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The Twenty Second Day of the Four Men Boot Camp

12/26/2011

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The History of the Second Four Men Prayer Group

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The Original Four Men prayer group was formed around 32 AD and was the Four Men in Mark’s Gospel who brought their paralytic friend to Jesus for healing. (Mark 2:3-5)  The Second Four Men prayer group began with an inspiration from the Holy Spirit while praying the Rosary everyday.  During the Rosary tape they would quote various scriptures pertaining to the mystery.  The third Luminous mystery stood out in particular and the quote that would be repeated everyday when I prayed was from the Book of Mark chapter 2 verse 3-5 about the First Four Men prayer group.  They brought their paralytic friend to Jesus for a healing and they let nothing stop them from achieving their goal.  The crowds, the looks, even the removal of a roof did not stop them.  They would get their friend to Jesus no matter what.  Jesus seeing their faith forgave the paralytic his sins and also healed him.  Four friends doing what friends do, help each other.  The best way to be a friend is to bring a friend to Jesus, the True friend of us all.  At the same time I read the story of Venerable Anne De Guigne who was a young girl who would pray and sacrifice to obtain the conversion of sinners.  She would not give up until the sinner was converted.  She had a holy tenacity to obtain the graces from God to convert sinners.  Here is the part of her story that inspired me:

Extract from The Life of Venerable Anne de Guigne by Tan Books

"Nothing would stop her," writes Madame de Guigne, "when she meant to save a soul. She would sacrifice herself in countless little ways and never lost a chance of offering something to God for her poor sinner."  Of course, Anne was too young to know much of the evil that exists in the world, but she knew it did exist and that nuns often came into contact with these wicked people, so she used to ask them to give her a soul to convert, a really big sinner, preferably. She would then listen gravely till she knew all about her sinner, then with a most businesslike air, she would say firmly: I will see about it, as though she had an understanding with Our Lord on the matter. Nothing discouraged the little apostle. If the sinner was obdurate, she prayed the harder and enlisted the whole family in a crusade of prayer. Resistance roused her zeal and she urged everyone to persevere till they had wretched the grace from God. "We must go on praying, Mother," she said when she heard that an obstinate old man, whose heart was as hard as the mountains amidst which he lived, still persisted in refusing the Sacraments in spite of all their prayers. Anne and her mother were just leaving church when they heard the news, but she wanted to go back and pray some more for her precious sinner. "I am determined that he shall go to confession," she insisted. "Let's go and pray some more." And she won the battle."

     Anyone who has ever been converted from sin looks back on their conversion and realizes that someone must have been praying and sacrificing to obtain that grace.  Grace must have been obtained to open the eyes and ears where before they were closed.  
 
     An inspiration came to me that many four men prayer groups should be formed to bring souls to Jesus just like the first four men prayer group.  These prayer groups would not only help save paralytics souls through prayer and sacrifice they would also save their own.  Read James 5:20 to understand this principle.  The paralytics would be those who could not get to Jesus on their own.  They need help, the further away from Jesus the better. 

     We began our prayers together spiritually on September 15, 2004 and have been doing our best to remember our daily prayers and make sacrifices to bring our souls to Jesus everyday.  Through the grace of God we shall continue to bring souls to Jesus so that we shall, "Never Leave a Soul Behind."
Keep up the Great work!


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15 Comments
freddie L. cortes
12/31/2011 10:13:29 am

The Four Chosen Disciples,
The Four Friends of the Paralytic,
The Four Man Groups Forming Today....

Father God, in the name of Jesus, help us to be like the original four, and the latter four, and may we always strive to be fishers of men, and helpers in bringing lost souls to Christ Jesus. Give us the patience, the words, the strength, the anointing, and the love required for this calling and this task, one soul at a time. In the Name of Jesus I pray, as You say in Your Word, that You are so Patient because You do not want any one soul to be lost. You are a wonderful God, and outside of You there is none.
In the name of Jesus, help us to do Your Will.
Amen.

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Fr. Ronaldo
5/2/2012 01:36:02 pm

wonderful story, thanks to you and God bless you!!!

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Oscar Olague
5/30/2012 09:43:12 am

Life is beautiful, the road is full of happiness and hope and we are building a castle in heaven for our paralytics and ourselves.

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Timoteo Saldana Honesto
3/18/2013 11:09:00 am

As the saying goes in the Cursillo movement, "Make A Friend, Be A Friend, Bring A Friend To Christ!"

Peace and All Good!
Timoteo, OFS

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Tom
3/25/2013 04:31:38 am

This reminds me, can any one give me a correct pronunciation for venerable Ann's last name? "D- GiG- Nee"? I know this seems like a trivial thing, but every morning I see her name and I have no idea how to pronounce it.

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Bob
9/10/2013 04:46:44 am

Tom, I got the pronunciation from iTranslate on the web. It is been like green without the r and then yay. You can go to any internet translator and have it pronounce the name so you can hear it.

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Hans Georg Lundahl link
8/18/2014 05:10:42 am

Anne de Guigné.

g-i-NYAY.

I put a hyphen between g and i for the same reason French spelling has an u between them : it's a hard G as in ghost. Not at all as in gee.

"de" is a bit like the interjection "duh".

And I wish the four men would leave this kind of adoption business to precocious child souls like Anne de Guigné.

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Tom
3/25/2013 04:32:46 am

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Bob
9/10/2013 04:56:00 am

This is a very interesting relation of the 2nd 4 Men Group. It is an awesome task to be a member of a 4 Men Group. I still am wondering if I can be a member bc I also am a sinner, like all of us. It seems somewhat prideful to me to feel that another has sinned to the degree that he needs my prayers. I would be happy to hear what anyone who has completed boot camp feels about this.

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Brian
5/2/2014 06:31:35 am

The question is not how many sins committed in the past, the question is the present. If you are now praying and sacrificing for others you can be sure you are on the right path. Keep up the great work Bob!

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David E Mello
9/22/2013 04:31:41 am

Completion of the 22nd day

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Susan Fox link
12/26/2013 02:57:13 pm

Wow, what can I say, except let's clone the idea and find a whole bunch of Four Men's Prayer Groups! GBU Susan Fox

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Emmydom
11/23/2013 02:50:28 am

thank God for all these inspiration. 15th September happens to be my Birthday... same anniversary... Praise God

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Sean
2/27/2014 10:16:51 pm

Bob, if you're question has not been answered, this I'll say. The struggle will always be there for us all. If life is a battle, Dinets are wounded soldiers. Better yet, we who become four men, are seals. a wounded soldier is a "sinner" that we never leave behind. Lest the enemy "devil" captures and tortures for info. Let not one, dear brother go! For you Jesus, are the saving power of God!

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Al link
3/22/2017 08:01:34 am

What is the current state of Anne DeGuine's path to sainthood?

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