Reading 1 for Holy Mass

September 19, 2018

1 Cor 12:31-13:13

Brothers and sisters:
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.

But I shall show you a still more excellent way.

If I speak in human and angelic tongues
but do not have love,
I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy
and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge;
if I have all faith so as to move mountains,
but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own,
and if I hand my body over so that I may boast
but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, love is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.
If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing;
if tongues, they will cease;
if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child,
think as a child, reason as a child;
when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor 12:31-13:13)

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018

Another message at the beginning of this time of Advent, tells us that Our Lady has come to teach us love: “You do not yet know how to love, you do not yet know how to listen with love. I am your Mother and I want to teach you something very important.” At the beginning of the liturgical year, Our Lady gives us the task of: “Love.”

At this point, we must ask ourselves a deep and intimate question: if Our Lady had said one more “there will be a catastrophe” how would we behave? If Our Lady says: “You do not yet know how to love” has this moved us or not? If these words do not move us it is a sign to us that we see our physical life as more important than our spiritual one. We can pray or not do so, be converted or not, but one day we all must die and this will be our catastrophe. When Our Lady tells us: “I have come to teach you to love’ this means that she has come to preserve us from the most dangerous death, the death of our soul. These words must move us.

Another very important fact is that Our Lady wants to bring us to the Cross. In two messages she has said: “Pray a great deal for peace in front of the Cross.” Our Lady knows what significance the Cross has. She is educating a prayer group with Ivan and sometimes tells the group to pray the joyful mysteries together, the sorrowful mysteries two by two in the group, but for the glorious mysteries she says, “Go to your homes and pray in front of the Cross.” The Cross is the most important Word Our Lord could tell us. What does the cross of illness or suffering mean? If we have not understood the Cross, we will never understand anything of Christian life or of the life of Jesus. We have to pray a great deal in front of the Cross and meditate on It.

Our Lady was poor in front of Our Lord, she said to the Angel: Behold the handmaid of the Lord. This is the summary of the whole of the Bible. By these words Our Lady showed that she understood that a Servant of the Lord would come Who by His Life and Love would save the world. Others were waiting for a political savior. A poor handmaid, Our Lady waited for the Servant of the Lord. To become the Mother of Our Lord, she had to understand the Cross and she wants us to understand it too!

You can see how much the visionaries suffer; they are with Our Lady every day but still suffer. It is suffering for Jacov to live without his parents and so is it also for Ivanka. Vicka has been ill for so long and now also Marija. I can see that suffering exists in their lives, but in a different way because they bear their crosses with joy. Our lady wants us to learn this, too.

We will not be spared our crosses and our suffering, but Our Lord will give us strength. Our Lady has come, as Jesus did, not to take away all the suffering of the world, but to show us how to live with it. As the Apostle says: “To those who love Our Lord all suffering will be worthwhile.’

Our Lady wants to bring us to the Bible. She has said; “Read the Bible, put it in a prominent place in your families so that it will be a stimulus to you.” We see the Cross and the Bible so often and can have a hundred Bibles in our homes, but if we do not look at them with our hearts they will not give us an impulse for reading and prayer. If we want them to do so, we must begin with our conversion. Conversion means letting ourselves be moved by the Cross and the Bible which is the Word given to us. Many times in our family life in front of the Cross we behave badly. If the Cross and the Bible do not mean anything to us anymore it means that our spiritual life is dead.

When Our Lady asks us to fast she wants to lead us to the life of the poor. She is not asking for hunger from us, but for a deeper life, purified from every sin and evil. A poor person is able to believe and to abandon himself to God, because he will never put his hopes in the material world or earthly good; he will never tell someone he does not need them. A poor person is open to God and to his fellow men and this is what matters. Our Lady knows this and this is why she asks us to fast twice a week.

A French Journalist told me today that he had not heard any more about Our Lady giving messages containing threats or similar warnings. I explained that all the secrets remain. Our Lady has not said that they will not come about, but has told us something important: “By Your prayers and fasting you have helped the fulfillment of my plans.” What can the plans of a mother be for her children? Only Plans of good and peace, but Our Lady added: “Continue to pray and fast so that all my plans may be fulfilled.”

Of Lady wants to save not only us, but the whole world when she gives us the means of prayer and fasting into our hands. We are all responsible and I understand this responsibility now more than ever in my life.

We are responsible for each other and for everything which happens in the world! Yesterday I told you to appreciate every act of forgiveness; even if it is only forgiving a swear word, if you have shaken hands to make peace, it is a great step…peace is like a house, it is built with small stones, stone by stone it becomes a house, and forgiveness by forgiveness will make a new world

You have heard this today in the readings: Isiah, this vice from the desert, tells us to lower these hills. These hills and valleys are my hand and your hand, your heart that no longer knows how to forgive. If they are full of grace and love, then Our Lord can come. The prophet Isaiah and John the Baptist did not mean that we must lower our Mount Krizevac, the Italian Alps or the Apennines, but they were thinking of our hearts which can be higher than these hills and wider than all the valleys in the world. In this sense, too we must understand Our Lady’s last message: “you can say that my joy at Christmas lies in your hands.” Like a Mother she wants to have everyone seated at the table in peace and love together.

The road of love is a great and long school that lasts all our life.

(Father Slvko Barbaric – Medjugorje, 9th December, 1984 – from the Gray Book – “Open your hearts to Mary, Queen of Peace”)

Many years later, Our Lady gave us this message:

“Dear children! I call you to, with complete trust and joy, bless the name of the Lord and, day by day, to give Him thanks from the heart for His great love. My Son, through that love which He showed by the Cross, gave you the possibility to be forgiven for everything; so that you do not have to be ashamed or to hide, and out of fear not to open the door of your heart to my Son. To the contrary, my children, reconcile with the Heavenly Father so that you may be able to come to love yourselves as my Son loves you. When you come to love yourselves, you will also love others; in them you will see my Son and recognize the greatness of His love. Live in faith! Through me, my Son is preparing you for the works which He desires to do through you – works through which He desires to be glorified. Give Him thanks. Especially thank Him for the shepherds – for your intercessors in the reconcilliation with the Heavenly Father. I am thanking you, my children. Thank you.” (March 18, 2013)

The Cross and Love – they contain the whole Christian message. Praise God!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

Cathy Nolan

©Mary TV 2018

“My Son is the life of the world. The more that you come to know Him-the more that you come close to Him-all the more you will love Him, because my Son is love.”

The only response to Jesus is love. If we do not love Him, we have not come to know Him, we have not come close to Him.

The Baltimore Catechism said in Lesson First: on the End of Man, Question 6:

Q. Why did God make you?

A. God made me to know Him, to love, Him and to Serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven.”

It always struck me that we first have to “know Him” and then we move on to “love Him.” Love is enkindled by knowing Jesus. Love comes to birth in our souls as we become acquainted with Jesus, learn about Him, understand His life and how He died for our sins. Love bursts into flames when we finally open our hearts to an encounter with Jesus, because He is present and waiting for us to meet Him in prayer. Through prayer we get closer and closer to Jesus. And getting closer only feeds our love, because we know Him better and better that way.

It gives me such peace to know that God made us to know Him. He wants us to know Him. He can’t wait to show us more and more of Himself, even in eternity. His heart is open to being known!

And that knowing will be the fuel of love! We will love Him to distraction, forever! Because He is love, He is love, He is love!

It also makes me so peaceful to know that God made us to serve Him. Serving the Lord is what completes our loving Him. Love is frustrated until the lover can express that love in action, through serving the beloved. So, we can see how much God wants us to love Him truly, because He allows us to serve Him, because He wants our love to be complete, to be expressed, to be given!

Well, Our Lady may speak simply, but it is certain, she speaks with truth and power. Her messages are designed to bring us to her Son, who is the life of the world!! Thank you dearest Mother, for helping us to come to know your Son!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018

Dear Family of Mary!

Today is the 17th Anniversary of the terrorist attack on the New York Trade Center, with its twin towers. We mourn the loss of the thousands of people who died that day. It was a terrifying moment in history.

Denis was due to fly to Medjugorje on the next day, September 12. And of course there were no flights for some time. Life seemed to stand still as we watched the towers burn and crash to the ground amidst the chaos in the streets of New York.

Amazingly, we have a testimony, just given yesterday for Fruit of Medjugorje, by a young priest from Scotland, Fr. Francis Trias. And he shares about his experience on September 11, 2001 – when he was about to travel to Medjugorje as well.

Here is a little snippet from his testimony, in which he talks about 9/11 and his first pilgrimage to Medjugorje:

What amazes me is that at the very moment when Satan thought he was triumphing in New York and sending fear over the whole world, in Medjugorje a vocation was being born. God was bringing hope through a young man even when things seemed darkest for the world.

Our Lady gave this message on September 25, 2001, just two weeks after 9/11:

September 25, 2001 “Dear children! Also today I call you to prayer, especially today when satan wants war and hatred. I call you anew, little children: pray and fast that God may give you peace. Witness peace to every heart and be carriers of peace in this world without peace. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. And you do not be afraid because the one who prays is not afraid of evil and has no hatred in the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

“The one who prays is not afraid of evil and has no hatred in the heart…” This is what makes Medjugorje a place of peace. Prayer is the way to peace. God has a plan for peace that is being unveiled in Medjugorje. Fr. Francis is a piece of that plan, a fruit of that plan, a priest for the new days that Our Lady says are coming!!

Thank you, dearest Mother, for your twin towers of peace!!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2018

PS. Fr. Francis Trias’ testimony will air in October!! Stay tuned!

Holy Mary, pray for us.
Holy Mother of God, pray for us.
Holy Virgin of Virgins, [etc.]
Mother of Christ,
Mother of divine grace,
Mother most pure,
Mother most chaste,
Mother inviolate,
Mother undefiled,
Mother most amiable,
Mother most admirable,
Mother of good Counsel,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Savior,

Virgin most prudent,
Virgin most venerable,
Virgin most renowned,
Virgin most powerful,
Virgin most merciful,
Virgin most faithful,

Mirror of justice,
Seat of wisdom,
Cause of our joy,
Spiritual vessel,
Vessel of honor,
Singular vessel of devotion,
Mystical rose,
Tower of David,
Tower of ivory,
House of gold,
Ark of the covenant,
Gate of heaven,
Morning star,
Health of the sick,
Refuge of sinners,
Comforter of the afflicted,
Help of Christians,

Queen of Angels,
Queen of Patriarchs,
Queen of Prophets,
Queen of Apostles,
Queen of Martyrs,
Queen of Confessors,
Queen of Virgins,
Queen of all Saints,
Queen conceived without original sin,
Queen assumed into heaven,
Queen of the most holy Rosary,
Queen of families,
Queen of peace,

V. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
R. Spare us, O Lord.
V. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
R. Graciously hear us, O Lord.
V. Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us.

V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord God, that we thy servants may enjoy perpetual health of mind and body, and by the glorious intercession of blessed Mary, ever Virgin, may we be freed from present sorrow, and rejoice in eternal happiness. Through Christ our Lord. R. Amen.

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Cathy Nolan

©Mary TV 2018

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