I am the Queen of Peace.
(c)Mary TV 2013
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J.M.J.
June 21, 2013
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children, I have come to you here and introduced myself as the Queen of Peace. And today in a special way I invite you to pray for peace. Pray for peace. And especially in your families: peace, peace dear children. Open yourselves to the gift of peace. The Mother prays together with you and intercedes for all of you before her Son. The Mother loves you with motherly love. Thank you, dear children, for also having responded today to my call." (Message through Ivan, Monday evening, June 17, 2013)
When Ivan received
this message, he was kneeling directly before the statue of Our Lady
that stands on Apparition Hill over the spot where Our Lady came on June
24, 1981. On that day, 32 years ago, she beckoned to the children,
including Ivan, but they were afraid. They ran away. Yet, on June 25,
1981, they returned to the hill. As Ivan explained in a talk in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 1/31/2012:
And
on that second day, a lot of people began to gather from all over the
place. They were with us all day and protected us as much as possible
from the police and from the authorities. And somewhere around three o'clock
that afternoon, those people who had spent that day with us said to us,
"Let us go with you to that place where you saw Our Lady last night.
Maybe Our Lady left something, some kind of a sign to convince us that
she was here."
And
so spontaneously, together with the people we slowly climbed the hill.
And before we got to that place, maybe about 20 meters away, Our Lady
was already waiting for us. She was holding Baby Jesus in her arms. She
was floating on a cloud. She had a crown of stars. She was smiling and
she was motioning with her hand for us to come closer.
Never
in my life will I ever forget that day. I think I am going to live 5
years less after that day. In that moment I could no longer go either
forwards or backwards. My legs buckled underneath me. But in one moment,
not with my strength, I ran over those bushes and shrubs, it was like
we were floating. We didn't feel any kind of pain. We went closer to
her. We came close to her. In her left hand she was holding Jesus. She
took her right hand, and she was placing it on our heads, and she began
to speak her first words. "Dear children, I am with you. I am
your Mother. Do not be afraid of anything. I will protect you. I will
help you. I will guide you." But it was difficult to calm down and come to our senses.
One of the girls from among us, who was most relaxed, asked her, "Who are you and what is your name?" And she responded, "I
am the Queen of Peace. And I have come, my dear children because God
has sent me. My dear children, peace, peace, and only peace. There must
be peace, my dear children. Peace must reign between God and man and
between people. My dear children, this world and this humanity is
finding itself in a great danger. There is a threat that it will destroy
itself." Those were the first words; that was the first
message that Our Lady gave through us to the world. On that second day
we recognized in her our Mother, and to this day there are still three
of us who see Our Lady. (Ivan Dragicevic, in Kalamazoo Michigan,
1/31/2012)
That was 32 years ago. Our Lady spoke of being our mother, of her love and protection. And she introduced herself. She said, "I am the Queen of Peace." Our Lady recalled that message 32 years ago when she came to Ivan on June 17, 2013 - "I have come to you here and introduced myself as the Queen of Peace." Our Lady has taken this title specifically for these apparitions in Medjugorje. And she has proclaimed to us: "Peace, peace and only peace." (1981) "Pray for peace. And especially in your families: peace, peace dear children." (2013)
I am convinced that
peace is the main reason Our Lady has come to us in Medjugorje. Peace is
her mission. Peace is the gift she comes to give us. Peace is the
answer to the problems in our world today. Peace is God's gift to us,
His desire for us. Peace.
And I believe that
somehow that spot on Podbrdo, Apparition Hill, has a part to play in
distributing the peace Our Lady has come to give us. Countless pilgrims
have climbed that hill, praying the Rosary, meditating on the mysteries
of Jesus' life, and just resting in the quiet of that place. Many, many
report that it is on Apparition Hill that they finally could lay their
burdens down, unpack their hearts, give over their inner struggles with
forgiveness and guilt. On that hill many tears have been shed, tears of
repentance, of relief, of cleansing and of joy! On Apparition Hill many,
many souls have been opened to Mother Mary, many people have become her
children, in a new relationship of mother and child that changes
everything. Through Mary's love and intercession the wars in many hearts
have been stopped and inner strife has given way to peace, trust, and
serenity.
This place of peace,
Apparition Hill, is a sign for us of the peace that Our Lady has come to
establish. Every day since June 15, the parish has climbed that hill to
pray a novena in gratitude to Our Lady for her presence and her gift of
peace. Mary TV has been able to stream from the Apparition site on each
of those days. We have three more days to go. It is a great grace to be
present, live, on the hill where Our Lady first appeared 32 years ago.
The Queen of Peace calls us to come and receive peace. Join us! (4:00 pm Medjugorje time, 10:00 am EDT, at www.marytv.tv)
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!"
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