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Reflection on the Message of February 25, 2008 WITH PRAYER AND RENUNCIATION TOWARDS HOLINESS "Dear children! In this time of grace, I call you anew to prayer and renunciation. May your day be interwoven with little ardent prayers for all those who have not come to know God's love. Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of February 25, 2008 Throughout almost 27 years of Our Lady's apparitions, we have been the witnesses of her care for us, just as a true mother cares for her children. She finds each and everyone of us important. No one is excluded from her plan. She wants to bring all of us to her son Jesus Christ. In her tonight's message, Our Lady draws our attention to the dedication so characteristic of the time of Lent we are living right now. During Lent God gives us another chance to become better people, to start to change. We should be concrete as prayer is the encounter of a true and concrete man with the true and concrete God. We are asked to become better as people in all areas of our lives. Our Lady provides us with the means that will help us in our fight – by prayer and renunciation. Jesus is our first teacher of prayer. When asked by his disciples to teach them how to pray, he taught them to pray Our Father. It is a prayer that must not turn into a mere pronunciation or repetition of words. It must be a true address to the Father for his kingdom to come. In the Father we have everything. The only thing we have to do is to listen attentively to what He says to us in prayer. Everything else will be just added to that. We should be persistent in our prayer, and open to God's spirit which will provide us with strength when things happen in a different manner than we expect them to. Together with Jesus, Our Lady is our first female teacher of prayer. Some wonder why Our Lady often mentions prayer and calls us to it. Those wondering about that are people who do not pray, those who want to turn everything, even prayer, into sensation. These are the people not yet embraced by the spirit of the Gospel. They still feed on mundane spirituality. Our Lady calls us to prayer as she too has prayed and is aware of the importance of prayer more than we are. She prayed in all the crucial moments of her life: before the embodiment of her son Jesus Christ, when Christ's conception was announced, on the day of Pentecost when Church was born, the Body of Christ. At God's offer from heaven she replies with her whole being and full of grace: «I am the Lord's servant. May it be to me as you have said.» That is why she stands before us as the example of deep faith and prayer. Another important means of growth in our spiritual life is renunciation. Not for the sake of renunciation itself, but in order for us to create room in us where God can be at work. Every renunciation is a sign of spiritual growth. One should renounce first the thing other than God that one puts first in his life. This thing may be people, fame, power, money, human considerations, we ourselves or something else. God must be put first. Only then everything we have renounced is given its true sense. Every day in this time of grace we are called to grow through our prayers by which we intercede for those who have not yet come to know God's love. We are called to pray for the forsaken, lonely, unhappy, aborted, for the souls in Purgatory, for all those who are in need for prayer. May our Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace, help us and bless our noble-minded effort. Danko Perutina
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MOLITVOM I ODRICANJEM PREMA SVETOSTI "Draga djeco! U ovom milosnom vremenu pozivam vas iznova na molitvu i odricanje. Neka vaš dan bude isprepleten malim žarkim molitvama za sve one koji nisu upoznali Božju ljubav. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. veljace 2008. Kroz ovih skoro 27 godina Gospinih ukazanja svjedoci smo kako se ona kao prava majka brine o nama, svojoj djeci. Svatko joj je važan i nikoga ne iskljucuje iz svoga plana. Želi nas sve dovesti svome sinu Isusu Kristu. U vecerašnjoj poruci Gospa nas upozorava na ozbiljnost korizmenog vremena u kojem se nalazimo. U ovoj Korizmi Bog nam daje još jednu priliku da se popravimo, da se pocnemo mijenjati. Trebamo biti konkretni, jer molitva je susret živog i konkretnog covjeka sa živim i konkretnim Bogom. Od nas se traži osobni popravak na svim podrucjima. Gospa nam daje i sredstva koja ce nam pomoci u našoj borbi, a to su: molitva i odricanje. Isus je naš prvi ucitelj molitve. Kad ga ucenici pitaju da ih nauci moliti on ih uci moliti Oce naš. To je molitva koja ne smije biti samo izgovaranje ili ponavljanje rijeci, nego istinsko obracanje Ocu da dode njegovo kraljevstvo. U Ocu imamo sve. Važno je samo osluškivati što nam Bog govori u molitvi, a sve drugo ce nam se nadodati. Trebamo biti ustrajni u molitvi, ali i otvoreni Duhu Božjem koji ce nam dati snagu onda kad ne bude sve išlo kako smo mi zamislili. Uz Isusa Gospa je naša prva uciteljica molitve. Neki se pitaju zašto Gospa cesto spominje molitvu i poziva nas da se molimo. To se pitaju uglavnom oni koji ne mole, koji od svega žele napraviti senzaciju pa i od molitve. To su oni koje još nije zahvatio duh Evandelja. Oni se još uvijek hrane svjetskom duhovnošcu. Gospa nas poziva na molitvu jer je i sama molila i poznaje važnost molitve bolje nego mi. Molila je u svim važnim trenucima svoga života: prije utjelovljenja svoga Sina Isusa Krista, kod navještenja Kristova zaceca, na dan Pedesetnice kad je rodena Crkva, Tijela Kristovo. Ona, sva puna milosti na Božju ponudu s neba odgovara cijelim svojim bicem: «Evo službenice Gospodnje, neka mi bude po tvojoj rijeci» (Lk 1,38). Zato ona stoji pred nama kao primjer duboke vjere i molitve. Drugo važno sredstvo rasta u duhovnom životu je odricanje. I to odricanje ne radi odricanja, nego odricanje radi toga da se u nama otvore prostori gdje može djelovati Bog. Svako odricanje je znak duhovnog rasta. Treba se odreci najprije onoga što nam je na prvom mjestu a nije Bog.To mogu biti ljudi, slava, moc, novac, ljudski obziri, mi sami ili nešto drugo. Na prvo mjesto treba staviti Boga. Tek tada sve ono cega smo se odrekli zadobiva svoj pravi smisao. U ovom milosnom vremenu smo pozvani svaki dan rasti i to tako da svojim molitvama posredujemo za one koji još nisu upoznali Božju ljubav. Pozvani smo moliti za odbacene, osamljene, nesretne, abortirane, za duše u cistilištu, za sve one koji su potrebni molitve. Neka nam u našem plemenitom nastojanju pomogne i blagoslovi nas Blažena Djevica Marija Kraljica mira. Fra Danko Perutina