Author: Cathy Nolan

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 25, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! Today we will receive a message from Our Lady. In the meantime, let’s pray another little litany to the Holy Spirit based on Our Lady’s words to us in her messages from Medjugorje: A Little Litany to the Holy Spirit from Our Lady #2 Our Lady: “Your soul is restless because your spirit is weak and tired from all worldly things. You, little children, pray to the Holy Spirit that He may transform you and fill you with His strength of faith and hope, so that you may be firm in this battle against evil.” (April 25, 2015) Response: Come Holy Spirit, strengthen my faith and hope, that I may be firm in the battle against evil.” Our Lady: “Dear children! Also today I am praying to the Holy Spirit to fill your hearts with a strong faith. Prayer and faith will fill your heart with love and joy and you will be a sign for those who are far from God…” (September 25, 2015) Response: Come Holy Spirit and fill my heart with strong faith and love, that I may be a sign for others.” Our Lady: “Little children, pray so that the Holy Spirit may lead you on the real way of joy and peace. I am with you and intercede before my Son for you.” (May 25, 2016) Response: Come Holy Spirit, and lead me on the real way of joy and peace. Our Lady: “Do not be afraid. Pray for the Holy Spirit to give you the strength to be joyful witnesses and people of peace and hope.” (December 25, 2017) Response: Come Holy Spirit and take away my fear, replacing it with peace and hope. Our Lady: “I am preparing you for the new times that you may be firm in faith and persevering in prayer, so that the Holy Spirit may work through you and renew the face of the earth. (June 25, 2019) Response: Come Holy Spirit and work through me for the renewal of whole world! Our Lady: “Pray, little children, in solitude, to the Holy Spirit to strengthen you in faith and trust in God, that you may be worthy witnesses of the love which God bestows upon you through my presence.” (April 25, 2020) Response; Come Holy Spirit, and make me a worthy witness of the love which God bestows upon me through Our Lady’s presence!! Our Lady: “Dear children, Today I call you to open your hearts to the Holy Spirit and permit Him to transform you….The Holy Spirit will strengthen [God’s] love in you and you will be able to call God your Father…” (November 2, 2007) Response: Come Holy Spirit and transform me so that I may call God my Father! Our Lady: “Through the Holy Spirit the Kingdom of Heaven will be born in your hearts. I am leading you to this.” (December 2, 2010) Response: Come Holy Spirit and bring the Kingdom of Heaven to birth in my heart! Our Lady: “Say ‘yes’ to the Father with the heart and set out on the way of salvation to which He is calling you through the Holy Spirit.” (May 2, 2011) Response: Come Holy Spirit and help me say “yes” to the Father and lead me on the way of salvation! Our Lady: “You, my children, are gathering around me full of enthusiasm, desires and expectations, and I implore the Good Father to, through the Holy Spirit, put my Son – faith – into your purified hearts…” (July 2, 2011) Response: Come Holy Spirit and purify my heart that I may receive the Father’s gift of His Son. We pray together to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020 PS. I will send out the message as soon as I get it!!  

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 22, 2020 St. Rita of Cascia Dear Family of Mary! We begin the Novena to the Holy Spirit today!! Fr. Leon will pray with us each day on Mary TV in the Channel, and in the “Novena” archive on the home page. Come, Holy Spirit! Today I have compiled a little Litany of quotes from Our Lady’s messages about the Holy Spirit. I find it very calming to ponder and pray over her words to us. She is our Heavenly Mother! Her words are full of healing and love for her children. (The responses are all in the first person, “me”, because I find it more meditative, but if you say the litany with others, you can change it to “us”!) A Little Litany to the Holy Spirit from Our Lady, Queen of Peace! Our Lady: Today I invite you to open yourselves to God by means of prayer so the Holy Spirit may begin to work miracles in you and through you. May 25, 1993 Response: Come Holy Spirit and work miracles in me and through me! Our Lady: I invite you again to open to prayer so that in prayer the Holy Spirit will help you, that your hearts become of flesh and not of stone. June 25, 1996 Response: Come Holy Spirit and change my heart to flesh! Our Lady: May your heart be prepared to listen to, and live, everything which the Holy Spirit has in His plan for each of you. Little children, allow the Holy Spirit to lead you on the way of truth and salvation towards eternal life. May 25, 1998 Response: Come Holy Spirit and lead me on the way of truth! Our Lady: Pray, little children, that the Holy Spirit may come to dwell in you in fullness, so that you may be able to witness in joy to all those who are far from faith. May 25, 2000 Response: Come Holy Spirit and dwell in me in your fullness! Our Lady: Bless and seek the wisdom of the Holy Spirit to lead you at this time so that you may comprehend and live in the grace of this time. May 25, 2001 Response: Come Holy Spirit and fill me with your wisdom! Our Lady: Renew your personal prayer, and in a special way pray to the Holy Spirit to help you pray with the heart. May 25, 2003 Response: Come Holy Spirit and help me pray with the