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Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." St. Thomas Aquinas said: "The things we love tell us who we are!" With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry! Below are two albums of pictures that I created: 1. Our grand daughter Adrianna. 2. Tears of Mary!
Friday, June 30, 2017
Mary TV: June 30, 2017 Reflection - Pray with the heart until your heart sings...
(c) Mateo Ivankovic 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Mary TV: June 29, 2017 Reflection - A song of thanksgiving for your life!
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Mary TV: June 28, 2017 Reflection - Thank you for your perseverance...
(c) Mateo Ivankovic 2017
J.M.J.
June 28, 2017
St. Iranaeus
Dear Family of Mary!
Our Lady thanks us for our perseverance in this anniversary message, in the context of prayer. "Today, I desire to thank you for your perseverance and call you to open yourselves to profound prayer." She thanks us because we are still trying. We are still listening to her messages, still responding to her call in Medjugorje. And most of all we are still praying. She is happy that we persevere.
St. Iranaeus
Dear Family of Mary!
"Dear children! Today, I desire to thank you for your perseverance and call you to open yourselves to profound prayer. Prayer, little children, is the heart of faith and is hope in eternal life. Therefore, pray with the heart until your heart sings with thanksgiving to God the Creator who gave you life. I am with you, little children, and carry to you my motherly blessing of peace. Thank you for having responded to my call." (June 25, 2017)
Our Lady thanks us for our perseverance in this anniversary message, in the context of prayer. "Today, I desire to thank you for your perseverance and call you to open yourselves to profound prayer." She thanks us because we are still trying. We are still listening to her messages, still responding to her call in Medjugorje. And most of all we are still praying. She is happy that we persevere.
We
may think that our efforts to persevere mean very little when
juxtaposed to the world's events. We are just little people, having
limited means and traveling in small social circles. But we would be
mistaken to think that our continued struggle to respond to Our Lady's
call is meaningless. It is not!
Our prayer, joined to her prayer, is powerful! And that is why she calls us to "open yourselves to profound prayer." She knows the miracles that can take place if we pray. And she is calling those miracles forth.
I
looked in the Catechism of the Catholic Church for any reference to
perseverance, and came across a beautiful passage about perseverance in
prayer! It speaks volumes to me about what Our Lady is looking for in
our perseverance in prayer. I include it here:
IV. Persevering in Love
2742 "Pray constantly . . . always and for everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father."(33)
St. Paul adds, "Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and
supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance making
supplication for all the saints."(34)
For "we have not been commanded to work, to keep watch and to fast
constantly, but it has been laid down that we are to pray without
ceasing."(35) This
tireless fervor can come only from love. Against our dullness and
laziness, the battle of prayer is that of humble, trusting, and
persevering love. This love opens our hearts to three enlightening and
life-giving facts of faith about prayer.
2743
It is always possible to pray: the time of the Christian is that of the
risen Christ who is with us always, no matter what tempests may arise.(36) Our time is in the hands of God:
It
is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or
strolling alone, or seated in your shop, . . . while buying or selling, .
. . or even while cooking.(37)
2744
Prayer is a vital necessity. Proof from the contrary is no less
convincing: if we do not allow the Spirit to lead us, we fall back into
the slavery of sin. (38) How can the Holy Spirit be our life if our heart is far from him?
Nothing
is equal to prayer; for what is impossible it makes possible, what is
difficult, easy.... For it is impossible, utterly impossible, for the
man who prays eagerly and invokes God ceaselessly ever to sin. (39)
Those who pray are certainly saved; those who do not pray are certainly damned(40)
2745
Prayer and Christian life are inseparable, for they concern the same
love and the same renunciation, proceeding from love; the same filial
and loving conformity with the Father's plan of love; the same
transforming union in the Holy Spirit who conforms us more and more to
Christ Jesus; the same love for all men, the love with which Jesus has
loved us. "Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he [will] give it to
you. This I command you, to love one another."(41)
He
"prays without ceasing" who unites prayer to works and good works to
prayer. Only in this way can we consider as realizable the principle of
praying without ceasing.(42)
(33) ⇒ 1 Thess 5:17; ⇒ Eph 5:20. 34 ⇒ Eph 6:18. (35) Evagrius Ponticus, Pract. 49: PG 40, 1245C. (36) Cf. ⇒ Mt 28:20; Lk 8:24[ETML:XC/]. (37) St. John Chrysostom, Ecloga de oratione 2: PG 63, 585. (38) Cf. ⇒ Gal 5:16-25. (39) St. John Chrysostom, De Anna 4, 5: PG 54, 666. (40) St. Alphonsus Liguori, Del gran Mezzo della preghiera. (41) ⇒ Jn 15:16-17. (42) Origen, De orat. 12: PG 11, 452c.
As
St. John Chrysostom says, "Nothing is equal to prayer, for what is
impossible it makes possible, what is difficult, easy..." This is what
Our Lady sees so clearly and wants us to understand. Together we can
make the impossible, possible. We can help to bring about the Triumph of
her Immaculate Heart!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Mary TV: June 27, 2017 Reflection - A Message through Ivan
(c) Mateo Ivankovic 2017
J.M.J.
June 27, 2017
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Dear Family of Mary!
Here
is a message given through Ivan Dragicevic on June 23, 2017. He met
with his prayer group on Apparition Hill that night at 10:00 pm. (I
happened to be viewing our POV Camera at that time, and saw all the
flash lights and cameras blinking like stars on the hill. I guess I was
present for the apparition!) Here is his account of the encounter with
Our Lady:
After the
Apparition Ivan said that he would like to describe what is most
important from the encounter with Our Lady. He said that Our Lady came
joyful and happy and she greeted everyone with Her Motherly greeting, 'Praised be Jesus, my dear children.'
She
prayed over everyone present with her arms extended, and especially the
sick present for a while. Then Our Lady gave the message to Ivan:
"Dear
children, I came, I came to you and presented myself as the Queen of
Peace. Also today, I desire to call you to pray for peace. May there be
peace, dear children. May peace begin to reign in the world.
Dear
children, be persevering in prayer. Fight against evil and against sin
and the idols of today's world which seduce you. Be firm; be strong in
faith. And to be strong in faith - pray. Pray, and through prayer meet
with my Son, for Him to grant you strength, for Him to grant you the
grace. Be open.
The
Mother prays for all of you and for all of you intercedes before Her
Son. Thank you, dear children, for also today having responded to my
call."
After that
she blessed all with Her Motherly Blessing and all our religious
articles. Ivan said that he recommended all of us, our needs and
intentions, our families and in a special way the sick.
Our Lady continued praying over all present and She left in that prayer, in an illuminated Sign of the Cross and She said, "Go in peace my dear children"
I
am struck with the similarities between this message through Ivan and
the 36th Anniversary message through Marija. Here is that message again,
so you can ponder them together:
"Dear
children! Today, I desire to thank you for your perseverance and call
you to open yourselves to profound prayer. Prayer, little children, is
the heart of faith and is hope in eternal life. Therefore, pray with the
heart until your heart sings with thanksgiving to God the Creator who
gave you life. I am with you, little children, and carry to you my
motherly blessing of peace. Thank you for having responded to my call." (June 25, 2017 through Marija)
More to follow!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV 2017
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Medjugorje, 36th Anniversary of the Apparitions. Message June 25, 2017
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Mary TV: June 23, 2017 Reflection - 36th Anniversary Novena Day 9
(c) Mateo Ivankovic 2016
J.M.J.
June 23, 2017
36th Anniversary Novena - Day Nine
Dear Family of Mary!
In Fatima Our Lady promised that "in the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph". In Medjugorje she has told us
"I invite you to self-renunciation for nine days so that, with your
help, everything that I desire to realize through the secrets I began
in Fatima, may be fulfilled" (August 25, 1991). The Triumph of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary is our hope in these dark days. As we
reflect on Our Lady's coming in Medjugorje, this Triumph give us a hope
for the future. We also are being invited to be part of that Triumph,
through our response to her call:
"Dear children! Today in a special way I invite you all to prayer and renunciation. For now as never before satan wants to show the world his shameful face by which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to triumph in the sinful world. I beseech all of you to offer prayers and sacrifices for my intentions so I can present them to God for what is most necessary. Forget your desires, dear children, and pray for what God desires, and not for what you desire. Thank you for having responded to my call."(September 25, 1991)
May we respond with all our hearts to Our Lady's plea! Let us pray:
The Annunciation"Dear children! Also in this difficult time God's love sends me to you. My children, do not be afraid, I am with you. With complete trust give me your hearts that I may help you to recognize the signs of the time in which you live. I will help you to come to know the love of my Son. I will triumph through you. Thank you."(June 2, 2007)The Visitation"Dear children; Today I call you to a humble, my children, humble devotion. Your hearts need to be just. May your crosses be your means in the battle against the sins of the present time. May your weapon be patience and boundless love, a love that knows to wait and which will make you capable of recognizing God's signs, that your life, by humble love, may show the truth to all those who seek it in the darkness of lies. My children, my apostles, help me to open the paths to my Son. Once again I call you to pray for your shepherds. Alongside them, I will triumph. Thank you."(October 2, 2010)The Birth of Jesus"Dear children! I come to you as a Mother with gifts. I come with love and mercy. Dear children, mine is a big heart. In it, I desire all of your hearts, purified by fasting and prayer. I desire that, through love, our hearts may triumph together. I desire that through that triumph you may see the real Truth, the real Way and the real Life. I desire that you may see my Son. Thank you."(March 18, 2007)The Presentation"Dear children, Today, with my motherly heart, I call you gathered around me to love your neighbor. My children, stop. Look in the eyes of your brother and see Jesus, my Son. If you see joy, rejoice with him. If there is pain in the eyes of your brother, with your tenderness and goodness, cast it away, because without love you are lost. Only love is effective; it works miracles. Love will give you unity in my Son and the victory of my heart. Therefore, my children, love."(September 2, 2008)The Finding in the Temple"Dear children! I desire to share my joy with you. In my Immaculate Heart I feel that there are many of those who have drawn closer to me and are, in a special way, carrying the victory of my Immaculate Heart in their hearts by praying and converting. I desire to thank you and to inspire you to work even more for God and His kingdom with love and the power of the Holy Spirit. I am with you and I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call."(August 25, 2000)
Dear
Mother Mary, we gather together to pray this novena, with deep
gratitude for your presence in our midst. You have come to show us the
way to heaven. The Heavenly Father has sent you to us to help us to
repent and return to Him. You are coming to be the bond between us and
the Heavenly Father, and to help us to love and serve His Son. You pray
with us for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because you have told us
that when we have the Holy Spirit, we have everything. Therefore we
ask that during this Novena you will help us to bond with you and
through you with our Triune God who loves us so much. We ask that every
grace can be poured out upon our shepherds, especially Pope Francis,
during these nine days that they will be strengthened and purified for
the days ahead, these most triumphant days of the Triumph of your
Immaculate Heart! Thank you, dearest Mother!!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Mary TV: June 22, 2017 Reflection - 36th Anniversary Novean - Day 8
(c) Mateo Ivankovic 2017
Our Lady's great love for us!
J.M.J.
June 22, 2017
36th Anniversary Novena Day Eight
Dear Family of Mary!
"If you knew how much I love you, you would cry with joy. When anyone is before you, and asks you something, you will give it to him. I am before so many hearts, but they remain closed. Pray so that the world receives my love." (June 21, 1984 Jelena)
Our Lady has come to give us her love. Let me share the witness of Musician Dorijan Skrobonja, posted on the parish website (http://www.medjugorje.hr/en/news/the-experience-of-one-medjugorje-pilgrim,6888.html ) :
"The special encounter with Medjugorje
took place four years ago, when I came on a pilgrimage with my family.
We always came here to give thanks to God and to receive blessings. I
never thought that anything special should happen to me, but that was
exactly what happened. My wife and I were going to the church, to pray
there. I knelt and I began to pray. Suddenly, I felt warmth, love and
gentleness that were being poured on me. It was in that moment that
Mother conveyed a message to me: Don't you know how much I love you;
why do you still question my love? I began to cry because of fear and
embarrassment; I could feel how small my faith was. All of my worries,
all of my burdens were released, I felt completely free, as if I was in
the world of complete and utter love, warmth and tenderness. I felt
ashamed to cry and I could feel people staring at me. My wife could see
that something extraordinary was taking place. It was that same night
that I wrote the poem to Our Lady: 'Tonight I stood beneath Thee, o
Mother, I stood beneath Thee, Pure Tenderness'," said Dorijan who is a
member of Aledory band together with his brother and they witness their
faith with the music. "We are trying to live the messages of the Queen
of Peace. Sometimes we are able to do that, sometimes we fail. I
regret for not having been able to come to Medjugorje more often."
