Daily Reflections
by Cathy

May 10, 2023 Reflection – I am the vine, you are the branches….

Grapes ripening in Medjugorje

 

I am the vine, you are the branches…

May 10, 2023

Dear Family of Mary!

Our Gospel for today speaks of the way in which we must stay attached to Jesus, as our source of life, just as the branches of a grape plant must stay attached to the vine. All life courses through the vine into the branches. We need Jesus for life! That is why Our Lady has come. To reattach us to the vine, her Son. She wants us to live and grow in Jesus.

Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.

You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” (John 15:1-8)

I thought it would be good to pray the Jesus Rosary, a prayer that Our Lady gave the prayer group in the early days. It is a prayer that can help us to attach to the vine, Jesus!

The Jesus Rosary
(Given by Our Lady to Jelena)

Pray the Creed

1. Mystery: Contemplate the birth of Jesus.
Intention: pray for peace.
Five Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

2. Mystery: Contemplate how Jesus helped and gave all to the poor.
Intention: Let us pray for the Holy Father and for the Bishops.
Five Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

3. Mystery: Contemplate how Jesus trusted in his Father completely and carried out His will.
Intention: pray for priests and for all those who serve God in a particular way
Five Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

4. Mystery: Contemplate how Jesus knew he had to give up his life for us and He did so without regrets because He loved us.
Intention: pray for families.
Five Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

5. Mystery: Contemplate how Jesus made his life into a sacrifice for us
Intention: Pray so that we, too, may be capable of offering our life for our neighbor.
Five Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

6. Mystery: Contemplate the victory of Jesus over satan. He is risen.
Intention: let us pray that all sins may be eliminated so that Jesus may relive in our hearts.
Five Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

7. Mystery: Contemplate the ascension of Jesus into Heaven.
Intention: let us pray that the will of God may triumph, so that his will may be done.
Three Our Father’s
Exclamation: O Jesus, be our strength and our help.

After this, contemplate how Jesus sent us the Holy Spirit.
Intention: pray so that the Holy Spirit may descend upon us.
Seven Glory Be’s
Amen

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV

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Mary TV is a lay apostolate founded to put at the Gospa’s service (Our Lady’s service) modern communication technologies to bring her presence in Medjugorje – and her school in Medjugorje – to the world.

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Pope St. John Paul II – February 24, 1990

“Dear children, my real, living presence among you should make you happy because this is the great love of my Son. He is sending me among you so that, with a motherly love, I may grant you safety!”

Our Lady of Medjugorje – July 2, 2016

“Rejoice, little children, because God is merciful and loves you all with His immeasurable love and leads you to the way of salvation through my coming here!”

Our Lady of Medjugorje – June 25, 2018

“My Son promised me that evil will never win, because you, the souls of the just, are here!”

Our Lady of Medjugorje – November 2, 2014

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Our Lady Speaks

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…

Mary_with_Sun

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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