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May 17, 2021 Reflection -Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 4

Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 4 May 17, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! This is Day 4 the Novena to the Holy Spirit. Today we ask for an outpouring of God’s love in our lives, through the Holy Spirit! Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 4 Our Lady speaks about Love and the Holy Spirit: April 2, 2014 “Dear children, with a motherly love I desire to help you with your life of prayer and penance to be a sincere attempt at drawing closer to my Son and His divine light – that you may know how to separate yourselves from sin. Every prayer, every Mass and every fasting is an attempt at drawing closer to my Son, a reminder of His glory and a refuge from sin – it is a way to a renewed union of the good Father and His children. Therefore, my dear children, with hearts open and full of love, cry out the name of the Heavenly Father that He may illuminate you with the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit you will become a spring of God’s love. All those who do not know my Son, all those thirsting for the love and peace of my Son, will drink from this spring. Thank you. Pray for your shepherds. I pray for them and I desire that they may always feel the blessing of my motherly hands and the support of my motherly heart.” In this message Our Lady calls us to separate from the world, and live a life of prayer and penance. Why? She wants us to be free of all influences that would distract us from God and lead us to sin. And then, she wants us to cry out to the Heavenly Father, for Him to fill us with the Holy Spirit! “Father, send us your Holy Spirit!” She tells us, “Through the Holy Spirit you will become a spring of God’s love!” Of ourselves, we do not have much love to give. We are weak and vulnerable. But when the Holy Spirit fills us we become channels of God’s love, the most powerful love in the universe!! She says: “All those who do not know my Son, all those thirsting for the love and peace of my Son, will drink from this spring.” Imagine if we all became springs of living water, springs of the flowing love of God to all we meet!! Imagine how the world would change!! Mother, help us to cry out to the Heavenly Father to be illuminated by the Holy Spirit so that we can become springs of living water, the Love of God! The Paraclete, the Fount of Love (A prayer by St. John Henry Newman) My God, I adore You, as the Third Person of the Ever-Blessed Trinity, under the name and designation of Love. You are that Living Love, wherewith the Father and the Son love each other. And You are the Author of supernatural love in our hearts. “Fons vivus, ignis, charitas.” (Fount of life, fire and love) As a fire You came down from heaven on the day of Pentecost; and as a fire You burn away the dross of sin and vanity in the heart and light up the pure flame of devotion and affection. It is You who unite heaven and earth by showing to us the glory and beauty of the Divine Nature, and making us love what is in Itself so winning and transporting. I adore You, O uncreate and everlasting Fire, by which our souls live, by which alone they are made fit for heaven. Amen Come Holy Spirit Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest; come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made. O Comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O Fount of Life and Fire of Love, and Sweet Anointing from above. Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known; Thou, finger of God’s hand we own; Thou, promise of the Father, Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue. Kindle our senses from above, and make our hearts o’erflow with love; with patience firm and virtue high the weakness of our flesh supply. Far from us drive the foe we dread, and grant us Thy peace instead; so shall we not, with Thee for guide, turn from the path of life aside. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 16, 2021 Reflection -Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 3

Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 3 May 16, 2021 Seventh Sunday of Easter Dear Family of Mary! This is Day 3 the Novena to the Holy Spirit. It will consist of a message from Our Lady of Medjugorje, a prayer written by St. John Henry Newman, and the famous prayer, Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest. We can all include our own petitions! Let’s expect great things on Pentecost! Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 3 April 25, 2015 “Dear children! I am with you also today to lead you to salvation. 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. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call…” On this message, Our Lady recognizes that our souls can become restless and our spirits weak and tired due to the stresses and concerns of the world. Many of those stresses are due to the activity of the evil one. Fighting him, we must cling to our hope as the answer to all his lies and temptations. Our hope will sustain us in good and in prayer. Through hope, we await the deliverance of the Lord, joyfully! In the Catechism of the Catholic Church it says: 1817 Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit. “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.” “The Holy Spirit . . . he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.” Thank you, dearest Mother, for giving us your hope, the hope that comes from Heaven in your heart! Through your hope and the power of the Holy Spirit we will grow in hope, and win every battle! The Paraclete, the Fount of Love (A prayer by St. John Henry Newman) My God, I adore You, as the Third Person of the Ever-Blessed Trinity, under the name and designation of Love. You are that Living Love, wherewith the Father and the Son love each other. And You are the Author of supernatural love in our hearts. “Fons vivus, ignis, charitas.” As a fire You came down from heaven on the day of Pentecost; and as a fire You burn away the dross of sin and vanity in the heart and light up the pure flame of devotion and affection. It is You who unite heaven and earth by showing to us the glory and beauty of the Divine Nature, and making us love what is in Itself so winning and transporting. I adore You, O uncreate and everlasting Fire, by which our souls live, by which alone they are made fit for heaven. Amen Come Holy Spirit Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest; come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made. O Comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O Fount of Life and Fire of Love, and Sweet Anointing from above. Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known; Thou, finger of God’s hand we own; Thou, promise of the Father, Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue. Kindle our senses from above, and make our hearts o’erflow with love; with patience firm and virtue high the weakness of our flesh supply. Far from us drive the foe we dread, and grant us Thy peace instead; so shall we not, with Thee for guide, turn from the path of life aside. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 15, 2021 Reflection -Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 2

Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 2 May 15, 2021 St. Isidore Dear Family of Mary! This is Day 2 the Novena to the Holy Spirit. It will consist of a message from Our Lady of Medjugorje, a prayer written by St. John Henry Newman, and the famous prayer, Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest. We can all include our own petitions! Let’s expect great things on Pentecost! Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 2 September 25, 2015 “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. Little children, encourage each other to prayer with the heart, so that prayer may fulfill your life; and each day, you, little children, will be, above all, witnesses of serving God in adoration and of your neighbor in need. I am with you and intercede for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” The Gift and Virtue of Faith is really the foundation for all the other virtues. When we receive the Holy Spirit we begin to really believe in Jesus, and through Him discover the Father! Then the door opens to the real world, the world of life with God for eternity. Everything we have misunderstood in our lives becomes clear and comprehensible. We see that we are creatures of a loving God. We see that life makes sense in terms of the commandments. And we begin the journey towards love and joy! In prayer, we must daily ask the Holy Spirit to come and fill us with His light, so that our faith will continue to grow and our understanding of the Truth and the Good will strengthen. Then we too can help our neighbors to believe!! Thank you, dearest Mother for coming to help us receive the Holy Spirit and in Him, the gift of Faith! The Paraclete, the Fount of Love (A prayer by St. John Henry Newman) My God, I adore You, as the Third Person of the Ever-Blessed Trinity, under the name and designation of Love. You are that Living Love, wherewith the Father and the Son love each other. And You are the Author of supernatural love in our hearts. “Fons vivus, ignis, charitas.” As a fire You came down from heaven on the day of Pentecost; and as a fire You burn away the dross of sin and vanity in the heart and light up the pure flame of devotion and affection. It is You who unite heaven and earth by showing to us the glory and beauty of the Divine Nature, and making us love what is in Itself so winning and transporting. I adore You, O uncreate and everlasting Fire, by which our souls live, by which alone they are made fit for heaven. Amen Come Holy Spirit Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest; come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made. O Comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O Fount of Life and Fire of Love, and Sweet Anointing from above. Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known; Thou, finger of God’s hand we own; Thou, promise of the Father, Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue. Kindle our senses from above, and make our hearts o’erflow with love; with patience firm and virtue high the weakness of our flesh supply. Far from us drive the foe we dread, and grant us Thy peace instead; so shall we not, with Thee for guide, turn from the path of life aside. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 14, 2021 Update from Denis

