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Commentary on the
monthly message of September 25th 2005
& a monthly reflection
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! In love I call you: convert, even though you are far from my
heart. Do not forget, I am your mother and I feel pain for each one who
is far from my heart; but I do not leave you alone. I believe you can
leave the way of sin and decide for holiness. Thank you for having
responded to my call." Monthly message
to the world, September 25, 2005
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.
Our Lady's
Message from Her apparition to Mirjana on September 2nd, 2005:-
"Dear Children, I, as a mother, am coming to you and showing YOU how much God, your Father, loves you. And you? Where are you, children of mine? What is in your heart in the first place? What is not
permitting you to put my Son in the first place? My children, permit God’s blessing to fall upon you. May God’s peace permeate you, the peace that my Son, and He alone, gives."
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IN LOVE I CALL YOU The
Virgin Mary calls us with love. In Her words, we hear the echo of the
words of Jesus: "Convert and believe in the Gospel" (Mk 1,15).
Mary wants to tell us: believe in the power of God who can and who wants
to change you, to save you, to heal you and to set you free. Although by
our life we are far away from the heart of Mary, she is calling us and
is not becoming weary. We are her children. A true mother never abandons
her child.
A child needs a mother; it cannot live nor survive without her. And when
a child remains without a mother, it knows what it means to be without a
mother. Our Heavenly Mother isn't made of plastic or of wood; she isn't
a dead souvenir, but a mother who feels pain for each child who is far,
cold, sick. We have a mother who has a heart that loves and that
suffers. Love and suffering always go together. True love is verified in
the moments of trial and of suffering. It is easy to love the other when
it is pleasant and comfortable to be with him. It is easy to love the
other when we find him sympathetic and when we like him. But it is
difficult to love the other when liking ceases. When the other becomes
difficult, boring and unbearable. It is difficult to love when the other
does not want to understand or to accept us. It is then, that
authenticity, truth and divine quality of our love are tested and
verified.
Every human love is limited. In fact, there is only one love. God is
love. Every love should sprout out from the heart of God, in order to be
able to survive all deaths and all the sufferings.
The Gospel is telling us that Jesus loved the young man whom He called
to sell everything and to follow Him, if he wanted to be perfect. And we
know that the young man did not have courage to leave all the richness
of this world that he possessed. God is calling also today. He is not
forcing anybody. The freedom of God and the freedom of man are always in
the game together. God remains faithful. He will never deceive us.
God is calling us through our conscience. God is speaking through his
word, to which we listen and that we read. He is speaking to us through
all kinds of events. In these days, he is speaking to us in a simple and
intense way through Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother.
The Virgin Mary believes that we can leave the way of sin. She believes
in you and she believes in me. The most difficult is when - after
repeated falls into sin and after having confessed so many times the
same sin - we think that nothing can change any more. We become attached
to our falls and we start to believe that they are stronger than the
grace of Jesus. Or worse still: we become attached to our slavery and
our chains, and we begin to think that they are comfortable, and we
start to convince ourselves about it. We should always lift up our eyes
to the heart of Jesus who, also today, can and wants to set us free. For
our part, it is important to want, to decide, to fight, to ask and to
pray. Then, we will be lifted up and we will be set free. We should
never say: "I cannot", but "I will try", and even
after repeated falls, we should say it with even more determination and
courage.
Mary believes in us. Let us put our faith in Her and in ourselves. Let
us have the desire to become different, to be transformed, to become new
men who, day after day, follow God and walk and on the path of God.
Fr.
Ljubo Kurtovic
~ Medjugorje, 26th September, 2005 ~ Official English
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Reflection :- OUR DESIRES
To
accept oneself as a creature of God - this are the words that we hear
often, the words on which we meditate frequently. In many occasions we
are dissatisfied with ourselves. It seem to us that the others - always
and in everything, by their birth and during their growth - had much
more chance than we had. It is the same with our actions: they are
not such as we would like them to be. We are often dissatisfied
because of our exterior aspect, our profession, our environment.
Besides, it seems to us that God himself is not just, because He allows
that the sun shines in the same way on the just and on the unjust.
The dissatisfaction accumulates despite the fact that we know that we
are created in the image of God, as children of God, and that we are
unique.
Many spiritual writers and masters underline that the change of our
position begins with the acceptance of ourselves and of all that happens
to us. To accept oneself does not mean to remain the same and do
nothing to change. The acceptance of oneself is only the beginning
of the change that we are longing for. Otherwise, we will turn in
round, tired, and remain on the same positions. This is how
despair accumulates, discouragement stores up, and hope dies.
The basic question is the following one: for what is longing our heart?
For the things of the earth or for the things of Heaven? Our human
measures are not the measures of God. This is precisely what Jesus
said to Peter, when he tried to divert him from the way that leads
through cross and suffering towards redemption. If, in our whole
life, we orient our thoughts and our forces towards the goods of the
earth, and the desire to please the world and not God and ourselves, we
will always be in disagreement with what is essential: How does God see
us? How do we see ourselves? Therefore, if our
dissatisfaction proceeds from things of the earth and the parameters of
the world, we are called to turn towards things that surpass this
perishable world. In the letter to the Corinthians, we read: «Aspire
to superior gifts.» (cf. 1 Cor 12,31).
Our desires hide also our character. It is very important to know
one's desires. What do we really want of our life? What is
the most important for us? Is it really important to be beautiful
and rich, since we know that beauty is relative and that wealth is
perishable? It is much more important to say with the psalmist: «
Create in me a pure heart, o Lord, renew in me a steadfast spirit».
What must we do? Before all, like Mary, let us be thankful and
glorify God. Let us accept everything, really everything that God
asks from us, as Mary did, as Jesus did, as Joseph and others models of
the Church did. The acceptance is not weakness or abandonment of
the desire to change, but the opening of a door that leads towards a
decisive turn in life. When Mary accepted the will of God, the
child leaped in her womb, and she gave birth to Jesus. This is
what happens to those who say YES to God. With us, it is similar:
let us hear and accept. Then, a new life, a holier life is
conceived in us, a life in which things of this world are not important
anymore, but the things of Heaven, from where we await the blessed hope
and the coming of our Lord.
Fr. Mario Knezovic
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(Medjugorje Information Centre Press Bulletin
#214, 26th September, ‘05)
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