I felt so compelled to write the article on St. James and Medjugorje, that even after first posting it, I couldn’t stop working on it through the night, and although I didn’t realize it at the time I began… The Feast of St. James is a day of tremendous celebration in Medjugorje. Not only is it the
Readings and Prayers for St. Louis-Marie de Montfort’s Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary 12 Days of Preparation renouncing the spirit of the world Praying over and reading Christ’s Teaching Praying with the Heart Examining our conscience Learning about Mary’s place in God’s plan Day 12 of 33: Meditate on Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis:
“I am all yours, and all that I have is yours, O most loving Jesus, through Mary, your most holy Mother” (True Devotion, 233). DAY 14 of 33: SECTION 2: Contemplate the Our Father as we take St. Maximilian Kolbe as our guide. Action: 1. Resolve to pray a complete set of mysteries of the
Each year, for the last 29 years, there has been an International Youth Festival in Medjugorje. This year’s theme was “Living on the Word of God” and it was historic because for the first time in Medjugorje’s history the Pope’s representative, Archbishop Henryk Hoser, in his role as the Apostolic Visitor from the Holy See officiated at the
On this anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, I wanted to share the amazing firsthand account of a meeting he had with the reported visionary, Mirjana Soldo, in July 1987. Mirjana writes about the meeting in her autobiography, My Heart Will Triumph. While visiting the Vatican with a Croatian
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