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"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

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[ANNOUNCER]

This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[REYES]

And you are hearing Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

In todays broadcast, we are going to share with you an excerpt from the December 11, 2018 encounter with a Friend of Medjugorje here at Caritas during the Five Days of Prayer for the reconciling of ourselves, our families, and our nation back to God.

A Friend of Medjugorje will share with us in todays excerpt some deeper insight to the importance of Medjugorje, and he also answers two questions which were sent in. And in answering one of the questions, a Friend of Medjugorje reveals a never-before-released message of Our Lady to him through Marija. And so, we are excited to be able to share this with you for the very first time.

And so, here is a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Good afternoon.

[CROWD]

Good afternoon.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

We just got this feedback when I was upstairs. I saw it. So, its a question, actually, and I was going to start off with it. It says, its David he didnt put his last name from Australia. And Australias about as far as you can get from here, but we get people all over the world. Its really interesting seeing, you think, whos listening, and its beautiful to see these little corners of the earth that they would have never have come here, they would never go to Medjugorje, but how Gods arranged it for so many people to be touched by Her messages.

But the question is,

I have a question for a Friend of Medjugorje that he can hopefully answer and put the answer in a Radio WAVE topic (let me know when its done).

The Apostles had many gifts after the first Pentecost. This includes the ability to raise people from the dead and cure illnesses. Did these, abilities and gifts, get passed on when others became confirmed

Speaking, I think about the early Christians,

which is to receive the Holy Spirit in the modern days. Is this part of what Our Lady means by faith extinguishing itself?

If this were to be enforced today, there would be no problems in the Church. I suspect this will return after the Secrets promised, because the people will truly believe that they can move mountains.

I think what hes asking is, basically, did we lost this somewhere along in the Church, because the early apostles, the early Christians, were able to do many miracles. St. Paul was touched with a handkerchief and they took the handkerchief and they took it someone else and theyd cure him. So, even in the fabric, the transmission of the miracle was given through even material objects.

And of course, anything thats initiated, theres a lot of grace attached to it. In the beginning of Medjugorje, everything was happening. The mountain was on fire. They saw PEACE written in the sky, MIR M-I-R. There were just many, many things.

When I was with 20/20 when we were doing the first documentary on Medjugorje for ABC, they went to some of the older people there in the beginning days, and this is in 1988 or 89, somewhere around that time. But they started looking people up, what happened in the first days. And one story thats not even published out there, I dont even know if the Community knows about this, but they interviewed this woman, and she didnt believe, and she asked for a sign. And she walked toward her barn, and she saw all the cracks at the top and then the middle of the door and then underneath the door, just a huge light shining out, glaring out like at night time, but it was during the day time. And it was brighter than the daylight. And she went there and opened it, and she just saw this huge light for a couple seconds, and then it went away. So, it was her, and she knew, intuitively, it was a sign from Our Lady. Theres many, many things like that that happened.

So, when God initiates something, thats where the most power is given as far as graces, and those graces are so profound that you cant deny it.

Another time, there was a nun called Sr. Margaret Simms. She was part of a Medjugorje center in Chicago, Center of Peace, I think, in Chicago. And she was there for about a month. She was out at 6 oclock in the morning in the summer time, and she looked up at the Cross, and she saw Our Lady extending Her hands over the whole valley, next to the Cross, as big as the Cross. And there were people already out there starting to work the fields. And the people she was staying with were in the house. She wanted to go tell them to come out and look at this. And she couldnt do that because if she did, shed leave this, and she was so mesmerized that she just stood there. And it lasted for ten minutes. And everybody in the village saw it. And so, Sr. Margaret went back and told them what happened and they were upset with her. How come you didnt do that? And I thought, Why didnt she do that? And then she said, Well, if you saw that, you wouldnt leave it either.

So, the graces and these kinds of miracles are really lost. Really, we need to go and probably tape, theres a lot of people thats dying, that are not stories because there were so many stories. Its what John wrote I think it was John who said, If we told all the stories of what Jesus did, it would fill all the books of the world. Now, that was back then, because books were very valuable and they were rare, but he equated it to that, and of course, it wouldnt be the books we have now because were just way over stocked on whats given out today.

