Father Melvin Doucette
1704 Palmer Road North, R.R. 2
Tignish, Prince Edward Island
C0B 2B0  Canada

Thursday, 26 September 2002
 
COME  AND  JOIN  THE  KINGDOM

Dear Paul, Rita and Friends,
Greetings on this beautiful sunny day! It is very calm this morning with
hardly a cloud in the sky. The month of September has given us great
weather. I was at the prayer meeting last evening with a large crowd of
people. Many people expressed how they suffered during the past week and
how the Lord has helped them.

In my prayer this morning, Jesus spoke to me about His home town. This
is what he said, "Melvin, you are my constant companion; I love you. I'm
bringing you to Nazareth, the town where I grew up. When you were there,
you saw the ruins of the house where I lived when I was young. It was a
small house where I lived with my mother, Mary, and my foster father,
Joseph. I lived in a very intimate family where I felt loved and
experienced joy and happiness. I walked its streets as you did when you
visited the town. I knew many of the youth as I grew up with them. I
went with Joseph to the Synagogue every Sabbath day and we prayed to Our
Father and sang psalms. I worked in the shed near the house with Joseph
who was a carpenter. I helped him to make furniture, cupboards and many
other things. After he died I took over the carpentry shop. It was from
Nazareth that I began my public life traveling from village to village
teaching the people about the Kingdom of heaven and curing the sick. I
chose twelve apostles upon whom I founded my Church. I taught them about
My Father, about how to be my followers and the work they had to do. The
Father loved them and He loves you all as I love you. I preached the
Good News to many people in Israel. You, too, are called to teach and to
be my witness to the people of today. Through you, may they be awakened
to the call of their Saviour from Nazareth. Call them to come and join
the Kingdom now and be saved. I bless you all."

Jesus took me to His hometown, a place I stayed nearly a week while I
was in Israel. Nazareth is built on a hill and the house of the Holy
Family is near the bottom of the hill. Today the beautiful church of the
Annunciation is built over the house where Jesus grew up. The streets of
the town are very narrow, just like it was during Jesus' time. One can
walk along these streets and admire all the vegetable and fruit stands
on the side. It gives one a strange feeling to know that Jesus walked
its streets for about thirty years. It is here too that Our Lady lived.
I went to the place where Our Lady must have gone many times to draw
water. The synagogue is still there and I went inside and prayed
thinking all the time that Jesus also prayed here. Many things in the
town reminded me of Jesus and of Our Lady and St. Joseph. I had the
privilege to celebrate Holy Mass in the very house of the Holy Family
even though only a part of the wall is still standing. Jesus left from
Nazareth to go to be baptized by John the Baptist and to begin His
public ministry. He often returned home but He was not accepted as the
Messiah by His people. He wants us today to call the people to join the
Kingdom which He brought into the world. The Church He founded is the
beginning of the Kingdom here on earth.

Please continue to pray for Wayne, who was in great pain yesterday. May
the Lord take away his pain and cure him.

Let us rejoice in the Lord who came to live among us and let us be an
active member in His Kingdom.

Father Melvin

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E-MAIL: melvin.doucette@pei.sympatico.ca
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