(39 Minutes) - A Friend of Medjugorje talks about two important topics: what Our Lady says is our responsibility towards God, and about contentment in our life. He also addresses tragedy and following God’s will, during this encounter with Caritas pilgrims on the first pilgrimage to Caritas.
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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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This
is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.
[REYES]
Thank
you for joining us on tonights broadcast of Mejanomics. This week, we
have been blessed to share the experience of what Our Lady has done here with a
Friend of Medjugorje in Her apparitions and messages, and spending time with
the pilgrims here who are able to witness this historic pilgrimage of seeing
these sacred sites and what Our Lady has established here.
For Mejanomics
today, we are going to share with you the highlights of what a Friend of
Medjugorje spoke to the Caritas Pilgrimage group yesterday. And so, here is a
Friend of Medjugorje.
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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
The messages of Our Lady shows us one thing:
responsibility. The responsibility we have right now is more
grave than anything in 2000 years with the birth of the Church itself.
And Our Lady gives us a period of time to prepare for
divine intervention. If I told you that twenty years ago or thirty years ago,
you would say, Whats the big deal?
Nobody questions it now. They know we cant correct
this problem we have now. Had Our Lady not started in 1981 and started now at
2000, say, 11, She would be overwhelmed with the messages by electronics. We
got rooted before the fax machine, before the computer laptop, before all these
things that have snowed us deep and bury us, basically, so deep that we cant get out. Our Lady couldnt
come earlier, and She couldnt have come any later. So, all this timing, and
your birth and where you are, your age, nothings by
chance.
Our Lady gave a message that spoke to us that theres
no chance. Youve heard that, and if youve read my
writing, I use this a lot. In the ancient Jews, and probably today the same
way, when they had a decision they had to make, they would draw straws. Actually, you might say, Well, Im not going to do that. Im not going to pick yes or no or get
a straw to go buy a car or should I marry this person. Yet, the most
responsible decision first made by the Church was who was going to replace
Judas. Well, they had two people, and how did they come to that conclusion?
Drawing straws. So, Our Lady now comes to tell us in our time, theres nothing by chance.
So, the Jews had gone throughout history that everything, when they couldnt make a decision, they left it up to God by chance.
So, thats a big responsibility as far as what we do
now today, tying that into our decisions of what we make. We have
to pray for decisions. But many times when
youre going to make a decision, you still dont know that confidence of what
youre supposed to do. But if you pray, if you walk that way, you can develop
that system that you can always make the right decision, and its not by chance
the way it turns out. Things happen, and those things are always questioned. Theres not even the least insect thats made on the earth
and created, throughout creation, without it having a purpose.
So, everything we do and everything we live, we have distanced ourselves
and this culture away from God. So, Our Lady comes to us with a big, big
responsibility for us. She says on May 8, 1986,
you
are the ones responsible for the messages
You here have to go into the messages and have
to change the direction of your life, your mentality, your thinking, decisions
you made twenty years ago thats on the wrong path. You have
to align everything with the message. Is it difficult? You bet it is.
Our Lady says, This is a difficult
thing I give to you. January 25, 1987. You are chosen for a great
plan for the salvation of [the world]
So, we go back to the Crucifixion, Pentecost, these things, the Church
growing, and here we come, a new thing, 2000 years later that you are
responsible, and you have a great role in this for the salvation of the world.
Why? Because its losing salvation. Never in a period
have we had the circumstances as we have now except for one other time. It was
before Noah and the Flood, and God struck through nature. But now He sends His
Mother, and Shes not going to do it that way. Its going to come through grace, a real, real grace. Were going to be struck raining down graces. But dont think its going to be a pleasant thing. Remember
Francisco in Fatima, six years old, She shows him
hell, and hes looking down there and hes screaming and screaming. Take it away! Take it away! That would be child
abuse today. Jakov saw hell when he was thirteen or
fourteen, and he will not talk about it today it was so hard. And he says, All
I will tell you about hell is youd never want anybody, your worst enemy, to go
to hell. Francisco, in 1917, sees hell, and Our Lady doesnt
take it away. She makes him see that and allows him to see that. To think about
how much hes terrorized by that.