But anyway, in the initiation of these things, I think hes asking, Is this going to happen with Medjugorje? Our Lady is on the mountain, especially on Ivans apparitions and with Mirjana, praying over the sick. Every time Our Lady prays over the sick. Of course, that could be sick of soul, diseases of souls, or it could be physical ailments, fatal diseases, which, through the years, many of those have died thats been prayed over. But at the same time, Our Lady has people all over the world that have been prayed over. And of course, he says, at the end of this, he says, I suspect this will return people having the ability to heal people or call upon Jesus and Our Lady and Her name and cure people,

I suspect this will return after the Secrets promised because the people will truly believe they can move mountains.

So, I dont think its so much that we lost that throughout Christianity as much as we lost demonic possessions. The more Christianized a place becomes, the less the devil can possess and be active there. And theres no reason to giving miracles. Those things will diminish. And there will be a new initiative with the Secrets to believe in the apparitions for many people. And as many people across the world thats been prayed over, thats been on the mountain, theyre sprinkled from Africa to every place you can imagine.

Weve talked about the aborigines who came on planes. They dont wear shoes because their callouses are so thick. They came in barefooted and right out of the jungle. Somebody brought a whole bunch of them there. They were cannibals, in 1970. Thats how fresh they are out of the wild.

So, these people have come. People from every corner of the earth have come there. And theres so many people thats been prayed over and yet not healed, but proportioned that the power Our Lady has and what Shes praying for the sick. Why is She praying for the sick and nothing happens? Theres very, very few miracles thats really happened in proportion for the people thats come to pray to be healed. And I think there will be an attachment of great healings, a wave, a super wave, of some context with the Secrets. Will it come from people having the power to pray over people or say, In the name of Our Lady and what Shes done and Her messages, youre healed? Will that happen? We dont know. But I think somethings going to happen, because this has to be a huge wave that spreads across the world that therell be massive conversions. And Our Lady, again, has prayed over so many people that somebodys going to know somebody who knew that person.

The fact that we have an imbalance of people who are unjust in compared to those we are battling, there has to be some kind of impetus that would convince people, and the unjust, to go forward in the process of conversion, something thats going to give them that tip over the line, that impetus that no matter what theyve heard about Medjugorje, how much theyve been turned off or what theyve heard, somethings got to click. And so, these healings, I think, will be part of that.

America has not seen possessions like Italy has. Were starting to see that now because were a Christian nation. And the more Christianized something is, the more youre protected from these things. And now we see, really, demonic behavior. We see people that are so filled of hatred, hatred, raw hatred, that theyre opening themselves up to possession.

In The Poem of the Man-God, Jesus says,

There are so few just men as opposed to the hordes of the unjust. satan has an immense number of children and servants

Our Ladys entering into a world where this is the case. The deck is stacked against us.

The Son of God has an insignificant of true children and true servants.

So, Our Ladys going to have to put some kind of power, just like in Medjugorje. There was so many graces available that even the communists were converted. Hardcore people. So, well see a new wave of this initiative with the promise. Why would we not? Its just a reasoning to bring in conversion to the whole world. And thats what She wants. And youve heard me say this many times. June 25, 2007:

God desires [the conversion of] the entire world.

Hows that going to happen? Its got to be extraordinary graces sweeping across the world.

So, you have Our Lady doing that, and that would be my answer. Theres another question here from Clovis, California. And they write,

Ive been thinking about this, praying since reading one of the latest posts from a Friend of Medjugorje referring to the Special Blessing like a chain. Those who have received it will be stronger together. Im praying mej.com can be an instrument to spread the Blessing without too much burden on you

In other words, instead of us having to come here, you do it, we can do something through Medjugorje.com, and shes alluding because you dont have to be in the presence of someone to give it.

There are many of us out here that would love to be a part of spreading this Blessing to those who are seeking it. I am so grateful to have received it. I cant imagine being a follower of Our Lady and Her Community being so far away and not knowing who to ask to extend it to me. I understand that it is too much for the Community, but you and your Community have extended arms. We are here too, even far away. Please, I ask, if there is a way to connect through the website

Which means networking everybody out there thats got Special Blessings, that we put on our website.

I think you could raise an army of Our Ladys soldiers who would pray and extend the Blessing. Ive been thinking of all sorts of ways that you could have a place on the website for people to sign up and pray and receive it. Or maybe just connect us together by sharing emails. I dont know. Im not tech savvy at all, just willing and praying, because I think, if we desire it and pray it, it will be a blessing without too much burden on you. Thank you for your yes Etc.

Before this building was built, and we were in whats our root cellar now, thats where Caritas moved. It was our third move. This was our fourth move here. And we moved off property. We had put a new phone system in, and we could connect people, and my thought was to do a Special Blessing and have people out there that have it and then call in on our phone system, find out your local area and connect everybody like this. But I didnt want to do that because I knew we could do it without being in the presence. I knew we could extend it to somebody halfway around the world in that sense. We knew that they didnt know where it was being given to them, rather, and all these things. I had already thought about that. And I looked at our system. Our system could handle it. Those days, actually, Medjugorje was so big and so much enthusiasm, we were getting up to 3,000 phone calls a day. We had fifteen women here at that time, and one guy [LAUGHTER].

But anyway, we worked this thing out. We could do it, but something told me, you know, I need to go before Our Lady. So, I flew all the way to Medjugorje. I was with Marija. We were at her house, again, one of the those situations where it was just me and her. And I asked her to ask Our Lady, that weve got the framework for an apostolate to spread the Special Blessing, and we can connect everybody, we can say if youre a local person and you call this zip code, this person has it, you can go see it. Or we can have people call over the telephone. So, we already had the infrastructure of the apostolate, and I went in front of Our Lady and I said, Is it okay for us to do an apostolate for the Special Blessing? So, Marija presented this to Our Lady, and Our Lady answered it, and She said, No Now, that didnt violate, in the sense, that you dont have to be in the presence or anything that they were going to be doing in the apostolate. And I was excited. I was amazed because Our Lady cared so much about my walk and so much what we were doing at that time in our mission that She told us no. To me, it wasnt a disappointment. I dont want to go down any road that Im not supposed to be going down. But that was the grace that put in me to check this out and run it by Our Lady. I mean, how many people have an opportunity to do something like this. Because, again, it wasnt aligned with all the principles of how it works, but it was just going through a more tech way to do.

So, I was elated that Our Lady had so much interest in which way we were going that She said no. It didnt hurt my feelings at all. I was just grateful and thankful for it. But then She added something else. She said, No. But I want you to spread the Special Blessing to all. Incredible. She didnt want to go through the high-tech system. She wants it to be personal. She wants it to be one-on-one. Thats why, when somebody calls, you can do it, if your aunt calls your telephone or whatever. You can do it. But as an apostolate, we dont do it and we will not do it because its too impersonal. Wed get calls all day long, Okay. Well stop and pray for you and give a Special Blessing. You know you cant be heard on Confession over the telephone. Its not allowed in the Church. And theres a lot of reasons for that, but still, its too much in the drive-in window type mentality.

So, this is a no to this person. We wont do it, not because we reasoned our thought about something. Our Lady directly told us not to. But at the same time, She didnt abandon it. She says, I want you out there doing this. If Medjugorje is about anything, its about witness. Theres nobody I know, did Our Lady say in any of Her messages, Be a witness. Be a witness. But, you know, I got the personal message. All of you are aware of it. You be a witness. Pray and witness with your life. So, that was a personal direct message. But I dont do what I do because of that. I do what I do because the messages show me to do that. The result of the fruit God wants to do with that, thats His problem.

So, we got into agriculture because we wanted to be able to unburden our lives from the mission when donations come in, to give the maximum amount of money into these materials and things and projects, or what youre doing. We didnt ask you to pay something here to come here. We dont ask for money. It comes from us not paying ourselves other than just meager stipends. So, weve given up wealth. Weve given up everything. But we get 2x4s out of a tree we cut down and build a barn for free. Its just our labor. Very little money. Weve exchanged, through grace, an economy that were out of, and we walk out and we dont have any cash in our pocket. Its so nice not to have any money on you.

And so, its a beautiful way of life. Its very difficult to get to where we are, and we didnt have a path or a blueprint. I was dropped in the middle of the jungle with no compass or nothing, and just through prayer, which direction should I go? And I had to cut the path. So, if anything, we are, here, weve cut the path. You may have to go through the jungle, but its already there for you to see. And Im convinced, 300 years from now, people will be looking at us, what we did, how we did it, in our walk with the Virgin Mary, in an intimate way. You saw that in the house last night. Look at all those messages. Thats only 1988 and January of 1989.

So, our walk with Our Lady is a physical walk outside of the visionaries, but no less important. You say, Well, thats pretty high level. It is. But your walk with Our Lady is no less than ours. Our Lady says, You cannot comprehend your role. Youre not going to know it in this life. Youll never understand it, how great your role is. So, dont think, Well, gosh, Id like to be where you are. Yeah, you would, but if you went through some of the things, you might change your mind [LAUGHTER].

I believe I was raised for what Im doing now. Hassan, the Muslim, who, in 1979, was interviewed. Youve heard me talk about that, most of you. Hassan said that the Virgin Mary was coming. His version of Muslim was the Sufi Muslims. They have a great devotion to the Virgin Mary. They have a prophecy in the Sufi Muslims that the Virgin Mary would come to the earth and that She was going to raise apostles, and this interview was 1979. She came in 1981. And he said something really incredible. He says, there will be people thats already born or will be born, and without knowing to the individual, they will be being prepared for these apparitions.

So, theres people thats been born in 1981, 1953 like I was, or 1982 or before 1970 whose cognition and life and everything they do is for preparation for the coming of Our Lady. I know, in my life and childhood all the way, I have been trained for this the whole way, everywhere. I see back, I see this and understand these things now that Our Lady was working on me and just as well on you, if you can open your heart to see it, in preparation for what Her plans are for you.

And so, he made many other predictions about what Our Ladys doing, and he was talking about, you know, the whole world, bringing a conversion. Its really an amazing prophecy. And this is documented.

So, you have to be sensitive. When do you be bold, when do you be passive, when do you be proactive, when do you just be silent and dont even answer it and let your witness see that you can take certain things? To Love, the writing up in the chapel, go reflect on that. Dont just read it. This is real life. You cant write those things, Im going to write a poem. And you cant write something like that in two minutes unless you already know that, unless you have cognition of that, unless you lived those things. Its simple. Its not like I have to think about it, because I lived it, and Ive got a long way to go for holiness. Ive got a long way Our Lady wants me to go. And Im speaking, when I say I, you. You have the same path. Its there.

So, were part of something thats so big, so deep, and when you start digging into it, you cant believe it. I cant believe Im alive in this time. But always say this one thing: Why is Our Lady here, every day, for 37 years? except, She is showing the daily temperature is rising, because one more apparition happened today, one more degree it got hotter. And it gets hotter and hotter. So that, in itself, the length of it, instead of ridiculing it, should be very disturbing to those who believe it but dont want to recognize it. Because a lot of people believe it, but,
Its just another thing. Lets just let it go.

I want to finish with something that I actually enjoy every year. I think this is our third year, maybe? This is just a fluke. We were in the studio. I was asked just to do a commentary on something. Its freelance, so its not premeditated as far as a written script. So, its not real smooth, but its just from the heart. And its nine days before Christmas. It starts on the 16^th. And you do it every day with your family. And I love doing it. The people in the Community love doing it. Were going to play one of them, Day 2, just to give you a sampling of it, because it gives an impetus for people to gather their children and their family together. And its kind of a long novena, but Christmas is really a big deal. Why would you not prepare for it? You say the Rosary with it, the meditation, and it purposely repeats what you read so that you get it in your heart. Our Ladys repeated many things. What does a good teacher do? Its repetitive. Thats done on purpose. But all this was something turned into something that we didnt plan to do.

They Fired the First Shot, never in my life. If Our Lady says, Youre going to sit down and write a 1,000-page book, Id say, No, Mary. Listen. I wrote, I must obey by these nuns hundreds of times. I aint writing a 1,000-page book. [LAUGHTER] And then Id go bring it to the nun the next morning, and shed look at it and throw it in the garbage can [LAUGHTER]. I thought shed frame it or do something or show the other nuns or brag about it, Look what this boy did. She didnt do anything.

But I went to write only about Rwanda, and just a one-pager. After writing that, I knew I needed to write a little bit more about it. Then it turned into a newsletter, and then the newsletter, I knew its got to be a book. But I told Mary, I said, No bigger than I See Far. I dont have time. It was spring time. I didnt have time to do this. When I got that big, I realized Our Lady was writing this thing in real time, with Obama. Everything happened. The power he was taking. This book is real time. And if you read it now, and you should re-read this thing, youll be shocked how much is said in 2012 that happened three or four or five years later. Our Lady made things understand by me when I wrote it that hadnt happened. And I was shocked by it.

So, this is one of those things that we start off with. Our Lady does it. She doesnt tell us what were going to do. We just start doing it. We think were just doing it on a human level. And then we find out, Well, this is from Our Lady.

So, anyway, were going to play, just so yall get a feel of it, of the second day, which is Decembert 17^th. Wheres Martha and Victoria and them? This is one they like the most.

[CLIP: THE NINE DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, DAY 2]

[SONG: THE FIRST NOEL]

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel. Born is the King of Israel.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

We must ask ourselves, in this Christmas season, as we approach this day of Christ being born, what prevents your heart from receiving Him? What all is false within them? Were so busy. We have no room for Christ. We have no room for the season. Theres no space, no place. Everything is full in the heart. So many distractions. Our Ladys messages call us to make that room, to open our hearts for that.

I heard a commercial the other day that best displays this, that were so connected to the world that we no longer have any room for Jesus.

[COMMERCIAL]

[MOM]

So, Jaqueline.

[DAUGHTER]

Yes, mom.

[MOM]

I wanted to talk to you about something, and

[PHONE BUZZES]

[MOM]

Oh, wait, hold on. I just got a text. [PHONE BUZZES] Oh, theres another one. Wow. Busy, busy me! So, anyway

[OTHER PHONE PINGS]

[DAUGHTER]

Oh, wait mom. I just got a message. My friends keep commenting on my comment. [PHONE PINGS] Oh, theres another one. So many comments on my comment!

[T.V. TURNS ON]

[DAD]

Oh, I cant wait to watch T.V. tonight! Playoffs!

[SON]

Hey guys! Check out my new video game.

[DAUGHTER]

Wait, mom, what?

[DAD]

What? Hold on.

[DAUGHTER]

What did you say?

[SON]

Wait a sec, mom?

[NARRATOR]

This weekend, unplug. Take your family to the forest. Theres nothing in the world like experiencing nature firsthand. Trees, paths, bluebirds, streams. Getting closer to nature can get you closer to your family. To find a forest nearest you, go to discovertheforest.org, brought to you by the U.S. Forest Service.

[END COMMERCIAL]

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Do you think for a moment that Jesus told us in the Bible, See how well the worldly promote their ways? And He relayed to us, Learn from the world in promoting My way. Their methods. If this can be seen, that youre so distracted, that you unplug yourself from all the distractions to restore yourself, you think Our Lady has some higher meaning when She tells us on November 25, 1988,

I call you to prayer for you to have an encounter with God in prayerduring the day find yourselves a special [place and] time when you can pray in peace and humility and have this meeting with God, the Creator

If theres people out there that know you need to unplug from your cell phones, your distractions, all your business, because theres no room for God in your heart, in your inn, to unplug to go out in nature, that Our Lady says these words, meeting with God, the Creator what did He create? When we think about the Creator, we think about nature and that.

And so it is, in this season, we need to be contemplating these words of Our Lady and the purpose of them. This November 25, 1988 message was given in our home when Marija was here. And I remember reading that, and it struck me deeply. Because Our Ladys called for this. April 25, 1993, Our Lady says,

I invite you all to awaken your hearts to love. Go into nature and look how nature is awakening and it will be a help for you to open your hearts to the love of God the Creator

This is where well be restored. And then Our Lady comes up and does something beautiful in our home, near midnight.

Theres a novena called St. Andrews Prayer, and it says,

Hail and blessed be the hour and the moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in piercing cold in that hour

And on a dark, starry night, December 24, 1988, we made room for Jesus in the inn. And unexpectedly, for us, we were up late that night. It was just before midnight, and Our Lady appears to Marija. And She goes from the 24^th, Christmas Eve, just a couple minutes before the apparition, on into the 25^th. And in that message, Our Lady said, for the first time, creation and never has said it since, and She said it twice. She says,

Today I give you my Special Blessing. Bring it to all creation, so that all creation will know peace 

I was stunned by this. I went out and blessed the trees. I was the first one in the world to hear this message besides Marija. She told me about it.

This Christmas, make room for Jesus in the inn. Unplug. Look at what distracts your life, what tears you apart, where youre not being able to listen to Him because of so much false glitter, things that arent real. Trade it for what is real. We did that in preparation for several years before Marija came here, and may be better said, our preparation was done for several years before Our Lady came here.

I was one of the first to have a cell phone in Birmingham, among the first two or three people that had it. It cost $2,600. You had to screw the thing into the dashboard. It was a big process installing it. But I didnt feel right about it. I felt something was wrong. When everybody started jumping on the bandwagon shortly after that, I got rid of mine. I disconnected. It was these things that Our Lady was able to do things with me. Had I not done that, Our Lady would not have been able to do what She did with me and in my home. In other words, Our Lady couldnt have spoken to me, shown me a way, with that kind of distraction, because it was the plan to come to Birmingham, just like in Bethlehem, and we had the Christ Child that Christmas night in our home. The question is, do you want Him? Will you make room, or is there no room in your heart for Him?

