Marija gives her testimony in Boston, November 23, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Here is the transcript of the Testimonies of Ivan and Marija at St. Leonard’s Chruch on November 23, 2024!! Ivan’s and Marija’s Apparition Saturday, November 23, 2024 St. Leonard’s Church in Boston, MA Fr. Michael Della Penna began by mentioning that Mary TV would be broadcasting the evening of prayer live throughout the world… The video of the evening of prayer can still be watched at: https://video.marytv.tv/watch/mfDhvgsVOCA?ctx=io9bJjUxsmS%2CGnRgpTdsma0&_gl=1*79ry0x*_ga*MTI2NzE0NzU2OC4xNjI3MTQ1OTcx*_ga_PJFEX7SVGS*MTczMjUzODUzOS4xMjk2LjEuMTczMjUzODY3MC42MC4wLjA After Our Lady’s apparition, Ivan shared: Dear Priests, Dear Brothers and Friends in Christ, All of you who are with us through Internet, I would like to greet you all. It is very special to be with you this evening in this moment of prayer, especially in this restless time, with the Queen of Peace. As Our Lady said, “Whoever prays shouldn’t be afraid of the future.” And we are in a School of Prayer. And that’s why we shall not be fearful. I would like to share with you, and explain to you a little bit, and describe to you a little bit, this encounter with Our Lady this evening. As well, I would like to share with you that it is very hard to find the words in this world to explain the encounter that I have with her. I still haven’t found them. I am standing here before you, and I am still with her. It is very hard after every encounter with the Blessed Virgin Mary to return back to this world, to the reality of this world. It is hard to describe everything, especially the love – the love with which Our Lady loves us for all these years. I am sure that you have seen a lot of beautiful pictures and statues of Our Lady. And they are very nice, I presume. But the beauty of Our Lady is very hard to put on a piece of paper or even, maybe, a statue. Once we asked Our Blessed Virgin Mary, “Mother, why are you so beautiful?” And Our Lady said, “Dear children, I am beautiful because I love. You love, dear children, and you will be beautiful as well.” Dear Brothers, and dear Friends, is there any better answer to us than this one for all of us today? To love. Love is needed in today’s world. With love, we can do a lot of things; a lot of beautiful things. But love we have to feed. We have to love God. We need to meet with Our God today, in the present, every single day to accept Him. Today, as well, Our Mother has come to us, happy and joyful; especially joyful. She greeted us all with her motherly greeting, “Praised be to Jesus, my dear children!” And after that, she raised her gaze upon all of us. In her mother tongue, mother language – Aramaic – she prayed over all of us. Especially, she prayed over all of you who are ill. And then, for a longer time, she prayed over all of you youth here and the families. Then, she gave us her motherly blessing. Then, after that I recommended all of you, all of your intentions, all of your families; especially all of you who carry a burden in your hearts, who have needs – Our Lady knows everything. After that, Our Lady blessed all the articles that you brought for blessing. And then for a short period of time, Our Lady prayed especially for Peace. After that, Our Lady left in the prayer in the sign of the light and a cross, with the greeting, “Go in Peace, my dear children.” I try to just put into words the most important about this evening encounter with the Blessed Virgin Mary. I would like to emphasize, as well, that Our Lady has prayed over all of us for a very long time. She prayed for the families. She prayed for the youth. And for the Peace in the world. You know that every 25th of each month, Our Lady gives a message to the whole world. And that message we all expect in two days, we hope. Because I am at home here, and you see me a lot, I would like to ask Marija to speak now, about Our Lady and the messages Our Lady is giving us. Say the word, Marija!! Marija’s Testimony: (Marija stepped forward and she joked about what language she should speak in!!) I should speak in Italian because the church is made by Italians – and that’s why it is so beautiful!! All of you, I would like to greet you who are home here, who built this beautiful church, who put this beautiful statue of Our Lady here; the most important, I can see that everything here is made with love. At the same time, I would like to say, “Hi”, “Hello”, to Father Michael, because it’s his work as well with Loreen that brought me here today, Marija said. I met Fr. Michael a long time ago before he even became a priest. And his vocation is a vocation from Medjugorje. Not only his, but Fr. Rick, who is from here. So, in a special way, this community here is blessed; not only because of them, but because of Ivan – one of the six visionaries from Medjugorje, who got married with Loreen and became a part of this beautiful community. Even though, we often laugh, because Loreen says that I am her most loved visionary. But she lives with Ivan. And I’m