Marija of Medjugorje: I tell you why the Madonna has been appearing for so long

Question: Our Lady is still present here today, despite many wondering: what does she do? Why does she appear so long?

Answer: “I always say: Our Lady loves us and therefore is with us and wishes to guide us on a concrete path, the path of every Christian; not of a Christian who has died, but of a Christian who has risen, who lives with Jesus day by day. Once a Pope said that if a Christian is not a Marian, he is not a good Christian; that's why my desire is to make you fall in love with the Madonna thinking about those moments when we fell in love with her. I remember that once the Madonna asked us to offer her for nine days a few hours of prayer during the night and so we went on the hill of the apparitions and at 2,30 she appeared.

During those nine days, we visionaries together with other people offered the novena according to the intentions of the Madonna. Our Lady appeared at 2,30 but we and the people gathered there still remained to thank her. Since we did not know many prayers we decided to say, each one, our Father, an Hail Mary and a Glory to the Father; in this way we spent the night until 5 or 6 in the morning. At the end of the novena the Madonna appeared very happy but the most beautiful thing was that together with her there were many Angels, small and large. We have always noticed that when the Madonna arrives with the Angels, if she is sad, the angels are sad too, but if she is happy, their expression of joy is even more intense than that of the Madonna. This time the Angels were very happy. At the time of the apparition, the whole crowd that was with us saw a large number of stars fall and so seriously believed in the presence of Maria. The next day when going to the parish we told the parish priest what had happened, he told us that the day before was the feast of the Madonna degli Angeli! Through the story of this experience I wish to offer you its most important messages: prayer, conversion, fasting ...

Our Lady asks for prayer, but even before prayer She asks for conversion; Our Lady asks that we begin to pray so that our life becomes prayer. I remember that time when Our Lady asked us to dedicate three hours to Jesus and we said to her: "Isn't it a little too much?" Our Lady smiled and replied: "When a friend of yours who is nice to you arrives, you don't mind the time you spend for him." So he invited us to make our greatest friend become Jesus. Our Lady invited us to pray gradually; the first prayer we made with her was that of the seven Pater, Ave and Gloria with the Creed. Then slowly he asked for the Rosary; then the complete Rosary and finally asked us to complete our prayer with the Holy Mass. Our Lady does not force us to pray, She invites us to transform our life into prayer, she wants us to live in prayer so that our life becomes a continuous encounter with God. Our Lady calls us to give a joyful testimony with our life; this is why when I speak I try to convey the joy that I live together with the Madonna, because her presence here in Medjugorje is not a testimony of punishment or sadness, but a testimony of joy and hope. This is why the Madonna appears so long. Once in a message to the parish he said "If there is need I will knock on the door of every house, of every family." I see many pilgrims who, returning to their homes, feel this need for conversion; because if I improve my life, it improves the life and quality of my family and improves the life of the world and we begin to realize what Sacred Scripture asks us, that is, that everyone becomes the light and salt of the earth. Our Lady calls us in a particular way so that each of us begins with all her might to be her joyful witness.