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Commentary on the
monthly message of November 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
"Dear
children! Also today I call you to pray, pray, pray until prayer becomes life
for you. Little children, at this time, in a special way, I pray before God to
give you the gift of faith. Only in faith will you discover the joy of the gift
of life that God has given you. Your heart will be joyful thinking of eternity.
I am with you and love you with a tender love. Thank you for having responded to
my call." Monthly message
to the world, November 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.
Apparition to the visionary Mirjana on
November 2nd, 2005:-
at the Cenacolo community in the presence of a large crowd gathered for
All Saints' Day. After the apparition Mirjana said, "The Gospa gave
no message", "She was sad and sorrowful. She told me things
that I cannot say. I prayed to her that she may enter our hearts. I
asked her, 'How can we help you?' The Gospa gave no answer. "At the
end", Mirjana added, "the Gospa blessed the religious articles
that we had brought." www.childrenofmedjugorje.com
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message commentary:- I PRAY BEFORE GOD TO GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF FAITH
During
24 years and 5 months of apparitions in the parish Medjugorje, the love
of Gospa remained unchanged, as much as her maternal messages, messages
with which she wants to attract us - as with cords of love - towards the
heart of Jesus, so that we can live and not barely subsist. Today also,
she says: pray, pray, pray. Today also, she calls to what is most
difficult for contemporary man, and it is prayer. There is no other way
to arrive to God; there is no more comfortable or easier way, than the
way of prayer. She is not only calling to prayer, but she is praying in
front of God for us, she is asking God to grant us the gift of faith. In
faith, Mary pronounced the words of her abandonment to God: "Be it
done to me according to your word" and " Behold the handmaid
of the Lord". These short words contain the whole life of Mary. In
these words, she said everything, and she has completely given herself
to God.
Faith is a gracious gift of God, gift that we can and must ask from God.
God gives us what we ask. Mary is praying with all those who pray. As a
Mother, she is praying for us all, she is asking from God the invaluable
gift of faith. She knows well that, without faith, we live in darkness
and ignorance. Without faith, life is impossible. When we live without
faith and trust, we are under the influence of fear, and we feel
threatened and insecure. Fear kills life much more than work. The reason
for which worries kill more people than work is in the fact that people
worry more than they work. Against fear, only faith is successful. Faith
means to rely on God who remains invisible for us, God whom we
nevertheless experience as our fundamental support. Faith is a support
that we cannot see. Faith is the sure ground on which you can stand;
faith is the light that you light in the darkness of your heart. Faith
means to open the door to confidence, to open the windows to love, to
accept smile, joy, light and health..
Faith is like a jump in a parachute from the plane. If you jump from the
plane, you see only the ground, and yourself inevitably precipitating
towards the ground, on which you will be pulverized. It is a jump into
nothingness, into destruction, into death. But, after this dreadful
experience, another incredible experience comes: if you draw the grip of
the parachute, above you a cord opens, which holds you attached to a
tissue. You left the safety of the plane, you were precipitated towards
death which awaits you down there, on the firm ground, and what stopped
you, it is the solidity of a piece of tissue - the parachute. This small
piece of silk preserved you from death; it gave you the force to leave
the safety of the plane. This is faith. When you start to entrust
yourself to somebody, you have the impression to jump into emptiness.
The fear seizes you, and you have the impression that you are going
towards nothingness. But it is enough to light in oneself the certainty
that all will go well, and fear is cut.
We do not put our faith in a tissue, nor in a cord, but in a Mother who
walked the same ways that we walk, who lived the same anguishes,
apprehensions and sufferings, which we live. This is why she is our
certainty, and she is promising never to deceive us, she could never
deceive us.
In faith and trust in God open up for us spaces of light, of truth, of
certainty that God is showing us. In faith and trust, we realize that
all in life was given to us, and that nothing belongs to us: neither
life, nor people, nor this earth. We are created for eternity. Mary
wishes that now, today, we start to live this eternity. She wishes that
we decide for eternity now, so that it may not be too late tomorrow.
Fr.
Ljubo Kurtovic
~ Medjugorje, 26th November, 2005 ~ Official English
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Reflection :- A CALLING CARD
Recently,
I received the calling card of an Irish pilgrim. Of course, as it should
be, on the calling card was written the information on the person and
the contacts. This calling card however had literally its "other
side of the medal": I was agreeably surprised to see printed on the
back a message given by Our Lady. It seemed to me that, precisely on the
back, I could find more information on this person that on the face,
where his name was, his telephone number, his e-mail address... This
message on the back goes more in-depth. On the face, we read
information, and on the back the identity, the choice, the aspiration of
the person.
This Irish pilgrim, well employed in Dublin, wants thus to spread the
message of God among people, and to say what is important for him. He
does not hesitate to give these calling cards to all those that he
meets. In an environment of hide-and-seek games, in which very often we
keep silent about our Christian identity, this is an example of how to
be coherent. Jesus never accepted to play with several options. He said
to us that we could not serve God and the mammon. He often made
reproaches to the scribes and the Pharisees.
A great theological and psycho sociological question is why the
Christians flee a public demonstration of their faith? Why do they think
that they will have less success if they hide their fidelity to Christ?
It goes so far that some of them eliminate Christian symbols from their
offices, from their cars, from their neck. Although it is said to us,
and repeated high and strong, that faith is a private business, it is
also a public affair of universal range. To suppress something, which
characterizes us in an essential way, means to disavow the One in whom
we believe, and into whose hands, especially in distress and pain, we
place our trust.
Jesus says clearly that he will disavow, in front of his Father and in
the Kingdom of heaven towards which we aspire, those who disavow Him on
earth. Therefore, the message printed on the calling card reminds us
that it is necessary to express publicly and confess discreetly our
faith, and to invite others to conversion. In fundamental questions, we
should not step back. Jesus did not step back in front of those who
wanted Him to deny that He was to One who was supposed to come. He
remained coherent at the price of the cross and of death.
Fr. Mario Knezovic
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(Medjugorje Information Centre Press Bulletin
#216, 26th November, ‘05)
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