Testimonial from Oscar y Lina Lopez

The damage of contraceptives and God’s mercy … We come from a Catholic family with a lukewarm faith but I had the grace of having very devoted paternal grandparents who taught me love for God and our Mother Mary … I got married in Colombia in the Catholic Church in the midst of many trials and violence and in the year 2000, with my doctor husband, we had to emigrate to the United States.

In his medical training they taught him to “help women” with contraceptives and it was assumed that he would do it with his wife, especially because of the difficult circumstances we found ourselves living in at the time.

By emigrating, we are starting from scratch! We started using contraceptives because we didn’t think we were prepared to have children. However in 2003 I became pregnant with an ectopic pregnancy and we lost our first baby.

We both felt, in conscience, a lot of pain but we still didn’t understand the damage we had done to our baby with those birth control chemicals. I lost a fallopian tube as happens to many women and my reproductive system was no longer normal, they practically declared me sterile.

On December 24th it is tradition in Colombia to ask for thanks to Baby Jesus and we asked for the grace to have a baby. We were granted this miracle of life and in 2005 in our house she was born with a normal birth! All differently as the medicine said! In this my husband saw only the hand of God and we woke up in faith.

In 2007 I became pregnant again by the grace of God but the child did not develop because I was diagnosed with endometriosis … they had to remove it because his heart was no longer beating we discovered that it was a girl.

So we understood that the chemicals I was taking damaged my body and God’s natural plan in my life… but we also understood that we had two souls in heaven who intercede for us, as my grandfather taught me.

We began a strong journey of conversion and went from going to Mass when we could to going to Mass daily and our son grew up in an environment with the Love of God.

In 2011 we met John Rick Miller and began to serve God in his movement.

On this journey we met Carlotta when she was beginning to live her vocation and her apostolate. After two years of knowing her we were able to see the grace of God work which united us to her to make us understand that through our little ones, who have interceded for us, we are on this path of purification and holiness.

Also that my doctor husband understood that what they taught him to help women is not real help. With the Mission that the Lord has given us today we understand that these martyr souls are united with us and give us strength in this land.

We baptized them with desire and asked God and their forgiveness and we felt the embrace of our Lady of Guadalupe in the Peace of God of this forgiveness.

We are always united with them in our life and in the life of our now teenage son! He knows that he has two little brothers in heaven who are waiting for him and who follow him so that he can reach the place where they are: in the presence of God.

After so many years we have absolute certainty in our hearts that they accompany us despite all the pain and ignorance in which we have lived. They are a true gift of God in our earthly life, they are close to the Father, they are two saints who guard the mother, father, her little brother and other family members.

Everything is a merciful plan of God. My little saints in heaven are called Maria Camilla and Juan Manuel.

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