September 25, 2019

Dear Family of Mary!

   

Here is the September 25, 2019 message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! 

Cathy Nolan

September 24, 2019
33 Day Consecration – Day 21

Dear Family of Mary!

33 Day Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady of the Rosary – Day 21 Today we continue examining a conversation that Sr. Lucia of Fatima had with Fr. Fuentes in 1957, Part 5:

Yesterday, at English Mass, Bishop Vincent Horan shared with us what Mary, Our Mother, is doing in Medjugorje to meet the challenges to the faith in our world today. He is spot-on, and very clear: Our Lady is maintaining a spiritual Field Hospital for her wounded children who have suffered in this terrible “war zone” of our modern world. She truly is the seat of mercy, of goodness and of pardon, and a sure door through which we are to enter Heaven!!

 

Within a short time of assuming the Papacy, Pope Francis gave us an image of the Church as that of a field hospital in a war zone. Those in the front lines would be brought to the hospital with various injuries, or just for a time of recuperation. When better, they would return to the battle lines to take up their mission again.

 

In many ways, Medjugorje fits into this image of Pope Francis. We have all come here with our various ailments: physical, psychological, and spiritual. Some have come to rest with the Lord, as they feel that they are in a war zone with our modern world. Whether as priests, religious, or lay people, we often find that we seem to be losing the battle to keep the presence of Christ alive in our various societies, in the laws and customs of our countries. Like the Jewish people in exile in Babylon, we almost seem to be exiles in our world, to be cut off from the joys of our Christian faith, as we experience it here in Medjugorje during these days of pilgrimage.

 

But as we have seen in our first reading today, God did not leave His people in exile forever. The Lord roused the spirit of Cyrus to begin the work of reconstruction of the temple in Jerusalem, so that the chosen people could return to their beloved homeland, purified and humbled by their punishment for their sins and unfaithfulness.

 

With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the 38 years since the apparitions of Our Lady began here in Medjugorje on the 24th of June 1981, more or less coincides with the most ferocious attack on the Church since the day of Pentecost. With the shocking revelations of sexual abuse by bishops, priests, religious and other Christians, the Church almost collapsed completely. For our punishment, we have been sent into exile to the margins of our societies.

 

But God has not abandoned us. As Mary was with the Apostles in the Upper Room, in the background, praying and supporting the ones chosen by her Son, so now Mary is among us now, especially here in Medjugorje, helping us to rebuild the temple of the Church on new foundations: on the foundation of humility, on the foundation of a personal commitment to Christ, Her Son.

 

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, do you have a personal relationship with Jesus and with His Mother? Have you established a personal relationship, perhaps with one of His saints? Like Padre Pio, for example, whom we are celebrating today. We can bring the peace of Medjugorje back to our homes, parishes and societies, only if we have a deeply personal and intimate relationship with Jesus.

 

Our faith is a love story. The more we give ourselves to Jesus in our various vocations, the more He gives Himself to us. With the love of Jesus in our hearts, with the peace of Our Lady, Queen of Peace in our hearts, we shall be a light to others; even when we are not intentionally wishing to be a light. That light, however, may both inspire others, or it may challenge others; as nothing can remain hidden before God’s light forever.

 

To return to the image of Medjugorje as a field hospital, I think we who come here on pilgrimage for a week or so, must take responsibility for the maintenance and work of this spiritual hospital. Obviously, Satan is not pleased with what is taking place here between the two hills. I ask that each one of us, as we return to our homes at the end of our pilgrimage, that each day we would pray for Medjugorje, for the Franciscan friars, for the sisters, for the visionaries, for the guides and helpers at the Shrine, and for all six-and-a-half thousand people who live now here in Medjugorje, that God would preserve their energies, that God through the intercession of Our Lady, would keep them zealous, and never allow them to become lukewarm, so that the treasure of Medjugorje may grow from strength to strength and become the New Jerusalem of our Christian faith, for the glory and praise of the most Holy Trinity.

Dearest Mother, thank you for your Immaculate Heart which is for us the Seat of Mercy, Goodness and Pardon. Through you we can find our way to God. We can be healed of all our wounds and become ready for Heaven. May the Field Hospital of Medjugorje grow stronger and stronger, as there are so many wounded children in this world. 

 

Supplication to the Queen of the Holy Rosary:
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019

 

 

September 22, 2019
33 Day Consecration – Day 19

Dear Family of Mary!

33 Day Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady of the Rosary – Day 19   Today we continue examining a conversation that Sr. Lucia of Fatima had with Fr. Fuentes in 1957.

“Father, the Most Holy Virgin did not tell me that we are in the last times of the world, but She made me understand this for three reasons. …The third reason is because in the plans of Divine Providence God always, before He is about to punish the world, exhausts all other remedies.”

Our Lady told Lucia that there is always hope, because the Father looks for every possible way to help us change, before He chastises. Our Lady has spoken to us very sparingly about God’s punishment. She prefers to be positive with us. But in this message from 1983 she was serious:


“The sign will come; you must not worry about it. The only thing that I would want to tell you is to be converted. Make that known to all my children as quickly as possible. No pain, no suffering is too great to me in order to save you. I will pray to my Son not to punish the world; but I beseech you, be converted. You cannot imagine what is going to happen nor what the Eternal Father will send to earth. That is why you must be converted! Renounce everything. Do penance. Express my acknowledgement to all my children who have prayed and fasted. I carry all this to my Divine Son in order to obtain an alleviation of His justice against the sins of mankind. I thank the people who have prayed and fasted. Persevere and help me to convert the world.” (June 24, 1983)

This message was given 36 years ago. God has been patient with us, giving us Our Lady in Medjugorje and giving us many years to respond to her call. Even this year, she said to us:

 “Dear children! Pray, work and witness with love for the Kingdom of Heaven that it may be good for you here on earth. Little children, God will bless your effort a hundred-fold; you will be witnesses among peoples, souls of unbelievers will feel the grace of conversion and Heaven will be grateful for your efforts and sacrifices. Little children, witness with the Rosary in hand that you are mine and decide for holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call.” (August 25, 2019)

This message is so very positive. She does want us to work very hard for the Kingdom of Heaven “so that it will be good for [us] on earth.” But she tells us that The Father will bless every effort we make to spread the Kingdom “one hundred-fold!” We have much to hope for, much to work for!! Perhaps there is time to change! Truly the Father is exhausting every remedy in order to help us repent and choose Him. He has sent Our Lady to be with us constantly in Medjugorje. This is an extreme grace!

 

 

Supplication to the Queen of the Holy Rosary:
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019

September 20, 2019
33 Day Consecration – Day 17

Dear Family of Mary!

33 Day Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady of the Rosary – Day 17   Today we are at the exact midpoint of our 33 Day Consecration. We have done 16 days. We are on Day 17. And tomorrow we will begin another 16 days! So, to mark the halfway point, God gave us a beautiful homily given at the International Mass last night, by Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi from Trieste, Italy! Bishop Crepaldi celebrated the International Mass and shared beautifully about the great mercy of God and the presence of Our Lady, and how we can dedicate our lives to her call. It is the perfect midpoint reflection and really it is a prayer!!

Evening International Mass
Thursday, September 19, 2019

 

 

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

 

Gathered around the altar on which the offering of the Lord Jesus to the Father is renewed through the powerful action of the Holy Spirit, we want to express our devoted gratitude to the Triune Love which here in Medjugorje manifests itself in a particular way with the features of His forgiveness and His Mercy.

 

We, too, like the simple woman in the passage of the Gospel that we have just heard (Lk 7:36-50), have come here to prostrate ourselves at the feet of Jesus.

 

Like her, we are also called to nurture a great love, because it is the love that gives us an experience of free forgiveness.

 

Like her, we, too, after a good confession, savor the joy of forgiveness and the joy of a life renewed and reborn in Christ.

 

Like her, we also must be firmly convinced that the debt we have accumulated with our sinful behavior is completely forgiven. Because, like her, we also know that many sins are forgiven to us when we show great love.

 

Like her, we, too, are at table with Him, becoming His family, saved by the grace of His forgiveness.

 

Like her, we, too, at the moment of the Holy Communion, will touch that body tormented on the cross and glorified by the resurrection, aware that the Divine Mercy is a gift of grace for all.

 

Like her, we also must feel saved and completely redeemed from our evil which has often and for a long time afflicted our soul, feeling the profound peace that Jesus proclaims Himself to us, saying, “Your sins are forgiven, and your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

 

This is one of the formulas with which the confessor concludes the Rite of Confession repeating to each penitent the same wish for salvation and peace. Let us cherish this treasure, and we will not be lacking in His Mercy.

 

Dear brothers and sisters, an urgent call that comes to us in Medjugorje is the call to conversion which is concretized in the call to direct our lives to Christ.

 

It is the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother who accompanies us on our journey to come to Jesus Christ.

 

It is the Mother who, by connecting our heart to her heart, enables us to merge ourselves in Christ, in His thoughts and intentions, in His will.

 

In this perspective, we want to open ourselves for the consecration to the Queen of Peace, aware that Mary wants our salvation and the salvation of our brothers.

 

This is a path of holiness that we must go through with the rosary in hand, in contemplating the mysteries, which are otherwise undecipherable. Christians find the light of life and the history of mankind which, this evening, we entrust to the motherly love of the Queen of Peace.

 

To this Queen, we entrust our spouses and families, so that the tenderness of true love, the serenity of a dignified labor, and a generosity and the gift of life may not fail.

 

To this Queen, we entrust our young people so that the will to adhere to Christ, the only one who can help them in deliberating and planning of their future, will not be extinguished.

 

To this Queen, we entrust our priests, the consecrated ones, and the seminarians, so that they may always be ready and faithful in responding to their vocation.

 

To this Queen, we entrust those who are sick, lonely and marginalized, humiliated and desperate; those who are undermined, but the thought of life is an unbearable burden.

 

To this Queen, we entrust our cities, our countries, and those who administer them, so that they may never lack the courage to strive for the common good.

 

To this Queen, we entrust our diocesan churches so that the Lord Jesus may be the source of their actions, their service, their teaching, and their mission.

 

To this Queen, we entrust our lives, seeking the grace to be protected and to receive the immeasurable good of faith, hope and charity of Christ the Lord.

Supplication to the Queen of the Holy Rosary:
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019

September 18, 2019
33 Day Consecration – Day 15

Dear Family of Mary!

33 Day Prayer of Consecration to Our Lady of the Rosary – Day 15 June 25, 1985 (Tuesday) “I invite you to call on everyone to pray the Rosary. With the rosary you shall overcome all the adversities which satan is trying to inflict on the Catholic Church. All you priests, pray the Rosary! Dedicate your time to the Rosary!” (This message Our Lady gave in response to the question of Marija Pavlovic: Our Lady, what do you wish to recommend to priests?)

Our Lady is very clear about this. It is the Rosary that will overcome all the adversities which satan is trying to inflict on the Catholic Church! She told us this in 1985. We find ourselves 34 years later seeing these adversities full grown! The Church is in crisis. But the antidote is the same. We must pray the Rosary, with faith, with conviction, with constancy and with hope, if we wish to stop Satan’s plan to destroy our Church and humanity.

Fr. Gabriel Amorth was a valiant exorcist priest in Italy. He helped to re-establish the sacramental practice of Exorcism in the Church. And he did thousands of Exorcisms, freeing God’s children from the bondage of the enemy. He said this about the Rosary in the battle against Satan:

Both Our Lady and Fr. Amorth are clear about this, the Rosary is the weapon we must employ in these days to defeat Satan and his plans of destruction. I do believe that is why Our Lady has constructed Medjugorje to be a center for the prayer of the Rosary. It is prayed climbing both hills, it is prayed in and around the church before and after evening Mass. Pilgrims pray it by the Risen Christ Statue, in fact by all the statues, in their hotels and pensions and everywhere else in between!! The Rosary fills the air in Medjugorje! And there is no place where you feel safer from the enemy than Medjugorje

Dearest Mother, thank you for the Rosary. Thank you for giving us this weapon against our enemy. We are very small and need your help. And you have given us the Rosary imbued with power from heaven! We want to help you to overcome the adversities that Satan has inflicted on our Church. We will pray the Rosary for your intentions, day and night. We are your little army. We love you.

 

Supplication to the Queen of the Holy Rosary:
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019