(c)Mary TV 2013
J.M.J.
September 30, 2013
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Also
today I call you to prayer. May your relationship with prayer be a daily one.
Prayer works miracles in you and through you, therefore, little children, may
prayer be a joy for you. Then your relationship with life will be deeper and
more open and you will comprehend that life is a gift for each of you. Thank you
for having responded to my call."(September 25, 2013)
Yesterday we were joyfully busy
with Mary TV tasks. Denis and I prayed the Rosary again in our studio, with the
expert help of Josip, KiKi and Ivan. It is so different to have a crew helping
us. We also taped a beautiful testimony of an American Priest. And then Rosie
asked me to share a little bit about the Evening of Prayer at St. Stephen's
Cathedral for Tea with Rosie! Add to that Holy Mass, and prayer at St. James and
you have quite a day! There is so much life in Medjugorje, so many
opportunities to receive and share graces! Wow!
I want to finish the transcript
of Marija's talk given on September 28 (but I have only did another third of
it). Many have shared that it is nice to have the written version, so they can
pray over what Marija says. So here is part two of Marija's talk:
Without God we
do not have God or eternal life. And that is why she has been inviting us to
conversion. She said, "Leave sin behind. Give up on sin. Renounce it and embrace
holiness." It's difficult to renounce our habits which we do every day and by
which we are attached to sin. But Our Lady says to us that her desire is that we
become her extended hands. In the moment when we become her extended hands, we
become her instruments, and we will start feeling the joy of being her
instruments because we will see that that desert that is around us and often
inside of us will start blossoming. In that moment we will fell gratitude in our
heart. Our Lady invites us to be the instrument through our prayers and our joy.
Our Lady invites us day by day to start a serious walk, a walk of
conversion.
Already in the
first months Our Lady was inviting us to choose a priest to be our spiritual
guide so that we can walk together with his help in a serious way, so that we
are able to be guided through God's commandments. Our Lady said to us, reflect
upon the life of the Saints and follow what they did. Once during an
extraordinary apparition Our Lady invited us to go to a place not far from our
house, and after our everyday apparitions Our Lady invited us to an
extraordinary apparition that was a second apparition of that day. And we
understood that Our Lady would say something important, and that is exactly what
happened.
Our Lady
appeared and then we started recommending to her all our intentions, all our
prayers and all we had in our heart. We started to recommend all the sick people
and those who recommended themselves to our prayers. And then Our Lady said to
us that all of us there were able to come closer and touch her. Then we six
visionaries said to her, "Our Lady, how would that be possible? Because they
can't see you, it is only the six of us who can see you." But Our Lady said to
us, "You take their hands and bring them closer to me." And that is exactly what
we did. Step by step, everyone had the experience of touching Our Lady. And
everyone could feel her presence. And they really all of them had an experience
of Our Lady's special presence. Some people felt cold, some warmth, some felt
electricity, but everyone believed that Our Lady was there. But we [the
visionaries] when everyone was touching Our Lady could see that on her dress
there were some dirty spots remaining. Smaller ones and bigger ones. And in a
certain moment the dress of Our Lady was dirty. We started crying and we said,
"Why did your dress become this dirty?" And then Our Lady said, "Those were our
sins that made it dirty. Return to the Church. Choose a priest who will guide
you, will help you to know what is sin and not sin." She invited us to monthly
confession. And then I remember that the day after, none of us wanted Our Lady's
dress to be dirty again. The following morning we went to the church to look for
our parish priest, Fr. Jozo, and we all wanted to go to confession. And then
step by step, Fr. Jozo started calling all the priests from the neighborhood to
come and help. And today, Medjugorje has become the greatest confessional of the
world, where every pilgrim is invited to go and reconcile with God.
She who is the
Queen of peace is inviting us to become instruments of that peace. And Our Lady
invites us to become her extended hands in this world, where our mission is to
do it in our homes, in the place of our work where we can live our mission. In
what way? I would say with the example of your personal life, with your everyday
example, with prayer, love, and with all those things to which our Lady invites
us in her messages.
She invites us
to put the Holy Bible in a visible place in our homes. So that every day we can
read the Bible and pray, and to put into practice what we learn.
To the
Apparition Hill, the place where Our Lady appeared for the first time, Podbrdo
as we call it, we were happy to go up there with her. Because we said to you,
Our Lady said that she had chosen that place there on the hill. In the
beginning it was nothing, thorny bushes, rocks and stones. Before it had no
significance, but now because of her presence and her apparitions there that
place has become so important for us and for our parish. But Our Lady did not
stop up on the hill.
At a certain
moment, the communist police stopped us from going up the hill. They stopped us
because they said that land belonged to the state. And Fr Jozo at that time, the
parish priest was kneeling in the church, saying to the Lord, "You are present
in the Blessed Sacrament, and people are passing by the church and heading up
the hill towards those thorny bushes, rocks and stones. We did not understand,
because her presence and her love transformed us and attracted us, and then we
started following her. Then the soldiers came, the army came and then they
stopped us from going up the hill. And so we asked Our Lady what we should do,
and Our Lady we said, "Go to the Church. There you will be protected." And that
is exactly what happened. We started praying. We started asking in what way and
how we could go to the church. We asked three times, "Our Lady, to you mean the
building?" That is because we did not want to put Father Jozo in a difficulty.
We knew that he was very suspicious. And poor Fr. Jozo was praying in humility,
Lord what am I to do? And God spoke to him through the reading of Sacred
Scripture. He opened the Bible and read the lines "They are my beloved
children." In that moment we came into the church and we said, "Fr. Jozo, Our
Lady is sending us. We desire to listen to her message. And Our Lady said we
should pray and listen.
And so we
started to pray in the church until the moment when Our Lady appeared. And then
Our Lady told us what we were to do. She was saying to put Jesus in the first
place. Ask your priest to say Mass, and with so much joy in our hearts, we said
yes. And I remember that particular moment at that time when the people here
worked in the fields and we were all children of peasants and we worked in the
fields. But after their work in the fields they would go home, wash and then
come to the church. We would pray the love and pray with the heart. And the
church was obedient. The living church, the church of people filled this
building of our church. There were people saying yes to Our Lady's call, yes to
God, yes to fasting, yes to daily mass, and then Our Lady understood that she
could count on us. And she said to us that she needed us. She said she desired
to present us to her Son as a most beautiful flower bouquet.
(Marija Pavlovic Lunetti,
speaking on September 28, 2013 at St. James Church - see the Rosary Archive for
September 28, 2013 - Saturday).
I will have to finish up the
transcription tomorrow!
One last piece of news! Tonight,
I was told that the statue in Vicka's parent's old house that has been
displaying unusual light was removed from its spot in the prayer room by the
parish. We do not know any details. But it is good to know that the parish is
involved in the phenomenon. More to come!!
God bless,
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
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