Jozo of Medjugorje: Dear children, pray together, pray the Rosary every day

Bring the gift to those you love

If you want to transmit to those you love, to your family, a grace that will grow in them, transmit to them the gift of prayer. Today there is a lack of teachers of prayer, schools of prayer and the decline of love. There is a lack of educators, teachers of good, holy priests and lack of knowledge of God, love, divine values ​​in the world. For this reason, it is important to renew prayer within the family. If you want to become a teacher of prayer, you must start living prayer in your family, pass it on enthusiastically to those you love and help develop this gift by praying with them.

The gift of prayer transforms our life.

A group of American bishops stayed in Medjugorje for a week. After I distributed the blessed Rosaries, one of them exclaimed in amazement: "Father, my Rosary has changed color!".

There are many people who have told me the same thing over the years. I have always replied: “If your Rosary has changed color I don't know, I can only assure you that the Rosary changes the man who prays it”.

The small family church that does not pray cannot generate living beings.

Your family must remain alive to give birth to living beings in the Church.

Interesting research has been done in the field of pedagogy. Two years ago, scientists from different countries released research on children, following them from birth to maturity. They concluded that each person receives more than three thousand five hundred different gifts.

They also found that most of these gifts are activated and developed within the family.

When parents normally live a loving relationship, they do not care when and how the ability to love will develop in their child because both create the right climate that generates love in the child's heart.

If the father and mother pray in the family, they do not know when the ability to pray will develop in their child but they can be sure that their son has received this gift through them.

Gifts are like seeds, they have intrinsic potential. They are sown and cared for so that they can grow and bear fruit. There are many languages ​​that are spoken on earth and each is called the "mother tongue". Each of us has his own mother tongue, that which is learned in the family. The mother tongue of the Church is prayer: the mother teaches it, the father teaches it, the brothers teach it. Christ, our older brother, taught us how we should pray. The Mother of the Lord, and our Mother, teaches us how to pray.

The small church that is the family, unexpectedly, in most of Europe, has forgotten the prayer.

Our generation already no longer knows how to pray. And this coincided with the entry of the television into the house.

The family no longer seeks his God, the parents no longer converse, everyone, including the children, turns all his attention to the programs to follow.

Over the past thirty years, a generation has grown up who does not know what it means to pray, who has never prayed together in the family.

I met many families who, not praying, came to the definitive disintegration.

The family is important, more than the school. If the family does not pass on the child and help him develop the gifts in himself, no one can do it in his place. Nobody!

Well, there is no priest or religious on earth who can replace the father.

There is no teacher or religious who can replace the mother. The person needs the family.

Love is not learned in a class. Faith is not learned from books. Do you understand? If faith in the family is lost, the child does not receive it, he will have to look for it and will need great signs to find it, like St. Paul. It is normal for the family to develop gifts, just as it is normal for the earth to produce its fruits and new seeds that will feed other generations. Nothing can replace the family.

How can we repair the foundations of this divine institution which is the Christian family? Here is the content of the Messages of the Blessed Virgin! This is what the Queen of Peace who visits us in Medjugorje teaches to our generation.

Our Lady wishes to renew the world, save the world.

Often, he said crying: “Dear children, pray together .. .pray the Rosary every day”.

There are many places where the Rosary is prayed together today.

While on the plane, I read an article about the war in the newspaper. The Muslims, seeing a young woman pray the Rosary, cut off her hand. The Rosary remained in the cut hand of the girl, just as faith remained in her heart. At the hospital, she said: I offer my pain for peace.

If we want to renew our families, we must develop the gift of prayer again, start praying. For this there are prayer groups: to develop the gift and then introduce it into the family, bring it to those we love most. If a family prays, it becomes increasingly united and can transmit the gift to others.