1988 MirPeace pilgrimage memories

 "...dear children, pray that God comes to your aid, ...according to His love."  

Sharing 4 photographs today, 3-7-2021, to FB photo album " 1980s memories:a few of many! Medjugorje Mir-Peace pilgrimages " . Great memories from June 1988! 

wonderful experiences with this group of pilgrims!  (and with so many other groups we've been blessed to guide all these decades.) Hope to be there for the 40th anniversary this year!! Trip travel info email: mir.peace@comcast.net. 

-- photo descriptions are below Gospa's Medjugorje message while the Mir-Peace pilgrimage group was there, June 25, 1988.  (EN)  (HR) Gospina poruka, 25. lipanj 1988.

(ENGLISH) "Dear children! I am calling you to that love which is loyal and pleasing to God. Little children, love bears everything bitter and difficult for the sake of Jesus who is love. Therefore, dear children, pray that God come to your aid, not however according to your desire, but according to His love. Surrender yourself to God so that He may hear you, console you and forgive everything inside you which is a hindrance on the way of love. In this way God can move your life, and you will grow in love. Dear children, glorify God with a hymn of love so that God's love may be able to grow in you day by day to its fullness. 

Thank you for having responded to my call."

(HRVATSKI) “Draga djeco! Danas vas pozivam na ljubav, koja je Bogu odana i ugodna. Dječice, ljubav sve prihvaća, sve što je tvrdo i gorko, radi Isusa koji je ljubav. Zato, draga djeco, molite Boga da vam dođe u pomoć, ali ne po vašim željama, nego po svojoj ljubavi. Bogu se predajte, da vas on može liječiti, tješiti i praštati vam sve ono što je u vama zapreka na putu ljubavi. Bog može oblikovati vašživot i vi ćete rasti u ljubavi. Slavite Boga, dječice, hvalospjevom ljubavi, da bi ljubav Božja mogla rasti iz dana u dan do svoje punine. 

Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mom pozivu! ”

Thank God for Gospa's school of love that she's been teaching those of us who will open our hearts, so we can help those that do not yet know how to trust God! 

photos: 

1) our MirPeace group gathering by the side of St James Croatian Catholic church for the day's activities. There wasn't much constructed/built in that area yet as there is today. 

2) a few of the young men in the group, stopped at a small locally-owned fruit or food grocery shop enjoying a beer together. 

3) the cross on top of Cross Mountain (Krizevac in Croatian language). 

4) golden fields with lovely poppies flowers along the path as we walk along the path on the way back for evening daily holy mass and prayer program either from Krizevac, Apparition Hill or to meet one of the visionaries. Excellent time to soak up the sun, pastoral serenity, natural beauty.

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Jesus is coming - bio - Medjugorje nativity -alpha omega

 Jesus Christ loves us so much so that he laid down his own life to give it to each of us.

♱

The Son of God is a great physician (cv/biography is below),  a friend, who will always be present in our lives, and help us even better of we choose to focus on & pray to Him and His Father, our Lord God Almighty...

& listen to them in our hearts... 💖

if we open our hearts in love and prepare for His coming this Advent, 2020, remembering His coming to us by His birth in Bethlehem this Christmas 2020.

~~ Our Lady Gospa's Medugorje message quotes: 

"...Open yourselves to the Father... you will be happy. Your search will end. You will love, & not be afraid. Your life will be HOPE and TRUTH, which is my Son. thank you...Do not judge, because you will all be judged." "I, as a mother, desire to save you from restlessness, despair, and eternal exile... My Son, by His death on the Cross, showed how much He loves you..."

** Jesus Christ brief biography **

Graduate: Son of God

Master (degree): King of kings

Doctorate: King of the universe

His Medical Assistant: The Holy Spirit

His experience: Solving impossible things

Service availability: 24 hours

His Specialty: Doing miracles

His Tool: Faith

His gift: Grace

His book: the Bible

Diseases that He heals: All of them

The Price of therapy: Your trust and faith in Him

Diagnosis: Absolute and specific

Consultation: Counsels with the heart

in chemistry: turning water into wine (JN 2,1-11)

in biology: He was born (through the power of the Holy Spirit) (MT 1,18)

in physics: goes beyond the law of gravity; walks on water, and rises up to the sky (MK 6,49)

in economy: does what's mathematically impossible - He fed 5000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish (MT 14,17-20)

in medicine: He healed the sick and blind, without having to prescribe any medicine (MT 9,19-22 and IV 9,1-15)

He is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End! (Revelation 22:13)

In The Bible it says that no one comes to the Father except through him; He is the only Way (JN 14,6)

So: who is he?

He is Jesus Christ. He is the cure and the physician!

The greatest man in history.

He is God and man!

He had no servants, yet they called Him the Lord.

He didn't have any educational qualification, but He was called the Teacher.

He didn't graduate in medicine, but they called Him a doctor.

He didn't have an army, but every king in front of him was shaken and stopped.

He didn't lead any military battles, but He conquered the world.

He didn't commit any crimes, but He was crucified.

He was buried, but on the third day He rose again.

Thank you, Lord! Praised be Jesus!

Live nativity in front of St James Croatian Catholic Church in Medjugorje couple years ago; Jesus on earth, teaching and healing as written in the New Testament Gospel, the cross on top of Krizevac, Cross Mountain, #Medjugorje.

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 "...God will find the way of joy for you." 

"Courage...!" 

Be strong in faith, trust our Father. No matter what we do or is done to us, God's (& Jesus' & the Blessed Virgin Mary's) love will help us carry our crosses all the way to eternal happiness & everlasting life. 

Hvaljen Isus i Marija! Praise Jesus and Mary!

 💖Thank God! 💖

  Even while under atheist communist control in the 1930s, Medjugorje families built the now world-famous cross on top of Krizevac (CrossMountain). That's Christian faith in action. 

(EN) Our Lady Gospa's Medjugorje message, March 25, 2006 

(HR) Gospina poruka, 25. ožujka 2006  

(ENGLISH) "Courage, little children! I decided to lead you on the way of holiness. Renounce sin and set out on the way of salvation, the way which my Son has chosen. Through each of your tribulations and sufferings God will find the way of joy for you. Therefore, little children, pray. We are close to you with our love. Thank you for having responded to my call." 

(HRVATSKI) "Hrabro djecice! Odlucila sam voditi vas putem svetosti. Odrecite se grijeha i podite putem spasenja, putem koji je izabrao moj Sin. Preko svake vaše muke i trpljenja Bog ce naci za vas put radosti. Zato vi, djecice, molite. Mi smo vam blizu svojom ljubavlju. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu." 

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Jesus Christ was crucified. He forgives. Good Friday.

Good Friday. Veliki Petak(hr) 

... the sun stopped shining... 

Jesus was crucified by the people.. 

He forgives. 

Prayers that we've learned to live in the Light of the World.

Gospa, Our Lady Medjugorje message, 1986:

(EN) I am giving you special graces and Jesus is giving you special gifts from the cross. Take them and live! Reflect on Jesus' Passion and in your life be united with Jesus!"
(HR) ...dajem vam posebne milosti, a Isus posebne darove s križa. Uzmite ih i proživljavajte! Razmišljajte Isusovu muku i u životu se sjedinite s Isusom!"

JESUS CHRIST on Good Friday, before he died on the cross:
✝️“Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. .."

✝️ “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
✝️43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

... the sun stopped shining...

From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ✝️“Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

✝️“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” 

When he had said this, he breathed his last.

photograph: Cross Mountain, Krizevac, in Medjugorje

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Father, forgive them LENT EASTER quotes

                "...that is the salvation of the people."                              ~Gospa, Medjugorje

Forgive others - don't complain. don't judge don't be afraid - Pray!

Dec, 1981 during apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Gospa, to the Medjugorje visionaries: Gospa was serious; she knelt down with arms extended while praying:

"My beloved Son, I beseech you to be willing to forgive the world its great sin through which it offends you."

The next day: While we were saying our prayers, the Blessed Virgin intervened:
"Oh, My Son Jesus, forgive these sins, there are so many of them!"
Then we were all silent.
"Continue to pray, because that is the salvation of the people."

New Testament of the Bible. (EN) Gospel according to Luke 23:34 (HR) Evanđelje po Luki 23:34(ENGLISH)

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing...”(HRVATSKI) 'Oprosti im, Oče, jer ne znaju što čine!' reče Isus...

Gospa has reminded us that even natural law can be suspended with true prayer from the heart, fasting and sacrifice... & often to trust God's Will, forgive others, live as her Son did while he was here on earth, by answering God's call in our lives, love others, have respect and mercy... forgiveness. 

Reflecting on sacrifice and forgiveness this Lent. 

This year, we can overcome this crisis coronavirus covid-19... as Fr Petar Ljubicic called it, "virus of sin"... together.

photograph: View from original Blue Cross area on Apparition Hill, 1990s, of Cross Mountain, Krizevac, with cross built in the 1930s for Jesus Christ, by faithful Croatian Catholic church parish families in #Medjugorje. 

photo: Christina Verdgeline.

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Stations of the CROSS on Krizevac Medjugorje

✝️STATIONS OF THE CROSS✝️ 

Today is Fifth Sunday of Lent, 2020, this special time before Easter when we focus on our strength and hope in Jesus Christ and his sacrifices for every single soul,which we pray and meditate on in the New Testament.

video:
Fr Marinko Sakota parish priest St James Church, Medjugorje, reciting the Stations of the Cross at the 2015 Leaders Seminar.Translated from hrvatski (Croatian language) to English by Danijela Sušac. www.medjugorje.ie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMd462G3ZA&t=227s

You get the feeling of what it's like climbing up that rocky path to the cross at the top in this video, group speaking & praying in Spanish, and other pilgrims. Ascent to Mount Križevac - Subida al Monte Križevac - Uspon na brdo Križevac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOBIbtGszoI&list=PLwK8wM3sz9xh6YiTt1HAWn9auKS5wZ4jT&index=1

Mir-Peace pilgrimage group prays Mary's Way of the Cross at the Stations as they climb Cross Mountain, Krizevac, in Medjugorje, 2017. 

✝️STATIONS OF THE CROSS✝️

1st Station: Jesus is condemned to death
2nd Station: Jesus carries His cross
3rd Station: Jesus falls the first time
4th Station: Jesus meets his mother
5th Station: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry his cross
6th Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
7th Station: Jesus falls the second time
8th Station: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
9th Station: Jesus falls a third time
10th Station: Jesus clothes are taken away
11th Station: Jesus is nailed to the cross
12th Station: Jesus dies on the cross
13th Station: The body of Jesus is taken down from the cross
14th Station: Jesus is laid in the tomb

Have faith! In God we trust. Thank God!
photographs: Anne Gumpper Campoli