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Reflection on the Message of April 25, 2009 PRAY FOR PEACE AND WITNESS IT "Dear children! Today I call you all to pray for peace and to witness it in your families so that peace may become the highest treasure on this peaceless earth. I am your Queen of Peace and your mother. I desire to lead you on the way of peace, which comes only from God. Therefore, pray, pray, pray. Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of April 25, 2009 In her message of 25 April 2009 Our Lady calls us to pray for peace and to witness it at the same time, first in our families and then in the whole world. It is a fact that our time is marked with peacelessness in its many various forms. Having that in mind, we must not remain indifferent, but must make every effort to create peace. The Church, which has been announcing the Joyful News since its very beginning, has been called to announce and always realize peace. In His message written in the occasion of the World Day for Peace Pope John Paul II, of blessed memory, says: «We do not claim to find in the Gospel text ready-made formulas for making today this or that advance towards peace. But on every page of the Gospel and of the history of the Church we find a spirit, that of brotherly love, powerfully teaching peace.» We Christians are called to announce and witness peace with our own lives. Establishing peace is not a question of choice, it is an obligation. Peace is never established once and for all, but needs to be created all the time because the deepest longing of man's heart is actually for peace. In his book Fast with the Heart the departed Fr. Slavko Barbaric writes about peace: «How often we lose peace because we are arrogant, selfish, envious, jealous, avariciuos and consumed by power and honour. Experience confirms that through fasting and prayer evil, arrogance and selfishness are overcome; the heart is opened and love and humility, generosity and goodness grow. Thus, true conditions for peace are realized. Whoever has peace because he loves and forgives also remains spiritually and physically healthy. He remains capable of shaping his own life in a manner worthy of man, who is the most exalted of God’s creatures. Through fasting and prayer, human needs are also diminished and brought to proportion. Also by this, conditions for peace along with a proper relationship with others and material things are being created. In everything we do, whether good or bad, we seek peace. When a person loves, looks for and experiences peace, or even when he stays sober or fights against addiction, he seeks peace. When he becomes drunk, he also seeks peace. When he fights for his life and the lives of those he loves, he realizes peace.» The Queen of Peace wants to lead us to true peace, which is her Son and our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the true king of peace. Prayer is the safe path leading to Jesus and Heaven. In her last message she urges us three times to pray for peace as prayer is the only right way. Let us respond with all our heart and soul to the call of Our Mother Mary, the Queen of Peace, and she will lead us to the true peace, the love of God, closeness and joy. Danko Perutina
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju Poruka, 25. travnja 2009 MOLITE ZA MIR I SVJEDOCITE GA "Draga djeco! Danas vas sve pozivam da molite za mir i da ga svjedocite u svojim obiteljima kako bi mir postao najvece blago na ovoj nemirnoj zemlji. Ja sam vaša Kraljica Mira i vaša majka. Želim vas povesti putem mira koji dolazi samo od Boga. Zato molite, molite, molite. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. travnja 2009. Gospa nas u poruci od 25. travnja 2009. godine poziva da molimo za mir i da istovremeno budemo svjedoci toga mira, prije svega u našim obiteljima a onda i u cijelome svijetu. Cinjenica je kako je nemir u razlicitim oblicima prisutan u ovo naše vrijeme. Znajuci to ne smijemo ostati ravnodušni, nego trebamo upotrijebiti svoje najbolje snage u izgradnji mira. Crkva koja od samog svog pocetka naviješta Radosnu vijest pozvana je naviještati i ostvarivati mir u svako vrijeme. Blagopokojni papa Ivan Pavao II u poruci za Svjetski dan molitve za mir piše: «Ne tvrdimo da u citanju Evandelja nalazimo vec gotove formule za ostvarenje ovoga ili onog napretka u miru. Ali na svakoj stranici Evandelja i povijesti Crkve nalazimo duh bratske ljubavi koji mocno odgaja za mir». Mi kršcani smo pozvani naviještati i svjedociti mir vlastitim životom. Izgradivanje mira nije pitanje izbora nego obveze. Mir se nikada ne stjece jednom zauvijek, nego ga stalno treba graditi, jer je upravo mir najdublja cežnja covjekova srca. U svojoj knjizi Postite srcem pokojni fra Slavko Barbaric o miru piše slijedece: «Koliko puta smo izgubili mir zato što smo oholi, sebicni, zavidni, ljubomorni, gramzljivi, ovisni o vlasti i casti. Iskustvo potvrduje da se postom i molitvom pobjeduje zlo, oholost i sebicnost, da se srce otvara, a ljubav i poniznost, darežljivost i dobrota rastu, cime se ostvaruju pravi uvjeti za mir. I tko ima mir jer ljubi i prašta, taj i duševno i tjelesno ostaje zdrav i sposoban svoj život oblikovati na nacin dostojan covjeka, najuzvišenijeg stvorenja Božjega. Postom i molitvom se umanjuju i svode na pravu mjeru ljudske potrebe, cime se opet stvaraju uvjeti za mir i pravilan odnos prema drugima i prema materijalnim stvarima. U Svemu što cinimo, bilo dobro bilo zlo, tražimo mir. Kad covjek ljubi, traži i doživljava mir, kad ostaje trijezan i bori se protiv ovisnosti, traži mir, kad se opija takoder na neki nacin traži mir; kad moli, traži mir, kad se bori za svoj život i život onih koje voli, ostvaruje mir». Gospa Kraljica mira nas želi uvesti u pravi mir a to njezin Sin i naš Gospodin Isus Krist koji je istinski i pravi kralj mira. Molitva je siguran put do Isusa i do neba. Ona traži od nas u zadnjoj poruci tri puta uzastopice da molimo jer je jedino molitva siguran i ispravan put. Odazovimo se svim srcem i svom dušom pozivu naše majke Marije, Kraljice Mira i ona ce nas uvesti i pravi mir, u Božju ljubav, blizinu i radost. Fra Danko Perutina