Mary TV: January 31, 2019 Reflection - St. Joseph, protector of the Holy Family!

St. Joseph, pray for us! January 31, 2019 St. John Bosco Dear Family of Mary! Fr. Maximilian has been guiding us spiritually through the English Mass in Medjugorje during this time when Fr. Leon has been called away. I have transcribed Fr. Maximilian's opening remarks before Mass on January 30, 2019. I feel that Fr. Max has hit upon a very important aspect of God's plan at this time in Medjugorje. That aspect is the role of St. Joseph! Denis and I have been entrusting Mary TV to St. Joseph in a special way for a long time (especially through Br. Andre Bessette). And St. Joseph has done many incredible miracles for Mary TV. But I never understood the important role that St. Joseph has for Medjugorje until I heard Fr. Max speak yesterday.   See what you think! English Mass in Medjugorje - January 30, 2019 Fr. Maximilian Dalve's opening remarks... In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, AMEN.   In the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, our Mother, be with you all! Amen. We just sang "Laudato si" which is a song that comes forth from the words of St. Francis. He praised the Lord for the beauty of creation. We all know this prayer of St. Francis and we should do that prayer in the morning, singing songs of praise that our life may become a song of praise. And giving thanks is always the very best prayer to make. In the morning, one of the visionaries, Vicka, said it is the prayer that ties us to God because it is an act of love. To recognize the love of God and the beauty of his love in all things, all happenings, in all creation. So now we are gathered around the altar of the Lord to celebrate the redemption of all creation. The redemption of each one of us. Holy Mass is full of wonder, full of awe which we will never be able to understand as Mary has said in her messages. Today, Wednesday, we want to celebrate in honor of St. Joseph, for he is a hidden saint who we have to discover. Because God entrusted to him the greatest treasures, His Son who yesterday in the Gospel told us that we can all become His brother, sister, even mother! So, He invites us to become even Mary. But He never said to anyone, become my father. The father is only God the Father! But Jesus called, as we know, when He was a little child and He looked at Joseph, He called him "Abba" - Father!   What did He see in the face of Joseph? What was the feeling of Joseph when he heard the Son of God calling him "father"? His humility, his virtues...if we could get some of his virtues. But he wants to give them to us.   And who was closer, besides Jesus, to Mary than Joseph himself? Because he had the sacrament of marriage with Mary! So, he knows Mary! He protected Jesus and Mary several times. You know in the Gospel. And therefore, Mary here together with her Son Jesus, is making an incredible work of evangelization for mankind, for the world. There are saving plans for the whole world here in Medjugorje! So, we have to entrust Medjugorje to St. Joseph! We have to understand that this is an important step to take, so that he may protect and guide as a father, in the father role. We should especially pray every day for Archbishop Henryk Hoser. He is the bishop that the Holy Father has entrusted Medjugorje to, that he may be enlightened, that he may always be as wise as St. Joseph, and he will protect the creature of Mary in a certain way because she is working here most extraordinarily. So, let's call upon St. Joseph as he was introduced into the mystery of God like no one else, and he had such an important role to play that if he would have failed, the whole history of redemption would have stopped, would not have been accomplished. His role was so important!! But now Mary says, "Your role! You can't imagine the greatness of your role!" Therefore, she calls us to collaborate with her totally. To give ourselves totally into her hands. To be docile to the Holy Spirit, who wants to guide us into prayer on the way of holiness. Into oneness with Christ.   Therefore, let us call upon Him right in the beginning of Holy Mass, as we do always. For without Him there is nothing good that we can do. Nothing good in the sense of how God understands good. That perfection to which He calls us. Come, Holy Spirit, come in my heart. Sweet Holy Spirit, fill with your love.... Come, Holy Spirit, come in my heart. Sweet Holy Spirit, fill with your love.... Alleluia, Alleluia.... Alleluia, Alleluia.  (Fr. Maximilian Dalva) Thank you, Fr. Max. Your words have ignited a fire! I feel the deep need for St. Joseph now, in every aspect of my life, and especially in the work of Mary TV. Dear St. Joseph, guide us and protect us, intercede for us and watch over us as we serve Our Lady in her plans in Medjugorje. May we be only and always a help to her. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2019

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Mary TV: January 30, 2019 Reflection - May a grain of hope and faith grow...

