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2/16/14
Children of Medjugorje Newsletter
Message from Our Lady.....you will not regret it
"Dear children! With great joy in my heart I thank you for all the prayers that, in these days, you offered for my intentions.
" Know, little children, that you will not regret it, neither you nor your children. God will reward you with great graces and you will merit eternal life."
I am near you and thank all those who, through these years, have accepted my messages, have poured them into their life and decided for holiness and peace.
Thank you for having responded to my call."
2/14/14
Holy Mass for killed Franciscans and parishioners in Medjugorje parish
Holy Mass for all killed Franciscans during and after the World War II,
as well as for all parishioners killed in the First, Second and recent Homeland
War was celebrated in the parish church of St. James on Monday, February 10, on
the feast of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac. Up to this day, graves of so many killed
persons have remained unknown, but memory on them is still alive in hearts and
prayers of faithful. Fr. Ivan Dugandzic celebrated the evening Holy Mass with
six priests that have concelebrated. As he spoke about killed Franciscans, he
said:
“Every year, Herzegovinian Franciscans and all faithful recall with
sadness and pride their most recent history. With deepest sorrow, we remember
how 66 Franciscan priests were killed in February 1945 by evil communists,
but we also remember thousands of husbands and wives who have never returned
home after their execution Way of the Cross that took place after the World War
II. Their graves remain still unknown. As we proudly remember them we know that
our killed
Franciscans were martyrs and witnesses of our Christian faith who were
killed just because they protected their people and their faith. Communist
executors thought that by killing them, they will kill the faith of these
people. We know they were mistaken – the case was also here proved that blood of
martyrs was a seed of new Christians.
As we remember today in our liturgy Blessed Alojzije Stepinac, who was a
victim of those same executors and witness of our faith in a kind of different
way, we also remember Fr. Krizan Galic, parish priest of this parish who was
brutally murdered here in the parish office and six other priests who were born
in this parish and murdered throughout Herzegovina: Fr. Jozo Bencun, Fr.
Benardin Smoljan, Fr. Marko Dragićević, Fr. Mariofil Sivrić, Fr. Grgo Vasilj and
Fr. Jenko Vasilj.
Along with them, we also in this Holy Mass, recommend into God’s grace
all those who were killed and who went missing in the First, Second World War,
in the period after the war, as well as in the recent homeland war.” source http://www.medjugorje.hr/en/
Medjugorje: Commemoration Day of the Murdered Franciscans
Fr. Jozo speaks of the Martyrs of
Siroki BrijegOctober 2000.
You see on your right here, there is a tomb, a very interesting tomb. When the Communists came here fifty-five years ago, they found thirty Franciscans here in the monastery and they told them that there was no more God. And those soldiers that came were inspired by terrorism telling them that there was no more God, there was no more church, there was no more priesthood nor the need for them.
They were told to remove their habits. But not one of those thirty Franciscans was willing to even enter into a debate about this. An enraged soldier took the crucifix from the wall, threw it at the feet of the Franciscans and said, "Now you can choose, this is your last chance, choose - death or life."
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2/13/14
Today is the 9th anniversary of the death Sister Lucia
Sister Lucia died on Feb. 13, 2005, just a few
weeks before Pope John Paul II. The two friends are pictured above.
Sister Lucia Mary's witness
Our Lady of Fatima appeared to the three shepherd children
Sister Lucia, "Mary's witness" at Fatima, died in February 2005 — on the 13th.
Dr. Branca Paul, MD, felt the last earthly beat of the heart of Sr. Lucia. It was a final beat that echoed through nine decades, and sounds yet today.
Dr. Paul, who was Sister Lucia's personal physician for the last 15 years of the nun's life, saw her patient daily. When it became clear that Lucia had lost her will to live, Mother Celina, Prioress of the convent in Coimbra, Portugal, called Dr. Paul.
*A check of her vital signs showed the Fatima visionary would not live long. She had slipped into a coma. There was nothing to do but wait for this beautiful life to commend its spirit to God. But then Lucia surprised everyone. She lifted her head and began moving it back and forth, trying to see in front of her.
"For the Holy Father!" Lucia said. "Our Lady, Our Lady, holy angels, Heart of Jesus, Heart of Jesus! We are going, we are going."
"Where?" Mother Celina asked.
"To heaven," Sr. Lucia replied.
