Author: Cathy Nolan

   (c) Mary TV J.M.J. June 16, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! 39th Anniversary Novena – Day 2 “I am your mother!” Over the years, Our Lady has made it very clear that she is our mother. Her fundamental relationship to us is as mother. She is a mother to each of us individually, and she has the particular attention to detail that only a mother can have for each of us. Nothing escapes her notice. She watches over each of us with enormous energy and dedication. We are the most fortunate of children to have Our Lady as our mother. Today, let’s rest in the peace and security of little children who have the best of mothers, and let our gratitude swell. Our Lady is tending to everything. She is leading us to the Father. As Our Lady said; “…Just look, my children, how the Heavenly Father loves you with a great love, with understanding, forgiveness and justice – how He gives me, the Mother of your hearts, to you. And here I am among you to bless you with a motherly blessing, to call you to prayer, to fasting – to tell you to believe, to hope, to forgive, to pray for your shepherds, and above all to love without limits. My children, follow me. My way is the way of peace and love, the way of my Son. It is the way that leads to the triumph of my heart. Thank you.” (June 2, 2019) Let’s pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary: The Annunciation: “Dear children! During these days my Lord is allowing me to be able to intercede more graces for you. Therefore, I wish to urge you once more to pray, dear children! Pray without ceasing! That way I will give you the joy which the Lord gives to me. With these graces, dear children, I want your sufferings to be a joy. I am your Mother and I desire to help you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”(July 19, 1986) The Visitation “Dear children! I thank you for your prayers and for the love you show toward me. I invite you to decide to pray for my intentions. Dear children, offer novenas, making sacrifices wherein you feel the most bound. I want your life to be bound to me. I am your Mother, little children, and I do not want satan to deceive you for He wants to lead you the wrong way, but he cannot if you do not permit him. Therefore, little children, renew prayer in your hearts, and then you will understand my call and my live desire to help you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”(July 25, 1993) The Birth of Jesus “Dear children! Today, on this day of grace, I desire for each of your hearts to become a little stable of Bethlehem in which the Savior of the world was born. I am your mother who loves you immeasurably and is concerned for each of you. Therefore, my children, abandon yourselves to the mother, so that she may place each of your hearts and lives before little Jesus; because only in this way, my children, your hearts will be witnesses of God’s daily birth in you. Permit God to illuminate your lives with light and your hearts with joy, so that you may daily illuminate the way and be an example of true joy to others who live in darkness and are not open to God and His graces. Thank you for having responded to my call.”(December 25, 2014 Jakov) The Presentation “Dear children! I am coming among you because I desire to be your mother – your intercessor. I desire to be the bond between you and the Heavenly Father – your mediatrix. I desire to take you by the hand and to walk with you in the battle against the impure spirit. My children, consecrate yourselves to me completely. I will take your lives into my motherly hands and I will teach them peace and love, and then I will give them over to my Son. I am asking of you to pray and fast because only in this way will you know how to witness my Son in the right way through my motherly heart. Pray for your shepherds that, united in my Son, they can always joyfully proclaim the Word of God. Thank you.”(March 18, 2012 Mirjana) The Finding in the Temple “Dear children! With joy in the heart I love you all and call you to draw closer to my Immaculate Heart so I can draw you still closer to my Son Jesus, and that He can give you His peace and love, which are nourishment for each one of you. Open yourselves, little children, to prayer – open yourselves to my love. I am your mother and cannot leave you alone in wandering and sin. You are called, little children, to be my children, my beloved children, so I can present you all to my Son. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (June 25, 2013) Our Lady considers us all her children.  Jesus gave us to her just before He died on the Cross: But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag’dalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.  (John 19: 25-27) Only Our Lady, in her purity and holiness could have accepted such a job, to be Mother to such needy, broken, sinful, misguided and wounded people as us!  But she said “yes” just as she said “yes” to the Angel Gabriel all those years before.  Our Mother never holds back.  She gives all of herself.  And so we want to accept her motherhood, and return the “yes”.  Yes, you are our Mother and we love you.  We will obey you and follow you to Jesus!! Dear Mother Mary, we gather together to pray this novena, with deep gratitude for your presence in our midst. You have come to show us the way to heaven. The Heavenly Father has sent you to us to help us to repent and return to Him. You are coming to be the bond between us and the Heavenly Father, and to help us to love and serve His Son. You pray with us for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because you have told us that when we have the Holy Spirit, we have everything. Therefore we ask that during this Novena you will help us to bond with you and through you with our Triune God who loves us so much. We ask that every grace can be poured out upon our shepherds during these nine days, that they will be strengthened and purified for the days ahead, these most triumphant days of the Triumph of your Immaculate Heart! Thank you, dearest Mother!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020