sure that she knows that it’s not easy to live with a visionary! Our life is not easy, but it’s beautiful; because God entered our lives with the Blessed Virgin Mary. We were small as a family. We were born and raised as Catholics. But until we saw the Blessed Virgin Mary, until Our Lady appeared to us, our lives were very plain and very simple. And then after that it became so complicated. People asked us… they asked for us. They wanted to meet us. And my mom used to say all the time that our house is no longer our house, it’s like a bus station. People would come; they would sit; they would talk; they would eat; they would drink; they would look. They wanted to meet the people who received the greatest gift. Imagine: Jakov was only 9-1/2. I was 16. The oldest among us is Vicka. So, we were children. But Our Lady took us. She started to lead us, to love us. And we fell in love with her. Not only us, but our families. And the adventure started. And then, we started to pray more, and more, and more. We thought that if we pray more, Our Lady is going to be with us longer; because it is so beautiful to be with Our Lady. But Our Lady didn’t ask that from us, for all day to be in Apparition; no. As Jesus said to the apostles, Go down from Tabor. That’s how Our Lady had asked us to be the witnesses. And I remember so many times we were so tired. But we said to the Lord, “Here we are, we are your instruments, use us Lord.” And in a special way that is the feeling that we gained, that we became instruments. No longer shy children, but People of Faith, People of Hope. Because we met her, Our Lady, Queen of Peace, who came among us. And she calls us; always she’s calling us, “Wake up.” And she said, “Dear children, God permits me to be with you, to guide you and to lead you in the School of Prayer.” And that’s how everything started. From the Apparition Hill, Our Lady guided us into the church. When we came to the church, Our Lady planned all the program in the church. Because, in the beginning of the Apparitions, the church was closed; there was no program. But Our Lady asked, “Pray the Rosary.” And we listened and answered her call. Our Lady has said, “Put God in the first place in your life.” And as she asked, we started to celebrate the Holy Mass. Our Lady has asked us to pray for all those who are sick. And together with the priests that accepted the message of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we started to pray for all of those who are in need; for their healing, for the healing of their body and of their soul. In a special way, we saw that God works; and we saw a lot of miracles. Many, many times there’s a feeling that we can work together with the Lord – and it is like that. When we kneel down and when we pray, when we fast, we can feel that we work with the Lord. It’s the same what Our Lady’s asking us to do. She permits us to fall in love with her, to follow her, to do whatever she asks us to do. But she’s more deeper than what I have just said; she’s much wiser. In the Cana wedding, she knew the wine was needed. And when she said, “Do as He tells you,” and when Jesus turned the water into wine; they commented, “At the beginning you should serve a good wine, but later on you should serve the not so good wine, because they drank already a little bit.” But they were surprised – why? There was the best wine at the end. That is exactly what God wants from us. To be the good wine. To be the joy for the others. To be in unity with the others. As Our Lady said at the beginning of the Apparitions, “Be my extended hands to the others.” How? To pray for all of those who do not pray. To love God above all, for all those who do not love God. For our lives to be testimonies, basically. And we see that every single day. We meet the people, and we talk to them. And we transmit our faith. Many times, I see people who get so far away from the Lord. I don’t know where… maybe in some big shopping mall. But you see people that look at you, and when you say, “God bless you,” it’s not just with the words. Every small little word, small little thing that you do or say, means that you believe. “May the Lord bless you.” Let it be said with the heart. Because Our Lady wants all of us to be the blessing for the others. I remember one time my spiritual director, in the evening when I talked to him, he said to me, “God bless you, Marija, for everything that you do.” And then I said to him, “God bless you even more.” And then we started laughing. Me on this side, and he on his side of the phone. And we started our conversation, but the joy remained. And that joy is spread around every single day. Through Medjugorje, we see all that. All of you who have been to Medjugorje, you know that Medjugorje is not a huge city, it is not a big city, it is not very attractive. We don’t have anything like you have right now, right now. We don’t have churches this big. We don’t have big towers, big buildings. Nothing. We only have a lot of big rocks. And so many rocks that for trees it is hard to grow. But, Our Lady has chosen this land. And this land, the land where Medjugorje is, is Our Lady’s land. And Our Lady attracts so many pilgrims, so many people – even those who do not believe, who are hungry for God – to firm up their faith. And with the joy to meet with the Blessed Virgin Mary. In a special way, I would like to say, really, from the bottom of my heart, it’s a joy for me to be here. Because Medjugorje is here as well. Through Ivan, Loreen, Father Michael, and all of you who have been to Medjugorje before. And I think that each and every one of you feel the same; a little nostalgia to come back to Medjugorje very soon. Myself, as well, when I go out from Medjugorje, after a few days – even if I’m going on a holiday – I want to go back. Not because there’s my house, my home, my family; it’s because it’s a big heart there. It’s the Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Heart of Mary that loves; that calls each and every one of us, “Come back to God. There is no future, dear children, without God. There is no eternal life.” And Our Lady showed us. She shows us Heaven, Purgatory and Hell. One day, she took Jakov and Vicka and told them, “I will bring you to Heaven, Hell and Purgatory.” And Jakov said, “Dear Mother, take Vicka. She has seven more siblings. I’m on my own.” And Our Lady smiled, and she took both of them. She showed them Heaven, Hell and Purgatory. And she said to them, “You are the ones who are going to make a decision for Heaven, for Hell or for Purgatory.” And I always say, we need to make a decision. I decide for Heaven. For holiness; for the holiness of my life. For me to my family, and I want to be a blessing for all of those people that I meet. Because I know when I was born, God created me – me, just me – the way I am, the one who is not going to be replaceable. Unique. I am not perfect. I am not perfect, but I want to look like Our Lady. I want to be a little Our Lady, if it is possible. To be her sign, the sign of love for all the people that I meet. I want to invite all of you, through this, my little testimony, when you go back to your homes, to know that we are all very, very important in this project – if I may say it like this – that God has for all of us. Just imagine, when you go to Lourdes, to the house of St. Bernadette, and she’s not there. In Medjugorje, you can meet us. We are alive. We are still witnesses. And we are still holding the Torch of Freedom and the Love of God. Because God has chosen Our Lady, and He sent her among us to tell us that we are important. And she wants to take us towards Eternal Life. We are important to her, and that’s why she is with us. That’s why she leads us to her Son, Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. May the Almighty God bless you all, and in a special way, Our Blessed Virgin Mary, with her Motherly Blessing; and may she protect all of you with her veil. May tomorrow be the day – as Our Lady said once, when Father Slavko died, who was our spiritual director – Our Lady has said in her message that, “Your Brother Slavko is born into Heaven, and he intercedes for all of you.” And that means that we will never die, if we are born. With our baptism, we are born for Eternal Life. And I hope that we will meet each other there. And to praise the Lord. And His Holy Mother, and Our Mother, and all the angels, and all the saints, and all the martyrs, and all of those people who left before us. And to say, God permitted us to be the witnesses of His Love. Amen. I’m going to say a prayer, all together we will pray. There’s a tradition when Our Lady asked to pray the prayer of healing. I am going to ask Father Michael and if there is another priest, to extend your hands and to pray for all of us. What is gone, what is past, that is gone, we cannot change it. But what is future, we can change. Tonight, Our Lady prayed over us. She looked upon all of us. And Our Lady still gives us messages, and she says, “Dear children,” and at the end of every message, she said, “Thank you for having responded to my call.” Let’s pray to Our Blessed Virgin Mary to give us the strength that we can change our life. What is passed, and what has happened, we cannot change. But we can start a new, holier life with the blessing of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and with Our Lord’s blessing, to begin a new life; a life of holiness. Hail Mary… Hail Mary… Hail Mary… Our Lady, Queen of Peace Kralijce Mira, Regina della Pace, Pray for us. Fr. Michael: Father in Heaven, we pray in a special way through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Her Immaculate Heart to pour down into each one of our hearts all of the graces and the blessings of heaven that we might live all of the beautiful words that we just heard. We ask you, Jesus, to help us begin anew. And so we ask of you a blessing, in the name of Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Fr. Michael gives his own personal Medjugorje testimony in Fruit of Medjugorje #571 at Mary TV.tv https://video.marytv.tv/watch/mcwmVgspAty?ctx=K4kyiJ50sir%2C9PIw6LzMsiy
