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Today is Friday, November 2, 2018, and this is Radio WAVE.

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Broadcasting across the world from the Radio WAVE Studio at Caritas, Alabama. This is Radio WAVE with a Friend of Medjugorje.

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And this is Radio WAVE with a Friend of Medjugorje. Tonight, he will be speaking to us from the village of Medjugorje where he shared Our Ladys message with the BVM Caritas pilgrimage group. This is the last pilgrimage of the season, and our pilgrimages will pick up again in March of next year. Theres more information on mej.com.

And so, speaking words fresh from this morning, here is a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Welcome to Medjugorje. I know some faces thats been here before. I remember your faces.

I got at the Delta counter, and they said, Thank you for doing face recognition, something like that. I said, What? They said, Well, we just took your picture for face recognition. And I said, Well, I didnt give you permission to do that, which is part of our system of controlling everything. I said, What are you doing that for? They said, Well, its going to make things faster. I said, Well, thats like the antichrist system. And she says, Oh, Im a minister. This is a Delta employee. She said, Im a minister. Oh baby, that aint about the antichrist. I said, Yeah it is. Dont you see? Everything in control? This whole system growing is amazing. I said, I want my face off of that. I dont care if you get it later. But this stuff is pretty amazing what theyre doing with face recognition. Anyway, I recognize your face, I just dont know your name. They know my name. Theyve got all my data and everything. [LAUGHTER]

And so, if I say something wrong, I cant go to Britain or Ireland or places like that. So, theres a lot of control taking place that we dont understand the consequences because evil will grow towards all these things to master everybody. Were headed toward that kind of system.

Anyway, thats not what I was going to start off with. I was in Frankfurt and get up to the Croatian counter. And I always let them check my luggage to make sure its on the plane. You always get it scanned. And the lady looked at me. And then later, I went on. Because I fly so much, I get to get on first, so its nice getting your luggage in and everything. And so, there was a woman with me, right behind me, and I was there, and I gave her my ticket, and she says, I believe in you. And I said, What? She says, I believe in you. And so, I kind of smiled. I dont know what shes talking about. So, I get on, and the lady behind me was after that. We walked down the corridor, and then we were waiting for the people with wheelchairs just start to get on. So, we were the first two getting on. And I said, Did you hear that? She said, Yeah. I said, I dont know what she was talking about. So, we started small talk when we were standing there before we got on the airplane. I asked her, Where are you going? She said, Split. I have a daughter going to school there. I said, Oh, does she know about Medjugorje? And she says, Whats Medjugorje? And I said, Its a place where the Virgin Mary is appearing, you know, like FatimaI dont know if youve ever heard about that. She said, No. no. She didnt believe in that. So, maybe that lady was saying, I believe in you, because this lady didnt believe and she says that she doesnt believe in God. She was atheist. And she says, You know, I just take a neutral position. And I said, Shes really appearing there. The worlds in trouble right now, and your daughter should check this out if shes living in Split. Its just two hours away. Yall should go visit that. She says, No. no. So, I backed off. And I prayed the whole hour or so to get there for her, because I had material, and a lot of times, people like that will reject it. So, I didnt just give it to her on the plane because I knew she would just hand it back. So, I waited till we got to passport control off the plane. I said, Here. This is about the village of Medjugorje I was telling you about. Your daughter may be interested in it. Just look at it. And it was Readers Digest, a CD, and a couple other things. And she said, Oh, thank you. So, she put it in her purse.

I say that though, because youve got to be calculated how you spread Medjugorje, because people are turned off of it just like that. Theyre not interested in it. They think the Virgin Mary appearing is in a piece of pizza somewhere in Philadelphia or some place like that because we have many people who have damaged Our Lady in a way that we present that. So, I prayed, Okay Mary. You say to speak about You. The last time I was here, which was a few weeks ago, I gave material to a guy who sat next to me who was out of Hollywood, on the Delta plane. And he was obviously wealthy, and he told me he belonged to some kind of group of people where you had to be invited, and youve got to be really, really rich.

So, anyway, I gave the material. His wife was two seats up from me, and they traded seats, after somebody sat down, after he got the material, because they werent assigned each other. So, another guy came back and sat down with me. After the flight, he gave me the material, and he said, I dont want this stuff. So, I learned from that cognition, dont give it to them where youd be around after they see it. Theyll give it. In other words, they either have to throw it in the garbage or have to read it.

So, a lot of what Our Ladys telling us is, we have to have strategy, how we do what we do, and dont just go into it and beat people over the head with it. Thats just a few lessons coming here. Our Lady will start using you if you start opening your heart to Her.

I had two women coming down the mountain this morning, and theres a narrow place where you cant pass everybody. Its kind of a short-cut. And these two women in front of me, they were going slow, and theres a place I could pass. She said, You can get in front of us. Were slow. I say, Okay. So, I walk beside them for a little while. And I said, Where are yall from? They said, North Carolina. They said, Where are you from? I said, Alabama. They said, Oh, Alabama? She said, Well, were here with somebody that used to be from Birmingham. I said, Well, Im from Birmingham. And we chit-chatted a little bit walking on the trail. I said, Have you been to Medjugorje many times? They said, Oh, four or five times, something like that. They said, Have you been to Medjugorje many times? I said, Yeah. I come often. [LAUGHTER] I didnt want to tell them how many times because it sounds like your lying when you say youve been here over 200 times. How do you come here 200 times? I quit counting at 200 times several years ago.

So, anyway, I didnt say that because I didnt want to turn people off. So, anyway, She said, What do you come for? I said, Well, I talk to groups, and Im just here for three days just to talk to a group that we have here. Its important to open up Medjugorje for them. She said, Well, what do you see the most important thing in Medjugorje and the thing that you like the most? I said, The most important thing in Medjugorje is the message. And she had this kind of stark look on her face like she was surprised.

Many people come to Medjugorje that never learn how to open up the messages. They never get into the messages. Medjugorje is about the message. So, you are here in a very historical, extraordinary point that the Mother of God came down from Heaven and gave a message that is going to be here when Christ comes back, and its for that period of time.

I had ABC 20/20. If youre older, you know what 20/20 is. Most young people now dont even know what 20/20 is, with Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters and (8:20) Stone Phillips was going to be Peter Jennings. And so, I worked with them for a while on several things that we came to Medjugorje. Rob Wallace was a top producer, and we were sitting up Apparition Hill, and he says, Do you think that this is about the Second Coming? Which, they wanted to trick you with that, because when you say, Yeah, this is about Jesus coming, like, Oh, sure. I said, No doubt about it Rob. This is about the Second Coming of Jesus. He said, When do you think it is? I said, Thats the big question. Is it five years, 50 years, 500 years? But these messages and these apparitions are for the preparation when Jesus comes back.

So, if you put this in this context, you add to that that Our Lady says, These are the last apparitions on earth. I will never come back again. And then the visionaries, on another situation, said, Why will She not come back? And Her answer is, Because youll never need apparitions any longer. Why is that? Because God is putting Her in a position to work on the earth, and when She leaves these apparitions, the same thing Shes doing now with the power She has, is going to not be here in the state that it is now. Its going to increase. Her efficacy, meaning power, is increasing, every day. She gains more power with the Rosaries that She sweeps up at the apparition and takes them before the throne of God.

