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Commentary on the
monthly message of June 25th 2005
& a monthly reflection
Our Lady's message to the
world on June 25, 2005
(24th Anniversary)
Peace to all! Below
is the official English translation of this month's Commentary on Our Lady's
message to the world through the visionary Marija & the monthly reflection as provided by the
Medjugorje Information
Centre via The
Medjugorje Web™
COME,
Holy Spirit, come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, your well beloved spouse. X3.
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
"Dear children! Today I thank you for every sacrifice that you have offered for my intentions. I call you, little children, to be my apostles of peace and love in your families and in the world. Pray that the Holy Spirit may enlighten and lead you on the way of holiness. I am with you and bless you all with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call."
Monthly message
to the world, June 25, 2005 (The 24th Anniversary)
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.
Annual
apparition to the visionary Ivanka Ivankovic-Elez, on June 25, 2005
At
Her last daily apparition on May 7, 1985, Our Lady confided to Ivanka
the 10th secret and told her that she would have an apparition once a
year on the anniversary of the apparitions. It was that way also this
year. The apparition lasted 10 minutes. Ivanka had the apparition at
home in the presence of her family, her husband and her three children.
Our Lady gave the following message: "Dear children, love each
other with the love of my Son. Peace, peace, peace." Our Lady
was joyful and spoke to Ivanka about the 6th secret.
The
monthly apparition to Mirjana Soldo at the Cenacolo community on
July 2nd, 2005 lasted five minutes. The message from Our Lady was,
"Dear Children! As a mother I rejoice with you, for as a mother I
invite you. I am bringing my Son to you; my Son, your God. Cleanse your
hearts and bow your head before your only God. Let my motherly heart
leap with joy. Thank you."
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APOSTLES OF PEACE AND LOVE Our Lady concludes each one of her messages by the words: "Thank you for having responded to my call." With her gratitude, she seems to want to motivate and wake up our hearts, so that we listen to her and walk on the way of conversion and of holiness. Today, she is thanking us for every sacrifice that we have offered for her intentions. In preceding messages for the anniversary of her apparitions, she was saying: "Today I desire to thank you for all your sacrifices and for all your prayers." (25.6.1990). "Today I am happy, even if in my heart there is still a little sadness for all those who have started on this path and then have left it." (25.6.1992). Although she knows that all her children will not accept her motherly words, she is not giving up, she believes and she hopes. This is why she was saying: "There are many people who do not desire to understand my messages and to accept with seriousness what I am saying. But you I therefore call and ask that by your lives and by your daily living you witness my presence." (25.6.1991).
Our Lady's messages reveal to us the heart of Mary and they speak to us about it. It is the heart of the mother who loves her children. This heart is grateful for every sacrifice, which we offered for her intentions. We need to pray and, from day to day, to offer our hearts to the Heart of Mary, so that we also become grateful.
Only a blind man does not see that all in life is given to us, and that nothing belongs to us: neither the earth, nor people, nor our body, nor life that God gave us. Everything is a gift of God. Only a humble, pure and simple heart discovers the greatness of the love of God and of the gift of God. Only a heart filled with the Holy Spirit, like the heart of St. Elisabeth, exclaims: "And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?" (Lk 1,43). The heart of Elisabeth is grateful because, in the Visitation of Mary, it recognizes the gift and the blessing.
God has created everything for us, and not for any reason, and not anyhow, but magnificently, marvellously, and out of love. We should relearn the alphabet of the language and of the conversation with God. We need to learn how to say thank you; and not only superficially, with our lips, our mouth, or our reason, but with our whole being and with our whole life.
God gave us more than life and all that He has created for us; he gave Himself to us in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, in the fullness of life and love, gave Himself in the Church and through the Church in the sacraments, especially in the Eucharist.
In these days and in this time, God sends to us also the Mother of His Son Jesus and our Mother, so that we become her apostles of peace and love in our families and in the world. Our families and the world need people who will spread peace and love, because there is too much disorder, too much fear, too much darkness and too much wickedness among us. Gospa, who dwells in the glory of Heaven, and who comes and speaks from this glory, knows that love and peace are stronger, and that it is worthwhile to love and to spread peace. Mary, our Mother, knows that we cannot do it by our own forces, and this is why she is advising us to pray to the Holy Spirit by Whom she conceived Jesus. She is encouraging us to pray to the Holy Spirit, whose force and power made it possible to the apostles to become fearless witnesses of Jesus, until shedding of blood. We cannot do it, but the Holy Spirit in us, He can do it. We are called to holiness and to sanctification of our life. Saint Paul reminds us: "For this is the will of God, your sanctification." (1 Thess 4,3) Only on this way of sanctification and of holiness we can experience the joy and the truth of the words of the Scripture: "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." (1 Thess 5,16) We are neither alone nor abandoned. Mary, our Mother, is with us and she is giving us her motherly blessing.
Fr.
Ljubo Kurtovic
~ Medjugorje, 26th June, 2005 ~ Official English
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Reflection :- THE PRIESTS WHO LOVE JESUS
It
is very little - or not at all - that we think about the servants of
God, it depends. When they do their usual - I would even say expected -
works of mercy, one does not speak of them. But if they make the least
wrong step, everyone wants to know about it, to speak about it, to write
about it. Jesus, by inviting the apostles to follow him, showed clearly
what awaits them: trial, mockeries, prison, judgment.
The priestly vocation is difficult to be understood, it is even
inconceivable for those who think the thoughts of this world and not the
thoughts of God. A philosopher said that, compared to the world, the
spiritual vocation was "a logic of madness". There is much
truth in that. Humans tend more towards having then towards being. They
tend to want to carry out their works according to the parameters of
this world: professional career, family, children, heritage, reputation.
However, in a priestly vocation, and more still in a religious vocation,
one gives up all that. Jesus is clear. He asks that one give up
everything to follow him.
In these times, much is spoken about a certain "civil
society". What does it mean? At the first thought, it seems to be a
noble idea, because it supports freedom and equality between the people.
And yet, if we reflect a little better, we will see that this attitude
contains the denial of certain states of life and of certain vocations.
A "civil society" will have difficulties to support servants
of God who wear a habit, as well all those who announce a life according
to the Spirit and not according to the flesh. Let us thus not be
surprised if the media make fun of priests, and if they are charged of
all kinds of faults, with the goal of marginalizing their action. What
is most dangerous, it is generalization. Let us say, if a professor does
something evil, the media will say his name and will stress that this is
an individual case. But as soon as it is about a priest, it is
generalization, and it is said, "the priests do what is evil".
The priests need neither consolation nor protection that comes from this
world. Jesus himself said that, when they are led in front of the
courts, they should not prepare their defence. The priests, on the
contrary, need companions in prayer and in giving witness. The faithful,
by their prayers, must obtain holiness and strength for their priests.
Such priests, nourished by the prayers of their faithful, will be
courageous witnesses, and nothing will be able to break them.
In Medjugorje - that I also perceive as a therapeutic centre for priests
- we are seeing many spiritual vocations born in the environment of
prayer prepared by Our Lady. In June this year, four young newly
ordained priests from Poland and from Ireland, full of enthusiasm, came
to give thanks to Jesus for having chosen them. They are happy, because
they belong to Jesus and because they serve Him. We need priests, and we
must obtain them in prayer. We need priests who abandon themselves into
the hands of Jesus. An American scientist said so well that we need
priests who love Jesus.
Fr. Mario Knezovic
~
(Medjugorje Information Centre Press Bulletin
#211, 26th June, ‘05)
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