Author: Cathy Nolan

March 14, 2022 Reflection – Your peace and hope are in God…

You peace and hope are in God… March 14, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! January 25, 2001 “Dear children! Today I call you to renew prayer and fasting with even greater enthusiasm until prayer becomes a joy for you. Little children, the one who prays is not afraid of the future and the one who fasts is not afraid of evil. Once again, I repeat to you: only through prayer and fasting also wars can be stopped – wars of your unbelief and fear for the future. I am with you and am teaching you little children: your peace and hope are in God. That is why draw closer to God and put Him in the first place in your life. Thank you for having responded to my call.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022

March 11, 2022 Reflection – I am covering you with my mantle…

I am covering you with my mantle… March 11, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! July 2, 2017 “Dear children, Thank you for continuing to respond to my invitations and for gathering here around me, your heavenly mother. I know that you are thinking of me with love and hope. I, too, feel love for all of you, just as my most beloved Son also feels it: He who, through his merciful love, is always sending me to you anew; He who became man; He who was and is God – one and triune; He who suffered in body and soul for your sake; He who made Himself bread to feed your souls and thus to save them. My children, I am teaching you how to be worthy of His love, to direct your thoughts to Him, to live my Son. Apostles of my love, I am covering you with my mantle, because as a mother I desire to protect you. I am imploring you to pray for the whole world. My heart is suffering. Sins are multiplying, they are too numerous. But with the help of those of you who are humble, modest, filled with love, hidden and holy, my heart will triumph. Love my Son above all and the whole world through Him. Never forget that each of your brothers, within himself, carries something precious – the soul. Therefore, my children, love all those who do not know my Son, so that through prayer and the love which comes through prayer, they may become better; that the goodness in them could win; that souls could be saved and have eternal life. My apostles, my children, my Son told you to love one another. May this be inscribed in your hearts and with prayer, try to live that love. Thank you.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022 PS. On Sunday, March 13th, many countries will change to Daylight Savings time. But most of Europe, including Medjugorje, does not change until March 27th. So if your time changes this Sunday, March 13th, remember to tune into the lives programs on Mary TV an hour later than you usually do. For instance, if you usually watch the Evening Rosary at 11:00am it will not start until 12:00pm for the next 2 weeks.

March 10, 2022 Reflection – My Children, pray!

My Children, Pray! March 10, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! September 2, 2019 “Dear children, pray! Pray the Rosary every day – that wreath of flowers which, as a mother, directly connects me with your pains, sufferings, desires, and hopes. Apostles of my love, I am with you through the grace and the love of my Son, and I am asking for prayers of you. The world is in such need of your prayers for souls to be converted. With complete trust, open your hearts to my Son, and in them He will inscribe the summary of His words – which is love. Live in an unbreakable connection with the Most Sacred Heart of my Son. My children, as a mother, I am telling you that it is high time for you to kneel before my Son to acknowledge Him as your God, the center of your life. Offer gifts to Him – that which He most loves – which is love towards neighbor, mercy, and pure hearts. Apostles of my love, many of my children still do not acknowledge my Son as their God; they have not yet come to know His love. But you, with your prayer pronounced from a pure and open heart, by the gifts which you offer to my Son, will make even the hardest hearts open. Apostles of my love, the strength of prayer pronounced from the heart – a powerful prayer full of love – changes the world. Therefore, my children: pray, pray, pray. I am with you. Thank you! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022

March 9, 2022 Reflection – Repent!

Repent! March 9, 2022 St. Frances of Rome Dear Family of Mary! In the first reading for Mass today, we hear about the incredible repentance of the people of Nineveh when Jonah prophesied to them (Jonah 3:1-10)! Even the King of Nineveh repented in sack clothe and ashes! But in the Gospel from Luke 11:29-32, Jesus is amazed that His generation, because they refused to repent at Jesus’ words. It makes you wonder what it could take to bring about even one conversion! Our hearts can be so hard!! Our Lady has called for repentance in her messages, with the same sort of alarm as Jesus had in the Gospel. The people of our day have not been hearing her call and turning to Jesus. It seems that the conversion of even one soul is a bigger miracle than feeding 5000 people with a few loaves and fishes. We are in a very serious time for the world. The real danger is that many souls will not repent and turn to Jesus even now. Let’s listen to Our Lady’s words about repentance. In this message Our Lady speaks of a time in the future when God will bring some kind of judgment upon the world. She was asking for prayer for those who had not converted yet: Thursday, August 15, 1985 (Mirjana) “My angel, pray for unbelievers. People will tear their hair, brother will plead with brother, he will curse his past life lived without God. They will repent, but it will be too late. Now is the time for conversion. I have been exhorting you for the past four years. Pray for them. Invite everyone to pray the Rosary.” In this message Our Lady asks us to turn and repent ourselves, so we will be more pleasing to God: May 2, 2010″Dear children; Today, through me, the good Father calls you to, with your soul filled with love, to set out on a spiritual visitation. Dear children, be filled with grace, sincerely repent for your sins and yearn for the good. Yearn also in the name of those who have not come to know the perfection of the good. You will be more pleasing to God. Thank you.” And in this message, Our Lady makes it very clear that we must repent, turn, and follow her Son, now as never before. We see that even after more than 30 years, many of us had not yet repented and given our lives completely to God: March 2, 2013“Dear children! Anew, in a motherly way, I am calling you not to be of a hard heart. Do not shut your eyes to the warnings which the Heavenly Father sends to you out of love. Do you love Him above all else? Do you repent for having often forgotten that the Heavenly Father, out of His great love, sent his Son to redeem us by the Cross? Do you repent for not yet having accepted the message? My children, do not resist the love of my Son. Do not resist hope and peace. Along with your prayer and fasting, by His cross, my Son will cast away the darkness that wants to surround you and come to rule over you. He will give you the strength for a new life. Living it according to my Son, you will be a blessing and a hope to all those sinners who wander in the darkness of sin. My children, keep vigil. I, as a mother, am keeping vigil with you. I am especially praying and watching over those whom my Son called to be light-bearers and carriers of hope for you – for your shepherds. Thank you.” It seems that in this message Our Lady was trying to prepare us for these days we are in today. Let’s respond to her, even now at this late date. Lent is a time of repentance. May we live this time with seriousness. May we help others to do the same! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022

March 8, 2022 Reflection – Our Father, who art in Heaven…

Our Father, who art in Heaven… March 8, 2022 St. John of God Dear Family of Mary! Today’s Gospel: Jesus said to his disciples: “In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” “This is how you are to pray: Our Father who art in heaven,/hallowed be thy name,/ thy Kingdom come,/ thy will be done,/ on earth as it is in heaven./ Give us this day our daily bread;/ and forgive us our trespasses,/ as we forgive those who trespass against us;/ and lead us not into temptation,/ but deliver us from evil.” If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.” (Mt 6:7-15) In this Gospel, Jesus tells us exactly how to pray! Exactly! The Our Father is a perfect prayer. And it has been given to us by Jesus, so that we could communicate in the best way possible with His Father. What a gift to us!! What an honor!! We are brought into that perfect relationship with the Father, by the loving hand of the Son. In simple terms, there are truths in the Our Father that will keep us safe for our entire lives: Our Father…this is enough to save us. Jesus tells us to call His Father, our Father. We are being brought into the family. Who art in Heaven…There is a Heaven. The Father is there. We know there is a perfect place awaiting us after death. We have a future. Hallowed be thy name…We should work constantly to proclaim God as our Holy and Powerful Lord. We should always speak His praises! Wouldn’t the world be wonderful is all men hallowed God’s name??? Thy Kingdom come…As we gaze in horror at the condition of all our earthly kingdoms, we call out for God’s Kingdom to come, to replace our earthly kingdoms with His perfect Heavenly Kingdom. We want this with all our hearts… They will be done on earth as it is in Heaven…Our wills have failed us, choosing so badly for ourselves. All earthly powers, by choosing their own wills are creating chaos and sorrow, the world over. We long for God’s will to be done on earth… Give us this day our daily bread…Like children we must live one day at a time, trusting in the providence of our loving Father. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…Forgiveness is the only road to take on this earth. Our sins and the sins of others, they all must be forgiven. God is the forgiver, and we imitate Him. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil…The devil is our enemy. Keep him far from us, and save us from his machinations. We want to only be Yours… May we live the Our Father all day long. These are the aspirations that should fill our hearts and minds with truth, hope and peace. Our Lady has asked us to grow in our love of the Father. Here is one message; April 2, 2011 “Dear children; With motherly love I desire to open the heart of each of you and to teach you personal unity with the Father. To accept this, you must comprehend that you are important to God and that He is calling you individually. You must comprehend that your prayer is a conversation of a child with the Father; that love is the way by which you must set out – love for God and for your neighbor. That is, my children, the love that has no boundaries. That is the love that emanates from truth and goes to the end. Follow me, my children, so that also others, in recognizing the truth and love in you, may follow you. Thank you.” Let’s pray the Our Father with the wonder of a child, and allow our Father to fill us with His love!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022

March 7, 2022 Reflection – The Whole World!

The Whole World March 7, 2022 Sts. Perpetua and Felicity Dear Family of Mary! On Friday, March 4, I had an experience of the Holy Spirit as we were praying with the Parish as they climbed Cross Mountain, doing the Stations of the Cross. (Here is a link to that video: https://marytv.tv/easter-2022/?smid=iMJ0RMsoiQK&slid=bdDmqFqsqak ) I want to quote my comments about it, given as we prayed the Divine Mercy Chaplet directly after the climb: “As we were praying with the parish, going up Krizevic, just now, doing the Stations of the Cross, and then arriving at the Cross, I felt like God would hear our prayers for the whole world…I felt like Our Lady was presenting that prayer to the Father for the sake of the whole world, and that it was for the whole world.” And later during the Daily Rosary I said: “That climb…it was as if the whole world was carried up and offered to God, and that is what He wanted.” The sense I was getting was that Our Lady was now taking all the prayer going on in Medjugorje and magnifying it with her prayer, and then the Holy Spirit would magnify it even more, until it was a powerful stream of prayer going to the Father for the whole world. Truly, it was such a strong experience for me. I just felt the power of that prayer, with its upward movement on the mountain!!! I believe that we have moved into a new stage of God’s plan in Medjugorje. It seems to me that the battle between the Woman and Satan is growing in intensity. And we are called to help her through our prayer united to hers, in Medjugorje. And Mary TV has a role to play, in that we connect Our Lady’s children to Medjugorje in a way that they can pray with her in the final battle. Now, her message of February 25, 2022, is even more powerful and clear to me: February 25, 2022“Dear children! I am with you and we pray together. Help me with prayer, little children, that Satan may not prevail. His power of death, hatred, and fear has visited the earth. Therefore, little children, return to God and to prayer, to fasting and to renunciation, for all those who are downtrodden, poor, and have no voice in this world without God. Little children, if you do not return to God and His Commandments, you do not have a future. That is why He sent me to you to guide you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May we respond to her call now, today: “I am with you and we pray together. Help me with prayer, little children, that Satan may not prevail.” This is our Mother’s call to us. May we say yes with all our hearts and pray with her now with all our hearts. I encourage everyone to go to Mary TV and pray with us, in one of the many prayer programs we stream live from Medjugorje! Pray with Mary as she leads us in this battle for souls. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022 PS. Announcing special live streaming of prayer from Medjugorje during Lent! Every Friday in Lent we will live stream the Stations of the Cross up Krisevac – 2:00 pm Medjugorje time!! Every Saturday in Lent we will live stream the Rosary for Peace on Apparition Hill at 8:30 pm Medjugorje time! Join us!!  

