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“Dear children! In this Lenten time of grace, I call you to open your hearts to the gifts that God desires to give you. Do not be closed, but with prayer and renunciation say ‘yes’ to God and He will give to you in abundance. As in springtime the earth opens to the seed and yields a hundredfold, so also your heavenly Father will give to you in abundance. I am with you and love you, little children, with a tender love. Thank you for having responded to my call. Today Mary, Mother of Jesus and Mother of the Church, wishes to prepare us for Lent with her message. Lent is the season of the church year that we call the strong time. At the beginning of the Gospel, as well as at the beginning of Lent we hear Jesus' call: „Convert and believe in the Gospel“. At the beginning of Lent, particularly on the first day, we hear the following words: "Remember, man, you are dust, and unto dust you shall return." As Holy Scripture depicts in great detail, God created us from the dust of the ground, breathed His breath, His spirit and His life into us. God has placed Himself in the heart of everyone of us. If we break the bond, break our relationship with Him, which we can as we have a free will, then we have no life in us. It means that without God we are dead, we do not exist. In the best case scenario we can merely vegetate. If there is no bond between God and us, if we do not reach out for Him every single day, we are left without His Spirit inside us. Our Lady is a mother, and a mother cannot remain calm watching her children walk through this world without God. Her words are simple and easily comprehensible, but hard when we have to materialize them in our life. She still speaks today: " Open your hearts". God dwells in the heart of everyone of us. And we may be out of ourselves, as St Augustine puts it nicely: "Too late have I love Thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, too late have I loved Thee!.“ St Paul says: „He is not far from any of us. For in Him we live and move and have our being“. If we run away from God or if we deny Him faith, then it is not us any more, as the Psalm goes: "Far from Thee, life is life no longer. Not believing in Thee means being nobody." Because she is the Mother, Our Lady wants us to live and to have God's life in us. The path to reach this is an open heart, prayer and renunciation. Only then can we receive what God desires to give us. And when it is God who gives, He gives in abundance. Renunciation is not intended to lose something, but to gain even more. It does not mean holding our hands tight, but to open them so that God may place in them the gifts of peace, love, trust, light and hope. Our Lady makes us see the image of nature: spring, the earth, the seed. God has placed His own laws in nature and these laws abide by the will of God. We all know how devastating consequences may be when man tries to change the laws of nature. Even more devastating are the consequences when man tries to change the divine laws that God has imprinted in our consciousness and in our spirit. Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church and Our Mother, pray for us in this merciful time of Lent and lead us to the path of prayer and renunciation so that we can receive gifts from God which He desires to give us with His infinite love. Ljubo Kurtovic Medjugorje 26.2.2006
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju Poruka, 25. veljace 2006 RECITE DA BOGU "Draga djeco! U ovom milosnom korizmenom vremenu pozivam vas da otvorite svoja srca darovima koje vam Bog eli dati. Ne budite zatvoreni nego molitvom i odricanjem recite Da Bogu i On ce vam dati u izobilju. Kao to se u proljece zemlja otvara sjemenu i urodi stostruko tako ce vam i Otac va nebeski dati u izobilju. Ja sam s vama i ljubim vas, djecice, njenom ljubavlju. Hvala vam to ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. veljace 2006. Marija, Majka Isusova i Majka Crkve i danas nas svojom porukom eli pripraviti za korizmu. Korizma je vrijeme crkvene godine koje zovemo jakim vremenom. Na pocetku evandelja kao i na pocetku korizme cujemo Isusov poziv: Obratite se i vjerujte evandelju. Na pocetku korizme, posebno prvi dan korizme cujemo rijeci: Covjece, sjeti se da si prah i da ce se u prah vratiti. Bog nas je, kako nam Biblija to slikovito opisuje, stvorio iz praha zemaljskoga i u nas udahnuo svoj dah, duh, svoj ivot. Bog je sebe stavio u srce svakoga od nas. Ako prekinemo vezu, odnos s Bogom, a to moemo u svojoj slobodi, onda u sebi nemamo ivota. To znaci bez Boga smo mrtvi, ne postojimo. U najboljem slucaju moemo vegetirati kao biljke. Ako s Bogom nismo povezani i ne traimo ga svakodnevno ostajemo bez Njegova Duha u sebi. Gospa je majka, a majka ne moe ostati mirna gledajuci svoju djecu koja bez Boga hodaju ovim svijetom. Njezine rijeci su jednostavne i razumljive, ali su teke kad ih trebamo provesti u konkretni vlastiti ivot. Ona i danas govori: Otvorite svoja srca. Bog stanuje u srcu svakoga od nas. A mi moemo biti izvan sebe, kako to lijepo govori sveti Augustin: Kasno sam te uzljubio, ljepoto tako stara i tako nova, kasno sam te uzljubio! A eto, ti si bio u meni, a ja izvan sebe. Sveti Pavao veli: Nije daleko ni od koga od nas. U njemu, doista, ivimo, micemo se i jesmo. Ako bjeimo od Boga ili mu uskratimo vjeru, onda to vie nismo mi, kao to veli psalam: Od tebe daleko, ivot vie nije ivot. Ne vjerovati u tebe znaci biti nitko. Gospa, jer je Majka eli da ivimo i da imamo Boji ivot u sebi. A put do toga je otvorenost srca, molitva, odricanje da bi onda mogli dobiti ono to nam Bog eli darovati. A kad Bog daje On daje u izobilju. Odricanje nije zato da mi neto izgubimo nego da puno vie dobijemo. To znaci ne drati ruke stisnute nego otvorene kako bi Bog u njih mogao poloiti svoje darove mira, ljubavi, povjerenja, svjetla i nade. Gospa nam stavlja pred oci sliku prirode: proljece, zemlju, sjeme. U prirodu je Bog stavio svoje zakone koji se podvrgavaju Bojoj volji. A znamo koje su teke posljedice kad covjek nastoji promijeniti prirodne zakone. Jo tee su posljedice za covjeka kad nastoji promijeniti Boje zakonitosti koje je utisnuo u nau savjest i u na duh. Blaena Djevice Marijo, Majko Crkve i Majko naa moli za nas u ovom milosnom vremenu korizme i vodi nas putovima molitve i odricanja kako bi od Boga mogli primiti darove koje nam On u svojoj beskrajnoj ljubavi eli darovati. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic