Heaven’s Helper: My Little Star

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(Maureen’s) training will be familiar to all who seek to live a God-Centered, loving life. We are all trained every day by all of those ‘little’ incidences that we have to respond to, not react to, that leads us deeper into the love of God and others. It is the death to self a thousand times a day (from Br. Mark Dohle OCSO’s review of Heaven’s Helper).

Maureen Capistran was a Boston area go-getter with little interest in God. Her primary focus was on her success in the world of real estate. Without warning her life began to change in 1989 when she started experiencing bizarre occurrences which she learned later were demonic attacks. These terrifying manifestations plagued her for seven years.

Keep the Focus on Jesus

She eventually returned to the Catholic Church after her mother suggested she start praying the rosary. As she prayed, the beads would unexpectedly heat and vibrate. Then, Maureen would hear a gentle woman audibly telling her she had been chosen and would help people in need.

This “gentle woman” directed Maureen to Fr. Aniello Salicone, a spiritually gifted Xaverian priest at a local shrine. He discerned her story, decided it was authentic, and concurred she was indeed called do God’s work. He also explained she had been under attack from Satan for years to thwart the mission God had chosen for her.

Father Aniello suggested whenever Maureen felt attacked to say the following prayer, which he also prayed himself:

Thank you Jesus for loving me as your number one. Please, help me to love You, others, and myself the way you love me.

In other words, keep the focus on Jesus. Father Aniello became her spiritual director and told her she would soon be talking with Jesus and the Blessed Mother. She would hear them audibly and respond back through thought.

“We believe that the Holy Mother of God, the new Eve, Mother of the Church, continues in heaven to exercise her maternal role on behalf of the members of Christ” {Paul VI, CPG § 15}. – (CCC 975)

Heaven’s Helper

For the next three years, Maureen was trained by Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Maureen’s new book, Heaven’s Helper: My Little Star, is the journal of her unexpected mystical experiences as she grew closer to God. The book is packed with beautiful teachings imparted to her from Heaven which apply to all of us regardless of where we are in our faith journey.

God revealed that her mission was to help bring souls back to Him if she decided to accept. She had to shift her priority from money to God. This was fraught with many tears and much frustration until she was willing to detach herself from the material world and embrace the importance of God’s Love.

When her training concluded she was assigned St. Michael, to guide and work with her on this mission.

Angels in the Life of the Church

CCC 334-336 explains how angels guide and work with us:

… the whole life of the Church benefits from the mysterious and powerful help of angels. In her liturgy, the Church joins with the angels to adore the thrice-holy God. She invokes their assistance (in the Roman Canon’s Supplices te rogamus . . .{“Almighty God, we pray that your angel…”}; in the funeral liturgy’s In Paradisum deducant te angeli. . .{“May the angels lead you into Paradise. . .”}). Moreover, in the “Cherubic Hymn” of the Byzantine Liturgy, she celebrates the memory of certain angels more particularly (St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Raphael, and the guardian angels). From infancy to death human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.”

Miracles began and her gifts of knowledge, healing, and discernment started to unfold. St. Michael nicknamed her “My Little Star” thus the title of the book.

Maureen helped Fr. Aniello and then was guided to volunteer with children with cancer for ten years. She was then directed to Fr. Joe Whalen M.S, the healing priest with the devotion to St. Raphael the Archangel for seven years.maureen has spent the last twenty years serving the Lord.

Inspiration For Modern Catholics

What I kept thinking when I was reading this book was, so often we read the words that people from centuries ago received from Our Lord, yet here is someone living among us today who has been in regular contact with Heaven for years. To read what has been given to this woman Maureen, and what is clearly meant to be shared with others, is even more fascinating because it’s here and now.

Many questions we all have are answered from the afterlife, death of loved ones to pets. This book gives you a true perspective of our life’s purpose here on earth and what God expects of us. Being a true story, it could not be published at a more appropriate time.

Heaven’s Helper: My Little Star is endorsed by best selling Catholic author Joan Wester Anderson, and includes testimonies of several priests, including Maureen’s spiritual director. It should be noted that the Church has yet to give this book an official nihil obstat.

Hear an interview with Maureen about communicating with God on My Generation.

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