Roger J. Morneau (18 April 1925 – 22 September 1998)"Morneau, Roger" [Obituary Citation]. Adventist Review (10 December 1998). See also "Prayer author dies". Record 103 (7 November 1998), pp. 4–5 was a Christian author who wrote on prayer and the supernatural. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Biography Morneau was born in 1925 in Saint-Jacques, New Brunswick,"When God answers your prayers - Interview with Roger Morneau - "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHV2Ed1FWM Canada, into a family of devout French Canadian Catholics;Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 6. two of his aunts were nuns, and one uncle was a priest.Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 6. While he was a youth, his mother died and he experienced disillusionment in God that he later claimed stemmed from teachings in Catholic books and the Church.Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 15. He claimed to have been concerned with teaching that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church,Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 10. and felt he could not understand a God that would torture people eternally in hell.
Morneau claimed that as a young adult he was introduced to spiritism through a friend, and nearly joined a secret order of spirit worshipers who claimed to be the "elite".Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 32. Before he was to make a full commitment, however, he asked a Seventh-day Adventist co-worker, Cyril Grossé, to go over some Bible studies with him.Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 72. This turned him away from spiritism and began his studies of Christ as an Adventist. Morneau claims there was the threat of a bounty on his head of $10,000Morneau, Roger J. (1982). "A Trip into the Supernatural". Review and Herald. p. 121. (approximately $126,000 in 2012 dollars), should he join the Adventist Church.Inflation Calculator: http://www.calculator.net/inflation-calculator.html?cinterestrate=10000&cincompound=1946&cinterestrateout=94643.55566&coutcompound=2012&x=78&y=13 He became a member of the Adventist Church in 1946 regardless. In 1947, he married Hilda, a licensed vocational nurse in Montreal, after which he worked for many years in telephone advertising sales. In 1984, an illness destroyed part of his heart muscle, giving him cardiomyopathy for the rest of his life. Morneau died in 1998.
Film production company Lifestreams Media researched and produced a feature-length documentary titled "Charmed by Darkness" http://www.CharmedByDarkness.com - "Charmed by Darkness" Lifestreams Media, released in February 2020 about Roger Morneau's life which includes previously unseen pictures, documents and footage, confirming Roger's childhood and World War II experiences as told in the full manuscript of his autobiography "Charmed by Darkness" Charmed by Darkness, Pacific Press, 2015, (an abridged version was originally published in 1982 as "A Trip into the Supernatural"). The film includes interviews with eye witnesses Cyril and Cynthia Grossé who studied the Bible with Roger in 1946 and later became lifelong friends. The last half of the film documents the size and impact of Roger's international prayer ministry that included over 25,000 names on his prayer list prior to his death in 1998.
Publications
A Trip Into the SupernaturalReviews: Colleen Kelly, Adventist Review 174 (17 April 1997), p28. Loretta Parker Spivey, Message 67 (September–October 2002), p22 Beware of angels: Deceptions in the last days, Review and Herald Pub, 1997, Incredible Answers to Prayer trilogyGerald W. Wheeler, review of The Incredible Power of Prayer, Sabbath School Leadership 2 (February 1998), p25. Colleen Kelly, review of More Incredible Answers to Prayer: When You Need Incredible Answers to Prayer, Adventist Review 174 (17 April 1997), p28) Incredible Answers to Prayer: How God Intervened When One Man Prayed, Review & Herald Publishing, 1990, More Incredible Answers to Prayer, (1993) When You Need Incredible Answers to Prayer, Adventist Book Center New Jersey, 1995, The Incredible Power of Prayer, Review & Herald Publishing, (June 1, 1997), Charmed By Darkness, Pacific Press, 2015,
References
External links http://www.Charmedbydarkness.com - "Charmed By Darkness - the life and legacy of Roger Morneau" (Docudrama, released February 2020) Word search for "Morneau" in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index