Christmas healing grace

 "...on this day of grace, when grace spreads throughout the world, give your life and your heart to the Lord so that the Lord will heal them.."

(EN) ANNUAL APPARITION OF OUR LADY TO JACOV - DECEMBER 25, 2023.
(HR) GODIŠNJE GOSPINO UKAZANJE JAKOVU - 25. PROSINCA 2023.

(ENGLISH)

At the last daily apparition, on September 12, 1998, Our Lady, Gospa, told Jakov Čolo that she would come in apparition once a year, on December 25, on Christmas Day. It was the same this year. The apparition started at 2:20 p.m. and lasted 6 minutes. Jakov, after that, conveyed the message:

Gospa, (the blessed Virgin Mary) said: 

Dear children,
today with my son in my arms, I want to invite you all to pray to little Jesus for the healing of your heart. Children, sin often  reigns in your hearts and destroys your life, and you cannot feel God's presence. That's why today, on this day of grace, when grace spreads throughout the world,

give your life and your heart to the Lord so that the Lord will heal them with His grace. Only with a pure heart will you be able to experience the rebirth of Jesus in you and the light of His birth will illuminate your life. I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for answering my call.

(HRVATSKI)
Na posljednjem svakodnevnom ukazanju, 12. rujna 1998., Gospa je Jakovu Čoli rekla da će ukazanje imati jedanput godišnje i to 25. prosinca, na Božić. Tako je bilo i ove godine. Ukazanje je počelo u 14 sati i 20 minuta i trajalo je 6 minuta. Jakov je, nakon toga, prenio poruku:

Draga djeco,
danas sa svojim sinom u naručju želim vas sve pozvati da molite malog Isusa za ozdravljenje svoga srca. Djeco, često u vašim srcima vlada grijeh koji uništava vaš život i ne možete osjetiti Božju prisutnost. Zato danas na ovaj milosni dan kada se milost širi cijelim svijetom predajte Gospodinu svoj život i svoje srce da ih Gospodin ozdravi svojom milošću. Samo čista srca moći ćete doživjeti ponovno rođenje Isusa u vama i svjetlo Njegova rođenja će obasjati vaš život. Ja vas blagoslivljam svojim majčinskim blagoslovom.Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu.

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Mirjana annual message

 (EN) Gospa's annual apparition of our Lady to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on March 18, 2023. Such a blessing that the Blessed Mother is still in Medjugorje to help us grow deeper in faith and turn to her Son, Jesus Christ to truly get to know him and see the Light!

(HR) Gospina godišnja poruka preko vidjelice Mirjane, 18.3.2023.

(ENGLISH) The visionary Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo had daily apparitions from June 24th 1981 to December 25th 1982. During the last daily apparition, Our Lady gave her the 10th secret, and told her that she would appear to her once a year, on the 18th of March. It has been this way through the years. The apparition lasted from 13:33 to 13:39.

GOSPA:

''Dear children,
I am calling you, through prayer and mercy, to come to know my Son all the better; to learn to listen with a pure and open heart; to listen to what my Son is saying to you in order to come to see spiritually. That, as one people of God in communion with my Son, you may bear witness to the truth with your life. Pray, my children, that, together with my Son, you can bring only peace, joy and love to all your brothers and sisters. I am with you and am blessing you with a motherly blessing.''

Official Medjugorje parish website in English language: http://www.medjugorje.hr/.../the-annual-apparition-of-our...

(HRVATSKI) GOSPA:

Draga djeco, pozivam vas da kroz molitvu i milosrđe što bolje upoznate moga Sina. Da čista i otvorena srca naučite slušati. Da slušate što vam moj Sin govori da biste duhovno progledali. Da kao jedan Božji narod, u zajedništvu s mojim Sinom, svojim životom svjedočite istinu. Molite, djeco moja, da zajedno s mojim Sinom svoj svojoj braći i sestrama možete donositi samo mir, radost i ljubav. Ja sam s vama i blagoslivljam vas majčinskim blagoslovom.

http://www.medjugorje.hr/hr/

photo: medjugorje news

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Visionary Ivan pray for priests youth peace

 Through our prayers for peace & keeping God's commandments we can renew this suffering world.

Ivan Dragicevic - Medjugorje Visionary Interview, 1991. Translating to English for him is Helen Sarcevic (our Mom :-) ), who answered Gospa's call & started Mir-Peace pilgrimages in the 1980s to help Americans to authentically experience God's graces and the true faith of the visionaries and Croatian families there.

"...Our Lady has been giving messages to him that have remained consistent and are as relevant today as they were in 1991. Our Lady has asked him to pray for young people and for priests.
In this interview he talks about the importance of praying as a family, especially the family rosary. Our Lady wants a restoration of family life with love and harmony between parents and children. We have to have peace first in our hearts, and peace in our families, and then it will spill over into society."

      link:    Medjugorje visionary Ivan interview

When asked if Our Lady has a message for the United States of America, Ivan responds that her messages to the world are for everyone, because she loves ALL her children, every single one of them, because she is the mother of all of us.

Gospa, the Queen of Peace, always invites us to pray for peace... First the peace must reign in our hearts, individually. Then also the harmony of peace in the family.

In 1981, the Blessed Mother began appearing to six young people, (“visionaries”) and giving messages to the world through them, in a small Croatian Catholic church parish in Bosnia Hercegovina named #Medjugorje. She told the visionaries, "I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to enjoy this fullness and peace, you must return to God”.

  #familytime #familyprayer #Medjugorje #prayforpeace #priests #Dragicevic #visionary

Mary's Hands help those in need Jakov Colo

 Medjugorje visionary Jakov Colo gives a profound and beautiful testimony in the video. He pleads with the world for helping hands for those in need.

https://youtu.be/rsGTVmTI9SY  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0-k4qmiwjTg0SvydJlvLVYT7PW1MOvhp4J5STPNRho4TzQ9Et9JT6jEHw&v=rsGTVmTI9SY&feature=youtu.be  

  Our Lady , Gospa, in her Medjugorje message has often outstretched her hands towards us and tells us all, her "dear children" that she loves us as our Mother more than we know.

 Jakov started an organization years ago which helps those in need and wants to be her outstretched hands. Today many poverty-stricken people in his country do not have food or heat for the winter.

Mary's Hands website: http://marijine-ruke.ba/en/welcome/

Jakov Colo shares his heartfelt testimony of his personal loss, and the loss of seeing the Blessed Mother daily.

He makes a heartfelt appeal

to help the poor and destitute in his homeland

through his charity

Mary's Hands. ("Marijine Ruke")

Click here to donate https://www.friendsofmaryshands.org/  

Due to international travel restrictions and lack of pilgrims and donations, the organization is struggling to provide help for those in need.  

Now the parish food bank is empty.

  Maybe your neighbors, people in your community need help also. If you can, help them. God gave us so much. 

We can recognize & help others 

if we feel God's love in our hearts. 

Sharing. Caring. Forgiveness. Mercy. Prayer. 

These are the greatest gifts. 

  

Jakov is the youngest of visionaries that the Blessed Virgin Mary started appearing to in Medjugorje in 1981. Since then many hundreds of thousands of pilgrims came to this remote area between the mountains high up in Bosnia Hercegovina. The families there welcomed one and all and adapted their lives these 40 years, accommodating the influx of humanity from all corners of the world. They are helping others when they can also. Today, the  country is in dire need. Medjugorje families help others when possible and keep praying for all of us. 

Thank God for people helping people! 

#helpothers #sharingiscaring #visionary #donations #gifts #Christmaasgift #christmasgifts #christmas2020 #advent2020 #children #peoplehelpingpeople #peopleinneed #helpingothers #poverty #travelrestrictions #peoplehelpingpeople #giftideas #BosniaHercegovina #BiH

 Rare video during Gospa's apparition to the visionaries 

in Medjugorje, December, 1984, 

at St James Croatian Catholic church.

(VIDEO) Rijetka snimka Gospinog ukazanja u Međugorskoj crkvi 1984 godine, by medjugorje-news.

https://medjugorje-news.com/video-rijetka-snimka-gospinog-ukazanja-u-medugorskoj-crkvi-1984-godine/?fbclid=IwAR1FWihki-yHgiukK1zOfBbR7AUscsvpaT9yGuZ9095d-Z0nfmagTuVTSMY  

Although we all can't see or hear the Blessed Virgin Mary when she appears to the visionaries, we see how they drop to their knees when she appears, and pray together with Gospa, Our Lady Queen of Peace, then after she speaks with them, they all say, "Ode!" at the same time when she disappears.

Miriam and Christine, daughters of Helen and Joseph Sarcevic, were #blessed to be able to join some of the pilgrims in that room off to the side of the altar and witnessed the apparition when we traveled there in 1983. Though very excited, we prayed and prayed. We were able to feel a tremendous comforting peace inside ourselves at that time, as though the Holy Spirit was filling us with God's graces. :-)   

Our Lady is instructing us all the time to open our hearts in prayer. We can all feel God's graces and His love wherever we are  anywhere in the entire world. 

Have a blessed day!     God's peace be with you!

#medjugorje #blessings #itsacatholicthing #catholiclife #satchat #christians #ibelieve #goodmemories #goodmemory #holyspirit #peace #love #peacebewithyou #Gospa #apparition #visionaries #catholicchurch #motivation #prayers #visionary

1987 Mir-Peace pilgrimage & Marija visionary memory

  "... pray! I desire that through each one of you God's plan may be fulfilled, that all which God has planted in your heart may keep on growing..." 

April 25, 1987, Our Lady Gospa's Medjugorje message through visionary Marija 

(photograph is April, 1987, of Marija speaking, giving testimony, to Mir-Peace pilgrimage group & pilgrims. Mom (Helen Sarcevic) holding the sign for everyone to gather together to be able to hear.

(HR)  Gospina poruka, 25. travanj 1987.  (below)

(ENGLISH)  "Dear children! Today also I am calling you to prayer. You know, dear children, that God grants special graces in prayer. Therefore, seek and pray in order that you may be able to comprehend all that I am giving here. I call you, dear children, to prayer with the heart. You know that without prayer you cannot comprehend all that God is planning through each one of you. Therefore, pray! I desire that through each one of you God's plan may be fulfilled, that all which God has planted in your heart may keep on growing. So pray that God's blessing may protect each one of you from all the evil that is threatening you. I bless you, dear children. Thank you for having responded to my call."  

(HRVATSKI)   “Draga djeco! I danas vas sve pozivam na molitvu. Znate, draga djeco, da Bog daje posebne milosti u molitvi. Zato tražite i molite, da biste mogli shvatiti sve što vam dajem ovdje. Ja vas pozivam, draga djeco, na molitvu srcem. Znate da bez molitve ne možete shvatiti sve što Bog planira preko svakog od vas. Zato, molite! Želim da se preko svakog ispuni nacrt Božji, da raste sve ono što vam je Bog dao u srcu. Zato molite, da bi Božji blagoslov mogao svakog od vas očuvati od svega zla koje vam prijeti. Ja vas blagoslivljem, draga djeco! Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mom pozivu! 

Great advice! and good insight with the love of a wonderful mother, theBlessed Virgin Mary. :-) And she always thanks us for whatever we have done to help so far. We are in this together. God bless us every one!

#Medjugorje #medjugorjemessage #apparition #togetherwecan #pray #prayer #GodsWill #grace  #gifts #GodsPlan #children thanksMom #goodvsevil #goodadvice #goodtimes #visionary #mirpeace #pilgrimage #goodmemories #inthistogether #Godbless #gratitude #responsibility #quoteoftheday #helpers helpingothers

Medjugorje apparitions in the beginning 1981 video

Wonderful images and footage in the video:  in the beginning, 1981, when Gospa started appearing !! St James Croatian Catholic Church area, #Medjugorje, was much like this when we traveled there 1st time in 1983! High up in the mountains of Bosnia Hercegovina, Europe. True faith in action! It was a blessing to be present in the room during one of the apparitions.

(EN) Black / white video from the very beginning of the apparitions in Medjugorje (1981)

(HR) Crno/bijeli video uradak od samih početka ukazanja u Međugorju (1981)

https://medjugorje-news.com/crno-bijeli-video-uradak-od-samih-pocetka-ukazanja-u-nasem-medugorju-1981/?fbclid=IwAR2iNHlRP4x3qW8dMKCRCnQoaGmG755SXk1uKhg-dJoqHnVmSGsnudpuAvo 

There is voice audio near the end, during an apparition: you hear visionaries praying. - original video from an Italian source. Beautiful faith! I can see the love, felt and feel that true love and peace, grace, uplifting happiness in my heart even now. :-) 

#ibelieve #havefaith #faithinaction #inthebeginning #CatholicChurch #visionaires #visionary #mondaymotivation #tbt #throwback #thankGod #Gospa #apparition #blessed #beautiful

Medjugorje visionary will return to Apparition Hill - rosary

Dear friends.We're happy to give you the news that when this coronavirus ends we'll go every 2nd of the month to pray the rosary at the blue cross with (visionary) Mirjana to Gospa (blessed Virgin Mary) to give thanks. 
God bless you! 
~ Udruga "Kraljica Mira" Bijakovici - Medjugorje ((the group, "Queen of Peace" in the town, Bijakovici, where Apparition Hill is located))

posted yesterday on their FB page

Always united in prayer! Praying together to God every day now during Lent... and we will continue at Easter and afterwards.

work on salvation to meet with God - 10 secrets

Fr. Petar Ljubicic: I suspect that every day we are getting closer to the revelation of the secrets of Medjugorje!

“The fact is that today everything is in crisis. There is a lot happening. There is too much trouble of every kind.

The message of every secret could be: These are serious times. Work on your salvation. Be prepared in every moment to meet with the personal and living God.”

— I know that the first three secrets are related to Medjugorje — says Fr. Petar. — The first two secrets will be precaution and a great warning, they will confirm to the world that Our Lady appeared in Medjugorje and that the visionaries have been speaking the truth. The third secret is about the appearance of an indestructible sign which will cause many souls to convert, and the other secrets will most likely be shattering events that will shake the world and be an invitation for many to convert and fear nothing.

He who feels Our Lady as his mother and God as his father is not afraid of anything.

THREE OF THE SECRETS OF MEDJUGORJE RELATE TO THE FUTURE OF MANKIND AND ARE QUITE DIFFICULT “What I started in Fatima, I will finish in Medjugorje” is a summary of Our Lady's message of August 25, 1991, which was conveyed to the public by the visionary Marija Pavlović. It was a great surprise to the followers of the Medjugorje events when they heard it. Our Lady had connected the Medjugorje and the Fatima apparitions for the first time of the ten years (of her apparitions). With seriousness, She invited people to prayer and fasting to help overcome Satan, who “seeks to disrupt her plans of peace and joy.” Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo, one of the visionaries to whom the Mother of God has entrusted ten secrets, confirmed to us the connection between Fatima and Medjugorje. What did the Mother of God begin in Fatima, Portugal back in 1917, singling out the poor and illiterate children, Lucia dos Santos, Jacinta Marto and her brother Francisco? The key lies in the three Fatima secrets written down by Sister Lucia, the longest living visionary from Portugal.

THE FATIMA SECRETS: The first two Fatima secrets predicted the end of the First and the beginning of the Second World War, and the rise and fall of Soviet communism. The text of the third secret, which for decades tickled the imagination of the people, was published by the Vatican in June 2001. For years, the third secret was thought to contain an apocalyptic vision of the end of the world, but on 43 pages of an accompanying document called “Vision from Fatima,” the Vatican reiterated its view that the secret refers to events that had already occurred. Apparently, it envisioned the assassination of the pope, the communist persecution of Christians. However, after the terrorist attack on America on September 11, 2001, some of the world press zealously defended the belief that the third Fatima secret describes events that are yet to happen. That coincides with interpretations about a punishment that will hit the world if it does not repent.

Where in all this is the connection with Medjugorje? It is interesting that the apparitions of Medjugorje begin to take place several years before the fall of communism and the demolition of the Iron Curtain. Our Lady significantly calls for peace, conversion, penance, and warns the world that it is in great trouble and extends her hand to help them. If eminent disasters cannot be avoided, it seeks to teach people to at least try to mitigate them. She has also included the six visionaries of Medjugorje in her grand plan for saving humanity, by assigning each of them with a specific task, and by entrusting them with a number of secrets. For those to whom She no longer appears daily, She has entrusted all ten secrets, and to the others, nine secrets. Obtained with a vow of silence, the visionaries do not speak about their content, so we do not know much about them, but the minimal details that have been allowed available to the public are very interesting.

THE SECRETS OF MEDJUGORJE: The key to Medjugorje's events is contained in ten secrets relating to the future of humanity, the Church, Medjugorje and the visionaries themselves. All of them will happen on a specific day and time and cannot be undone. Only through prayer and fasting can they be lessened.

The first and second secret will actually be forewarnings, special signs around the world that will announce events which will dramatically affect world history. One such sign was mentioned in another Fatima secret, with which the Second World War was announced. It was an unusual light that appeared on the night from the 25th to 26th of January 1938. The time between the first and second secrets will be short, and then the next secret will occur.

The third secret is entrusted to all the visionaries and is especially interesting. It is about a sign that Our Lady has promised to leave on Apparition Hill (formerly called Crnica, also called Podbrdo) above Medjugorje. It will be a great, indestructible, tangible sign and it will be clear that human hands could not have made it. After it appears, it is claimed, no one will doubt the authenticity of Our Lady's apparitions on Earth anymore. The appearance of the great sign on Apparition Hill will be accompanied by many healings and miraculous signs that will warn and inspire the world to convert. If we compare Medjugorje with the experience of the supernatural events in Lourdes, everything suggests that, as at least one of the elements of a great sign, a source of living, healing water could spring up. Mirjana says: “When the sign appear, many people will convert. To all who are open to the Spirit of God, it will be clear that God is truly here and that He dwells among us.” Our Lady recommends that people convert before this sign appears, “because when the promised sign occurs, many will run up and pray for the grace of forgiveness, but there will be no mercy for them.”

