparition. Such Marian shrines often become popular sites of Christian pilgrimage. The most-visited Marian shrine in the world is the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, which attracts approximately 10 million pilgrims annually. Other popular apparition-related Marian pilgrimage sites include the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima in Portugal (6 million visitors per year) and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France (1.5 million visitors annually).

(Wikipedia.org)

Eric Michel Ministries International, Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary Ministry of the TOFE & TOFI Marian Shrines Pelgrimages.

Rev. Marie and I went for a Sunday drive as we love the road and nature, going by Beauharnois Quebec, I spot an antique store going by the name La Chaise Rouge (The Red Chair) so we stop and explore the store, with the blessing of Rev. Marie we purchased two items, 1st a frame of Expo 67, Canada Exhibition for the 100 anniversary of Canada 1867-1967. It’s an air view of the Island without Saint Helen’s Island so no Midway or any of the rides on the picture.

The 2nd item is a Bible, the French title is Histoire de la saint Bible Edition: Maison Alfred Mame et fils Tours France, written by L’abbé Cruchet.

It is a real history book or an adapted version of the Bible, it has no Chapters and Verses like the Bible, No Genesis, Kings, Mathew, Act and Revelation, it is divided into chapters like this: Old Testament Book 1 The world to Abraham’s vocation, Book 7 The judges government,  in the New Testament Book 1 birth and childhood of Jesus, etc.

It was common to see that here, anyway, in Quebec. In school, we read the Holy History and studied the catechism, as I attended a Catholic School.

I noticed on the web,  it has lots of versions of this book for sale, the book itself has no copyright date it says the fourth edition, I found 1840 and 1893 in many places, the book has approval by two Superior of the clergy and signed on August 11 and August 14 both in 1891. Price goes from 15 Euros to 295$US.

Cannot find anything on the web about the author L’abbé Cruchet.

For the price we paid, it was a good buy. Now, according to Rev. Marie, I must read it, lol.

Independent Catholic

The Holy Catholic Church, founded by Jesus Christ, sparked to life by the Holy Spirit, brought to the world by the Apostles, is all about freedom. Catholic freedom, the very purpose behind Christ’s life and resurrection defeats sin and death, it gives us values for living, it brings both peace and challenge. The heart of the Catholic experience is freedom!

The Holy Catholic Church existed long before there was a Pope, before there was a single Eastern Patriarch, before there was even one bishop in England. Those were all later developments in Catholicism. Independent Catholicism is the mother Church of all Catholicism, the Church from which all the others grew. Every Christian, Catholic or Protestant, owes his or her faith to independent Catholicism, the Source Church. Over the centuries sects and denominations have fractionated, reformed, ruptured and revolted from their Catholic roots. But the Holy Spirit who brought Catholicism into existence has never abandoned Her; Pentecost is still happening!

Our church is catholic but independent.

We invite you to join us for any of our services. All are welcome to receive Communion at our altars, without membership or belief requirements. Participation in the Great Work of God is more important than a profession of beliefs or adherence to dogma. We maintain intellectual freedom for all.

God is adored as a loving Father, not a fierce tyrant. Our services inspire joyous devotion, not guilt or oppression.

Our true self is spiritual, but that self is often confused by the garments of a physical being (Romans 7:8-12). Our path, even though it often seems difficult or even hopeless, has a single ending that never fails: the conquest by the spiritual of the material. Those who are more evolved are giants of the intellect, saints of compassion, and powerful agents for good.:

We teach Christ’s Commandments when He said: ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and thy neighbor as thyself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. As you sow, so shall you reap.’

We teach universal salvation, but we do not make any official statement on the range of experiences that may befall us after death.

We are less concerned with the specifics of a historical man who lived more than 2,000 years ago than we are with the Christ who lives today (Matthew 18:20). This is a mighty spiritual Presence in the world, guiding and sustaining us all.

Our lives are enriched and empowered by the outflow of the Christ-energy at our altars, in our services, and through our lives. This power is capable of producing an effect on material things and in our spiritual growth. The energy of our World Teacher floods our beings like light bulbs drive darkness from a room.

The Interdenominational Assembly of Churches

Formed out of the Indian Pentecostal Church and the African United Methodist Church in Malawi requested in 2017 to work with us. The “Eric Michel Ministries International Interdenominational Assembly of Churches was born upon the teaching of Christ. We are an association of member churches and para-churches serving members of over 25 head churches across the world. Through our local churches and our online ministries, we provide a Seminary, a Bible Academy, a missions outreach program, and resources like a counseling and support committee for Ecclesiastical rules and order via our Canon Law and Ecclesiastical College (House of Bishops), and many more. The IAoC is divided into five regions, Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, overseen by a “District Superintendent Bishop”, who provides the management and spiritual support to the churches that he is responsible for. Canada is the central headquarters in which the Archbishop Eric M. Gagnon (Minister & Founder of Eric Michel Ministries International Chaplaincies) is the international Elected Prelate and executive director of the Board of the EMMI. Members vote every year on resolutions and other business of EMMI IAoC. All Ministers serve on the membership annual assembly named the Symposium.

Members’ Services Currently, IAoC provides services in the following areas:

Counselling services

Educational services, the Seminary Footsteps of Jesus & Bible Academy limited to those seeking to enter the ministry, and Harvestime Bible Academy for any person who likes to know Christ better

Members’ community chest fund by donation and an online store

Prayers services

workshops

Chaplaincy Services

and much more.

