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Father Berchmans as he is called famously is a former Catholic Priest, who is one of those leaders who allowed the Holy Spirit to sweep them as the Charismatic movement swept India. He is a living legend whose more than 350 Tamil songs and more than 30 albums have touched and changed hundreds of thousands of people. He is known to carry the joyful existence of God wherever he goes.

When Evng. Shyju Mathew was invited to minister at Jebathottam (the venue built by Father Berchmans for retreats), he took the opportunity to interview Father Berchmans. We hope that our generation can pick up a thing or two from the older generation that the path of true worship and love for JESUS.

From 1974, he worked as an ordained priest for 6 years. When he was 30 years old, God asked him to repent and surrender. It was during that time he wrote this song in Tamil that means, “I cannot compare you with anyone, and everything else is rubbish.”

He was a musician; he was also a choir master in the bible college. He had learned karnatic music for a while. With that background, he had self-possessed a few songs. Then he also composed few spirit-filled songs and they still sing that in catholic churches there. One of the song goes like this, in English it mean “To whom else we will go, you have given eternal life.” It became a very famous song in the Catholic Church.

Here is the link for his latest album’s video promo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PoucI5zaLrQ

-Hingston Lovell