I have yet to read all the continuing messages of the Blessed Mother via the seers of Medjugorje but those I have read convey the impression that among her most repeated appeals are: prayer, fasting, and abandoning our will to God, even through her.
Is abandoning one’s will to God equivalent to "Dios na ang bahala" or simply "Bahala na"? I suppose that depends on whether one has exhausted every moral means to accomplish a mission or solve a problem but still fails.
In a way, there’s fatalism there, but unlike sheer abandonment, it must be coupled with prayers and fasting.
I think that’s the essence of the Medjugorje message. Really difficult in some circumstances, but one must cultivate, pray for trust and faith in Divine Provindence.
Now back to the Medjugorje messages over the years since the Blessed Mother started to appear to six visionaries in 1981. Here are more dated messages from the Mother of God.
July 24, 1982: "We go to Heaven in full conscience. At the moment of death, we are conscious of the separation of the body and the soul. It is false to teach people that we are re-born many times and that we pass to different bodies. One in born only once. The body, drawn from the earth, decomposes after death.
It never comes back to life again. Man receives a transfigured body. Whoever has done very much evil during his life can go straight to Heaven if he confesses, is sorry for what he has done, and received Communion at the end of his life."
July 25, 1982: "Today many persons go to hell. God permits His children to suffer in hell due to the fact that they have committed grave unpardonable sins. Those who are in hell no longer have a chance to know a better lot."
On the same day: "For the cure of the sick, it is important to say the following prayers: the Creed, seven Our Father’s, Hail Mary’s and Glory Be’s and to fast on bread and water.
It is good to impose one’s hands on the sick and to pray. It is good to anoint the sich with holy oil.
Not all priests do not have the gift of healing. In order to receive this gift, the priest must pray with perseverance and believe firmly."
Related to her prophecies on The Warning and The Miracle in Garabandal, Spain in the 1960’s, the Blessed Mother said on Aug. 31, 1982: "I do not dispense all graces. I receive from God what I obtain through prayer.
God has placed His complete trust in me. I protest particularly those have have been consecrated to me.
THE GREAT SIGN HAS BEEN GRANTED (TO OCCUR IN A FUTURE DATE). iT WILL APPEAR INDEPENDENTLY OF THE COVERSION OF PEOPLE (THE WARNING)."
Now, here are some words on The Chastisement following The Warning and The Miracle in the words of the Blessed Mother on Nov. 6, 1982, after Mirjana was frightened by the eighth secret revealed to her:
"I have prayed; the punishment has been softened. Repeated prayers and fasting reduce punishments from God, but it is not possible to avoid entirely the chastisement.
Go on to the streets of the city, count those who glorify God and those who offend Him. God can no longer endure that."
(to be continued)
