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Mary, our Mother, invites her children to the conversion of heart. Each one of us is important for her; each one of us is her child. As our Mother, she cares for us and for our heart. She is calling to conversion, just like John the Baptist did it at his time. Matthew the Evangelist is writing: "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”." (Mt 3,1-2) It is not accidental that Mary came here, to us, precisely on the feast day of St John the Baptist, on June 24, 1981. Like him, she is calling and preparing the ways of the Lord in human hearts, at our time, during all these years. It is the voice of from Heaven that, through Mary, is resounding today through our world. It is the voice of the Mother who calls her children. This voice is resounding and renewing the lives of all those who are far from God, living in the desert and in the desolation of this world. This voice does not want to intimidate us. This is a voice that does not threaten, but says to us what God wants of us today. The messages of Mary are neither comfortable nor light, but demanding. This voice can appear hard to the ears of this world. Mary, our Mother, is perseverant and patient with us. Her love is pressing her on to speak to us and to return us from evil and from sin. Our Mother wants to give us a new freshness, a new fervor and the breath of Heaven. To convert one’s heart to God means to turn to Him Who alone can satisfy our hunger and quench our thirst for what is more necessary to us than bread and things of this world, which can neither fill nor set free. To convert one’s heart means to believe in God and to decide for Him. God made himself helpless in front of our freedom. Without our decision, He is almost unable to do anything in our heart, this heart that He Himself has created. This shows us at which point He loves us, without ever forcing us to love Him in return. Our heavenly Mother knows well the enthusiasm of the first days of her apparitions, the enthusiasm that lived in the hearts because of her presence. The Virgin Mary and her maternal heart have not changed since the first days of the apparitions. It is not she who needs to change; we need it. We are filled with enthusiasm very easily, but this enthusiasm can also very easily be lost. We always need food to live. We also always need the contact with God in the prayer of the heart, in trust. The Virgin Mary calls us to a life of integrity, to a radical change of our life. God does not want from us shallow words of our prayers, or a bit of our time. God asks us all, because He has given to us everything; He has given Himself to us, and He wants that we give Him all. We need a radical decision, which will make us fall on our knees. On our knees in front of God, we will know the heart of God. Then, God won’t be any more a foreigner for us, but a friend. He will become somebody for whom languish our heart and our soul, because in Him alone our heart can find peace, this peace that nobody and nothing can give us. Only on our knees, our heart can open to the Creator our lives. In front of Him, we are just creatures, but creatures that He loves. I believe that we are not conscious of this gift of Heaven which is offered to us today through Mary, our Mother, who is speaking to us and opening to us her maternal heart full of love, a heart that wants us to consecrate ourselves to Her. It reveals to us the immensity of the love of God and His perseverance, in spite of our blindness and our deafness. Only on our knees and in prayer, we will be able to know the heart of the Mother, this heart full of love for each one of us, but also the pain that lives in it because of each heart that is blind and deaf. Mary, our Mother, we thank you for your intercession, for the prayer that you are addressing to God for each one of us. Thank you, because you are not abandoning me, you are not abandoning us. Medjugorje, August 26, 2004
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju poruku, 25. kolovoza 2004 POZIVAM VAS SVE NA OBRACENJE SRCA "Draga djeco! Pozivam vas sve na obracenje srca. Odlucite se, kao prvih dana mog dolaska ovdje, na potpunu promjenu vaega ivota. Tako cete, djecice, imati snage kleknuti i pred Bogom otvoriti svoja srca. Bog ce cuti vae molitve i usliiti ih. Ja pred Bogom zagovaram za svakoga od vas. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. kolovoza 2004. Majka Marija poziva djecu svoju na obracenje srca. Svaki od nas joj je vaan i svaki od nas je njezino dijete. Zbog toga joj je kao majci stalo do nas i do naeg srca. Upravo onako kao to je Ivan Krstitelj pozivao na obracenje u svoje vrijeme to isto cini Djevica Marija. Evandelist Matej nas izvjecuje: «U one dane pojavi se Ivan Krstitelj propovijedajuci u Judejskoj pustinji: "Obratite se, jer pribliilo se kraljevstvo nebesko!"» (Mt 3, 1 2). Nije slucajno Majka Marija dola k nama i ovdje upravo na blagdan svetog Ivana Krstitelja, 24. lipnja 1981. Ona kao i sveti Ivan poziva i pripravlja staze Gospodinu u ljudskim srcima u ove nae dane kroz ovoliko dugo godina. Glas neba, preko Marije odzvanja danas naom zemljom. To je glas Majke koja doziva svoju djecu. Taj glas odjekuje i obnavlja ivote mnogima u pustinji i pustoi ovoga svijeta svima koji su daleko od Boga. Taj glas nas ne eli zastraiti. To je glas koji nam ne prijeti vec nam govori to Bog eli od nas danas. Poruke Majke Marije nisu udobne i lagane nego zahtjevne. To je glas koji je tvrd za ui ovoga svijeta. Majka Marija uporna je i strpljiva s nama. Ljubav je tjera da nam govori i da nas od zla i grijeha odvraca. Majka nam eli udahnuti novu svjeinu, novi ar i dah neba. Obratiti srce k Bogu znaci okrenuti se k Njemu koji jedini moe utaiti nau glad i ed za onim to trebamo vie od zemaljskog kruha i stvari ovoga svijeta koje nas ne mogu ispuniti ni osloboditi. Obratiti srce znaci povjerovati i napokon se odluciti za Boga. Sam Bog ucinio je sebe nemocnim pred naom slobodom. Bez nae odluke i On sam gotovo postaje nemocan da ita ucini u naem srcu koje je On sam stvorio. To pokazuje koliko nas ljubi ne eleci nas prisiljavati na ljubav. Naa nebeska Majka dobro zna ar prvih dana njezinih ukazanja, oduevljenje koje je bilo u ljudskim srcima zbog njezine prisutnosti. Djevica Marija i njezino majcinsko srce nisu se promijenili do danas od prvih dana ukazanja. Ona ne treba promjenu vec mi. Znamo takoder vrlo dobro kako se lako oduevimo ali isto tako kako lako oduevljenje u nama splasne. Uvijek nam je iznova potrebna hrana da bismo ivjeli. Isto tako uvijek iznova potreban nam je dodir s Bogom preko molitve srcem u povjerenju. Djevica Marija nas poziva na potpunost, radikalnost promjene naeg ivota. Bog od nas ne trai samo prazne rijeci molitve ili malo vremena. Bog trai od nas sve jer nam je sve, samoga sebe darovao zato eli da i mi Njemu sve darujemo. Potrebna je radikalna odluka koja ce nas dovesti dotle da padnemo na koljena. Na koljenima pred Bogom upoznajemo Boje srce. Samo tada Bog nam nece biti stranac, vec prijatelj. Bog ce nam postati netko s kim drugujemo i za kim eda nae srce i dua, jer samo u Njemu nalazi mir koji nam nitko i nita drugo ne moe darovati. Samo na koljenima srce se moe otvoriti Stvoritelju naih ivota. Pred njim smo samo stvorenja, i to ne bilo kakva nego ljubljena stvorenja. Vjerujem da nismo svjesni ovog dara neba nama i danas ovdje koje nam Bog daruje u Majci Mariji koja nam ne samo govori nego i otvara svoje majcinsko srce koje nas ljubi i eli da se njoj posvetimo. Ona nam otkriva koliko je silna Boja ljubav koja je uporna unatoc naoj gluhoci i sljepoci. Samo na koljenima i u molitvi otkrit cemo srce Majke u kojem je ljubav za svakoga od nas ali isto tako i bol zbog svakog srca koje je slijepo i gluho. Hvala ti Majko, za tvoj zagovor, za tvoju molitvu koju Bogu upucuje za svakoga od nas. Hvala ti jer ne odustaje od mene, od nas. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic