Ivan of Medjugorje: the twelve things that Our Lady wants from us

What are the most important messages to which the Mother invites us in these 33 years? I would like to highlight these messages in particular: peace, conversion, prayer with the heart, fasting and penance, firm faith, love, forgiveness, the most holy Eucharist, reading of Holy Scripture, confession and hope.

Through these messages the Mother guides us and invites us to live them.

At the beginning of the apparitions, in 1981, I was a boy. I was 16 years old. Until then I could not even dream that the Madonna could appear. I had never heard of Lourdes and Fatima. I was a practical believer, educated and raised in faith.

The beginning of the apparitions was a huge surprise for me.

I remember well the second day. Kneeling before her, the first question we asked was: “Who are you? What's your name?" Our Lady replied smiling: “I am the Queen of Peace. I come, dear children, because My Son sends me to help you ". Then he said these words: "Peace, peace, peace. Peace be. Peace in the world. Dear children, peace must reign between men and God and among men themselves ". This is very important. I want to repeat these words: "Peace must reign between men and God and between men themselves". Especially in the time in which we live we must resurrect this peace.

Our Lady says that this world today is in great discomfort, in a profound crisis and there is a risk of self-destruction. The Mother comes from the King of Peace. Who can know more than you how much peace this tired and tried world needs? Tired families; tired young people; even the Church is tired. How much he needs peace. She comes to us as the Mother of the Church. You want to fortify it. But all of us are this living Church. All of us gathered here are the lungs of the living Church.

Our Lady says: “Dear children, if you are strong the Church will also be strong. But if you are weak, the Church will also be weak. You are My Church alive. So I invite you, dear children: let each of your families be a chapel where you pray. " Each of our families must become a chapel, because there is no praying Church without a family that prays. Today's family is bleeding. She is spiritually ill. Society and the world cannot heal unless they heal the family first. If the family heals we will all benefit. The Mother comes to us to encourage us, console us. He comes and offers us a heavenly cure for our pains. She wants to bandage our wounds with love, tenderness and maternal warmth. He wants to lead us to Jesus. He is our only and true peace.

In a message, Our Lady says: "Dear children, today's world and humanity are facing a great crisis, but the biggest crisis is that of faith in God". Because we have turned away from God. We have turned away from God and from prayer