Medjugorje: the third secret "Our Lady teaches us not to be afraid of the future"

Someone says that sometimes dreams are premonitions, sometimes they are just the fruit of our imagination, the mind that processes various thoughts that are then projected onto our brain. I believe that it has also happened at times to dream about something and then live it in reality, or to find yourself suddenly in a so-called dejavù, a situation that you seem to have already experienced.

So let's start from this assumption, that dreams are dreams, reality and reality. We must be very careful with the "prophecies", also because it is on those that the fortune teller on duty or some medium plays, which many Catholics, despite having been taken up several times by the church, attend. This is our desire to know, understand, predict the future, has always been part of mankind. The important thing is not to rely on people who want to gain from these "prophecies". To someone, however, God grants this grace, it is enough to look at the Holy Bible to understand that for centuries we have been surrounded by prophets.

Having said this, I want to tell you something that made me think.

A person called me, balanced, healthy and serious, a friend and told me: "You know, I had a dream, I dreamed what is the visible sign that will be on the Podbrodo mountain when the secrets arrive."

I replied “Oh yeah? What would it be? "

Him: “A spring, a spring of water that will flow from Mount Podbrodo. I dreamed that I was on Podboro and that a small spring of water came out of a small hole in the rocks. The water ran down the hill making its way between the earth and the stones until it reached the small shops at the entrance to the Podboro that slowly began to flood. Then many pilgrims together with the inhabitants of Medjugorje began to dig to divert water from the shops but more and more water came out of the source until it became a real stream. The mounds of earth dug by the people diverted the water onto the road leading to the mountain and the water crossed the road and headed towards the plain that leads to the church, and at the edges there was a crowd of pilgrims all the way. The water alone dug the bed of the stream which ended up flowing into the stream that passes behind the church of S Giacomo. Everyone shouted at the sign and everyone prayed at the edge of the new stream. "

Those who follow the "apparitions" of Medjugorje know that there are the so-called ten secrets, which will be revealed three days before they happen, by a priest chosen by the visionary Mirjana. Once it seemed that this task had been entrusted to Father Petar Ljubicié, a Franciscan, chosen by the visionary. This was also declared by Mirjana herself "it will be he who will have to reveal the secrets", but lately Mirjana says that "it will be Our Lady who will show her the priest who will have to reveal these secrets". In any case, the first two secrets seem to be warnings to the world to convert. The third secret, Our Lady allowed the visionaries to reveal it in part and all the visionaries agree in describing it: "There will be a great sign on the hill of apparitions - says Mirjana - as a gift for all of us, so that we can see that Our Lady is present here as our mother. It will be a beautiful sign, which cannot be built with human hands, indestructible, and which will remain on the hill permanently. "

Those who have been to Medjugorje know that there has always been the problem of water, many times it is lacking and this has always been a problem. They tried several times to find a "vein" they dug in various places in the village, but with very poor results. Only stones and red earth as hard as stone. I personally lived in Medjugorje for two years and I can assure you that when I was making the vegetable garden, a pick was needed to be able to move the earth that became hard as stone from the great heat.

Then the secret speaks of a "great sign on the hill, which cannot be made by man, will be visible to all and will remain there permanently."

Will a natural seismic event cause the appearance of this source or will it really be a supernatural sign?

In Lourdes they saw the water gushing under their eyes in the grotto, when the little visionary Bernadette Soubirus scratched the ground where it was indicated to her by the "Lady", Our Lady of Lourdes. A water that heals, and many go to Lourdes for this miraculous water. Often in the places of pilgrimages there is always something that has to do with water or a fountain or a well, people say it is always miraculous water, which purifies hearts and bodies.

But can Our Lady really be so repetitive? Elders said that banality, simplicity is the truth. We struggle to understand and instead things always pass us by in the simplest and most natural way. For centuries, even when Jesus, son of God, was born, people expected him to come down from heaven in the guise of a great king. Instead he was born in a manger and died on the cross. Only a few, the simple ones, with big hearts but poor minds, have recognized it.

I would not have told you this "night prophecy" of a friend of mine if I had not remembered that I had already heard this story. In fact, in one of Sister Emmanuel's books, “The hidden child”, the nun who has lived in Medjugorje for many years, we read the testimony of a “prophet”.

His name was Matè Sego and he was born in 1901. He never went to school, he could neither read nor write. He worked a small piece of land, slept on the ground, had no water or electricity and drank a lot of grappa. He was a man loved by many in the village of Bijakovici, always smiling and joking. He lived at the foot of the mountain of the apparitions Pobrodo.

One day Matè began to tell: “One day, there will be a large staircase behind my house, with as many steps as there are days of the year. Medjugorje will be very important, people will come here from all corners of the world. They will come to pray. The church will not be as small as it is now, but much larger and full of people. It cannot contain all those to come. When the church of my childhood is undermined, I will die that day.

There will be many streets, many buildings, much bigger than our little houses that we have now. Some buildings will be immense. "

At that point in the story Matè Sego is saddened and says “Our people will sell their lands to foreigners who will build on them. There will be so many people on my mountain that you won't be able to sleep at night. "

At that point, Matè's friends laughed and asked him if he had drunk too much grappa.

But Matè continues: “Do not lose your traditions, pray to God for everyone and for yourselves. There will be a spring here, a spring that will give a lot of water, so much water that there will be a lake here and our people will have boats and anchor them to a large rock ”.

St. Paul recommends that we aspire to spiritual gifts above all to that of prophecy, but he also declared "our prophecy is imperfect". The truth of all this is that the old church still existed, it had been damaged by an earthquake, so much so that the bell tower had collapsed. In 1978 this church was mined and razed to the ground and was located about 300 meters from the Church of San Giacomo, near the school, and Matè left us exactly that day. So a few years before the apparitions began. The current church was opened and blessed in 1969.

Mirjana reminds us “Our Lady always says: Don't talk about secrets, but pray and whoever feels me as Mother and God as Father, don't be afraid of anything. We all always talk about what's going to happen in the future, but who among us will be able to say if he will be alive tomorrow? Nobody! What Our Lady teaches us is not to worry about the future, but to be ready at that moment to go to meet the Lord and not to waste time talking about secrets and things of this kind. Everyone is curious, but one must understand what is really important. The important thing is that in every moment we are ready to go to the Lord and everything that happens, if it happens, will be the Lord's will that we cannot change. We can only change ourselves! "

Amen.
Ten Secrets
Ania Goledzinowska
Mirjana
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