Author: Cathy Nolan

Remain in my love… May 19, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Here is the Gospel for today: Jesus said to his disciples: As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in His Love. I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.” (John 15: 9-11) This message from Our Lady seems to have been given to us just to explain this Gospel passage! Our Lady knows love!!! November 2, 2015 “Dear children, anew I desire to speak to you about love. I have gathered you around me in the name of my Son according to His will. I desire that your faith be firm, flowing forth from love. Because, those of my children who understand the love of my Son|and follow it, live in love and hope. They have come to know the love of God Therefore, my children, pray, pray so as to be able to love all the more and to do works of love. Because, faith alone without love and works of love is not what I am asking of you: my children, this is an illusion of faith. It is a boasting of self. My Son seeks faith and works, love and goodness. I am praying, and I am also asking you to pray, and to live love; because I desire that my Son, when He looks at the hearts of all of my children, can see love and goodness in them and not hatred and indifference. My children, apostles of my love, do not lose hope, do not lose strength. You can do this. I am encouraging and blessing you. Because all that is of this world, which many of my children, unfortunately, put in the first place, will disappear; and only love and works of love will remain and open the door of the Kingdom of Heaven. I will wait for you at this door. At this door, I desire to welcome and embrace all of my children. Thank you!” Wow!!! “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV Let’s pray the Litany to the Holy Name of Mary!

  Remain in me, as I remain in you… May 17, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Jesus told us to remain in Him. As a branch remains on a vine, we must remain connected to Jesus. It is necessary that we have a vital and life giving relationship with Jesus. In these days after the Resurrection and before the Ascension, Jesus is teaching us how to live in Him, to stay with Him, to love Him, to know Him, to be one with Him. Here is the Gospel for today: Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” (John 15:1-8) Our Lady teaches us how to remain in Jesus in this message: “Dear children! Today, little children, I invite you, through prayer, to be with Jesus, so that through a personal experience of prayer you may be able to discover the beauty of God’s creatures. You cannot speak or witness about prayer, if you do not pray. That is why, little children, in the silence of the heart, remain with Jesus, so that He may change and transform you with His love. This, little children, is a time of grace for you. Make good use of it for your personal conversion, because when you have God, you have everything. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (July 25, 1998) Thank you, dearest Mother, for teaching us to remain in Jesus!! Help us to grow in our attachment to the vine of life. Prune us so that we will grow well. Attach us to Jesus, through your Motherly teaching and guidance, so that we will not be thrown on the fire and burned. Help us to have silent hearts that have room only for Jesus. Teach us to pray, dearest Mother. Amen In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV Let’s pray the Litany to the Holy Name of Mary!

Every grace comes through prayer… May 17, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Prayer is the first stone in Our Lady’s program for us. And I would say it is the last stone as well. She cannot imagine our lives without prayer. It is impossible to live without prayer. She told us: “Dear children, you must understand that one has to pray. Prayer is no joke; prayer is a conversation with God. In every prayer you must listen to the voice of God. Without prayer one cannot live. Prayer is life.” (09/11/1984 – Jelena) Again she said: “My children, pray! I say again, pray, because prayer is indispensable to life.”(01/01/1984) Prayer is indispensable to life! Our Lady knows what prayer actually is. She lived by prayer every moment on earth. And now she is with us in our daily lives trying to guide us into that same living prayer! She told us: “Dear children! Today I invite you to respond to my call to prayer. I desire, dear children, that during this time you find a corner for personal prayer. I desire to lead you towards prayer with the heart. Only in this way will you comprehend that your life is empty without prayer. You will discover the meaning of your life when you discover God in prayer. That is why, little children, open the door of your heart and you will comprehend that prayer is joy without which you cannot live. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (July 25, 1997) Our Lady tells us that our lives are empty without prayer. I am sure we all know it! But still it is easy to let prayer slip. Denis discovered something that St. Faustina wrote about prayer that has really impressed us both. Here is what she wrote about prayer: “A soul arms itself by prayer for all sorts of combat. In whatever state the soul may be, it ought to pray. A soul which is pure and beautiful must pray, or else it will lose its beauty; a soul which is striving after this purity must pray, or else it will never attain it; a soul which is newly converted must pray, or else it will fall again; a sinful soul, plunged in sins, must pray so that it might rise again. There is no soul which is not bound to pray, for every single grace comes to the soul through prayer.” (Diary entry 146) Truly there is not one moment of our lives that does not require prayer. Not one situation, not one state of soul, not one joy or sorrow that does not need prayer. Only prayer can see us through to Heaven. As St. Faustina wrote: “Every single grace comes to the soul through prayer!” Thank you, Dearest Mother, for teaching us to pray!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV Let’s pray the Litany to the Holy Name of Mary!  

