My Refuge & Fortress

I could hear the loud thumping of my heart when my 19 year old daughter, Tharani, informed me that she had felt a lump in her breast. She said that she had known about it for a week although I suspected that it must have been much longer.

It was 8.30pm on Saturday, 14th March 2020. With minutes to spare, I whisked her to a nearby clinic before they closed for the weekend. The lady doctor concurred that it was indeed a large lump and gave us a referral letter to the Penang General Hospital.

With fear in my heart, I decided to take Tharani to a private hospital first thing on Monday morning. The lump was removed the very next day and a tissue sample was sent to the laboratory for testing to rule out cancer.

Worried and tensed, I stayed with her in the ward. I am a Hindu, but when a couple of Catholic Christians came to visit their relative, I requested prayers for my daughter. I was in tears when they prayed over both of us and signed the cross on our foreheads, assuring us that Jesus will hear and answer our prayers.

One of them gave me a card with the address of the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Sungai Batu and told me to pray and offer thanksgiving for Tharani’s healing. I was encouraged when they related the many wonders and answered prayers by people who prayed there.

I would have gone at once if it wasn’t for the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO) by the government to contain the corona virus, Covid19.

As they left, the ladies promised to continue praying and I promised to let them know my daughter’s biopsy report due in a week.

That wait was a long and an extremely difficult week for me. I cried for my daughter, worried as I feared the worst. My only hope was the card I was given with the image of Mother Mary that I clutched and prayed with.

Then on Tuesday 24th March, exactly one week after the operation, I went with my daughter to receive her medical report. I cried again, but this time it was tears of joy. The test results showed that the lump was nothing more than a cyst and not cancer!

I cannot wait to go the chapel in Sungai Batu in thanksgiving for my answered prayers.

Thank you Jesus! Thank you Mother Mary!

First-hand testimony by Kasthury Veeran

Simpang Empat

Penang

28th March 2020

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My refuge and fortress – 28 MARCH 2020 – TAMIL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arise … And Walk: Eric

It was 2015, the year that I developed a sudden weakness of the right side of my body. My eyes and mouth drooped and I was unable to use my arms and legs like before. My family rushed me to a government hospital in my hometown, Kuantan, where a CT scan was done and the doctor informed me that I had suffered a stroke.

I was only 55 years old then and except for my wife, I couldn’t recognize my three children, relatives and friends. It was a very difficult shock for me both physically, mentally and emotionally. During this trying period, my weight dropped from 80kg to a skinny 50kg!

My mother, Jane Mary persuaded me to pray at the Chapel of Immaculate Conception in Sungai Petani for my needs and current situation.

It was only two years later in 2017, that I could heed her words. I was taken to the ‘miracle’ chapel in a wheelchair where I prayed with fervour to Our Blessed Mother to intercede to Jesus for my healing.

After my return to Kuantan, I started going to a private physiotherapy center instead of the government hospital that I had been consulting. When after 6 months, there was no progress in my mobility and ability to walk normally, the therapist suggested that I get my brain scan repeated.

This time I went to a private hospital where an MRI showed a 4cm tumor at the area of the brain which controls balance. I agreed for to an operation to remove the tumor. After a successful surgery, I continued intensive rehabilitation to get me mobilized.

Last month, February 2020, I returned to the chapel in Thanksgiving to Mother Mary for her intercession in answering my prayers. The cause of my weakness was diagnosed correctly and treated after praying at the chapel. Only this time I needed just a walking stick, not a wheelchair!

Thank you Jesus! Thank you Mother Mary!

First-hand testimony by Rhazhario Muthukrishnan @ Eric

St Thomas Church

Kuantan

23rd March 2020

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Arise and Walk – Eric – 23RD MARCH 2020 – TAMIL

 

…When Trials Come: Catherine

I was just 49 years old in 2016, when I first experienced chest pains. I consulted the doctor at the government clinic who assured me that it was nothing to be concerned about.

I was worried enough to confide to my friend, Anne Selvarani (Your Father Knows) who urged me to take my problems in prayer to Mother Mary at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in Sungai Batu. Encouraged by testimonies of people whose prayers were answered, I made the trip to the chapel and prayed fervently for Mother Mary’s intercession for my health problem.

Following my pilgrimage, a stress test in a private hospital showed that I required an angiogram costing RM16,000 which I couldn’t afford. In November 2016, an angiogram done at at the Penang General Hospital revealed three blocks!

I experienced another financial roadblock as only one stent out of the required three was free. The other two cost RM10,00! To overcome this predicament, the specialist suggested a heart bypass but I had to remain in hospital for two weeks as I was considered to be at a very high risk.

In February 2017, I had my bypass operation. At 3pm, just before my anesthesia was administered, I prayed the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy and invoked the intercession of Mother Mary. I felt no fear as I faced this frightening phase of my life.

Soon after my operation, I developed an infection at the surgical site which required five trips to the Operating Theatre to have my wound cleaned and treated. After a month in hospital, I continued doing the dressing at home until the wounds healed completely.

It was a very difficult period for me and my family as I also had a teenaged autistic son to care for. Although I experienced struggles, hardships and disappointments before and after my operation, I know God’s hand was always there and Mother Mary was interceding powerfully for me.

In April 2017, I went with my family to the chapel in Sungai Batu to offer thanksgiving for my healing. Thank you Jesus! Thank you Mother Mary!  

A first-hand testimony by Catherine Faustina Dass

Church of Nativity of the BVM

Butterworth

13th March 2020

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WHEN TRIALS COME – Catherine 2016 – TAMIL