Author: Cathy Nolan

(c)Mary TV The Youth Festival shows that a new world of peace is possible! July 30, 2020 St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Doctor of the Church Dear Family of Mary! “…You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive, and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus….” (July 25, 2020) This call to witness with our lives that faith and hope are still alive is never better demonstrated than at the yearly Medjugorje Youth Festival!  Every year from August 1 to 6, thousands of young people from the entire world have gathered in Medjugorje to be with Our Lady, to pray, to sing to Jesus, to worship Him, and to be built up by testimonies and teachings about conversion and the new life!  The Youth Festival has been a beacon of hope for the world for 31 years now. How many young lives have been changed over those 31 years?  Only God knows!! This year because of the covid pandemic, pilgrims cannot easily travel to Medjugorje.  But the parish has decided to carry on with the Youth Festival, as best they can.  The schedule has been changed.  And many of the testimonies and teachings may be recorded and shared via the internet.  But the Holy Spirit can come in person.  He is not limited by any virus! The Schedule will look like this: Saturday, August 1, 2020 – 18:00   Rosary 19:00   Opening of the Festival-  Letter to the Youth – Holy Mass – Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Sunday, August 2, 2020 – 06:00   Rosary on Apparition Hill at the Statue of Our Lady 17:00   Testimony and reflection 18:00   Evening Rosary 19:00   Holy Mass with Procession of the Statue of Our Lady and Adoration Monday, August 3, 2020 17:00   Testimony and Reflection 18:00   Evening Rosary 19:00   Holy Mass with Meditation with candles, and Prayer before the Cross Tuesday, August 4, 2020 17:00   Testimony and Reflection 18:00   Evening Rosary 19:00   Holy Mass and Cenacolo community film Wednesday, August 5, 2020 17:00   Testimony and reflection 18:00   Evening Rosary 19:00   Holy Mass with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, mission and farewell in music and praise Thursday, August 6, 2020 05:00   Holy Mass on Cross Mountain Mary TV will stream the entire conference!  The times above are all Medjugorje time.  And we will have an archive of the entire event on our Webpage in the Video Library at the bottom of the list, according to date, this being 2020! Our Lady said to us: June 25, 2009 “Dear children! Rejoice with me, convert in joy and give thanks to God for the gift of my presence among you. Pray that, in your hearts, God may be in the center of your life and with your life witness, little children, so that every creature may feel God’s love. Be my extended hands for every creature, so that it may draw closer to the God of love. I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Indeed, through the Youth Festival in Medjugorje this message is lived to the full!! See you there!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

(c)Mary TV Our Lady of Victory July 29, 2020 St Martha Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope. Little children, take the Cross in your hands. May it be your encouragement for love to always win, in a special way now when the Cross and faith are rejected. You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  (July 25, 2020) Our Lady calls us to take the Cross in our hand so that it will be an encouragement for love to always win!!  If you read this message closely, she wants us to find the way to win over the devil and foil his plans through our love and hope.  She is Our Lady of Victory!  And she plans to win in this final fight with the enemy. She tells us:  “You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible.”  She plans on winning, and we should too!  I found this amazing Litany of Our Lady of Victories, written by Pope Pius XI, inspired by the victories that Our Lady had procured at Lepanto in the 1500’s.  Let’s pray it today, as an encouragement to our tired souls.  Our Mother is the Victorious Queen of Heaven and Earth!  She will not retreat!  And she is going to win with us by her side. The Litany of Our Lady of Victories The Litany of Our Lady of Victories is written by Pope Pius XI Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God, the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us. God, the Son, Redeemer of the World, Have mercy on us. God, the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, Have mercy on us. Our Lady of Victory, Pray for us. Triumphant Daughter of the Father, Pray for us. Triumphant Mother of the Son, Pray for us. Triumphant Spouse of the Holy Ghost, Pray for us. Triumphant Choice of the Most Holy Trinity, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Immaculate Conception, Pray for us. Triumphant in Crushing the Head of the Serpent, Pray for us. Triumphant Over All the Children of Adam, Pray for us. Triumphant Over All Our Enemies, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Embassy of the Angel Gabriel, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Espousal to St. Joseph, Pray for us. Triumphant at the Scene of Bethlehem, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Flight Into Egypt, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Exile, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Humble Dwelling at Nazareth, Pray for us. Triumphant in Finding Thy Divine Child in the Temple, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Earthly Life of Our Lord, Pray for us. Triumphant in His Passion and Death, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Resurrection, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Ascension, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Sorrows, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Joys, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy Entrance into the Heavenly Jerusalem, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Angels Who Remained Faithful, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Felicity of the Blessed, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Graces of the Just, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Announcement of the Prophets, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Desires of the Patriarchs, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Zeal of the Apostles, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Light of the Evangelists, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Wisdom of the Doctors, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Crowns of the Confessors, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Purity of the Numerous Bands of Virgins, Pray for us. Triumphant in the Triumph of the Martyrs, Pray for us. Triumphant in Thy All-Powerful Intercession, Pray for us. Triumphant under Thy Many Titles, Pray for us. Triumphant at the Hour of Our Death, Pray for us. Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, Spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us, Lord. Pray for us, O Blessed Lady of Victory! That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let Us Pray O, Victorious Lady! Thou who has ever such powerful influence with Thy Divine Son, in conquering the hardest of hearts, intercede for those for whom we pray, that their hearts being softened by the rays of Divine Grace, they may return to the unity of the true Faith, through Christ, our Lord. Amen. (Mention your special intention in your own words here) Salve Regina Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in the valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us. And after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary, Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Memorare Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who, fled to Thy protection, implored Thy help, and sought Thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly unto Thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To Thee I come; before Thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate! despise not my petitions, but in Thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020    

(c)Mary TV I am calling you to persevering prayer… July 28, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! Matthew 13:36-43 Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the Kingdom. The weeds are the children of the Evil One, and the enemy who sows them is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his Kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.” This Gospel for today has always sent shivers down my spine.  Good seed, bad seed, harvest at the end of the age, and fiery furnaces…Truly this is a picture of the end times.  Our Lady used the word “harvest” in her July 25, 2020 Message.   She may have had this passage in mind: “Dear children! In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope…” (July 25, 2020) Mother Mary must see that the end of the age is near.  That is why Satan is harvesting souls for damnation.  It is time to gather his prey into his fiery furnace.  And this must also be why she is calling us to prayer.  We must discover the God of love and hope, and grasp His loving hand, so we can be led into His Kingdom. Increasingly we see only two possibilities for the world and for each person in the world.  We can let Satan draw us unto himself, or we can choose to draw close to God.  In the first case, we become attracted by all the false “goods” that the enemy waves before our eyes and become ensnared in his traps.  In the second, we see God in all his beauty and love, and decide to seek after Him, to find Him. The first way takes away our freedom, little by little.  The more we lust after the enemy’s stuff, the more powerless we become, unable to choose otherwise until we are cut down and thrown into the fire. The second way depends upon our freedom.  God never coerces us or forces us in anything.  He only presents Himself to us, bloodied and broken, hanging from a cross, showing us how much He loves us.  In that moment we begin to realize how very much we are loved, and our hearts desire to be one with the lover of men.  We choose in freedom, to join Him in the love that brings hope.  It is then that we will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of the Father. It is important not to shy away from recognizing the end times that are upon us.  We do not know how long the time will be, but we do know how to win through to Glory!  We must fall deeply in love with Jesus, and long for Him in prayer.  We must surrender ourselves to God, with total trust.  We must freely choose to follow Jesus on His way of the Cross, and fear nothing.  In this way, our end times will result in the joy of Heaven. Let’s pray, pray, pray, as Our Lady asks.  Through prayer we will discover the God of hope and love!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020    

  (c)Mary TV If God is for us, who is against us? July 27, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children! In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope. Little children, take the Cross in your hands. May it be your encouragement for love to always win, in a special way now when the Cross and faith are rejected. You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  (July 25, 2020) As Denis and I were praying yesterday after we received this message, we opened the Bible at random, asking the Holy Spirit for a passage from Scripture that might help us to understand more fully what Our Lady was saying to us!  And we opened to Romans 8: 18-39.  It is a very famous section of St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans.  I could read it over and over.  It helps us to understand how to view our present sufferings, in relation to the Cross and Victory of Jesus.  Our Lady said that we need to discover the God of love and hope through prayer.  And to take the Cross in our hands and be encouraged!!  That is exactly what St. Paul was exhorting his fellow Christians to do as they faced the persecution of the Romans.  Such beautiful words!!  I encourage us all to read and reread this passage, as we pray.  It may change our tired hearts into hearts on fire with love and hope! St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, 8: 18-39 : I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;  because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.  For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.  Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.  For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren.  And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies; who is to condemn? Is it Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, “For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8: 18-39) Amen!  Amen!  We are more than conquerors through him who loved us!!!!  We can be a reflection and an example with our lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020  

July 25, 2020 St. James, Apostle Dear Family of Mary! Here is the July 25, 2020 Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace: “Dear children! In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope. Little children, take the Cross in your hands. May it be your encouragement for love to always win, in a special way now when the Cross and faith are rejected. You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  (July 25, 2020) In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020

  July 24, 2020 St. Sharbel Makhluf, Priest Dear Family of Mary! Tomorrow we look forward to another message from Our Lady. The 25th of the month has become a very special day for us!  Our Lady has been giving messages on this particular day of the month since January of 1987.  Our Lady announced the monthly messages on January 8, 1987.  Here is what she said: January 8, 1987 “Dear children! I desire to thank you for every response to the messages. Especially, dear children, thank you for all the sacrifices and prayers which you have presented to me. Dear children, I desire to keep on giving you still further messages, only not every Thursday, dear children, but on each 25th in the month. The time has come when what my Lord desired has been fulfilled. Now I will give you less messages, but I am still with you. Therefore, dear children, I beseech you, listen to my messages and live them, so I can guide you. Dear children, thank you for having responded to my call. Our Lady was transitioning her children from weekly messages to monthly messages. The weekly messages had done their job, and Our Lady’s children were ready to move into a new phase of the mission.  She told us about that mission in the first Monthly Message – January 25, 1987: January 25, 1987 The first message on the 25th of the month, given to Marija: “Today I want to appeal to all of you to start living a new life from this day on. Dear children, I wish that you would understand that God has chosen each one of you to have a part in the great plan for the salvation of mankind. You cannot fully understand how great your role is in God’s design. For that reason, pray, dear children, so that through prayer, you may be able to know your role in God’s plan. I am with you, so that you may be able to realize it fully.” Wow! Our Lady told us that each one of us had been chosen!  We each had a particular part in the “great plan for the salvation of mankind.”  She told us we were not able to comprehend how great that role is.  Only through prayer could we begin to understand it! The transition to monthly messages brought with it the announcement of a “great plan for the salvation of mankind.”  And that plan included each of us who were responding to Our Lady’s call. And since that call continues, all of us since that time are also included in that plan and responsibility.  We all have been chosen!!! We cherish Our Lady’s messages.  They are the vehicle through which she has formed us as her apostles of love.  And so, we await the message for tomorrow, with great anticipation. As we wait, let’s ponder the June 25, 2020 message, given to us on the 39th Anniversary of her coming.  Thank you, dearest Mother, for being with us these 39 years, and forming us into your apostle of love. June 25, 2020 “Dear children! I am listening to your cries and prayers, and am interceding for you before my Son Jesus, who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Return, little children, to prayer and open your hearts in this time of grace and set out on the way of conversion. Your life is passing and, without God, does not have meaning. This is why I am with you to lead you towards holiness of life, so that each of you may discover the joy of living. I love you all, little children, and am blessing you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

  July 23, 2020 St. Bridget, Religious and Married Woman Dear Family of Mary! April 25, 2001 “Dear children! Also today, I call you to prayer. Little children, prayer works miracles. When you are tired and sick and you do not know the meaning of your life, take the Rosary and pray; pray until prayer becomes for you a joyful meeting with your Savior. I am with you, little children, and I intercede and pray for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” During these days of trial and unusual difficulties, we may all be a little bit tired.  Such difficulties require a great deal of energy.  Being sick can really throw us off.  We may be tempted to lose hope, to get listless about the spiritual life.  Life is always a trial.  Things don’t go our way.  We have to practice patience and trust in so many ways.  It can be at times like this that we grow lax in our prayer. Our Lady understands this.  And so, in this message she gave us a pep talk about prayer.  “Also today, I call you to prayer.”  She lets us know that she knows she has been calling us to prayer in every message, but “also today” she is going to call us to prayer again!! Why does she call us to prayer so consistently?  “Little children, prayer works miracles.”  That’s why!  She wants us to receive miracles from her Son.  We need miracles.  We need miracles of faith, of hope and of love.  We need healings.  We need inner healings.  We need to get that job or find the person to marry.  We need to be converted more completely.  Prayer connects us to God, the One who can truly help us in our lives. And so, when we are tired and sick and we do not know the meaning of our lives, we need to tale the Rosary and pray;  pray until prayer becomes for us a joyful meeting with our Savior.  When we take up the Rosary and pray, we are saying, “I will not give up on prayer.  I will pray, not matter how I feel right now.  I will pray the Rosary with Our Lady, no matter what.  This not giving up is important. Mother Immaculata wrote in her book “Communion with God”: Whatever happens we must never give up prayer: “Never give up our hours of prayer; you do not know when the Bridegroom will summon you, and you might share the fate of the foolish virgins.” (Way of Perfection. Ch. 18:4 St. Teresa of Avila) “If he does not give up prayer, let him be assured of this…prayer will bring him to the haven of light.” (Lettters of St. Teresa, No 19:7)   St. Teresa assures us that even the so-called obstacles to prayer such as aridity, distraction, impotence to think anything good, burdens of worries and anxieties can even be used as the subject of our prayer and can help prayer.  (Sister Immaculata. Communion with God. P. 119) We do not know when the bridegroom will summon us!!  May we be found in prayer, with our Rosaries in our hands!  We will not be alone in that prayer.  Our Lady says,” I am with you, little children, and I intercede and pray for you.”  Our Mother will pray with us.  Indeed, she never stops praying for us. May we never give up on prayer.  Prayer works miracles! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020