Mary TV: September 29, 2023 Reflection - Your prayer invites God to enter your life!

 

 

Your prayer invites God to enter your life!

Your prayer invites God to enter your life! September 29, 2023 Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels Dear Family of Mary! Today, in Chapter 8 - Teaching Eight, Fr. Shamon tells us that our prayer invites God to enter our lives: Fr. Shamon writes: One final point remains on prayer. It is this: Why does Mary need our prayers? Why does she beg for them? On September 13, 1984, she said: "Dear children. I still need your prayers. You will ask yourselves: why so many prayers?" Yes, why? The answer lies in the fact that God has given us a precious gift, something that makes us most like Himself--our free will. The Founding Fathers of our nation (the USA) cherished liberty. The Statue of Liberty graces the harbor to our land. Revolutions have been fought for liberty. But no one respects our liberty more than God Himself and His Mother. God made us free. In the Exodus, He showed that He wanted all mankind to be free. He will never violate that freedom. He even sent an angel to get Mary's consent to divine motherhood. John pictured Our Lord as standing at the door of our hearts and knocking for entrance (Rv. 3:20). Only we can open it. And we do when we pray. Prayer says in effect to God: "I want you to enter into my life, into our world." That is why Mary pleads for us to pray. It gives God and her the green light, so to speak, to go ahead and act in our lives and in the world. Mary is so respectful of our freedom that her messages often begin with the words "I invite you." Like the gospel, her messages are invitations. They ask for an RSVP - a response if you please, but a response freely given. All she can do is invite and wait. Prayer is our response to the invitation. It is our asking God and Mary to step into our lives. On Thursday (4/26/84), Our Lady did not give any message to the parish. The following week (5/3/84), Marija asked Our Lady: "Dear Mother, why did you not give a message for the parish last Thursday?" Here is what Our Lady answered: "I do not wish to force anybody to do anything they do not feel or wish to do, even if I had some special message to give to the parish with which I wanted to revive the faith for all the faithful." Imagine that! Our Lady implied that even if she had a most helpful message to give, we could prevent her so doing just by our saying 'No'. What Our Lady can do, or will do, depends on each of us. For instance, Our Lady told the visionaries when they had asked her what she would like them to do with their lives late on: "I would very much like for you to be priests or religious, but that is for you to choose. You are free." Again she said: "You must make up your own minds. I will help you in your decisions." Ivanka decided to marry. Our Lady did not object. It was Ivanka's decision. We are free! In the monthly messages to the world, Our Lady constantly calls us to decide. "Dear children. I invite all of you to decide for paradise" (10/25/87). God will give paradise only to those who freely choose it! "Dear children. I invite each one of you to decide again to surrender everything completely to me. Only in that way will I be able to present each of you to God...I desire each of you for myself, but God has given to all a freedom which I lovingly respect and to which I humbly submit..." (11/25/87) There you have it. "Only in this way will I be able...God has given to all freedom...I respect this...I submit to this." Can you now see why she pleads so earnestly that we pray? Prayer frees her to act in our lives. This deep respect for our liberty is one of the marks of the authenticity of the apparitions of Medjugorje. Mary invites; she thanks us for our response. But not so Satan. He is the father of all agitation. He is harsh. He seeks to force his will upon us. When Mirjana saw the devil (4/14/82), she said: "You cannot imagine how terrible he was. He almost killed me with his gaze..." At every Mass we are reminded at the Presentation of the Gifts that our salvation is the work of both God and man; for the Church speaks of bread "which earth has given (God's work) and human hands have made" (man's work), and of wine as "fruit of the vine (God's work) and work of human hands" (man's work). In one of her latest messages to the world (1/25/88) Our Lady once more underscored the power that is ours in our free will. She said: "Dear children, today I am again calling you to complete conversion, which is difficult for those who have not chosen God." We must choose God; otherwise conversion is difficult. "I am inviting you, dear children, to convert fully to God." She asks for full conversion. Too often we seek God only in times of sickness or problems; we think He doesn't listen to us or hear us. And that is not true. We limit God's power by our lack of faith. So the Mother of God said: "I am praying for you and I want to draw you ever more near to God, but I cannot if you do not want it." The final decision is ours. Mother Mary says she cannot draw us to God is we do not want it. St. Augustine said: "God who created us without our consent will not save us without our consent." And that is that: that is why Our Lady begs us to pray. Prayer opens us up to God. Rev. Albert J.M. Shamon, "Our Lady teaches about Prayer at Medjugorje." Chapter 8, Teaching Eight! (P. 34-37) We are grateful to Fr. Shamon for such simple but powerful words which show us Our Mother's love and great holiness. We are in good hands with Our Lady!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023                                                 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

September 28, 2023- Spreading the Flame 🔥September Updates, News and Events.

