Author: Cathy Nolan

  I am with you in this time of mercy…   November 25, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! Here is the November 25, 2021 message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace: “Dear children!  I am with you in this time of mercy and I am calling all of you to be carriers of peace and love in this world where, through me, little children, God is calling you to be prayer and love, and an expression of Heaven here on earth. May your hearts be filled with joy and faith in God; that, little children, you may have complete trust in His holy will. That is why I am with you, because He, the Most High, is sending me among you to encourage you to the hope; and you will be peacemakers in this peaceless world. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (November 25, 2021) In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021  

Fr. Slavko Barbaric, OFM   November 24, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! November 25, 2000 “Dear children! Today when Heaven is near to you in a special way, I call you to prayer so that through prayer you place God in the first place. Little children, today I am near you and I bless each of you with my motherly blessing so that you have the strength and love for all the people you meet in your earthly life and that you can give God’s love. I rejoice with you and I desire to tell you that your brother Slavko has been born into Heaven and intercedes for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” These were Our Lady’s reassuring words to us when she appeared to Marija the day after Fr. Slavko died. We all knew that Fr. Slavko was special, a gift from God for us. And today on the 21st anniversary of the passing of Fr. Slavko, it seems that we miss him as much now as we did when he first passed. Fr. Slavko was a true pastor, a true son of Mary, and a true priest. His guidance and trustworthy pastoral care made it possible for the parish of Medjugorje to bear the cross of caring for the millions of pilgrims who come to their little parish each year. We miss him so much. I want to share with you a link to a short video created by our Mary TV Team, to honor Fr. Slavko. You can watch it here. It conveys everything that we could say about him: https://marytv.tv/more-from-medjugorje/?smid=ioAGn2s0nOi&slid=iNOPuXnisQF Mary TV will stream, live, the parish climb up Cross Mountain in honor of Fr. Slavko: 2:00 pm Medj time, today! – Wednesday, November 24, 2021! Join the parish in prayer on the Mary TV Channel – https://www.marytv.tv! We await the message coming later today with great anticipation and joy! In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021  

[God] sent me to you to help you to grow in holiness. November 23, 2021 St. Clement I, St. Columban, Bl Miguel Agustin Pro Dear Family of Mary! On Thursday, we anticipate another message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace. It is always a blessing to review the message she gave to us on the previous month, as we prepare for the next one. I find that every time I read one of Our Lady’s messages, I receive new graces from it. Her words bring life! I leave you with the message! Cherish it and let Our Lady speak to you through it! God bless you all!!! “Dear children! Return to prayer because he who prays is not afraid of the future; he who prays is open to life and respects the life of others; he who prays, little children, feels the freedom of the children of God and in joy of heart serves for the good for his brother-man. Because God is love and freedom, therefore, little children, when they want to put you in bonds and to use you, it is not from God. Because God loves and gives His peace to every creature, that is why He sent me to you to help you to grow in holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  (October 25, 2021) In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021 PS. Wednesday is the anniversary of the passing of Fr. Slavko Barbaric, OFM. I will share a bit about him in my reflection for Wednesday. Also, Mary TV will stream, live, the parish climb up Cross Mountain in honor of Fr. Slavko: 2:00 pm Medj time, Wednesday, November 24, 2021! Join us!!

