Author: Cathy Nolan

October 10, 2022 Reflection – The Truth does not change!

The Truth does not change!   October 10, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! In this message below, Our Lady gives us sound advice on how to live and transmit holiness in these days when so many of Our Lady’s children have forgotten holiness and truth. If we live her words we will be at peace and help others to find their way: May 2, 2016 “Dear children! My motherly heart desires your true conversion and a firm faith so that you may be able to spread love and peace to all those who surround you. But, my children, do not forget: each of you is a unique world before the Heavenly Father. Therefore, permit the continuous working of the Holy Spirit to work on you. Be my spiritually pure children. In spirituality is beauty. Everything that is spiritual is alive and very beautiful. Do not forget that in the Eucharist, which is the heart of faith, my Son is always with you. He comes to you and breaks bread with you; because, my children, for your sake He died, He resurrected and is coming anew. These words of mine are familiar to you because they are the truth, and the truth does not change. It is only that many of my children have forgotten it. My children, my words are neither old nor new, they are eternal. Therefore, I invite you, my children, to observe well the signs of the times, to ‘gather the shattered crosses’ and to be apostles of the revelation. Thank you.” Fr. Leon gave a very precise and moving homily yesterday at English Mass in Medjugorje, in which he presented the truth, the eternal truth, that Jesus gave us once and for all. He helps us to understand well the signs of the times and how to recognize the truth that does not change. Below is the link to the transcript of that Homily: Fr. Leon’s Homily And here is the link to the video of Fr. Leon delivering this homily: https://marytv.tv/english-homily-in-medjugorje-2/?smid=ixPBaNs4Z4C&slid=IRBKmbjFsDA In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022  

October 7, 2022 Reflection – Our Lady of the Rosary

Our Lady of the Rosary   October 7, 2022 Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary Dear Family of Mary! Today the Church celebrates the Rosary, which is the powerful gift of prayer that Our Lady has given us.  Much has been said about the Rosary.  But I would like to share something personal that I received in prayer yesterday. During Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I asked Jesus to speak to me about this holy day, Our Lady of the Rosary.  This is what I heard: “Tomorrow My Mother will begin to move against our enemy. She will come wrapped in light, and begin to demolish the Tower of Babel that Satan has erected in the world.  His lies will implode and his plans will begin to fail. Pray the Rosary all day on the Feast of the Holy Rosary.  Pray it with courage and love, peace and trust.  Pray the Rosary tomorrow!” I share this with you only as an encouragement to pray the Rosary today. Here are three message from Our Lady given through the visionaries.  Our Lady has asked us to pray the Rosary reverently and often. She tells us it is the weapon! May we respond to her call! August 8, 1985 “Dear children! Today I call you especially now to advance against satan by means of prayer. Satan wants to work still more now that you know he is at work. Dear children, put on the armor for battle and with the Rosary in your hand defeat him! Thank you for having responded to my call.” January 25, 1991 “Dear children! Today, like never before, I invite you to prayer. Let your prayer be a prayer for peace. Satan is strong and desires to destroy not only human life, but also nature and the planet on which you live. Therefore, dear children, pray that through prayer you can protect yourselves with God’s blessing of peace. God has sent me among you so that I may help you. If you so wish, grasp for the rosary. Even the rosary alone can work miracles in the world and in your lives. I bless you and I remain with you for as long as it is God’s will. Thank you for not betraying my presence here and I thank you because your response is serving the good and the peace.” April 25, 2001 “Dear children! Also today, I call you to prayer. Little children, prayer works miracles. When you are tired and sick and you do not know the meaning of your life, take the Rosary and pray; pray until prayer becomes for you a joyful meeting with your Savior. I am with you, little children, and I intercede and pray for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022

October 6, 2022 Reflection – “I tell you, ask and you shall receive!”