March 4, 2022 Reflection – Fasting

Fasting! March 4, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Today we fast! Our Lady has asked us to fast on Wednesdays and Fridays on bread and water. She was firm about this stone. She told us that fasting is necessary to her plans: September 26, 1985“Dear children! I thank you for all the prayers. Thank you for all the sacrifices. I wish to tell you, dear children, to renew the messages which I am giving you. Especially live the fast, because by fasting you will achieve and cause me the joy of the whole plan, which God is planning here in Medjugorje, being fulfilled. Thank you for having responded to my call.” And so we fast in order to help Our Lady in her great work here in Medjugorje. Fr. Slavko taught the pilgrims to fast, and led countless fasting retreats. He knew the value of fasting. He wrote a beautiful prayer for fast days. Maybe that prayer will help us to choose to fast today: Prayer at the beginning of a Fast Day: O Lord God, Creator of all creation and my Creator, today we give you thanks for having arranged the world so wonderfully. Thank you for having given fertility to mother earth so that she may bear all kinds of fruit. Thank you for the food prepared from the fruits of the earth. Father, I rejoice in your creatures. I rejoice in all the fruits today, and I thank you. Thank you for our daily food and drink. Father, thank you for having made my body in such a way as to be able to use the fruits of the earth and so develop and serve you. Thank you Father for all those who through their work, produce new life possibilities. Thank you for those who have much and give away to others. Thank you for all who are hungry for heavenly bread while eating this earthly bread. Father thank you also for those who have nothing to eat today, for I am convinced that you will send them help through good people. Father, today I decide to fast. In doing so, I do not despise your creatures. I do not renounce them, I only want to rediscover their value. I decide for fasting because your prophets used to fast, because Jesus Christ fasted and so did his apostles and disciples. I especially decide for fasting because your servant Mother Mary fasted too. She called me to fasting. “Dear children, today I invite you to start fasting with the heart. There are a lot of people who fast only because others do so. Fasting is a habit nobody wants to give up. I ask the parish to fast out of gratitude that God allowed me to stay in this parish so long. Dear children, fast and pray with the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (9/20/84) Father I present this day of fasting to you. Through fasting I want to listen to and live your word more. I want during this day to learn to be turned more toward you, in spite of all the things that surround me. With this fast that I take upon myself freely, I pray to you for all who are hungry and who because of their hunger have become aggressive. I present you this fast for PEACE in the world. Wars come because we are attached to material things and are ready to kill each other because of them.Father I present to you this fast for all those who are totally tied down to material things so that they are unable to see any other values. I ask you for all those who are in conflict because they have become blind in what they possess. Father open our eyes through fasting to what you give us to what we have. I am also sorry for the blindness which has taken hold of my senses so that I do not give thanks for the goods I have. I repent every misuse of material goods because I used to judge their value wrongly. Make me able, through this fast today, to see you and the people around me better. Enable me to hear your word better. Through today’s fasting, let love for you and for my neighbor grow in me. Father I decide to live on bread and water today that I may better understand the value of heavenly bread, and the presence of your Son in the Eucharist. Let my faith and trust grow through fasting. Father I decide for fasting and accept it because I know that in this way my longing for you will grow in me. Eagerly and with gratitude do I think of your Son’s words: How blessed are the poor in spirit, the reign of God is theirs. Father make me poor before you. Grant me grace that through fasting I may understand how much I need you. Grant that through fasting my desire for you may grow, that my heart may long for you as the deer longs for the running waters and the desert for the clouds of rain. Father, I pray to you, grant that through this fast my understanding of the hungry and the thirsty of those who do not have enough of material goods, may especially grow. Help me see what I do not need but possess, that I may give it up for the benefit of my brothers and sisters. O Father I especially pray to you. Grant me the grace to become aware that I am but a pilgrim on this earth, that when passing away to the other world I shall not take anything with me but love and good deeds. Let the awareness grow within me that even when I possess something I cannot call it my own for I have only received it from you to manage it. Father grant me grace that through fasting I may become more humble and more willing to do your will.Cleanse me of my selfishness and haughtiness. Through this fast cleanse me of all bad habits and calm down my passions, and let virtue increase in me. Let the depth of my soul open to your grace through this fast so that it may totally affect and cleanse me. Help me to be always like your Son, in trials and temptations, to resist every temptation, so as to be able to serve you and seek your Word more and more, day after day. Blessed Mother, you were free in your heart and bound to nothing except the Father’s will. Obtain by prayer the grace of a joyful fast for me today, in which my heart will be able to sing with you a thanksgiving song. Obtain by prayer the grace for me that my decisions to fast may be firm and lasting. And I offer for all people, the difficulties and the hunger I am going to feel today. Mary, my Mother, pray for me. Let every evil and temptation of satan stay away from me today through your intercession and through the power of your protection. Teach me dear Mother to fast and to pray that day after day I may become more and more like you and your Son, Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit. Amen. (Fr. Slavko Barbaric) In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022 PS. Announcing special live streaming of prayer from Medjugorje during Lent! Every Friday in Lent we will live stream the Stations of the Cross up Krisevac – 2:00 pm Medjugorje time!! Every Saturday in Lent we will live stream the Rosary for Peace on Apparition Hill at 8:30 pm Medjugorje time! Join us!!

March 3, 2022 Reflection – Choose life!

