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[REYES]

Today is Friday, March 25, 2016, and this is Radio WAVE.

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[REYES]

This is Radio WAVE with your host, a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Our Lady has just given Her March 18^th apparition, the annual apparition to Mirjana. We did a special show about that. And Our Lady continues a saga that we would think a television program might do in its continuation next week. And all Her messages connect to form a bouquet of how modern man must live to be presented into eternal life forever. And its beautiful to see these things unfold and how She says what She says. And its a beautiful thing today, Good Friday, that we receive a 25^th message on that day, because we know that special attention should be payed when these things coincide with such a grand day for our salvation, that what Our Ladys words say to us have a special purpose and a special meaning.

[JOAN]

Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorjes March 25, 2016 message to the world:

Dear children! Today I am carrying my love to you. God permitted me to love you and, out of love, to call you to conversion. You, little children, are poor in love and you still have not comprehended that my Son Jesus, out of love, gave His life to save you and to give you eternal life. Therefore pray, little children, pray so that in prayer you may comprehend Gods love. Thank you for having responded to my call.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Weve spoken many times about the beginning of Our Ladys message when She says, Dear children And were used to that, and we see that, and how She opens Her letter to us, because we read it through words. We dont hear Her voice. We dont have it tape-recorded. So, the first things we see are these words in print. Dear children But what followed that is the word today which we pointed out long ago. Probably 15-20 years ago, I started pointing that out after that January 25, 87 first message of the month, that She began to say this, I want you to apply this message today in your life. All the mess youve made of it, all the things in the past, you cant do anything about it. Waters under the bridge. But what you can do is start applying, immediately, to your life, the messages to change the future. You cant change whats happened in the past. But those bad seeds thats producing bad fruit for you now can be planting good seeds today if you act on the messages at this moment. Dont try to fix the past. Start living today so that, as the future comes to you and it goes into the past, youve planted good seeds, and youll begin picking good fruit.

But whats other words that are not looked at with seriousness are seen is Our Lady says, at the end of the message, my call. Its interesting that She repeatedly and always says this. My call. Thats the two words it ends with. My call, my call, my call. What does that mean? What does it mean to call? What do you do when you call somebody? What do you use to call somebody? How do you call somebody if you want to? If you need to get in touch with somebody, what do you do? You put out the call. And we use that through the telephone these days, which is now transferred from landlines to cell phones. And so, we make this call to be in communication. Our Lady says to, Respond to my call. Where does that take us? What does that mean? Tonight, youll learn more what that means, because Our Lady told us within Her statement,

You, little children, are poor in love

What does that mean? Our Lady said a few days ago, March 18^th,

you must be poor in spirit [to be] filled with love

So, She qualifies, tonight, Youre poor in love. On the 18^th, She says, you must be poor in spirit and filled with love

So, what is poor in spirit? I was in Medjugorje. I asked Our Lady, Mary, I see this over and over. I see it in the Bible. What does it mean to be poor in spirit? Tell me. Help me to find out. Make it clear to me what is poor in spirit means. Well, I flew out that next day, actually, that night. Im in the airport, and I have a little red book that I carry with me that I never read. Ive carried it for two years, thought, if I ever need it or the planes going down, maybe Ill open up and read it. And I was sitting at the airport because it was delayed for a while. I opened it up, and I opened up this. It was written by Escriva, whos now a saint. And it said,

Dont forget he who has most who needs least. Dont create needs for yourself.

It went on to say,

Detach yourself from the goods of the world. Love and practice poverty of spirit.

Well, that got my attention. I remembered asking Our Lady, I want you to explain to me what You mean by poor in spirit. It goes on and says,

Be content with what is sufficient for leading a simple and temperate life.

Our Lady just said that, to be simple. She says,

you must be poor in spirit and filled with love and mercy. You must have [a] pure and simple [heart] and always be ready to serve

Wow. So, I continued to read this.

What an attachment to the things of the world. But soon they will all slip from your grasp.

What do you hold every day? What do you do every day? What dictates your day?

And then I read this, lastly,

If riches abound, set not your heart upon them. Strive, rather, to use them generously, and if necessary, heroically. Be poor in spirit.

These kinds of things are thunder for your life, especially when, a few hours before, youre in Medjugorje and you hear Her say, be poor in spirit Show me, Mary, every time I see this, even in the Bible. I want to know what that means.

If riches abound and it does for everybody today, even poor people,

set not your heart upon them. Strive, rather, to use them generously, and if necessary, heroically

Are you walking through your day using what you have at hand heroically? Or does it absorb you? Or does it consume you?

Our Lady wants us to watch the Lamb. She wants us to be following Him, because theres something to the Lamb that were not getting today, and were not getting it today because things and materialism has absorbed us. And so, the most faithful Christian, those even in Medjugorje, I see this sign over and over and over, and theyre not watching and understanding what happened today, and they dont contemplate. Good Fridays taking place today. How much time did they spend contemplating, as opposed to what the world has intertwined into their daily life, that theyre not watching for the Lamb? But if they did, and they contemplated and tuned out of everything of the world, they see everything in a different kind of light.

[SONG: WATCH THE LAMB]

Walking on the road to Jerusalem. The time had come to sacrifice again. My two small sons, they walked beside me on the road. The reason that they came was to watch the lamb.

"Daddy, daddy, what will see there? There's so much that we don't understand." So I told them of Moses and Father Abraham. And then I said, "Dear children, watch the lamb. "There will be so many in Jerusalem today. We must be sure the lamb doesn't run away." And I told them of Moses and Father Abraham. And then I said, "Dear children, watch the lamb."

When we reached the city, I knew something must be wrong. There were no joyful worshipers, no joyful worship songs. I stood there with my children in the midst of angry men. And then I heard the crowd cry out, "Crucify Him!"

We tried to leave the city, but we could not get away. Forced to play in this drama, a part I did not wish to play. "Why upon this day were men condemned to die? Why were we standing here where soon they would pass by?"

I looked and said, "Even now they come." The first one cried for mercy. The people gave him none. The second one was violent. He was arrogant and loud. I still can hear his angry voice screaming at the crowd. Then someone said, "There's Jesus!" And I scarce believed my eyes. A Man so badly beaten. He barely looked alive. Blood poured from His Body, from the thorns upon His brow. Running down the Cross and falling to the ground.

I watched Him as He struggled. I watched Him as He fell. The Cross came down upon His back. The crowd began to yell. In that moment, I felt such agony. In that moment, I felt such loss, until a Roman soldier grabbed my arm and screamed, "You! Carry His cross."

At first, I tried to resist him, then his hand reached for his sword. And so, I knelt and took the Cross from the Lord. I placed it on my shoulder and started down the street. The Blood that He'd been shedding was running down my cheek.

They led us to Golgotha. They drove nails deep in His feet and hands. Yet upon the Cross I heard Him pray, "Father, forgive them."

Oh, never have I seen such love in any other eyes. "Into Thy hands I commit my spirit." He prayed and then He died.

I stood for what seemed like years. I'd lost all sense of time, until I felt two tiny hands holding tight to mine. My children stood there weeping. I heard the oldest say, "Father please forgive us, the lamb ran away."

"Daddy, daddy, what have we seen here? There's so much that we don't understand." So I took them in my arms, and we turned and faced the Cross. And then I said "Dear children, watch the Lamb."

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Dear children, watch the Lamb. Theres so much that we dont understand. This is an old song. And then Our Lady says today, after 35 years, almost, of apparitions,

you still have not comprehended that my Son Jesus, out of love, gave His life to save you and to give you eternal life

What is it that we dont understand that we dont comprehend? Just like the question in the song, or the statement, There so much that we dont understand. But its amazing that Our Ladys saying this today after all this and our prayers and what we do, You still dont comprehend. Why is that? Because were falling further and further of understanding God and Who He is and what Hes done for us and the price Hes paid. You have to start questioning your life of what are the gods in your life? You have to comprehend that to realize, is He replacing these false gods, Her Son? You would say, No. I dont do that. Are you being honest? Are you properly reflecting and being honest with yourself? Our Lady didnt say, you still have not comprehended if you do understand that. Our life is plagued today with idols.

[JOAN]

I found it a little intriguing when Our Lady said,

God permitted me to love you and, out of love, to call you to conversion

But this word, permitted. Its as if Our Lady approached God about, and asking Him, can She love us. How much is it God sending Our Lady today, and how much is it that Our Lady approached God to ask for this time?

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Have you talked to me about that today?

[JOAN]

No.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

The number one word of this whole message that stood out to me, as soon as I read it, was the word, permitted. You mean, She had to get permission from God to love us? I actually wrote a note beside that, saying to the effect, were not worthy to be loved by Someone so pure. And for His Mother to be permitted to do that, or allowed by Him, when we live an atrocious life, it must be because we rejected the Cross. Modern man has turned away from redemption, and we are unworthy to be loved by His Mother. And actually, in justice, we cant be. But in balanced mercy, we can be. She said that on the 18^th,

poor in spirit and filled with love and mercy

You must be She said. Shes bringing a side of Gods mercy, Her Sons mercy, because were unworthy, the way were living, with the gods that we have at hand all day long, to be loved by Her. But He also knew, by sending Her and giving Her permission to come and love us, that She was going to let us get away with things, heal us from things, that Hes finished with. Were under judgment, and long ago, we should have been taken care of and corrected. But it was Her at the foot of the Cross, and it was Her Who suffered, and its Her Who can go now and come to the earth, because She said last month, Im coming. Today, She says,

I am carrying my love to you

At the same time, Shes making a call to us. So, its an amazing thing that Our Lady says to us these words that tell us, I am carrying my love to you And I had to get permission to do that because you are unworthy, not from Her words. Were unworthy to receive that after weve gone decade after decade away from God. We rejected God, and its us who should inherit ourselves. And thats Who is saving us, and only that one Person Who can make us new again, Who stood at the foot of the Cross, Who did that.

[SONG: NEW AGAIN]

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Mother, do not cry for Me. All of this is exactly how it's supposed to be.

I'm right here. Can you hear My voice? My life, my love, my Lord, my baby boy.

As they nail Me to this Tree, just know the Father waits for Me.

God how can this be Your will? To have Your Son and My Son killed?

Whatever happens, whatever You see, whatever Your eyes tell You has become of Me, this is not, its not the end. I am making all things new again.

I remember when You were born, in that manger where I first held You in my arms. So many miracles and lives you've changed. And this world repays you how? With all this pain.

