Author: Cathy Nolan

March 29, 2024 Reflection – Good Friday

Good Friday   March 29, 2024 Good Friday Dear Family of Mary! On this solemn day, Good Friday, we have ample time to pray. This day is set aside to contemplate the death of Jesus on the Cross. We adore you, O Christ, and we bless You, because by Your Holy Cross, You have redeemed the world…. I would like to present five messages from Our Lady, in which she calls us to contemplate the Cross of her Son. We could read one for each decade of the Sorrowful Mysteries in our Rosary, as a meditation. I feel Our Lady’s words to us carry a great grace, and are profitable for such mediation. Let’s ask Mother Mary to walk us through this sorrowful day, encouraging us and strengthening us. May we be faithful to her Son, Jesus, as He carries dies upon the Cross for our sins, and the sins of the whole world. Five messages for the Sorrowful Mysteries: February 25, 2016 “Dear children! In this time of grace, I am calling all of you to conversion. Little children, you love little and pray even less. You are lost and do not know what your goal is. Take the cross, look at Jesus and follow Him. He gives Himself to you to the death on the cross, because He loves you. Little children, I am calling you: return to prayer with the heart so as to find hope and the meaning of your existence, in prayer. I am with you and am praying for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May 2, 2012 “Dear children! With motherly love I implore you to give me your hands, permit me to lead you. I, as a mother, desire to save you from restlessness, despair and eternal exile. My Son, by His death on the Cross, showed how much He loves you; He sacrificed Himself for your sake and the sake of your sins. Do not keep rejecting His sacrifice and do not keep renewing His sufferings with your sins. Do not keep shutting the doors of Heaven to yourselves. My children, do not waste time. Nothing is more important than unity in my Son. I will help you because the Heavenly Father is sending me so that, together, we can show the way of grace and salvation to all those who do not know Him. Do not be hard hearted. Have confidence in me and adore my Son. My children, you cannot be without the shepherds. May they be in your prayers every day. Thank you.” March 25, 1997 “Dear children! Today, in a special way, I invite you to take the cross in the hands and to meditate on the wounds of Jesus. Ask of Jesus to heal your wounds, which you, dear children, during your life sustained because of your sins or the sins of your parents. Only in this way, dear children, you will understand that the world is in need of healing of faith in God the Creator. By Jesus’ passion and death on the cross, you will understand that only through prayer you, too, can become true apostles of faith; when, in simplicity and prayer, you live faith which is a gift. Thank you for having responded to my call.” March 25, 2013 “Dear children! In this time of grace I call you to take the cross of my beloved Son Jesus in your hands and to meditate on His passion and death. May your suffering be united in His suffering and love will win, because He who is love gave Himself out of love to save each of you. Pray, pray, pray until love and peace begin to reign in your hearts. Thank you for having responded to my call.” July 25, 2020 “Dear children! In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope. Little children, take the Cross in your hands. May it be your encouragement for love to always win, in a special way now when the Cross and faith are rejected. You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.” We adore You, O Christ, and we bless You, for by Your Holy Cross, You have redeemed the world… In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 Here is the schedule of live prayer from Medjugorje for Good Friday: 11:00-12:30AM Stations of the Cross climbing Cross Mountain 3:00-4:00PM Daily Rosary and Divine Mercy 4:00-5:00PM Evening Rosary with the parish 5:00-9:00PM Rites of Good Friday