And so it is, with our heart, we wish you Our Lady. We love you. Goodbye.

[SONG: NO ROOM]

On a dark and cold starry night, Mary heavy with child, whispered to Joseph, I cant go on anymore. So he wrapped Her up in his arms, said, Ill find you someplace warm. But they were turned away at every door.

No room. No room. Sorry, but were too full to let you in. No space. No place for the Baby Jesus. No room

Once again, Christmas is here, the busiest time of the year. Theres a growing list of last-minute things to do. Not many shopping days left. Still got presents to wrap. People to see and parties weve got to go to.

No room. No room. Sorry, but lifes too full to let You in. No space. No place for the Savior Jesus. No room.

No room. No room.

[END CLIP]

[THEME MUSIC]

[ANNOUNCER]

You are listening to a excerpt from an encounter with a Friend of Medjugorje, December 11, 2018. This took place during the Five Days of Prayer for the reconciling of ourselves, our families, and our nation back to God, an annual prayer gathering taking place at Caritas of Birmingham since 1993.

The full version of this encounter with a Friend of Medjugorje, as well as the December 10, 2018 encounter can be obtained as a complete package titled, Get Your Own House in Order, a 4-CD set available for just $12.95.

To obtain your copy, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000. Outside of the U.S., dial 001-205-672-2000. Or you can visit mej.com, spelled M-E-J.com and click on Shop Online. When calling in or placing your order online, be sure to use the item number CD1037.

Now, here is a Friend of Medjugorje to conclude todays encounter.

[THEME MUSIC]

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Faith is going to tell you a story. She was in the loft last night. This is what our kids are raised with and what they live with. Theyve got cognition that Our Ladys listening to them and cognition that Our Lady acts on that with them. Shes very much alive. This place is seamless from Heaven and earth. Were convinced of it.

[FAITH]

I was handing out the consecration cards up in the loft, and then I was saying a Rosary because I was just standing there and nobody was coming. And so, after I finished my Rosary, I went and picked a message, and I picked December 25, 1998.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

You did the Rosary?

[FAITH]

After I did the Rosary. And so, I picked this message and

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Did anybody ask you to say the Rosary?

[FAITH]

No.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

She did it on her own [LAUGHTER]. A young girl goes up there and prays the Rosary, and they didnt even do what the Fatima children did, Hail Mary, Hail Mary, Hail Mary, [LAUGHTER] the fast one. They did the real Rosary, on their own. This is the message she picked, December 25^th.

[FAITH]

"Dear children! In this Christmas joy I desire to bless you with my blessing. In a special way, little children, I give you the blessing of little Jesus. May He fill you with His peace. Today, little children, you do not have peace and yet you yearn for it. That is why, with my Son Jesus, on this day I call you to pray, pray, pray, because without prayer you do not have joy or peace or a future. Yearn for peace and seek it, for God is true peace. Thank you for having responded to my call."

And I just thought it was awesome because its close to Christmas.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

In the loft with Baby Jesus, praying. They have the cognition of seeing Our Lady really, You listen to me, and She speaks. Okay.

Yall know it. Do it. [KIDS LAUGHING]

[FAITH & VICTORIA]

Busy, busy me!

[LUCY]

Oops! I just got a text! Busy, busy me! [LAUGHTER]

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Alright. Thats it.

[REYES]

And that was a Friend of Medjugorje, December 11, 2018 during the Five Days of Prayer. The nine-day Christmas novena, in which you heard the second days excerpt can be found on mej.com. You can either search for the nine-day Christmas novena, or you can find it under the Prayers and Novenas of the Community section. If you wish to purchase a copy to be sent to your home, you can click on Shop Online, and under the prayer books section, you can find the nine-day Christmas novena.

And as we end this last broadcast of the year, 2018, we wish everyone a very continued Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year, looking forward to coming again into your home on the second of the month with a Friend of Medjugorje sharing the first message of the new year, 2019.

And so, on behalf of a Friend of Medjugorje, Caritas of Birmingham, the Community of Caritas, BVM Pilgrimages, Medjugorje.com, and Radio WAVE 24 Hours, goodbye.

[THEME MUSIC]

[ANNOUNCER]

This ends the Mejanomics broadcast with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts are available as CDs which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.