(c) Mary TV J.M.J. June 15, 2020 Novena for the 39th Anniversary of Our Lady’s coming in Medjugorje: Day 1 Dear Family of Mary! Today we begin a very blessed novena! It is the Novena for the 39th Anniversary of Our Lady’s coming in Medjugorje. We will be praying with the St. James Parish in thanksgiving to God for sending Our Mother to Medjugorje to be with us and help us. We will also be joining with Our Lady to do intercession as she asked in her June 2, 2017 message: “Apostles of my love, the world is in such need of your arms raised towards Heaven, towards my Son, towards the Heavenly Father.” This is the time to pray for the salvation of souls, to raise our arms and our hearts to God for the sake of the world. The Parish of St. James will climb Apparition Hill every day of the novena, starting at 4:00 pm Medjugorje time. Mary TV will stream this event, live, every day (weather permitting) at www.marytv.tv . We can all join in the prayer of the Rosary with the Parish as they climb the hill where Our Lady first appeared to the visionaries back in 1981. Mary TV will have to rearrange our schedule to accommodate the Parish Novena. Here is how our daily schedule will look from Monday, June 15 through Tuesday, June 23: 3:00 pm Medjugorje time – (9:00 am EDT) –   The Daily Rosary with Denis and Cathy   4:00 pm Medjugorje time – (10:00 am EDT) –   Parish 39th Anniversary Novena climbing Apparition Hill 6:00 pm Medjugorje time – (12:00 pm EDT) –   Parish Evening Rosary 7:00 pm Medjugorje Time – (1:00 pm EDT) International Mass (Hour of Mercy will be combined with the Daily Rosary!) Each day we will have 5 messages to reflect upon and possibly use during our Rosary Prayer. We are really grateful to be able to participate in this novena in such a tangible way. To pray with the parish, on the hill and at the church in the evening, live over the internet, is a great blessing. Thank you to all of you who pray for and support Mary TV! You are giving a great gift to us all! Day One – 39th Anniversary Novena Prayer to the Queen of Peace Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, Queen of Peace! You came to us to lead us to God. Obtain for us the grace not only to say: “Be it done to me according to Your will!”, but to live it, as You did. Into Your hands we put our hands, so that You may lead us to Him amidst these afflictions and woes. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen. Today we will meditate on the amazing gift of Our Lady’s presence in Medjugorje for 39 years now! Who would have guessed she would be able to come to us every day for all these years. God’s mercy is very great. Our Lady calls us to understand the importance of her coming in this message: 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.” Let us pray this Rosary in joy and gratitude that Our Lady is still with us!The Joyful Mysteries The Annunciation: September 02, 2012 “Dear children, as my eyes are looking at you, my soul is seeking those souls with whom it desires to be one – the souls who have understood the importance of prayer for those of my children who have not come to know the love of the Heavenly Father. I am calling you because I need you. Accept the mission and do not be afraid, I will strengthen you. I will fill you with my graces. With my love I will protect you from the evil spirit. I will be with you. With my presence I will console you in difficult moments. Thank you for your open hearts. Pray for priests. Pray that the unity between my Son and them may be all the stronger, that they may be one. Thank you.” The Visitation: June 25, 2011 “Dear children! Give thanks with me to the Most High for my presence with you. My heart is joyful watching the love and joy in the living of my messages. Many of you have responded, but I wait for, and seek, all the hearts that have fallen asleep to awaken from the sleep of unbelief. Little children, draw even closer to my Immaculate Heart so that I can lead all of you toward eternity. Thank you for having responded to my call.” The Birth of Jesus: June 25, 1991 “Dear children! Today on this great day which you have given to me, I desire to bless all of you and to say: these days while I am with you are days of grace. I desire to teach you and help you to walk the way of holiness. There are many people who do not desire to understand my messages and to accept with seriousness what I am saying. But you I therefore call and ask that by your lives and by your daily living you witness my presence. If you pray, God will help you to discover the true reason for my coming. Therefore, little children, pray and read the Sacred Scriptures so that through my coming you discover the message in Sacred Scripture for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” The Presentation in the Temple July 25, 1995 “Dear children! Today I invite you to prayer because only in prayer can you understand my coming here. The Holy Spirit will enlighten