Author: Cathy Nolan

Medjugorje is a sign to all of you…   April 19, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! The message I was led to today is also an April 25 message, this time from 1992. Medjugorje was surrounded by war. The Balkans had gone up in flames! It was terrifying. But Our Lady continued to appear every day, and she helped the people of Medjugorje to navigate this terrible situation in peace and trust. It was a lesson to all of us in living complete faith and trust in Jesus and Mary. May Our Lady’s words strengthen us today as we live in a world which has again descended into war: April 25, 1992 “Dear children! Today also I invite you to prayer. Only by prayer and fasting can war be stopped. Therefore, my dear little children, pray and by your life give witness that you are mine and that you belong to me, because satan wishes in these turbulent days to seduce as many souls as possible. Therefore, I invite you to decide for God and He will protect you and show you what you should do and which path to take. I invite all those who have said ‘yes’ to me to renew their consecration to my Son Jesus and to His Heart and to me so we can take you more intensely as instruments of peace in this unpeaceful world. Medjugorje is a sign to all of you and a call to pray and live the days of grace that God is giving you. Therefore, dear children, accept the call to prayer with seriousness. I am with you and your suffering is also mine. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady’s words are golden, filled with strength and truth. May we cling to her in our day! She is with us to guide us into God’s Truth and Peace. Amen! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024  

I call you, dear children, to prayer with the heart…   April 18, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady has spoken of prayer so many times to us! Prayer is the primary call from Our Lady of Medjugorje! And indeed we will never grow out of the need for prayer. Prayer is our spiritual oxygen, without which we cannot live spiritually. We must adhere to God through our prayer. Here is a message from 1987, and it holds true today! Dear children! Today also I am calling you to prayer. You know, dear children, that God grants special graces in prayer. Therefore, seek and pray in order that you may be able to comprehend all that I am giving here. I call you, dear children, to prayer with the heart. You know that without prayer you cannot comprehend all that God is planning through each one of you. Therefore, pray! I desire that through each one of you God’s plan may be fulfilled, that all which God has planted in your heart may keep on growing. So pray that God’s blessing may protect each one of you from all the evil that is threatening you. I bless you, dear children. Thank you for having responded to my call. (April 25, 1987) Please do not tire of prayer. Let prayer be like breathing for us all!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024  

Be a reflection of God’s love…   April 17, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! April 25, 2020 “Dear children! May this time be an incentive for personal conversion for you. Pray, little children, in solitude, to the Holy Spirit to strengthen you in faith and trust in God, that you may be worthy witnesses of the love which God bestows upon you through my presence. Little children, do not permit trials to harden your heart and for prayer to be like a desert. Be a reflection of God’s love and witness the Risen Jesus by your lives. I am with you and I love all of you with my motherly love. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

Fr. Joseph Jacobsen! God often does the impossible! Believe in Jesus!!   April 16, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Today I am sharing with you a wonderful homily: English Homily in Medjugorje Thursday, April 4, 2024 Fr. Joseph Jacobsen Fr. Jacobsen shares several very important points about our faith and how it should work!! It is well worth the read!! Fr. Jacobsen was once a Lutheran Bishop, but has become a Catholic priest!! He loves Our Lady of Medjugorje!! Thank you, Fr. Jacobsen!! April 4, 2024. HOMILY Lord, sanctify us in Your truth. Your word is truth. Amen. Dear friends, Today, we want to celebrate the fact, and at the same time take some warning from the fact, that when God does something that is humanly impossible in our presence and we see it and witness it, and then He tells us that He’s going to do something else that is humanly impossible after that, we are responsible for believing what He tells us. Okay. Now, most people don’t. Because it’s difficult, even when you see something that is humanly impossible done by God, it’s difficult for us not to think that the humanly impossible is impossible. That’s the way that normal people think. I’m going to give you a few examples of that before we tie into the main example that I want to use for my homily today. The first example of that is Moses and the children of Israel as they fled from and were driven out of Egypt. They had 10 plagues to drive them out. None of those plagues were humanly possible. They could only have come because God willed them to come. And they got to the Red Sea, and they were between the Red Sea and the hosts of Egypt, the humanly impossible occurred again. They fully expected to be massacred there, because they were trapped. Well, the cloud came and prevented the Egyptians from seeing where they were going, the sea opened up, they went through the sea – has that ever happened in a humanly possible way? So, they went through there and out the other side to the other end, and then the cloud lifted and the Egyptians followed them, and the humanly impossible happened again. The water returned and drowned all of the army. Now, okay, they witnessed all of that. Do you suppose they should have believed that they would actually be led through the desert to the Promised Land by somebody who had done all of those things already for them? Of course, they should have believed that. But they didn’t. Well, a few did. There was Joshua. There was Caleb. There was Moses; and I presume Aaron and Miriam thought so, too. There may have been a few others. But for the most part, it was very difficult for them, once they were facing another set of difficult circumstances where their survival seemed to be humanly impossible to believe that God would do once again what He had done for them several times already. Right? Okay. Let’s look at another example. The man in our first reading today was healed at the Beautiful Gate. Okay, the whole upshot of that, as we heard in our first reading, is that Peter challenged the people to believe that the power that raised the man who they knew had been lying at that gate for years with legs that were so useless that he couldn’t even crawl. Okay, the implication here is that the power that accomplished that is the power that they should have faced up to in terms of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. So, the one led to the other. If you believe your eyes as to what humanly impossible thing that happened with this man that was crippled here, then why in the world don’t you believe that the one who did this was the one who was raised from the dead, as we proclaimed? Once again, the humanly impossible in one instance, should have led… And did it? Yes. We did see quite a few people that were converted because of that. But not very many of the Sanhedrin; not many of the leaders. A number of common people were, in fact, converted by that. To tie in a little bit into what Father was saying before Mass, the same thing is true here. We have seen so many confirming signs of the truth of what’s happening here. Now, what should that be leading us to do? It should be leading us to take seriously what Our Blessed Mother has told us is coming upon the world. If the confirming signs have been humanly impossible… anyone who anything about the history of Medjugorje at all knows that there have been a lot of humanly impossible things happening here. Well, that should lead us to believe the message. That’s what it’s all about. The message is what counts. And those confirming signs, and the humanly impossible things that have happened initially here, are intended to bring us to a place of accepting the message; about how we live our lives in an unbelieving world, about what’s coming upon the world, and about the era of peace that we are being led into, and about the purging and the chastising that’s happening in order to get us there. All of those things that we need to believe, because of the credibility of what’s happened here already. Alright. Now, the theme that I want to bring to our attention. The heart and soul of Medjugorje – and this is by the will of our Blessed Mother, herself – is the Eucharist. That’s why you’re here. It’s the Eucharist. Now what is the Eucharist? I want to take us a little bit through John chapter 6 today, and show you how in that chapter the same principle that I just enunciated in these three instances applies as well. It’s very interesting how it starts. The disciples and Jesus are in the wilderness, and they look around and they see a bunch of people coming toward them – a whole lot of people – and Jesus does something very interesting at that point. He says to Philip, “How are we going to feed all these people?” And then John makes a comment which is fascinating. He says that Jesus did this to test him; because He, Himself knew what He was going to do. Get that? He knew what He was going to do. And what He was going to do was the humanly impossible. And the test was: Do you believe that we can feed these people through what I do that is humanly impossible. And so it happened. They fed the people; and there were twelve baskets left over. So, they had the experience of Jesus doing the humanly impossible in feeding this multitude, precisely because He said that to test Philip. Now a little bit later, the next day, there He is in Capernaum. And the people come up to Him and they say to Him, “How did you get here?” and so forth; but the key point that I want to get at here is that the dialogue goes like this, at this point. Jesus says, “I am the Bread of Life sent from Heaven. He who eats of me – who eats my flesh and drinks my blood – will live forever. What I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh.” And, of course, the Jews will go, “How can you do that?” Just like the question of Philip, “How can we feed so many people? There’s no way we can do this.” But Jesus says, “I will do this.” But the people say, and the Jews ask, “How in the world can we eat His flesh and drink His blood?” That’s a good question, right? That seems impossible. How in the world is He going to do this. How is He going to achieve that? Now in the Tridentine Mass, the Latin Mass, when you come to the Daily Requiem Mass, it’s a marvelous Mass that we use for praying for the souls in Purgatory. The gospel for the day is the one I just gave you a summary of from John’s gospel, about, “I am the Living Bread from Heaven, and who eats of me will live forever. My flesh and my blood are true food.” And just about 10 minutes later in the mass, we come to the point where, standing at the altar, the priest says, “This is the Body of Christ. And this is His Blood.” That’s how the humanly impossible there is achieved. We eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ through the sacrament. Now it was so impossible that so many of His disciples just left when he said it. “How can He do this? He can’t give us His flesh and His blood. That’s impossible.” Off they went. And Jesus says to the disciples, “Are you going to leave me, too?” And Peter says, “Where will we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Peter maybe didn’t get the whole point that Jesus was going to figure out a way to do this, but he got some of the point. He got some of the point. And we sure know from Our Blessed Mother that we had better take very, very seriously that when we receive the Eucharist, we are getting the flesh and blood of Jesus, and nothing else. The flesh and blood of Jesus. Now there’s one more interesting point that I want to make in this little homily, and that’s this: We get the whole Jesus now in the Eucharist. Because we are sinners, we tend to emphasize the Crucified Christ. But, we also receive the Risen Christ. Okay. The whole Christ. Well, in a sinful world, it’s good for us to have the forgiveness of our sins. The sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross is our focus as sinners, because we need that desperately in order to get through to eternal life. The forgiveness of sins is the basis of salvation. And you and I need that desperately. We are told by many credible sources that in the age to come, it will be the same sacrament but the emphasis will shift from the Cross to the Resurrection – from what happened on the Cross, and also at the Last Supper; to what happened at Emmaus, when Jesus gave Himself to them as the Living Bread. They experienced Him now as alive. Now, this is very interesting; because the first time they received the Eucharist, they thought He was going to live, when He was going to die. The second time, they thought He was dead, while He was alive. Big surprise! Okay? Now, we often are in exactly the same position, if you look at yourself spiritually. The things we consider about Him as dead, are actually alive; and the things that we consider as alive, are actually dead. We need the Eucharist to set us straight on this point a lot. But the main point I want to make is this: When Jesus starts off by saying in John 6, “I am the Bread of Life,” He’s underscoring the fact that the whole Christ – the Christ who died on the Cross to save us from our sins, and the Christ who rose from the dead to justify us and bring us to paradise – is received in every last Eucharist. And the emphasis today in our sinful world is certainly on the Cross. The emphasis in the era of Peace will be more on the Life and on the Resurrection (for obvious reasons). (Homily of April 4, 2024, Medjugorje) Amen, Fr. Jacobsen!! Thank you!! Fr. Jacobsen gave his testimony on Mary TV – Fruit Show 309! You want to watch it! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

Believe in Christ!   April 15, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! These words from St. Augustine are priceless: So when you hear “Believe in Christ,” don’t imagine it’s enough for you to believe Christ, that is, to believe that the things Christ says are true; don’t imagine it’s enough for you to believe that Christ is himself the one whom God foretold through the prophets; but believe in Christ, that is, love Christ. It is when you have fulfilled this that nothing more will be required of you, because love is the fullness of the law (Rom 13:10). When you’ve believed in Christ like that, so that you have that kind of ardent love for Christ, see if you won’t be able to make these words your own: Who shall separate us from the love of God? (Rom 8:35). So don’t waste time wondering how to do what Christ commands; you cannot not do it if you love Christ. Love, and you do it. (St. Augustine – from Magnificat April 2024 p.211) And these words from Our Lady are also priceless: May 25, 1999 “Dear children! Also today I call you to convert and to more firmly believe in God. Children, you seek peace and pray in different ways, but you have not yet given your hearts to God for Him to fill them with His love. So, I am with you to teach you and to bring you closer to the love of God. If you love God above all else, it will be easy for you to pray and to open your hearts to Him. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Remember, “You cannot not do it if you love Christ!!!” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

The source of grace is here…   April 12, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! This has been a big week! We are responding to the call to pray fervently and offer sacrifices for the sake of souls for these 40 days leading up to Pentecost! We are praying for a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all of God’s children. The world needs a new Pentecost! We believe that Our Lady wants us to pray this way. In her last message she said to us: Dear children! In this time of grace, pray with me for the good to win in you and around you. In a special way, little children, pray united with Jesus on His Way of the Cross. Into your prayers put this humanity which wanders without God and without His love. Be prayer, be light, and be witnesses to all those whom you meet, little children, so that the merciful God may have mercy toward you. Thank you for having responded to my call.  (March 25, 2024) This message was a definite call to intercede for all humanity! She asked us to pray for the good to win!!! She asked us to pray for this humanity which wanders without God and without His love. She asked us to be prayer, to be light and to be witnesses to all those whom we meet! This is the program we are attempting to live these 40 days. Knowing this, I was praying with Denis today, and heard the words, “May 8th”. I realized Our Lady wanted me to look for a message from her on May 8th. I looked, and discovered there has only been one message on May 8th! It is the May 8, 1986 message. I was blown away by what it contained: “Dear Children! You are responsible for the messages. The source of grace is here, but you, dear children, are the vehicles transmitting the gifts. Therefore, dear children, I am calling you to work responsibly. Everyone will be responsible according to his own measure. Dear children, I am calling you to give the gift to others with love and not to keep it for yourselves. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (May 8, 1986) I feel that one of the things we need to do during these 40 days is to share Our Lady’s messages with all who will listen. Her messages are filled with grace, just like Mary is. They are filled with anointing for those who read them. They will help people who do not know Our Lady yet, to know her!! We are responsible for the messages. If we don’t share them, who will? (Denis wants you all to know that this message was the inspiration for Mary TV!!) So along with our prayer, we need to share the messages far and wide!! This is a holy war for souls! Thank you for responding to Our Lady’s call!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

Dear Children, pray with me for the good to win!   April 11, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! On Tuesday I shared with you the transcript of the powerful homily given by Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne on April 2, 2024. Today I want to send out another wonderful homily!! Yesterday, April 10, 2024 Fr. Stan Fortuna gave the homily at English Mass! It is another powerful homily. Here is the link! You may want to hear it delivered. English Homily in Medjugorje But also I have the transcript, excellently transcribed by our shipmate, Stefanie Hogue. The Holy Spirit is moving powerfully in Medjugorje! I think He is helping us to live these 40 days of prayer and fasting before Pentecost, with power! The Gospel for April 10, 2024: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 3:16-21 God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Whoever believes in Him will not be condemned; but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed the name of the only begotten Son. And this is the verdict, the Light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come towards the light so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God. The Gospel of the Lord HOMILY by Fr. Stan Fortuna in Medjugorje – English Mass Our Loving Mother, the Church, today, Wednesday, the second week of Easter, April 10th, 2024, in the parish of Medjugorje, in Bijakovici, in St. James the Apostle Church, she gives us as the gospel antiphon, Psalm 34, verse 8: Taste and see how good the Lord is. Blessed the man who trusts in Him. Fr. Leon and me, we’re first cousins: the Dominican and a Franciscan… And speaking about the Dominicans, one of his brothers – one of our brothers in Our Loving Mother, the Church – Thomas Aquinas; he says that, “To love is to consistently will the good of another.” Most of you – probably all of you – are on pilgrimage, and even if you’re not, you are! And we’re so blessed to be here! And as we make our way, the word that kept coming to us, and that has been confirmed from us on earth and in Heaven, is this word, “good.” And so… “To love is to consistently will the good of another.”  And so that was confirmed with the gospel Antiphon, Psalm chapter 34, verse 8:  “Taste and see how good the Lord is,” and, “Blessed is the man who trusts in Him.” And the gospel of the day, John chapter 3, verse 16: God what? God loved… Who? The world… How much? So much… “What did he do?” He sent His only begotten Son. And I don’t know if you know what the last message here was on March 25th, this year, 2024. Here’s a little piece: “Dear children, Pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” “Oh Father, can you repeat that…”  Yes! “Dear children, Pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” My hero, Karol Wojtyla, St. Pope John Paul II, the Great Father and Doctor of the Church… When did he say this? He said this on the 11th of February… Oh… does that ring a bell? Yes! Lourdes. The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1979, it was 118 days after he was elected on October 16th, 1978 – Thank you, Jesus! – he said, “Jesus wants love…” And, boy! If there’s one of her favored sons, he’s on the line – he’s right up on top of the line – he loved Our Mother…. Whoooo! Anyway, he said, “Jesus wants love, the solidarity of love, to grow from suffering, and around suffering, and He wants the sum of that good…” (He wants the sum of that good…) “…which is possible in our human world, a good that never goes away.” And Our Mother said, on March 25th – because it fell in Holy Week, it was the Solemnity of the Annunciation, which we just celebrated here on Monday, “Dear children, pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” So, with David, in Psalm 34, verse 8… With Thomas Aquinas, “…and to love is to consistently will the good of another…” With John the Apostle, the Beloved disciple, in his gospel… “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…” With Mary, Our Mother of Medjugorje, “Dear children, pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” And with Karol Wotyla, St. Pope John Paul II, the Great Father and Doctor of the Church…With all of them, and all of us… it’s possible, as he said, “…to make the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good…” “It makes possible for the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good to take place.” And he put it like this then, in his tenth of 14 encyclicals released in 1993, number 118, in Veritatis Splendor (just in case you don’t believe me…) He said it then; and he’s saying it again to us today, from Heaven… “Mary is the Mother of Mercy because Her Son, Jesus Christ, was sent by the Father as the revelation of God’s Mercy. Christ came not to condemn but to forgive, to show Mercy. No human sin can erase the Mercy of God or prevent Him from unleashing all His triumphant power if we only call out to Him.   “Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love of the Father. His Mercy reaches its fullness in the gift of the Spirit.  No matter how many and great the obstacles put in His way by human frailty and sin, the Spirit, who renews the face of the earth, makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good.  “This renewal which gives the ability to do what is good, noble, beautiful, pleasing to God, and in conformity with His Will, is in some way the flowering of His gift of Mercy.  “Mary is also the Mother of Mercy, because it is to her that Jesus entrusts His church, and all humanity at the foot of the Cross, when she accepts John as her son. When she asks, together with Christ, forgiveness from the Father for those who do not know what they do, Mary experiences, in perfect docility to the Spirit, the richness and universality of God’s love, which opens her heart and enables it to embrace the entire human race.   “Thus, Mary becomes the Mother of each and every one of us. The Mother who obtains for us Divine Mercy.” Hail Mary… Thank you Fr. Stan, and all of our wonderful priests who teach and bless us in their homilies! God loves us so much!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

God bless you for your divine dissatisfaction!   April 9, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Today I have a treat for us all. Our shipmate, Stefanie, has transcribed a wonderful homily given by Father Brendan Kilcoyne on April 2, 2024 for English Mass in Medjugorje! Fr. Kilcoyne has a way to showing us our lives from a different perspective, a heavenly perspective. He urges us to live our lives from that perspective, as it is much more alive, full of energy and faith. Here is Fr. Kilcoyne’s homily for April 2, 2024 in Medjugorje: To hear Fr. deliver this homily here is the link: https://marytv.tv/english-homily-in-medjugorje-2/?smid=OnoB3bsg4NV&slid=IRBKmbjFsDA HOMILY Very good morning to you! You are very welcome to mass this morning! My name is Kilcoyne and I minister in the parishes of Balla and Mayo Abbey in the middle of County Mayo in Ireland. I think it was… – it’s a story I’m fond of using to make a number of points – but, I think it was the late Anthony Bourdain, the American chef of French inspiration, who said that you should always have your chicken a little pink, always your pork a faint pink, because you lose the juices.  