OUR LADY'S MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE TO MARIJA ON NOVEMBER 25, 2022 "Dear children, The Most High has sent me to you to teach you prayer. Prayer opens hearts and gives hope, and faith is born and strengthened. Little children, with love I am calling you: return to God, because God is love and your hope. You do not have a future if you do not decide for God; and that is why I am with you to guide you to decide for conversion and life, and not for death. Thank you for having responded to my call."
It seems almost as a continuation to message from October…..but a bit hopeful…. Seems as if she is saying we can still choose life and not death….. “Dear children! The Most High permits me to be with you, and to be joy for you and the way in hope, because mankind has decided for death. That is why He sent me to keep instructing you that without God you do not have a future. Little children, be instruments of love for all those who have not come to know the God of love. Witness joyfully your faith and do not lose hope in a change of the human heart. I am with you and am blessing you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call. ”
miker, Note the 2 segments: because mankind has decided for death, and...do not lose hope in a change of the human heart... There is what seems to me an irrevocable gulf between the two. Question: Could it imply that mankind as a whole has rejected God and shall surely suffer consequences, but individuals still have access to the Font of Mercy? O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee!
Yes. Agree. I just posted the prophecy Our Lady gave to Fr Dolindo Ruotolo in 1921 on a thread I created. I left part of the prophecy on the link but I think tomorrow I will enlarge the whole thing and let the whole prophecy be viewed. It seems to answer your questions. It’s stunning to me how Our Lady’s descriptions of the Church and the world are so accurate, of course, and pertain to our times.
It’s a great question and I think your answer is spot on. To me “mankind” means the world in general, but not individuals. Which is why I think the message from today speaks to individuals… “ I am with you to guide you to decide for conversion and life, and not for death.”
'You do not have a future if you do not decide for God'. Such a stark, stark message. Not reducing Carbon Emmisions. Not mass vaccinations. Not supporting LGBTQ Rights. Not a Global Reset. Not the United Nations. Not a NATO victory. But to choose for God in such a Godless, Godless World. Our Lady came as Queen of Peace so I take it she is referring to a Global War so harrowing it could bring an end to the future. The World needs to Repent and Convert. To return to God. That's the bottom line
I wish they would give more precise messages about these things too. To know what is real and fake. It would be also nice to know if we should have communion on the tongue, if the Latin mass is more reverent than the Novus ordo or even if Pope Francis is the real pope.
I think in these matters Our Blessed Lady behaves very like a wise Mother-in- Law. The Church is the Bride of Christ and Mary can be compared as to a Mother in Law with regards to the Church. She is the disciple of the Church and not superior to it, especially the Church Militant who is in her own home so to speak. The wise Mother in Law will not go into the kitchen of her Daughter Law and tell her how to do the cooking. Even if, perhaps especially if, she happens to be a better cook than her daughter-in Law. Even more wisely the Sage Mother-in - Law will very much refrain from giving directions or advice to her daughter-in-law about how to bring up her children. If she did so it might very well start a Domestic Nuclear War. In short she gives her daughter-in-law her due place. So when Our Lady comes down from heaven on a visit she is very much inclined to keep well out of the Kitchen and never at all to give unasked for counsel to her Son's wife. She gives the Bride of Christ her place. Thus no domestic strife, peace, harmony. Everything working out well. No saucepans thrown, no sound of heated, discordant voices. Domestic Harmony. Ruth 1:16-18 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.” And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.
Thankfully, as St Augustine wrote, "...the effectiveness of God's mercy cannot be in the power of man to frustrate". No matter the unprecedented demonic propaganda intended to deceive people and lead them astray, they are not guaranteed to succeed in their aim to lead most men to damnation. I find it unjust that men will be damned merely through the accident of being born at a certain time in history. Where sin abounds, so does grace all the more. In the same letter (to Simplician), Augustine goes on to expound on effectual grace and says that if men are not moved by the traditional calling, God will, in His mercy, call them 'in a way suited to them'. Put another way, God has more than one means to skin the cat. I wonder, and perhaps those here might help me, when Our Lord described the Way as 'narrow' and 'few there be that find it', did He mean this as being the absolute destiny of man, or was He describing our situation as it would be if He wasn't prepared to die for us? Does His death on the Cross lead those of us to the Way who would never otherwise find it? We mustn't forget St Augustine's proviso that God's mercy does not extend to those 'with obstinacy of the will', who reject 'all modes of calling'. Yet, this implies that there are at least several modes. This allows me to retain hope for those I know, including loved ones, who are estranged from practical Catholicism, but who I know are far more virtuous than myself. For example, think of those younger people whose predominant knowledge of the Catholic Church is of priests raping young boys and of complicit bishops covering it up. Are they alienated because of their own sin of apostasy or through their own horror of sin? May the Lord God have mercy on us all.
November 25, 2022 – Marija speaks with Fr. Livio about Our Lady’s Message I greet all listeners of Radio Maria. Today, like every 25th of the month, Our Lady gave us the following message: “Dear children!. Prayer opens hearts and gives hope, and faith is born and strengthened. Little children, with love I am calling you: return to God, because God is love and your hope. You do not have a future if you do not decide for God; and that is why I am with you to guide you to decide for conversion and life, and not for death. Thank you for having responded to my call.” F.L. Well Marjia I gather this message is extremely full of exhortations and spiritual proposals. M. Exactly Father Livio! Thank God Our Lady is still with us and is still guiding us and giving us messages. While we wait for the message we make sure that the day is surrounded and filled with prayer. During the apparition I was thinking how many people came to Medjugorje, began to pray and faith was born in their hearts, and it strengthened and many found God again. This is an invitation for all of us to pray even more and testify with our lives. In this time in which we are approaching Advent it is particularly a time of grace in which she wants to teach us to pray by opening our hearts. I begin to realize that many words are often useless and superfluous while prayer remains the most concrete thing. I therefore invite you all to pray because prayer works miracles. We have seen it through the numerous testimonies and I thank Our Lady and the Most High because even today they have not gotten tired of us. By saying: “The Most High has sent me to you to teach you prayer,” She becomes our teacher and therefore we do everything with love. I believe that without “love” there is no life, we all become poor. So I invite you above all in this time of Advent, of expectation, of grace, of mercy, of waiting for the Child Jesus, to open your hearts and try to be “prayer”. F.L. Marjia surely prayer is the thing that impresses us the most when we arrive in Medjugorje, not only in the Church, but in the open valley area, on the hills and really everywhere! It is a wonderful thing. So, I wanted to ask you this – Our Lady has emphasized the Holy Mass above all other prayer and we especially in the Western world see that many young people are completely absent from Mass. They pray personally but unless they are in a particular group, you don’t see young people at Holy Mass: how can this be overcome Marjia? M. By praying, I think we must become more and more prayer. Many words, many projects are useless, what matters is prayer – the personal relationship with God. The Lord knows that we are not experts, but we can do it with the heart anyway. We are all invited to be Love and bring to prayer all those who need it, starting with the families that are destroyed, making a corner for Sacred Reading in our homes as well as for the Nativity Scene. Where there is no prayer there is no love, there is no hope. F.L. It is also nice, Marjia, in this time period to have something that invites us as families to prayer, even as Our Lady invited us for example to read the Holy Scriptures in the family. In this time of Advent with the signs of Christmas, all of this can help us to be more prepared with open hearts. M. Yes Father Livio, we who were young during communism experienced Christmas more intensely. Today consumerism in wealthier Europe is offering us materialism through unbridled shopping, and we have forgotten the spiritual part of Christmas. This is why Our Lady is guiding us and helping us in what is lacking in many families. F.L. Once, years ago at Christmas there would be queues of people who went to confession, and so Our Lady now is inviting us to decide for conversion, and she invites us to prepare a renewal of life with a beautiful confession before Holy Christmas. M. Exactly! Here (in Medjugorje) we have the beautiful habit of going early in the morning to Holy Mass, the morning Mass that we call “zornice”! Once we used to light up many candles and place them on the altar, and today it would be nice to take it up again because it would allow us to live even more deeply our relationship with God in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, in the Eucharist, in Adoration. F.L. Even in our parishes people should be called to confession because I see that in Medjugorje everything is easier while in Italy this sacrament is somehow set aside. M. Father Livio, Our Lady wants us to take the parish of Medjugorje as an example and bring it to our cities; this is holiness, conversion, love that the Lord is giving us through the presence of Our Lady. This is the time of joy, of truth, of an encounter with the Child Jesus who transforms hearts even through a simple gesture such as offering a small flower that Mary wants to offer to her Son and transforming it into a very fragrant bouquet as a sign of us returning like children again. F.L. Marjia, I wanted to ask you: “Lately Our Lady has referred several times in the messages of the 25th, as she did in last month’s message, that without God there is no future. She repeats it to us but it is as if we do not listen, somehow believing that we can very well go on without God. M. Many times, I find myself not wanting to comment on the message right away because it’s too early. Being so demanding and at the same time profound we know that Our Lady with her presence is a gift for which we need to metabolize it and