APPARITIONS
OF JESUS AND MARY


DEAR FAMILY NEWSLETTER

***JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 1996***

from Ginny Lopez
in APPARITIONS LIST ARCHIVES


CONTENTS:

MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE & COMMENTARY, January 25, 1996

Dear little children, Today I invite you to decide for peace. Pray that God gives you the true peace. Live peace in your hearts and you will understand, dear children, that peace is the gift of God. Dear children, without love you cannot live peace. The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness. I am with you and I invite all of you, little children, that before all, also forgive in the family and then you will be able to forgive others. Thank you for having responded to my call.

COMMENTARY:

When we consciously decide to accept God's gift of peace (surrendering ourselves to God in complete Faith and Trust), our love for God increases. This love begins to include even those who have wounded us. As our love intensifies, we find that we can let go of wounds and bitterness. We are able to forgive and eventually, even to forget. This is such a profound message, not only for the Croats, Muslims and Serbs of Bosnia, but for the entire world. It is not easy to surrender our human inclinations to hate and to hold grudges. But God stands ready to fill us with His peace if we surrender ourselves and our pain to Him. Let's respond to Our Lady's call, asking our God to give us His peace, and then let's pass it on to the rest of the world.

MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE & COMMENTARY, February 25, 1996

Dear children! Today I invite you to conversion. This is the most important message that I have given you here. Little children, I wish that each of you become a carrier of my messages. I invite you, little children, to live the messages that I have given you over these years. This time is a time of grace. Especially now, when the Church also is inviting you to prayer and conversion. I also, little children, invite you to live my messages that I have given you during the time since I appear here. Thank you for having responded to my call.

COMMENTARY:

Live Our Lady's messages and carry them to others. She has been coming to Medjugorje for over fifteen years, urging the world to take seriously her messages: Peace, Prayer, Penance, Reconciliation, Conversion. After fifteen years perhaps she should be crying: "Haven't you gotten the message yet? Wake up and smell the coffee!" But not Blessed Mother. She goes before the Father and pleads, "Just let me try a little longer. They are my children and I love them so. I do not want to lose a single one of them." Conversion is the most important message she brings. If our world is ever to know true peace, we must convert: talk to God from our hearts (Prayer) often, allowing Him to be the focus of our daily lives; rid ourselves of earthly attachments through fasting from material things (Penance) in order to open ourselves to His Word and His peace; take advantage of frequent Confession (for Catholics) and go to those with whom we are at odds, asking or offering forgiveness. This is the path of change in our daily lives_the path that leads to peace and to God.

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