 

A grain of hope and faith...

(c) Anthony Zubac 2019

January 30, 2019
Dear Family of Mary!

"Therefore, in the warmth of your heart, may a grain of hope and faith grow and you, little children, will from day to day feel the need to pray more..."

It doesn't take much. God can work with a very small "yes", a tiny glimmer of hope, a miniscule opening to faith. It isn't necessary that we understand the whole Bible, or grasp the theology of St. Thomas, for our faith to begin and grow. All it takes is a grain of faith, a grain of hope. As Jesus told us:      

And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." (Mark 4:30-32)

When God reveals Himself to someone, He doesn't give that person the entire plan for their life in one moment. The first encounter will more likely be a brief but powerful flash of light, or confirmation of His presence. It is in such moments that the seeds of faith and hope are planted in the very heart of a person. "God is real. God is a person. He loves me. I have met Him. He is calling me. I am not alone. Heaven is real." These are the realities that change our hearts from cold and barren rocks into warm and fertile gardens. This is when the seeds of hope and faith are planted.
Our Lady understands this awakening of the heart. She wants us to experience this planting of the grains of faith and hope in our hearts. She wants us to encounter the Lord and let that encounter become a planting of faith and hope. She is with us in Medjugorje to help that process. She it is who comes to us first to warm our hearts with her love. We feel her motherly care which envelops us so gently. And our hearts begin to thaw. Our hearts begin to warm up, like the earth in the spring. Her love prepares the soil of our hearts to receive the grains of faith and hope that her Son will sew in them. Her warmth makes us warm. And then the miracle begins.
The tiny seeds of faith and hope can take root in our hearts because they are readied. When we encounter Jesus, in a flash of insight and love, the seeds will enter our hearts and take root. This is when the Kingdom begins to grow in us. And, oh the wonders that ensue. Families are healed, vocations are discovered, good works abound, all the characteristics of the Kingdom emerge, each in its kind. All it takes is a tiny glimmer of hope or a miniscule opening to faith. A small word from Jesus, a gesture, a gazing into His eyes is all it may take. And the encounter will have happened, and the seeds will have been planted.
But none of these things will grow without prayer. The planting is only the beginning. It is in our relationship to Jesus, through prayer, that the glimmer becomes Mary's Meals or Rachel's Vineyard, or countless other blessed works.
May we cherish those grains we receive from Jesus for we will thank Him for eternity. Our little tiny "yes" now will become something amazing in time, as we pray. And all will rejoice!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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Mary TV: January 29, 2019 Reflection - A time of silence and prayer...

 

A time of silence and prayer...

(c) Anthony Zubac 2019

 

January 29, 2019
Dear Family of Mary!
Our Lady has spoken about silence before. At least 18 times. We know that Our Lady is a silent soul. We hear her speak only a few times in the Scriptures. And we imagine that she was as silent interiorly as she was outwardly. And so, when she tells us that this is a time of silence and prayer, we want very much to listen to her and say yes to it.

"Dear children! Today, as a mother, I am calling you to conversion. This time is for you, little children, a time of silence and prayer..." (January 25, 2019)

Our Lady gave a similar message to St. Faustina in Advent of 1936. Here is the beautiful advice Our Lady gave to St. Faustina about silence:

November 29, [1936]. The Mother of God has taught me how to prepare for the Feast of Christmas. I saw Her today, without the Infant Jesus. She said to me: My daughter, strive after silence and humility, so that Jesus, who dwells in your heart continuously, may be able to rest. Adore Him in your heart; do not go out from your inmost being. My daughter, I shall obtain for you the grace of an interior life which will be such that, without ever leaving that interior life, you will be able to carry out all your external duties with even greater care. Dwell with Him continuously in your heart. He will be your strength. Communicate with creatures only in so far as is necessary and is required by your duties. You are a dwelling place pleasing to the living God; in you He dwells continuously with love and delight. And the living presence of God, which you experience in a more vivid and distinct way, will confirm you, my daughter, in the things I have told you. Try to act in this way until Christmas Day, and then He Himself will make known to you in what way you will be communing and uniting yourself with Him.