 
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SPREAD THE FLAME OF LOVE BY PRAYING THE ROSARY

Pope Francis has asked all Catholics to pray the rosary daily during the month of October. We pray asking Mary and St. Michael the Archangel to intercede for the protection of the Church and family life in a moment of “spiritual turbulence.” Pope Francis affirmed that the Rosary “is the weapon against the Great Accuser who ‘goes around the world seeking to accuse.’ Only prayer can defeat him.” By praying and living the Mysteries of the Rosary, we develop a more intimate relationship with Jesus and Mary. Filled with peace and joy, we want to share our gift with those we love and serve.

Saint Francis de Sales teaches us: “The measure of love is to love without measure.” The Flame of Love is the burning love radiating from our loving Father, merciful Son and God’s Powerful Spirit (GPS). To repair the effects of Original Sin, Jesus pays our debt on the cross and Mary becomes our Spiritual Mother. The best way we can enjoy this gift of freedom is by becoming a Missionary Disciple of Jesus through Mary’s example and intercession.

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Mary TV: September 28, 2023 Reflection - Pray the Rosary!

 

 

Pray the Rosary! September 28, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! Today we are encouraged by Fr. Shamon to pray the Rosary! Our Lady told us; June 12, 1986 "Dear children! Today I call you to begin to pray the Rosary with a living faith. That way I will be able to help you. You, dear children, wish to obtain graces, but you are not praying. I am not able to help you because you do not want to get started. Dear children, I am calling you to pray the Rosary and that your Rosary be an obligation which you shall fulfill with joy. That way you shall understand the reason I am with you this long. I desire to teach you to pray. Thank you for having responded to my call." Fr. Shamon - Chapter 7, Teaching 7 - Pray the Rosary!! Outside of the Mass, the prayer Our Lady asks for above all other prayers is the Rosary! She asked for it at Lourdes, at Fatima, and now at Medjugorje. Only here at Medjugorje, she asked not only for the daily Rosary, but the family Rosary and the complete Rosary: joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries. On September 27, 1984, She said: "I beg the families of the parish to pray the family Rosary." Mary begs! "You must pray in your families..."(2/14/84). You must! It's imperative! It's mandatory! "Dear children," she said again, "let all the prayers you say in your homes in the evening be for the conversion of sinners, because the world is in great sin. Pray the Rosary every evening" (10/8/84). You see, Our Lady again tells us not only to pray the family Rosary, but she specifies the intention: the conversion of sinners. On the eve of the Feast of her Assumption (8/14/84), Our Lady appeared unexpectedly to Ivan in his home. "I ask the people," she told him, "to pray with me these days. Pray all the more. Fast strictly on Wednesdays and Fridays; pray with me every day at least one Rosary: joyful, sorrowful, and glorious mysteries." If you pray the complete Rosary, you can say the joyful mysteries sometime in the morning; the sorrowful in the afternoon; and the glorious right after dinner in the evening, before doing dishes, as a family group. The Creed, Our Father and three Hail Mary's need be said only once--and the conclusion, the Hail holy Queen, only after the glorious mysteries. A man made a promise to say the complete Rosary daily. Then he had qualms of conscience. He felt he had made a promise he could not keep. He went to church and said, "What have I done? I don't have time to say the complete Rosary." But he started. A month later, he confessed, "How stupid I was to think I did not have time for the complete Rosary. I have discovered that I could say five Rosaries every day." When you make up your mind, God will give you time! Why does Our Lady stress the Rosary so much? There are many reasons. One reason is that the Rosary is one of the most powerful weapons there is against Satan and evil in the world. This is true, because Our Lady always prays the Rosary with us. Here is what Our Lady revealed to Fr. Stefano Gobbi."