Testimony by Jean Gigi Zamora

I was an active believer of faith and religion since I studied from a catholic exclusive school for girls managed by nuns in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro. During elementary and high school years, I had a deep vocation to enter the Carmelite Monastery in Lipa, Batangas to be a Carmelite nun or mongha.  Until way back early 1980's a priest turned my back away from religion and church until such time that in 1988 I met a vehicular accident and made me nearly approached death and made me realized that I was wrong turning away my back from church and religion.

I decided to serve God in my most simplest ways but pleasing to His eyes.  It was in 1993 or 1994 when somebody told me the Divine Mercy Church in Marilao, Bulacan is under construction and I decided to look for it and found out that it was really under construction and looking for some donors.  Since I was doing well on those years, I sent anonymous donations, in check, to the Divine Mercy Church.  I made it a point to hear mass there once a month at 9 am which is being held at the grounds of the church.  It was very uncommon of me to hear mass there on 2 consecutive Sundays.  On the 2nd Sunday I went there, I saw a priest celebrating mass and my heart skipped a beat hearing his voice.  After the final blessing, I decided to follow the priest to the store of religious articles and I found out he was the parish priest named Fr. Vic Robles.  He was surprised when I opened my wallet wherein he saw the picture of the Blessed Mother and pointed at me as "Ikaw ang hinahanap ko (it was you whom I was looking for)"  Surprised, I didn't know what to do and we went inside the church and talked for a few minutes and I came to know that he was asking for a sign to know who was the anonymous donor and the sign was the picture of the Blessed Mother in my wallet.  He blessed me after some conversation near the altar, which is still under construction.  He told me many things about faith, trials and love of God. 

I felt a deep touch of God in my heart after that incident and I decided to surrender everything to God. After surrendering everything to Him, my luxuries, my life, my joys, God tested my faith and trust in Him. The trials, pains, sorrows and aches I received made me wiser and tougher but faith made me stronger.  When I was still experiencing those, I heard an earlier mass again at the Divine Mercy Church to avoid the priest and to my surprise it was again Fr. Robles who was celebrating the mass.  He saw me at the right side of the church and looked at me, I wanted to cry, I wanted to shout because of so much pain.  I followed him to the sacristy, asked for his blessings, and recited to him the sufferings and sorrows I am going through.  He asked me to be stronger, hold tight, embrace my faith and believe in God.  I lifted up everything again to Him.  I triumphantly won the battle of trials and God rewarded me with so many gifts...the gifts of the Holy Spirit. God gave me the gift of interpretation and I was amazed how I was able to interpret dreams or sights.  Another trial came, and God rewarded me with the gift of discernment.  I felt a great fear in my heart whenever I can see disasters, calamities and it was Fr. Robles again who told me to offer prayers whenever I see them. God gave me another trial and rewarded me once more with the gift of wisdom.  I have been hearing soft whispers every now and then.  Whispers that sometimes made me run whispers that have given me fear and it was again Fr. Robles who made me understand what those whispers were. 

My gifts were active and strong in the mid 90's and I asked God to give me a normal life and he did but I heard a voice telling me..."offer your life to be of service to me.  Offer to me your luxuries.  I want you to be humble and meek and so and so forth."  I could not reveal them to Fr. Robles but when 1 day I visited him, he told me that God would give me a precious gift, my most requested gift.  I asked Fr. Robles what was that gift and he told me...you are asking for a child and God is giving the child to you before the end of 1997.  It came into reality, God gave me a daughter, and I named her Erika.  I showed the girl to Fr. Robles and blessed her inside the sacristy and to my surprise, Fr. Robles once more told me to be stronger, hold tight as there are more trials to come and it happened.  Too many things happened on those years to me and I believe it was Fr. Vic Robles whom God used as an instrument to be able for me to discover and know God.  I lost communication with Fr. Robles but I always long for the day to meet him again.  Past few months, I decided to see him again at the Divine Mercy Church but obstructions crossed my way.  I wanted to ask again Fr. Robles as the gifts of the Holy Spirit are now becoming active and strong again in me. Now that I have God in my life and His peace in my heart, I never crave anymore for a luxurious life.  All the trials, pains and sorrows I experienced...God made a way for me to triumphantly overcome those.  Everything God told me, through soft whispers and dreams, came into reality.  The dreams and sights I interpreted, came into reality. 

I thank Fr. Vic Robles for guiding me and for constantly reminding me even through media, Radio Veritas, to hold tight and embrace my faith. There are a lot of things that happened in my life but God never abandoned me but even though I still experience small trials in my everyday life, I never lose my faith and thanked Him for the pains, trials, sufferings and sorrows He is giving me.  I glorify Him always for making me a stronger, wiser and tougher person with confidence and trust in my self.  Thank you Fr. Vic Robles for being an instrument of God...I shall never forget you for the rest of my life.  I glorify God for sending you to me and for making me understand every situation.  Thank you so much.

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