St. John Damascene
My children, from the very beginning the Church was persecuted and
betrayed, but day by day it grew. It is indestructible because my Son gave it a
heart - the Eucharist, and the light of His resurrection shone and will continue
to shine upon it. Therefore, do not be afraid. Pray for your shepherds that they
may have the strength and the love to be bridges of salvation. Thank you."
(December 2, 2015)
*Today I want to share with you a talk that
Mirjana gave in 2014, because I think it complements the message and fills in
some blanks for us. Mirjana was very candid in this talk. She was speaking
from her living room via live stream to a conference in Chicago. Mary TV was
able to provide this link for her to speak in this way! It was a first!
Mirjana's Chicago March 29, 2014 talk to the Totally Yours
Conference in Chicago,
streamed live from Mirjana's living room to the
conference:
I would like to say hello to everybody. I am a
little nervous because this is the first time for me to speak to a conference in
this way (over the internet, live streamed). But I will try to do my best.
I would like to talk about love, and Blessed
Mary. Because you know how much she loves us. How much God loves us. Because,
all these years, He has been sending our Mother to help us to find the way to
meet Jesus.
I want to say quickly the most important
messages, the messages I always repeat here to the pilgrims in Medjugorje. I
think that you know the first and most important message which Blessed Mary
always repeats is the Holy Mass. But Holy Mass, not only on Sunday. When we were
children, at the beginning of the apparitions, one time she said to us, "My dear
children, if you need to choose between seeing me, having the apparition, or
going to Holy Mass, you must always choose Holy Mass. Because during Holy Mass,
my Son is with you."
She asks from us family prayer, because she said
that the parents have a big responsibility in front of the children. Parents
must put the roots of the faith in the heart of their children. But they can do
this, only, if they pray together and if they go to Holy Mass together. Because
children will do only what they see in the home. We cannot talk to our children
about the importance of Holy Mass, if they don't see that Holy Mass is in the
first place for us. We cannot talk to children about prayer, if they do not see
us pray. Because of this Blessed Mary said that we, parents, have a big
responsibility.
She asks from us fasting. She asks us to fast on
Wednesday and Friday. She doesn't ask for fasting from people who are sick,
really sick. She said that those people, through prayer will understand what
they can do instead of fasting on bread and water.
She asks for confession. She said that there is
not one person in the world who doesn't need monthly confession.
She asked for the Bible in our home. She said
that we have all the answers in the Bible. I heard that before this talk, you
were reading the message from March 18, 2014. And I must tell you something
about this message. It was for the first time, when Our Lady was talking about
darkness, that I saw something like a fog in winter. And as she continued to
talk about God's love, everything was gone. I think that through this she was
saying that if we do not choose God, if we do not choose Jesus, we will not
finish good. But with God the sun is always in front of us. God will always show
us the way we must go.
You know that I have an apparition every 18th of
March. Blessed Mary said I will have this apparition for my whole life. Some
people think I have this apparition on the 18th of March because it is my
birthday. But this is not true. I must tell you that on this March 18th, Blessed
Mary did not say to me "Happy Birthday." Because for her my birthday is like all
of your birthdays. Because she chose the 18th of March, just as she chose the
2nd of each month, because these dates mean something. And when the things that
must happen in the world start happening, you will understand why these dates
were chosen, why the 18th of March, why every 2nd of the month.
I had daily apparitions until Christmas 1982, and
Blessed Mary said to me on Christmas 1982 that I would not have any more daily
apparitions. She said there would be one every year, on the 18th of March and
that I would have some extraordinary apparitions. These apparitions started on
the 2nd of August, 1987 and I still have these apparitions. I do not know for
how long.
These apparitions on the 2nd of the month are
also for prayer for unbelievers. Our Mother, Blessed Mary, never says
"unbelievers." When you say to someone, "You are an unbeliever", you give your
judgment. You are judging these people. But she never judges. She only
says,"Those who haven't felt the love of God yet." And she asks
for our help. When she says "our" she doesn't mean the six visionaries. She
needs the help of everyone who feels her love like a mother.
Blessed Mary says that we can change the heart of
unbelievers but only through our prayer and our example. She says that in our
daily prayer we should put in the first place, prayer for them. Because Blessed
Mary says that most of the bad things that happen in the world, like wars,
divorce, drugs, abortion, all these things come because of unbelievers. And she
said, "My dear children, when you pray for them, you pray for yourself, for your
future."
She asks for our example. She doesn't want us to
be preaching to other people, she wants us to talk with our lives. That
unbelievers can see God and the love of God in us. I ask you with all my heart,
to take this very seriously. If you had the possibility only one time to see the
tears in the eyes of Blessed Mary, I am sure you would pray with all of your
heart. We who say that we are God's children, we have a big
responsibility.
When she asks for prayer for unbelievers, she
asks that we pray in her way. I understand when she says this that she means,
first, that we feel love for them. That we feel for unbelievers as our own
brothers and sisters who are not lucky like us to feel the love of God. And when
we feel like this, then we can pray for them. Never judge, never criticize.
Simply love them, pray for them, and give them our example. All of us have at
least one unbeliever in our home, a neighbor, someone where we work. And these
unbelievers are looking at our lives, and we must ask ourselves if they see God
in us or not! For this we will be responsible to God.
I also want to tell you one important thing that
Blessed Mary repeats in every message on the 2nd of the month. This is prayer
for our priests. She is always saying that they do not need your judgment, your
criticism, they need your love and your prayer. She said,"My dear
children, if you lose respect for the priest, you will lose respect for the
Church and for God." Also, when she is giving the blessing during the
apparitions, she says "I am giving you my motherly blessing. But when the priest
blesses you it is the most important blessing on earth, because when the priest
blessed you, my Son is blessing you." She said also "Don't forget to pray for
your shepherds, because their hands are blessed by my Son."
Because of this, I pray you with all my heart,
when you leave this conference and return to your home, your parish, please be
an example to others of how we should be with our priests. I you see that your
priest isn't doing what you think he must do, don't go around and judge him.
Take the Rosary and pray for him. This is the way you can help him. Don't
criticize and judge him. Because in this world we have so much judging and so
little love. Blessed Mary wants people to recognize us through love. We should
not take in our own hands what only God can do. Only He can judge.
I am sorry that I cannot tell you more about what
Blessed Mary has been preparing us for all these years, but I can tell you one
thing. You have the time we are living in now, our time. And you have the time
of the Triumph of Heart of Mary because she said in one message,"What I
started in Fatima I will finish in Medjugorje. My heart will triumph."
And because of this we have this time that we're living in now and we have
time of the triumph of the heart of Blessed Mary. Through these two times
[connecting these two times we have a bridge. And this bridge is our priests.
Because of this reason Blessed Mary is asking from us so much prayers for the
priests. Because this bridge must be so strong that all of us can go through
this bridge because Blessed Mary said with them, through them, I will triumph.
Without priests we do not have triumph of the Heart of Blessed Mary.
Many pilgrims ask me what Blessed Mary
thinks when she's saying this. I can tell you only what I think she wants to
say: who can open the doors of heaven for us? Only our priests. Who can do
confessions for us? Only our priests. Who can give us Jesus during the Holy
Mass? Only our priests. Because of this reason, I ask you with all my heart:
think about this very seriously. And pray for our priests. Because we will
respond to God how we treat our priests.
"I'm trying to tell you everything very
quickly because they tell me that I have 15 minutes....and I don't know, can you
understand me? How is my English? I saw now, Guy and I must say, Guy, you
look wonderful, really. And I'm so happy because of everything that you're
doing for Blessed Mary. Do you want to ask me something?
How Blessed Mary looks: This
is the most difficult question for me because to say how Blessed Mary looks is
very difficult. But I can try to tell you that I think she is a little taller
than me. I think this. Because I'm always kneeling and she's always standing
about a half meter above the earth... And because of this reason I think that
she is taller than me.... She always have grey dress and white veil. Except
on Christmas or Easter when she has like a golden dress.
When I say "grey", "golden" it's the only
color that looks more like that on earth.... She has black hair, because I can
see some here and some here [Mirjana point to her forehead and then makes a
gesture to her waste]. It means her hair is long. She has blue eyes and she's
beautiful!
I can tell you what we would do when we were
still children at the beginning of the apparitions. We asked Blessed Mary
childish questions. We asked, "How is it possible that you are so beautiful?"
And she smiled and said,"Because I love." She said, "My dear
children, if you want to be beautiful, love!" And when we had this apparition
Jakov visionary, was only 9 years old. And when Blessed Mary left, he said to
us visionaries: "I think that she's not saying the truth. And we were screaming
at him how can you say Blessed Mary is not saying the truth, and he said, "Look
at us visionaries. Some of us can love all our lives and we'll never be
beautiful like Blessed Mary said." I think that he didn't understand about which
beauty Blessed Mary was talking about. Because if you are beautiful inside.
If you have Jesus in the first place in your heart, you are beautiful because
you have love. This is what Blessed Mary wanted to say.
I want to say also good-by to all of you.
And please, try to be apostles of Blessed Mary. Some pilgrims who come to
Medjugorje think we visionaries, we are privileged. They think it is enough to
say things to us because God is listening to us more than other people. This is
not true. For God, for Blessed Mary, privileged children don't exist. For
them, we are all her children. And she's choosing us for different mission.
The six of us that she can say messages through us. But she choose all of you!
Because she needs apostles. And I will pray for your conference, I will pray
that you can be apostles of Blessed Mary. Please open your heart. And try to
see Blessed Mary with the heart. Because it's most important to see her with
the heart. Not with the eyes. Because if you're looking only with the eyes you
will not see anything. But if your heart is looking you will see everything and
you will understand everything.
I'm waiting for you. I heard that some of
you will be here for Easter. Next week we will be together. Thank you for
everything, and please pray for us visionaries also, that we can do everything
that God wants from us, but in the right way. Thank you! Always together in
prayer!!!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV 2015
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