My Mouth Will Declare Your Praise
 


I was a chain smoker. I was smoking more than three packets a day. In the first week of October 97, two sisters of the Bridgetine Convent visited me at my residence and requested me to stop smoking. As I used to cough while singing in the Church, I stopped smoking completely as a penance for my sins.

In the middle of November, my throat got choked. I was unable to speak and I could not sing. I took eight penicillin injections every alternate day besides taking tablets and gurgling with hot water as per medical advice. There was no improvement whatsoever. I got frightened suspecting it to be cancer of the throat. I wept for three days. My son suggested that I go to Potta. As luck would have it, Potta people themselves were then having a convention at St Thomas Mount from 12th to 14th December. I attended it all the days. On the second day of the retreat at about 5 pm during the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, I was praying prostrate on the floor of the Church saying, "Jesus touch me, Holy Spirit descend upon me".

Our Lord Jesus Christ touched me on my back. It was as though a child was touching me with the four fingers of his right hand. On the last day of the convention an announcement was made that Jesus was curing a person of throat cancer. I gave witness immediately.

I went straight to the Doctor who was treating me and told him that Jesus had touched me and that I would not need any more treatment. I became normal within a week and I sang during the Christmas Mass withafull- throated vocie.

All praise and glory to the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit as I continue to rejoice and exult giving him glory for all eternity.

"Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!" (Ps 27:14).
 

C.B. Karuna Nithi
BSP Rtd, Pallavarum
Madras-43