The visionaries asked in the beginning, How long will you be with us? And She says, As long as you will want me to So, every day, the power of Mary to act in your life and communicate to you, and Im saying that literally, not in the way you think Shes going to come talk to me like Marija. But She has Motherhood in a really extraordinary way because this is the exposing, in the fullness, in this time, of the Holy Virgin Mary. So, youre walking on holy ground. Youre walking in a place that is real, because what is real here is this is Our Ladys Israel. This is Her time. You cannot understand or comprehend that. She said that January 25, 1987: God has a great plan for the salvation of the world. You do not comprehend the greatness of your role in this plan. Dont think youre coming just on a pilgrimage, or youre just going to Fatima or Lourdes or some other place where theres apparitions. This is completely different. Those were the prophetesses of Her building devotion through the centuries. And She said that. Ive been with you through the centuries. And its all for this moment. Youre in a time of grace, the second time of grace in the history of Christianity, when Christ was here and Mary was here 2,000 years ago, and now Shes here, and Shes bringing Him and preparing, (11:24) just like She did through giving birth, for birth for the Second Coming.

And were in a system where they can take a picture, and they can track you all day long. And those things grow toward evil. Evil people will use that, because power corrupts. And its all ready if you decide you cant buy or sell something. It can happen just like that. Oh, you cant get a Delta ticket because youre not marked. And I dont want to go that way because that gets into heavy stuff and people think conspiracy. But it is in the Bible. Its in Revelation. And that time will come. And its not allegories, and its not mythology. Its real stuff. You cant understand prophecy until prophecy happens. Once it takes place, then its clear. Prophecy is never clear when its given in the future.

Weve been in Patmos in May, and we were just there in September. We took part of a group from here straight there into the cave where John received the Revelation, the Book of Revelation. Geography is everything. You can tell people all you want to about Medjugorje. You can say what it is. You can explain it. But until you come here, until you enter into it, until you enter into the messages, you cannot understand it in real time and real life. So, you have an investment that you need to be making here. Dont waste time doing anything. Youve got minutes you need to be watching what youre doing.

Our Lady calls us to nature because nature is obedient. One tree is more obedient than all 7 billion people in the world. [LAUGHTER] It does exactly Gods will. And you come into nature. Youre here. Youre looking at the leaves, the grass, the acreage, whatever. These little horses running around. Everything is going as God commands it. Its us who soil it. And Medjugorjes been soiled. You can see this. You can see all the distractions.

And so, these ladies, we parted, but they were surprised at the message because people leave Medjugorje. And weve got many stories of people coming to the Mission House hereWell, yall were just telling a storyWho wrote the story? They write back to the Community on Sundays after Rosary in the Field where Our Lady appeared to Marija. They send letters from the war front, the front lines. But yall just told, who was the story about the man who had been here for six or seven days and came and was confused about Medjugorje? You dont remember what you wrote? Have yall got amnesia? [LAUGHTER] He said that he spent an hour in the Mission House talking to one of yall, one of your letters. The story was that, after talking to him for an hour or so, he completely understood Medjugorje. He was confused. He didnt even know if he believed in it. And we have many people doing that. They come believing in Medjugorje, and they leave not believing.

So, your steps that we guide you to is to help you, even if youve been here before many times, to open Medjugorje up more to you and to your heart and open your heart to Our Lady.

So, this morning, Our Lady gave a beautiful message. We dont like to be in an apparition and say, Im looking at you, and you make me sad. But we all really do that. Were all sinners. And as close as we get to Our Lady, and closer, the more we see that, and were more humbled by that.

But Our Lady said this morning about truth, and this was a problem 2,000 years ago. Jesus goes through His whole ministry, He goes three years, and then Hes standing in front of Pilate, and Pilate is walking around in circles with Him, looking at this mystery Guy. And he says to Him, Dont you know I have the power to do whatever I want to with You? Why are you here? I am here to testify to the truth. And Pilates words were, What is truth? And thats where we are today. People dont have truth. Truth is not coming out of the Church now. The truth of the Eucharist has come from here, worldwide. Eucharistic Adoration has begun from here years ago. It was dying and dead almost. Confession is renewed in Medjugorje, worldwide, through Medjugorje people. Fasting is renewed worldwide from Medjugorje. I saw it. I went to the novenas when I was a kid, and my brothers were dragged by my mother on Wednesday to go to Benediction. And we didnt like it because it was dying and it was boring. And it wasnt so much that as kids going in front of Benediction, but they were just going to Benediction because they were going to play BINGO after that, and they wanted to win. [LAUGHTER] That wasnt a good witness to us. It wasnt holy. And so, it declined.

But I testify, I witnessed Eucharistic Adoration was not even happening. Through the 60s, it was declining, and 70s, it reversed and began to reverse in 1981, June 24^th. That was the beginning of a change. We were at our lowest point at that point as far as spiritual life. Now, were much worse. Much more evil things are happening, but we have people in the world who Our Lady has called who are living that holiness, which brings that back to changing the world around. The world changed at a singular moment at 6:39 and 59 seconds, June 24, 81. Thats when She grabbed these six children and changed them, changed the parish, gave messages for three or four years to the villagers, and then, from there, the whole world. So, youre here in a time frame that is late in the hour, Lourdes at 6 a.m. in the morning, Fatimas 12 noon, and Our Lady appeared that first apparition at 6:40. Twenty minutes to the hour. Were in the latest moment, from 81 to now, the clocks running out in the dark. And we see darkness.

So, when Our Lady says todayhave you read the whole message to everybody? Come read it first.

[JOAN]

The November 2, 2018 message given through Mirjana on the day of non-believers:

Dear children, My motherly heart suffers as I am looking at my children who do not love the truth, those who are hiding it as I look at my children who do not pray with their feelings and actions. I am sad as I am saying to my Son that many of my children no longer have faith, that they do not know Him my Son. That is why I call you, apostles of my love: you strive to look to the very depth in human hearts and there you are certain to find the little hidden treasure. To look in this way is mercy from the Heavenly Father. To seek the good even where there is the greatest evil to strive to comprehend each other and not to judge that is what my Son is asking of you. And I, as a mother, am calling you to listen to Him. My children, the spirit is mightier than the flesh, and, carried by love and actions, it overcomes all obstacles. Do not forget: my Son has loved you and loves you. His love is with you and in you when you are one with Him. He is the light of the world and no one and nothing will be able to stop Him in the final glory. Therefore, apostles of my love, do not be afraid to witness the truth. Witness it with enthusiasm, with works, with love, with your sacrifice, and, above all, in humility. Witness the truth to all those who have not come to know my Son. I will be alongside you. I will encourage you. Witness the love which never ends because it comes from the Heavenly Father who is eternal and who offers eternity to all of my children. The spirit of my Son will be alongside you. Anew I am calling you, my children: pray for your shepherds, pray that the love of my Son may lead them. Thank you.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Dear children, My motherly heart suffers Is that a contradiction if Heavens supposed to be beautiful and all happy? That conflicts with what we understand Heaven is. Weve heard Our Lady say Jesus is still suffering in Heaven. Thats hard and beyond our understanding in the context of what She says. But if Shes a Mother, how can She not hurt? Shes in the fullness of consolation of being in front of God, but Her hurt is for those children who are lost eternally. So, when She says that, its serious.

Mirjana said, If you see one tear of Our Lady, one time in your life, youll never want to commit a sin again. They dont just see Our Lady. Shes part of their being. Marija, once on her birthday, Our Lady kissed her right there. I said, Marija, what did it feel like? Did She just kiss you? You felt it? She said, Yeah, I felt it. I said, How did it feel? She said, Like I never wanted to wash my face again. [LAUGHTER] I said, But is it something just like, if somebody kissed you on the cheek? She said, No. It went through me. I said, How? She said, It went through my very being. Deep into my soul, I felt it there.

So, theyre looking at Heaven, and theyre looking at pre-Garden of Eden falling. Paolo, her husband, Marija and I and my wife were up above in the mountains where we are. We went on a horseback ride. The Community was going to meet us for the apparition. This was a private visit. Sometimes Marija comes for a public visit, sometimes She comes privately. So nobody knew she was there. And so, she likes to come there. She loves our life because its more like Medjugorje was in the beginning.

So, we come down. Were riding across the Field. Everybodys waiting in the Field, and one of the horses turning and kicked and kicked her right here. This is, how many years ago was that? Shes still got a mark right here. I thought it broke her leg. So, we had to take her to the emergency room. And my brothers a medic for the Air Force. So, we put her in a crew-cab truck. I had a full back seat. So, shes in the back. And so, were going down the highway, and I remember, I said, Marija, the apparitions about ready to happen. We need to pray. She said, You pray. So, shes got tears coming down, and shes wincing in pain. Ive seen many people kicked by horses. Ive had horses most of my life, but thats the second-hardest kick Ive seen somebody kick. And so, it wasnt just a normal thing or graze.

So, Our Lady appeared, and immediately, her face became bliss. Immediately all the pain went away, and she was speaking to Our Lady. Our Lady didnt appear a long time. As soon as she came out of the apparition, because Im looking in the rear-view mirror, here it is, were going down the road. This is not the setting you want to be, but the time of Our Lady comes, comes. And so, when that took place, the moment she came out, she started wincing again and the tears. Marija, if shes sick, does not feel anything. She is in a moment of pre-Garden of Eden. No pain, no suffering. And thats not the only time Ive seen it. Ive seen it when shes sick. I saw when she had an operation. When that takes place, shes out of that time. Shes with Our Lady, just like the kiss has something.

So, these apparitions have with it where theyre part of Heaven. And actually, the only pain I see associated with the apparitions is when Our Lady leaves, and the visionaries watch them, and Marija, after several years, I finally asked herShe winces a little bit when Our Lady completely disappears when Shes ascending back to Heaven. I said, Marija, why do you wince? She said, she didnt know she was doing that. Its just for a fraction of a second. And she said, Well, it is like pain when you no longer are with Our Lady, because thats reality. This is not reality compared to what she sees.

So, when Our Lady says, My motherly heart suffers Shes sharing that with us. She sees that pain. But just like She did with the horse kick, She takes that pain away. She can do that, even if you feel the pain, because She says, Offer this to Me. And Ill read October 25^th message in a little bit because Our Lady talks about that. Theres a purpose to it.

My motherly heart suffers as I am looking at my children who do not love the truth

So, weve wandered off in the truth because we have whats called truth, and we have what Pilate was calling, What is truth? Because what he was questioning Jesus about is, Whos to say truth is truth? Because we have relative truth. Have you got an aunt, a cousin, or uncle? What are they? Relatives. So, people have adopted their own truth. They relate to that truth. Thats their relative. And everybody now has relative truth. And that truth, if its their truth, they say, Well, I believe this, and thats what they believe is true, and we contradict that or you contradict that with another truth. Whose truth is right? And thats what Our Lady is talking about. You can no longer go by relative truth. You have to go by truth, the truth of God. Jesus is the truth. Its not Buddha. Its not anybody else. Its not any other religion. They all have elements that we have, and we have to adopt those. Hindu has love of neighbor. Muslims have the same thing. We accept that. So, they have elements of truth, and then also, people who go with truths of whatever they want to ascribe it to. This is my truth. And Our Ladys here to change that. Shes wants you to know the real truth that brings peace, real truth that brings happiness, real truth that helps you embrace your difficulties and crosses and sufferings.

I am looking at my children who do not love the truth, those who are hiding it

We have a lot of hiding of truth. We have a lot of the media doing the same thing. We hear fake news. We hear lies. We see that. You see it and recognize it. And theyre just sitting there talking like this is the truth, because theyre lying. Our Lady said something really stark, because She usually doesnt say this, just a few months ago:

do not believe lying voices

Theres a lot of lying and many people believe that. And so, theyre not righteous souls if they do. If they were righteous

[CELL PHONE RINGS]

Thats not truth. Keep your cell phones off. Dont be using them here. This is just a distraction. This is one of the glitter. These are one of the things Our Lady talks about, and youre here to be connected with Her. If you want to stay connected to that, stay in the pansion, because youre hurting yourself. Im telling you. Ive seen a nun, at the apparition, walk out in the apparition, to go answer her stupid cell phone.

Weve got a story that we put in your materials if you read it that said, I told my husband and my family, dont call me. If my house burns down, what am I going to do about it? Dont call me. If my husband dies, what can I do about it? Dont call me about it. [LAUGHTER] And this is the spirit you need to have.

do not love the truth, those who are hiding it as I look at my children who do not pray with their feelings and actions

You get in these fields, you get on your knees, and you pour out your heart. Think about your whole lifetime when youve been in crisis or a situation or youre in trouble or what are you trying to get mercy from somebody or something happened or whatever crisis youve been in, those moments are the moments that you speak with feeling. Our Lady wants you to say that every time you pray. Can you achieve that? With distractions you cant. And we have a lot of distractions. Our Lady says, I understand your distractions, but Im here to show you truth, why you have so many distractions, and how you separate yourselves from those things.

We are electronic-free in our houses and our mission. No cell phones, no computers, no electronic toys. Nothing. And our kids wake up in the morning and play 14 hours a day. They dont want to go to sleep. The best toy you can get a kid is not electronic, the best toy youll see at Caritas, a kid can have, is another kid. They play with each other, and you dont have to do anything but watch them and laugh. Theyre like kittens. Our kids are constantly at play, but they learn how to work and play. Kids dont play like our kids play now. Theyre pure.

Now, were not scared of it. Our mission is very advanced, very advanced, some of the best printing equipment in the world that you can get. It is the best printing equipment. But we master it, it doesnt master us. It doesnt regurgitate back into our life at home. And even at work we dont like it because we have the dual life of living simple and the life of really, a lot of pressure on what we do and how we do it.

Right now, this is the first time were broadcasting straight live in our studio. So, we use these things to get you to go away from these things. But you dont use that as an excuse. You still have to use some principles with it.

I look at my children who do not pray with their feelings and actions

So, when youve been in this point, and youve prayed, and you can remember, and you can reflect on this while youre in Medjugorje, when have I talked to somebody so much that Im putting my heart into it and trying to convince them not to leave me or whatever? Thats how Our Lady wants you to talk to Her. Try that here. I dont want to prove anything to you by convincing you. You try it, because Our Lady will communicate with you. If youre really doing it from the heart, if youre fasting here and making sacrifices, youre opening your heart to Her, She will deal with you. Medjugorje is something that is an ongoing supernatural event. Not just this morning, She didnt leave this morning. The motherly spirit, She just identified that recently. My Sons Divine Spirit will help you, and in the meantime my Motherly Spirit will help you. Thats another indication of evidence that Mary has got a new power on earth that She had never had before. Why is that? Because theres so much competition with Gods voice. Because Hes quiet, He whispers. When Ive heard Him here, I was quiet, and it wasnt loud, and it wasnt noisy.

And so, if Gods going to speak to you, you have to put yourself in an environment of nature where God can whisper to you. And its like thunder, and its soft and sweet and beautiful. Our Lady is the same way. The prodigies of the devil are so powerful its constant in our ears, its constant in the billboards, the television, the news, blaring music, radio station. Constant!

And so, God has sent Her down as His cell phone to communicate to you. And its not just what She did here. This message, you will be reading it six months from now. Youll be looking for something, when you heard it here and studied it spiritually and prayerfully, that it will say something you didnt see before. Thats the power. Theyre giving very simple, very loosely, to give maximum room for the Holy Spirit to speak to you individually and as a group right here right now, and as to the whole world.

These messages, Our Lady said, youve heard me if youve been following our writings and our broadcasts, Our Lady said, about these messages, and this is a Thursday message, and you have to accept this, you have to go into this, you have to penetrate this message. I will give messages as never before in the history of the world since its beginning. Adam and Eve walked in the Garden in the cool of the evening talking to God back and forth. And She says, Im going to talk to you as never before in the history of the world. Thats Her words. Spend your whole week on this message thinking about that. Theyre not just mundane messages. Our Lady has broken up the messages for us. Weve helped many people break them open. Heres your daily guidance when you get home for the rest of your life, throughout your day. When you go home, you pick a message every day. Youll be shocked what will happen. Weve got so many stories, so many beautiful things that Our Lady communicated to with us.

The kids were headed off on a field trip, and its a fast day, and it comes up the next day and they say, Should we be fasting? This is a field trip. You know, were celebrating, were out. Do you remember the message, the exact words? You were there, I wasnt there. So, come say it.

[JOAN]

So, this was really back in the beginning days of the Community that we were going to open up a message every day to live that one message, since Our Lady said to read Her messages every day.

It was the first field trip we were taking in the Community. It was just the moms, single women, and the children, to Amish country, actually. So, we were enjoying the food in Amish country, and we were there on a Thursday, the next day was a Friday, and then the next day, Saturday morning, we were driving back home. So, we spent the whole day checking out the bakeries on Thursday visiting the Amish, and then Friday were like, Oh man. Its a fast day. So, we were talking, Well, what do you think, Our Lady? She knows were on vacation, She knows its a field trip. Maybe She wont care if we fast.

None of us felt like we could just be so bold as to say, Well, well just not fast. So, somebody suggested, Well just open up the book. Well pray first, and then well see if theres a message. If we pick a message with the word fasting in it, then we will know we should fast. And if we dont pick a message with fasting, then well know we can eat. So, thats kind of what we decided to do. So, we did our 7-7-7, and were kneeling there. And of course, all the children are really involved in this too. They get to eat. You know, we werent going to make them fast.

So, at the end of the prayer, were kneeling there, and we said, Mary, were just praying this because were asking You a question. Would You tell us, should we fast or not? We opened the book up, point to the message:

In answer to a question

Prayer and fasting.

[LAUGHTER] We were really just moved by Our Lady, so we didnt care that we were fasting because She was so motherly in how She responded to that. We were really amazed by that.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

And, this is typical. Im talking about the efficacy of Our Lady. She says many, many times, She says, I will teach you Listen to me And if you put that circumstance up like what Joan just told, She will do that. Its amazing. And youll see miracles. She said that! She says, Youll see miracles in your everyday life. Why is that? Just think about the prodigies of the devil, how powerful his voice is. Shes here to counter that. And why would God not do that? Because weve lost so much truth, we dont even know where to find truth anymore. What is truth?

So, Gods given these messages to counter this whole electronic system, the whole build-up of little gods that weve made God. If we just had 5% of people praying to God and to Our Lady, to Jesus, just 5% of the 100% of people who are on their cell phones all day long, especially these youth. You know, I dont have to tell you anything at the restaurant. When you look, everybodys a little island, and theyre all in their selves. This is not good. You might say, Its a necessity. Well, Adam and Eve had children, and everybody else had children. Civilization went to this point without having it. You think you have to have it? No. We built a world, Our Lady said, as if we were our own creators. Weve made great civilization advancements, as if we were our own creator. So, were God, we dont need Him anymore. And Our Lady reveals this.

as I look at my children who do not pray with their feelings and actions. I am sad as I am saying to my Son that many of my children no longer have faith

Where is their faith? What are they talking to all the time? What are they doing? Why are they losing faith? If you dont pray, you lose faith. It goes away. The first thing Our Lady said when She appeared here. They asked Her why Shes come. She says, Children, have you not observed that faith is extinguishing itself? The only thing She said that She was coming back, She was here for in the beginning days for several days and weeks, and a few months, everything was about faith. Youre losing your faith. And look where we are now.

of my children no longer have faith, that they do not know Him my Son

Our Lady told us, youve heard the message if youve been keeping up with them, You imagine God who you think He is, not Who He truly is.

That is why I call you

This is a perfect example of the messages can say many things. Our Lady is here, She says, Thank you for having responded to my call. Because She is literally calling you to something and changing direction and doing something physically, not just spiritually. Your spiritual has to spill out physically. It has to run the show. You have to go through that guidance to find out what Gods will is and do that.

Yesterday in Mass the priest said, he asked the children, What do you want to do in your life? Want to be a saint? I want to take that to a higher level. Hes right in that sense, but you can remember being in school, you can remember being in high school where they brought these counselors in and these people with different occupations. What are you wanting to do in life? Or even children. You go up to a ten-year-old, What do you want to do in life?

That should never be asked of a child. We dont tell any of our children, What do you want to be? A rocket scientist? You want to do this? Why are you putting that kind of responsibility on a kid? Its stupid. Were ignorant. You may have done that. I was in high school when they brought in the military, they brought in this other occupation, they brought in whatever, to help you decide what youre going to do. Were letting the school systems and universities dictate to our children what theyre going to do by planting into them, You need to be thinking what you want to be. No, thats not it. Yes, its right, a saint. But thats not even accurate completely. We teach our children just to pray, and that every day, whatever happens, is Gods will.

We went up to a waterfall that was bone dry in August of 91. Wed been in the worst drought wed ever had. And so we consecrated that waterfall, and called it. There was a French girl there. What is rain in French? And she says, Pluie. So, we named that, consecrated it to Our Lady, called it Grotto la Pluie. If youve been up there, youve climbed up there where the waterfall is and a statue just like Lourdes above the waterfall. Its beautiful.

And so, that August we dont get rain. Two days after that consecration we got rain, and we got rain, and we got rain. And it was in the papers at that time, broke records for August simply by praying and consecrating this to the Grotto, Our Lady of the Rain, Grotto la Pluie.

So, what we learned from that is that we never talk about the weather or complain. Whats the biggest complaint for peopleabout from people besides your arthritis and this and that and that? [LAUGHTER] The weather. Man talks about this all the time. You put the news on, you always have the weather. The weather we see that, and actually the weather, determines more financially and outcomes than any other element. And thats why God used the weather. Noah and the flood. He did it with Job. Job came in and swirled the wind, killed his whole family. Nature is obedient to God, and it turns against man, not because of climate change, but because of our sin.

So, the weathers important, but the moral of this story is that we began never to ask for rain, never complain about the weather no matter what. So, what we do, I came up with three Hail Marys for it to rain, three Hail Marys for it not to rain, and three Hail Marys for God to decide that. [LAUGHTER] We were laying some water lines. Its this time of year when the winter rains start coming in, or the fall rains, and everything gets wet, you cant do anything almost until next summer.

So, were laying pipes, and the storm comes in, and weve got the ditch open. Weve got to do it because it never will dry out. So, Im digging with the back-hoe, weve got five or six guys out there. And we sit there, were off 43, the road there, the Trees in the Field off in the distance. So, I said, Lets do our three Hail Marys because its coming. And it starts sprinkling. We knew we were done all winter. So, we get on our knees, pray, and its pouring down. Were praying three Hail Marys for it to rain, three Hail Marys for it not to rain, and three Hail Marys for what Gods will is.

