Lord, Please remember me in your kingdom -- The Lord spoke to Paul in a vision. Do not be afraid, keep on speaking, and do not be silent. For I am with you (Acts 18:9).---Come Holy Spirit.
As Catholic Media and leading pundits wring
their hands about empty pews and the vanishing youth inside churches,
they again refuse to report on a very big Catholic story.
This week the largest gathering of young Catholics in Europe are attending the Medjugorje Youth Festival.
80,000 young people from 60 countries, all on fire for the Catholic
faith, are the clear future of the church. These young people go to
daily mass, they go to confession they pray the rosary, they sit in
adoration.
The Vatican papal envoy is present and mingling among the faithful.
The entire week is a wonderful, joyful, powerful, spiritual event yet
Catholic media in USA again ignore this important news story.
How can our media possibly write fearful articles about the future
of the Church as they ignore the large ray of hope coming from the young
people who are gathered in Medjugorje.
What demonic force is at work here – What exists in these people hearts?
From Papaboys 3.0:
The 29th edition of the Medjugorje Youth Festival, Mladifest 2018, is in full and lively activity.Over 80,000 young people are present, coming from more than 60 countries.Long lines to the confessionals and tens of thousands of consecrated particles, during masses celebrated by over 650 priests.Also
Archbishop Hoser, personal representative of the Holy Father for the
parish of Medjugorje, is present and mingles among the pilgrims.
Such a quantity of young people who
together pray and receive the sacraments is second only to the World
Youth Days, strongly desired by St. John Paul II.
It is the largest international gathering held annually in Europe.Mladifest
was born, about thirty years ago, by the will of Father Slavko
Barbaric, when he began to gather and welcome young people, to talk to
him about the Marian spirituality of Medjugorje.
Most
of the media ignore this event, even if the growth of young people
participating in the meeting has increased considerably, especially in
the last 10-12 years.The young people respond to the silent call that the Gospa has addressed to them for almost thirty years.
Until the early 2000s, the Festival had a large participation of young people, but did not have today’s numbers.Those
were the years of his first rapid development, in those days there was
less organization, much more spontaneity, but the Festival participants
were about a third of those present today.
Mary TV Live streamed the entire youth festival... it can still be watched at www.marytv.tv
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