"With whom?" Mother queried.
"With Our Lord, Our Lady, and the little shepherds," Sr. Lucia answered. They were her last words. Francisco and Jacinta had come along to take her to heaven.
As Sr. Lucia's physician, Dr. Paul spent much time alone with Lucia over the final 15 years of her life. She got to know her as well as anyone. What was she like?
"She was bright, determined, funny, fun-loving, yet practical," Dr. Paul said. "She loved jokes and puns. She also, of course, had a profoundly humble spirituality.
"We were very close," Dr. Paul continued. "It was amazing that she was so normal, simple, and humble. Full of joy and laughter, always joking and smiling a lot. For example, when I came in to see her in a new hairstyle or new clothes, Sister would kid me about it. Sister Lucia was great to be around. Her infectious joy made everyone more happy."
Dr. Paul said Sr. Lucia never tired of talking about Fatima — Our Lady's message of reconciliation, reparation, and prayer, particularly reciting the Rosary. Lucia did become frustrated, however, when people wanted to focus on the miracles and secrets.
According to Dr. Paul, "She used to say, 'The miracles and secrets aren't important. We must concentrate on Our Lady's message. Live the Ten Commandments. That's what's important.' To this, Lucia added her 11th Commandment: 'Do whatever God tells you. That is what Our Lady wants.' "
That's a message as relevant today as it was 90 years ago.
Doctor Paul cared for Lucia up to her death at age 97 at 5:35 p.m., Feb. 13, 2005. Interestingly, the Great Mercy Pope, John Paul II, would die only a few weeks later on April 2.
The two spiritual friends were closely related through Fatima, Lucia for obvious reasons and John Paul because of his devotion to Our Lady and the attempt on his life in 1981. May 13, the date the Pope was gunned down, marked the 64th anniversary of Mary's first appearance to the three shepherd children at Fatima, Portugal. In a gesture of thanks for saving his life, the Pope made a pilgrimage to Fatima in 1982. He placed the bullet that had been taken out of his body into the crown of the statue of Our Lady of Fatima. In a gesture of solidarity, Sr. Lucia joined him.
No one had more intimate contact with Sr. Lucia than Dr. Paul, and in our talks, she invariably stressed the good humor and joyous nature of her famous, and famously humble, patient. This nature showed itself in many ways. For example, when a young nun was having trouble or dealing with a difficult problem, Sr. Lucia was always there to offer consolation and encouragement.
"Sister Lucia had a joyful spirit that was contagious," Dr. Paul says. "Even if you were glum, she found a way to brighten your spirits. I know she provided many consolations to her sisters in the convent, particularly the novices, postulants, and young nuns, who just adored her."
Anyone who spent much time with Sr. Lucia would soon be in the presence of a first-rate wit, a woman who loved jokes, humor, and kidding, even into her late 90s.
"In her last years, she had to use a cane to get around," Dr. Paul relates. "We often went on short walks, and when she reached for her cane, she would say, 'The cane needs me now. It cannot stand up or move without me.
I have to help that cane.' She'd say this with a twinkle in her eye and that wonderful laugh."
Lucia often talked to Dr. Paul about her days as a young child, usually spent with her cousins and fellow visionaries Jacinta, 7 years old in 1917, and Francisco, 9, at the time. She would mention Our Lady, the sound of her voice ("an interior voice you could not hear with the ears"), her radiant appearance. One time, when speaking with Dr. Paul about the apparitions, Lucia began laughing.
"In speaking about Our Lady's warnings about the 'errors of Russia,' " Dr. Paul said, "Lucia would tell me that she and Jacinta thought 'Russia' was an evil woman. She said Francisco thought he knew better. He said, 'No, you girls are wrong. Russia's not a woman. It's my uncle's donkey!' "
Dr. Paul called it "a great honor" and a gift from God to be given this access to a patient, who, in many ways, "helped cure me." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZ_pfpuiYU&feature=youtu.be
Medjugorje:
A talk (question and answer session) given by Mirjana in the Oasis of Peace on 3rd October 2009
A: Only about Fatima. She said, "What I have started in Fatima I will finish in Medjugorje. My heart will triumph." I cannot go into details. That's the only apparition she mentioned aside from Medjugorje.
2/12/14
Medjugorje You're the Way Message
Dear Children a great battle is about to take place a battle between
my Son and Satan.
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2/11/14
2/10/14
Pope Francis....We must carry the light of Christ
“We must carry the light of Christ with the witness of a genuine love,” encouraged the Pope on Feb. 9. “The Christian must be a luminous person who carries the light, a light that comes from one that his not his own, but a gift of God, a gift of Jesus. We carry this light forward!”
If a Christian loses this light, “his life doesn’t make sense. He is a Christian in name only,” Pope Francis cautioned.
Departing from his prepared remarks, the pontiff turned to query the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “I want to ask you now, how do you want to live? As a lamp that is lit, or one that is off?”
“I can’t hear your response!” he said, urging the crowd to reply louder.
“A lit lamp!” he affirmed, “This is the Christian vocation!”
Sunday’s gospel passage recounted Jesus’ encouragement to his disciples, “you are the salt of the earth…you are the light of the world.”
This story might “surprise us a little,” noted Pope Francis, “if we think of who was in front of Jesus when he said these words.”
The disciples were mere “fishermen, simple people...but Jesus saw them with the eyes of God.”
Christ “wanted to say to them: if you will be poor in spirit, if you will be gentle, if you will be pure of heart, if you will be merciful, you will be the salt of the earth and the light of the world!”
Such a calling extends to all Christians, the Pope explained. “All of us who are baptized are missionary disciples and we are called to become a living gospel in the world: with a holy life we will give ‘flavor’ to diverse settings and preserve them from decay, as salt does.”
After leading the crowds in the Angelus prayer, Pope Francis noted that Tuesday, Feb. 11 is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and the World Day for the Sick.
“The dignity of of the person is never reduced to his faculties or capacities, and does not diminish when the person himself is weak, handicapped, and in need of help,” affirmed the pontiff.
He went on to thank health care workers for their “invaluable work,” and acknowledge the many letters he receives from families who have very ill members.
“So many write to me, and today I want to assure all of these families of a prayer, and I say to them: don’t be afraid of frailty! Help one another with love, and feel the consoling presence of God.”
Pope Francis then expressed his well wishes for those participating in the Winter Olympics in Sochi and greeted the many pilgrim groups who had travelled to St. Peter’s Square.
Before concluding with his usual “I wish everyone a good Sunday and a good lunch,” the Pope paused for a moment to ask again, “A lit lamp, or a lamp that is off? Which do you want?”
“A lit lamp!” the crowd enthusiastically replied.
“A Christian carries the light!” he affirmed. “He is a lit lamp. Always forward with the light of Jesus!”
*Dear children! In your life you
have all experienced light and darkness. God grants to every person to recognize
good and evil. I am calling you to the light which you should carry to all the
people who are in darkness. People who are in darkness daily come into your
homes. Dear children, give them the light! Thank you for having responded to my
call. Medjugorje Message March 14, 1985
2/9/14
Medjugorje - Veni Sancte Spiritus " Come Holy Spirit "
Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit) Medjugorje
Fr. Jozo's Prayers to the Holy Spirit:
October 3, 2000 Siroki Brijeg
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, come to us today. We need your love, because we desire to go on the new way to return to the Father, to take the step to the Father. O Come, Holy Spirit, You who makes all things new. Today grant a miracle in us and through us. Change our hearts. Take from us our hearts of stone and give us a new heart, a heart that knows how to love, how to pray, how to forgive. A heart that knows how to embrace the cross and recognize the will of God and carry it to the end.
October 3, 2000 Siroki Brijeg
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, come to us today. We need your love, because we desire to go on the new way to return to the Father, to take the step to the Father. O Come, Holy Spirit, You who makes all things new. Today grant a miracle in us and through us. Change our hearts. Take from us our hearts of stone and give us a new heart, a heart that knows how to love, how to pray, how to forgive. A heart that knows how to embrace the cross and recognize the will of God and carry it to the end.Come, O Most Holy Spirit, You who are our peace, come fill us with peace. You who are love, fill us with love and blessing and salvation. We are not here accidentally. We have been called, that we may be able to recognize our call and our mission. We ask You to come O Most Holy Spirit, that our masks may melt away, that our true face may be revealed before You.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, may a miracle happen today: the beginning of our conversion, the beginning of our true devotion. Come, O Most Holy Spirit pour out Your grace and Your strength on Your Church and convert us. Sanctify us. Change us.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, we are the Church united together in prayer with the Mother. As the disciples at the very beginning, united together with Her in prayer for the gift of Your Spirit, for the gift of love, that we may be freed from selfishness and hatred, that we may be freed from every evil, and that we may start to love, that we may start to forgive and to pray, that we may start to fast.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, Come bless us. Come, change us.You who are prayer, come and anoint us with prayer that we may become the Church that believes in the power of prayer. Come, Most Holy Spirit, renew prayer in us, that we may become the renewers of family prayer.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, come heal us, come bless us, come convert us. O You who anoints with Your Peace, with Your Joy, with Your Love. Come anoint us. In the last message O Blessed Mother, You say, that the one who prays, lives joy and peace and love. O Blessed Mother, here is the Church in prayer, here is the Church who desires to renew itself in prayer, firm in prayer, come to fall in love with prayer. O grant that these days may be the renewal of our prayer, of our faith through prayer, of our love through prayer, of a Christian life in prayer. Come, O Most Holy Spirit. Come, pour Yourself out upon us. The Church united together with the Mother is praying to you, You who make all things new. Grant that this Church may become new. It may become a Church of prayer, a holy Church, a sign amongst nations, your city on the hillside, your light on the way, Your Self.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit. Come and pour Yourself out upon us. Our Father who art in Heaven....Hail Mary, full of grace...Mother and Queen of Peace - pray for us. Mother of the Church - pray for us. Mother and Queen of the family - pray for us. Consolation of the Sorrowful - pray for us, help of Christians - pray for us, help of the sick - pray for us, gate of heaven - pray for us. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
*In the last message O Blessed Mother, You say, that the one who prays, lives joy and peace and love. O Blessed Mother, here is the Church in prayer, here is the Church who desires to renew itself in prayer, firm in prayer, come to fall in love with prayer. O grant that these days may be the renewal of our prayer, of our faith through prayer, of our love through prayer, of a Christian life in prayer.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, Come, pour Yourself out upon us. The Church united together with the Mother is praying to you, You who make all things new. Grant that this Church may become new. It may become a Church of prayer, a holy Church, a sign amongst nations, your city on the hillside, your light on the way, Your Self.
Come, O Most Holy Spirit, Come and pour Yourself out upon us. Our Father who art in Heaven....Hail Mary, full of grace...Mother and Queen of Peace - pray for us. Mother of the Church - pray for us. Mother and Queen of the family - pray for us. Consolation of the Sorrowful - pray for us, help of Christians - pray for us, help of the sick - pray for us, gate of heaven - pray for us. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
The Medjugorje Message: Medjugorje... declaring for the Kingdom of God
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2/8/14
The Medjugorje Message: Pope Francis… positive attitude about Medjugorje
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2/7/14
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2/6/14
Pope Francis Pray For The Grace Of Dying In Hope
“Trusting God begins now, in the small things in life, but also in great problems: always trusting the Lord! And so one makes this habit of trusting in the Lord and hope grows. To die at home, to die in hope,” the Pope said in his Feb. 6 daily Mass.
Using the scene of David's death in the first reading, taken from the First Book of Samuel, Pope Francis highlighted how the kind spent his life in the service of his people, and that when he dies, he does so “within his people.”
Although David calls himself a “sinner,” the pontiff noted that “he never left the People of God,” saying that he was a “sinner yes,” but a “traitor no!”
The Pope emphasized that “this is a grace: to remain until the end in the People of God. To have the grace to die within the Church, precisely within the People of God.”
Touching on three points, the Pope said that the first is “for us to ask for the grace to die at home. To die at home, in the Church,” adding that “this is a grace! This cannot be purchased!”
Dying “at home, in the Church” is a gift that we should ask for, the pontiff observed, saying that “all of us are!” are sinners, “But traitors no! Corrupt no!”
Picturing the Church as a mother, the Pope emphasized that although we are “many times dirty,” the Church “cleans us: she is mother!”
Recalling how David dies in a “quiet, peaceful, serene” way with the certainty of going “on the other side with his fathers,” the pontiff noted that a second grace we receive is to die in hope, knowing that “on the other side” our home and our family continues, and that we are not alone.
“And this is” also “a grace that we should request” he continued, “because in the last moments of life” we know that it’s a struggle, “and the spirit of evil wants the loot.”
Calling to mind how Saint Therese of Liseaux experienced a voice in the final moments of her life telling her “don't be foolish waiting in the dark. You expect only the darkness of nothing!” the Pope noted that “the voice of the devil, of the demon…did not want her to trust God.”
Observing that “die in hope and to die relying on God” is a grace we should ask for, the pontiff emphasized that “trusting God begins now, in the small things in life, but also in great problems.”
Turning his thoughts to David’s heritage of “40 years of government,” and of a people “consolidated” and “strong,” the Pope recalled a proverb which states that every man should leave behind a child, plant a tree, and write a book, saying that “this is the best heritage!”
He then asked those present, “What legacy have I left to those who come after me? A legacy of life? Have I done so much good that people want me as a father or mother? Have I planted a tree? Have I given my life, wisdom? Have I written a book?”
“This is the legacy,” said the Pope, “and our testimony as Christians left to the others,” highlighting also that some of us, “the Saints” who “have lived the Gospel with such force,” leave a “great legacy” behind.
Concluding his reflections, the pontiff repeated that “the three things that come to my heart from reading this passage on the death of David” are “to ask for the grace to die at home, in the Church; to ask for the grace to die in hope, with hope; to ask for the grace of leaving a beautiful legacy, a human legacy, a legacy made with the testimony of our Christian life.”
Invoking the intercession of the kind, the pontiff prayed that “Saint David grant us all these three graces!”
2/5/14
Marija: Put Faith Above Fear and Fatalism
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By Jakob Marschner
Medjugorje visionary Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti took on
what she saw as misplaced priorities and bad use of time in
addressing 900 attendees on Saturday [December 12, 2012],
at a prayer meeting in the Grand Theatre in Canazei, Italy.
“What do we have to fear? The prophets, hurricanes,
or that the end of the world is coming…? The end can
come every day, but it seems that our life depends on the
horoscope of the day, but we must learn from those in the
past who trusted God,” Marija said, according to the local
newspaper Trentino Corriere Alpi.
“I do not know what will happen to us, but God teaches us
that without Him there is definitely no future for us. What
is a hundred years if there is no eternal life? We are too busy
with evil, television and computers, but how much time do
we devote to God?” the seer also said.
“I do not know what will happen tomorrow – but the
important thing is to have your heart free from anxiety, fear,
pain, and live through every test of your lives, remaining
steadfast in prayer and love,” Marija added, according to the
regional newspaper L’A d ig e.
Marija cited several examples of healing – one about a boy
who was in a coma for three months after a car accident, but
woke up without any kind of brain damage.
“So many times we do not believe in miracles, but they are
there. My testimony is intended to be a sign of God’s love for
you. We are nobody, I am nobody, but we are here as a sign
that Our Lady intercedes with God for us,” she said.
“Our Lady loves you and carries the image of all of us
in Her heart, today and tomorrow, because everyone is
important to Her,” Marija told them.
www.medjugorjetoday.tv http://www.spiritofmedjugorje.org/issues/February2014pdf.pdf
2/3/14
HEARTS CHANGE AT MEDJUGORJE
There are some places and some people in life that ‘mark’ you forever. Once you have come in contact with them, they revive in you everything that seemed buried within your heart forever.
Then you
recapture a life full of joy, serenity, and purpose. You understand the reason
you are living, where you have come from, and where you are going. You take your
life back into your hands with vigour. You rediscover a design of love in your
life that trials and difficulties have buried. Then you feel like a new person,
and even others are aware that something has changed your life.
The place that has ‘marked’ me and millions of other people is called Medjugorje. It is different from other places because there is a ‘Presence’ there that you do not see but whose effects and benefits you gather. It is a Presence that speaks to our hearts and manifests itself in a personal manner for each one of us. This presence is Mary the Mother of God.
In Medjugorje we discover that this mother, the Queen of Peace, wants to enter our lives. That is the reason she says to us: “Dear Children, accept me in your lives, because I desire to bestow my love upon you.”
Fr. Luigi Ferrari
2/2/14
The Medjugorje Message: February 2014 message given to Mirjana...
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2/1/14
Medjugorje comes from Heaven
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Fr Jozo Zovko OFM
- If you were to see Our Lady for just one second, I don't know whether your life on this earth would be interesting after that one second. Every day after every encounter with her I always need several hours to come back to this earth and to the realities of this world.(Ivan Dragicevic, seer of Medjugorje.)
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