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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.
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.
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.
Please pray for healings for:
VISIONARY GIANNA TALONE-SULLIVAN (Emmitsburg,
Maryland) and husband welcomed their first child,
a daughter, in January.
TRAVELING TO ROME? To attend a papal audience,
write to: Prefettura della Casa Pontificia,
Citta' del Vaticano - 00120 Rome. Include your
name; number of persons; which Wednesday (month,
day, year) you want to attend; your temporary
address in Rome (hotel, etc.) for the Prefettura
to send your tickets.
KATIE HOBEN UPDATE: The following update about
Katie was sent to us on February 21, 1996 by her
daddy: Thank you all for your continued prayers
on Katie's behalf. She has been on a chemo
regimen at home lately, and Monday they took a
CAT scan to find out how effective the chemo is
working . . . the first look shows the cancer has
grown some in the lungs. It might have been
slowed down by the chemo . . . They are going to
try an experimental drug that is used in ovarian
cancer. One of the side effects will be a rash,
so Katie will be taking a drug called benadryl .
. . The doctor said it will also cause Katie's
hair to again to fall out. She doesn't know this
yet,it had started growing back in and was about
1/4 inch long,) and she will go through low
counts again. Hopefully, Katie will still be able
to participate in her school play, (It's another
version of SNOW WHITE, Katie plays one of the
dwarfs_Snore,) but it will be touch and go as her
blood counts will be low right around then and
she can't fight off infections when they are low
. . . A little bragging: Katie's report card was
a 4.11_all A's and A+'s. She was selected
student of the month for the sixth grade this
past month . . . We're still thankful in our
prayers for all the strength and grace sent our
way. We are continuing our prayer that Katie
will recover and are taking each day as the
little miracle they are intended to be. Thank
you again for all of your prayers and loving
support. God bless you and your families,
Richard. _ We no longer receive the monthly
messages from Our Lady to Joseph Reinholtz (who
had a stoke, 2/95) at Hillside, Illinois. He was
recently at Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows, Chicago,
Illinois. He is frail, confined to a wheel
chair, but his voice and smile are warm and
strong.
EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE IN NAJU, SOUTH KOREA, SEPTEMBER 22, 1995:
Testimony of Julia Kim: Bishop Roman Danylak of Toronto, Ontario (Canada) celebrated Mass on the mountain together with Fr. Joseph Peter Finn, S.T.D., from Ontario, Canada, and a Korean priest. Sixteen lay people attended the Mass. We received Communion under both species. The moment I received both species in my mouth, I felt the Host and the Precious Blood become mixed and the Host beginning to swell. At the same time I smelled a strong odour of blood, and the Sacred Host began moving. One of the faithful saw this and reported it to Bishop Danylak. The bishop observed this phenomenon together with the others present. A while later Bishop Danylak instructed me to swallow the Host. I swallowed the Host with much difficulty, because it had changed into a piece of flesh, and has become larger. We were crying and entered into prayerful meditation; a light came down from heaven and the voice of Jesus, at once warm and loving, and full of dignity and majesty, made itself heard, even though I could not see Him.
Words of Jesus: My beloved little soul! The greatest treasure in My Church is My most holy Mother Mary. My Mother is the Queen of the Universe, the Mother of Heaven and also your Mother. This is why My Mother Mary loves you as I have loved you; and she can do anything that I can do, through me and by my grace. Today My Mother, who is the Mother of Heaven and your Mother, and through this my little and inadequate soul (Julia) is now revealing and showing My Heart to a bishop, who seeks to follow Me and My Mother as a child, so that he can make ever more known that I am really present in the Eucharist, the sublime mystery of faith and love.
Make haste to make my real Presence known.
Apostasy and infidelity are bringing this world to the brink of ruin; too many of my representatives continue to sleep. In truth, my representative even allow themselves to be seduced by false prophets. The present disorders continuously torment me; they rend my heart; they become the lashes that endlessly tear the Sacred and Immaculate Heart of My Mother.
O souls whom I have called! You will experience incomprehension and persecutions within my Church that has been wounded and divided; but I shall always abide in you to encourage and to help you. I shall always remain at your side. You need not fear; but only trust in me and proclaim Me who live in the Eucharist.
There are many priests and a great number of my children who claim to know that I live and breathe in the Eucharist, that I am present body and blood, with my soul and my divinity; but they do not really know me well. They were shown my living presence several times through my little soul (Julia). Notwithstanding this, even now those of my children, who follow Me are very few.
Many ecclesiastics want to make me known through sophisticated arguments and complex reasonings, forgetting the Eucharist, which is My substance, and the sublime simplicity of the Gospels which I proclaim. This is like throwing mud at simple people. My dearly beloved children, do not reject My plea which I make under this form, Me, who am truly present in the Eucharist.
If people, notwithstanding everything, do not want to understand the signs (that I am giving), do not follow My Will to bestow Love upon them, if they deny the divine character (of God's manifestations), then they will face the wrath of God the Father.
Because My Mother's loving and kind words for the past several centuries have been ignored, sin has reached a saturation point even in the Church.
Make haste to begin living a life of devotion through prayer, sacrifices, penance, so that you may attain the final victory and to make acts of reparation for the most abominable sins of blasphemy that have been committed. And if you follow My Mother Mary in order to restore My honour, that has been trampled upon, you will not be lost even in the dark maze of life in this world. My Mother Mary is the short cut to Me, a shining dawn of My renewed Church, and the ark of a new covenant.
My children who follow and proclaim My messages, Proclaim me, and as you pray do not worry about what your critics may think. Their thoughts will dispel as quickly as clouds in the sky, when the hand of God rests over you.
I bless you and all those who are dear to you.
[Next month we will continue with the personal testimony of Bishop Roman Danylak, Apostolic Administrator of the Eparchy of Toronto for Ukrainian Catholics in Toronto, Canada, and titular Bishop of Nyssa. Our thanks to Bishop Danylak for his permission to print his testimony. God bless you, Bishop Danylak.]
Are all apparitions today true? It is my personal opinion that we must be careful in our discernment of them and that we must turn to the Church for guidance. These events must not add anything to Public Revelation (Bible and Tradition), which ended with the death of the last Apostle, John.
At present, there are reports that an alleged visionary in Rome is receiving visits and messages from Mary and Jesus. The messages are similar to those received by other visionaries: Adoration of Jesus' true Presence in the Holy Eucharist; Conversion (living in such a way that we increase in holiness each day); Prayer from the heart; Fasting; Prayer for and loyalty to the Holy Father. These apparitions are currently under investigation by the Church.
The common goal of the children of God is Heaven_total, blissful, joyful union with God when our earthly lives end. The means suggested for attaining Heaven should be taken seriously: Conversion, Prayer, Fasting, and an ardent love for the Holy Eucharist. While some claim these messages are repetitious, we must consider the state of the world. Can we hear the voice of Heaven too often for our own good?
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