Medjugorje and the Secrets

The reported apparitions of Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina, June 24, the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist, 1981 – to the Present moment

·       Mary has been appearing to Ivan, Jakov, Marija, Mirjana, Vicka, and Ivanka ever since…

Archbishop Henryk Hoser (Poland) head of the Ruini Commission established by Pope Benedict XVI stated: The commission established by Pope Benedict XVI to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, voted overwhelmingly to recognize as real and supernatural the first seven apparitions…

The Church cannot render a final decision

·       because the apparitions and messages continue

May 12, 2019, the Vatican officially authorized pilgrimage to Medjugorje and turned the parish church of St. James in Medjugorje not a pontifical shrine under the oversight of the Vatican.

John Paul II commented to the Archbishop of Slovakia, Pavel Hnilca: “Medjugorje is the continuation of Fatima, it is the completion of Fatima.” (Slovimir Oder, Why He is a Saint p. 169)

If you would like to learn more about Medjugorje:

·       Rene Laurentin: Is the Virgin Mary Appearing at Medjugorje?

·       Read the books or watch the lectures on Medjugorje by Dr. Mark Miravalle on You Tube 

The essence of the Message of Medjugorje is:

·       Return to God through a greater Faith

·       Conversion by means of admitting our sins and going to confession

·       Live a changed life – actually live the Golden Rule to treat others as you would have them treat you.

·       Then keep converting from sin to grace and from grace to holiness by

o   daily by a daily examination of conscience,

o   practicing our resolution that flows from daily meditation

o   going to confession once a month

·       Pray the Rosary every day

·       Fast and offer up your daily crosses – by accepting with trust and uniting to the Cross of Jesus

o   what you did not choose, do not like and cannot change

·       On June 27, 1981 Our Lady said: “Peace, peace…nothing but peace. Men must be reconciled with God and with one another. For this to happen it is necessary to believe, to pray, to fast, to go to confession.” ·       On August 6, 1981, the word Peace (Mir) was written in the sky as though by an invisible hand. This sign was repeated several times. Many witnessed it.

·       At the end of August 1981 Our Lady revealed: I am the Queen of Peace.

·       On June 16, 1983 she said: I have come to tell the world: God is truth. He exists. In him is true happiness and abundance of life. I present myself here as the Queen of Peace to tell the world that peace is necessary for the salvation of the world. In God is found true joy from which true peace flows.

If the Mother of God is appearing, then Jesus is real, then everything must change

Our Lady is to give each of the Visionaries 10 secrets to be revealed to the world.

The secrets are not the essence of the message but they motivate the urgency of conversion.

Secrets of medjugorje

·       Mirjana, Jakov, and Ivanka have received all ten secrets,

·       Marija, Vicka, and Ivan have received nine secrets

The first two secrets are warnings to invite conversion before it is too late. They are undoubtedly, in part dramatic.

The 3rd secret is a sign of hope – A Permanent Sign

·       Our Lady will leave a supernatural, permanent and indestructible sign on Apparition Hill where she first appeared. 

Each of the 10 Secrets will be revealed to the world in this way:

·       10 days before the date of the event foretold in the secret, Mirjana is to tell the priest that has already been chosen, what will happen and when

·       Mirjana and the priest are to pray and fast for 7 days

·       Then, 3 days before the event, the priest will reveal the secret to the world

·       These events revealed by the secrets can be altered by

o   conversion,

o   prayer

o   and sacrifice and fasting

·       Our Lady stated: “Prayer and fasting can stop wars and change the laws of nature.”\

The General Theme of the Secrets according to the interviews conducted by the late Fr Rene Laurentin

The world has abandoned itself to sin. It wants to live without God and without a moral law. The world denies the existence of God.

There is no God, no devil, no life after death – All that exists is what you see

·       We came from nothing,

·       there is nothing after death,

o   therefore our lives have no meaning or purpose.

Truth and goodness are supposed to guide actions.

But we want to give free reign to passions and violence.

The world is destroying itself.

It is vehemently preparing its own destruction

·       Having forgotten God and His law of love:

·       Do to others as you would have them do to you.

God is not preparing to punish us.

·       We are preparing to destroy ourselves.

There is a Remedy –

·       Return to God our Father whom we can trust and love.

·       Take care one another because we are all brothers and sisters.

The only thing Mirjana will say about the secrets is this:

“Our Lady is planning to change the world. She did not come to announce our destruction; she came to save us, and with her Son, she will triumph over evil.”

At Medjugorje Our Lady is Reported to have said: “What I started in Fatima, I will complete in Medjugorje. My heart will triumph. 

So - What’s the purpose of the Secrets?

2000 Cardinal Ratzinger: “In this way, the importance of human freedom is underlined: the future is not in fact unchangeably set, and the image that the children saw is in no way a film preview of a future in which nothing can be changed.

Indeed, the whole point of the vision is to bring freedom onto the scene and to steer freedom in a positive direction. The purpose of the vision is not to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future. Its meaning is exactly the opposite: it is meant to mobilize the forces of change in the right direction. Therefore we must totally discount fatalistic explanations of the secret…Rather, the vision speaks of dangers and how we might be saved from them.”

We can change the tide of world events and help save souls from hell by three means:

She has given us 5 weapons by which to fight:

I.        Consecration to her Immaculate Heart

II.        Pray the Rosary every day

III.        Be more personally converted each day by means of prayer, the sacraments and the practice of virtue

IV.        Leverage your own cross by accepting with trust and offering with love what you did not choose, do not like and cannot change.

V.        Live the simple way of life of Friendship through invitation, hospitality, sharing life together and good conversation  

a.  Fight with effective weapons – glued to the news is not an effective way to fight