43rd Anniversary Novena , Day 8
June 23, 2024
Dear Family of Mary!
Today is Day 8 of the Anniversary Novena with Marija. Mary TV will again stream the entire evening of prayer, live, so that we can all join in the novena prayers. My team has told me that there are thousands of people connected to Apparition Hill each night through Mary TV! The stats are amazing!! I feel this is a sign to us all! There are many, many people from all over the world who are united in this prayer for peace which Our Lady leads. This is a powerful event!
Marija greeted the crowd that covered Apparition Hill with these words:
“Welcome everyone! Last night we forgot but tonight we will announce it. Let’s turn off cameras, phones and everything that takes photos. We don’t need any kind of publicity here, Our Lady is calling us to pray, to pray for peace. Please sit down, kneel down and pray! Don’t talk to each other but listen to Gospa in your heart and respond to her call. Because Gospa is calling us and we are responding, responding to her call, responding to pray for peace, responding because we will tell Gospa “yes I do want to pray for peace, for peace in the World as you dear Gospa requested.”
Then the prayer began. It seemed to me that there were even more people last night than ever before! We prayed the Joyful and the Sorrowful Mysteries together, interspersed with messages from Our Lady and beautiful songs accompanied by Roland. It was heavenly! Then we began the Glorious Mysteries. After the second mystery, Marija knelt up and all went silent. Our Lady came, silently. Our only clue was Marija’s face! She looked up, way up above her, and her eyes hardly ever blinked. She spoke silently, nodding her head. Finally, Marija’s eyes followed Our Lady as she withdrew, going up and up until she was out of sight.
We began to pray a bit more, and then Marija told us about her encounter with Our Lady. She said:
“Tonight when Our Lady came she didn’t give a message but she did pray over us in her Aramaic language. I recommended all of us, all of our intentions and everything we have in our hearts. Gospa did say tomorrow come to the same place at the same time. She blessed us in the sign on the cross and went into heaven.”
It was a bit hard to not have any special words from Our Lady last night. But I think she had been talking to each of us instead. I felt her very close. I want to share a prayer that I wrote down. I felt these words coming from my heart. They were heavenly words and I think Our Lady was giving them to me. It is only my personal meditation, but I suspect you all will understand it as well:
“In the dark of Apparition Hill we sit together, praying the decades of joy, sorrow, and glory together for peace. We are together responding to your call, Mother. Nothing could be more simple, more peaceful, more human than these prayers in the dark with you.
“It helps to be in the dark, sheltered from the eyes of others, in a warm cocoon of love with you, Mother. We sing, in the dark, of Heaven and the Good, with Faith as our surety. We are glad for each other’s company – though we do not know each other’s names. All we know is that you drew us together and so we are content.
“Gather our poor prayers tonight into a bouquet of love for Jesus. We long to be with Him in Heaven – we long for all those who are not here to be one day with us in the love that binds us together in your heart! Oh Mother of Jesus, bring us to your son, a bouquet of love! Amen”
Today, June 23, we will gather at the same time on Apparition Hill together, for the 8th Day of the 43rd Anniversary Novena! Tell you friends, spread the word!! We have these two days left! It is a blessing we need to share!!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
