Mary TV: September 6, 2022 Reflection - A word of encouragement!

 

 

A word of encouragement!

Fr. Joe Freedy, a man of encouragement!! September 6, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! God permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of peace, so that through personal peace, you build peace in the world. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus, that He may give you a strong faith and hope in a better future, which I desire to build up with you. You be courageous and do not be afraid, because God is with you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (August 25, 2022)  Our Lady concluded her August 25, 2022 message with these words of encouragement:   "You be courageous and do not be afraid, because God is with you."  Not only is Our Lady with us, but God is with us!!!  What could we possibly fear?  But the enemy is a master at spreading fear and discouragement, so we have to stay close to our Mother!!! I want to share a story that Fr. Joe Freedy began his homily with yesterday at English Mass in Medjugorje (September 5, 2022)  I will transcribe it here, but also give you the link so you can hear it for yourselves!!  ( Here us the link: https://marytv.tv/english-homily-in-medjugorje-2/?smid=iwyQxjs4hl9&slid=IRBKmbjFsDA ) Fr. Freedy told us this incredible story: I want to share this story with you because it provides so much encouragement for me in my prayers.  Sometimes we get discouraged.  And I want to say that the voice of God is always the voice of encouragement.  Never of discouragement.   The devil's voice is always the voice of discouragement and never encouragement.  The devil's modus operandi, the way he works, is always the same.  He wants to get us discouraged and get us to despair.  That is what he is always leading to: discouragement and despair. What God wants to do is to encourage us and fill us with hope!  Amen! Yeah! So... my buddy, John, told this true story, that happened in Pittsburgh, in a little town called "Greentree", which is right outside of Pittsburgh. His name is John Petrovich.  He is a very normal guy.  Just a good guy.  And he told me this story.  And I said, "John that is an amazing story, can I tell it?"  And He said, "Absolutely!"  And so I tell it everywhere I go.   He was jogging one morning in a neighborhood that he is not used to jogging in.  And he saw an ambulance in somebody's driveway.  And because he is a really good guy he thought - "Should I stop and see if everything is ok?"  But then he said to me, "You know, Fr. Joe, I am not a doctor and I didn't know this person.  So I kept jogging."  And he said that as he passed by he said one "Hail Mary".   He didn't stop and fold his hands, and he didn't get down on his knees.  He didn't pray from the heart like we are taught to do.  He just prayed the "Hail Mary."  Maybe some of you do that.  When I see an ambulance, because I am a priest, I give the ambulance and the people inside it a blessing.  And he said he just prayed one "Hail Mary".   He said, about a week later, he had thought nothing of it.  And he was jogging around the same neighborhood...this is a true story...And he heard a woman call out, "Hey, You!! Sir!"  And he said to me, "Fr. Joe, I just kept jogging because I didn't know anybody in that neighborhood."  And she said, "No, you, the jogger!!" And she was on her porch, pointing at me.  And he turned around and said, "Me?"  And she said, "Yah, you!"  And she said," You saved my life!"  And he said, "Sorry, Ma'am, I don't think we know each other. I'm not from this neighborhood.  I'm from a few neighborhoods over."   And she said (listen to this guys): "No I recognize your face." She said, "Last week I had a stroke. And I was rushed to a hospital in the city of Pittsburgh. And I was in the hospital bed and I was dying.  I knew I was dying.  And Jesus appeared to me.  And He held out His hand. And your face was on the palm of His hand.   And He said, "You were going to die, but because of the prayer of this man, you are going to live."  She recognized my friend's face in the palm of Jesus' hand!   Folks!  How many hundreds of thousands of Hail Mary's have you prayed?  How many hundreds of thousands of Rosaries have you prayed?  How many thousands of Hail Mary's have you prayed just in your time here?  I just want to let you know, and for anybody who might be discouraged, that every time your turn your heart and your mind to Our Lord and to Our Lady, that they have heard your prayers!!  Amen!! There is no unanswered prayer.  Every prayer you have prayed, whether it is fully from your heart, though that is how we desire to pray, or whether it is just offered, a sigh of your heart, it has been heard because she is an attentive mother!  Amen!   So don't be discouraged!  Be encouraged!  Maybe some of you have had the thought that the situation I have been praying for is beyond the reach of God...It's an impossible situation.  But we know that there is nothing that is impossible for our God! You have seen miracles in your life.  We have all seen miracles.  God can do it! Remember the Chronicles of Narnia!  C.S. Lewis.  The great scene where Aslan is down on the beach.  Aslan is the Lion. He is representative of Christ.  And there are two people talking, and one is a little bid discouraged.  And the older person says to the younger person, "Yes, things do look dark. Things do look bad."  Maybe we look out on the world and we think, things are dark, things are bad, the countries, the states and cities we are from, even our families are broken... But he says, "But listen, Aslan is on the move."  Aslan is the Christ-figure.  I want to let you know that all the situations that you have come here to pray for, your children, your grandchildren, your marriages, your work situations, maybe your own depression, or your own physical infirmities...Aslan is on the move!  And if it seems like things are only getting darker, Aslan is on the move! God has a perfect plan!  Amen!  Be encouraged today.!!!! Well, thank you Fr. Joe! You are a man of encouragement!!  We are encouraged!!  We will pray for you as you spread the Good News through your priesthood!! Follow this link, and listen to Fr. Joe directly!!  His homily is anointed and wonderful!! https://marytv.tv/english-homily-in-medjugorje-2/?smid=iwyQxjs4hl9&slid=IRBKmbjFsDA "You be courageous and do not be afraid, because God is with you."  In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022                                                 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 5, 2022 Reflection - I am with you and I intercede for you...

