The seer Jacov tells you about the Madonna, fasting and prayer

Testimony of Jacov

“As you all know, Our Lady appears here in Medjugorje from 25 June 1981. We often ask ourselves why the Madonna has been appearing here in Medjugorje for so long, why she gives us so many messages .. The reason we should have understood it all by ourselves. Our Lady comes here for us and comes to teach us the way to go to get to Jesus. I know that many think that it is difficult to accept the messages of Our Lady, but the first thing you need to do when you come to Medjugorje to accept everything is to open your heart to the Madonna. They give so many letters to present them: I believe that you do not need our card, the best letter we can give you comes from our heart: you need our hearts.

THE PRAYER:

Our Lady invites us to pray the Holy Rosary every day in our families, because she says that there is no greater thing that can unite the family like prayer together.

I believe that none of us can pray if we feel obliged to do it, but each of us must feel in his heart the need for prayer ... Prayer must become food for our life, prayer gives us the strength to go on, to overcome our problems and gives us peace to accept what happens. There is nothing that can unite like prayer together, praying with our children. We cannot ask ourselves why our children do not go to Mass at the age of twenty or thirty if we have never prayed with them until then. If our children do not go to Mass, the only thing we can do for them is to pray and be of example. None of us can force anyone to believe, we must feel Jesus each of us in our heart.

QUESTION: Isn't it difficult to pray to what Our Lady asks?

ANSWER: The Lord gives us gifts: praying with the heart is also his gift, let's ask Him. When Our Lady appeared here in Medjugorje, I was 10 years old. At first, when he spoke to us about prayer, fasting, conversion, peace, Mass, I thought it would be impossible for me, I would never have succeeded, but as I said before, it is important to abandon oneself in the hands of Our Lady ... ask grace to the Lord, because prayer is a process, it is a way.

When Our Lady came to Medjugorje for the first time, she only invited us to pray 7 Our Father, 7 Ave Maria, 7 Glory to the Father, then later she asked us to pray a third part of the Rosary, then still later the three parts. del Rosario and still later he asked us to pray 3 hours a day. It is a prayer process, it is a road.

QUESTION: If friends who are not interested in praying come to us while you pray, what to do?

ANSWER: It would be nice if they also prayed with you, but if they don't want you for education, stay with them and then you will finish praying. Look, we can't understand one thing: Our Lady said to us in a message: I want you all saints. Being holy does not mean being on your knees 24 hours a day to pray, being holy is sometimes having patience even with our family members, it is educating our children well, having a family that gets along well, working honestly. But we can have this holiness only if we have the Lord, if others see the smile, the joy of our face, they see the Lord on our face.

QUESTION: How can we open ourselves to Our Lady?

ANSWER: Each of us must see inside our heart. To open ourselves to Our Lady is to speak to her with our simple words. Tell her: I now want to walk with you, I want to accept your messages, I want to know your son. But we have to say this in our own words, simple words, because Our Lady wants us as we are. I say that if Our Lady wanted something more particular, she certainly did not choose me. I was an ordinary child, just like I am an ordinary person now. Our Lady accepts us as we are, it is not that we have to be who knows what. She accepts us with our flaws, with our weaknesses. So let's talk to you. "

THE CONVERSION:

Our Lady invites us first of all to convert our heart. I know that many of you want to see us when they come to Medjugorje. We are not important, we must not come here for the visionaries, we must not come here to see any signs. Many stop to see the sun for an hour. The greatest sign that can be received here in Medjugorje is our conversion and when you return to your homes it is not important to say: "we have been to Medjugorje". This has nothing to do with it, the others must see Medjugorje within you, they must recognize the Lord within you. We must testify first of all within our families and then be witnesses to everyone else. Testifying means talking less with our mouth and more with our life. It is the only way we have together with prayer to help the world.

THE FAST:

“Our Lady tells us to fast on Wednesday and Friday with water-based bread, but we must do it with love, in silence. I think nobody should know that we are fasting that day. We fast to offer something to ourselves. "

QUESTION: "How do you fast if it weighs?"

ANSWER: “If we really want to do something we do it. We all in our lives have a person to whom we truly want immense good and are willing to do anything for her. If we truly love the Lord we can also do fasting, which is a minimal thing. Everything depends on us. At the beginning we can only offer something, even children can fast in their own way, for example by watching less cartoons. The elders will spend more time on prayer that day. Fasting for those who talk a lot is trying to be silent that day. It's all about fasting, it's all about offering. ”

QUESTION: "What did you think the first time about the meeting?"

ANSWER: "At first a great fear, because we found ourselves on the road under the mountain and I wanted to go home, I didn't want to go up because there was the figure of a woman who invited us with her hand to go up. But when I approached it and I saw it really closely, in that moment all fear disappeared. There was only this immense joy, this immense peace and also a great desire that the moment would never end. And always stay with you. "

QUESTION: "Ask Our Lady how you should behave?"

ANSWER “It is something everyone asks me but they make a big mistake. I had a great gift from the Lord, see Our Lady, but we are like all of you. For example, in all the seventeen years in which I saw the Madonna every day I never asked her a personal question to ask her for advice on a decision to make or what I had to do. I always have in mind what Our Lady said: "pray, and during prayer you will have all the answers you seek". It would be too simple if Our Lady told us to do this or that, we have to understand it for ourselves. "

QUESTION: "What is the current attitude of the Church towards Medjugorje?"

ANSWER: “You only have to come to Medjugorje for a reason. There are some things that bother me. For example, there is Mass, there is Adoration in church and some people stand outside looking at the sun and looking for signs or a miracle. The greatest miracle at that time is Mass and Adoration: this is the greatest miracle that can be seen.

The process of recognizing Medjugorje is long, but I am sure that Medjugorje will be recognized by the Church. I don't worry about this, because I know that Our Lady is here. I know that I have seen Our Lady, I know all the fruits of Medjugorje, you see how many people convert here. So let's leave the Church time. When it comes it comes. "

Source: Medjugorje Turin - n. 131