March 28, 2024 Reflection – Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday   March 28, 2024 Holy Thursday Dear Family of Mary! Today we begin the Holy Triduum. We walk with Jesus through his Passion and Death, staying close to Him and compassionating with Him. We want to stay by His side. The Gospel today remembers the washing of the Apostles feet. Jesus wanted to prepare them for His Passion, washing them from all that would keep them from staying with Him as He offered Himself to the Father for our sins. But we see that one of the twelve, Judas, was not able to surrender His treachery and greed and accept being cleaned by Jesus. We are aghast at his choice. But we must not think we are above him. We must be vigilant in cleaning our hearts. Here is the Gospel: A reading from the holy Gospel according to John 13:1-15 Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. The ­devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper, ­fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God, he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured ­water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus ­answered him, “Unless I wash you, you will have no ­inheritance with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.” Jesus said to him, “Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over; so you are clean, but not all.” For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”  So when he had washed their feet and put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”(Jn 13:1-15) Jesus, we long for you to wash our feet. We long for you to cleanse us of our sins. We long to release all our sins to You and become clean… Our Lady also comes to us to help us to be cleaned. This early message shows her great desire to help us to be purified and to adhere to her Son, Jesus: April 2, 2008 “Dear children, Also today as I am with you in the great love of God I desire to ask you: Are you also with me? Are your hearts open for me? Do you permit me with my love to purify and prepare them for my Son? My children, you have been chosen because, in your time, the great grace of God has descended on earth. Do not hesitate to accept it. Thank you.” Mother we permit you with your love to purify and prepare our hearts for your Son! Yes, Mother, help us to make good confessions and be made clean! Help us to be clean and ready for Jesus! Help us to accept the great grace of God! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 Here is the schedule of live prayer from Medjugorje for today: Thursday – 03/28/24 3:00-4:00PM Hour of Mercy 4:00-5:00PM Daily Rosary 5:00-9:00PM Holy Thursday Mass

March 26, 2024 Reflection – In this time of grace…

In this time of grace…   March 26, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Here again is the message of March 25, 2024! March 25, 2024 Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje 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. There is much to say about this message! But since we are entering into the most solemn and powerful moment in the Church Year, I hesitate to talk too much. Let me just point out that Our Lady began her message with these words, “In this time of grace…” She signals to us that during this week of sorrows, there are many graces available to us. All the victories Jesus will win through his humility, obedience, courage, patience, long-suffering, and sacrifice will be our victories as well. He shares every bit of the grace He wins by His death with us, if only we follow Him, repent, and believe. May this time of grace be a time of salvation and victory for each one of us! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

March 25, 2024 Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje

March 25, 2024 Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje   March 25, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! March 25, 2024 Message from Our Lady of Medjugorje 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. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024    

March 22, 2024 Reflection – You are all important in the great plan..

You are all important in this great plan…   March 22, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Today, Denis and I leave for Medjugorje! We will bring you all with us in our hearts. We will be able to pray with you live, from our studio in Medjugorje, so you will be with us there!! We will be live starting Sunday, March 24! Thank you for all your prayers!! Here is a message in which Our Lady explained why she has been present in Medjugorje for so long! This plan is big! June 25, 2007 “Dear children! Also today, with great joy in my heart, I call you to conversion. Little children, do not forget that you are all important in this great plan, which God leads through Medjugorje. God desires to convert the entire world and to call it to salvation and to the way towards Himself, who is the beginning and the end of every being. In a special way, little children, from the depth of my heart, I call you all to open yourselves to this great grace that God gives you through my presence here. I desire to thank each of you for the sacrifices and prayers. I am with you and I bless you all. Thank you for having responded to my call.” This plan that God has entrusted to Our Lady is so big, we cannot fathom it!! But she needs us to believe in it, and to follow her as best we can, through her messages. Thank you for responding! Each one of us in important in this great plan which God leads through Medjugorje! Thank you so much!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024      

March 21, 2024 Reflection – “I love you all…”

I love you all… March 21, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Mother Mary speaks words of love to us! Let them heal you!!! September 2, 2013 “Dear children, I love you all. All of you, all of my children, all of you are in my heart. All of you have my motherly love, and I desire to lead all of you to come to know God’s joy. This is why I am calling you. I need humble apostles who, with an open heart, will accept the Word of God and help others to comprehend the meaning of their life along side God’s word. To be able to do this my children, through prayer and fasting, you must learn to listen with the heart and to learn to keep submitting yourselves. You must learn to keep rejecting everything that distances you from God’s word and to yearn only for that which draws you closer to it. Do not be afraid. I am here. You are not alone. I am imploring the Holy Spirit to renew and strengthen you. I am imploring the Holy Spirit that, as you help others, you too may be healed. I am imploring Him that, through Him, you may be God’s children and my apostles.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2024

March 20, 2024 Reflection – My Children, love makes it possible for my Son to illuminate your hearts!

My Children, love makes it possible for my Son to illuminate your hearts!   March 20, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children, by the merciful love of God, I am with you. That is why, as a mother, I am calling you to believe in love — the love that is union with my Son. With love you help others to open their hearts to come to know my Son and to come to love Him. My children, love makes it (possible) for my Son to illuminate your hearts with His grace, to grow in you and to give you peace. My children, if you live love, if you live my Son, you will have peace and you will be happy. In love is victory. Thank you.” (March 18, 2024) “My children, love makes it (possible) for my Son to illuminate your hearts with His grace, to grow in you and to give you peace.” This sentence from Our Lady’s message through Mirjana is so very meaningful! She assures us that love will cause Jesus to illuminate our hearts with His Grace! Our love for Jesus will draw Him down into our hearts where he will light them up!! He will give us light within, a light that will reveal truth after truth after truth to us! That light is the Holy Spirit, who comes with Jesus to minister to our little hearts. He shows us so many things when He comes, the Holy Spirit who is Light!! As we spend time in deep prayer within, loving Jesus and seeking Him, we are given graces to understand many things and to learn many things about the goodness of God and the truth. This is a gift for us who love Jesus so much that He can enter into our hearts with His Spirit. I want to share for you something that Venerable Mother Mary Magdalen – a Passionist Nun from Spain – wrote about the inner illumination that Jesus can give us: “To reach sanctity, sighs do not suffice: it is necessary to do other things – things that are learned in silence and interior peace from him who speaks and teaches within the soul. How many things are leaned and understood in this school! Many times I think: “If only the ministers of the Lord would let themselves be completely governed and instructed by this interior Teacher, how many souls they could win to the love of Jesus.” He would continue through them his mission as Savior, and with what great joy he would do it through those he has especially selected for this task. “When you study in books those beautiful doctrines and that profound science of sanctity that attracts the soul and fills it with enchantment and holy enthusiasm, do not ever forget that it has all come from that school, and only in that school – in the interior of the soul united to God- can one learn the lesson well. Books are not enough, nor are teachers who explain them. Words pass away with little or no profit. How many times it has happened to me that I have heard things again and again or read them again and again but have remained unmoved, have understood nothing, or at best, if they have inspired me somewhat, they were feeble flames that were extinguished before they reached my heart. But from the moment that the Lord began to teach me, such was not the case. He is the truth, and the truth remains in the soul always and for all eternity. And in this truth how many things I understand, even about my past life, of that time in which there were so many enigmas. From the moment the light of truth can freely shine before our eyes, everything becomes clear. And how simply all this takes place.. “May the great mysteries of Gethsemane, the trial, the Calvary unfold in our hearts because of there intimate union with Jesus. And when our beloved has expired on the cross, my our hearts be his tomb, closed to everything else, until our eyes see his glorified wounds.” (Venerable Mother Mary Magdalen of Jesus in the Eucharist, C.P. Magnificat 2024, Vol 25, No 13 p. 322-323) Jesus wants to come into our hearts and illumine them with His Spirit – so that we will grow in grace and peace, in understanding and wisdom. It is from His presence that we can be filled with light, the Light of the Holy Spirit. And we will have so much to share with our brothers and sisters that will help them to do the same! Come, Lord Jesus, into our hearts and illumine them with your grace and peace! We say yes, Come Lord Jesus! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

