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Today is Monday, June 3, 2019, and this is Radio WAVE.

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Broadcasting across the world from the Radio Wave studio at Caritas of Birmingham, youre listening to Radio Wave. Tonight, a Friend of Medjugorje is joining us across the ocean as he speaks to the Caritas pilgrimage group about Our Ladys June 2, 2019 message. And this group has had many touching moments with Our Lady and their experience in Medjugorje. And we do have openings for some of the pilgrimages for the rest of the year. Our pilgrimages do fill up very quickly, so if you are feeling the call to go to Medjugorje this year, its important to act quickly. And you can do so by going online to mej.com and you can click on Request Pilgrimage Information. Or, you can call in the U.S. (205)672-2000. Again, (205)672-2000 and dial to extension 218 or 219 for more information.

And so, joining us now from the village of Medjugorje, here is a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Do you realize how much you cheat yourself by having cell phones instead of the messages? Used to, letters were awaited on from people and they loved to receive them, World War II, World War I, Civil War. There are beautiful letters that have been written from the battlefront to the home front, and from the home front to the battlefront. Do you know how much these people longed and waited for these letters and what these letters meant to them? And the writer of it put their whole heart into it.

And we see these people still save these things. They have them stored up. People pay a lot of money for these Civil War letters. And there are beautiful stories with them. Theres a real message to it. But what happens if you had somebody on the battlefront, writes to the home front, and they dont think much about it? Even worse than that, what if they dont read it? Because, Ill read it later, or when I get to it. They didnt do that. They longed for it. But if the battlefront writer wrote to the home front, what do you think they would feel from the field of battle, that their letter was not even read? Sad.

Were anticipating these letters. We pray in preparation for days in advance of them at Caritas. Were waiting at the mailbox. Thats what you should be doing. They are the most important letters given in the history of the world, and people will lament in how little they followed them and how little emphasis they put on them when the time of grace is over. Because we have lived in a moment of history that cannot be regained. Do you realize that weve lost this whole contact of writing letters, much through electronics and computers? We dont have this anymore.

Do you realize Our Lady is writing something from the heart? Shes burning in Her heart, Shes got a fire in Her to change the direction of the world, and She sends you a letter on the 25^th and the second of the month. How many people are waiting for that with the same sentiments that Shes giving that letter to you? And how sad it is that many people have come to Medjugorje, they go home, they may read the messages a little bit, and then theyll wander off and they, Its always there. I can go look anytime. After all, it just says the same thing. I dont want to hear anymore. You break Our Ladys heart! Shes giving the world what it needs to correct itself and to be healed and to triumph!

Our Lady has one restriction in saving the world. Shes not allowed to do it. We have to do it. She has to do it through us. Our Ladys words are Her instructions. Shes teaching us how to love. Shes teaching us how to fight. And yet, very few people compared to the numbers coming to Medjugorje get into the message. And what do you think about those who suppress it, those who dont want it out there? Yes, there are people in the Medjugorje world that dont want the message out. Because its one more thing for the Church to review to approve it. They see it as dangerous, actually.

So, Our Lady came today and gave this message to you as an individual. Its a letter from the home front, Heaven, to the battlefield of earth thats taking place. Its giving instructions. It is showing us what to do, how to react, and how much love is to be put into that. These are letters, twice a month, the 25^th and the 2^nd, which is today, that gives everything we need from Love itself. This time in history is not coming back again. If you get off the merry-go-round, if youre not on the train thats racing by and stay on it, you will miss history and youll be remembering that you were called August 25, 1997, a Kennedy moment. Im in the hayfield with the boys. And Our Lady gave a message that said, Now, which I already told you the other day. Now you dont understand, but soon will come a time when you will lament for these messages.

But why is that? Why are we going to lament for this? Because in the time of grace we could have implemented these things, we could have changed our lives, we could have changed our direction, but we didnt do it because tomorrow. Always tomorrow. Im going to get around to that. Our Lady is speaking to you in real time for you to act in real time. When She says it, you better do it. But Shes not doing that with a switch. We know were in trouble because we have a lot of privet switches growing around our house when our mother says, go get a switch. And we know that shell pull all the leaves off, and we knew we were going to get it.

So, Our Ladys not that way, but my mama is. And so, She wants us not to be switched. She knows if we dont follow these things, there is justice coming, and we are more responsible than everybody else. People who do great sins are far less accountable than us in our small sins. As we grow with Our Lady, we are more responsible. And so, a lot of weight is on our shoulders. And you think, Im old, Im retired, I get social security, I dont have to do this. No. Our Lady says no one is too old. She just said this a few months ago. Youre not too old to do what Im asking you to do, and to start to be part of the plan. It breaks Our Ladys heart to wait a whole month, on the 25^th, and a whole month for the second of the month, to deliver something that She cant wait for you to see. She cant wait for you to read this. And you just think about a Dear John letter to the warfront, wow. So Shes got the ambiance, Shes making a bomb, a cannon go off.

And then, you get a Dear John letter. What do you feel like that? Our response, Thank you for having responded to my call. Our response to this message, I like this Mary. Ill do this. You asked me if Ill fast today. You asked me for prayer. Im going to do that. Today I as thinking of inner renunciation. Sunday is a day you can eat and do this and whatever, eat pasta here. Three or four times I practiced that. And, lead with the message. So, this message, I havent gotten the message yet today. Yall want to wait until tomorrow? No. Why are you so curious about it? [LAUGHTER]

When you hear these words, theyre not words. These things are something permeated in the history of salvation. It is biblical. Theologians say thats heretical or not doctrinal. Its biblical in the sense that its telling us about Bible through these private revelations about public revelations of insights that we dont have now, and we havent had. And Shes here to explain the Bible and how to put the Bible into real life through these messages. Because we live radically different than everybody in the past history since Adam. Nobody has had the things weve had to deal with.

So, Im going to let Joan read the message real quick, real slow.

[JOAN]

Our Ladys June 2, 2019 message to Mirjana on the day of nonbelievers.

Dear children, only a pure and an open heart will make it such that you may truly come to know my Son and that all those who do not know His love may come to know it through you. Only love will make you comprehend that it is stronger than death because true love conquered death and made it so that death not exist. My children, forgiveness is the most exalted form of love. You, as apostles of my love, must pray that you be strong in spirit and that you could comprehend and forgive. You, apostles of my love, by understanding and forgiveness, are giving an example of love and mercy. To be able to comprehend and forgive is a gift for which it is necessary to pray, and to nurture it. By forgiveness you are showing that you know how to love. Just look, my children, how the Heavenly Father loves you with a great love, with understanding, forgiveness and justicehow He gives me, the Mother of your hearts, to you. And here I am among you to bless you with a motherly blessing, to call you to prayer, to fastingto tell you to believe, to hope, to forgive, to pray for your shepherds, and above all to love without limits. My children, follow me. My way is the way of peace and love, the way of my Son. It is the way that leads to the triumph of my heart. Thank you.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

What stands out the most in this message to you? Forgiveness. Everything about the Cross is forgiveness. You say it in the Our Father, forgive me as I forgive them. Do you do that? Are you harboring something? Where is forgiveness needed most in your life? What is the greatest institution that God has created? Family. Marriage. Children. And thats where most of the hurt is coming from. Thats where more death is, and thats where death ends up from. Its always between the relationship between the mother and father to the children. We dont have to fix countries. We have to fix individuals.

We prayed for our country. My whole thing with Medjugorje was praying for the United States of America. We began to realize that when Marija came and Our Lady chose to appear in the Bedroom, it blew us away. We thought it was going to be in a church. We knew the church wed do wed go everyday and go to the apparitions. We went there; it was as cold as ice for the first Mass. I felt it shouldnt be there. Marija felt it shouldnt be there. One of my aunts and uncle were there, they didnt feel it. My mother felt it. My wife felt it.

So, we came back and we didnt know what we would do. And Marija walks into the Bedroom. Fr. Slavko had given her the Cross, most of you know the story. She said, The apparitions will take place here. My wife and I, shes standing right there by the bed. My wife and I look at each other like, the bedroom? Its natural now, because its happened. Its history. But to think its going to be in our bedroom, we wanted people to come to that. And now we have easily over 100,000 people go through our bedroom. Many, many conversions. But why did She do that? Because we wanted our nation healed. And I didnt understand it at the time.

And we asked Our Lady to go outside, because thousands of people showed up. They were all around the house, everywhere. And so Our Lady says, after three times She turned us down about going outside, we quit asking. And then one day Our Lady says, Tomorrow I will appear at the tree. I had already been praying at that tree. I had already consecrated it with my wife and two children at that time, three children. We dont know, I dont know why I did that. We joined our hands around it and said, All who see this tree see God in it. My wife, when I walked off, we had a picnic out there, somebody else was on the property, and she said, Why did you say that? I said, I dont know. God will put things in your heart that you dont know why you do it at that moment but it comes to realization later.

So, one day, she goes out there. We, literally, you may think this is impossible. The events of Our Lady appearing in the Bedroom was so overwhelming, so big, we didnt know that next day was Thanksgiving. It was the furthest thing from our mind. Thanksgiving is as big as Christmas, really basically, in some ways. For our country, our people give thanksgiving to God for the blessings and the nation we live in. And its owned by the United States. Canada has theirs. Other countries have their Thanksgiving. Our day was November 24, 1988. So, here we are, and we go out there, and Our Lady has this apparition. She marks the spot. After that, for the rest of the three months, it was all in the Bedroom.

We didnt know until Our Lady left, for a couple years, two or three years, we started realized that the Bedroom is the healing of the nation, the tree represents the nation. Your nation cant be healed if the family cant be healed. The family cant be healed if theres not forgiveness in the family. And if the family is pure, and it opens their heart, youll have less scars in the family. We have a messed up, scarred, tore up, destructed family structure today. People dont know their roles. They dont know how important their roles are.

The society teaches us that the husband and the wife are the same in authority. This doesnt work. It cant work. It cant work with a pilot and a co-pilot on a 747. Ones got authority, one is doing the other direction. It cant work managing just a simple store or a CEO or a company. Youve got a president and vice president. It cant work on the Supreme Court. Thats why we have 9 instead of 8. If you had four and four, theyre always fighting each other. Youve got to be able to one way or the other way, a clean decision.

All authority is from God. We have struck authority away from the family. We have two parents teaching children authority. How does that work? It doesnt. And the authority doesnt have to be perfect. It has to be obeyed. So, if your children are learning authority from the father and the mother, whos teaching obedience? I know this may choke you, but its true. If the children see the dads giving authority, the wife obeying that, then youre giving the proper lessons to obey the policemen, or the schoolteacher, or the boss, or everybody else whos in authority. We have nobody teaching obedience today. Nobody. Its very rare.

All authority is from God. So this has been struck from the family. How to Change Your Husband explains that and how serious it is. I know somebody Joan was telling me somebody on this trip had a really beautiful story about How to Change Your Husband. The last group. An incredible story. She realized she destroyed her whole family right? She discovered the solution through How to Change Your Husband. Theres a letter, I think its in How to Change Your Husband from a nun whose parents divorced 25 years before, and after reading that book she said, Now I can be healed. I understand why, what happened.

Gods authority, me as a father, me as a husband, is not grabbing something that I dont have. God gave it to me. You have to become aligned with me with it for the sake of the kids. So, Im exercising a decision, and someone goes into that and says, Ok, well do it. That brings peace. That brings harmony. It may be tough to understand the way we have been raised and what we learned in the culture and you say, Well, my husbands abusive. Ive got a whole chapter on that. Because there may be a boss that your children may have 25 years later when they grow up, that the boss isnt good and they still have to go through the authority.

So, Im just saying a little bit about the family because the war zone is the family. And its nuclear right now. And weve got a lot of problems, a lot of regret, and many times people find out too late about these decisions. Because we have a lie that we do, we go along, that everybody cant tell me what to do, cant do that. A Protestant minister came into our place one time and he said, Whos in charge? I want to know. Because he was going to speak to us. And then he found me and said, What do you expect from me? And I said, Well, what do you want to do? He said, Well, I always go. This is your place. What do you expect from me? He came to submit to me. If we do this and we start being obedient, the decision of our directive of authority is not where the fruit comes from. It comes from the harmony of obeying that. And what comes from that, that fruit, what is the most delightful to God, is obedience.

Our Lady was obedient. Jesus was obedient to God the Father. And He even questioned Him one time. Not doubt, He said, Please let this cup pass Me if its Your will. But not My will, Your will. Jesus didnt want to do that. His flesh didnt, but He wanted to do Gods will. And Hes God. So, this whole message right here is the nucleus of the center of the nation and the state in the family in the Bedroom.

I never could write How to Change Your Husband if Our Lady had not appeared in our bedroom. What happened, and the pattern, I said, The Mother of God is in our house. We hoped maybe one apparition. And to me that was not worthy of us to do this. And immediately Our Lady starts speaking, immediately Our Lady started showing geographically She was at the spot. There are only two places in the world Our Lady has marked: Medjugorje and right there in Alabama. She started doing things. Two apparitions in one day, messages every day, many, many miracles, many conversions, and to this day its the same way. The grace is there.

