Author: Cathy Nolan

February 25, 2023 Update from Denis

I am preparing you for the new times…   February 25, 2023 Dear Family of Mary TV, Apostles of Our Lady of Medjugorje: Michael asked us to come. His mother and I said we were too busy. Our Lady told us to go! Those three days with him changed our life! Michael was in California responding to a call Our Lady gave all of us. We are well into “the new times”: “Dear children! I am thanking God for each of you. In a special way, little children, thank you for having responded to my call. 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. I am praying with you for peace which is the most precious gift, even though Satan wants war and hatred. You, little children, be my extended hands and proudly go with God. Thank you for having responded to my call.” June 25, 2019 As Fr. Aaron, the Pastor of Resurrection Parish in Santa Rosa, was about to begin Mass, he told everyone with emotion: “This table that I’m standing at is still aglow with the Holy Spirit from when Michael Nolan was here two days ago – so many were healed!” As we were going out the door after Mass, Michael and Annie, his wife, were approached by a lady who asked them to pray with her. As a result of a car accident when she was four years old, she said, she had lived with pain in her knee every day.  They prayed with her as they were walking out the doors of church. She was healed! Immediately! No pain! The lady told them she was 75 years old! Joy lit up on the face of another priest just before Mass the next day at Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Regional Hospital when he saw Michael (again sitting next to me). He too had witnessed healings when Michael had prayed with the sick in the hospital. As we left that Mass a lady came running up to us and asked if she and her husband could take us all out to lunch.  As we sat down to order she said it had been a long time since she had been out to a restaurant! But she could go to lunch that day because when Michael had prayed with her two days before she experienced a healing of kidney cancer! Being told then about Our Lady coming to Medjugorje she said she and her husband were going to join Michael’s next pilgrimage. With tears in her eyes, she said she felt called to dedicate her life more explicitly to serving Jesus! Also before we arrived in California, Mike and his team had dinner at the home of Patricia, and over 20 Mary TV shipmates and there were healings that night as well! Such joy!! Everywhere we went people were telling us of their healings. There was a glow on the faces of priests, who I’m told had been a bit skeptical at first but were filled with joy at the healings they had witnessed! Wasn’t this the experience of the Church in its beginning, the preaching of the word was accompanied by signs…. Join Michael in his outreach here: https://shadowonthewater.com/ Our Lady tells all of us, “Be proud that you are baptized and grateful in your heart that you are a part of God’s plan!” She has been preparing all of us so that the Holy Spirit would work through us and renew the face of the earth…all of her apostles – not just Michael. Today (February 25th), 20 minutes into our “Hour of Mercy” Cathy speaks about it: https://marytv.tv/hour-of-mercy/?smid=iFwjoasWDJj&slid=Kyne5E9asDq We are in the middle of “the new times” Our Lady told us she was preparing us for: “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. I am praying with you for peace which is the most precious gift, even though Satan wants war and hatred. You, little children, be my extended hands and proudly go with God,” (June 25, 2019). We’ve all been prepared for these new times. Our Lady’s June 25, 2019, message reveals a huge grace given both to Our Lady and to us, for her final confrontation with Satan. That grace continued to be poured out in the three following messages (see the PS.) Let’s continue being Our Lady’s extended hands and proudly go with God! Here is Our Lady’s message to us today: “Dear children! Keep converting and clothe yourselves in penitential garments and in personal, deep prayer; and in humility, seek peace from the Most High. In this time of grace, Satan wants to seduce you; but you, little children, keep looking at my Son and follow Him towards Calvary in renunciation and fasting. I am with you because the Most High permits me to love you and lead you towards the joy of the heart, in faith which grows for all those who love God above all. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (February 25, 2023) God bless you! Denis PS. Here are the four messages that reveal Our Lady’s plan for us in this time of final confrontation with Satan: June 25, 2019. “Dear children! I am thanking God for each of you. In a special way, little children, thank you for having responded to my call. 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. I am praying with you for peace which is the most precious gift, even though Satan wants war and hatred. You, little children, be my extended hands and proudly go with God. Thank you for having responded to my call.” July 25, 2019 “Dear children! My call for you is prayer. May prayer be a joy for you and a wreath which binds you to God. Little children, trials will come, and you will not be strong, and sin will reign but, if you are mine, you will win, because your refuge will be the Heart of my Son Jesus. Therefore, little children, return to prayer until prayer becomes life for you in the day and the night. Thank you for having responded to my call.” August 25, 2019 “Dear children! Pray, work and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven that it may be good for you here on earth. Little children, God will bless your effort a hundred fold; you will be witnesses among peoples, souls of unbelievers will feel the grace of conversion and Heaven will be grateful for your efforts and sacrifices. Little children, witness with the Rosary in hand that you are mine and decide for holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.” September 25, 2019 “Dear children! Today I am calling you to pray for my intentions so that I may help you. Little children, pray the Rosary and meditate the mysteries of the Rosary because, in your life, you are also passing through joys and sorrows. In this way, you are transforming the mysteries into your life, because life is a mystery until you place it into God’s hands. In this way, you will have the experience of faith like Peter who met Jesus and the Holy Spirit filled his heart. Little children, you are also called to witness by living the love with which, day by day, God wraps you with my presence. Therefore, little children, be open and pray with the heart in faith. Thank you for having responded to my call.”  

February 25, 2023 Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace of Medjugorje

The February 25, 2023 Message   February 25, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady, Queen of Peace of Medjugorje, gave us this message today, February 25, 2023! Dear children!  Keep converting and clothe yourselves in penitential garments and in personal, deep prayer; and in humility, seek peace from the Most High. In this time of grace, Satan wants to seduce you; but you, little children, keep looking at my Son and follow Him towards Calvary in renunciation and fasting. I am with you because the Most High permits me to love you and lead you towards the joy of the heart, in faith which grows for all those who love God above all. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (February 25, 2023) In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023  

February 24, 2023 Reflection – Pray with me for Peace!

Pray with me for Peace!   February 24, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! Tomorrow we await a new message from Our Lady! As we anticipate this gift from Heaven, let’s listen to her words to us on January 25, 2023: Dear children! Pray with me for peace, because Satan wants war and hatred in hearts and peoples. Therefore, pray and sacrifice your days by fasting and penance, that God may give you peace. The future is at a crossroads, because modern man does not want God. That is why mankind is heading to perdition. You, little children, are my hope. Pray with me, that what I began in Fatima and here may be realised. Be prayer and witness peace in your surroundings, and be people of peace. Thank you for having responded to my call. (January 25, 2023) Mother it is very sobering to hear that we, your little children, are your hope. We want to help you, but we know how little we are. Please ask the Father to give us the gifts we need to actually help you to turn mankind back to God. We long for all humanity to be under your mantle and completely consecrated to Jesus. Amen, and amen! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023 PS. Today, the parish of Medjugorje will climb Mt Krizevac, praying the Way of the Cross, at 2:00 pm Medjugorje time. Mary TV will stream that climb live!! Join us at www.marytv.tv !!

February 23, 2023 Reflection – Choose Life!

Choose life!   February 23, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! 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.” (the first reading at Mass today) God always gives us a choice. He created us with free will. It is what makes us able to commune with Him, because we have souls, and minds, and wills that are free. Love can operate in such a being. And God made us to love Him and receive His love. But Adam and Eve fell, and chose to not trust God but rather go another way. And hence, we all face the consequences. We so often choose wrongly. But God does not give up on us! Jesus came to us to show us the truth and guide us back to the Father. And now Mary is here with us to help us to find and follow Jesus! Heaven will not be outdone in mercy! Our Lady said to us: March 18, 2003 (Mirjana) “Dear children! Particularly at this holy time of penance and prayer, I call you to make a choice. God gave you free will to choose life or death. Listen to my messages with the heart that you may become cognizant of what you are to do and how you will find the way to life. My children, without God you can do nothing; do not forget this even for a single moment. For, what are you and what will you be on earth, when you will return to it again. Do not anger God, but follow me to life. Thank you for being here.” Choose life, by loving the Lord your God with all your heart!!!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023  

February 22, 2023 Reflection – Behold, now is a very acceptable time…

Behold, now is a very acceptable time…   February 22, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! “Brothers and sisters: We are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (2Cor. 5:20-6:2) This is Ash Wednesday, 2023! We have arrived at a very important time of grace that the Church offers to us. We can take these weeks ahead as an opportunity to put aside our worldly desires and focus on God’s desires for us! What a lovely opportunity!! Our Lady told us: February 25, 2007 “Dear children! Open your heart to God’s mercy in this Lenten time. The heavenly Father desires to deliver each of you from the slavery of sin. Therefore, little children, make good use of this time and through meeting with God in confession, leave sin and decide for holiness. Do this out of love for Jesus, who redeemed you all with his blood, that you may be happy and in peace. Do not forget, little children: your freedom is your weakness, therefore follow my messages with seriousness. Thank you for having responded to my call.” What a loving God we have. He takes us so seriously! He wants us to have a good long time to be healed of our sins and washed clean of all our failures and faults. He loves us. And so He provides this season of Lent as a prolonged time of healing for our souls. Let’s now waste a second of it. Now is the acceptable time! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023