expand it with prayer so that the same Spirit that sends Her among us can also make Her be born within us. Instead of talking about it, I would like to start praying and to open our hearts as She asks us to do, so that our faith is strengthened. At the beginning of the apparitions, we didn’t know how to do many things but we certainly knew how to kneel down and pray without ceasing day and night. We have had a beautiful experience of prayer that I wish each of you to have and to experience your encounter with God. This is the right time for each of us, waiting for Christmas with confessions, forgiveness, reconciliation, it is time for novenas, special prayers, special gifts and to be a gift ourselves to others. This is why we can rediscover our family now that it is cold here in Europe and this weather also helps us to stay warm in our homes where we make a space by placing a candle, the Holy Scriptures where we can read and meditate together and have a dialogue. Today unfortunately many families no longer speak to each other, they do not speak of God because they consider Him in Heaven while Our Lady is telling us that instead He is here with us on Earth. FL In fact Marjia this is a terrible thing – that in the family between parents, children, husband and wife one is afraid to talk about God and religious things. We talk about everything but not about this, it’s as if it were a personal thing and that’s it. But this is a very bad thing. M. Very bad, but the Lord sent our Mother among us to tell us: “Convert, return to God” and for this we thank Her with all our heart. She changed our lives and brought us to Her Son, Jesus! This is an immense gift. My life is a continuous thanksgiving not only for the grace of being able to see Her but also for having received Her teachings. I also thank the Good Lord for every moment we shared with Our Lady, in prayer on Apparition Hill, during Adoration, in front of the Church, behind the Church, on the altar in the open space, late at night when we were tired, when we went before Jesus and we found the strength to say: “Lord you know, you know our lives, our situations and you know very well what we need.” When we open this heart of ours to God which is so often wounded, and when we are in communion with Him, He works through prayer. This is my personal experience; I have offered my collaboration a thousand times to be an instrument, to praise God for the gift of life and for the example we can be for all those who are far away, who have not yet known God’s love.
FL Marjia, reading Our Lady’s messages, especially those of the 25th of the month, they are of an extraordinary beauty, they truly come from Heaven, but they have reached us through you. As you said, how do you feel? M. I feel in a crisis, Father Livio, because every time Our Lady comes to me, I don’t feel adequate to it and in need of more time. Therefore, I try to be as brief as possible after the apparition, because I wish I could remain in prayer and I would like to be silent immediately after each apparition, to meditate on all that the Lord is bestowing on us through His Mother. I recognize it as an immense free gift for my life, for the parish of Medjugorje, but also for all mankind. The Lord works through us and many people have embraced the messages of Our Lady, who brings us back to her Son, Jesus, with so much patience and with a unique love. We returned to the sacraments especially in the early years and Our Lady advised us to choose a spiritual guide to undertake a path of holiness and undertake the school of prayer. Even today we feel incapable, but we try with all of ourselves and with all our hearts. F.L. Marjia as we go towards the conclusion as you said it well, it will take me the whole month to meditate on this message and that won’t even be enough! But it seems to me there is one fundamental point, that the first word Our Lady says is the one that sets the tone for the message. That word was to return to prayer! I understood that this is the most important thing in a person’s life. Here I would like to say, in this season of Advent, that it will be a time in which we dedicate all the time necessary to prayer to prepare our hearts for Jesus, a strong invitation to prayer that is the first thing we must learn this evening. M. Yes I have already divided the message in my heart and in my mind into different parts because I see that there is a lot of work to do, Father Livio, having to decide for the life of the Risen Jesus. We realize that so many people have died internally and are walking skeletons and we have to “yearn for Heaven” and think of Eternal Life as She told us numerous times. If we listen to Her advice, I’m sure that each of us will become better and this is the right time to seize this invitation. FL Yes, she told us many times “yearn for Heaven, your life is like a flower, in the morning it is beautiful and in the evening it dies out”. We must return to this vision of faith. M. Of simple faith because often we don’t want to lose ourselves chatting but rather we want to pray more. This is a need of mine that I believe is growing in awareness. I am cognizant of this enormous gift we are experiencing, that the Lord is giving us. F.L. However, Marjia, I am experiencing that Our Lady invites us to pray and many times She also says to pray day and night; so, when we have filled the day and night with prayer it is almost impossible to live without praying. There is this beautiful thing – to be able to testify that when one has done one’s duty in life it means that it is no longer an effort but a need and a joy. M. And then we will discover that through those things Our Lady is telling us to do, our faith will be born and strengthened. That’s exactly where we have come to; one who prays opens his heart, faith grows and is strengthened! F.L. Yes it is just as Our Lady said: “Prayer is like the rain that wets the flower of faith. Without prayer (the rain), the flower withers and dies.” M. Exactly, exactly, and for this reason: “courage”, “let us pray” and “trust” in the Lord because He knows our needs. In a special way in this time of Advent we have to trust in the Lord who is merciful, generous and is sending us our and His Mother to guide us not only for our good but for the good of all humanity as you said Father Livio. Yesterday we also celebrated the 22nd anniversary of the death of Father Slavko who, having come to Medjugorje, took Our Lady’s messages and put them into practice, lived them by renouncing many personal things, putting God and Our Lady first. Prayer was very important to him every morning on the hill of the Cross. F.L. Yes, Father Slavko was also a great example of prayer as well as a teacher of the spiritual life! Here then Marjia with your reflections we are preparing to live the time of Advent as a time of prayer but also of self-examination to make a beautiful confession before Christmas! And then, as a gift of Peace, Our Lady will bring us the Child Jesus, King of Peace at Christmas. M. Exactly, while waiting for the Child Jesus we remain united in prayer and in the Communion of Saints because let’s say it, we also can become saints! F.L. Of course, with this we conclude with the prayer of the Magnificat: In the Name of the Father…
On Nov. 27, 1989 Our Lady of Medjugorje gave a message to Ivan's prayer group at the Blue Cross. The following happened on Monday 27 November 1989. The meeting was only for the prayer group, at Blue Cross at 10 pm. This message was given to Marija, who was standing in for Ivan. Our Lady came joyful and she said: "These days, I want you to pray in a special way for the salvation of souls. Today is the feast day of the miraculous medal, and I want that you pray, in a special way, for the salvation of those people who are carrying this miraculous medal. I want you to spread the devotion and the carrying of this medal, so that more souls may be saved, and that you pray in a special way." Today, November 27, is the feast of the Miraculous Medal. It marks 192 years since Our Lady appeared to Saint Catherine Laboure on November 27, 1830, and gave her the Miraculous Medal. Let us pray, pray, pray for souls “O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.”
I am so glad you posted this! I think of the feast day ahead of time and then it gets lost. Today it got kinda lost in the First Sunday of Advent.
Medjugorje, the 2 messages of December 25, 2022 The message of December 25, 2022 given to Marija “Dear children! Today I am carrying my Son Jesus to you, that you may be His peace and a reflection of clarity and joy of Heaven. Pray, little children, to be open to receive peace because many hearts are closed to the call of the light which changes hearts. I am with you and am praying for you to open yourselves to receive the King of peace, Who fills your hearts with warmth and blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.” The message of December 25, 2022 given to Jakov "Today, when the light of Jesus' birth is illuminating the entire world, in a special way, with Jesus in my arms, I am praying that every heart becomes a stable of Bethlehem, in which my Son will be born, so that your lives become a light of His birth. Little children, you live in peacelessness and fear. That is why, little children, today, on this day of grace, implore Jesus to strengthen your faith and to become the ruler of your lives; because, my children, only with Jesus in your lives will you not be looking at peacelessness but praying for peace and will live in peace; and you will not be looking at fear but at Jesus Who frees us of all fears. I am your Mother who ceaselessly keeps vigil over you and I am blessing you with my Motherly blessing."
Jesus in your lives will you not be looking at peacelessness but praying for peace and will live in peace; and you will not be looking at fear but at Jesus Who frees us of all fears. JESUS I TRUST IN YOU......
Our Lady's Message to Marija on January 25, 2023 “Dear children! Pray with me for peace, because Satan wants war and hatred in hearts and peoples. Therefore, pray and sacrifice your days by fasting and penance, that God may give you peace. The future is at a crossroads, because modern man does not want God. That is why mankind is heading to perdition. You, little children, are my hope. Pray with me, that what I began in Fatima and here may be realized. Be prayer and witness peace in your surroundings, and be people of peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
So much to unpack in this message! Has she ever specifically mentioned Fatima before in these messages? I think we all sense we are at a crossroad right now so to read Our Lady saying it is quite remarkable. And my other immediate reaction is a wow…..to see Our Lady say we, her little children are her hope! Those are powerful and encouraging words…..and also a lot of responsibility. I look forward to hearing more reactions ….
