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![]() | Medjugorje Website Updates - Medjugorje News & ArticlesAwwissu 16, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Visionaries, Jakov Colo Jakov talks to pilgrims![]() Jakov is going to share with us the most important that is about our Lady’s apparitions: And what is the most important, the messages on which Our Lady is calling us here? Apparitions are continuing, are lasting already nearly 25 years. Many people have come here to Medjugorje, they ask themselves, why apparitions are lasting so long ? Why Our Lady has been giving us so many messages? Many people say the messages are many times the same. I always say to everybody, instead of why, we should say thank you. Thanks to God for graces which he gave to us. Thanks to God because he allows Our Lady to be here for 25 years. Awwissu 10, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Reflections A Homily on Suffering from Medjugorje -- By Fr. Timothy Deeter![]() The following homily was delivered Sunday, June 15, at St. James Church in Medjugorje by Fr. Timothy Deeter. Last night, I finished another book for my spiritual reading. I’m constantly amazed at how God directs me to read spiritual works that have important lessons for my own life at the time I’m reading them. The book I just finished is entitled Testimony of Hope and it’s by Archbishop—later Cardinal—Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan. In 1975, only a few months after his appointment as archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), he was imprisoned by the Vietnamese government for 13 years. Then he was placed under house arrest for three more years, before finally being expelled from Vietnam. Archbishop Van Thuan went to Rome to work in the Vatican, and in the Jubilee Year 2000, Pope John Paul II asked him to preach the annual Lenten retreat for himself and the heads of various Vatican departments. The retreat was so successful that the Pope asked the Archbishop to publish the text of his reflections. Lulju 20, 2008 , Last update Lulju 29, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News Andrea Bocelli Concert in Medjugorje![]() Medjugorje in early August, will host one of the most famous opera singers of today, the Italian tenors Andrea Bocelli, who will with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra perform in front of the church of St. Joseph. Organizers expect more than a hundred thousand visitors. The concert will transmit in Croatian television FTV, state public television Televizija Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine. Gunju 4, 2008 , Last update Lulju 13, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News, Festival Mladifest The 19th International Youth Festival Mladifest – Medjugorje 2008Other languages: English, Čeština
![]() The 19th International Youth Festival - Mladifest 19 – will take place in Medjugorje from August 1st to August 6th, 2008. The theme of the encounter is, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses” (Acts 1:8) (“In silence may the Holy Spirit speak to you and permit Him to convert and change you.” - Message of July 25, 2006) Lulju 2, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje in the Catholic Church / Author: Mark Miravalle Is Medjugorje Real? -- Facts and First-hand Accounts![]() The reported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bosnia-Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) have attracted the attention of the world and approximately 30 million pilgrims. Since June 24, 1981, six children began to report daily visits from the "Queen of Peace" and several of the "visionaries" continue to report receiving a daily apparition from the Mother of Jesus over 25 years later. Is Medjugorje real? Are these authentic apparitions of the Virgin Mary? What is the official position of the Catholic Church about their authenticity? Could these simply be the fraudulent deception of hysteric children (now adults) for reasons of attention and personal gain? Gunju 29, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News 27th Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions![]() The 27th Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions in Medjugorje was solemnly celebrated in the spirit of gratitude for all the graces received. Gunju 29, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Visionaries, Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic Vicka’s TestimonyOther languages: English, Magyar
![]() This was given in May 2007, on the steps of the blue house where Vicka frequently gives her testimony to groups of pilgrims in Medjugorje. I regret I do not know the name of the guide who provided the translation. Vicka spoke in Italian and this was then translated into English. The guide began by introducing Vicka. Throughout this entire testimony, Vicka smiled, waved and blew kisses at everyone. Gunju 29, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Prayers Novena to the Queen of Peace in Lebanon![]() For the 8th consecutive year, with the blessing of the Maronite Patriarch, from 16th to 25th of June every year “Friends of Mary Queen of Peace” association is organizing the prayer novena “Praying with Mary for Lebanon” which is a 24/24 hours novena of praying the rosary, fasting (nine days or one day according to a personal choice) and adoration of The Blessed Sacrament. Each year it is