you to understand that you must convert. Little children, I wish to make of you a most beautiful bouquet prepared for eternity but you do not accept the way of conversion, the way of salvation that I am offering you through these apparitions. Little children, pray, convert your hearts and come closer to me. May good overcome evil. I love you and bless you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” The Finding in the Temple March 25, 2003 “Dear children! Also today I call you to pray for peace. Pray with the heart, little children, and do not lose hope because God loves His creatures. He desires to save you, one by one, through my coming here. I call you to the way of holiness. Pray, and in prayer you are open to God’s will; in this way, in everything you do, you realize God’s plan in you and through you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Let us pray: Dear Mother Mary, we gather together to pray this novena, with deep gratitude for your presence in our midst. You have come to show us the way to heaven. The Heavenly Father has sent you to us to help us to repent and return to Him. You are coming to be the bond between us and the Heavenly Father, and to help us to love and serve His Son. You pray with us for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, because you have told us that when we have the Holy Spirit, we have everything. Therefore we ask that during this Novena you will help us to bond with you and through you with our Triune God who loves us so much. We ask that every grace can be poured out upon our shepherds during these nine days, that they will be strengthened and purified for the days ahead, these most triumphant days of the Triumph of your Immaculate Heart! Thank you, dearest Mother!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

(c)Mary TV 2020 June 12, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! Here is a screen shot of the Corpus Christi Procession in Medjugorje, streamed live on our website last night – (June 11, 2020, Feast of Corpus Christi).  Thanks Traci for sharing this shot with me.  It was an extraordinary event, so prayerful and peaceful and full of love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  Thanks be to God that people from all over the world were able to take part in this procession, virtually!!  Jesus we love you!!! I want to share a beautiful Litany to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, written by St. Peter Julian Eymard.  It is just full of beautiful words of love and faith to Our Lord! Litany to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament Written by St. Peter Julian Eymard, the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers. Lord, have mercy. R. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. R. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. R. Lord, have mercy. Christ, hear us. R. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, R. have mercy on us. God the Son, Redeemer of the world, R. have mercy on us. God the Holy Spirit, R. have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, Eternal High Priest of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, Divine Victim on the Altar for our salvation, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, hidden under the appearance of bread, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, dwelling in the tabernacles of the world, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, really, truly and substantially present in the Blessed Sacrament, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, abiding in Your fullness, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, Bread of Life, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, Bread of Angels, R. have mercy on us. Jesus, with us always until the end of the world, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, summit and source of all worship and Christian life, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, sign and cause of the unity of the Church, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, adored by countless angels, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, spiritual food, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, Sacrament of love, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, bond of charity, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, greatest aid to holiness, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, gift and glory of the priesthood, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, in which we partake of Christ, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, in which the soul is filled with grace, R. have mercy on us. Sacred Host, in which we are given a pledge of future glory, R. have mercy on us. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. For those who do not believe in Your Eucharistic presence, R. have mercy, O Lord. For those who are indifferent to the Sacrament of Your love, R. have mercy on us. For those who have offended You in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, R. have mercy on us. That we may show fitting reverence when entering Your holy temple, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may make suitable preparation before approaching the Altar, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may receive You frequently in Holy Communion with real devotion and true humility, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may never neglect to thank You for so wonderful a blessing, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may cherish time spent in silent prayer before You, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may grow in knowledge of this Sacrament of sacraments, R. we beseech You, hear us. That all priests may have a profound love of the Holy Eucharist, R. we beseech You, hear us. That they may celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in accordance with its sublime dignity, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may be comforted and sanctified with Holy Viaticum at the hour of our death, R. we beseech You, hear us. That we may see You one day face to face in Heaven, R. we beseech You, hear us. Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, R. spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, R. graciously hear us, O Lord. Lamb of God, You take away the sins of the world, R. have mercy on us, O Lord. V. O Sacrament Most Holy, O Sacrament Divine, R. all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine. Let us pray, Most merciful Father, You continue to draw us to Yourself through the Eucharistic Mystery. Grant us fervent faith in this Sacrament of love, in which Christ the Lord Himself is contained, offered and received. We make this prayer through the same Christ our Lord. R. Amen. Nihil Obstat: Very Reverend Peter J. Kenny, D.D., Diocesan Censor Imprimatur: Most Reverend Denis J Hart DD Titular Bishop of Vagada Vicar General In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2020  

(c)Mary TV June 11, 2020 St. Barnabas, Apostle Dear Family of Mary!! I think that we shipmates have been given a beautiful secret this week. As we pray together every day over the digital sea, we are being given an understanding of Our Lady’s plan that is not evident to everyone. Our Lady is about the work of defeating Satan, right now. But if we miss that very important fact, like most of the world misses it, we could become filled with fear. Because the events of the world are out of control by the likes of us. Still, it is not out of Our Lady’s control. She is here to crush the head of Satan. That said, I want to share a word from Reuben that is a response to the Rosary on June 10. I think he is really on to something: March 2nd, 2015: “Dear children, you are my strength. You, my apostles, who with your love, humility and silence of prayer are making it possible for one to come to know my Son, you live in me……….” In the rosary for June 10th, Cathy read from the message above, and pointed out how it seemed to answer the call we make by Mother Immaculata’s prayer that Mary might live in us. How precious that little phrase spoken in 2015 is when we see it as the response to a prayer written in 1956. How dear it is to know Our Lady is listening so carefully to every word we speak, and that we are in a real and evolving conversation with the Mother whom we love so much! In this same rosary on June 10th, Saint Scholastica was the saint who chose to come and pray with us. She is the sister of Saint Benedict, who was the founder of the Benedictine order. Denis reminded us of a great story about Scholastica. Her brother was visiting her for his annual visit, and it came to the time that he was due to return to his monastery. Scholastica was heartbroken, and begged Benedict to stay, but he insisted he needed to leave on time in order to obey the very rule of life which he’d authored for the whole Benedictine order. Scholastica bowed her head in prayer to God the Father, asking Him to intervene somehow to keep Benedict back, and because she did so out of a dear love for her brother, God agreed to do so and sent an almighty storm to keep her beloved brother with her for another delightful night! It was so lovely to be reminded of this story, especially given that there were sounds of thunder from above Denis and Cathy’s heads at just about the same time as Scholastica was choosing us for the rosary!  I felt like Scholastica was affirming something very important for the whole family of many brothers and sisters that makes up Mary TV. By her presence, and the sound of the storm, I heard a still small voice beyond it. I sensed that everything will be ok, because we are all holed up together on the digital sea for yet another delightful night, and that all the storms which we are presently experiencing are not to be feared or rallied against in any way, because they are the very sufferings that God has allowed so as to make our prayerful unity possible! We should never moan about the permissive will of the Father- by which he allows certain evils to occur for greater goods beyond them – because all the storms he sends are intended for our response of love and unity. So how do we respond, I wonder, to this greatest gift of Our Lady’s presence with us? How can we possibly dare to respond to this extraordinary grace of living in Mary? Well, she told us what we should do in that same message given above. We should respond with “love, humility, and silence of prayer”. In fact, we might well say our response is much more about what we don’t do. If we remain little and silent and prayerful, we don’t do what the rest of the human population is doing. We make an active point of not fretting or raging or getting too big for our boots. This resistance to the world’s reactive energy is surely very important now, especially for those of us (like me!) who may be rather too inclined to look for the big plan or powerful gesture.  