[soc.religion.christian] January 25 message from Medjegorje

gfs@uunet.uu.net (02/11/91)

The January 1991 message from our Lord through Mary at Medjegorje:


   Dear Children,

     Today, like never before, I invite you to prayer.  Your prayer should be a
   prayer for peace.  Satan is strong and wishes to not only destroy human
   life, but also nature, and the planet on which you live.  Therefore, dear
   children, pray that you can protect yourself through prayer with the blessing
   of God's peace.
     God sent me to you, so that I can help you.  If you wish to, grasp for the
   rosary.  Even the rosary alone can do miracles, in the world and in your 
   life.  I bless you, and I stay among you as long as it is God's Will.
     Thank you, that you do not betray my presence here.  I thank you because
   your response is serving the good and peace.
     Thank you for having responded to my call.



Messages addressed to the whole world are given on the 25th of each month.
An information network of volunteers has been set up to help spread information.
To hear the most recent monthly message call one of the following phone numbers:

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A brief background:  Mary has been appearing daily to 6 young people,
by name Mirjana, Marija, Ivan, Ivanka, Vicka and Jacov, in Medjegorje,
Yugoslavia since June 24, 1981.  Their ages ranged from 10 to 17 years old.
The apparitions last from a few minutes to a half hour.  Mary talks to them,
and they to her, in conversation.  Mary teaches and instructs them to pray
and helps the young people to grow in holiness and love of God.  The
visionaries ask questions for themselves and for visitors.  The apparitions
still continue to this day, but Mary has said they will not continue forever.
The visits have a definite purpose to teach the world what we need to find the
path back to Jesus, God.  Mary calls us to pray, fast, convert our hearts, and
accept God to live in our heart and to live this peace in our heart and love
others with the love God gives us.  She has said she is here to help us to do
this.  Apparitions and signs are given by God because so many in the world do
not believe.  Mankind is living in a time of great danger to itself, and the
need for the whole world to convert is most pressing.  The world needs to
convert to be saved from destruction.  This is God's great Plan, to bring
about the conversion of the world to love.  Love of God and love of each
other.  Your Father will create Love.

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References:
I highly recommend a book that contain the actual transcription of the messages:
Above all about Medjegorje, it is by far better to read Mary's words, the
messages themselves, than any other book about Medjegorje.  After the Bible,
I count this book the most important I have ever read.

"Words from Heaven" c1990 Saint James Publishing, P.O. Box 380244 Birmingham
Alabama 35238-0244

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The other book contains interviews with the visionaries themselves, Mirjana,
Marija, Ivan, Ivanka, Vicka and Jacov.  They describe, in their own words,
how they best understand the meaning of the messages.  A powerful book.

"Queen of the Cosmos" c1990 Jan Connell, Paraclete Press, Orleans Massachusetts.



Sincerely, In Christ

Greg Shay