Our Lady of Medjugorje tells you what to do in this Holy Week

April 17, 1984

Prepare yourselves especially for Holy Saturday. Don't ask me why exactly for Holy Saturday. But listen to me: prepare yourself well for that day.

Some passages from the Bible that can help us understand this message.

2.Chronicles 35,1-27

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month will be the beginning of the months for you, it will be the first month of the year for you. Talk to the whole community of Israel and say: On the XNUMXth of this month, each one should get one lamb per family, one lamb per house.

If the family is too small to consume a lamb, it will join its neighbor, the closest of the house, according to the number of people; you will calculate how the lamb should be, according to how much everyone can eat.

May your lamb be faultless, male, born in the year; you can choose it from the sheep or from the goats and you will keep it until the fourteenth of this month: then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will sacrifice it at sunset.

Taking some of his blood, they will place it on the two jambs and on the architrave of the houses, where they will have to eat it. On that night they will eat the meat roasted on the fire; they will eat it with unleavened and bitter herbs.

You will not eat it raw or boiled in water, but only roasted on the fire with your head, legs and bowels. You do not have to advance it until the morning: what is left in the morning you will burn it in the fire.

Here is how you will eat it: with girdled hips, sandals on your feet, stick in hand; you will eat it quickly. It is the Passover of the Lord! On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, man or beast; thus I will do justice to all the gods of Egypt.

I am the Lord! The blood on your houses will be the sign that you are inside: I will see the blood and pass on, there will be no scourge of extermination for you when I strike the country of Egypt.

This day will be a memorial for you; you will celebrate it as a feast of the Lord: from generation to generation, you will celebrate it as a perennial rite. For seven days you will eat unleavened. From the first day you will make the yeast disappear from your homes, because whoever eats the leavened from the first day to the seventh day, that person will be eliminated from Israel.

On the first day you will have a sacred summons; on the seventh day a sacred convocation: during these days no work will be done; only what each person must eat can be prepared. Look at the unleavened ones, because on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; you will observe this day from generation to generation as a perennial rite.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened until the twenty-first of the month, in the evening. For seven days no yeast will be found in your homes, because whoever eats yeast will be eliminated from the community of Israel, a stranger or native of the country. You will not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you will eat unleavened. "

Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them: “Go get yourself a small head of cattle for each of your families and sacrifice the Passover. You will take a bundle of hyssop, dip it in the blood that will be in the basin and spray the lintel and the jambs with the blood of the basin.

None of you will leave the door of his house until morning. The Lord will pass to strike Egypt, he will see the blood on the lintel and on the jambs: then the Lord will pass through the door and will not allow the exterminator to enter your house to strike. You will observe this command as a ritual set for you and your children forever. Then when you have entered the land that the Lord will give you, as he promised, you will observe this rite.

Then your children will ask you: What does this act of worship mean? You will say to them: It is the sacrifice of the Passover for the Lord, who passed beyond the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck Egypt and saved our homes. " The people knelt and prostrated themselves. Then the Israelites left and carried out what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron; in this way they did.

At midnight the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of the pharaoh who sits on the throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the underground prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle. Pharaoh got up in the night and with him his ministers and all the Egyptians; a great cry broke out in Egypt, because there was no house where there was no dead man!

Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron into the night and said: “Arise and abandon my people, you and the Israelites! Go and serve the Lord as you said. Take your cattle and flocks, as you said, and go! Bless me too! "

The Egyptians put pressure on the people, hurrying to send them away from the country, because they said: "We are all going to die!". The people brought the pasta with it before it had risen, carrying the cupboards wrapped in cloaks on their shoulders. The Israelites carried out the order of Moses and had the Egyptians give him silver and gold objects and clothes.

The Lord caused the people to find favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, who nodded at their requests. So they stripped the Egyptians. The Israelites left Ramses for Succot, six hundred thousand men capable of walking, not counting the children.
In addition, a large mass of promiscuous people left with them and together flocks and herds in large numbers. They cooked the pasta they had brought from Egypt in the form of unleavened buns, because it had not risen: in fact they had been driven out of Egypt and had not been able to linger; they didn't even get supplies for the trip.

The time during which the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. At the end of the four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord left the land of Egypt. This was the waking night for the Lord to bring them out of the land of Egypt. This will be a vigil night in honor of the Lord for all the Israelites, from generation to generation.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: “This is the rite of Passover: no foreigner should eat it. As for any slave purchased with money, you will circumcise him and then he will be able to eat. Adventitious and mercenary will not eat. In one house you will eat: you will not bring the meat out of the house; you will not break any bones. The whole community of Israel will celebrate it. If a stranger is domiciled with you and wants to celebrate the Lord's Passover, let every male be circumcised: then he will come to celebrate it and will be like a native of the country.

But no uncircumcised man should eat it. There will be only one law for the native and for the stranger, who is domiciled among you ”. All the Israelites did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, they did so. Just on that day the Lord sent the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, ordered according to their ranks.