Our Lady of Medjugorje: every family is active in prayer

This meeting with you, young people of Pescara, was thought of as a meeting with the visionaries. This is an exception. So please accept it as a gift and then don't say: before you did so, why not for us too?

Now they are in the sacristy; you have certainly seen them; they don't want photographs. We want to talk to them in church.

They are Vicka, Ivan, Mirjana and Marija. I spoke to Ivanka who said to me: «I am very tired. I've worked a lot ".

Let's start with Vicka, the oldest.

Vicka: «I greet you all, especially these young people from Pescara, on my behalf and on behalf of all the other visionaries». P .. Slavko: My question to Vicka is: "What was the most beautiful encounter with the Madonna"? Vicka: «I thought a bit to choose the most beautiful meeting with the Madonna, but I can't decide for a meeting. Every encounter with the Madonna is the most beautiful ».

P. Slavko: "In what does this beauty of every encounter consist"?

Vicka: «What is beautiful in our meetings is my love for the Madonna and the Madonna for me. We always begin our meeting with prayer and end with prayer ».

P. Slavko: "What do you want to say now of your experiences to all those who are here"?

Vicka: «I would like to say, especially to young people:" You understand that this world passes and the only thing left is love for the Lord ". I know you've all arrived, because you accept and believe the apparitions. I tell you that all the messages that Our Lady gives, also gives them for you. I wish that this pilgrimage is not useless, that it bears fruit. I would like you to live all these messages with your heart: only in this way can you know the love of the Lord ».

P. Slavko: «Now Mirjana. You know that Mirjana has not had daily apparitions since Christmas 1982. She has them for her birthday and sometimes exceptionally. She came from Sarajevo and accepted this invitation. Mirjana what do you want to say to these pilgrims »?

Mirjana: "I especially want to invite young people to prayer, fasting, to faith, because these are the things that Our Lady wants most".

P. Slavko: «What is more important for your life»?

Mirjana: «The most important thing for me is that through the apparitions I have known God and his love. God, the love of God, Our Lady, are no longer distant, they are close, it is no longer a strange thing. I live this daily and feel them as Father, as Mother ».

P. Slavko: "How did you feel when Our Lady said to you: we won't see you every day"?

Mirjana: «Terribly. One thing that consoled me is this: when Our Lady told me that she will appear to me once a year ».

P. Slavko: «I know that you really had depressions. What has helped you to get out of these difficulties and depression "?

Mirjana: «Prayer, because in prayer I always felt Our Lady close. I could just talk to her and she would answer all my questions. "

P. Slavko: "You know more about secrets: what do you mean"?

Mirjana: «What can I say? Secrets are secrets. In the secrets there are beautiful and other ugly things, but I can only say: pray and prayer helps more. I have heard that many are afraid of these secrets. I say this is a sign that we don't believe. Why be afraid if we know that the Lord is our Father, Mary is our Mother? Parents won't hurt their kids. Then fear is a sign of non-trust. "

P. Slavko: «What do you mean Ivan to these young people? What has all this meant for your life?

Ivan: «For my life everything. Since June 24, 1981 everything has changed for me. I can't find the words to express all this ».

P. Slavko: «I know that you pray, that you often go to the mountain to pray. What does prayer mean to you »?

Ivan: «Prayer is the most important thing for me. All that I suffer, all the difficulties, I can solve them in prayer and through prayer I become better. It helps me to have peace, joy ».

P. Slavko: "Marija, what is the most beautiful message you have received"?

Marija: «There are many messages that Our Lady gives. But there is a message that I love most. Once I prayed and I felt that Our Lady wanted to tell me something and I asked for the message for me. Our Lady replied: "I give you my love, so that you can give it to others" ».

P. Slavko: «Why is this the most beautiful message for you»?

Marija: «This message is the most difficult to live. For a person you love there is no problem in loving him, but it is difficult to love where the difficulties, the offenses, the wounds are found. And I want to love and overcome all the other things that are not love at all times »

P. Slavko: «You succeed in this decision»?

Marija: "I always try."

P. Slavko: "Do you still have something to say"?

Marija: «I want to say: everything that Our Lady and God do through us, wish to continue it through each of you who is in the church tonight. If we accept these messages and try to live them in our families, we will do all that the Lord asks of us. Medjugorje is a unique thing, and we who are here must continue to live all that Our Lady tells us ».

P. Slavko: "How do you accept and receive the Thursday messages"?

Marija: «I always try to live all this that I say to others in the name of Our Lady and which, of course, I want to give to others. Our Lady gives me word for word the messages and after the apparition I write them. "

P. Slavko: «Is it difficult to write after the dictation of Our Lady»?

Marija: "If it is difficult, I pray to Our Lady to help me."

Vicka: "I still want to say one thing: I recommend you in your prayers and I promise to pray for you."

Ivan: «I say: we who have accepted these messages must become the messengers of all the messages and above all the messengers of prayer, fasting, peace».

P. Slavko: «Ivan also promises to pray for you».

Mirjana: «I want to say that Our Lady did not choose us because we were the best, not even the best. Pray, fast, live his messages; maybe even some of you will have the opportunity to hear you and also to see you ».

Fr Slavko: "I have consoled myself and all the pilgrims many times: if Our Lady did not choose the best, we all have the possibility: only the best do not have the possibility". Vicka adds: "They already see you with your heart."

Marija: «God gave me a gift to speak Italian. Thus we also open our hearts to take the messages that Our Lady gives for us. My last word is this: we live what Our Lady says: "Let us pray, pray, pray" ».

Now a very important word for you. I tell you: I too have a special fortune. I meet the visionaries when I have to, when I want, I can always see them, but I tell you: by meeting the visionaries you do not become better. If so, I would have already become better. That is, looking at them, listening to them, you do not become better, but you receive one thing - what the organizers wanted - to meet the witnesses who are always ready to give a testimony. Then you receive a special impulse. If you have received this impulse to live, it is good, even if you have had to squeeze a little, even if I have had to drive the Slovenians out of the church ... Now I will drive you out too ..., but before leaving you alone I tell you yesterday's message and a few words .

«Dear children, please begin to change your life in the family. May the family be the harmonious flower that I wish to give to Jesus. Dear children, let every family be active in prayer. I want one day to see the fruits in the family. Only in this way will I give you all as petals to Jesus in the realization of God's plan ».

In the penultimate message Our Lady said: "Begin to pray, begin to change in prayer". He said it to us personally, he didn't say: pay attention to what happens in your families.

Now, take a step forward: ask the whole family for harmony, peace, love, reconciliation, prayer.

Someone thinks: perhaps Our Lady does not know what the situation is like in my family. Perhaps some parents think: Our Lady would not have said so if she knew how my young people watch television and how you cannot speak to them when they are in front of you!

But Our Lady knows every situation and knows that you can become harmonious families in prayer. This activity in prayer is an external and internal activity. I have explained many times what it means. Now I speak only of the external activity. I ask you young or old, who dares to say: "Let's pray" in the evening at home? Who dares to say: "This passage of the Gospel is for our family, as dictated for us"? Who dares to say: "Now enough with the television, with the telephone: now we pray"?

Someone must be there. I know there are over four hundred young people here. The elderly often say: «Our young people do not want to pray. How can we »?

I have not found a recipe, but I will give some addresses and say: "Go to this family and ask how they do it, because there is one of the young people who have been to Medjugorje". If you disappoint him there is much to be ashamed of. Now who dares to give the address?

Anyway, I meant: it depends on you and me. Maybe you are five hundred families here. If in five hundred families someone dares to say "now let's pray", five hundred families will pray.

And this is what Our Lady wants: for all the spirit of prayer, fasting, reconciliation, love. Not because Medjugorje needs prayer, but because you, your families, need it. Medjugorje is only an impulse.

If Our Lady says: "I want the fruits to be seen", what can I add? Just repeat what Our Lady wants. But these fruits are not for Our Lady, but for you. If someone is ready at this moment to be reconciled, to respect the other, it is already bearing fruit. If we respect each other, if we love each other, we have good things and Our Lady wants to give us all to Jesus like petals, like harmonious flowers.

A question for the beginning of Mass. Now ask yourself which is the flower of your family, if there are petals that are no longer beautiful, if perhaps some sin has annihilated this beauty of the flower, this harmony. Tonight you can do everything right and start again.

Maybe someone comes from a family where they are sure that parents or young people don't want to. It does not matter. If you do your part of the flower well in the family, the flower will become a little more beautiful. Even a petal if it exists, if it blooms, if it is full of colors, it helps that the whole flower easily becomes better.

Who among us dares to become positive provocation, that is, not to wait when others start? Jesus did not wait. If he had done so, if he had said: "I await your conversion and then I die for you", he would not have died yet. He did the opposite: he started unconditionally.

If a flower petal from your family starts unconditionally, the flower is more harmonious. We are men, we are weak, but if we love, if we learn again the patience and tirelessness of Our Lady, the flower will bloom and one day, in the realization of God's plan, we will become new and Our Lady will be able to offer us to Jesus.

It seems to me that you have received many impulses, perhaps too many. If you have taken one or the other thought, meditate, do like Our Lady. The evangelist says that he kept the words in his heart and meditated on them. So do you too.

Our Lady received the words and kept them in her heart like a treasure on which she meditated. If you do this you have many possibilities to realize yourself in life, especially you young people.

These plans of God are not on the stars or behind the stars or behind the church. No, this realization of the Lord's plan is in you, personally, not outside of you.

Source: P. Slavko Barbaric - May 2, 1986