The Miracle Story
Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith
On August 28, 2018, I was in Cuenca, Ecuador, for the 30th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith, to a then-teenage girl named Patricia “Pachi” Talbot.* Months earlier Pachi had urged me with great intensity to come to Ecuador and sing for the events. After it was over, when I asked why she wanted me to come, she shared the reason behind her loving insistence: "Because you have a mission to save the world with your voice.”
“Is that coming from you...or from her?” I asked. “From her,” she replied.
I wasn’t sure what that meant for me, but about a year later I was driving home from singing for my second funeral in three days. Both of these people had been listening to my CDs in their last days, and it occurred to me that I needed to do more for the suffering. Should I go sing for the sick and dying in hospitals and nursing homes? Should I work with Hospice? Then I heard a sweet voice say to my soul,
“Give your music away to the poor, the sick, and the dying. No one should suffer or die without consolation.“
My heart was on fire, and inspiration came like a download from Heaven as the Sounds of Peace ministry was born. I made a few phone calls to friends who I thought might be able to help me, and it was essentially a done deal before I got off the bridge. Then I realized what day it was: August 28, 2019, Feast of Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith, exactly one year after Pachi's words to me!
Over the next few years, we distributed 7,000 digital music players loaded with all of my music to those in need. Since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted only weeks after the players arrived, the players enabled us to provide comfort and consolation to those who were suffering in isolation during that terrible time. As one gentleman put it, "It was crushing to not be with my beloved wife in her last days of suffering, but I took great consolation in knowing that she was listening to your voice and to the consoling message of God's great love for her when she died."
NEW WAY TO STREAM: Since MP3 players have become obsolete over the last couple of years, and since most people have access to the internet, Sounds of Peace is now exclusively being streamed for free from this website. We invite you to visit the streaming page and to share this with others in need of comfort and consolation.
*The messages Pachi has received have been approved by her bishop, as has the building of a massive new shrine at El Cajas, high in the Andes Mountains. For more on Pachi, click here and here.