10 secrets of Medjugorje: some things you didn't know

So said Mirjana about the 10 secrets of Medjugorje
Each of the 10 secrets will be confided to the priest ten days before and communicated to the world three days before it is realized.

DP: (….) When was the last time you met the Madonna?
M: April 2nd. on March 18 (apparitions) we spoke of the Holy Mass and on April 2 (locution) of non-believers.

DP: She is handing over the ten secrets like Ivanka and however the Madonna said to her: you will reveal the secrets through a priest. How should we deal with these secrets?
M: Even speaking of these secrets I can say that Our Lady is very worried about non-believers, because she says that they don't know what awaits them after death. She tells us that we believe, she says to the whole world, to feel God as our Dad and She as our Mum; and not to be afraid of anything wrong. And for this reason you always recommend praying for non-believers: this is all I can say about secrets. Except that I have to tell a priest ten days before the first secret; after the two of us we will fast seven days bread and water and three days before the secret begins he will tell the whole world what will happen and where. And so with all the secrets.

DP: Do you say one at a time, not all at once?
M: Yes, one at a time.

DP: It seems to me that P. Tomislav said that the secrets are tied like in a chain ...
M: No, no, priests and others talk about this, but I can't say anything. Yes or no, or how .. I can only say that we must pray, nothing else. Only praying with the heart is important. Praying with the family.

DP: What do you intend to pray? You say it with extraordinary sweetness ...
M: Our Lady doesn't ask for much. You only say that everything you pray, you pray with your heart and only this is important. In this time you ask for prayers in the family, because many young people don't go to church, they don't want to hear anything about God, but you think it's a sin of the parents, because children have to grow up in the faith. Because children do what they see their parents do and for this reason parents need to pray with their children; that they start when they are young, not when they are 20 or 30 years old. It's too late. Afterwards, when they are 30 years old, you just have to pray for them.

DP: Here we have young people, there are also seminarians who are becoming priests, missionaries ...
M: Our Lady asks that the Rosary be prayed every day. You say that it is not very difficult to believe, that God does not ask for much: that we pray the Rosary, that we go to church, that we give ourselves one day for God and that we fast. For the Madonna fasting is only bread and water, nothing else. This is what God asks.

DP: And with this prayer and fasting we can also stop natural disasters and wars ... For the visionaries they are not equal. Mirjana's cannot be changed.
M: For us six (seers) the secrets are not the same because we do not talk to each other about the secrets, but we understand that our secrets are not the same. For this reason, for example, Vicka says that one can change secrets with prayers and fasting, but mine cannot be changed.

DP: Can't the secrets entrusted to you be changed?
M: No, only when Our Lady gave me the seventh secret did she impress me a part of this seventh secret. This is why you said that you tried to change it, but you had to pray to Jesus, God, who also prayed but we also needed to pray. We prayed a lot and later, once, when she came, she told me that this part has changed but that it is no longer possible to change the secrets, at least the ones I have.

DP: In practice, secrets or some of them, like those of Fatima, are not beautiful things. Here, but you got married, Ivanka also got married. For us it is a reason for hope: if you got married there is hope in you. If some secrets are ugly, you mean there will be suffering in the middle of the world. However…
M: Look, Ivanka and I believe so much in God and we are sure that God does nothing bad. You understand, we have put everything in the hands of God. It is everything, I cannot say anything else.

DP: We are not afraid of death if we go to Heaven ...
M: Yes, look that it is not so difficult for a believer to die, because you go to God, where you feel better.

DP: Have you seen Heaven?
M: I only saw two-three seconds only Heaven and Purgatory.

DP: (....) What impression did you have of Heaven?
M: There are people's faces, you see that they have everything, a light, a contentment. This touched me a lot. When I close my eyes I always see how happy they are. He doesn't see this on earth ... they have another face. In Purgatory I saw everything white, as in Arabia.

DP: Like in the desert?
M: Yes, I have seen that people suffer from something, physically. I have seen that they suffer, but I have not seen what they suffer for.

DP: Are people in Heaven young, or old, children?
M: I said that I only saw two or three seconds, but I saw that people are around 30-35 years old. I haven't seen many, few. But I think they are 30-35 years old.

DP: (….) Tell us about the meeting of April 2 with the Madonna
M: We prayed for several hours together for non-believers.

DP: What time did it come?
M: Before, every two of the month she always came at 11 in the evening, until 3-4 in the morning. Instead, on April 2nd she came at 14 pm. It lasted until about 45. It is the first time that it comes in the afternoon. I was alone in the house and I felt the same symptoms as in the evening when she is about to come. I felt that I was starting to sweat, to be nervous, to pray. And when I started to pray, I felt that she also immediately prayed with me. We didn't talk about anything, we just prayed for unbelievers.

DP: Have you seen her?
This time I just heard it.

DP: Once, you said to me: Our Lady told me to say something to you.
M: Yes, about unbelievers. When we talk to non-believers it's not fair to say: why don't you go to church? You have to go to church, you have to pray ... It is necessary instead that they see through our life that there is God, that there is Our Lady, that we must pray. We must set an example, not that we always speak.

DP: So discussions are not needed, is an example needed?
M: Just the example.

DP: Are prayer and sacrifice, prayer and fasting the two strongest tools to help or is prayer enough?
M: Both of them go together for me, because prayer is a beautiful thing, but fasting is a small thing that we can give to God, it is a small cross that our body does for God. (After Mirjana has recommended the prayer for the souls of Purgatory ...)

DP: You have now formed a family, you got married. Our Lady says: this is the year of the family. How are you and your husband transforming?
M: Now let's pray together. In Lent we prayed a little more, on normal days we pray a Rosary and seven Hail, Gloria, because Our Lady said that she likes this prayer very much. Every day we pray this; Wednesday and Friday we fast, dome all Christians who believe in God.

Source: Eco di Medjugorje (Registration by Maria Rosa Birelli - Transcription by Bonifacio-Medjugorje Lecco Group). Interview by Pietro Zarza of 16.04.90