(The path we walked to Vicka's old home where she spoke to pilgrims yesterday)
October 10, 2017
Dear Family of Mary!
Today
our group rose early in the morning and walked together, praying the
Rosary, towards Apparition Hill. Our destination was Vicka's family's
ancestral home, where Vicka has resumed giving her witness to pilgrims
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. It is such a familiar spot,
on the narrow road in Bijakovici, just before the entrance to the
Apparition Hill climb. When the pilgrims gather to hear Vicka, all
traffic is stopped! No one can get through!
(Vicka stands under the grape vines on the stairs.)
Vicka
will talk very slowly and carefully about what she has learned from Our
Lady. Here is a portion of her talk from this morning:
I
am happy to share with you Our Lady's main messages. The main messages
of Our Lady are prayer, peace, conversion, confession, and fasting.
And Our Lady recommends that we pray all three parts of the Rosary
daily. And she recommends fasting every Wednesday and Friday on bread
and water. And a beautiful thing that Our Lady invites us to pray for
is to pray for our strong faith.
But
when Our Lady invites us to pray, she doesn't want us to just move our
lips. But Our Lady would like for us day by day to open our hearts so
that prayer may really become a joy for us so that we may succeed to
pray with love.
Our
Lady gave a beautiful example when she said: All of you in your homes
have a flower pot. And if you put just a few drops of water in this pot
every day you will see a beautiful flower growing. The same example is
our heart, because if you put a few drops of prayer in your heart you
will see it become a beautiful rose. And if just for a few days we do
not give it water we will see the plant vanish as if it never existed.
And Our lady says that the same thing will happen to us if we do not
pray one day, and we say I am tired so I will pray tomorrow. But then
when tomorrow comes we find another excuse, and then practically day by
day we distance ourselves from prayer and our heart only gets implants
from the bad side. And Our Lady says, same as a flower cannot live
without water, so we cannot live without God's grace...
Now
we will remain united in silence in prayer. I will pray for blessing
for all of us, but it is very important for all of us to remain in
silence. Our Lady says, "Do not be afraid of silence because silence
can bring forth so many beautiful and great things. Our Lady has said
more than once, "You people talk too much and you pray too little, so
that is why we must change this attitude and pray more and talk less.
So it is very important to remain in silence in prayer...
We stood in silent prayer for more than 1/2 hour, drinking in the peace.
This
is only a sample of what Vicka said, but you can hear the entire talk
on our website soon. Vicka prayed then in silence for a very long
time. One pilgrim told me that she felt drawn into prayer, as into a
deep pool of water. She was able to pray unusually well as Vicka
prayed.
Vicka
is a luminous example of someone who is given over completely to God.
She suffers joyfully, offering all her suffering to the Lord. And she
witnesses such joy!
We
were so blessed to be with her in the early morning brightness, the air
so cool and fresh. What a blessing it was to pray with Vicka. It
reminded me of this message:
April 25, 1987 "Dear children! Today also I am calling you to prayer. You know, dear children, that God grants special graces in prayer. Therefore, seek and pray in order that you may be able to comprehend all that I am giving here. I call you, dear children, to prayer with the heart. You know that without prayer you cannot comprehend all that God is planning through each one of you. Therefore, pray! I desire that through each one of you God's plan may be fulfilled, that all which God has planted in your heart may keep on growing. So pray that God's blessing may protect each one of you from all the evil that is threatening you. I bless you, dear children. Thank you for having responded to my call."
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
(c)Mary TV 2017
PS.
One of our pilgrims stayed behind to listen to Vicka again and again,
almost all morning. When Vicka was leaving, she had one of her helpers
give him a rosary she was praying with. it was so special to receive
that rosary. But he noticed a woman near the stair that Vicka had been
standing on, begging that Vicka come back to just pray with her a
little. She was desperate. But Vicka was exhausted and they couldn't
ask her to return. The woman was so sad. So our pilgrim placed the
rosary Vicka had given him into her hands and explained that it was
Vicka's rosary. He said she could have it. She broke down in tears.
He found out she was very ill, and this rosary meant the very much to
her. She wept and wept.
We have no idea what wonders God is working in us as pilgrims as we love one another. In heaven we will know!!!
"Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world."
Saint John Paul II
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