Marija started coming to me about it doing this and doing that. I said, Well, ask Our Lady. And Marija kept coming to me and I was bothered by this because who am I to tell the Mother of God, Lets go do this or well go Marija kept coming to me, and some of the messages I started realizing that Our Lady was looking to me for things. And I rejected it because I thought it was ego. Like, Ive got the Mother in my house. I never had that kind of thought. But, I didnt want it to go there to think that. And slowly, over time, I began to realize that Our Lady was submitting to me. Thats scary. And I rejected it for probably the first month and a half. And it kept getting so evident what Our Lady was doing. What do you want? Youre the father of the house. Youre the authority of the house. I submit to that.

And that gave me the concepts into my heart about being able to write How to Change Your Husband. Because Im nothing but dirt, a sinner. And here it is, the Mother of God. Who am I that the Mother of God comes to me? Elizabeth said the same thing. So, you have authority as a man and a husband as God the Father. The woman has the authority, and it comes through the man, and its given by God. Its not bypassing the father to the wife. And if you cant get this right, you cant get the family right. Because children need to learn how to respond to authority, even if your husband is a drunk.

Ronald Reagans dad was a drunk. They moved every year, a couple of times. He took many jobs. But the wife, the mother, showed so much respect to him, and always talked good of him, put him in the best light, Your dads doing his best. Hes just got this problem. And Reagan learned how to obey. Reagan learned and had wisdom. So, youre not looking at perfection. The perfection is how you obey what structure is over you.

Now, just because youre a woman and not married and a guy comes tells you, the authority is not over you. Youre binded into a contract that God shows you. This is how Im going to dispense these things. It doesnt mean the woman doesnt have wisdom. Look at Esther. Shes in the book. The king gave her everything and she wouldnt take it. The Bible says, You look to your husband as your lord. Another thing, in Ephesians or Timothy, when it says the woman submits to the husband, but it also says for the husband to love the wife. And you know what it says after that? Who was that? What does it say after that? As Christ loved the Church. Theres something else in there thats very important. And She mentioned it today. Love your wife and purify her. A man knows what she needs to be dressed with because he knows how other men think. Dear children, only a pure and open heart will make it such that you may truly come to know the Son and all those who do not know love may come to know it through you

Harmony. A family together. Respect of each other despite the faults. Forget those. Go to structure. Operate within that and peace flows in, and there will be less to forgive. Our Lady prepped you for this. Did you say anything about this Joan? Good. I didnt want you to take the thunder away from this. June 6, 1985. Have you all heard this message? Dear children, during these days people from all nations will be coming into the parish. And now I am calling you to love: love first of all your own household members Youve got this going up to the Cross between the Rosaries. That was your message, that was your first message. And here it is, three or four days later, Our Lady comes and gives a message about forgiveness. Its about family, its about all these things. Then your second rosary, youve got a message that says July 24, 1986, by your own testimony, help those who do not know how to live in holiness. Therefore, dear children, let your family be a place where holiness is born What do you think about with God? Obedience. Obedience by the father, obedience by the wife, obedience by the children. Proper exercise of authority makes that string go all the way through.

We have such destruction that many, many people wish they could change what happened in their life after they lost their loved one. And you all have this, or maybe a loved one that you want to long to see and see again and be with them. What a tragedy of having to go through the rest of your life wishing that you had that where you could be with them again. And these are the things Our Lady is talking about lamenting, not following the messages. And many of you go through your life, you have your husband.

Somebody was just telling me about her husband. It was an Italian woman on the mountain. She started talking to me. She recognized me and people dont want to be in Heaven by themselves. They dont want to think, I lost my spouse, my children, whatever, to hell. Or even to purgatory for 1,000 years. And so, reflect on those in your life, where forgiveness, in the proper way, while they were alive, or even now, those who may die not in the state of grace, you dont want to lose them. So, this is the moment to contemplate those things.

[SONG: I DONT WANT TO BE WITHOUT YOU]

These are the words I never speak because theyd embarrass you but theyre haunting me. These are the tears you never see. Theyre foolish to you, but theyre drowning me. Tell me what is wrong, what can I do to make this simple truth more true to you? I dont want to argue. Hear me with your heart. I dont want to be without you.