February 21, 2023 Reflection – Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday   February 21, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! Today is Shrove Tuesday! We are on the threshold of Lent! Traditionally on this day everyone goes to confession as a preparation for the Lenten time. This makes sense, in that we want to take good stock of our spiritual life, and clear the deck, so to speak, before Lent begins. Then we can spend our Lent building up our spiritual muscles, training ourselves for holiness. But one thing I am experiencing as Lent approaches, is a kind of deep quiet in my soul. I have felt Our Lady calling me to a kind of silence that is new to me. And in that silence, she has been showing me what I can do this Lent. I am so grateful for this help she is giving me. She is asking of me to do some simple but radical things to change my relationship with the Lord and by extension with others. I won’t go into detail, but it seems to be a call to a radical trust and love. So today, I hope to have more quiet time, so that Our Lady can continue to lead me into Lent. I think this message is what I am experiencing: February 25, 2006 “Dear children! In this Lenten time of grace, I call you to open your hearts to the gifts that God desires to give you. Do not be closed, but with prayer and renunciation say ‘yes’ to God and He will give to you in abundance. As in springtime the earth opens to the seed and yields a hundredfold, so also your heavenly Father will give to you in abundance. I am with you and love you, little children, with a tender love. Thank you for having responded to my call.” I never thought of Lent as a time when God would give to me in abundance. But I think it really is. And our prayer and renunciation can become acts of love and trust that we give to the Lord so that He can bless us with gifts. It is a time of a loving exchange with our God. And Our Lady is so excited about it! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023

February 20, 2023 Reflection – Simple words…

Simple words…   February 20, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! October 2, 2017 “Dear children, I am speaking to you as a mother – with simple words, but words filled with much love and concern for my children who, through my Son, are entrusted to me. And my Son, who is of the eternal now, He is speaking to you with words of life and is sowing love in open hearts. Therefore, I am imploring you, apostles of my love, have open hearts always ready for mercy and forgiveness. According to my Son, always forgive your neighbors, because in that way peace will be in you. My children, care for your soul, because it alone is what truly belongs to you. You are forgetting the importance of family. A family does not need to be a place of suffering and pain, but a place of understanding and tenderness. Families who strive to live according to my Son live in mutual love. While He was still little, my Son would say to me that all people are His brothers. Therefore, remember, apostles of my love, that all people whom you meet are family to you – brothers according to my Son. My children, do not waste time thinking about the future, worrying. May your only concern be how to live well every moment according to my Son. And there it is – peace for you! My children, do not ever forget to pray for your shepherds. Pray that they can accept all people as their children; that, according to my Son, they may be spiritual fathers to them. Thank you!” Let’s allow Our Lady’s words to sink deeply into our hearts. Simple words, but filled with light! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023  

February 17, 2023 Reflection – The Gift of Peace

The Gift of Peace   February 17, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! This is a time in which peace is threatened throughout the world. We feel it in our bones. Our countries seem to have lost their balance, as animosity grows between nations and peoples everywhere. The unrest overwhelms us. But Jesus, our King, is still with us. He is the King of Peace. And He is the source of peace. And so we have great hope, that one day this current state of animosity will be conquered by the Lord of Peace. Our Lady has called us to peace, over and over in her messages. I found the word peace at least 611 times in her messages. And indeed, Our Lady told us she has come as the Queen of Peace. She brings us the peace that we so desperately need. And she asks us to give that peace to all we meet. Listen to these two messages about peace: January 25, 2000 “Dear children! I call you, little children, to pray without ceasing. If you pray, you are closer to God and He will lead you on the way of peace and salvation. That is why I call you today to give peace to others. Only in God is there true peace. Open your hearts and become those who give a gift of peace and others will discover peace in you and through you and in this way you will witness God’s peace and love which He gives you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” September 25, 2008 “Dear children! May your life, anew, be a decision for peace. Be joyful carriers of peace and do not forget that you live in a time of grace, in which God gives you great graces through my presence. Do not close yourselves, little children, but make good use of this time and seek the gift of peace and love for your life so that you may become witnesses to others. I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” St. Paul gave a very good recipe for peace in his letter to the Philippians. (I know I just shared this scripture recently, but it is one we need to return to often!!): Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, do; and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:4-9) No matter what the world is going through, we must be those who give peace. For that, we need to learn how to think peace and be peace!! Jesus and Mary show us how to think and be peace! With them, we can become those who give peace to others. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023

