Author: Cathy Nolan

Through prayer you are richer in the mercy of God     April 14, 2023 Easter Friday! Dear Family of Mary! This weekend the Church celebrates Divine Mercy Sunday. It is the day that Jesus designated as the day when He would pour out mercy and forgiveness upon all those who approach Him. St. Faustina wrote these words from Jesus in her Diary: (298)When, on one occasion, my confessor told me to ask the Lord Jesus the meaning of the two rays in the image, I answered, “Very well, I will ask the Lord.” During prayer I heard these words within me: The two rays denote Blood and Water. The pale ray stands for the Water which makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls…… (299) These two rays issued forth from the very depths of My tender mercy when My agonized Heart was opened by a lance on the Cross. These rays shield souls from the wrath of My Father. Happy is the one who will dwell in their shelter, for the just hand of God shall not lay hold of him. I desire that the first Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy. 300 +Ask of my faithful servant [Father Sopocko] that, on this day, he tell the whole world of My great mercy; that whoever approaches the Fount of Life on this day will be granted complete remission of sins and punishment. Mankind will not have peace until it turns with trust to My mercy. Oh, how much I am hurt by a soul’s distrust! Such a soul professes that I am Holy and Just, but does not believe that I am Mercy and does not trust in My Goodness. Even the devils glorify My Justice but do not believe in My Goodness. My Heart rejoices in this title of Mercy. 301 Proclaim that mercy is the greatest attribute of God. All the works of My hands are crowned with mercy. Well, we can see that St. Faustina’s faithful service to Jesus brought forth this wonderful Feast of Divine Mercy!! Many parishes have a special Mass on Sunday devoted to Divine Mercy. But even at your regular Sunday Mass, you can bring the prayers and quietly pray for the graces of Divine Mercy on that day. Our Lady gave us this beautiful message which speaks of God’s Mercy: August 25, 1989 “Dear children! I call you to prayer. By means of prayer, little children, you obtain joy and peace. Through prayer you are richer in the mercy of God. Therefore, little children, let prayer be the life of each one of you. Especially I call you to pray so that all those who are far away from God may be converted. Then our hearts shall be richer because God will rule in the hearts of all men. Therefore, little children, pray, pray, pray! Let prayers begin to rule in the whole world. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady is right! If we pray, pray, pray, soon prayers will begin to rule in the whole world!!! Mercy will win!!! Mary TV will stream – live – The Divine Mercy Mass (at Surmanci) at 3:00 pm Medjugorje time!! www.marytv.tv! We are also filming the blessing and dedication of a new Divine Mercy Shrine located in Medjugorje on the road that goes through Bijakovici. You will be able to see this dedication in our archives later in the day on Sunday!! Here is a link to an explanation of how to receive the graces of Divine Mercy Sunday: https://www.thedivinemercy.org/videos/divine-mercy-sunday-explained-how-receive-graces God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV    

He is Risen!! Awaken your souls with prayer!!   April 13, 2023 Easter Thursday Dear Family of Mary! Today, let us pray a Rosary in honor of the Risen Lord Jesus! Let us hear Our Mother’s words about her Risen Son in her messages, and may they awaken in us a desire to worship Jesus, who is risen from the dead! Here are 5 messages in which Our Mother speaks of her Son as the Risen One! We can pray each decade of the Glorious Mysteries with a message to ponder. It will do us great good to ponder with Our Lady! March 25, 2009 “Dear children! In this time of spring, when everything is awakening from the winter sleep, you also awaken your souls with prayer so that they may be ready to receive the light of the risen Jesus. Little children, may He draw you closer to His Heart so that you may become open to eternal life. I pray for you and intercede before the Most High for your sincere conversion. Thank you for having responded to my call.” August 25, 2008 “Dear children! Also today I call you to personal conversion. You be those who will convert and, with your life, will witness, love, forgive and bring the joy of the Risen One into this world, where my Son died and where people do not feel a need to seek Him and to discover Him in their lives. You adore Him, and may your hope be hope to those hearts who do not have Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.” October 25, 2011 “Dear children! I am looking at you and in your hearts I do not see joy. Today I desire to give you the joy of the Risen One, that He may lead you and embrace you with His love and tenderness. I love you and I am praying for your conversion without ceasing before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.” April 25, 2018 “Dear children! Today I am calling you to live your new life with Jesus. May the Risen One give you strength to always be strong in the trials of life and to be faithful and persevering in prayer; because Jesus saved you by His wounds and by His Resurrection gave you new life. Pray, little children, and do not lose hope. May joy and peace be in your hearts and witness the joy that you are mine. I am with you and love you all with my motherly love. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May 25, 2022 “Dear children! I am looking at you and thanking God for each of you, because He permits me to still be with you, to encourage you to holiness. Little children, peace is disturbed and Satan wants peacelessness. That is why, may your prayer be even stronger so that every unclean spirit of division and war may be stilled. Be builders of peace and carriers of joy of the Risen One in you and around you, for the good to win in every man. Thank you for having responded to my call.” God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV  

  In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazorean, rise and walk!!   April 12, 2023 Easter Wednesday Dear Family of Mary! The readings at Mass for Easter Week are just block busters!! Here is the account of the healing of the man crippled from birth, by St. Peter! We see the power of the name of Jesus!!! We feel the intense joy of the man who was healed! We see the new life that was pouring out through the Apostles after the Resurrection!!! Peter and John were going up to the temple area for the three o’clock hour of prayer. And a man crippled from birth was carried and placed at the gate of the temple called “the Beautiful Gate” every day to beg for alms from the people who entered the temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms. But Peter looked intently at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” He paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them. Peter said, “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk.” Then Peter took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles grew strong. He leaped up, stood, and walked around, and went into the temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. When all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the one who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him. (Acts 3:1-10) Our Lady has spoken to us about this kind of new life many times in her messages. Here is just one of them: March 25, 2005 “Dear children! Today I call you to love. Little children, love each other with God’s love. At every moment, in joy and in sorrow, may love prevail and, in this way, love will begin to reign in your hearts. The risen Jesus will be with you and you will be his witnesses. I will rejoice with you and protect you with my motherly mantle. Especially, little children, I will watch your daily conversion with love. Thank you for having responded to my call.” We are called to bring the joy and healing of the Risen Jesus to those around us just as Peter and the apostles were called!! Our Joy and our Love will be our way!! God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV

Woman, why are you weeping?   April 11, 2023 Easter Tuesday Dear Family of Mary! Our Gospel retells that glorious moment when Mary Magdalene was weeping before the empty tomb, wondering where the body of Jesus had gone, only to find out that Jesus was alive and standing before her! All her sorrow was turned into elation!!! Jesus is alive! Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the Body of Jesus had been. And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord, and I don’t know where they laid him.” When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you laid him, and I will take him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” which means Teacher. Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and then reported what he had told her. (John 20:11-18) Don’t we tremble with joy as we read this Gospel. All Mary Magdalene’s worst fears are transformed into Joy!!! Our Lady wants us to be transformed as well, into that joy. In this message she shares her hopes and desires for us: May 2, 2019 “Dear children, with a motherly love I am calling you to respond to the great love of my Son, with pure and open hearts, with complete trust. I know the greatness of His love. I carried Him within me, the Host in the heart, the light and the love of the world. My children, also my addressing you is a sign of the love and tenderness of the Heavenly Father – a big smile filled with the love of my Son, a call to eternal life. Out of love, the Blood of my Son was shed for you. That Precious Blood is for your salvation, for eternal life. The Heavenly Father created man for eternal happiness. It is not possible for you who know the love of my Son and who follow Him to die. Life triumphed; my Son is alive. Therefore, my children, apostles of my love, may prayer show you the way and the means of spreading the love of my Son – prayer in the most exalted form. My children, also when you strive to live the words of my Son, you are praying. When you love the people whom you meet, you are spreading the love of my Son. It is love that opens the doors of Paradise. My children, from the beginning, I prayed for the Church. Therefore, I am also calling you, apostles of my love,to pray for the Church and her servants – for those whom my Son called. Thank you.” Our Lady tells us that “Life triumphed; my Son is alive!” This is the key to our joy and hope. Jesus is alive! God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV  

The pain and the joy of the Eucharist   April 6, 2023 Holy Thursday Dear Family of Mary! Our Lady gave us this message which seems perfect for Holy Thursday: July 2, 2015 “Dear children, I am calling you to spread the faith in my Son – your faith. You, my children illuminated by the Holy Spirit, my apostles, transmit it to others – to those who do not believe, who do not know, who do not want to know – but for that you must pray a lot for the gift of love, because love is the mark of true faith – and you will be apostles of my love. Love always, anew, revives the pain and the joy of the Eucharist, it revives the pain of the Passion of my Son, by which He showed you what it means to love immeasurably; it revives the joy for having left you His body and blood to feed you with Himself – and in this way, to be one with you. Looking at you with tenderness, I feel immeasurable love which strengthens me in my desire to bring you to a firm faith. Firm faith will give you joy and happiness on earth and in the end the encounter with my Son. This is His desire. Therefore, live Him, live love, live the light that always illuminates you in the Eucharist. I implore you to pray a lot for your shepherds, to pray so as to have all the more love for them because my Son gave them to you to feed you with His body and to teach you love. Therefore, also you are to love them. But, my children, remember, love means to endure and to give, and never, ever to judge. Thank you.” Here is one prayer that we can pray each day to prepare for Good Friday. In it we stay near Our Lady at the foot of the Cross: At The Cross Her Station Keeping At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Now at length the sword has passed. Oh, how sad and sore distressed Was that Mother highly blest Of the sole begotten One! Christ above in torment hangs; She beneath beholds the pangs Of her dying, glorious Son. Is there one who would not weep, ‘Whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ’s dear Mother to behold? Can the human heart refrain From partaking in her pain, In that Mother’s pain untold? Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, She beheld her tender Child, All with bloody scourges rent. For the sins of his own nation, Saw him hang in desolation Till his spirit forth he sent. O sweet Mother! fount of love, Touch my spirit from above, Make my heart with yours accord. Make me feel as you have felt; Make my soul to glow and melt With the love of Christ, my Lord. Holy Mother, pierce me through, In my heart each wound renew Of my Savior crucified. Let me share with you his pain, Who for all our sins was slain, Who for me in torments died. Let me mingle tears with thee, Mourning him who mourned for me, All the days that I may live: By the cross with you to stay, There with you to weep and pray, This I ask of you to give. Virgin of all Virgins best! Listen to my fond request: Let me share thy grief divine. Mother may we pray with you all week long! God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV P.S. The “800 Club” campaign continues! The response has been electric! So many shipmates have already donated, joyfully!! Consider joining our efforts to fund the new studio and live stream Our Lady’s Miraculous Sign to the world! Thank you to all of you, our dear shipmates!! https://marytv.tv/donate/  

What are you willing to give me…   April 5, 2023 Wednesday of Holy Week Dear Family of Mary! One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. (Mt 26:14-16) These are the opening words of our Gospel for today. Judas, his conscience seared, says these callous words: “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” We wonder, how much is a human being worth? Can you quantify life in terms of money? But, the worth of God Himself? How blind was Judas…Absurdly blind to the reality of his offer. But avarice is a terrible sickness of the soul. It makes money and the temporal power it can give, into a god. And so for Judas, Jesus became a commodity. “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” Those words echoed in Judas’ soul, driving him to take his own life. Our Lady has warned us about avarice, or consumerism in modern terms: 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…” Our Lady calls us to love God above all else. This is the antidote to