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“Dear children! Also today I call you to pray and fast for peace. As I have already said and now repeat to you, little children, only with prayer and fasting can wars also be stopped. Peace is a precious gift from God. Seek, pray and you will receive it. Speak about peace and carry peace in your hearts. Nurture it like a flower which is in need of water, tenderness and light. Be those who carry peace to others. I am with you and intercede for all of you. Thank you for having responded to my call. Our Lady’s words, just as her love for us, her children, remain unchanged. As in the last message, she calls us also today to prayer and fasting for peace. She presented herself here as Queen of Peace who brings and gives us peace. Many have experienced it in their hearts. They took this peace into their daily life. Although in her messages she addresses herself to everyone, saying “dear children”, as a mother she speaks to each one individually, to each heart. Starting with the individual, peace spreads into the family and from the family into the people and into the whole society. It is important to answer to this call personally. Everything starts with the individual. We should not expect and wait for others to be converted, to become better, to believe, but it is important to turn ma heart personally to the Mother who leads us to Jesus - the King of Peace. She sees well how much men are threatened, how much peace is threatened in human hearts. She knows well that peacelessness and hatred come from a troubled heart. She offers us a remedy for this and such heart. Our Lady has neither revealed something new here, nor has she brought something unknown. Our Lady addresses us the same invitation as the Prophets in the Old Testament: conversion of hearts, faith, fasting and prayer. According to the witness of the visionaries, Our Lady has invited us all to peace, to fasting and prayer, to conversion and a strong faith. From the beginning of the apparitions to August 14, 1984, people were fasting one day a week. On the vigil of the Assumption 1984, through the visionary Ivan, she gave us this message: "I would like the people to pray along with me these days. And to pray as much as possible! And to fast strictly on Wednesdays and Fridays, and every day to pray at least one Rosary: the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries." There are many other messages in which Our Lady invited us to fast: On September 20, 1984, Our Lady invited us: "Dear children! Today I call on you to begin fasting with the heart. There are many people who are fasting, but only because everyone else is fasting. It has become a custom which no one wants to stop." On September 26, 1985: "Dear children! Especially live the fast, because by fasting you will achieve and cause me the joy of the whole plan, which God is planning here in Medjugorje, being fulfilled." On September 4, 1986: "Dear children! Today again I am calling you to prayer and fasting. You know, dear children, that with your help I am able to accomplish everything and force Satan not to be seducing to evil and to remove himself from this place. Therefore, dear children, my call to you is that your day would be only prayer and complete surrender to God…" In the message of July 25, 1991, Our Lady said: "Dear Children! At this time peace is being threatened in a special way, and I am seeking from you to renew fasting and prayer in your families. Dear children, I desire you to grasp the seriousness of the situation and that much of what will happen depends on your prayers and you are praying a little bit. Dear children, I am with you and I am inviting you to begin to pray and fast seriously as in the first days of my coming..." In the message of April 25, 1992, she told us: "Dear children! Today also I invite you to prayer. Only by prayer and fasting can war be stopped..." We need to recall Our Lady’s words, but even more to take them to our heart and put them into practice in our lives. It happens that we forget the words, but if we take them seriously, they will lead us to the source, to Jesus, from whom Mary takes and brings the desired peace of heart and soul. The Blessed Virgin Mary invites us often to fasting, but even more often to prayer. Fasting is a prayer of the body. Fasting cannot go by itself. It is always linked to prayer, to almsgiving and works of charity. Jesus himself speaks about the power of fasting (cf. Mk 9,29). In her messages, Our Lady says that through prayer and fasting war also can be stopped. Our Holy Father John-Paul II also invited and keeps inviting all Christians to prayer and fasting for peace in the world. This is the only way for overcoming difficult and deep crisis in the world: through fasting to obtain the conversion of hearts, and to stop the wars that are begotten in human hearts. Thos who pray are more useful for the world then those who fight, and if things are bad in the world or become worse and worse, it is because there are more warriors than those who pray. Let us become warriors in Our Lady’s school of prayer and of love, so that - from day to day - we may come closer to God, belong more to God, and with us also this world. Ljubo Kurtovic Medjugorje February 26, 2003