So, we get there and we knew if it didnt stop within the next five minutes, we were done. I mean, it just poured. I mean, it was pouring like crazy. And, we knew we were up. I said, Okay, I said, get out of the ditches. Lets just stop. As soon as we did that, the rain stopped out of the blue. And were standing there shocked, and a rainbow comes out instantly and lands right on Our Ladys head, the statue. [LAUGHTER] I mean, we became believers in those prayers.

I say this because our children are raised this way. We never ask for the weather no matter what. If were going to some place out of town, or were here, or were going to do some event, we never complain, we never ask for it not to rain, we never ask for it to rain. Its Gods will. What does this mean? Our children dont have to be told, Whats going to be your career? What do you want to be? Youre destroying your children.

Ive had people tell me over and over and over saying, The universitys destroyed my kids, repeatedly. The whole school education system is rotten. I dont care where you go, how good it is, its not the system that we need to be having. You may object to that. I had a man that objected to that, his wife wanted his kids to go to school, and then he comes to me years later after they had graduated and says, Worst thing I ever did. Wish Id never done it. We had a lady come up to me and said that, My daughter went to college. She fought the whole first year defending her faith, the second year she was silent, the third year she lost her faith.

The devil is in the system. Thats why homeschooling is saving America. And it isnt perfect. What we do and how we do it is as good as youre going to get it. If youve been to our little school, its an incredible thing. And our kids know everything. They do arithmetic, and then they take that to the carpentry shop, 4^th grade, and theyre measuring and making stuff in the carpenters shop or doing calculations. Its apprenticeship, study, study, apprenticeship. Thats how you do it. Surgeons used to be through apprenticeship. In Williamsburg, you go there for a wheelwright, seven years making wagon wheels and stuff for carts and wagons. And they teach you about the Bible through these things. So, were off-kilter.

But what point I want to make clear is about the youth, your grandchildren, your children, the future children, is you dont ask them what they want to do. You show them when you wake up, What is Gods will? You cant do and have more consolation, more happiness, greater happiness, except doing the will of God. And these three Hail Marys, and three Hail Marys, and three Hail Marys, abandons ourselves to Gods will that day.

We had another drought after that, and we were content. Our crops were being burnt up, everything, but we were perfectly content because God has the weather, and thats His will for us. What we discovered is the area of property we needed thats been in wetlands and the mess that you couldnt even drive a flotation tractor through it. It got bone dry, we were able to clean that up, go in and open it up, and captured about ten extra acres. And right when we finished, it started raining.

You live for Gods will through abandon. Our Lady says, Surrender your problems to Me. But this is really important with the youth, that you guide them, What you need to learn is not what youre going to be, but what is Gods will, and He will guide your steps for what youre going to be. I thought I was going to do something else. I never planned to be here doing this, and this is not what I wanted to do. And it was not pleasant when God showed me, but Id been saying, God, I want your will, I want your will. I prayed for three years coming here, or two years, and then He presented it to me out here in the back of the field, and it wasnt fun, and it wasnt pleasant. It was the worst moment of my life. I was bargaining with God, God, Ill keep my business. Im funding Caritas. I started it. Im giving it funds. I dont want your funds. I dont want your money. I want your business talent. And I argued with Him. Well, let me get a manager. Let me do this. Youve been telling Me for two years youll do whatever I ask you to do. Yeah God, I will do that, but not that. [LAUGHTER]

I was choking. I loved my company, I loved my business. Thats the last thing I wanted to do. And the last thing I wanted to do was homework. I hated homework in school, and thats all I do now, writing, sitting at a desk. And thats not me. But God chooses you for what you might want to do, but Im content, and Im happy with what Im doing. I get consolation from it. Not because thats what I wanted to do, but because Im sacrificing my life, February 25, 1988, sacrifice your lives for the salvation of the world The other message is, Your life does not belong to you, but is to be spent to bringing other people to eternal life. These messages are real.

So, this is a real important thing of the youth that gets around you, that you start teaching them, not forcing them. You show them through example. We had kids around - there wasnt just the six guys. They saw this rainbow. They became believers. And we want Gods will no matter how disastrous it looks that day, what may happen. We see later, Wow, that was incredible. God brought a miracle through that.

So, your goal leaving here is, I dont care how old you are, how young you are, live today for what is Gods will, and youll start seeing things and planting good fruit trees that may take four or five years of doing Gods will to start picking good fruit in your life, and the bad fruit that you planted the last 30 years or ten years, picking this bad fruit, will start diminishing. Many people today dont have any good fruit, or they have 20% good fruit, and bad fruit.

Our Lady, thats why She says in the beginning of almost all Her messages on the 25^th, Dear children, today Dear children, today We think just, Dear children. Shes saying, Today, you put this in your life, and youre planting a fruit tree. I dont care what youve done in the past. I dont care how wicked you were or how bad, how great, you start putting this in practice today, and your life will start changing slowly, but it changes.

So, this is the message:

That is why I call you

We started on this merry-go-around we just talked about, and we come back to this same message, because Shes calling you. But then She uses the same sentence saying:

why I call you, apostles of my love

So, then theres another meaning with that. She literally means apostles. She said once, Jesus has His apostles, and you are My apostles. At the beginning of the message, She says, You are my apostles, clearly. And at the end, Shes talked about Jesus has the shepherds who are His chosen.

And now we see. We had the bishops going to the laity, What do we need to do? Why are they doing that? Were in communication with different people that know bishops or are with bishops, they dont even know what to do. They literally are in that position right now. And, quote, from a higher up telling me, Theyre running scared.

Our Lady is here, I did a broadcast last night that is called, Our Ladys Here Because Whats Coming Out of the Church. She foresaw all this, and She knew it. You think She was blind to it in 1981 while She was here? Were in deep trouble, and the measurement of that is daily apparitions of the temperature of the world, each one shows how much fever we have in the Church. Were very sick. It will not be fixed in the Church by the hierarchy. It is you. She has never allowed this to be approved. She never allowed it to be condemned. And I know for a fact God doesnt want this approved, and I didnt learn that yesterday. From the very beginning I began to see this. Everybody here, the Medjugorje people, Medjugorje centers, Weve got to get Church approval. Thats the worst thing that could have happened. And now we know why. Our Lady is happy when She appears on that mountain, extremely happy. Now today She was sad. But when She goes to Ivans apparitions, Shes happier. When Shes down here, no. Why? Because the Church restricts Her. She was restricted in Fatima. She was restricted in Lourdes. She was restricted 400 years ago in (50:46) Laos, which I was reading about this, for years. And Our Lady had to tell the bishop, with an entourage of priests who were coming to stop it, told the visionary then, and they just now approved this, just the last few years, that, You tell the bishop when he gets here, that you who can call my Son down to the altar Or, no, You who can call God down to the altar have no power over Me.

God has allowed Our Lady not to be underneath the structure. She loves the Church, Shes here to save the Church, but from the outside and from the grassroots. And, we see that politically happening all around the world. We see it in the Church, and its in your hands. The Church literally is in your hands. No bishops conference is going to change anything. Its us. So, thats why She says, my apostles

I had problems with that because theologically the bishops are the apostles, and thats true. But thats Christ, and thats who Christs chosen, and thats why she said, Dont judge. Jesus will judge them. But that doesnt mean we dont have to correct. And if you listen to my broadcasts, you know I do a lot of correction. Im a sinner, and Im just as bad as anybody else, but I repent. And we have a non-repentance thats taking place. Or, its not a sin.

