Mary TV: April 17, 2024 Reflection - Be a reflection of God's love...

 

 

Be a reflection of God's love... April 17, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! April 25, 2020  "Dear children! May this time be an incentive for personal conversion for you. Pray, little children, in solitude, to the Holy Spirit to strengthen you in faith and trust in God, that you may be worthy witnesses of the love which God bestows upon you through my presence. Little children, do not permit trials to harden your heart and for prayer to be like a desert. Be a reflection of God's love and witness the Risen Jesus by your lives. I am with you and I love all of you with my motherly love. Thank you for having responded to my call." In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

 

Mary TV: April 16, 2024 Reflection - God often does the impossible! Believe in Jesus!!

 

 

God often does the impossible! Believe in Jesus!! April 16, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! Today I am sharing with you a wonderful homily: English Homily in Medjugorje Thursday, April 4, 2024 Fr. Joseph Jacobsen Fr. Jacobsen shares several very important points about our faith and how it should work!! It is well worth the read!! Fr. Jacobsen was once a Lutheran Bishop, but has become a Catholic priest!! He loves Our Lady of Medjugorje!! Thank you, Fr. Jacobsen!! April 4, 2024. HOMILY Lord, sanctify us in Your truth. Your word is truth. Amen.   Dear friends, Today, we want to celebrate the fact, and at the same time take some warning from the fact, that when God does something that is humanly impossible in our presence and we see it and witness it, and then He tells us that He’s going to do something else that is humanly impossible after that, we are responsible for believing what He tells us. Okay. Now, most people don’t. Because it’s difficult, even when you see something that is humanly impossible done by God, it’s difficult for us not to think that the humanly impossible is impossible. That’s the way that normal people think. I’m going to give you a few examples of that before we tie into the main example that I want to use for my homily today. The first example of that is Moses and the children of Israel as they fled from and were driven out of Egypt. They had 10 plagues to drive them out. None of those plagues were humanly possible. They could only have come because God willed them to come. And they got to the Red Sea, and they were between the Red Sea and the hosts of Egypt, the humanly impossible occurred again. They fully expected to be massacred there, because they were trapped.  Well, the cloud came and prevented the Egyptians from seeing where they were going, the sea opened up, they went through the sea – has that ever happened in a humanly possible way? So, they went through there and out the other side to the other end, and then the cloud lifted and the Egyptians followed them, and the humanly impossible happened again. The water returned and drowned all of the army.  Now, okay, they witnessed all of that. Do you suppose they should have believed that they would actually be led through the desert to the Promised Land by somebody who had done all of those things already for them? Of course, they should have believed that. But they didn’t.  Well, a few did. There was Joshua. There was Caleb. There was Moses; and I presume Aaron and Miriam thought so, too. There may have been a few others. But for the most part, it was very difficult for them, once they were facing another set of difficult circumstances where their survival seemed to be humanly impossible to believe that God would do once again what He had done for them several times already. Right? Okay. Let’s look at another example. The man in our first reading today was healed at the Beautiful Gate. Okay, the whole upshot of that, as we heard in our first reading, is that Peter challenged the people to believe that the power that raised the man who they knew had been lying at that gate for years with legs that were so useless that he couldn’t even crawl. Okay, the implication here is that the power that accomplished that is the power that they should have faced up to in terms of the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. So, the one led to the other. If you believe your eyes as to what humanly impossible thing that happened with this man that was crippled here, then why in the world don’t you believe that the one who did this was the one who was raised from the dead, as we proclaimed?  Once again, the humanly impossible in one instance, should have led… And did it? Yes. We did see quite a few people that were converted because of that. But not very many of the Sanhedrin; not many of the leaders. A number of common people were, in fact, converted by that.  To tie in a little bit into what Father was saying before Mass, the same thing is true here.  We have seen so many confirming signs of the truth of what’s happening here. Now, what should that be leading us to do? It should be leading us to take seriously what Our Blessed Mother has told us is coming upon the world.  If the confirming signs have been humanly impossible… anyone who anything about the history of Medjugorje at all knows that there have been a lot of humanly impossible things happening here. Well, that should lead us to believe the message. That’s what it’s all about. The message is what counts. And those confirming signs, and the humanly impossible things that have happened initially here, are intended to bring us to a place of accepting the message; about how we live our lives in an unbelieving world, about what’s coming upon the world, and about the era of peace that we are being led into, and about the purging and the chastising that’s happening in order to get us there. All of those things that we need to believe, because of the credibility of what’s happened here already. Alright. Now, the theme that I want to bring to our attention. The heart and soul of Medjugorje – and this is by the will of our Blessed Mother, herself – is the Eucharist. That’s why you’re here. It’s the Eucharist.  Now what is the Eucharist? I want to take us a little bit through John chapter 6 today, and show you how in that chapter the same principle that I just enunciated in these three instances applies as well.  It’s very interesting how it starts. The disciples and Jesus are in the wilderness, and they look around and they see a bunch of people coming toward them – a whole lot of people – and Jesus does something very interesting at that point. He says to Philip, “How are we going to feed all these people?”  And then John makes a comment which is fascinating. He says that Jesus did this to test him; because He, Himself knew what He was going to do. Get that? He knew what He was going to do. And what He was going to do was the humanly impossible. And the test was: Do you believe that we can feed these people through what I do that is humanly impossible. And so it happened. They fed the people; and there were twelve baskets left over. So, they had the experience of Jesus doing the humanly impossible in feeding this multitude, precisely because He said that to test Philip.  Now a little bit later, the next day, there He is in Capernaum. And the people come up to Him and they say to Him, “How did you get here?” and so forth; but the key point that I want to get at here is that the dialogue goes like this, at this point. Jesus says, “I am the Bread of Life sent from Heaven. He who eats of me – who eats my flesh and drinks my blood – will live forever. What I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh.”  And, of course, the Jews will go, “How can you do that?” Just like the question of Philip, “How can we feed so many people? There’s no way we can do this.” But Jesus says, “I will do this.” But the people say, and the Jews ask, “How in the world can we eat His flesh and drink His blood?” That’s a good question, right? That seems impossible. How in the world is He going to do this? How is He going to achieve that? Now in the Tridentine Mass, the Latin Mass, when you come to the Daily Requiem Mass, it’s a marvelous Mass that we use for praying for the souls in Purgatory. The gospel for the day is the one I just gave you a summary of from John’s gospel, about, “I am the Living Bread from Heaven, and who eats of me will live forever. My flesh and my blood are true food.” And just about 10 minutes later in the Mass, we come to the point where, standing at the altar, the priest says, “This is the Body of Christ. And this is His Blood.” That’s how the humanly impossible there is achieved. We eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ through the Sacrament.  Now it was so impossible that so many of His disciples just left when he said it. “How can He do this? He can’t give us His flesh and His blood. That’s impossible.” Off they went. And Jesus says to the disciples, “Are you going to leave me, too?” And Peter says, “Where will we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Peter maybe didn’t get the whole point that Jesus was going to figure out a way to do this, but he got some of the point. He got some of the point. And we sure know from Our Blessed Mother that we had better take very, very seriously that when we receive the Eucharist, we are getting the flesh and blood of Jesus, and nothing else. The flesh and blood of Jesus.  Now there’s one more interesting point that I want to make in this little homily, and that’s this: We get the whole Jesus now in the Eucharist. Because we are sinners, we tend to emphasize the Crucified Christ. But, we also receive the Risen Christ. Okay. The whole Christ.  Well, in a sinful world, it’s good for us to have the forgiveness of our sins. The sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross is our focus as sinners, because we need that desperately in order to get through to eternal life. The forgiveness of sins is the basis of salvation. And you and I need that desperately. We are told by many credible sources that in the age to come, it will be the same sacrament but the emphasis will shift from the Cross to the Resurrection – from what happened on the Cross, and also at the Last Supper; to what happened at Emmaus, when Jesus gave Himself to them as the Living Bread. They experienced Him now as alive. Now, this is very interesting; because the first time they received the Eucharist, they thought He was going to live, when He was going to die. The second time, they thought He was dead, while He was alive. Big surprise! Okay? Now, we often are in exactly the same position, if you look at yourself spiritually. The things we consider about Him as dead, are actually alive; and the things that we consider as alive, are actually dead. We need the Eucharist to set us straight on this point a lot.  But the main point I want to make is this: When Jesus starts off by saying in John 6, “I am the Bread of Life,” He’s underscoring the fact that the whole Christ – the Christ who died on the Cross to save us from our sins, and the Christ who rose from the dead to justify us and bring us to paradise – is received in every last Eucharist. And the emphasis today in our sinful world is certainly on the Cross. The emphasis in the era of Peace will be more on the Life and on the Resurrection (for obvious reasons). (Homily of April 4, 2024, Medjugorje) Amen, Fr. Jacobsen!! Thank you!! Fr. Jacobsen gave his testimony on Mary TV - Fruit Show 309! You want to watch it! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

 

Mary TV: April 15, 2024 Reflection - Believe in Christ!

Believe in Christ!

April 15, 2024

 

Dear Family of Mary!

These words from St. Augustine are priceless:

So when you hear "Believe in Christ," don't imagine it's enough for you to believe Christ, that is, to believe that the things Christ says are true; don't imagine it's enough for you to believe that Christ is himself the one whom God foretold through the prophets; but believe in Christ, that is, love Christ.

It is when you have fulfilled this that nothing more will be required of you, because love is the fullness of the law (Rom 13:10). When you've believed in Christ like that, so that you have that kind of ardent love for Christ, see if you won't be able to make these words your own: Who shall separate us from the love of God? (Rom 8:35). So don't waste time wondering how to do what Christ commands; you cannot not do it if you love Christ. Love, and you do it. (St. Augustine) (From Magnificat April 2024 p.211)

And these words from Our Lady are also priceless:

 

May 25, 1999 "Dear children!

Also today I call you to convert

and to more firmly believe in God.

Children, you seek peace and pray in different ways,

but you have not yet given your hearts to God

for Him to fill them with His love.

So, I am with you to teach you

and to bring you closer to the love of God.

If you love God above all else,

it will be easy for you to pray

and to open your hearts to Him.

Thank you for having responded to my call."

 

Remember, "You cannot not do it if you love Christ!!!"

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!

Cathy Nolan

(c) Mary TV 2024

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Mary TV: April 12, 2024 Reflection - "The source of grace is here..."

 

 

"The source of grace is here..."

"The source of grace is here..." April 12, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! This has been a big week! We are responding to the call to pray fervently and offer sacrifices for the sake of souls for these 40 days leading up to Pentecost! We are praying for a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all of God's children. The world needs a new Pentecost! We believe that Our Lady wants us to pray this way. In her last message she said to us: March 25, 2024: Dear children! In this time of grace, pray with me for the good to win in you and around you. In a special way, little children, pray united with Jesus on His Way of the Cross. Into your prayers put this humanity which wanders without God and without His love. Be prayer, be light, and be witnesses to all those whom you meet, little children, so that the merciful God may have mercy toward you. Thank you for having responded to my call. This message was a definite call to intercede for all humanity! She asked us to pray for the good to win!!! She asked us to pray for this humanity which wanders without God and without His love. She asked us to be prayer, to be light and to be witnesses to all those whom we meet! This is the program we are attempting to live these 40 days. Knowing this, I was praying with Denis today, and heard the words, "May 8th". I realized Our Lady wanted me to look for a message from her on May 8th. I looked, and discovered there has only been one message on May 8th! It is the May 8, 1986 message. I was blown away by what it contained: "Dear Children! You are responsible for the messages. The source of grace is here, but you, dear children, are the vehicles transmitting the gifts. Therefore, dear children, I am calling you to work responsibly. Everyone will be responsible according to his own measure. Dear children, I am calling you to give the gift to others with love and not to keep it for yourselves. Thank you for having responded to my call." May 8, 1986 I feel that one of the things we need to do during these 40 days is to share Our Lady's messages with all who will listen. Her messages are filled with grace, just like Mary is. They are filled with anointing for those who read them. They will help people who do not know Our Lady yet, to know her!! We are responsible for the messages. If we don't share them, who will? (Denis wants you all to know that this message was the inspiration for Mary TV!!) So along with our prayer, we need to share the messages far and wide!! This is a holy war for souls! Thank you for responding to Our Lady's call!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556

 

Mary TV: April 11, 2024 Reflection - “Dear children, pray with me for the good to win!"

 

 

“Dear children, pray with me for the good to win!"

"Dear children, pray with me for good to win!" April 11, 2024 Dear Family of Mary! On Tuesday I shared with you the transcript of the powerful homily given by Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne on April 2, 2024. Today I want to send out another wonderful homily!! Yesterday, April 10, 2024 Fr. Stan Fortuna gave the homily at English Mass! It is another powerful homily Here is the link! You may want to hear it delivered. https://marytv.tv/english-homily-in-medjugorje-2/?smid=On9dazsghg2&slid=IRBKmbjFsDA But also I have the transcript, excellently transcribed by our shipmate, Stefanie Hogue. The Holy Spirit is moving powerfully in Medjugorje! I think He is helping us to live these 40 days of prayer and fasting before Pentecost, with power! The Gospel for April 10, 2024: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 3:16-21 God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Whoever believes in Him will not be condemned; but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed the name of the only begotten Son.  And this is the verdict, the Light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come towards the light so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God. The Gospel of the Lord HOMILY by Fr. Stan Fortuna in Medjugorje - English Mass Our Loving Mother, the Church, today, Wednesday, the second week of Easter, April 10th, 2024, in the parish of Medjugorje, in Bijakovici, in St. James the Apostle Church, she gives us as the gospel antiphon, Psalm 34, verse 8: Taste and see how good the Lord is. Blessed the man who trusts in Him. Fr. Leon and me, we're first cousins: the Dominican and a Franciscan… And speaking about the Dominicans, one of his brothers – one of our brothers in Our Loving Mother, the Church – Thomas Aquinas; he says that, “To love is to consistently will the good of another.” Most of you – probably all of you – are on pilgrimage, and even if you’re not, you are! And we’re so blessed to be here!  And as we make our way, the word that kept coming to us, and that has been confirmed from us on earth and in Heaven, is this word, “good.”  And so… “To love is to consistently will the good of another.” And so that was confirmed with the gospel Antiphon, Psalm chapter 34, verse 8: “Taste and see how good the Lord is,” and, “Blessed is the man who trusts in Him.”  And the gospel of the day, John chapter 3, verse 16: God what? God loved… Who? The world… How much? So much… “What did he do?” He sent His only begotten Son. And I don’t know if you know what the last message here was on March 25th, this year, 2024. Here’s a little piece: “Dear children, Pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” “Oh Father, can you repeat that…” Yes! “Dear children, Pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” My hero, Karol Wojtyla, St. Pope John Paul II, the Great Father and Doctor of the Church… When did he say this? He said this on the 11th of February… Oh… does that ring a bell?                 Yes! Lourdes. The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. In 1979, it was 118 days after he was elected on October 16th, 1978 – Thank you, Jesus! – he said, “Jesus wants love…” And, boy! If there’s one of her favored sons, he’s on the line – he’s right up on top of the line – he loved Our Mother…. Whoooo! Anyway, he said, “Jesus wants love, the solidarity of love, to grow from suffering, and around suffering, and He wants the sum of that good…” (He wants the sum of that good…) “…which is possible in our human world, a good that never goes away.” And Our Mother said, on March 25th – because it fell in Holy Week, it was the Solemnity of the Annunciation, which we just celebrated here on Monday, “Dear children, pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” So, with David, in Psalm 34, verse 8… With Thomas Aquinas, “…and to love is to consistently will the good of another…” With John the Apostle, the Beloved disciple, in his gospel…                 “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…” With Mary, Our Mother of Medjugorje,                 “Dear children, pray with me for the good to win in you and around you in a special way.” And with Karol Wotyla, St. Pope John Paul II, the Great Father and Doctor of the Church…With all of them, and all of us… it’s possible, as he said, “…to make the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good…” “It makes possible for the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good to take place.” And he put it like this then, in his tenth of 14 encyclicals released in 1993, number 118, in Veritatis Splendor (just in case you don’t believe me…) He said it then; and he’s saying it again to us today, from Heaven… “Mary is the Mother of Mercy because Her Son, Jesus Christ, was sent by the Father as the revelation of God’s Mercy. Christ came not to condemn but to forgive, to show Mercy. No human sin can erase the Mercy of God or prevent Him from unleashing all His triumphant power if we only call out to Him.  “Indeed, sin itself makes even more radiant the love of the Father. His Mercy reaches its fullness in the gift of the Spirit. No matter how many and great the obstacles put in His way by human frailty and sin, the Spirit, who renews the face of the earth, makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment of the good.  “This renewal which gives the ability to do what is good, noble, beautiful, pleasing to God, and in conformity with His Will, is in some way the flowering of His gift of Mercy.  “Mary is also the Mother of Mercy, because it is to her that Jesus entrusts His church, and all humanity at the foot of the Cross, when she accepts John as her son. When she asks, together with Christ, forgiveness from the Father for those who do not know what they do, Mary experiences, in perfect docility to the Spirit, the richness and universality of God’s love, which opens her heart and enables it to embrace the entire human race.  “Thus, Mary becomes the Mother of each and every one of us. The Mother who obtains for us Divine Mercy.” Hail Mary… Thank you Fr. Stan, and all of our wonderful priests who teach and bless us in their homilies! God loves us so much!! In Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Cathy Nolan (c) Mary TV 2024 Mary TV. Inc. | www.marytv.tv "Medjugorje is the spiritual center of the world." St. John Paul II Be Connected! www.marytv.tv Mary TV | P.O. Box 899, Notre Dame, IN 46556