That Advent was a time for St. Faustina to experience the presence of Jesus in her heart. It is almost as if Our Lady was allowing Faustina to see what it was like to carry Jesus inside, much like Our Lady carried Him as her preborn baby. That Advent was a time for St. Faustina to give Jesus a place to rest. A place to be loved. A place to be adored. A place to feel affection and kindness. A place to be accepted and worshiped.

St. Faustina was given the grace to be aware of Jesus in a special and intimate way. Again, this is the kind of awareness that a pregnant mother has of her little child. Only a mother knows the constant companionship that takes place between them, when for nine months that child rests in the mother's womb. It is this kind of indwelling that bonds the child and mother. As Our Lady said to Faustina: "You are a dwelling place pleasing to the living God, in you He dwells continuously with love and delight." Wow! This is amazing!!

Maybe Our Lady wants us to grow more silent and prayerful so that we can give Jesus a place to rest in us. Maybe she wants Jesus to have just such an intimate relationship with us, a time of silence and prayer that will bond us to Jesus forever!   

"Dear children! Today, as a mother, I am calling you to conversion. This time is for you, little children, a time of silence and prayer..."

May it be so!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan

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Mary TV: January 28, 2019 Reflection - In the warmth of your heart...

In the warmth of your heart.... (c) Anthony Zubac 2019   January 28, 2019 St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church Dear Family of Mary! Today I want to share the homily for English Mass given by Fr. Maximilian Dalve on Saturday, January 26, 2019. Fr. Max speaks brilliantly about the heart in this homily, explaining much of what Our Lady says to us in this message: "Dear children! Today, as a mother, I am calling you to conversion. This time is for you, little children, a time of silence and prayer. Therefore, in the warmth of your heart, may a grain of hope and faith grow and you, little children, will from day to day feel the need to pray more. Your life will become orderly and responsible. You will comprehend, little children, that you are passing here on earth and you will feel the need to be closer to God, and with love you will witness the experience of your encounter with God, which you will share with others. I am with you and am praying for you but I cannot without your 'yes'. Thank you for having responded to my call."  Here is the homily! January 26, 2019 English Homily by Fr. Maximilian Dalve Reading the letters that St. Paul wrote to Timothy and Titus, all those pastoral letters (they are known as pastoral letters) we see the beautiful relationship that occurs between Paul and his collaborators. He had a certain paternity towards them, he felt fatherly love towards them. He would encourage them, correct them. To Timothy he said to take a little bit more wine for his sickness! So, we know that the health of Timothy was not always the best and that he was also a little bit timid. So, he would have to receive a spirit of power and strength, not of weakness. And he even speaks about the faith of his grandmother and his mother. It is beautiful. We see their warm relationship, familial relationship.   Now when I studied in Rome to prepare for the priesthood, we were told by the professors that the authority and paternity in the letters to Timothy and Titus was not of St. Paul. Somebody else wrote them. And this exegete made this theory, very strongly. If you said that it seems very much that St. Paul wrote it, they would dismiss you as a simpleton. You don't understand high exegetes who make these beautiful and deep insights.   Nonsense, it is so obvious that St. Paul wrote it. They deny it is St. Paul because they say that the Church was already too well structured. But it was 20 years already for St. Paul. How much can change in 20 years! So, out of some futile reason they make a big thesis, big like a mountain, but they stand it on two toothpicks. Sooner or later, many times they collapse.   But these teachings gave us seminarians deep uncertainty. So, as we studied in Rome, we told our founder that if we pass the test after all these studies and keep our faith, we are safe!! Nothing will be able to destroy our faith.   How is this possible? Because to study intellectually, without prayer, leads necessarily to pride and haughtiness. And truth can never stand without humility. It needs a basic humility, at least. Without it people go astray.   There are some great authors who wrote centuries ago, and today. Just think of St. Thomas Aquinas. We celebrate him shortly. Or think of Pope Benedict XVI. His writings are high theology with deep truth combined. But it is not always the case. If we want to get further instructions, we must be very careful what we are reading.   It is not by only studying the Bible. We may go away from the truth. Think of it. People studying the Bible even made new churches! So how can this go together, if Jesus made One Church. This is obviously an error. We don't need a lot of insight to understand this. The Church is just One. Peter, on this Rock I, Jesus, will build My Church. It is the Church of Peter, not Churches. This is obvious, but anyway...   We need to come together, but not initially in an intellectual way. First, we need to come by way of the heart, by welcoming one another. Of being again a family. It is a whole process. Truth must go with charity, and charity is truth.   