Medjugorje "Our Lady tells you how to pray and help the deceased"

Q. Did Our Lady give you indications for your future life?

R. For me it is not that Our Lady told me of the choices - particular, but she said to me: ... "You pray, the Lord will send you the light because - he explained - prayer is our only light". Then it is important to pray; then the rest will make us understand.

D. You are studying now ... and what has Our Lady said to you lately?

R. Our Lady said to thank the Lord for all that she gives us and truly to also accept suffering and every cross with love and to abandon herself to the Lord; to be so small, because only when we abandon ourselves to him will he be able to lead us on this truly true, just way. When, on the other hand, I think, we strive for ourselves. Many times we are just desperate; then you have to let him do it, as he wants; do just like that, be smaller and smaller in front of him; getting smaller. Often the Lord also sends us suffering to make us become smaller before Him; let us understand that we cannot do anything alone.

D. A person dies; can that person see us or help us?

R. Of course it can help us. For this reason Our Lady always says to pray for the dead, and our prayer will never be lost even if our loved one is in heaven. Then Our Lady said: "If you pray for those souls, they will pray for you in heaven". So you have to pray for them.

D. But it's true that they help us ..

R. Of course. We say it in the "Creed": "I believe the Communion of Saints ...".

D. Our Lady asked for prayer. Individual or community prayer?

A. Yes, Our Lady said that personal prayer is very important, but at the beginning; then he said that Jesus said to pray together; then it means that it is very important to pray also together.

D. But to pray what do you mean?

A. Usually when we are together we pray with the rosary and general prayers, read the Gospel and meditate in this way; but then, even many times, we try to abandon ourselves with spontaneous prayer.

Q. Then have a dialogue with Jesus?

A. Yes. He usually speaks!

Q. But also prayer work?

R. Of course we must not abandon work. but in order to do this well you have to pray! When I prayed, even if things did not go very well, I still managed to have that peace within me, otherwise I lost it at the first step. But then even when praying I happened to lose this peace, I had more patience to start again. Then Our Lady says - and I too understood it - that when I didn't pray and I was too far from the Lord - and it happened to me often - then I couldn't understand many things, I always asked myself many questions; and so your whole life came into doubt. But when you really pray, you get security; very important speaking with others, with neighbors, with friends, if we really do not pray, we cannot speak and neither testify nor even give an example of authentic Christian life. We are also truly responsible for all our brothers. Our Lady says: "Pray ...". For example, not so many days ago, Our Lady said to me: “Pray! and prayer will bring you to light "; and it really was. If you do not pray you cannot understand and the words of others can only drive us away; there is always this danger. Then Our Lady says: "If you pray you can be sure". Yes, Our Lady said: “It is important to love, to do good to your neighbor, but first to really give importance to the Lord. To pray! because we have to understand and often understand it by ourselves, that when we pray a little, and we have difficulty praying, we can't even help others ..., and really then the devil tempts us. Only the Lord helps us to do these things, and for this reason Our Lady says to us: 'Don't worry, he will take you to the true road'.

Q. Did Our Lady ask in particular for moments in which to pray?

R. Yes. He asked in the morning, in the evening, during the day when time is found. Our Lady did not say that you have to stay for hours. But really also the little we do with love. And then when you have more time, a freer day, then dedicate time to prayer, rather than devoting it perhaps to those things that are worth less ...

D. Like today, which is Sunday, for example!

A. Yes!

Q. Our Lady tells you and therefore there is the possibility of knowing from her if she wants a particular work to be done, for example for the sick, for the suffering, to welcome young people? If you ask or enlighten someone about this, can you get an answer?

R. I can ask nothing of Our Lady for these things ... Only thing I know ... THAT THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS, INITIATIVES FOR MANY THINGS, BUT THERE IS LITTLE PRAYER; SO YOU ALWAYS GIVE MORE IMPORTANCE TO DOING THAN PRAYING. SO THE SITUATION LITTLE CHANGES. Our Lady says: 'It is necessary that we put ourselves before Jesus "; also helping others, of course! But Our Lady never told us to look for special initiatives to help others. Help as it has been given to you. Yup! because the first who need our help are our family members, our relatives, our neighbors, whom we help least of all. the others. A girl told me that Mother Teresa said to the young people: “The family is a school of love. Then you have to start from there ”. Our Lady always says so: "Pray also in the family ...".