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A Virtual Spiritual Retreat with Fr. Michel Rodrigue Introduction You are invited to go on a virtual spiritual retreat with Fr. Michel Rodrigue Fr. Michel Rodrigue: Priest, Exorcist, Founder and Superior General of The Apostolic Fraternity of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre (founded in 2012) Let us begin... So who is Fr. Michel Rodrigue? The following has been compiled by Christine Watkins Taken from the best-selling book, The Warning: Testimonies and Prophecies The Father gave Michel such a thorough education in theology of the Illumination of Conscience. that when he attended the Grand Seminary of Quebec after Fr. Michel Rodrigue is the founder and Abbott of a new high school, he tested out of his classes with an A+. Michel fraternity approved by the Catholic Church: The Apostolic subsequently studied psychology and areas of theology, Fraternity of St. Benedict Joseph Labre in the diocese of Amos such as mariology, pneumatology, the writings of the Church in Quebec, Canada (Fraternité Apostolique Saint Benoît- Fathers, and graduated with a doctorate in theology. Joseph Labre). Born into a faithful Catholic family of twenty- three children, Michel grew up poor. His family lived on a The new monastery under construction small piece of farmland, where hard work and bumpy trips After founding and managing a shelter for homeless youth, to Sunday Mass with multiple children on horseback kept his which offered them psychological and spiritual care, Michel family alive in body and spirit. Rodrigue was ordained a diocesan priest at the age of Like St. Padre Pio and other chosen souls, God the Father thirty. He served as a parish priest for five years in northern began speaking to Michel at a tender age. “When I was three Ontario until his bishop discerned that his talents would be years old,” says Fr. Michel, “God began to speak to me, and best utilized forming future clergy. Fr. Michel then became a we would have regular conversations. I remember sitting Sulpician priest teaching theology at the Grand Seminary of under a big tree behind our home on our family farm and Montreal. asking God, ‘Who made this tree?’ On Christmas Eve, 2009, Fr. Michel’s priesthood took an “‘I did,’ God answered. And when He pronounced the word, extraordinary turn. He was awakened in the night by the ‘I,’ suddenly I was given a vast view of the Earth, the universe, presence of St. Benedict Joseph Labre, who stood by his and myself, and I understood that everything was made and bedside, shaking his shoulder to get his attention. Fr. Michel held in existence by Him. I thought that everyone talked to was awakened and heard the voice of God the Father say, God the Father. From age three to six, the Lord instructed me “Stand.” So Fr. Michel stood up. “Go to the computer.” So he in the faith and gave me a thorough theological education. obeyed. “Listen and write.” That is when God began to dictate He also told me, when I was three, that I would be a priest.” the entire constitution for a new fraternity for the Church, Source: www.countdowntothekingdom.com Introduction A Virtual Spiritual Retreat with Fr. Michel Rodrigue Introduction faster than Fr. Michel could type. He had to tell the Father to the things of God. He is an slow down! official exorcist of the Church, in addition to his duties as a Then God suddenly whisked Fr. Michel into a mystical flight seminary professor, hospital to the land in the Diocese of Amos, Quebec, where He minister, parish priest, and wanted a monastery built, and showed him in detail the most recently, as the founder monastery’s design. The and Superior General of the Father told Fr. Michel that new Church fraternity in he would be the founder of French-speaking Quebec. See Fr. Michel receiving the reliquary of St. this monastery. He would Benedict Joseph Labre with a copy of the decree of approval for the his death mask start a new fraternity for Fraternity’s constitution here, the Church called Fraternité which is still in effect. Fr. Michel is also the rector of the Apostolique Saint Benoît- Studium of St. Joseph, a program of canonically accredited Joseph Labre (The Apostolic courses in partnership between the Apostolic Fraternity of Fraternity of St. Joseph St. Benedict Joseph Labre and the Monastery of the Heart of Benedict Labre) in order to prepare priests for the future Jesus in Chicoutimi. of the Catholic Church, along with a second branch for the lay consecrated and a third for families. Fr. Michel initially * * * responded with feelings of panic, as his obligations were already overwhelming, but quickly realized that saying no Our Lady, herself, has named Fr. Michel Rodrigue, “Apostle of to the Father wasn’t an option. Today the first of the two the End Times.” Few, if any, have been given such thorough monastery buildings is now built, exactly as he was instructed, and helpful knowledge of the immediate future of our world. and he is currently in need of much support to have the Fr. Michel therefore paints for us on a larger canvas, which second monastery completed by the due date the Father reveals the interconnectedness and relevance of prophecies gave him: the end of summer, 2020. for our time, including those in Scripture. “Now, I understand! Now I see!” Say people who have heard Fr. Michel and who On March 28, 2020, Fr. Michel wrote to those helping him have previously sojourned into prophetic texts and emerged to accomplish the Lord’s project of the monastery for the cross-eyed. Church of the future. In one letter, he writes: The words of Fr. Michel on this website are taken from …Notice the fact that all those who know the coming recordings of his presentations. Some of his talks on the same of Christ in grace in our time are sons and daughters subject have been combined into one, and in occasional of Mary, our Mother. We are chosen for a special role: places, the translation is not verbatim in order to use proper to be obedient to the Holy Spirit and our Mother Mary English grammar. and to stand ready and able to help our brothers and Fr. Michel can be reached by mail at the following address. He sisters step into the journey of the Church […] My dear has not asked us to mention the following, but if you would people of God, we are now passing a test. The great like to donate to his monastery, you can make checks out to events of purification will begin this fall. Be ready with FABL and send them there. Fr. Michel wishes you to know the Rosary to disarm Satan and to protect our people. that although he cannot respond to every letter due to time Make sure that you are in the state of grace by having constraints, he sends you his love and his prayers. made your general confession to a Catholic priest. The spiritual battle will begin. Remember these words: THE Fraternité Apostolique Saint Benoît-Joseph Labre MONTH OF THE ROSARY WILL SEE GREAT THINGS! — 163, Rte 109 Dom Michel Rodrigue Saint-Dominique-du-Rosaire (Qc) J0Y 2K0 God has gifted Fr. Michel Rodrigue with extraordinary Canada intellectual and spiritual gifts, such as healing, reading souls, a photographic memory (which lessened after many severe illnesses and eight heart attacks!), prophecy, locutions, and visions. He has a naturally joyful disposition and a ready laugh, while at the same time, a great seriousness concerning Source: www.countdowntothekingdom.com 2 Introduction A Virtual Spiritual Retreat with Fr. Michel Rodrigue Chapter 1: An Apostle of the End Times When his father finally set Claude down, Michel said to Claude enticingly, “Come outside and play with me.” Electric wires 1 lined the fence to keep his family farm pigs from escaping. An Apostle of the Michel starting pushing Claude randomly into the wire. Hearing Claude’s intermittent yelps, Michel’s mother looked End Times outside and yelled, “Michel! What are you doing?” Fr. Michel Rodrigue‘s life story “Playing!” he yelled back. “That was my second sin,” recounts A Talk by Fr. Michel about His Early Life Fr. Michel. “I lied.” His mom brought him inside and for his punishment, made him kneel down facing the wall. Michel is the twenty-third child of twenty-three children. “Why did you do that, Michel?” she asked. When he was three years old, God began to speak to him, and they would have regular conversations with the simple “Because Claude was on my father’s leg, and he made him words of a three-year-old’s understanding. Michel remembers dance, and I wanted to be in his place.” sitting under a large tree on his family’s farmland behind his “Michel, you don’t understand. Your father loves you. You home and asking God, “Who made this tree?” are his son. And he also loves your nephew.” Michel began “I did,” God answered. When God pronounced the word, to bawl. Upon hearing that his father also loved another “I,” Michel was suddenly given a vast view of the Earth, the child besides him, he felt like he’d been slapped. It was the universe, and himself, and he understood that everything was first time he understood that love wasn’t just for him. Love made and held in existence by God. Like the child, Francesco was for everyone. “I was too young to go to Confession,” Fr. Forgione, who grew to become St. Padre Pio, Michel thought Michel says, “so I had to wait.