This is a beautiful description of what it is like to encounter the
love of Our Mother, Mary. She is waiting to pour out her love on all
of us. We have only to ask! Let us pray!
The Annunciation"Dear children! Today I wish to give you my own love. You do not know, dear children, how great my love is, and you do not know how to accept it. In various ways I wish to show it to you, but you, dear children, do not recognize it. You do not understand my words with your heart and neither are you able to comprehend my love. Dear children, accept me in your life and so you will be able to accept all I am saying to you and to which I am calling you. Thank you for having responded to my call."(May 22, 1986)The Visitation"Dear children! With joy in the heart I love you all and call you to draw closer to my Immaculate Heart so I can draw you still closer to my Son Jesus, and that He can give you His peace and love, which are nourishment for each one of you. Open yourselves, little children, to prayer - open yourselves to my love. I am your mother and cannot leave you alone in wandering and sin. You are called, little children, to be my children, my beloved children, so I can present you all to my Son. Thank you for having responded to my call."(June 25, 2013)The Birth of Jesus"Dear children, I am coming to you as a mother and I desire that in me, as in a mother, you may find your abode, consolation and rest. Therefore, my children, apostles of my love, pray. Pray with humble devotion, obedience and complete trust in the Heavenly Father. Trust as I have trusted when it was said to me that I will bring the blessing of the promise. May out of your hearts, from your lips, always come forth 'May your will be done!' Therefore, trust and pray so that I can intercede for you before the Lord, for him to give you the Heavenly Blessing and fill you with the Holy Spirit. Then he will be able to help all those who do not know the Lord - you, apostles of my love, will help them to call him 'Father' with complete trust. Pray for your shepherds and place your trust in their blessed hands. Thank you."(March 02, 2014)The Presentation"Dear children! I am here, I am among you. I am looking at you, am smiling at you and I love you in the way that only a mother can. Through the Holy Spirit who comes through my purity, I see your hearts and I offer them to my Son. Already for a long time I have been asking of you to be my apostles, to pray for those who have not come to know God's love. I am asking for prayer said out of love, prayer which carries out works and sacrifices. Do not waste time thinking about whether you are worthy to be my apostles. The Heavenly Father will judge everyone; and you, love Him and listen to Him. I know that all of this confuses you, even my very stay among you, but accept it with joy and pray that you may comprehend that you are worthy to work for Heaven. My love is upon you. Pray that my love may win in all hearts, because that is the love which forgives, gives and never stops. Thank you."(February 02, 2015)The Finding in the Temple"Dear children! As a mother, I desire to be of help to you. With my motherly love, I desire to help you to open your heart and to put my Son in the first place in it. Through your love for my Son and through your prayer, I desire for God's light to illuminate you and God's mercy to fill you. In this way, I desire for the darkness, and the shadow of death which wants to encompass and mislead you, to be driven away. I desire for you to feel the joy of the blessing of God's promise. You, children of man, you are God's children - you are my children. Therefore, my children, set out on the ways on which my love leads you, teaches you humility and wisdom, and finds the way to the Heavenly Father. Pray with me for those who do not accept me and do not follow me - those who, because of hardness of their hearts, cannot feel the joy of humility, devotion, peace and love - the joy of my Son. Pray that your shepherds, with their blessed hands, may always give you the joy of God's blessing. Thank you."(March 18, 2014)
Dear Mother Mary, we gather together to pray this novena, with deep
gratitude for your presence in our midst. You have come to show us the
way to heaven. The Heavenly Father has sent you to us to help us to
repent and return to Him. You are coming to be the bond between us and
the Heavenly Father, and to help us to love and serve His Son. You pray
with us for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because you have told us
that when we have the Holy Spirit, we have everything. Therefore we
ask that during this Novena you will help us to bond with you and
through you with our Triune God who loves us so much. We ask that every
grace can be poured out upon our shepherds, especially Pope Francis,
during these nine days that they will be strengthened and purified for
the days ahead, these most triumphant days of the Triumph of your
Immaculate Heart! Thank you, dearest Mother!!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Mary TV: June 21, 2017 Reflection - 36th Anniversary Novena Day 7
(c) Mateo Ivankovic 2016
J.M.J.
June 21, 2017
36th Anniversary Novena Day Seven
Dear Family of Mary!