 

 

September 5, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! God permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of peace, so that through personal peace, you build peace in the world. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus, that He may give you a strong faith and hope in a better future, which I desire to build up with you. You be courageous and do not be afraid, because God is with you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (August 25, 2022) Our Lady tells us she is with us often. She assures us that she is present and close to us, as a good mother is close to her children. And she has also told us that she intercedes for each one of us! This is so very comforting. She prays to God for us! "I am with you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus!" But it occurred to me when I read these words in the August 25, 2022, message, that we have an incredible opportunity! Our Lady is with us! Indeed, she is with us in a very concrete manner in Medjugorje. She is actually there with us, through her apparitions, and I believe she is there all the time. It is a powerful dispensation for us, Medjugorje. Our Lady is with us constantly I believe. So, if she is with us there in this special way, we have a powerful connection with God through her. She says she intercedes for us! She stands before God and asks for all the things we need, but not just in heaven, but from earth. Mother speaks for us from Medjugorje!  Why does that excite me? Because Our Lady is with us like Moses was with the twelve tribes in the desert, or Elijah was with the people pleading for rain on Mt. Carmel, or Joshua was with the Israelites at the battle of Jericho. She is with us, praying for us for deliverance from the bondages of the evil one in our day. And her intercession is more powerful than any intercessor who came before her. She is the Immaculate Conception, the Queen Mother, Mary the Mother of God! Her prayer will not be denied!! But in this battle we have a part to play. We must stand with her. We must live with bold faith and determination. We must convert, repent, choose God's plan, and walk with her in the direction of paradise. We must be faithful! She will lead us. But we must keep our attention firmly planted on our Queen Mother as she intercedes for us and leads us forward!   Here are three messages in which Our Lady has told us about her intercession and our part in her plan. Let's live her words with renewed enthusiasm. These are the days of the Triumph! November 25, 2014 "Dear children! In a special way, today I am calling you to prayer. Pray, little children, so that you may comprehend who you are and where you need to go. Be carriers of the good news and be people of hope. Be love for all those who are without love. Little children, you will be everything and will achieve everything only if you pray and are open to God's will - to God who desires to lead you towards eternal life. I am with you and intercede for you from day to day before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call." April 25, 2015 "Dear children! I am with you also today to lead you to salvation. Your soul is restless because your spirit is weak and tired from all worldly things. You, little children, pray to the Holy Spirit that He may transform you and fill you with His strength of faith and hope, so that you may be firm in this battle against evil. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call..." July 25, 2020 "Dear children! In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope. Little children, take the Cross in your hands. May it be your encouragement for love to always win, in a special way now when the Cross and faith are rejected. You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call." Amen, Mother! Do not stop interceding for us! Lead us forward with hope to the Kingdom of Heaven! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV                                                 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 2, 2022 Reflection - Through personal peace, you build peace...

