Ivan of Medjugorje tells his story as a seer and the encounter with Mary

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

Pater, Ave, Glory.

Mother and Queen of Peace
Pray for us.

Dear priests, dear friends in Jesus Christ,
at the beginning of this meeting I wish to greet you all from the heart.
My desire is to share with you in this short time the most important messages to which Our Lady calls us in these 33 years. It is difficult in a short time to analyze all the messages, but I will strive to focus on the most important messages to which Mother invites us. I want to speak simply as the Mother herself speaks. Mom always speaks simply, because she wants children to understand and live what she says. She comes to us as a teacher. He wants to guide his children towards good, towards peace. He wants to guide us all to His Son Jesus. In these 33 years every message is addressed to Jesus. Because He is the center of our life. He is Peace. He is our joy.

We truly live in a time of great crisis. The crisis is everywhere.
The time in which we live is a crossroads for humanity. We must choose whether to walk on the way of the world or decide for God.
Our Lady invites us to put God first in our life.
She calls us. He called us to be here at the source. We came hungry and tired. We came here with our problems and needs. We came to the Mother to throw ourselves into His embrace. To find security and protection with you.
She, as a Mother, intercedes with Her Son for each of us. We came here to the source, because Jesus says: “come to me, you tired and oppressed, because I will refresh you. I will give you strength. " You have come to this source at the Madonna to pray with her for her projects which she wants to carry out with all of you.

The Mother comes to us to help us, to console us and cure our pains. She wants to emphasize what is wrong with our life and guide us on the path of good. He wants to strengthen faith and trust in everyone.

I would not want you today to look at me as a saint, because I am not. I strive to be better, to be holier. This is my wish. This desire is deeply imprinted in me. I did not convert to one night just because I see the Madonna. My conversion, as for all of us, is a life program, it is a process. We must decide every day for this program and be persevering. Every day we must leave sin, evil, and open ourselves to peace, the Holy Spirit and divine grace. We must welcome the Word of Jesus Christ; live it in our life and thus grow in holiness. Our Mother invites us to this.

Every day in these 33 years a question arises within me: “Mum, why me? Why did you choose me? " I always ask myself: “Mother, will I be able to do anything you desire? Are you happy with me? " There is no day when these questions do not arise within me.
One day I was alone with her. Before the meeting I had a long doubt whether to ask him or not, but in the end I asked her: "Mother, why did you choose me?" She gave a beautiful smile and replied: "Dear son, you know ... I don't always look for the best". After that time I never asked you that question again. She chose me to be an instrument in her hands and in those of God. I always ask myself: "Why don't you appear to everyone, so they will believe you?" I ask myself this every day. I wouldn't be here with you and I would have much more private time. However, we cannot enter into God's plans. We cannot know what he plans with each of us and what he wants from each of us. We must be open to these divine plans. We must recognize them and welcome them. Even if we don't see we must be happy, because the Mother is with us. In the Gospel it is said: "Blessed are those who do not see, but believe."

For me, for my life, for my family, this is a great gift, but, at the same time, it is a great responsibility. I know that God has entrusted me a lot, but I know he wants it just as much from me. I am fully aware of the responsibility I bear. With this responsibility I live every day. But believe me: it is not easy to be with the Madonna every day. Talk to her every day, five, ten minutes and sometimes even more, and after each meeting return to this world, to the reality of this world. Being with the Madonna every day truly means being in Heaven. When Our Lady comes among us, she brings us a piece of Paradise. If you could only see the Madonna for a second, I don't know if your life on earth would still be interesting. After each meeting with the Madonna I need a few hours to be able to return to the reality of this world.

What are the most important messages to which Our Lady invites us?
I have already said that in these 33 years Our Lady has given many messages, but I would like to focus on the most important ones. The message of peace; that of conversion and return to God; prayer with the heart; fasting and penance; firm faith; the message of love; the message of forgiveness; the Most Holy Eucharist; reading of Sacred Scripture; the message of hope. Each of these messages is explained by Our Lady, so that we can understand them better and put them into practice in our life.

At the beginning of the apparitions in 1981, I was a kid. I was 16 years old. Up to my 16 years I could not even dream that the Madonna could appear. I had no particular devotion to the Madonna. I was a practical believer, educated in the faith. I grew up in faith and prayed with my parents.
At the beginning of the apparitions I was so confused. I didn't know what was going on with me. I remember well the second day of the apparitions. We were kneeling in front of you. The first question we asked 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, only peace. Peace reign in the world. Dear children, peace must reign 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, communicated to the world.
We started talking to her and we recognized the Mother in her. It looks like the Queen of Peace. She comes from the King of Peace. Who can know better than the Mother about how much need for peace has this world so tired, these tried families, our tired young people and our tired Church.
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; but if you are weak, the Church will also be weak. You are My Church alive. You are the lungs of My Church. Dear children, let your family be a chapel where we pray. "

Today in a particular way Our Lady invites us to renew the family. In a message he says: "dear children, in each of your families there is a place where you put the Bible, the Cross, the candle and where you will devote time to prayer".
Our Lady wishes to bring God first to our families.
Truly this time in which we live is a heavy time. Our Lady invites much to the renewal of the family, because she is spiritually ill. She says: "Dear children, if the family is sick, society is also sick." There is no Church alive without a living family.
Our Lady comes to us to encourage us all. He wants to console us all. She brings us a heavenly cure. She wants to cure us and our pains. He wants to bandage our wounds with much love and maternal tenderness.
He wants to lead us all to His Son Jesus. Because only in His Son is it our only and true peace.

In a message, Our Lady says: "Dear children, humanity today is going through a profound crisis, but the greatest crisis is the crisis of faith in God". We have turned away from God. We have turned away from prayer. "Dear children, this world is on its way to a future without God." “Dear children, this world cannot give you peace. The peace that the world offers you will disappoint you very soon, because peace is only in God. Therefore open yourselves to the gift of peace. Pray for the gift of peace for your sake. Dear children, today prayer has disappeared within your families ”. Parents no longer have time for children and children for parents; many times the father has no time for the mother and the mother has no time for the father. There are so many families getting divorced today and so many tired families. The dissolution of the moral life occurs. There are so many media that influence wrongly like the internet. All this destroys the family. The Mother invites us: “Dear children, put God first. If you put God first in your families, everything will change. "

Today we live in a great crisis. The news and radio stations say that the world is in a great economic recession.
It's not just in an economic downturn: this world is in a spiritual downturn. Each spiritual recession generates other types of crises.
Our Lady does not come to us to frighten us, criticize us, chastise us; She comes and brings us hope. She comes as Mother of hope. He wants to bring hope back to families and to this tired world. She says: “Dear children, put Holy Mass first in your families. May Holy Mass truly be the center of your life ”.
In an apparition Our Lady said to us six kneeling seers: "Dear children, if one day you had to make a choice whether to come to Me or go to Holy Mass do not come to Me. Go to Holy Mass". Holy Mass must be truly at the center of our life.
Go to Holy Mass to meet Jesus, talk to Jesus, receive Jesus.

Our Lady also invites us to monthly confession, to venerate the Holy Cross, to adore the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, to pray the Holy Rosary in families. He invites us to do penance and fast on bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays. Those who are very sick can replace this fast with another sacrifice. Fasting is not a loss: it is a great gift. Our spirit and our faith are strengthened.
Fasting can be compared to the mustard grain of the Gospel. Mustard grain must be thrown to the ground to die and then bear the fruit. God seeks little from us, but then he gives us a hundredfold.

Our Lady invites us to read Sacred Scripture. In a message he says: “Dear children, the Bible be in a visible place in your families. Read it. " Reading Sacred Scripture, Jesus is reborn in your heart and in your families. This is a nourishment on the journey of life.

Our Lady continually invites us to forgive. Why is forgiveness so important? First of all, we must forgive ourselves in order to forgive others. Thus we open our hearts to the action of the Holy Spirit. Without forgiveness we cannot heal neither physically nor spiritually nor emotionally. We must know how to forgive. In order for our forgiveness to be perfect and holy, Our Lady invites us to pray with the heart.

In these years he has repeated many times: "Pray, pray, dear children". Don't just pray with your lips. Do not pray mechanically. Do not pray out of habit, but pray from the heart. Don't pray looking at the clock to finish as soon as possible. Praying with the heart means above all praying with love. It means meeting Jesus in prayer; speak with Him. May our prayer be a rest with Jesus. We must come out of prayer with a heart filled with joy and peace.
Our Lady tells us: “Prayer be joy for you. Pray with joy. Those who pray must not fear the future ".
Our Lady knows that we are not perfect. She invites us to the school of prayer. He wishes that every day we learn at this school in order to grow in holiness. It is a school where the Madonna herself teaches. Through it you guide us. This is above all a school of love. When Our Lady speaks she does it with love. She loves us so much. He loves us all. He says to us: “Dear children, if you want to pray better you must pray more. Because praying more is a personal decision, but praying better is a grace that is given to those who pray more ". We often say that we don't have time for prayer. Let's say that we have different commitments, that we work a lot, that we are busy, that when we go home we have to watch TV, we have to cook. We don't have time for prayer; we don't have time for God.
Do you know what Our Lady says in a very simple way? “Dear children, don't say you don't have time. The problem is not time; the real problem is love. " When a man loves something he always finds time. When, however, he does not love something, he never finds time. If there is love, everything is possible.

In all these years, Our Lady wants to lift us from spiritual death, from the spiritual coma in which the world finds itself. She wants to strengthen us in faith and love.

This evening, during the daily apparition, I will recommend all of you, all your intentions, your needs and your families. In particular I will recommend all the priests present and the parishes from which you come.
I hope that we will answer the call of Our Lady; that we will welcome your messages and that we will be co-creators of a new better world. A world worthy of the children of God. I hope that during this time you will be in Medjugorje you too will sow a good seed. I hope this seed will fall on good ground and bring good fruit.

The time we live in is a time of responsibility. Our Lady invites us to be responsible. We accept the message responsibly and live it. We don't talk about messages and peace, but we start living peace. We don't talk about prayer, but let's start living prayer. We speak less and act more. Only in this way will we change this world today and our families. Our Lady invites us to evangelization. let us pray together with her for the evangelization of the world and families.
We do not seek outward signs to touch something or to convince us.
Our Lady wants us all to be a sign. Sign of living faith.

Dear friends, I wish you so.
God bless you all.
May Mary accompany you on your way.
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