February 16, 2023 Reflection – You are not thinking as God does…

You are not thinking as God does…   February 16, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! This is the Gospel for Mass today: Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Christ.” Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”  (Mk 8:27-33) I always marvel at this Gospel. Jesus is walking with His disciples and teaching them along the way. All of of sudden he asks them two questions. The first is “Who do people say that I am?” This is a general question. What are people saying about me? But the second one is directly to them: “But who do you say that I am?” Peter gets it right: “You are the Christ.” But then as they continue walking Jesus tells them what it will mean for Him to be the Christ. He will suffer greatly, be rejected, be killed, and then rise on the third day. Of course they were probably all stunned. But Peter speaks up again, actually rebuking Jesus for having such an idea! Peter gets put in his place, “Get behind me Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” What a teaching moment for all the disciples. And for us! God’s ways are not our ways. We can never assume that we are thinking like God. Our goals are short term. We think mostly in terms of this life. We judge by human standards. But the life of Christ we have been given in the Gospels will help us to think as God thinks! And that way of thinking is absolutely mind-blowing! It has a logic that comes from outside our human experience. Just read the Beatitudes! They turn our human logic upside down! Our Lady gave us a long but beautiful message in which she encourages us to read the Gospels. She wants us to think as her Son thinks! She wants us to know Jesus so well that we will carry Him to others. November 2, 2019  “Dear children, my beloved Son always prayed and glorified the Heavenly Father. He always said everything to Him and trusted in His will. This is what you, my children, should also do, because the Heavenly Father always listens to His children. One heart in one heart – love, light and life. The Heavenly Father gave Himself through a human face, and this face is the face of my Son. You, apostles of my love, you should always carry the face of my Son in your hearts and your thoughts. You should always think of His love and His sacrifice. You should pray to always feel His presence, because, apostles of my love, that is the way for you to help all those who do not know my Son, who have not come to know His love. My children, read the book of the Gospel. It is always something new, it is what binds you to my Son who was born to bring the words of life to all of my children and to sacrifice Himself for all. Apostles of my love, carried by the love for my Son, bring love and peace to all of your brothers. Judge no one. Love everyone according to the love for my Son. In this way, you will also be caring for your soul, and it [your soul] is that which is most precious, which truly belongs to you. Thank you.” We should always carry the face of Jesus in our hearts and our thoughts! We should always think of His love and His sacrifices. We should pray to always feel His presence!! Yes, Mother we want very much to do these things! Help us to always think of Jesus! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023

February 15, 2023 Reflection – Healing our blindness…

Healing our blindness…   February 15, 2023 Dear Family of Mary! Jesus healed many blind people during his public ministry. Today we hear of one such healing… When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on the man and asked, “Do you see anything?” Looking up the man replied, “I see people looking like trees and walking.” Then he laid hands on the man’s eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly. Then he sent him home and said, “Do not even go into the village.” (Mark 8:22-26) Jesus worked hard to restore the sight of this poor man. It took effort. Being able to see is so very important! I feel that it was significant that it took two tries to actually correct all his vision. On a spiritual level, we also need to be able to see properly. The eyes of our hearts are so important. If we a blind to the truth, to good and evil, to love and honor, we are the most to be pitied. Jesus came to restore our spiritual sight, even more than our physical sight. And his whole public ministry was an arduous process of restoring humanities spiritual eyes, eyes that see the good and love it, eyes that see God’s mercy and accept it. Without the eyes of our hearts, we are blind to salvation. Our Lady told us so: July 2, 2014 “Dear children, I, the mother of all of you gathered here and the mother of the entire world, am blessing you with a motherly blessing and call you to set out on the way of humility. That way leads to the coming to know the love of my Son. My Son is almighty, He is in everything. If you, my children, do not become cognizant of this, then darkness/blindness rule in your soul. Only humility can heal you. My children, I always lived humbly, courageously and in hope. I knew, I became cognizant that God is in us and we are in God. I am asking the same of you. I desire for all of you to be with me in eternity, because you are a part of me. I will help you on your way. My love will envelop you like a mantle and make of you apostles of my light – of God’s light. With the love that comes forth from humility you will bring light to where darkness/blindness rule. You will be bringing my Son who is the light of the world. I am always alongside your shepherds and I pray that they may always be an example of humility for you… Thank you.” We must allow Jesus to heal the darkness/blindness in our hearts, so that we can be saved, and help others to also escape that darkness/blindness to!! Let us pray, pray, pray! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2023