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Thank You! Welcome!
We Thank one of the Međugorje Seers
Jakov
We can say the youngest...
of the Međugorje seers!
In fact when our Holy Mother appeared the first time
Jakov was nine years old
so during one of the apparitions he asked the Holy Mother
if his favored football team would win the championship
This to prove what innocent attitude he had
Now let us applaud to Jakov because lived this experience when he was ,very ,very, young!
This applause is for our Lady, not for me!
I thank you all !
I say hello to all of you!
I thank the Lord, I Thank Our Holy Mother
For this Meeting because
I think that if we find our selfs all here, today, all together...
We are here because our Lady invited us all here!
We are here also because the Lord wanted us to be here
and for those you say we are here by accident...
Remember nothing comes by chance!
Nothing comes by chance!
I will tell you my story, my experience
I will tell you my story, my experience, of my life.. alongside of our Lady
When all this started in Međugorje
I was Ten Years old
I was the smallest of the six (Visionaries)
...and I am still the smallest of the six!
Before the apparitions I lived a very simple Life
the simple life of a child
I child that new that the Lord existed
A child that new that our Lady existed
I prayed within my family
There is something that I always remember
each night
when it started to become dark
My Mother would say
Now let us pray
I said ...alright but...
But she said:- "lets go outside to Pray"
There were stairs outside
and we had to sit on the stairs outside to pray
But not just praying silently,but with a loud voice !
And many times I was ashamed because of this!
I thought tomorrow my friends will mock me
My friends will make fun of me and laugh at me !
and then My Mother told me something...
That I understood only at a very later time of my life
She said:-
Remember !
There are two things that in Life
You must never be ashamed of
The First is...
Prayer
and the Second is that "If You are hungry do not be ashamed to ask for a piece of bread"
and truly when I grew up in life
when I grew up in my faith
I realized that this is really true
I never prayed the Lord to give me
to give me this grace...to have apparitions
because I never knew that apparitions existed
to be able to see Our Lady because I did not know that
I was a normal boy ...nothing special
This was my life before the apparitions
On The 25 June 1981
The Lord gave me a verry big gift!
and this gift is to be able to see Our Lady!
I remember that day
When we found ourselfs under the apparition Hill
and when for the first time on the hill
We saw the shape of a woman that with her hand was inviting us to go up the hill
What I felt that first moment
was a great fear!
I was scared and wanted to hide away
I did not know what to do!
But the strange thing was that at the same time
I felt in my heart at the same time
the desire to go up the hill
to go and meet the person that was inviting me
I do not remember the way I found my self on the hill
But I remember the nicest thing...
I remember when...
...For the first time I knelt down
...In front of our Lady!
...and when for the first time I saw Our Ladies eyes!
...and how much love I saw in those eyes!
...and how much love I felt inside my heart!
...How I felt loved in that moment!
...Protected!... In front of me was my Mother!
...and that enormous joy
...and that enormous peace that I felt...
It was a beautiful thing!
,,,and I can say in that moment I could not...
...words do not exist...
...in that moment only your heart speaks!
...and I remember after the first apparition
...I prayed a lot..
...and I always said in my prairs...
...I hope that this moment repeats its self..
...because that joy...
...that peace..that love that I...
...That I felt Inside my heart...
...it was somthing new!..it was something...
..beautiful !
...But at the same time I thought...
...Now at this moment starts a new Life...
...a Life for which I was not ready for... I had never asked for...
...I had never asked this new life...
...and I asked myself how can I except all of this?
But right at the start of the apparitions...
Our Lady gave us a message...
That helped me a lot!
Our Lady said:-...
Dear children,...
You Only have to open your heart to Me...I will do The Rest!
At that moment I knew that...
Nothing remains to me to do now but to give my life...donate myself...Give my heart to the Lord...
...Give my heart to Our Lady!
And pronounce my "YES"! ...say Yes! to Our Lady!
...and give my "YES"! to Our Lady!
Right at the start Our Lady gave the most important messages...
That Our Lady repeats even today!
There are many people, I have heard, that come to Međugorje
..and they ask but why so many messages?
unfortunately there are many people that also say "the messages are all the same"
I say those people that...
that do not live the messages of Our Lady
for them them te messages are always the same for them they are only words...the same words...
But each person
that has excepted Our Lady's messages
will know that these messages of our Lady give strength to our lives...
that "Lives" these messages...
That "lives" these messages...
but at the same time the messages give
an answer to all that we ask of our lives
there are aso people that say "why are the apparitions lasting so long? 25years"
then there are also people that are surprised that Our Lady is appearing already for 27 years! why so long ?
there are aso people that say "why are the apparitions lasting so long?"
I always say to all of the pilgims present in Međugorje
instead of saying "why" (because we always tend to say why?)
why don't we say thank "You Lord that Our Lady is appearing for so long a time!"
to the pilgrims present in Međugorje instead of saying "why?"
We have to say We have to say another word and that word is Thank You!
We have to Thank the Lord for this immense grace He is giving us!
Thank Him for his immense gift He is giving us!
Because we no not realize what Grace we are receiving
Just think about this! The Lord permits Our Lady to be here with us for more than 27 years!
I am sure that if each one of us opens his heart
to the Lord
if we open our heart to Our Lady...
We will realize by our selfs why Our Lady is appearing!
We will understand by our selfs that She is our Mother!
....A Mother that Loves her children!
...and that She wants to bring her children to Joy!
..and to Peace!...
..and this Joy and this Peace can be found only through Jesus Christ!
This is why Our Lady, as I said before, is giving Her messages...
Because Her messages are the road to finding Jesus Christ!
Remember! As I said before, Our Lady is the Mother of all of us!
Because Our Lady in coming to Međugorje has not come here only to the six of us...
She has not only come here for our parish...
Our Holy Mother ,the Madonna, has come here for the whole world!
In fact in all the messages that Our Lady gives here in Međugorje She always starts the message with ....
"Dear Children..."
..and We are ALL children of Our Lady Madonna!
Our Lady invites us to Pray...
I do not even Know how many times Our Lady repeated in Her messages that She wants us to Pray!
In fact There have been messages in which Our Lady simply repeated for three times "Pray,Pray, Pray!"...
..But every time that Our Lady says "Pray"...She says..
...She invites us to pray with our Heart...
...Our Lady says that we cannot Pray if we feel obliged to pray...
..instead, in our hearts, We must feel the necessity... the need for prayer!...
We must feel that prayer is our necessity, just like, our daily meal...
and also in the same time we must pray...
...to ask for an answer to all that we need in our lives...
Many Pilgrims come to Međugorje!
..I think that the majority of you Present here have been to Međugorje !
and all these pilgrims come to us and want the answers...
and ask us many questions...
Remember!
We CANNOT give you the answers!
But If You open your Hearts...
...and Pray...
You will find that Our Lord always will give the answer...
But remember also One other thing!..
The Lord will give us the answer when He decides it it the right time for us!...
But we must Not be like those people that think....
..."Ok I have prayed for a year now, and nothing happens!..."
This is NOT Faith!
We must always pray and have a strong faith!
...and the rest will be done by Our Lord!