taking place in another region of Lebanon and in the churches designated by local bishops. Gunju 18, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Visionaries, Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo Mirjana's discourse with questions and answers to pilgrims![]() In her talk to us, Mirjana began by recounting the early days of the apparitions. She did this primarily for those who had never been to Medjugorje before. Any words in italics are mine. The first part of the overview is presented here. Mirjana's words were translated by Miki Musa and therefore are not always grammatically correct but you will get the idea. Marzu 29, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje News, Medjugorje in the Catholic Church „Medjugorje does not come within our competence“, says Cardinal Puljić![]() In the Vecernji list of March 21, 2008, Ivan Tolj published an interview with Cardinal Vinko Puljić, Archbishop of Sarajevo. Question: the recently published interview with the Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Secretary of the Holy See, that the case Medjugorje should be re-examined, inspired various speculations. Has the Bishop’s Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina discussed this matter, and is it true that Medjugorje shall be officially examined once again? Cardinal Puljic’s answer: „Our BC has not discussed this matter, because the phenomenon of Medjugorje does not come within our competence. At the moment when the Holy See takes the decision and gives a task, we shall think about what to do. This is why it is not necessary to speculate, unless concrete instructions come. After the work of the Commission, the BC has already decided to accompany the phenomenon pastorally. This is nothing new, but the implementation of the first decision of the BC about the phenomenon Medjugorje.” Marzu 23, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Visionaries, Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic / Author: Sr. Emmanuel Vicka: few observations on family life today![]() Visiting Vicka recently I was ushered into her house and mixed in with a small group of Italians who were listening intently to Vicka's words. She answered their questions and spoke to them from the heart, which gave me an opportunity to again witness her incredible wisdom. After all, that is her trademark (ask anyone from the village): wisdom grounded in solid common sense! When I came she was speaking to several Italian families who were deeply suffering in their family life. Naturally Vicka responded to their distress by expressing a few observations on family life today: Marzu 16, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Spiritual Life Marthe Robin: Imitate, not just Admire![]() She died the year Our Lady’s apparitions at Medjugorje began. She loved the Blessed Virgin, and inspired by her, she adhered to the divine will in a radical way, even when God’s plan asked of her a degree of immolation beyond human capacity. She bore Christ’s wounds, and she let herself be consumed for the salvation of souls. Marzu 16, 2008 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Spiritual Life Reflections about Marthe Robin -- by Henri Nouwen![]() Excerpt taken from book Letters to Marc About Jesus by Henri Nouwen: Now I´d like to tell you one or two things about her, not just because I happen to be here but because, all along, I´ve been wanting to write to you about Jesus as the hidden God. Marzu 8, 2008 , Originally published April 1, 2001 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Testimonies, Near Death Experiences (NDE) ![]() Fr. Mike and Medjugorje![]() Recently, a group of students from the University of Notre Dame in the USA spent their Spring Break in Medjugorje. While there, they met a priest from Canada, Fr. Mike, who was able to spend time with them sharing his experiences and encouraging them. One night, he shared with them his testimony and a special message : He was ordained at the age of 26, and six months later he was involved in a terrible automobile accident. Upon impact, he found himself below a tunnel of light that he knew was the portal to heaven. He experienced in that moment great joy, and a completeness he had never known. He was going to meet Jesus, and he was filled with peace. But then he became aware that he was being asked to return to his life on earth, that his work was not over. He said he was returning with an incredible desire to tell everyone he met that life is short, that God is real, and that we must not waste a moment on anything less than God. He then woke up in the hospital. Marzu 1, 2008 , Originally published Marzu 15, 2001 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Visionaries, Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic / Author: Cathy Nolan Vicka about Lent![]() I was overjoyed to hear these incredible insights about Lent that Vicka shared with a pilgrim recently: "Many times we see Lent as a time when we make sacrifices and practice self-denial by giving up coffee, alcohol, chocolate, cigarettes, TV, or whatever we are overly attached to. But we must renounce those things out of love for Jesus and Mary, and be careful not to do it for our own glory. Often we wait for the end of the forty days, only to drink again, to watch TV again, etc. This is not the right way to live Lent! | | ![]() | |
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