No human explanation exists for the mysterious rays of light pouring down on the House of Prayer Achill in this photograph. Photographs taken immediately before and after this one, show that it was a dull day with absolutely no sunlight.
A selection of the over 700 testimonies of healing recorded at the House of Prayer, Achill through the intercession of Our Lady Queen of Peace and the mission of Christina Gallagher.
"During the Night Vigil as I was praying the Rosary I just closed my eyes, when some very strong and powerful sensation went through my whole body, and I was brought to tears. I cried and cried… I knew some great change had taken place within my entire being. From that moment onward, I have had no urge to touch drugs, thank God,” he explained. “Not just that, but I have had the desire for daily Mass, Holy Communion, Prayer, the Rosary” he added, explaining how he had gone back to God and received the sacraments..."
"While I was in Our Lady’s House, I felt inclined to pray and did spend some time alone in Our Lady’s chapel. I felt very happy and peaceful and close to Our Blessed Mother. So the week-end passed and we returned home and I put on a Matrix Medal, and I say this because had I not done so, I might not be here today to tell any kind of story, let alone this one. Thanks to Christina Gallagher and Fr McGinnity"
"My desire to go back the Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer Achill was overwhelming. Within 2 or 3 weeks I made it and that is when I very slowly started to turn my life back to God. This was also the day of my first confession in approximately 10 years.”
"Thank you dearest Heavenly Mother for calling me back to Jesus through the House of Prayer in Achill. I thank you for the Sacrament of Confession, for Christina Gallagher and Fr McGinnity. I am so grateful to get my life back, it truly was a miracle"
"Through listening to Fr McGinnity at the House of Prayer, Achill, I received the grace to make a sincere and entire confession. Through the House of Prayer and the victimhood of Christina Gallagher I have become a more fervent Catholic"
"I had been a Jehovah Witness for fifteen years until I heard the teaching of Fr Gerard McGinnity in 2005. From coming back to the Church with Fr McGinnity's help, I appreciate my Catholic religion so much. Finally I am spiritually fulfilled. I've had so many blessings from the House of Prayer Achill."
I came to the House of Prayer in a broken state. There were prayers on and the chapel was quite full. I started to say the Our Father. It was as though I had never said an Our Father properly before. In an instant, every word had deep meaning. I felt the love of God my Father, and tears flowed down my face. “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” I had to, there and then, forgive in a deep and loving way all the people who had hurt me and my family..."
"Since my first visit to the House of Prayer Achill, which was 25th March 2006, I was inspired to think deeply of the Eucharist and have gone to Mass every day since."
"It was a beautiful Spring day, Good Friday, and a joy to be at the House of Prayer, and hearing the Rosary prayed so fervently, the peace was tangible in the place. The following day I went to confession, for the first time in 30 years. It has been a joy to return to the sacraments.
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"As a pilgrimage organiser I experienced how Our Lady Queen of Peace drew Her pilgrims back to the Sacrament of Confession. After being in the House of Prayer, three men
approached me that day for advice on receiving the Sacrament of Confession. It transpired that they had not been to confessions for 20-30 years. When later thanking me, we all agreed that the gratitude was owed to Our Lady Queen of Peace."
"My prayer life grew in depth as a result of my visit to the House of Prayer Achill in 1999. I found my spiritual experience at the House of Prayer very enriching and Christina's experiences and messages so full of tracings to the Bible and in harmony with previous spiritual masters. It was clear God had blessed Christina in a marvellous way, and with her the Irish Church. "
"Before going to the House of Prayer Achill my spiritual life was completely dead. I was not going to Mass, Confession nor saying any prayers. Following my first visit in 2003 my whole life has changed. I completely stopped drinking and drugs were no longer on my mind. I was going to Mass seven days a week and praying the fifteen decades of the Rosary daily."
"After visiting the House of Prayer Achill we began attending regular confession and saying the Rosary in our home which we never did before. We wore the Matrix medal also and have received many healings and blessings for our family from regularly attending the prayers especially the Saturday Novena.”
"I am 27 years only and first visited the House of Prayer Achill in 2003. There on the Saturday night vigil I felt a deep peace flow through me... in it held a healing, security and fulfilment my heart had so desperately yearned for over many years of hurt... I received the grace to be happy without having to get drunk, take drugs or lead a promiscuous lifestyle.”
John Garbutt (right) from Hartlepool England, pictured here with Dr Michael Anketell, at the House of Prayer Achill after giving witness to his testimony of healing and conversion through Christina Gallaghe at the House of Prayer in Achill. His medical documents were submitted as evidence to the Church in 2000 for examination. The Church, as yet, have not carried out investigations of his case, or of the evidence submitted by other people who have been healed of life-threatening illnesses through Christina Gallagher.
Kathleen O'Sullivan at Our Lady Queen of Peace House of Prayer in Achill,
attending to give thanks and witness to her healing of Cancer of the Pancreas.
In 1997, she was carried wrapped in a blanket into the House of Prayer in Achill by her husband with only weeks to live. Both Fr McGinnity and Mrs Gallagher prayed with his wife and he carried her to the chapel to attend Mass. On the way home his wife, who hadn't eaten for two months, suddenly said she felt hungry. He stopped at a hotel in Galway and for the first time in months she ate a full meal. Her jaundice disappeared over the next few days, appetite returned fully and she had a complete recovery within a short time.