Persevere and Reign!

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"If we have died with Him

we shall also live with Him.

If we persevere we shall also 

reign with Him."

2 Timothy 2:11-12

Today I am thinking of Mike Joseph, Jr.

who passed from this life to heaven

last Thursday.

When he was young, he had a dream that

he died and went to heaven.

At the gates an angel met him and asked,

"What do you think you are doing?"

"I'm passing through!"

The angel said, "Go back. 

You have to come back when you've brought

many people with you!"

And that is what Mike has been doing

ever since he was young!

He taught young people how to evangelize.

He started Christ's Youth in Action in the 80s,

a university campus outreach that has 

changed many people's lives, including my husband's!

He did not slow down as he got older.

In the last Harvest Conference which was 

about how to evangelize,

he said that he believed it is his calling to

equip missionaries to go to the ends of the earth!

My husband still remembers when

Mike would bring students to the red light district

and they would practice how to speak to

anyone about Christ!

Or how, after reading a book about

St. Damien, a priest who volunteered to serve lepers

in Molokai, Hawaii,

he invited brothers to go with him to the Tala Leprosarium

to give the lepers the good news!

Mike, I salute you!

You were one of the founding members of our community,

Ligaya ng Panginoon, the Joy of the Lord Covenant Community.

You were the Community's first Covenanted member.

Here is what Bingo Soriano, one of our 

leaders in community said, " For the past 38 years, 

since the inception of Ligaya, 

Mike has always been at the cutting-edge of evangelization 

and community-building. 

And through it all, he remained a humble, simple, 

and loving brother, father, and disciple."

He gave his life to spread the Gospel,

I do believe he was welcomed in heaven

with shouts of jubilation,

a favored son coming home at last!

"Well done, my good and faithful servant."

Matthew 25:21 

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