The healing touch of Fr. Fernando Suarez

On the afternoon of January 11, 2010, healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez was the guest of Newswatch on Channel 9 for its live interview segment.

After the interview, a line formed and Fr. Suarez prayed over each person in the queue.
 
When it was my turn, he placed his left hand on top of my head and some fingers of his right hand on my chest, right over my heart. I could not hear his prayers, but I prayed in silence.

Ordained as priest in 2002 in Canada, Fr. Suarez gained popularity for his healing ministry in recent years. He was accepted at the vicariate of Occidental Mindoro in 2011 and currently leads the Monte Maria Tent healing ministry in Alfonso, Cavite, where many pilgrims flock to attend healing Mass.

When he visited the network where I was working, I joined the queue because I had been taking maintenance medicine for hypertension. Back then, I had to stop and catch my breath whenever I climb foot bridges and steep stairs. When I walked, I often wobbled.

While Fr. Suarez was praying over me, I felt a cold wave flow into my head and into my chest. When he was done, he moved on to the next person in line.
 
Walking back to my workstation, I began to feel better.
 
When it was time to go home after the day’s work, I decided to walk all the way from Broadcast City along Capitol Hills Drive to the Tandang Sora-Commonwealth Avenue intersection.
 
I still had my long stick with me, but I had no more use for it. I was walking straight and no longer had labored breathing.
 
While walking, I said a little prayer to God thanking Him for making me well again.

I got home fine.

I woke up early the next day, around 4:30 a.m. The phone was ringing. I was able to rise quickly—unlike before when I had to do so slowly lest I feel dizzy. I was also alert and wide awake.
 
No one answered the phone when I picked it up, but I knew who it was. I checked my email and saw that one of our reporters had sent in her script for checking. I took care of it swiftly.

In the morning I went to the Taft Campus of De La Salle University to attend the roadshow launch of the school's second solar-powered car named Sikat.
 
When I got there around 9 am, the guard said the Sikat had already left the campus and had turned right at the nearest corner. I walked from Taft Avenue to Roxas Boulevard along Ocampo Street, perspiring a little. But when I got to the police station at Roxas, the solar car had already passed and had likely turned right at Quirino Avenue. I hailed the orange shuttle that goes to Taft, got off at the end of the line, and then walked to Quirino Avenue. The Sikat contingent was already on Taft on the way back to DLSU when I met up with one of our cameramen.

From all that walking and running, trying to catch up with the Sikat, I did not get tired at all. I actually felt great.

In the evening of the same day, I decided to walk again from Broadcast City to Commonwealth Avenue via Capitol Hills Drive and Tandang Sora Avenue. Again, no problems. No wobbly walk and no labored breathing.

I do not know exactly how it happened, but I sure am feeling much, much better now than I had been in a long time. For that, I am thankful to God for Fr. Suarez, and also to Atty. Tonypet Albano for inviting Fr. Suarez to Broadcast City.

These days, I join five-kilometer races for fun and run around my neighborhood in Kamuning or in the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines. - YA, GMA News