The visionary Ivan of Medjugorje tells us what Our Lady is looking for from us

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

Pater, Ave, Glory.

Queen of Peace, pray for us.

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

Dear priests, dear friends in Christ, at the beginning of this morning's meeting I wish to greet you all from the heart.
My desire is to be able to share with you the most important things to which our holy Mother invites us in these 31 years.
I want to explain these messages to you to understand them and live them better.

Every time Our Lady turns to us to give us a message, her first words are: "Dear my children". Because she is the mother. Because he loves us all. We are all important to you. There are no rejected people with you. She is the Mother and we are all Her children.
During these 31 years, Our Lady has never said "dear Croats", "dear Italians". No. Our Lady always says: "Dear My children". She addresses the whole world. It addresses all of your children. He invites us all with a universal message, to return to God, to return to peace.

At the end of each message Our Lady says: "Thank you dear children, because you have answered My call". Also this morning Our Lady wants to say to us: "Thank you dear children, because you have welcomed Me". Why did you accept my messages. You too will be instruments in My Hands ”.
Jesus says in the holy Gospel: “Come to Me you tired and oppressed and I will refresh you; I will give you strength. " Many of you have come here tired, hungry for peace, love, truth, God. You have come here to the Mother. To throw you into His embrace. To find protection and security with you.
You have come here to give you your families and your needs. You have come to say to her: “Mother, pray for us and intercede with Your Son for each of us. Mother pray for all of us. " She brings us to her heart. She put us in her heart. So he says in a message: "Dear children, if you knew how much I love you, how much I love you, you could cry with joy". So great is the Love of the Mother.

I would not want you to look at me today as a saint, a perfect one, because I am not. I strive to be better, to be holier. This is my wish. This desire is deeply imprinted in my heart. I didn't convert all at once, even if I see the Madonna. I know that my conversion is a process, it is a program of my life. But I have to decide for this program and I have to persevere. Every day I have to leave sin, evil and everything that disturbs me on the path of holiness. I must open myself to the Holy Spirit, to divine grace, to welcome the Word of Christ in the holy Gospel and thus grow in holiness.

But during these 31 years a question arises within me every day: “Mother, why me? Mother, why did you choose me? But Mother, weren't there better than me? Mother, will I be able to do everything you want and in the way you want? " There hasn't been a day in these 31 years where there have been no such questions within me.

Once, when I was alone at the apparition, I asked Our Lady: "Why did you choose me?" She gave a beautiful smile and replied: "Dear son, you know: I don't always look for the best". Here: 31 years ago Our Lady chose me. He educated me at your school. School of peace, love, prayer. During these 31 years I am committed to being a good pupil in this school. Every day I want to do all the things in the best possible way. But believe me: it's not easy. It is not easy to be with the Madonna every day, to speak with her every day. 5 or 10 minutes sometimes. And after each meeting with the Madonna, return here on earth and live here on earth. It's not easy. Being with the Madonna every day means seeing Heaven. Because when the Madonna comes she brings with her a piece of Heaven. If you could see the Madonna for a second. I say "just a second" ... I don't know if your life on earth would still be interesting. After every daily meeting with the Madonna I need a couple of hours to get back into myself and into the reality of this world.

What is the most important thing to which our holy Mother invites us?
What are the most important messages?

I would like to highlight in particular the essential messages through which the Mother guides us. Peace, conversion, prayer with the heart, fasting and penance, strong faith, love, forgiveness, most holy Eucharist, confession, holy Scripture, hope. You see ... The messages I just said are those with which Mother guides us.
If we live the messages we can see that in these 31 years Our Lady explains them to better practice them.

The apparitions began in 1981. On the second day of the apparitions, the first question we asked her was: “Who are you? What's your name?" She replied: "I am the Queen of Peace. I come, dear children, because My Son sends me to help you. Dear children, peace, peace and only peace. Peace be it. Peace reign in the world. Dear children, peace must reign between men and God and between men themselves. Dear children, humanity is facing a great danger. There is a risk of self-destruction. " Look: these were the first messages that Our Lady, through us, transmitted to the world.

From these words we understand what is Our Lady's greatest desire: peace. The Mother comes from the King of Peace. Who can know better than the Mother how much peace our tired humanity needs? How much peace our tired families need. How much peace do our tired young people need. How much peace does our tired Church need.

Our Lady comes to us as the Mother of the Church and says: “Dear children, if you are strong, the Church will also be strong. If you are weak, the Church will also be weak. Dear children, you are My living Church. You are the lungs of My Church. This is why, dear children, I invite you: bring prayer back to your families. Let your family be a chapel where they pray. Dear children, there is no living Church without a living family ”. Once again: there is no living Church without a living family. For this reason, we must bring the Word of Christ back into our families. We must put God first in our families. Together with him we must walk into the future. We cannot wait for today's world to heal or society to heal if it does not heal the family. The family must heal spiritually today. The family today is spiritually ill. These are the words of the Mother. We cannot even expect that there will be more vocations in the Church if we do not bring prayer back to our families, because God calls us to families. A priest is born through family prayer.

The Mother comes to us and wants to help us on this path. She wants to encourage us. It takes consolation. She comes to us and brings us a heavenly cure. He wants to bandage our pains with so much love and tenderness and maternal warmth. You want to guide us towards peace. But only in His Son Jesus Christ is true peace.

Our Lady says in a message: “Dear children, today as never before, humanity is going through a heavy moment. But the biggest crisis, dear children, is the crisis of faith in God, because we got away from God. We got away from prayer. Dear children, families and the world want to face the future without God. Dear children, today's world cannot offer you true peace. The peace that this world gives you will disappoint you very soon, because only in God is peace. This is why I invite you: open yourselves to the gift of peace. Pray for the gift of peace, for your good.