So my counsel would be, not too much study of the Bible. Read the Bible. Listen to the Word of God. Listen to God in His Word. So read it in a prayerful way. I have downloaded the Bible which is read (audio version). It is a good translation. You can even listen to it when you drive the car or do some work in which your intellect is not involved too much. You can listen to the Word of God! I Love It! It is so beautiful to listen to the Word, to listen to the Letters of St. Paul, listen to Luke, to John, to the Acts of the Apostles.   "Shema Ysrael" means "Listen Israel" - not study Israel...So let it go through your ears into your heart. It forms there. The Truth! And if people tell us, because we don't follow the high theoretical truths about the Bible, that it can't be the paternity of St. Paul, why do they say this? Who is behind it? It is the Evil One who wants to destroy the authority of the Sacred Scripture. So, I said to one of those teachers, I said to him, "Whether it is St. Paul or not is actually secondary. Although for us it is very important, but first the principal author of the Sacred Scripture is the Holy Spirit." Full stop.   So today there are so many attacks against the Church. Not only from without, but also from within. And many times, it is from those who study a lot. And they think themselves to be very wise. But studying without praying!  Mary said in her message yesterday, "You will feel the need to pray more!"  Imagine if a liturgist is so engulfed in studying that he doesn't have time to celebrate the liturgy ...! For the Orthodox Church, the Church in the East, our brothers there, for them the cathedra... the place where you teach... is the choir where the monks pray.  Most beautiful!      Yes, we are attacked.  And we know who in the end is going against Christ.  It is the devil.  And if he gets one faithful he has a nice supper.... but he's clever so he says: if I get the parish priest, I have the whole month to eat, to devour.  But if I get to the bishop I have a whole year at my dispensary to eat and celebrate.   But he's clever.  So, he thinks if he gets to the Book, the books of the seminarians, then he has won a great victory.  So that was where he was working - the formation of future priests!  They might know a lot about Jesus, but very seldom they are taught, like St. Paul did to Timothy and Titus, to encounter Jesus.  That was essential to them...to encounter Him...to make an experience.  Therefore, Pope Benedict says faith begins, not with some laws or whatever, with some ethic, ....no faith begins with an experience of an encounter.... and this encounter in our hearts is peace.  And it's given to us. And if they call you therefore "simpleton" say, I give you praise!  Thank you, Father!  With Jesus pray: "He has hidden those things from the learned, the clever, from the wise and revealed them to Mary's children."    Yes, to encounter Jesus heart to heart!  This communion again... it's not a daily communion, it's The Communion...there's only one.  There are not many Jesus's, only one. Always the full Christ gives Himself to you. These readings today always enter the actual present moment. There in that moment lies Eternity. There is God. And He wants to meet you. He wants to unite Himself to you. And He is yearning, so vehemently, for you, that if you knew you would melt for joy!   And so, it is an experience of peace.  Therefore, when he sends his missionaries - as we see today, the 72 - so there we are all in a certain way - today it's our call.  And He says, when you give your peace, you say, Shalom.  If your peace goes to them, OK.  If it comes back to you, it is an experience of peace. We can't give what we don't have... but what we have, if Jesus is in us, we can give it - it is He, the Holy Spirit who makes this through our poor humanity.  When we see Titus, when we see Timothy, when we see Silas, when we see all those, even Paul himself, we see poor humanity. This perfect, sterile humanity doesn't exist. Where the heart is excluded.   Some people today think that we must create a humanity where the heart is always by-passed. It is a by-pass of the heart. From the passions to the head. And they think they are very clever, but they don't understand that they are directed by their passions, of vanity, of pride, of thirst for power, and they by-pass perfectly the heart. Then they come to such horrendous conclusions. We saw it yesterday in New York. Until the ninth month you can abort a child. And they think this is a great achievement of our culture. And they don't understand that we have grown lower than the beasts. It is only to cry. How can we lose so much our humanity? To reach to certain horrible things. We cannot even name them.   And yet Mary says that this presence of Jesus in us might become...in her words, "In the warmth of your heart, may a grain of hope and faith grow." And we know that this growth is Jesus. It is so important that it grows and that this warmth may pass from heart to heart, and hopefully even reach those hardened hearts who today accomplish such atrocious things. Because as Mary said yesterday, "This life is passing quickly." Also may they be also saved. This is the one most powerful truth in the writings of St. Paul to Timothy, when he says, "God wants that all might be saved." That is a powerful truth. God want that all be saved. And therefore let us become the missionaries, the apostles of love of Our Lady. Today she invites us and today she is looking for our "yes". (Fr. Dalve's homily can be seen at https://marytv.tv/english-mass-in-medjugorje/  Homily 01/26/19)   In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2019