The fourth, fifth and sixth secrets concern the personal lives of the visionaries and the wider area of Medjugorje. The seventh, ninth and tenth secrets relate to the future of mankind. According to the visionaries, the ninth and tenth secrets are quite difficult. They are the inevitable punishment for the sins of the world. Upon hearing their contents, some visionaries were so frightened that they burst into tears. The seventh secret is tied to an interesting fact. Previously, it was understood that the occurrence of this secret was removed thanks to the full response of the locals and pilgrims to what Our Lady recommended and requested, but according to Mirjana's explanation, only part of the secret was removed, and will not happen, but the rest of the secret cannot be undone.

When might the secrets of Medjugorje come true? Of course, there is no answer yet to this question, but on the basis of some knowledge one can guess, at least. It is very important that the visionary Mirjana, according to Our Lady’s instructions, personally chose the priest to whom, when the time comes, she will entrust the secrets. He will then announce them to the world. This priest is Fr. Petar Ljubičić, born in 1946, who has been following the events in Medjugorje since their beginning. If, therefore, Fr. Petar is now 74 years old, and he is to experience the time to reveal the secrets, it is logical to assume that this act could be witnessed by many of us and that the time of their fulfilment is approaching.

This is what Fr. Petar himself says about it: “When it will be, we do not know. We have the sense that we are getting closer to it every day. The fact is, everything is in crisis today. There is a lot happening. There is too much discontent and trouble of every kind. The message of every secret could be: These times are serious. Work on your salvation. Be prepared in every moment to meet with the personal and living God.”  

A few memories through the years with our Dad, Joseph Sarcevic, in Medjugorje, with visionaries Ivanka, Vicka, & Ivan, also Father Petar Ljubicic.

Wonderful memories with a kind soul, a super & supportive dad, excellent talented artist: his painting of Saint James Croatian Catholic church, Medjugorje, tied in with city of Dubrovnik on the Croatian coast which also has a strong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and strong Christian faith in Jesus Christ and God Our Father.

Prayers for those who are not with us in this world though we trust we are all together in Spirit, for the souls in purgatory, and for everyone to be able to feel the love of our Lord and our Mother, Our Lady Queen of Peace. Appreciating our family, mother and father, and our extended family of humanity. Thanking God for all His graces! 

Mir-Peace June 2018 Medjugorje Pilgrimage

This June will be a Holy time of celebration of the 37th anniversary, and visionary Ivanka's annual Apparition of Our Lady.

There are still spots available on our MirPeace June 2018 Pilgrimage to Medjugorje.
We will have a wonderful priest as our group's spiritual guide.

If you feel called to join us on this blessed journey, please email: mirpeace@comcast.net 

As always Mir-Peace pilgrims also climb Apparition Hill together while praying the rosary, Cross Mountain (Krizevac) & Blessed Virgin Mary's Way of the Cross, join in the spirituality of holy mass at Saint James Croatian Catholic Church... receive wonderful words of wisdom & guidance from the Franciscan priests, taste delicious homemade meals by our host families,... and of course walk through the serene peaceful fields, with the splendor of nature in the blue sky overhead, and expansive views of the valley when we reach the summit.

(ENGLISH) Our Lady's Medjugorje message through visionary Marija for the parish and the whole world, 2-25-2018(HRVATSKI - Croatian language) Gospina poruka preko Marije Pavlović-Lunetti, za župu i za cijeli svijet, 25.2.2018. 

(EN) “Dear children! In this time of grace I am calling all of you to open yourselves and to live the commandments which God has given you, that they may lead you through the Sacraments on the way ofconversion. The world and worldly temptations are testing you, but you, little children, look at God’s creatures which He has given to you in beauty and humility and, little children, love God above everything and He will lead you on the way of salvation. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

(HR) "Draga djeco! U ovom milosnom vremenu sve vas pozivam da se otvorite i živite zapovijedi koje vam je Bog dao, da vas one vode po sakramentima na putu obraćenja. Svijet i svijetske napasti vas kušaju, a vi, dječice, gledajte Božja stvorenja koje vam je On dao u ljepoti i poniznosti i ljubite Boga, dječice, iznad svega i On će vas voditi na putu spasenje. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu."

early photo: Marija is on the right. photo closeup: medjugorje council of ireland