Our
Lady has been coming to us for 35 years, injecting into our tired and
discouraged world the gift of Divine Hope. God has sent her to be a
light in the darkness of sin and faithlessness. Now we are asked to
carry that hope into our own spheres of influence. Hope is like fresh
air, it revives our spirits. May we receive the hope Our Lady brings and
give it to others:
"Dear children! Today I call you to renew prayer and fasting with even greater enthusiasm until prayer becomes a joy for you. Little children, the one who prays is not afraid of the future and the one who fasts is not afraid of evil. Once again, I repeat to you: only through prayer and fasting also wars can be stopped - wars of your unbelief and fear for the future. I am with you and am teaching you little children: your peace and hope are in God. That is why draw closer to God and put Him in the first place in your life. Thank you for having responded to my call."(January 25, 2001)
Let us pray:
The Annunciation"Dear children! Also today I call you to pray for peace. Pray with the heart, little children, and do not lose hope because God loves His creatures. He desires to save you, one by one, through my coming here. I call you to the way of holiness. Pray, and in prayer you are open to God's will; in this way, in everything you do, you realize God's plan in you and through you. Thank you for having responded to my call."(March 25, 2003)The Visitation"Dear children! Also today I call you, in this time of grace, to pray for little Jesus to be born in your heart. May He, who is peace itself, give peace to the entire world through you. Therefore, little children, pray without ceasing for this turbulent world without hope, so that you may become witnesses of peace for all. May hope begin to flow through your hearts as a river of grace. Thank you for having responded to my call."(November 25, 2008)The Birth of Jesus"Dear children! I look at you and I see in your heart death without hope, restlessness and hunger. There is no prayer or trust in God, that is why the Most High permits me to bring you hope and joy. Open yourselves. Open your hearts to God's mercy and He will give you everything you need and will fill your hearts with peace, because He is peace and your hope. Thank you for having responded to my call."(November 25, 2010)The Presentation"Dear children! Anew, in a motherly way, I am calling you not to be of a hard heart. Do not shut your eyes to the warnings which the Heavenly Father sends to you out of love. Do you love Him above all else? Do you repent for having often forgotten that the Heavenly Father, out of His great love, sent his Son to redeem us by the Cross? Do you repent for not yet having accepted the message? My children, do not resist the love of my Son. Do not resist hope and peace. Along with your prayer and fasting, by His cross, my Son will cast away the darkness that wants to surround you and come to rule over you. He will give you the strength for a new life. Living it according to my Son, you will be a blessing and a hope to all those sinners who wander in the darkness of sin. My children, keep vigil. I, as a mother, am keeping vigil with you. I am especially praying and watching over those whom my Son called to be light-bearers and carriers of hope for you - for your shepherds. Thank you." (March 02, 2013)The Finding in the Temple"Dear children, Remember - for I am telling you - that love will win. I know that many of you are losing hope because around you, you see suffering, pain, jealousy, envy... but, I am your mother. I am in the Kingdom but am also here with you. My Son is sending me anew to help you. Therefore, do not lose hope; instead, follow me - because the victory of my heart is in the name of God. My beloved Son is thinking of you as he has always thought of you. Believe him and live him. He is the life of the world. My children, to live my Son means to live the Gospel. This is not easy. This means love, forgiveness and sacrifice. This purifies and it opens the Kingdom. Sincere prayer, which is not only words but is a prayer which the heart speaks, will help you. Likewise fasting (will help you), because it is still more of love, forgiveness and sacrifice. Therefore, do not lose hope but follow me. I am imploring you anew to pray for your shepherds so that they may always look to my Son who was the first Shepherd of the world and whose family was the entire world."(December 02, 2014)
Dear
Mother Mary, we gather together to pray this novena, with deep
gratitude for your presence in our midst. You have come to show us the
way to heaven. The Heavenly Father has sent you to us to help us to
repent and return to Him. You are coming to be the bond between us and
the Heavenly Father, and to help us to love and serve His Son. You pray
with us for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because you have told us
that when we have the Holy Spirit, we have everything. Therefore we
ask that during this Novena you will help us to bond with you and
through you with our Triune God who loves us so much. We ask that every
grace can be poured out upon our shepherds, especially Pope Francis,
during these nine days that they will be strengthened and purified for
the days ahead, these most triumphant days of the Triumph of your
Immaculate Heart! Thank you, dearest Mother!!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
Be connected!
www.marytv.tv
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
News and Stories from Sister Emmanuel: June Report 2017
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