We are in a situation right now, Our Ladys showing us things and were seeing things that you might not want to see. We dont want to see whats happening with this election. We dont want to see whats going on in the government. We dont want to see whats happening in the family and all the
divorce and all these things thats taking place. The worlds an ugly place
right now. We dont try to sell anybody Medjugorje. We
dont try to convince anybody. We just show them our
witness and how we live. And people are now, because of corona, are thinking
different about everything, that we have to change our
way of life. We have to change the system. We cant depend on the dollar. We have to
depend on somebody in community with you or your next-door neighbor,
or whatever you can put together.
June 25, 1989. Ivanka, Im with her, and Our
Lady tells her, you are
in great temptation through
materialism. satan is involved with this. So, its his
plan for that, and everybodys connected, and its very difficult to be far
away from the system as it is now. Ask yourself, is the system glorifying God?
What is glorifying God and what is not glorifying God? You can pick out whats going down because She said that September 2, I
think, 2011. Everythingis passing Youve
heard me say it. everything is falling apart Everything. She didnt say most things are going to fall apart. She said,
Everythingis passingeverything is falling apart
What
will be left? Our Lady says,
only the glory of God
In other words, your life, your business, your house, what you do, your
school, the universities. If they dont glorify God, they
are over. Starbucks is going out of business, Im
telling you right now. Zuckerberg, all their stuff is going away. Its going to pass; its going to fall apart. The systems
going to crash. If you know that, you understand that, why would you not start
changing the direction of your life? Our Lady said that, quote,
change the direction of your life
I
cant just do that. Its true. Thats
why Our Lady's here for almost forty years because were so rooted. Weve got a weed here that a lot of people like. Its wisteria. When I was in business I said, Dont
plant this thing. Its from the devil. [LAUGHTER] I mean, it grows right
here, and then it sprouts up at the front of the building. And once youve got it, you cant get rid of it. Its
constant. And for those of you who know what wisteria is, it has a beautiful
look, purple flowers in the Spring, and people do it for that little sweetness,
and the rest of the year, youre fighting it. And thats
whats in us. Were so rooted, so enslaved, we cant
get away from it. Thats why we did the Miraculous
Medjugorje Round. Itll give you a system. That actually is a system, the rounds, the silver rounds that
were doing, is going to turn into an economic currency itself. Theres four million of them out there. And that was part of
getting the people from that segment, get away from your retirements, changing
things like that. You have to change everything and
re-evaluate everything in your life. Why would you want to keep your 401(k)s
where they are when theyre all spread out in the
stock markets? This over here is in the insurance. This is over here in some
other kind of investment. You think thats going to
stay there? Is it glorifying God? Thats
your question. Is that system going to be there? Are the 401(k)s going to be
there? But thats just one little speck of our lives
where we messed up. Weve got mortgaged houses. Weve got these things and these situations. This may beYou
can start getting depressed thinking about that, but Our Lady said, Its
never too late.
One thing Ive noticed, that people have a lot of money, thats very,
very strong Christians, when they get something, they get cancer or they get
something, the first thing they do is go get the best doctor, the best hospital,
the best medicine. They dont care what theyve got to
spend. And at the end, when everythings over, and
they cant fix it, they say, Well, the
only thing left to do is prayer. My sister works in ICC with Childrens
Hospital. There was actually a little girl who came in
who was on a four-wheeler, damaged her brain, and after three or four days, the
doctors couldnt do anything. And they told my sister, Well, theres
nothing left to do but prayer. Thats the last thing you do?
You be praying. You be praying every day. And then whatever does happen, it
goes through what God patterned out for you and its
easier to accept.
We pray, I pray, for a happy, holy death, not not
to die of cancer, not to die from thiswhat Gods plan is for me when I dont
want to live one second longer or one second less. Everythings
programmed, for whatever the reasons are, and so its important for you to be
praying for that. We have plaques on a lot of our machines that you saw down
there. It says, For (so-and-so), for a
happy, holy death. Were all going to die. A
hundred and twenty years ago, everybody that lived, theyre
dead. Youre going to die. When that happens, you want
to carry a bucket of graces and prayers.
So, the responsibility we have, Our Lady's asking for us, is showing us
to live in the physical world, but always have our thoughts and one foot in the
physical world. People want to stay in the physical realm rather than
spiritual. They only want to step in the spiritual realm when something
happens. Dont wait for that. On this pilgrimage youre on, you make a decision to go deeper into that, and
dont cling and hold onto problems and be worrying about them because you cant
fix it, but God can.