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Message From Our Lady in Medjugorje to Marija January 25, 2019

 

Our Lady's Message to Marija  on January 25, 2019 "Dear children!  Today, as a mother, I am calling you to conversion. This time is for you, little children, a time of silence and prayer.  Therefore, in the warmth of your heart, may a grain of hope and faith grow and you, little children, will from day to day feel the need to pray more. Your life will become orderly and responsible.  You will comprehend, little children, that you are passing here on earth and you will feel the need to be closer to God, and with love you will witness the experience of your encounter with God, which you will share with others.  I am with you and am praying for you but I cannot without your 'yes'. Thank you for having responded to my call." See more messages and articles about Medjugorje on our website:  www.sremmanuel.org Children of Medjugorje, Inc., PO Box 18430, Denver, CO 80218

Mary TV: January 24, 2019 Reflection - Live my messages with the heart!

Mirjana greets Our Lady on December 2, 2018 and receives a message for us all! (c) Anthony Zubac 2018   January 24, 2019 St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Dear Family of Mary! Tomorrow we will receive a message from Our Lady! We anticipate each message she gives us with great joy and gratitude. Her messages are gifts of light for us who live in this very dark world. Our Lady opens our minds and hearts to the things of God even as we trustingly wait for His coming in glory. Today, as we pray and wait for the message, here are 5 messages in which Our Lady gives us clues as to why her messages are important. May these messages help us to receive our new message with ready hearts! May 25, 2006 "Dear children! Also, today I call you to put into practice and to live my messages that I am giving you. Decide for holiness, little children, and think of heaven. Only in this way, will you have peace in your heart that no one will be able to destroy. Peace is a gift which God gives you in prayer. Little children, seek and work with all your strength for peace to win in your hearts and in the world. Thank you for having responded to my call." August 25, 2012 "Dear children! Also today, with hope in the heart, I am praying for you and am thanking the Most High for every one of you who lives my messages with the heart. Give thanks to God's love that I can love and lead each of you through my Immaculate Heart also toward conversion. Open your hearts and decide for holiness, and hope will give birth to joy in your hearts. Thank you for having responded to my call." June 25, 2018 "Dear children! This is the day that the Lord gave me to give Him thanks for each of you, for those who have converted and have accepted my messages and have set out on the way of conversion and holiness. Rejoice, little children, because God is merciful and loves you all with His immeasurable love and leads you to the way of salvation through my coming here. I love you all and give you my Son that He may give you peace. Thank you for having responded to my call." March 18, 2003 "Dear children! Particularly at this holy time of penance and prayer, I call you to make a choice. God gave you free will to choose life or death. Listen to my messages with the heart that you may become cognizant of what you are to do and how you will find the way to life. My children, without God you can do nothing; do not forget this even for a single moment. For, what are you and what will you be on earth, when you will return to it again. Do not anger God, but follow me to life. Thank you for being here." August 25, 1993 "Dear children! I want you to understand that I am your Mother, that I want to help you and call you to prayer. Only by prayer can you understand and accept my messages and practice them in your life. Read Sacred Scripture, live it, and pray to understand the signs of the times. This is a special time, therefore, I am with you to draw you close to my heart and the heart of my Son, Jesus. Dear little children, I want you to be children of the light and not of the darkness. Therefore, live what I am telling you. Thank you for having responded to my call." In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2019 PS. I have very good news! We have completed our Matching Fund Drive! We have received the $40,000 necessary to receive the matching grant!! Thank you!!! Our Medjugorje Studio is well underway to completion! Our next step will be to equip it with the latest in technology!! Thank you and thanks be to God!!!

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Mary TV: January 23, 2019 Reflection - Stretch out your hand!

