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The
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"No
one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or
be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or
drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food,
and the body more than clothing?
"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or
reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are
not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single
moment to your life span?
"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from
the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not
even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so
clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven
tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?
"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what
shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your
Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry
about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its
own evil."
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MUSIC]
[ANNOUNCER]
This
is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.
[SONG: THIS
IS MY BLOOD]
This is my house; this is my heaven. This is
my land; this is my living. This is my wife; these are my children. This is my
blood.
Well, these are my boots, this is my tractor. And
these are my hands, this is my hammer. This is my sweat; this is what matters. This
is my blood.
It's my life that you're lookin
at when you're passing by. It might not look like much to you, but in these
eyes of mine,
This is my church; this is my Jesus. This is
my strength; this is my weakness. This is my flag; this is my freedom. This is
my blood, yeah
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It's my life that you're lookin
at when you're passing by. It might not look like much to you, but in these
eyes of mine,
This is my church; this is my Jesus. This is
my strength; this is my weakness. This is my flag; this is my freedom. This is
my blood.
This is my house; this is my heaven. This is
my land; this is my living. This is my wife; these are my children. This is my
blood.
Well, this is my life, this is what matters. This
is my blood
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
August 12, 2019, Our Lady says, I desire to
teach and educate you. This is 2020. Mary, what are you saying? Dont You know
theres colleges all over the place? Universities? Great halls of education? Man
is enlightened! He knows many things. What is the conflict we have here, that were not being learned? Were not being taught?
Mary, why do you say, I desire to teach and educate you? Man has never
been so educated. Are You saying something to us, Mary? Or maybe, Youre saying we are educated the wrong way, that weve not been
taught the right way? Are You coming to show us something else, that weve been lied to? Look at all the professions and all the professionals.
Dont you know that were smart? I desire to teach
and educate you. Thats an insult to the educated
and enlightened man today and the world. Or is it because the learned and the intellectuals
and the professionals are an insult to God? Have we lost our way?
Fulton Sheen said,
No soul ever fell away from God without giving
up prayer.
Uh-oh. Is that saying that when we got educated,
we replaced prayer, and weve fallen away from God?
Sheen continues,
Prayer is that which establishes contact with
divine power and opens the invisible resources of Heaven.
Oh, Mary, we thought we had everything from our
university degrees and all our education and what weve
been taught, that we have all our resources. And Youre
speaking what Sheen is saying, invisible resources of Heaven are opened through
divine power through prayer? Is that what You want to teach us?
Sheen continues,
However dark the way, when we pray, temptations
can never master us.
Oh, man. Are you shaking? Is Our Lady here telling
us that weve been educated and walked down a wrong way,
and weve been mastered?
However dark the way, when we pray, temptations
can never master us.
Sheen continues,
The first step downward in the average soul is
the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity
and the proclamation of ones own self-sufficiency.
This is chilling. Weve
been led astray. And Our Lady's come to teach us and educate us to show us that
way, that we thought we were walking toward self-sufficiency.
When you live an agrarian-based life, you will
never attain self-sufficiency, but you will have all your needs met. You might say,
How can that be? Because living an agrarian life requires Gods grace and
blessings, thereby giving self-sufficiency. Prayer brings contact with God. Contact
with God brings blessings to your work. Blessed work brings fruit. Fruit brings
self-sufficiency by way of God. Thats how it works. So,
we quit praying. Were away from the soil, away from God.
Our beloved Pope Benedict XVI, still alive, recognized
what Our Lady is saying and where the worlds going. He said, quote,
Many professionals are returning to dedicate themselves
to the agricultural enterprise
Wow. In this modern time? So, professionals are
returning back to the soil?
Benedict continues,
feeling that they are responding not only to
a personal and family need, but also to a sign of the time
How many times has Our Lady said, look at
the signs of the times? Jesus didnt say, Look
at the signs of the times. He talked about the signs of the times. When you
see those things and the storms coming, you know the sign is there. Our Lady has
been telling us, look at the signs of the times We are in that moment.
