IT’S HARD to understand how we can ignore the apparitions in Medjugorje (at times in other places visited by the visionaries, including the gym of the Holy Angel University in Angeles City some years ago).
The apparitions have been long running (since 1981), been examined scientifically by theists and atheists who found the events either supernatural or just astonishingly unexplainable; produced miracles (e.g. rosary links turned gold, sun dancing, clouds shaping into words (such as MIR or peace) or images (such as that of the Holy Family); led to miraculous cures and overwhelming conversions.
Blessed Pope John Paul II, during his papacy, once said he would have been among the pilgrims in Medjugoje were he not the pope. Indeed, he had given his blessings to the visionaries of Medjugorje.
Medjugorje and all its manifestations reveal an urgently important revelation, and this the Blessed Virgin herself said emphatically in one of her apparitions there: God exists.
That’s a major point in Medjugorje, so Catholic as to let fl ow inspirations we need solidly. There we find the end in the search for meaning in our lives, there we find strength to overcome the burdens of daily living, there we conclude there is Heaven and Hell, and in between, Purgatory.
And so we go on with the messages the Blessed Virgin Mother conveys to us from Medjugorje. The following was given October 02, 2013 to visionary Mirjana:
“Dear children, I love you with a motherly love and with a motherly patience I wait for your love and unity. I pray that you may be a community of God’s children, of my children. I pray that as a community you may joyfully come back to life in the faith and in the love of my Son.
“My children, I am gathering you as my apostles and am teaching you how to bring others to come to know the love of my Son; how to bring to them the Good News, which is my Son. Give me your open, purifi ed hearts and I will fi ll them with the love for my Son.
His love will give meaning to your life and I will walk with you. I will be with you until the meeting with the Heavenly Father. My children, it is those who walk towards the Heavenly Father with love and faith who will be saved. Do not be afraid.
I am with you. Put your trust in your shepherds as my Son trusted when He chose them, and pray that they may have the strength and the love to lead you. Thank you.”
And then to Marija on September 25, 2013: “Dear children! Also today I call you to prayer. May your relationship with prayer be a daily one. Prayer works miracles in you and through you, therefore, little children, may prayer be a joy for you. Then your relationship with life will be deeper and more open and you will comprehend that life is a gift for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Ave Maria!
