“…Everything around you is passing and everything is falling apart…”
Our Lady of Medjugorje September 2, 2011
August 29, 2014 A.D.
September 2, 2011
Tonight Our Lady appeared to Ivan during his prayer group meeting on top of Apparition Mountain. Pilgrims started to arrive near the statue around 6:00 p.m. and a continuous stream of pilgrims ascended the mountain right up to the time of the apparition. It was a beautiful night with the sky full of stars. Rosaries were continuously prayed until the singing began at around 8:30 p.m. Ivan then announced that we would be praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary in preparation for Our Lady’s apparition. Our Lady appeared to Ivan around 10:00 p.m. and the apparition lasted over 8 minutes. The following is Ivan’s description of the apparition:
“Briefly I would like to describe to you
what is the most important from tonight’s meeting with Our Lady. Also
tonight Our Lady came to us happy and joyful. At the beginning, as
always, She greeted all of us with Her Motherly greeting, ‘Praised be Jesus my dear children.’ After
that She continued, with Her arms extended, to pray over all of us for a
while. She especially prayed over all of you here who are sick. Then
for a long time Our Lady prayed for peace, for peace in the world.
Then Our Lady blessed all of us with Her Motherly blessing, and She
also blessed everything you brought to be blessed. I also recommended
all of you, all of your needs, your intentions, and your families, and
especially all of you, the sick present here. After that Our Lady
continued to pray for a while over all of you and then left in that
prayer, in an illuminated Sign of the Cross, with a greeting, ‘Go in peace my dear children.’ I would especially like to emphasize that also at tonight’s meeting Our Lady, for a long time, especially prayed for peace. Thank you.”
Pictures from the August 29, 2014 Apparition in Medjugorje
A pilgrim knelt before the large wooden crucifix on
top of Apparition Mountain hours before Our Lady’s apparition tonight,
August 29, 2014. Tonight, Our Lady again asked for prayers for peace,
for peace in the world. This has been Her request throughout the summer
and watching the daily deterioration of peace around the world, we
understand from Our Lady’s words that peace is greatly threatened in
this time. In the early years of the apparitions in Medjugorje, there
were many physical miracles and supernatural phenomenon that took place.
These events confirmed to those who experienced them that Our Lady was
truly appearing in Medjugorje. It was not uncommon for the villagers
to see Our Lady on top of Cross Mountain below the Cross, Her veil
blowing in the wind. The visionaries were pressed by many to ask Our
Lady if it was truly Her that they saw. She responded:
December 31, 1981
Ivan asks Our Lady if it is really She appearing at the foot of the cross.
Tonight, in response to Our Lady’s request, we should place ourselves before a cross or crucifix and plead with Jesus to forgive the world its sins. It is only through the forgiveness of our sins that we can achieve peace. This is what the world has forgotten, and because there is no true recognition and repentance of sin, there is no peace.
A beautiful late summer sky spread across Medjugorje
this evening, August 29, and led pilgrims who were waiting for Our
Lady’s apparition to spend their time in contemplation of God’s
creation. Our Lady said:
March 25, 1990
A Friend of Medjugorje speaks often of the need to recognize our own sinfulness and to regularly repent of our sins through Confession. He says:
“…Not acknowledging sin and denying sin
leads us in the wrong direction. Living the Commandments is not simply
stating, “I keep them.” Living the Commandments is recognizing that
often we don’t keep them, that we have broken them in our lives, and
that we acknowledge that we have sinned against them. That is the road
to waking up, which will lead to God rescuing our nation from its
present course of suicide. The recognition of what sin is and being
sensitive enough to repent and confess our weaknesses will lead us
towards the right direction. That is what it means to keep the
Commandments. Wisdom can then be obtained of how to gain authority over
wickedness.”
From the writing “Troubles Befall You? How to Correct Them” by A Friend of Medjugorje
Why is it that Christians always seem to be on the losing side of every conflict in today’s culture? We do not have the power of God with us because we do not stand before Him with pure, humble and repentive hearts. We must change the direction of our lives and follow the wisdom of Our Lady who said. “You will not have happiness on this earth, neither will you come to Heaven if you are not with pure and humble hearts, and do not fulfill the law of God…” February 2, 1990
The beauty of the sunset over Medjugorje tonight helps to open the heart to prayer. The youngest Medjugorje visionary, Jakov Colo, explained how Our Lady taught them how to do this, in beautiful simplicity:
“My true life began when I was ten years
old, at that precise moment, when I truly experienced Jesus and the
Gospa, when I felt them in my heart. The Gospa invited us to pray. She
said: “Dear children, pray with your hearts, feel the
joy, the peace and the peace that prayer brings. May prayer become your
joy, because you cannot pray if you think that you must pray.” The heart needs to feel the need to pray, then prayer will become joy.”
“When the Gospa told us this, I asked
myself as a child how it was possible to pray with the heart, how this
should happen. I realized that prayer with the heart was a gift from
God, a gift that God wishes to give everybody. I said to God and to the
Gospa: “Dear God, dear Gospa, from now on I wish to pray with my
heart, I wish to feel prayer in my heart, I wish to feel the joy of
prayer, I wish to feel peace in prayer.” Then I began to pray and,
slowly, I felt the joy of prayer. I searched for a place where I could
pray and I didn’t find it difficult to pray anymore. We all need to ask
the Gospa to help us pray with our hearts so that we may feel the
beauty of prayer.”
From A Conversation with the Visionaries by Kresimir Sego
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