Heart! Our Lady: By prayer and the reading of Sacred Scripture, may the Holy Spirit, who will renew you, enter into your families. In this way, you will become teachers of the faith in your family. April 25, 2005 Response: Come Holy Spirit and teach me through prayer and Sacred Scripture Our Lady: In silence may the Holy Spirit speak to you and permit Him to convert and change you. July 25, 2006 Response: Come Holy Spirit and speak to me in the silence…! Our Lady: Dear children! Pray with me to the Holy Spirit for Him to lead you in the search of God’s will on the way of your holiness. May 25, 2007 Response:   Come Holy Spirit and lead me in the search for God’s will! Our Lady: Dear children! In this time, I call you all to pray for the coming of the Holy Spirit upon every baptized creature, so that the Holy Spirit may renew you all and lead you on the way of witnessing your faith. May 25, 2009 Response: Come Holy Spirit and renew me and lead me in witnessing my faith! Our Lady: “Dear children! May this time be for you a time of prayer and silence. Rest your body and spirit, may they be in God’s love… Permit me, little children, to lead you, open your hearts to the Holy Spirit so that all the good that is in you may blossom and bear fruit one hundred fold. Begin and end the day with prayer with the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.” July 25, 2011 Response: Come Holy Spirit into my heart so that the good in me may blossom and bear fruit one hundred fold! We pray together to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020 PS. I will try to compose a couple more litanies during this time as we pray for the coming of the Holy Spirit!!  

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 21, 2020 The Ascension of the Lord Dear Family of Mary! On this day we celebrate that incredible moment when Jesus ascended into Heaven! He had spent 40 days with the Apostles, confirming them in the truth of His Resurrection and commissioning them as His Apostles. But the time had come for Jesus to ascend into Heaven. He did it in plain sight, for all his disciples to see. It is for us a basic truth of our faith, something we declare that we believe whenever we pray the Creed. Jesus ascended to the Father, into heaven!! And it is for us a hope for our future. One day we will follow Him to our eternal homeland, body and soul, just like Him. Here is the account from Acts Chapter 1: So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Sama’ria and to the end of the earth.” And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” (Acts 1:6-11) We need to stay in touch with this incredible truth. Jesus ascended into Heaven. We will one day join Him. And Heaven needs to be our goal, our destiny, our hope and our heartfelt desire. Without this hope, we will not have the courage to persevere. Heaven is our home. We are on our way. Jesus has provided the way and Mary is with us now to help us on the journey. Here are five of Our Lady’s messages in which she points us to heaven, and to Jesus. We might pray the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary today, and read a message before each decade, to help us keep our focus on Heaven and our future! November 27, 1986 “Dear children! Again, today I call you to consecrate your life to me with love, so I am able to guide you with love. I love you, dear children, with a special love and I desire to bring you all to Heaven unto God. I want you to realize that this life lasts briefly compared to the one in Heaven. Therefore, dear children, decide again today for God. Only that way will I be able to show how much you are dear to me and how much I desire all to be saved and to be with me in Heaven. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May 25, 1987 “Dear children! I am calling every one of you to start living in God’s love. Dear children, you are ready to commit sin, and to put yourselves in the hand of satan without reflecting. I call on each one of you to consciously decide for God and against satan. I am your Mother and, therefore, I want to lead you all to perfect holiness. I want each one of you to be happy here on earth and to be with me in Heaven. That is, dear children, the purpose of my coming here and it’s my desire. Thank you for having responded to my call.” August 25, 1998 “Dear children! Today I invite you to come still closer to me through prayer. Little children, I am your mother, I love you and I desire that each of you be saved and thus be with me in Heaven. That is why, little children, pray, pray, pray until your life becomes prayer… Thank you for having responded to my call.” July 25, 2000 “Dear children! Do not forget that you are here on earth on the way to eternity and that your home is in Heaven. That is why, little children, be open to God’s love and leave egoism and sin. May your joy be only in discovering God in daily prayer. That is why, make good use of this time and pray, pray, pray; and God is near to you in prayer and through prayer. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May 25, 2018 “Dear children! In this peaceless time, I am calling you to have more trust in God who is your Father in Heaven and who has sent me to lead you to Him. You, open your hearts to the gifts which He desires to give you and, in the silence of your heart, Adore my Son Jesus who has given His life so that you may live in eternity – where He desires to lead you. May your hope be the joy of a meeting with the Most High in everyday life. Therefore, I am calling you: do not neglect prayer because prayer works miracles. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020  

