Day: August 6, 2024

I desire to bring you all to Heaven unto God!   August 7, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Today we begin a novena before the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary! It is a joy to be able to pray to Our Lady in this special way especially after the Youth Festival which was her gift to us! Our Lady must have been very busy during the Youth Festival, ministering to all the young people (and not so young people) at the Festival! It seems like a good idea to return to quiet prayer now, preparing for her Feast Day! I propose that we take one message a day, in which Our Lady talks about Heaven, and pray over it, giving her words time to percolate in our souls! She speaks so simply that we can overlook the incredible meaning in them. Our Lady was assumed into Heaven! Heaven is now her home. We need to raise our eyes toward Heaven, which one day will be our home as well. It is Heaven that waits for us. Let Our Lady guide us to our Home. Novena Day 1 November 27, 1986 “Dear children! Again today I call you to consecrate your life to me with love, so I am able to guide you with love. I love you, dear children, with a special love and I desire to bring you all to Heaven unto God. I want you to realize that this life lasts briefly compared to the one in Heaven. Therefore, dear children, decide again today for God. Only that way will I be able to show how much you are dear to me and how much I desire all to be saved and to be with me in Heaven. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Dearest Mother Mary, we know that you were assumed into Heaven, body and soul, to be with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and all the Heavenly Host, for eternity. From Heaven, you come to us now, every day, in Medjugorje! You bring Heaven with you, and we all have felt it. We want to do everything we can to prepare for Heaven. We will listen to your words with our hearts, and respond as best we can. Thank you, dearest Mother, for being with us in Medjugorje! Amen, Alleluia! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV. TV

Thank you, Dearest Mother, for the Youth Festival   August 6, 2024 The Transfiguration of the Lord Dear Family of Mary! In the wee hours of the morning the young people will climb Cross Mountain and gather around the Cross for Holy Mass with the priests! Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord! What a fitting ending to the Youth Festival! They will be with Jesus on a mountain, just as Peter, James and John were with Him on a mountain so many years ago. They will carry all their beautiful memories from the Festival with them, pondering them in their hearts. They will experience Jesus, in the Holy Mass, very much like the Apostles experienced Him on that mountain, transfigured! This is a moment of deep transformation for the young people. As we all look back over these 6 days of prayer, teaching, testimony and Holy Masses, we will discover many signal graces for each one of us! Let’s pray for the young people in a special way, that as they re-enter their normal lives, they will find themselves changed! They will find themselves new and reborn in the Holy Spirit! They are carrying in them the seeds of resurrection! They may very well change the world! I want to write a short litany of thanksgiving as we end this Youth Festival, one that we can pray together. There is so much to be thankful for!! Litany of Thanksgiving for the Medjugorje Youth Festival 2024! As we all travel home and re-enter our lives, we want to thank You, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for all the graces you have poured out upon us during the extraordinary Medjugorje Youth Festival. 2024: We thank You dearest Lord, that we could travel so far the take part in this holy event! We thank You dearest Lord, that if we couldn’t travel, we could still attend the Festival through Mary TV or the Parish web site. We thank You, Lord, for all the speakers who taught us, shared with us, witnessed their conversions and the graces received in Medjugorje. and showed us such love. We thank You. Lord, for all the priests who heard our confessions, concelebrated Holy Mass, prayed over us, and guided us over these six days. We thank You, Lord, for all the speakers who told us about their lives, their conversions, their sufferings, and their victories won through Our Lady’s special care! We thank You, Lord, for all the priests, nuns, and brothers who worked tirelessly to provide everything we needed to pray together, sing and dance together, receive communion, and all the other blessings we received. We thank You, Lord, for the musicians who did such a fantastic job of lifting our hearts in song, and communicating the presence of God in their music. We thank You Lord, for all the cameramen, studio staff, internet connections, and the equipment necessary to stream the whole event, flawlessly, and with such expert care. We thank You, Lord, for all the wonderful people we met during the festival, from so many different countries! And we thank Our Lady for praying for each one of us, for holding each one of us in Her arms, loving us and pouring out graces upon us. We are changed by Her Love. Amen! There is certainly much more to give thanks for, so carry on with this prayer!! We all know that it was Our Lady’s presence that made this Festival so beautiful and full of grace! But she is very quiet. She doesn’t ask for attention. She only prays for us constantly, and protects us from our enemy, so that we can prosper and be healed. So let’s thank her with all our hearts, and move forward in our lived holding her hand!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Cathy Nolan Mary TV