May 8, 1986 message says,
you are the ones responsible for the messages
So, Shes putting a grave responsibility on
you. Catholics are trying to go to the priest, go to the bishop, go to the
Pope, whatever. Shes not telling that for them. Shes not telling us to go to the priest. People go to
Medjugorje. They get excited. Im
going to get my priest involved with this and get the priest to do this, and
the priest to do that. Its not their commission. Shes come to the people. Shes
come to you. And everybody who goes to Medjugorje always, Ill get my
priest to do this. Forget that. Our Lady cant
change things inside the Church now. Youre the
Church. Youre the renewal. And it took me a long time
to accept that because when Our Lady started saying, You are an apostle,
and that took twenty years before She started saying that. You are My apostles. Well, I had trouble with it because the
bishops were the apostles. And then Our Lady gave a message that says, You, my apostles And
then She ended at the end about the bishops, your shepherds She
said. The shepherds are My Sons
apostles. Our Lady is literally
here to raise up a body of people that literally are the apostles of this time.
The question is, do you want to accept that? Will you accept that? If you accept
it, its a big responsibility.
So, She says,
you are the ones
responsible for the messages
The priests give us the Sacraments, and if a priest
starts doing Medjugorje, [SLAMS PODIUM] theyre
squashed, over and over and over. satan is in the Church. hes
always been. And Our Lady says, Wherever I go, My Sons there, but so does satan. satan is
in Medjugorje. satan is here. he goes to holy places. hes not going to Rome
where the saints used to say, it only takes one sleeping devil to watch Rome
and take care of it, but a saint, it takes a whole legion of devils to make him
fall. Whats first important is what Our Lady says in
the same message. Youre responsible for your job.
Everybody has a job. Everybody works. The kids, theyve
got their homework. Theyve got their school. If youre born, as soon as you can start doing things, youve
got a job. Even these little kids have a job. Maddalena! Maddalena, come here!
Maddalena! Maddalena! Over here. Come see Papa. Is she coming? Alright.
MaddalenaHey Maddalena! [LAUGHTER] Come here. Come here. [KISSES MADDALENA
MULTIPLE TIMES] Thats her job. [LAUGHTER] Shes got a job. When youre born,
youve got a job. Theres things that you doThings
just happen. Its in your heart. Their job is to play.
[TO MADDALENA] Youre free. [LAUGHTER]
What is a vessel? A vessel is something that carries
things. What is that? It transports. Our Lady says in this message,
the source of grace is
here, but you, dear children, are the vessels which transport
Look at the verbiage of Our Lady. Vessel, and transport.
are the vessels which
transport the gifts. Therefore,
dear children, I am calling you to do your job
And even a little infant has a job like we just showed
you.
I am calling you to do your job with responsibility. Each one
shall be responsible according to [their] own ability
Whatever your skills are, whatever you do, whatever
your abilities are, if its an architect or its whatever, or a mailman,
whatever it may be, are you glorifying God through it, or are you just doing it
secularized? Its going to disappear. Its going away. If you own a company, if you work
somewhere, you have to sanctify that. Again, going
back to the Miraculous Medjugorje Round, we sanctified our money because we
know the Miraculous Medal creates miracles. Theres a
grace with it, and Our Lady reinvigorated it in 1989 to Marija. I was shocked
about that, on the Feast of the Miraculous Medal, that Our Lady upped the ante
on that. And She said, whoever carries this, you pray for them. That wasnt said in Rue de Bac 180 years ago. It was just said
they just wear it. And now, She adds that, if they
carry that. So, if youre in the banking industryThe
banking industry is not glorifying God. So, a lot of people catch themselves
when they start looking at where I work and what Im
doing, its troubling. Its difficult.
So, going back to Ivanka, Shes
talking about youll be enslaved, it is something in a situation that people
cant escape that. But if you have to start doing what
you do, you get fired for it and then God will lead you to where you will need
to lead to.
