Dear children, the reason that I am with you, my mission, is to help you for ‘good’ to win, even though this does not seem possible to you now. I know that you do not understand many things as I also did not understand everything, everything that my Son explained to me while he was growing up alongside me – but I believed him and followed him. I ask this of you also, to believe me and to follow me. However, my children, to follow me means to love my Son above everything, to love him in every person without making differences. For you to be able to do this, I call you anew to renunciation, prayer and fasting. I am calling you for the Eucharist to be the life of your soul. I am calling you to be my apostles of light who will spread love and mercy through the world. My children, your life is only a blink in contrast to eternal life. And when you come before my Son, in your hearts he will see how much love you had. In order to spread love in the right way, I am asking my Son, through love, to grant you unity through him, unity among you, unity between you and your shepherds. Through them my Son always gives himself to you anew and renews your soul. Do not forget this. Thank you. ”
Mary's incessant call to live the Gospel has sometimes been compared to the five stones David chose as he prepared to confront Goliath. Here, she mentions five again as part of our calling to be members in her army: renunciation (penance), prayer, fasting, Eucharist, and works of mercy. What a privilege to be thus associated with the most marvelous person God has ever created! She wants us to join her at her side and to participate in the battle for restoration. Each of our roles might be small, but how important they are to the Two Hearts! And we are to work and live in unity. There is no place for personal prestige, calumny, detraction, or finger-pointing. Forgiveness and humility must abound. This is especially true in my attitude toward our shepherds, our priests and bishops. Have some of them been unfaithful? So have I! Have some of them lied? So have I! Have some of them become captivated by the world? So have I! Have some of them failed to confront us with the truth? So have I! I ask your forgiveness, for to the degree I have failed, then I have grieved Jesus and Mary, and I have been negligent to my calling, too! I must begin today to live the unity that the promised Era of Peace shall bring! Lately, I've been re-reading an ancient Christian writing, The Didache, which was used by the early Church as a catechism and was in the running to be included in the canon of Scripture. There are a number of verses in that writing that confirms Our Lady's message: 14:1 On the Lord's day, gather yourselves together and break bread, give thanks, but first confess your sins so that your sacrifice may be pure. 14:2 However, let no one who is at odds with his brother come together with you, until he has reconciled, so that your sacrifice may not be profaned. 8:1 ... You should fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. 4:1 My child, remember day and night him who speaks the word of God to you, and honor him as the Lord. For wherever his lordship is spoken of, there he is. 4:2 Seek each day the faces of the saints, in order that you may be refreshed by their words. 4:3 Do not initiate divisions, but rather bring peace to those who contend against one another. Judge righteously, and do not take social status into account when reproving for transgressions. 1:4 Abstain from fleshly and bodily lusts: If someone strikes your right cheek, turn the other also, and be perfect... 1:5 Give to every one who asks you, and don't ask for it back. The Father wants his blessings shared. Happy is the giver who lives according to this rule, for that one is guiltless... Forward in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
I always think that the messages are repetitive and sometimes vague. With all the trouble in the world, you would think that she would give more concrete messages of help about the countries in trouble and what world leaders should do. The visionaries in Medjugorje see the Gospa every day since 1981, why don't ask her something simple like the cure for cancer which affects so many peoples lives..
Interesting. The "Locutions to the World" messages are concrete, and they receive much criticism for that as well. (http://www.locutions.org/). And what would happen if the Gospa gave a cure for cancer? We will all die from something. Cancer is temporary. Hell is forever. She has been begging her children all these years to convert, to fast, to pray. She wants true health, wholeness, holiness, for her children. I think these visitations and messages have been going on so long because of the mercy of God. Many on this forum believe in the messages of Medjugorje; many do not. We will all know soon enough, if the secrets are revealed before world events occur. Regardless, our time is best spent now in prayer.
Thanks for the replies. Does anyone know if anybody ever requested the visionaries to directly ask her lady about the worlds current affairs?
indaiatubano...world affairs?...I would dare say Our Lady would reply "Do as He tells you"(Jesus her Son). It really is easy as that. The truth be known...we are to small and weak to effect worldwide change. What we can do is change for the better as a person. Imagine if every person of the world responded to Her call for conversion. Just imagine. The world would change for the better because we changed for the better. Mary gives us the solution...but we are resistant...we are stuck in our sin. Jesus is the Redeemer...only through Him and by Him can we obtain the better portion...He is our salvation. Many people have become "antichrist" in mind , spirit and heart. Mary calls us to return to Gods will.