The Jesus Rosary November 22, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! I want to share Franjo’s story about how the Jesus Rosary began to be prayed in Medjugorje, in the prayer group that Our Lady started with Jelena and Mirjana, two young girls of the parish. I believe that the Jesus Rosary is very powerful for us in these days, for healing and strengthening as we go through the difficulties of our day. Here are Franjo’s words: At Christmas time in 1982 two little girls received inner locutions. One of them was Jelena, and afterward, Mirjana. So Our Lady, through these two little girls started to lead the prayer group in the parish. We usually had 3 meetings a week. And on Tuesday we prayed the Jesus Rosary! It is a very, very powerful prayer. Our Lady told us that the Rosary is the most powerful weapon against Satan. But she also gave us the Jesus Rosary in 1983 and I will tell you that the Jesus Rosary contains everything that a Catholic should pray for today. Our Lady gave us this Rosary when it was a tough time in Medjugorje. Fr. Jozo was in jail, three Franciscans were in jail, two men from the Parish of Medjugorje were in jail. Mirjana the visionary went to Sarajevo, Marija went to Mostar to school, Ivan went to school, and Vicka and Jacov would be at Mass in the evening on the right hand side of the sanctuary in the little room where they would have the apparition. And we would come to mass…Our Lady chose young people who had deep faith. Sixty young people joined the prayer group. Our Lady taught Jelena the Jesus Rosary for our group. Jelena wrote down what Our Lady told her. A lady from our group printed it for us. So that first night, I brought the paper to my house, my family home, and my mother was there. She was still in the kitchen washing the dishes. She was very devout. So I asked her if she ever heard of the Jesus Rosary? She said, “Jesus Rosary, yes of course. I said, “No…don’t tell me you know the Jesus Rosary?” She said, “Yes! During Lent, as a small girl of 12, I prayed the Jesus Rosary: Apostles Creed, 33 Our Fathers, and on the end 7 Glory Be’s. Thirty three Our Fathers because Jesus was on the earth for 33 years.” This was exactly what Our Lady gave Jelena! But my mother said they didn’t have any mysteries to mention during the Rosary. So the prayer of the Jesus Rosary was here in Hercegovina, but Our Lady took that old prayer, and placed in it 8 Mysteries and Meditations and Intentions, and gave it to us. It is lovely, it contains all that we need to pray for today: It contains prayer for peace, the pope and priests, for families, our neighbors, that Jesus will live in our hearts, God’s will in our life, and for the Holy Spirit! It is the Rosary Our Lady gave us with all the intentions we need…” From Jesus Rosary, Episode 1, 4/29/2020: here is a link to that first Jesus Rosary show with Franjo! https://marytv.tv/jesus-rosary-2/?smid=ELLR12sARYO&slid=moFAoipsiIM I just want to share that I agree with Franjo. The Jesus Rosary is meant for these days. I have found it to be a powerful prayer for deliverance, for healing, for reconciliation and for peace. Really, there is a strong protection in praying it, because it links us very strongly to God, the Father. It is healing for all who have father wounds. So here is a guide for praying the Jesus Rosary, if you want to try it. Of course, Our Lady’s Rosary is the weapon of choice. I just suggest the Jesus Rosary as another source of healing and strength given to us by Our Lady in Medjugorje. The Jesus Rosary (Given by Our Lady to Jelena) Pray the Creed 1. Mystery: Contemplate the birth of Jesus Intention: pray for peace. 5 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be our help and our strength 2. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus helped and gave all to the poor Intention: Let us pray for the Holy Father and for the Bishops 5 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be our help and our strength 3. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus trusted in his Father completely and carried out His will Intention: pray for priests and for all those who serve God in a particular way 5 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us. 4. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus knew he had to give up his life for us and He did so without regrets because He loved us. Intention: pray for families. 5 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us. 5. Mystery: Contemplate that Jesus made his life into a sacrifice for us Intention: Pray so that we, too, may be capable of offering our life for our neighbor. 5 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us. 6. Mystery: Contemplate the victory of Jesus over Satan. He is risen Intention: let us pray that all sins may be eliminated so that Jesus may live in our hearts. 5 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us. 7. Mystery: Contemplate the ascension of Jesus into Heaven Intention: let us pray that the will of God may triumph, so that his will may be done 3 Our Father’s Exclamation: O Jesus, be strength and protection for us. After this, contemplate how Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit. Intention: pray so that the Holy Spirit may descend upon us. 7 Glory Be’s In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021