At prayer before Our Lady's statue in front of St. James Church (c) Anthony Zubac 2018   January 23, 2019 St. Vincent, St. Marianne Cope Dear Family of Mary! The Gospel reading for Holy Mass today is from Mark. It is the story of the healing of the man with a withered hand. It is short, and to the point. Here it is: Jesus entered the synagogue. There was a man there who had a withered hand. They watched Jesus closely to see if he would cure him on the sabbath so that they might accuse him. He said to the man with the withered hand, "Come up here before us." Then he said to the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?" But they remained silent. Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against him to put him to death.   (Mk 3: 1-6) It would seem this scene was a set-up. The men in the synagogue wanted to see what Jesus would do about the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath. They wanted to accuse Him. But Jesus would not cower. He boldly asked the man with the withered hand to step up before them all. Then he confronted the Pharisees about their legalistic view of the Sabbath. "Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath rather than to do evil, to save life rather than to destroy it?" Their silence revealed their duplicity. And so, Jesus turned to the man. This is what was interesting to me. Jesus had invited this man to come to the front of the synagogue. "Come up here before us." The man came up. And after the confrontation with the Pharisees Jesus said, "Stretch out your hand." Jesus gave him two commands. Each one of them required a voluntary response, a response that would show some kind of trust, some kind of openness to Jesus. If the man had been afraid of the Pharisees, he would not have come up or stretched out his hand. If he was looking back (feeling self-conscious), he would have been full of shame at his disability, and maybe he would have declined being in the spotlight. This man clearly had to make a decision to trust Jesus and to follow His commands. It is clear that the healing that ensued was the result not only of Jesus' power, but of this man's cooperation with Jesus. He obviously had come to trust Jesus, to surrender to Jesus, to reject fear and to expectantly open his heart to Jesus' love. That was his part in the miracle that followed. He had to make a choice to say 'yes' to Jesus, in public and at a moment of tension and conflict. The man with the withered hand chose Jesus! Now read Our Lady's message through Jakov on Christmas, 2018, again. "Dear children, on this day of grace, I am calling you to love. Little children, God loves you immeasurably and that is why, little children, full of trust and without looking back and without fear, completely surrender your hearts to Him so that God may fill them with His love. Do not be afraid to believe in His love and mercy, because His love is stronger than every one of your weaknesses and fears. Therefore, my children, full of love in your hearts, trust in Jesus and say your 'yes' to Him, because He is the only way which leads you to the Eternal Father." (December 25, 2018 Jakov) I believe Our Lady is leading us to the same kind of moment of choice that the man with the withered hand was at. She is calling us to the same kind of surrender and trust that he had, so that we can also be healed by Jesus, our Savior and Lord. She knows that Jesus has many graces to give us, but that we need to stand up, come to the front of the room and stretch out our hands and our hearts to Jesus. We all need miracles. Maybe we need a miracle every day! And so, we need to approach Jesus in our prayer in this very same way every day! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2019

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Mary TV: January 22, 2019 Reflection - Full of trust and not looking back...