He said: “Of course, the price of fine cuisine is the occasional bad night.” “But,” he said, “this is the price you pay to taste your food.” I don’t know how far I’d go with him on that. But I think in Ireland, at least, we’re certainly well used to “walking on the wild side” with food. I had several relatives who went to early, but very happy, graves after spending a lifetime putting half a pound of butter on their spuds. Lashings of salt. They swore that the cabbage was absolutely tasteless unless it was cooked in the water in which the bacon had been boiled. I always assume when I’m talking to a congregation in Medjugorje that I’m dealing with serious people, with “players” in Catholic terms. I think the way you respond to the Mass gives evidence of that. Some people, critics, will say the Catholics only go to Medjugorje for a nice holiday. To which I would respond that they know nothing about Catholicism. A Catholic pilgrimage was always at least half a holiday, and nobody parties like a Catholic. That’s because: We know how this turns out! Yeah, yeah. Unless you have a bit of Heaven in your eyes, a bit of Heaven in your voice, in your tongue… You should think of Heaven every day. You should be thinking of Heaven every day. This is why I urge you, my brothers and sisters – and your doctor may sue me for this – this is why I urge you not to cheat yourself of butter on your spuds. And I would put it to you that part of the reason you’re here is because you’re not getting butter on your spuds. Yeah? I will put it to you that part of the reason that you’re here is because the faith that we are teaching in Ireland – and I’m saying nothing I have not said in Ireland. Right? The Faith; the way in which we teach it, the way in which we pass it on, the way in which we are packaging it; is now so safe that it resembles nothing so much as a slice of Ryvita; the original, if you remember, not the later variations. Okay. It’s like cardboard. It’s almost tasteless. It’s alleged to be good for you. But how can you be motivated, like the prophet, to “take it and eat it,” that it be “as honey in your mouth,” when it tastes so bland. And when the Word of God is made to sound like lift music or supermarket music. And when the Food of God is put on the table – God who is an unstinting and ruinous host – when the Food of God is put on the table and it tastes like Mac-this and Mac-that, and you feel like you’re having another indistinguishable meal at your local McDonald’s. (McDonald’s can sue me as well after this.) And I cannot emphasize too strongly, in this Easter week, that you need to taste the Faith. You need to relish it. And it should be “as honey” on your tongue. And I would put it to you, that that is why you are here, even if you don’t fully know that that is what brought you here. It was to taste your food again. It was to hear the Word of God. It was to let it soak into you, not only on your tongue, but to soak into your marrow and bones, that you may be possessed by a Divine greed and a hunger for Heaven. Was it not St. Ambrose who prayed to God, “Fascinate me!” “Let me fall in love with You.” “Conquer me.” “Take over my whole mind.” And you come to Medjugorje – I would argue to you – for this. And I can’t blame you, for having left the small, smug, self-satisfied, little Mac-Ireland, that is what has become of the great dream originally of an Irish country, an Irish culture, an Irish Christian culture. I’m assuming that most of you are Irish. Those of you who are not. Forgive me. Even when we leave Ireland, it’s only to give out about Ireland. We have issues. In the first reading, we are told, “Watch yourself and save yourselves from this perverse generation.” We see now in Ireland, in Europe, where millions of unfortunate people, certainly hundreds of thousands, are being brought in frantically by government; in numbers – these bewildered people – in numbers and in a manner that is calculated to swamp the original cultures of the countries there – through no fault of the refugees, let me emphasize that! – to swamp the local cultures. All for what? I may be wrong. I am certainly simplifying. But – I would suggest to you – that it is to replace the children that we are too selfish to have, and the ones we have murdered, and the ones we intend to murder. I don’t know if any of you take The Spectator – fantastic English conservative magazine – but lately there was a reprint of an article from 2015 by Matthew Parris, who is an atheist, an atheist conservative. He, in it, outlines his belief that there is no point in even discussing euthanasia.  Because, it is definitely going to come.  Because, we have too many elderly people and we can’t look after them. And this is going to become an option. I‘m not making this up. This is a highly…  – this is a cosmopolitan man – a highly sophisticated and clever man. And this is what he sees coming. And I think he’s right. And we are about to try to do the same thing in Ireland. Why? Because we’re not having enough children, to look after, in proper piety, and gratitude, and decency, and in a Christian manner, those who gave us life, and to look after them. So, now we will turn at both ends and we will destroy the future and the past. And who will we be? And what will we be? “This crooked and perverse generation” that loves not what it came from nor that to which it goes. And so human life is this blaze of a match, that lasts only as long as you are loved, and wanted; so you won’t be murdered in the womb. Only as long as you are young, and you’re strong, and you’re articulate, and you can argue for yourself; and God help you when you lose that and become powerless. I don’t blame you in the least for finding your food dissatisfying. How can anyone live on the pabulum that we are being fed? How can anyone face the fight that we have to face on so many different levels? Now you may say back to me, “You’re negative.” “You’re cynical.” I’m not cynical; I never was. I’m a bit skeptical; but I have a Mayo childhood, and I can’t be blamed for that. Yeah, my eyes narrow automatically. I am skeptical, not cynical. And I’m not negative; I’m happy to be alive. I like God, I like people. I’m not overly friendly; I’m a bit grumpy. That’s because I wasn’t, you know, I wasn’t made in some factory. I’m a human being with a real personality and real emotions. Not some smooth, bland product meant to make society go smoothly. I beg you here today, in the spirit of the readings, and in the spirit of the Gospel, to recognize the danger we’re in and to turn to God. Now, here I draw to a close. Here I make an absolutely crucial point. You would have brought here troubles. You would have brought here concerns. You would have brought here hopes and dreams. I say to you, “Forget them.” I say to you, “Throw them aside.”  And get yourself drunk on God, and on His presence! “Seek ye first the Kingdom, and all this will be added unto ye!” Everything you want will be given to you. Focus only on Him. I’m not saying what you want is wrong. I’m not saying that you’re problems aren’t real. I’m not saying that you don’t need help. I’m saying, “Cast them aside from you!” And stand in the presence of God alone, with your incredible, incomprehensible strength, and power, and glory, that He has given you as an individual soul. Stand before Him and beg for His help! And beg for His help for your country, and for your people. Beg him to rain down on us, “the just one,” – an image that is always ready to hand in Ireland, okay. Beg Him to rain down on us everything that we need. Focus on Him entirely for these few days. God bless you for coming here. God bless you for your divine dissatisfaction with the food that you are being fed. God bless you for wanting half a pound of butter on each spud, okay. For wanting to taste your food. For wanting to live. Believe me it will be “poured into your lap, pressed down, and flowing over.” Focus on Him. And “all this will be added to you.” We will sit one day at a meal – let me assure you – that you will be able to taste, and in company that you will relish. In the meantime, we sometimes have to make do with a decent sandwich, okay. But you can always up the butter. I pray for tremendous conversions on these short pilgrimages. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen! Thank you, Fr. Kilcoyne!! May we live up to this wonderful standard, to live fully alive and in the love of God! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024      

The Eclipse   April 8, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Today in America, there will be a total eclipse of the sun, which will occur over a swath of the USA from Texas to Maine! People from all over the country are traveling to these states to view the eclipse. It is a startling natural phenomenon. But many Christians have been feeling that it carries a deeper meaning, some kind of sign from the Lord. I ran across a very interesting article on the internet written by Karla Dial. She writes for The Stream. She makes the point that this eclipse may be a wake up call for Christians all over the world to repent and turn to the Lord. She draws from the Scriptures several compelling passages that lead us to hear God speaking to us. Here is the link to that article: https://ifapray.org/blog/the-incredible-opportunity-of-april-8-americas-moment-of-if/ Her final conclusion is that this eclipse is taking place 40 days before the Feast of Pentecost. And 40 days is often used as a time span for a fast, a time of turning to the Lord in supplication in the Scriptures. She calls on all Christians to consider fasting and doing penance before Pentecost, in response to this call from the Lord, for forgiveness for the evils of our people, and to ask for a revival of faith across the country and the world. Here is her conclusion: “What if, after 40 days of doing that, we experienced the greatest outpouring of His Spirit on our nation (and from there, the rest of the globe) that anyone has ever heard of? What if this is what kicks off the Billion-Soul Harvest that many have long said would take place before the Lord comes back for His spotless Bride? What if this is the beginning of the process that helps actually make us spotless?” I think she may be right. I felt immediately that Our Lady wants us to join in this time of prayer and fasting for a Holy Spirit Revival for the world. This may be the time for just such a revival. Our prayer and fasting, repentance and renewal may be just what is needed to begin a wave of faith in God to roll over the world. And we who follow Our Lady have a special grace. The Mother of Jesus is with us to lead us in this prayer of repentance and intercession! Just as she was with the Apostles in the upper room for 40 days of prayer and fasting before the first Pentecost, she is with us today. She will lead us in the Upper Room prayer and fasting for the Holy Spirit to cover the earth! This is what she has been teaching us for 42 years! She told us: September 25, 2020 “Dear children! I am with you for so long because God is great in His love and in my presence. I am calling you, little children: return to God and to prayer. May the measure of your [way of] living be love and do not forget, little children, that prayer and fasting work miracles in you and around you. May everything you do be for the glory of God, and then Heaven will fill your heart with joy and you will feel that God loves you and is sending me to save you and the earth on which you live. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Yes, Mother, we believe that God loves us and is sending you to save us and the earth on which we live. We will pray and fast these 40 days! Please stay with us and guide us as we intercede for the world, so much in need of salvation! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

Divine Mercy Shrine in Medjugorje!   April 5, 2024 Friday of Easter Week! Dear Family of Mary! Jesus Christ is Risen from the Dead! Alleluia!!! This Sunday, April 7, is Divine Mercy Sunday! We have been praying the Divine Mercy Novena together since Good Friday. And on Sunday we will celebrate the gift of Divine Mercy, a day on which we are offered the complete forgiveness of sins. St. Faustina received these promises from Jesus, if the faithful prepare for Mercy Sunday properly: In her Diary, St. Faustina records a special promise given to her by Jesus. He told her to communicate it to the whole world: My daughter, tell the whole world about My inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. (699). In three places in her Diary, St. Faustina records our Lord’s promises of specific, extraordinary graces: I want to grant a complete pardon to the souls that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion on the Feast of My mercy (1109). Whoever approaches the Fountain of Life on this day will be granted complete forgiveness of sins and punishment (300). The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion will obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. (699). To receive these graces, the only condition is to receive Holy Communion worthily on Divine Mercy Sunday (or the Vigil celebration) by making a good confession beforehand and staying in the state of grace and trusting in His Divine Mercy. By these conditions, our Lord is emphasizing the value of confession and Holy Communion as miracles of mercy. The Eucharist is Jesus, Himself, the Living God, longing to pour Himself as Mercy into our hearts. In addition, our Lord says through St. Faustina that we are to perform acts of mercy: “Yes, the first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be acts of mercy” (742). “The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is trust. The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive” (1578). The worthy reception of the Eucharist on Divine Mercy Sunday is sufficient to obtain the extraordinary graces promised by Jesus. A plenary indulgence[1], obtained by fulfilling the usual conditions, also is available. ( https://divinemercyforamerica.org/action-plan/utilize-the-promises/the-feast-of-mercy/ ) Our Lady also asks us to live the Mercy of her Son in her messages. Here is one message in which she instructs us on Mercy: March 2, 2019 “Dear children, I call you ‘apostles of my love’. I am showing you my Son who is the true peace and the true love. As a mother, through the mercy of God, I desire to lead you to Him. My children, this is why I am calling you to reflect on yourselves, starting out from my Son, that you look to Him with the heart and that you may see with the heart where you are and where your life is going. My children, I am calling you to comprehend that it is, thanks to my Son, that you live – through His love and sacrifice. You are asking of my Son to be merciful to you and I am calling you to mercy. You are asking of Him to be good to you and to forgive you, and for how long am I imploring you, my children, to forgive and to love all the people whom you meet? When you comprehend my words with the heart, you will comprehend and come to know the true love and you will be able to be apostles of that love, my apostles, my dear children. Thank you.” Our Lady is very practical. She sees clearly that the Mercy of her Son changes everything for us, that His Mercy has sent her to us for all these years, and that we need to reflect on how we live mercy ourselves if we are going to be ready for God’s judgment. If we want mercy we must give it first to others. To live mercy in imitation of Jesus is a tremendous goal. It will give us the best training in love and holiness we could ask for! Let’s prepare for Divine Mercy Sunday with great anticipation. Mother Mary is guiding us. Jesus has given the graces. We have only to desire them and go to Holy Mass, prepared by a good confession and with a desire to be holy through mercy! Blessed Easter!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 PS. Today is Day 8 of the Divine Mercy Novena! Pray it with us on Mary TV, on the Hour of Mercy. https://marytv.tv/hour-of-mercy/