Our Lady said on November 2, 2012,
Do not take the given responsibility lightly
August, 1984
Your responsibility is to
accept Divine peace
Not your peace, not mans peace, Divine peace. You cant get Divine peace without the Divine. You cant get the Divine without prayer, sacrifice, fasting and
penance. Sins not a problem. You say, Woah, what are you saying? Sins not
a problem because Jesus died to wipe it away. You confess and do penance for
it. Whats not erased are those who do not acknowledge
sin. Thats the problem in the world today. Nothings a sin. Thats why Our
Ladys not coming into the Church, because the Church, its building up there. Youre the Church. You want to go with whats
going on? Because I wanted to knowI wanted to know what to do with this
mission. I prayed and prayed and prayed really hard, did penances, asked, Mary, what is the mission?
What do You want me to do here? And in a flash, it was given. Its
downstairs in the vestibule, far to the left. Its
called Rebuilding the Church. And remember as you read that, 1989, we didnt know anything that we know now with scandal. And when
you read that, just because God gives you something, doesnt
mean you understand what youre saying. I didnt
understand it. I knew I had to write down what I was given, instantly, in one
second. I ran out of the Field because I was afraid I
was going to forget it. And thats documentation that that was done in 1989.
And then all this comes out, and youll read exactly
how Our Lady explained it to me. And I dont have to
prove anything because its in documents. Its been
printed. Weve talked about it for years, way before
the news came out. So, I was writing something that I wasnt
even aware of, but I was describing exactly what was going on with the Church.
While youre here, go there and read that very, very
carefully and very slowly and two or three times and contemplate what that
means. Itll speak to you because its straight from
Heaven.
June 2, 2012
My children, great is the
responsibility
Why is it great? Because Our Lady is here to save the
whole world. She just gave us a message. What did She say?
satan wants to
destroythe earth on which you walk
How more literally can you get than that? Where do you
walk? You walk on the earth. What is the earth? Its
the earth. Its where we live. Its
our home.
June 18, 2010
this time
This is ten years ago.
this time is a time of responsibility
If you love Our Lady, if you want to get close to God,
youve got to realize, Ive got a responsibility. I cant ignore the responsibility. If you go to work when you
go back home, or youve got some obligation youve got
to do, youre responsible for that. Never, ever has Our Lady been given a
greater responsibility in the history of Her being as She is doing right now.
The first greatest responsibility She had was the birth of the Savior and raise Him all the way to death. This is the second
biggest thing Our Lady's been given. Not Fatima, not Guadalupe, not something
ten centuries ago. This is the biggest thing, the second biggest task, that She
has ever been given because we are at the brink of our civilization ending and
the world.
this time is a time of
responsibility, live my messages responsibly
You can reject it. You can not accept this. You can
walk away from here. You dont have to go through
conversion because its not forced. You cant be an apostle because, Well, Ive got to do this.
This is a responsibility and youre grumbling in your heart, or This is something I didnt
want to do. Youve got to pray to get the desire. The
desire gives you the strength to continue with it because satans going to
immediately try to stop you. Everything. Thats why we
had so much persecution. Thats why weve got garbage
all over the internet.
this time is a time of
responsibility, live my messages responsibly. Dear children, I desire for you
to do worksnot words
Many people go to Medjugorje, thats
all they talk about. Medjugorje, Our Lady's appearing. They want the fluff. Theyre
like a butterfly going to nectar, nectar, nectar on the flowers. A lot of
Medjugorjes walk is bitter. Its not always sweet,
but it does give something. It gives contentment. Our Lady said on March 18,
2015,
Do not permit for all that is of this earth to distance you
from the true cognition of the contentment in the communion with my Son
If youre discontented, and
you want to be contentment, what do you have to do? Immediately today, God, what is your will? I
want to do that. Im praying to discover that. You are in Gods will, you immediately
have contentment, even if youre suffering from bad
decisions, tragic things in family. You say, I want Gods will, because
once you start doing Gods will, then you get the flood of contentment. It doesnt mean you won't suffer from bad things thats
happened. You wont be in a situation where youre
always getting depressed or your past is locked in your mentality, cant
escape. You escape through Gods will. And if youre
in prison, the POWsOne of the highest POWs in the Vietnam war was from
Alabama. What kept him alive, he said, and mentally, was the Rosary. They were
so starving that they would be praying for a roach to crawl through their cell
so they could eat it. Jeremiah Denton. Hes the one
that got off and saluted and kissed the ground. He was the highest-ranking
officer. He wrote a book called, When Hell Was in Session. Its a good book. Read it. Its
amazing the torture, what they went through.
true cognition of the contentment in the communion with my
SonTherefore, my children, pray so that the Holy Spirit can lead you into
truth
Why? Because we dont have
truth. You can talk to somebody in the pew and be just the opposite of what you
believe because theyre not in truth. Theyre getting the information from the media. And you cant say anything to them. And we have people telling us
who are listening to bad media. We dont get truth
from the media, even good media. We dont look at
that. We go to the source.
you into truth, can help
you to come to know it, and through that knowledge of the truth that you may be
one with the Heavenly Father and with my Son
So, if you want to be happy, no matter where you are
in your life, you want to start experiencing joy, you take the responsibility
for these messages, put them in your life, no matter how difficult it is,
because what happens with that, Our Lady says, after the Father with my Son,
That is the cognition
which gives happiness on earth
In Lourdes, Bernadette was told by Our Lady, I cant make you happy on
this earth. Thats a contradiction. No, its
not a contradiction, because in that period of time, it was in a position that
She could give that. Our Lady's here to show us to live and be close to the
earth, close to God, have that cognition that we can be happy.
I was with Marija in the hospital on that first 1988 trip
of hers, and were sitting there. I said, Marija, has Our Lady ever told
you what She told Bernadette? And its really pretty amazing to sit down with somebody
thats seeing the Virgin Mary and then talk about St. Bernadette, that she saw the
Virgin Mary, and asking this visionary, Did Our Lady ever tell you, Marija, like She
did Bernadette, I cant promise you that youll be happy in this life? Now, she was
underneath communism, a lot of difficulties. Shes fixing
to donate a kidney. She had a lot of difficulties, a lot of attacks from satan.
And she says, No! Our Lady wants me to be happy. Our Lady wants us all to be happy. And here
she says that, March 18, 2015,
That is the cognition which gives happiness on earth
You can be happy on this earth, no matter what has happened.
If you surrender and give everything to God, everything to Our Lady, everything
to Jesus, and live for Them, for Him, not for yourself.
One of the things Our Lady showed me very quick is get away from the dollarthe
need for money. You say, Well, I cant
do that. Well, we create here things straight from the soil. You saw the studio.
Weve got a hundred dollar a foot crown molding in there. What did it cost us? Zero. Almost nothing.
Weve got a sawmill. Once you pay for that, we write that
off and stop looking at that. Weve got a molder that we run the wood right through there. Its just our labor. And if youre not trying to make a business out of this, when you crank
it up, it can sit there for three weeks. We dont care.
We need it so we dont have to spend money to go buy something
like that. And to build a studio like thatIts fifteen
layers of sound and everything, and its got to float because weve got a big press
downstairs, the vibrations, cutters and things like that. You saw how noisy it is.
So, it had to be floating. Its basically separate from
the building the way its built. Easily 100,000 plus. We didnt
put $5,000 into it.
So, our whole life has been, how do we get away from cash. Well, you say,
well, were asking this and were asking for four million
dollars or five million dollars for land to do that. Yeah, we have to raise money, but our persons, ourselves, we dont want
money. I dont want royalties. The way you financially
structure this is, we do have to raise money. This is a four-story addition over
here. We had to raise money for that. But we buy our equipment that a contractor
may be using. Well go buy the equipment. Instead of paying
the contractor the same money, well buy the machine. So,
in essence, the machine is free. You say, Well, how do you buy an $80,000 machine for free? Well, if we ask a
contractor to come out here and he wants $90,000 for excavation, and we can buy
a machine for the same price or for $80,000, then instead of paying him, and he
gets the check, and then he walks off. Weve got the building
or the excavation done for that part, and he keeps his equipment, and hes using
it. We rent it from him. So, through the years, we will buy a piece of equipment,
and its really, literally, free. You say, How can
it be free? Because we wouldnt have that machine after
we got the construction. Were going to have to pay the
contractor anyway. Ive been doing that for years. I did
that in my business. And we just continue this. Im just
telling you that, how we have gotten away from the dollar, and our equipment can
be there and be like money in the bank. Its money in the
bank for us because we dont need money.
And so, were showing people how to get into these
systems. The way to do it, if you get you a cow, and youre
just by yourself, dont evenjust keep buying your milk. Let the calf be drinking.
But if something happens, a crash, you can make the calf into veal and then youve got milk, because, really, you have to have a community
to make this work. The whole direction of the messages is not just to be praying,
fasting penance. Its to get yourself away from a system
that is not of God. And Im telling you, not me, Im speaking
in Our Lady's words, Our Lady saying, Im telling you, this systems going away. It is not glorifying God.
And Im not saying that to scare you, and you might say,
Wow. What am I going to do? How am I going to do this? Well, the solution
is one thing: its community.
I was in Medjugorje and the this lady comes up,
and she says, Oh, I read everything you
write. Im listening to everything youre doing. My camper
is full of food so when something happens, Im coming to Caritas. [LAUGHTER]
I said, Dont come to our place. Were not a refuge. We dont believe
in that. Its The Corona Vision. Small
communities. Go to your church. Put out in the bulletin, Were looking for people to buy 200 acres together. But see, it takes sacrifice. And everybody puts
50,000. Somebody else put 300,000 into it. Whatever you do. Its
not about your money. The hardest thing for people to give up, not the money, is
their opinion, because opinions keepYou dont want to
go in community if youre for Auburn and this person is for Alabama. [LAUGHTER]
How do you solve that? Drop your sports. Its not glorifying
God. They desecrate a flag that men have died for to give us liberty. Its holy. Its sacred. And you tell
me NFLs not going away? The basketball? All the BLM, all this stuff, is not glorifying
God.
Our kids sports is out there
playing with a deer. Well, weve got a dog that chases
that deer. You should see that. And then weve got ponies
that, once they get those out there, youve got the ponies and the deer. Youve got that. The day before yesterday we had pigs out there.
And its a joy. Our rosarys not contemplative. Its not deep, but its so joyful. And Our Lady says that. Pray until prayer becomes
a joy These kids have never, ever thought in their mentality not going out in
the Field, not saying, Oh, I dont want to go out there today. Weve never heard
that. Its just what we do. Do you drink water? Its just natural, and its just like drinking water. Its natural for our children to be out there. In fact, its one of the greatest joys of the day. Theyre
out there playing constantly. They play; we pray. And people sometimes think it
may be disrespectful. I understand Our Lady. Its a joy for Our Lady to see these
kids free, not being told to get on their knees and pray, to watch them be raised
every day of their life, rain, hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, the flagpoles
been struck. We felt it in the ground before getting shocked. Whatever weather,
were out there, no matter how cold, how severe, whatevers
going on. Were out there every day. These kids are out
there ever day of their life. But they get at a point in their age where, eleven,
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, they begin to kneel down. We
never tell them to kneel down. Weve
been doing this for thirty-four years. We have not told one of the youth to go kneel down and pray.
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[REYES]
And so, that was a Friend of Medjugorje speaking to
the Caritas Pilgrimage group here at Caritas of Birmingham in Alabama. A Friend
of Medjugorje said earlier today that we will be planning more of these pilgrimages
in the future. If you keep close to Medjugorje.com and to the Caritas mission, well keep you updated about when the next pilgrimage will take
place. We thank all of those who have written to us that have said they are praying
for the group here, and we certainly appreciate your prayers, and we have been praying
also for you from the sacred sites here at Caritas.
And so, ending his encounter with the pilgrims here,
here is a Friend of Medjugorje to conclude.
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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
What I want to end with is your responsibility, your investment
that you put in here in these days and your heart and how deep you go into this,
to turn everything to God, everything to Our Lady, physically, spiritually, traumas,
whatever, begins for you the walk toward the apostle. And if you do that, you will
get contentment and happiness. You can be very sad but
still be happy and content. It doesnt mean you wont have
sorrow. Our Lady is standing at the foot of the Cross. Her Son dies. She was wounded
immediately when He took His last breath. And that cold Body that She holds and
held at the foot of the Cross was the same Body that was warm when He was a Baby.
And yet, She knew the joy of the future of what Her Son
did. So, dont think happiness is just something shallow
and fake. You can be in deep sorrow, deep trouble or difficulties,
whatever, but the contentment is what She says, and Ill end with this again.
I am imploring you: be vigilant and open for truth. DO not permit for all that
is of this earth to distance you from the true cognition of the contentment in the
communion with my Son
Thats the key. If
youre in communion with Jesus, no matter what youre going
through, you can be content, because nothings by chance. And with that knowledge
of the truth, She says,
you may be one with the Heavenly
Father and with my Son. That is the cognition which gives happiness on earth and
opens the door of eternal life and infinite love
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