Marian Conference

“I’ve Come to Tell You that God Exists”
A Marian Conference
November 2-4, 2007

With:
CHAR VANCE
IVAN DRAGICEVIC (Visionary from Međugorje)
FR. BILL MCCARTHY My Father’s House Moodus, CT
FR. JOHN RANDALL
SR. MARGARET CATHERINE SIMS, CSJ

Spiritual Life Center
of Marian Community
One Marian Way
[off Summer Street/Route 126]
Medway, MA
(more info click here)

Interesting Interview

Alois Epner (76) is a retired teacher from Upper Austria. He was born in Croatia, but in 1944, the whole family had to leave the country, fleeing from the communists. Without ever forgetting his childhood on the native soil, he found a new home in Upper Austria. He came to Medjugorje for the first time in 1984, and since then, he is coming very often. When he is speaking about his experiences, his eyes are filled with tears. (Interview: Krešimir Šego)

Sacred Encounter

"There was so much dazzling brightness radiating across the sky that I was now confused, as it was hard for me to define the actual circle of the sun and where the rays begun. It was overwhelming."

"He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." ~Luke 9:23

"...and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross" ~Colossians 1:20

"I will not be leaving Our Lady behind" Fr. Ljubo

"I think it is necessary to leave aside the enthusiasm and allow the roots to take hold so that he who has truly decided to follow the Lord may persevere and learn to suffer and remain faithful to Mary’s messages. We are all on a journey or quest, and it isn’t possible to see what the future holds for us. It is enough that we can see which is the next step to take and to proceed with trust, knowing that the Lord guides everything, and will turn all into good."

~Fr.Ljubo

Bella Movie Brings Respect for Life to the Silver Screen

“In one irreversible moment, a simple act of kindness brings them together and turns an ordinary day into an unforgettable experience,” according to the film’s production notes. “Before the day is through, Josй must confront his own haunting past to show Nina how the healing power of love can help her embrace the future. Inspired by true events, Bella is a heartwarming story about friendship, family and our capacity for love in the face of the unexpected.”

Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 Message for World Mission Sunday (21 October, 2007)

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. "

~Mother Teresa

St.Paul of the Cross

St. Paul of the Cross was born at Ovada in the Republic of Genoa, January 3, 1694. His infancy and youth were spent in great innocence and piety. He was inspired from on high to found a congregation; in an ecstasy he beheld the habit which he and his companions were to wear. After consulting his director, Bishop Gastinara of Alexandria in Piedmont, he reached the conclusion that God wished him to establish a congregation in honor of the Passion of Jesus Christ. On November 22, 1720, the bishop vested him with the habit that had been shown to him in a vision, the same that the Passionists wear at the present time. From that moment, the saint applied himself to repair the Rules of his institute; and in 1721 he went to Rome to obtain the approbation of the Holy See. At first he failed, but finally succeeded when Benedict XIV approved the Rules in 1741 and 1746. Meanwhile St. Paul built his first monastery near Obitello. Sometime later he established a larger community at the Church of St. John and Paul in Rome. For fifty years St. Paul remained the indefatigable missionary of Italy. God lavished upon him the greatest gifts in the supernatural order, but he treated himself with the greatest rigor, and believed that he was a useless servant and a great sinner. His saintly death occurred at Rome in the year 1775, at the age of eighty-one. He was canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

About Medjugorje

(Adapted from The Apparitions of Our Lady at Medjugorje by Father Svetozar Kraljevic, 3rd edition published by Informativni Centar, Mir, 2005. Some excerpts from the beginning days have been extracted from Vicka…Her Story by Finbar O’Leary, published in 2006)

The Franciscan parish of St. James, in the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, became known in Herzegovina and the world because of six young people who claim to have seen visions of Our Lady. One of the nearby hills, called Crnica, has another hill attached to it, called Podbrdo (“sub” or “under hill”), and the village of Bijakovici is at the base of this hill. Podbrdo is the locale of the apparitions that are alleged to have started on June 24, 1981. Another hill, on the other side of Crnica, was called Sipovac until 1933, when the parishioners built a large cross on it to mark and honor 1,900 years since the death of the Lord. The name of the hill was then changed to Krizevac (“cross mountain”). Since then, people from the parish and from the surrounding areas have gathered there every year on the first Sunday after the feast of the Birth of Mary to celebrate the Exaltation of the Cross. The Franciscans, who came to the area in the fourteenth century as missionaries, preserved the Catholic Faith in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Holy See gave them the responsibility of being in this very difficult region under Turkish-Muslim rule from 1478 to 1878. It was a time of many tough trials and much suffering. Hard work in this small, dry land - in its vineyards and tobacco fields - constant struggle in good times and bad -has taught the villagers persistence in their ways and their goals. Unfounded optimism has never carried them away, nor has pessimism impaired their zeal for life. Emerging from this varied and rather hidden history, Medjugorje has become a destination for hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.

Youth Festival 2008

“Come start a new path, a path whose name is peace. Come and make a new step, a step whose name is love."
~Fr. Jozo, O. F. M.

Medjugorje Youth Festival

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July 29, 2008 – August 8, 2008
$1,855.00 + taxes ~~ 11 days!
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