Music by Michael John Poirier & Friends

 

The Father Corapi Live event will also have music performed by Michael John Poirier & Friends. Their performance is sure to add to a spirit-filled day.

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Michael John Poirier's Bio

Michael John Poirier has wrapped his prayers in songs, presenting them as gifts to listeners and to God. One of 12 children, Michael John Poirier began singing publicly at age 14 when he joined a folk group at his church. By the age of 21, music became his full-time profession. For the next seven years, Michael struggled to know what God was calling him to do with his life. For a while, he lived the life of a troubadour, giving away most of his belongings, and traveling with a backpack and guitar. He sang at bus stations to comfort lonely, weary travelers, on street corners to calm the hurried, in hospitals to relieve the suffering and in soup kitchens to fill the hungry.

In 1993, he began offering candlelight prayer concerts at parishes nationwide, an evening of healing through music and storytelling. That year he met his future wife, Mary Cook, and they were married in Arizona where they made their home for six years. From the first day they met, Michael and Mary Poirier have felt a steadily growing 'ache' to share a message of mercy. In 2000, they sold their home in Arizona and for the next eighteen months, they traveled around the country in a motor home with their two sons. They offered evenings of 'prayer songs' and Eucharistic Adoration to draw people closer to the love and mercy of God.

Michael uses music and storytelling to set an atmosphere where it is easy to imagine God telling us how much we are cherished. Michael's music is filled with prayers of encouragement, comfort, forgiveness and mercy. He has composed more than one hundred songs, released ten music CD's, a storytelling CD, an Advent CD featuring children telling the Christmas story and a special interview CD just for men examining their faith lives and how that faith impacts their wife, children and the world.