Father Finelli's Medugorje Page

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.

There is a story over at SpiritDaily about the Vatican’s Medugorje report. Here is part of it:

“A leaked report from the commission that studied Medjugorje contains surprising and at points startling conclusions, if initial translations are accurate — criticizing aspects of seer conduct but presenting a far more positive picture of the apparitions than most close watchers of the situation hoped for or anticipated.

The full report was given to an Italian journalist, David Murgia, and has already been bound in book form in his native language.

Perhaps never before in the history of what it calls Mariophanies,including those of Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe, have there been higher-ranking clergy on an investigative commission. Five cardinals, an archbishop, three monsignors, and four priests composed the thirteen members who studied the site in Hercegovina for what it described as four “intense” years. In addition were three priests and a nun who served as voting experts, bringing the tally to seventeen, though the number present for ballots (votum) at times varied.”

Read the whole story here.

Dear children! Today I am calling you to pray even more, until you feel the holiness of forgiveness in your heart. There must be holiness in the families, little children, because there is no future for the world without love and holiness – because in holiness and joy, you give yourselves to God the Creator who loves you with immeasurable love. This is why He sends me to you. Thank you for having responded to my call.

• Updated: I mistakenly had it listed as 2019.

At the last daily apparition to Jakov Colo on September 12th, 1998, Our Lady told him that henceforth he would have one apparition a year, every December 25th, on Christmas Day. This is also how it was this year. The apparition began at 2:25 pm and lasted 9 minutes.

Our Lady came with little Jesus in her arms. Through Jakov, Our Lady gave the following message:

Dear children, today, on this day of grace, in a special way I am calling you to open your hearts and to implore Jesus to strengthen your faith. Children, through prayer with the heart, faith and works you will come to know what it means to live a sincere Christian life. Often times, children, darkness, pain and crosses overwhelm your life and your hearts. Do not waver in faith and ask ‘why’ because you think that you are alone and abandoned. Instead, open your hearts, pray and believe firmly and then your heart will feel God’s nearness and that God never abandons you – that He is beside you at every moment. Through prayer and faith, God will answer your every ‘why’ and transform your every pain, darkness and cross into light. Thank you.

In this month’s message, Our Lady mentions peace three times. What is this peach she talks about? In the same message she talks of war. Does Our Lady mean the absence of war is peace? Of course the absence of war is peace. But, I don’t think she is talking about the absence of war. To gain the peace Our Lady talks about, she also states that we need to pray. Because only in prayer can we find true peace. True peace comes from God alone and everything else flows from that peace. Peace is a gift from God. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. (Jn 14:27)” True peace is reconciliation with God, and in turn with other people. Reconciliation with God means that we are free from sin. This is a message of repentance, because without repentance there is no heavenly peace. If we, God’s children, and the children of Mary are reconciled with God we will have peace. The peace “only God gives.” This is an internal peace. This kind of peace is there despite everything around you. The martyrs know this peace. That is why they went to their deaths unafraid. What is there to fear if you are at peace, reconciled, with God. When you are at peace with God, you are living in sanctifying grace. We can only find this through a life lived in union with God through a faithful and fervent Sacramental life, which leads us to an intense life with God. Because of this union with God, we desire to be in His presence through prayer. Through our lives of prayer and fidelity to the Sacraments our hears begin to melt and “hatred and jealousy” begin to disappear. We make the Lord’s Prayer our own: “Forgives us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” One who is forgiven realizes that they must forgive the other, since they themselves are forgiven through God’s infinite mercy. We must imitate the one who have forgiven us. May we respond to Our Lady’s call through frequent confession so that His peace may live in us and we might become like Him who has forgiven us. God love you!