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Pilgrims from Pula and Istria, grateful to God and Gospa, after 34 years of Our Lady’s apparitions have recalled their trips to Our Lady, the Queen of Peace. Many of them have been coming since the beginning and so many of them were witnesses of abundant graces they received through Our Lady’s intercession. Inspired by the prayer communities from Medjugorje, Siroki Brijeg and the whole world, fifteen years ago they felt calling to found their own prayer community. The parish office Medjugorje is organising three days spiritual renewal for parishioners of Medjugorje that will be held from February 6-8, 2015. The programme of the spiritual renewal begins with the prayer of Rosary at 5 p.m. and will continue with Holy Mass at 6 p.m. After the evening Holy Mass there will be lecture and prayer in the Hall of St. John Paul II. Damir will conduct the spiritual renewal. Parish office encouraged everyone to come and enjoy this spiritual retreat. For the last 20 years, the Franciscan Youth is active in Medjugorje and their members Zdravka Šego, Antonija Sivrić and Marija Vasilj, presented their activities in the programme of radio Mir Medjugorje. Their president, Zdravka said that YouFra has around 130 members and last Sunday they had ceremony of solemn vows and promises: „Not all of our members were there as some of them were not ready. 105 members gave their vows. Our YouFra is active in various activities and groups such as creative, music, reading, media, multimedia… Vatikan (IKA) – „I would like to announce that, God willing, I will be coming to Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on June 6” – said pope Francis after the Angelus on Sunday, February 1. Holy Father invited all faithful to accompany this journey of his with prayer, as his wish is to visit faithful Catholics who live in that country, to wake up the yeast of goodness and to contribute to strengthening of brotherhood and peace. On Sunday, February 1, 2015, the young members of the Franciscan Youth from Medjugorje, had ceremony of solemn promises and vows during the evening Holy Mass, celebrated by Fr. Slaven Brekalo, the regional spiritual assistant, along with 9 priests concelebrating. 34 members gave their first promises, and 28 of them confirmed their vows to the Franciscan Youth. At the end of the solemn Holy Mass, their spiritual assistant Fr. Stanko Cosic, and Fr. Marinko Sakota, the parish priest, congratulated them and wished them to continue their journey with St. Francis towards Christ: As every February, Medjugorje is going through a very quiet period with fewer pilgrims, and there are smaller groups from Italy, France, Austria and the USA. The Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord was solemnly celebrated on Monday, February 2, when four Holy Masses were celebrated in Croatian language and one in Italian, German, French and English. The evening prayer programme began with the Rosary led by Fr. Karlo Lovric, and Fr. Dragan Ruzic was the main celebrant, with five other priests concelebrating. Number of Holy Communions: 45 050 Number of priests that concelebrated at Holy Masses: 943 (30 per day) The Third Franciscan Order has been active in Medjugorje in the parish of St. James for many years now. The spiritual assistant Fr. Ivan Landeka Jr., together with the members of Fraternity: Jure Cilic, Marija Vasilj and Sanja Ivankovic, presented the activities of the Third Order in the programme of our radio station. The Third Order has a long tradition, since the charisma of St. Francis thrilled parishioners and inspired them to imitate principles and the spirit of St. Francis in their families. Marinko Šakota, Medjugorje parish priest, who was our guest in the programme of our radio spoke about the upcoming the Fourth International Pilgrimage for Special Needs Persons that will be held from June 11-14, 2015, in Medjugorje. This pilgrimage is already announced so there could be more room for all participants in the homes of parishioners. Marinko said: “Last year the pilgrimage was held in October, the year before in September, we are trying to find the best time for parishioners who would like to take all participants in their homes. People want to come here; this experience for them is really special. It is special for us too, as we all felt love. The Fourth International Pilgrimage of Special Needs Persons will be held from June 11 -14, 2015 in Medjugorje. The pilgrims will again be hosted by Medjugorje parishioners. The last pilgrimage was held in October 2014, with the theme “In Our Lady’s School”, and more than 1350 participants were gathered. The pilgrimage was organised in association