"Dear
children! Also today I call you to prayer, especially today when Satan wants war
and hatred. I call you anew, little children: pray and fast that God may give
you peace. Witness peace to every heart and be carriers of peace in this world
without peace. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. And you
do not be afraid because the one who prays is not afraid of evil and has no
hatred in the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of
September 25, 2001
Today, the whole world is in a big
crisis: economical, material, social, and especially political. Our Lady knows
it, and as a true mother, she takes care of her children. She wants our good,
and this is why - in the last message - she calls us to pray for peace.
Prayer is one of the principal messages of Our Lady, so often repeated, because
through prayer, man decides for God and puts God in the centre of his life. Our
Lady repeats it so often for only one reason: we have not yet completely
answered to her call to conversion, to peace and to prayer. Prayer
prepares man to open up to God and to allow the Holy Spirit to act in him. This
is the first condition for building new heavens and new earth, where peace will
reign.
The message of peace resounds strongly from Medjugorje, stronger then from any
other place in the world, and with a voice stronger than other voices. This
peace is incomparably richer than any other peace, because its substance is God
Himself. It touches the root of the heart of man and permeates the whole person.
Peace, which has not germinated in the heart of man, cannot germinate anywhere.
The same: peace, which has not its root in God, cannot exist.
"Who prays is not afraid of evil and has no hatred in the heart" -
says Our Lady to all of us. Her voice is stronger than the strength of the
strong and the weakness of the weak. By the power of her voice have fallen many
walls of Jericho, which encircled this world. Let us answer to her call of love,
in order to become participants in the creation of new heavens and new earth,
where the place of honour shall belong to the sons and daughters of God, to
those who belong totally to God and who are totally consecrated to Him.
Fra Danko Perutina
Medjugorje, September 26, 2001