Mary TV Daily Reflection 2/4/2011

February 4, 2011
Dear Family of Mary!

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"Dear children, you are gathering around me, you are seeking your way, you are seeking, you are seeking the truth but are forgetting what is the most important, you are forgetting to pray properly. Your lips pronounce countless words, but your spirit does not feel anything. Wandering in darkness, you even imagine God himself according to yourselves, and not such as he really is in his love. Dear children, proper prayer comes from the depth of your heart, from your suffering, from your joy, from your seeking the forgiveness of sins. This is the way to come to know the right God, and by that also yourselves, because you are created according to him. Prayer will bring you to the fulfillment of my desire, of my mission here with you, to the unity of God's family. Thank you." (February 2, 2011)

Anyone who has been to Medjugorje and attempted to attend the apparition at the Blue Cross with Mirjana will understand what Our Lady means when she says, "Dear children, you are gathering around me..."  When we were in Medjugorje last August, some of our film team went to the Blue Cross the evening before to set up our cameras in anticipation of the apparition the next day.  During the night, many pilgrims arrived to do the same thing, and they began to push and shove their way to the Blue Cross, often trampling each other in the process.  It was a bit chaotic, to say the least.  This hysteria seemed to be the antithesis of the peace that Our Lady brings.  What were all those people hoping to gain by forcing their way to the Blue Cross?

It seems that they all wanted to get as close to Our Lady as they possibly could.  They wanted to be right next to her.  Even though they would not see her, hear her, touch her, they still wanted to be as close to her as possible.  They wanted their Mother.  And who can blame them?  We are so small and helpless, we need her so much!  Life is difficult, full of uncertainties.  We need Mother Mary!  

Our Lady understands this impulse.  She is not put off.  She loves us.  She knows we are seeking, seeking our way, seeking the truth, seeking...  Like lost lambs, we seek our shepherdess.  Lead us to our home, lead us into life, lead us into safety.  

But as a good mother, a wise shepherdess, she wants to give us that which 

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will help us the most to find what we seek, to achieve what we desire.  Crushing each other to get to the spot where she appears is not the answer.  The answer is proper prayer!  We can actually get closer to Our Mother by prayer than we ever will by pushing our way to the heart of an apparition sight!  Prayer is the best way to get close to Our Lady.

The other day, during our Rosary, our friend Caroline experienced a special joy.  She said it wasn't any kind of spiritual experience, or light, or word, it was just that she felt Our Lady very near to us, very much next to us.  This feeling of closeness was for Caroline a great blessing and a joy.  I believe this is what proper prayer can bring to us.  It is an experience of God, of Our Lady, of the Holy Spirit.  It is the experience of the presence of God and of heaven.  Isn't that what an apparition really is, the presence of heaven? 

May prayer become for all of us an experience of heaven!

In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan

 

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