Put Jesus in the first place!
(c)Mary TV 2013
J.M.J.
September 30, 2013
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Also today I call you to prayer. May your relationship with prayer be a daily one. Prayer works miracles in you and through you, therefore, little children, may prayer be a joy for you. Then your relationship with life will be deeper and more open and you will comprehend that life is a gift for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call."(September 25, 2013)
Yesterday we were joyfully
busy with Mary TV tasks. Denis and I prayed the Rosary again in our
studio, with the expert help of Josip, KiKi and Ivan. It is so different
to have a crew helping us. We also taped a beautiful testimony of an
American Priest. And then Rosie asked me to share a little bit about the
Evening of Prayer at St. Stephen's Cathedral for Tea with Rosie! Add to
that Holy Mass, and prayer at St. James and you have quite a day!
There is so much life in Medjugorje, so many opportunities to receive
and share graces! Wow!
I want to finish the
transcript of Marija's talk given on September 28 (but I have only did
another third of it). Many have shared that it is nice to have the
written version, so they can pray over what Marija says. So here is part
two of Marija's talk:
Without God
we do not have God or eternal life. And that is why she has been
inviting us to conversion. She said, "Leave sin behind. Give up on sin.
Renounce it and embrace holiness." It's difficult to renounce our habits
which we do every day and by which we are attached to sin. But Our Lady
says to us that her desire is that we become her extended hands. In the
moment when we become her extended hands, we become her instruments,
and we will start feeling the joy of being her instruments because we
will see that that desert that is around us and often inside of us will
start blossoming. In that moment we will feel gratitude in our heart.
Our Lady invites us to be the instrument through our prayers and our
joy. Our Lady invites us day by day to start a serious walk, a walk of
conversion.
Already in
the first months Our Lady was inviting us to choose a priest to be our
spiritual guide so that we can walk together with his help in a serious
way, so that we are able to be guided through God's commandments. Our
Lady said to us, reflect upon the life of the Saints and follow what
they did. Once during an extraordinary apparition Our Lady invited us to
go to a place not far from our house, and after our everyday
apparitions Our Lady invited us to an extraordinary apparition that was a
second apparition of that day. And we understood that Our Lady would
say something important, and that is exactly what happened.
Our Lady
appeared and then we started recommending to her all our intentions, all
our prayers and all we had in our heart. We started to recommend all
the sick people and those who recommended themselves to our prayers. And
then Our Lady said to us that all of us there were able to come closer
and touch her. Then we six visionaries said to her, "Our Lady, how would
that be possible? Because they can't see you, it is only the six of us
who can see you." But Our Lady said to us, "You take their hands and
bring them closer to me." And that is exactly what we did. Step by step,
everyone had the experience of touching Our Lady. And everyone could
feel her presence. And they really all of them had an experience of Our
Lady's special presence. Some people felt cold, some warmth, some felt
electricity, but everyone believed that Our Lady was there. But we [the
visionaries] when everyone was touching Our Lady could see that on her
dress there were some dirty spots remaining. Smaller ones and bigger
ones. And in a certain moment the dress of Our Lady was dirty. We
started crying and we said, "Why did your dress become this dirty?" And
then Our Lady said, "Those were our sins that made it dirty. Return to
the Church. Choose a priest who will guide you, will help you to know
what is sin and not sin." She invited us to monthly confession. And then
I remember that the day after, none of us wanted Our Lady's dress to be
dirty again. The following morning we went to the church to look for
our parish priest, Fr. Jozo, and we all wanted to go to confession. And
then step by step, Fr. Jozo started calling all the priests from the
neighborhood to come and help. And today, Medjugorje has become the
greatest confessional of the world, where every pilgrim is invited to go
and reconcile with God.
She who is
the Queen of peace is inviting us to become instruments of that peace.
And Our Lady invites us to become her extended hands in this world,
where our mission is to do it in our homes, in the place of our work
where we can live our mission. In what way? I would say with the example
of your personal life, with your everyday example, with prayer, love,
and with all those things to which our Lady invites us in her messages.
She invites
us to put the Holy Bible in a visible place in our homes. So that every
day we can read the Bible and pray, and to put into practice what we
learn.
To the
Apparition Hill, the place where Our Lady appeared for the first time,
Podbrdo as we call it, we were happy to go up there with her. Because we
said to you, Our Lady said that she had chosen that place there on the
hill. In the beginning it was nothing, thorny bushes, rocks and stones.
Before it had no significance, but now because of her presence and her
apparitions there that place has become so important for us and for our
parish. But Our Lady did not stop up on the hill.
At a
certain moment, the communist police stopped us from going up the hill.
They stopped us because they said that land belonged to the state. And
Fr Jozo at that time, the parish priest was kneeling in the church,
saying to the Lord, "You are present in the Blessed Sacrament, and
people are passing by the church and heading up the hill towards those
thorny bushes, rocks and stones. We did not understand, because her
presence and her love transformed us and attracted us, and then we
started following her. Then the soldiers came, the army came and then
they stopped us from going up the hill. And so we asked Our Lady what we
should do, and Our Lady we said, "Go to the Church. There you will be
protected." And that is exactly what happened. We started praying. We
started asking in what way and how we could go to the church. We asked
three times, "Our Lady, to you mean the building?" That is because we
did not want to put Father Jozo in a difficulty. We knew that he was
very suspicious. And poor Fr. Jozo was praying in humility, Lord what am
I to do? And God spoke to him through the reading of Sacred Scripture.
He opened the Bible and read the lines "They are my beloved children."
In that moment we came into the church and we said, "Fr. Jozo, Our Lady
is sending us. We desire to listen to her message. And Our Lady said we
should pray and listen.
And so we
started to pray in the church until the moment when Our Lady appeared.
And then Our Lady told us what we were to do. She was saying to put
Jesus in the first place. Ask your priest to say Mass, and with so much
joy in our hearts, we said yes. And I remember that particular moment
at that time when the people here worked in the fields and we were all
children of peasants and we worked in the fields. But after their work
in the fields they would go home, wash and then come to the church. We
would pray the love and pray with the heart. And the church was
obedient. The living church, the church of people filled this building
of our church. There were people saying yes to Our Lady's call, yes to
God, yes to fasting, yes to daily mass, and then Our Lady understood
that she could count on us. And she said to us that she needed us. She
said she desired to present us to her Son as a most beautiful flower
bouquet.
(Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, speaking on September 28, 2013 at St. James Church - see the Rosary Archive for September 28, 2013 - Saturday).
I will have to finish up the transcription tomorrow!
One last piece of news!
Tonight, I was told that the statue in Vicka's parent's old house that
has been displaying unusual light was removed from its spot in the
prayer room by the parish. We do not know any details. But it is good to
know that the parish is involved in the phenomenon. More to come!!
God bless,
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2013
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!"
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