Ivan of Medjugorje: what is the most important thing that Our Lady wants from us?

In a message at the beginning of the apparitions, Our Lady said: “Dear children, I come to you to tell you that God exists. Decide for God. Put him first in your life and in your families. Follow him, because He is your peace, the Love ". Dear friends, from this message of Our Lady we can see what her desire is. She wants to lead us all to God, because He is our peace.

The Mother comes to us as a teacher who wants to teach us all. Truly you are the best educator and pastoral teacher. It wants to educate. It wants our good and guides us towards the good.

I know that many of you have come here to Our Lady with your needs, problems, desires. You have come here to throw yourself into the embrace of the Mother and to find security and protection with her. Mother knows our heart, our problems and our desires. She prays for each of us. He intercedes with His Son for each of us. You report all our needs to your Son. We came here to the source. We want to rest at this source, because Jesus says: "Come to Me all you tired and oppressed and I will refresh you, I will give you strength".

We are all here with our Heavenly Mother, because we want to follow her, live what she gives us and thus grow in the Holy Spirit and not in the spirit of the world.

I would not want you to look at me as a saint, as a perfect, because I am not. I strive to be better, to be holier. This is my desire which is deeply imprinted in my heart.
I didn't convert all at once, even if I see the Madonna. I know that my conversion, like that of all of you, is a process, a program for our life. We must decide for this program and be persevering. We have to convert every day. Every day we must leave sin and what disturbs us on the path of holiness. We must open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, be open to divine grace and welcome the words of the holy Gospel.
In all these years I always ask myself: “Mother, why me? Why did you choose me? Will I be able to do anything you want from me? " Not a day goes by that these questions are not asked within me.

Once, when I was alone at the apparition, I asked: "Mother, why did you choose me?" She replied: "Dear son, I don't always choose the best." Here: 34 years ago Our Lady chose me to be an instrument in her hands and in those of God. For me, for my life, for my family this is a great gift, but at the same time it is also a great responsibility. I know that God has entrusted me a lot, but I also know that he equally seeks from me.

I am aware of the responsibility I have. With this responsibility I live every day. But believe me: it is not easy to be with the Madonna every day, talk to her 5 or ten minutes and after each meeting return here on earth, in the reality of this world and live on earth. If you could only see the Madonna for a second - I say only a second - I don't know if life on this earth would still be interesting for you. After this meeting, every day I need a couple of hours to recover, to return to this world.

What is the most important thing to which the Madonna invites us in these 34 years? What are the most important messages?
I would like to highlight them. Peace, conversion, prayer with the heart, fasting and penance, firm faith, love, forgiveness, Most Holy Eucharist, reading of Holy Scripture, monthly confession, hope. These are the main messages through which Our Lady guides us. Each of them is explained by the Madonna to live them and put them into practice better.

In 1981, at the beginning of the apparitions, we were children. The first question we asked was: “Who are you? What's your name?" He replied: "I am the Queen of Peace. I come, dear children, because My Son Jesus sends me to help you. Dear children, peace, peace. Only peace. Kingdoms in the world. Peace be it. Peace reigns between men and God and between men themselves. Dear children, this world is facing great danger. There is a risk of self-destruction. "
These were the first messages that Our Lady, through us visionaries, communicated to the world.

From these words we see that Our Lady's greatest desire is peace. She comes from the King of Peace. Who can know better than the Mother how much peace this tired and restless world needs? How much peace do our tired families and our tired young people need. How much peace even our tired Church needs.
But Our Lady says: “Dear children, if there is no peace in the heart of man, if man has no peace with himself, if there is no peace in the family environment there can be no peace in the world. Therefore I invite you: open yourselves to the gift of peace. Pray for the gift of peace for your sake. Dear children, pray in families ”.
Our Lady says: "If you want the Church to be strong you too must be strong".
Our Lady comes to us and wants to help each of us. In a particular way, it invites the renewal of family prayer. Each of our families must be a chapel where we pray. We must renew the family, because without renewal of the family there is no healing of the world and of society. Families must heal spiritually. Today's family is bleeding.
Mother wants to help and encourage everyone. It offers us a heavenly cure for our pains. She wants to bandage our wounds with love, tenderness and maternal warmth.
In a message he tells us: “Dear children, today as never before, this world is going through heavy crises. But the biggest crisis is that of faith in God, because we have turned away from God and from prayer ”. Our Lady says: "Dear children, this world has walked towards a future without God". Therefore this world cannot give you true peace. Even the presidents and prime ministers of the various states cannot give you real peace. The peace they offer you will disappoint you very soon, because only in God is true peace.

Dear friends, this world is at a crossroads: either we will welcome what the world offers us or we will follow God. Our Lady invites us all to decide for God. Therefore she invites us so much to renew family prayer. Today prayer has disappeared in our families. Today there is no time in the family environment: parents do not have time for children, children for parents, mother for father, father for mother. There is no longer love and peace in the family environment. Stress and psychosis reign in the family. Today's family is spiritually threatened. Our Lady wants to invite us all to prayer and to walk towards God. The current world is not only in the economic crisis, but is in the spiritual recession. The spiritual crisis produces all the other crises: social, economic ... Therefore it is very important to start praying.
In the February message Our Lady says: “Dear children, do not talk about prayer, but start living it. Don't talk about peace, but start living peace. " In this world today there are too many words. Talk less and do more. So we will change this world and there will be more peace.

Our Lady did not come to frighten us, to punish us, to tell us about the end of the world or the second coming of Jesus. She comes as the Mother of hope. In a particular way, she invites us to Holy Mass. We put Holy Mass first in our lives.
In a message he says: "Dear children, Holy Mass must be the center of your life".
In an apparition, we are kneeling before the Madonna, she turned to us and said: "Dear children, if one day you had to make a choice whether to meet Me or go to Holy Mass do not come to Me: go to Holy Mass" . Holy Mass must be the center of our life, because it means going to meet Jesus who gives himself, receiving Him, opening up to Him, meeting Him.

Our Lady also invites us to the monthly Confession, to adore the Blessed Sacrament, to venerate the Holy Cross, to pray the Holy Rosary in our families. In a particular way he invites us to read Sacred Scripture in our families.
In a message he says: “Dear children, read Sacred Scripture so Jesus is born again in your heart and in your families. Forgive, dear children. Love ".
In a particular way, Our Lady invites us to forgive. Forgive ourselves and forgive others and thus open the way to the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Without forgiveness we cannot heal spiritually, physically and emotionally. We must know how to forgive to be free inside. Thus we will be open to the Holy Spirit and His action and receive graces.
Because our forgiveness is holy and complete, Our Lady invites us to pray with the heart. He repeated many times: “Dear children, pray. Do not tire of praying. Always pray. " Do not pray only with the lips, with a mechanical prayer, by tradition. Don't pray looking at the clock to finish as soon as possible. Our Lady wants us to dedicate time to the Lord and to prayer. Praying with the heart means above all praying with love. Pray with our whole being. May our prayer be a dialogue with Jesus and a rest with him. We must come out of this prayer filled with joy and peace.
She repeated many times: “Dear children, prayer be joy for you. Prayer fill you. "

Our Lady invites us to the school of prayer. But in this school there are no stops, there are no weekends. Every day we must go to the school of prayer as a single person, as a family and as a community.
She says: “Dear children, if you want to pray better you must pray more. Because praying more is a personal decision, but praying better is a divine grace that is given to those who pray most ".
We often say that we don't have time for prayer and for Holy Mass. We don't have time for the family. We work hard and are busy with different commitments. Our Lady tells us: “Dear children, don't say that you don't have time. Time is not the problem. The problem is love. When you love something you will always find time. " If there is love, everything is possible. There is always time for prayer. Time is always found for God. Time is always found for the family.
In all these years, Our Lady wants to get us out of the spiritual coma in which the world is found. He wants to strengthen us with prayer and in faith.

In the meeting I will have with Our Lady tonight, I will remember all of you and your needs and all that you carry in your hearts. Our Lady knows our hearts better than we do.
I hope that we will welcome your call and welcome your messages. Thus we will be co-creators of a new world. A world worthy of the children of God.
The time you will spend here in Medjugorje is the beginning of your spiritual renewal. When you return home you will continue this renewal with your families, with your children, in your parishes.

Be a reflection of the Mother's presence here in medjugorje.
This is a time of responsibility. We responsibly accept all the invitations that our Mother makes us and live them. We all pray for the evangelization of the world and the family. Let us pray together with you. Let us help you carry out all the projects you wish to carry out with your coming here.
You need us. So let's decide for prayer.
We are also a living sign. We don't need to look for outward signs to see or touch.
Our Lady wishes that all of us who are here in Medjugorje are a living sign, a sign of living faith.
Dear friends, I wish you so.
God bless you all and Mary protect you and keep you on the way of life.