(c)Mary TV 2013
J.M.J.
May 27, 2013
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Today I call you to be strong and resolute in faith and prayer, until your prayers are so strong so as to open the Heart of my beloved Son Jesus. Pray little children, pray without ceasing until your heart opens to God's love. I am with you and I intercede for all of you and I pray for your conversion. Thank you for having responded to my call." (May 25, 2013)
Our Lady is asking us
to increase our fidelity to prayer in this message. She is not saying
that we need to have more feeling in prayer, or more inspirations, or
great experiences, because these things are not in our control. They are
gifts from God. No, what she is asking us is to increase our commitment
to prayer, our desire to pray, our inner choice to pray. That is how
our prayer becomes strong. And when our prayer is strong, then we
prepare ourselves to meet Jesus in prayer and even take His Heart by
storm!
Ivan Dragicevic, speaking in Kalamazoo on January 31, 2012 spoke about such commitment to prayer in this way:
We
have to pray with the heart. Not just with our lips. Not just
mechanically. Or to pray and then look at your watch to see how quickly
you can finish. Our Lady desires that we make a decision for prayer,
that we set time aside for prayer. To pray with the heart primarily
means to pray with love and out of love, to pray with our entire being
so that our prayer can be an encounter with God. Then when we pray with
the heart we can leave that prayer with peace and joy. Our Lady says, "My
dear children, may prayer be a joy for you. My dear children, if you
wish to attend the school of prayer, then you have to know that in the
school of prayer there are not weekends and no breaks." Every day we must attend the school of prayer. And our Lady says,
"My dear children, if you wish to pray better, then you always have to
pray more, because to pray more is always an individual decision, but
to pray better is always a grace, a grace given to those who pray more."
Often
times we say today, that we don't have time for prayer, that we are
busy, that we work a lot and that we cannot always find time for the
family and for the children. We come home from work, and we have to cook
and clean, go shopping, go watch TV! We don't have time for prayer.
But Our Lady says, simply, "My dear children, no, don't always
say that you don't have time. Because, my dear children, time is not the
problem. The problem is love. Because, my dear children, when someone
loves something and cares for it, they will always find time for it. But
when somebody doesn't love something and doesn't care for it, they will
not find time for it." That is why Our Lady is calling us so
much to prayer. And that is why throughout these years, Our Lady has
been awakening us out of the spiritual coma and spiritual death we are
in. (Ivan Dragicevic, January 31, 2013)
Strong prayer is
prayer from a committed heart, a heart that has decided for God. Strong
prayer comes from a convinced heart, a heart that is certain about God,
certain about the need for God, certain that God is first above all
else. Strong prayer is prayer that happens every day, day in and day
out, like breathing and eating and sleeping, an essential part of life.
Strong prayer is love, deep and enduring love for God.
In Medjugorje,
pilgrims experience strong prayer, as they are carried along by the
parish and the other pilgrims in the program of prayer that Our Lady has
established there. It is a school of prayer in Medjugorje. The
challenge for all of us is to bring that school of prayer home with us,
and continue to pray as if we were in Medjugorje. Our decision to pray
is vital. It is what makes our prayer strong. May we live prayer in our
homes as we have lived prayer in Medjugorje, and may our prayer become
so strong that we open the Heart of Jesus and enter in!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!"
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