...it is a prayer you say together with me. When you invite me to pray for you, I accede to your request and mingle my voice with yours. I unite my prayers to yours." Fifty times at least, when you pray the Rosary, you say: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now..." In a day of recollection that Father Gobbi was giving to us priests, he got us all laughing when he said, in reference to this petition in the Hail Mary, that Our Lady said to him: "Do you think I'm deaf? You ask me, your mother, to pray for you now... Don't you think I do?" She eagerly solicits us to use her as our intercessor, our prayer companion. The Rosary, then, is most powerful, because it is Mary's prayer, too. Though a creature, she is omnipotent, because her Son is omnipotent and He will refuse her nothing. Thus she can say: "With this prayer, made by you together with me, you are able to influence all human events and even future events..." Isn't that remarkable? But the Rosary imparts great benefits even to you yourself when you pray it. The thoughts that enfold you are the thoughts that mold you. You cannot think on the mysteries of Our Lord's life each day and not be changed. As you think, so shall you act. The Rosary is not just saying one hundred and fifty Hail Mary's. The Rosary means looking at the events of Our Lord's life through the eyes of Mary. It means discovering how these events can prod you to live them in your own life. Just thinking about the Visitation, for instance could move you to visit a sick friend waiting for you, wanting your visit, your words of comfort, your smile. When God's word prods you to act, then your conversion is taking place. To meditate well on the Rosary mysteries, we must read the Bible each day. On October 18, 1984, Our Lady said: "Today I ask you, dear children, to read the Bible. Put it in a prominent place in your home so that it may be a stimulus to you to read and to pray." What a great idea: enthrone the Bible in the home! Also, October 18 is the Feast of St. Luke. He and St. Matthew wrote the infancy Narratives of Our Lord's life which comprise the joyful mysteries. Chapters one and two of both evangelists should be read prayerfully and often. Then the joyful mysteries of the Rosary will become alive to you and fill you with joy! Perhaps one of the greatest helps the Rosary can give you is to convince you of the importance of ordinariness. When Ivanka told the people of Medjugorje her mother, Jagoda, was in Heaven, the women of the village who had known her mother said: "Thank God, there is hope for us. You don't have to be a saint to get to Heaven." That in fact is what the mysteries of the Rosary mean. They are called "mysteries," because they tell of great sanctity being achieved by people just doing their ordinary, everyday duties, and the salvation of the world being effected by One so ordinary that His own did not receive Him. "Isn't this the carpenter's son?" His townsmen asked, "Isn't Mary...His mother?" Just ordinary, everyday people! In an interview with Mirjana (January 10, 1983) A priest asked her; "What must one do to enter Heaven?" Mirjana answered: "God is not looking for great believers but simply for those who respect their faith and live peacefully, without malice, meanness, falsehood." Mirjana said she came to that conclusion after talking to the Madonna--"No one has to perform miracles or do great penances; merely live a simple, peaceful life." (Cp. Eph 4:29-32) That is what the mysteries of the Rosary tell us: each ordinary person is wonderful in the eyes of God and the little ordinary things we do are extraordinary, for they can win the salvation of the world and the conversion of sinners -- ordinary things like saying the Rosary each day, the complete Rosary! Would you believe it? That's a mystery indeed! From: Rev. Albert J.M. Shamon; "Our Lady teaches about prayer at Medjugorje". p. 29-33 "Dear children! Today I call you to begin to pray the Rosary with a living faith...." In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023                                                 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Mary TV: September 27, 2023 Reflection - You must pray for God's plans to come about!

 

 

You must pray for God's plans to come about!

