Fr. Slvako Barbaric, OFM
J.M.J.
January 20, 2017
St. Fabian and St. Sebastian
Dear Family of Mary!
This is the last installment of Fr. Slavko's reflection on the December 25, 1994 message:
December 25, 1994 "Dear children! Today I rejoice with you and I am praying with you for peace: peace in your hearts, peace in your families, peace in your desires, peace in the whole world. May the King of Peace bless you today and give your peace. I bless you and I carry each one of you in my heart. Thank you for having responded to my call."
Peace in our desires leads to...
PEACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD
This
will be the final fruit of our taking Mary's path to peace in our
hearts, peace in our families and peace in our desires. These days we
see and hear how peace is threatened from the outside by numerous
conflicts, but those things are still a continuing impulse for us to
pray for peace. The world is in chaos, the world does not have peace and
this is for a very simple, true and very deep reason. The world has
turned away from God and the world even wants to make itself independent
from Him!
"The
people of these times", a teacher of repute is known to have said,
"have eaten too much from the tree of knowledge and have ignored the
tree of love, the tree of trust and the tree of God." It is for this
reason that it becomes very important for us that we, especially in
these times, renew our 'yes' to Mary and with her hold on to the belief
that peace is, after all, possible. We should do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to
bring peace into our hearts, into our families, into our desires and
into the world!
MAY THE KING OF PEACE BLESS YOU TODAY AND GIVE YOU PEACE
She
knows Him and He is the Prince of Peace about whom the prophets sang
and whom the prophets announced. It is ultimate for us to know that it
is He and ONLY He to whom Our Lady is praying and leading us. It is very
beautiful to know that she intercedes for us to her son, for this very
particular Intention - PEACE. We should not forget that in several
messages she tells us that she needs us and that we are important to
her. We are important to her because the first part of peace that Jesus
promised us is peace in our hearts. It is only from this out of which
peace in the families and peace in the world can grow.
I BLESS YOU AND I CARRY EACH OF YOU IN MY HEART
This
means that she promises that she will continue to pray for us, that she
will continue to intercede for us and that she never judges us. It is
'benedicere' in Latin and this means that she 'speaks well' of us and
does not accuse us before God. Then finally she says something very
motherly and beautiful. She sees herself as the mother of every single
one of us! She carries us! And this is OUR CHANCE to permit ourselves to
be carried by her! We must become conscious that she loves us, that she
loves and accepts us as a mother.
When
we come closer to her, as she said in the November message, we will
also discover God. Father also carries us! THINK ABOUT IT! This is a
call and another strong impulse for us to open our hearts to her and to
become like her in our thoughts, in our feelings and in our entire
lives. This message is one that in a special way clarifies Mary's
program to us. She came to announce peace and not war! It clarifies that
one cannot advance in merely analyzing but to progress it is necessary
to personally decide for peace. This is also the case when we find
ourselves in deep conflicts. Then too we can lead or be led to the Oasis
of Peace. The people the communities, the families, the Church itself
and all the rest of the world NEED THIS PEACE! Everyone will become a
person with good intentions when they actively decide to come closer to
God. This is quite simply the program leading out of Bethlehem when the
angels sang: "Glory to God in the Highest and Peace to all Men!"
So
Mary has been with us for 13 years and 6 months [and now for 35 years
and 6 months] and we are in her College of Love and of Peace. Slowly but
steadily we should come to the conclusion that there are no more
excuses to go to lesser schools. SHE LOVES US SO MUCH! SHE GAVE US SO
MUCH! SHE HAS TOLD US SO MUCH! SHE IS PRAYING FOR US! We have all the
reasons to become active so that peace can come to us all. WE SHOULD LET
HER PROGRAM BECOME OUR PROGRAM! May we become conscious that this peace
can truly come when we constantly fight evil and sin and when we
consistently work on our hearts as we work on our fields. (Fr. Slavko
Barbaric. "Mother! Lead Us to Peace!!" p. 307-308)
I
am grateful to have these words of Fr. Slavko available for us to
ponder. He was and is a gift to us in these days. He gave everything to
serve the Gospa. He held nothing back. And he did serve the good and
peace in Medjugorje.
May
we follow Fr. Slavko's example, and abandon ourselves to the Mother.
She will take us to her heart, and help us to become apostles of peace.
Jesus will then be everything for us, and we will live with Him in our
hearts, and in our families and the whole world.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017
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