Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!
Our Lady of Medjugorje, pray for us!
February 11, 2020
Our Lady of Lourdes
Dear Family of Mary!
As I was praying about this reflection I thought to look back at some of the previous reflections I have written for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Amazingly, I came upon this reflection from February 11, 2015. It isn't about Our Lady of Lourdes, but it is exactly what I have been thinking about all day. Our Lady's plan!! I have been feeling strongly that Our Lady needs us to listen to her call and really take it to heart, responding with our lives. If you read yesterday's reflection you will understand. Fr. Leon made it clear that we must live the messages and not just hear them like Herrod heard John the Baptist. Herrod never took what John the Baptist said seriously. What a mistake that was. But we can make the same mistake!
Our Lady of Lourdes
Dear Family of Mary!
As I was praying about this reflection I thought to look back at some of the previous reflections I have written for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. Amazingly, I came upon this reflection from February 11, 2015. It isn't about Our Lady of Lourdes, but it is exactly what I have been thinking about all day. Our Lady's plan!! I have been feeling strongly that Our Lady needs us to listen to her call and really take it to heart, responding with our lives. If you read yesterday's reflection you will understand. Fr. Leon made it clear that we must live the messages and not just hear them like Herrod heard John the Baptist. Herrod never took what John the Baptist said seriously. What a mistake that was. But we can make the same mistake!
So here is my reflection from 5 years ago. It is about the very same thing!!
(The February 11, 2015 Reflection)
(The February 11, 2015 Reflection)
"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 2, 2015)"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."
Just as judging
ourselves and others only leads to wasted time, so can trying to figure
out what God is doing! Our Lady is right. We do get confused when we try
to see the bigger picture and figure out what God's plan really is for
Medjugorje. Why is Our Lady with us so long? When will the secrets
happen? Why did God pick Medjugorje? Etc. Etc.
Our
Lady has never given us the blueprint of her plan. She has mentioned
that there is a plan; that the Heavenly Father has sent her to us in
Medjugorje; that she has come to bring peace. But we are left in the
dark about a lot.
Our Lady has instead been
consistently drilling into our hearts and heads the need for our own
conversions, and the necessity that we live her messages. This part of
her plan has not been left in the dark. She gave us our marching orders
in 1987, when she began the messages on the 25th of each month:
January 25, 1987 The first apparition of the 25th of the month, given to Marija, for the parish: "Today I want to appeal to all of you to start living a new life from this day on. Dear children, I wish that you would understand that God has chosen each one of you to have a part in the great plan for the salvation of mankind. You cannot fully understand how great your role is in God's design. For that reason, pray, dear children, so that through prayer, you may be able to know your role in God's plan. I am with you, so that you may be able to realize it fully."
Our
Lady told us that each one of us has a role to play in the plan given
by God through her. That role is a unique one for each one of us. Each
of her children has their own specific job to do, fitted to their
individual gifts and life situations. Each one of us has a role in the
plan of salvation which can only be discovered through prayer.
And
ever since that day Our Lady has been molding us and fashioning us
according to her plan, through her messages. Here is one that
particularly touches me:
August 02, 2014 "Dear children, the reason that I am with you, my mission, is to help you for 'good' to win, even though this does not seem possible to you now. I know that you do not understand many things as I also did not understand everything, everything that my Son explained to me while He was growing up alongside me - but I believed Him and followed Him. I ask this of you also, to believe me and to follow me. However, my children, to follow me means to love my Son above everything, to love Him in every person without making differences. For you to be able to do this, I call you anew to renunciation, prayer and fasting. I am calling you for the Eucharist to be the life of your soul. I am calling you to be my apostles of light who will spread love and mercy through the world. My children, your life is only a blink in contrast to eternal life. And when you come before my Son, in your hearts He will see how much love you had. In order to spread love in the right way, I am asking my Son, through love, to grant you unity through Him, unity among you, unity between you and your shepherds. Through them my Son always gives Himself to you anew and renews your soul. Do not forget this. Thank you."
The
plan has not changed. Salvation! The Good to win! That is the goal. And
we are being called to believe and follow Our Lady in that plan just as
she followed Jesus. It is a plan that involves our own conversion, our
seeking after holiness, and our acceptance of Our Lady's call to be her
apostles. Each one of us answers that call in our own lives, in our own
situations, with our own gifts and limitations, through love. This was
the plan in 1981, in 1987, in 2014, and today. "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."
We
don't need to know the big picture, we just need to believe and follow
our Mother. She is leading us in this vast, worldwide plan of salvation
that will take place through Jesus. Our role is to be those who are
saved, and who witness that salvation to those who do not yet know the
love of Jesus. This is a big enough plan for us, it is enough to know
and to accept with joy!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2015 and 2020!
PS.
Mike Nolan is leading a pilgrimage to Medjugorje from April 13 to 22,
2020! Denis and I will be joining the group! There is still room for
more pilgrims. Join us!! Here is Mike's contact information and
website:
Mike Nolan:
mnolan6@me.com
574-335-9952
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
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