  I am close to you… May 16, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Like a good mother, Our Lady longs to be close to us! She also longs for us to be close to her! She comes every day to Medjugorje in order to be close to us. She travels possibly billions of miles one way! Why? Because she loves us so much! She longs to be close to us! It is true that we travel a considerable distance to be close to her as well. Pilgrimage is a big deal! But we long to be close to her! So we travel by bus, car, plane and train to arrive in our beloved Medjugorje where we can be with Our Lady in a special way! We want to be close to her!! Our Lady has spoken about the closeness she desires with us. Here is one message: July 25, 1994 “Dear children! Today I invite you to decide to give time patiently for prayer. Little children, you cannot say you are mine and that you have experienced conversion through my messages if you are not ready to give time to God every day. I am close to you and I bless you all. Little children, do not forget that if you do not pray you are not close to me, nor are you close to the Holy Spirit who leads you along the path to holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our closeness to Our Lady depends not on physical proximity, but upon prayer! This is the way we travel to Our Mother! This is the way we enter her presence and converse with her. Prayer is also how we draw close to the Holy Spirit, and to Jesus, and the Father! They all want to be close to each one of us. What a beautiful gift this is!!! We can draw close to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit through prayer. And we also can run into Our Mother’s arms, through prayer. Amazing!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV Let’s pray the Litany to the Holy Name of Mary!  

