2012 Our Lady's Birthday in Medjugorje
Medjugorje August 6, 2012
August 6, 2012 A.D.
Yesterday, August 5, was Our Lady's birthday as revealed by Our Lady in Medjugorje in 1984. A Friend of Medjugorje has said that one day, this day of August 5 will be as like Christmas, celebrated by Christians everywhere in honor of God's great gift to the world of Our Lady's existence, because Our Lady's existence is a grace for the world. A crowd had gathered outside Marija's Chapel of the Two Hearts for the apparition. Our Lady appeared around 6:40 P.M. and the apparition lasted around 4 minutes. Following is Marija's description of the apparition:
"In the moment of the apparition when Our Lady came, I recommended everyone and all our intentions. Our Lady prayed a long time over us and She blessed us all."
Marija seen here, pressed from all around amongst the crowd during the apparition, August 5, 2012, Marija seen near the center of the picture. Marija's head is tilted back as she is looking up at Our Lady. Years ago, A Friend of Medjugorje was inspired to offer to Our Lady a 'sinless day' for Her birthday. The Community of Caritas every year, along with many across the world offer Our Lady this sinless day, every August 5, as a gift to Her, the Sinless One, Who is the Mother of the Spotless One, Jesus the Savior of the World. We can never understand Jesus, until we understand Mary. Though we have featured this before, in light of Our Lady's birthday, 2012, we again feature a special writing from A Friend of Medjugorje titled, The Gospel of Mary.
The following was written by A Friend of Medjugorje, and taken from his book, “Quietism”. This segment is titled, “The Gospel of Mary”. It was written through much deep prayer. It can only be understood through much prayer. Pause, close your eyes and enter into a deep ardent prayer to the Holy Spirit that He will show and help you to understand all that is written, and not written, that Our Lady wants you to understand.
Our Lady’s apparitions are to prepare the world for a time of peace and victory, but these same messages will be used by those in the ultimate battle in which, through the Gospel of Mary, She, the Woman, shadowed not even by the greatest angel or saint, and in the light of Her Son, will crush the serpent’s head, and Who at His glorious return, will cast the serpent into the eternal flame forever.
He who chokes at the words “Gospel of Mary” does not know Her. Jesus said you do not know Me because you do not know My Father. If you knew Him, you would know Me. Because you do not know Me, you do not know He who sent Me. If you do not accept Mary’s words, you do not accept Her Son’s Words. If you knew Her Son was the Word, you would recognize Her words and Her Son Who sent Her. “His” Mother said that She would give messages as it has never been in history from the beginning of the world. In the beginning was the Word and the Word became flesh.
For you who do not accept Her words, how then do you accept the Word? Mary’s Gospel, the echo of the Word, given in a new way, a new understanding, are immense in that their effects will affect all creation until the final battle in which the serpent’s head will be crushed, never to rise again. Whether the final battle be ten years or one thousand years from now, we are being given a gift, a grace, incomprehensible in this moment, that will give passage to many future Christians to survive amidst the great tribulation, the suffering under the anti-church, until Jesus, in the glorious moment, comes back.
As men confined in mortal bodies, limited in so much humanness, we are not able to see Mary as God sees Her. We can pray to comprehend, to rise above the confines of the flesh in better knowing Mary, but we will never know and understand Mary as She is known by God. She, who is in the midst of the Trinity, comes on the second day of the newborn millennium and says:
January 2, 2000
Shudder, O man, that She Who alone can dwell deep in the midst of the Trinity where no being can dare go, not even the angels, and now She is before you begging! How man have you responded to Her words?
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