The two steeples of St. James Church in Medjugorje
Prophecy of Sr. Briege McKenna
By Louise Lotze
When I was reading the April, 2013 issue of The Spirit of
Medjugorje, a phrase jumped out at me which reminded me of a
prophecy Sr. Briege McKenna had made before the apparitions had
begun in Medjugorje. The article I was reading was by Sr.
Emmanuel, “One Single Mass Per Year.” In conclusion, she was
speaking about St. James Church and the thousands of pilgrims
that gather there today. Then she said it is no wonder that we
see “rivers of graces” flowing on that village. This inspired me
to find Sr. Briege's prophecy again. I searched and discovered
my cassette tape in a shoe box.
In 1981, Sr. Briege was attending an International
Conference for priests in Rome, one month before the apparitions
had begun in Medjugorje. The priests were formed into groups by
their country. She met with a group from the former
Yugoslavia. A Franciscan friar who was a youth director in the
diocese of Mostar asked her to pray with him to find a way to
help the youth. The youth were really seduced and were taken to
meetings by the Communists with propaganda to draw them away
from Christ. As Sr. Briege prayed with him, she got images like
an overhead projector. She saw this priest sitting on the main
celebrant's chair in front, and he was looking onto the body of
the church, and it was packed with young people. From behind him
on the altar, there were streams of water – rivers, just
flowing, and the young were cupping it and drinking it, but as
they were drinking it, they would go out and bring others in.
She told the priest he didn't have to worry, that many young
people would come to his church. She also told him that she saw
a church with two huge steeples. Almost immediately, a Sacred
Heart missionary, a French Canadian priest whom she knew, walked
over to her. She had been speaking into the friar's ear and it
had been translated by another priest, so no one could have
heard what she had said. This missionary priest, who had just
gotten a prophetic word, then told the friar that “you know
Father, Our Lady is going to visit your church.” This friar
priest was not even in Medjugorje at that time, and no one knew
about the two steeples in the church. It was all very bizarre,
but later made sense when the friar became pastor of St. James.
A year later, Sr. Briege was invited by the government of
Brazil to give a retreat and to speak to the government
officials. She begged the Lord to tell her on what she was to
speak. She was given a message by Our Lord to promote the
Rosary, fasting, penance, prayer and to speak about Our Lady.
Later, Sr. Briege received a letter telling about the
apparitions in Medjugorje. She hadn't heard of this, though it
was a year later. When Sr. Briege recalled all this, she
realized that the message of Medjugorje had been placed in her
heart at that particular time when she was speaking in Brazil!
Editor’s note: Louise is from Ashtabula, OH.
Source of this Article http://www.spiritofmedjugorje.org/
Source of this Article http://www.spiritofmedjugorje.org/
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