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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cleanse your heart 4 God

 Let's cleanse our hearts and make room to accept the Light of the World, Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God & gave us his all, with love.  

"stop making my Father’s house a marketplace.... “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." ... But he was speaking about the temple of his body. Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they came to believe the Scripture and the word Jesus had spoken.  

~(EN) Gospel according to John 2:13-25 (HR) Evanđelje po Ivanu 2:13-25

July 2, 2005, Gospa, the Blessed Virgin Mary said in Medjugorje:

 "Dear Children, as your mother, I rejoice with you, for as a mother I invited you. I am bringing my Son to you. My Son, Your God. Cleanse your hearts and bow your head before your only God. Let my motherly heart leap with joy. Thank you."

photo: Mateo Ivankovic, 2016, with text added.

Have a blessed lenten season, Lent 2021! God be with you! Give it your all, remembering the gifts we receive in love thanks to Jesus Christ. 

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2ND SUNDAY of LENT Transfiguration

 SECOND SUNDAY of Lent. 

Hvaljen Isus I Marija! Praise be Jesus and Mary!

The Transfiguration --  Preobrazba

7 Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud:

 “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” (ENGLISH)
7 'Ovo je moj ljubljeni Sin! Njega slušajte!' 

                                                                                (HRVATSKI - Croatian)

(EN) GOSPEL according to Mark 9:2-10 

(HR) Evanđelje po Marku 9:2-10

 Our Lady, Gospa's response to questions which were asked concerning Confession,  

August 6, 1982 (Feast of the Transfiguration) "...
"... They are numerous who do not observe it. Monthly Confession will be a remedy for the Church in the West. One must convey this message to the West." "I will give you yet some concrete messages for our time. Be patient because the time has not yet come. Do what I have told you..."   

The cross up on Krizevac (Cross Mountain) built in faith by the Croatian families in Medjugorje so long ago ... and now a beacon of hope, a light, for pilgrims around the world. "... and the cross was in God's plan when you built it... "
Our Lady, Queen of Peace, who is the Blessed Virgin Mary said that about the huge cross way up on top of Cross Mountain ( Krizevac, in Croatian). The families of the Medjugorje parish built it decades ago in faith and devotion to Jesus Christ... and now it is a beacon of hope,a light, for pilgrims around the world.

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Marys Way of the Cross FIRST station

 "PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!... with the heart" "I am often at Krizevac, at the foot of the cross, to pray there. Now I pray to my Son to forgive the world its sins..."

~Gospa, the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Medjugorje, 1981.

Lent 2021

FIRST STATION - JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DIE

“We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.”

Check out a video link by Medjugorje Now (Elez) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4bSO92w5D0

  Stations of the Cross, also called Way of the Cross, a series of a 14-step Catholic devotion  portraying events in the Passion of Christ, from his condemnation by Pontius Pilate to his entombment:  Jesus Christ's last day on Earth as a man.   

Mary's WAY OF THE CROSS (Stations of the Cross) 

                       FIRST STATION
MARY, the Blessed Mother of God: It was early Friday morning when I saw my son. That was the first glimpse I had of him since they took him away. His bruised and bleeding skin sent a sword of pain deep into my heart and tears down my cheeks. Then Pilate, from his chair of judgment, asked the crowd why they wanted my son executed. All around me they shouted, "Crucify him!" I wanted to plead with them to stop, but I knew this had to be. So I stood by and cried silently.

Our PRAYER:
Lord Jesus, it is hard for me to imagine the anguish your mother felt at your condemnation. But what about today, when I hold a grudge ...? "Crucify him!" When I judge others...? "Crucify him!" Doesn't this bring tears of anguish to both you and your mother? Forgive me, Jesus.

PRAYERS: Our Father...Hail Mary...Glory Be...

photographs: Anne Gumpper Campoli with our group in 2017. Thank you!  Mary's Way of the Cross - Mir-Peace spiritual pilgrimage group prays this together while climbing up Krizevac (Cross Mountain) each time we travel to Medjugorje. Imagine the suffering the Mother of God, Blessed Virgin Mary endured as she followed her Son, Jesus Christ... It's always very powerful when we are climbing up, stopping at each station and praying together, meditating on what it must have been like for the Mother of God to follow her Son during His #Passion!  

We can follow her example in how we carry our crosses and treat our fellow human beings, our brothers and sisters.  Jesus accepted all this, and so did His mother, with love for all of us. 

True love! Sharing God's love!

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fruit & gifts of the holy spirit

 

   dear children, "pray for the 

gifts of the Holy Spirit..."  

 (EN) Our Lady's Medjugorje message, April 17, 1986  

(HR) Gospina poruka, 17. travanj 1986.

(ENGLISH) 

"Dear children! You are absorbed with material things, but in the material you lose everything that God wishes to give you. I call you, dear children, to pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit which are necessary for you now in order to be able to give witness to my presence here and to all that I am giving you. Dear children, let go of everything to me so I can lead you completely. Don't be absorbed with material things. Thank you for having responded to my call."

(HR) Poruka, 17. travanj 1986.
(HRVATSKI) “Draga djeco! Zaokupljeni ste materijalnim stvarima, a u materiji izgubite sve što vam Bog želi dati. Pozivam vas, draga djeco, da molite za darove Duha Svetoga koji su vam sad potrebni da biste mogli svjedočiti moju prisutnost ovdje i sve što vam dajem. Draga djeco, prepustite se meni da vas mogu voditi potpuno. Ne zaokupljajte se materijalnim stvarima. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mom pozivu. ”

GIFTS: 

wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and awe (fear) of the Lord. 

FRUITS of the Holy Spirit: 

the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

As she, the Blessed Virgin Mary often reminds us in #Medjugorje (#heaven on earth ;-) ) ; if we look to God and to heaven, and pray to open our hearts to God's Will, we will be open to the #gifts of the Holy Spirit and be able to better prepare for, share, and accept eternal life, eternal happiness. We can share the gifts & fruits of the Holy Spirit, too!

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Gospa needs us - pray

  "Dear children! I still need your prayers. You wonder why all these prayers? Look around you, dear children, and you will see how greatly sin has dominated the world. Pray, therefore, that Jesus conquers. Thank you for having responded to my call."

~Gospa said this September 13, 1984, 37 yrs ago.

~Gospa, the Blessed Virgin Mary said, "Pray, pray, pray!" 
in 1981... 40 years ago!

She is still here with us, teaching us in her 

school of love. 

Thanks be to God!

Prayers for God's will, & that love overcomes all darkness and evil! Deeply, in the silence of our hearts, open to the calm peace and joy of the Light of the World, Jesus Christ. 

Our Lady's love: the Queen of Peace is with us encouraging us since the 1st time she appeared on Apparition Hill to the visionaries. 

Let's continue to learn & grow; pray the rosary. reflect & meditate on the mysteries & on Jesus Christ's life; how he & his earthly mother (Mary),  & father (St Joseph), love as a family of caring, compassion, kindness, discernment & perseverance (staying power) in prayer. 

Role models. Perfect examples. the holy family. 

May you feel God's love today and every day!

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