Pope John Paul ll with the statue of Our Lady given to him by Bishop Hnilica upon his release from the hospital after the assassination attempt. May 14, 2021 Dear Family of Mary TV, Apostles of Our Lady of Medjugorje, “The Catholic Thing” carried an article yesterday titled “Signs and Wonders”. Noting that May 13, 2021, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, was the 40th anniversary of the assassination attempt on the life of St. John Paul ll, Stephen White posed the question to readers: “What signs of God’s action in our own day have we missed because we are too skeptical, too cynical, too eager to seem sophisticated?” After the assassination attempt “as he was being rushed to the hospital, John Paul ll said, more and more feebly as the moments passed, only Our Lady’s name, Mary, and none of the things the newspapers attributed to him,” (Andre Frossard, “Portrait of John Paul ll”, p.55). The following month Our Lady started appearing in Medjugorje. Perceiving the hand of providence – the assassination attempt happening on the anniversary of the day, at the very hour, of Our Lady’s first apparition in Fatima – the Holy Father asked Bishop Paolo Hnilica to bring to him, while he was convalescing in Gemelli Hospital, all the materials he could gather on Fatima. As a result, Pope St. John Paul ll asked bishops throughout the world to join him in his March 25, 1984, Act of Consecration to Our Lady that he did in response to her request at Fatima.  In a book of her writings published after her death Sr. Lucia confirmed that Our Lady had accepted it in response to her Fatima request. Sisters of her convent in Portugal reiterated this again recently. Sr. Lucia of Fatima also confirmed this to me in a February 12, 1992 letter sent by Fr. John D. Marchi, “Yes, the Consecration of the world is well established”. Traveling to Moscow and secretly slipping into the Kremlin, Bishop Paolo Hnilica consecrated Russia while saying Mass behind an issue of the communist newspaper “Pravda”. Returning to Rome the following day he arrived in St. Peter’s Square just as the Pope was beginning to recite the words of consecration. (Bishops could do the consecration on March 24, as Bishop Hnilica did, or on March 25th.) The Holy Father was overjoyed hearing Bishop Hnilica’s account of his trip. They spent four hours together later that day in the Pope’s private apartment. Taking from his shelf Fr. Rene Laurentin’s first book on Medjugorje (that he had written with Fr. Ljudevit Rupcic), “Is the Virgin Mary Appearing in Medjugorje?” the Pope read to him several sections out loud, asking, “Didn’t you stop in Medjugorje on your way back to Rome?”  In response to the bishop’s reply, “No, your Holiness, it has been forbidden,” with a wave of his hand Pope John Paul ll said, “Pay no attention! Go to Medjugorje! Medjugorje is the continuation and fulfillment of Fatima!” Our Lady confirmed the Holy Father’s words in her August 25, 1991 message. She invited her children to nine days of prayer and sacrifice: “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 be fully realized. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Four days later, on August 29th, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR suspended the activities of the Communist Party throughout the country. But the devil wasn’t backing down. The following month Our Lady warned in her September 25, 1991 message: “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.” Pope John Paul ll did not miss the signs of God’s action in his own day. On February 24, 1990 he said, “Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world!” (“Why He Is A Saint, the Life and Faith of Pope John Paul ll and the Case for Canonization”, p. 168, by Msgr. Slawomir Oder, Postulator for his Cause of Sainthood). In the chapter he includes on the Pope and Medjugorje, Msgr Oder quotes from eight letters the Holy Father had written in regard to Medjugorje. For example, on December 8, 1992, in his own hand: “I thank Sophia for everything concerning Medjugorje. I, too, go there every day as a pilgrim in my prayers. I unite in my prayers with all those a who pray there or receive a call for prayer from there. Today we have understood this call better. I rejoice that our time is not lacking people of prayer and apostles.” And it wasn’t just St. John Paul ll. An August 6, 2019 Catholic News Service headline gave the Church’s verdict: “Vatican confirms Medjugorje approval by joining youth festival” In response to the Holy Father’s appeal earlier this month for prayer to bring an end to the pandemic, thirty representative Shrines scattered throughout the world have been chosen to lead the Marian prayer each during one day of the month of May. Vatican News reports that “the Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace at Medjugorje in Bosnia” has been chosen to lead the Rosary tomorrow, May 15, 2021. With the 40th anniversary of Our Lady’s daily apparitions in Medjugorje now upon us, maybe the author of that article in “The Catholic Thing” should pose this question as it relates to Medjugorje: What signs of God’s action in my own day have I missed because I am too skeptical, too cynical, too eager to seem sophisticated?  Mainstream traditional Catholic outlets should do the same. Denis Nolan MaryTV.tv  

May 14, 2021 Reflection -Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 1

Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 1 May 14, 2021 St. Mathias Dear Family of Mary! Today we begin the Novena to the Holy Spirit. It will consist of a message from Our Lady of Medjugorje, a prayer written by St. John Henry Newman, and the famous prayer, Come Holy Spirit, Creator Blest. We can all include our own petitions! Let’s expect great things on Pentecost! Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 1 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.” We see in this message that Our Lady has from the early days desired that we open our hearts to the Holy Spirit, and live in constant communication with Him. She tells us that she expects us to receive the Holy Spirit and then allow Him to work miracles through us! Isn’t this exactly what the Apostles and Disciples of Jesus did, after the Ascension? They received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and immediately went out and preached the Good News while performing miracles. They were carriers of good and peace, and conversions abounded. May we learn to pray, pray, pray and do that which the Holy Spirit inspires us to do! The Paraclete, the Fount of Love (A prayer by St. John Henry Newman) My God, I adore You, as the Third Person of the Ever-Blessed Trinity, under the name and designation of Love. You are that Living Love, wherewith the Father and the Son love each other. And You are the Author of supernatural love in our hearts. “Fons vivus, ignis, charitas.” As a fire You came down from heaven on the day of Pentecost; and as a fire You burn away the dross of sin and vanity in the heart and light up the pure flame of devotion and affection. It is You who unite heaven and earth by showing to us the glory and beauty of the Divine Nature, and making us love what is in Itself so winning and transporting. I adore You, O uncreate and everlasting Fire, by which our souls live, by which alone they are made fit for heaven. Amen Come Holy Spirit Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest; come with Thy grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which Thou hast made. O Comforter, to Thee we cry, O heavenly gift of God Most High, O Fount of Life and Fire of Love, and Sweet Anointing from above. Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known; Thou, finger of God’s hand we own; Thou, promise of the Father, Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue. Kindle our senses from above, and make our hearts o’erflow with love; with patience firm and virtue high the weakness of our flesh supply. Far from us drive the foe we dread, and grant us Thy peace instead; so shall we not, with Thee for guide, turn from the path of life aside. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 13, 2021 Reflection -The Ascension of the Lord

  (Another shot of the sky over Medjugorje Tuesday night during Adoration) The Ascension! May 13, 2021 The Ascension of the Lord! Dear Family of Mary! Today is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord!! (Some dioceses transfer this feast to the 7th Sunday of Easter) We contemplate and celebrate Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven, as God and Man! What a moment that must have been for Heaven!!! To receive The Incarnate God into their midst. Jesus’ body was the very first human body to be welcomed into Eternity!!! Wow!! Here is a marvelous meditation prayer written by Saint John Henry Newman, for the Ascension of the Lord. I find it stunning. Thanks be to God! He Ascended by Saint John Henry Newman 1. My Lord, I follow Thee up to heaven; as Thou goest up, my heart and mind go with Thee. Never was triumph like this. Thou didst appear a babe in human flesh at Bethlehem. That flesh, taken from the Blessed Virgin, was not before Thou didst form it into a body; it was a new work of Thy hands. And Thy soul was new altogether, created by Thy Omnipotence, at the moment when Thou didst enter into her sacred breast. That pure soul and body, taken as a garment for Thyself, began on earth, and never had been elsewhere. This is the triumph. Earth rises to heaven. I see Thee going up. I see that Form which hung upon the Cross, those scarred hands and feet, that pierced side; they are mounting up to heaven. And the Angels are full of jubilee; the myriads of blessed spirits, which people the glorious expanse, part like the waters to let Thee pass. And the living pavement of God’s palaces is cleft in twain, and the Cherubim with flaming swords, who form the rampart of heaven against fallen man, give way and open out, that Thou mayest enter, and Thy saints after Thee. O memorable day! 2. O memorable day! The Apostles feel it to be so, now that it is come, though they felt so differently before it came. When it was coming they dreaded it. They could not think but it would be a great bereavement; but now, as we read, they returned to Jerusalem “with great joy.” O what a time of triumph! They understood it now. They understood how weak it had been in them to grudge their Lord and Master, the glorious Captain of their salvation, the Champion and First fruits of the human family, this crown of His great work. It was the triumph of redeemed man. It is the completion of his redemption. It was the last act, making the whole sure, for now man is actually in heaven. He has entered into possession of his inheritance. The sinful race has now one of its own children there, its own flesh and blood, in the person of the Eternal Son. O what a wonderful marriage between heaven and earth! It began in sorrow; but now the long travail of that mysterious wedding day is over; the marriage feast is begun; marriage and birth have gone together; man is new born when Emmanuel enters heaven. 3. O Emmanuel, O God in our flesh! we too hope, by Thy grace, to follow Thee. We will cling to the skirts of Thy garments, as Thou goest up; for without Thee we cannot ascend. O Emmanuel, what a day of joy when we shall enter heaven! O inexpressible ecstasy, after all trouble! There is none strong but Thou. Tenuisti manum dexteram meam: et in voluntate tua deduxisti me, et cum gloria suscepisti me. Quid enim mihi est in cœlo, et a Te quid volui super terram? Defecit caro mea et cor meum; Deus cordis mei, et pars mea Deus in æternum.-“Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by Thy will Thou hast conducted me, and with Thy glory Thou hast received me. For what have I in heaven? And besides Thee what do I desire upon earth? For Thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.” http://www.newmanfriendsinternational.org/en/the-ascension-to-meditate-with-blessed-john-henry-newman/ Amen and Amen!! Let’s just love our Lord Jesus all day long today!! He is waiting for us in Heaven, waiting to embrace us and welcome us home! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 12, 2021 Reflection – The Spirit of Truth

(A shot of the sky over Medjugorje last night during adoration) The Holy Spirit of Truth! May 12, 2021 Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Saint Pancras Dear Family of Mary! Our Gospel readings continue to teach us about the Holy Spirit during these days before Pentecost. Today Jesus promises to send us the “Spirit of Truth”: Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:12-15) What a comfort it must have been for the Apostles to hear these words. They had witnessed the controversy surrounding Jesus, a controversy that led to His Crucifixion. They knew it would be the same for them. The knew they would need God’s help to speak the truth and live the truth of Jesus in the days ahead. So Jesus told them He would send the Holy Spirit of Truth to guide them in the ways of truth. Many years ago, Our Lady advised us to pray for that very same Holy Spirit to guide us in the ways of truth, truth in relaying her messages and in living our lives according to the Gospel. She knew we would also face scrutiny as her witnesses, and that to serve Jesus we would need the Holy Spirit of Truth: Saturday, June 9, 1984 (Vigil of Pentecost) “Tomorrow evening, pray to receive the Spirit of Truth. More particularly, you, members of this parish. The Spirit of Truth is indispensable to you in order to convey the messages, such as I give them to you, without adding or deleting whatever it may be. Pray, so that the Holy Spirit inspires you, a Spirit of Prayer, so that you may pray more. I your mother, find that you pray too little.” Such practical advice. Our Mother is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. She knows how much we need Him to live a holy and fruitful life! St. John Paul II wrote about the Holy Spirit of Truth in His Catechesis on the Holy Spirit in this way: 6. The Holy Spirit teaches the Christian the truth as a principle of life. He shows the concrete application of Jesus’ words in each one’s life. He enables one to discover the contemporary value of the Gospel for all human situations. He adapts the understanding of the truth to every circumstance, so that this truth does not remain merely abstract and speculative, but frees the Christian from the dangers of duplicity and hypocrisy. To this end, the Holy Spirit enlightens each one personally, to guide him in his conduct, by showing him the way to go and by giving him just a glimpse of the Father’s plan for his life. St. Paul seeks this great grace of light for the Colossians: “the spiritual understanding” which can enable them to understand the divine will. In fact, he assures them: “We do not cease praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his [God’s] will through all wisdom and spiritual understanding, to live in a manner worthy of the Lord, so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit…” (Col 1:9-10). For all of us this grace of light is necessary to have a good knowledge of God’s will for us and to be able to live our personal vocation fully. Problems are never lacking and they sometimes seem insoluble. But the Holy Spirit helps us in our difficulties and gives us light. He can reveal the divine solution, as he did at the time of the Annunciation in regard to the problem of reconciling motherhood with the desire for preserving one’s virginity. Even when it is a question of a unique mystery such as the role of Mary in the Incarnation of the Word, the Holy Spirit can be said to possess an infinite creativity, proper to the divine mind, which knows how to loosen the knots of human affairs, even the most complex and inscrutable. 7. All of this is given and accomplished in the soul by the Holy Spirit through his gifts, the graces which one can carefully discern, not according to the criteria of human wisdom, which is foolishness in God’s sight, but with that divine wisdom which can seem foolishness in the eyes of men (cf. 1 Cor 1:18-25). Only the Holy Spirit “scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God” (1 Cor 2:10-11) Catechesis by Pope John Paul II on the Holy Spirit General Audience, Wednesday 24 April 1991 – http://totus2us.com/teaching/jpii-catechesis-on-god-the-holy-spirit/ God knew we would need the Holy Spirit to enlighten each one of us personally, to guide us with His Light of Truth. We are such blessed children to have such a Father in Heaven! Well, I am very excited to begin the Novena to the Holy Spirit that we will pray before Pentecost!! It starts on this Friday, May 14!! Let’s stay close to Our Lady in these next days, for she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit!! Who better to help us receive Him! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 11, 2021 Reflection – The Advocate

The Advocate May 11, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! “But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. (John 16:7) In the Gospel today, Jesus calls the Holy Spirit the Advocate! In the Revised Standard Version it is translated the Counselor. Both titles are helpful. Jesus wanted the Apostles to understand that He was not going to leave them like orphans. His departure would be followed by the coming of the Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, who would dwell in them and with them for the rest of their earthly lives. Jesus would never abandon His own. Nor does He abandon us. We receive the Holy Spirit at Baptism and Confirmation in a powerful way, but we also receive Him in every prayer we say. He comes to dwell in all who call upon Him in their hearts!! Isn’t our God incredibly beautiful!!! Our Lady advised us: May 25, 2000 “Dear children! I rejoice with you and in this time of grace I call you to spiritual renewal. 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. Especially, little children, pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit so that in the spirit of love, every day and in each situation, you may be closer to your fellow-man; and that in wisdom and love you may overcome every difficulty. I am with you and I intercede for each of you before Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.” She too tells us that if we pray the Holy Spirit will come to dwell in us in fullness! The Spirit wants to live in us, to take up His abode in us, so that He can guide and console and bless us, so that He can show us how best we can serve Jesus. The Spirit wants to dwell in us!! St. John Paul II wrote about the Holy Spirit dwelling in us in His Catechesis on the Holy Spirit with these words: 7. Jesus announces that the Holy Spirit will come to “remain” with us: “I will pray to the Father and he will give you another Comforter that he may remain with you forever” (Jn 14, 16); he himself will remain, not only his power, his wisdom, his action; but he himself as a Person. And again: he himself will remain not only “with us”, but “by us” and “in us”. “You know him” – says Jesus “because he dwells close to you and will be in you (Jn 14, 17). These words express the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as inner guest in people’s hearts: in the heart of anyone among all the souls belonging to Christ who welcomes the Spirit. The Father and Son too come to “take up residence” in these souls (Jn 14:23). Therefore the whole Trinity is present in them, but, since this is a spiritual presence, that presence refers in a most direct way to the Person of the Holy Spirit. 8. Through this presence at work in the soul, a person can become that “true worshipper” of God who “is spirit” (Jn 4:24), as Jesus said in the meeting with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well (cf. Jn 4:23). The hour of those who “adore the Father in spirit and truth” arrived with Christ and becomes a reality in every person who accepts the Holy Spirit and lives according to the Spirit’s inspiration and under the Spirit’s personal direction. That is the greatest and holiest element in Christian spirituality.” (An Advocate who dwells in us – Catechesis by Pope John Paul II on the Holy Spirit – General Audience, Wednesday 26 September 1990) http://www.totus2us.co.uk/teaching/jpii-catechesis-on-god-the-holy-spirit/an-advocate-who-dwells-in-us/ Well, I am very excited to begin the Novena to the Holy Spirit that we will pray before Pentecost!! It starts on this Friday, May 14!! Let’s stay close to Our Lady in these next days, for she is the spouse of the Holy Spirit!! Who better to help us receive Him! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021  

May 10, 2021 Reflection – “Eternity”

Eterinty May 10, 2021 St. Damien de VeusterDear Family of Mary! “These things I have spoken to you that my Joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” (John 15:11) Our Lady said to us: July 2, 2012“My children; Again, in a motherly way, I implore you to stop for a moment and to reflect on yourselves and on the transience of this your earthly life. Then reflect on eternity and the eternal beatitude. What do you want? Which way do you want to set out on? This is a very important question for each one of us. Something to ponder each day of our lives. It has everything to do with Jesus’ joy! Do we want His joy? Fr. Leon’ homily for May 6, 2021 is an excellent teaching on eternity and what we should think about it: English Homily in Medjugorje Thursday, May 6, 2021 Fr. Leon Pereira The Lord Be With You. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. John 15: 9-11 At that time, Jesus said to His disciples, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love; just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you that my Joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.” The Gospel of the Lord. HOMILY What is the perfect age to be? I think most of us imagine it’s probably the age that we’re at now. If we’re older, we might think, “Oh, I wish I was this age, when I had the health and vigor of a 20-year-old.” And then we would say, “That’s the perfect age!” Because we all know; we, who are older, we think, “Oh, thank God, I’m not as silly as I used to be when I was a child;” “Thank God I’m not as embarrassing as I used to be when I was a teenager.” We know this. It’s easy enough to look back and say this, and to think, “Oh, well, you know, I wasn’t so bad in my twenties.” “I was better in my thirties,” you know, etc. But what is the perfect age to be? What age will we be in the Resurrection? In the Middle Ages, people said, “Probably the same age as Jesus – 33.” And then they also said, “Well, what shape will we be?” You know, how will we look? What kind of bodies will we have? Will we look like infants? Will we look like children? Or teenagers? Or grownups? Or elderly? Or what kind of body are you going to have at the Resurrection? And no one really knew. But one guess was – they said, “Well, the perfect shape is a sphere” – so we’ll be 33 years old and a round ball. This is how we will look at the Resurrection. Actually, we had a friar in the convent who at the age of 33 was a perfect sphere. But that’s another story! The problem is: Eternity is quite different from everything we are used to – almost everything we are used to. Eternity is not time stretching out forever and ever, so get that out of your heads. Eternity is more like the present moment – Now. It’s fully possessing everything that you ever were, and ever will be, and are, in one single moment – Now. So, God, because He’s eternal – He’s not very, very old. He’s fresher than the newest thought that you’ve just had. He’s newer than the newest thought that you just had. Even now – even, the thought that you just had, is old compared to God. Eternity is very hard for us to conceive of, because there’s very little about us that shares in Eternity. We get a glimpse of it. You know, in your happiest moments, you forget that time flies, and, you know, hours can go by, and you’ve never even noticed, and you’re not even tired. That’s a little glimpse of the natural “Eve Eternity” that your soul shares in; because our souls are made to be eternal in this sense: although they had a beginning, they do not have an end. Now, I say all this because I want to talk about “God’s Eternity.” God begets. The Father begets the Son in Eternity – meaning, He does it now. And He breaths through Him and for Him, the Holy Spirit. He gives everything that He is, the Father gives everything that He is, to the Son; everything except being a Father. Because that is the one thing… it is not a thing that He has, it is a relationship He has. That is not something you can give. And it only happens as the Son is begotten. The Son is begotten, in Eternity. The Father says, “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee,” in Eternity. And the Son says, in Eternity, “Behold, I come to do your will as it stands written in the scroll of the book concerning me.” And they both say this in the Holy Spirit. Because the Holy Spirit is the Joy proceeding from the Father and the Son, the Eternal Joy of God at being God. I have said all this before; that’s why it’s worth saying again. Why am I saying this? Well, what about us? When God plans to make us, does He sit in Eternity and think after a while, “Oh, I think I’ll make a Universe.” No. Because God is Eternal, His plan to make all of us is Eternal. So, as the Father breeds the Spirit through the Son, and begets the Son, He at the same time – in Eternity – plans every single one of us, and everything about this universe, everything about our lives. All the good that He desires to give us, and to make in that Eternal begetting of the Son, and Eternal spiration of the Spirit, He plans all this. So, for example, when we come to the Eucharist, we can say, “Oh, isn’t it marvelous, that Bread and Wine are such good symbols for Body and Blood?” He didn’t make Bread to look like Christ’s Body, and Wine to look like Christ’s Blood. He planned all this from Eternity, that they would indeed resemble each other. It’s not a great coincidence; not at all. This is an Eternal plan. Now, with this in mind, when we hear what the Gospel says to us today, “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you.” Jesus is saying, the Father has loved me (the Eternal Son) with the Holy Spirit; therefore, I also have loved you with the Holy Spirit. “Abide in my love.” That love is the Holy Spirit. Remain in the Holy Spirit is what He’s saying. “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love.” What are His commandments? To be faithful to the Father’s will; to go to the cross. He says, this is His commandment for Him. And then He says to us, “I give you a new commandment, Love one another as I have loved you. A man has no greater love than this, than to lay down his life for his friends.” So, this is about sacrifice and friendship; communion with each other. “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, [Meaning, you will stay in the Holy