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Number of Holy Communions: 170.500 Number of priests that concelebrated at Holy Masses: 4199 (139 per day) After Medjugorje celebrated 31st anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions, many groups are still present on their pilgrimages and among them we met a group of pilgrims from Uganda. Fransis is bringing pilgrims from Uganda since 2005, and he brought 40 pilgrims on his first trip. They heard about Medjugorje from one Italian priest who spoke on Radio Maria in Uganda. “I had to take a map to look for this place and then I decided to bring a group of pilgrims together with a priest. It was hard for us to obtain visa since we do not have embassy in this country”, said Fransis. This year’s Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions was solemnly celebrated in Medjugorje on Monday, June 25, 2012. Besides numerous pilgrims from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, there were organised groups of pilgrims from England, the United States, Portugal, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Romania, Switzerland, Uganda, Slovakia, China, France, Slovenia and Korea. Many of them arrived by usual transport means, while huge number of pilgrims walked to Medjugorje to fulfil their vows to the Queen of Peace and to thank her for graces they have received. (photos) The visionary Ivanka Ivankovic-Elez had her regular annual apparition on June 25th 2012. At Her last daily apparition on May 7, 1985, Our Lady confided to Ivanka the 10th secret and told her that she would have an apparition once a year on the anniversary of the apparitions. It was that way also this year. The apparition, which lasted 7 minutes, took place at Ivanka’s family home. Only Ivanka’s family was present at the apparition. After the apparition, Ivanka said: Our Lady spoke to me about the 5th secret and at the end said: "I am giving you my motherly blessing. Pray for peace, peace, peace." Thousands of pilgrims participated in this year’s Peace Walk that took place on the feast of St. John the Baptist, June 24th, just one day prior to the 31st Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions. The Peace Walk started at 6 a.m. from the Monastery of St. Anthony in Humac and ended in front of the church of St. James in Medjugorje. The Guardian Priest of Humac Monastery, Fr. Velimir Mandić, blessed and greeted all pilgrims at the beginning of the Peace Walk. Prayers were said and hymns in the honour of the Queen of Peace were sung all the time during the Peace Walk, that arrived in front of the church around 9.30 a.m. Miljenko Steko met all of the pilgrims outside the church of St. James and conducted Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament as well as Benediction. The original initiator of this famous Peace Walk Hubert Liebherr started this walk. He was terrified with horrors of the war and he wanted to respond to Our Lady’s message when she said that with prayer of rosary even the wars could be stopped. Medjugorje will celebrate 31st Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions on Monday, June 25th, 2012. The solemn Holy Mass on the Feast of St. John the Baptist, the eve of the Anniversary, will be celebrated at 7 p.m. and Fr. Ivan Dugandzic is going to be the main celebrant. Prayer of the Rosary on Apparition Hill will not take place on Sunday. After the evening prayer programme there will be Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Holy Masses on the Feast of the Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions will take place at 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 a.m. and at 4 p.m. There will be opportunity for confession throughout the whole day. The central evening prayer programme will start at 6 p.m. with the Rosary and will continue with Holy Mass at 7.p.m. Ivan Sesar, the Provincial of Herzegovinian Franciscan Province will celebrate that Holy Mass, we kindly ask all drivers throughout Herzegovina to be extra careful due to the large number of pilgrims who will walk to Medjugorje. All those who are coming to Medjugorje are kindly asked to remain in peace and prayer at all times. In the week of Our Lady’s anniversary, the Information Office has registered groups from Germany, the United States, Italy, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Ireland, Venezuela, Sri Lanka, Poland, Singapore, Portugal and Lebanon. Each one of those pilgrims has his own story regarding Medjugorje phenomenon. Testimony of Fr. Oliver Devine from Ireland is an obvious proof of the grace that is poured on pilgrims who come to this place. He came to Medjugorje in 1985, for the first time, and he said: “This is where I receive new strength and new faith each time. I know that Medjugorje has influenced my vocation as a priest. Whenever people ask me why I decided to become a priest, I always tell them it was because of Medjugorje and because of what I felt here.” Our press members also met a group of 24 athletics who ran relay race from Bergamo, Italy to Medjugorje. Every person ran for 50 minutes and 4 campers accompanied them at all times. When they left Bergamo with lit torches, they all ran for the first mile together and they did the same during their last mile to Medjugorje. “When we entered Medjugorje, our sports adventure was finished and we started our spiritual journey”, said Marco Previtali from Bergamo, and this is his first visit to Medjugorje. Novena to the Queen of Peace is starting today and pilgrims and parishioners will prepare for the 31st Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions through prayer of the Rosary on Apparition Hill at 4 p.m. every day. The evening prayer programme starts with Rosary at 6 p.m. and Holy Mass at 7 p.m. Novena is opportunity to thank God for all of the graces we had received through our Heavenly Mother in the last 31 years. As the 31st Anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions is getting closer, we meet pilgrims from all over the world in Medjugorje. We had chance to talk to 20 –years-old girl from Ireland who is in wheelchair. “I would like to thank for the opportunity to be in Medjugorje. My group leader told me that she had a cancellation last week and she invited me to come instead of that person. It is my blessing to be here, one really feels joy here. I hope to bring peace and hope from this place to my home, to those that I know”, said Maebh who shared her story with us, story full of crosses and lots of suffering, but on the other hand, story full of peace and joy. On Monday, June 11, 2012, after the evening prayer programme, the Franciscan Youth from Medjugorje held a performance titled “It all begins with something” in the hall of the Blessed John Paul II. The author of the piece is Dr. Mile Cavar and 13 members of the Franciscan Youth participated in this play. It is about the life of young people, their problems and ways to resolve those problems. “It is the way of proclaiming the Joyful News, the Gospel through performance, play or drama, it is our way to proclaim the Gospel”, said Fr. Slaven Brekalo, the spiritual assistant of the Franciscan Youth from Medjugorje. Franciscan Youth has been active in Medjugorje since 1995 and with singing, prayer and many other activities, these young people are contributing to the fruitful spiritual atmosphere in this world famous parish. Number of Holy Communions: 190.500 Number of priests that concelebrated at Holy Masses: 4140 (133 per day) Diego Garcia Nunez arrived to Medjugorje after five months of walking from his native Cordoba in Spain, through Santiago de