March 19, 2024 Reflection – The March 18, 2024 Message through Mirjana Soldo

Pilgrims support Mirjana in prayer as they await the message!   March 19, 2024 Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dear Family of Mary! Happy Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary! St. Joseph, pray for us!! I want to share with you the message from Our Lady that we received through Mirjana yesterday on her birthday. Here is what the parish posted about this apparition and message: The visionary Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo had daily apparitions from June 24th 1981 to December 25th 1982. During the last daily apparition, Our Lady gave her the 10th secret, and told her that she would appear to her once a year, on the 18th of March. It has been this way through the years. [Mirjana has also had apparitions with messages on the 2nd of the month from October 2, 2004 to March 2, 2020] The apparition lasted from 13:23 to 13:27. “Dear children, by the merciful love of God, I am with you. That is why, as a mother, I am calling you to believe in love — the love that is union with my Son. With love you help others to open their hearts to come to know my Son and to come to love Him. My children, love makes it for my Son to illuminate your hearts with His grace, to grow in you and to give you peace. My children, if you live love, if you live my Son, you will have peace and you will be happy. In love is victory. Thank you.” (March 18, 2024) Let’s receive this special message from Our Lady with open hearts. I believe it is a real gift for us to help us enter into Holy Week with our hearts prepared to receive the sacrificial love of Jesus for us. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024      

March 18, 2023 Reflection – Mirjana Soldo’s Yearly Apparition

Mirjana Soldo’s Yearly Appariton is today!   March 18, 2024 St. Cyril of Jerusalem Dear Family of Mary! Today is Mirjana Soldo’s birthday! Happy And Blessed Birthday, Mirjana! And it is the day that Our Lady appears to her once a year! It is a very moving moment for Mirjana. Let’s pray for her as she awaits this encounter with Our Lady! Our Lady usually comes on this day at about 1:40 pm to Mirjana, in her home. Many friends and pilgrims gather at the Blue Cross at that time to pray the Rosary in anticipation of Our Lady’s apparition to Mirjana. It is very moving to pray with them. Mary TV will stream, live, on our channel, this prayer at the Blue Cross starting at 12:00pm Medjugorje time and ending at about 2:15pm. Join us in honoring and waiting for Our Lady’s visit to Mirjana! As we await this moment, here is the message that Our Lady gave to Mirjana last year on this day: Mirjana Soldo’s Apparition on March 18, 2023 The visionary Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo had daily apparitions from June 24th 1981 to December 25th 1982. During the last daily apparition, Our Lady gave her the 10th secret, and told her that she would appear to her once a year, on the 18th of March. It has been this way through the years. The apparition lasted from 13:33 to 13:39. ”Dear children, I am calling you, through prayer and mercy, to come to know my Son all the better; to learn to listen with a pure and open heart; to listen to what my Son is saying to you in order to come to see spiritually. That, as one people of God in communion with my Son, you may bear witness to the truth with your life. Pray, my children, that, together with my Son, you can bring only peace, joy and love to all your brothers and sisters. I am with you and am blessing you with a motherly blessing.” (March 18, 2023) Our Lady’s advice is always so deep and yet simple. May we always respond to her call!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024

March 15, 2024 Reflection – Dear Children, decide daily for holiness!

Dear children, decide daily for holiness! March 15, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady has a little pep talk for us, as we face the last week of Lent and then Holy Week!! Don’t give up now!!! March 25, 2007 “Dear children! I desire to thank you from my heart for your Lenten renunciations. I desire to inspire you to continue to live fasting with an open heart. By fasting and renunciation, little children, you will be stronger in faith. In God you will find true peace through daily prayer. I am with you and I am not tired. I desire to take you all with me to Heaven, therefore, decide daily for holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call. Be encouraged! We are close to the end of this holy time. It is bearing great fruit! May Our Lady guide us gently towards Holy Week, when we will follow Jesus through His Passion and Death. May we stay close to our Savior, and compassionate with Him. God bless you all!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024