(c) Anthony Zubac 2019   January 22, 2019 Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Unborn. Dear Family of Mary! "Dear children, on this day of grace, I am calling you to love. Little children, God loves you immeasurably and that is why, little children, full of trust and without looking back and without fear, completely surrender your hearts to Him so that God may fill them with His love. Do not be afraid to believe in His love and mercy, because His love is stronger than every one of your weaknesses and fears. Therefore, my children, full of love in your hearts, trust in Jesus and say your 'yes' to Him, because He is the only way which leads you to the Eternal Father." (December 25, 2019 Jakov) I love this message! I just love it! Jakov only receives one public message each year. And it can get lost in the shuffle with all the Christmas business! But Our Lady has an especially tender way of speaking through Jakov. This message is a very good demonstration of her tenderness. "Dear children, on this day of grace, I am calling you to love..." So simply, Our Lady gives us this call, the call to love. Do we think about this call every day as we get up in the morning? "I am called this day to love..." How would it change our day if we made this call a priority in our day? How would it change the way we organize our time? It's a thought... "Little children, God loves you immeasurably and that is why, little children, full of trust and without looking back and without fear, completely surrender your hearts to Him so that God may fill them with His love..." Every time I read this sentence, it takes my breath away. God loves us immeasurably...God loves us so much we can never measure it. Such love should fill us with trust! And such love should move us to only look forward. No looking back at what has happened. No more self-recrimination or shame. No more fear that we will fail again. God's love is so vast, it will carry us through everything. We have nothing to fear. We need only to surrender to this vast love, and let God fill us with His grace. "Do not be afraid to believe in His love and mercy, because His love is stronger than every one of your weaknesses and fears..." Do not be afraid! Yes, we are weak. Yes, we are unsure. Yes, we have failed many times.   But that doesn't stop God from choosing us and loving us. God can overcome every weakness and fear in our hearts, if we let Him. "Therefore, my children, full of love in your hearts, trust in Jesus and say your 'yes' to Him, because He is the only way which leads you to the Eternal Father." Therefore...Our Lady has given us the truth about the Father. He is always love. And she has given us Jesus, as our brother, to lead us to that Father who loves us. All Jesus needs is our 'yes'. It seems too good to be true. But it is. Jesus is the only way to the Eternal Father, and Jesus is given to us by the Father to ensure that we get back to Him. Doesn't it make you want to swoon? So much love. So much tenderness. So much compassion and kindness. We are called to love because we are so loved! Thank you, dearest Mother, for this message which touches our deepest selves, where fear and failure and mistrust hide. You are reaching down there to root them out. You want us to finally completely surrender to your Son, so that He can save us. May we say "yes".   In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2019 PS. Here is a prayer we can pray for the unborn on this day of prayer, along with our Rosaries. O Mary, Mother of the Unborn, protect the gift of human life which your Divine Son has allowed to be given. Give strength and joy to all parents as they await the birth of the precious child they have conceived. Give courage to those who are fearful, calm those who are anxious and guide all of us, with your motherly care, to treasure and protect the miraculous gift of human life. We ask this through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

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Mary TV: January 21, 2019 Reflection - in your hearts love for my Son may sing!

At prayer in St. James Church (c) Anthony Zubac 2019   January 21, 2019 St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr Dear Family of Mary! I was ill this weekend, and so was Denis. We were not able to do our Daily Rosary or Divine Mercy on Saturday or Sunday. It was so strange! We have been praying online for 10 years now, every day!! I truly love it! We shipmates are family now!! I wanted to share a beautiful email I received about a week ago. It is from Cecilia in Upstate New York! She shares an experience she had through Medjugorje coming to her on Mary TV! Dear Cathy, I would like to share an experience that happened to me last night. Thank you for your daily reflections, I always look forward to them every day! You transcribed Father Marinko' s homily (January 14, 2019 Reflection), what a beautiful homily he gave on Sunday (January 13, 2019 - Evening International Mass). I had to read it again last night around 10 pm before I went to bed. I decided to watch it on Mary TV, so I went to the archives. Then, I opened your reflection with Mother Teresa's prayers (January 15, 2019 reflection). As I was praying, I felt a tremendous love, physical love flood into my heart!!! What a joy it was!!! My heart was pounding, craving that love! Father Marinko's words and your reflection and Mother Teresa's prayers opened my heart!! Now, I know what Our Lady is talking about when she says, "Little Children, open your heart!" Sometimes we don't know how to do it.    Dear Cathy... I am with you every day in the ship sailing with the Rosary program. Sending my love from Upstate New York, Cecilia    Thank you, Cecilia, for sharing your experience of grace with us all. The Holy Spirit was moving!! It always amazes me how strong the graces are from Medjugorje. The Fruit of Medjugorje Shows constantly amaze me! So many interior graces happen in Medjugorje, not to mention the healings and conversion! We are so blessed to have Our Lady with us.   This message from August of 2018 encourages us to pray for open hearts:   August 02, 2018 "Dear children, with a motherly love I am calling you to open hearts to peace; to open hearts to my Son, so that in your hearts love for my Son may sing, because only out of that love peace comes in the soul. My children, I know that you have goodness, I know that you have love - a merciful love, but many of my children still have a closed heart. They think that they can do it without directing their thoughts towards the Heavenly Father who illuminates-towards my Son who is always with you anew in the Eucharist and who desires to listen to you. My children, why do you not speak to Him? The life of each of you is important and precious, because it is a gift from the Heavenly Father for eternity. Therefore, do not ever forget to keep on thanking Him: speak to Him. I know, my children, that what is to come afterwards is unknown to you, but when your hereafter comes you will receive all the answers. My motherly love desires that you be ready. My children, by your life keep putting good feelings in the hearts of the people whom you meet, feelings of peace, goodness, love and forgiveness. Through prayer, hearken to what My Son is saying and act accordingly. Anew, I am calling you to prayer for your shepherds, for those whom my Son has called. Remember that they need prayers and love. Thank you." I think your heart, Cecilia, was singing!!   In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2019