Pope John Paul ll with the statue of Our Lady given to him by Bishop Hnilica upon his release from the hospital after the assassination attempt.   May 13, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! I am re-sending an article that Denis wrote last year for the anniversary of the Apparitions at Fatima. The facts he presents are not to be forgotten. We are part of an historical move of God through which He wants to save the world. God bless you all! Cathy (May 14, 2021) Dear Family of Mary TV, Apostles of Our Lady of Medjugorje, “The Catholic Thing” carried an article yesterday titled “Signs and Wonders”. Noting that May 13, 2021, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, was the 40th anniversary of the assassination attempt on the life of St. John Paul ll, Stephen White posed the question to readers: “What signs of God’s action in our own day have we missed because we are too skeptical, too cynical, too eager to seem sophisticated?”After the assassination attempt “as he was being rushed to the hospital, John Paul ll said, more and more feebly as the moments passed, only Our Lady’s name, Mary, and none of the things the newspapers attributed to him,” (Andre Frossard, “Portrait of John Paul ll”, p.55). The following month Our Lady started appearing in Medjugorje. Perceiving the hand of providence – the assassination attempt happening on anniversary of the day, at the very hour, of Our Lady’s first apparition in Fatima – the Holy Father asked Bishop Paolo Hnilica to bring to him, while he was convalescing in Gemelli Hospital, all the materials he could gather on Fatima. As a result, Pope St. John Paul ll asked bishops throughout the world to join him in his March 25, 1984, Act of Consecration to Our Lady that he did in response to her request at Fatima. In a book of her writings published after her death Sr. Lucia confirmed that Our Lady had accepted it in response to her Fatima request. Sisters of her convent in Portugal reiterated this again recently.  Sr. Lucia of Fatima also confirmed this to me in a February 12, 1992 letter sent by Fr. John D. Marchi, “Yes, the Consecration of the world is well established”. Traveling to Moscow and secretly slipping into the Kremlin, Bishop Paolo Hnilica consecrated Russia while saying Mass behind an issue of the communist newspaper “Pravda”. Returning to Rome the following day he arrived in St. Peter’s Square just as the Pope was beginning to recite the words of consecration. (Bishops could do the consecration on March 24, as Bishop Hnilica did, or on March 25th.) The Holy Father was overjoyed hearing Bishop Hnilica’s account of his trip. They spent four hours together later that day in the Pope’s private apartment. Taking from his shelf Fr. Rene Laurentin’s first book on Medjugorje (that he had written with Fr. Ljudevit Rupcic), “Is the Virgin Mary Appearing in Medjugorje?” the Pope read to him several sections out loud, asking, “Didn’t you stop in Medjugorje on your way back to Rome?”  In response to the bishop’s reply, “No, your Holiness, it has been forbidden.” With a wave of his hand Pope John Paul ll said, “Pay no attention! Go to Medjugorje! Medjugorje is the continuation and fulfillment of Fatima!” Our Lady confirmed the Holy Father’s words in her August 25, 1991 message. She invited her children to nine days of prayer and sacrifice: “so that, with your help, everything that I desire to realize through the secrets I began in Fatima, may be fulfilled. I call you, dear children, to now grasp the importance of my coming and the seriousness of the situation. I want to save all souls and present them to God. Therefore, let us pray that everything I have begun be fully realized. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Four days later, on August 29th, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR suspended the activities of the Communist Party throughout the country. But the devil wasn’t backing down. The following month Our Lady warned in her September 25, 1991 message: “Dear children! Today in a special way I invite you all to prayer and renunciation. For now as never before Satan wants to show the world his shameful face by which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to triumph in the sinful world. I beseech all of you to offer prayers and sacrifices for my intentions so I can present them to God for what is most necessary. Forget your desires, dear children, and pray for what God desires, and not for what you desire. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Pope John Paul ll did not miss the signs of God’s action in his own day. On February 24, 1990 he said, “Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!” (“Why He Is A Saint, the Life and Faith of Pope John Paul ll and the Case for Canonization”, p. 168, by Msgr. Slawomir Oder, Postulator for his Cause of Sainthood). In the chapter he includes on the Pope and Medjugorje Msgr Oder quotes from eight letters the Holy Father had written in regard to Medjugorje. For example, on December 8, 1992, in his own hand: “I think Sophia for everything concerning Medjugorje. I, too, go there every day as a pilgrim in my prayers. I unite in my prayers with all those a who pray there or receive a call for prayer from there. Today we have understood this call better. I rejoice that our time is not lacking people of prayer and apostles.” And it wasn’t just St. John Paul ll. An August 6, 2019 Catholic News Service headline gave the Church’s verdict: “Vatican confirms Medjugorje approval by joining youth festival” In response to the Holy Father’s appeal earlier this month for prayer to bring an end to the pandemic, thirty representative Shrines scattered throughout the world have been chosen to lead the Marian prayer each during one day of the month of May. Vatican News reports that “the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace at Medjugorje in Bosnia” has been chosen to lead the Rosary tomorrow, May 15, 2021. With the 40th anniversary of Our Lady’s daily apparitions in Medjugorje now upon us, maybe the author of that article in “The Catholic Thing” should pose this question as it relates to Medjugorje: What signs of God’s action in my own day have I missed because I am too skeptical, too cynical, too eager to seem sophisticated?  Mainstream traditional Catholic outlets should do the same. Denis Nolan MaryTV.tv You can see the original Update from Denis at this link: https://marytv.tv/may-14-2021-update-from-denis/

  “I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.” May 12, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Again, today, it seems good to reflect on Jesus as the Light! Jesus said to us yesterday in the Gospel (Jon 12:44-50): “I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.” Jesus came to rescue us from the darkness. He came to reveal the light of Heaven to all men. The Father sent Him to do just that. But it doesn’t stop with Jesus! He needs us to help Him with the rescue mission. No one should be left in the darkness of sin and death. Our Lady says the same in this message: November 2, 2011 “Dear children, the Father has not left you to yourselves. Immeasurable is His love, the love that is bringing me to you, to help you to come to know Him, so that, through my Son, all of you can call Him ‘Father’ with the fullness of heart; that you can be one people in God’s family. However, my children, do not forget that you are not in this world only for yourselves, and that I am not calling you here only for your sake. Those who follow my Son think of the brother in Christ as of their very selves and they do not know selfishness. That is why I desire that you be the light of my Son, that to all those who have not come to know the Father, to all those who wander in the darkness of sin, despair, pain and loneliness, you may illuminate the way, and that with your life, you may show them the love of God. I am with you. If you open your hearts, I will lead you. Again I am calling you: pray for your shepherds. Thank you.” We are called to carry the Light of Christ to our brothers and sisters, to all those around us who need to know the love of Jesus. This is not necessarily a planned campaign. It can be done throughout your normal day, with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He will do the shining through us if we remain in Him at all times!! How exciting is that!! Here is the prayer to Our Lady we are praying every day in May! Litany to the Holy Name of Mary In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2022    

