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August 31, 2011 Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Today I call you to pray and fast for my intentions, because Satan wants to destroy my plan. Here I began with this parish and invited the entire world. Many have responded, but there is an enormous number of those who do not want to hear or accept my call. Therefore, you who have said 'yes', be strong and resolute. Thank you for having responded to my call." (August 25, 2011)
This message is so serious. Our Lady commissions us to be strong and resolute. She turns to us as those she can rely on, as those she can lean on in this difficult battle for souls. We are the ones who have said 'yes'.
I think now is the time to share a beautiful talk that Ivan gave in his chapel on June 24, 2011 to our small group of pilgrims. He allowed us to film it, and I have the transcript of it for you. Ivan spoke eloquently. He has learned so much from Mother Mary over the past 30 years. You could see it in his clear eyes, his careful delivery, his peaceful demeanor, and the wisdom that he shared.
We will begin at the beginning of the talk, with installments over the next few days. I think it will help us all to respond to Our Lady's message. Ivan Dragicevic, in his chapel on June 24, 2011: I would like to greet you all in the beginning on this very special day for all of us and I think I don't have to explain how special it is for me. I slept last night, or should I say I hadn't slept at all. I was expecting this day. I was expecting the new day thinking about these memories that brought me to the new life. I actually entered in a new school, the school that was started by Our Lady, the school of peace, the school of love and school of prayer. I was 16 years old when the apparitions started. As I said the other day, I didn't understand many things at that time, before the apparitions of Our Lady. I didn't know at all that it could be possible to have the apparitions. I had never heard before about Lourdes or Fatima or any other places of apparitions.... I had never read anything about apparitions.... And if you want me to be honest, I didn't like to read at all. That was me, like a child. Now when I just recall 30 years ago on this day - in the morning hours - probably around this time, my mom was knocking on the door of my room. She was waking me up, saying that I had to get up, to wake up. She said that Mass is at 11:00 AM. There is no time to wait, you have to get ready! And that morning at this time I woke up and I went with them to the church. And you know the rest... Today I would like to give emphasis to those most important things to which Our Lady has been calling us. It is 30 years today since Our Lady has been calling us. But these 30 years could be called years of many graces. I want to say that these apparitions of Our Lady are a great cross roads for mankind. This is a new call. This is a new way. a way that leads to the new future of mankind. How much are we aware of this message, how serious it is, the call of Our Lady? We have to ask ourselves do the messages of Our Lady come to our hearts? Do we live the messages of Our Lady? This is the crucial, the most important question for each one of us. And I am sure that during all these 30 years we have wished that Our Lady would give us a message every day! Don't you think so? But now I'm asking another question. Would we be able to live the messages that Our Lady would give us every day - every day a new message, knowing we would have to live it, understand it, and allow it to be a part of our life? Is it too short a time? If you have lived the messages, if you have followed these messages, you will remember that Our Lady used to give messages once a week. It was on Thursday. And the message was given for the parish of Medjugorje and for the entire world. Some years later Our Lady started giving us monthly messages. Why? Our Lady wanted to give us more time so that we had enough time to understand the message she was giving us and to start living and practicing the message. And I have to say once again it is so important to use the time during the month, to use the time well and live the message.  Many pilgrims, even priests, bishops, cardinals, are not able to comprehend some thing....they cannot understand why Our Lady has been appearing for such a long time. Every day! So many ask what does Our Lady say? What do you talk with her about? They ask me, 'Every day?' [I tell them] we talk a lot! And I believe even if we had 24 hours we would miss some minutes. But one day when the time comes, when certain things get revealed you will understand why the apparitions have been for such a long time, why the apparitions have been every day. Later on we will understand some things. Later on our eyes will be opened when we see the physical changes that are going to happen in the world. And this is so important to understand. (I'm not going to tell you any secrets!) The time that is in front of us is the time of great responsibility. Each one of us here today has to be very responsible. We are invited to responsibility in the family. We talk here about spiritual dimensions in our families as well. To lead the family to grow spiritually. To base our family life on the most important things of the Holy Gospel. To do and practice what the Gospel teaches us. And this is the message. This is the message that is being repeated by Our Lady during all these 30 years. So Our Lady hasn't said anything new in these years. We already know the messages, even from before, from the Church tradition, but we don't live them. Therefore Our Lady invites us to be responsible. To start living the messages is a heavy responsibility. (Part One of Ivan's talk in his chapel on June 24, 2011)
Ivan spoke these words with such clarity and depth. He wanted us to understand the gravity of our situation. We are the carriers of the gifts now, the gifts Our Lady has brought to us. And those gifts are her messages! We can only give those gifts to others by living the messages. In living them, we give them. |
More tomorrow! In Jesus and Mary!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2011
PS. You can watch the video of this talk on our web page:
http://www.marytv.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=310&Itemid=40
Click the title "Ivan reflects on 30 years of apparitions - June 24, 2011"
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