avarice. God’s love fulfills us completely. If we choose Him, we choose life!! No regrets, no brokenness, only joy and peace await us, when we love God above all else. As we approach the Triduum, may we listen to Our Lady’s words, and choose life. “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. “ Here is one prayer that we can pray each day to prepare for Good Friday. In it we stay near Our Lady at the foot of the Cross: At The Cross Her Station Keeping At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Now at length the sword has passed. Oh, how sad and sore distressed Was that Mother highly blest Of the sole begotten One! Christ above in torment hangs; She beneath beholds the pangs Of her dying, glorious Son. Is there one who would not weep, ‘Whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ’s dear Mother to behold? Can the human heart refrain From partaking in her pain, In that Mother’s pain untold? Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, She beheld her tender Child, All with bloody scourges rent. For the sins of his own nation, Saw him hang in desolation Till his spirit forth he sent. O sweet Mother! fount of love, Touch my spirit from above, Make my heart with yours accord. Make me feel as you have felt; Make my soul to glow and melt With the love of Christ, my Lord. Holy Mother, pierce me through, In my heart each wound renew Of my Savior crucified. Let me share with you his pain, Who for all our sins was slain, Who for me in torments died. Let me mingle tears with thee, Mourning him who mourned for me, All the days that I may live: By the cross with you to stay, There with you to weep and pray, This I ask of you to give. Virgin of all Virgins best! Listen to my fond request: Let me share thy grief divine. Mother may we pray with you all week long! God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV P.S. The “800 Club” campaign continues! The response has been electric! So many shipmates have already donated, joyfully!! Consider joining our efforts to fund the new studio and live stream Our Lady’s Miraculous Sign to the world! Thank you to all of you, our dear shipmates!! https://marytv.tv/donate/    

Take the Cross, Look at Jesus   April 4, 2023 Tuesday of Holy Week Dear Family of Mary! The Gospels for Holy Week are not easy to hear. They tell of distrust, envy, and betrayal. Jesus was surrounded by these terrible attitudes which darkened the hearts of his enemies, and even his Apostles. We see Judas, unable to empathize with his Master. Lost in greed and denial, he chooses to betray and hand over Jesus to the Sanhedrin. But Peter, the one chosen to be head of the Church, is told by Jesus that he would deny Him three times that very night. We must reflect on these two men and their failures. Are we ready to die with Jesus? Do we deny Him when it is uncomfortable? Our Lady alone stood with Jesus throughout His ordeal. She alone did not fail Him. We can rely on her to guide us in our lives of faith and courage. Our Lady said to us: February 25, 2016 “Dear children! In this time of grace, I am calling all of you to conversion. Little children, you love little and pray even less. You are lost and do not know what your goal is. Take the cross, look at Jesus and follow Him. He gives Himself to you to the death on the cross, because He loves you. Little children, I am calling you: return to prayer with the heart so as to find hope and the meaning of your existence, in prayer. I am with you and am praying for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady watched Judas and Peter fail. She knows we are all capable of failing her son. She teaches us the remedy. “Take the cross, look at Jesus and follow Him. He gives Himself to you to the death on the cross, because He loves you.” The cross is our guide in all things. Jesus, laying down His life for us, is our only hope. Follow Him. Love Him. Trust Him. Die with Him. That is our way. Here is one prayer that we can pray each day to prepare for Good Friday. In it we stay near Our Lady at the foot of the Cross: At The Cross Her Station Keeping At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Now at length the sword has passed. Oh, how sad and sore distressed Was that Mother highly blest Of the sole begotten One! Christ above in torment hangs; She beneath beholds the pangs Of her dying, glorious Son. Is there one who would not weep, ‘Whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ’s dear Mother to behold? Can the human heart refrain From partaking in her pain, In that Mother’s pain untold? Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, She beheld her tender Child, All with bloody scourges rent. For the sins of his own nation, Saw him hang in desolation Till his spirit forth he sent. O sweet Mother! fount of love, Touch my spirit from above, Make my heart with yours accord. Make me feel as you have felt; Make my soul to glow and melt With the love of Christ, my Lord. Holy Mother, pierce me through, In my heart each wound renew Of my Savior crucified. Let me share with you his pain, Who for all our sins was slain, Who for me in torments died. Let me mingle tears with thee, Mourning him who mourned for me, All the days that I may live: By the cross with you to stay, There with you to weep and pray, This I ask of you to give. Virgin of all Virgins best! Listen to my fond request: Let me share thy grief divine. Mother may we pray with you all week long! God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV P.S. The “800 Club” campaign continues! The response has been electric! So many shipmates have already donated, joyfully!! It is very moving. Here is the response of one of our shipmates to our call for help: From a California shipmate: Hi Denis! This is a GREAT IDEA!! I love how the Holy Spirit works and this time through Tracy in Medjugorje! I am not able to donate $1,000 however, I have given a little bit… so what I have done is to send out emails to 27 people I know who I believe can donate and also, I have asked them to forward my email out to others!! I explained the situation and gave them your website (which many already have) and explained how to donate! This is a movement of the Holy Spirit, Praise God!! Thank you to all of you, our dear shipmates!! https://marytv.tv/donate/    

Take the cross in your hands…   April 3, 2023 Monday of Holy Week Dear Family of Mary! Today the Gospel (John 12:1-11) tells us about Lazarus’s sister, Mary. She anointed Jesus’ feet with expensive ointment and dried them with her hair. It was an intimate show of affection and adoration. She must have known that soon Jesus would be taken by the Jews and killed. We are aghast at the hostile reaction of the Jews. But that same hostility to Jesus is alive today in our world. It is up to us to bravely show our love for Jesus, just as Mary did. He is everything for us. Everything. Our Lady said to us: July 25, 2020 “Dear children!  In this peaceless time in which the devil is harvesting souls to draw them to himself, I am calling you to persevering prayer, so that in prayer you discover the God of love and hope. Little children, take the Cross in your hands. May it be your encouragement for love to always win, in a special way now when the Cross and faith are rejected. You be a reflection and an example with your lives that faith and hope are still alive and a new world of peace is possible. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son, Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.” May we show the world that faith, hope and love exist, and that Jesus is everything to us! Here is one prayer that we can pray each day to prepare for Good Friday. In it we stay near Our Lady at the foot of the Cross: At The Cross Her Station Keeping At the cross her station keeping, Stood the mournful Mother weeping, Close to Jesus to the last. Through her heart, his sorrow sharing, All his bitter anguish bearing, Now at length the sword has passed. Oh, how sad and sore distressed Was that Mother highly blest Of the sole begotten One! Christ above in torment hangs; She beneath beholds the pangs Of her dying, glorious Son. Is there one who would not weep, ‘Whelmed in miseries so deep, Christ’s dear Mother to behold? Can the human heart refrain From partaking in her pain, In that Mother’s pain untold? Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled, She beheld her tender Child, All with bloody scourges rent. For the sins of his own nation, Saw him hang in desolation Till his spirit forth he sent. O sweet Mother! fount of love, Touch my spirit from above, Make my heart with yours accord. Make me feel as you have felt; Make my soul to glow and melt With the love of Christ, my Lord. Holy Mother, pierce me through, In my heart each wound renew Of my Savior crucified. Let me share with you his pain, Who for all our sins was slain, Who for me in torments died. Let me mingle tears with thee, Mourning him who mourned for me, All the days that I may live: By the cross with you to stay, There with you to weep and pray, This I ask of you to give. Virgin of all Virgins best! Listen to my fond request: Let me share thy grief divine. Mother may we pray with you all week long! God bless you and keep you!! Cathy Nolan Mary TV P.S. The “800 Club” campaign continues! The response has been electric! So many shipmates have already donated, joyfully!! It is very moving. Here is the response of one of our shipmates to our call for help: From a California shipmate: Hi Denis! This is a GREAT IDEA!! I love how the Holy Spirit works and this time through Tracy in Medjugorje! I am not able to donate $1,000 however, I have given a little bit… so what I have done is to send out emails to 27 people I know who I believe can donate and also, I have asked them to forward my email out to others!! I explained the situation and gave them your website (which many already have) and explained how to donate! This is a movement of the Holy Spirit, Praise God!! Thank you to all of you, our dear shipmates!! https://marytv.tv/donate/