Dear children, today prayer has disappeared in your families ”. In families there is a lack of time for each other: parents for children, children for parents. There is not even more loyalty. There is no more love in weddings. So many tired and destroyed families. The dissolution of the moral life occurs. But the Mother tirelessly and patiently invites us to prayer. With prayer we heal our wounds. For peace to come. so there will be love and harmony in our families. Mother wants to lead us out of this darkness. It wants to show us the way of light; the way of hope. The Mother also comes to us as the Mother of hope. She wants to bring hope back to the families of this world. Our Lady says: "Dear children, if there is no peace in the heart of man, if man does not have peace with himself, if there is no peace in families, dear children, there cannot be not even peace in the world. This is why I invite you: do not talk about peace, but start living it. Don't talk about prayer, but start living it. Dear children, only by returning to prayer and peace can it heal your family spiritually. "
Today's families have a great need to heal spiritually.

In the period we live in we often hear on TV that this company is in an economic downturn. But today's world is not only in an economic downturn; today's world is in a spiritual recession. A spiritual recession raises all other problems from an economic recession.

The Mother comes to us. She wants to lift this sinful humanity. She comes because she is worried about our salvation. In a message he says: “Dear children, I am with you. I come to you because I want to help you to make peace come. But, dear children, I need you. With you I can make peace. For this, dear children, make up your mind. Fight against sin ”.

Mother speaks in a simple way.

You repeat your appeals so many times. He never gets tired.

You mothers present here today at this meeting How many times have you said to your children "be good", "study", "do not do certain things because they are not going well"? I think you have repeated certain sentences a thousand times to your children. You are tired? I hope not. Is there a mother among you who can say that she was lucky enough to have to say these phrases only once to her son without having to repeat them? There is no this mother. Every mother has to repeat. The mother must repeat so that the children are not forgotten. So does the Madonna with us. The Mother repeats so that we don't forget.

She didn't come to frighten us, to punish us, to criticize us, to tell us about the end of the world, to tell us about the second coming of Jesus. She didn't come for this. She comes to us as the Mother of hope. In a particular way, Our Lady invites us to Holy Mass. He says: "Dear children, put Holy Mass at the center of your life".

In an apparition, kneeling before her, Our Lady said to us: “Dear children, if one day you had to make a choice between coming to me and the Holy Mass, do not come to me. Go to Holy Mass. " Because going to Holy Mass means going to meet Jesus who gives himself; give oneself to him; receive Jesus; open up to Jesus.

Our Lady also invites us to the monthly confession, to venerate the Holy Cross, to adore the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.

In a particular way, Our Lady invites priests to organize and guide Eucharistic adorations in their parishes.

Our Lady invites us to pray the Holy Rosary in our families. It invites us to read Sacred Scripture in our families.

She says in a message: “Dear children, the Bible be in a visible place in your family. Read the Holy Scriptures so Jesus is born again in your heart and in your family "

Forgive others. Love others.

I would particularly like to stress this invitation to forgiveness. . During these 31 years Our Lady invites us to forgive. Forgive ourselves. Forgive others. Thus we can open the way to the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Because without forgiveness we cannot heal neither physically nor spiritually. We really have to forgive.

Forgiving is truly a great gift. For this reason, Our Lady invites us to prayer. With prayer we can more easily accept and forgive.

Our Lady teaches us to pray with the heart. Many times over the past 31 years he has repeated the words: "Pray, pray, pray, dear children". Do not pray only with the lips; do not pray in a mechanical way; do not pray looking at the clock to finish as soon as possible. Our Lady wants us to dedicate time to the Lord. Praying with the heart means above all praying with love, praying with our whole being. May our prayer be an encounter, a dialogue with Jesus. We must get out of this prayer with joy and peace. Our Lady says: "Dear children, prayer be joy for you". Pray with joy.

Dear children, if you want to go to the school of prayer you must know that there are no stops or weekends in this school. You have to go there every day.

Dear children, if you want to pray better you must pray more. Because praying more is always a personal decision, while praying better is a grace. A grace that is given to those who pray most. We often say that we don't have time for prayer; we don't have time for children; we don't have time for the family; we don't have time for Holy Mass. We work hard; we are busy with different commitments. But Our Lady replies to all of us: “Dear children, don't say you don't have time. Dear children, the problem is not time; the real problem is love. Dear children, when a man loves something he always finds time for it. When, however, a man does not appreciate something, he never finds time for it. "

For this reason Our Lady invites us so much to prayer. If we have love we will always find the time.

During all these years the Madonna is waking us from a spiritual death. It wants to wake us up from the spiritual coma in which the world and society find themselves.

She wants to strengthen us in prayer and faith.

Also this evening during the meeting with the Madonna I will recommend all of you. All your needs. All your families. All your sick. I will also recommend all the parishes you come from. I will also recommend all the priests present and all your parishes.

I hope that we will answer the call of Our Lady; that we will welcome your messages and that we will be collaborators in building a better world. A world worthy of the children of God.

Your coming here is also a beginning of your spiritual renewal. When you return to your homes, continue with this renewal in your families.

I hope that you too, in these days in Medjugorje, will sow a good seed. I hope this good seed will fall on good ground and bear fruit.

This time in which we live is a time of responsibility. For this responsibility we welcome the messages to which our holy Mother invites us. We live what he invites us to. We are also a living sign. Sign of living faith. Let's decide for peace. Let us pray together with the Queen of Peace for peace in the world.

Let's decide for God, because only in God is our only true peace.

Dear friends, so be it.

Thank you.

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

Pater, Ave, Glory.
Queen of Peace,
pray for us.

Source: ML Information from Medjugorje