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Dcerninghearts.com presents Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John

Essev. Monsignor Esif is a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has served as a

retreat director and confessor to St. Teresa of Calcutta. He continues to offer direction and

retreats for the sisters of the missionaries of charity.

Monsignor Asif encountered St. Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him.

He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the pontifical missions, a Catholic organization

established by Pope St. John Paul II,

to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor.

He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests, and sisters,

seminarians, and other religious leaders.

Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essive.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

What's on your heart today, Monsignor?

Well, today, what's really on my heart, I think the best place I can begin with regard to God,

Jesus revealing our blindness to us in the man born blind.

You see, every one of us is born blind.

We are all under original sin.

Only Jesus.

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