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 20, 2020 St. Bernardine of Sienna Dear Family of Mary! Mother Mary is with us. She is with us in Medjugorje, accompanying us on our way to heaven. As we continue to prepare for Pentecost, let’s listen to another message she has given us with her guidance for this time of battle for the Kingdom of God: August 25, 2000 “Dear children! I desire to share my joy with you. In my Immaculate Heart I feel that there are many of those who have drawn closer to me and are, in a special way, carrying the victory of my Immaculate Heart in their hearts by praying and converting. I desire to thank you and to inspire you to work even more for God and His kingdom with love and the power of the Holy Spirit. I am with you and I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Mother was excited to see that many of her children had drawn closer to her. Through prayer and conversion, her children were able to carry her victory in their hearts, the victory of her Immaculate Heart. This is very important. The victory of Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart is a victory over our terrible enemy, Satan. Her victory is bringing many souls into the Kingdom of God. It is the final battle for souls. Mario Mijatovic (Vicka’s husband!) shared about the importance of Mother Mary in his interview with Rosie in “Tea with Rosie”, episode 290. He spoke with such conviction! It was his personal experience that he spoke about. (I highly recommend that you watch this interview on our website, www.marytv.tv  because seeing Mario speak communicates much more than the words he spoke alone could communicate. He is filled with the Holy Spirit!) Mario shared with Rosie: Mario: Mother Mary, Mother Mary is calling us to have patience, which is a beautiful way to stay close to Her. We must stay close to Mother, not with our lips, not with our words – but with our heart. You know, with our heart. Speaking with Her about all your problems. Speak with Her, talk to Mother. Tell her everything. Ask Mother – she is doing something for us, she is sending her Son Jesus. Mother is doing this for us. This is most important. Because, when I speak today with my Mother, with Mother Mary, when I tell Her everything that is here [he points to his heart], then tomorrow somebody may ask me, “Who is your Mother?” I can tell him, “My Mother is the same mother – the Mother of Jesus Christ, Mother Mary.” Well, after this the man may ask me, “What did you speak about with Mother Mary today?” Then I can tell him, “I spoke this, this, this.” But when you speak to another person, and you ask him, “What did you speak about with Mother Mary? What did Mother Mary tell you today?” That person might frown like this… (frowning). Now, many people say this: “Mother Mary is my mother.” Excuse me? Who is this mother when you don’t speak with her? Who is your mother – (that you don’t speak with her)? This is important. Mother Mary is safe for us. A sure way for us. Mother Mary brings us to her Son Jesus. You know, this is important. Because when I go to find Jesus without Mary, I am not sure which Jesus I will find. Maybe some can find Jesus. But I find Him with Mother. I want to tell you all, this is most important, to stay close to the Mother Mary. Rosie: And She will guide you to Jesus. Mario: Mother Mary of Nazareth! Not Mother Mary of Medjugorje, of Lourdes, of Fatima…but of Nazareth! This same Mother Mary of Nazareth has been to Lourdes, has been to Fatima, is here for us [in Medjugorje]! Mario knows the Mother! He wants us all to understand that we need to be her children. We need to speak to her every day from our hearts, sharing everything with her, simply, like children. And we need to listen for her words, her guidance. This is how we will grow in holiness. This is how we will be ready for the coming of the Holy Spirit. This is how we will help her heart to triumph!! Be her children, truly her children. Thank you, Mario, for your witness. It brings us closer to our Mother, the Mother, Mary, our Mother. We pray together to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2020  

Mario Mijatovic speaking with Rosie – Tea with Rosie #290 (c) Mary TV 2020 May 19, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! As Our Lady accompanied the Apostles in the upper room, as they awaited the Power from on high, she also accompanies us in these days. She is with us to teach us to pray and to receive the Holy Spirit. Here is one of her many messages about prayer. She is so simple and so right on: July 25, 1994 “Dear children! Today I invite you to decide to give time patiently for prayer. Little children, you cannot say you are mine and that you have experienced conversion through my messages if you are not ready to give time to God every day. I am close to you and I bless you all. Little children, do not forget that if you do not pray you are not close to me, nor are you close to the Holy Spirit who leads you along the path to holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady tells us “I invite you to decide to give time patiently for prayer.” Truly she has built a prayer program in Medjugorje that demands a great deal of patience and decision. It takes patience and commitment to join the parish for three hours of prayer in the evenings, which include an hour of praying the Rosary, an hour for Holy Mass, and another hour of Rosaries or Adoration. This program alone teaches us how to decide to give time patiently for prayer. Then there is the witness of the people who live in Medjugorje, the parishioners who have been present from the beginning of the apparitions. I find their witness to be a powerful gift. Somehow the fruit of patient and determined prayer just shines on their faces. Mary TV recently received a sharing from Mario Mijatovic, the husband of Vicka, the visionary. Mario shares on “Tea with Rosie” episode 290, about what he has learned from Our Lady about prayer. You must experience Mario’s sharing, because the Holy Spirit just emanates from his whole being!! But I want to just quote a little of what he says, because he makes the case very well for giving time patiently for prayer. It is the will to pray and the patience to continue to pray that create an openness to the Holy Spirit. Mario Mijatovic, husband of Vicka Ivankovic Mijatovic “Tea with Rosie: News from Medjugorje” #290, 5/18/2020, https://marytv.tv/ Rosie:  Mario is the husband of Vicka and father of two children.  How are you and how is your family? Mario:  Fine!  Thank you very much because you invited me.  In the beginning of this talk I tried to tell Rosie that I can’t speak English…but she told me so many times, “Mario, you speak such good English.”  Now you will see who is right! Rosie:  During this time (corona virus lock-down) many, many people, past pilgrims, and pilgrims who would like to be here, are very unsettled because of the world situation.  So, you, personally, how are you coping with this time? Mario:  In this time, I personally live like before – before this time.  Now (the time we are in) is a little different.  But my way is the same.  For me what is most important is in the morning, in the start of the day.  Personally, I try in the first thing when I open my eyes, when I open my mind in the morning: the first thing that is coming in the mind, in the heart, is very, very important!  Many times, the first thing that comes in the mind in the morning is the same thing that was in the mind when you went to sleep….   It is very good when a person starts his day, and finishes his day, in prayer, giving thanks to God, thanks to Jesus, because this helps him in the new day.   Medjugorje is a special gift because now here you have every time the possibility to go to the mountain…   In the morning, the best gift, when you wake up and you have the will, you have a good motive to stand up in the early morning and go to the mountain in prayer. “A lot of priests here, including Fr. Slavko who is now with Mother Mary in Heaven, have given to us a beautiful example of how to start your day with the prayer on the mountain.   For this I know not everybody has the possibility to go to the mountain.  But it’s important at least in your room to find time the first thing to thank God for the new day, to invite the Holy Spirit into your body…without the Holy Spirit there is nothing….  and this is a problem many times, to forget to pray to the Holy Spirit….to be given the Spirit, because afterwards when you see your wife, your children, the Holy Spirit exists in you. Without the Holy Spirit there is nothing…. It is the same for the man involved in sports who is a champion.  You ask him, “When did you start?”  They answer, “I started when I was young.”  And you say, “Oh, really?! How many times in the week (do you practice)?”  “Oh, every day!!”  Every day they exercise.  “How many hours?”  “Five hours!!!!”   Five hours to be the champion.   It is the same for the spiritual life.  When I don’t pray, when I don’t have Mass, when I’m not reading the lives of the Saints, when these things are not coming inside of me – they stay out there….     Everything that you read, what you take in – the same with the Holy Mass, what you take, the Body of Christ, the Eucharist, the life of Jesus comes in here [pointing to his heart].  ….  Afterwards you come back to your home – when another person looks at you, coming home, they say- it’s like Jesus is coming into the house! This is true, because Jesus, Alive, is coming with you into your house! (Tea with Rosie, #290) Mario’s words are very powerful. He is right. If we give ourselves to prayer, to Holy Mass, to the Eucharist, then the Holy Spirit can enter into us. From us it takes commitment and practice. Then God can infill us with His grace as He sees fit, and we can be His witnesses, His carriers, His friends. In the message from July 25, 1994, Our Lady said, ” Little children, do not forget that if you do not pray you are not close to me, nor are you close to the Holy Spirit who leads you along the path to holiness.” Just as she has taught Mario, she teaches us that we have to just show up!! Climb the mountain, get on our knees at home, go to Mass, Pray the Rosary, read the Scriptures…and then the Holy Spirit will come to us and make His home in us, and people will say that when we come back to our homes, “It is like Jesus is coming into the house!” We pray together to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2020  

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 18, 2020 St. John I, Pope and Martyr (100th Birthday of St. John Paul II) Dear Family of Mary! Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceed from the Father, he will testify to me…” (Jn 15:26) As we near the end of the Easter Season, we celebrate two major Feasts, the Ascension of the Lord and Pentecost. In these two Feasts, we see the providence of God. Jesus goes to His Father to prepare a place for us, and He sends the Holy Spirit to give us everything we need to testify to Jesus, bringing many souls to Him. It is important to remember that at both events, the Ascension and Pentecost, Our Lady was present, as a stabilizing influence for the Apostles and Disciples. Her faith would sustain them when they saw Jesus ascend into Heaven, keeping them focused on Jesus’s promises and not on His absence. And since she had experienced the Power of the Holy Spirit many years before, when Jesus was conceived in her by that power when she said “yes” to the Angel’s request, Mary understood what it would mean to say “yes” to the Spirit. It would change their lives completely. She knew what was ahead for the Apostles. And so, she was their best teacher, their best intercessor and guide in preparing for the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. She is with us today, to help us through that same process. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit anew. We need a fresh infilling. And so, Our Lady can help us prepare for Pentecost. She can teach us how to open our hearts to the coming of the Holy Spirit. I hope we can take even one message a day over the next two weeks, and let Our Lady teach us how to receive the Holy Spirit. We will not regret it! May 25, 1993 “Dear children! Today I invite you to open yourselves to God by means of prayer so the Holy Spirit may begin to work miracles in you and through you. I am with you and I intercede before God for each one of you because, dear children, each one of you is important in my plan of salvation. I invite you to be carriers of good and peace. God can give you peace only if you convert and pray. Therefore, my dear little children, pray, pray, pray and do that which the Holy Spirit inspires you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady tells us to open ourselves to God by means of prayer. If we are not open to God, the Holy Spirit cannot work in us and through us. No miracles can happen through closed hearts. And we cannot be part of Her plan of salvation, if we are not filled with the Holy Spirit!! Our hearts open and close. They open when we have faith, trust, and hope in God. They open when we desire God, and desire to hear from God. But they also close. They close when we are discouraged. They close when we get distracted by worldly desires. They close when we lose hope, or when we have been hurt by others. They close in self-defense. Closed hearts are no help to God. They are a big “no” to God. What about our own hearts? Are they open or closed? Are we looking for God, desiring Him, trusting Him? Or are we turned in on ourselves, licking our wounds, feeling sad, distrusting His goodness. How can we open our hearts if they are closed? Do we need confession, or more prayer? Maybe we need to journal and talk to Jesus honestly while writing it down. Often if we write down how we feel, we can read it and discover what is really going on in us. It does help to hear ourselves speak, on paper. Today, our job is to discover what shape our hearts are in. Open or closed? Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2020  

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 15, 2020 St. Isadore, the Farmer Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children, this is a time of gratitude.  Today I ask love from you. Don’t look for faults in others and don’t judge others.  I expect you to love and to spread the truth because the truth is eternal, constant and always up to date.  Bring the light of my Son.  Drive out the darkness that wants to seize you more and take you far away from my Son, Jesus. Don’t worry, I am with you.  Thank you for responding to my call. (May 4, 2020) “Don’t worry, I am with you…” There is so much to worry about right now in our world. We all sense it. Fear is growing like an atomic mushroom cloud, growing so fast it might engulf us all. But Our Lady tells us not to worry. Set all fear aside as a temptation. Instead focus on one thing, that she is with us. She is with each one of us. Don’t worry. I discovered that in her messages from Medjugorje, Our Lady has told us at least 215 times that she is with us. “I am with you…” she says over and over in her messages. And she always couples the words “I am with you” with a beautiful aspect of her presence! As I read these words in each message, I realized that those sentences would make a very good litany for us to pray. So, I have compiled just a few of the times Our Lady told us she is with us, so we could pray them. Here is my first little litany. Litany to Our Lady of Medjugorje: I am with you! (the response is: Mother, I believe that you are with me) I am with you and I want you to believe me, that I love you. (11/25/87) I am with you and I am rejoicing because of your conversion and I am protecting you with my motherly mantle. (04/25/88) I am with you even if you think there is no way out and that satan is in control. I am bringing peace to you I am your mother, the Queen of Peace. (07/25/88) I am with you and I intercede for you in front of God, (11/25/88) I am with you and unceasingly keep watch over every heart which is given to me. (02/25/89) I am with you and I want to introduce you continuously to the joy of life. (05/25/89) I am with you and I wish to teach you to pray with the heart. (10/25/89) I am with you even if you are not conscious of it. I want to protect you from everything that satan offers you and through which he wants to destroy you. (03/25/90) I am with you and I desire, dear children, that each one of you be ever closer to my heart. (04/25/90) I am with you and I desire to help you to grow in renunciation and mortification, that you may be able to understand the beauty of the life of people who go on giving themselves to me in special way. (05/25/90) I am with you and I desire to lead you along the same path to heaven, which is beautiful for those who discover it in prayer.   (08/25/90) I am with you and day after day I offer your sacrifices and prayers to God for the salvation of the world. (11/25/90) I am with you and I accompany you with my blessing and my prayers. (03/25/91) I am with you and I am grateful to God for every moment spent with you. (04/25/91) I am with you and I desire to help each of you to live and by living, to witness the good news. I am here, dear children, to help you and to lead you to heaven. (05/25/91) I am with you and I love you with the immeasurable love of Jesus. (11/25/91) I am with you and your suffering is also mine. (04/25/92) I am with you and each day I bless you with my maternal blessing so that Our Lord may fill you abundantly with His grace for your daily life. (07/25/92) Dearest Mother, we believe that you are with us, and we thank you that you have come.  We long to live our lives under your mantle, in the safety of your Immaculate Heart.  We want to listen to your messages and live them with love, so that many souls will be saved.  Thank you, dearest Mother, for being with us! We can conclude with this marvelous prayer, Totus Tuus, to Our Lady. We can give ourselves to Mary, who is with us: 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. © 1956, Mother Immaculata, OCD Let’s not give in to fear and worry, but turn to Our Mother who is with us – with complete trust – so that she can lead us to Jesus! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020 PS. Don’t forget to pray this short but powerful prayer to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.  

(c) Mary TV 2020 May 14, 2020 St. Matthias, Apostle Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children, this is a time of gratitude.  Today I ask love from you. Don’t look for faults in others and don’t judge others.  I expect you to love and to spread the truth because the truth is eternal, constant and always up to date.  Bring the light of my Son.  Drive out the darkness that wants to seize you more and take you far away from my Son, Jesus. Don’t worry, I am with you.  Thank you for responding to my call.” (May 4, 2020) Our Lady used several imperatives in her message through Ivan! Here they are: Don’t look for faults in others… Don’t judge others… Bring the light of my Son…   Drive out the darkness…. Don’t worry…. Here is what the dictionary says about imperative sentences: The imperative is used to give commands and orders. The form of the verb used for the imperative is the base form of the main verb, which is used without a subject. Walk to the corner, turn right, and cross the road; it is expressive of a command, entreaty, or exhortation When you really want to move your audience to action, you use an imperative. The verb is spoken without a subject and “you” is understood. It is the sort of thing that gets people moving!! I think that Our Lady really does want to get us moving! Why? Because there is danger close at hand in our world today. We are surrounded by the lies and darkness of the devil, and he is strong right now. And so, as a Mother she is trying to guide us into safety, just as any mother would do if her children were in danger. When she says, “Don’t look for faults in others…” she is telling us that if we start down that road it will lead us away from the one thing we can do, and that is to love. It will take away our peace. God is the only one who can manage another person’s faults. Our job is to pray for others and be examples of mercy and love. When she says, “Don’t judge others…” she is warning us that the judgement we give will be the judgement we receive. God alone can judge a soul. Judgement leads us into darkness. When she says, “Bring the light…” she is giving us a positive command, something we can all do! We can bring Jesus into our lives and the lives of others, share His Word, His love, His peace. It is like taking a torch light into a dark cave and helping all those trapped in the darkness of that cave the light they need to leave that darkness. It is freedom, when the Light of Christ comes. When she says, “Drive out the darkness that wants to seize you more and take you far away from my Son, Jesus…” she is asking us to carry Christ with us always, constantly. The Light of Christ drives out the enemy!!! The Light, which is Christ, saves us from every assault of the devil, driving him away and giving us peace. And when she tells us: “Don’t worry…” she is reminding us that she is with us and she will never leave our side. She is with us, and there is nothing to fear. It is important to let go of worry and trust Our Lady. I pick up a bit of urgency in Our Lady’s words. She is not just describing what we should do, she is commanding us to get up and do what she is telling us to do, to follow her into the safety of the Light of Christ. Jesus is the Light, as St. John told us: Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (Jn 8: 12) As we pray, let’s let Our Lady’s imperatives energize us to action. We need to listen to her. She is with us to bring us to Jesus, our safety. When Mama talks, we listen!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 PS. Don’t forget to pray this short but powerful prayer to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.    