Eric Michel Ministries International operates under the Interdenominational Assembly of Churches, an association of Churches and Para-Churches, including members of the clergies and elders, or directors.clergy

We are open to all Bible Christians from the left and the right.

The Most Important Tool: “The Bible”.

From a union of these denominations:

1. Chaplaincy, a not-for-profit religious corporation of the Methodist Nonconforming

2. New Hope Ministry & Missions of the Baptist

3. Eric Michel Pentecostal Ministry

We invite you to participate in our online church and post your worship services and your sermons, MUST BE English or French

The Rt. Rev Marie Yvonne is:

1. The Co-Founder of the Chaplaincy of Eric Michel Ministries International and New Hope Ministry, and Missions

2. President of the House of Bishops and

3. Co-Founder of the Interdenominational Assembly of Churches (Churches and Para-Churches association)

4. Group Administrator

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Faith Without Works Is Dead

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without [a]your works, and I will show you my faith by [b]my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [c]dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made [d]perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was [e]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.

25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?

26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Brother Eric Ministries is Faith; Brother Eric Chaplaincy is Work

New King James Version (NKJV)
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• American Franciscan Province of the Three Marys (Staff Only)
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April 27, 2025

Exploring the Conclave: A Movie Night Reflection

Last night, I had the pleasure of diving into a long-awaited cinematic experience by renting the film “Conclave” on YouTube to enjoy with Reverend Marie. While it was $2.00 more than what I typically spend on movie nights, my excitement to see it after months of anticipation outweighed any hesitations. After checking local stores like Walmart for a physical copy, I decided that renting online was the best way to satisfy my curiosity.

As we settled in to watch, I was filled with enthusiasm, eager to see how the film would depict the conclave process. Having absorbed numerous trailers and online comments, I was optimistic about experiencing an engaging narrative filled with suspense and drama, even amid critical reviews. However, once the movie concluded, I found myself reflecting on its shortcomings.

For someone with a keen interest in the political dynamics and intricate negotiations that occur during the papal election, I was hoping for a film that would deliver high stakes and compelling character arcs. Unfortunately, “Conclave” did not quite capture the level of tension and intrigue I had anticipated. Instead of feeling like an exciting drama, it came across more like a documentary, lacking the depth that can turn historical events into riveting storytelling.

This experience led me to think about other representations of the papacy, such as the series “Borgia: Faith and Fear.” That show successfully portrayed the complex dynamics at play during Rodrigo de Borja’s rise to Pope Alexander VI, highlighting the drama and moral dilemmas involved in such a power struggle. It offered a nuanced exploration of ambition and manipulation, elements I found lacking in “Conclave.”

As someone who has closely followed the election of popes, having witnessed six elections and looking forward to my seventh in 2025, I think my perspective may have influenced my expectations. The impending election will be significant, marking the height of my awareness around these historical transitions, especially since I have been younger than many who participated in the 1958 conclave. This background deepens my interest in the inner workings of the Church and the various personalities involved.

Reflecting on “Conclave,” I see the potential it aimed to explore, but I wish it had delved deeper into the drama and complexities that accompany such pivotal moments in history. The stories surrounding papal elections are often filled with conflict and strategic maneuvering, and, to resonate with audiences, adaptations need to embrace this rich tapestry of intrigue.

In conclusion, while I genuinely wanted to enjoy “Conclave,” I walked away feeling that it missed an opportunity to convey the excitement and depth of the conclave experience fully. It’s essential for films depicting historical events to strike a balance between factual representation and engaging storytelling. I believe that with more focus on the dramatic elements inherent in these situations, future adaptations could provide a more gratifying exploration of the fascinating world of papal elections.

Michel De Notre Dame

Published on 1/12/24 4:14 PM Blogger

Hello friends,

Eric Michel has been a bivocational pastor for 36 years. That happened not too long ago, on December 7, reaching the 36.

He’s from Quebec, Canada.

He is a father and a grandfather. His spouse, Marie, and he now have six children, all of whom are middle-aged adults, and many grandchildren.

He has been a chaplain since 2011 and a member of the International Federation of Christian Chaplains, Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island, for over 12 years. He never had to preach or baptize someone, but he did celebrate weddings.

This podcast was published in 2021.

Hello! My name is Andrew, and I’m your Eric Michel Ministries International podcast host.

We are incredibly blessed and encouraged to receive daily emails from our listeners. We want to share some of those with you to see the tremendous impact of Monotheism, Christian theology, philosophy and morality and the beautiful ways Christ works. Thank you for giving our ministry a chance to broadcast the Independent Christian Podcast worldwide!

In the news:
The Archbishop and his spouse, the Right Reverend Marie, were vaccinated yesterday for the coronavirus.

Today’s topic: Dog Goes to Heaven?

One of our listeners emailed us and asked if his dog would go to heaven.

The Theology about the Noosphere.

We view our earth as being covered by a sphere named Noosphere, where the soul goes to the death of the human body and generates a new human body at birth.

We also learn that the soul is our conscience, or our thoughts.

Animals and plants communicate, so they have a “conscience” in their brains.

According to this statement, “YES,” your dog will be in heaven, our heaven, the Noosphere.

The sad part is you will not be with him, much less even see him in the same way as any other people in the Noosphere, because we will be only a thought.

You can always contact Michel of Notre Dame by email at ericmichelministries@gmail.com

On that note, we wish you good mental health and God Bless!

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