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20th International Prayer Meeting of Youth – Medjugorje Youth Festival will be held in Medjugorje from August 1st to 6th. Theme of Meeting is “Do whatever He tells you!”(Jh 2,5). Youth Festival will be directly broadcasted through Internet both in picture and sound. Programme of the Festival is as follows: (Program) Parish of Medjugorje celebrated on Saturday, July 25th the Feast of St. James the Apostle, its patron saint. Holy Masses in Croatian were celebrated in the parish church at 8, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., and central Holy Mass was celebrated in Gaj (Garden) opposite to the ruins of the old Medjugorje church. The main celebrant was Fr. Miro Sego. (foto) Mayor of Assisi, birth place of St. Francis, Claudio Ricci, came to Medjugorje on Sunday, July 19th in the company of Mayor of Citluk Ivo Jerkic, and visited Medjugorje and Franciscans from Medjugorje. He visited prayer places of Medjugorje parish and in the chambers of Parish office he spoke with Franciscans from Medjugorje. In his interview to radio station Mir Medjugorje Mayor said that he wanted to achieve this visit due to the celebration of 800 years of Franciscan order, and he added that it is his desire to link many world shrines on the paths of spirituality and humanity, just similar to the spirit of St. Francis. By enforcing this project, our desire is to go along with the time, but at the same time not to lose our identity and roots, emphasized Mayor of Assisi. Parish of Medjugorje will celebrate on Saturday, July 25 the Feast of St. James the Apostle, feast of its heavenly patron saint. Holy Masses will be only in parish church at 8, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The central Holy Mass will be celebrated in Garden (Gaj) at 11. Procession with the statue of St. James will start from the church at 10.45. This year representatives from Bijakovici are going to carry the Statue, and Fr. Miro Sego, Guardian from Franciscan Monastery in Humac is going to be the main celebrant. Parish is going to prepare for this Feast with Three-day Prayer programme that begins on Wednesday, July 22. 14th International seminar for priests that began in Medjugorje on the feast of Apostles’ leaders St. Peter and St. Paul, June 29th, ended with the Holy Mass of gratitude on Saturday, July 4th at 12 o’clock. Host families to all of the priests that participated in the seminar were present as well. Ante Vuckovic from Split led the seminar, while Fr. Miljenko Steko was the coordinator, and there were total of 343 priests, deacons and seminarians present from twenty-five countries. Pilgrims from Korea, 29 of them, in the age from nine to seventy-eight, together with their priest Agnello W. Choi climbed the Cross Mountain on Saturday morning on their knees, in the honour of the 28th Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions in Medjugorje. Father Agnello Choi has been in Medjugorje already on six occasions, and this, seventh time decided to come with the special prayer intention for the peace at Korean peninsula, that is going through difficult political troubles. Community Merciful Father, that is part of Mother's Village in Bijakovici, which is specialized in recovering drug addicts, celebrated very important event on Saturday: opening of a new, fourth house in place Gomiljak close to Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (foto) Holy Communions distributed: 159.000 Concelebrating priests: 4.411 (147/day) On June 29th, 2009, 14th International seminar seminar for priests began in Medjugorje with the Prayer to the Holy Spirit and Holy Mass at 7 p.m. at the White Dome. Dr. Fr. Ivan Sesar was the main celebrant, and Dr. Fr. Miljenko Steko, the coordinator of the seminar, gave a sermon. The 14th International Priests Seminar will be held in Međugorje from June 29 to July 4, 2009 on the theme of: «You are my friends... (John 15, 14)» The coordinator of the seminar is Fr. Miljenko Šteko. The lecturer is the friar Ante Vučković We inform you that The International Priests Seminar (6.29. until 7.4.2009), as well as The International Youth Festival (8.1. until 8.6.2009) in Medjugorje, will be broadcasted live online, both audio and video. The German Information center for Medjugorje (www.medjugorje.de) and Kath.net (www.kathtube.com), will provide live broadcast on their Internet pages in Croatia, German, English, Spanish and Italian language. Twenty-eighth anniversary of Our Lady's apparitions was celebrated in Međugorje on June 25th, 2009. Numerous pilgrims from all five continents, of different colours and customs, were united in prayer and language that everybody understands – the language of love through the Queen of Peace. Ever since the Wednesday evening many groups of pilgrims who came walking from Herzegovina, Bosnia, Republic of Croatia, as well as some individuals from Europe, started coming to Međugorje. (foto) The visionary Ivanka Ivankovic-Elez had her regular annual apparition on June 25th 2009. In this Novena, that started on June 15th, 2009, almost at all times, day and night, groups from all different parts of the world were climbing up the Apparition Hill. Every afternoon, despite the rain, Rosary was prayed at 4 p.m. Morning Holy Masses were celebrated in different languages, and evening prayer programme began at 6 p.m. with Rosary. Franciscans from Međugorje were main celebrants at the evening Holy Masses. Holy Communions distributed: 141.000 Concelebrating priests: 3.254 (104/day) A group of pilgrims from Zagreb led by Krešo William Bello and the writer Nevenka Vidak decided to help actively the children from Mother’s Village. They collected books and donated books edited by their own publishing houses, so that Mother’s Village library was enriched by different new books, mostly for children, as well as encyclopedias, tales, novels…
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Kršćanska udruga Kup Karmel organizirala je 17. i 18. studenoga besplatno hodočašće stotinjak siromaha, prosjaka i beskućnika iz Zagreba i još nekih gradova s područja Republike Hrvatske međugorskoj Kraljici Mira. Tijekom boravka u Međugorju pohodili su Podbrdo, nazočili molitveno-liturgijskom programu u župnoj crkvi sv. Jakova te posjetili Majčino selo. U utorak 24. studenog navršava se devet godina od smrti fra Slavka Barbarića, svećenika koji je osamnaest godina života posvetio širenju Gospinih poruka u svijetu i brizi za hodočasnike. Johannes Mikl, liječnik, kardiolog iz Austrije, autor pjesme Gospa, majka moja, koja se često pjeva u međugorskoj župnoj crkvi, nedavno je boravio u Međugorju. U razgovoru za radiopostaju "Mir" Međugorje, dr. Mikl, između ostaloga, kaže kako je 1983. godine čuo za Gospina ukazanja u Međugorju, te ubrzo, s još dvojicom prijatelja, i posjetio ovo hodočasničko mjesto. U Međugorju je u srijedu 4. studenoga započeo Deseti međunarodni seminar za bračne parove s tematskim okvirom: «Ljubav nikada ne prestaje i presahnuće ljubavi». Seminar je u popodnevnim satima otvorio koordinator dr. fra Miljenko Šteko, a potom je sve nazočne pozdravio župnik fra Petar Vlašić. Seminar, koji traje do subote, 7. studenoga, predvodi dr. fra Ante Vučković, član franjevačke provincije Presvetoga Otkupitelja, profesor na Katoličkom bogoslovnom fakultetu i Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Splitu. Međunarodni seminar simultano se prevodi na više svjetskih jezika. Krajem listopada u Međugorju je nekoliko dana boravio nadbiskup Edmond Farhat, biši Apostolski nuncij u Austriji, te predvodio misno slavlje za brojne austrijske hodočasnike prigodom njihova nacionalnoga blagdana , u ponedjeljak 26. listopada. Broj podijeljenih sv. pričesti: 156.000 Broj svećenika koncelebranata: 3.417 (110 dnevno) U mjesecu listopadu, Gospinu mjesecu mnoštvo hodočasnika sa svih strana svijeta posjetilo je Međugorje. Izdvojit ćemo skupinu hodočasnika iz Novske. Organizator ovog hodočašća je Damir Potalec, vjeroučitelj koji već 10 godina organizira hodočašća iz Novske u Međugorje. Posjetili su Brdo ukazanja i Križevac te sudjelovali na misnim slavljima. Krzysztof Kowal, (1966.) dijecezanski svećenik iz Poljske stigao je biciklom u Međugorje u večernjim satima na Misijsku nedjelju, 18. listopada 2009. Hodočasnička vožnja biciklom od Krakowa do Međugorja trajala je puna dva tjedna. Na ovaj neobičan hodočasnički put potaknuo ga je, kaže, prijatelj svećenik koji mu je pričao o svom pozitivnom iskustvu u Međugorju. Knjiga "Međugorje-mala enciklopedija" autorice Ljubice Benović predstavljena je 15. listopada u Čitluku u sklopu kulturne manifestacije ''Dani Matice hrvatske u Brotnju''. O knjizi su govorili dr. fra Tomislav Pervan i prof. Krešimir Šego. Autorica Ljubica Benović je u tisuću malenih priča-natuknica ispričala povijest ukazanja, rast župe, život i rast vidjelaca, zemljopisne, povijesne i klimatske posebnosti ovoga kraja i okolice, ali i povijest hodočasničkih mjesta te hodočasnički i molitveni život u međugorskoj župi. ovi broj „Glasnika mira“ prenosi riječi kardinala dr. Christopha Schönborna na kraju molitvenog susreta za mir s Marijom Pavlović-Lunetti u bečkoj katedrali 15. rujna 2009. Kardinal je okupljenim vjernicima, između ostaloga, rekao: „Veliki je dar to što Majka Božja želi biti tako blizu svoj svojoj djeci! Ona je to pokazala na tolikim mjestima u svijetu, a već dugi niz godina na sasvim poseban način svoju blizinu iskazuje u Međugorju. Međuprovincijski susret franjevačkih novaka Bosne i Hercegovine i Republike Hrvatske održan je od 8. do 11. listopada u Međugorju. Domaćini su bili Hercegovačka franjevačka provincija Uznesenja BDM i njihov novicijat na Humcu. Sudjelovalo je devetnaest novaka.Susret je započeo molitvom krunice, sv. Misom i predstavljanjem novicijata. Poštovani, svrha i cilj ovog upitnika je pravljenje popisa svećenika koji su dobili poziv preko Međugorja, pa bismo vas zamolili da ispunite sljedeće podatke: (upitnik) Krajem rujna Međugorje su posjetili članovi zajednice ''Vjera i svjetlo'' iz Đakova. Zajednica skrbi za djecu s poteškoćama u razvoju, predvodi ju s. Rastislava Ralbovski. Zajednica ima četrdeset članova, a u nju su, osim djece, uključeni njihovi roditelji i prijatelji. Na uočnicu svetkovine sv. Franje, 3. listopada, franjevačka obitelj diljem svijeta slavi obred preminuća svetoga Franje, ili kako se još naziva "Memoria Transitus". Obred je održan na vanjskom oltaru u Međugorju, iza večernje sv. Mise u 18 sati, a predvodio ga je fra Danko Perutina, uz aktivno sudjelovanje međugorske Frame. Uz domaće franjevce, u obredu su sudjelovali i brojni svećenici svih jezika i naroda, koji su u duhovnoj pratnji svojih hodočasnika. Broj podijeljenih sv. pričesti: 191.000 Broj svećenika koncelebranata: 4.181 (139 dnevno)