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“Dear children! I call you also today to conversion. Open your heart to God, little children, through Holy Confession and prepare your soul so that little Jesus can be born anew in your heart. Permit Him to transform you and lead you on the way of peace and joy. Little children, decide for prayer. Especially now, in this time of grace, may your heart yearn for prayer. I am close to you and intercede before God for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call. The Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of each man, addresses today also her maternal word to all those who want to listen and hear. She tells us: “I call you also today to conversion” as she has called us all the days for more than 21 years now. In Gospa’s words resound the words of John the Baptist: “Repent, because the Kingdom of heaven is near”. (Mt 3:2) Through Mary, a time of grace comes to us, a time when the Kingdom of Heaven wants to dwell in the heart of men. Through Mary, the Saviour of the world came to us, the Saviour of the world who wants also this year to be born in our heart. Conversion means change of path, of direction, of mentality, of sinful practices and habits. It is difficult, very difficult to change, but it is possible. It requires a permanent vigilance and perseverance, a permanent combat, it implies falls and raisings. Jesus speaks to us about the narrow and steep path, which leads to life. He wants to tell us that, on this path, we will be tired, that we will sweat, fall and bleed, but happy are those who persevere until the end. Life is a combat, and a proverb says: “Who does not want to fight, it is better for him not to live”. The Old Testament suffering Job tells us: “Isn't the life of men on earth a combat?” Mary, our mother, lived this same path of combat, renunciation and death to herself, so that God may live in her. Her glorification in Heaven shows that she was on the good path. At the moment of meeting God through the angel Gabriel, she did not say: “I understood what you say to me”, but “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to your word”. (Lk 1:38) We cannot nor should not understand everything, but it is important that we trust the word of God, that we trust the maternal words that are addressed to us in this simple message, in which we touch with the heart the maternal heart that beats for each one of us. Conversion is the work of God, the work that He does in us if we allow Him. I cannot convert myself and even less can I convert others. What I can, it is to desire ardently, to seek, to yearn with all my faculties, all my forces and all the powers that God has given me and has put at my disposal. The problem is not in our distance from God, but in our negligence and our lack of desire to approach Him, to love him and thus to know him. God gives himself to those who seek him with their whole heart. In this message, Gospa reminds us of the sacrament of Holy Confession, through which we should open our hearts and prepare our souls, so that Jesus can be born. Today still, Jesus wants and wishes to be born. Today still, he is thirsting for us and for our time, our prayer, and above all our heart to receive him. When Jesus enters into the life of a person, this life is not the same any more, but is transfigured and renewed. It is a life filled with peace and joy that this world cannot give. The time of the Advent is in front of us, the expectation of the arrival and the birth of the Saviour of the world and of men. Let us allow Jesus to enter into our houses and our families. May the door of our families and of our lives be open for Christmas and during Christmas days. Let us be at home, at home in our inner self, to meet him and carry him to others, like Mary. Thank you, Mary, for being close to us. Thank you for not ceasing to intercede and to pray with us and for us. Ljubo Kurtovic Medjugorje, November 26, 2002
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju listopada, 25. studenog 2002 POZIVAM VAS NA OBRACENJE "Draga djeco! Pozivam vas i danas na obracenje. Otvorite vae srce, djecice, preko svete ispovijedi Bogu i pripremite vau duu da se mogne u vaem srcu iznova roditi mali Isus. Dozvolite mu da vas preobrazi i povede na put mira i radosti. Djecice, odlucite se za molitvu. Napose sada u ovom milosnom vremenu nek vae srce udi za molitvom. Ja sam vam blizu i zagovaram pred Bogom za sve vas. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mom pozivu." Poruka, 25. studenog 2002. Blaena Djevica Marija, Majka svakog covjeka i danas upucuje majcinsku rijec svakom koji je eli cuti i posluati. Ona nam govori: «I danas vas pozivam na obracenje», kao to je pozivala sve prole dane kroz vie od dvadeset i jednu godinu. U Gospinim rijecima odjekuju rijeci sv. Ivana Krstitelja: «Obratite se jer pribliilo se kraljevstvo nebesko» (Mt 3, 2). Po Mariji je i nama dolo milosno vrijeme u kojem kraljevstvo nebesko eli boraviti u srcu covjeka. Po Mariji je i nama doao Spasitelj svijeta koji se eli roditi i ove godine u naem srcu. Obracenje znaci promjenu puta, smjera, mentaliteta, grenih navika i obicaja. Teko i vrlo teko se mijenjati ali je moguce. Zahtijeva neprestanu budnost i ustrajnost, neprestanu borbu, padove i podizanja. Isus nam govori o tijesnom i strmom putu koji vodi u ivot. eli nam reci da cemo se na tom putu umoriti, oznojiti, padati i krvariti, ali blago onima koji ustraju do kraja. ivot je borba, a poslovica kae: «tko se ne eli boriti bolje je da ne ivi». I starozavjetni patnik Job nam govori: «Nije li borba ivot covjekov na zemlji». Majka Marija prola je taj isti put borbe, odricanja i umiranja sebi kako bi mogao Bog ivjeti u njoj. Njezina proslava na nebu pokazuje da je bila na ispravnom putu. Kod susreta s Bogom preko andela Gabrijela Marija nije rekla: «Razumjela sam to mi kae», nego je rekla: «Evo slubenice Gospodnje neka mi bude po tvojoj rijeci» (Lk 1, 38). Ne moemo i ne moramo sve razumjeti ali je vano nae povjerenje Bojoj rijeci, povjerenje majcinskim rijecima koje nam upucuje i u ovoj jednostavnoj poruci u kojoj srcem dodirujemo majcinsko srce koje kuca za svakoga od nas. Obracenje je Boji posao, Boje djelo koje On izvodi u covjeku ako mu dozvoli. Ne mogu sam sebe obratiti a jo manje mogu drugoga obratiti. Ono to mogu jest eljeti, traiti, uditi svim svojim sposobnostima, snagama i silama koje mi je Bog darovao i stavio na raspolaganje. Nije problem naa udaljenost od Boga nego je problem naa nemarnost i nedostatak elje da se Bogu pribliimo, da ga ljubimo i tako upoznamo. Bog se daruje onima koji ga svim srcem trae. Gospa nam u ovoj poruci stavlja na srce sakrament svete ispovijedi preko kojeg trebamo otvoriti svoja srca i pripremiti svoje due da se mogne Isus roditi. A Isus i danas trai i eli da se rodi. I danas je On edan i eljan naeg vremena, molitve a prije svega srca koje ce ga udomiti. Kad Isus ude u ivot covjeka onda to vie nije isti ivot nego preobraen i preporoden ivot. Onda je to ivot ispunjen mirom i radocu koju ne moe dati ovaj svijet. Pred nama je vrijeme doaca, icekivanja dolaska i rodenja Spasitelja svijeta i covjeka. Dozvolimo Isusu i dopustimo Isusu da udu u nae kuce i obitelji. Neka vrata naih obitelji i ivota budu otvorena za Boic i kroz dane do Boica. Budimo kod kuce, kod sebe i u sebi da ga susretnemo i drugima nosimo poput Marije. Hvala ti Marijo, to si nam blizu i to ne prestaje zagovarati i moliti s nama i za nas. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic