Content of the article - The Message of Medjugorje
- This is a place of prayer
- Prayer originates from a great desire for God and the salvation of souls
- Create an active conscience for yourselves
- To accept the messages with an opening of heart
- Be strong in your faith and protect the faith of your people
- Prayer means a searching for God
- We learn to pray by praying, fasting and loving
- Peace is the root of all life
- I understand that you want continuous prayer
- Keep silent and listen
- Open your hearts, ask God; and I will ask for you
- The strength of the messages
- Your task is to accept Divine peace, to live it and to spread it
- It is risky to read the Gospel because it makes demands of us
- The complete rosary
- What does it mean to recite the rosary ?
- It is necessary to understand a pilgrimage
- The spiritual root from which the fruits of the beatitudes come: a total abandonment to God
- Give all your worries to the Lord
- If Our Lady's face does not shine on your face, then it is useless to speak about her
- You must decide to live for God, with God, in God
- Prayer is a dialogue with God
- Abandon yourselves to the Immaculate Heart
- I am your Mother, my beloved ones, and I have come to teach you to love.
- If we have not understood the Cross,we will never understand anything of Christian life.
- It is necessary to start praying, to start with Our Lady
- Invoke Jesus in your hearts
This book is the first of the four volumes of sermons and discourses given by Fr. Slavko Barbaric and Fr. Tomislav Vlasic during 1984 - 1987 in Medjugorje, and contains talks given from Easter until December 1984.
All chapters of this book are now included
Invoke Jesus in your hearts
Our Lady said: "I am your Mother. I have come to teach you love" and at this time we look at Jesus as a living Child. He becomes poor, even smaller
He becomes daily bread and enters into our life. He has done everything : now it is up to us to open our heart
Jesus comes in the Host: He has come. How many times do we receive Holy Communion without thinking of Who has come, Who we have accepted !
Invoke Jesus in your hearts
We have prayed and sung for two hours. Now enter into the depth of your hearts. Invoke Jesus with faith and when we are all united in love, in faith, let us pray for the sick
It is thus that Our Lord can make signs amongst us
Many times, as we know from the Gospel : He cannot do anything in the way He did at Nazareth because we do not believe
Jesus Himself said: "I cannot do it, because you do not believe"
So all these prayers prepare us and open our hearts. Now abandon yourselves in real communication with Jesus.
(Fr.Slavko Barbaric, 29th December 1984)