 

 

September 2, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! "God permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of peace, so that through personal peace, you build peace in the world. (August 25, 2022) Mother wants us to be those who build peace all around them.  She needs us to be those who establish peace.  But she knows that true peace can only be shared if we actually live the peace that God gives.  Peace can only come from God.  No other program or system can establish peace.  Peace is a gift from God. Here are two messages that may move us in the direction of personal peace: February 25, 1991  "Dear children! Today, I invite you to decide for God, because distance from God is the fruit of the lack of peace in your hearts. God is only peace. Therefore, approach Him through your personal prayer and then live peace in your hearts and in this way peace will flow from your hearts like a river into the whole world. Do not talk about peace, but make peace. I am blessing each of you and each good decision of yours. Thank you for having responded to my call." September 25, 2002  "Dear children! Also in this peaceless time, I call you to prayer. Little children, pray for peace so that in the world every person would feel love towards peace. Only when the soul finds peace in God, it feels content and love will begin to flow in the world. And in a special way, little children, you are called to live and witness peace - peace in your hearts and families - and, through you, peace will also begin to flow in the world. Thank you for having responded to my call." It is amazing to me that God can spread peace through each one of us, but only if we first accept His peace in our hearts and lives.  The work of peace is God's work.  The home for peace is our hearts.  If we give the holy peace of God a home in our hearts, God will do the rest.  Peace will flow.   In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV                                                 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 1, 2022 Reflection - God permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of peace!

 

God permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of peace!

September 1, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! "God permits me to be with you and to lead you on the way of peace... (August 25, 2022) God has permitted Our Lady to be with us!!  And He has given her a special job.  She is to lead us on the way of peace.  This has been her mission from the beginning. She told the visionaries: Thursday, August 6, 1981 "I am the Queen of Peace." And the word "peace" occurs at least 563 times in her messages! Truly, her task among us is to establish peace and she has not wandered from that task all these years.  We see that Our Lady's work has been challenged at every step.  The forces of evil have seemingly increased their attacks upon the world, trying to inflict hatred and war upon us in every way possible.  But that should not surprise us.  The enemy of our souls has been challenged by the Queen of Peace.  She has been sent to lead us to peace, and she will not back down.  And so the battle is engaged!  Our Lady gave us a powerful message in 2019, in which she outlined her battle plan.  She told us exactly how we can win this battle for peace.  As we begin to live her messages, and walk with her. we become strong in all the virtues and defeat the enemy of our souls. Our Lady is with us to lead us on the way of peace: June 2, 2019 "Dear children, only a pure and an open heart will make it such that you may truly come to know my Son and that all those who do not know His love may come to know it through you. Only love will make you comprehend that it is stronger than death because true love conquered death and made it so that death not exist. My children, forgiveness is the most exalted form of love. You, as apostles of my love, must pray that you be strong in spirit and that you could comprehend and forgive. You, apostles of my love, by understanding and forgiveness, are giving an example of love and mercy. To be able to comprehend and forgive is a gift for which it is necessary to pray, and to nurture it. By forgiveness you are showing that you know how to love. Just look, my children, how the Heavenly Father loves you with a great love, with understanding, forgiveness and justice - how He gives me, the Mother of your hearts, to you. And here I am among you to bless you with a motherly blessing, to call you to prayer, to fasting - to tell you to believe, to hope, to forgive, to pray for your shepherds, and above all to love without limits. My children, follow me. My way is the way of peace and love, the way of my Son. It is the way that leads to the triumph of my heart. Thank you." Mother, we will follow you.  Take us upon the way of peace and love, the way of Jesus, the way that leads to the Triumph of your Immaculate Heart!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV                                                 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