Padraig… you brought me a little bit closer to heaven reading your post and seeing your picture. Yes, I had exact same experience thee this past year. Your senses will be alive….. many, many signs. Peace. Get some rest
I think there are more and more people coming in by the hour. There are crowds and crowds of people on the streets. For people from places like Italy Spain or France I suppose the heat would not matter. But for me it does . However I hope if there is Adoration that there also may be air-conditioning. So going down now. I checked my weather app ACU weather and it will be 21 c on Blue Mountain at 11 pm which suits just fine. Can anyone tell me what time they start going up the mountain tonight? Also when and where Our Lady appears tomorrow night?
I woke up from a nice long sleep. The air conditioning really works, I was beginning to think it didn't, but it takes time. Still crying away. I haven't had a conversation with anyone and am in no great hurry to do so. I know there are at least four other Irish people in the guesthouse so I suppose I'll meet them sooner or later. The last time I cried like this was in 1981 when I met Our Lady a few months before the apparitions started here. I saw her in May 1981 and the children here a few months later in June. Also Our Lady started coming to Kubeho in Rwanda at the same time.
I am hoping and dreading what I will see up the mountain tonight and tomorrow night. Hoping because who would not want to meet his mother again? Dreading because I do not how much more melting my heart can take. How much crying can one person do before his eyeballs fall out?
Yes tears especially at Mass. I cry at Mass at home here sometimes since returning. I making big effort to avoid TV & radio. I purchased some CDs of Medjugorje music and play it in my car constantly. It's hard coming home, coming down from the mountain of transfiguration as it were.
Yes, the Gift of tears, there is a whole literature about it. I will be rereading up on it when I get home like crazy. It really is a gift. But painful too. It feels like my heart has turned to a bowl of hot butter and the River Shannon is running down my cheeks.
I saw someone drinking beer at the Irish Centre this morning at 11am. This to me seems insane in this heat with dehydration. At the same time I felt a little jealous. He must have the constitution of an ox or be a nut.
Keeping you in prayer Padraig. Please be mindful of the heat and stay air conditioned as much as you can.
I wonder what the Vatican must be making of all the goings on here at the moment? They can't be happy campers. They like Marian Apparitions like dogs like cats. I see Jim Caveziel has come out in support of Archbishop Vigano. Bless them both.
I have not been to Medj in many years. But I often fill up with tears at Mass. Tears of sorrow and tears of joy. But its embarrassing. People think there is something wrong and I cant/ won't explain. I am hoping it is the Holy Spirit. Pretty sure it is.
I am hoping for air conditioning at adoration. If not I will give up and come home. The guy who owns the guest house told me to start up the mountain about nine. I think I will treat myself to dinner in a nice restaurant before going. So exciting. I think tonight is the last night of the Novena.
I think people like Mel Gibson and Jim Caveziel are well able to bite any biters. They are both too big to eat. I bet the people in the Vatican now did not like the film, The Last Passion of the Christ', either. That would have been pure poison to them.
I am charging my phone like crazy for many, many pictures, don't want to miss anything!! The Guest house if full of Italians. They don't even break into a sweat! I wish I was a Soprano.
I imagine the town is buzzing right now with anticipation for tonight. You are experiencing something truly biblical right now in terms of the crowds. The crying in Medjugorje is normal, I remember often seeing people crying as I walked on the sidewalk. So many people desperately seeking a miracle of love in their lives and receiving it. I also love how you express how you tear up at just shaking someone's hand. I always believed that Medjugorje is what normalcy should feel like. My recommendation for the heat is to eat only of fruit during the day if your system can handle it. This will bump up your potassium levels which will help with your energy levels and recovery in terms of the heat.
