Medjugorje: Our Lady taught us ...

This is how Jelena Vasilj spoke to the Italian and French pilgrims on August 12 '98: "The most precious journey we made with Our Lady was that of the prayer group.

Maria had invited the young people from this parish and she had offered herself as a guide. At first he talked about four years, then we didn't know how to break away, and so we continued for another four years.

I think that those who pray can experience what Jesus wanted to say to John when he entrusted the Mother to him.

In fact, through this journey, Our Lady truly gave us life and became our Mother in prayer; for this reason we always let ourselves be accompanied by you.

 

What did you tell us about prayer? Very simple things, because we had no other spiritual references.

 

I had never read St. John of the Cross or St. Teresa of Avila, but through prayer Our Lady made us discover the dynamics of interior life.

As a first step there is openness to God, above all through conversion. Free your heart from all impediments in order to meet God.

So here is the role of prayer: to continue to convert and become like Christ.

The first time it was an angel who spoke to me telling me to leave sin and then, through a prayer of abandonment, to seek peace of heart.

Peace of heart is first of all getting rid of all those things that are an obstacle to meeting God.

Our Lady told us that only with this peace and liberation of the heart can we begin to pray. This prayer, which is also of monastic spirituality, is called recollection.

It is important to understand, however, that the goal is not only a peace, a quiet, but the encounter with God. In prayer, however, we cannot speak of phases, of segments, because all this is met even if I now I'm doing an analysis.

I cannot say that peace, the encounter with God comes at such a minute, but I am encouraging you to seek this peace.

When we free ourselves, something must fill us, in fact God does not want us to remain orphaned in prayer, but fills us with his Holy Spirit, with his life. For this we read the Scriptures, for this in particular we pray the Holy Rosary.