MARY, OUR MOTHER: New Pastor, Fr. Marinko Sakota, confirmed by the local bishop, Msgr. Ratko Peric for Medjugorje Parish

Saturday, November 10, 2012

New Pastor, Fr. Marinko Sakota, confirmed by the local bishop, Msgr. Ratko Peric for Medjugorje Parish

Local-born becomes new parish priest

By Jakob Marschner on Nov 10, 2012

Large number followed parish priest Fr. Petar Vlasic to the grave on November 9. His successor will be Fr. Marinko Sakota, born only five kilometers away from Medjugorje, fluent in German, good in English, and the author of a book about the Medjugorje legend Fr. Slavko Barbaric.

About 40 priests and most of Medjugorje’s local population following Fr. Petar Vlasic to the grave on Friday. Photo: medjugorje.hr

Parishioners in Medjugorje paid tribute and said a last goodbye to their late parish priest Fr. Petar Vlasic on Friday when thousands followed him to the grave on the cemetery behind St. James Church.

The funeral Mass was presided over by Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar, concelebrated with sermon by Franciscan Provincial Fr. Ivan Sesar, and further concelebrated by about 40 priests.

Fr. Marinko Sakota addressing an audience

74 years old Fr. Petar Vlasic will be succeeded as parish priest by 44 years old Fr. Marinko Sakota who has been in Medjugorje as associate pastor since September 2010.

Following standard procedure, Fr. Marinko was suggested by the local Franciscan provincial, and his appointment was agreed to by Bishop Peric, the official parish website confirms.

Mourning Franciscans: To the right of the coffin, Provincial Fr. Ivan Sesar and Fr. Svetozar Kraljevic. To the left, Fr. Miljenko Steko ahead of Fr. Danko Perutina

With Fr. Marinko, Medjugorje gets a parish priest who comes close to being born in the village. He hails from Citluk, five kilometres away. Due to studies in Germany and subsequent service as a priest in both Germany and Austria, he is fluent in German, and further speaks a good English. He has seven years of previous experience as parish priest, from nearby Gradnici.

Fr. Marinko Sakota

Fr. Marinko Sakota is also the author of the book “Live with the Heart – the Life and Works of Fr. Slavko Barbaric”. Published in 2006, the spiritual biography of the late legendary Medjugorje priest was well received, not only for containing many photos that had not been published before.
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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

New Pastor, Fr. Marinko Sakota, confirmed by the local bishop, Msgr. Ratko Peric for Medjugorje Parish

Local-born becomes new parish priest

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