Spirit] just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.” In other words, Jesus desires us to have this Communion that the Trinity has; and He desires us to have it. And then He says the most shocking thing of all: “These things I have spoken to you that my Joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” “My Joy may be in you,” meaning my Holy Spirit, that it will live in you, He will live in you; “and that your joy may be full.” Why is this Good News for us? It is Good News because this is the best thing in the whole universe. There is nothing better than this. Every earthly thing that we are looking for, the solution to our problems; every distraction we are chasing after – games, sports, drugs, recreation, friendship, the Internet; everything that we desire, so that we think, “My life can proceed if all of this is sorted out – if my parents are well and my children are healthy, or whatever; even though we think all these things are what we need, the answer is actually this: The Holy Trinity. And until we come to that, we will never be happy, and never be complete. He says, “I have spoken these things to you that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” In other words, your joy will never be complete without the Holy Spirit. This is what we all long for, even though we might not realize it. This is what our hearts are yearning for, to be one with the Trinity. There is nothing – absolutely nothing – better than this. I’m going to end here now with a poem by Robert Southwell, a Jesuit martyr. In prison while awaiting his gruesome death, he wrote a poem – he scratched it on the wall – and in one of the stanzas… he suddenly just departed completely from his theme, and he said this: Gift better than Himself, God doth not know, Gift better than God no man can see; This gift doth here the giver given bestow, Gift to this gift let each receiver be: God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me, God’s gift am I, and none but God shall have me.   In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021

May 7, 2021 Reflection – This I command you: love one another!

This I command you: love one another! May 7, 2021 Dear Family of Mary! “This I command you: love one another.” (John 15:17) Our Lady calls us to love one another, just as her Son does. Listen with the heart to her words. She will help us learn to love one another: October 2, 2014 “Dear children, With motherly love I implore you, love one another. May there be in your hearts, as my Son desired from the very beginning, love for the Heavenly Father and for your neighbor in the first place – above everything of this world. September 2, 2015 “Dear children, My dear apostles of love, my carriers of truth, again I am calling you and gathering you around me to help me, to help all of my children who thirst for love and truth – who thirst for my Son. I am a grace from the Heavenly Father, sent to help you to live the word of my Son. Love one another. I lived your earthly life. I know that it is not always easy, but if you will love each other, you will pray with the heart, you will reach spiritual heights and the way to heaven will be opened for you…” March 2, 2017 “Dear children, with motherly love I am coming to help you to have more love and that means more faith…. My children, pray, pray, pray with the heart, pray with love, pray with good works. Pray that everyone would come to know my Son, so that the world would change, that the world would be saved. With love live the words of my Son. Do not judge, instead love one another so that my heart could triumph. Thank you.” July 2, 2017 “Dear children… 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. February 2, 2019 “Dear children,… As a mother I am saying to you: set out with me, love one another, and give witness. Do not be afraid, with your example, to defend the truth – the Word of God, which is eternal and never changes. My children, whoever acts in the light of merciful love and truth is always helped by Heaven and is not alone. Apostles of my love, may you always be recognized among all others by your hiddenness, love and radiance. I am with you. Thank you.” January 2, 2020 “Dear children, I know that I am present in your lives and in your hearts. I feel your love, I hear your prayers and direct them to my Son….My children, give to my Son love for your neighbors, give words of consolation, compassion and acts of justice to your neighbors. Everything that you give to others, apostles of my love, my Son accepts as a gift. I am also with you, because my Son desires for my love, as a ray of light, to bring your souls to life; for me to help you in the search for peace and eternal happiness. Therefore, my children, love one another, be united through my Son, be children of God who all together, with full, open and pure heart, pronounce the ‘Our Father’. And do not be afraid! Thank you.” Friday, October 5, 1984 To Jelena: “I love you. Love me, love one another.” In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c)Mary TV 2021 PS. Check out the new video windows on the home page, www.marytv.tv ! We have added the live camera shots of Apparition Hill, Cross Mountain, and the Blue Cross to our home page! They are directly beneath the Video Library window and the Latest Videos window!! So you can go to those holy places for quiet prayer any time, day or night!!