Mary TV Daily Reflection 8/19/2011

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August 19, 2011

St. John Eudes

 

Dear Family of Mary!

 

"Dear children! Today I call you to love with all your heart and with all your soul. Pray for the gift of love, because when the soul loves it calls my Son to itself. My Son does not refuse those who call Him and who desire to live according to Him. Pray for those who do not comprehend love, who do not understand what it means to love. Pray that God may be their Father and not their Judge. My children, you be my apostles, be my river of love. I need you. Thank you"

 (March 18, 2010).

 

Mirjana continues her very beautiful testimony, given in her home in June of 2011, during the week of the 30th Anniversary. She was speaking in her dining room, and it was very hot that day. There was no fan, no air conditioning...but Mirjana spoke generously for over an hour. She knows how to endure hardships for the sake of souls!!

"In these apparitions of Our Lady of Medjugorje, Our Lady gave to each one of us a mission to pray for. My mission is to pray for unbelievers. Vicka and Jakov pray for the sick. Ivan prays for priests and for the youth. Marija prays for souls in purgatory. And Ivanka prays for families.

 

"But the most important message that Our Lady has been repeating often is Holy Mass, not only on Sunday [but during the week as well]. When we were still children, at the beginning of the apparitions, Our Lady said to us, 'If you have to choose between seeing me in the apparition and going to Holy Mass, you simply have to choose Holy Mass, because during Holy Mass my Son is with you.' Also, in all these years Our Lady never said to pray and I will give you...but she always says, 'Pray and I will pray so that My Son will give it to you.' Jesus is always in the first place.

 

"Many pilgrims come to Medjugorje believing that we visionaries are privileged. They think that it is enough to mention their needs to us because God will accept our prayers better than other people. But that way of thinking is wrong because for Our Lady, who is a mother, there are simply no privileged children. For her, we are all just her children whom she chooses for different missions. She chose the 6 of us in order to give the messages. But Our Lady has chosen every one of you. Our Lady spoke these words on January 2, and I believe she was speaking to every one of you. She said, 'Dear children, I invited you. Open your heart and allow me to enter in order that I may make you my apostles.' It means that we all have the same importance for our Mother. I have seen it thousands of times.

 

"For example when I receive the apparition on the 2nd of every month at the Blue Cross, often after the apparition people come to me and they bring documents of their healings or they tell me they have felt Our Lady during the apparition, and I didn't know anything about it. I didn't ask Our Lady for them. But it was they who had an open heart. When you need Mother, you don't need anybody else, just an open heart. Our Lady always says, 'Open your heart and I will be with you.' For her there are no children whom she loves more or that she loves less.

 

"I learned that at the very beginning of the apparitions. I am the only one of the 6 visionaries who didn't grow up in Medjugorje. My parents are from Medjugorje, but they lived in Sarajevo and I lived with them. I would spend every summer vacation here. When the apparitions started in 1981 I didn't want to go back to Sarajevo. I thought that if I went I would not receive the apparitions any more.   But the police forced me to go. And they came into our home every single day. They would turn everything upside down. Then they would take me with them. I never knew if I would come back. I thought, 'When the apparition happens Our Lady will tell me something, she will encourage me.' But nothing like that happened. She would simply say the same things to me that she would say to the visionaries in Medjugorje. It was the same message, everything the same. There was nothing about me and my situation. Then later on, I understood that for Our Lady I am the same as any other person. 'If you have a cross, take the rosary, pray and fast, and God will be with you.' So I understood that for the heavenly Mother, there are no children that she loves more or less." (Mirjana Soldo - sharing her testimony at her home in Medjugorje in June 2011, just before the 30th anniversary. Taped by Dani)

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There are many things we could pray about in Mirjana's testimony. I am struck by her understanding of Our Lady's love for each of her children. At first it seemed strange to me that Our Lady would not speak to Mirjana about her difficult situation in Sarajevo. Mirjana was a teenager facing the police, detainment, psychological stress and fear tactics. But Mirjana speaks wisely in saying that Our Lady was giving her all the help she needed. She was giving Mirjana the messages, just as she gives them to each of us. Those messages are designed to connect us to God. Once we are in a deep personal relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we will be able to endure any situation, and conquer through love! Mirjana was not less or more favored than all of us. She did see Our Lady (and she still does), and that is an incredible grace. But she has to live the messages just the same way we do, one day at a time, and through faith.

 

This should give us a deeper respect for the messages. We have been given such a gift in the messages. They are designed for us in this day, as a way to live the Gospel, to live the Catholic, Christian life, and to bring heaven to earth.

 

May we live the messages with more and more fervor and trust. They are the heavenly peace plan for our age. "My children, you be my apostles, be my river of love. I need you. Thank you"

 

In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan

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