“Dear children! Anew I call you to live my messages in humility. Especially witness them now when we are approaching the anniversary of my apparitions. Little children, be a sign to those who are far from God and His love. I am with you and bless you all with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call. ”
The Virgin Mary invites us to live in humility the messages that she is
giving us here for 24 years now. She is the humble servant of the Lord,
and she knows well that the word of God can be understood only in
humility. Mary found grace in God, God looked at his humble servant, and
this is why all the generations call her blessed. This is why so many
people come to the places of her apparitions, in the desire to be closer to
her maternal heart. We are all her children. In the words of Mary, when
she says: “Dear children”, they see and recognize her love and her
maternal care. With Mary, our Mother, we are sure that we will be neither
misled nor disappointed.
The simple ones and the humble ones confirm here in Medjugorje the
truth of the words of Jesus pronounced in the Holy Spirit: “I thank you, O
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hid these things from
the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little ones.” (Lk
10,21)
Mary shows us Jesus and she guides us towards Jesus, but it is Jesus
who sends his Mother to us, so that we may humbly listen to her and
follow her words.
She is coming to us from the glory of the heavenly Father, and she is
speaking simply, so that all can understand her. As a Mother, Mary is
bending over towards us so that we, her children, can understand. She is
doing just as the parents do, when they go down on their knees in front
of their little children, so that the child can see them and understand
what they want to say.
The word humility comes from the Latin word humilitas, which is close
to the humus, the clay, the earth. This is why it is normal, as the
Bible is saying, that we - who are made out of clay - are humble in order
to be able to understand God and Our Lady. The Virgin Mary does not come
to condemn or to accuse us. Those who accuse and condemn are not able
to hear the others, they only hear themselves. When Mary, our Mother,
speaks to us, she wants also to hear us; she wants to hear our calls and
our prayer. Each one of our prayers, which come from the heart, she
takes them seriously.
In one of her messages, Gospa is saying: “Dear children, I bow down in
front of your freedom.” She, who is the all-pure, full of grace, is
bowing down in front of man, his freedom. How great is the dignity of each
person that even God respects his freedom!
The apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje are a grace and a gift of
heaven. They do not belong to anybody, they are not the property of
anyone, but a free gift for me, for you, for the Church and for the world.
Our property, which belongs to us, we defend it, so that nobody takes it
from us. With a gift, it is different. The gift obliges us to fidelity
to Our Lady and to her love. The gift obliges us to give witness to the
fact that heaven has opened up, and that rivers of grace started to
flow through such an amount of hearts, waking them up from the spiritual
torpor. This is why Gospa is calling us: “Especially witness them now
when we are approaching the anniversary of my apparitions.” Mary, our
Mother, told us often: “Dear children, this is a time of grace.”
Each humble, pure and simple heart can recognize the voice of the
mother. Let us not allow this time of grace to be a time of our ruin, but a
time of conversion and a new life with God.
Today also, the Virgin Mary tells us: “I am with you.” Let us also be
and remain with her.
Fr. Ljubo Kurtovic
Medjugorje 26.5.2005