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| The parents of a three-year-old child, Daniel Setka, who had suffered from septicemia since the fourth day of his birth, asked the visionaries to intercede for the handicapped child. Dear Gospa, is little Daniel going to speak some day? Cure him so that they all will believe us. These people love you very much, dear Gospa. Perform a miracle. Dear Gospa, say something. They repeated this petition and conveyed the response: | 90 |
| Then we asked her if she would give us a sign. She said yes. Then we asked her how much longer she would still continue to visit us. The Blessed Virgin responded: | 116 |
| Then we asked her if she would give us a sign. She said yes. Then we asked her how much longer she would still continue to visit us. The Blessed Virgin responded: | 116 |
| Only four of us came because they put pressure on Ivan, Ivanka and Mirjana to go to Sarajevo. At 6:30pm exactly, the Gospa appeared. Vicka asked her about certain sick people, took some objects which had been given to her by some people, and approached Our Lady so that she could bless them. The Gospa made the Sign of the Cross and said: | 148 |
| Vicka asked if we would be able to see her again one more time this evening on the hill. The Gospa agreed and said: | 154 |
| Vicka asked Our Lady why she had not come the day before. The Blessed Virgin said something, and smiled, but no one heard it. Then Marija and Jakov asked her about certain sick people. We then took some religious articles, and the four of us approached Our Lady so that she would bless them. As Our Lady was blessing the articles our hands became very cold. | 172 |
| Vicka asked Our Lady why she had not come the day before. The Blessed Virgin said something, and smiled, but no one heard it. Then Marija and Jakov asked her about certain sick people. We then took some religious articles, and the four of us approached Our Lady so that she would bless them. As Our Lady was blessing the articles our hands became very cold. | 172 |
| Jakov asked if we could embrace her. The Blessed Virgin said that we should approach, and embrace her. Then we asked her to leave us the sign. She said: "Yes. Go in the peace of God." | 174 |
| Jakov asked if we could embrace her. The Blessed Virgin said that we should approach, and embrace her. Then we asked her to leave us the sign. She said: "Yes. Go in the peace of God." | 174 |
| Some persons who were present asked the visionaries to request of the Blessed Virgin permission to touch her. Our Lady said: "It is not necessary to touch me. Many are those who do not feel anything when they touch me." | 224 |
| We asked her with respect to the sign, and she said: | 240 |
| Marija humbly reports that the Gospa had scolded her for having stayed (during Mass) with her religious instruction school mates, who asked her about the apparitions: | 402 |
| Three girls from Citluk are returning home after Mass and suddenly see a great light from which fifteen silhouettes, dressed in Franciscan frock, are seen. They go down on their knees, and begin to pray and cry. The Blessed Virgin was asked about this and said: | 456 |
| We were in Fr. Jozo's room. The Gospa did not come. She appeared to us in the church after the prayers of 7 Our Father's, Hail Mary's, and Glory Be's. We asked her why she had not appeared. She answered that she had not appeared because someone had installed something there. | 556 |
| We asked the Blessed Virgin what the cross, the heart and the sun, seen during the apparition meant: | 564 |
| This evening, the Blessed Virgin was smiling. We prayed and sang with her. We asked her questions about the sick. | 576 |
| Marija, Vicka and Jakov: We asked the Blessed Virgin on the matter of a young man who had suddenly lost his memory and stopped learning. She said: "It is necessary to hospitalize him." | 592 |
| Vicka: Jakov and I were alone. Just as every evening, we prayed, conversed with the Blessed Virgin, and asked many questions. To them she responded: "Pray, Pray! It is necessary to believe firmly, to go to confession regularly, and likewise receive Holy Communion. It is the only salvation." | 722 |
| We asked if we could pray the Hail Mary. She said yes. And while we prayed, she looked at us with a smile, but without praying with us. Truly, her beauty is indescribable. Since I have seen Our Lady, I have been filled with joy. Whatever her words may be, what she has told me, I have always done it. I have obeyed. She makes attentive remarks, as a mother. | 746 |
| When we asked Our Lady, she did not answer, but began immediately to pray. When we asked her if such a person were alive, she said: | 754 |
| When we asked Our Lady, she did not answer, but began immediately to pray. When we asked her if such a person were alive, she said: | 754 |
| We asked for news about Fr. Jozo: "Do not fear for him." | 760 |
| I asked questions with respect to a woman who had no children. She is not of our faith. Our Lady said: | 780 |
| Question asked at the request of the pastor at Lzbicno, alleged place of other apparitions: Why are there so many signs in Hercegovina? | 828 |
| Just before the anniversary of June 24th, Vicka answered some questions asked by Fr. Tomislav Vlasic, who reported them in the parish Chronicle in June. Our Lady said: | 842 |
| "A number of those who have been very enthusiastic will cool off. But you, persist, and be proud of each of my words. Have the people pray very much. Have them pray more for salvation, and only for salvation. And let the people be converted so long as it is possible. There are many sins, vexations, curse words, lies and other bad things. Let them be converted, go to confession and receive Holy Communion. Let them not print books on the apparitions before the anniversary has passed, because that could have some undesirable consequences. You have asked me to keep in this parish good and faithful priests who will continue the work. Do not be afraid of anything. This grace will be given to you. From priests, I do not demand anything other than prayer, with perseverance, and preaching. May they be patient and wait for the promises of God." | 846 |
| Answer to some questions which were asked: | 870 |
| A response to questions asked regarding Hell: | 874 |
| A response to questions which were asked concerning Confession: | 880 |
| Question asked with regard to a marriage planned between a Catholic and an Orthodox: | 898 |
| Confidences from Mirjana to Fr. Tomislav Vlasic: During the 18 months that I saw the Gospa, a great intimacy was established between us. I felt her maternal love. I could ask her all kinds of questions. Thus I asked her why God was so merciless in sending sinners to Hell for eternity. | 992 |
| "Why have you stopped saying the prayer to the Holy Spirit. I have asked you to pray always and at all times so that the Holy Spirit may descend over all of you. Begin again to pray for that." | 1152 |
| Ivanka: Dear Gospa, may I embrace you? The blessed Virgin gives an affirmative sign with her head. I then embraced her. I asked her to bless me. She did it with a smile and added: | 1458 |
| We prayed with her for the weak, the unfortunate, and the forsaken. After the prayer, she blessed us. Then she showed me, as in a film, the realization of the first secret. The earth was desolate. It is the upheaval of a region of the world. She was precise. I cried. Why so soon?, I asked. | 1500 |
| April 30, 1984 (Monday) Marija asked Our Lady: Dear Madonna, why didn't you give me a message for the parish on Thursday? Our Lady replied: "I do not wish to force anyone to do that which he/she neither feels nor desires, even though I had special messages for the parish by which I wanted to awaken the faith of every believer. But only a really small number has accepted my Thursday messages. In the beginning there were quite a few. But it's become a routine affair for them. And now recently some are asking for the message out of curiosity, and not out of faith and devotion to my Son and me." | 1550 |
| August 14, 1984 (Tuesday) This apparition was unexpected. Ivan was praying at home. After that he started to get ready to go to Church for the evening services. By surprise Our Lady appeared to him and told him to relate to the people: "I would like the people to pray along with me these days. And to pray as much as possible! And to fast strictly on Wednesdays and Fridays, and every day to pray at least one Rosary: the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries." Our Lady asked that we accept this message with a firm will. She especially requested this of the parishioners, and the faithful of the surrounding places. | 1576 |
| June 24, 1987 - The prelude to the sixth anniversary of the apparitions: Marija invited the pilgrims to climb Krizevac at 11:30pm at night. A crowd of thousands of people climbed the rocky foot path, without accident. After reciting the Rosary, toward midnight, Marija confided to those who surrounded her: The Blessed Virgin was joyful. First of all, she prayed over all of us. We asked her to bless us. She did. Then she gave us, in substance, this message: | 1866 |
| Beginning on August 2, 1987 Our Lady began appearing to Mirjana on the 2nd of every month to pray with her for unbelievers. Our Lady defines unbelievers as: Those who have not yet experienced God's love. These 2nd of the month apparitions were private for about 10 years. Then, in 1997, Our Lady asked that the apparitions be made public. In fall 2004 Our Lady began to give public messages during most of the apparitions, and at present, messages are being given on every 2nd of the month. When Mirjana was asked if these messages are only meant for unbelievers, she responded that they were for everyone. The 2nd of the month messages from 2004-2009 were translated from Croatian to English by my wife Ana Shawl, and from 2009-2020, by Miki Musa, who is one of the senior guides in Medjugorje. | 2718 |
| Beginning on August 2, 1987 Our Lady began appearing to Mirjana on the 2nd of every month to pray with her for unbelievers. Our Lady defines unbelievers as: Those who have not yet experienced God's love. These 2nd of the month apparitions were private for about 10 years. Then, in 1997, Our Lady asked that the apparitions be made public. In fall 2004 Our Lady began to give public messages during most of the apparitions, and at present, messages are being given on every 2nd of the month. When Mirjana was asked if these messages are only meant for unbelievers, she responded that they were for everyone. The 2nd of the month messages from 2004-2009 were translated from Croatian to English by my wife Ana Shawl, and from 2009-2020, by Miki Musa, who is one of the senior guides in Medjugorje. | 2718 |
| - Mirjana asked: Is this possible can we do it? | 2732 |
| March 2, 2006 She greeted us sadly with: "Praised be Jesus." She blessed all articles that we brought to be blessed and all those present. She talked to me about the situation in the world, with emphasis on those who did not know the love of God. Three times she repeated: "God is love!" I asked her some questions about the sick and the like, and Our Lady responded. | 2750 |
| At the beginning of the apparition Our Lady showed Mirjana what is waiting for us if there is not the holiness in our hearts, and our brotherly union in Christ. It was not nice. She asked us to pray for our shepherds because she said that without them there is no unity. | 2770 |
| Mirjana added: I painfully asked Our Lady not to leave us, and not to take her hands away from us. She painfully smiled at my request and left. This time Our Lady did not say: Thank you. | 2784 |
| Our Lady blessed all those present and religious articles brought for blessing. She asked for prayer and fasting for our shepherds. | 2788 |
| Our Lady Blessed us all and all our religious articles and again, she asked us to pray for our Shepherds. | 2794 |
| July 2, 2013 "Dear children, with a motherly love I am imploring you to give me the gift of your hearts, so I can present them to my Son and free you - free you from all the evil enslaving and distancing you all the more from the only Good - my Son - from everything which is leading you on the wrong way and is taking peace away from you. I desire to lead you to the freedom of the promise of my Son, because I desire for God's will to be fulfilled completely here; and that through reconciliation with the Heavenly Father, through fasting and prayer, apostles of God's love may be born - apostles who will freely, and with love, spread the love of God to all my children - apostles who will spread the love of the trust in the Heavenly Father and who will keep opening the gates of Heaven. Dear children, extend the joy of love and support to your shepherds, just as my Son has asked them to extend it to you. Thank you." | 2938 |
| January 2, 2015 "Dear children, I am here among you as a mother who desires to help you to come to know the truth. While I lived your life on earth I had knowledge of the truth, and by this alone, a piece of Heaven on earth. That is why I desire the same for you, my children. The Heavenly Father desires pure hearts filled with the knowledge of the truth. He desires for you to love all those whom you meet, because I also love my Son in all of you. This is the beginning of coming to know the truth. Many false truths are being offered to you. You will overcome them with a heart cleansed by fasting, prayer, penance and the Gospel. This is the only truth and it is the truth which my Son left you. You do not need to examine it much. What is asked of you, as I also have done, is to love and to give. My children, if you love, your heart will be a home for my Son and me, and the words of my Son will be the guiding light in your life. My children, I will make use of you, apostles of love, to help all of my children to come to know the truth. My children, I have always prayed for the Church of my Son, and so I also ask the same of you. Pray that your shepherds may come to shine forth with the love of my Son. Thank you." | 2976 |
| November 2, 2017 "Dear children, As I am looking at you gathered around me, your mother, I see many pure souls, many of my children who are seeking love and consolation, but no one is offering it to them. I also see those who are doing evil, because they do not have good examples; they have not come to know my Son. The good which is silent and is spread through pure souls is the strength which sustains this world. There is much sin, but there is also love. My Son is sending me to you - the mother who is the same for everyone - that I may teach you to love, to comprehend that you are brothers. He desires to help you. Apostles of my love, a living desire of faith and love is sufficient, and my Son will accept it. But you must be worthy, you must have good will and open hearts. My Son enters into open hearts. I, as a mother, desire that you may all the better come to know my Son - God born of God - to come to know the greatness of His love which you need so much. He accepted your sins upon Himself and obtained redemption for you, and in return He asked that you love each other. My Son is love. He loves all people without difference, all people of all countries and of all nations. If you, my children, would live the love of my Son, His kingdom would already be on earth. Therefore, apostles of my love, pray, pray that my Son and His love may be all the closer to you; that you may be an example of love and may help all those who have not come to know my Son. Never forget that my Son, one and triune, loves you. Love your shepherds and pray for them. Thank you." | 3044 |
| Our Lady blessed all of us, and all religious articles. Again she emphasized that it is only Her Motherly blessing, and she asked for daily prayers for those whom she said my Son has chosen and blessed. Mirjana clarified that she believed Our Lady was referring to priests. | 3192 |
| "My dear child, today is our last meeting, but do not be sad because I will come to you on every anniversary except this one. My child, do not think that you have done something wrong, and that's why I no longer come. No, this isn't true. The plan which my Son and I have, you accepted with all your heart and completed your part. Be happy because I am your mother and I love you with all my heart. Ivanka, thank you for having responded to the invitation of my Son and for persevering and for always being close to Him and staying until He had completed that for which He asked of you. My child, tell your friends that both I and my Son will always be there for you when you seek or call us. That which I told you during these years about the secrets, it is still not time to tell anyone. Ivanka, the grace which you and the others received, nobody on this earth has received up until now!" | 3260 |
| Ivanka had the apparition in her home and it lasted six minutes. After the apparition Ivanka said: Our Lady was joyful. I asked her to bless everyone, which she did. Our Lady talked to me about all the secrets. She invited us to pray for families at this time, and especially to pray for the sick. She called us to open our hearts and to thank her Son for the grace He has given us. At the end, Our Lady thanked us for our prayers and love. | 3278 |
| To Tomislav Vlasic's question, asked by Jelena: | 4076 |