Mem­bers of the Ro­man Catholic faith gath­ered in their hun­dreds two Sun­days ago for Je­sus Ex­plo­sion 23.

The two-day event was held in the Cheryl Greaves Au­di­to­ri­um at Bish­op Anstey High School East in Trinci­ty and was once again host­ed by Fa­ther Ian Tay­lor and his team, who en­sured at­ten­dees were en­riched with the teach­ings of Je­sus Christ.

The event fea­tured con­ver­sa­tions, tes­ti­monies, work­shops on var­i­ous spir­i­tu­al top­ics, praise and wor­ship, Eu­charis­tic ado­ra­tion and the cel­e­bra­tion of Mass.

How­ev­er, the high­light this year was un­doubt­ed­ly the con­tri­bu­tion of vis­it­ing priest Fa­ther An­tho­ny Abra­ham, from the US Vir­gin Is­lands. A son of the soil who was or­dained 17 years ago and is now as­signed to the Vir­gin Is­lands, Fr Abra­ham, ap­pear­ing in his first stint at Je­sus Ex­plo­sion in T&T, de­liv­ered stir­ring talks and tes­ti­mo­ny to those gath­ered, leav­ing them en­riched by the word of Je­sus Christ. Fa­ther Abra­ham is no stranger to JE though. He al­so ap­peared when the JE team vis­it­ed the US Vir­gin is­lands in 2017, rep­re­sent­ing his St John Parish, along­side Bish­op Neil Scant­le­bury (St Thomas), dur­ing that fo­rum.

At the end of this year's event, Fr Abra­ham, the son of de­ceased ca­lyp­son­ian Samuel “Bri­go” Abra­ham, en­deav­oured to re­turn to T&T.

The gath­er­ing was al­so moved by Luke Walk­er, who gave tes­ti­mo­ny on how he gave up a lu­cra­tive ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ty af­ter grad­u­at­ing from the Berklee Col­lege of Mu­sic and Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in the US to re­turn home to join the priest­hood. Walk­er is cur­rent­ly at the Sem­i­nary in Mt St Bene­dict. Thomas Ar­moogam al­so en­gaged the gath­er­ing as he tes­ti­fied on his con­ver­sion to the faith af­ter years as a Je­ho­vah’s Wit­ness.