These are the arms that ache for you. Frightened to push too hard, frightened youll slip right through. This is the joy I want you to know. You say its good for me but leave you alone. Well I cant walk away, wont leave you here when I am so sure we could always be near. I know a place where we can meet. I dont want to be without you.

These are the words I never speak because theyd embarrass you but they keep haunting me. I dont want to be. I dont want to be. I dont want to be without you. Please believe, please believe.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

These can be anybodys words here, in our loved ones, our spouse, our children, a family friend, somebody you grew up with. Our Lady is here to tell the same thing with us. I dont want to be here without you. In other words, Im in Heaven, but I want you. I am there. Please believe. Our Lady is begging this because were the contact directly to Her being here in the time of grace that many, many people, not 1,000, 10,000, hundreds of millions, billions of people will be coming in contact with people who come to Medjugorje. And so Our Lady said, Through you. We talked about the 25^th message. For you Im leading and through you I lead others.

It wont be like this what weve experiencing now, getting a message from Her, youre going to be the people who say so. When that sign appears on the mountain and you bump into somebody who comes after that and sees that physical sign thats going to last to the end of time. And its going to be prophetically told before it happens, three days, what exactly its going to be. No armaments can destroy it. And you bump across somebody across there, You were here before this happened? Tell me about it. Youre history. Youre part of eternal history. You dont think theyll say what was it like? What was Medjugorje was, where were you?

Same thing with Jesus. He was in Jerusalem, always there, in and out, three years! Many people saw Him. They didnt give Him the time of day. The show cobbler on the corner, the blacksmith down the road. They went to Peter. They went to John. What was He like? What are you talking about? He talked right across from your shoe store. Well, why didnt you listen? I was busy. I had my living. I had to do these things. And I thought He was just another prophet again. Its just another apparition. Its just Fatima. This aint no Fatima! This aint no Guadalupe! This is no Lourdes! This is it. This is the finality of Mary. It is over after this. But it is not over after this because She will be here in a new way than ever before. And She said it today that way.

Our Lady goes on and says, Only love will make you comprehend that it is stronger than death What? Love. Because true love conquered death You say yes, thats Jesus Christ. But youll do the same thing. To be with your loved ones like this song just talked about. I want you to be there. But its not your harping and preaching to them. Its your witness to them. Or if theyre over you, its your obedience to them or just exercise of your authority over them. true love conquered death and made it so that death not exist Does it say death does not exist? They translate these literally. And its better that way. Its not smooth, but you dont know what that might mean being directly literally interpreted through what the Holy Spirit can do 20 years from now, the same words youre hearing right now. It will be different. So we never change it. We never add something. We never smooth it out.

You hear in the Old Testament, the charioteers went into the sea, following the Jewish. The charioteers, the charioteers. Its an awkward sentence. Its like five times the charioteers and the chariots. Thats whats supposed to be there. Its not written by intellectuals or intellectualism. Its said that way for a purpose. This is said this way for a purpose that may mean something later.

My children, forgiveness is the most exalted form of love Wow. The highest prayer is Mass. Is She contradicting something? My children, forgiveness is the most exalted form of love Your love for another. What is love? Whats the definition of love? Preferring the need of another before your own or as opposed to your own. Thats true love. Always. Jesus didnt look at His death. He didnt think about that. He preferred this rather than death for everybody else. And its those two meanings there. He gave His death so it wont exist because He died. And thats the most exalted form of love, and that is the Mass. Thats what its about. But you carry that into your life throughout the day, preferring anothers needs before your own. Its not always easy to do.

Mirjana told me once that Our Lady never in Her whole life put Herself first. Every situation She was second. Try to do that for a day. Just one day. Its amazing. My children, forgiveness is the most exalted form of love. You, as apostles of my love, must Our Lady doesnt say must a lot. She said you must read the Bible. You must pray in the family. So, must is really kind of a rare word She uses. Shes used it but its not like, Thank you for having responded to my call. Because She always says, I invite. Im showing you this. You, as apostles of my love, must pray that you be strong in spirit and that you could comprehend and forgive

Whats the word comprehend in here for? It was already up there before. make you comprehend that it is stronger than deathtrue love conquered death If you dont comprehend something, to comprehend it, how do you do it? You have to pray. Our Lady says, You do not comprehend my messages. You must pray to understand them. Well, theyre first grade messages. Theres nothing with big words like George Weigel writes, the intellectual Catholic guy who hated Trump, 25 other guys. If I read it, hes got all these words that show how intelligent he is. Our Ladys not that way. Everything is simple. Everything is easy to understand. And thats why a lot of theologians and people reject this. Its not intellectual enough. Its an ingenious way to speak to us because it speaks to us many, many different ways.