  I have come as light into the world… May 11, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! In our Gospel for today, Jesus continues to tell us who He is, and why He came. He tells us He came “as light”! Think about a dark night. Think about being in that dark night, with no electricity, no candles, no flash lights, no matches! What would light mean to us at that moment? The light brings safety, knowledge, focus, hope, peace, a future, a context, and meaning in that moment. This is only a temporal image of the need for light. What about eternity? How much more do we need the eternal, heavenly light of Jesus, which opens up to us the way to Heaven? Truly we are surrounded by spiritual darkness until we behold Jesus who is the light. Jesus tells us: “And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. (John 12: 44-50) Our Lady speaks to us about the light as well: March 2, 2016 “Dear children, My coming to you is a gift from the Heavenly Father for you. Through His love I am coming to help you to find the way to the truth, to find the way to my Son. I am coming to confirm the truth to you. I desire to remind you of the words of my Son. He pronounced words of salvation for the entire world, the words of love for everyone – that love which He proved by His sacrifice. But even today, many of my children do not know Him, they do not want to come to know Him, they are indifferent. Because of their indifference my heart suffers painfully. My Son has always been in the Father. By being born on earth He brought the divine and from me received the human. With Him the word came among us. With Him came the light of the world which penetrates hearts, illuminates them and fills them with love and consolation. My children, all those who love my Son can see Him, because His face can be seen through the souls which are filled with love for Him. Therefore, my children, my apostles, listen to me. Leave vanity and selfishness. Do not live only for what is earthly and material… Love my Son and make it so that others may see His face through your love for Him. I will help you to come to know Him all the more. I will speak to you about Him. Thank you.” Our Lady tells us to Love her Son and make it so that others may see His face! It is from His face that the light of God shines upon us: May God have pity on us and bless us. May he let his face shine upon us. So may your way be known upon earth; among all nations, your salvation! (Psalm 67:1-2) Here is the prayer to Our Lady we are praying every day in May! Litany to the Holy Name of Mary In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2022    

