February 10, 2014 A.D.
Prayer, as you may know, is the most frequent message of Our Lady in Medjugorje. It is rare not to have the word “prayer” in a message. Prayer is so important. But this world doesn’t know that. Our Lady says:
October 2, 1986
October 25, 1989 - and so many other times!
Medjugorje is: Pray! Pray! Pray! Prayer must be a daily offering to God:
May 30, 1985
Prayer is a powerful weapon:
Over and over Our Lady asks us to pray. She asks us to understand the value and nature of prayer. Prayer is the first step in our spiritual life and everything else depends upon that. Prayer has to become a way of life. We have to discover prayer. We have to be persistent in our prayers:
January 14, 1985
Yes! Prayer is a fight against the powers of darkness, against satan:
August 8, 1985
The “armor for battle” is the strength of our prayers. Our Lady asked the prayer groups in Medjugorje to pray at least three hours a day. Why so many prayers?
September 13, 1984
What are the prayers we should pray? Our Lady asks for the three parts1 (now four with the Luminous Mysteries) of the Rosary every day, prayers to the Holy Spirit, prayers of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to Her Immaculate Heart, and, of course, the highest form of prayer, the Holy Mass. Prayer can change the very structures of our mentality. A real profound prayer life is a life of constant transformation. This is the key to everything Our Lady does in Medjugorje. The quality of prayer is important. We have to see prayer like a real encounter with the Living God. We should pray with a living faith. Prayer should be a joy:
June 12, 1986
The apparitions of Medjugorje, the meaning of Our Lady’s presence: to teach us prayer. First, Medjugorje is a “school of prayer,” then a “school of holiness.” In this “school” Our Lady instructs us to “pray with the heart.” (February 25, 1989 and so many other times):
May 29, 1986
Love is the “motor” of everything. Without love we are not really alive. Therefore, we cannot pray without love. The heart is the symbol of love. Pray with the heart means: put love in the first place when you pray. To pray with the heart must be a decision: I decide to set aside everything, to concentrate, and to persevere in pure prayer. I decide to abandon myself to God This is what we call prayer with the heart. Prayer must be something alive and active to be a joy. Praying with the heart also means “praying with joy.” There is no real spiritual life without joy:
March 20, 1986
But the thing is we have to start, to decide for ourselves to pray. Then God will lead us. Just get started. Put prayer in your life:
August 25, 1995
This means let prayer be the activity which will bring real life in your lives, which will make you alive, really alive with the life of God Himself.
With Love and Prayer,

A pilgrim praying on Apparition Mountain in Medjugorje. Our Lady's call to prayer to basic: a conversation with God. It is common-place in Medjugorje to see pilgrims praying on the mountians, in the fields, on the trails, and even walking down the street, praying Rosaries out loud. Our Lady has built prayer as a 'normal' part of life in Medjugorje, and She wishes this to be established all over the world. In society it is not 'normal' to see people walking down the street praying a Rosary, but Our Lady is here to swing the pendulum the other direction. In the future world, that Our Lady is building in the present, those who are actively praying will be considered 'normal', while those who don't pray, will be considered 'abnormal'.
Footnotes:
1. When Pope John Paul II announced the new Luminous Mysteries, Marija Lunetti, the Medjugorje visionary who receives the 25th message, said that Our Lady immediately accepted the new mysteries.