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Mary, our heavenly Mother, walks with us and accompanies us by her motherly words and messages, through her apparitions, for almost 21 years now. She accompanies our paths through the liturgical time of the Church and through the time in which we live. As Mother of the Church, the travelling Church, she walks with her children. Like ancient Israel, the Church is on its way out of Egyptian slavery - the slavery to devil. It crosses the Red Sea and the desert of trials and sufferings to enter into the Promised Land. Mary, our Mother, was a believer - a traveller; she was progressing on her journey of faith. She was progressing because she knew how to keep all the words and memories in her heart, as a treasure of her life. St. Luke, the Evangelist, writes about this: “But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.” (Lk 2:51b) Mary, our Mother, our leading star and our precursor, draws today from these souvenirs and from these treasures. In his Encyclical “Redemptoris Mater”, the Holy Father wrote: “Strengthened by the presence of Christ (cf. Mt. 28:20), the Church journeys through time towards the consummation of the ages and goes to meet the Lord who comes. But on this journey… she proceeds along the path already trodden by the Virgin Mary, who ‘advanced in her pilgrimage of faith, and loyally persevered in her union with her Son unto the cross’.”(Redemptoris Mater 2.4) Like all of us, Mary herself had to reflect on what happened around her, what she had to face. “But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Lk 2:19), and she discovered their meaning only at the Resurrection. To us, like to Mary, the effort of reflecting is not spared, of treasuring and of meditating on the Word of God addressed to us through the Holy Scripture and through people, through events and all that happens in us and around us. As we did not know that she would appear, we do not know how long she is going to appear, how long she will continue to address her motherly calls to us. Many think that these apparitions have lasted too long. The visionaries usually answer: “For us, it is not long”. It cannot be long, when you are in the presence of a loving person, the one you love. It is difficult indeed to be with someone you do not love, as it is difficult to do a work we do not love. In 1985, the visionaries asked Our Lady: “Why are you with us for such a long time?” She answered with a question: “Are you bored?” Since then, they never asked this question any more. Her motherly love for her children gives her the strength to speak for such a long time and to repeat with such a perseverance almost the same words as St. Paul to the Philippians: “My brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.” It is much safer and easier to live and to grow in faith in Her presence, she who talks to us and comes to us today. Our Mother comes today, God loves us through her today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Today, I can be closer to God through the Virgin Mary, as I can go away from Him. If I do not grow every day in faith, I will step back, and the coming back to God will become much more difficult. “Today I call you to put prayer in the first place in your life.” There are signs, which show me that God and prayer are not at the first place in my life: difficulties to take time for prayer, distractions, a thousand reasons and excuses (which I find so easily) to postpone the meeting with God in prayer… Prayer is a source of joy and a way to joy, repeats Our Lady today also. On this path, we are not alone. With Her, Loved by God, we can and we have to be joyful on our journey of faith towards the final moment, when we shall comprehend fully the sufferings, the seeking, the crosses and the joys of our life. As a prayer says: “Mary, people will forget what you said and what you did, but they will never forget how they felt because of you. There are no considerations or doubts that can wipe away the experience of the presence of God.” Mary, our Mother, I implore you: may your words find a place in the hearts of all those who receive you as their Mother, so that you may lead us to Jesus, the Saviour. Medjugorje May 26, 2002 Powered by www.medjugorje.ws
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju poruku, 25. svibnja 2002 NEK VA IVOT SA MNOM BUDE RADOST "Draga djeco! Danas vas pozivam da stavite molitvu na prvo mjesto u vaem ivotu. Molite i nek vam molitva, djecice, bude radost. Ja sam s vama i zagovaram za sve vas, a vi djecice, budite radosni nositelji mojih poruka. Nek va ivot sa mnom bude radost. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mom pozivu." Poruka, 25. svibnja 2002. Naa nebeska Majka Marija hoda s nama prateci nas svojim majcinskim rijecima i porukama po svojim ukazanjima gotovo 21. godinu. Prati nae ivotne korake kroz liturgijsko vrijeme Crkve kao i kroz vrijeme u kojem ivimo. Ona kao Majka Crkve Crkve na putu hoda sa svojom djecom. Poput starog Izraela, i Crkva je na putu iz ropstva egipatskoga, davoljega kroz Crveno more i pustinju kunje i tpljenja dok ne ude u Obecanu zemlju. Marija Majka bila je vjernica putnica: napredujuci u svom putu vjere. Napredovala je jer znala cuvati sve rijeci i uspomene u svom srcu kao blago ivota. O tom nas izvjecuje evandelist Luka: «A majka je njegova brino cuvala sve ove uspomene u svom srcu» (Lk 2, 51b). Iz tih uspomena i toga blaga nam danas govori Majka Marija koja je naa zvijezda vodilja i prethodnica. Papa u enciklici Redemptoris Mater pie: «Crkva, podrana prisutnocu Krista, putuje tijekom vremena prema dovrenju vjekova i kroci u susret Gospodinu koji dolazi. No na tom putu napreduje i stupa onim istim putem kojim je ila Djevica Marija koja je napredovala na putu vjere i vjerno sacuvala svoje sjedinjenje sa Sinom sve do kria.» I Marija je kao svatko od nas bila upucena na vlastito razmiljanje o svemu to se oko nje zbiva i pred cim se nala. «Marija u sebi pohranjivae sve te dogadaje i prebirae ih u svome srcu» (Lk 2, 19), a otkrila je njihov smisao tek o uskrsnucu. Ni mi kao to nije bila ni Marija nismo potedeni napora razmiljanja, cuvanja i prebiranja Boje rijeci koja nam govori preko Svetog pisam i po drugim ljudima, dogadajima i svemu onome to se zbiva u nama i oko nas. Kao to nismo znali kada ce se ona ukazati isto tako ne znamo do kada ce trajati njezina ukazanja i majcinski pozivi. Mnogima izgleda da traju dugo ova ukazanja. Vidioci obicno odgovaraju: «Nama nije dugo.» Ne moe biti dugo biti u prisutnosti ljubljene osobe i onoga koga se voli. Puno je tee biti s onim za koga nemamo ljubavi kao to je teko raditi posao koji ne volimo. Godine 1985. vidioci su pitali Gospu: «Gospe, zato si tako dugo s nama.» Ona je odgovorila pitanjem: «Zar sam vam dosadila?» Od tada je vie nisu pitali. Majcinska ljubav prema svojoj djeci daje joj snagu da tako dugo i ustrajno govori i ponavlja gotovo iste rijeci poput sv. Pavla koji je pisao Filipljanima: «Braco moja, radujte se u Gospodinu! Pisati vam jedno te isto meni nije dosadno, a za vas je sigurnije» (Fil 3, 1). Puno je sigurnije i lake ivjeti i rasti u svojoj vjeri u prisutnosti one koja nam govori i dolazi danas. Danas nam majka dolazi, danas nas Bog preko nje ljubi, ne jucer ili sutra. Danas mogu biti blie Bogu preko Djevice Marije kao to se mogu udaljiti od Njega. Ako ne rastem svaki dan u svojoj vjeri ja nazadujem te svaki povratak Bogu puno je tei. Danas vas pozivam da stavite molitvu na prvo mjesto. Znakovi da Bog i molitva nisu na prvom mjestu u mome ivotu su tekoca pri odluci za molitvu, rastresenost, tisucu razloga i isprika koje tako lako pronadem i odgodim susret s Bogom po molitvi. Molitva je izvor radosti i put u radost to nam ponavlja Gospa i danas. Na tom putu nismo sami. S Njom, od Boga ljubljenoj, moemo i trebamo biti radosni na putu vjere do konacnog trenutka kada cemo u potpunosti shvatiti svoje patnje, traenja, krieve i radosti ivota. Kako rece jedna molitva: Marijo, ljudi ce zaboraviti to si ti rekla i to si ucinila ali ljudi nikada nece zaboraviti kako su se zbog tebe osjecali. Nikakvi ljudski razlozi i sumnje ne mogu ukrasti iskustvo Boje blizine. A Tebe molim Majko Marijo neka tvoje rijeci nadu mjesta u srcima svih onih koji te kao majku prihvacaju kako bi nas vodila do Spasitelja Isusa. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic