Medjugorje: Our Lady reveals the date of her birth

Message dated August 1, 1984
The second millennium of my birth will be celebrated on August XNUMXth. For that day God allows me to give you special graces and to give the world a special blessing. I ask you to prepare intensely with three days to devote exclusively to me. In those days you don't work. Take your rosary crown and pray. Fast on bread and water. During all these centuries I have dedicated myself completely to you: is it too much if I ask you now to dedicate at least three days to me?
Some passages from the Bible that can help us understand this message.
Tobias 12,8-12
Good thing is prayer with fasting and almsgiving with justice. Better the little with justice than wealth with injustice. It is better to give alms than to put aside gold. Begging saves from death and purifies from all sin. Those who give alms will enjoy long life. Those who commit sin and injustice are enemies of their lives. I want to show you the whole truth, without hiding anything: I have already taught you that it is good to hide the king's secret, while it is glorious to reveal the works of God. Know therefore that, when you and Sara were in prayer, I would present the witness of your prayer before the glory of the Lord. So even when you buried the dead.
Isaiah 58,1-14
She screams at the top of her mind, have no regard; like a trumpet, raise your voice; he declares his crimes to my people, his sins to the house of Jacob. They seek me out every day, yearning to know my ways, like a people who practice justice and have not abandoned the right of their God; they ask me for just judgments, they crave the closeness of God: "Why fast, if you don't see it, mortify us, if you don't know it?". Behold, on the day of your fast you take care of your affairs, torment all your workers. Here, you fast between quarrels and altercations and hitting with unfair punches. Do not fast any more as you do today, so that your noise can be heard high up. Is the fasting that I crave like this the day on which man mortifies himself? To bend one's head like a rush, to use sackcloth and ashes for the bed, perhaps you would like to call fasting and a day pleasing to the Lord?

Isn't this the fast I want: to untie the unfair chains, remove the bonds of the yoke, put the oppressed free and break every yoke? Does it not consist in sharing bread with the hungry, in introducing the poor, homeless into the house, in dressing someone you see naked, without taking your eyes off those of your flesh? Then your light will rise like the dawn, your wound will heal soon. Your righteousness will walk before you, the glory of the Lord will follow you. Then you will call on him and the Lord will answer you; you will beg for help and he will say, "Here I am!" If you take away the oppression, the pointing of the finger and the ungodly speaking from among you, if you offer the bread to the hungry, if you satisfy the fast, then your light will shine in the darkness, your darkness will be like the noon. The Lord will always guide you, he will satisfy you in arid soils, he will reinvigorate your bones; you will be like an irrigated garden and a spring whose waters do not dry up. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins, you will rebuild the foundations of distant times. They will call you breccia repairman, restorer of ruined houses to live in. If you refrain from violating the Sabbath, from carrying out business on the day sacred to me, if you will call the Sabbath delight and venerating the holy day to the Lord, if you will honor it by avoiding to set off, to do business and to bargain, then you will find the delight in the Lord. I will make you tread the heights of the earth, I will make you taste the legacy of Jacob your father, since the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Genesis 27,30-36
Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had turned away from his father Isaac when Esau his brother came from the hunt. He too had prepared a dish, brought it to his father and said to him: "Get up my father and eat his son's game, so that you may bless me." His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He replied, "I am your firstborn son Esau." Then Isaac was seized with a tremendous tremor and said: “Who then was he who took the game and brought it to me? I ate everything before you came, then I blessed it and blessed it will remain ”. When Esau heard his father's words, he burst into loud, bitter cries. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!" He replied: "Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing." He went on: “Maybe because his name is Jacob, he has already supplanted me twice? He has already taken my birthright and now he has taken my blessing! ". And he added, "Have you not reserved some blessings for me?" Isaac answered and said to Esau: “Behold, I have made him thy lord and have given him all his brethren as servants; I provided it with wheat and must; what can I do for you, my son? " Esau said to his father, “Do you have one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ”. But Isaac was silent and Esau raised his voice and cried. Then his father Isaac took the floor and said to him: “Behold, far from the fatty lands it will be your home and far from the dew of heaven from above. You will live by your sword and serve your brother; but then, when you recover, you will break his yoke from your neck. " Esau persecuted Jacob for the blessing his father had given him. Esau thought: “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob. " But the words of Esau, his eldest son, were referred to Rebekah, and she sent for the younger son Jacob and said to him: “Esau your brother wants to take revenge on you by killing you. Well, my son, obey my voice: come on, flee to Carran from my brother Laban. You will stay with him for some time, until your brother's anger has subsided; until your brother's anger is staged against you and you have forgotten what you have done to him. Then I'll send you out there. Why should I be deprived of you two in one day? ". And Rebecca said to Isaac: "I have disgust of my life because of these Hittite women: if Jacob takes a wife among the Hittites like these, among the daughters of the country, what good is my life?".