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by Cathy

Thanksgiving!

 

(c)Mateo Ivankovic 2017

 

J.M.J.

March 15, 2017

Dear Family of Mary!

November 25, 2016 “Dear children! Also today, I am calling you to return to prayer. In this time of grace, God has permitted me to lead you towards holiness and a simple life – that in little things you discover God the Creator; that you fall in love with Him; and that your life be a thanksgiving to the Most High for everything He is giving you. Little children, in love, may your life be a gift for others and God will bless you; but you, witness without interest – out of love for God. I am with you and intercede before my Son for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

There is something wonderful about this message, given at the beginning of Advent last year. Our Lady has a way of directing our thoughts to what is real, what is true, and what is right before our eyes, even though we aren’t seeing it.

She begins by calling us to “return to prayer.” How does she know that we have wandered away from prayer? She knows because she is with us! She also knows how easily we are distracted from what is important. Prayer is our lifeline with God. He cannot nourish us or guide us if we are not communicating with Him through prayer. And so Our Mother tells us to pray, like all mothers tell their children to eat!

But the next line somehow makes we want to sing:

In this time of grace, God has permitted me to lead you towards holiness and a simple life – that in little things you discover God the Creator; that you fall in love with Him; and that your life be a thanksgiving to the Most High for everything He is giving you.

God has allowed Our Lady to lead us to His life for us, the holy life. This is a simple life! Don’t we all desire simplicity? Doesn’t it sound wonderful? Yes, it does. The simple life is a life lived with our Papa. Like children, we can live each day with our Father in heaven who loves us to distraction. If we pray, we will discover Him everywhere! He is in the smallest bird, the biggest tree, the loudest thunderclap, the brightest star, the gentlest breeze. He has created everything, everything…just for us. How can we not fall in love with Him? How can we not learn to give thanks for each of these things? If we live our lives in prayerful awareness of the Creator, we will be able to thank Him continually, and be simply content.

Yesterday I made a trip to the store for birthday presents for two of my grandchildren. Little boys!! They only want dinosaurs! Well, that was fun shopping. And on my way home I noticed ahead of me on the road a hazy darkish cloud, close to the ground. I was driving in the sunshine, but there was this cloud thing ahead. As I entered the cloud, I realized it was a snow squall. Inside the cloud there was a glorious swirling snow storm, in miniature. It was not dangerous, but it was really snowing inside it. As I drove out of the other side, I found myself back in the bright sunshine, with snow all over my car. It felt like God was playing with that little snowstorm, and letting me play with him. It was God’s way of having a snowball fight with me!

Maybe this is what Our Lady is getting at when she tells us that in little things we can discover God the Creator and fall in love with Him!

Let’s play with God today, in the little things. I think He wants to play with us!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2017

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Vicka, one of the visionaries in Medjugorje, wrote the note (above) after Our Lady spoke with her during an apparition in Medjugorje in April, 1999, about Mary TV’s  plan to build a television facility in Medjugorje.

Vicka wrote to Denis: “Our Lady says that the plan is good – but you need to wait a little.  Now you can get prepared little by little, until Our Lady tells when the right moment is.  You don’t need to hurry, make haste, but to be patient.”

When Our Lady said this to Vicka, the technical genius in Medjugorje that she had her eyes upon, who would begin Mary TV’s live streaming from Medjugorje, was seven years old.

Totus Tuus (Totally Yours)

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.

Our Lady gave this prayer 25 years before She started appearing in Medjugorje. This prayer is being answered through Our Lady’s presence in Medjugorje and through Her messages. Mother Immaculata writes: “This is Mary’s hour and She is about to crush Satan’s head. Her very being is like incandescent heat in the center of the Trinity and the manifestation of Her power is growing daily. The Immaculate Conception prayer (which is what Our Lady called the prayer she gave me for union with Her) has been used by exorcists who have told me that the devil reacts violently to it and is subdued by it. We are praying daily for the success of Mary TV!“

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MARY TV was LIVE STREAMING Ivan’s May 24, 2013 apparition on Mt. Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) in Medjugorje. My wife, Cathy, was praying in front of her computer in the US, connected through the Internet, welcoming Our Lady along with everyone gathered on the mountain. She couldn’t see anything on her computer screen because it was late at night and Ivan had said, “No lights.” She found herself asking Our Lady for a sign – a little light – as a sign that MARY TV was on the right track and really serving her. Just after the apparition, when she went to give an account on Mary TV’s Facebook page, the page opened with this picture that she had never seen before, captioned: “MARY APPEARS OVER BUILDING IN MEDJUGORJE, PHOTO TAKEN BY PILGRIM.” Our Lady is standing directly over MARY TV’s studios, her feet right where we have two POV cameras STREAMING 24/7 LIVE TO THE WORLD Apparition Hill & Cross Mountain!

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