Day: July 31, 2025

Permit God to lead you as a shepherd leads his flock. August 1, 2025 St. Alphonsis Liguori Dear Family of Mary! It seems that in these times we need Jesus to guide us more than ever. As tensions rise in the world, and people grow anxious, like sheep without a shepherd, we must bring them the incredible peace and security that Jesus gives us as our Good Shepherd. He alone knows the way to peace. He alone knows the way to the Father. Our Lady longs for us to follow Jesus, our Good Shepherd: November 25, 2006 “Dear children! Also today I call you to pray, pray, pray. Little children, when you pray you are close to God and He gives you the desire for eternity. This is a time when you can speak more about God and do more for God. Therefore, little children, do not resist but permit Him to lead you, to change you and to enter into your life. Do not forget that you are travelers on the way toward eternity. Therefore, little children, permit God to lead you as a shepherd leads his flock. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Let’s permit Jesus to lead us, to change us and to enter into our lives! Let’s follow Him as sheep follow their shepherd. We will find peace! Our Lady gave Jelena this wonderful prayer to Jesus, our Shepherd: Consecration to the Heart of Jesus (Given by Our Lady to Jelena Vasilj, 11/28/1983) O Jesus, we know that You are sweet (Mt. 11:29). That you have given Your heart for us. It was crowned with thorns by our sins. We know that today You still pray for us so that we will not be lost. Jesus, remember us if we fall into sin. Through Your most Sacred Heart, make us all love one another. Cause hatred to disappear among men. Show us Your love. All of us love You. And we desire that you protect us with Your Heart of the Good Shepherd. Enter into each heart, Jesus! Knock on the door of our hearts. Be patient and tenacious with us. We are still locked up in ourselves, because we have not understood Your will. Knock continuously, Oh Jesus. Make our hearts open up to you, at least in reminding us of the passion which you suffered for us. Amen In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2025 PS. On Monday, August 4, the Youth Festival begins. I will send out the schedule in Monday’s reflection. But here is the link to the Parish Website with the schedule you can refer to: https://www.medjugorje.hr/UserFiles/images/2025/ProgramENG.pdf www.marytv.tv https://marytv.tv/donate/

Help us, Jesus our brother, to obtain the goodness of the Father! July 31, 2025 St. Ignatius of Loyola Dear Family of Mary! In our Gospel for today, Mt 13:47-53, Jesus talks about the end of the age! He gives us an image of the Kingdom of heaven. Here is an excerpt from the Gospel: Jesus said to the discipes: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth..”(Matthew 13:47-50) I have always thought this was a curious analogy for the final judgement. But it gets the point across. Not everyone will go to heaven. Our hearts need to be 100% for God. We can clean them out, little by little, but we should never get satisfied. We need undivided hearts, loving God above all things! Our Lady inspired Jelena to write down a prayer which we could pray for undivided hearts, and truly desire to love God alone! Here it is! I find it very beautiful. Petition to God (Given by Our Lady to Jelena Vasilj, 6/22/1985) Recite 3 Glory Be’s Oh God, our heart is in deep obscurity, in spite of our union to Your Heart. Our heart is struggling between You and satan; do not permit it to be in this manner! Every time that the heart is divided between good and evil, let it be enlightened by Your light and let it be unified. Never permit, for there to be able to exist in us two loves, that there can never co-exist in us two faiths, and that there can never co-exist in us; lying and sincerity, love and hatred, honesty and dishonesty, humility and pride. Help us on the contrary, so that our hearts may be elevated toward You just like that of a child. May our heart be ravished with peac and continue to always have the nostalgia of it. May Your Holy will and Your love find a permanent place in us, that at least sometimes we would really wish to be Your children and when, Oh Lord, we will desire to be Your children, remember our past desires and help us to receive You again. We open our hearts to you so that Your holy love will remain in us. We open our souls to you, so that they may be touched by Your holy mercy which will help us to see clearly all our sins, and will make us realize, that which makes us impure is sin. God, we want to be Your children, humble and devout, to the point of becoming your cherished and sincere children, such as only the Father would be able to desire that we be. Help us, Jesus our brother, to obtain the goodness of the Father in our regard, and to be good to Him. Help us Jesus, to understand well what God gives us, although sometimes we fail to perform a good act, as though it were for us an evil. Amen! This is a very good prayer to pray! Our Lady gave us the words to say!! She understands the challenges of our human nature. She is one of us in everything but sin by the special grace of God. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2025 www.marytv.tv https://marytv.tv/donate/