There definitely is a big plan unfolding here, but it’s definitely not mine to orchestrate. In fact, the longer I look for the big picture, the more liable I may be to trip over myself and fall flat on my face! When the permanent sign descends on Apparition Hill, we want to make sure we are already looking well beyond the sign to the heavenly realities it points us to. We don’t want to be so transfixed by the powerful gesture, that we have forgotten to unite ourselves with the love that causes it. Our Lady is with us in this most mighty of spiritual storms. Indeed, she is in the very eye of this storm, where it’s quiet and still. She’s there to meet the one who is drumming up the storm, because this is her allotted hour to triumph over all Satan’s works. Let’s let the Mother do it! Our response does not need to be as mighty as hers. It doesn’t even need to be pretty. We just need to do what Benedict did and stay another night with the ones whom we love! – Reuben!! Thank you, dear Reuben!! Yes, yes, yes!! Our Lady is indeed in the center of this storm, unseen and discounted by the powers that be. But she is going to win!! She is triumphing!! We have only to pray and be her children, with complete trust. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 PS. Today in Medjugorje is the Feast of Corpus Christi!! Mary TV will stream the procession after the Evening Program, which will travel around the village with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament!! Join us, live!! PPS. Let’s pray this prayer together now, and daily from now on, even often throughout the day!! Totus Tuus (Totally Yours) Immaculate Conception, Mary my Mother, Live in me, Act in me, Speak in me and through me, Think your thoughts in my mind, Love through my heart, Give me your dispositions and feelings, Teach, lead me and guide me to Jesus, Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior, Possess my soul, Take over my entire personality and life, replace it with Yourself, Incline me to constant adoration, Pray in me and through me, Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. Amen © 1956, Mother Immaculata, OCD  

(c)Mary TV June 10, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “My heart is burning with love for you…”  (April 25, 1983) I would like to follow up on our discussion yesterday about Our Lady being “incandescent heat in the heart of the Trinity”. Reuben Purchase shared about the beautiful Sanctuary of the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, with the images of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit preparing to crown Our Lady. The rays of grace were streaming from the Holy Spirit through the crown over Our Lady, who stands beneath it, pure white and beautiful. Reuben felt like this was a good representation of what it might be like to see Mary in the heart of the Holy Trinity, glowing, incandescent, with the Power of God! I agree!! And I would like to share about how we first heard about Our Lady as “incandescent heat in the heart of the Trinity!” We first heard this from Mother Immaculata, OCD. She was the Prioress of the Mount Carmel Hermitage in Bloomingdale, Ohio. (Mother Immaculata died on February 3, 2013. Mother Immaculata, pray for us!) Denis and she were exchanging letters about Our Lady of Medjugorje! Mother had been to Medjugorje in 1993 and had kept up on the events ever since. In a letter to Denis, dated September 13, 2011, Mother shared about her conviction that Our Lady’s triumph was under way! She wrote: “Absolutely, this is Mary’s hour and she is about to crush Satan’s head. Her very being is like incandescent heat in the center of the Trinity and the manifestation of her power is growing daily. The Immaculate Conception Prayer (which is what Our Lady called the prayer she gave me for union with her) has been used by exorcists who have told me that the devil reacts violently to it and is subdued by it.” Denis and I have never forgotten those powerful words from Mother Immaculata! They describe so perfectly what is happening in our day. Our Lady’s power is growing, as her Triumph nears! Her power is love. And the love that she is pouring out on all of us is extending her reign of love through each of us! We are all becoming “incandescent heat” more or less as we unite our hearts to her heart. That “heat” is the love of God which crushes the head of Satan. (And as the exorcists have told Mother, I think that if we are being tempted in any way, saying this prayer will drive the enemy far away, and keep our souls safe.) Here is her prayer, the “Totus Tuus Prayer”! Our Lady gave it to Mother Immaculata in 1956! It is so very powerful because in it we ask that we become completely united with Mary, in every way! In that unity, her purity and holiness, her love and faith can be manifested in each of us, and together we can rout the enemy, making him flee. This is what will cure the earth of all sin. Our Lady’s presence and purity bring Jesus to earth as the King of all!! Let’s pray this prayer together now, and daily from now on, even often throughout the day!! Totus Tuus (Totally Yours) Immaculate Conception, Mary my Mother, Live in me, Act in me, Speak in me and through me, Think your thoughts in my mind, Love through my heart, Give me your dispositions and feelings, Teach, lead me and guide me to Jesus, Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior, Possess my soul, Take over my entire personality and life, replace it with Yourself, Incline me to constant adoration, Pray in me and through me, Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. Amen © 1956, Mother Immaculata, OCD Truly, we can partake of the incandescent heat of Our Lady’s heart, through unity with her, and through her, with the Trinity! This is the hour of her Triumph! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