Choose life! March 3, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! Every day of our lives we must make the choice for or against God. We cannot grow slack in making that choice at every moment of every day. Why? Because Satan spends every moment of every day seeking a way to lead us away from God. He never sleeps. His only desire is to drag each one of us off into hell for eternity. We live in a war zone. That is why God spoke these words to His people as He led them into the promised land. He knew that the battle for their souls was far from over. He instructed them to “Choose life” constantly, by embracing His commandments. His commandments opened the path to life. They led to a life of truth and goodness. Listen to the words of the Lord through Moses: Deuteronomy  30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the Lord, your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods, I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, heeding his voice, and ­holding fast to him. For that will mean life for you, a long life for you to live on the land that the Lord swore he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” We have our own Moses in these days. Our Lady is with us to continue to lead us to life, to show us how to choose life. She also warns us of the battle we are in on a daily basis. Like Moses, she warns us of the dangers we face, while guiding us into life: March 25, 1996 “Dear children! I invite you to decide again to love God above all else. In this time when due to the spirit of consumerism one forgets what it means to love and to cherish true values, I invite you again, little children, to put God in the first place in your life. Do not let satan attract you through material things but, little children, decide for God who is freedom and love. Choose life and not death of the soul, little children, and in this time when you meditate upon the suffering and death of Jesus I invite you to decide for life which blossomed through the Resurrection, and that your life may be renewed today through conversion that shall lead you to eternal life. Thank you for having responded to my call…” Choose life and not death of the soul!!! This is our daily, often minute by minute, battle. But if we win our battles, we will pave the way for many others to follow. Our families, our neighbors, our parishes, our fellow workers…Our choices make a huge difference to all those around us. And in this day, with war beginning to erupt, it is ever so much more important that we all choose life! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2022

March 2, 2022 Reflection – Ash Wednesday

Ukrainian and Russian pilgrims pray for peace in Medjugorje March 2, 2022 Ash Wednesday Dear Family of Mary! Today we begin our Lenten journey. It is a blessed time of prayer, aided by fasting and renunciation, in which we draw closer and closer to Jesus. Our lives are renewed and gain a heavenly focus during these days of prayer, fasting and renunciation. Also, we have been asked by the Holy Father to pray and fast in a special way today. He wrote: “My heart aches greatly at the worsening situation in eastern Ukraine…I would like to appeal to everyone, believers and non-believers alike. Jesus taught us that the diabolical senselessness of violence is answered with God’s weapons, with prayer and fasting. I invite everyone to make the 2nd of March, Ash Wednesday, a Day of Fasting for Peace. I encourage believers in a special way to dedicate themselves intensely to prayer and fasting on that day. May the Queen of Peace preserve the world from the madness of war.” (Pope Francis, February 23, 2022) And Our Lady, the Queen of Peace calls to us: February 25, 2022 “Dear children! I am with you and we pray together. Help me with prayer, little children, that Satan may not prevail. His power of death, hatred, and fear has visited the earth. Therefore, little children, return to God and to prayer, to fasting and to renunciation, for all those who are downtrodden, poor, and have no voice in this world without God. Little children, if you do not return to God and His Commandments, you do not have a future. That is why He sent me to you to guide you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May peace be given to the whole world! Pray, pray, pray!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2022 PS. There has been a message that is circulating through social media and through email all around in which it states that Ivan (the visionary) received a message from Our Lady about the spreading of the war around the world. It is not from Ivan. Please do not spread it. Thank you!

March 1, 2022 Reflection – “He sent me to you to guide you…”

The prayer for peace between Russia and Ukraine on February 26, 2022 on Podbrdo. He sent me to you to guide you… March 1, 2022 Dear Family of Mary! February 25, 2022 “Dear children! I am with you and we pray together. Help me with prayer, little children, that Satan may not prevail. His power of death, hatred, and fear has visited the earth. Therefore, little children, return to God and to prayer, to fasting and to renunciation, for all those who are downtrodden, poor, and have no voice in this world without God. Little children, if you do not return to God and His Commandments, you do not have a future. That is why He sent me to you to guide you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Tomorrow begins the Season of Lent. We are called by the Church to spend the next 6 1/2 weeks in prayer, fasting and renunciation. This holy time is dedicated to repentance and penance, so that we can make way for the Lord in our lives. We need to weed out all that has crept in over the past year, all that would distract us from our path towards Heaven. But this Lent has a more troubling aspect. As Our Lady said, “Help me with prayer, little children, that Satan may not prevail. His power of death, hatred, and fear has visited the earth.” The war initiated by Russia against Ukraine has begun. War is evil. Evil has broken out in earnest. And so we need to also see the fasting and renunciation that we will do this Lent as our way to fight the evil that has broken out in our world. Our prayers must be the weapons of choice against the true enemy, Satan. We are not just doing a little house cleaning this Lent, we are in war. By God’s grace, we have Our Lady to guide us in this battle. She is with us to help us return to God and live His Commandments, to pray and fast for peace, and to love all mankind with the love of Jesus. She is our Champion General. May we be guided by her through these decisive and pivotal days of Lent. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan Mary TV 2022