Daily Reflections
by Cathy

January 10, 2022 Reflection – Now is the time for prayer…

Now is the time for prayer…

January 10, 2022
Monday, 1st Week in Ordinary Time

Dear Family of Mary!

There can often be a let down after a major time of celebration in the Church Year. We are back to “ordinary”! That term was given its meaning by the Church! Ordinary is just ‘numbered’. But don’t we feel it as tedious and boring! But, how can our lives be boring when we live each day, each minute with such a wonderful God!!!

Our Lady taught us a key to living our ordinary days with God in this message:

October 2, 1986“Dear children! Today again I am calling you to pray. You, dear children, are not able to understand how great the value of prayer is as long as you yourselves do not say: ‘now is the time for prayer, now nothing else is important to me, now not one person is important to me but God.’ Dear children, consecrate yourselves to prayer with a special love so that God will be able to render graces back to you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

The key word here is “now”! If we want to actually connect with the Lord in prayer, we have to stay firmly rooted in the “now”. We have to let go of our ponderings and memories, our worries and our fears, and realize that God is with us “now”! He is only and always with us in the “now”!

Sister Ruth Burrows, O.C.D., was quoted in the Meditation of the Day, in Magnificat for January 10, 2022. Here is an excerpt of her meditation. It is really helpful in this regard:

“We need enlightened eyes of the heart to pierce the disguises, to say “yes, you are my Father” in the now. There is only one point, so to speak, where God is for us, and that is the now. How readily we would escape from the now—into what we think should be, to what may be, to what has been, to what is coming. How much energy and attention we waste worrying over the past, being anxious and doubtful and full of fear for the future. He is with me now, quietly, unobtrusively asking me to receive him, to recognize him. Now, in this one little circumscribed moment, I can say “yes, Father.” Such a poor little “yes”; no grandiose certainties that I will never do this again, never commit that fault again—no dreads and despairs that I cannot be faithful. Only a little “yes” now…. That is to live in my poverty relying only on him to see me through, to enable me to say “yes” —to do what I can’t—be faithful unto death.”

Isn’t it so true. Prayer is not really prayer until we stop thinking about the past, the future, etc. and just be with God in the moment. Just say “yes’ to Him now, only now, always now!!

I think much of our perplexity would dissipate if we could all pray in this way, as Mother Mary tells us.

“…now is the time for prayer, now nothing else is important to me, now not one person is important to me but God.”

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV 2022

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Vicka's Note MaryTV

Vicka, one of the visionaries in Medjugorje, wrote the note (above) after Our Lady spoke with her during an apparition in Medjugorje in April, 1999, about Mary TV’s  plan to build a television facility in Medjugorje.

Vicka wrote to Denis: “Our Lady says that the plan is good – but you need to wait a little.  Now you can get prepared little by little, until Our Lady tells when the right moment is.  You don’t need to hurry, make haste, but to be patient.”

When Our Lady said this to Vicka, the technical genius in Medjugorje that she had her eyes upon, who would begin Mary TV’s live streaming from Medjugorje, was seven years old.

Totus Tuus (Totally Yours)

Immaculate Conception, Mary my Mother, Live in me, Act in me, Speak in me and through me, Think your thoughts in my mind, Love through my heart, Give me your dispositions and feelings, Teach, lead me and guide me to Jesus, Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior, Possess my soul, Take over my entire personality and life, replace it with Yourself, Incline me to constant adoration, Pray in me and through me, Let me live in you and keep me in this union always.

Our Lady gave this prayer 25 years before She started appearing in Medjugorje. This prayer is being answered through Our Lady’s presence in Medjugorje and through Her messages. Mother Immaculata writes: “This is Mary’s hour and She is about to crush Satan’s head. Her very being is like incandescent heat in the center of the Trinity and the manifestation of Her power is growing daily. The Immaculate Conception prayer (which is what Our Lady called the prayer she gave me for union with Her) has been used by exorcists who have told me that the devil reacts violently to it and is subdued by it. We are praying daily for the success of Mary TV!“

Our Lady Gives A Sign…

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MARY TV was LIVE STREAMING Ivan’s May 24, 2013 apparition on Mt. Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) in Medjugorje. My wife, Cathy, was praying in front of her computer in the US, connected through the Internet, welcoming Our Lady along with everyone gathered on the mountain. She couldn’t see anything on her computer screen because it was late at night and Ivan had said, “No lights.” She found herself asking Our Lady for a sign – a little light – as a sign that MARY TV was on the right track and really serving her. Just after the apparition, when she went to give an account on Mary TV’s Facebook page, the page opened with this picture that she had never seen before, captioned: “MARY APPEARS OVER BUILDING IN MEDJUGORJE, PHOTO TAKEN BY PILGRIM.” Our Lady is standing directly over MARY TV’s studios, her feet right where we have two POV cameras STREAMING 24/7 LIVE TO THE WORLD Apparition Hill & Cross Mountain!

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Our Lady spoke to Vicka during an apparition in Medjugorje in April, 1999, about the importance of Mary TV’s mission. At that time she told Vicka that she herself (Our Lady) would begin Mary TV! She did! But she didn’t do it alone. The generosity of her children made Mary TV a reality for her. Your generosity is needed now for it to continue!

Due to unforeseen circumstances Ivan requests that his apparition tomorrow, Nov 2, 2024, not be live streamed.  Send your petitions to [email protected] and Ivan will present them to Our Lady.  Let’s stay by the side of Our Lady in prayer!!!!

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