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Commentary on the
monthly message of October 25th 2005
& a monthly reflection
Below
is the official English translation of this month's commentary on Our Lady's
message to the world through the visionary Marija & also a monthly reflection,
both provided by the
Medjugorje Information
Centre usually via The
Medjugorje Web™
Some other material is via "The
Medjugorje Message" All are gratefully acknowledged
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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
"Little
children, believe, pray and love, and God will be near you. He will give
you the gift of all the graces you seek from Him. I am a gift to you,
because, from day to day, God permits me to be with you and to love each
of you with immeasurable love. Therefore, little children, in prayer and
humility, open your hearts and be witnesses of my presence. Thank you
for having responded to my call." Monthly message
to the world, October 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 the visionary Mirjana on October 2nd, 2005:-
"Dear children, I come to you as mother. I am bringing you my Son’s peace and love. Purify your hearts and take my Son with you. Give true peace and joy to others."
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message commentary:- I AM A GIFT TO YOU
The
Virgin Mary came to lead us to Jesus, the Saviour. Only in His Name is
our salvation and our life. For 24 years and 4 months now, she is
showing us the way, she is inspiring us and calling us. God is with us.
Jesus promised to us: "I am with you every day until the end of the
world". God is with us at every moment. The problem is that we are
not always with Him. God remains always faithful. He has never misled or
disappointed somebody who trusted in Him.
The Virgin Mary teaches us that - in order to be with God - it is
necessary to believe, to pray, and to love. To be a Christian means to
be on the way and to seek God unceasingly. Every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it
shall be opened - Jesus has promised this.
God awaits only one thing: that we address ourselves to Him. He awaits
our prayer and our trust. Our prayer should not be petty and selfish,
but great as God is great. The most important in prayer is to seek God.
When we find Him and encounter Him, we have everything. When we put God
at the first place, all the rest finds its place.
God is close to us. It is in Him that "we live, and move, and have
our being" (Ac 17,28) and this is why we can make the experience of
God. God is a person, and this is why we can know Him by our person, by
our heart. We can know God because He revealed to us and He continues to
reveal to us the incommensurability of His love. Through her
apparitions, Our Lady is revealing to us her inner heart, which loves
infinitely. She grants us her trust, and this is a gift, this is a
grace. In trust, she is speaking to us and she is making herself known
to us. When we grant our trust to her as a Mother, we know her. The
depth, the beauty, and the purity of her heart attract us then more and
more towards her.
The Virgin Mary desires so much that we are close to God. This is why
she is telling us: "believe, pray and love". If we speak to
God, if we kneel down in front of Him and if we pray, He reveals Himself
to us, He grants us His richness.
A woman tells that, during Adoration in the church, in one moment, she
made the experience of the simplicity of God; she understood that, only
in simplicity, we can know Him. She felt sweetness and tenderness, and
she was seized by clarity, beauty, and truth, which were revealed to her
at that moment. She was transformed; and ever since, she is not the same
any more. She says that, ever since, her problems aren't an
insurmountable barrier any more. The experience gives the certainty that
God exists, and that He is with us.
Similar experiences were made many people here in Medjugorje. Mary, our
Mother, is with us; we can encounter Her, we can make the experience.
After an encounter with her, our life is not the same any more; it
changes, it becomes new, transformed. We need experiences in life in
order to become wise, prudent, and sober people. Youthful enthusiasm, as
noble as it is, disappears quickly. Gospa does not want to lead us
towards a superficial optimism, but towards true wisdom of life, wisdom
that we also obtain through suffering and pains, which beget a new life
in us. May Gospa, our Mother, guide us always on the ways that lead to
God. May Mary, our Mother, lead us towards a new life with God.
Fr.
Ljubo Kurtovic
~ Medjugorje, 26th October, 2005 ~ Official English
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Reflection :- OUR FIRM POINTS
As
long as 250 years before Christ, Greek scientist Archimedes said: «Give
me a firm point to affix my lever and I will move the whole universe.»
There are many hidden messages in these words. A firm point is a
condition for moving. However, let us see what one relies on today:
parents, friends, knowledge, money, power, insurance, beauty and -
increasingly on luck - which is not interpreted any more as God's
providence but as something "written in the stars". Without a
firm point we fall. This is so evident in everyday life. That is why we
are in search of firm and reliable places to stand on.
Let us remember a detail from the Old Testament when to already tired
Moses his brother Aaron is holding his hands up and supporting him in
prayer (See Exodus 17,12). He was his firm point. If we apply this
biblical scene to Medjugorje, we can easily see where is our firm point.
Our Lady is always accompanying us in our rises after we fall, and she
is inviting us to pray, to fast, to do penance, and to rely on Jesus.
All those who wanted to throw themselves into Jesus' arms and to leave
earthly security have found this firm point. God only knows how fragile
and weak we are. That is why he makes himself our companion - our corner
stone. In the image of a house built on sand, Jesus warns us that we
need firm foundations to start building. There is no way we can build
strong and magnificent buildings on fragile soil. The same is with our
lives. As the Scriptures teach us - "Except the Lord build the
house, they labour in vain that build it" (Ps 127,1).
We are all faced with a danger of choosing wrong and uncertain
positions. False security can be found anywhere, everybody wants to earn
our trust. There is a wonderful instruction given to us by saint Paul in
his epistle to the Colossians: "Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after
the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." (Col. 2,8)
These words sound as if they had been written today. People want to
create their own world forgetting that God has created this world as
well as them. Although he is a creature, human being wants to be the
creator, relying solely on himself. No wonder the world is powerless
when it comes to the most essential things: peace, human dignity,
justice, . Therefore, if we find our firm point in Christ, we will not
fail to have success. It is precisely through Our Lady, in Medjugorje,
that God has once again moved humanity. The message is clear: To accept
Jesus, and only then can we expect to move the universe from the state
of chaos into the state of prosperity. The same is with our private
lives. Things do not happen by themselves. Let us learn from Jesus who
relied on the Father completely and who persevered until the end. So,
you who are tired, burdened, deceived, disillusioned and sinful, rely on
the One who makes everything new and sets everything in motion all over
again.
Fr. Mario Knezovic
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(Medjugorje Information Centre Press Bulletin
#215, 26th October, ‘05)
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