 Pilgrims at the Blue Cross renew prayer in their lives! (c)Bobbie, used with permission by Mary TV |
| February 9, 2012
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Today also I am calling you to personal conversion. You be the ones who will be converted, and in your lives be witnesses. Love, forgive and bring the joy of the Risen One to this world where my Son died, and where people do not feel the need to seek Him and discover Him in their lives. You be adorers of my Son and may your hope be hope to those whose hearts do not have Jesus. Dear children, thank you again today for having responded to my call." (January 31, 2012, to Ivan in Kalamazoo)
Installment # 4 of Ivan's talk in Kalamazoo!
What are those things to which our mother is calling us? What are those most important messages by which Our Lady is leading us? You know that throughout these 30 years Our Lady has given us very many messages. But if we were to focus just on the most important messages, I would like to emphasize these messages by which Our Lady is guiding us:
Peace Conversion Prayer of the Heart Penance and Fasting Strong Faith Love Eucharist Forgiveness Confession The Message of HOPE
These are the most important messages through which Our Lady is guiding us.
Throughout these 30 years Our Lady has taken each one of these messages and she has simplified them and brought them closer to us so we can better understand them and live them in our lives. As I said earlier, Our Lady has come and introduced herself as the Queen of Peace. And she comes from the King of Peace. And who can know better than a mother how necessary peace is to today's tired world. How necessary peace is to today's tired families. How necessary peace is to today's tired young people. How necessary peace is to today's tired church. And Our Lady says, "My dear children! You are my living church. You are my lungs of the church. That is why, my dear children, if you are strong, the church will be strong. If you are weak, the church will be weak."
How beautiful it is tonight to see a full church. What priest or what pastor wouldn't want his church to be this full every Sunday. We are that living church. But Our Lady says, "There is no living church without living families." And that is why Our Lady is calling us so much for the renewal of the family, for the renewal of sacramental life in the family and the renewal of family prayer. We can't expect that the world will be in a better place if we don't renew the family through family prayer. Because the family is the foundation upon which you build a new world. We must bring God back into our families and place God in the first place in our families. And our Mother comes to help us with this.
Our Mother comes to encourage us and to comfort us. Our Mother comes to bring us a divine cure to heal us and all our pain with such love, with such motherly warmth and motherly tenderness. She wishes to guide us on the path of peace and the path to her Son. In one message Our Lady says, "Dear children! Today more than ever before, this world and this humanity is going through a great and a difficult crisis. And the greatest crisis is the crisis of faith in God because you have become distant from God. You have become distant from prayer. My dear children, today's world and today's humanity has gone into the future without God. My dear children, there is no more prayer in families today."
Families no longer have time for one another. Spouses no longer have time for one another. There is no more love. There is not more faithfulness among the spouses. Parents have stopped being models for their children. There is a falling apart of morality - so many broken and tired families. And our Mother is calling us, "Dear children, place God in the first place in your lives. Go into the future with Him. Bring prayer back so that with prayer, peace, love and joy may return." Our Mother comes and wishes to lead us out of this darkness. And she wishes to show us the way of light and the way of hope.
And Our Lady says, "Dear children! If a person does not peace in his heart, if a person is not at peace with himself, if there is no peace in families, then no, my dear children, there cannot be peace in the world. That is why I am calling you, no, do not speak about peace, but begin to live peace. No, do not speak about prayer, begin to live prayer. Your families can only be healed by a return to prayer in the families." In these times in which we are living, often times in the last few years, we hear the word, recession. Everyone is speaking about an economic recession. But this world is not in an economic recession. Humanity and the world is in a spiritual recession. And every spiritual recession creates and produces every other kind of recession. Our Mother comes to us because she wishes to lift up this sinful humanity. She is concerned for our salvation.
And Our Lady says, "My dear children, I am with you. And I have come among you so that I can help you so that peace can come. But my dear children, I need you. With you I can realize peace. That is why my dear children, make a decision for good. Fight against sin and evil." Our mother speaks simply. She has repeated so many times, and she never gets tired. Those mothers who are present here tonight, how many times have you said to your children, "Be good, study, work, listen."? You have said that to your children thousands and thousands of times. Have you gotten tired? I hope not. Is there any mother here who can say that she is lucky enough to have been able to say something to her child just once and never have to repeat it again. No such mother. Every mother must repeat. So it is with Our Lady and us.
A friend of mine, he is always a little skeptical. Whenever Our Lady gives a message he will come see me the next day and he will say to me, "I know the message Our Lady gave yesterday. She said again, "Pray, pray, pray." And I said again, "My friend I know that message." I asked my friend, "Did you begin to pray?' And he wasn't certain within himself. And I said again, "I am certain that if you had begun to pray, then Our Lady would not have given the message, "Pray, pray, pray", but would have given another message yesterday. You see, whenever Our Lady repeats a message, it is a new invitation for each of us, telling us that something is not good. Our Mother is awakening us again. Throughout these years, truly Our Lady has not been criticizing us but she is teaching us. She doesn't tell us about the end of the world, or the second coming of Jesus. No, she comes as a mother of hope, because she wishes to bring hope to the families, and church and the world because this world today has been left without hope. Our Lady comes to us to speak about confession. She calls us to adoration before the Cross and the Blessed Sacrament. She is especially requesting and asking priests to organize Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in their parishes. Our Lady is calling us to pray the Rosary. She is calling us to read Holy Scripture. In one message she said, "My dear children, may the Holy Bible be in each of your family homes in a visible place. Read Holy Scripture. So that through the reading of Holy Scripture Jesus may be born anew in your hearts and in your families. May that be the food on your path of life. Forgive one another. Love others. But I would like to particularly emphasize the gift of forgiveness. Forgive. Forgive yourself, forgive others. And open your vessel to the Holy Spirit because without forgiveness there is no physical or spiritual healing." We must know how to forgive. That is why Our Lady is calling us so much to forgiveness. (Ivan Dragicevic, in Kalamazoo, Michigan on January 31, 2012)
Tired families, tired churches, tired young people...What makes us all so tired? We are trying to live without God. That is analogous to a sail boat trying to sail without wind, or a fish to swim without water, or a flower to bloom without the sun. We struggle and struggle to make a good life without the source of life. And so Mary comes to re-attach us to our source, our power and strength and meaning and future and joy! Ivan sees it. Ivan lives it, it seems. May we all live it with him, live a life in love and union with God!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2012 |
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