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Dear children of Medjugorje, praised be Jesus and Mary!
1 – On September 2, 2011, Mirjana received her monthly apparition at the Blue Cross, surrounded by a big crowd. After the apparition, she gave us the following message:
“Dear children; with all my heart and soul full of faith and love in the Heavenly Father, I gave my Son to you and am giving Him to you anew. My Son has brought you, the people of the entire world, to know the only true God and His love. He has led you on the way of truth and made you brothers and sisters. Therefore, my children, do not wander, do not close your heart before that truth, hope and love. Everything around you is passing and everything is falling apart, only the glory of God remains. Therefore, renounce everything that distances you from the Lord. Adore Him alone, because He is the only true God. I am with you and I will remain with you. I am especially praying for the shepherds that they may be worthy representatives of my Son and may lead you with love on the way of truth. Thank you.”
2. Personal opinions are weapons often used by Satan to spread confusion in the Church. Now don’t get me wrong, not all opinions are bad. God wants us to use our minds to make sense of the faith. The Church is not trying to mind-control or brainwash us, rather it wants us to use the mind that the Lord gave us to come closer to The Truth. The Church has, however, received from the Lord the authority to teach in His name and has promised the Church the Holy Spirit to guide it. To question official teachings about a matter of faith or authority is to question the Lord Himself.
This is the main danger that Pope Benedict XVI calls relativism. Everything becomes relative. Under the pretext of freedom, (actually a false freedom), I make up my own opinion on certain points of doctrine, without considering the Word of God or the teaching of the Church. Just because someone doesn’t believe that Satan exists, it does not mean that Satan no longer exists! If Jesus Himself talks about him in the Gospel, then the question does not even arise. If one says that it is OK for Christians to live together outside of marriage, it invalidates the words of Christ and the commandments of God, which are objective and do not fluctuate according to “what’s in”. Today, each one “makes up” his own beliefs according to what suits him or is convenient for him. It is no longer the Truth that is looked for or announced, but a distortion of truth, a conviction, a personal and subjective opinion on doctrine. Pretending to have the truth by placing oneself above the Magisterium of the Church is pride. It is raising one’s opinion to the level of a dogma. The Church is the one to keep the orthodoxy of the faith. So it is important to always refer to the Magisterium of the Church when the doctrine is concerned.
From the beginning of the apparitions, the Blessed Mother asked the priests, “Do what the Church asks of you”. On September 2, she prayed that, “shepherds lead us with love on the way to truth”. That is our peace, the healing of our confusion! Catholics have the Bible and the Magisterium as references for their faith, as well as the teachings of the saints and the Fathers of the Church. Every faithful has access to these treasures. Many unnecessary questions would be avoided if Catholics studied the Catholic faith with the same attention as they study how a computer works. No one would even consider contradicting the laws of physics to work a computer. Why contradict the teachings given by God under the pretext that we prefer to think differently? The enemy makes us believe that we exercise our freedom, when actually he sets a trap to lead us astray and divide the faithful.
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church, we find beautiful pages on all the fundamental points of our Catholic faith, especially on each of the 10 commandments of God (#2052 to 2557). The 10 Commandments are a resource that God has given us to make us happy. God wants us to be happy. These “Words of Life”, as called in the original Hebrew, are not given to us just to make our lives difficult. God knows our hearts and our desires, and He loves us and like any good father, He wants to protect us from harming ourselves by our actions and to lead us to what will give us the greatest possible happiness in this world and in the next.
It would be good for every family to have this book and read it. Also, when we pose a moral or doctrinal question to a priest or any catholic faithful, let’s make it clear that we are looking for the Church’s teaching and not their personal opinion. In this way we will be united in the same faith, received from the Apostles. Personal opinions are subjective and multiple, our faith is one.
Our Lady tells us, “Dear children, have firm faith!”
3. Everything is collapsing? This message of September 2 is very powerful. It is impossible to ignore! It reminds me of a conversation with Vicka 2 years ago, after hearing her talk about the state of the family in the world. I asked her “Is the Gospa very concerned about the families today? Many are falling apart!”. Vicka answered, “not only families, sister Em, it is everything that is falling apart!”
Yes, what is temporary will pass, the glory of God will remain. The most important is to bet on what does not pass. For this, the Blessed Mother asks us to make a real move. Here is an example: Suppose an architect is invited to draw a city. He applies himself with all his skill, setting into place the avenues, streets, main buildings, the City hall, sports grounds, markets, parking lots, shopping malls, etc. When everything is in place, he wonders, « Well, now where can I put the center of the city? » Too late, my friend! The center should be placed first! It is the heart of the city. Only afterwards, depending on the center, can he place all the rest. The architect will have to start everything from scratch.
But we do the same thing, influenced by the pagan world around us. We first organize all the earthly aspects of our lives: family, work, studies, health, vacation, relationships, sports, lodging, loans, etc. Then one day we ask ourselves, “Where will I find time for God?” There isn’t any! We worked everything out without Him! This is what Our Mother means when she tells us: “You put God after everything, at the last place”.
It’s time to move! The “move” consists in moving everything and everybody (this causes a temporary mess), and at last putting the Living Jesus at the center, in His right place. Then starting from the presence of the Living Jesus, let’s reorganize our lives so that all the earthly elements depend upon that center. That is what being a Christian is all about! Then follows what we desire most: Everything in our lives, being centered on Jesus, is then placed UNDER THE BLESSING of God, instead of being WITHOUT the blessing of God.
Mary tells us, “Little children, you work much, but WITHOUT the blessing of God!” (May 25, 2011). We are quick to complain that this or that is not working out in our lives. We think that we are not blessed, that our prayers are not answered as we would like. Do we really want the blessing of God on us, on our families, on our work, etc.? Our Heavenly Mother, who loves us so much and who wants our happiness at all costs, gives us THE way, the only one that works, “Put God in the first place, dear children!” This means: import the Giver of the Blessing in the center of our lives, and the rest will be covered by His Blessing. Mary can see that we want the blessing of God. But, without even realizing it, we push the Giver of the Blessing outside the walls… It does not work!!
If my husband, my wife, my work is at the center of my life, they should be moved, because they take the place of God, and I am preparing sooner or later for a great disappointment, even despair. For God alone is the source of true happiness, true peace. But if I put my husband, my work… subordinate to The Source, to Jesus the King, then there will be blessing and peace, we will be plugged together to the inexhaustible Source.
“Renounce everything that draws you away from the Lord. Adore Him, He alone, for He is the unique true God. I am with you and I will stay at your side”, the Blessed Mother tells us.
4. Marthe Robin is moving ahead. The cause of this great French mystic has progressed in Rome! Marthe will soon be officially among the candidates for beatification. This is what Fr. Pichon confided to us (he is the head of the Foyer de Charité in Châteauneuf de Galaure), during his pilgrimage to Medjugorje last spring. It is a great grace for all those who met her, and also for the whole world. Let’s pray to her that her witness may bring many more people to Christ.
Marthe never received communion without having first gone to confession. After confession, she would pray and renew her act of abandonment and consecration to the merciful love.
Dearest Gospa, you’ll never fall apart! We cling to you and to your words of life!
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