So, Our Lady says you have to comprehend. To comprehend, you have to forgive. If youre not forgiving, youre not getting the grace to understand anything or understand why your family is falling apart, or why this situation is. People are in prison through unforgiveness. What was the preacher I quotes about I wanted to destroy my enemy, is what he was talking about, but I wanted him in prison, something like that? And he said, I realized that he put me in prison and he put me in jail, basically. It was based on forgiveness. Its much better than what Im saying; Ill look it up and give it to you because its a beautiful quote. Because he realized through unforgiveness he was imprisoned, he was locking himself up.

So, not matter what your enemy or whoever has done, what?

[PILGRIM]

Ive heard unforgiveness is drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Thats it! Did you hear that on the radio? You were listening to a Protestant?! You were listening to a Protestant? Yeah, well I was listening to a Protestant preacher; thats where I got it from. Yeah, I always credit someone else. Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. Incredible.

A wife has authority, and it comes from God the Father through the husband through the wife. And the children have authority. If youre telling your husband to shut up, the kids will tell you to shut up. You lose your authority. It works that way. that you be strong in spirit and that you could comprehend and forgive. You, apostles of my love, by understand and forgiveness, are giving an example of love and mercy There are going to be people that give you things in your life that you will be thinking one little thing that made a change in the way you live, the way you think. And its going to reflect on this too. Because youre out there now as apostles, youre going to be with people that will be sitting at the gate of Heaven thanking you for them getting there. If you obey.

[SONG: THANK YOU]

I dreamed I went to heaven and you were there with me. We walked upon the streets of gold beside the crystal sea. We heard the angels singing and someone called your name. We turned and saw this young man, and he was smiling as he came. And he said friend, you may not know me now. Then he said but wait. You used to teach my Sunday school when I was only eight. And every week you would say a prayer before the class would start. And one day when you said that prayer, I asked Jesus in my heart.

Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am a life that was changed. Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am so glad you gave.

Then another man stood before you and said remember the time a missionary came to your church? His pictures made you cry. You didn't have much money but you gave it anyway. Jesus took the gift you gave and that's why I'm here today.

Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am a life that was changed. Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am so glad you gave.

One by one they came as far as the eye could see. Each one somehow touched by your generosity. Little things that you had done, sacrifices made, unnoticed on the earth. Heaven now proclaims. And I know up in Heaven you're not supposed to cry but I was almost sure there were tears in your eyes. As Jesus took your hand and you stood before the Lord. He said my child look around you for great is your reward.

Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am a life that was changed. Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am so glad you gave. Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am a life that was changed. Thank you for giving to the Lord. I am so glad you gave. I am so glad you gave. I am so glad you gave.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Many people that will be in Heaven thanking you for this. Elizabeth was shocked when Mary came to her at the visitation. Who am I that the Mother of God comes to me? And Our Lady is telling us this every message, thank you. And I can say that we owe a lot to a lot of the people for the virtues you have, or I have, one, a Protestant man I talked about the other day who became a Nazarene preacher. I learned more about morals, not in the sense of the Catholic saints, what they are, but as far as life and the morals of just doing good things. This man Ill be thanking in Heaven. Because a lot of attributes that I wanted to adopt came from this man. A Protestant. So they dont have to be a saint in the Church. Yes, I love Joan of Arc; shes my patron saint. I know the saints. We read about the saints. Its impressive. But we all can say weve met people out there who just who are Christians sometimes that give more impact than anybody else. And we owe them a thank you.

But Our Ladys coming to you as apostles to give you instruction, to lead you, to live a life that once you start, that through you youre going to bring many, many souls to Her. And you want to be at that gate for that. July 5, 2008, a day of thanksgiving. This was your third message you picked up there, and it was in regard to I asked Marija to ask Our Lady a question. And Our Lady responded to it. And this is extremely rare. The fact that we got such a kick off with our mission is because Our Lady did so many things, not me. Our Lady did it. Marija literally was shocked. If you go ask her to ask Our Lady a question, no way. She doesnt get answers. Marija herself, I know, has asked things, and Our Lady didnt answer it. Im not saying were special. The mission is important. She knew She had a special plan, and She had to give us a foundation through messages of what we were going to be doing.

So, when I asked Her on July 5, which was the day of thanksgiving for our nation, not Thanksgiving Day, we dedicated that day to a day of thanksgiving. And so, we all gathered, the Community. I wont read the whole thing. There were thousands of people in the Field at that point. And Marija says, Our Lady blessed everybody in the Field, all the religious articles, all our intentions. And then after, she asked, she used my name. She asked Our Lady about the Special Blessing which youll receive that in the cabin, in the next day or two or three. The Special Blessing that Joan explained to you. Our Lady did it four times in our place. This is something not just a regular blessing like you had today. This is something extraordinary and its something permanent that you receive for the rest of your life.

She said, I asked about the Special Blessing. Our Lady smiled and said, Today I give you my Motherly blessing, take it to your homes, to your families. Theres the family again. This is the fourth time now Shes spoken to you about the family on the mountain. And what is the family when you think about it? You can just put right there in the middle of it forgiveness. Every day there has to be forgiveness. Its the war zone. So Our Lady continues in Her message

Somebody just died, when they do this. Its the age, the number is how old they were. In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. Mary, we give this soul to you thats gone into eternity and, if purgatory, that these prayers will be a great benefit that they go into the light of Heaven. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Our Lady Queen of Peace and Reconciliation, pray for us.

To be able to comprehend and forgive is a gift for which it is necessary to pray, and to nurture it Nurture, when you hear that word, what do you think of? Family. You nurture a child, you nurture a baby. You nurture your wife, your nurture your husband. The family has to be nurtured today because its part of nature. Its part of creation. And nurture, you see how we have birds taking care of babies better than people are today. The stories we hear about are unbelievable.

I just heard about a story of two twins born, could have been saved, but the hospital refused to help. One lived two and a half hours crying on the mamas breast, laying there. And the other lived 45 minutes. And they wouldnt do anything. This is whats happening to us. Its amazing. How do you do that? There is no love. And its like the Scripture says, towards the end, love will grow cold today. And thats where we are.

To be able to comprehend and forgive is a gift for which it is necessary to pray So, if you cant forgive, you have to pray for it. You have to fast. Forgiveness doesnt say, Oh, I forgave them. But Im still mad at them or upset with them. No, forgiveness is you released it. Theyre normal to you. Youre not harboring anything. Nothing in your heart.

Cyril was a French friend. People were doing bad things here against me and he asked me about this and what I was going to do. I said, Im going to kill them! And he just looked at me. And then I added, With love. And he started dying laughing because he didnt understand the lingo in English so much, but then he caught on and started drying laughing. And thats how you do, you kill them with love. And I have won over so many people by treating them like they were a friend who hated me, who worked against me, who despised me, who came back on my side.

I just was sitting with a lady earlier, I ran across her. And the first thing she said, Alabama! Shes from here. She used to be a Communist. Alabama! I love you governor! Abortion. You know, or course, we just did the strongest abortion law in the nation on purpose to go to the Supreme Court. But this person caused me so much misery here you cant even imagine. And now shes, what is she to me now? Im putting garbage in the dumpster. I didnt recognize her. It was wintertime and she had a scarf on. She goes by, and Im in the back of the truck doing it. Shes taking it out of my hand. I didnt know who this woman was. What are you doing taking my garbage away? So, she gets the garbage. She puts it in a dumpster, she turns around and I recognize. She says, Im going to put that garbage in the garbage. Which I was shocked. But love conquers death. Love conquers hate. Love submits to authority. And it puts you at peace and youre free. And I killed her that way.

By forgiveness you are showing that you know how to love. Just look, my children, how the Heavenly Father loves you with a great love, with understand, forgiveness and justice how He gives me, the Mother of your hearts, to you This is something to stumble over. We know figuratively Hes just saying Hes giving a Mother. And He gave this Woman, a human being, totally human, not divine, God, His Son, who was God, you dont think He can give Her to you? This is literally whats going to happen, and this is literally what Shes setting up right now. This new efficacy of Our Lady is going to increase on the earth and last until the end of time because we cant be on par with satan and his power and his prodigies. She is not going to leave in that sense. Her motherhood is going to be more powerful. Youre going to feel Her. Shes going to do things. Shes that active. Youre going to see it if you open your heart. only a pure and an open heart will make it such that you may truly come to know my Son and that all those who do not know His love may come to know it through you

So, Shes here to teach us and this stuff is real. This efficacy that Ive been talking about, nobody is speaking about it. The visionaries arent speaking about it. But Im telling you, Our Ladys motherhood is big and its going to be more powerful and Shes going to do more than your mother on earth can do. You might not understand that, but you open to it, you tap into it, watch what happens. how He gives me, the Mother of your hearts, to you. And here I am among you to bless you with a motherly blessing And thats what She gave in our house and everybody in the Field. to call you to prayer, to fasting-to tell you to believe, to hope, to forgive, to pray for your shepherds

She says right after that, She says to pray for your shepherds. Even the sequence of what She puts together means something. We have to forgive of our shepherds, we have to respect them. They hold God. We can never forget that. But Our Ladys been given an incredible task, an impossible task to come down into the world that is supposed to be unified in the Church. Its not. To separate us from our shepherds to give us a calling and a body of apostles to reunite with our shepherds to bring unity. But we have to separate to define who we are because we would have let them do it.

I gave this mission three times, three different priests, the first one was murdered, the second one died, the third one didnt want to take it when he found that out. And its true. It literally happened. And each time I said, You dont want me to run the mission. I wanted my business. I was making the money. I would give Caritas the money and it went through this whole series. And then three of four lay people was going to go to it. Our Lady stopped it every time. And it took me that long, six or seven people, that Im supposed to be running it. I didnt want to. This was not my plan. And thats why I can say with authority what I say because I know I pushed it away.

Its better not to run to think what you think what Gods will is, but make Him show it to you. Which was what Elijah and the prophet, three times he woke up, and God kept telling him what to do and he kept pushing it off. You dont say, Oh, I think God wants me to do that. Make Him show it to you. Its better to be slow and patient. Hell make that happen. But youll get your ego in it or youll think youre wanting to do something for God. I never wanted to do this, but once I understood it then I embraced it.

And here I am among you to bless you with a motherly blessing, to call you to prayer, to fasting to tell you to believe, to hope, to forgive, to pray for your shepherds, and above all to love without limits You cant limit your love. Well Ive had enough of you, Im through, Ive done everything in my whole life time. Im through. Im finished. No. You can surrender that individual or children or spouse, but you cant stop loving. You cant have a limit on it. Unbounded love. Unbounded love was given to you on the Cross. There is no limit that you can put on your love, well Ive had it. Thats it. If you do, you dont know love. You dont understand love.

My children, follow me See, there She is. I am your leader. Im your spiritual director. Because youre not getting it. Im separating you from what youve been getting. You need the sacraments. You need the Church. You need what they have, but Im gathering you up to be a body of people to convert the whole world. My children, follow me. My way is the way of peace and love, the way of my Son. It is the way that leads to the triumph of my heart Thats what Shes here for and its through you.

Eternal life depends on forgiveness. And you know if you really forgive or if you still harbor things. Release it here. This is the place, this is the dumping ground. When I went to Jerusalem where the Cross was put, theres a hole in the rock if youve been there. Its deep. And the Cross was in there and I got underneath the altar, most people wouldnt do that because the Orthodox was there and you dont do it. Its unorthodox to do it. And I went in there and dumped all my sins in the world right through there, straight to hell. All the people, everything whos ever hurt me, I forgave everybody. So, thats the key. Medjugorje, if you leave here knowing how to forgive, youve gained eternal life. Its that simple.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit Amen. Mary, we give you these people, these pilgrims, these people who come to be your apostles, we ask that you give them extra graces for the efforts they put in, the investment of seeing what you have for them. We seek this apparition tonight that you may give a Special Blessing of grace to each one of them.

Hail holy Queen, Mother of mercy. Our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To Thee do we cry out poor banished children of Eve, to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious Advocate, Thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb Jesus. O Clement, O Loving, O sweet virgin Mary, pray for us O holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Our Lady Queen of Peace and Reconciliation, pray for us. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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And so that was a Friend of Medjugorje speaking to the BVM Caritas pilgrimage group in Medjugorje Sunday, June 2, 2019. Again, there is more information on mej.com about the upcoming pilgrimages. We know that many of you have contacted us and have said that you are feeling very strongly called to go this year. And so we certainly encourage you in prayer to do so. And so, on behalf of a Friend of Medjugorje, Caritas of Birmingham, the Community of Caritas, BVM Pilgrimages, The Caritas Mission House, Medjugorje.com, and Radio Wave 24-hours, good night.

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