(c) Mary TV 2020 “Pray, pray, pray!” May 13, 2020 Feast of Our Lady of Fatima Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady in Medjugorje only referred to her apparition in Fatima once, in this message: August 25, 1991  “Dear Children! Today also I invite you to prayer, now as never before when my plan has begun to be realized. Satan is strong and wants to sweep away my plans of peace and joy and make you think that my Son is not strong in His decisions. Therefore, I call all of you, dear children, to pray and fast still more firmly. I invite you to self-renunciation for nine days so that, with your help, everything that I desire to realize through the secrets I began in Fatima, may be fulfilled. I call you, dear children, to now grasp the importance of my coming and the seriousness of the situation. I want to save all souls and present them to God. Therefore, let us pray that everything I have begun will be fully realized. Thank you for having responded to my call.” She connected her plan in Medjugorje to her plan in Fatima. She told us she needed our prayer and renunciation, so that the secrets she began in Fatima might be fulfilled. Those secrets were begun, but not finished, and she was with us now in Medjugorje to continue to work them out in our midst. Clearly those secrets had to do with saving all souls and presenting them to God. Our Lady was sent on a mission in 1917 and that mission was on going. Her presence in Medjugorje was part of that mission. The next month Our Mother told us a bit more about her mission and our role in it: September 25, 1991 “Dear children! Today in a special way I invite you all to prayer and renunciation. For now, as never before, satan wants to show the world his shameful face by which he wants to seduce as many people as possible onto the way of death and sin. Therefore, dear children, help my Immaculate Heart to triumph in the sinful world. I beseech all of you to offer prayers and sacrifices for my intentions so I can present them to God for what is most necessary. Forget your desires, dear children, and pray for what God desires, and not for what you desire. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Mother Mary told us that the battle with our enemy, the devil, was intensifying. But she revealed again that it was her mission to crush him. How? Through the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart! Her Triumph is the way God has chosen to defeat the enemy. And that triumph will happen through the prayers of her children, you and me! The next message Our Lady gave was like a trumpet call. Our Lady called her troops into action: October 25, 1991 “Dear children! Pray! Pray! Pray! Sounding the alarm, Our Mother set us into motion, moving forward into the fray, with our weapons in hand, and our hearts set on victory. These three messages together show us the Father’s plan, now being enacted through Mary, the Mother of Jesus. It is a battle that she leads, a battle in which we, her children, are engaged. I want to quote now, Sr. Lucia, who shared in 1957 what Our Lady had shown her about these days we are in. She describes the spiritual realities with great accuracy and focus. I will close with her words: “Father, the Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but She made me understand this for three reasons.  The first reason is because She told me that the devil is in the mood for engaging in a decisive battle against the Virgin.  And a decisive battle is the final battle where one side will be victorious, and the other side will suffer defeat.  Also, from now on we must choose sides.  Either we are for God or we are for the devil.  There is no other possibility.  The second reason is because She said to my cousins as well as to myself that God is giving two last remedies to the world.  These are the Holy Rosary and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.  These are the last two remedies, which signify that there will not be others.  The third reason is because in the plans of Divine Providence God always, before He is about to punish the world, exhausts all other remedies. “The two means to save the world are prayer and sacrifice.  Look, Father, the Most Holy Virgin, in these last times in which we live, has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Holy Rosary.  She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all, spiritual, in the private life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world, of the religious communities or even of the life of peoples and nations, that cannot be resolved through the prayer of the Rosary.  There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve through the recitation of the Holy Rosary.  Through the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves.  We will sanctify ourselves.  We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.  Finally, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Mother, consists in considering Her as the seat of mercy, of goodness and of pardon and as the sure door through which we are to enter Heaven.”  (Sr. Lucia of Fatima) (The Fourth Secret of Fatima, Antonio Socci, Loreto Publications, 2009, pp. 99 – 102) Today, all day, let’s pray our Rosaries for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan © Mary TV 2020 PS. Don’t forget to pray this short but powerful prayer to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.  