  The Shepherd’s Voice May 10, 2022Dear Family of Mary! The text below is the transcript of the last few minutes of Mary TV’s May 9, 2022, “Hour of Mercy,” which is a conversation with Denis and Cathy Nolan, starting at 21:40:  https://marytv.tv?smid=iVMJCBsf4zS&slid=Kyne5E9asDq “Dear children! 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. This is a time when you can speak more about God and do more for God. Therefore, little children, do not resist but permit Him to lead you, to change you and to enter into your life. Do not forget that you are travelers on the way toward eternity. Therefore, little children, permit God to lead you as a shepherd leads his flock. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (November 25, 2006) Today in the Gospel the Lord talks about himself as the good shepherd who calls for his sheep, and He comes in through the door, through the gate. The guys that steel sheep come over the fence. They’re jumping in from the sides illegally, and stirring up the sheep, trying to get some to follow them, but they can’t get out yet. The door has to be opened. Jesus comes and the sheep know his voice. And so, they willingly follow him. I think it’s really interesting that the voice is so important. And it seems to me that many of us don’t ever expect to hear the voice of the Shepherd. We think that’s for mystics and for other people but not for regular Christians. And so, I think we can miss out on a lot because we really do think the Lord, as our Shepherd, wants to help us to recognize His voice and follow Him. [Denis interjects: “Dear children, I am looking at you and see that you are lost.” We need his voice… You’re right. Exactly!] The Gospel for today is all about that. I think it would be good if we pray about that. Are we listening for the voice of our shepherd, or are we assuming that he is not going to speak to us, and kind of blindly fumble along in life…? Jesus said:“Truly, truly I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name.” That means he’s not just talking to a flock of sheep. He’s talking to each individual sheep by name! Now if he is doing that, we should be hearing him. We should be! “When he has brought out all his own he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they know his voice.”    Well, if the sheep are not expecting Him to speak to them then they’re not listening, they’re not going to be accustomed to His voice, they’re not going to be used to it. And they might not follow the right way outside of the sheepfold. Because they’re not listening to His voice, they don’t recognize the voice of the shepherd. It is very important that we know the voice of the Lord! A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him for they do not know the voice of strangers. We all hear lots of voices in our day. But do we recognize those voices as strangers and run away from them? I hope so. I hope we know the voice of Jesus well enough so that when a stranger, one who enters the fold another way, we’ll know that this is not the voice of the Lord, but it is probably the voice of the enemy! “A stranger they will not follow but they will flee from him,” so what the Lord wants us to know that when we hear a voice counter to the voice of Christ, to what He’s told us in the Scriptures, to what we hear at Mass, to what the saints have told us, and also to what we’ve heard in our own heart – if we hear a voice that is contrary to that, run away from it as fast as you can! Eject it from your heart, eject it from your mind and your memory. It’s not the Lord! And even if it is just a little bit different… Now it may not seem important but down the road you will be off in a wrong direction completely. So, we need to know the voice of the Lord! Our Lady said to us on November 25, 2006: “Dear children! 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.” When we pray we are close to God, and what does He plant in our heart? A desire for heaven! A desire to be with Him forever! That’s the desire that we should be living out of – not “What kind of retirement home am I going to have?; Can I live in a beautiful place where there is sunshine all the time?” No. It’s not that. That’s all neutral. You can do it if that’s what you want. But what we yearn for should be heaven! She continues: “This is a time when you can speak more about God and do more for God.” When we’re close to God we can talk about him. “Therefore, little children, do not resist but permit Him to lead you, to change you and to enter into your life.” The result of our prayer should be that we allow the Lord to lead us, change us! That’s a big one! Change my habits. Change my desires. “Do not forget that you are travelers on the way toward eternity.” This is not our home. Heaven’s our home. “Therefore, little children, permit God to lead you as a shepherd leads his flock!” “Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady knows the Scriptures. We have to get to know the voice of the Lord! And then let Him lead us; recognize the voice of the Shepherd and let Him lead us to eternity. It’s really important! If we’ve stopped giving time to listen to the Lord each day, start it today! We want the voice of the Shepherd. And a good place to do it is at Adoration….so we are so blessed to have this opportunity now. God bless you guys…. (And then Hour of Mercy concluded, as always, with a half hour of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament streamed LIVE from the Adoration chapel in Medjugorje.) Here is the prayer to Our Lady we are praying every day in May! Litany to the Holy Name of Mary In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2022  

  The Good Shepherd May 9, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Today Jesus uses the image of the Good Shepherd in the Gospel. He is trying to explain to the people how He wants to relate to them. We of course are meant to see ourselves as sheep. Because most of us live lives far removed from sheep, farms, gates and pens, we may not relate to this analogy. But as I view current events and social trends, I feel more and more sure that we are like sheep. We follow too easily. We hope to find what we need through the hands of a leader, and cling to promises that usually can’t be completed. Jesus assures us that He is the rightful Shepherd, the only One who can provide for us safety and food and show us the way to Eternal Life . But how does Jesus lead His Sheep? He opens the way, He calls us each by name, and He goes ahead of us, to lead us out of our pen into the future of good and peace. We must follow. And to do that we need to know His voice. That is why we pray. Here are His words: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber; but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens; the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” This figure Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them. (John 10:1-6) Our Lady gave us a message that could only have come from one of Jesus’ closest disciples. She is such a good guide for us in these days: November 25, 2006 “Dear children! 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. This is a time when you can speak more about God and do more for God. Therefore, little children, do not resist but permit Him to lead you, to change you and to enter into your life. Do not forget that you are travelers on the way toward eternity. Therefore, little children, permit God to lead you as a shepherd leads his flock. Thank you for having responded to my call.” With Our Lady’s guidance may we learn to know Jesus’ voice in prayer and allow Him to lead us, change us and ! Here is the prayer to Our Lady we are praying every day in May! Litany to the Holy Name of Mary In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2022