Medjugorje: Father Slavko, reflections on the meaning of secrets

Father Slavko: Reflections on the meaning of secrets

Our Lady remains faithful to the promises made to the visionaries. He said that he will appear to them until the end of their life, that is, she no longer appears to everyone every day, but to some every day and to others once a year. Obviously Our Lady wants to remain in direct contact and this is in any case a great gift for the visionaries and also for all of us.

The rhythm in the apparitions
With the apparitions you can understand what it means: "Emmanuel, the God with us". And also Mary, as Mother of Emmanuel and our Mother, is always present among us. Some who wonder. 'Why the daily apparitions?' on the other hand, they preach that God is always with us and that Our Lady always accompanies us. But when the daily apparitions began in Medjugorje they said it was impossible. The annual apparitions to Mirjana, Ivanka and Jakov are distributed in such a way that we always remember the mother Maria.
We don't know what will happen when the daily apparitions will also cease for Marija, Vicka and Ivan and when they will have the annual apparitions. But already now the annual apparitions are well distributed throughout the year, in which we always remember the Madonna: in March she has the annual apparition Mirjana, for the anniversary in June Ivanka and at Christmas Jakov. When the daily apparitions for the other three visionaries cease, I presume that Our Lady will appear approximately every two months. This will be very beautiful because, even after the end of the daily apparitions, the Madonna will often be with us.
Our Lady therefore remains in contact with us and everything proceeds in the same direction. At the beginning he started giving us messages at very short intervals; then, from March 1, 1984 every Thursday.
Then the pace changed and, from 1 January 1987 until today, it gives the message every 25 of the month. As the daily apparitions of Mirjana, Ivanka and Jakov ceased, a new structure, a new school and a new rhythm emerged; we must recognize it and accept it as such.

The sense of secrets
I have talked to theologians and many apparition experts, but personally I have not found any theological explanation as to why there are secrets. Someone once said that perhaps Our Lady would like to tell us that we don't know everything, that we must be humble.
Why then the secrets and what is the right explanation? I often asked myself personally: What do I need to know, for example, that in Fatima there are three secrets, which are discussed a lot? And also, what do I need to know that Our Lady said something to the visionaries of Medjugorje that I don't know? For me and for us the most important thing is to know what I already know about everything he said!
For me the most important thing is that you said: “God with us! Pray, convert, God will give you peace "! On the contrary, only God knows what the end of the world will be and we men should not worry or create problems. There are people who, as soon as they hear about apparitions, immediately remember catastrophes. But this would mean that Mary is only the one who announces catastrophes.
This is a wrong interpretation, a wrong understanding. Mother Maria comes to her children when she knows it's necessary for them.
Accepting the secrets, I noticed that many arouse a certain curiosity that helps them to welcome the journey with Mary and at that moment the secrets are forgotten. I am always cheaper to ask what the secrets are. As soon as you start, the way forward is the only important thing.

Maternal pedagogy
For myself it is the maternal pedagogy that emerged with the apparitions what I can accept more than anything else. For example, each mother could say to her son: if you are good during the week, there will be a surprise for you on Sunday.
Every child is curious and would like to know mom's surprise immediately. But the mother first of all wants the child to be good and obedient and for this she gives him a certain interval of time after which she will reward him. If the child is not good, then there will be no surprise and the child will perhaps say that the mother lied. But mum just wanted to show a way and those who only wait for the surprise, but don't accept the way, will never understand that everything was true.
As for the secrets that Our Lady has entrusted to the visionaries of Medjugorje, it may happen that they do not have to know their content 100%.
In the Bible the prophet Ezekiel speaks of a great banquet that God prepares for all the peoples of Zion: everyone will come and be able to take without paying. If anyone had the opportunity to ask the prophet Ezekiel if it was that Zion they knew, surely he would have said it was exactly that. But Zion is still a desert even today. The prophecy turned out to be right, but we see that there is no banquet there, but Jesus in the Tabernacle is this new Zion.
The Eucharist all over the world is Zion where men come to participate in the banquet that God has prepared for all of us.

The right preparation
Regarding secrets, it is certainly better not to want to guess something, since nothing is obtained from it. It is better to say an extra Rosary than to talk about secrets. Waiting impatiently for the revelation of the secrets, if we can prepare ourselves or if they will reach us, we must take into account that it is not about our selfishness. Every day there are catastrophes, floods, earthquakes, wars, but as long as I'm not personally involved, the problem for me is not a catastrophe. Only when a catastrophe happens to me personally, then I say: But what happens to me?
Waiting for something to happen or for me to be ready is equivalent to the question the student constantly asks himself: When will the exam be, on what day? When will it be my turn? Will the professor be willing? It is as if the student did not study and prepare for the exam, despite the fact that it is imminent, but always and only focused on the "secrets" unknown to him. So we too must do what we can and the secrets will not be a problem for us.

Source: Eco di Maria nr. 178