Reflection on the Message of November
25, 2001
LET
US PREPARE OUR HEARTS
"Dear
children! In this time of grace, I call you anew to prayer. Little children,
pray and prepare your hearts for the coming of the King of Peace, that with His
blessing He may give peace to the whole world. Peacelessness has begun to reign
in hearts and hatred reigns in the world. That is why, you who live my messages
be the light and extended hands to this faithless world that all may come to
know the God of Love. Do not forget, little children, I am with you and bless
you all. Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of November 25,
2001
In
the message of the last month, Our Lady told us: “Little children, you are
chosen to witness peace and joy”, and today she tells us about restlessness in
hearts and hatred in the world.
Everyone
seeks joy. Everybody wants to be happy and seeks joy. We all want to be happy.
The good and the bad are equal in their desire to be happy. The good ones are
good to be happy, and the bad ones would not be bad if they would not hope to
become happy in such a way. In his Confessions, the great St. Augustin told us:
If we all love joy, it is because we have already known it in a mysterious way.
If we had not come to know it – if we were not created for it - we would not
love it. The one who knocks at the door of a church – even it he does it with
violence and anger – does so because he seeks joy. However, we see that the
world around us is mostly sad. Sadness and restlessness strangle our throats and
almost suffocate us. There are less and less joyful people and joyful
Christians. Nietsche has already criticised Christians because their faces were
too gloomy frowning.
Sadness
and restlessness walk on our streets, in our villages and in our cities. Sadness
has even sneaked into our families. Sadness and restlessness infect even our
children to whom, instead of joy, we give things to eat, bigger and bigger and
more and more ugly toys to destroy. Joy does not come from things, from toys,
from food, from cars, motors, techniques, money or pleasure. Our heart and our
soul seek the real food. You cannot cheat your soul while giving it things. If
you don’t feed it with God and His Word, it will rebel and seek vengeance. Your
soul gives you signs like emptiness, lack of meaning, nervousness,
aggressiveness, anger against everything and everybody. You have to recognize
these signs, you have to learn again to enjoy in little things and to recognize
so many things around us - that everything is given, and that we hove not earned
or merited anything.
Gospa,
our Mother, walks with us for more than twenty years now. By this message, she
prepares us for the time of Advent, which is approaching, and she puts in front
of our eyes the King of Peace. Restlessness and hatred govern the world, our
Mother tells us in this message, and we know and see that very well. And not
only in the world, but they sneaked also into human relationships, families,
amongst nations. Our Lady shows us the way, she puts into our hands a powerful
means with which we can reach peace, if only we want it and seek it. It is not
enough to see and to understand the state of your heart and your soul, of your
family. It is not enough to know it, as it is of no use to a hungry man to know
that bread is good. It is of no use for us to know that God is love, of no use
to know that Our Lady is here out for love for us. We have to follow her words,
to make the decision, to start today. We need the encounter and the experience
of the God of Love. It is useless to curse darkness; let us light a lamp
instead, and darkness is already gone. Sometimes it is enough to lift our eyes
just a bit above the mud of this world, above our heads, to pronounce a good and
positive word, and darkness is already gone. We have to heal our negative,
black, tragic thoughts and pronounce pure words, so that God’s health and peace
may reach us. It is not enough to say that there is no prayer in my family, that
we can never get together, that every one goes his own way and after his own
business. If nobody wants, then you start, have the courage to say to God a word
of prayer and a cry, so that through you the light may come down, little by
little, on those who are with you.
There
are many hearts that follow Our Lady’s messages, which she gives to us still
today. Our Lady counts on us, who want to hear her messages; she counts on our
perseverance, even when we do not see immediately the fruits and successes. Our
security is her presence, her words that she is with us in spite of everything.
Let us be and let us remain with Her. Peace and good to you.
Medjugorje,
November 26th, 2001
Fr. Ljubo Kurtovic
Fr. Ljubo Kurtovic
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