Daily Reflections
by Cathy

April 19, 2021 Reflection – “This is the work of God…”

“Doing the work of God!”

April 19, 2021

Dear Family of Mary!

This is the Gospel for today! Jesus teaches us what not to do when we see a miracle!!

[After Jesus had fed the five thousand men, his disciples saw him walking on the sea.] The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left. Other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten the bread when the Lord gave thanks. When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when they found him across the sea they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal.” So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.” (John 6:22-29)

The huge crowd of people who had been fed with only a few loaves and fishes were very excited to discover where Jesus went during the night. They knew he didn’t get in the boat with the apostles. They were watching carefully for Jesus. But when they realized he wasn’t there, they decided to cross the water to find the apostles and figure this out!

They suspected that Jesus was up to something, maybe another miracle. When they got to the other side and found Jesus, they began to question Him on how He got there. But Jesus was not about to play games with them. “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.” The people were thinking only about temporal realities, food! Jesus was not doing miracles for temporal power. He was trying to heal their souls and turn their eyes towards eternity.

“Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you!” Jesus was trying to get them to see the real food they needed, the food of salvation and eternal life. How often do we work for food that perishes? It is so easy to only think of our life in terms of this world. So they ask again, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?”

“This is the work of God, that you believe in the one He sent.”

Our job is very simple. We must stop trying to figure out how Jesus does what He does. We must set aside our hope for temporal power. Jesus is not with us to make us rich in this world. He is with us to give us eternal life with Him in Heaven. And our only task is to believe in Him, with all our might. To believe that the Father has sent Him to us to give us eternal life.

Believe in the one He sent! Never stop believing in Jesus. Stand in that belief! It will take all our strength in these days to hold on to our belief! Work at it!! Work!!! Believe!!

Our Lady told us:

“Dear children, today, on this day of grace, in a special way I am calling you to open your hearts and to implore Jesus to strengthen your faith. Children, through prayer with the heart, faith and works you will come to know what it means to live a sincere Christian life. Often times, children, darkness, pain and crosses overwhelm your hearts. Do not waver in faith and ask ‘why’ because you think that you are alone and abandoned. Instead, open your hearts, pray and believe firmly and then your heart will feel God’s nearness and that God never abandons you – that He is beside you at every moment. Through prayer and faith, God will answer your every ‘why’ and transform your every pain, darkness and cross into light. Thank you.” (December 25, 2019, Jakov)

Our Lady is our best example of doing the work of God. She never wavered in her belief, never once. We see her greatest act of faith under the cross of her Son. She will help us to do the work of God in our lives. She will strengthen our faith when we need her help. Now, as never before, God needs believers here on earth. Our job is to believe for all those who do not believe. Let’s do the work of God!

In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan

©Mary TV 2021

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Pope St. John Paul II – February 24, 1990

“Dear children, my real, living presence among you should make you happy because this is the great love of my Son. He is sending me among you so that, with a motherly love, I may grant you safety!”

Our Lady of Medjugorje – July 2, 2016

“Rejoice, little children, because God is merciful and loves you all with His immeasurable love and leads you to the way of salvation through my coming here!”

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“My Son promised me that evil will never win, because you, the souls of the just, are here!”

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Our Lady Speaks

Vicka's Note MaryTV

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!“

Our Lady Gives A Sign…

Mary_with_Sun

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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