For two and a half years, my friend and I have been praying together every Monday afternoon. At the end of our prayer time, we “draw the cards”. Every time, it’s a wonderful adventure … These cards are the Thoughts of the Chosen Ones. They have already permitted us to make leaps and bounds forward. They are wonderful. Many thanks!
We were both deeply depressed. My friend was taking a lot of medication. Today, she is completely cured and no longer takes anything. Her psychologist does not understand. He never saw a case like that.
Personally, I didn’t realize how depressed I was and I kept fighting, but most of all, I was simply sinking. Today, I have not only become aware of the extent of my depression, but the Lord has also healed me. Glory and praise be to God!
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Thank you very much for your valuable advice about my sister who had been angry with me for a year and a half. Your letter template, on page 22 of the book “For the Happiness of the Couple and the Family”, has led to a miraculous reconciliation. The day after my birthday, I received a thank you card and we are reconciled!
I reiterate my thanks for your teachings and I thank God!
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Someone writes to Léandre:
Today is a very special day for me. A year ago, I experienced a very important encounter that was somehow related to you. That’s why I would like to share with you my gratitude for what happened. Last year, on August 24, you were in Latvia and you presided a retreat in our parish. I did not know about it and I had not planned to attend. Divine Providence had other plans. I was walking along the Mara Pond when I “accidentally” met people I knew who were going to the retreat. They invited me to come along with them. I told myself: “Okay, I’m going to listen a bit.” I came to this retreat without suspecting that it would be so providential for me and without being aware of the graces which were being prepared for me. Everything went as usual – praise, then teaching, joyfulness and a sense of unity. Your testimony challenged me and warmed my heart, especially the fact that the Lord calls you “my little one” and the way He expresses His love by words like “I love you tenderly, madly! » I had never heard that someone could live such intimacy with God, although I felt in my heart this love which was very tender and madly passionate at the same time. That scared me and made me confused, for I thought there was perhaps something wrong with me. I was too shy to talk about it, because in my opinion, relationships with God had to be distant. So, as if in a sort of astonishment, I continued to participate in the retreat until the moment (I do not remember what was happening at that time) when, looking at Jesus in the painting at the altar, I began to feel such a river of Love separating me from what was going on around me. I felt that I was melting like a piece of yellow butter in the Sun of God’s Love. I felt very well, but suddenly, in this piece of butter, I noticed that there were black spots, such as tea seeds, which appeared during the melting and became more evident. I didn’t like it and I realized that the Lord was showing me my unconfessed sins. These contrasting visions were so striking! The feeling of infinite happiness while melting in the Sun of the Love of God and the consciousness of my sinfulness …
I wanted to go to confession right away, but how could I? There were only Catholic priests whom I dared not approach, for at that time I still belonged to the Lutheran Church. “By chance,” I saw the priest who once came to a meeting at the Lutheran High School where I was studying. At least, I knew his name and I knew some people he knew and to whom I could have referred if necessary. I was encouraged to go to him and present him my desire to confess. The priest said he could listen and pray for me. That was enough for me, because I knew that I was revealing my sins to God Himself; and although, as a Lutheran, I could not receive absolution, I thought that God had heard me. After pouring out my heart before God, I returned to the hall to come back to the program of the retreat, where the Love of God was already waiting for me with a sentence that was decisive to me. I heard him say to me: “Dear little girl, you only have to eat crumbs, come and sit at the table!” It was so clear that I understood at once that I was called to join the Church: the door was open! It was up to me to decide whether to enter through it or not.
What followed took place like if it was in an accelerated movie. I went back to the priest with the desire of “talking business” now. Unfortunately, I was so overwhelmed that I don’t remember anything about what we talked about. I probably told him about my experience with faith. I remember one sentence: the priest asked me if I knew how the conversion went to another confession, and I answered “no”. At the end of this interview, we had already agreed on a date: September 8, the birthday of the Mother of God. On that day, I said “Yes” in the Catholic Church.
I’m very happy and grateful. Through this event, I found my spiritual home, a sense of belonging to the parish and the possibility of living in unity at the table of the Church, with Communion. This year has been the happiest of my life, for I have received so much love that I can’t even remember the winter conditions: for me, a permanent spring rejoiced me with the smell of its blooming flowers.
Without realizing it, you, Léandre, became a person that is dear to me and for whom I have gratefulness and prayers in my heart.
Thank you deeply for everything you do in Love, by Love and for Love. My parents and I followed a retreat with Léandre Lachance and we learned a lot. We see with a fresh eye how the repeated “Yes” to Love allows God to shape us for His greater glory.
A big thank you also for the thoughts of every day which, in the deep wisdom of Jesus, illuminate our days.
Yesterday was a special day for our family: our eldest son would have turned 15 years old. My husband had taken leave and we were together as a family at the seaside. But the weather was bad, I was sad and my husband annoyed. It was one of those days when nothing goes right! Finally, I turned on the television and we came across a movie which story was similar to our situation: a couple who lives the challenge of the death of their little boy; the story happens on the day of his birthday; the parents in pain are hurting each other, etc. Already, at that moment, I said to myself, “My sweet Jesus, you are here! “
The rest of the movie tells the story of the arrival of a guardian angel, that of the big sister who seems not to exist in the eyes of her mother following the death of her brother, and how the angel ends up reuniting the torn family. This film was a wink from the Lord, it upset us, my husband, our youngest son and me. We ended the day united, in peace and accompanied by the love of God for us. “It’s because Love loves us that we become Love.”
At a retreat with you, we were invited to pick a message from a basket, among many others. The message I received spoke of “the efficacy of the ministry of holy angels”. It was something I had never realized until this retreat. Since then, I speak about it to the people around me and I cannot stop receiving winks from the Lord.
God bless you and may your guardian angels protect you.
The “Thought of the Day” nourishes my prayer; it is as if Jesus or Mary speak to me personally, it gives me confidence, while also balancing my faith in Love.
For example, when I read a message that touched me a lot, I thought of my husband who was experiencing serious health issues. I held on to trust and peace, as Jesus told me to do in His messages. My husband rediscovered faith and confessed, he accompanies me to Mass on Sundays and the last medical exams were positive; he is doing very well. I pray the Lord to keep Him in His love and increase His faith.
Reconverted by the teachings contained in the books “For the Happiness of My Own, My Chosen Ones. Jesus,” I feel a deep need to let those around me, those whom I carry in my heart, benefit from them. During the last four years, it has been my daily bread. Today, I can say that with God’s love and grace, at 74 years old, I finally found the way to become His child again. Having found joy and freedom, I cannot help but share this revelation with others, those who are ready to say in turn an unconditional “Yes” to the Love and the will of God.
That is why the idea of creating a Community of Love and Sharing sprouted in our parish. Of course, I presented and offered the three volumes to my confessor and spiritual director who quickly approved my project and agreed to accompany us, knowing that our CLS must not remain a closed circle of insiders but serve for the emergence of our parish community and beyond. At the moment, we are three convinced! I continue to flood all my contacts with the “Thought of the Day” and to diffuse the first book in a downloadable format for them to sample, hoping to stimulate “their appetite,” then I specify the site that allows everyone to get the books that will soon become road companions, alongside the Holy Bible and the Liturgy of the Hours. For me, this is really living our life with Jesus, with new found joy: “Thank you, Lord! You are truly the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Together, with grace, the Exhortations of Pope Francis and the teachings of the Chosen Ones of Jesus fully converge in the same direction, generating a profound harmony and a certainty: yes, Lord, it is Love, your Love, that will change the world!”
All young people preparing for the sacraments of Forgiveness, Eucharist and Confirmation received a copy of the book “Grandfather Léandre’s Stories”, published by the editions “The Foundation of the Chosen of Jesus” (Fondation des Choisis de Jésus) in 2005.
On the occasion of Zacchaeus’ catechetical theme, the story of “Anthony, the bad and Anthony, the good”, taken from this book, was read to the children by a grandfather. With great interest and attention, they listened to the story. After the reading, they exchanged, as a group, on what had touched them the most. All the important aspects were covered: the serenity that one feels when ones does the right thing, the inconvenience one feels while doing something wrong, the dangers associated with socialization and belonging to a group, the beneficial influence of “The most beautiful and important story of the world” in the transformation of hearts and, from there, the gesture of compassion of Anthony towards the leader of the opposite gang who suffered a bad fall while bicycling. The end of the story bringing the two gangs together around Jesus’ message of love suited our young people for whom good always triumph over evil. The latter have undoubtedly understood that this same love of Jesus, this same compassion awaits them, each of them individually, in the sacrament of Forgiveness.
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Thank you – from the bottom of my heart – for this “Thought of the Day” that I receive and that makes me feel good. Every time, it is infinite love; there is never any reproach.
I have been married for almost 49 years. I have experienced physical and mental suffering for years: my husband was violent and he destroyed me morally. He is no longer violent, he has changed a lot, except about religion. Since I have retired, all my occupations are at the parish level, but my husband is jealous of God, he can’t stand that I’m involved outside our home.
Every day, I pray for his conversion and for me to behave fairly towards him. One day, I was told that I should have left. But I do not feel that God is expecting it from me. God does not seek the destruction of families. We have two daughters, the last one has two sons. When our daughters were teenagers, my husband behaved very badly towards them, but in the last ten years he has become sensitive and I think he has become aware of the harm he has done to them. We often have our grandchildren at home, he is an admirable grandfather and the children are very attached to him. We host a family meal once a month, our daughters and sons-in-law get along well and it’s a real pleasure to be together around the table. I tell myself that staying was the right choice, my family would have been destroyed.
There are times when I trust God and tell myself that, someday, my husband will eventually convert. At other times, I get discouraged and I think that it will not change. Every day, I make my consecration to Mary and I also consecrate my husband, my daughters and my grandchildren. Mary does not abandon people She is entrusted with.
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What a pleasure it was for me to meet this friend who put the book “For the Happiness of My Own, My Chosen Ones. Jesus” in my hands! What a joy to read all these lines of love, all these messages that touch my heart! What a joy to have found the way to God the Father through Jesus, His Son! What a pleasure to be able to say “Yes” thanks to this book! I cannot wait to read the rest and to continue my journey of faith and love. I’m anxious to continue opening my heart thanks to the lines I’m about to read.
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