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![]() | Medjugorje Website Updates - Medjugorje News & Articles26 juli 2005 , Originally published 3 juni 2002 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Interview: Fr. John Cooper, Parish Priest (Pastor) of St. Robert’s, EnglandOther languages: English, Hrvatski
![]() Fr. John Cooper: I think that there is a strong connection between praying and faith. The more you pray, the more you grow in faith. But also, I encourage people to pray for the gift of faith. People pray for material things, but how many pray to have a strong faith, for ability to love their husband or wife? When we pray for the spiritual gifts, which are necessary, God always answers our prayers. Many people come to me and say their faith is growing weaker. I tell them to pray for a stronger faith, to get into the habit of daily prayer, to take daily prayer seriously, to pray about faults they have. We need to relate confession to daily life. 26 juli 2005 , Originally published 20 september 2004 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews, Testimonies A testimony: Manuel Reato – a student of theology from Italy![]() Manuel Reato (23), a student of theology from Torino, has come several times to Medjugorje. Medjugorje has changed his life. Our Lady’s messages have deeply touched his heart and he believes that they are important for the whole world. Manuel is trying to live Our Lady’s message in his daily life. In Medjugorje, he has learned to seek God, here, he has learned how to pray. Although he is in a wheelchair since his early childhood, Manuel feels a call to become a priest. 26 juli 2005 , Originally published 10 november 2001 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Theology reports, Medjugorje in the Catholic Church / Author: Dirk Grothues Is Medjugorje a Spiritual Movement in the Church?![]() One thing we can do is that each one of us tries as best as he can to live the messages, which the Queen of Peace gives us so patiently and tirelessly. Another thing we can do is to take care that the original message is not being falsified or obscured in the Medjugorje centres and prayer groups. Medjugorje is not just any pious prayer movement. The program of Medjugorje is not simply that of any popular mission, as it is from time to time presented to our communities. It is good to pray, to fast, to go to holy mass, to go to confession regularly, to read Sacred Scriptures. But, if we do not understand that, despite all personal piety, we are dealing here with total peace and conversion, then we have not yet correctly understood the essence of the Medjugorje message. 26 juli 2005 , Originally published 8 oktober 2004 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Interview with Felicia of Abensperg and TraunOther languages: English, Hrvatski
![]() For me, Medjugorje is like a source of fresh water, where I come to drink, and to feel the power of God and the strength of Our Lady. The world we live in is different, very rough; there are so many things that surround us, that are offered to us, and that are happening, and there is so little presence of God in them. There are so many things that we still have to learn… Each time I come to Medjugorje, I learn something new. 26 juli 2005 , 16:35 , Originally published 22 maj 2003 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Interview - Fr. Roman Grüter, a priest from Switzerland: “I Never Felt So Intensely As a Priest As In the Confessional in Medjugorje”Other languages: English, Hrvatski
![]() Fr. Roman Grüter: I noticed that many people who come to Medjugorje seek healing of the body, of the soul, of the spirit. This is similar in all places of pilgrimages, but here it is especially strong. People seek to be transformed, renewed, healed in the deepest sense of the word; this is very important for people. I think that we should encourage them and help them in this process, and we need to give them good spiritual guides and help on this way. 25 juli 2005 , Originally published 1 juli 1996 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews, Priests of Medjugorje / Author: Miro Brcic Interview with Fr. Tomislav Pervan - "Medjugorje, the New Emmaus"![]() Fra Tomislav Pervan: Medjugorje began with the laity, with ordinary children, it was brought to the laity and it was they who first beleived and only then was it passed on to the priests. And today it is the laity who bring the Medjugorje movement to the whole world. It is really the laity who hundreds of times cross even oceans to come to Medjugorje. When I ask them why they come so often to Medjugorje, and why they bring pilgrims to these parts which aren't safe, they reply that they do it because they see changes in people. Spiritual changes. 25 juli 2005 , Originally published 1 juli 1996 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews, Visionaries, Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic / Author: Marijan Sivric Interview with Vicka Ivankovic - "Pray for the Youth!"![]() Interview by Marijan Sivric Vicka Ivankovic: "She would like us to accept the message with our hearts and to live them. Often we accept the message, we begin to live it, but then we get tired and we remain the way we were before. And Our Lady would like that everyday we live her messages a little bit and that we would make progress in our lives." 25 juli 2005 , Originally published 22 maj 2004 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Mons. George Tracy 25 Times in Medjugorje![]() Mons. George Tracy: Medjugorje began to have a great influence when I came here for the first time and it has continued. It has taught me in the depth of my being to live in the Immaculate Heart of Mary along with the Sacred Heart of her Son, which are the two Hearts that are central in my work in the “Cor Christi”. I have developed in my heart a real sense for the teachings of Grignon de Montfort, who is Mary’s child: To put my heart into her heart when I have to get in the Heart of Christ. I want to be Mother Mary’s child. 25 juli 2005 , 17:50 , Originally published 25 mars 2003 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Interview: Sr. Hannah – In Medjugorje, Mary heals our hearts so that we may receive a greater share of the fullness of the grace of GodOther languages: English, Hrvatski
