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  Many hundreds give witness to gifts of conversion. Testimonies of spiritual healing involving Christina Gallahger and her mission are recorded at Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer Achill, in Ireland. Just some of testimonies of those who have given withness are detailed on this website. Fr Gerard McGinnity PhD spiritual director of Christina Gallagher. |
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"After reading "Please Come back to Me & My Son" I returned to Confession and started to live my Catholic faith again." by Siobhan Milner, Co Derry, N. Ireland " I returned to Confession, for the first time in almost ten years." |
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I first heard about Our Lady's messages when I was living in England in 1993, when I received a copy of the book “Please Come Back to Me and My Son” and at that time I was living far from the faith I had been brought up in. In reading the book,
I cried the whole way through it, because as I read it I knew, without a question or a doubt, that it was the truth and I was horrified and deeply sorrowful at how far I had strayed from God. I cried so much that my fiancé, Steve, read it, just to see what I was crying about ! In the days and weeks after reading the book I could not get the messages out of my mind and I kept recalling the words of Our Lady “I love you so much, if only you could know”. “I will
help you, but you must take the first step” and “you must decide” . I knew what the first step was and it didn't take me long to get to Confession, for the first time in almost ten years. The priest who heard my confession commented, that we had to thank God 'for the graces I had received to come back'. From then on I started to live my Catholic faith again, by practicing all Our Lady was teaching us in Her Messages, which was, returning to the Sacraments, (I even went to daily Mass), return to prayer and surrendering all to God. I knew that Our Lady was helping me, every time I would turn to Her, which I did more and more. It was some time later when I first got the chance to visit the House of Prayer when Steve and I booked a holiday to Achill Island. Steve, although baptised a Catholic, was not brought up as one, and had no real interest in religion, but he fully supported my desire to turn back to my faith. We stayed on Achill for a week and I went to the House from time to time during our holiday. When we were leaving, I spent the last hour in the chapel while Steve waited outside for me. While outside (he told me later) he went to talk to a nun who was in the grounds and as it happened she brought him into the chapel instructing him on how to make the Sign of the Cross with the holy water and on entering the chapel suggested he say, “Lord, be merciful to me for I am a sinner”. When he came out of the chapel he had tears in his eyes. I believe that at that moment, Steve received the grace that urged him to receive instruction in the Catholic faith and to come into full communion with the Catholic Church, which he did before we were married. We were unbelievably happy in our marriage and I can count many many blessings we received, the most special of course is our beautiful daughter. When she was born we moved back to Ireland, something we had been working towards since I first read the messages. Then one day (in June 2000) while Steve was away working, a policeman called at my door with the terrible news that Steve had been in a road accident and he had infact died of his injuries. I immediately turned towards heaven and cried out in a plea of “No! No!...” But as I pleaded no, I understood that in this I was being handed a cross and I felt inwardly encouraged to accept this willingly. With resignation, my pleas fell silent and I did accept, there and then. I surrendered to God through Our Lady Queen of Peace and through doing this, from that first moment, I was at peace. Many people were amazed at the peace I had. Of course this was a disaster in my life and I should have been totally destroyed by it, but I wasn't. I believe that through practicing the teaching contained in the messages of Our Blessed Lady in my life, I was able to surrender to God when the time came and disaster struck, and through His help, I was able to cope and be at peace. I found comfort in praying, especially the Rosary and attending Mass and I was blessed with the great support of my family. And at times when I became completely overwhelmed by the enormi ty of losing Steve, I immediately would offer the pain to Our Lord and within the same minute the peace would return. There was nothing I wanted to do after Steve died, except one thing and that was, to go to the House of Prayer in Achill. Were it not for it and the messages of Our Lady, I believe, I would not have had the grace of conversion and would not have been able to accept the loss of my dearest friend and husband. Then when I heard the message about the ‘gift of solace', I knew instantly what that was, because I had received it. Through it I have been able to live life to the full in the 8 years since, with true joy, happiness and peace in my heart, even though the worst thing I could possibly have imagined had happened. There are many, many, many other blessings I have received from Our Lady Queen of Peace over the years. For all these I thank Our Blessed Lady, Our Lord, and I thank Christina Gallagher, from the bottom of my heart, because I truly believe that through her suffering, I received the grace to hear and act on the messages of Our Blessed Mother and to turn my life around. I also know that through visiting the House of Prayer I received a peace which has never left me and that Steve received the grace to convert to the Catholic faith so receiving the sacraments before he died at a young age. Finally I thank Fr McGinnity who together with Christina has courageously brought Our Lady’s messages to us over the last 20 years. I cannot be thankful enough. I am eternally gratefully. www.christinagallagher.org and the Houses of Prayer in Texas, Minnesota, Florida, Kansas US and Mexico Fr Gerard McGinnity, parish priest of Knockbridge Co Louth, is the spiritual director of Christina Gallagher. |
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