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Our Heavenly Mother, the Queen of Peace, speaks again today and gives us the recipe for life. At the same time, this recipe seems both too simple and too hard. She wants to encourage us to dare to take the way that leads to God, in Whom is our life. Naturally, each one of us wants to find the meaning of life, in order to live a fulfilled and satisfied life. Very often, in this search we seek support in what seems attractive, easy, full of promise and gratifying. Often, after such choices, we are deceived and wounded, traumatized and feel mislead. We see that with our physical eyes we cannot pierce the heart of life. This means that we do not really know what life means. We have been called to existence by someone else other than ourselves: it is neither our parents, nor our friends, but we have been called by God. We have not given life to ourselves, but have received it as a gift from God. We have been given to ourselves. We have neither earned nor deserved our life. We are not masters of our own life, but only its’ manager, and this is why we are responsible before God, Who is the only Master of our life. Each one of us wants to preserve, to prolongate and to ameliorate his life in diverse ways and means. Life is most precious and dear. We have the instinct to defend and to preserve life, nevertheless, in our decisions and our actions we also can destroy life within ourselves. Our life finally depends on God, because He forgives us again and again. He takes care of us and saves our lives. Without our permission, and our complete ‘Yes’ to Him, God is powerless and cannot help us. This is why Our Lady, in Her motherly love, remains with us for such a long time. This is also why She is so determined. She wants us to open our eyes and not to cling to what attracts or pleases us nor to what gives easy promises and finally then deceives us. This is what is confirmed by our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, in his message for the XVIth World Youth Day: “The omnipresent culture of ephemeral, which gives a value to what pleases and what seams nice, would like to make us believe that - for to be happy - we have to eliminate the Cross. What is presented as ideal is easy success, rapid career, sexuality separated from responsibility and, finally, an existence founded of the confirmation of self, often without respecting others. Open wide your eyes, dear young people: this is not a way that gives life, but a way that leads to death.” Jesus said: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life” (Jn 14,6). Our Lady wants us to choose Her Son, Jesus as Master and Lord of our lives. Only with Him and in Him will we not be deceived. Jesus doesn’t promise the fulfillment of all our desires, a rapid career or easy successfulness. He promises life in fullness. The Russian writer A. Solshenitzine, in his Roman writing, “In the First circle”, said: “The happiness of a perpetual victory, the happiness of the fulfillment of desires, the happiness of success and of total satiety - is a suffering. It is spiritual death, some kind of infinite moral pain. For there is a fulfilled and realized life in spite of many unfulfilled desires.” The message of Our Lady of this month seems like a announcement and correction addressed to Her children, so that they may discover the foundations of their lives. It is as if She would like to say: My little children, open the eyes of your heart. The spirit gives life, and not the flesh, which cheats you and pulls you towards the earth. Raise your eyes towards heaven, towards life, towards the Spirit of God Who lives in you. From my heart, I wish all of you and myself to become ‘tireless’ in discovering over and over again our God within us. Thank You, o Mary, for Your words, Your messages and Your motherly assurance. Let us challenge ourselves to believe and walk on the path that leads to life! Medjugorje, March 26, 2001
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju poruku, 25. oujka 2001 TEMELJ TVOGA IVOTA JE U BOGU "Draga djeco! Pozivam vas i danas da se otvorite molitvi. Djecice, ivite u vremenu gdje vam Bog daje velike milosti, a vi ih ne znate iskoristiti. Brinete se za sve drugo, a za duu i duhovni ivot najmanje. Probudite se iz umornog sna vae due i recite Bogu svom snagom Da. Odlucite se na obracenje i svetost. S vama sam djecice, i pozivam vas na savrenstvo vae due i svega to cinite. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mom pozivu." 25. oujka 2001. Naa nebeska Majka, Kraljica mira, i danas progovara i daje nam recept za ivot. Taj recept izgleda u isto vrijeme prejednostavan i preteak. eli nas ohrabriti da se usudimo poci stazom koja vodi do Boga u kome je na ivot. Svatko od nas po naravnoj sklonosti eli pronaci smisao ivota, eli ispunjen i ostvaren ivot. U tom traenju i ivotnim borbama cesto se oslonimo na ono to je na prvi pogled privlacno, to je lake, to nam puno obecava i to nam se svida. Nerijetko nakon takvih izbora doivimo razocaranja i izidemo izranjeni, izudarani i razocarani. Vidimo kako tjelesnim ocima ne moemo proniknuti srce ivota. To znaci da zapravo ne znamo to je ivot. U postojanje nas je dozvao netko drugi ne mi. Nisu to ni nai roditelji ni prijatelji, nego Bog. ivot nismo sebi darovali nego smo ga na dar primili. Darovani smo samima sebi. ivot nismo zaradili ni zasluili. Nismo gospodari svoga ivota nego smo njegovi upravitelji, i zato smo odgovorni Bogu koji je jedini gospodar naih ivota. Svatko od nas eli sacuvati, produljiti i poboljati svoj ivot na razne nacine i raznim sredstvima. ivot je neto najvrjednije i najdragocjenije. U nama je nagon za obranom ivota i ocuvanjem ivota, iako svojim odlukama i postupcima moemo u sebi unitavati ivot. Na ivot u konacnici ovisi o Bogu jer nam uvijek iznova oprata, cuva i spaava ivote. Bez naeg odobrenja, bez naeg Da Njemu i Bog je nemocan da nam pomogne. Zato je Gospa u svojoj majcinskoj ljubavi toliko dugo s nama i tako uporna. eli da progledamo, da se olako ne zalijepimo za ono to privlaci, to se svida, to olako obecaje a u konacnici razocara covjeka. To nam potvrduje i papa Ivan Pavao II u svojoj poruci mladima za XVI svjetski dan mladih: «Rairena kultura prolaznoga, koja daje vrijednost onome to se svida i to se cini lijepo, htjela bi vjerovati da je za srecu potrebno otkloniti kri. Predstavlja se kao ideal laki uspjeh, brza karijera, seksualnost odvojena od smisla odgovornosti, i na kraju, postojanje utemeljeno na vlastitom potvrdivanju cesto bez potovanja prema drugima. Otvorite dobro oci, dragi mladi: ovo nije put koji daje ivot, nego staza koja strovaljuje u smrt.» Isus ce reci: «Ja sam put, istina i ivot» (Iv 14, 6). Gospa eli da izaberemo njezina Sina Isusa za svoga ucitelja i gospodara ivota. Samo s njim i u njemu necemo biti razocarani. Isus ne obecaje ispunjenje svih naih elja, brzu karijeru, laki uspjeh on obecaje ivot u punini. Ruski knjievnik A. Solenicin u svom romanu «U prvom krugu» rece: «Sreca neprestane pobjede, sreca ispunjene elje, sreca uspjeha i potpune sitosti to je patnja. To je duhovan smrt, neka vrst beskonacnog moralnog bola. Jer postoji ispunjen i ostvaren ivot unatoc mnogim naim neispunjenim eljama. Gospina poruka ovog mjeseca izgleda poput upozorenja i ukora svojoj djeci da otkriju gdje su temelji njihova ivota. Gospa kao da eli reci: Djecice moja, otvorite oci srca. Od duha se ivi ne od tijela koje vas zavarava i vuce k zemlji. Podignite oci prema nebu, prema ivotu, prema Bojem duhu koji ivi u vama.» elim od srca sebi i vama da se ne umorimo otkrivati uvijek iznova Boga u sebi. Hvala ti Marijo na tvojim rijecima, porukama i majcinskim upozorenjima. Usudimo se povjerovati i poci stazom koja vodi u ivot. Medugorje, 26. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic