Fr. Martin’s
reflection on - Our Lady’s Message
25th
June 2025
44th Anniversary
of
the Apparitions in Medjugorje
“Dear
children! also today I thank the Almighty that I am with
you and that I can lead you towards the God of love and peace. The ideologies
which destroy you and your spiritual life are transitory. I am calling you,
little children: return to God, because with God you have a future and eternal
life. Thank you for having
responded to my call.”
(With Ecclesiastical
approval)
Dear Brother’s and Sister’s of Medjugorje North East and beyond, for the last four month’s Our Lady
has emphasised in a
specific way her concern for our eternal Salvation. She has
reminded us that she is coming to us today to help us on the way to Salvation
and eternal life. So too, in this
month’s message Mary, tells us that with God, we have a future and eternal
life. We now mark Forty Four years of the apparitions,
of Our Lady ‘s coming in Medjugorje, because Our Lady wants to help us find the
Lord in our lives today, and so lead us to heaven. We
give thanks on this anniversary for all those who have gone to Medjugorje and
rediscovered the Faith in Christ and found a new direction and purpose in
living. This has indeed been a time of grace for so many people.
Our Lady begins this month’s message with the words;
“Also
today I thank the Almighty that I am with you and that I can lead you towards
the God of love and peace.”
These opening words may remind us of Our Lady’s great hymn of praise and
thanksgiving, “The Magnificat”. St. Luke, tells us
that following the Annunciation, Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, and there
sang the praises of God for the wonders worked in her. “For the Almighty has
worked marvels for me and holy is his name.”
( 1: 49.)
Our Lady begins this message by focusing on ‘The Almighty’ by directing
her prayers of thanksgiving to God, giving praise that she is with us in these
times and leading us towards the God of love and peace.
God is love and peace, and it is in God that we find our true identity as his children. ( John:
1: 12.) Our Lady is with us all these
years to lead us into the fulness of this truth. Love and peace opens our eyes for others., for their need’s their
possibilities, and their dangers too.
‘Love and peace’ sends the Christian today to
help all others see the possibility of a new world ,
where old conflicts are overcome, and when we see each other as ‘Children of
the one God.” Let each of us decide for
‘Love and Peace’ which comes from the Almighty. Our Lady is the Mother of life, the new eve, the Queen of Peace, and
therefore it is important to understand these time,
when she comes to us, when humanity is threatened with so much self –
destruction. Mary is guiding us towards
new and better times, her first words at the very first apparition, June 24th, 1981 remind us of this. “Peace must reign between God and man,’ - Peace among all
peoples and between man and nature. All
of us must see and recognise this invitation to ‘Love and peace’ which comes
from God – the Almighty, because it concerns our own hearts and the future of
the world.
The events at Medjugorje, do call every person to a profound peace that is only found in God. Our Lady calls us to act accordingly. Mary is
with us, she makes us aware of our part in her plan.
She helps us, she calls us, she encourages us in these times. She gives us indications, she prays with us, and has remained with us on this road for Forty Four years now.
These are her times, Marian times, when she wants to lead us all towards
the ‘God of Love and Peace.’ The
highest aim of our life – yours and mine – is to come to know God better and to
love him more through all he has given us.
From this love we come to love ourselves, other people and all creation
more. We become the channels of his
peace. That is the task of every
Christian, let us decide for it today,
to join with Mary in thanking ‘The Almighty’ that she is with us, and showing us the way
to ‘The God of love and Peace.’
Mary, then says,
“The ideologies which destroy you and your spiritual
life are transitory . I am calling you little children
return to God , because with God you have a future and
eternal life.”
Contrast these words with the previous ones about ‘Love and Peace.’ Mary
alerts us to the dangers that are in our way, and not to be seduced by them,
because they are passing. ‘The
ideologies’ today which can be so destructive to our lives, especially our
souls, are those that deceive us. Anti –
life legislation, that tries to tell us that human life is dispensable,
assisted suicide; these ideologies tell us that we can be happy without God,
that we make no reference to him.
Ideologies that tell us we can find peace through military means alone,
humanism that tells us this life is everything.
These are false and deceptive ways, and Our Lady tells us can be so
destructive to our spiritual lives. But
they are ‘transitory’ – they are passing, and Mary asks us to look with the
eyes of Faith to
the God who is life.
The only possibility to be saved and to save others is to make room for
God, so that he can take the first place in our lives. He who created us, and loves us, he who is
peace is our future and our eternal life.
This is the long journey of Conversion for each of us, where all the
false gods are to be removed from our lives, and the ‘God of Love and
Peace.’ Is placed at the centre. With
The Holy Mass, and the Rosary this will be realised.
God Bless,
Fr. Martin Morris