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Reflection on the Message of March 25, 2008 ENCOUNTER WITH GOD – PRECONDITION FOR THE TRUE CONVERSION "Dear children! I call you to work on your personal conversion. You are still far from meeting with God in your heart. Therefore, spend all the more time in prayer and Adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, for Him to change you and to put into your hearts a living faith and a desire for eternal life. Everything is passing, little children, only God is not passing. I am with you and I encourage you with love. Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of March 25, 2008 In the message of March 25th 2008, Our Lady invites us to personal conversion. This call is addressed to every individual, since no one is excluded from this motherly invitation. To convert means to renounce the previous way of life and to begin a new life in Jesus Christ. The conversion envelops the whole human being; for example, this happened the prodigal son from the Gospel of Luke, and St. Paul , St. Francis, and many other known and unknown saints. The conversion envelops our heart and our will, heart because it is the centre of man and, if the heart is converted, the whole man is converted. But, besides the conversion of the heart, there should also be the conversion of the will, because the conversion is a cry for help. The will helps us on the way we have chosen. It helps us not to fail at the first crosses. True conversion asks for the renouncement, not only of the sin, but also from all other small, petty gods which prevent us to choose God completely. Jesus is brilliantly clear when He says: “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.” In conversion, we allow God to lead us so we can know His plans for us. There is no conversion without the prayer, since the prayer is, in a way, the first and the last precondition for conversion, spiritual advancement and holiness. Our Lady also points us to this direction, when she says in Her message from June 25th 1992 that she invites us to conversion from day to day. If you do not pray, you cannot say you are converting, says the Lady. The prayer helps us to convert continuously, to always think about God and to remain faithful to Him. The prayer is the conversation between God and man. God knows our hearts better than we do; He is not interested so much in our words as in attitudes of our hearts. One more important thing for the prayer is also commitment. We should commit ourselves totally into the God’s hands, so He can make of us His loving sons and daughters. We should yield to Him our wishes, plans, goals and weaknesses. We should give ourselves to him completely, so He can lead us wherever He wants – to His kingdom. As a true mother, Our Lady directs us the whole time to her son Jesus and never puts herself in the first place. In the evening message, she also invites us to worship Jesus in the Holy Altar sacrament, since the Worshipping connects us with the whole Church. St Alfonso Maria d'Liguori says that, after the sacrament, among all kinds of devoutness, the first and the dearest to God, and most useful to us, is the devoutness of worshipping Jesus in the Holy Altar sacrament. The nearness of Jesus wakes the living faith in us, and faith is the undeserved God’s gift which God gives to every man. Therefore, all people should open their hearts to accept that gift. Through the faith, we open ourselves to God, and only then can we recognize Him. We could compare the faith with the light. Like the light, it repels darkness, anguish and despair, and gives confidence and strength. In a way, faith lightens the path of those who have it and leads them like the dark cloud led the Israelites through the desert by day, and light cloud by night. Those who expect clear, material evidence of faith must be disappointed. When St. Thomas , in his deep disbelief, said that he will not believe in resurrected Christ before he puts his fingers into Christ’s wounds, Jesus answered him: “Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed” (Jh 20,29). If everything was completely clear, there would be no merit in believing. People do not believe in something they know for certain, but only in something which remains partly hidden. Faith is trust, but it is also love toward the person we believe. Many people are aware that this world is transient in its weakness, yet they choose to believe in those transient values. Our Lady warns us that only God is eternal. Queen of Peace encourages us with love. All of her messages contain love and humility. We are grateful to her for this and we recommend ourselves to her mediation. Fra Danko Perutina Medugorje, March 26th 2008
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju Poruka, 25. ožujka 2008 SUSRET S BOGOM PREDUVJET ISTINSKOG OBRACENJA "Draga djeco! Pozivam vas da radite na osobnom obracenju. Još ste daleko od susreta s Bogom u vašem srcu. Zato provodite što više vremena u molitvi i klanjanju Isusu u Presvetom oltarskom sakramentu da vas on mijenja i stavi u vaša srca živu vjeru i želju za vjecnim životom. Sve je prolazno djecice, samo je Bog neprolazan. S vama sam i poticem vas s ljubavlju. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. ožujka 2008. Gospa nas u poruci od 25. ožujka 2008. godine poziva na osobno obracenje. To je poziv svakom covjeku ponaosob, jer nitko nije iskljucen iz ovog majcinskog poziva. Obratiti se znaci, odreci se dosadašnjeg nacina života i zapoceti novi život u Isusu Kristu. Obracenje zahvaca cijelog covjeka kao što je na primjer zahvatilo rasipnog sina iz Lukinog Evandelja, sv. Pavla, sv. Franju i tolike druge znane i neznane svece. Obracenje zahvaca naše srce i našu volju. Srce zato jer je ono središte covjeka. Ako je obraceno srce možemo reci da je obracen cijeli covjek. Osim obracenja srca potrebno je i obracenje volje jer je obracenje vapaj. Volja nam pomaže na putu kojim smo krenuli. Pomaže nam da ne klonemo vec kod prvih križeva. Istinsko obracenje traži odricanje ne samo od grijeha vec i svih malih, sitnih bogova koji nam ne daju da se potpuno opredijelimo za Boga. Isus je do kraja jasan kad kaže: »Tko god hoce ici za mnom neka se odrece samoga sebe, neka svaki dan uzme svoj križ i neka me slijedi!» (Lk 9,23). U obracenju dopuštamo Bogu da nas vodi kako bismo upoznali plan koji ima s nama. Obracenja nema bez molitve, jer je molitva na neki nacin prvi i posljednji uvjet obracenja, duhovnog napretka i svetosti. Na to nas upucuje i Gospa kad u poruci od 25. lipnja 1992. kaže - da nas iz dana u dan zove na obracenje. Ako ne molite, ne možete reci da se obracate - kaže Gospa. Molitva nam pomaže da se neprestano obracamo, da uvijek mislimo na Boga i ostanemo mu vjerni. Molitva je razgovor Boga i covjeka. Bog poznaje naše srce bolje nego mi sami i njega ne zanimaju toliko naše rijeci koliko stav našeg srca. U molitvi je važno i predanje. Treba se potpuno predati u Božje ruke kako bi Bog mogao od nas ponovno naciniti svoje ljubljene sinove i kceri. Treba mu predati svoje želje, planove, ciljeve, slabosti. Treba mu se predati do kraja da nas on vodi gdje on želi a to je njegovo kraljevstvo. Gospa nas kao prava majka sve ovo vrijeme koje provodi s nama upucuje na svoga sina Isusa i nikada ne istice sebe samu. U vecerašnjoj poruci uz molitvu, poziva nas i na klanjanje Isusu u presvetom Oltarskom sakramentu, jer mi se Klanjanjem povezujemo sa cijelom Crkvom. Alfonso Marija d'Liguori kaže kako je nakon sakramenata, medu svim pobožnostima prva i Bogu najdraža, a nama najkorisnija, pobožnost klanjanja Isusu u Presvetom oltarskom sakramentu. Isusova blizina u nama budi živu vjeru, a vjera je nezasluženi Božji dar koji Bog daruje svakom covjeku. Zato bi svatko trebao otvoriti svoje srce da prihvati taj dar. Vjerom se mi otvaramo Bogu i tek tada prepoznajemo tko je on. Vjeru bismo mogli usporediti sa svjetlom. Ona poput svjetla odgoni tamu, tjeskobu i ocaj, ulijeva sigurnost i daje snagu. Vjera na neki nacin osvjetljuje put onih koji je posjeduju i vodi ih kao što je tamni oblak danju a svijetli nocu vodio Izraelce kroz pustinju. Oni koji od vjere ocekuju jasne i opipljive dokaze moraju se razocarati. Kad je sveti Toma u svojoj dubokoj nevjeri rekao da nece vjerovati u uskrslog Krista prije nego stavi svoje prste u mjesto njegovih rana, odgovorio mu je Isus: «Blaženi koji ne vidješe a povjerovaše» (Iv 20,29). Kad bi nam sve bilo jasno, vjerovati ne bi bila nikakva zasluga. Ne vjeruje se ono što se sa sigurnošcu zna nego ono što ostaje barem donekle skriveno. Vjera je povjerenje ali i ljubav prema osobi kojoj vjerujemo. Mnogi ljudi iako svjesni da je ovaj svijet prolazan u svojoj slabosti odlucuju se za te prolazne vrednote, a Gospa nas opominje da je jedino Bog neprolazan. Kraljica Mira nas potice s ljubavlju i iz njene svake poruke se mogu išcitati ljubav i poniznost na cemu joj zahvaljujemo i njenom posredništvu se preporucujemo. Fra Danko Perutina