June 2, 2011
The Ascension of the Lord
(except where it has been transferred to the 7th Sunday of Easter, June 5) Dear Family of Mary!"Dear children! Today I call you to prayer. I am with you and I love you all. I am your Mother and I wish that your hearts be similar to my heart. Little children, without prayer you cannot live and say that you are mine. Prayer is joy. Prayer is what the human heart desires. Therefore, get closer, little children, to my Immaculate Heart and you will discover God. Thank you for having responded to my call." (November 25, 1994) This simple message really describes what Our Lady is doing in Medjugorje.
"So what was our Lady teaching to the prayer group?
She was basically teaching us how to open our hearts to this reality (love of neighbor) and she wanted us to experience her love.
Fr. Slavko would always say that people come to Medjugorje and people change in Medjugorje because Our Lady calls them and it is she who works in their hearts.
We [in Medjugorje] don't have excellent preachers or people who are simply capable of changing minds through some sort of dialectic, but we simply see the work of Our Lady in their hearts.
I can say that I can see that right away. When they come to Medjugorje, there is the work of the Holy Spirit.
"So basically, this is what we feel:
her loving presence that moves hearts.
Fr. Slavko used to say it melts the ice, and this is why we have people who, after thirty, forty, fifty years are crying and confessing their sins, all by themselves.
It is not like someone is running after them and pulling them into the confessional. Most people don't even understand what is going on [at the church] because everything is in Croatian.
I don't know about you, do you understand Croatian...no??
So there must be some sort of a language that Our Lady is using which is the language of the Holy Spirit that everyone understands. This is because her heart is full of the Holy Spirit, as one priest, a friend of mine loves to say. The Immaculate Heart is open there in Medjugorje, and somehow through that Heart into which we step with our own heart, we enter into communion with the Holy Spirit, and that simply changes our hearts." (Jelena Vasilj-Valente.
Notre Dame Conference on Medjugorje, 2011)
I have to repeat that last line from Jelena: "The Immaculate Heart is open there in Medjugorje, and somehow through that Heart into which we step with our own heart, we enter into communion with the Holy Spirit, and that simply changes our hearts."
Incredible!
The Heart of Mary is open in Medjugorje, and as we enter into Mary's Heart with our own heart, we are changed by the presence of the Holy Spirit who dwells in Mary's Heart.
This happens in Medjugorje.
But I believe it can happen in Indiana, or Singapore, or Dublin, if we take up our Rosaries and pray.
We can enter the Heart of Mary through our prayer, and encounter the Holy Spirit!
We need to discover God!
We can't live without Him anymore.
It is a matter of life and death to encounter God and be changed by Him.
"The Immaculate Heart is open there in Medjugorje, and somehow through that Heart into which we step with our own heart, we enter into communion with the Holy Spirit, and that simply changes our hearts."
In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2011
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