![]() Mary says always again in her messages: Open your hearts! From the psychological point of view, I know that, because of our wounds, we develop mechanisms to defend ourselves. Out of fear, we have built up defence mechanisms that impede us to be able to trust blindly. If a person, as a child, has been rejected by the parents, he/she cannot believe that God will not reject him/her. Or if someone was beaten by the father, it is difficult to believe that God wants no harm on him/her. For people with these kinds of wounds, each step of the opening of the heart, each time, is an act of trust, a step in faith. In Medjugorje, Mary heals our hearts so that this path of opening and trust may become possible again, that we may receive a greater share of the fullness of the grace of God. 25 juli 2005 , 17:26 , Originally published 3 december 2002 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Interview - Fr Daniel-Ange -- “Through Medjugorje, Our Lady Educates the Visionaries for the Evangelisation and Helps the Bishops and the Priests in the New Evangelisation”![]() What I like in Medjugorje is that visionaries are also witnesses. They accept to give witness, they accept to transmit Our Lady’s message. They are missionaries and this is the characteristic of Our Lady’s apparitions in last 30 years. Bernadette entered into a convent, but these visionaries are educated by Our Lady to be evangelisators. It was wonderful when I was in the USA, at the Notre-Dame University, with Ivan. I was giving talks, he was giving talks, and it was wonderful: myself as a catholic priest and he as a child of God in a direct connection with heaven. It is wonderful. 25 juli 2005 , 16:57 , Originally published 18 november 2002 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Interviews Interview - Fr. Leo Maasburg -- “The Collaboration Between Mother Teresa and the Grace of Medjugorje is Visible”![]() I have learned one thing from Mother Teresa: it is not important what we expect and what we desire. The only important is to confide oneself to the guidance of Jesus and of Mary. There are surely people who come with some big problem, but the biggest problem is always lack of holiness! We surely bring with us people who entrust themselves into our prayer, but we should not limit the Lord and Our Lady to the gifts they give us. 22 juli 2005 , Originally published 20 september 2002 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje and Vatican / Author: Pope John Paul II Apostolic Letter “ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE” on the Most Holy Rosary![]() The Holy Father John Paul II published on October 16, 2002 the Apostolic Letter on the Most Holy Rosary under the title, “Rosarium Virginis Mariae”, where he also proclaims a year of the Holy Rosary, beginning today and running through the same date next year. The Holy Father asks that the Rosary be prayed particularly for the causes of world peace and the strengthening of family life. In this document, the Pope proposes five new mysteries of the Rosary under the name “luminous mysteries” or “mysteries of light”. 21 juli 2005 , Originally published 5 augusti 2001 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje and Vatican / Author: Pope John Paul II John Paul II´s Message for World Youth Day 2002![]() "You are the salt of the earth, You are the light of the world" (Mt 5:13-14)It is the nature of human beings, and especially youth, to seek the Absolute, the meaning and fullness of life. Dear young people, do not be content with anything less than the highest ideals! Do not let yourselves be dispirited by those who are disillusioned with life and have grown deaf to the deepest and most authentic desires of their heart. You are right to be disappointed with hollow entertainment and passing fads, and with aiming at too little in life. If you have an ardent desire for the Lord you will steer clear of the mediocrity and conformism so widespread in our society. 21 juli 2005 , Originally published 3 oktober 2000 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Medjugorje and Vatican / Author: Pope John Paul II Dialogue Between Cultures for a Civilization of Love and Peace![]() MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS 1. At the dawn of a new millennium, there is growing hope that relationships between people will be increasingly inspired by the ideal of a truly universal brotherhood. Unless this ideal is shared, there will be no way to ensure a stable peace. There are many signs which suggest that this conviction is becoming more deeply rooted in people's minds. The importance of fraternity is proclaimed in the great "charters" of human rights; it is embodied in great international institutions, particularly the United Nations; and it is called for, as never before, by the process of globalization which is leading to a progressive unification of the economy, culture and society. For their part, the followers of the different religions are ever more conscious of the fact that a relationship with the one God, the common Father of all, cannot fail to bring about a greater sense of human brotherhood and a more fraternal life together. In God's revelation in Christ, this principle finds a radical expression: "He who does not love does not know God; for God is love" (1 Jn 4:8). 21 juli 2005 , Originally published 10 november 2001 / Section: Medjugorje News & Articles - Category: Priests of Medjugorje, Theology reports / Author: Dr. Fra Slavko Barbarić, OFM The Family in the Messages of Our Lady Queen of Peace![]() To love and to be loved is the fundamental and the deepest desire of every man. We do not even need to discuss how important love and acceptance are in the family school of life. Lack of love and acceptance in the family leave deep scars. It is not unheard of that even the newly conceived child feels and knows if it is accepted with love or not. It is known from therapeutic practice, that deep fears, which can follow a person throughout his entire life, are often caused prior to birth, if the father and mother contemplated abortion. | | ![]() | |
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