(c) Mary TV 2020 Truth: eternal, constant and up to date! May 12, 2020 Dear Family of Mary! “Dear children, this is a time of gratitude.  Today I ask love from you. Don’t look for faults in others and don’t judge others.  I expect you to love and to spread the truth because the truth is eternal, constant and always up to date.  Bring the light of my Son.  Drive out the darkness that wants to seize you more and take you far away from my Son, Jesus. Don’t worry, I am with you.  Thank you for responding to my call.” (May 4, 2020) “I expect you to love and to spread the truth because the truth is eternal, constant and always up to date…” It is always good to review important building blocks of our faith. And one of them is “the Truth”. Our Lady brings it up often. And in this message, she says three things about truth, that it is eternal, constant and always up to date! Before we talk about these three aspects of the truth, I thought we could read a bit from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here is a passage which gives a good overview of what is meant by truth and what our relationship to it must be. It is from the discussion of the 8th Commandment, “Thou shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” (I left the footnotes in and listed the references at the end. It is helpful to look up the scriptures…) I. Living In The Truth 2465 The Old Testament attests that God is the source of all truth. His Word is truth. His Law is truth. His “faithfulness endures to all generations.”255 Since God is “true,” the members of his people are called to live in the truth.256 2466 In Jesus Christ, the whole of God’s truth has been made manifest. “Full of grace and truth,” he came as the “light of the world,” he is the Truth.257 “Whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.”258 The disciple of Jesus continues in his word so as to know “the truth [that] will make you free” and that sanctifies.259 To follow Jesus is to live in “the Spirit of truth,” whom the Father sends in his name and who leads “into all the truth.”260 To his disciples Jesus teaches the unconditional love of truth: “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes or No.’”261 2467 Man tends by nature toward the truth. He is obliged to honor and bear witness to it: “It is in accordance with their dignity that all men, because they are persons . . . are both impelled by their nature and bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth. They are also bound to adhere to the truth once they come to know it and direct their whole lives in accordance with the demands of truth.”262 2468 Truth as uprightness in human action and speech is called truthfulness, sincerity, or candor. Truth or truthfulness is the virtue which consists in showing oneself true in deeds and truthful in words, and in guarding against duplicity, dissimulation, and hypocrisy. 2469 “Men could not live with one another if there were not mutual confidence that they were being truthful to one another.”263 The virtue of truth gives another his just due. Truthfulness keeps to the just mean between what ought to be expressed and what ought to be kept secret: it entails honesty and discretion. In justice, “as a matter of honor, one man owes it to another to manifest the truth.”264 2470 The disciple of Christ consents to “live in the truth,” that is, in the simplicity of a life in conformity with the Lord’s example, abiding in his truth. “If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth.”265 256 Rom 3:4; Cf. Ps 119:30. 257 Jn 1:14; 8:12; cf. 14:6. 258 Jn 12:46. 259 Jn 8:32; Cf. 17:17. 260 Jn 16:13. 261 Mt 5:37. 262 DH 2 § 2. 263 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II,109,3 ad 1. 264 St. Thomas Aquinas, STh II-II,109,3, corp. art. 265 1 Jn 1:6. (Part Three – Life In Christ, Section Two- The Ten Commandments – Chapter Two “You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself” – Article 8 – The Eighth Commandment – I. Living In The Truth   – http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a8.htm  ) We all know how precious the truth is, especially in this age of mass media, and the proliferation of “news”. We hunger to the truth. Thank the Lord that He is our Truth, and we will always be at peace in Him. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan ©Mary TV 2020 PS. Let’s remember to pray this short but powerful prayer to the Holy Spirit: Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. V. Send forth Thy Spirit and we shall be created. R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. O God, Who by the light of the Holy Spirit didst instruct the hearts of thy faithful, grant by the same Spirit that we will be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.