Testimony of Juliana Goncalves

I left the house disposed to live each moment of that retreat, God would change all that I was living or I would never again return to church. ..

“Dear Your People, do not be afraid to confront the challenges that you experience in your lives!

Do not lose hope. Have courage, also in difficulties

remain firm in the faith. Be certain that in each circumstance you are

loved and protected by the love of God that is our strength.” Pope Benedict XVI

It was a year ago, 30 of August, 1 and 2 of September, I was living each moment of the First “Retreat” of Jesus Revolution Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in which my life would never be the same after I left that ranch.

I already made various retreats, in the moment in which I was there –in retreats – it was all good. However, when I returned to the house days later, that love that I had experienced passed. I found it easy to live the things that the world offered. Many times my college professors spoke that God did not exist that I would be able to live all, not having “that”  “superior being” to command us all the time.

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With all this, I began to live all that I had not lived until the present moment I found in drink that I was not able to understand or that maybe filled that void that I felt. Already I rarely went to mass and when I did go my partying friends waited for me at the doors of the church more than one night. Each day, I got better only to get worse. The relation with my parents already was not the same, I did not accept anyone telling me that I was wrong. How many times I fled from the staff of the University prayer group.

But God who loves us and never abandons us, already had prepared to the conquer me at once. In that weekend of the 30 of August, 1 and 2 September of 2011, it was a day marked by Him. I left the house disposed to live each moment of that retreat, God would change all that I was living or I would never again return to church. He really surprised me.

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Each test that I experienced, I thought. . .

I was never going to be the same anymore, I want a new life!

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