My name is Ana María from Puerto Rico. I would like to expand on what my fellow countryman, John Figueroa said in last Friday’s show (DB#356)about the problems with the Catholic Church and the alleged apparitions and the followers of the “La Vírgen del Pozo” (Our Lady of the Well) movement.

The Archdiocese of San Juan has been studying this group for many years. There have been several Episcopal commissions looking into this matter. They have come to the conclusion that this is a cult. But, there have been no ex-communications so far. On the contrary, the Church has extended an invitation to its members to come back into the fold.

I have also had personal experience with this group for the last twenty years, since a very close member of my family, and her family are members. I have seen things happen inside that group that definitely point to a cultlike pattern of behavior. There are very morally questionable conducts and beliefs in that group. And there are the classical secrecy “vows” so prevalent in cults.

I would not be so quick to blame the Church for the scandals associated with this group. It is a shame these things happen, but the Church has to take a public position in these matters to guide its flock.

On another topic, I love your show, and I look forward to download it everyday. I also listen to many of SQPN’s shows. I think you are doing a wonderful work of evangelizing, and your programs have been very instrumental in my spiritual growth journey.

I would love to see programs like Verbum Domini and Praystation Portable in Spanish. I am sure you have a large Spanish speaking audience that would benefit from that. If there is anything I can do help with this, let me know. I don’t know much about Podcasting but I can learn.

Thanks again for all of your’s and everybody’s work at SQPN. It is very much appreciated.

God Bless.

Keep up the great work Fr. Roderick!

Dave

Here i found a translation of the Lauda Sion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Sion

I too am having difficulty accessing the MP3’s at SQPN.

Not sure where the problem is, but it doesn’t appear to be on my side.

Best of luck!
Dave

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Thank you for your info on the Podcast programs. I think i’ll try out the podcaster.

I’ll be on Austin on October, but i wont be on those dates. I’ll be the following weekend… as a person who also likes to be healthy… or Catholic Healthy… i also do sports, but i dont run like yourself, i do biking (bicycling), so this Next October i’ll on an event on Austin doing some biking from Austin all the way to Corpus Christi that’s 150 miles (240 Km) for the MS Society (MS= Multiple Sclerosis), so i’m starting my training but its been hard because of the heat waves we been having around here, but i’ll try to do better than last year, i couldnt do the whole thing… i “only” did 130miles (208 Km)… so i hope could do some training this weekend…

So, like i said i’ll try to be there that weekend and i’ll “drag” some friend with me so they can meet you too…

God Bless you and your podcasts and have a great weekend.

Kindly,

Rafael.