A Friend of Medjugorje shares many personal stories about his walk with Medjugorje and gives a compelling answer to the question about what is the most important thing about Medjugorje.
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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.
[REYES]
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
24th. 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 25th 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, 4th 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 25th, 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 30th. 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 25th, 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 25ths 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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