Father Livio: the main messages from Medjugorje

Peace
From the beginning, Our Lady presented herself with these words: "I am the Queen of Peace". The world is experiencing strong tensions and is on the verge of catastrophes. The world can only be saved through peace, but the world will have peace only if it finds God. In God there are no divisions, and there are not many religions. It is you in the world who have created the divisions: the only Mediator is Jesus. One is not a Christian if one does not respect others, be they Muslims or Orthodox. Peace, peace, peace, be reconciled among yourselves, be brothers! I came here, because there are so many believers. I want to be with you to agree many and to reconcile everyone. Begin to love your enemies. Don't judge, don't slander, don't despise, don't curse, just bring love, blessing and pray for your adversaries. I know that you are not capable of doing this, but I advise you to pray every day at least 5 minutes to the Sacred Hearts so that they may give you divine love with which you can also love your adversaries.

Conversion
It is necessary to convert to God to achieve peace. Tell the whole world, say as soon as possible, that I want, that I want conversion: agree and do not wait. I will pray to my Son that he does not punish the world, but you agree: renounce everything and be ready for everything. I came to tell the world that God exists, that God is the Truth. Agree, in God there is life, and the fullness of life. Those who find God find great joy and true peace comes from that joy: therefore, get together as soon as possible and open your hearts to God.

Prayer
I would be very happy if all families began to pray in the morning and in the evening for at least half an hour. You do not live only on work, but also on prayer: your work - he said - will not go well without prayer. Do not look for extraordinary voices, but take the Gospel and read it: everything is clear there. Father Tomislav comments: What we need to do is to get serious about praying, get serious about fasting, and make peace with everyone. Then he indicates these essential points:
- Establish a time to dedicate to God and not allow anyone to steal it from us.
- Offer our body too.
- Implement a reversal of the values ​​of our life.

Prayer, which we normally keep on the margins, must become the center of our life, because every action of ours depends on it. God is in a corner of our house: behold, now we must make conversion, put Jesus Christ in the center of the mind and heart. You will learn to pray only by praying. We must persevere in prayer: the answer will come. Up to now we Christians have not understood the value of prayer because we lived in an atmosphere of atheism, without thinking about God. We must pray, fast and let God do it. We all need to eat, drink, sleep, but if we don't feel the need to pray, to meet with God, to find peace, serenity, strength in God; if this is missing, a fundamental thing is missing. In prayers, please turn to Jesus. I am his Mother and I will intercede for you with him. But that every prayer be addressed to Jesus. I will help you, I will pray for you, but it does not all depend on me: your strength, the strength of those who pray. Here is how the Virgin herself recognizes Jesus, who is God, the centrality the summit in the man-God relationship. She humbly recognizes herself as the handmaid of the Lord. We must awaken this desire to meet God, to solve our problems in God. I am tired: I am going to God; I have difficulties: I go to God, to meet him in my heart. Then we will see that everything within us will begin to be reborn. Offer your time to God, let yourselves be guided by the Spirit. After that, your work will go well and you will have more time.
There is a radical change here in the people of Medjugorje, a very profound dynamic of conversion. Before the apparitions, people could not stay in church for more than half an hour, after the apparitions they stay in church for up to three hours and when they return home they continue to pray and praise God. The Rosary is said while driving the car, while goes to work, in the morning break at school.

The group asked to pray every day for a minimum of three hours:
- You are too weak, because you pray too little.
- People who decide to belong totally to God are tempted by the devil.
- Follow my voice and later, when you are strong in faith, Satan will not be able to do anything to you.
- Prayer always ends in peace and serenity.
- I have no right to impose on anyone what they have to do. You have received the reason and the will; you must, after prayer, reflect and decide.
Our Lady came only to awaken our faith, it is we who must think about our life, it is we who must act. Our Lady indicated a passage from the Gospel on which to meditate. No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or he will prefer one and despise the other: you cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you: for your life do not worry about what you will eat or drink, nor about your body, about what you will wear; Is life not worth more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Do you not count more than them? And which of you, no matter how busy you are, can add a single hour to your life? And why are you scrambling for the dress? Observe how the lilies of the field grow: they do not work, they do not spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was dressed like one of them. Now if this is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is today and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, will he not do much more for you, you of little faith? Do not worry, therefore, saying: what shall we eat? what will we drink? what will we wear? All these things the pagans worry about; for your heavenly Father knows that you need it. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you in addition. So do not worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will already have its anxieties. Each day suffices its anxiety. (Mt 6,24-34)

Fasting
Every Friday you fast on bread and water; Jesus himself fasted. A true fast is giving up all sins; and first of all, renounce television programs which are a great danger to families: after television programs you are no longer able to pray. Give up alcohol, cigarettes, pleasures. No one is exempted from fasting, except the seriously ill. Prayer and works of charity cannot replace fasting.

Sacramental life
I particularly recommend that you attend daily Mass. Mass represents the highest form of prayer. You must be reverent and humble during Mass and prepare carefully. Our Lady recommends Confession to everyone, at least monthly.

Consecration to the hearts of Jesus and Mary
She also asks for consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to His Immaculate Heart, a consecration in fact, and not just in words. My wish is that the image of the Sacred Hearts be placed in all homes.

To the Supreme Pontiff
May the Holy Father be courageous in announcing peace and love to the whole world. Do not feel only the father of Catholics, but of all men (Vicka, Jakov and Marija, September 25, 1982).
Every time I appeared, the messages received from my Son were for everyone, but especially for the Supreme Pontiff to send them to the whole world. Here also in Medugorje I want to say to the Supreme Pontiff the word that I have come to announce: MIR, PEACE! I want him to pass it on to everyone. The particular message for him is to gather all Christians with his word and his preaching and to convey to young people what God inspires him during prayer (Marija, Jakov, Vicka, Ivan and Ivanka, on September 16, 1983).

The message for unbelievers (of 25 October 1995)
The visionary Mirjana says: - Appearing, the holy Virgin greeted me, saying: "Praised be Jesus".
Then he spoke of unbelievers:
- They are my children. I suffer for them They don't know what awaits them. You have to pray more for them. We prayed with her for the weak, for the unhappy, for the abandoned. After the prayer, he blessed us. Then he showed me, like in a movie, the realization of the first secret. The land was desolate. "The upheaval of a region of the world", he specified. I cried. - Why so soon? I asked.
- There are too many sins in the world. What to do if you don't help me? Remember that I love you. - How can God have such a hard heart?
- God doesn't have a hard heart. Look around you and see what men do, and then you will no longer say that God has a hard heart.
- How many are there who come to church as to the house of God, with respect, with solid faith and the love of God? Very few. This is a time of grace and conversion. It must be exploited well.

Satan in the messages of Medjugorje
In over a quarter of a century of apparitions in Medjugorje, Our Lady has given about eighty messages in which she speaks of Satan. The "Queen of Peace" calls him by her biblical name, which means "adversary", "accuser". He is the strenuous adversary of God and his plans of peace and mercy, but he is also the adversary of man, who seduces with the intent to distance him from the Creator and bring him to temporal and eternal ruin. Our Lady reveals the presence of Satan in the world at a time when even in the Christian sphere there is a tendency to belittle it and even deny it. Satan, says the "Queen of Peace", opposes God's plans with all his strength and tries in every way to destroy them. Its activity is directed against individuals, to take away the peace of hearts and attract them to the path of evil; against families, which attacks in a particular way; against young people, whom he tries to seduce by taking advantage of their free time. The most dramatic messages, however, concern the hatred that dominates the world and the war that is its consequence. This is where Satan shows his infamous face more than ever, making fun of men. The exhortation of the "Queen of Peace" is however full of hope: with prayer and fasting even the most violent wars can be stopped and with the weapon of the holy rosary the Christian can face Satan with the certainty of overcoming him.

The study, the promotion, the diffusion of the words of the Virgin, pronounced in the apparitions of Medjugorje, are one of the horses of the radio station of Arcellasco d'Erba and one of the favorite themes treated by its father-director. This Piarist father from upper Brianza is a firm supporter of the need - in Mary's words - "to make novenas of fasting and renunciations so that Satan may be far from you and grace is around you".
The real reference editor of Radio Maria is the "Queen of Peace". And to his own publisher, Father Livio Fanzaga also wanted to dedicate his latest book, an annotated collection of about eighty messages in which the mother of Christ makes explicit reference "to the adversary, the accuser, the liar". "Satan is strong", although his existence "makes 'the intelligent' of this world smile with compassion" and makes it too fearful to face openly "the believers who have responsibility for teaching the faith." The author of Satan in the Medjugorje messages (Edizioni Sugarco. Pages 180, Euro 16,50) is convinced that he has the strongest ally at his side "to reveal evil so that we can overcome it".