“I tell you, ask and you shall receive!” October 6, 2022 St. Bruno Dear Family of Mary! In our Gospel for today (Luke 11:5-13) Jesus explains the necessity of prayer and the power of prayer to His disciples.  We need to realize that our whole relationship with God depends on prayer.  Yes, we need Mother Church, we need the Sacraments, we need the Commandments and the teachings of the Church.  But without prayer, none of these incredible gifts of the Church will penetrate, heal, lead, and change us! Jesus tells us in the Gospel: “And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” (Luke 11:9-13) Jesus made it perfectly clear that if we pray, if we ask the Father for something, He will answer us. If we seek the Father, He will be found.   If we knock on the door of Heaven, it will be opened to us.  In fact the Father will give us His very own Spirit if we ask Him.  These gifts are the fruit of prayer. Our Lady has made prayer the most important part of her plan for us.  She never stops exhorting us to pray. Take this message for example: April 2, 2011 “Dear children; With motherly love I desire to open the heart of each of you and to teach you personal unity with the Father.  (This unity is achieved through prayer.) To accept this, you must comprehend that you are important to God and that He is calling you individually. (Prayer is the means to relate to God individually, and to recognize His love.) You must comprehend that your prayer is a conversation of a child with the Father; (This is the most beautiful way to describe what prayer is!  We are children talking to our Father.) that love is the way by which you must set out: love for God and for your neighbor. (Prayer must be powered by love…) That is, my children, the love that has no boundaries. (We cannot put limits on our prayer out of love.  It is everything for us.) That is the love that emanates from truth and goes to the end. (Prayer is the way to receive the truth that emanate from love) Follow me, my children, so that also others, in recognizing the truth and love in you, may follow you. (If we follow Our Lady into prayer, others will see and also follow.) Thank you.” Forgive me for interjecting throughout the message, but I couldn’t explain it any better than she does.  I just wanted to emphasize her words.  Let’s return to prayer with all our hearts! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022

October 5, 2022 Reflection – St. Faustina Kowalska and Divine Mercy!

The Divine Mercy Chapel in Surnanci, Medjugorje   October 5, 2022 St. Faustina Kowalska Dear Family of Mary! Today is the Feast of St. Faustina Kowalska, to whom the Lord Jesus entrusted the beautiful Message of Divine Mercy and the Feast of Divine Mercy!  St. Faustina was a nun who lived in Poland in the early 1900’s.  She was called by Jesus to reveal to the world His great Mercy for all mankind.  She was very faithful to the words that Jesus gave to her and through her confessor, Fr. Sopocko, they were spread throughout the world.  She also lived Divine Mercy through her intercessory prayer, especially for the dying. St. Faustina prayed for and offered mercy to others.  She wrote in her diary how to live Divine Mercy each day.  Here is her list of ways to be merciful: 163 General Exercises O Most Holy Trinity! As many times as I breathe, as many times as my heart beats, as many times as my blood pulsates through my body, so many thousand times do I want to glorify Your mercy. 1 want to be completely transformed into Your mercy and to be Your living reflection, O Lord. May the greatest of all divine attributes, that of Your unfathomable mercy, pass through my heart and soul to my neighbor. Help me, O Lord, that my eyes may be merciful, so that I may never suspect or judge from appearances, but look for what is beautiful in my neighbors’ souls and come to their rescue. Help me, that my ears may be merciful, so that I may give heed to my neighbors’ needs and not be indifferent to their pains and moanings. Help me, O Lord, that my tongue may be merciful, so that I should never speak negatively of my neighbor, but have a word of comfort and forgiveness for all. Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors and take upon myself the more difficult and toilsome tasks. Help me, that my feet may be merciful, so that I may hurry to assist my neighbor, overcoming my own fatigue and weariness. My true rest is in the service of my neighbor. Help me, O Lord, that my hart may be merciful so that I myself may feel all the sufferings of my neighbor. I will refuse my heart to no one. I will be sincere even with those who, I know, will abuse my kindness. And I will lock myself up in the most merciful Heart of Jesus. I will bear my own suffering in silence. May Your mercy, O Lord, rest upon me. You Yourself command me to exercise the three degrees of mercy. The first: the act of mercy, of whatever kind. The second: the word of mercy – if I cannot carry out a work of mercy, I will assist by my words. The third: prayer – if I cannot show mercy by deeds or words, I can always do so by prayer. My prayer reaches out even there where I cannot reach out physically. O my Jesus, transform me into Yourself, for you can do all things.  (Diary, entry 163) Our Lady has asked us to be merciful as well: 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.” Dear St. Faustina, please pray for us that we can begin to live a life of merciful love today, and through the intercession of Our Lady of Medjugorje, may we become mercy for others.  Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022    

October 4, 2022 Reflection – There is need of only one thing!

There is need of only one thing!   October 4, 2022 St. Francis of Assisi Dear Family of Mary! In our Gospel for today (Luke 10:38-42) Martha wanted Jesus to scold her sister for not helping her with the dinner preparations.  But Jesus said instead, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.  There is need of only one thing.  Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.” Mary knew what she needed!  She needed eternal life.  And it was from Jesus that she was beginning to find it.  She could not take her eyes off of Jesus!  He was showing her eternity!  We know that Martha changed her mind at Jesus’ words and also became like Mary.  Both sisters began to long for Heaven! Our Lady has been trying to draw us all into the desire for eternity through her messages and presence for all these years.  Here is a message in which she again called us to long for heaven, to realize that there is need for only one thing, as Jesus said: September 25, 2021 “Dear children! Pray, witness and rejoice with me because the Most High continues to send me to lead you on the way of holiness. Be aware, little children, that life is short and eternity is waiting for you to give glory to God with your being, with all the saints. Little children, do not worry about earthly things, but long for Heaven. Heaven will be your goal and joy will begin to reign in your heart. I am with you and bless all of you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Like Jesus, Our Lady calls us to long for Heaven and realize that there is only one thing necessary!  Eternal life! This is the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi!  He is such a powerful example of someone who was enamored with earthly life until one day he encountered Jesus and realized that there was only one thing necessary!!  And what a conversion he made!  He wrote this prayer which shows his deep conversion, his deep desire for Jesus.  Let’s pray with him today on his feast, knowing that it is Jesus alone who we need: “There is need of only one thing” Our Creator, Redeemer and Savior, you are the only true God, in you is the fullness of goodness, you are the true and sovereign good. You alone are good, loving, gentle, sweet and lovable, holy, just, true and fair, kind, innocent and pure. In you is all pardon, grace, and glory for all the repentant, for the just, for all who share your joy in heaven. Let nothing separate us from you. Everywhere, at any place, at any hour and at any time, daily, ceaselessly, let us truly and humbly believe in you, love, honor and worship, praise, bless and glorify you, serve you and give thanks to you, most high, sovereign, eternal God, Trinity and Unity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Creator of all things and Savior of all who have faith in you, who put their hope in you and who love you. You are without beginning or end, unchanging, invisible, ineffable, and inscrutable; you are sublime and great, mild and lovable, the source of joy. We desire you above all else forever and ever. Amen.  (Saint Francis of Assisi. From the October 2022 Magnificat Magazine – Meditation for the Day – October 4, 2022) In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022  

October 3, 2022 Reflection – Forgive in your families

Before all else forgive in your families… October 3, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady has spoken to us often about the absolute need to practice forgiveness in our lives, especially in the family!  It is hard emotional work to forgive, especially in the family!!  We live so closely and can so easily cause hurt, by an off-hand word or action.  We are all imperfect.  But love can conquer all that! Here are two messages that Our Lady gave about forgiveness in the family!  She will help us to grow in our ability to forgive and to ask for forgiveness! January 25, 1996 “Dear Children! Today I invite you to decide for peace. Pray that God give 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 else forgive in the family and then you will be able to forgive others. Thank you for having responded to my call.” January 25, 2020  “Dear children! Today I am calling you to pray even more, until you feel the holiness of forgiveness in your heart. There must be holiness in the families, little children, because there is no future for the world without love and holiness – because in holiness and joy, you give yourselves to God the Creator who loves you with immeasurable love. This is why He sends me to you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022    

