More on Fr. Do

Last Friday’s column on Canada-based Batangas healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez triggered an avalanche of calls and emails from readers asking how to get in touch with him.

Fr. Do, who turns 40 on Feb. 7, left for Ottawa last Thursday night. He’ll be back for two healing Masses in Metro Manila and Marilao on his next visit March 29-April 15.

The cleric’s local host Greg Monteclaro said he will celebrate a healing Mass and hold a healing concert at the Araneta Coliseum on July 21.

Fr. Do’s latest trip here was his seventh since his ordination in Canada in 2002. He was invited to say Mass by President Arroyo at least four times. In San Fernando, Pampanga, he con-celebrated a 4:30 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral then had breakfast with the First Family last Dec. 20, the day after he arrived.

Last Wednesday morning, Fr. Do officiated a Mass at Malacañang. That night, he led a prayer meeting in Greg’s B. F. Homes residence with Speaker Jose de Venecia and wife Gina attending.

If you’re interested to learn more about Fr. Do, check out his website www.fatherfernando.com or call Greg’s home at tel. No. 772-2190 (if Greg or his wife Paz is not available, ask for Lea).

As I mentioned in last Friday’s column, Fr. Do is for real. His touch is magical. His power of healing is a gift from God. He doesn’t claim it as his own. He knows he’s just the Lord’s earthly instrument.

"It’s not me," he said, quoted in The Catholic Register. "I don’t know how people get healed. But I know it’s God. My spiritual director told me this gift is not for me, that I must share it with others. If they get healed, they need to praise the Lord."

Fr. Do, a chemical engineering graduate of Adamson University, discovered his power of healing when he was 16 but was afraid to use it, not knowing why or how he acquired the gift. Eventually, he accepted God’s calling and joined a contemplative order of monks in Canada where his family migrated in 1995. Later, his superior encouraged him to openly become the Lord’s healing instrument and join an active order. In 1997, he joined the Companions of the Cross religious community of priests and seminarians.

Fr. Do has brought his healing ministry beyond Canada’s borders to the US, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Hong Kong, Macau and the Philippines.

The testimonials of the faithful whose lives have been touched by Fr. Do are too many to mention. Several are documented in his website.

Fr. Jeff Shannon, director of vocations of the Companions of the Cross, said, "The effectiveness of his gift is the healing happens so quickly, sometimes instantly, sometimes in a short time after."

Greg said he has seen with his own eyes how Fr. Do has made the blind see, the deaf hear, the dumb speak and the lame walk.

I cited several healing cases in last Friday’s column. Here are more.

A Filipina national artist was wheelchair-bound and could no longer paint. When she was touched by Fr. Do after a healing Mass, she got up and walked out of the church, pushing her wheelchair with her hands.

A 10-year-old Filipino boy was born unable to speak. After Fr. Do touched him, he went back to his home, opened the fridge, took out a soda to drink and turned to his parents, saying, "Mommy, Daddy, this is yummy."

A Canadian woman with stage 4 pancreatic cancer was miraculously healed after Fr. Do prayed over her. She was scheduled for surgery but doctors cancelled it when her cancer disappeared completely without a medical explanation.

A Muslim king of a Middle East country visited Fr. Do in Ottawa and asked to be healed of a chronic pain in his body. Fr. Do prayed over him and the pain was gone.