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Official Commentary on the
monthly message of March 25th 2006
Below
is the official English translation of this month's commentary on Our Lady's
message to the world through the visionary Marija, provided by The Medjugorje Information Centre
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COME,
Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, your well beloved spouse.
Most
Holy Spirit, open my heart, soften it, and fill it with light and love so that I
may understand clearly what I will read, and act on it for my own spiritual
benefit and for the delight of my Heavenly Mother, Your Beloved Spouse. May I
read each word under Your guidance so that, free of all worldly desires and
distractions, I may grow in wisdom and prudence enough to follow perfectly the
wishes of the Most Blessed Trinity. Amen
"Courage,
little children! I decided to lead you on the way of holiness. Renounce
sin and set out on the way of salvation, the way which my Son has
chosen. Through each of your tribulations and sufferings God will find
the way of joy for you. Therefore, little children, pray. We are close
to you with our love. Thank you for having responded to my call."
Monthly message
to the world, March 25, 2006
Our
Lady has regularly said the messages are for each one of us individually so try reading them as if your own name was
there; "Dear .........." - it can
make them so much more personal, challenging and effective.
O
Blessed Mother, help us hear your words to us. Teach us to listen ever
more carefully to the words of your Son. Pray that our hearts will be
transformed into the hearts he would have us have, and that we will
always be open to His call. Amen.
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message commentary:- I AM LEADING YOU ALONG THE PATH OF HOLINESS
This
month the Blessed Virgin Mary begins her motherly message with the
following words: "Courage, little children!" Mother wants to
encourage, awaken and inspire her children along the path of holiness.
Or, as she said in one of her messages: "You, dear children, are
not able by yourselves, therefore I am here to help you." Mary is
full of grace wishing the best to her children, and that is holiness.
In Church everybody is called to holiness. As our dearly departed Pope
John Paul II used to emphasize: "Without any hesitation do I say
that the perspective into which the whole of pastoral planning is to be
placed is under the heading of holiness. It would be a contradiction to
settle for a life of mediocrity, marked by a minimalist ethic and
shallow religiosity." Blessed Mother Teresa used to say: "
Holiness is not the luxury of the few, it is a simple duty for each one
of us." The ideal of Christian holiness is not an extraordinary
life lived exclusively by a few "great men" of holiness.
Desiring to become holy means desiring to become more and more similar
to the person we love. Man is turning into the ideal standing before
him. We have the most beautiful, the holiest and the purest Mother - the
Virgin Mary.
She is blessed because she believed. Her greatest glory lies in the fact
that she has retained nothing of her own, nothing of her ego that might
glorify her for her own sake. Neither did she place any barrier to the
glory of God, nor did she oppose God's love and will. She was devoid of
any stain of selfishness that may have tarnished God's light in her
heart. Completely devoid of any sin, Mary was pure as the glass of a
very clean window having no other task than to let the sunlight in.
It is her apparitions and her being close to here with which she tries
to cast God's light on every heart, to encourage and lead every heart
along the path of holiness.
If one is to go to another place, one must leave the place where one is.
This is why she tells us to renounce every sin and everything that binds
us. To have the courage to say No to a sin and Yes to God.
For our sake was Jesus tried, then suffered, was tortured and murdered.
For our sake did he choose the path of salvation. He did all that for
our sake, but he did not do it instead of us. He will not and he does
not want to make the decision about our eternity for us. He is sending
us his and our Mother so that we can decide in favour of life, and not
of death.
God has a solution even in cases of most severe pain and suffering. With
God nothing is tragic. The Virgin Mary is a witness to that encouraging
us not to renounce prayer as a means of protecting us from losing our
way on the path of salvation.
Thank you, Mary, for the safety you instil in our insecure hearts. Thank
you for bringing Jesus to us and leading us towards Jesus.
Fr.
Ljubo Kurtovic ~ Medjugorje, 26th March, 2006 ~ Official English
Translation
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