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Parenting in the Image of God

 

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Tribulation Times

January 18, 2019  

(Eph 5:31-33) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother: and shall cleave to his wife. And they shall be two in one flesh. This is a great sacrament: but I speak in Christ and in the church. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular love for his wife as himself: And let the wife fear her husband.

HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL: Putting the Family First

FIRST THINGS: Reclaiming the Houshold

CRISIS MAGAZINE: Parenting in the Image of God

REGINA PROPHETARUM AUDIO HOMILY: Humble Hearts of Families Change the Order of Things

Summary

St. Ephrem speaking about Our Lady, said: “The Belly [i.e., the womb] of Thy Mother changed the order of things, O Thou that orderest all! The rich went in, He came out poor: the High One went in, He came out lowly. Brightness went into her and clothed Himself, and came forth a despised form” (Hymns on the Nativity, VIII). The same doctor and father gives many other examples of how the womb of Our Lady, the Heart of the Holy Family, changed the order of things.

We could extend this to all wives and mothers who truly fulfill their state in life… they, being the heart, when taking their place and acting in imitation of the Blessed Virgin change the order of things for the good! What an awesome reality! The Scriptures and Tradition tell us the proper order in a family. “Being subject one to another, in the fear of Christ. Let women be subject to their husbands, as to the Lord” (Eph. 5:21-22); “Wives be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth the Lord” (Col. 8:18). Ah. These are among the unspoken and forbidden passages of the Scriptures in these days. This fact is very telling. Although the husband is the head of the household… head of the family, it is the wife who is the heart. And things are changed only when they pass through the heart that is in its place. Let us look into the life of one of these saintly mothers... Bd. Anna Maria Taigi.

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION:  Complete my Joy by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted

EXCERPT: Enemy of God, Enemy of the Family
If this is “natural” for a Christian family, then why is it so hard? Here we run into a real difficulty, and another mystery: the mystery of sin and evil. Before they fell, love was easy for our first parents, Adam and Eve, but after falling to the temptation to try to be gods themselves, love became hard—and love remains hard in this life. The soil no longer obeys Adam easily, childbirth is a matter of pain for Eve. We face disease, and earthquakes, and bedbugs. Family life exists now on a spiritual battlefield. You have as spouses and parents the choice either to engage the challenge as an adventure or to abandon the field in some way. There is no escape from this choice—not to choose is, in fact, to choose retreat.

Satan, the enemy of God and of all of His creation, is profoundly aware of the centrality of the family in God’s plan and its irreplaceable role as an icon of the Trinity. We shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, that this leader of the evil angels would aggressively target the family with all of his cunning and resources. St. Paul assures us that it is Satan who is behind the great battles that we face, “Our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with…the evil spirits in the heavens.” (Ephesians 6:12)

Before her death in 2005, Sr. Lucia, one of the three visionaries visited by Our Lady at Fatima, wrote in a letter to Cardinal Carlo Caffarra that “the final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage and the Family. Don’t be afraid because whoever works for the sanctity of Marriage and the Family will always be fought against and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. Nevertheless, Our Lady has already crushed his head.”

Sister Lucia’s words are alarming, but also encouraging. The final war has already been won! Nevertheless, the battle raging around us is real. On every side, and painfully even within our own families, we experience destructive attacks that only a short time ago would have seemed unimaginable

Despite these real challenges, this is not the moment for us to become discouraged or lose heart, for that would be to forget that “where sin increases, grace abounds all the more,” (Romans 5:20)and that “in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.” (Romans 8:38) The breaches in the civilization of love and culture of life are many, but they call us not to despair. Rather, they challenge us to unflagging trust in the Lord and Giver of life, to radical reliance on God’s grace and mercy, and to personal engagement in the domestic church on behalf of love and life.

Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 26- "On discernment of thoughts, passions, and virtues"

44. Despondency is born sometimes of luxury, and sometimes of lack of fear of God.

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