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Reflection on the Message of July 25, 2007 LET PRAYER BE LIKE THE AIR THAT YOU BREATHE "Dear children! Today, on the day of the Patron of your Parish, I call you to imitate the lives of the Saints. May they be, for you, an example and encouragement to a life of holiness. May prayer for you be like the air you breathe in and not a burden. Little children, God will reveal His love to you and you will experience the joy that you are my beloved. God will bless you and give you an abundance of grace. Thank you for having responded to my call." Message of July 25, 2007 Our Lady calls to us as our Mother and invites and encourages us today, on the day of Saint Jacob the apostle, the patron saint of the Parish of Medugorje and pilgrims to inherit the life of the saints, the lives of those who came to heaven into a homeland we shall never leave. In her message on the 25th of July 2002, Our Lady also said: Dear children! Today I rejoice with your patron saint and call you to be open to God's will… Ask your holy protectors to help you grow in love towards God.” The saints are those who intercede for us and stand up for us before the face of God. That is why we turn to them and give up our prayers to them so that they may present them to God. The holy are an example to us that it is worth being faithful to God and that God will never betray us. “Let prayer be like the air that you breathe” – says Our Mother Mary. Our body needs air. We know how we feel when we don’t have enough air. Without air our body cannot live. So as we have a physical body we also have a spiritual body. We can imagine that we are spiritually dead without prayer. Without prayer man’s life only consists of the body, material things, on dead things which do not have any life. Prayer is not something that is stipulated or ordered by the Church, God or Our Lady. Prayer is not only a devout exercise. Prayer is much more than this. Prayer is life. Without prayer we are dead and there is no life in us. Without prayer God has no room in us in which he can visit and heal us, save us and heal our hearts and souls. It is only in prayer that God can reveal his love and we can experience the joy of being beloved children of God and Our Lady. From experience we know that it is not enough to only know that food is good, it is necessary to eat it to be able to live. It is not enough to know that God and Our Lady love us, rather it is necessary for us to experience this, experience it in out life as a reality more true than the physical one we see with our eyes. “You will experience the joy of being my loved ones” – Our Lady says to us. However, it is necessary to fulfil one condition and this is prayer with our heart in which the soul opens and surrenders to God through Our Lady. The Gospel tells us at Jesus’ baptism at the River Jordan from the heavens thundered the voice of our Heavenly Father: “Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Mark 1, 11). These words apply to Jesus. But through Jesus and in Jesus, also to you and me. Everyone of us are in Jesus and through Jesus the beloved son of the Father, beloved daughter of the Father, the chosen one, favourite of Our Father’s Heart. In Jesus and through Jesus we are also Our Lady’s beloved children. Throughout our lives we have been told many times that it is important to love God. However it is far more important that God loves us. Our love towards God is of secondary importance. God’s love for us has precedence: “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4, 10) – tells us the apostle John in his gospel. And still adds: “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. Let the Virgin Mary, full of grace and Immaculate lead us and introduce us to the secrets of Our Father’s heart and love which he has for us. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic
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Razmiljanje uz zadnju Poruka, 25. srpnja 2007 NEKA VAM MOLITVA BUDE KAO ZRAK KOJI UDIŠETE "Draga djeco! Danas, na dan zaštitnika vaše župe, pozivam vas da nasljedujete živote svetih. Neka vam oni budu primjer i poticaj na život svetosti. Neka vam molitva bude kao zrak koji udišete, a ne teret. Djecice, Bog ce vam otkriti svoju ljubav, a vi cete doživjeti radost da ste moji ljubljeni. Bog ce vas blagosloviti i dati vam obilje milosti. Hvala vam što ste se odazvali mome pozivu." Poruka, 25. srpnja 2007 Gospa kao Majka nas poziva i potice danas, na dan svetog Jakova apostola zaštitnika župe Medugorje i hodocasnika da nasljedujemo živote svetih, živote onih koji su došli u nebo u domovinu koju više necemo nikada napustiti. U svojoj poruci od 25. srpnja 2002., Gospa nam je takoder govorila: Draga djeco, danas se radujem s vašim zaštitnikom i pozivam vas da budete otvoreni Božjoj volji… Tražite preko vaših svetih zaštitnika da vam pomognu rasti u ljubavi prema Bogu.“ Sveci su oni koji nas zagovaraju i pred licem Božjim se zauzimaju za nas. Zato se njima utjecemo i upucujemo svoje molitve kako bi ih Bogu prikazali. Sveti su nam primjer da se isplati ostati vjeran Bogu i da nas Bog nikada nece prevariti. „Neka vam molitva bude kao zrak koji udišete“ – govori nam Majka Marija. Našem tjelesnom organizmu potreban je zrak. Znamo kako se osjecamo kad nam nedostaje zraka. Bez zraka naše tijelo ne može živjeti. Kao što imamo tjelesni organizam takoder imamo i duhovni organizam. Možemo zamisliti kako smo duhovno mrtvi bez molitve. Bez molitve covjek svede svoj život samo na tijelo, materijalno, na mrtve stvari u kojima nema života. Molitva nije nešto što nam je propisano ili naredeno od Crkve, Boga ili od Gospe. Molitva nije ni samo pobožna vježba. Molitva je puno više od svega toga. Molitva je život. Bez molitve smo mrtvi i u nama nema života. Bez molitve Bog nema prostora u nama u koji bi mogao doci, te nas ozdraviti, spasiti i iscijeliti naša srca i duše. Samo u molitvi Bog nam može otkriti svoju ljubav te cemo moci doživjeti radost da smo ljubljena djeca Božja i Gospina. Iz iskustva nam je poznato da nije dovoljno znati da je hrana dobra, potrebno ju je jesti da bi mogli živjeti. Nije nam dovoljno znati da nas Bog i Gospa ljube vec nam je potrebno to doživjeti, iskusiti u životu kao stvarnost stvarniju od ove koju tjelesnim ocima gledamo. „Vi cete doživjeti radost da ste moji ljubljeni“ – kaže nam Gospa. Ali je potrebno ispuniti jedan uvjet a to je molitva srcem u kojoj se duša otvara i predaje Bogu po Gospi. Evandelje nam govori kako se kod Isusova krštenja na rijeci Jordanu iz otvorenih nebesa zaorio glas Oca nebeskog: „Ti si Sin moj, Ljubljeni moj, koga sam odabrao“ (Mk 1, 11). Ove rijeci odnose se na Isusa. Ali po Isusu i u Isusu i na tebe i na mene. Svatko od nas je u Isusu i po Isusu ljubljeni sin Ocev, ljubljena kcerka Oceva, izabranik, izabranica, miljenik, miljenica Oceva Srca. U Isusu i po Isusu smo i Gospina ljubljena djeca. U životu nam je puno puta receno da je važno ljubiti Boga. I to je uistinu tako. Ali je daleko važnije da Bog nas ljubi. Naša ljubav prema Bogu je drugotna. Prednost ima Božja ljubav prema nama: „U ovome je ljubav: ne da smo mi ljubili Boga, nego – on je ljubio nas i poslao Sina svoga kao pomirnicu za grijehe naše (1 Iv 4, 10) – govori nam apostol Ivan u svojoj poslanici. I još nadodaje: „I mi smo upoznali ljubav koju Bog ima prema nama, i povjerovali joj ( 1Iv 4, 16). Neka nas Djevica Marija, puna milosti i Bezgrešna vodi i uvede u tajnu Oceva srca i ljubavi koju ima prema nama. Fra Ljubo Kurtovic