So, were in a position now that Our Lady says:

That is why I call you, apostles of my love: you strive to look to the very depth in human hearts and there you are certain to find the little hidden treasure

What is the treasure? Marija once, me and her were outside the choir loft, and the apparitions were there. She walks off away after the apparitions. Shes like 20 feet from me. This girl comes to me after talking to Marija. Marija says shell go to Zagreb if you would go. I dont want to leave Medjugorje. I said, No, I dont want to go. She said, Well, she said youd go. So, I went over to Marija. I said, Marija, this girl is saying if I go, you would go. I said, I dont want to go. She said, I didnt say that. I didnt want to go. And I said, Okay, I understand. So, I went and told her no.

Well, I was delayed. Marija went back to her house. As I came up the steps, the womans coming down. And she said, I just got through talking to Marija, and she said now she would go if you go. And I said, Well, you wait right here. So I went. Marija, I said, What are you doing? I said, I thought we said I dont want to leave Medjugorje. She says youll go now. She says, No, I didnt say that. So, I went down there and told the lady, I said, Were not going. And so, anyway, we left. She left. I went up and said, Marija, this is really bad what this lady did, telling this and trying to get us to go to Zagreb. And she said, No. I said, Yeah! Its bad. She said, No. Its love. I said, Love? What are you talking about? She says, Its this kind of love, and started choking herself.

She saw love in it. I saw manipulation and evil in it. And what Our Lady is saying here is for you:

That is why I call you, apostles of my love: you strive to look to the very depth in human hearts and there you are certain to find the little hidden treasure

She found, in that woman, Marija, that it was love. She wanted Marija to come. She wanted to bring the apparitions somewhere. I saw this person as doing something evil and lying and manipulation.

So, I began to realize the most degradated person in the streets has a soul from God. It doesnt matter how evil they are, how bad they are, they have this soul, and thats part of God, even if theyre killing and destroying it. Thats God in them. Theyre the parts of the animal, really. Thats what makes us distinguished different. And of course, we are much more created in the image of God.

So, Our Lady showed me this through that story that you can always find Jesus in these people, God in them. The first message Our Lady gave in our bedroom when She came, November 20, 1988, She began to give messages. She gave messages there for three months. She wasnt doing that in Medjugorje. We were all shocked. And Our Lady was extremely happy. Why? She was free. Nobody could stop us. My bishop tried to stop it. I said, You cant stop this. Marijas visiting me. You want to tell Mary not to come down here? I told the bishop, and he was mad. [LAUGHTER] I mean, hes mad, because thousands of people started coming. We didnt call anybody. It spread like Fatima. So, there were people surrounding our house. Then Our Lady appeared on Thanksgiving Day. She chose that. She went out by the Tree that you know about, most of you. And that started bringing people (55:27) to every apparition. She came back to the Bedroom and stayed the whole three months in the Bedroom, which evolved for a lot of understanding about our country, that it comes through the family, of your healing, not through the country.

So, my bishops on the phone, and hes hot. He said, You stop that! You stop people from going out there. I said, Okay. Bishop, let me get this straight. Youre telling me to stop people who are coming out here praying to the God Who I love and the God that you love? Is that what youre saying? Silence for three seconds. He says, Youre right. But I stood up to him, because I knew it was private revelation. Theres nobody that can stop that. You want to condemn it, bishop? Then condemn it. Then you can stop, but you have no authority to do that. It takes a lot of guts to stand up for that. It takes a lot of guts to have the biggest Medjugorje center in the world with a lot of umph behind it to put a broadcast out that I did on August 30^th. We sent it to 450 bishops. You dont do that. A board of directors (56:28) from any organization the size of ours would say, Youre not going to send this. This is going to damage our mission. Im not worrying about what happens to the mission. Im not worrying about condemnation from some of the bishops. Im not worrying about them condemning us or whatever. Our Lady put this, through the message, in my heart. I said what I said. And Im certain what I professed is truth, after following 30 years of messages. Have you heard that? Its called Crimes I had one lady call and say, I couldnt even sit down. I was walking around the living room I got so keyed up. But its addressing the bishops, what they have to do in November. But you dont do that except by the power of God. I cant stand up as a man and do that, or as a boy. I still think Im a boy.

But what was said on this thingIve already gotten letters back from bishops saying that theyre going to take this to the conference, and theyre going to prayerfully consider these things. Its in their face, but its respectfully in their face. And Im telling the bishops, This is what you have to do. Because your only answer, as we end this broadcast, is Medjugorje. It is why Our Ladys here. You dont have any other answer. Theres no schemes, no plans, nothing you can do to fix this. Your answer is here. Open a green light to your parishes and Medjugorje. And were coming into a phase where were going to start pressing for it. Were not going to sit there and be stopped from it. No. You cant be stopped spreading Medjugorje. When you get back home, get materials and start spreading it. Your priest cant stop you. They have to condemn it. And I put Medjugorje even with the Vatican online and got completely isolated from the whole Medjugorje world, because they said, You could have gotten Medjugorje condemned. It was over the books Poem of the Man-God. I wont go into that. Well talk about that later.

But by doing that, I believed in the apparitions. Our Lady said to read them. So, I wasnt worried about it. But Im not an apostate. Our Ladys appearing, She says something, I believe it. And thats what you need to leave here, when you leave, that you see it, you believe the apparitions, and do it. I just called somebody an apostate here, from the pulpit. Not from his pulpit, but from my pulpit about his pulpit, because he wasnt mentioning the apparitions in the evening. Lets just pray at apparition time. No, youre an apostate. You either believe the apparitions, or you dont. If the bishop likes it or he doesnt like it, you say it. The bishop doesnt believe here, and hes not supposed to be, because we dont want it approved, because theres no standing up for the messages. You dont get the message. The only place in this village to go get the message is over here in our place. Go try to find it. You maybe could buy something, but you dont get messages on a Hallmark three or four-dollar card. Go buy a Hallmark card, see what it costs. Weve given over well over a million of these here. Medjugorje is about the messages.

So, Our Lady says, in this first message, the first words She breathed in our valley:

May your life be prayer

Shes giving a whole direction for a future community that we didnt know She was going to ask for. I had started in my family the first community.

May your life be prayer. May your work be offered as a prayer and may everything that you do bring you toward me

Everything we do in our community, everything in our mission is in the idea and the concepts of the message of Who Our Lady is. We live for Her, and we have transformed our life into a way of life with Her. And this is where it comes in what She says today:

look to the very depth of the human hearts and there you are certain to find the little hidden treasure

And She says:

Let everything that you do and everybody that you meet be an encounter with God.

We meet good people, we meet bad people, all kinds of people, every day. Its an encounter with God. She didnt say most people. She says, Let it be an encounter with God. And you have to see the love, even if its choking love, where I saw the bad.

So Our Lady is teaching us this.

the little hidden treasure. To look in this way is mercy from the Heavenly Father. To seek the good even where there is the greatest evil

Did you know that they found some films, family films, of Adolf Hitler, and they scrambled these things up? Somebody bought them and sealed them up. And the reason they did that is because it showed the human side of him, the empathy side of him, and they didnt want anybody to see this, this evil, evil individual. What was it? It was him playing with children out on a lawn at a family reunion. And it made him look too nice, because he was with them. He was playing with them. And he was laughing with them.

Would you want Hitler to go to hell? For anybody that says thatI heard somebody on the radio, recently, that said, I hope they go to hell. Do you realize what youre saying? I want satan to win. Can you imagine Judas, if he had been won, that Mary, in The Poem of the Man-God, Jesus says, that he would be the greatest jewel in Heaven, because Jesus knew the devil had him. Can you imagine Hitler, if he converted and repented? And he could have, and most likely we know he didnt because he sinned against the Holy Spirit in committing suicide. But nevertheless, what is your desire? But theyre hiding this because they dont want you to see this. Hiding the truth. Because even Hitler was human. He wasnt a demon. He was a human possessed with evil. And so, Our Lady is saying something very hard for us to understand today. The most evil person.

That is why I call you, apostles of my love: you strive to look to the very depth in human hearts

You have to go into the heart. You have to look at those films like, This guy had a human side. Its amazing.

I just got through reading about the synagogue, the guy who killed everybody, and one of the women who was there went to see him in the court. She knew that she was going to look at the devil. And when she got in there, she was stunned. She said, He didnt look anything like the devil. He just looked normal. She was blown away by this. Amazing for that lady to have that and Our Ladys talking about that.

That is why I call you, apostles of my love: you strive to look to the very depth in human hearts and there you are certain to find the little hidden treasure. To look in this way is mercy from the Heavenly Father. To seek the good even where there is the greatest evil to strive to comprehend each other and not to judge that is what my Son is asking of you

If you have unforgiveness in your heart, if somebody has wronged you, theyve done all these things, you dont (1:03:04) [???] Forget all that stuff. Forgive them and move on. God will take care of that for whatever reasons there are. Now, are we not supposed to expose sin? Not necessarily, if you make scandal. But if somethings going on like whats in the Church, and youve got to protect that, yeah, theyre going to go, I know him personally. And hes doing the right thing right now, but hes not doing it to make scandal. Hes doing it to stop scandal.

that is what my Son is asking of you. And I, as a mother, am calling you to listen to Him. My children, the spirit is mightier than the flesh

St. Paul. We were in Patmos. We were in Athens where he stood right there on a rock, right on the spot, they know where it is, where he went and told the Corinthians, in the Bible, that theres one God. And he quotes Socrates. Socrates and all the philosophers 600 years before that, or 500 years before that, he believed that there was an unknown God, that the Greeks had one God that was unknown. And Socrates had moral values and was teaching the youth. He was very moral. Jesus refers to him in The Poem of the Man-God that people are given light if they have good will. And thats why, when Jesus gives a blessing, or when Hes here, its for people who have good will. They receive the blessings. Bad will, people dont get it, even if theyre blessed.

So, were standing on that, its amazing. He had one conversion. Thats all he got there in Athens. But from that one seed, everything changed. But they were ready too, because they had false gods, so they believed in the concept. And were being sent out into the Athens of the world right now. Thats what Our Ladys here for. Thats why Shes sprinkling people from all over the world to come here and sprinkling them back across their home places across the world. Youve got people to convert, after you convert yourself. You cant go and start doing it. Youve got to get the attraction. (1:05:00) People have got to be something different about you. Youve heard us say on our broadcasts, youve seen the writings, we go places, and people just come up to us. Just like this lady at the ticket counter says. I believe in you. I mean, what is she saying that for? I realized, after our flying and after I gave this other lady, she didnt believe in me. I dont know if the Holy Spirit made her say that or she knew me. Sometimes people do that. I believe in you. It was the oddest thing. I was laughing about it. She just messed up in English. I actually said to myself, She meant, I want to thank you for your business. So I translated it that way.

So, the spirit is mightier than the flesh St. Paul talks about that, that the flesh, his flesh, and his spirit was at war. You know the story about the Indian. Hes sitting there. His grandson is on his lap, and he says, What are you thinking about grandfather? And he says, A wars going on inside of me. He says, What is it? He said, Its two wolves. He said, What are they doing? He said, Theyre fighting. And he says, What are they fighting for? And he said, Ones fighting because hes for lust, stealing, malice, hatred, evil. Whats the other one? Hes for love, kindness, forgiveness, etc. He said, Which ones going to win? He said, The one I feed.

the spirit is mightier than the flesh, and carried by love and actions, it overcomes all obstacles

(1:06:24) And it overcomes the spirit.

Do not forget: my Son has loved you and loves you. His love is with you and in you when you are one with Him

Thats waking up in the morning, What is Gods will? I dont want to do anything except Your will, God. And beg for Gods will every day. That will make you the most happiest. It doesnt rescue you from difficulties, but you can cope with them when youre doing Gods will because thats the maximum holiness that you can do that day. Just trying to be a saint and walking around saintly, some of the people that think theyre saints make me sick. Its not running around and doing this. Marija, after about five or six days at our house, comes out of the Bedroom of Apparitions, goes upstairs, our kids are upstairs. We hear things crashing upstairs. Were in the Bedroom, my wife and I. We said, What is going on? We run up the steps. Shes got the lamp broken over. The kids and shes standing on the bed. Shes got a pillow, and theyre having a pillow fight. This girl just saw the Virgin Mary. [LAUGHTER] But Marija was told by Our Lady, shes so deep in prayer, shes so deep in love with Our Lady and living what shes supposed to do. We found a note in her Bible, snooping. It said, in Croatian, I had a guy that was translating it, that Mary told her, She says, My love for you, I love you so much in your walk with Me, that it is difficult for Me to not take you in My arms and take you to Heaven now. Its a struggle for Me not to take you. Its incredible. That was the essence of the message. And here she is breaking lamps. [LAUGHTER]

So, what our idea of holiness and what is really truly holy before God is not what you think. Its just doing Gods will. Thats the holiest thing, the highest sainthood you can get. So, its not about being a saint, its just about getting Gods will, and not about to decide what youre going to be or what you want to do. Where does God want you? Four years well go to college to be decided by the college what youre going to do, and 80% of the people who do that do not end up in what they went to school for. And the other 20%, most of them arent happy in what theyre doing anyway, because they didnt seek Gods will. So, you want to raise your grandchildren, you want to raise your children, you want to even amend yourself, What is Gods will for me? Its not too late. Our Lady recently said that. it is not late She didnt say, Its not too late. She said, Its not late to start My messages. We are winding down. We are in the moments of the Secrets. We are headed toward this thing ending, but its not that late to stop or to change.

And you see this, this is just one message. And I could do a talk like this on the messages tomorrow, totally not saying anything Im saying thats the same thing, because they have that power. And thats what I want you to see, what were talking about now, how different this message can be, what youre hearing now, that you go a week from now.

by love and actions, it overcomes all obstacles

Your spirit must be in charge, not your flesh. Youve got that struggle. Fasting is a perfect example, where your stomach says, Hey buddy! Feed me! And your souls saying, No, youre not going to eat. Theres a fight going on. Theres a war going on. Who are you going to feed? The stomach, or are you going to feed the soul? When you feed the soul, fasting becomes easy, and actually, youll enjoy fasting. You say, How can I do that? You do it for years, and youll do that. Itll be part of your life. I forget to eat sometimes. And Im so conditioned to fasting that its not that hard. Its hard in the beginning, but also, I have an asset, because we were raised on Italian bread after school instead of candy bars. And we loved that chunk of bread. Teach your children to love bread. Dont ever complain about fasting and bread even if you want to gag. Always be positive to your spouse to. I love this bread. Dont spit it out in front of them. [LAUGHTER]

He is the light of the world and no one and nothing will be able to stop Him in the final glory

In The Poem of the Man-God, I was reading last night an incredible story, that Jesus had a confrontation with the Pharisees. They threw a rock, slashed His hand, it has blood on it. And so, theyre attacking Him the next day, and they want a sign. He said, Only the sign of Jonah will be given to you, and this is a sign and He held His hand up, and He showed the blood on it. And He says to them, He says,

This will be your sign, because Im coming now for the first time, but when the second time I come, and I show you the sign, it will be My Blood, and it will be the Second Judgment, and those who are called back out of the abyss of hell will be looking at My Blood and be so terrorized by it, that theyll seek to go back into the abyss for relief.

Its incredible. The second judgment is going to be so horrible, theyll want to go back to hell rather than be in His Presence of what His Blood has done. That tells you a lot about the Eucharist.

He is the light of the world and no one and nothing will be able to stop Him in the final glory

Shes part of the Second Coming. Shes here to prepare us for it. Youre walking just like the apostles did. This is Her time, and Shes raising up apostles to do what Louis de Montfort, Ive told you through the years, if you followed, that there would be a time that would come, Our Lady would raise up apostles of the latter days, and they will be purified as the children of Levi. Thats why youve got to suffer. Thats why youve got to be purified to be in an apostle just like the original apostles.

Therefore, apostles of my love, do not be afraid to witness the truth

People prefer not to say, Well, I dont want to say that. I didnt let go of this lady that said, I dont believe. Basically, she said, Im an atheist. And Our Lady made me realize, you know, this lady that said, I believe in you, is Our Ladys voice through this woman, and then I got up and I caught her. What she does with itI gave a whole Rosary to her on the plane, that, I planted the seed Mary. Its up to You now. And I have no doubt Shes going to grab her next year or next day. Itll happen.

Witness it with enthusiasm, with works, with love, with your sacrifice, and, above all, in humility

Not arrogance. Not beating people over the head. You might be able to just say a little bit, and then the next day, say a little bit, or next month. But you get the authority to speak about the messages by living the messages. Thats where authority comes from.

Witness the truth to all those who have not come to know my Son

Shes not saying to hold back. You witness it.

I will be alongside you

She literally means that. I will be alongside you You can experience that here, if you get by yourself, get away from your family, your spouses. Get out here in the fields, no matter what the conditions are, and open your heart to Her. Kneel down and pray. Spend several hours out here. Go to the mountains at night time. Come back. When I started seeing something in the messages, I went up both mountains every day when I was here. And I began to see things, because I was being told here in the pulpit, Oh, Our Ladys just saying the same-old thing. Its just the Gospel. Yet Benedict said, Cardinal Ratzinger at the time, that, We cannot confine ourselves to the sterile repetitions of revelation, the Bible. That private revelations, which is what the messages of Our Lady are, invigorate public revelations.

We are living Bible. We are living Revelation. Our Lady is bringing messages to manifest and help us understand these revelations through Her messages. Without the messages, we dont grasp the Scriptures the way we should. Her messages are a preface.

I will encourage you. Witness the love which never ends because it comes from the Heavenly Father who is eternal and who offers eternity to all of my children. The spirit of my Son will be alongside you. Anew I am calling you

Thirty-seven years. Today, She told you, Anew I am calling you Wheres the numbers? Medjugorje is diminishing right now. Why? Because of the same reason they started leaving Jesus. One hundred and forty people or so. Hes ready to give the major teaching. Eat My Flesh, drink My Blood. And they leave. He turns to the Apostles. Only twelve are left. They all left. He didnt say, Come back! Oh, I didnt mean that. Youll understand later. He let them go. So, not everybody here is going to stay with this. But you should be one to yourself that, Im going to stay. That Our Lady says:

The spirit of my Son will be alongside you

She means that, literally. You can walk with Jesus. You can climb that height to the saints. Nobody has hadSt. Francis didnt have what you have. The saints in the past didnt have this. Were in something particularly. She said in the 90s on June 25^th, You are in a particular time. Weve never experienced this before.

The spirit of my Son will be alongside you. Anew I am calling you, my children: pray for your shepherds, pray that the love of my Son may lead them

So, well end with that. Ill talk about October 25^ths message a few days ago, because it ties to this. Everything builds on another and make it more clear. Our Lady is real. This is something to finish our encounter today in contemplating Who Our Lady is.

[SONG: REAL]

Frozen statues in the cold, washed in moonlight, blue and gold. Marys Babe in plastic hay, quiet wonder on Her face. Mary, you look so serene, far too pretty, much too clean. We might think we know you well, but what stories would you tell? Of all the dirt and dust and shame, every burning labor pain. And as I turn to walk away, I hear You say,

I am real. Dont turn me into memory or myth. Let Me be real, real, and Ill show you what it means to love like this, to be real.

Shepherds bending to the ground, Bethlehem is safe and sound. Joseph, you look brave and true, but do we know what it was like to be you? How many sleepless nights awake found you desperate and afraid? And as I turn to walk away, I hear you say,

I am real. Dont turn me into memory or myth. Let me be real, real, and Ill show you what it means to love like this.

To love like you dont even care about the hurry and the hustle, like you are unaware December comes with so much trouble. Cause you believe a Baby came, not in paintings or in plays but every minute, every hour, every day. To be real, real

You are real, real. Show us what it means to love like this, to be real, to be real. More than a memory. More than a story.

Real.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, Our Lady is funding us right now. Its sprinkling. Were ending. Our Lady sends messages through nature, She says, that speak to you. Here we are, the two hours we talked about the weather, and She holds off to just give us a little blessing to show. And She wants us to read these things. You dont have to be thinking, Oh, Im reading into it. Itll happen over and over and over to you.

So, well end this. Well be speaking again together tomorrow again. Same place, same time. One thing Our Lady does in Alabama when She comes, if She wants to come back to the same place (1:21:08) ??? because we never ask. We never say, Marija, lets go over here. Lets go to the mountain. Lets go to this place. In 1988, we just abandoned everything to Our Lady. And She took full control. She changed the times, morning times, evenings, late, early. It was beautiful because She was designating whereIts the only time Shes ever, geographically, did something at the site where thousands of places the visionaries have gone. And so, Shes done that for us many, many times. Its beautiful the way She does it. So, we abandon ourselves to Our Lady. The more you abandon to God, the more She can do what She wants to, Her plans, because theres always the restrictions that immediately move in on Her apparitions.

So, you want to approach this in a way with just complete openness. You just make yourself available in nature or up on the mountains and push yourself.

In the Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen

[JOAN]

I was going to say, you havent met Fr. ???

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Aw man! Theres a priest here and you didnt tell me that. [LAUGHTER] Come down and give a blessing, though. Its important to understand, Our Lady said, do not judge Weve got a lot of sickness in the Church, but that doesnt change anything in what you receive. Our Lady has made it very clear, the most important blessing that you can receive is the end of Mass. And one thing She has taught us also, that when a priest blesses you, that is Jesus Christ, in reality, in realness, Whos blessing you. So, I always like to get prepared for a blessing from a priest (1:22:41) ??? just like swatting flies. What you are about to receive is a blessing from Christ. You should take it with great seriousness.

So, we ask for your blessing.

[FR. ???]

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty God, our Father, we thank You for bringing us together this evening and for opening our hearts to the message given by Your Son. We ask You, Lord, to help us to continue to live the message of our Blessed Mother, Mary. You sent Her to us for a reason. Now in the Church, [???]. For me the message is for the Church, for the priests. Your Blessed Mother, Mary, asks us to pray for priests, pray for your shepherds. It puts tears into my eyes because we are going through a lot. We pray particularly for us priests that we can continue to lead the Church in the right direction. As we go this evening, Lord, we ask You to continue to guide us, for You to bless us [???] with the fruits, the messages of our Blessed Mother, Mary, for peace, for consolation, for forgiveness of our sins.

May Almighty God bless you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Go in peace.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Thank you.

[REYES]

And so, ending tonights encounter with a Friend of Medjugorje with the priestly blessing, on behalf of a Friend of Medjugorje, Caritas of Birmingham, the Community of Caritas, BVM pilgrimages, Medjugorje.com, and Radio WAVE, goodnight.

[ANNOUNCER]

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