Praying the Seven Our Fathers, Hail Mary’s, and Glory Be’s after Mass in Medjugorje! Praying for the souls in Purgatory! November 19, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! Once again, I would like to quote Our Lady on Purgatory. She only said a few things, but she was very clear. We need to pray for the souls in Purgatory, and we need to take a warning from her words. She speaks for our own good: November 6, 1986“Dear children! Today I wish to call you to pray daily for souls in purgatory. For every soul prayer and grace is necessary to reach God and the love of God. By doing this, dear children, you obtain new intercessors who will help you in life to realize that all the earthly things are not important for you, that only Heaven is that for which it is necessary to strive. Therefore, dear children, pray without ceasing that you may be able to help yourselves and the others to whom your prayers will bring joy. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May we strive for Heaven and pray for our brothers and sisters to arrive there quickly! She gave these instructions in 1982: Wednesday, July 21, 1982 “There are many souls in Purgatory. There are also persons who have been consecrated to God: some priests, some religious. Pray for their intentions, at least 7 Our Father’s, Hail Mary’s and Glory Be’s and the Creed. I recommend it to you. There is a large number of souls who have been in Purgatory for a long time because no one prays for them.” The Parish of St. James prays the seven, seven, seven every evening after Holy Mass!! For the Souls!! And she gave this description of Purgatory in 1983: Monday, January 10, 1983 Questioned on the subject of Purgatory, the Blessed Virgin says: “There are different levels of which the lowest are close to Hell and the highest gradually draw near to Heaven. It is not on all souls day, but at Christmas, that the greatest numbers of souls leave Purgatory. There are in Purgatory, souls who pray ardently to God, but for whom no relative or friend prays for them on earth. God makes them benefit from the prayers of other people. It happens that God permits them to manifest themselves in different ways, close to their relatives on earth, in order to remind men of the existence of Purgatory, and to solicit their prayers close to God who is just, but good. The majority go to Purgatory. Many go to Hell. A small number go directly to Heaven.” May we pray for the souls who have no relative or friend who prays for them! We can help them Finally, here is a wonderful prayer that can be prayed at Mass: Hi Cathy and Denis I have been saying this prayer for years now, everyday just before the Consecration at Holy Mass. I can’t remember where I got it only that it should be said at the Consecration: Oh Heavenly Father I offer you the Body and Blood of Jesus on behalf of the souls in purgatory and I ask you now to pour out on them the fullness of your forgiveness, redemption and salvation merited for them by Jesus on Calvary so that many of them now may come into the fullness of your presence. Amen. Fionnuala (shipmate) May we become more active in helping the souls in Purgatory. They are our family now, waiting to one day enter Heaven where they will wait to welcome us into our Home with the Lord! In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021

Pray for the Souls in Purgatory November 18, 2021 The Dedication of the Basilicas of St.s Peter and Paul St. Rose Philippine Duchesne Dear Family of Mary! November 6, 1986 “Dear children! Today I wish to call you to pray daily for souls in purgatory. For every soul prayer and grace is necessary to reach God and the love of God…” Today let’s pray this Litany for the Souls in Purgatory. It is helpful for them, and instructive for us!!! Litany for the Souls in Purgatory “Make us know the shortness of our life, that we may gain wisdom of heart.” Psalm 90:12 + O Jesus, Thou suffered and died that all mankind might be saved and brought to eternal happiness. Hear our pleas for further mercy on the souls of: My dear parents and grandparents, my Jesus mercy! My brothers and sisters and other near relatives, my Jesus mercy! My godparents and sponsors of confirmation, my Jesus mercy! My spiritual and temporal benefactors, my Jesus mercy! My friends and neighbors, my Jesus mercy! All for whom love or duty bids me pray, my Jesus mercy! Those who have offended me, my Jesus mercy! Those who have suffered disadvantage or harm through me, my Jesus mercy! Those who are especially beloved by Thee, my Jesus mercy! Those whose release is near at hand, my Jesus mercy! Those who desire most to be united to Thee, my Jesus mercy! Those who endure the greatest sufferings, my Jesus mercy! Those whose release is most remote, my Jesus mercy! Those who are least remembered, my Jesus mercy! Those who are most deserving on account of their services to the Church, my Jesus mercy! The rich, who now are the most destitute, my Jesus mercy! The mighty, who now are powerless, my Jesus mercy! The once spiritually blind, who now see their folly, my Jesus mercy! The frivolous, who spent their time in idleness, my Jesus mercy! The poor, who did not seek the treasures of heaven, my Jesus mercy! The tepid, who devoted little time to prayer, my Jesus mercy! The indolent, who neglected to perform good works, my Jesus mercy! Those of little faith, who neglected the frequent reception of the Sacraments, my Jesus mercy! The habitual sinners, who owe their salvation to a miracle of grace, my Jesus mercy! Parents who failed to watch over their children, my Jesus mercy! Superiors who were not solicitous for the salvation of those entrusted to them, my Jesus mercy! Those who strove for worldly riches and pleasures, my Jesus mercy! The worldly-minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in the service of God, my Jesus mercy! Those who witnessed the death of others, but would not think of their own, my Jesus mercy Those who did not provide for the life hereafter, my Jesus mercy! Those whose sentence is severe because of the great things entrusted to them, my Jesus mercy! The popes, kings and rulers, my Jesus mercy! The bishops and their counselors, my Jesus mercy! My teachers and spiritual advisors, my Jesus mercy! The deceased priests of this diocese, my Jesus mercy! The priests and religious of the Catholic Church, my Jesus mercy! The defenders of the holy faith, my Jesus mercy! Those who died on the battlefield, my Jesus mercy! Those who fought for their country, my Jesus mercy! Those who were buried in the sea, my Jesus mercy! Those who died of apoplexy, my Jesus mercy! Those who died of heart attacks, my Jesus mercy! Those who suffered and died of cancer, my Jesus mercy! Those who died suddenly in accidents, my Jesus mercy! Those who died without the last rites of the Church, my Jesus mercy! Those who shall die within the next twenty-four hours, my Jesus mercy! My own poor soul when I shall have to appear before Thy judgment seat, my Jesus mercy! Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them: For evermore with Thy saints, because Thou art gracious. May the prayer of Thy suppliant people, we beseech Thee, O Lord, benefit the souls of Thy departed servants and handmaids: that Thou mayest both deliver them from all their sins, and make them to be partakers of Thy redemption. Amen. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. And let the perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021 P.S. Go to Susan Tassone’s website for more information on praying for the Souls: https://susantassone.com/

The Souls in Purgatory November 17, 2021 St. Elizabeth of Hungary Dear Family of Mary! November 6, 1986 “Dear children! Today I wish to call you to pray daily for souls in purgatory. For every soul prayer and grace is necessary to reach God and the love of God. By doing this, dear children, you obtain new intercessors who will help you in life to realize that all the earthly things are not important for you, that only Heaven is that for which it is necessary to strive. Therefore, dear children, pray without ceasing that you may be able to help yourselves and the others to whom your prayers will bring joy. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Yesterday we had a visit from the Souls in Purgatory during the Daily Rosary, reminding us to pray for them! Every day we pray for a saint to pick us as we pray the Rosary together on Mary TV. We have a box with slips of paper folded up in it, each with a Saint and an intention on it. And yesterday, we received the Souls in Purgatory! Here is what was written on the slip of paper: Holy Souls in Purgatory (celebrated November 2nd) “For if he had not expected the fallen to rise again it would gave been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead, whereas if he had in view the splendid recompense reserved for those who make a pious end, the thought was holy and devout. This was why he had this atonement sacrifice offered for the dead, so that they might be released from their sin.” (2 Maccabees 12:44-45 Intention: Pray for the Souls in Purgatory It was a welcome reminder for Denis and me! In this month of November we should be praying for the Souls in Purgatory every day. But during the Rosary we also received several confirmations from some of you as we prayed Teresa wrote: The Holy Souls in Purgatory! They kept me up last night! I was startle awake at 3 am and they came to mind, so I just started praying the Rosary. And Karen wrote: Hi Cathy and Denis! I too was awake in the night and felt the urge to pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory…so I prayed the Chaplet of Divine Mercy followed by the Rosary. My meditation for today was also to pray for the Holy Souls! Then the Souls chose us on Mary TV!! So there is NO DOUBT that our Mother wants us to pray for them. God bless you!! And Patty wrote: I am praying with You now! At the beginning of the Rosary, I just mentioned to God that it would be nice to know how Rosemarie is doing. (She is my friend, an avowed atheist, who died yesterday. We were praying!!!) Is she in purgatory? Did she accept your offer of love and mercy? I thought, maybe St. Anthony will be the saint today…but then the Souls in Purgatory came to us!! Oh thank you, Jesus! Finally, our shipmate, Elaine, wrote today about her devotion to the Holy Souls: Hi Cathy and Denis, I started to pray daily for the Poor souls when my 90 year old aunt asked who would take over from her to pray for the souls…It had been her calling since the age of 13. Thus since then I have tried each day to pray for the souls and now have my daily prayer for them. I use Susan Tassone’s daily reflection and suggestions on how to pray. She asks us to pray the “De Profundis” and “Te Deum”. Normally I say a decade of the St. Gertrude prayer but during this month dedicated to the Holy Souls I say a chaplet of St. Gertrude the Great. When I say the Rosary, I pray for the Holy Souls as well. I also pray for them at Holy Mass! Well, this is very exciting! We had four confirmations about praying for the Souls!! Let’s not let this inspiration pass us by. We can try to begin small, possibly remembering the Holy Souls with each Rosary we pray, with a simple prayer like this prayer from St. Gertrude: Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen. Thank you, dear Souls, for making yourselves known to us so that we can pray for you from now on!! In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021 P.S. Go to Susan Tassone’s website for more information on praying for the Souls:  https://susantassone.com/

Live my messages! November 16, 2021 St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Gertrude Dear Family of Mary! June 25, 2010 “Dear children! With joy, I call you all to live my messages with joy; only in this way, little children, will you be able to be closer to my Son. I desire to lead you all only to Him, and in Him you will find true peace and the joy of your heart. I bless you all and love you with immeasurable love. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  Our Lady has faithfully given us a messages for 40 years! She is such a good mother, faithful and true, ready to help her children at all times. Her messages are her gift to us to guide us closer and closer to her Son. They can change us, if we cherish them.Here is a little litany consisting of things she has said about her messages, and why we should live them. The response could be, “Thank you, Mother Mary, for your messages.” With joy, I call you all to live my messages with joy; (6/25/10) Live my messages and convey them to others… (8/16/84) I want you, dear children, to listen to me and to live my messages. (2/14/85) I wish to tell you that I love you and that I urge you to live my messages. (8/15/85) Dear children, listen to and live my messages. I wish to guide you. (10/24/85) Today also I am calling you all in order that each one of you decides to live my messages. (8/25/87) Today as never before I invite you to live my messages and to put them into practice in your life. (3/25/92) Pray, live my messages and then you will see the miracles of God’s love in your everyday life. (3/25/92)Dear children, it is a grace that I am with you. That is why you should accept and live my messages for your own good. (11/25/92) Today I call you to accept and live my messages with seriousness. (1/25/93) Dear children! I invite you all to have more trust in me and to live my messages more deeply. (5/25/94) I bless you and I call you all to decide to live my messages which I give you here. I desire, little children, to guide you all to Jesus because He is your salvation. (6/25/94) Convert and start to live my messages, not with your words but with your life. In this way, little children, you will have the strength to decide for the true conversion of the heart. (9/25/98) By fasting and prayer, witness that you are mine and that you live my messages. (4/25/99) You who live my messages be the light and extended hands to this faithless world that all may come to know the God of Love. (11/25/01) I desire to lead you all on the way of holiness. Live my messages and put into life every word that I am giving you. May they be precious to you because they come from Heaven. (6/25/02) Little children, again I call you to pray, pray, pray, not with words but with the heart. Live my messages and be converted. (12/25/02) I call you to live my messages even more strongly in humility and love so that the Holy Spirit may fill you with His grace and strength. (4/25/04) Anew I call you to live my messages in humility. (5/25/05) Thank you, dearest Mother, for faithfully guiding us through these 40 years, especially through your messages. They have brought us light, hope and peace. They have also corrected us and convicted us when we have chosen the wrong road. You are the most faithful of mothers. We love you and choose to follow you in these most important days of the Triumph of your Immaculate Heart! In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021

Cry out the name of the Heavenly Father November 15, 2021 St. Albert the Great! Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady has consistently called us to draw closer to her Son, to the Holy Spirit, and to the Father. In these difficult days we need to draw close to the Lord at every moment. Listen to her call from 2014: April 2, 2014“Dear children, with a motherly love I desire to help you with your life of prayer and penance to be a sincere attempt at drawing closer to my Son and His divine light – that you may know how to separate yourselves from sin. Every prayer, every Mass and every fasting is an attempt at drawing closer to my Son, a reminder of His glory and a refuge from sin – it is a way to a renewed union of the good Father and His children.. Therefore, my dear children, with hearts open and full of love, cry out the name of the Heavenly Father that He may illuminate you with the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit you will become a spring of God’s love. All those who do not know my Son, all those thirsting for the love and peace of my Son, will drink from this spring. Thank you. Pray for your shepherds. I pray for them and I desire that they may always feel the blessing of my motherly hands and the support of my motherly heart.” We need to daily renew our union with the Father! In fact every day we long for Him more. I have included a quote from St. Albert the Great, whose feast day it is today. It is from the Magnificat for November 2021. St. Albert’s words moved me greatly. I hope they will help you as well: Do you want to draw closer to God without obstruction or hindrance, freely and in peace, as we have described? Do you want to be united and drawn to him in a union so close that it will endure in prosperity and adversity, in life and in death? Do not delay to commit all things with trustful confidence into the hands of his sure and infallible providence. Is it not most fitting that you should trust him who gives to all creatures, in the first place, their existence, power, and movement, and, secondly, their species and nature, ordering in all their number, weight, and measure? To him alone belong infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, essential mercy, justice, truth, and charity, immutable eternity, and immensity. Nothing can exist and act of its own power, but every creature acts of necessity by the power of God, the first moving cause, the first principle and origin of every action, who acts in every active being. From the infinitely great to the infinitely small nothing can escape his eternal Providence; nothing has been drawn from his control, either in the acts of free-will, in events we ascribe to chance or fate, or in what has been designed by him. We may go further: it is as impossible for God to make anything which does not fall within the dominion of his providence as it is for him to create anything which is not subject to his action. Divine providence, therefore, extends over all things, even the thoughts of man. This is the teaching of holy Scripture, for in the Epistle of Saint Peter it is written: Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you. And again Psalm 55 says: Cast your burden on the Lord and he will sustain you. Also, in Sirach we read: My children, behold the generations of men; and know that no one has hoped in the Lord, and has been confounded. For who has continued in his commandment, and has been forsaken? And the Lord himself says: Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “what shall we eat?”All that you can hope for from God, however great it may be, you shall without doubt receive according to the promise in Deuteronomy: Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. As much as you can desire you shall receive, and as far as the foot of your confidence reaches, so far you shall possess. Saint Albert the Great (Magnificat Vol. 23, No. 9/November 2021, P.196-97) In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021

Deb McEllistrem – Fruit Show 455 November 12, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! ” He sent me to you, to help you to grow in holiness….” Our Lady tells us that God has sent her to us to help us grow in holiness. Very early on in the apparitions she said to us: “Make progress in holiness through the messages. I will help you. Give your utmost and we will go together, sensitive to the sweetness of life, light, and joy.” (August 5, 1984) Notice that she tells us we can make progress in holiness through the messages! Each one of her messages is designed to bring us into a deeper relationship with God and to build holiness in us. She also said to us: “Dear children, if you live the messages, you are living the seed of holiness.” (October 10, 1985) Well I want to share with you the transcript of the most recent Fruit of Medjugorje testimony. It is by God’s design that Deb McEllistrem gave her testimony in October of this year! Because she shares something so beautiful and true about how Our Lady helped her grow in holiness through her messages. Deb teaches us all how to go through difficult times, holding the hand of Our Lady. It is very important advice for us now in these most difficult times: Hi Mary TV! My name is Debbie McEllistrem, and I am from Columbus, Ohio. I am here today to give my testimony about the Blessed Mother and how she intervened in my life during a very difficult time. I am giving this testimony, because in her most recent message (September 225, 2021) she asked us to give witness. So this is my story and my witness. I’ll try to keep it short, and I will give you spoiler alerts. It is about my husband’s passing when he had cancer. And how the Blessed Mother came into my life and really helped me through that time. In 2005 I met my husband. I had never been married before, and he had never been married before. Then in 2005 we got married, and in 2006 we had our daughter. Then when she was 5 my husband was diagnosed with cancer. And it was a rare, aggressive form of cancer called, “Double Hit Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma.” Double-Hit means it is two types of cancer at once. As if one type of cancer is not bad enough. He would go into the hospital for 3 to 5 days at a time and then come home for three weeks and then go back into the hospital for 3 to 5 days. He was diagnosed in June of 2012, when my daughter was 5, and he did that until December of 2012. Then they did a whole bunch of scans and gave us the results in January 2013. I was praying a lot in 2012, asking the Lord for a miracle to heal my husband. I would tell him, “I’m not that good of a parent! You can’t leave me with our daughter, I need him in our life.” She was the apple of his eye. People come into this world with a vocation, and his was to be a father. He was an amazing father. He was wonderful to her. So when we got the results of the first round of chemo therapy, it wasn’t good. They said, “It doesn’t look good and we will have to continue the chemo.” I had so much anxiety. You can’t even imagine. I would wake up in the middle of the night. I had never understood people who would pace, but then I understood them. I couldn’t watch TV, I couldn’t pray video game, I was just too distracted. I had all this energy at 2 or 3 in the morning, so I would pace back and forth downstairs on our main floor, and wring my hands. The anxiety level was through the roof. And I thought things like “what if he dies…what if this…what if that…” You know when someone has cancer they tend to have other things go wrong as well. So he had had a stroke, and he started to have issues with his heart because the Chemo was very aggressive, because the cancer was very aggressive. So there was a lot for me to have anxiety over. I would talk to my siblings and tell them what was going on but nothing seemed to help. My father was going through a bout of dementia and I didn’t want to burden my mother with more negativity. And so I wouldn’t call her or talk to her. So after about 2 or 3 weeks of just wringing my hands, two things happened. First, my friend, Roseanne, told me: “When you have anxiety it is because you are looking into the future and you are trying to predict what is going to happen. But the truth is, Debbie, you are not the master of time. You do not know what is going to happen in the future. And the Lord doesn’t give you the grace for 6 months from now, He gives you the grace for right now! That is all He gives us the grace for – the grace for today. It even says that in the “Our Father”, our daily bread. It doesn’t say our bread for 6 months from now. So she said “You don’t get to predict that.” The other thing that happened was I started to think, “What would my own mother, my earthly mother, Eleanor, do if she was in this situation?” And i thought, “She would pray!” And I thought, what was the biggest thing she did last? Well she had gone to Medjugorje in 1991. So I said, Ok that’s it, I am going to read the messages! So starting from 1981 all the way through to 2013, if I was up in the middle of the night I would read them, one message, two messages, 25 messages for how ever long I was up I just read the Blessed Mother’s messages. And slowly, over time I started to have peace. What was revealed to me was…Even if i take your husband, I am not going to abandon you…I will always be there for you… And a priest said to me once, “If the Lord takes your husband, then He Himself, will be that provider that your husband would have been had he been on earth with you. The Lord will be with you and take care of you and give you peace because He has taken your husband.” And I think that after hearing this and reading the messages, over time…and I wasn’t even good at it…I’m not like (some people) where they think deep thoughts through the messages…I just read them. But I just kept on reading, and the anxiety went away. And I still got up in the middle of the night and I started reading more and more of the messages. It took probably 5 months to read all the messages. There are a lot of messages! And I told my sister that I didn’t know what I would do now that I had read all the messages. Should I start over from the beginning? And my sister said: No you should watch Mary TV, because Denis and Cathy will give a message and then pray a decade of the Rosary, and then another message, and a decade…So I started watching Mary TV, and this was a long time ago, when Denis would count what episode we were on. And they would consecrate the internet to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and throw their Rosaries, and I would do it with them! I would do it in the middle of the night, and my husband would ask what that noise was!!! There are two things I want to say: The first thing is, and I believe it is the most important thing. I believe that there is a sixth stone. Our Blessed Mother talks about the 5 stones, right: The Bible, Prayer with the Heart, Confession, Fasting, and the Holy Eucharist. Those are the 5 stones. But there is a sixth stone. But she would never say there is a sixth stone, because the sixth stone is her messages. And if you read those messages and you have anxiety, they will give you peace. A peace that surpasses all understanding. The peace that you get when you read Sacred Scripture. The peace that you get when you have just received the Eucharist and you are alone with Jesus and you are just communing with Him. The peace that you have after you have come out of Confession. That peace will be yours if you just go through and read the messages! And you don’t have to think deep thoughts. You don’t have to be Padre Pio, I am certainly not. But just to read them…I believe they are the sixth stone! The Blessed Mother would never say anything that would offend Our Lord. And she is with Him all the time, in Heaven. So whatever words she comes to give us, she gives them for our good. For our salvation!. She even says that, “I come to speak for your salvation.” One of the messages that she gave us was: “If you can, grasp the Rosary…” And I say all these message, but i don’t really know them all that well. But I only know them because I watch Denis and Cathy, and these are the messages Denis quotes all the time…so “If you can grasp the Rosary! One Rosary alone can work miracles in the world and in your lives.” And so I try to always have a Rosary with me, and carry a Rosary with me to Mass. I tell my daughter that if i don’t have a Rosary with me, I don’t sleep well. So I always have the Rosary with me. And what the Blessed Mother did, as my husband was going through his cancer – through his last treatments – they gave him 2 weeks notice before he passed. And I just had a profound sense of calm. And people would come up to me and say, “I don’t understand how you do it. I would be a mess, how do you do it?” I tell them that if the Lord puts you in the situation then the Lord will give you the grace to deal with it. He doesn’t give you the grace for 6 months from now…He gives you the grace for today. That’s it, that is all He does. And so, slowly what the Blessed Mother did was that she started to build a net around me of people who would support me. So I would listen to Cathy and Denis, and my family would be a support, and my daughter was in kindergarten and 1st grade at the time, and the mothers would come to me at pick-up, and ask my how I was doing, and tell me they were praying for me. I had strangers stop me on the street and say things like, “My son works with you at the bank, and you don’t know me, but I and my whole church are praying for you and your husband.” Thousands of people prayed for us!!!! One reason I want to give this testimony is because in her last message the Blessed Mother says: “Give witness.” But I want to speak to anyone out there whose loved one might have cancer. I want to tell you to put everything on the Blessed Mother. She is your best friend. She wants to be there for you. And she will make your life heaven, even when it is supposed to be awful. Everyone tells you, “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe you are doing thing.’” She will build a safety net around you to help carry your through this difficult time. And it is that sixth stone that is her messages that will really help carry your through it. So right as my husband was passing…he passed on August 4, 2014… the Feast of St. John Vianney. I have a devotion to the Blessed Mother, clearly. But my husband really loved priests! And the Blessed Mother has a devotion to priests. Someone told me, “I wish he had passed on August 5, because that is her birthday. Then someone else said, “She doesn’t care about her birthday. She cares about priests. You might be devoted to the Blessed Mother, but the Blessed Mother is devoted to priests. And that is when she took your husband. And I thought that was powerful and gave me a great amount of peace. To know that on the Feast of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, my husband was in Heaven! So that was a Sunday and I went to Mass at 7:30 in the morning, and I was praying, “Lord let me know that he is with you. Somehow just tell me that he is with you” And I felt in my heart after communion to look up at the Tabernacle, (and my husband more than anything loved to laugh, and he was an amazing father, so he and Gabrielle would just laugh and joke around.) and as I looked at the Tabernacle I saw my husband just smiling, and laughing and saying everything is OK. It’s great now! You can’t wait to get here. It is so wonderful! So I always remember that. It was the Lord telling me that he is with Him now!! He is in Heaven, and he continues to look out for us! So I wear my necklace and I wear his wedding ring all the time. It has been 8 years, almost 9 years, since he passed and there is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of him. But right after he passed, I was listening to the radio, and the net was still being built by the Blessed Mother around me, and someone came on and announced that they were going to go to Medjugorje! And I thought, I am not going to Medjugorje, I just lost my husband. And then she said: we are going on September 23rd! Which is the feast day of Padre Pio, and my birthday!!! So I thought, Ok I am going. I don’t even know what I am doing. I don’t know if the Blessed Mother is going to pull up a chair and say “Here is what I did and why I did it!” I just decided I am going. So then I was watching Denis and Cathy, and they said: “We are going to Medjugorje, we will be there on September 23rd!! So if you want to meet us, we would love to meet you! So come out and meet us on September 23rd in Medjugorje!” So we arrived, and I called Cathy and Denis, and I said, “I’m in Medjugorje!” And I went and met them at the Blessed Mother Statue in front of St. James. And it was like meeting my parents! The start hugging you right away. The don’t even know your name: What’s your name? Give me a hug!” Then that same day, Vicka’s grandmother had a statue of the Blessed Mother, and and the statue started to glow. And I was able to get a picture of it. (You can see it on the video of Deb’s testimony!) Her mantle is glowing, green. It was another gift from Our Lady, saying that she was caring for me. I am sure Padre Pio had something to do with it too!! It was the Blessed Mother saying, “I am here with you and I won’t leave you alone. I am still building the net around you and I still love you, and I still think of you as my daughter, and I still want to be close to you, and I am with you…I want you to know you can do anything because I am with you.” That’s my testimony, and I wanted to thank her for all she has done for me, and for giving me my beautiful daughter who is so wonderful, and to just say thank you. So that’s my testimony! June 25, 2018 “Dear children! This is the day that the Lord gave me to give Him thanks for each of you, for those who have converted and have accepted my messages and have set out on the way of conversion and holiness. 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. I love you all and give you my Son that He may give you peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.” You can watch Deb’s testimony on our website, It is really powerful to hear her share such beautiful things from her heart!! I agree with her that the messages are the 6th stone!! They are a lifeline for us in these days. Here is the link: https://marytv.tv/fruit-of-medjugorje/?smid=iHwpT1s03pT&slid=9PIw6LzMsiy In Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2021