May 21, 2019

Dear Family of Mary!

During this time before Pentecost, I feel it is very important to give time in prayer to our relationship to the Holy Spirit. We have 19 days left before the Feast of Pentecost. Nine of those days will be dedicated to the Novena to the Holy Spirit! The other ten days we can use to prepare us for the Novena! I will dedicate my reflections to this preparation by taking a message from Our Lady and giving it some time, some attention!

Here is the message for today:

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.”

Opening ourselves to God is a life-long process. It is like conversion. It is a daily task. Our hearts do not just stay open to God. They easily close up. There are lots of reasons for the closing. For me it can be anxiety. I see the list of things I have to do, and I get nervous, even afraid. I have to “make” myself perform, no matter what. And my eyes get focused entirely on myself and God is forgotten. The only thing for me at that moment is the work and my anxiety about it.

This is only one way that we can become closed. There are many inner states of mind that can close us up. Fear, unforgiveness, envy, woundedness, inordinate desires, and on and on. But the closed heart cannot receive from God. In that state the Holy Spirit cannot enter and begin to work through us. Closed hearts reject the Holy Spirit.

Our Lady says that the Spirit wants to work miracles in us and through us! She says that she wants us to be important parts of her plans of salvation for the world. How sad it is that we are invited to such a wonderful work and yet we can close ourselves off and say “no” to these gifts of grace due to our self-absorption.

God needs us! Our Lady needs us! They need us to be carriers of good and peace. This can only happen if we get our eyes off of ourselves and open our hearts to the God who loves us and sends His Spirit to us, to heal us, work miracles through us and help Our Lady in her plans of peace.

How have I closed my heart to You, Lord, today. Please show me so that I can convert and open myself to you now!!

In Jesus Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019

 

Friday, May 17, 2019

Dear Family of Mary!

I have received the account of Our Lady’s apparition to Ivan, during his prayer group meeting on Apparition Hill this evening- May 17, 2019.

Here is what Ivan shared with the pilgrims:

Then with extended arms she prayed over all of us here, and especially prayed here over all of you here who are sick. Then she said,

“Dear children, Also today I call you in a special way to pray for my intentions, for my plans that I desire to realize here by my coming. Pray in a special way for my shepherds, for firm faith, firm faith in my priests. Thank you, dear children, also today, for having responded to my call.”

Afterwards Our Lady blessed with her Motherly blessing everything that you have brought to be blessed. Then Our Lady, in a special way, prayed for peace in the families. And then in prayer, she left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross, with the words, “Go in peace, my dear children.”

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV

May 16, 2019

Dear Family of Mary!

August 25, 1997 “Dear children! God gives me this time as a gift to you, so that I may instruct and lead you on the path of salvation. Dear children, now you do not comprehend this grace, but soon a time will come when you will lament for these messages. That is why, little children, live all of the words which I have given you through this time of grace and renew prayer, until prayer becomes a joy for you. Especially, I call all those who have consecrated themselves to my Immaculate Heart to become an example to others. I call all priests and religious brothers and sisters to pray the rosary and to teach others to pray. The rosary, little children, is especially dear to me. Through the rosary open your heart to me and I am able to help you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

Our Lady is with us to instruct us and lead us on the path of salvation. Her messages are meant to be guides to us along this way. They are powerful and timely and yet eternal, as she has said. Without her words, I think it would be hard to remain in peace and hope for the future. She has been our firm support these many years.

I had a prayer experience recently that showed me the power of praying the Rosary. As Our Lady said in this message, the Rosary is dear to her. And I think my experience demonstrates why.

 

I attended a wake for a wonderful man who loved Our Lady and Medjugorje. He died suddenly, and it was a very sad moment. Many friends gathered for the Rosary at the funeral home. It was a comfort to be together. At the appointed time, the assistant pastor of our parish stood up, holding his Rosary in his hand. He explained that we were going to pray the Rosary for the eternal rest of our friend’s soul. He said that the mysteries of the Rosary are very important, because they convey the faith to us. He chose the Glorious Mysteries for that Rosary, and we began.

Everyone prayed. Everyone said the beautiful words of the Rosary together. It was a moment of true unity. And as I prayed, I began to have images. As we prayed the first decade, the Resurrection, I saw the figure of our friend, standing at the very bottom of a very long stairway. It was dark down there, and he appeared to be very weak, and encumbered with chains. But he bravely started to climb the stair, one step at a time. As we continued to say Hail Marys, he seemed to gain strength. The Resurrection was giving him an increase in Faith. It was beautiful.

Then as we prayed the Ascension, I saw that he was being given a new hope! Jesus ascended into heaven, and our friend felt the hope that he too would be able to reach heaven. Each Hail Mary fed that hope, and he climbed a bit faster, though the chains were still attached to him.

The third decade came, the Descent of the Holy Spirit! And as we prayed the Hail Marys, I saw a bird approach, all aflame, burning brightly. It was the Holy Spirit! He began to dive towards him, cutting the chains and burning off the fetters, until my friend was totally free! He was able to climb better now, free of the bindings.

The fourth decade, the Assumption of Our Lady, came. Mary approached him and hugging him, helped him to climb. She comforted him and showed him that they were almost there. Her motherly presence gave him strength.

And with the fifth decade, the Crowning of Mary, they both arrived miraculously at the seat of the Heavenly Father. Our Lady presented him to Jesus, who presented him to the Father. There was great joy in heaven!! And then the Father gave him to St. Joseph, as his special guide and friend in heaven. What joy it gave me.

I could feel that it was the Rosary that empowered this ascent. The prayers we were praying with Our Lady were really powerful in helping this friend reach the throne of God. What a powerful prayer the Rosary is!! And I do think that having our priest lead the Rosary was very powerful!! As Our Lady said:

“Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord,

And let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

Amen.”

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019

The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” (Gen 3: 14-15)

After the fall, the Lord established an enmity between Satan and “the woman”. Our Lady has bravely born this enmity for our sakes. She was faithful to the Father’s plan for her in conceiving and rearing Jesus. And she became one of His disciples, remaining faithful to her Son throughout His Passion and Death. She waited for Him to rise from the dead, and then stayed with the Apostles in prayer, waiting for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Mary stood firm throughout this battle with the devil, showing us the firmness of faith that is necessary in our life on this earth.

And so, at this time of the final confrontation, it is Mary who stands against Satan. It is she who remains firm in her resolve, and constant in her love for us. She is in Medjugorje now, giving us the guidance and courage that we need to also remain firm in our faith to the end. We must be the Church that stands against the anti-church. Our Lady will lead us in this task. She knows the Church, the true Church, and can teach us everything we need to stand as Church!

She told us how to stand in this message:      

July 02, 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.”

Thank you dearest Mother, for having come to stay with us “in the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist.” With you, we shall stand and bring the Light of Christ!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019