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Reflection on the Message of February 25, 2002 PRAYER IS A NEED "Dear children! In this time of grace, I call you to become friends of Jesus. Pray for peace in your hearts and work for your personal conversion. Little children, only in this way will you be able to become witnesses of peace and of the love of Jesus in the world. Open yourselves to prayer so that prayer becomes a need for you. Be converted, little children, and work so that as many souls as possible may come to know Jesus and His love. I am close to you and I bless you all Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of February 25, 2002 The time of Lent we now go through is a time of grace, the Blessed Virgin Mary tells us in her message. The time of grace began with the coming of Jesus Christ. In many preceding messages, Our Lady attracted our attention to this reality within us and around us. Her presence here is a grace and a gift for those who receive Her as the Mother of their lives and the Mother of their peace. Each word of hers and each message is a call of a motherly heart addressing the heart of men. Also through this message, Mary, our Mother, wants us to become the friends of Jesus: to be strangers no longer, but friends who come to know Him better each day. Also amongst ourselves, we can become true friends for one another only if we are the friends of Jesus. We can be considered believers and Christians, we can go for Sunday Mass, we can go for confession regularly, we can live our faith more or less exteriorly without knowing Jesus and without being His friends. We can never say that we know Jesus enough. We can only seek Him and find Him, because He went first to seek us. According to St John the Apostle: “In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.”(1 Jn 4:10) A most beautiful experience of the love of God and of His closeness, obtained through prayer by Saint Monica for her son, can be found in St. Augustine’s “Confessions”: “Late have I loved You, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you. You were in me and I was outside of myself. You were with me, and I was not with You. You called and you shouted, and You broke my deafness. You sent a lightning, you enlightened and dispersed my blindness. You spread your perfume, I breathed it in, and now I languish after You. I tasted, and I am hungry and thirsty. You touched me and I burn for Your peace. When I shall cling to You with all my being, there will be no more pain nor suffering for me, and my life shall be alive, full of You. Behold, I do not hide my wounds. You are the doctor, I am the ill one. You are merciful, I am miserable. And all my hope is only in Your great mercy, o Lord my God.” We need such experiences of the nearness of God, and Our Lady wants to lead us to these experiences, this nearness and this friendship. It is necessary to work for conversion. But the conversion is so immense, it is not only depending on us. It is much beyond human power. Evil is stronger than man and wants to paralyse him. This is why we need God. Only Jesus Christ can save us from sin, laziness, selfishness, lies and evil. But it is expected from us to do the decisive step. We can neither change nor convert ourselves, but we can say “yes” to God. We can do a turn around in our lives, we can take the words of Jesus as Gods’ words and not human words. These words have the power to heal, to convert, to save man. Only then will we be able to say with St. Paul: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”(Ga 2:20). Thank you, Mary, our Mother, for giving us the means which can lead us to Jesus. May, through your intercession, our hearts discover more and more prayer as a need. May there be more and more of those who will, out of love of God and themselves, discover prayer not as something that has to be done but as something they can do. Medjugorje, February 26th, 2002 Ljubo Kurtovic, OFM
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju poruku, 25. veljace 2002 MOLITVA JE POTREBA Draga djeco! U ovom milosnom vremenu pozivam vas da postanete Isusovi prijatelji. Molite za mir u vaim srcima i radite na osobnom obracenju. Djecice, samo tako cete moci postati svjedoci mira i Isusove ljubavi u svijetu. Otvorite se molitvi da vam molitva bude potreba. Obracajte se, djecice, i radite da to vie dua upozna Isusa i njegovu ljubav. Ja sam vam blizu i sve vas blagoslivljem. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mom pozivu. Poruka, 25. veljace 2002 Vrijeme korizme u kojem se nalazimo je milosno vrijeme, upozorava nas Blaena Djevica Marija u svojoj poruci. Vrijeme milosti je zapocelo dolaskom Isusa Krista. Gospa nam u mnogo prethodnih poruka eli skrenuti pozornost na tu stvarnost u nama i oko nas. Njezina nazocnost ovdje jest milost i dar za onog koji je prihvati kao majku svoga ivota i majku svoga mira. Svaka njezina rijec i poruka jest poziv majcinskog srca upuceno ljudskom srcu. I ovom porukom Majka Marija eli da postanemo Isusovi prijatelji, ne biti vie stranac s njim nego prijateljevati i upoznavati ga iz dana u dan. I jedni s drugima moemo postajati istinski prijatelji tek kad prijateljujemo s Isusom. Moemo se zvati vjernici i krcani, moemo pohadati nedjeljnu svetu misu, ispovijedati se redovito, moemo koliko toliko izvana ivjeti svoju vjeru a ne poznavati Isusa i ne prijateljevati s Njim. Ne moemo nikada reci da dovoljno poznajemo Isusa. Njega moemo samo traiti i naci jer je on prvi poao u potragu za nama. Kako rece sveti Ivan apostol: «U ovome je ljubav: nismo mi ljubili Boga, nego je on ljubio nas i poslao Sina svojega kao rtvu pomirnicu za grijehe nae» (1 Iv 4, 10). Prelijepo iskustvo Boje ljubavi i blizine, koje je majka Monika izmolila za svoga sina, donosi nam sveti Augustin u Ispovijestima: «Kasno sam te uzljubio, ljepoto tako stara i tako nova, kasno sam te uzljubio. I eto bio si unutra a ja vani. Ti si bio sa mnom, a ja nisam bio s Tobom. Zvao si i vikao, i razbio moju gluhocu. Munjom si zabljesnuo, obasjao i rasprio moju sljepocu. Miris si prosuo, i udahnuh ga, i sad za Tobom ceznem. Okusih, i gladujem i edam. Taknuo si me i usplamtjeh za mirom Tvojim. Kad prirastem k Tebi svim svojim bicem nigdje vie nece biti za mene ni boli ni muke, i iv ce biti ivot moj, sav pun Tebe. Evo rana svojih ne krijem. Ti si lijecnik, ja bolesnik. Ti si milosrdan, a ja jadan. I sva je moja nada samo u velikom milosrdu Tvome, Gospodine Boe moj.» Ovakva nam iskustva Boje blizine trebaju a takvim iskustvima, blizini i prijateljstvu nas Gospa eli voditi. Za obracenje je potrebno raditi. Ali obracenje je tako veliko da ono ne lei samo u covjekovoj snazi. Obracenje nadilazi covjeka. Zlo je jace od covjeka i eli ga paralizirati. Zato trebamo Boga. Samo nas Isus Krist moe izvuci iz grijeha, lijenosti, sebicnosti, lai i zla. Ali i od nas se ocekuje da ucinimo odlucni korak. Sami sebe ne moemo promijeniti ni obratiti ali moemo Bogu reci «da». Uciniti zaokret u svome ivotu, uzeti Isusove rijeci kao boanske a ne ljudske. To su rijeci koje su sposobne ozdraviti, spasiti i obratiti covjeka. Samo tako cemo moci reci sa svetim Pavlom: «ivim, ali ne vie ja, nego ivi u meni Krist. A ukoliko ivim sada u ovom svijetu, ivim u vjeri u Sina Bojega, koji mi je iskazao ljubav i samoga sebe za me predao» (Gal 2, 20). Hvala ti Majko Marijo to nam daruje sredstvo koje nas moe dovesti do Isusa. Neka po tvom zagovoru naa srca sve vie otkrivaju molitvu kao potrebu. Neka bude sve vie onih koji ce iz ljubavi prema Bogu i samima sebi otkriti molitvu ne kao neto to se mora nego neto to se smije ciniti. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic, OFM