Echo of Medjugorje 224

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Fr. Angelo Mutti

founder Echo of Medjugorje

Message o 25 November 2012:

"Dear Children, In this time ofgrace I call you all to renew prayer.Open yourselves to holy confession sothat each of you may accept my callwith all your heart. I am with you andI protect you from the ruin (abyss) ofsin, but you must open yourselves tothe way of conversion and holiness,that your heart may burn out of lovefor God. Give Him time and He will

give Himself to you and thus, in thewill of God, you will discover the loveand the joy of living. hank you forresponding to my call."

Conversion and Holiness

his is time o grace because Jesusintercedes beore the Father or us, and soit shall be till the end o time. his meansthat Heaven is open or us; so it's a goodtime to renew our prayer, to seek the graceoConession, to accept Mary's call with

an open heart. Furthermore, we are aboutto begin the time o Advent which is theliturgical time that prepares us orChristmas.

The Time o Advent prepares us toenter the Mystery o the "marvellousexchange" when the Creator o Manbecomes man by being born o the Virgin.He shares our humanity so we can sharehis divinity (c. CCC 526).

I am with you and I protect you fromthe abyss of sin, and you must openyourselves up to conversion and holinessso your heart might burn out of love forGod, Mary advises. his is an occasion weshouldn't miss, given us to undertake theway o conversion and holiness and have adeeper love or God.

We need to ind the time to dedicate toGod; time to pray, and in prayer encounterHim, to listen, assist and serve Him in theways o our world. In exchange, He willgive himsel to us, and we will discover the

joy and love o living. We can't make timeexpand, so we must recover it rom timegiven to other things o lesser importance.I we really want to, we'll ind the time. heearthly lie is so oten problematic, diicultand bitter; and how joyul it could becomei we live out God's will.

January - February 2013 - Edited by: Eco di Maria, Via Cremona, 28 - 46100 Mantova (Italia) - Year 29, nr. 1/2

Poste Italiane s.p.a. - Sped. in A. P. - D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in L. 27/02/2004 n 46) art. 1, comma 2, DCB Mantova 224

(Comments to messages by Nuccio Quattrocchi)

Message, 2 Dec 2012 (Mirjana):

"Dear Children, with motherly loveand motherly patience I call you anewto live according to my Son; to spreadhis peace and his love; and, as myapostles, to receive with all your heartthe truth of God, and to pray to theHoly Spirit for his guidance! hen you

will be able to faithfully serve my Sonand show his love to others with yourlife. hrough the love of my Son andmy own love, I - as Mother - strive tobring all of my stray children into mymotherly embrace and to show themthe way of faith. My Children, help mein my motherly battle and pray withme that sinners may become awareof their sins and repent sincerely.Pray also for those whom my Son haschosen and consecrated in his name.

hank you."Spread His Peace and Love

Live according to Jesus: Tis lovelymessage reminds us o the oundations orliving the Christian aith, and it conrmsthat we are all called to carry out thework o apostleship, which is a lie-longprogramme, not only or the time oAdvent or or the Year o the Faith. Weare encouraged by Our Blessed Mother'ssupport and her untiring patience, her

closeness. With her as our guide, we willlearn to live according to her Son, which weshould not see as a privilege but as a duty, away o ullling the Father's will. So, armedwith aith, joy, hope and humility we willovercome the obstacles on lie's ways, alongwith the help o the Holy Spirit!

Message o 25 December 2012:

Marija refers: Our Lady came withthe Child Jesus in her arms and shedid not give a message, but the ChildJesus began to speak and said: I amyour peace, live my commandments.ogether, and with the sign of thecross, Our Lady and the Child Jesusblessed us.

I Am Your Peace

Live My Commandments

his is a novel thing, though notabsolute, because twice beore Our Ladydidn't give a message (the 14th and 28thJune 1984). What most surprises us isthat Jesus spoke, which is or the irsttime. It is something to meditate on inour heart without trying to interpret.I God so desires, we will understandsooner or later. For the moment Jesus'words - so clear -are suicent! He is our

Peace; there is no other.His peace was announced by theAngels when He was born (Lk 2:14),it gushed orth rom Simeon's heartbeore the emple (Lk 2:28-29) andJesus himsel proclaimed his peaceupon the Cross (Jn 14:27): "Peace I leavewith you, my peace I give unto you: notas the world giveth, do I give unto you.Let not your heart be troubled, nor let itbe afraid."

Our Lord Jesus gives himself to us.He gives us his peace. Here we see nodierence between the Giver and thegit. o the Apostles he says: "Peace beto you! As the Father hath sent me, I alsosend you" (Jn 20: 21), and He breatheson them to instil in them the git othe Holy Spirit to qualiy them or theMission.

Jesus is the Peace that the worldcannot receive because it will notacknowledge Him. Our salvation doesnot come by way o a passive or ormalobedience to the Law. It passes through

Love, which is ruit o His Sacriice, andasks rom us a response o love by livingout his commandments. Let us receivethe blessing o Jesus and Mary, that itmight be a true Christmas!


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Te Decalogue

"Te Decalogue takes us back to MountSinai when God enters in a special wayinto the history o humanity. But let usask ourselves: what meaning do these enCommandments have or us in the presentcultural context in which secularism andrelativism riskbecoming the criteria o everychoice and this society o ours that seems tolive as i God does not exist? We answer thatGod gave us the Commandments to teachus true reedom and genuine love, so thatwe can be truly happy. Tey are a sign oGod the Father's love, o his desire to teachus how to distinguish between good andevil, truth and alsehood, right and wrong.

Tey are comprehensible to all becausethey set undamental values as concreterules and regulations, by putting them intopractice man can walk the path o truereedom, which set him rmly on the paththat leads to lie and happiness. By contrast,when man ignores the Commandments inhis lie, not only does he alienate himselrom God but he also distances himselrom lie and lasting happiness. Man leto himsel, indierent to God, proud ohis absolute autonomy, eventually ends upollowing the idols o selfshness, power,domination, polluting the relationship with

himsel and with others and taking pathsthat do not lead to lie but death. Te sadexperience o history, especially o the lastcentury, is a warning to all humanity.

Jesus brings to ullment the path o theCommandments ... to radically overcomeselshness, sin and death with the gif o

The Holy Father Benedict XVI 2himsel or love. By welcoming the innitelove o God, trusting him, ollowing thepath that he has laid down, we give deepermeaning to lie and open up a uture ohope. (Sept. 2012)

World Day o PeaceBlessed are the Peacemakers! "Te

beatitudes which Jesus proclaimedare promises. Tey are not only moralexhortations, or they consist in theullment o a promise made to all thosewho allow themselves be guided by therequirements o truth, justice and love. Inthe eyes o the world, those who trust inGod and his promises oen appear naveor ar rom reality. Yet Jesus tells them thatnot only in the next lie, but already in thislie, they will discover that God has alwaysbeen, and ever will be, completely on theirside. Jesus Christ grants us true peace,which is born o the trusting encountero man with God. Jesus beatitude tells us

that peace is both a messianic gi and theruit o human eort. [2]

Peace concerns the human personas a whole. It is peace with God througha lie lived according to his will. It isboth interior peace, and exterior peace.Authentic peacemakers keep in mind thatthe attainment o peace depends above allon recognizing that we are, in God, onehuman amily... Peace is an order achievedin reedom, in a way consistent with thedignity o persons who, by their very natureas rational beings, take responsibility ortheir own actions. Peace is not a dream or

something utopian; it is possible. Our gazeneeds to go deeper, beneath supercialappearances, to discern a positive realitywhich exists in human hearts. Tepeacemaker is the one who seeks the goodo the other today and tomorrow. [3]

Te path to the attainment of the

common good and to peace is above allthat o respect or human lie in all its manyaspects. Anyone who loves peace cannottolerate attacks and crimes against lie.Tose who insufciently value human lieperhaps do not realize that in this way theyare proposing the pursuit o a alse peace.Tere is also a need to acknowledge andpromote the natural structure o marriage

as the union o a man and a woman inthe ace o attempts to make it juridicallyequivalent to radically dierent types ounion; such attempts actually harm andhelp to destabilize marriage, obscuring itsspecic nature and its indispensable rolein society. Tese principles are not truthso aith. Tey are inscribed in humannature itsel, accessible to reason and thuscommon to all humanity. Te Churchseorts to promote them are not thereoreconessional in character, but addressedto all people, whatever their religiousafliation. [4]

No one should ignore or underestimatethe decisive role of the family... which isone o the indispensable social subjectsor the achievement o a culture o peace.Te rights o parents and their primaryrole in the education o their children inthe area o morality and religion mustbe saeguarded. It is in the amily thatpeacemakers, tomorrows promoters oa culture o lie and love, are born andnurtured. [6]

In the end ... there is a need torenounce that false peace promised by theidols o this world along with the dangerswhich accompany it, that alse peace

which dulls consciences, which leads tosel-absorption, to a withered existencelived in indierence. Te pedagogy opeace, on the other hand, implies activity,compassion, solidarity, courage andperseverance. [7]"