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju listopada, 25. veljace 2003 MIR JE DRAGOCJEN DAR OD BOGA "Draga djeco! I danas vas pozivam da molite i postite za mir. Kako sam vec govorila i sad vam ponavljam, djecice, samo molitvom i postom mogu se zaustaviti i ratovi. Mir je dragocjen dar od Boga. Traite, molite i dobit cete ga. Govorite o miru i nosite mir u vaim srcima. Njegujte ga kao cvijet koji je potreban vode, njenosti i svjetlosti. Budite oni koji mir nose drugima. Ja sam s vama i zagovaram za sve vas. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. veljace 2003 Gospine rijeci kao i Gospina ljubav prema nama, njezinoj djeci, ostali su nepromijenjeni. Kao i u prethodnoj poruci i danas nas poziva na molitvu i post za mir. Predstavila se ovdje kao Kraljica Mira koja nam nosi i daruje mir. To su mnogi u svojim srcima iskusili i doivjeli. Ponijeli su taj mir u svoj svagdan. Iako se u porukama obraca svima: draga djeco, ona kao majka govori svakom pojedincu, svakome srcu. Od pojedinca mir se pocinje iriti u obitelj a od obitelji u narod i cijelo drutvo. Vano je kao pojedinac odgovoriti na taj zov. Od pojedinca sve pocinje. Ne trebamo ocekivati i cekati da se drugi obrate, da drugi postanu bolji, da drugi povjeruju nego je vano da ja kao pojedinac okrenem svoje srce Majci koja nas vodi Kralju Mira Isusu. Ona dobro vidi ugroenost covjeka, ugroenost mira u ljudskom srcu. Dobro zna da nemir i mrnja dolaze iz nemirnog srca. Ona nam nudi i lijek za to i takvo srce srce. Gospa ovdje nije otkrila nita novo niti donijela ita nepoznato. Gospa nas poziva na ono na to nas pozivaju proroci vec u starom zavjetu: obracenje srca, vjera, post i molitva. Prema svjedocanstvu vidjelaca Gospa nas je sve pozvala na mir, post i molitvu, obracenje i cvrstu vjeru. Od pocetka ukazanja do 14. kolovoza 1984. postilo se jedan dan u tjednu. Na uocnicu (vigiliju) blagdana Velike Gospe 1984., preko vidioca Ivana dala nam je ovu poruku: «Htjela bih da svijet moli ovih dana uz mene. I to vie! Da posti strogo srijedom i petkom; da moli svaki dan bar krunicu: radosna, alosna i slavna otajstva Mnogo je i drugih poruka u kojima je Gospa pozvala na post. Tako 20. rujna 1984. godine Gospa poziva: «Draga djeco! Danas vas pozivam da pocnete s postom od srca. Ima dosta ljudi koji poste, ali zato to svi poste. Postao je obicaj koji nitko ne eli prekinuti. «Draga djeco! Napose ivite u postu, jer cete postom postici i uciniti mi radost, da se ostvari citav plan koji Bog planira ovdje u Medugorju...» «Draga djeco! I danas vas pozivam na molitvu i post. Znate, draga djeco, da uz vau pomoc mogu uciniti sve i prisiliti sotonu da ne navodi na zlo i da se udalji od ovog mjesta Zato vas, draga djeco, pozivam da va dan bude samo molitva i predanje Bogu U poruci od 25. srpnja 1991. Gospa kae: «Draga djeco! U ovo vrijeme na poseban je nacin ugroen mir, i traim od vas da obnovite post i molitvu u svojim obiteljima. Draga djeco, elim da shvatite ozbiljnost stanja i da mnogo onoga to ce se dogoditi zavisi od vae molitve. A vi malo molite. Draga djeco, ja sam s vama i pozivam vas da s ozbiljnocu pocnete moliti i postiti, kao prvih dana moga dolaska U poruci od 25. travnja 1992. govorila nam je: «Draga djeco! I danas vas pozivam na molitvu. Samo molitvom i postom moe se zaustaviti rat Potrebno nam se prisjetiti Gospinih rijeci a jo potrebnije je uzeti ih k srcu i ivjeti u svome ivotu. Dogada se da zaboravimo na rijeci, ali ako ih s ozbiljnocu uzmemo onda ce nas te rijeci povesti i dovesti do izvora, do Isusa od kojega nam i Marija donosi udeni mir srca i due. Blaena Djevica Marija, cesto nas poziva na post a jo ceci njezini pozivi su na molitvu. Post je molitva tijelom. Post sam za sebe nikad ne postoji. On je uvijek povezan s molitvom, milostinjom i djelima ljubavi. Sam Isus govori o snazi koju ima post (usp. Gospa u svojim porukama govori da se molitvom i postom i rat moe zaustaviti. Sveti Otac Ivan Pavao II takoder je pozivao i poziva sve krcane na molitvu i post za mir u svijetu. To je jedini put za prevladavanje tekih i dubokih kriza koje vladaju u svijetu, preko posta postici obracenje srca i zaustavljanje ratova koji se radaju u ljudskom srcu. Svijetu su korisniji oni koji se mole, nego oni koji se bore, i ako u svijetu stvari loe stoje ili idu nagore, to je zato to postoji vie ratnika nego molitelja. Postanimo ratnici u Gospinoj koli molitve i ljubavi kako bi iz dana u dan postajali blie Bogu i vie Boji a po nama i ovaj svijet. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic Medugorje 26.