The Shrine of Divine Mercy Stockbridge, Massachusetts The Marians of the Immaculate Conception   June 9, 2020 St. Ephrem of Syria Dear Family of Mary! Today our brother, Reuben, shares with us something beautiful he discovered about Our Lady in relation to the Blessed Trinity! It makes me so excited!! He heard Denis and me talking about something that Mother Immaculata had said about Our Lady to us in a letter she wrote to us in 2011. She said: “This is Mary’s hour and she is about to crush Satan’s head. Her very being is like incandescent heat in the center of the Trinity and the manifestation of her power is growing daily!” I will share more about Mother Immaculata tomorrow. But here is Reuben’s reflection on Our Lady’s Incandescence!! Our Lady as the “Incandescence of the Trinity”. We’ve just celebrated Trinity Sunday. I was praying the rosary with Mary TV just after attending “virtual” Mass at the Shrine of Divine Mercy, Stockbridge. I was listening to Denis and Cathy speak about the Sister Immaculata’s observation that Our Lady is like the “incandescence” at the heart of the Trinity.  This discussion reminded me of the sacred art above the shrine’s altar. It’s such a great visual representation of how the power of all three Persons of the Trinity are drawn down through Mary’s crown to light up her majestic figure. She is a strong and mighty figure, glorious and white as Christ might have been at the Transfiguration, and she is standing just above Divine Mercy, as the herald she surely is for these last days of God’s unfathomable desire to forgive and forget our sins. This idea of “incandescence” also makes me think of Mary’s Magnificat. Scripture tells us that Mary ‘magnifies the Lord”. This line always makes me think of a magnifying glass picking up the rays of the sun and setting alight the dry ground. This must have been what her presence – her heart – was like during the nine days awaiting Pentecost. She must have been so focused on prayer, a creature so empty of self-interest, and so pure in love, that she can serve as a vessel to enflame the whole environment of apostles around her. Perhaps that’s why Mary calls us her “Apostles of Light”! Perhaps she wants to do the same for us! This is why Medjugorje, and Medjugorje’s pilgrims, are so aflame with the faith, because the little Mother is always with us, praying. Now I look again to the altarpiece at Stockbridge, and I see how Mary’s crown is itself like a magnifying glass. The hole in its centre is empty, and small, as empty and small as the ego of Mary. The Persons of the Trinity are all looking lovingly down on the splendour of that crown’s humility. They see the victory of love in its tiny, unseen centre, and so do we who see the Mother in Medjugorje! The crowning of Mary is a herald for us all. It stands over Divine Mercy for us all. It announces that we who are small too can also be God’s royal children! That is the incandescence of the Trinity: its burning scandal of love, to bend down among us who are nothing but dust and raise us up to the throne!  How blessed we are to stand beneath the figures of Mary and Jesus in this bright-lit time. (Reuben Purchase) Thank you so much Reuben!  So beautiful!!! And t hank you Dearest Mother, Queen of Peace and Queen of Divine Mercy! Your selfless and pure love for God allows the Trinitarian love to flow through your heart to our hearts, magnifying and sharing that heat, that fire of love that they give to you, with us, and setting us aflame!! May we be set on fire with that same love and in turn set the entire world on fire!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

Eternal Beatitude (c) Mary TV   June 8, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “My children; Again, in a motherly way, I implore you to stop for a moment and to reflect on yourselves and on the transience of this your earthly life. Then reflect on eternity and the eternal beatitude. What do you want? Which way do you want to set out on? The Father`s love sends me to be a mediatrix for you, to show you with motherly love the way which leads to the purity of soul; a soul unburdened by sin; a soul that will come to know eternity. I am praying that the light of the love of my Son may illuminate you, so that you may triumph over weaknesses and come out of misery. You are my children and I desire for all of you to be on the way of salvation. Therefore, my children, gather around me that I may have you come to know the love of my Son and thus open the door of eternal beatitude. Pray as I do for your shepherds. Again, I caution you: do not judge them, because my Son chose them. Thank you.” (July 2, 2012) The Gospel for today is from Matthew, the Beatitudes. This wonderful list of blessed states of being clearly shows us the way to Heaven and “eternal beatitude” as Our Lady calls it. To achieve these ways of being, she tells us: “The Father`s love sends me to be a mediatrix for you, to show you with motherly love the way which leads to the purity of soul; a soul unburdened by sin; a soul that will come to know eternity. I am praying that the light of the love of my Son may illuminate you, so that you may triumph over weaknesses and come out of misery.” The Light of Jesus does show us the way to peace and holiness. The Beatitudes! Today’s Gospel Reading: When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit,/ for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven./ Blessed are they who mourn,/ for they will be comforted./ Blessed are the meek,/ for they will inherit the land./ Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,/ for they will be satisfied./ Blessed are the merciful,/ for they will be shown mercy./ Blessed are the clean of heart,/ for they will see God./ Blessed are the peacemakers,/ for they will be called children of God./ Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,/ for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven./ Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus, they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Mt 5 :1-11) Mother Mary, as our teacher and guide, help us to become like your Son, through living these Beatitudes, so that one day we will be in Eternal Beatitude! Thank you, Mother! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020  

Put Jesus in the first place in your life… (c) Mary TV   June 5, 2020 St. Boniface Dear Family of Mary! Today I feel we should listen to Our Lady as she calls us to pray for peace. She has called us consistently throughout her time with us in Medjugorje to pray for peace. Have we really understood her call? Have we responded to her call? Is there still time? Mother, we want to listen again to your words about peace. May we open our hearts to your call: December 25, 1990 “Dear children! Today I invite you in a special way to pray for peace. Dear children, without peace you cannot experience the birth of the little Jesus neither today nor in your daily lives. Therefore, pray the Lord of Peace that He may protect you with His mantle and that He may help you to comprehend the greatness and the importance of peace in your heart. In this way you shall be able to spread peace from your heart throughout the whole world. I am with you and I intercede for you before God. Pray, because satan wants to destroy my plans of peace. Be reconciled with one another and by means of your lives help peace reign in the whole earth. Thank you for having responded to my call.” July 25, 1991 “Dear Children! Today I invite you to pray for peace. At this time peace is being threatened in a special way, and I am seeking from you to renew fasting and prayer in your families. Dear children, I desire you to grasp the seriousness of the situation and that much of what will happen depends on your prayers and you are praying a little bit. Dear children, I am with you and I am inviting you to begin to pray and fast seriously as in the first days of my coming. Thank you for having responded to my call.” March 25, 1993 “Dear children! Today like never I call you to pray for peace, for peace in your hearts, peace in your families and peace in the whole world, because satan wants war, wants lack of peace, wants to destroy all which is good. Therefore, dear children, pray, pray, pray. Thank you for having responded to my call.” September 25, 2002 “Dear children! Also in this peaceless time, I call you to prayer. Little children, pray for peace so that in the world every person would feel love towards peace. Only when the soul finds peace in God, it feels content and love will begin to flow in the world. And in a special way, little children, you are called to live and witness peace – peace in your hearts and families – and, through you, peace will also begin to flow in the world. Thank you for having responded to my call.” April 25, 2009 “Dear children! Today I call you all to pray for peace and to witness it in your families so that peace may become the highest treasure on this peaceless earth. I am your Queen of Peace and your mother. I desire to lead you on the way of peace, which comes only from God. Therefore, pray, pray, pray. Thank you for having responded to my call.” December 25, 2016 (Jakov) “Dear children! Today, on this day of grace, in a special way, I am calling you to pray for peace. Children, I came here as the Queen of Peace and how many times have I called you to pray for peace. But, children, your hearts are restless. Sin is preventing you from opening yourselves completely to grace and peace which God desires to give you. To live peace, my children, is to first have peace in your hearts and to be surrendered completely to God and to His will. Do not seek peace and joy in the things of this world, because this is all passing. Long for true mercy and peace which come only from God; and only in this way will your hearts be filled with true joy; and only in this way will you be able to become witnesses of peace in this peaceless world. I am your mother and intercede before my Son for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” January 25, 2017 “Dear children! Today I am calling you to pray for peace: peace in human hearts, peace in the families and peace in the world. Satan is strong and wants to turn all of you against God, and to return you to everything that is human, and to destroy in the heart all feelings towards God and the things of God. You, little children, pray and fight against materialism, modernism and egoism, which the world offers to you. Little children, you decide for holiness and I, with my Son Jesus, intercede for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Thank you, dearest Mother, for your messages of peace. Help us to respond anew to your call. We pray for the whole world to be given peace, the peace that only God can give. May it be so. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020