Author: Cathy Nolan

(c) Mary TV September 11, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! We in the United States remember with great sorrow, the attack on our country on September 11, 2001.  Please pray for continued healing, and peace in our land. This week Our Lady has impressed on us the importance of Light!  As the darkness grows all around us, we are drawn to the Light of God.  I want to share a very encouraging email I received yesterday from Kristy, our shipmate from Colorado.  She shares her insights into the Light that comes from God and which brings life!  I believe that Our Lady is giving us encouragement to continue to live the life she has called us to, and not to give up now.  Something good is coming! Kristy wrote: Hello. I had the privilege to join Michael’s Rosary on Monday. Your son Michael is so filled with the Holy Spirit. I have also been pondering this darkness covering the earth Cathy has been writing about…these little lights of mercy. On Monday, I was inspired by Mike’s imagery of floating in water (in the womb of Mary) as we were praying the Rosary and the renewal of our hearts. As we prayed, I had an image of floating in the sea and a vision of the Holy Spirit over the water in the beginning of Genesis. God said, “Let there be light” and Creation began. I kept moving from this moment of Creation to the Annunciation. This beautiful parallel of the beginning of Genesis and the Annunciation in Luke kept coming to mind. The name Mary means “sea”, so when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her…and she said…”Be it done to me according to thy word”…and the word was made flesh, it parallels the beginning of Creation in Genesis. This moment in the Annunciation was the beginning of a New Creation. The moment “the Light” became flesh and dwelt among. It is such a powerful moment. Since our Rosary on Monday, the Holy Spirit keeps prompting me to say the Angelus throughout the day. And, also to pray the words “Let there be light.” Christ truly wants to make all things new. (And, yes usually by lunch we are going downhill, so we need to say the Angelus again) Every time we say these words of Mary, we are renewed…especially our hearts…light comes. But I also sense a real longing from the Lord…to renew the face of the earth…to renew the hearts of all of us. He is longing to renew His creation. He wants His Kingdom here on earth…maybe Parousia is coming soon. I don’t know. But I sense this overwhelming longing from the Lord to make all things new. So, let’s say the Angelus more. We need this renewal throughout the day. “Let there be light.” Bring more light into this darkness. God Bless, Kristy The images that Kristy received are very powerful!  The idea that the Lord wants so badly to renew His Creation really touches my heart.  God loves His Creatures.  As Our Lady said on March 25, 2003: “Dear children! Also, today I call you to pray for peace. Pray with the heart, little children, and do not lose hope because God loves His creatures. He desires to save you, one by one, through my coming here…” One by one, we can receive the life-giving light of God in our hearts and spread it to others. I believe that praying the Angelus Prayers often throughout the day is a very good idea.  I will share the prayer with you here, so you have it at hand! It is easy to memorize.  Let’s call down the Light that we so very desperately need and be renewed. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 The Angelus: The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary:  And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. Hail Mary, full of grace… Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy word. Hail Mary, full of grace… And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us. Hail Mary, full of grace… Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord.  Amen.      

(c) Mary TV September 10, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady has given so many messages. They are always powerful at the time they are given. But they also can grow in power and meaning over time. Often a phrase or sentence will pass us by. We will even forget it, until God brings it back into focus and shows us what Our Lady is saying. Her words are inspired by Jesus and the Holy Spirit. She speaks for our salvation! After I had the waking dream of the little lights at ground level illuminating the darkness of the world above, I began to see that Our Lady had mentioned this image of being little lights several times over the years. I always liked the idea but didn’t think much about it. Now in these days, as the world grows ever darker all around us, I see those messages with new appreciation. Here is one such message: June 02, 2017: “Dear children, as in the other places where I have come to you, also here I am calling you to prayer. (Our Lady makes the connection of her apparitions in Medjugorje with her other apparition sites, without naming them. We think of Lourdes, Fatima, Guadalupe… and we know that she always called her children first and foremost to pray.) Pray for those who do not know my Son, for those who have not come to know the love of God, against sin, for the consecrated – for those whom my Son called to have love and the spirit of strength for you, for the Church. (Our Lady asks for intercession for those who do not believe! To pray against sin in the world – which is spiritual warfare! To pray for priests and religious – those who need our intercession because they are so important for all of us, the Church!) Pray to my Son, and the love which you experience from His nearness will give you the strength to make you ready for the works of love, which you will do in His name. (She calls us to pray with the heart to Jesus. In prayer with the heart we can receive the love that Jesus has for us, a love that changes everything. In that love we can do great works!) My children, be ready. This time is a turning point. (Our Lady told us in June of 2017 that it was at that time a turning point. We needed to be ready. Today, as we see the world descending into chaos, we realize that she was right. Over the past three years, the battle has intensified, and we are right in the middle of it all. But how can we ready?) That is why I am calling you anew to faith and hope. (We must ask for the grace of faith and hope, both theological virtues. They make us ready for battle. We believe in Jesus with all our hearts, and we see that salvation is possible by our hope. Then we are equipped to move forward in the battle for souls.) I am showing you the way by which you need to go, and those are the words of the Gospel. (The words of the Gospel hold everything we need to move forward in faith and hope, and love!) Apostles of my love, the world is in such need of your arms raised towards Heaven, towards my Son, towards the Heavenly Father. (We must raise our arms in praise and petition to Jesus and the Father. We must desire God above all else, with every part of our being. Such prayer brings down the Holy Spirit. Such prayer changes us and makes us free and whole. Such prayer equips us to shine!) Much humility and purity of heart are needed. Have trust in my Son and know that you can always be better. (Humility and purity of heart make us little. When we are humble, we a free. We are surrendered to Jesus and know that all is in His hands. We are not blinded by our own importance. In fact we don’t even think of ourselves. That is how we can walk with the Lord in trust and constant conversion of heart.) My motherly heart desires for you, apostles of my love, to be little lights of the world, to illuminate there where darkness wants to begin to reign, to show the true way by your prayer and love, to save souls. I am with you. Thank you.” (Then she tells us exactly what we are called to do. “Be little lights of the world!” Where the darkness engulfs souls, we must, through our humility and purity, shine with the light of faith. We must shine with the truth and help others to find the way of truth through prayer and love. We must save souls from the darkness of atheism and despair. And we can do this if we stay close to our Mother and shine with her love!) We may not think that our little lives have much meaning, but when we live them without fear in a dark place, the light will do its job. And the more of us who gather, the more the light will grow! This is how we can save souls. Little lights shining in their littleness without fear in a world that needs hope. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020    

(c) Mary TV September 9, 2020 St. Peter Claver, Priest Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady says this is a time of grace, often. We all know that she is the grace! She’s the one with the grace! Her presence! But we have also learned that she is not only the Queen of Peace in Medjugorje, but also Queen of Divine Mercy! With all of that in mind, I want to share a “waking” dream that I had the other night. I couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night and I was not peaceful. It just seemed like everything was so dark. I think I was thinking about the turmoil in the world and the governments and the powers that be, atheistic communism and all the rest. And all of a sudden, I had this deep feeling or sense about the possibility of having a world without mercy. A world without mercy. Atheism spawns a world view with no mercy. And the horror of the thought that there could be a place, or a time, or a world where there was no mercy, was terrifying. No mercy ever again. It just overcame all of my being. I felt terror at this thought. And that made me realize how much I take the mercy that surrounds me for granted.  Every day I am shown mercy in many, many ways. So many I can’t count them. I am used to it. I’m used to it because I am a Catholic. I live in the sacraments – Baptism, Confession, Eucharist, Anointing of the Sick, etc! All of that is just Mercy flooding upon me. Also, because I have the Sacrament of Matrimony, we have Mercy flowing through our family and our relationships. But I was in danger of taking all that for granted. Instead I was looking for mercy from governments. It doesn’t matter who is in the government. They can’t be the main source of mercy in my life. Anyway, I was thinking all that and I realized that I should not take the Mercy that flows through my life for granted. And at that moment I saw as it were, a dark, dark, dark land, as if the whole world was dark. And it looked like there was no mercy in the entire world. But then I saw tiny lights, down at ground level, in the lowest levels of society, all these lights which were tiny, insignificant (in that no one would notice them) works of mercy going on between people. And I realized that that was the avenue through which Mercy would triumph. It would be coming from the bottom up, not from the top down. And that Mercy was much stronger than it looked like. Now let’s hear from St. Faustina, as she was given the job of declaring this Time of Mercy from the Lord, making it clear that He was with us to bless us, forgive us, and draw us into His merciful Heart: God’s floodgates have been opened for us. Let us want to take advantage of them before the day of God’s justice arrives. And that will be a dreadful day! When once I asked the Lord Jesus how He could tolerate so many sins and crimes and not punish them, the Lord answered me, I have eternity for punishing [these], and so I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of [sinners]. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation. My daughter, secretary of My mercy, your duty is not only to write about and proclaim My mercy, but also to beg for this grace for them, so that they too may glorify My mercy.  (Diary, 1159-1160) This is what St. Faustina had so deep in her heart, the need for Divine Mercy, for all the people around her and in all the world. And it was her job to beg for that mercy for them. She wrote just before these words: A member of this group ought to perform at least one act of mercy a day; at least one, but there can be many more, for such deeds can easily be carried out by anyone, even the very poorest. For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray – that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis, we shall receive the eternal verdict. (Diary, 1158) Really, we can measure our lives in terms of mercy. Where and when are we living mercy? How are we living it? How are we giving it? How are we accepting it? Are we going to confession, where we receive the tremendous Mercy of Jesus? So I guess I just wanted to encourage all of us right now, when in some of our countries we have elections coming and there is great turmoil in the midst of our political lives, and in other countries there is terrible persecution going on, not to mention horrible poverty. But in all of that, we should take confidence in the smallest act of mercy we do and that others can do around the world, that those acts of mercy will change the world. The acts, the prayers, and words of mercy, they are powerful. And they come through us little guys, us little guys, the little lights at the bottom of society. Let’s take great confidence in that. We are on the right track, we little guys, praying for mercy constantly. Praying for mercy. Praying for mercy all the time. And living mercy and trusting in mercy and knowing that Our Lady is the Queen of Divine Mercy, Queen of Peace. As much as that experience of a world with no mercy scared me half to death, it also brought life back into me by the tremendous understanding of the gift of Mercy that has been poured out and will continue to be poured out from Jesus through little souls throughout the world, who are fed by Jesus in the Eucharist and strengthened by Our Lady. I want to end with this message from Our Lady through Mirjana – April 2, 2017. Please read it attentively and prayerfully. Her message explains exactly what I had the waking dream about. But she says it better. She does want us to be her “little lights of the world”: “Dear children, apostles of my love, it is up to you to spread the love of my Son to all those who have not come to know it; you, the little lights of the world, whom I am teaching with motherly love to shine clearly with full brilliance. Prayer will help you, because prayer saves you, prayer saves the world. Therefore, my children, pray with words, feelings, merciful love and sacrifice. My Son has shown you the way – He who became incarnate and made of me the first chalice, with His exalted sacrifice He has shown you how you need to love. Therefore, my children, do not be afraid to speak the truth. Do not be afraid to change yourself and the world by spreading love, by doing everything for my Son to be known and loved by loving others in Him. As a mother, I am always with you. I am imploring my Son to help you for love to reign in your life – love that lives, love that draws, love which gives life. I am teaching you such love – pure love. It is up to you, my apostles, to recognize it, live it and spread it. Pray with feeling for your shepherds so that they can witness my Son with love. Thank you.” (April 02, 2017) “You, the little lights of the world, whom I am teaching with motherly love to shine clearly with full brilliance.” That is what I saw in my waking dream. Those little lights at the bottom of society, so fearlessly shining with full brilliance! We must be those lights in this day. Our Lady has come to show us the way. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

(c) Mary TV September 8, 2020 The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dear Family of Mary! Today we celebrate the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary!  The Church honors Our Lady on her birthday because she is Our Mother!!  She is The Mother!!  Children love to sing the praises of their mother!  How much more should we praise and thank our Heavenly Mother! With complete joy!!! Our Lady told us how much she loves us and shared these beautiful desires of her heart: “Dear children! Today I call you to prayer. I am with you and I love you all. I am your Mother and I wish that your hearts be similar to my heart. Little children, without prayer you cannot live and say that you are mine. Prayer is joy. Prayer is what the human heart desires. Therefore, get closer, little children, to my Immaculate Heart and you will discover God. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (November 25, 1994) Our Mother wants us to get closer to her Immaculate Heart, so that we can discover God!  She wants our hearts to be similar to her heart because she loves us so much and wants us to share in her heavenly joy!  She is truly our Mother!! Here is a hymn of joy and wonder that Saint Anselm wrote about the wonders of Our Lady.  We can let Anselm’s words of joy sing through our hearts as we ponder the mysteries of Our Lady!  This is a birthday to celebrate! From a sermon by Saint Anselm, bishop (Oratio 52: PL 158, 955-956) Virgin Mary, all nature is blessed by you Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night – everything that is subject to the power or use of man – rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it were, useless for men or for the praise of God, who made them. The world, contrary to its true destiny, was corrupted and tainted by the acts of men who served idols. Now all creation has been restored to life and rejoices that it is controlled and given splendor by men who believe in God. The universe rejoices with new and indefinable loveliness. Not only does it feel the unseen presence of God himself, its Creator, it sees him openly, working and making it holy. These great blessings spring from the blessed fruit of Mary’s womb. Through the fullness of the grace that was given you, dead things rejoice in their freedom, and those in heaven are glad to be made new. Through the Son who was the glorious fruit of your virgin womb, just souls who died before his life-giving death rejoice as they are freed from captivity, and the angels are glad at the restoration of their shattered domain. Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation receives new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator himself has been blessed by creation. To Mary God gave his only-begotten Son, whom he loved as himself. Through Mary God made himself a Son, not different but the same, by nature Son of God and Son of Mary. The whole universe was created by God, and God was born of Mary. God created all things, and Mary gave birth to God. The God who made all things gave himself form through Mary, and thus he made his own creation. He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary. God, then, is the Father of the created world and Mary the mother of the re-created world. God is the Father by whom all things were given life, and Mary the mother through whom all things were given new life. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Savior of the world. Without God’s Son, nothing could exist; without Mary’s Son, nothing could be redeemed. Truly the Lord is with you, to whom the Lord granted that all nature should owe as much to you as to himself. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020

  (c)Mary TV September 7, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! March 28, 1985 “Dear children! Today I wish to call you to pray, pray, pray! In prayer you shall perceive the greatest joy and the way out of every situation that has no exit. Thank you for starting up prayer. Each individual is dear to my heart. And I thank all who have urged prayer in their families. Thank you for having responded to my call.” One more word about “Pray, pray, pray!” Fr. Slavko wrote about the March 28, 1985 message in the Blue Book (Note that the English translation of the message here is a little different from the one we commonly reported today. The meaning is the same, but it gives us a fuller appreciation of what Our Lady was saying to us): On the 28th of March she said:  “Dear children! Today I ask you to pray, pray, pray. In prayer you will find a deeper joy and solution to every situation which seems insoluble.  I thank you because you have moved forward in prayer.  Every one of you brings joy to my heart.  I thank those who have encouraged prayer in their families.  I thank you for having answered my call.” One very important thing.  When she says: “Pray, and in prayer you will find a deeper joy and the solution to every difficult situation.” I think that you will all want to ask the question: What prayer?  