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Children of Medjugorje
President: Denis Nolan
Vice-President: Sister Emmanuel
Advisory Board:
Cardinal Jaime Sin
Cardinal Bernardino Echeverria, O.F.M.+
Archbishop Frane Franic
Archbishop D. Peter Chung
Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio, O.F.M.
Bishop Michael D. Pfeifer, O.M.I.
Bishop Donald Montrose
Bishop William Ellis
Fr. Daniel Ange
Ralph Martin
October 15, 2002
Dear Children of Medjugorje,
Praised be Jesus and Mary!
1. On September 27, Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti gave birth to a baby boy, Giovanni
Maria, and both mother and child are well. Let us thank our Creator and
let's rejoice with Paulo, Marija and their 3 elder sons for the blessing
of this new life in their midst.
2. This is truly the month of Mary and in these days of great need, we dare
not miss this message I found that powerfully conveys what Our Lady has in
store for us. On October 25, 1984 Our Lady said: "Dear children, pray during this month. God has allowed me to help you everyday
with graces, in order to protect you from evil. This month is mine. I would
like to give it to you. Pray and God will give you the graces that you ask
for. I will support your requests."
Pope John Paul II knows how much she will support our requests. Lately,
he has shown once more that he speaks much like the Queen of Peace. On October
9, 2002, in his Wednesday audience, he said: "I invite you, dear young people,
to pray the rosary every day..." "I encourage you, dear sick people, to
place yourselves with confidence in the hands of Mary, invoking her incessantly
with the holy rosary. And I exhort you, dear newlyweds, not to neglect this
praying meditation on the mysteries of Christ, in the light of Our Lady's
gaze."
In September The Holy Father announced that he is preparing a document which
will help to rediscover the beauty and depth of this prayer. He said, "It
is necessary that the Church 'go into the deep' of the new Millennium beginning
with the contemplation of the face of Christ. I wish to suggest the recitation
of the rosary to individuals, to families and to Christian communities.
To give force to this request, I am also preparing a document, which will
help to rediscover the beauty and depth of prayer. I wish to entrust once
again the great cause of peace to the prayer of the rosary. We are faced
with an international situation full of tensions, of incandescent dimensions
... I am thinking of nations, but also of families: how much peace would
be assured in family relations, if the holy rosary was prayed by the family!"
(September 29, 2002)
3. During a visit to Vicka's home with a few friends the other day, Mario
showed us the Apostolic Blessing that Pope John Paul II signed for Vicka,
just as he did for Marija and Fr. Jozo (none of the four other visionaries
were given this Blessing - at least at that time). We can only celebrate
the Holy Father1s decision to express his heart felt care for these outstanding
witnesses of the Queen of Peace.
4. Keeping with our little tradition here is one more installment of the interview we had with Jelena!
Sr. Emmanuel: Jelena, when did you stop having inner-locutions?
Jelena: In 1992 I left Medjugorje to study in America. At that time the locutions became irregular. And they stopped in 1994.
Now, I feel Our Lady is guiding me. I don't feel that she is absent, but
I just don't have those clear words from Her that I used to hear.
Sr. Em: Do you remember the exercises that Our Lady gave you for your prayer group? Didn't she teach you how to love one
another?
Jelena: Oh, yes! Fr. Slavko liked those exercises. I remember that Our
Lady asked us to pray together with the person we like the least. Not to
create natural sympathies in the prayer group, but to base our relationships
on supernatural love. I think that the Holy Spirit can truly do this. I
knew people who were very annoying and disturbing but when the Holy Spirit
was within us we could love even those hard to get along with. There are
very few people who disturb me but some have, because I am human too. But
they only disturb me if I don't pray which means that I'm not keeping my
own peace. They should never be able to take your peace away! If they can
take your peace away that's usually a sign that your under the level of your
prayer, your batteries are very low.
We had a prayer meeting three times a week for one and a half hours after
school or work. It was really a time of grace because I don't know how we
did it. We spent many days and nights on the mountain praying and in the
morning we went to school. After school we worked. If nothing else, I would
fall down and sleep when they went ahead of me in the tobacco fields!
Sr. Em: Did you have spontaneous prayer during the meetings?
Jelena: Yes, Our Lady told us to listen to each other when we were praying
spontaneously because we had to pray together as a community, not just arbitrarily
about things that came to our mind.
Sr. Em: I was fascinated by the insistence of Our Lady that her greatest
joy was the unity of your hearts praying together to Jesus.
What are your best memories as a child or a teenager during that time in the group?
Jelena: I remember once that Fr. Slavko said: "I knew that Our Lady was
guiding you because of the love I saw among members in the prayer group."
It was true. Our prayers were sometimes very personal. I1ve never heard
one person make any type of comment about the prayers that were said among
us. There was so much respect and so much love because everything was based
on supernatural love. This was when we were young and this is why Our Lady
wants young people: they are so open to grace! They hold no reservations.
When we become older we start calculating things. You can see it in our neighborhood--
The grownups are always looking at each other and wondering; "Will you greet
me, and will you say hi? How are you treating me, how should I treat you?"
But you have children just running from one house to the other.
Sr. Em: How do you get supernatural love?
Jelena: Well, you have to be a little crazy for the Gospel. You simply
have to allow the Holy Spirit to transform you. Usually when there's no
love there's fear. There's fear of the other, there's fear that someone
will hurt you, someone will take advantage of you. You think: "How will
they receive me? What do they think about me? Will they accept me?" Lots
of young people have all sorts of difficulties because of this. They need
to be loved but they are seeking human love and they're often disappointed
and lonely. But we were so fortunate that our friendships were based on
supernatural love. The Holy Spirit gives you so much consolation that you
never need chocolate. As young people we need this consolation because we
are so fragile. And unless we have the Holy Spirit that is consoling us
we can feel very lonely and this can be a great source of difficulties and
sin.
Sr. Em: Do you think Our Lady has realized and fulfilled her plan with your prayer group?
Jelena: That is a very difficult question! I don't think that things are
over. It just doesn't make sense that she would guide us for so many years,
and not complete her plan. But I see her plan at work in personal lives.
I still see the people who were in the prayer group and they are quite different
from those who were not part of it. They are still going to Krizevac, to
Apparition Hill and they are still personally committed to Our Lady's plan.
I think there will come a time when lay people will be needed more in spiritual
instruction. We need to learn how to live the role of a lay person in the
church, receiving spiritual gifts and sharing our faith. We have people
who are truly living the messages, but now it is important that they work
in the area where they live, to share their faith. I think I would also
like to see them working in the world because the world needs so much. (More
to come!)
Dearest Gospa: Please cover the entire world with such prayer
groups so that our unity of heart may radiate your motherly solace and defeat
hatred!
Sr. Emmanuel
PS. According to our inquiries, John Paul II signed these three Apostolic
Blessings last May. The initiative had been taken by the Polish pilgrim
leader, Krystyna Gregorezyk from Kielce, Poland. She waited until August
before delivering them to Fr. Jozo, Vicka and Marija.
PPS. During this month of Mary consider ordering from Children of Medjugorje:
T2 When Death Spearates Us From Those We Love" or M12 "Why Fear What Is To
Come" or "Chose Your Future! Heaven? Hell? Purgatory? or M14 "Stressed?
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