Benedict said,
but also to a sign of
the time
Referencing people going back to the land,
to a concrete sensibility for the common good.
Im going to tell you that you cannot, as one family,
go back to the land and make it. It has to come through
community, working for each other, for the common good. Benedict ended that quote,
saying,
to a concrete sensibility for the common good.
It only comes through community. Why? Because theres too many duties in the agrarian way of life. And, in
other words, read The Corona Vision. Small hamlets. You depend on each other.
A community.
G.K. Chesterton dedicated the end of his career
writing about recovering an agrarian way of life. He supported a movement simply
as, Three acres and a cow. Thats how Medjugorje
was in the beginning. A couple of acres, the cow, the hog, they had everything.
Their needs were met. They were self-sufficient because God was part of it.
The whole world is growing a culture without prayer.
And as Sheen said,
the breaking of the circuit with divinity and
the proclamation of ones own self-sufficiency.
And now, what do we have? Are we sufficient, or
are we making it? Look at the system. Everybodys not home-loving.
Theyre homebound. The agrarian life gives you a home-loving
environment. People right now are beginning to hate it to be home. They want to
be out.
All this is caused by the coronavirus. Im saying that in case youre listening five years from now
about this. And if you are, youre probably experiencing
a radically different world in the moment that were in.
So, if we go to the Scriptures, which Our Lady
has taught us and educated us to read, daily, you can see the Psalms paint the happy
man as a man whos blessed by family and the land. Its
always the land and the family and the community.
Pope Pius said,
God gave man the earth for his cultivation as
the most beautiful and honorable occupation in the natural order.
You heard the song in the beginning of the broadcast,
and it relayed that. Agrarian life is intimacy with nature. God speaks through nature.
What did Our Lady teach us about that? Our Lady says, God speaks to you through
nature, man, and various other ways.
When you read in the Book of Romans, one, verses
19-20, youll see it says,
God speaks through things He has made.
But what were learning
from Our Lady, that, because we have made so many things that are not of God, but
are things of man, its harder to hear God. So, He cant
speak to us. And Bishop Sheens statement shows that, what happens to us, thinking
were walking towards self-sufficiency, is a lie. When
we are close to nature, if were in harmony with the natural
world, well see that it expresses Who God is.
Pope Benedict also said,
The farm is where almost all life, work, pleasure,
prayer, meals take place in that very setting.
What is all this being said,
and what is the purpose of this? The coronavirus is causing enormous amounts
of reflection. Theres only one conclusion that you can
arrive at if youre praying, that you have to get back to the land. Three acres
and a cow. Yes, therell be chickens there. Chesterton
didnt say chickens and everything else. He doesnt have to. This simple statement says everything, just
like the song did.
Writing the book in 2007, Look What
Happened While You Were Sleeping, it begins with a statement from Henry Grady,
and he writes of something true that happened to him going across this great nation,
and it says everything. Listen carefully, because theres
a lot of lessons in this of really what we should be.
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No nation is great because it has grand buildings
and cathedrals, or great cities, or mighty armies and navies. These are beautiful
and impressive, and often necessary, but a nation with all these still may not be
a great nation. A nation can be great only when the hearts of its people are good,
and noble, and home-loving, and fair and just to others.
The home is the basis of a nation. A man who loves his home, no matter
how humble it is, will fight to protect it and his loved ones. The reason why the
English-speaking people who came to America succeeded, and why the other colonizing
nations failed, was because the Englishman, when he came to America in early colonial
times, brought with him his wife and children. For them, he built a cabin home,
and cultivated and learned to love, a patch of ground. The French and Spaniards
did not do this, and so they failed. And that is why we speak the English language
in America, because the English-speaking colonists made homes here.
The homes of the people, and not its grand cities and buildings
and its armies and navies, are the safety of a nation. If the homes be right, the
nation will be right; and if the homes be right, the great cities and the cathedrals,
and the armies and the navies will be right; for with the homes right, the armies
and the navies will never wrong other nationsthey will protect not only the homes
of their owners but also homes in other lands.
The little, beloved home is the real basis of every nation
that is great and good.
I went to Washington the other day, and I stood
on the Capital Hill; my heart beat quick as I looked at the towering marble of my
countrys Capital, and a mist gathered in my eyes as I thought of its tremendous
significance; the armies and the treasury; the judges and the President; the Congress
and the courts, and all that was gathered there. And I felt that the sun in all
its course could not look down on a better sight than that majestic home of a republic,
which had taught the world its best lessons of liberty. And I felt that if
honor and wisdom and justice abided therein, the world would at last owe that great
house in which the ark of the covenant of our country is lodged, its final uplifting
and its regeneration.
But a few days later, I visited a quiet country
home. It was just a simple, modest house, sheltered by big trees and encircled by
meadow and field, rich with the promise of harvest. The fragrance of the pink and
of the hollyhock in the front yard was mingled with the aroma of the orchard and
of the garden, and resonant with the cluck of poultry and the hum of bees.
Inside the house were thrift, comfort, and that
cleanliness which is next to godliness. There was the old clock that had held its
steadfast pace amid the frolic of weddings, that had welcomed in steady measure
every newcomer to the family, that had kept company with the watches at the bedside,
and that had ticked the solemn requiem of the dead. There were the big, restful
beds and the open fireplace, and the old family Bible, thumbed with the fingers
of hands long since still, and blurred with the tears of eyes long since closed,
holding the simple annals of the family and the heart and the conscience of the
home.
Outside the house stood the master, a simple,
upright man, with no mortgage on his roof, and no lien on his growing crops;
master of his lands and master of himself. Near by stood his aged father, happy
in the heart and home of his son. And as they started to the house, the old mans
hand rested on the young mans shoulder, laying there the unspeakable blessing of
the honored and grateful father and ennobling it with
the knighthood of the Fourth Commandment.
And as they reached the door, the old mother came
with the sunset falling fair on her face, and lighting up her deep, patient eyes,
while her lips, trembling with the rich music of her heart, bade her husband and
her son welcome to their home. Beyond was the good wife, happy amid her household
cares, clean of heart and conscience, the buckler and the
helpmate of her husband. Down the lane came the children, trooping home after the
cows, seeking as truant birds do, the quiet of their home nest.
And I saw the night descend on that home, falling
gently as from the wings of the unseen dove. And the old man, while a startled bird
called from the forest and the trees thrilled with the crickets cry, and the stars
were swarming in the bending sky, called the family aroundand took the Bible from
the table and read the old, old story of love and faith. He then called them to
their knees in prayer, and the little baby hid in the folds of its mothers dress
while he closed the record of that simple day by calling down Gods blessing on
their simple home.
And while I gazed, the vision of the great marble
Capital faded from my brain. Forgotten were its treasure and its splendor. And I
said, Oh, surely here in the homes of the people are lodged at last the strength
and the responsibility of this government, the hope and the promise of this Republic.
Henry Woodfin Grady
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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
I can say, when Our Lady called me to do what I
did, when I began to think in the future of what She was requiring of me, wasnt a pretty picture. I realized I had to follow Our Lady
blindly. And there were many periods, through time, that I went through that didnt look good. It looked disastrous. And everybody thats been educated and taught by Our Lady will see these things.
And if youre not praying, youll be breaking the circuit
with the divinity. You have to trust, follow Our Lady,
let Her teach you, let Her educate you, no matter how bleak things look. And I became
comfortable at that, not knowing that I had a future, but somehow, always through
destruction came construction. And weve gone through the
Community this way many times. But if we trust in God, we trust in Our Lady, we
follow Her way, we know it will be a good way to be.
So, Fulton Sheens quote was named, Lessons on
Faith and Trust. And thats the things you need. Thats the things you cling tofaith and trust in Our Lady and
what Shes showing. It will lead to a better way because Shes
love, and Shes never wrong.
We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Goodbye.
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