of the Medjugorje parish office, association “Susret” from Ciltuk and of Mother’s Village. Despite such a great number of pilgrims, they were all hosted in family homes or hotels in Medjugorje, and all accommodation expenses were for free. 85 families from Medjugorje took part in this good deed of love. The participants told us many beautiful impressions and this is what Vilma Lazaneo from island of Brac in Croatia, told us: Last spring we had a visit from one Benedictine priest, who has been coming to Medjugorje for years for the Youth Festival. He spoke about his experience that the spark was lit in my heart and I had to travel to that place as well. My husband told me that he would accompany me. For years before that, I lived in some sort of irrational fear that I could not explain. In the last few years the fear was intensified. I was trying to conquer it with various treatments and my own forces, but all was in vain. The fear was all around me at all times. Together with two other problems – heart difficulties and loosing of consciousness, the fear was just becoming bigger. In the medical terms, no one could define it. There was no organic cause for it. In my religious world, they were always telling me it was a spiritual struggle. Parish choir "Queen of Peace" was established in 1990, and every since then they are making all liturgical celebrations more beautiful and solemn. At the moment there are 40 great singers and since 2010, Sr. Irena Azinovic is conducting the choir. They have performed at few important events last year and they also had independent concert in July last year with quite interesting programme. Sr. Irena thanked everyone and said during that occasion: "I would like to thank everyone who is supporting our work, especially to our parish priest Fr. Marinko as well as to the families of our members for their great understanding. It is a huge grace and responsibility to be here in Medjugorje, but it is not easy to persevere. That is why I thank dear God and Gospa for all these wonderful people that I work with. We have enormous help in our assistant professor Katja, that makes all this possible. Web site fratri3.net, the official web site of seminarians of Herzegovinian Franciscan Province, published the interview with Fr. Ante Vuckovic, a priest, a theologian and a philosopher. Ante among other things spoke about his experience of Medjugorje and the 25th Youth Festival. Every day, through the lectures, he was teaching young people how to pray, how to participate in the community and in their work by entrusting themselves to the Blessed Mother, inviting them just like Jesus invited St. John when he said "Behold your Mother". He said:"The Youth Festival was precious experience of encounters with young people who are led by their longing for God, prayer, communion in the spirit of God. I did not hide how thrilled I was. Even more, I felt so happy that I was able to be part of that event. After the whole-day prayer programme, young people wanted more and more. They had huge hunger for God and for praising Him. The Third Franciscan Order was established in Medjugorje on September 17, 1885, by Fr. Anzelmo Culina. According to the information from 1940, the parish had 625 members of the Third Franciscan Order. After the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1981, not just the Third Franciscan Order but the whole parish radiated with peace and joy. The new members were taken into the Order, and since then, members were celebrating all major feasts in their communion. From1991 -2007, we do not have any official record about the work and the activities of the Third Franciscan Order. This year we will celebrate 46 years ever since the solemn blessing of Medjugorje parish church of St. James. After the parish was established in 1892, the first parish church, beautiful and spacious at the time, was completed in 1897. Due to the unstable grounds it was built on, the walls began to crack and the building started to sink, so immediately after the World War I, the parish began to consider the construction of the new church. The works lasted from1934 until January 19, 1969, when the church was blessed. The church of St. James is today the centre of the sacramental and prayer life, not just for the parishioners but for the pilgrims from all over the world. The historian Dr. Fr. Robert Jolić said for the programme of radio Mir Medjugorje that even Glas Koncila, famous Croatian Catholic magazine wrote about that: „Everything was solemn and really superb and I believe it was the event that deserved all those praises. That event, the blessing, was the end of one long journey that had started more than thirty years before. But in 1969, only the rough construction works were completed and many more works followed even afterwards. Our Franciscans, Fr. Stanko Vasilj and Fr. Leonard Oreč had sent one report to Glas Koncila magazine that was published in the beginning of February 1969, and published in our magazine Oasis of Peace in 2012. There were many people and the Provincial was also invited. They also read the list of donators for the church.”- said Dr. Fr. Robert Jolić.
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Početkom studenog u Međugorju je u organizaciji studenata Hrvatske dominikanske provincije i mladih iz župe Kraljice svete krunice iz Zagreba održana duhovna obnova i hodočašće mladih. Ovogodišnje hodočašće u Međugorje organizirali su fr. Ivan Marija Tomić i Maja Marić, župljanka župe Kraljice svete krunice. Mladi su posjetili Brdo ukazanja i Križevac te sudjelovali u večernjem molitveno-liturgijskom programu u međugorskoj župnoj crkvi. Pri povratku, nekolicina mladih svjedočila je prisutnima o primljenim milostima na ovom hodočašću. U Međugorju je u ponedjeljak, 24. studenoga, obilježena 14. obljetnica smrti fra Slavka Barbarića. Večernju sv. misu u međugorskoj župnoj crkvi za pok. fra Slavka predslavio je fra Stanko Ćosić u suslavlju 25 svećenika. Fra Stanko je u propovijedi, između ostalog, kazao: „Na današnji dan se sjećamo čovjeka koji je svoje srce sjedinio s Majčinskim srcem Blažene Djevice Marije i poticao čovjeka da se vrati svome srcu. Fra Slavko je svojim djelovanjem i primjerom pokušao moliti, postiti, slaviti misu, ispovijedati se, govoriti, ali također i šutjeti srcem. I kao svaki prorok svoga vremena, ni on nije imao odgovore na sva pitanja, nego se sam nalazio pred pitanjima, u traženju istine. Fra Slavko je sve više otkrivao blago skriveno u dubini srca i poziva sve da traže to blago”. I na Križevcu se toga dana sjećalo pok. fra Slavka. U 14 sati molio se Križni put ,uz mnoštvo vjernika. Majčino selo, kojega je fra Slavko osnovao, prisjetilo se također svoga utemeljitelja. U ponedjeljak 24. studenog, četrnaesta je obljetnica smrti fra Slavka Barbarića. Umro je toga datuma 2000. godine , nakon završene pobožnosti Križnoga puta na Križevcu, a zemni mu ostaci počivaju na međugorskome groblju Kovačica. Na četrnaestu obljetnicu fra Slavkove smrti na Križevcu će se u 14 sati moliti Križni put, a sv. misa za fra Slavka slavit će se u 18 sati u međugorskoj župnoj crkvi sv. Jakova. Otac Paulo Sergio Correia boravio je u Međugorju sa skupinom hodočasnika iz Sao Paola, Brazil. Ovo mu je 4. posjet Međugorju. Kaže da je za Međugorje čuo u samim počecima, ali za dolazak se odlučio tek 2012.: „Neki župljani su dolazili ranije, i pokušavali su me dovesti u Međugorje. Sad sam došao da zahvalim Kraljici mira za sve što mi je pružila. I mislim da je najvažnija poruka Međugorja poruka mira. Zahvaljujem na gostoprimstvu koje sam doživio”. - kazao je otac Paulo. Međugorje je proteklih dana posjetio bračni par Jim i Silvina Curran iz Irske. Njihov život se zadnjih godina odvija na putu između Međugorja, Irske,i Argentine, a i promijenio se iz korijena u zadnjih nekoliko godina. Na sve je snažno utjecalo Međugorje i poruka Gospe, Kraljice Mira. Silvina kaže kako je prvi put posjetila Međugorje 2009. godine: „Kad sam prvi put došla, nisam znala što očekivati. No, čim sam stigla, osjetila sam mir i da ima nešto posebno vezano uz ovo mjesto. Zavoljela sam Međugorje na prvi pogled. Međugorje osjećamo kao svoj dom”-kazala je međugorska hodočasnica Silvina iz Irske. Broj podijeljenih sv. pricesti: 200 500 Broj svećenika koncelebranata: 4075 (131 dnevno) Od 14. do 16. studenog ove godine u Poljskoj, u Piotrkowu Trybunalskom održat će se I. Festival mladih po uzoru na Mladifest, koji se svake godine održava u Međugorju. Festival će voditi fra Stanko Ćosić, koji će doći u Poljsku s vidiocem Jakovom Čolom, s Framom te zborom, koji je pjevao na XXV. Festivalu mladih u Međugorju. Zajedno sa zborom iz Međugorja u Poljsku će ići dva autobusa mladih. Pjevanje, ples, molitva i svjedočanstva kao u Međugorju ostvarit će neponovljivu atmosferu Mladifesta. Sastanak će biti simultano prevođen. Osim toga doći će gosti iz Poljske – svećenik Piotr Pawlukiewicz– poznat kao propovjednik mladih. Muniek Staszczyk, pjevač jako poznate grupe T. Love održat će koncert i dat će svjedočanstvo svoje vjere. Čut ćemo svjedočanstvo zajednice Cenacolo i svećenika Marek Bałwasa. Organizator Festivala je Zaklada Divine Mercy, koja vodi Poljski informativni centar MIR Međugorje. Sudjelovanje na Festivalu moguće je nakon prethodne prijave preko internetske stranice www.centrummedjugorje.pl Srdačno Vas pozivamo da sudjelujete na Festivalu mladih u Poljskoj. Na svetkovinu Svih svetih i Dušnog dana groblja i posljednja počivališta postaju mjesta naše zahvale i sjećanja pa ih tradicionalno obilazimo i sjećamo se u molitvi svojih pokojnika. Tih dana na svim grobljima u međugorskoj župi slave se svete mise. Uz župljane koji žive izvan rodnoga mjesta, a redovito u ove dane pohode župu, u Međugorju borave i hodočasnici iz raznih krajeva svijeta. Tako Ured informacija, krajem mjeseca listopada, bilježi hodočasničke skupine iz Poljske, Češke, Mađarske, Slovenije, Belgije, Portugala, Njemačke, Austrije, Francuske, Italije, Engleske, SAD-a, Irske i Latvije. Raspored svetih misa, Svi sveti, subota, 1. studenog : U četvrtak, 23. listopada 2014., u 93.godini života od srčanog udara preminuo je otac John Chisholm, svećenik Družbe Duha Svetoga iz Irske, dugogodišnji međugorski hodočasnik. Otac John je svećenik od 1946., a u Međugorju je proveo šest godina od 2000. do 2006 godine služeći Bogu, Gospi i međugorskim hodočasnicima engleskog govornog područja. Dok je boravio sa svojom majkom, čuo je što se događa u Međugorju i oduvijek ga je želio posjetiti. Ubrzo nakon njene smrti, primio je poziv da se pridruži grupi koja ide za Međugorje i u tom tjednu potpuno se zaljubio u Gospu, ljubav kojoj je vjerno služio do kraja svog života. U Međugorju je u nedjelju, 26. listopada svetom misom, na vanjskom oltaru crkve sv. Jakova završeno 3. hodočašće za osobe s invaliditetom koje se održavalo pod geslom „U Marijinoj školi”, a ove godine je okupilo 1380 sudionika. Župljani župe Međugorje, 85 obitelji(pansiona,hotela, obiteljskih domova) osiguralo je besplatan smještaj hodočasnicima koji su pristigli iz Hrvatske, Slovačke, Slovenije, Poljske, Ukrajine, Litve, Italije i SAD-a. U Međugorju je u tijeku 3. po redu hodočašće za osobe s invaliditetom „U Marijinoj školi”, a ove godine je okupilo više od 1300 sudionika. Hodočašće je nastalo kao plod dugogodišnjeg hodočašćenja s. Rastislave Ralbovsky sa zajednicom osoba s posebnim potrebama iz Đakova. „Ja sam čvrsto uvjerena da je to Gospin plan, koji sam od početka naslućivala. Išla sam korak po korak. Vidim da je to Božje djelo.”-kazala je s. Rastislava istaknuvši kako joj je Međugorje u srcu od samih početaka. 3. po redu hodočašće za osobe s invaliditetom održava se u Međugorju od 23. do 26. listopada pod geslom: „U Marijinoj školi”. Hodočašće je okupilo više od 1300 sudionika, najviše njih iz Hrvatske, potom iz Slovačke, Slovenije, Ukrajine, Litve, Italije i SAD-a. Hodočasnike su i ove godine ugostili međugorski župljani. I ovaj put, kao i toliko puta do sada, pokazali su da imaju veliko srce i posvjedočili zašto je Gospa izabrala ovu župu na poseban način. Hodočašće koje je organizirala udruga „Susret“ iz Čitluka, u suradnji sa Župnim uredom i „Majčinim selom“ počelo je večernjom svetom misom, koju je u četvrtak na vanjskom oltaru crkve sv. Jakova predslavio fra Josip Vlašić ,župnik župe sv. Petra i Pavla u Mostaru. Sedamdeset i sedam hodočasnika iz župe Brestovsko posjetilo je u mjesecu listopadu Međugorje. Po samom dolasku u Međugorje, zaputili su se na Križevac, razmatrajući postaje Križnog puta i moleći krunicu, a potom su išli na Brdo ukazanja. S hodočasnicima s raznih strana svijeta sudjelovali su u večernjem molitvenom programu koji je započeo u 17h molitvom krunice na vanjskom oltaru crkve sv. Jakova. Svetu misu u 18h je predslavio župnik župe Brestovsko fra Damir Pavić. Međugorje je proteklih dana drugi put posjetio svećenik Mduduzi McHunu iz Južne Afrike. Pripada misionarskoj zajednici Oblati Bezgrješne. U razgovoru s novinarima radiopostaje Mir Međugorje kazao je da je prvi put čuo za Međugorje nakon jedne duhovne obnove 1999. „Vjerujem da je ovo mjesto na poseban način izabrano kako bi donijelo na određen način osvježenje, obnovu vjere, posebno u ovo vrijeme. Vidim dosta ljudi i u svojoj zemlji koji misle da mogu sve sami bez Boga. Mi to nazivamo krizom vjere. Iskustvo koje Međugorje nudi je zapravo Gospina majčinska ljubav i briga koju nam želi pokazati kako bi nas dovela natrag svojoj vjeri i Bogu, te Isusu, njenom Sinu ”. –kazao je svećenik Mduduzi iz Južne Afrike. Ovih su se dana svi članovi jedne irske obitelji odlučili okupiti na hodočašću u Međugorju. Međugorska hodočasnica i voditeljica hodočašća Mairead Peoples uspjela je okupiti 35 članova obitelji na jednotjednom hodočašću. Mairead je kazala da dugo godina dolazi u Međugorje. Prvi put je došla 1985. godine. „Svake godine dovodim hodočasnike, mislim da sam propustila samo jednu godinu, 1991. I sve ove godine, vidjela sam kako se životi ljudi mijenjaju. U našoj zemlji vjera je vrlo slaba. Dovodim ljude i vjerujem da Gospa za svakoga od njih učini nešto posebno. I volim da dođe moja obitelj ”-kazala je međugorska hodočasnica Mairead.