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![]() | Medjugorje Website Updates - Medjugorje News & Articlesأغسطس 10 2011 , Originally published أكتوبر 6 2010 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Other Medjugorje and "The Maciel Effect"![]() by Patrick Madrid Many adherents of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje to whom I have spoken personally have invoked the (also alleged) fondness and support of Pope John Paul II for it. "The Pope was in favor of Medjugorje," they reason, "and given what a good and holy pontiff he was, it's highly unlikely that Medjugorje could be anything other than an authentic Marian apparition. And, conversely, it's an even stronger reason for believing in Medjugorje." This is a form of what's known as an a fortiori argument. For example, one might say, "If I think that Medjugorje is true, that's all well and good. But if even the pope thinks it's true, then the possibility that it is true is much stronger, much more likely." يوليه 30 2011 , Originally published أغسطس 13 2010 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Charitable projects CNN Heroes 2010 - Top 10 CNN Hero: Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow (Mary's Meals) -- From beer-fueled brainstorm to life's work of helping others![]() Argyll, Scotland (CNN) -- Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow was enjoying a pint at his local pub in the Scottish Highlands when he got an idea that would change his life -- and the lives of thousands of others. It was 1992, and MacFarlane-Barrow and his brother Fergus had just seen a news report about refugee camps in Bosnia. The images of people suffering in the war-torn country shocked the two salmon farmers, who'd visited there as teenagers and remembered the warmth of the Bosnian people. "We began saying 'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just do one small thing to help?' " MacFarlane-Barrow says. يوليه 17 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Spiritual Life Monica's journey to forgiveness![]() During the 70’s, in Germany. Monica was 17 when she lost her mother whom she loved very much. She was left behind with three siblings and her father who was a non-practicing protestant and an architect near Bonn. Monica detested her father. He had very little interaction with his children, so she found him cold, rigid, and insensitive. Since she was unable to connect with him on a heart level, she moved out at 17, using her studies as an excuse. يوليه 15 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News Reported Visions of Virgin Mary Draw Hordes of Pilgrims to Bosnian Village![]() The warm surf of La Jolla, Calif., isn't a setting people associate with the Virgin Mary. But on many days, there is a surfer whose passion for the perfect wave is nothing compared to his head-over-heels love for the Holy Mother. His name is Donald Calloway and he picked up surfing as a military brat bouncing around the United States and Japan. He also picked up marijuana, heroin, LSD, shoplifting and money laundering for the Japanese mafia. By the age of 20, he had a rap sheet, a drug habit and serious thoughts of suicide. "After having gone to two rehabs, been in jail, kicked out of a foreign country, I was at my crisis in life. ... I picked up a book that my parents had on their bookshelf about the Virgin Mary," Calloway said. يونيو 13 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News Medjugorje Novena To The Queen of Peace -- 30th Anniversary of Apparitions![]() On June 15, 2011, begins the Novena in thanksgiving for 30 years of the apparitions of the Queen of Peace. In Medjugorje, they will pray the rosary at Apparition Hill every day at 4 pm, and we unite with all our friends and with all the pilgrims all over the world through this Novena. The Novena ends on June 23, and on June 24, at 6 am, we pray for peace in the “Peace March” which leads us in a Eucharistic procession from Humac to Medjugorje. We invite all Our Lady’s pilgrims, wherever they may be, to unite in a joyful prayer! View moreمايو 7 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Testimonies / Author: Christine Watkins A deacon is embraced by an unusual apparition of the Blessed Mother![]() The following is Deacon Ken Finn’s account of his remarkable interactions with Mary, the Mother of God. My first encounter with the Blessed Mother happened when I was travelling in an RV with my wife, Marie. We co-authored a Catholic Bible-study, called The Bread of Life, and we were making a grand circle, clock-wise through the outer states of the country, introducing our study to parishes. One night, at the beginning of our trip, we parked our RV in the parking lot of the mission in Santa Barbara, and as we lay down to go to bed, our conversation turned to the sadness of people who are unable to bond with their mothers from birth. My wife and I had adopted three children, who were about eight weeks when we got them, and we wondered if they might have been deprived of the precious gift of early bonding. أبريل 30 2011 , Originally published يونيو 1 2002 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Testimonies Testimony of Michael![]() A young man from the United States, Michael, came to Medjugorje in March and he just sent me a letter. I share it with you because it may encourage and inspire each one of us in our personal call to prayer in the midst of our daily concerns. "My last pilgrimage to Medjugorje was life changing for me, as the Gospa revealed to me early in the pilgrimage that I needed to pray for peace in my soul. I realized that, though I prayed and believed and had many miracles happen to me in the past, I still did not have much peace inside me. It was hard for me to pray with love, to mean what I was saying. أبريل 24 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News Easter and Palm Sunday in Medjugorje 2011 -- The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia!![]() “Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.” To all parishioners, pilgrims, friends, benefactors, and to all men of goodwill a Blessed and Happy Easter! Parish priest and the Franciscans Photosأبريل 23 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Reflections / Author: Christine Watkins The Healing Power of the Cross![]() ... A striking example of the healing power of the cross is Jaime Jaramillo, affectionately known as Papa Jaime in his home country of Colombia. Papa Jaime is one of the stories in a book I wrote called Full of Grace: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Conversion through Mary’s Intercession. For many years now, he has single-handedly rescued children who actually live in the underground sewer canals of Colombia. Again and again, he picks up his cross and enters the sewers. Here’s how he speaks of his experience. أبريل 22 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Testimonies Testimony of Kathy Jones![]() "I was raised in a devout Lutheran home in New York and always believed in God, but from my teen years onward I rejected organized religion, believing it was created totally by man and not by God. After marrying Ed and reluctantly agreeing to raise our children Catholic, I told him, ' Don't EVER expect me to become Catholic. You have to be born that way - you'd have to be crazy to choose it voluntarily! ' I rejected the Church's teachings, thinking they were made up by men who had nothing better to do than make people feel guilty and miserable. I occasionally went to church with my family, but found it profoundly boring. أبريل 13 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Testimonies Return to apparition: recalling phenomena witnessed not from afar but as 'eyewitness'![]() By Michael H. Brown ... I'll go by what the Church ends up formally concluding (it is currently in the hands of a Vatican commission) -- period -- but my personal belief is that this is a place halfway between here and the hereafter, a supernatural spot where the dimensional partition is thin. I had gone through my "conversion" (actually, my return) to the Church years before, as I said (independent of any apparition), but this brought me into a deeper and richer phase of Catholicism. It also spurred my writing in the Catholic realm. Not only did virtually everyone change for the better after visiting, but did so profoundly -- converting others, establishing Adoration in their parishes upon return to the U.S., starting uncountable Rosary groups, and in many cases becoming priests. The seers are human -- and not perfect (is anyone?) -- but the good fruits vastly outweighed any "bad." مارس 31 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Caritas of Birmingham and "A Friend of Medjugorje" Terry Colafrancesco, Sterrett (AL), Alabama ![]() Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, the U.S. Community Caritas of Birmingham and Protestant FundamentalismOther languages: English, Italiano
![]() by Prof. Marco Corvaglia The community Caritas of Birmingham (Alabama) has gained much publicity and visibility in the U.S. by hosting many times (162 from 1988 to 2011), year after year, Marija Pavlović's, the Medjugorje visionary, daily apparitions. So it is particularly interesting and significant to know the doctrines that are observed in the community and are spread by its founder and owner, Terry Colafrancesco. He published in the mid-nineties, under his usual pseudonym of Friend of Medjugorje, the book How to Change Your Husband [Caritas, Sterrett (AL), 1996], printed by the community itself and now also downloadable from its official website. Reading the book one is astonished by the male chauvinism, sometimes grotesque, that seems to characterize it: for example, he writes that the devil, in order to hide to people the potentially destructive nature of women, got persons to quit the right habit of giving female names to hurricanes that each year lash the shores of the Atlantic. Actually, this isn’t simply absurd male chauvinism, but rather adhesion to well-known religious ideologies. مارس 31 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Testimonies The priest from Korea: My life was changed in Međugorje![]() The young Franciscan Peter Kim Dae Woo visited Međugorje for the second time. He comes from the parish Incon in Korea, where he serves as the assistant parish priest. He was ordained in 2009, despite his great desire to become a singer. He studied at the University for electrical engineering, but he dreamt of music, and that had even reduced his student’s performance at the university. “I studied for four years, but I was not interested in that at all. I would spend most of my time playing and singing, the music was my whole life. I was student only up to the moment when I got to know music a bit better. At one point, I was no longer attending classes. Back in those days, I used to have a nick name “factory of curses”, because all of the words that were coming out from my mouth were bad, but I did not care for that at all. I only cared for music and lived in its world completely. I socialised with ‘so-called musicians’” مارس 12 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Caritas of Birmingham and "A Friend of Medjugorje" Terry Colafrancesco, Sterrett (AL), Alabama ![]() Dr. Richard Geraghty, EWTN on Caritas of Birmingham: "group sounds to me very much like a cult" -- Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) - Catholic Q&AOther languages: English, Español
![]() Caritas of Birmingham - Question from anonymous on 12-23-2010: Dear Dr. Geraghty, Concerning the upcoming apparition at Caritas of Birmingham with a visionary from Medjudgorje (Marija) March 19 - March 23, 2010, advertised on their website, okay for Roman Catholics to attend? Thank you! مارس 12 2011 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Spiritual Life Blessed Chiara 'Luce' Badano, 18. A Luminous MasterpieceOther languages: English, Italiano
![]() A beautiful, extroverted, lively girl, in love with God. But the beauty of God’s plan for her life becomes shiningly apparent in the last two years of her illness. 18 years of life: a model for people of all ages. Chiara Luce Badano was born is Sassello, near Savona (Northwest Italy), on October 29, 1971, to parents who had been trying to have a child for 11 years. Her childhood and adolescence were serene: she lived in a loving, united family from which she received a solid Christian education. | | ![]() | |
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