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Medjugorje - The Message
January 2nd, 2000 - "At this great and holy time in
which you have entered..." updated - November 25th 2020 - "Pray, little
children, for little Jesus to be born in your hearts.
Open your hearts to Jesus who gives Himself to each of
you ... work on yourselves ... Work on and build peace
through the Sacrament of Confession. Reconcile with God,
little children, and you will see miracles around you"
December 25th 2020, Christmas Day (to Jakov)- "surrender
your hearts to Jesus and permit Him to begin to rule
your lives, because only in this way, will you accept
the present and be able to face the world in which you
live today."
December 25th 2020, Christmas Day (to Marija) - "do not
permit for your faith and hope in a better future to be
extinguished, because you are chosen to be witnesses of
hope in every situation"
LATEST
CHANGES
- messages of December 25th (two), November 25th
(updated) 2020 added
- Christmas greeting from visionary Ivan added
- news of Bosnia reopening borders for all
foreigners with negative test result inserted
- news of Medjugorje most visited place in religious
tourism in BiH added
- news of Medjugorje peace prayer at Vienna's
cathedral added
- news on open Internet cafes in and around
Medjugorje added
- links to videos of testimonies of Youth Festival
2020 added
- news of letter of Pope Francis to Youth Festival
2020 added
- news of Vatican commission regarding first
part apparitions as credible added - 14
messages to
Mirjana from February 2nd 1990 until 2005 added
The
Queen of Peace
March 18th, 2020 - "love each other because without
love
there is no salvation" March 2nd, 2020 - "it is the time of vigil
and I ask you for love, not to judge — anyone, for the
Heavenly Father will judge everyone" November 25th, 2017 - "live in grace and the
expectation of your personal meeting with Him" August 2nd, 2017 - "When my Son comes to
the earth anew, He will look for love in your hearts" June 2nd, 2017 - "My children, be ready. This time
is a turning point"
Messages were given the 2nd of the
month 9 AM and are at the moment given the 25th of the
month 6.40 PM and March 18th, June 25th and December
25th in the afternoon
Message of the Queen of Peace
of Medjugorje to Marija, for everyone and for the
entire world, Friday December 25th, 2020,
Christmas Day “Dear children! I am carrying to you
little Jesus who brings you peace, Him who is the
past, present and future of your existence. Little
children, do not permit for your faith and hope in
a better future to be extinguished, because you
are chosen to be witnesses of hope in every
situation. That is why I am here with Jesus that
He may bless you with His peace. Thank you for
having responded to my call.” (www.medjugorje.hr)
Annual Message to Jakov,
Christmas, Friday 25. December 2020,
Christmas Day
At the last daily apparition to Jakov Colo on
September 12th, 1998, Our Lady told him that
henceforth he would have one apparition a year,
every December 25th, on Christmas Day. This is also
how it was this year. Through Jakov, Our Lady gave
the following message:
''Dear children, also today Jesus is here beside
you, even when you think that you are alone and
that light does not exist in your life. He is here
and has never left you or distanced Himself from
you. The light of His birth illuminates this world
and your life. His Heart is always open towards
you, to receive your every pain, every trial, fear
and need. His arms are extended towards you, that
as a father, He may embrace you and tell you how
important you are for Him, how much He loves
you and cares for His children. Children, is your
heart open towards Jesus? Have you
completely surrendered your life into His hands?
Have you accepted Jesus as your father, to whom
you can always turn and in Him find consolation
and everything you need to live true faith? That
is why, my children, surrender your hearts to
Jesus and permit Him to begin to rule your lives,
because only in this way, will you accept the
present and be able to face the world in which you
live today. With Jesus, every fear, suffering and
pain disappear, because your heart accepts His
will and everything that comes into your life.
