Monthly apparition

From Children of Medjugorje:


Dear Children of Medjugorje
Praised be Jesus and Mary!

1. On September 2nd, Mirjana received her monthly apparition. The apparition was very peaceful, even joyful. At the end of the apparition, Mirjana said that Our Lady didn't give a classic message but started in this way: "You know that we have been gathering so that I may help you come to know the love of God."


Our Lady spoke to Mirjana about the future. Later she said:

"I am gathering you under my motherly mantle to help you to come to know God's love and His greatness. My children, God is great. Great are His works. Do not deceive yourselves that you can do anything without Him. Not even to take a step, my children. Instead set out and witness His love! I am with you. Thank you."


2 - The exaltation of the Cross

On August 30th 1984 Our Lady spoke about the Cross that was built in 1933 on what is now Mount Krizevac. She said, "Dear children! The cross was also in God's plan when you built it. These days, especially, go on the mountain and pray before the cross. I need your prayers..." On the 14th of this month, we celebrated the Exaltation of the Cross, a feast day that Croatians treasure in a special way. Local tradition holds that Christians ascend Mount Krizevac to venerate the Cross at the top and celebrate morning Mass there. Nobody misses it! As for me, because I arrived at the top a little early, I was able to witness a deeply moving scene. Coming from all over the country, crowds of Croatian pilgrims were climbing, some barefoot, all walking towards the Cross of Jesus!! They could be seen moving in clusters, coming from all over, through small paths, through big paths, roads and narrow ways between the vines; and all were converging toward the mountain of the Cross. What an extraordinary sight! How can we not think of the prophets in the Bible who saw all scattered peoples heading for Jerusalem and finding Salvation there!

Today, as the world is wondering with some anxiety where it is headed and what the future holds, if it hears the invitation of Jesus and decides to follow Him, it will find the answer and be saved! But the real Answer, the real Jesus, not the one of the New Age!

The real Jesus saves us by His death on the Cross and His Resurrection. New Age wants to throw away the cross in order to seduce souls, and so many believers fall into the trap. Fortunately, this is not the case with the Croatian people: they know that their attachment to the Cross has saved them from Communism and other evils; and they are not about to let go of their great treasure. One should see how the young and old respect and kiss the Cross! What an example for us in the Western world who have let pagans take away our Crucifixes, (even in Catholic institutions)! No wonder that we no longer know where Salvation will come from! No wonder that many enemies of Christ keep on making up more false means of Salvation - false cures, false ways of peace to give better change, to offer happiness without the Cross! If we dispose of the cross, Satan wins. He will be too happy to get rid of what precisely caused his defeat! Satan hates the Cross, at the foot of which Jesus conquered him, and he wants to make us hate it too by all means! This is why so many people, unconsciously infected with this virus of his, are afraid to come near the Cross of Jesus, or they create Crosses so crooked that they are on the verge of blasphemy!! Why are adoptees of satanic sects asked to trample the Cross before being admitted? Satan knows the power of the Cross!! But for us believers, what folly came over us to abandon the Cross as we have?

Many people know about the traditional Croatian marriage ceremony: At the moment of the Sacrament, when the bride and groom promise one to another, the priest offers them a Crucifix placed on his stole, and the spouses put their hands on Christ, the groom first, then the bride on top. Eventually, the Crucifix will be placed in a place of honor in their home and become the focus of prayer in their home. Thus divorces are rare among Croatian believers. Many foreign couples find out about this custom and are sorry not to have found out earlier before their own wedding! But with God it is never too late: at their wedding anniversary, they can have a mass celebrated during which they can renew their promises. They only need to ask the priest. After the liturgy of the Word, he comes to present them a crucifix on his stole and the spouses can renew their promises while putting their hands on Jesus crucified. From then on Jesus becomes like the cement of their love and union. Temptations, storms and conflicts of all kinds that may arise may be abandoned to Jesus, the Protector and Savior of their love. How many tortures and divorces could be avoided doing so!!

Put the blessed Crucifix back in your homes, in your bedrooms, living rooms, anywhere you live! With the Cross of Jesus, it is God's blessing that enters your homes, and don't we need it more than ever? Don't we need to see, touch, kiss and venerate the true Author of our Salvation, the One who never deceived us?

March 25,1997 the Gospa said: "Dear children! Today, in a special way, I invite you to take the cross in the hands and to meditate on the wounds of Jesus. Ask of Jesus to heal your wounds, which you, dear children, during your life sustained because of your sins or the sins of your parents."


3. A medical dotor, Bernard, came to Medjugorje for the first time this week. Even though he was baptized, Bernard violently rejected God and his faith at the age of 12. In 1998, thanks to some Catholic friends, a move toward conversion took root in his heart but his spiritual life remained cloudy.

A couple of days ago, he went by himself to Apparition Hill. Seeing some trash thrown around here and there, he decided to clean up the area. He began by picking up the rubbish and putting it in a bag. All at once, he was overwhelmed by the feeling that Our Lady was calling him to pray in front of her statue. But he ignored the call and continued cleaning up. A thought then came clear and loud in his mind: "It is fine to pick up trash, but I'd better take care of the "trash" in my own heart and put it at the foot of Mary." The call became so strong and irrepressible that finally Bernard fell to his knees in front of the statue.

As soon as he began to pray, horrible scenes from his past, that he had forgotten a long time ago, came back to him! The name of a woman came very clearly to his mind and wouldn't leave him. It was the name of a patient, one among the thousands he had encountered during his medical career. This name in particular was from 35 years ago! As he prayed, he could see himself that night as a young medical student working in the hospital. He was placed in the ward for terminally ill patients. Without consulting the patient or asking anyone else for permission – something that was against the rules – he injected her with a high dose of morphine. He was well aware of the enormous risk for the patient, but because of the hardness of his heart and his selfish desire to try a new experiment, he did not hesitate one second. The next morning the woman was dead.

In front of Mary's statue, Bernard saw himself the way he was long ago, stuffed with pride and committing the most heinous sins. Each sin came up from the depths of his heart and was shown to him very clearly. Bernard was indeed cleaning up his own garbage; he was even mystified by the experience! He never thought he was holding within him such a pile of garbage! However, under the loving and non- judgmental gaze of Mary, in this most anointed encounter with his heavenly Mother, Bernard did not lose hope. On the contrary, filled with a sincere repentance, he decided to throw all of those horrors into the heart of Jesus so that He could burn them forever. Bernard ran to confession and received the gift of a very profound interior peace, a peace he had been searching for and that had been eluding him for so long! This is the gift that Mary, Mother of Peace, had in store for this very dear son of hers, here in Medjugorje!

This example shows us very clearly how the Mother of God works:
- She attracts to her the sheep damaged by evil,
- She casts a light of grace onto them with gentleness and tremendous power,
- And, through her beautiful, merciful gaze she gives them the desire to purify themselves,
- And then she brings them to her sons - our priests!


A sinner who throws himself into the hands of Mary does not remain stuck to his sins for very long! Furthermore, a priest who works with Mary is a happy priest and never jobless in the confessional: he collects the lost sheep from the hands of
Mary and brings them to Jesus!



Dearest Gospa, we place ourselves under your maternal gaze.
Please help us purify and change our lives!
Rescue us from the oppression of sin, so we may have life!

Sr. Emmanuel +