Daily Reflections
by Cathy

Start Advent with Confession!

(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017

December 5, 2017

Dear Family of Mary!

November 25, 2002 “Dear children! I call you also today to conversion. Open your heart to God, little children, through Holy Confession and prepare your soul so that little Jesus can be born anew in your heart. Permit Him to transform you and lead you on the way of peace and joy. Little children, decide for prayer. Especially now, in this time of grace, may your heart yearn for prayer. I am close to you and intercede before God for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

Advent is a time of conversion. We turn our attention to the coming of Jesus as our Infant King. And our impulse is to prepare ourselves for His coming, through conversion. How can I make Jesus more the center of my life? How can I turn more and more to Him? In this message, Our Lady tells us to start with Confession.

As I was praying about this, I turned to St. Faustina’s Diary and found this very helpful entry. It is about Confession. She wrote:

Concerning Holy Confession. We should derive two kinds of profit from Holy Confession:

1. We come to confession to be healed;
2. We come to be educated-like a small child, our soul has constant need of education.

0 my Jesus, I understand these words to their very depths, and I know from my own experience that, on its own strength, the soul will not go far; it will exert itself greatly and will do nothing for the glory of God; it will err continually, because our mind is darkened and does not know how to discern its own affairs. I shall pay special attention to two things: firstly, I will choose, in making my confession, that which humiliates me most, even if it be a trifle, but something that costs me much, and for that reason I will tell it; secondly, I will practice contrition, not only during confession, but during every self-examination, and I will arouse within myself an act of perfect contrition, especially when I am going to bed. One more word: a soul which sincerely wants to advance in perfection must observe strictly the advice given by the spiritual director. There is as much holiness as there is dependence. (Diary 377)

Don’t you love St. Faustina’s understanding of Confession?

We come to Confession to be healed!! Do we actually believe this? We come to Confession to be healed. It is a miracle of love. Jesus removes the sins from our hearts. He removes the guilt and the shame. And He renovates our hearts with words of blessing and healing. He speaks words through the priest that will transform us, free us, change us! Confession is the Sacrament of healing!

And Confession provides education. We have all heard of the “Teachable Moment”. When a child makes a mistake, the parent can use that mistake as a way to give the child the tools he or she needs to succeed next time. Well, in Confession the priest has us at a teachable moment. We have confessed our sins, our failings, and we are acutely aware that something needs to change. At that moment the priest may teach us something about the spiritual life that will help us going forward in life, and if he doesn’t, Jesus will. Jesus will speak to us somehow to take advantage of our teachable moment. We will learn about how much He loves us!! We will see how His love will make things different, if we accept it!

So, Confession during Advent is fantastic!! Let’s go to Confession as much as we can before Christmas! We want to be healed and taught so that we can rush to the stable to adore our Lord with abandon!!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan

©Mary TV 2017

 

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Vicka, one of the visionaries in Medjugorje, wrote the note (above) after Our Lady spoke with her during an apparition in Medjugorje in April, 1999, about Mary TV’s  plan to build a television facility in Medjugorje.

Vicka wrote to Denis: “Our Lady says that the plan is good – but you need to wait a little.  Now you can get prepared little by little, until Our Lady tells when the right moment is.  You don’t need to hurry, make haste, but to be patient.”

When Our Lady said this to Vicka, the technical genius in Medjugorje that she had her eyes upon, who would begin Mary TV’s live streaming from Medjugorje, was seven years old.

Totus Tuus (Totally Yours)

Immaculate Conception, Mary my Mother, Live in me, Act in me, Speak in me and through me, Think your thoughts in my mind, Love through my heart, Give me your dispositions and feelings, Teach, lead me and guide me to Jesus, Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior, Possess my soul, Take over my entire personality and life, replace it with Yourself, Incline me to constant adoration, Pray in me and through me, Let me live in you and keep me in this union always.

Our Lady gave this prayer 25 years before She started appearing in Medjugorje. This prayer is being answered through Our Lady’s presence in Medjugorje and through Her messages. Mother Immaculata writes: “This is Mary’s hour and She is about to crush Satan’s head. Her very being is like incandescent heat in the center of the Trinity and the manifestation of Her power is growing daily. The Immaculate Conception prayer (which is what Our Lady called the prayer she gave me for union with Her) has been used by exorcists who have told me that the devil reacts violently to it and is subdued by it. We are praying daily for the success of Mary TV!“

Our Lady Gives A Sign…

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MARY TV was LIVE STREAMING Ivan’s May 24, 2013 apparition on Mt. Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) in Medjugorje. My wife, Cathy, was praying in front of her computer in the US, connected through the Internet, welcoming Our Lady along with everyone gathered on the mountain. She couldn’t see anything on her computer screen because it was late at night and Ivan had said, “No lights.” She found herself asking Our Lady for a sign – a little light – as a sign that MARY TV was on the right track and really serving her. Just after the apparition, when she went to give an account on Mary TV’s Facebook page, the page opened with this picture that she had never seen before, captioned: “MARY APPEARS OVER BUILDING IN MEDJUGORJE, PHOTO TAKEN BY PILGRIM.” Our Lady is standing directly over MARY TV’s studios, her feet right where we have two POV cameras STREAMING 24/7 LIVE TO THE WORLD Apparition Hill & Cross Mountain!

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