September 30, 2022 – Wait for the Lord to lead…

Wait for the Lord to lead, and then follow in His way…   September 30, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! I keep hearing in my heart the words from the Office of Readings a few days ago… “Wait for the Lord to lead, then follow in His way…” I feel that the Lord is trying to give me a way of living with these words.  He is asking me to never move ahead with a task or plan without first waiting in prayer for the Lord to lead me.  So many times the plans I devise without prayer turn out to be failures.  All my good intentions are not enough.  If I am living my life with the Lord and with Our Lady, I need to wait upon them, listen to them before I act on something. Our Lady gave a message about this – here it is: October 2, 2010 “Dear children; Today I call you to a humble, my children, humble devotion. Your hearts need to be just. May your crosses be your means in the battle against the sins of the present time. May your weapon be patience and boundless love, a love that knows to wait and which will make you capable of recognizing God’s signs, that your life, by humble love, may show the truth to all those who seek it in the darkness of lies… My children, my apostles, help me to open the paths to my Son. Once again I call you to pray for your shepherds. Alongside them, I will triumph. Thank you.” Everything is in this message! We need humility, in order to follow Jesus. We need to be just to serve Him. We need patience and boundless love in order to know how to wait and to recognize God’s signs…the signs by which He will lead us. We need to be those who in humility reveal the truth! This is how to serve God.  This is so powerful! In Isaiah 40 God speaks to his people about these very things.  He first reminds them of his power and might, and He calls them to wait upon Him and follow Him!  I love this Scripture.  It speaks the truth of our human condition and our need for God.  And His desire to take care of us! Isaiah 40: 25-31 To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.  Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hid from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.  Teach me Lord, teach me Lord, to wait!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022    

September 29, 2022 Reflection – The Archangels – Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael

Hail, O Favored one, the Lord is with you!   September 29, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! This is the Feast of the Archangels, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael!  I love this feast.  I love the Archangels!!  They are such a comfort for us in our daily battles.  In honor of St. Gabriel, I would like to share the beautiful conversation that He had with one of us, Our Lady!!!  Here it is, the Annunciation: In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!” But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be. And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.” And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?” And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.” And Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.  (Luke 1:26-38) What a moment that was!!!  What an honor for Gabriel, to be the one to announce the coming of our Savior to Mary, and to receive her “yes”!!  What an honor and a powerful joy!! Our Lady now comes to us in a similar way with her messages.  They are offers of grace to each of us, sent by the Lord through the Heart of our Mother.  We have the honor to receive these words from Heaven, delivered by Mary, the Mother of God!  And these words are life changing! We are so blessed.  Let us respond as Mary did, saying: Behold I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022  

September 28, 2022 Reflection – Our Lady’s List of Imperatives!

Our Lady’s List of Imperatives September 28, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Here again is the September 25, 2022 Message: “Dear children! Pray that the Holy Spirit may enlighten you that you be joyful seekers of God and witnesses of love without bounds. I am with you, little children, and, anew, I am calling all of you: take courage and bear witness to the good works that God is doing in and through you. Be joyful in God. Do good to your neighbor so that it will be good for you on earth and pray for peace, which is threatened because Satan wants war and peacelessness. Thank you for having responded to my call.” When I read this message, I have a sense of intense activity!  It seems that Our Lady is busy and wants us to be busy with her.  She is giving us commands!  She has jobs for us to do!  She is acting and she desires that we become active as well! Notice that she is speaking in imperative sentences for the most part!  You know, the kind of sentence that tells you to do something, without saying “you”!  Things like “Shut the door!”  “Eat your dinner!”  etc. Let me enumerate the list of things Our Lady has for us to do: “(You) Pray that the Holy Spirit may enlighten you…”  PRAY!   “You be joyful seekers of God!” “(You) be… witnesses of love without bounds!” “(You) Take courage…” “(You) Bear witness to the good works that God is doing in and through you.” “(You) Be joyful in God!” “(You) Do good to your neighbor so that it will be good for you on earth…” “(You) Pray for peace, which is threatened because Satan wants war and peacelessness.” This is a mighty list of commands for us!  We would do well to pray over each one to discover how we can begin to live them.  I will leave it at that for now!!  Let’s pray for willing hearts that can receive Our Lady’s list of imperatives and do them!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2022 PS. Here again is the link to the discussion between Fr. Livio and Marija on the message: https://marytv.tv/marija-and-fr-livio-discuss-the-september-25-2022-message/    

Marija and Fr. Livio discuss the September 25, 2022 Message

A Conversation between Fr. Livio and Marija Pavlovic Lunetti on September 25, 2022, about the Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje on September 25, 2022: Dear friends sorry for been late but we had some technical problem, and now Marjia is on air from Medjugorje and she is about to give us the September 25, 2022, Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace: Hi Marjia! Hello Fr. Livio and a greeting to all Radio Maria’s listeners. Today, like every 25th of the month, Our Lady gave us the following message: “Dear children! Pray that the Holy Spirit may enlighten you that you be joyful seekers of God and witnesses of love without bounds. I am with you, little children, and, anew, I am calling all of you: take courage and bear witness to the good works that God is doing in and through you. Be joyful in God. Do good to your neighbor so that it will be good for you on earth and pray for peace, which is threatened because Satan wants war and peacelessness. Thank you for having responded to my call” Fr. Livio: Marjia make some considerations. It seems to me a very beautiful and comforting message. Marjia: Yes, the message is awesome because every time it seems to me that Our Lady has something more to say and today she still invites us to pray “that the Holy Spirit may enlighten us that we be joyful seekers”. In Croatian it is a new word and a single word “bogotražitelji”, seekers of God, witnesses of his immense, unlimited love. We are experiencing this love through all these years in which Our Lady is helping us to build a world of holiness, to be joyful witnesses for peace, in contrast to the one without God that belongs to the devil with war. In Medjugorje there is a place indicated with a statuette that designates the place where Our Lady in the early years called us for the first time to confession and allowed us visionaries and the people with us to touch her gown. Whenever I get close to that place (I love to go there at night) I feel very excited. So, it was today! She told us to be joyful witnesses of God and of His immense, endless love. We are witnessing paganism and atheism which together with other ideologies are taking us away from God. Our Lady does not get tired of telling us: “courage!” She is inviting us once again to courageously witness the works that God does within us and to our neighbor through us. I wanted to share with you an extraordinary testimony about “being united”. A group of parishioners of all ages arrived for the apparition, walking 38 km to ask for the healing of a 16-year-old girl whom the doctors had given no hope due to a virus that had made her fall into a deep coma. Because of the strong and firm faith of the parish priest who accompanied the group, the prayers, fasting, and adoration performed by the people, a miracle of the girl’s complete recovery occurred. She herself with her mother came to Medjugorje and together with me we thanked Our Lady. It was a testimony of profound faith, and this courageous act on the part of the priest showed us that Our Lady responds to our requests. On the hill, in addition to the group, there were also other priests present for the apparition and in this regard, Our Lady restated the importance of asking the priests for blessings and prayers directly on us. So, with great emotion I reported what Our Lady had told me to tell them, which was that their “blessed” hands infuse the blessing of God. I can give many examples of this – so emotionally strong – that have happened in Medjugorje in which those who ask with faith, receive a prompt response! Even just by witnessing the enormous love that God has for us, causes the conversion of so many young people who have not received any gift as yet. Our Lady is encouraging us to pray to the Holy Spirit so that we can be enlightened, joyful bearers of peace and respect and help each other “because it will be good for us on earth” as She says. If while Satan is strong, God’s joy and love are even stronger, we must believe in it! We can become witnessed and intercessors for those who are far away and have not yet known God’s love. F.L. Marjia I wanted to ask you something: when Our Lady tells us to bless and pray, do we have to do as She does and extend our hands above your heads? M. Yes, Our Lady usually extends her hands, looks at us, blesses us while we realize that Heaven has come down to Our life is a passage towards eternal life, and She tells us not to be afraid of evil, but to live good by witnessing peace and prayer. F.L. Marjia, She used the word joyful several times, as if to say don’t be sad. M. Yes, just lately Our Lady has been very joyful. She is encouraging us to become seekers of the Good, of Peace! And the Lord enlightens us through the Holy Spirit until we become docile witnesses. It is also through the reading of Sacred Scripture that we become instruments where God works in an extraordinary way, making us find that necessary courage towards our neighbor who could be a pagan or one in search of God who does not know Him at all, approaching them just as the first Christians did. It could be a relative of ours, a nephew, a son, or a neighbor who has restlessness in his heart and in need of finding that peace that only comes from God through prayer and our support. F.L. This struck