Jesus will give you the faith to accept everything
and nothing will distance you from Him -- because
He firmly holds you by the hand and does not
permit for you to distance and lose
yourselves in difficult moments -- because He has
become the Lord of your life. I bless you with my
motherly blessing.''(www.medjugorje.hr)
updated - Message of the Queen
of Peace of Medjugorje to Marija, for everyone and
for the entire world, Wednesday November 25th,
2020 “Dear children! This is the time of
love, warmth, prayer and joy. Pray, little
children, for little Jesus to be born in your
hearts. Open your hearts to Jesus who gives
Himself to each of you. God sent me to be joy and
hope in this time, and I am saying to you: Without
little Jesus you do not have the tenderness or the
feeling of Heaven which is hidden in the Newborn.
Therefore, little children, work on yourselves. By
reading the Sacred Scripture you will discover
Jesus' birth and the joy, as in the first days
which Medjugorje gave to humanity. The history
will be truth which, also today, repeats itself in
you and around you. Work on and build peace
through the Sacrament of Confession. Reconcile
with God, little children, and you will see
miracles around you. Thank you for having
responded to my call.” (www.medjugorje.eu,
from the English, Croatian and German)
"Our dear lady is the new voice that calls out
in the desert:
"Don't be afraid of the storm! It is more
important to prepare your hearts for the Lord!
Live in hope!"
The Gospa gives us the remedy for hope: repentance,
prayer with the heart (especially the rosary),
lively reading of the Holy Scriptures, frequent
confession, fasting and Holy Mass."
For actual info see the English home page of the Border Police of
Bosnia and Herzegovina (granpol.gov.ba/home)
under "FAQ - COVID-19 – Conditions for crossing the
state border of BiH due to the coronavirus pandemic
for Bosna and Hercgovina Citizens and Foreigners
Citizens"
(For the interactive map of border crossings Adobe
Flash player must be installed)
I heard that also close to Medjugorje, in Vrgorac in
Croatia, one can have oneself tested
"The most visited and attractive destination in the
area of religious tourism in BiH is definitely
Medjugorje"
(www.sarajevotimes.com)
Wednesday
September 23rd 2020 - Cardinal
Schönborn at Medjugorje peace prayer: hearing
the cry of the poor
Visionary Marija: spoke of a "difficult moment" and
of the "call of Our Lady to holiness and to a return
to faith and the sacraments"
Visionary Ivan: emphasized the importance of prayer
in order to make peace first with God and then among
people in a "peaceless time"
(www.kathpress.at, aut. transl.)
Wednesday August
5th 2020 (anniversary of the Virgin according
to the apparition), Youth Festival Medjugorje
-Jesus,
testimony/film of the Cenacolo Community (of healing
drug addicts) on the life, death and resurrection of
Jesus Christ (1 hour, Spanish spoken, Croatian
subtitles, Slovak
spoken)
The videos below should display subtitles according
to the language preferences you have set in your
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Croatian, French, German, Italian, Korean, Slovak or
Spanish
For an almost perfect automatic translation in other
languages, choose subtitles in a nearby language,
then Automatic translation and then your language
out of some 120 languages!
Tuesday August
4th 2020, Youth Festival Medjugorje
- Sofia
Gamiz (22 min), testimony of a woman who
separates from her husband and comes back to him
through Medjugorje
updated - Greetings
from Medjugorje!
Found a new way to get here within 48h, a new
Internet cafe and overcame all obstacles!
More articles to come!
again updated - Saturday August 1st 2020 - 31th
annual Youth Festival in Medjugorje opens with
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis to young
people gathered in Medjugorje for the annual
meeting !!!
(www.vaticannews.va ! - with links to French,
Croatian original, Italian and Portuguese)
Programme contains at least
5PM Testimony and catechesis
6PM Rosary
7PM Holy Mass
All kind of dignitaries are coming and celebrating
and the choir is present!
However, due to the corona crisis many visionaries
are absent, the programme is shortened and many
testimonies are on video. Communion here in
Medjugorje is distributed on hand and tongue.
Since 24th of June 1981, some children in a remote village of the
former Yugoslavia claim to have apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
These apparitions continue up to the present day. The Virgin calls
for prayer, conversion, fasting, penance and peace.
These apparitions are comparable with the apparitions of Lourdes,
France (1858) and Fatima, Portugal (1917), which are approved by the
catholic church. However,
these apparitions last extremely long,
the apparition in Medjugorje has said that these are the last
apparitions of her on earth,
the apparition has told the children that if we do not convert
some events will happen in the very near future. These events
are still secret but are to be announced a few days before they
commence. They include good things and bad things according to
the visionaries, who have been acquainted with the events by the
Virgin.
Introduction
Father
Tomislav Vlasic's letter to Pope John Paul II, the
official letter of the chaplain of Medjugorje to the Pope
about the events in Medjugorje. In his letter of December
16, 1983, to the Pope, Tomislav Vlasic reports some
revelations received by Mirjana in 1982, and confided to him
November 5, 1983. This letter is essential to anyone who
wants to understand the severity and scope of the messages
of Medjugorje.
Report
To make people familiar with perhaps the most important apparitions
ever are here
The
mother of God appears at Medjugorje (some 2 pages on
paper), complete contents of a folding card on Medjugorje,
with an overview of the messages of the Blessed Virgin and
for Holland and Belgium phone numbers for listening to the
most recent monthly message to the world, as well as
addresses, phone numbers and books for more
information.
Miracle at
Medjugorje (some 20 pages on paper), complete contents
of the original columns tabloid of Wayne Weible, a Lutheran
protestant who received an internal call to spread the
message of Our Lady, one of the worlds foremost promoters of
the messages, author of several books on Medjugorje; of the
tabloid are over 25 million in print.
All 1300
messages from the beginning until today on one page –
first message first, last message last (some 200 pages
on paper), complete contents of the message part of the book
Messages and Teachings of Mary at Medjugorje by René
Laurentin and René Lejeune, translated from the French and
published by the Riehle Foundation, Milford OH, U.S.A., 1988
and extended with the messages until this day from the web
site of Medjugorje itself, Medjugorje - Svetiste
"Kraljice Mira" (Shrine of "The Queen of Peace") and
other web sites related to Medjugorje. This is the only page
in the world where all messages from the beginning in 1981
until present are given chronologically, first message
first, last message last, as one long Internet page that can
be saved (ctrl-s), printed (ctrl-p) and searched (ctrl-f).
If you have a mobile phone that can browse the Internet,
this page provides an easy way to show the messages to
others. If you have difficulty loading this page, try to
switch the loading of images or videos to "ask" or "off" in
the settings of your Internet browser. This is especially
helpful on older equipment. It is recommended to save
this page (ctrl-s) or the entire website (with a
program like WinHTTrack or Wget) regularly, so
one can read the messages in case the Internet does not
work.
Videos
Madonna
of Medjugorje - 1986 BBC Medjugorje documentary (54
minutes)
An early but important documentary about Medjugorje made for
the BBC in 1986. This was five years after the apparitions
began but while the country was still living under communist
rule.
Or go the video section of your preferred web search engine, for
instance video.google.com and make a search for Medjugorje.
Click on the arrow in the video to get the video start playing.
If you prefer full screen, then click in the lower right hand
corner on the rectangle.If the video comes in slower than you
watch it and the video shows "hiccups", one can try downloading
the video first with one of the methods described in the Save
video-section and then watch the video smoothly with a freeware
professional video player like for instance VLC, that you can
download and install from for instance www.videolan.org.
Recommended reading
Medjugorje - The
Message, cover and cover texts of Wayne Weible's first
book concerning Medjugorje. First published in 1989, 20th
printing in April 1995. When ordered directly from Paraclete Press,
$12.95. Chapter 21
- Rita's Story treats the miraculous healing of
multiple sclerosis of Rita Klaus.
Travel
For travelling to Medjugorje in corona times, see
the news item updated - Friday September 11th 2020 - How to
travel to Medjugorje on a pilgrimage in corona times or How to get get into Bosnia and Herzegovina within 48
hours after testing
(www.medjugorje.eu)
Cheap flights to Sarajevo have started! Cheap
flights (tens of Euros including taxes) to or from Sarajevo,
Split or Dubrovnik can be found with Skyscanner. The
cheapest chairs you can find by choosing e.g. English,
one-way tickets and then keeping the search as broad as
possible, using "everywhere" and "whole year", then
narrowing your search. To use "everywhere" as departure
(e.g. to find out from which countries you can fly cheap to
a certain destination), search for flights from that
destination to "everywhere". A budget return ticket consists
simply of two budget one-way tickets, so you can also arrive
at e.g. Sarajevo, but depart from e.g. Split. Since
normal flight companies have started also with cheap
tickets, one has to look also at sites like Atp. From Sarajevo Airport
you can take a bus and switch on the main road to a tram to
the bus and train station in the middle of the city - the
real "city centre" is at the eastern part of Sarajevo. From
Split Airport run airport buses to the port/bus/train
station in the city centre.
By train
Few people know, but the parish of Medjugorje has a
train station at Šurmanci, on the train line from
Sarajevo to Ploče. This is one of the most beautiful train
lines of the Balkan, travelling through mountainous regions
alongside the Neretva river through the Neretva valley. By train to
Medjugorje (only in Dutch so far) gives an impression.
European timetables can be found with the travel
planner of Die Bahn, the German Railways, or for the
mobile phone with the DB
Navigator App, both are in English (the planners know
no 'Šurmanci' or 'Mostar', use 'Sarajevo' or 'Ploce'). If
you want to travel along the beautiful route along the
Rhine, choose via 'Koblenz' in the travel planner. An Interrail
ticket for 5 out of 15 days unlimited travel through
Europe (€200 for youth, €264 for adults, €238 for seniors)
costs half the price of a normal train return ticket to
Medjugorje, is cheaper than a two way ticket of a jet
liner, is valid in most high speed trains and can still be
bought on the day of departure. Usually it is from
Europe two days by train so you have one day left. Nowadays
one can travel in one day by train from for instance Holland
to Zagreb (in the advanced options of Die Bahn uncheck
everything that is slower then a fast train,
NV=NahVerkehr=stop train, buses, etc., otherwise you will
see only buses instead of trains to Zagreb). One can take
also a night train from Munich to Zagreb. In 2017 Bosnian-Herzegovinan Railways
confirmed by telephone that the train line
Sarajevo-Čapljina/Medjugorje (all inside Bosnia-Herzegovina,
map),
is reopened with a new, express train, now arriving in
Čapljina in summer before sunset (timetable).
So you can enjoy the most beautiful train line of Europe,
through the Neretva valley, now in full splendour. However,
the train does not stop any more in Šurmanci (8 km from and
without buses to Medjugorje), but in Čapljina (16 km from
and with buses to Medjugorje). The train line
Banja-Luka-Sarajevo also runs, but not at connecting times.
Cross border connections Zagreb (Croatia)-Banja-Luka
(Bosnia) and Čapljina (Bosnia)-Ploče (Croatia) are still
being negotiated. The resulting advice is to take the train
to Zagreb, possibly in one day (then one enjoys the Alps in
daylight), then sleep in Zagreb, then go to Sarajevo by bus
from the bus station in Zagreb, which is close to the train
station, and then take the express train from Sarajevo to
Čapljina, then take the bus to Medjugorje. In 2017 express
trains leave from Sarajevo at 7.01 AM and 4.26 PM to Mostar
and Čapljina. Express trains leave from Čapljina at 5.52 AM
and 7.25 PM to Mostar and Sarajevo. The train line extends
to the Adriatic coast at Ploče. Few people know Ploče has a
combined bus/train station/airport, but the airport is not
developed for Medjugorje.
By bus
Eurolines operates
international buses to Croatia and Bosnia. From Sarajevo,
Split or Dubrovnik it is three hours by regional bus (from
Sarajevo also by train) to Medjugorje for a few Euros. There
is at least one bus directly from these cities to Medjugorje
a day. E.g. In the summer of 2009 a direct bus leaves
Sarajevo for Medjugorje at 4.45 PM, stopping in Mostar at
the Muslim train/bus station and then at the Croatian bus
station, arriving before sunset in Medjugorje. But often
a quicker way to travel is to take a regional bus to a
city close to Medjugorje and then take a bus from there to
Medjugorje. For example, from Sarajevo to Mostar the
buses go every hour on the hour. And from Mostar to
Medjugorje there are 10 or so buses daily: 4 or so from the
Muslim train+bus station and 6 or so from the newly rebuilt
Croat bus station. If you have to travel from the Muslim
station in east Mostar to the Croat bus station in west
Mostar: it is a 2 km walk over the Neretva river, crossing
the former front line (Boulevard). From Split or Dubrovnik
the buses run at least every hour to Ploče, from Ploče buses
(or train) run several times a day to Medjugorje.
Travel tip
Since cheap flights to Sarajevo have started, I advise to
take a cheap flight to Sarajevo, have a beautiful express
train ride to Čapljina and then either take the bus to
Medjugorje or have yourself picked up in Čapljina by car by
your pension keeper of Medjugorje. Čapljina, 16 km from
Medjugorje, has a large waiting room, café outside and some
buses and taxis. The flight departure times from e.g.
Cologne to Sarajevo are not so very early, so less people
have to spend a night sleeping in e.g. Cologne and more
people can travel cheap in one day to Medjugorje.
Links
Medjugorje
MEƉUGORJE - mjesto
molitve i pomirenja - Kraljica Mira (www.medjugorje.hr,
Hrvatski, English, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Polski,
Español, Magyar, العربية) is the
official web site of the Franciscans of Medjugorje. Most
direct source for the monthly message of the 25th to the
visionary Marija and yearly messages to Ivanka, Mirjana and
Jakov. Does not have a mailing list. For a subscription
on the messages see Steve and Ana's web site below!
Apparitions of the
Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (www.medjugorje.org) was the
first web site on the Internet about Medjugorje in 1994, by
Steve and Ana Shawl, U.S.A. Spreads the monthly messages of
the 25th to the visionary Marija, the 2nd to Mirjana and
yearly messages to Ivanka, Mirjana and Jakov through their
mailing list in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish
and/or Croatian. Subscription
to these messages is recommended!
Medjugorje -
The Message (www.medjugorje.eu, English, Nederlands) -
this site - was the third web site on the Internet about
Medjugorje in 1995, by Han Leushuis, The Netherlands. Only
website in the world that carries all the messages of
Medjugorje from the beginning in 1981 until today as one
searchable, saveable and printable page, first message first,
last message last. Saving this page regularly is
recommended! Contains also tips for cheap travelling to
Medjugorje, photos and videos.
Sr. Emmanuel
(www.sremmanuel.org) is the site of Sr. Emmanuel who lives in
Medjugorje. Contains the monthly
newsletter of Sr. Emmanuel with the most recent events
and miracles with regard to Medjugorje in 13 languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, French,
Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Subscription to this amazing
newsletter is recommended!
Catholicism
The Holy See
(www.vatican.va), Home Page of the Vatican on the Internet.
Contains The
Holy See News Services (www.vatican.va/news_services),
the Vatican Press Office, Newspaper, Liturgy Office, Radio and
Television.
Evangelizo
(www.evangelizo.org) offers the Scripture readings of the day,
including the Gospel of the day, to read and subscribe to in
15 languages: Arabic,
Armenian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Korean, Malagasy (Madagascar), Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, in 8
calendars: Ambrosian, Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Maronite,
Roman, Syrian and Tridentine. Another site, Mass readings and meditations in
13 languages (www.virc.at) of the Vienna International
Religious Centre, contains the readings for only the feast
days (including the Sundays) but includes also short
meditations on the readings, in 13 languages: Croatian, Czech,
Dutch, English,
French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese,
Slovak, Slovenian and Spanish. The meditations in the various
languages for a particular feast day differ and are worth
comparing.
Catholic Online
(www.catholic.org): news, catholic life, local editions, shop,
saints (over 7000), Bible (first website to offer the New
Jerusalem Bible, the English Bible translation that is
practically used everywhere in English spoken masses! The
Revised Standard Version is officially advised but there is a
lot of criticism on this translation. The NJB is also sold in
the book store at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican), prayers,
singles, JPII.