You must pray for God's plans to come about! September 27, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! Here is the message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace of Medjugorje, for September 25, 2023: “Dear Children! I am calling you to strong prayer. Modernism wants to enter into your thoughts and steal from you the joy of prayer and of meeting with Jesus. That is why, my dear little children, renew prayer in your families, so that my motherly heart may be joyful as in the first days, when I had chosen you, and day and night prayer resounded – and Heaven was not silent but abundantly bestowed peace and blessing on this place of grace. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (September 25, 2023) Our Lady's call this month is for "strong prayer"! Strong prayer!!! What is strong prayer? Well, I think that Fr. Shamon got is right in his book on prayer. The next little chapter is on "You must pray for God's plans to come about!" Strong prayer is prayer prayed for God's intentions, His plans, His program of grace. It is prayer that sets aside our own needs in order to join in the battle for souls that the Lord is leading! He needs us to be firmly committed to His program! Here is what Fr. Shamon wrote: Chapter 6 - Teaching 6: You must pray for God's plans to come about! If your prayer is from your heart, you'll not only experience God in you, but you'll begin to think like God and want like God. One mistake we can make is to pray only for our own needs. Jesus never taught us to pray that way. Some people have even reduced the Madonna of Medjugorje to a personal piety. They go there only to see what they can get from it. They are thinking only of themselves and not of anyone else. Whenever we let our own plans and projects crowd out God's, then atheism sets in. At Medjugorje Our Lady told us to widen our horizons in prayer. She said: "Dear children...continue to pray so that all my plans may be carried out..." (9/27/84) Her plans! Again, on January 25, 1987, she said to the visionaries "I want you to understand that God has chosen each one of you in order to use you for the great plan of salvation of mankind..." God's plan is for the salvation of all mankind, not just you and me. The same was true of Fatima. There, Our Lady asked prayers and sacrifices for the conversion of Russia and to save souls from hell. God's plans, her plans--these should be the object of our prayers. At the Annunciation and in the Agony in the Garden, both Mary and Jesus prayed that the will of God be done in them. We must pray for what God wants. And He wants the salvation of the world and the conversion of poor sinners. That was why Our Lady spent weeks teaching the prayer group at Medjugorje how to pray the Our Father. The Our Father is really the blueprint of what we ought to pray for in prayer. Jesus taught us to pray big: to pray first for God's glory, for His kingdom to come to earth, for His will to be done as in Heaven. Between His cosmic plans and our spiritual needs, He sandwiched in only one petition for temporalities; and then it was a prayer for everybody: "Give US this day our daily bread." Our spiritual needs followed. He taught us to be forgiving. To pray that no one of us fall into temptation--the temptation of an affluent society; namely, of thinking that we do not need prayer, that we can go it on our own. Finally, to pray for deliverance from our common enemy: the evil one, the devil; he does exist. Jesus wanted us to pray for everybody, to share His concern for the whole wide world. That is why the priest, another Christ, assumes the obligation of praying the Liturgy of the Hours each day. He not only sanctifies time, but he is praying for the whole Church. What a misuse of prayer to use it only for ourselves. We can get some idea of how wrapped up we could be with praying just for ourselves if we were to say: I don't need the message of Medjugorje. I don't need to pray the rosary daily or to go to confession monthly or to fast. I'm o.k. as I am." And that's the trouble; we're not o.k. if all we think about is ourselves. Our Lady pleads with us to widen our vision in prayer, to try and put on the mind of Jesus in prayer. At Fatima she asked us to pray for the world. I think most of us missed the point. Here again at Medjugorje she asks us to widen our vision and pray for the salvation of the world, for she knows that the salvation we seek for others will be given to us. "Dear children," she asked, "please pray, as Satan wants to impede my plans again..." (8/9/84). "My plans!" You see, she asks that we pray not just for ourselves but for her plans. From: Rev. Albert J.M. Shamon; "Our Lady teaches about prayer at Medjugorje". p. 26-28 Strong prayer is heart-felt prayer for what God and Mother Mary are doing in the world today. It is putting the plans of Our Lady before our own plans, wholeheartedly!! Our Lady, in the message above, asked us to pray against Modernism!! This is a worldwide catastrophe! The enemy is destroying the faith in every country through the lies of modernism. She needs our strong prayer, our determined prayer, our selfless prayer, for all those duped by modernism in the world and in the Church. Our prayers can make a difference!!We can do it, if we love enough! Strong prayer!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023                                                 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

 

Medjugorje, Our Lady's Message on September 25, 2023 Given to Marija

 

Medjugorje, Our Lady's Message on September 25, 2023 Given to Marija   “Dear children! I am calling you to strong prayer. Modernism wants to enter into your thoughts and steal from you the joy of prayer and of meeting with Jesus. That is why, my dear little children, renew prayer in your families, so that my motherly heart may be joyful as in the first days, when I had chosen you, and day and night prayer resounded -- and Heaven was not silent but abundantly bestowed peace and blessing on this place of grace. Thank you for having responded to my call.” www.sremmanuel.org

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