me very much: “I call you all again.” It is as if Our Lady is calling us because we are a bit scattered all over the place, we are a bit lost and She calls on us to follow her, She calls on us to listen to Her, to move, to be brave to overcome fear! We should answer this call. M. Yes, Our Lady is encouraging us and telling us to bear witness to the good works received from God so we will be admired for our beauty, holiness, love, and gratitude, like this recent experience I had a few days ago with the healed young girl. When someone gave a testimony, then the others in the group are encouraged to tell their stories, and so, on the same evening, open hearted and full of love, the priests who were present also opened up about their story of how they received the call right here in Medjugorje, making this gathering truly exciting. F.L. Marjia I wanted to tell you one last thing; it is true that in the world there are those who hate God, but the majority of people are as if they were empty waiting for the Light, for joy, for something positive that is, there is a great expectation in this emptiness that we find around us. M. I see it in Medjugorje when people come with a great desire to have supernatural experiences and I send them to the hill of apparitions where there is room for everyone. Pray, also try to sacrifice some of your sleep early in the morning or late in the evening. Many times, people tell how by reading and living the messages, the Sacred Scripture, and climbing the hill of the apparitions, they feel the positivity, the inner peace, and receive the miracle. A lady told me the other day that she had been trying to go to confession for years and had lost the courage to do so after so many negative experiences she had through the priests. Here in Medjugorje, the Lord gave her this opportunity, she found the right priest who allowed her to trust and open her heart by making a good confession. This is one of the miracles that the Lord works where so many wounded people find the strength to start a new life. F.L. Marjia, I would like you to also say a few words of encouragement to our listeners in these difficult moments: how Our Lady is with us and comes every day. M. I am a witness Father Livio, together with Vicka and Ivan of the fact that the Lord is still merciful and that He is still sending us our dear little Madonna, our Queen of Peace who punctually arrives every day and appears, loves us, calls us, and walks with us to take us to Her Son Jesus. She made us fall in love with Her from the beginning and we did it trusting Her! We began to follow Her messages, we began to put them into practice, we chose holiness, chose a new life with God and today we can say that we have not turned back because the Lord is merciful, because even today He isn’t tired of us and is calling us together with his Mother – granting us immense love. God’s Love is not human but Divine! And for this I say to all of you: courage, pray the Holy Spirit to enlighten you so that you can live well here on this Earth and that this is a moment of grace. The presence of Our Lady is a gift that I could never have imagined and today we can say THANK YOU with all our hearts for every moment in which She appears, encourages us, loves us, and believes in us by telling us that we can change this world. She says She is with us and intercedes through her Son and says: “Who is against us if God and Our Lady are with us?” This is why I am stating over and over that you must not be negative but enlighten people, those joyful ones who love God, love their neighbor, men. God is giving us His Mother to tell us that He does not leave us alone. My prayer is for all of you who are in a trial with problems relative to your jobs, health issues; Courage, offer all your sufferings to God who can use the good for your families and for all mankind. We must be the pipes that bring water into the desert and where there is no faith bring it with our offerings and sacrifices, sufferings, prayers and small fasting. Our Lady said that through suffering, prayer and fasting even wars can be stopped. We experience it in small and big things that the Lord does, and He calls on us to be his collaborators. We are here but Medjugorje is not a physical place alone, but it is in the hearts of many people who, returning to their homes, begin to live their faith deeply again by witnessing both in their workplace and in their family where they pray together, read the Sacred Scripture, the messages of Our Lady, the lives of the saints who become our example, such as Saint John Paul II or as those we have known and who have always behaved in a holy way. For example, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and even many others who have not been proclaimed saints but have nevertheless lived in a holy way and for us they are an example of a model of life. I wish this to all of you. May you live in a holy way, live with joy and serenity in your heart because God loves us and sent us His mother to tell us that we are not alone! She has not abandoned us to ourselves: Her “Thank you because you have responded to my call” is to tell us that She is counting on our collaboration also in these latest messages. F.L Thanks Marjia, Your words to us are beautiful! Now let’s conclude with a prayer: In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit….