DEAR FAMILY NEWSLETTER

***JUNE/JULY, 1996***

from Ginny Lopez in APPARITIONS LIST ARCHIVES


CONTENTS:

MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE & COMMENTARY, June 25, 1996

"Dear children, today, I thank you for all the sacrifices you have offered me these days. Little children, I invite you to open yourselves to me and to decide for conversion. Your hearts, little children, are still not completely open to me and therefore, I invite you again to open to prayer so that in prayer the Holy Spirit will help you, that your hearts become of flesh and not of stone. Little children, thank you for having responded to my call and for having decided to walk with me toward holiness."

COMMENTARY: Why should we decide "to walk with [Mary] toward holiness"? Saint Louis Marie de Montfort explains: "All our perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ ... therefore, the most perfect of all devotions is ... that which ... conforms, unites and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Now Mary, being the most conformed of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that of all devotions, that which most consecrates and conforms the soul to our Lord is devotion to His holy Mother. That the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it is consecrated to Jesus Christ." (Preparation For Total Consecration According to Saint Louis Marie de Montfort)

MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE & COMMENTARY, July 25, 1996

"Dear Children! Today I invite you to decide every day for God. Little children, you speak much about God, but you witness little with your life. Therefore, little children, decide for conversion, that your life may be true before God, so that in the truth of your life you witness the beauty God gave you. Little children, I invite you again to decide for prayer because through prayer, you will be able to live the conversion. Each one of you shall become in simplicity, similar to a child which is open to the love of the Father. Thank you for having responded to my call."

COMMENTARY: Many times during the last fifteen years, Our Lady has invited us " . . . to decide every day for God." Why does she repeat this so often? Deciding for God is conversion and conversion is a daily decision. Conversion is living one's daily life for God in faith and trust, prayerfully, lovingly and peacefully. Conversion makes us children, who, in total trust and simplicity, look to God as our Father. Conversion reveals the God-given beauty of our souls to all who see us as children of the Father.

MESSAGE GIVEN BY OUR LADY TO JOSEPH REINHOLTZ OF HILLSIDE, ILLINOIS:
June 25, 1996

"Praise Jesus, praise Jesus, my children. Repent for your sins, my children, and convert yourselves to my Son, Jesus Christ. Dear children, some of you are still not praying the Rosary as I have asked. Pray, my children, with sincerity, reverence, love and devotion. Pray from your hearts, my children, so you can find the true peace and love that you desperately seek. I ask all of you to convert yourselves entirely to me as your heavenly Queen, the Mother of Peace. Please, my little children, continue to pray, pray for our Holy Father, the Pope, all my priests and deacons, brothers and nuns and lay persons so that they all continue to do Gods' work. Pray more, my children, for the sick and the elderly, and especially, for the poor souls in Purgatory so that they can gain eternal rest in Heaven. I am your mother, the Queen of Peace and Queen of the most Holy Rosary and I love you all and I bless you in the name of my Son, Jesus Christ. Go in peace, my children, and do good works. This is my request of you." [NEWS NOTE: Joseph Reinholtz was hospitalized recently and underwent surgical removal of a tumor in the area of his bladder. He is undergoing chemotherapy. A friend writes: "He looks good ... he is in good spirits. Of course, he would be; he has the Blessed Mother."]

PRAYERS & PETITIONS Please pray for healings for: pray for the repose of the souls of: pray for the special intentions of: pray for conversion of: pray for: