July 20, 2021 Reflection – Thank you for having responded to my call!
Thousands of pilgrims were called to the 40th Anniversary! July 20, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! June 25, 2021 “Dear children! My heart is joyful because through these years I see your love and openness to my call. Today I am calling all of you: pray with me for peace and freedom, because Satan is strong and by his deception, wants to lead away all the more hearts from my motherly heart. That is why decide for God so that it may be good for you on the earth which God gave you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In the 40th Anniversary Message Our Lady thanked us for our openness to her call!! Then she told us “I am calling all of you: pray with me for peace and freedom…” Her call is so very important to her. She has no other way to reach us but to call to us through the messages she gives the visionaries. She calls us because she loves us, and needs our help. She calls us because we are important to her. We are her children! Her love impels her to call out to us! And over and over again, she has said to us: “Thank you for having responded to my call!” We who have come to know Our Lady through her presence in Medjugorje, have grown to need her call. We have consecrated our lives to her Immaculate Heart, and now we long to live her call. It is our joy and our hope to follow the call of our Mother. I gathered a few of her many messages in which she spoke about her call to us. We can pray with these words from Our Lady, letting them ignite in our hearts a new zeal for her call!! “Dear children, you are not called to the darkness, but you are called to the light. Therefore, live the light with your own life.” (6/5/86) “You are called to witness and to become joyful carriers of God’s word and of His love.” (2/25/97) “I invite you to rejoice and be joyful Christians, responsible and conscious that God called you in a special way to be joyfully extended hands toward those who do not believe, and that through the example of your life, they may receive faith and love for God.” (11/25/97) “Today, I call you to open yourselves completely to me so that I may transform you and lead you to the heart of my son Jesus, so that He can fill you with His love.” (10/25/98) “In a special way, little children, you are called to live and witness peace – peace in your hearts and families – and, through you, peace will also begin to flow in the world.” (9/25/02) “By your baptism you are all, in a special way called and loved, therefore witness and pray that you may be my extended hands to this world which yearns for God and peace.” (12/25/11) “You are called, little children, to be my children, my beloved children, so I can present you all to my Son.” (6/25/13) “Turn your thoughts and heart to God and to prayer. Trust in His love. In God’s spirit, little children, you are all called to be witnesses.” (5/25/14) “You are called to holiness and created for Heaven; therefore, seek Heaven and the things of Heaven.” (1/25/18) “God called me to lead you to Him because He is your strength. That is why I am calling you to pray to Him and to trust in Him, because He is your refuge from every evil that lurks and carries souls far from the grace and joy to which you are all called.” (7/25/18) “Dear children! You have a great grace of being called to a new life through the messages which I am giving you. This, little children, is a time of grace, a time and a call to conversion for you and the future generations. Therefore, I am calling you, little children, pray more and open your heart to my Son Jesus. I am with you and love you all and bless you with my motherly blessing.” (10/25/18) “Little children, you are all called to pray with all your heart for the plan of salvation to be realized for you and through you.” (5/25/19) “Little children, you are also called to witness by living the love with which, day by day, God wraps you with my presence.” (9/25/19) “You are called, little children, to penance and prayer. As nature fights in silence for new life, also you are called to open yourselves in prayer to God, in Whom you will find peace and warmth of the spring sun in your hearts.” (2/25/20) Let us pray: 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. Amen In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021