Compostela, Rome and Padua. This sixty- four years old pilgrim walked more than 3000 kilometres to fulfil his vow. Five years ago, he was diagnosed with cancer and he decided to walk to Medjugorje to Our Lady if he ever got better. He heard about Medjugorje when he was listening to Radio Maria, fifteen years ago. Exactly a year ago, his doctors told him that his cancer was gone and he decided to walk in thanksgiving to Our Lady, the Queen of Peace. Zvonko Bogi, Vesna Jankovic, Zlatica Cepo, brother and two sisters, walked from Osijek and arrived to Medjugorje on Thursday, May 24, 2012. They started their trip on May 14, 2012. They made decision to do this pilgrimage in the honour of Our Lady, the Queen of Peace, before Christmas last year. They wanted to thank her for everything she had done for them. They wanted to emphasise that everyone they met on their journey was kind and gracious to them and they would like to thank them all. “There was prayer and joy while we travelled here. We were in the pain, but every morning, after waking up, the pain was gone. Our Lady was with us all the time, she was guiding us and the doors were opened to us wherever we came. We visited many pilgrimage destinations, but Medjugorje is something special, something that cannot be described”, said Zvonko, Vesna and Zlatica who are members of the Movement of Devine Mercy. They will stay in Medjugorje until Sunday, May 27, when another group of pilgrims from Osijek will join them. John O’Sullivan arrived to Mejugorje with a group of pilgrims from town Killarney in Ireland. That would be something completely normal if it was not a pilgrim who celebrated his 100th birthday on April 5, 2012. This is his ninth pilgrimage to Medjugorje and he came for the first time in 2002. He found out about Medjugorje from other pilgrims. He is in a good health and his age did not prevent him from climbing Apparition Hill and Cross Mountain in the company of other pilgrims. “I heard about Medjugorje and I decided to come, I never thought it would be so beautiful. I visited other places but I always prefer to come back here”, said John and he promised to come back again. Annamária Vécsey from Budapest walked to Medjugorje with one another pilgrim. She had done that back in 2008. They started their journey on April 12, 2012 and arrived to Medjugorje on the Feast of Ascension of Our Lord, May 19, 2012. She knew all details of her journey and despite her age and health difficulties, 68-years old Annamaria said: “Yes, I will go!” When they arrived to Medjugorje in Our Lady’s embrace, they forgot about all of their difficulties and bad weather circumstances. They were only able to recall beautiful memories they had with other people. She thinks it was God’s providence that she was able to meet the same people who were willing to help her last time, four years ago. She is joyful and grateful to dear God and to Our Lady because they came to their destination healthy and alive, and she would like to thank all those good people who had helped them on their journey.
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Wayne Weldschidt, svećenik iz Južnoafričke republike boravio je u Međugorju treći put. Kazao nam je kako je njegov svećenički poziv plod Međugorja. Zanimljivo je da je čuvar Gospinog svetišta u Gormeu u Africi, a vidi i veliku povezanost između poruka koje je tamo upućivala Gospa koja se predstavila Svetohraništem Svevišnjeg i poruka Gospe Kraljice Mira iz Međugorja. Jedna knjiga o Međugorju promijenila je njegov život, od tada su njegovi posjeti Međugorju kao vraćanje doma: „Smatram kako je ovo doista blagoslovljeno mjesto i mjesto puno milosti. Obiteljski prijatelj mi je dao knjigu, literaturu o Međugorju i to je bio moj početak upoznavanja Međugorja. Svetkovina sv. Franje, utemeljitelja Franjevačkoga reda, svečano je proslavljena u Međugorju u petak, 4. listopada. Tradicionalni i svečani obred preminuća svetoga Franje, ili latinski ''Memoria Transitus'', utkan u okvire liturgijskoga obreda, slavljen je nakon večernje sv. mise, na uočnicu svetkovine, na vanjskome oltaru župne crkve sv. Jakova. Svetu misu i obred preminuća predvodio je fra Stanko Ćosić. Obredu su nazočili i brojni hodočasnici koji u listopadu, Gospinom mjesecu, borave u Međugorju. Svetkovina sv. Franje, utemeljitelja Franjevačkoga reda svečano će se proslaviti u Međugorju u petak , 4. listopada svetim misama u 7.30, 8 te 18 sati. U 8 sati sveta misa je za Franjevački svjetovni red (trećare).Tradicionalni obred preminuća svetoga Franje, ili kako ga još nazivaju ''Memoria Transitus'', utkan u okvire liturgijskoga obreda, slavit će se nakon večernje sv. mise na uočnicu svetkovine 3. listopada. Za svetkovinu vjernici se, uz brojne hodočasnike koji su pristigli iz Austrije, Njemačke, Švicarske, Engleske, Irske, SAD-a, Kanade, Danske, Italije, Francuske, Belgije, Španjolske, Poljske, Češke, Slovačke, Ukrajine, Meksika, Brazila, Vijetnama,Libanona pripravljaju trodnevnicom od utorka, 1. listopada. Krunica kroz trodnevnicu je u 17 sati, a sveta misa u 18 sati. Iz župnog ureda pozivaju sve župljane na molitveni susret, posebice one koji pripadaju velikoj franjevačkoj obitelji; časne sestre franjevke, članove Trećeg svjetovnog reda, te Framu. Broj podijeljenih sv. pricesti: 242 500 Broj svećenika koncelebranata: 4880 (162 dnevno) 2. po redu hodočašće za osobe s invaliditetom održano je u Međugorju od 20. do 22. rujna pod geslom: „Živite svoju vjeru”. Poticaj za organizaciju susreta je dugogodišnje hodočašćenje s. Rastislave Ralbovsky sa zajednicom osoba s posebnim potrebama iz Đakova. „Moja veza s Međugorjem je Božji poticaj. Od 1995. otkako sam došla u Đakovo i otkako mi je povjeren rad Doma duhovne pomoći, jedan od prvih usmjerenja bio je rad s osobama s invaliditetom. Mi smo se uključili u svjetski pokret Vjera i svjetlo. Već od početka smo počeli dolaziti u Međugorje. To nam je bilo kao dolazak kući svojoj Majci. U srcu mi je uvijek bila želja da se rad proširi, da se pokrene internacionalni susret”-kazala je s. Rastislava koja ističe kako 30 godina imamo Kraljicu mira te je Bog počastio ovaj narod na tako osobit način. Bojan Zupanz, 29-godišnji mladić iz Zagreba, nakon 10 dana pješačenja stigao je u Međugorje u nedjelju, 22. rujna. Na put je pošao iz zahvale Majci Božjoj za sve što mu je u životu dala. Nije planirao gdje će spavati, sve je bilo prepušteno Božjoj providnosti. Bojan je prvi put u Međugorju bio prošle godine:„Bilo je lijepo taj put, sv. misa, propovijed, penjanje na Brdo ukazanja, ali to nije bilo ni blizu iskustvu koje sam sada doživio”-kazao je Bojan koji je zahvalio svima koji su mu pomogli na ovome putu. Brojni hodočasnici ističu kako ih se u Međugorju najviše dojmila pobožnost klanjanja Isusu u Presvetom Oltarskom Sakramentu. Od 1. listopada klanjanje Isusu u Presvetom oltarskom sakramentu bit će utorkom od 21 do 22 sata, a ne više srijedom, kao do sada. Tako će župljani i hodočasnici moći sudjelovati u pobožnosti Klanjanja utorkom i subotom od 21 do 22 sata te četvrtkom nakon večernje svete mise. 2. po redu hodočašće za osobe s invaliditetom održava se u Međugorju od 20. do 22. rujna pod geslom: „Živite svoju vjeru”. Hodočašće je okupilo više od 460 sudionika, koje su 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. Većina programa održava se u prostorijama Majčinog sela koje je zajedno sa župom Međugorje i Udrugom „Susret“ iz Čitluka i glavni organizator susreta. Poticaj za organizaciju ovog susreta je dugogodišnje hodočašćenje s. Rastislave Ralbovsky sa zajednicom osoba s posebnim potrebama iz Đakova. Program je ispunjen radionicama, predavanjima i molitvenim sadržajima. Hodočašće za osobe s invaliditetom „Živite svoju vjeru” održat će se u Međugorju od 20. do 22. rujna. Kao i prošle godine, većina programa održavat će se u prostorijama Majčinog sela koje je zajedno sa Župom i udrugom „Susret“ iz Čitluka i glavni organizator susreta. Okupljanje sudionika predviđa se u poslijepodnevnim satima u četvrtak, 19. rujna. Program susreta bit će ispunjen radionicama, predavanjima i molitvenim sadržajima. U subotu jutro predviđena je i molitva na Podbrdu, a u nedjelju sv. misa. Blagdan Uzvišenja križa Kristova svečano je proslavljen u Međugorju u nedjelju, 15. rujna 2013. godine, uz sudjelovanje župljana i mnogobrojnih hodočasnika. U župnoj je crkvi slavljeno pet sv. misa na hrvatskome jeziku: u 6, 7, 8,12 i 19 sati. Svečana sv. misa na Križevcu, koju je predslavio fra Ljubo Kurtović, slavljena je u 11 sati. Prije početka mise, molila se Krunica. „Na poseban način, ovo brdo i ovo mjesto natopljeno je Božjom prisutnošću, Gospinom blizinom, koja nas je pozvala i poziva da dođemo njezinom Sinu, govoreći nam da se molimo pred križem, jer s križa se dobivaju velike milosti. Ovo brdo natopljeno je trudom i naporom župljana koji su gradili ovaj križ prije gotovo 80 godina’’-kazao je fra Ljubo u propovijedi. Od proslave Uzvišenja križa Kristova u Međugorju se mijenja i satnica molitveno-liturgijskog programa. Molitva krunice u župnoj crkvi započinje u 17, a sv. misa u 18 sati. Slijedi uobičajeni molitveni program nakon sv. mise. Klanjanje Isusu u Presvetom oltarskom sakramentu srijedom i subotom je od 21 do 22 sata. Molitva krunice na Brdu ukazanja je nedjeljom u 14 sati, a Križni put na Križevcu petkom u isto vrijeme. (slike) Prvi ponedjeljak nakon proslave Uzvišenja križa Kristova u Međugorju se mijenja i satnica molitveno-liturgijskog programa. Ove godine to je 16. rujna. Molitva krunice u župnoj crkvi započinje u 17, a sv. misa u 18 sati. Slijedi uobičajeni molitveni program nakon sv. mise. Klanjanje Isusu u Presvetom oltarskom sakramentu srijedom i subotom je od 21 do 22 sata. Molitva krunice na Podbrdu je nedjeljom u 14 sati, a Križni put na Križevcu petkom u isto vrijeme. Sveta misa u 13 sati samo subotom. Prve nedjelje nakon blagdana Male Gospe, u međugorskoj se župi tradicionalno slavi Uzvišenje križa Kristova. Ove godine to je nedjelja, 15 rujna. Svečana sv. misa na Križevcu je u 11 sati. Za sve one koji nisu u mogućnosti pohoditi Križevac, mogu sudjelovati na jednoj od sv. misa na hrvatskome jeziku u župnoj crkvi: u 6, 7, 8,12 i 19 sati. Križ na Križevcu podignut je u Jubilarnoj 1933.godini Otkupiteljeve smrti na križu i do 1981. bio je mjesto molitve župljana i vjernika iz okolnih župa. Nakon Gospina ukazanja 24.lipnja 1981., Križevac postaje mjestom molitve hodočasnika iz cijeloga svijeta. I početkom mjeseca rujna u Međugorju borave hodočasnici sa svih strana svijeta. Ured informacija bilježi skupine hodočasnika iz Francuske, Italije, Engleske, SAD-a, Kanade, Libanona, Belgije, Španjolske, Paname, Slovačke, Malte, Albanije, Mađarske, Rumunjske, Češke, Slovenije, Švicarske, Njemačke, Austrije, Irske, Poljske. Susreli smo skupinu iz Poljske u posebnim odorama koja je sudjelovala u večernjem molitveno-liturgijskom program u nedjelju, 1. rujna. Broj podijeljenih sv. pricesti: 374 200 Broj svećenika koncelebranata: 7492 (241 dnevno) Otac Charles Colazzi iz New Jerseya deveti je put u Međugorju. Govorio nam je o svome životu, svećeničkom pozivu, iskustvu Međugorja. Ovdje je došao sa skupinom mladih kada je imao šesnaest godina. Kaže da je jednostavno iskusio ljepotu ovoga mjesta: „Kao mladić išao sam u crkvu ali nisam baš volio svoju vjeru. Dok sam bio u Međugorju, iskustvo molitve bilo je toliko snažno da me istinski promijenilo. Nakon povratka, zavolio sam molitvu, provodio vrijeme na klanjanju i moleći krunicu, uglavnom svaki dan”.