“Remember the marvels the Lord has done!” PS 105
After watching the following 6-minute clip of the Notre Dame – UCLA basketball game, Dr. Paul Gill, who manages the blog for Notre Dame’s 1970 graduating class, asked me: “How did things work out between you and Cathy?”
https://video.marytv.tv/watch/mO9QNhsgFvm?ctx=S4y8Dhn1sOD%2CiorX6DUsA0r
“Great,” I replied! “Cathy and I (formerly Cathy Coscarelli of St. Mary’s) have 12 children (4 in heaven through miscarriages), 34 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren. We’ve lived in the same house for the past 50 years, just two blocks from Notre Dame. And we’re presently building our second TV station in Medjugorje… Cathy and I pray the rosary every day (LIVE at 10:00am EST) with people on six continents. You can catch us at: www.MaryTV.tv”
Paul then kindly suggested, “Why don’t you write a story about Medjugorje and MaryTV for the blog?”
Nothing gives me greater joy! And I’ll throw in connections with Notre Dame.
When Fr. John S. Dunne, CSC, the senior professor in the Theology Department at Notre Dame, was awarded a Chair at the university, the first thing he did with the money that came with it was to pay the way for Cathy and me to join him in making a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.
Students from Notre Dame and St. Mary’s would come to our house to pray the rosary every Wednesday night. Once, after the rosary, a student asked me, “Mr. Nolan, would you like an email address?” “Sure!” (I barely knew what email was.) He gave me an email titled Mary1@nd. edu !! It doesn’t work anymore!!
The internet was new. The administration and faculty had to rely on students. “Hey, Mr. Nolan, do you want a web page?” And for years, if you opened Notre Dame’s web page, four areas came up: “Academics,” “Spiritual Life,” “Athletics,” and “Social Life.” And if you clicked on “Spiritual Life,” two windows appeared: “Knights of the Immaculata” and “Children of Mary” which announced that every Wednesday at 7:00 pm Notre Dame vans would be waiting at the circle to bring students to the Nolan’s house to pray the rosary.
I remember one evening after praying a student told me he was so grateful to Our Lady of Medjugorje for changing his life he wanted to start a new club on campus: “Children of Mary.” At the beginning of the following semester, when students were signing up to join different clubs, he put a picture of Our Lady of Medjugorje on a card table in Stephen Center with a sign inviting students to join in praying the rosary. Two hundred students signed up that day! “Children of Mary” would later become (for several years) the largest student club on campus. Tables in the dining halls sported little “table tops” with Our Lady’s latest message. “Children of Mary” also started up Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on campus.
The club sponsored a television program I was producing, “Medjugorje, Our Mother’s Last Call” every Sunday at 8:00pm in the Rathskeller on campus.
For 25 years Notre Dame hosted the National Conference on Medjugorje.
After his pilgrimage to Medjugorje, Notre Dame Football coach Gerry Faust gave his personal testimony at the 1997 National Conference on Medjugorje at the University of Notre Dame.
Digger Phelps had brought ND’s basketball team to Medjugorje in 1987. In early 1988 he and David Rivers, Joe Fredrick and Scott Paddock gave their personal testimonies to its authenticity in the Hesburgh Library Auditorium.
Lou Holtz, gave his testimony at the 1990 National Conference:
https://video.marytv.tv/watch/OdAVN2msiX6
During Spring Break in 2001, my wife Cathy and I brought a group of Notre Dame and St. Mary’s students, along with Chandra Johnson, the assistant to the president of Notre Dame, on pilgrimage to Medjugorje:
https://video.marytv.tv/watch/KFxYdescL5X
On February 24, 1990, Pope St. John Paul ll had given his own assessment: “Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!” After the May 13, 198l, assassination attempt on his life, he had prayed while being rushed to the hospital, “Mary come! Mother come!” She started coming the following month, appearing to six young Croatian children in the small village of Medjugorje in the former Yugoslavia. Three years later, on March 25, 1984, Pope John Paul ll would say, “Medjuguorje is the continuation and fulfillment of Fatima,” which Our Lady would later confirm in her messages.
The history of these events is fascinating… President Ronald Reagan attributed the peace accord he signed with President Gorbachev on December 8, 1987, to Our Lady of Medjugorje. The secretary to his cabinet, the honorable Alfred Kingon, gave testimony at the 1992 National Conference on Medjugorje at Notre Dame. President Reagan had Kingon dial the phone, the president wanted to personally thank the visionary in Medjugorje for having sent him messages Our Lady had been giving the world. After the phone call the president told Kingon, “Now I am going to this meeting with a whole new spirit!”
https://video.marytv.tv/watch/OdW4VtDsiXe
On September 19, 2024, the church officially gave the apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje the highest level of recognition possible: granting it a Nihil Obstat, declaring her apparitions in Medjugorje, “Worthy of Belief;” putting Medjugorje on the same level as Fatima and Lourdes.
Today, Our Lady of Medjugorje is continuing to come to the visionaries every day. She gives a message to the world on the 25th of every month. On September 25, 2025, she called:
“Dear children! May this time for you be a time of prayer for peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.” And she now gives her messages “with Ecclesiastical approval.” She’s told us, “This time is my time,” and, “The future is God’s!”
She’s said that these are her last apparitions on earth. Hans Urs Von Balthasar, the close friend of Pope Benedict XVI, warned, “There is only one danger alone for Medjugorje, that people will let it pass them by!” Pope Benedict had thanked me for having sent him Mary TV’s Mission Statement video; https://marytv.tv/mission-statement/, which documented that the future pope, when head of the CDF, had been sent by Pope St. John Paul ll to Medjugorje “to know the theological position.”
“Dear children! Today I call you to pray and fast for my intentions, because Satan wants to destroy my plan. Here I began with this parish and invited the entire world. Many have responded, but there is an enormous number of those who do not want to hear or accept my call. Therefore, you who have said ‘yes,’ be strong and resolute. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (August 25, 2011)
There is only one enmity ever established by God in salvation history, between Satan and Mary: “I will put enmity between you the woman, and between your seed and her seed,” (Genesis 3:15). That passage is fulfilled in the last book of the Bible, “Woe to you, O Earth and Sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath because he knows his time is short;” he is “waging war on the rest of her children.” (Revelations 12:12 and 12:17)
https://video.marytv.tv/watch/mUb0ZxsaC1J?ctx=S4y8Dhn1sOD%2CiorX6DUsA0r
“Here I began with this parish and invited the entire world.”
MaryTV’s Internet TV channel airs 24/7 and brings Our Lady’s presence in Medjugorje to the world!
Denis Nolan, ND ’70