(www.vatican.va - 1 Jan. 2013)

Message to MIRJANA, 2 Jan. 2013

"Dear Children, With much love andpatience, I strive to make your heartssimilar to mine. By my example, I striveto teach you humility, wisdom and love,

because I need you. I cannot do withoutyou, my children. According to God's willI choose you, and according to his strengthI try to invigorate you. herefore, mychildren, do not be afraid to open up yourhearts to me! I will give them to my Son,and in return, He will grant you divinepeace. You will bear (this divine peace)and take it to al l those whom you meet; youwill witness God's love with your life, andwith your life, you will bear to others thegift of my Son. hrough reconciliation,fasting and prayer, I will lead you. My loveis immeasurable; do not be afraid!

My children, pray for your pastors.May you lips never speak words ofcondemnation, because - and I want younot to forget - my Son chose them and Healone has the right to judge. hank you."

I NEED YOU!- here's something newin the air today. Perhaps it's the void we eel

rom the lack o a message by Our Lady,even though Jesus Himsel spoke a ew but

very signi icant words.

But here Mary tells us that sheneeds us. It appears as an urgent appeal;

otherwise, Mary's Work risks beingbanalized in supericial practices. Howcan we not pay heed to the urgent call to aconversion o heart; o a heart which againplaces its trust in God? How can we noteel the need to ollow through on Mary'steachings? Yet our response to Mary's callseems less ervent as the extraordinary hasbecome ordinary... Could it be that Mary'sprolonged presence is not enough or us,and we've gone o in search o something"newer"? But this would be in contrast withthe aith we proess.

Mary's words prompt us to ask: What

changes has Mary's Work produced in us?Rather than being discouraged, we shoulddraw hope rom Mary's call. he Father'sarms are always open and ready to embraceus, so tarry no longer, and let us give ourhearts with joy and enthusiasm to Mary. "Iwill give them to my Son, and in return,He will grant you divine peace," Mary

has promised. "You will bear (this divinepeace) and take it to all those whom youmeet; you will witness God's love withyour life, and with your life, you will bearto others the gift of my Son." God's loveand peace, can be and ought to be lived,enjoyed and witnessed to others. hey arenot anaesthetics, but rather a balm able toheal pain, soothe suerering, and gratLie into lie.

Eternity begins now on the Earth.We cannot do without the help o God,but we are not alone! he Lord Jesus iswith us, as is Mary, His and our BlessedMother. "Through reconciliation, fastingand prayer, I will lead you. My love isimmeasurable; do not be afraid!"we areensured!

Each time we err, we can pick ourselves

up and start o anew. he lie o Jesuscannot grow in us automatically, nor can itgrow without diiculty; but all is overcomei our heart is open and receptive to Grace.We are chosen by the Will o God, andstrengthened by God's Power. All we needdo is joyully and grateully receive Hiswork o grace. Edit. Team


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MEDJUGORJE 3Year of FaithSuggestions from Medjugorje

Word of God becomes Lightthrough Faith!

"Dear Children, I call you to mymission. Accompany me with an openheart and total trust. he way alongwhich I lead you to God is difficult, butpersevere, and at the end we shall allrejoice in God! hus, my children, donot cease to pray for the gift of faith. Itis only through faith that the Word ofGod can be light in this darkness thatwants to engulf you. Do no fear, I amwith you. hank you."

(Message to Mirjana, 2/10/07)

Mary's call to accompany her withan open heart and total trust in hermission has not expired even though thismessage is over ive years' old, and just

as her messages o thirty years ago arenot expired, but continue to irrigate theworld.

Mary's Work is noticeable but notsensational; it is public but is not givenas ood or those who seek novelties; it isdiscreet but has universal importance;though it might be classiied dated, it is inact timeless. Even more so, her messagecannot be reduced to thirty or so yearsbecause it actually began with Jesus'Passion and will cease when He returns!The way upon which we are invited is

difficultbecause it leads to God, but thegoal is certain and it is joy in God.

Faith is a requisite, but this is assuredto anyone who asks or it rom God.Prayer is not the price, because the pricehas already been paid by Jesus Christ. hegit is ree, as is the request, but it isn'tencapsulated in the ways o bureaucracy,as it must pass through the heart, and betrue prayer. Ed. Team

Podbrdo

28 December2012

IVAN:

"o talk aboutthe encounterwith Our Lady

is very diicult, because words cannotdescribe the beauty o this encounter, norespecially her Love. In simple words, allI can say is that this evening Our Ladycame and was joyul. At the beginning shegreeted us in the usual manner by saying,

"Praised be Jesus, my dear children!"Shethen prayed lengthily over us all with herhands extended, especially over the sick,and then said:

"Dear children, also today I desirecalling you to joy. I call you anew tojoy. At the same time, I call you to

r e s p o n s i b i l i t y .Dear children,receive my messagesresponsibly andlive them, becauseit is through livingmy messages that Idesire leading you

to my Son.All these years

that I have been with you I have beenpointing out to you my Son Jesus becausemy desire is to lead you all to Him.

herefore, also over the next days askyourselves: 'What can I do so my heart iscloser to Jesus? May this question guideyou. Ask yourselves: 'What must I leave,what must I reject, so my heart is closerto Jesus?' Pray, my children! I shall prayfor you all so that the response in yourhearts may be 'Yes, I desire being closer

to Jesus'! hank you, my dear children,for also today you have responded to mycall and you have said 'yes'."

Our Lady continued praying especiallyor priests and or vocations. She then letin the sign o the luminous cross, saying:"Go in peace, my dear children!"

(ont: Radio Maria Italia website)

Annual apparition to JAKOV

Christmas 2012: In his last dailyapparition, in 1998, Our Lady told JakovColo that he would receive an apparitiononce a year, on Christmas day. his year,

Our Lady came with the Child Jesus in herarms, and gave the ollowing message:

"Dear Children, give me your livesand surrender yourselves entirely tome so I can help you comprehend mymotherly love and the love of my Son foryou. My Children, I love you immensely,and today in particular, on the day ofmy Son's birth, I desire receiving each ofyou into my heart and offering your livesto my Son. My Children, Jesus loves youand He grants you the grace to live inHis mercy. However, the hearts of many

of you are overcome by sin and you livein darkness. herefore, my Children,tarry no longer. Say 'NO' to sin, andoffer your hearts to my Son, for it is thisway alone that you can live God's mercyand undertake the way of salvation withJesus in your hearts."

VICKA in the Holy Land

Vicka, with the coordinator of "Maranatha"

Vicka Ivankovic accepted aninvitation to take part in an internationalpilgrimage to the Holy Land next August.It will be the irst international pilgrimageo the "Maranatha" organization oundedand run by Mons. Andr Lonard oBrussels in Belgium. "Maranatha" says

that it has contacted other prelates manyo whom have shown interest in thepilgrimage. here are already many priestsand representatives o over ten countriesin Europa and North and South Americawho have conirmed their presence. heco-ordinator o 'Maranatha', SabrinaCovic-Radojicic, has conirmed thepresence of Fra Petar Ljubicic, known asthe priest chosen by Mirjana to announcethe contents o the ten secrets.

During her time in the Holy Land,Vicka will have three public apparitions

in Bethlehem. Vicka says, "It will bewonderul to be united to people rom somany other nations, to share the messageso Our Lady and to tell them o her love orthe whole world." In the video publishedon the web pages o Medjugorje oday,Vicka also says, "It is wonderul to bringlove to everyone. Mary once said that thedivisions in religion are caused by people,not by God, because God is One. his isvery important because Our Lady wantsus to know that we are all loved in anequal manner. Dierences do not existor her...

"I am very happy. he Holy Landis where it all began, where the mostimportant places or Christianity are,"Vicka added. www.medjugorjetoday.


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Praying to the Lordto increase our faith

ake your time when you pray,suggested homas Merton, to improveyour prayer. According to Merton, i aperson really desires it, he ought to slowdown to a more human rhythm and beginto ind time to listen. His suggestion wasto live time in a new way, saying that the

reason we don't have the time is based onthe idea that we must continually be on themove, which is an illness o our day andage.

Every moment is good or God. It is upto us to ind the time to stop and relect; butwhich prayer? Here are just two examples:the Rosary, and the "Jesus Prayer" (Lord

Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, havemercy on me a sinner!) he latter is brie,and goes rom heart to Heart, and can besaid at any moment. All it requires is alash o the mind. he Rosary, on the otherhand, isn't just a amily prayer, but can be

said as we drive, or in ront o the BlessedSacrament, or instance.

From Prayer to Action:

Forgive your enemy; and Console thealicted - his could be someone in theamily, or a neighbour. Perhaps the "enemy"could be someone with whom we have

At Christmas Our Lady appeared toMarija with the Child Jesus in her arms,but she did not give a message. However,the greatest and the most beautiful giftMary could give us is Jesus Himself. Herdaily presence and her messages are givenus so that we can finally come toacknowledge and accept Jesus as our soleSaviour!

On Christmas day Jakov had his yearlyapparition; Our Lady appeared to himwith the Child Jesus in her arms. To JakovMary said: "Give me your lives andsurrender yourselves completely to me so

that I can help you comprehend mymotherly love and my Son's love for you..."Devotion to Maryis not true if it does notlead us to Jesus, for Jesus came to usthrough her, and she must lead us toHim.

A new year has begun, and it has been31 years since Mary has been appearing ona daily basis, coming to us and calling us.Do not tarry, she tells us today (in Jakov'smessage). So let's not wait any longer; let'snot wait another Christmas or anotherEaster to allow ourselves be taken by thehand of the Mother of God. Let's put asideour hardness of heart and allow ourselvesto be touched by her tender love.

Ivan, how do you feel after anApparition?

Ivan: "It is diicult to explain in wordsthe joy I eel in the heart. It's diicult totransmit this to others. hose who are withme during an apparition know I always sayhow diicult it is to to recover, to come backto this world ater the encounter with OurLady. here is always a hope in me duringthe Apparition that makes me say in the

heart: "Mother, stay a while longer duringthis apparition because it is so beautiful tobe with you, because your smile and youreyes are so full of love."

"hen as I see the tears o joy on OurLady's cheeks when she looks at all o ushere praying, I get the eeling that shewould like to come close to us all andembrace us. Such is her love! his loveand peace and joy that I eel during anapparition o Our Lady stays with me allday long. here are nights (previous to anapparition) when I cannot sleep, thinkingabout what Our Lady will tell me. So I

examine my conscience, considering whatI did during the day, asking i my deedswere in accordance to God's will, and iOur Lady will be happy with me.

"But to get back to your question, Fr.Livio, it is the peace and joy and love that Iam immersed in during an apparition thatstays with me aterwards. hen what I indmost encouraging is how Our Lady willtell me what I must do with the pilgrims,how to transmit the messages, etc. I cantruly coness that with my human strengthI could not put up with everything i OurLady did not give me that special daily

strength."Interview by Radio Maria Italia, Aug.'12

argued. he suggestion is to orgive withconcrete acts: a telephone call, a note or a

visit. he "a licted", likewise, could be aamily member or neighbour who is sick,alone or concerned, and would beneitrom a chat, a coee, a game o cards.(credit: Fr. Barron, www.wordonfire.org)

Key to Joy

With the irst table (the irst threecommandments) in mind, Fr. Barron

invites us to consider a particular scenerom the New estament, where Jesuscleanses the emple: "he temple was theplace where these Commandments wereespecially honoured by the people; it waswhere one kept holy the Sabbath day. In theNew estament scene, Jesus comes in, looksaround, and says: 'You've turned this houseo prayer into a market place' (in John'sGospel), or worse, 'a den o thieves', inthe other Gospels. hen he turns over thetables, He cleanses and puriies the emple.St. Paul says that the individual Christian(his body) is a temple o the Holy Spirit!; a

place where God alone is praised, honouredby speech and honoured by action."

If Jesus were to come into the templeof our body, Fr. Barron asks: "What wouldhe ind? It's meant to be a house o prayer!Does he ind a market place? A lot o alsegods exist, such as power, honour, pleasure;but perhaps in today's society, the "marketplace" has become the principal alse god.How much time do you spend ussing aboutmoney, shopping, worrying about materialthings, trying to ill up your lie with allsorts o... things? Have you turned what'smeant to be a temple into a market place?

here are a lot o other gods; but which oneis being honoured inside this temple (oyour body)?"

On the other hand - he says - "If youallow Jesus into that temple to look around,chances are he's going to want to turn somethings over. hat's why letting him insideis a dicey business, because he will eectchange, he'll turn things upside down.Were the money-changers or the templeestablishment happy with his invasion?Certainly not." We also have a certain templeestablishment going on within us, a certainway o doing things," says Fr. Barron. "When

Jesus comes in he rearranges, upsets, turnsupside down; but does he want to cause youtrouble? No. He wants to turn that marketplace into a house o prayer, which is whatit's meant to be, where God alone is givenproper praise.

hat's the keyto joy. hat'swhat the com-mandments areabout: to makeus happy. So, letHim in! It'll bea little tricky, alittle unsettling,but he's trying torearrange thingsto bring you joy!"

(credits: Fr. Barron,wordonfire.org)

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