Live fasting with an open heart.
January 19, 2026
Dear Family of Mary!
As we move forward in the New Year, I feel strongly we need to get back to basics. One of those basics is fasting. Our Lady has excouraged us to fast from the very beginning of her apparitions in Medjugorje. She emphasizes that fasting is an integral part of our Christian life! Fasting empowers our prayers. Fasting helps us to face our own sinfulness and change our lives. Fasting helps us to grow in humility and love.
But fasting is not easy. We each need to prayerfully introduce fasting according to our situations. But it is very important to commit to fasting, no matter what, because Our Lady advises it!
Here are some messages in which She calls us to fast. Maybe her words will help us to begin to fast anew, or to conitnue to fast as we have been!! Many miracles await us if we fast.
July 25, 1991 “Dear Children! Today I invite you to pray for peace. At this time peace is being threatened in a special way, and I am seeking from you to renew fasting and prayer in your families. Dear children, I desire you to grasp the seriousness of the situation and that much of what will happen depends on your prayers and you are praying a little bit. Dear children, I am with you and I am inviting you to begin to pray and fast seriously as in the first days of my coming. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
March 25, 1998 “Dear children! Also today I call you to fasting and renunciation. Little children, renounce that which hinders you from being closer to Jesus. In a special way I call you: Pray, because only through prayer will you be able to overcome your will and discover the will of God even in the smallest things. By your daily life, little children, you will become an example and witness that you live for Jesus or against Him and His will. Little children, I desire that you become apostles of love. By loving, little children, it will be recognized that you are mine. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
January 25, 2001 “Dear children! Today I call you to renew prayer and fasting with even greater enthusiasm until prayer becomes a joy for you. Little children, the one who prays is not afraid of the future and the one who fasts is not afraid of evil. Once again, I repeat to you: only through prayer and fasting also wars can be stopped – wars of your unbelief and fear for the future. I am with you and am teaching you little children: your peace and hope are in God. That is why draw closer to God and put Him in the first place in your life. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
July 25, 2005 “Dear children! Also today, I call you to fill your day with short and ardent prayers. When you pray, your heart is open and God loves you with a special love and gives you special graces. Therefore, make good use of this time of grace and devote it to God more than ever up to now. Do novenas of fasting and renunciation so that satan be far from you and grace be around you. I am near you and intercede before God for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
March 25, 2007 “Dear children! I desire to thank you from my heart for your Lenten renunciations. I desire to inspire you to continue to live fasting with an open heart. By fasting and renunciation, little children, you will be stronger in faith. In God you will find true peace through daily prayer. I am with you and I am not tired. I desire to take you all with me to Heaven, therefore, decide daily for holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Thank you for responding to this call from Our Lady. Our world today is filled with tensions and confrontations. Our fasting can help avert wars and bring peace. Let’s join together and fast!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
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