How does one pray? Perhaps one just makes the Sign of the Cross and says a Hail Mary to someone at the margin of our lives?  Well, if one just says the Hail Mary or the Our Father sometimes, one cannot feel that deeper joy, but if we take time, if we listen, if we read, if we pray, then we shall feel that deeper joy.  Each one of us wants that joy, no one wants to throw it away.  We are all searching for it, it is characteristic of mankind. We must ask ourselves if we want the means to achieve this joy. Our Lady asks us to say the Creed and seven Our Fathers (Hail Marys and Glory Bes), to recite the whole Rosary, read the Bible, go to Confession and fast.  All this is an exercise of preparation for joy, for love, for peace, for reconciliation.  We must accept all the Our Lady asks as preparation of our hearts for what the Lord will give us.  (Blue Book, Fr. Slavko Barbaric. “Abandon Yourselves Totally to Me”.  P 114) “In prayer you shall perceive the greatest joy and the way out of every situation that has no exit.”  These words alone should capture our attention.  The greatest joy!!  Don’t we want it!  And the way out of every situation that has not exit!!  Don’t we need it!!!  Now more than ever the world seems to be descending into chaos.  We have been given the way out!  “Pray, pray, pray!” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020  

  (c)Mary TV Look for this video window in the Mary TV Video Library Consecration to Jesus through Mary! (c)Mary TV September 4, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! My invitation that you live the messages which I am giving you is a daily one, specially, little children, because I want to draw you closer to the Heart of Jesus. Therefore, little children, I am inviting you today to the prayer of consecration to Jesus, my dear Son, so that each of you may be His. And then I am inviting you to the consecration of my Immaculate Heart. I want you to consecrate yourselves as parents, as families and as parishioners so that all belong to God through my heart. Therefore, little children, pray that you comprehend the greatness of this message which I am giving you. I do not want anything for myself, rather all for the salvation of your soul. Satan is strong and therefore, you, little children, by constant prayer, press tightly against my motherly heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.” ( October 25, 1988) Today begins The 33 Day Consecration To Jesus Through Mary! Fr. Leon Pereira is leading the consecration prayer. He will post a video each day with the prayers for that day. There is no specific airing time, but rather we can go to the Mary TV Video Library on the Mary TV Website to view the daily video at a time that will work for each of us. The window is entitled: “Consecration to Jesus through Mary” and is found in the Special Programing section of our Mary TV Video Library. Here is the link: https://marytv.tv/consecration-to-jesus-through-mary/ We have posted the written Consecration Prayers underneath the video window which you can download as a PDF. We at Mary TV feel that this 33 Day Consecration to Jesus through Mary is very important! It will end on October 7, the Feast of the Holy Rosary. Let’s join together to pray with all our hearts. As Our Lady says in the October 25, 1988 message, “Satan is strong and therefore, you, little children, by constant prayer, press tightly against my motherly heart.” We want very much to pray constantly and remain pressed tightly against our Mother’s heart. We also want to bring the whole world with us into her embrace. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

  (c)Mary TV September 3, 2020 St. Gregory the Great, Pope, Doctor of the Church Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! This is a time of grace. I am with you and anew am calling you, little children: return to God and to prayer until prayer will be a joy for you. Little children, you do not have a future or peace until your life begins with a personal conversion and a change to the good. Evil will cease and peace will begin to reign in your hearts and in the world. Therefore, little children, pray, pray, pray. I am with you and intercede before my Son Jesus for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  (08/25/20) Therefore, little children, pray, pray, pray…. Our Lady has said this simple exhortation at least 73 times in her messages. She really means it! Here is a litany derived from some of Our Lady’s messages in which she has said: “Pray, pray, pray!”  May Our Lady’s words activate our hearts to desire prayer and to live prayer! A Litany of Prayer from Our Lady of Medjugorje Dear Mother, you have asked us to pray, pray, pray.  Increase our desire to pray! “Dear children, satan continues to hinder my plans. Pray, pray, pray! In prayer, abandon yourselves to God. Pray with the heart.” (08/09/84) (Mother, teach me to pray!) “Dear children! Sympathize with me! Pray, pray, pray!” (03/19/83) “Please, do not let my heart weep with tears of blood because of the souls who are lost in sin. Therefore, dear children, pray, pray, pray!” (05/24/84) “Now I just want to say pray, pray, pray! I don’t know what else to tell you because I love you and I want you to comprehend my love and God’s love through prayer.” (11/15/84) “Today I wish to call you to pray, pray, pray! In prayer you shall perceive the greatest joy and the way out of every situation that has no exit.” (03/28/85) “Little children, pray, pray, pray! Let prayers begin to rule in the whole world.”  (08/25/89) “I wish to teach you to pray with the heart. In prayer with the heart you shall encounter God. Therefore, little children, pray, pray, pray!”  (10/25/89) “Satan wishes to destroy everything that is holy in you and around you. This is why, little children, pray, pray, pray to be able to grasp all that God is giving you through my coming.” (09/25/92) “Today like never I call you to pray for peace, for peace in your hearts, peace in your families and peace in the whole world, because satan wants war, wants lack of peace, wants to destroy all which is good. Therefore, dear children, pray, pray, pray.”  (03/25/93) “My dear little children, pray, pray, pray and do that which the Holy Spirit inspires you.” (05/25/93) “I beg you: pray, pray, pray. Only through prayer can we defeat evil and protect all that satan wants to destroy in your lives.”  (02/25/94) “Little children, pray, pray, pray, because prayer is the foundation of your peace.” (06/25/97) “Pray, pray, pray and you will be able to accept others with love and to forgive all who have done evil to you.” (09/25/97) “Pray, pray, pray that your heart may open and be sensitive for the Word of God.”  (11/25/97) “With my Son Jesus, on this day I call you to pray, pray, pray, because without prayer you do not have joy or peace or a future.” (12/25/98) “This is a time of grace. That is why pray, pray, pray until you comprehend God’s love for each of you.” (02/25/01) “Little children, pray, pray, pray, because prayer works miracles in human hearts and in the world.” (10/25/01) “Pray, pray, pray and only in faith and through prayer your soul will find peace and the world will find joy to be with God.”  (09/25/02) God gave you a gift of this time as a time of grace. Therefore, little children, make good use of every moment and pray, pray, pray.  (08/25/05) “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.”  (11/25/06) “Little children, pray, pray, pray until prayer becomes a joy for you and your life will become a simple walk towards God.”  (02/25/13) “Pray, pray, pray until love and peace begin to reign in your hearts.” (03/25/13) “Pray, pray, pray for the radiance of your prayer to have an influence on those whom you meet.” (01/25/14) “Little children, pray, pray, pray and in prayer you will discover the wisdom of living.”  (06/25/14) Dear Mother Mary, you have told us: “My children, pray, pray, pray. Remember that the most important thing in our lives is prayer.”  (12/27/1983) We are beginning to understand your words.  We long to pray with our hearts, to pray always, to pray with love and hope, to pray with perseverance.  We want to help you through our prayers.  Please increase our desire to pray and give us the strength to pray.  We say yes to your call to pray, pray, pray! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

  (c)Mary TV September 2, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “…Little children, you do not have a future or peace until your life begins with a personal conversion and a change to the good. Evil will cease and peace will begin to reign in your hearts and in the world…” (August 25, 2020) Fr. Slavko spoke about personal conversion in a commentary on Our Lady’s messages from April 27, 1985.  It is timeless! Fr. Slavko Barbaric: The last message was one which will keep us hard at work all our lives: “Cultivate and change your hearts so that the new Spirit of God can dwell there.”  A job for life.  This is another word for conversion, also love, but above all conversion. Root out every evil from our hearts.  This is what Our Lady asks. You know how in a garden flowers and plants should be cultivated if we want the fruits; with patience and ever more patience.  If a plant is closed and does not open to the sun it cannot bear fruit.  If you don’t put your heart into working in a garden and don’t make the effort to pull out the weeds that choke the plants, you will have no fruit in Autumn.  To have fruit, a good gardener will even have to take a knife sometimes and in any case will have to do some very radical work and not leave even the smallest root of any weed that chokes the fruit-bearing plants. And so one must not work superficially but deep down gradually changing our lives, our behavior, our prayers, everything.  This is the way to walk with Our Lady along the road to peace for all mankind.  We know that every man wants peace, wants to be loved, but those who are unwilling to take up the means of achieving peace are so many. To want water and not want to go to the spring is illogical. If Our lady asks us all to cultivate our hearts as we cultivate our fields; then don’t wait!  If you begin, the words of St. Paul are for everyone: “The Lord gives, after all, rain and everything needed for growth.” (CF – 1Cor3:7) (Fr. Slavko Barbaric – April 27, 1985 – St. James, Medjugorje – from the Blue Book  entitled Abandon Yourselves Totally to Me, 1985)) Fr. Slavko is right!  Conversion is a life-time project, only completed when we enter eternal life!  The garden of our soul needs constant tending, if it is to bear fruit.  We can’t slack off.  The enemy is always sowing seeds of doubt, seeds of dissatisfaction, seeds of fear or selfishness.  Those seeds need to be plucked up and thrown out of our hearts.  In this way, peace will be preserved and will grow all around us.  It isn’t that we are preoccupied with ourselves, but that we are vigilant.  Daily prayer and examination of conscience and frequent confession will do the trick!  We want to be those who build a world of peace.  Conversion is a daily task, a necessity!! Thank you, dearest Mother, for teaching us how to grow peace in our hearts through conversion! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020      

  (c)Mary TV September 1, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! This is a time of grace. I am with you and anew am calling you, little children: return to God and to prayer until prayer will be a joy for you…” (August 25, 2020) Our Lady told us in this message that she is calling us to return to God and to prayer until prayer will be a joy for us!  So much depends on our prayer.  We have no idea how much!  I want to share a teaching from Fr. Slavko Barbaric, given in 1985.  Way back then!!  He speaks about prayer as the sign of our abandonment to God: When the Blessed Virgin tells us that we must pray, this is nothing new!  She has repeated this invitation to prayer many times, almost in every message and more especially to Jelena.  But there is something else very important and that is, that after Easter she invited us twice to pray with our heart.  In one of these messages she said: “I again invite you to pray with your hearts” and it is the same thing when she says; “May your prayer be a sign of your abandonment to God.”  Prayer should be an encounter with the Lord. We get upset if, when we talk to someone, they become distracted and do not listen.  I am sure that you also stop speaking to somebody when you realize that they are not interested. It is the same during prayer.  During prayer, the Lord wants to talk to us as He did with the two disciples of Emmaus, but if we are distracted and do not pray with our heart, nothing can happen.  To abandon oneself and to pray with one’s heart is the same thing. In these messages Our Lady has also mentioned one of our problems, “Your hearts are still taken up by earthly things and they worry you.”  This is true.  We cannot pray if many things worry us.  For example, when one studies, if you are a little bit concerned about your exams, you can study well, but if you are very much afraid, you are completely seized with fear of the exams and cannot study.  You cannot study because both your mind and your heart are distressed. If there are trials and events that worry us so much, we are unable to pray with our heart.  And so, Our Lady invites us to be converted to prayer and to fasting.  One frees the heart by fasting.  I have much evidence of people who tell me, “When I fast, I can pray better, it is easier, and I can pray more deeply.”  Therefore, if we want to follow the messages, to pray with the heart and to have the joy that prayer can offer us, then we see that we have to fast in order to be able to abandon ourselves to God. In this message, Our Lady said, “I know that you are tired”, and she goes on to tell us the reason why: “because you do not know how to abandon yourselves to me.”  She said in a message after Easter, “I invite you to prayer.  Pray and you will overcome all tiredness.”  I think that you can interpret this as meaning also physical tiredness.  For all of us, prayer should be a living encounter with the Lord, with Jesus Christ.  He said: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Mt 11:28) One can, therefore, also understand this message in a physical sense, we can also rest in prayer. All those who say “what is the sense of living, of suffering” are tired.  This is tiredness, and this message shows us that we can overcome it by prayer.  From experience here, I can tell you, many who have begun to pray have been able to be reconciled with themselves, to find the meaning of life, of suffering and of everything else. If we want to solve all our problems we must pray.  In fact, before Easter Our Lady said in a message: “Pray and you will find the greatest joy and the solution to all, even the most difficult situations.”  Marija said that our Lady has asked the prayer group to offer up to her every Wednesday, even the smallest thing, every difficulty, offer everything to her for her intention.  Marija said that when we did this, offered everything for her intention, we immediately felt that our Blessed Lady had already taken these things and had offered them up to Jesus.  We must offer everything to Our Lady including our sufferings, even our distress, our worries, our fears, everything, and then with prayer and fasting we will succeed more and more every day in this total abandonment.  (Fr. Slavko Barbaric, June 14, 1985 – from the Blue Book – “Abandon Yourselves Totally to Me”) Fr. Slavko’s words are as powerful and applicable to our time as they were in 1985.  We are tired, and distracted, and possibly we are struggling to abandon ourselves to God even today.  Our world is in turmoil.  But the answer for us is not to internalize that turmoil and worry ourselves into despair.  The answer is the same answer Our Lady gave in 1985, we must “return to God and to prayer until prayer become a joy for us!” Fr. Slavko, pray for us! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 The Fall/Winter/Spring Schedule of prayer in Medjugorje MONDAY-SATURDAY 3:00 – 4:00 pm -Hour of Mercy / Silent Adoration 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Daily Rosary 5:00 – 6:00 pm – Parish Rosary 6:00 – 7:00 pm – International Evening Mass 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Healing prayer/ Rosary/ Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament or Veneration of the Cross SUNDAY 2:00 – 3:00 pm – Podbrdo Rosary (Parish climbs Apparition Hill) 3:00 – 3:30 pm – Hour of Mercy 3:30 – 4:00 pm – Pre-recorded (Adoration not available on Sunday) 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Daily Rosary 5:00 – 8:30 pm – Evening Program – Rosary, Mass and Prayers