As they nail Me to this Tree, just know the Father waits for Me.

God how can this be Your will? To have Your Son and My Son killed?

Whatever happens (whatever happens), whatever You see (I dont want to see), whatever Your eyes tell You has become of Me, this is not (tell Me its not), its not the end. I am making all things new again.

Whatever happens (Oh), whatever You see (Oh), whatever Your eyes tell you has become of Me, this is not (no), its not the end. I am making all things new again.

[INSTRUMENTAL]

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Think about your day today. Reflect on it. How much time did you spend on things that you are absorbed in and you are preoccupied with compared to being absorbed and preoccupied with God? St. Paul says, Pray unceasingly. Our Lady said in a message, pray unceasingly Its a repeat exactly of what he said. You might say, Okay. Yeah, I follow the messages. Gods always on my mind. But what, through the day, preoccupied you today or tomorrow or yesterday? These things that are life that has our attention has coming to be gods, not God the Father. We see families today completely disjointed, completely connected to the world all day long, and not with each other. They can be out to eat. Theyre all on their cell phones. They can be travelling, or they can be at the airport. I read today some of the people that got killed in Belgium were talking to somebody at that moment. You might say, Oh, that was really good. They were talking to them when they got killed. No, its a sign of sickness that, rather than talking to a loved one, if theyre standing in line at a ticket counter, that theyd been contemplating God.

you still have not comprehendedmy Son

And how He died out of love for you. And so, we have broken up family. We have disconnected family. We dont know what it means to follow God anymore. All the Christians will say, Yes, we do. Then why is Our Lady coming saying this? You dont know. You dont understand. You dont know Who God is. You imagine God who you think He is, not how He truly is. Why does She say these things? Shes trying to reach you, but youre not reflecting because you dont form your day by a biblical mandate of praying unceasingly and putting yourself in that state where you can.

[REYES]

Knowing that Our Lady doesnt waste anything in Her messages and any words, for Our Lady to come today and say,

Today I am carrying my love to you

Why do we need to know that? Whats so important that we need to knowFirst of all, what does it meant that Shes carrying Her love to us, but why is it important that we even know that?

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Well, carrying is a verb. Its an action. Our Ladys literally doing something. Shes not saying something figuratively or like something symbolically. She literally is carrying love to the earth, and She dispenses that for those who are open to Her, those who are tuned in to Her. And then, if theyre tuned in to Her, where does She point? To Her Son. And Her and Her Son point to? God the Father. The chair of the father in the home is ridiculed. Hes not there anymore. Hes raising children or children being raised in the family where that symbol of God the Father doesnt mean anything anymore. Weve lost that. Weve lost that in the sense that, people are lonely. You go to all these people that are the dredge of society, or even the rich of society, the deficiencies in their life is that image of father. And the father doesnt have to be perfect. The mother makes the image of the husband, how she respects him, for his frailties or his strength. She criticizes him, this damages the children. He sits in a chair that represents God the Father, and a lot of people are crippled, and actually, the whole worlds crippled because of that because we have hate. We have hate in the family and no love. And so, Our Ladys telling us that were poor in spirit because we dont have love and mercy. We dont understand that because weve got a fracture in the family and a loneliness that people are raised in such a vacuum of God the Father and who is His representative, that weve got people angry. Anger, we just talked about on Mejanomics yesterday, can be a good thing if its righteous. But if its unrighteous, its a very bad thing. And we have people in rage that kill each other, either physically or either in the way they alienate themselves from, divorce, breakup of the family, and destroying peoples lives forever.

So, we have to reflect on what Our Ladys saying when She says,

I am carrying my love to you. God permitted me to love youout of love, to call you to conversion

To call you to conversion means to come to God, to change the direction of your life and see things in a whole different light of the way God and Who He is and what He expects of us.

[SONG: MY FATHERS CHAIR]

Sometimes at night I'd lie awake, longing inside for my father's embrace. Sometimes at night I'd wander downstairs and pray he'd returned, but no one was there. Oh, how I cried, a child all alone, waiting for him to come home.

My father's chair sat in an empty room. My father's chair covered with sheets of gloom. My father's chair through all the years and all the tears I cried in vain. For no one was there in my father's chair.

Sometimes at night I sit all alone, drifting asleep in a chair of my own. When sweet sleepy eyes peer down from the hall, frightened by dreams they cannot recall. Holding them close, calming their fears, praying they always will say,

My father's chair sits in a loving room. My father's chair no matter what I do. My father's chair, through all the years and all the tears I need not fear. Love's always there in my father's chair.

Sometimes at night I dream of a throne, of my loving God, calling me home. And as I appear, He rises and smiles, and reaches with love to welcome His child. Never to cry, never to fear, in His arms, safe and secure.

My Father's chair sits in a royal room. My Father's chair holds glory beyond the tomb. My Father's chair, my God is there, and I am His eternal heir. Someday I'll share my Father's chair.

My Fathers chair

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, Our Lady says today,

Therefore pray, little children, pray so that in prayer you may comprehend Gods love

How much did you pray today, on Good Friday? You say, Oh, I did my four rosaries. How much time did you give to that if you didnt do that? But what if you did say your four rosaries? Did that dictate your day, your prayer, or did something else? Were you dealing with other people all day long or with God?

so thatyou [can] comprehend [His] love

You dont reflect, which is a tragedy today. We have a poverty of reflection. Were very poor in that sense that we dont reflect. We dont have time. Our days structured, completely self-absorbed in things that pertain to us and surround us.

[JOAN]

In Our Ladys March 2^nd message of this year, She says that Jesus proved his love for us through His Sacrifice. And then She went on to say, But even today

But even today, many of my children do not know Him, they do not want to come to know Him, they are indifferent. Because of their indifference my heart suffers painfully

Today, it is Good Friday. Our Lady gives such a short message. And She says to us, You dont after all of this time, you dont comprehend my Sons love, that He gave His life for you. You dont understand. You dont comprehend. After thirty-five years of Our Lady coming to the earth, trying to explain, show, love us in His place, so short of a message as if Shes saying in this pain that Shes suffering, because of indifference, What more can I say to you? What more can I do for you?

And thats my question. What more can She do to make the world comprehend Her Sons love and what He did and what sacrifice He made for us that we can have the gift of eternal life?

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

She cant. She cannot do it if She cant get us to start reflecting. And everything and anything that stops us from reflecting is blocking the ability for us to know God or identify what Hes doing. God is actually running after us. He is in pursuit of us, and were outrunning Him, and He cant catch up with us. Well you say, Hes God. He can do that if He wants to. No. He needs your permission. He needs you to stop and start thinking, because youre running toward a cliff that you cant see. And as soon as you make the curve, youre going to fall right off of it. And Hes on our heels, but unless we slow down and think, Hes right behind me, this pursuit of His through His Mother is after me, Ill never recognize that, and Ill go running off the cliff. Our Ladys words you just quoted,

But even today, many of my children do not know Him

But dont think thats Muslims or nonbelievers or somebody else. No, this message is to us, dear children. And She says, yes, many children, you can say, Oh, thats not talking about me or pertains to me. It pertains to all of us, because theres aspects in all of us of elements that we do not know God. We do not know Her Son.

But even today, many of my children do not know Him, they do not want to come to know Him, they are indifferent

What makes indifferent to God, and what makes you close to God? When youre praying, when youre reflecting, when youre thinking about Him. Every action of your day should be absorbed with God. But again, I call you, as Our Lady says, my call to review your days, how theyre spent, and what kind of things that youre absorbed in. What do you give your time to? What dictates your day? What forms your day?

Our Lady continued on the second of the month message, saying,

Because of their indifference[s] my heart suffers painfully

Because She cant get a word in. And Her Son, She adds to this painful message after that sentence,

My Son has always been in the Father

But you wont know that if the things that you do throughout the day causes an indifference, makes you indifferent to prayer, and you replace prayer with things of the world. We talked about that, being detached and give up voluntarily ones dominion over them, those things that keep you attached.

And so, we have God, in all His effort, chasing us, but we have a free will that keeps us elusive, and we delude ourselves, as Our Lady said, Youre in delusion, because what you think youre doing and the Christian walk you think youre occupied or that you are a good Christian, youre not at all, or Im not at all, if Ive got a god in my life ahead of Him. What is your god? What are those gods? Youve got to start thinking why Our Lady said today,

you still have not comprehended

And do you feel, at the end of the day, indifferent? Have you recognized the miracles that happened today to you? Do you know how many things you might have been saved from or protected from? Or did something happened today you lost protection? Youve got to get rid of things that cause indifference, anything that ceases or stops or stymies or takes the place of prayer, causes more indifference to grow. We have a world thats indifferent to God. We think Hes not part of our government, when our forefathers never, ever intended that we not be religion not be in government or Christian principles not be in our laws. They intended that the government not dictate that to us, but that every action of our religion, Christian religion, would be throughout wedded through the government, but that the government didnt have the door back to the religion or our Christianity. So, its got a passing door back to those things that very few people understand or comprehend, but not the government to dictate to the Church, but the Church to dictate the government and abide by. I respect. Thats why everything used to be closed on Sundays. Thats why theres no liquor sold on Sundays across the country, because they respected God in the government, and we had a two-way door, Christianity did, but the government had one door. It was not allowed to dictate or change things. And we them the two-way door, and now were limited, because we dont reflect. And yet, God is on pursuit with us. Hes chasing us, and all we have to do is stop, and things will change for us.

[SONG: WHEN GOD RAN]

Almighty God, The Great I Am, Immovable Rock, Omnipotent, Powerful, Awesome Lord, Victorious Warrior, Commanding King of Kings, Mighty Conqueror, and the only time, the only time I ever saw Him run,

Was when He ran to me. He took me in His arms, held my head to His chest, said "My son's come home again!" Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes. With forgiveness in His voice, He said "Son, do you know I still love You?"

He caught me by surprise, when God ran.

The day I left home, I knew I'd broken His heart. And I wondered then, if things could ever be the same. Then one night, I remembered His love for me. And down that dusty road, ahead I could see. It was the only time, it was the only time I ever saw Him run.

And then He ran to me. He took me in His arms, held my head to His chest and said "My son's come home again!" Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes. With forgiveness in His voice, He said "Son, do you know I still love You?"

He caught me by surprise, and He brought me to my knees, when God ran. I saw Him run to me.

I was so ashamed, all alone, and so far away. But now I know that He's been waiting for this day.

I saw Him run to me. He took me in His arms, held my head to His chest and said "My son's come home again!" Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes. With forgiveness in His voice, I felt His love for me again. He ran to me. He took me in His arms, held my head to His chest and said "My son's come home again!" Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes. With forgiveness in His voice, He said "Son." He called me son. He said "Son, do you know I still love You?"

He ran to me (when God ran) (I saw Him run to me) And then I ran to Him (when God ran) When God ran

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

In March 2^nds message, Our Lady said,

With Him

Talking of Her Son,

With Him came the light of the world which penetrates hearts, [and] illuminates them and fills them with love and consolation

What blocks that? Why can we not get that?

Lent is a time to reflect and make changes in your life. You need to see what makes you indifferent. You need to see what preoccupies you. If you think Im being repetitious, Im paralleling the messages of Our Lady, after thirty-five years, you still dont understand. The mysteries of us thinking we have all the knowledge, all the understanding, walking our Christian life, and Our Lady comes and says, You still dont comprehend.

[JOAN]

I actually wanted to ask you a question about the March 18^th message. Since you were in Medjugorje, we werent able to discuss the message in length here. But Our Lady mentions in the March 2^nd message about the Father.

my coming to you is a gift from the Heavenly Father

And then She says,

My Son has always been in the Father

Then, in the March 18^th message, She talks about permitting, asking us to

permit what is of God to form your life, by your prayer and sacrifice; so that Gods Kingdom may be in your heart; that you may begin to live proceeding from God the Father

So, first of all, if were to permit what is of God to form our lives, what is of God in our lives?

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Well, thats the question I pass on to our whole listeners tonight. What is your day, when you wake up in the morning, what is forming your whole day? What schedules out your day? Theres got to be something thats causing us all this indifference, all these things where Our Ladys Sons not recognized, and our actions in living a way of holiness and contemplation. Is the radio always blaring? Are you always on the phones? Are you always texting? Are you always responding? Compare that, add that up in a multiplication, or either, an additional mathematical situation compared to the times that you give to God. What do you give most time to? Our Lady was not that way. You say, Well, She had Jesus. You can imagine Her life knowing these things, and then the question that youre asking, compared to the way She lived, and Shes told us, I did this. This is the way I lived, and Shes calling us to do the same thing. You say, Well, She didnt have the technology. She didnt have all these things surrounding Her. You dont have to have that. We dont have it in our homes. We dont have cell phones in our homes. We dont have home computers. We dont have home electronics or any games or even toys for our children. And theyre much better for it. Theyll grow up, throughout their whole day and their whole life where Gods present. Hes there. Hes not replaced by a computer or a cell phone or electronic toys. Going on this trip, I was amazed at people thats thirty years old, forty years old, seventy years old, playing their stupid computer games on the plane. The guy next to me playing solitaire for eight hours! And Im thinking, What a waste of time! when hes preoccupying his time thinking of that instead of prayer or get a good book out. Almost nobodys reading on a plane. And then you feel your seat being tapped all the whole trip because theyre punching this. I went to Confession before I left, and the girl next to me in the line sitting, going up to Confession, has her phone out playing a game. We sat there twenty minutes waiting to get to Confession. Every time we got up to make one seat more further closer to the confessional. She did this right up to the time I got up. She was next, playing a computer game on her phone. This wasnt a nineteen-year-old. This lady was probably twenty-eight to thirty-four years old. I dont get it. I justIts not in my mentality to even understand that.

But when you see this happening, you understand why theres no reflection, and therefore, theres indifference, and Shes going to confession! And the people on the plane, what would happen the moment, if an engine went out, six miles up in the air. They dont even know how to pray! Theyre not even ready for that. Every time I take off in a plane, whether Ive gone to confession or whatever, I make an act of contrition, because I prayed my whole life that my death is at the destined and appointed time Im supposed to go. I dont have to worry about when it is. If Ive asked God for that, I want to be in the state of grace for that, and when that time comes, it doesnt matter if I fly or dont fly or Im driving down the road or whatever. If you pray for that destined time, will God not allow that to happen?

And so, doing that, I dont say, Dont make this plane not crash. Im not praying for it not to crash. How many people who dont have prayer would start begging God, or God, if Youre there, dont let this plane crash or the engine go out. Im saying, Okay, God. If this is my time to go, I want to be there. This is my time. Im at peace. Their situation of saying, Hey, we may get killed doing this, somebody driving or some situation. I just make an act of contrition. If this is my time to go, we go. Its a wonderful thing to go through your life to be connected to God and live that way, that you can be at peace, get on a plane, make the act of contrition, Okay. If this lands, then so be it. I have no fear of that because I want Gods will for me, and Hes got my time on this earth for a certain number of days and hours and minutes and seconds. And I dont want to live a second longer or a second less.

You see, when you start connecting Our Ladys messages, how free you are? But do you have that confidence if youre preoccupied with these things of the earth? Our Lady was preoccupied with Her Son. Our Lady, Herself, knowing the prophets, knew what was going to happen to Her Son. I know whats going to happen when I die. Thats the time Im supposed to die. You can change that. You can live recklessly. You can crash. You can do things you shouldnt be doing. You can be preoccupied with your little gods and die, and thats interfering with Gods time for you. People donttheir health is not taken care of. They die sooner than theyre supposed to. Accidents cause things that were not Gods intention. Yes, you can die in a crash. Many people were on the 9/11 planes, scheduled to crash, but they got to the airport earlier and changed their flight. Other people missed the flight. And so, others got on the 9/11 planes that werent scheduled to be on that because they were getting an earlier flight, and all three ways. So, if youre in Belgium, and its not your time to die, you may be injured or something, but if you live that way, its such a freedom knowing youve got the time and God knows it and you live by it. But we dont think this way.

So, many people were saved that were supposed to be on that plane because it wasnt their time to die. Theyd been in prayer. They were telling God, Please make sure I die You want me to in the moment Im supposed to. Write the script. Thats what I always tell God. Write my script on my death. Its Your story. And youre liberated from that. If Im supposed to die tomorrow, Im not going to argue with God. Okay. Im fine. And so, people that were supposed to be on the planes at 9/11 end up not being on there because it wasnt their time. Maybe there were some people that were on there and it wasnt supposed to be their time, for whatever reasons. But be in prayer for these things. Once we understand Jesus and what Hes calling us to do and live an abandoned life and gain complete trust in God, you can go through a life without a lot of anxiety. And so, Mary, knowing the prophets, surely She saw Jesus and would go watch Him sleep, knowing that, nine years old, this Child was God, knowing holding His hand while Hes asleep, what was going to happen to Him. And Im certain that, often, Her eyes were filled with tears. And She reflected. And how lonely that was in those dark nights when He was seventeen or eighteen, knowing She couldnt baby Him and what was destined getting closer and closer and closer. One thing we know, and Our Lady says in the second of the month messages often, Hes my Son. And its time we put down everything that stops us and prevents us from knowing that.

[SONG: HES MY SON]

I'm down on my knees again tonight. I'm hoping this prayer will turn out right. See there is a boy that needs your help. I've done all that I can do myself.

His mother is tired. I'm sure You can understand. Each night as he sleeps, she goes in to hold his hand. And she tries not to cry, as the tears fill her eyes.

Can You hear me? Am I getting through tonight? Can You see him? Can You make him feel alright? If You can hear me, let me take his place somehow. See he's not just anyone. He's my son.

Sometimes late at night I watch him sleep. I dream of the boy he'd like to be. I try to be strong and see him through. But God who he needs right now is You.

Let him grow old, live life without this fear. What would I be living without him here? He's so tired and he's scared. Let me know that you're there.

Can You hear me? Am I getting through tonight? Can You see him? Can You make him feel alright? If You can hear me, let me take his place somehow. See he's not just anyone. He's my son.

[INSTRUMENTAL]

Can You hear me? Am I getting through tonight? Can You see him? Can You make him feel alright? If You can hear me, let me take his place somehow. See he's not just anyone

Can You hear me? Can You see him? Please dont leave him. He's my son.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Let me take his place somehow.

You think, for a moment, that Our Lady wouldnt have done that for Jesus?

See, hes not just anyone. Hes my son.

And you cant give the things of the world and detach yourself from those things that keep you from seeing the Son and Who He truly is?

In the Book of Acts, it talks about a riot of the silversmiths. It says,

About the time of a serious disturbance broke out concerning the way. There was a silversmith named Demetrius who made miniature silver shrines of Artemus provided no little work for the craftsman

In other words, it made a lot of money for them.

He called a meeting of these other workers in related crafts and said, Men, you know well that our prosperity derives from this work

Theres a lot of money made on cell phones today, like little gods. You talk to them. You call. You use it all day long. It makes you indifferent to prayer, keeps you from prayer, time that you spent on it today and throughout your months that youve lived with this thing compared to the time, each day, you give to prayer. Put that as a verse, versus phone versus prayer. See what youre absorbed in.

So, these silversmiths were upset and caused a riot. It says,

Men, you know well our prosperity derives from this work

Apple makes a lot of money from this, these little gods. You think if people threw them away, they wouldnt get upset? You think if people heard My call and they did what I didWhen I started praying, I was in business. I had the first cell phone. Probably five hadnt been sold. They were $2,600. You had to screw the whole thing in your dashboard to install it. But I began to pray shortly after that, and I had an aversion to it. I knew God was showing me, Get rid of this thing. And I did, because I was listening, not to that phone. And I got it for business purposes. We run a whole international mission without this now. You say, I cant do without it. Thats because youve fabricated, made it your life, and it surrounds you. You say, Well, I cant do it because of my work. We do it. Were international. How do we do that? We just are not indifferent to God. We connect to him, and He showed us how to be disconnected from these things and run an international mission.

So,

Men, you know well that our prosperity derives from the work. As you can now see and hear, not only Ephesus, but throughout most of the province of Asia, this Paul

Talking about St. Paul,

has persuaded and misled a great number of people by saying that gods made by hands are not gods at all

My call? Thank you for having responded to my call? Did Our Lady reach you today or yesterday? Will She tomorrow? And how many texts, how many messages you respond to throughout the day? Phone? Computers? Versus My call, Our Lady. Who has the most time?

It continues,

The danger grows not only that our business will be discredited, but also the temple of the great god Artemis will be of no account, lest she, whom the whole province of Asia and all the world worship will be stripped.

Kind of strange. Well, there was a great riot. They tried to arrest Paul. They wanted to kill him because they were saying to give this up. And Our Lady cant reach us today.

Our Lady said something incredible on February 25, 2016,

You are lost and do not know what your goal isI am calling you

What does that mean? Im phoning you. Im sending you messages. Im texting you in a spiritual way.

I am calling you: return to prayer

If you return to prayer, what are you going to give up? What are you going to swap out time for?

I am calling you [to] return to prayer with the heart so as to find hope andmeaning [for] your existence, in prayer

She ends that message saying, Its my call.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Are we doing that? No, were not.

Theres a girl by the name of Liz Marx. This is a true story. Were going to play what was her god in her life. We have a transcript because, audibly, it may not all be understood. You can look, just like the songs. And it starts with a picture of her. Reflect on that. Look how beautiful this girl is. The wages of sin is death, Scripture says. God does not intend for you certain things that do happen to you when you replace Him with something else. And like the silversmiths, and all of them made these little bitty gods, and everybody bought them. And everybodys running around with cell phones. Theyve got their little gods, and theyre nothingThese cell phones are nothing more than God. Its your god in your life. You say, Well, Heaven forbids this. You just walk the streets. You just go every place. Today, I was out. I make a U-turn. One lane, were on highway 280. You have to go one place, and cars line up, and because of new intersections, how they do it, you make a U-turn to go back the other way. And people constantly are on their cell phones. The light doesnt last long. You can go throw two or three lights, and often, youll see somebody that they just sit there because theyre looking at their phone. The lady in front of me did that. And she sits there. The light almost caught me. I made the U-turn. She had made a U-turn in front of me. We go half a mile down to the next red light. Her windows down. I rolled mine down. I say to her, I say, Its very uncourteous to sit there on your cell phone and causing this hesitation in traffic where me or others will miss the light. And she said to me, Did I do that? I said, See how disengaged you were in what you were supposed to be doing?

This is what happened to Liz Marx, this beautiful girl whose life was enshrined to her little god. And things happen when you do that thats not Gods will for you. And this we suffer from every day throughout the day.

[CLIP]

[LIZ]

I just, I remember sitting at home, thinking to myself, like, I have no one. My friends are there for me at first, but after a while, they werent.

[MOM]

I looked up on her Facebook page, and she said on there, Can anybody please hang out with me today? I dont have any friends.

[LIZ]

Before the car accident, the things I did in high school with my friends were, you know, just go to the high school games and everything. Every weekend, go to a party, go bowling. I was a good student. I was a role model. I was like a popular girl in high school, so I used to smile.

[MOM]

My main worry for Liz as a parent before she started driving was the typical teenage things, you know, the drugs and the alcohol and, you know, being safe and hanging around the right kind of kids and keeping her grades up.

I did not think that Liz was connected to her mobile phone. I didnt realize that she loved her phone as much as she did.

[LIZ]

I used my cell phone every second, every minute, every hour. Like, if I didnt have it? I would freak out because I couldnt connect with my friends. I couldnt connect with anyone. I couldnt connect with social media or anything. If I didnt have my cell phone, I felt lonely.

[MOM]

I would ask her all the time, Liz, do you text and drive? And she said, No, mom. I swear I dont. Dont worry. I dont use my phone when Im behind the wheel.

[LIZ]

I ignored those warnings about texting while driving because everyone else was doing it, so I thought I was okay. I thought I was invincible. But clearly, I was completely wrong.

[MOM]

I was getting ready for work and then, twelve hours later, Im in ICU staring at my daughter whos bald and tubes running in and out of her body, and its just overwhelming devastation over a stupid text.

[LIZ]

The consequences of my life now after the car accident is the fact that Im blind in one eye now. I cannot smell. I cannot hear that very good because a bone broke in half inside my eardrum. I cant create tears because both my tear ducts got damaged, and I cant put my body to sleep naturally. I take medicine to go to sleep.

The hardest part about my life after the car accident was the fact that I was alone. Everyone was away at college. I wasnt. I couldnt drive. I couldnt go to college.

My friends were there for me at first, but after a while, they werent. They got tired of me. They got tired of all my problems.

[MOM]

Dont text your loved ones when you know theyre driving. It can change their lives forever.

[LIZ]

If you get a text, dont look at it. Its not worth it.

[END CLIP]

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Tragic. Do you know one in four wrecks now, 25% of wrecks, are caused by this thing that we see as so valuable? Were not doing this for a commercial of not texting. Were doing this for a commercial that when you start following the gods of this world that forms your day, tells you what you should do throughout the day, that dictates everything you do, theres repercussions for that, and those repercussions are not just something that happens to Liz. Its spiritual. The void that fills our lives today is being preoccupied and self-absorbed like this woman was today when I was driving. Shes so preoccupied, so absorbed. Its really a selfish thing. Its selfishness. Its around you. Its your god. Its replacing prayer. And I dont know how many times I have to say that to make that understood.

But yet, theres other people that dont make it like Liz did. They die, a lot of deaths. You want to see your loved ones again? You want to have them? That doesnt mean just surviving something or an accident or the next day. How tragic it is if youre judged after you die, and you never lived the spiritual life, and you were indifferent to God, that you lose your life for eternity. As I said earlier, our youth are raised here that God is the very fabric of their life. Our life here on a daily basis in community is seamless between Heaven and earth. Our Lady is throughout our day. We are preoccupied with the messages. Theres not a day in my life that were not talking about the messages, nor anybody else in this community. Thats the kind of environment you have to grow into. You have to create it in your family like I did first, and from there, it grows into community. Its the future, because love, people are poor in loveThis girl, look at her picture. Look at the transcripts. Shes a beautiful girl. She had friends. She had everybody. And when she lost that, shes lonely. She has nobody because she made her love, through this phone, through her connections, her life. And that god failed her. But if she was in prayer saying a rosary, would that have happened? And how many of those things that should have happened that happened this way? How tragic. How sad.

Worse still than that, we had somebody, a young boy seventeen or eighteen I think, four or five years ago going down our road in front of Caritas, gets two miles down the road, twelve midnight, on his phone, crashes in a tree. Hes got some nice flowers at that tree right now. They put signs up. He shouldnt have died. But thats not even the tragedy. Its the eternity where life is snuffed out that they didnt make it, and you wont see them again. To be eternally lost is the path thats taken when we become absorbed in these things, and they rule our life. What rules your life that you might not ever see a loved one again, even into eternity? And thats tragic.

[SONG: ILL SEE YOU AGAIN]

Always, you will be part of me, and I will forever feel your strength when I need it most. You're gone now, gone but not forgotten. I can't say this to your face, but I know you hear.

I'll see you again. You never really left. I feel you walk beside me. I know I'll see you again.

When I'm lost, and I'm missing you like crazy, and I tell myself I'm so blessed to have had you in my life, my life

I'll see you again. You never really left. I feel you walk beside me. I know I'll see you again.

When I had the time to tell you, I never thought I'd live to see the day when the words I should have said would come to haunt me. In my darkest hour, I tell myself I'll see you again

I'll see you again. You never really left. I feel you walk beside me. I know I'll see you again (Someday Ill see you again)

I'll see you again. You never really left. (oh, no, no) I feel you walk beside me. I know I'll see you again I will see you again. I'll see you again.

I miss you like crazy. You're gone but not forgotten. I'll never forget you. Someday I'll see you again. I feel you walk beside me. Never leave you (yeah). Gone but not forgotten. And I feel you by my side. No this is not goodbye. (No, yeah) No this is not goodbye. (Yeah, yeah) No this is not goodbye. (And I feel you walk beside me) No this is not goodbye.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Its tragic the way we live and what we let form our life, and many are losing salvation because of it. You dont think being this woman today, being self-absorbed in her world, that didnt even realize shes holding thatIts a lack of love of neighbor. One thing Our Lady teaches us is always be considerate of somebody else. Theres other people, just a courtesy of driving. It may not seem like a serious sin. The serious side of it is youre absorbed in your own self and your own world without care about the next person. The follow the messages is to always be thinking of the consequences of your action, how you affect your neighbor.

This little god is the great god of the world today. These phones are out of control, and they now are in control. And people are going to perdition, not so much because of the thing itself, but because, being self-absorbed, theyre indifferent to God, and they get on the wrong path. Our Lady said on March 18^th,

I desire to teach you complete trust in God the Father. I desire for you to learn by an internal gaze and internal listening to follow Gods will

How are you going to follow Gods will and was it Gods will for this to happen to Liz, if she could have learned to have an internal gaze and internal listening to My call. And thats whats happening today. Theres no trust in God. Theres trust in the false gods. Your whole lifes in it. You need to change your direction now, not later. Youve got to trust completely, surrender to God and believe Our Ladys words, and Shell receive you in your heart.

[SONG: TRUST, SURRENDER, BELIEVE, RECEIVE]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

(Ooh) Be still and know that I am God (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) (Ooh) Be still and know that I am God. (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh) Oh, I gave My life for you. I laid it out for you. You know you can trust Me

Trust, surrender, believe, receive (remember). Trust, surrender, believe, receive. Trust, surrender, believe, receive (remember). Trust, surrender, believe, receive. Trust, surrender, believe, receive.

(Trust) Be still and know (receive) that I am God. (Trust, surrender, believe, receive). (Trust) Be still and know (receive) that I am God (Trust, surrender, believe, receive). Let me into your heart (surrender, believe) Oh, let Me know youre Mine. Remember.

Trust, surrender, believe, receive (Be still and know). Trust, surrender, believe, receive. (that I am God) Trust, surrender, believe, receive. Trust, surrender, believe, receive. (Let Me into your heart) Trust, surrender (Oh, let Me know youre Mine. Remember). Trust, surrender, believe, receive (remember). Trust, surrender, believe, receive. Trust, surrender, believe, receive (remember).

Trust, surrender, believe, receive. Trust, surrender, believe, receive. Trust, surrender, believe, receive

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

You are lost and do not know what your goal isI am calling you: return to prayer with the heart so as to find hope and the meaning of your existence, in prayer

Respond to my call. Tomorrow, or even at this moment, wherever you are, know that God is calling you. He wants you to be still. To be still means to be quiet. Turn off all the voices when youre in the car tomorrow going to work. And with an internal listening, try to find His will, and you will, because Hes in pursuit of you. Pray with all your heart, with that internal gaze, and youll feel like the God Who loves you means what He says. You will have an encounter. You seek this, and Hell seek you.

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Good night.

[THEME MUSIC]

[REYES]

This ends the Radio WAVE show with a Friend of Medjugorje. You can order this show on CD by contacting Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000. Again, 205-672-2000.