A New Hope - School of Life

I found these small interviews of hope on Youtube from a few guys who are in the Cenacolo Community. Cenacolo Community is a community for those who have problems of addiction. Comunità Cenacolo offers to each young man and woman the discovery of work to be lived as a gift. As we build exterior structures, God builds the inner man. Through working together, we learn to communicate more effectively, accept the ideas of others, and resolve conflicts. Obedience and acceptance of authority, values previously rejected in attitude and behavior, slowly develop within us. Hard work helps us to build the interior discipline, we have always lacked. It combats our fears and our laziness, both of which have prevented us from persevering with difficult challenges. It builds our will, which has always been weak, and bridles our passions, which have always ruled our lives. Community jobs include carpentry, welding, construction, baking, cultivating fruit and vegetable gardens, cooking, and home maintenance.

Message to Jakov - Dec. 25th 2007

" Today, in a special way I call you to become open to God and for each of your hearts today to become a place of Jesus' birth. Little children, through all this time that God permits me to be with you, I desire to lead you to the joy of your life. Little children, the only true joy of your life is God. Therefore, dear children, do not seek joy in things of this earth but open your hearts and accept God. Little children, everything passes, only God remains in your heart. "
~ Dec 25th, 2007

The Christmas Conversion of St. Thérèse

"If God was working out his purpose in the midst of an ordinary girl’s family life and growth, then God’s work was just as constant and ubiquitous in the lives of all those who simply trusted him and obeyed the promptings of his love.
That Thérèse’s conversion was a “Christmas conversion” is not simply a sentimental touch weaving in Christmas and presents and children. That it was a “Christmas conversion” has a deeper meaning, for Thérèse’s lesson that the grace of God is constantly at work within the nitty gritty of everyday life is the lesson at the heart of Christmas itself. "

"As a young priest, one Saturday in December in the early ‘70s, I was in the sacristy at St. Matthew’s Cathedral waiting for a wedding. My weddings were always notoriously late. Suddenly, the young bride appeared in the doorway, looking lovely in her white gown and her veil. But I could see that she had been crying. I asked, “What’s the matter?” She said, “Father, there’s not going to be any wedding. My fiancee is in Buffalo, N.Y., and there’s six feet of snow there. Father, please inform the people in church that there will be no wedding.” So I went to the pulpit and I announced that there was not going to be a wedding. There was an audible gasp from the congregation. But then I told them that they were to go to the restaurant for the reception. That the band and the food were waiting. They all trotted off and had a grand time.Later that day, I was reflecting on the strange turn of events. And because it was Advent, I thought, “Christmas has become like that wedding.” We have the lights and the music and the food and the parties and the gifts and the Bridegroom is in Buffalo. Advent needs to be about bringing the Bridegroom back to the party at Christmastime. By making this time of spiritual preparation a time of more intense prayer, a time for confession, a time for works of mercy, reconciliation in our families and communities. A time to listen to the Bridegrooms’ call to be vigilant and awake. Yes, Jesus is the Bridegroom, he is never the widower. He does not exist separate from the bride, his Church. He loves us so much that he became a part of our human family and he laid down his life for our salvation. And yes, he calls us to journey together with him.
For the Irish, the most powerful Christmas symbol has been the candle, placed in the window. It was lit by the youngest member of the family and could be extinguished only by someone named Mary. I don’t have to tell you that there’s no shortage of Irish girls named Mary. The candle in the window in an Irish home had two meanings. It was a sign of welcome to the Holy Family, of Mary and Joseph looking for a place in the Inn. It was also an invitation during the times of persecution, to a priest to come and celebrate a clandestine Christmas Mass for the family. It was worth risking everything to be able to have the Eucharist ...... Yes, the candle is in the window. As our ancestors who refused to take the soup, and who risked their lives and fortunes to go to Mass, we profess and believe that God’s love for us is so great he has made a gift of himself to us in the Eucharist. Yes, the candle is in the window, because Christmas is Christ’s Mass. .... The Eucharist gathers us, as Christ’s family, to be united in the teachings of the Apostles, in fellowship and in prayer, and in the breaking of the bread, sharing what we have so that no one will be hungry. Not materially hungry, not spiritually hungry. The urgency of the Gospel today bids us, “Gather faithfully each week, as a worshiping community.”
The stakes are high; it is a matter of life and death. The branches need the vine. We need to be nourished by Christ’s words and by his sacrament. And we need to be nourished by the presence of the brothers and sisters of the household of the faith, the body of Christ, the Church. My brothers and sisters, as we journey together in Christ, let us put a candle in the window. A candle that says, “Welcome, welcome, welcome.” A candle that says, “The Eucharist is to die for.”"

~ Cardinal Sean of Boston

I was reading Cardinal Sean's blog and i came across a beautiful homily that he gave during the week and i have taken a few excerpts from the Homily, however, i believe that it is worth reading it all. You can click here (audio version)

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Mary to Juan Diego: “My dearest son, I am the eternal Virgin Mary, Mother of the true God, Author of Life, Creator of all and Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth…and it is my desire that a church be built here in this place for me, where, as your most merciful Mother and that of all your people, I may show my loving clemency and the compassion that I bear to the Indians, and to those who love and seek me…” (from an ancient chronicle).

A beautiful homily on http://www.1monk.blogspot.com/ about Our Lady of Guadalupe

Forgiveness

" Take heed to yourselves if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
~ Luke 17:3-4

To forgive offenses willingly is to have the attitude of desiring to forgive before it ever occurs to the other person to say "I'm sorry." It is to will the best for the other more than the other wills it for himself. Some people have the notion that forgiveness is to be extended only to those who say "I'm sorry." The idea is if they don't keep their side of the bargain, then we whew! don't have to extend them forgiveness. But this is false. Forgiveness is to be extended always and at all times. Sure, it's true that forgiveness can't be received till the person who needs it says "I'm sorry" and asks for forgiveness. But that doesn't make any difference to the one called to forgive. The injured person must will to forgive now, before the offender has ever asked and despite the fact that he may never ask. Why? Because we are called to be like Christ. "While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Why, one will hardly die for a righteous man-- though perhaps for a good man one will dare even to die. But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us" Rom 5:6-8.

(Just a Word of Encouragement from Mark Shea and Jeff Cavins www.catholicexchange.com)

John Paul's relationship with Medjugorje

'I have received your greetings, the wafer and two letters, one from you, Marek, and one from you, Sophia. Thank you for everything. I wish to return the greeting for Christmas and New Years. May the Christmas Eve wafer express this as well. 'I thank Sophia for everything concerning Medjugorje. I, too, go there every day as a pilgrim in my prayers: I unite in my prayers with all those who pray there or receive a calling for prayer from there. Today we have understood this call better. I rejoice that our time does not lack people of prayer and apostles. 'I thank Marek for both poems (songs) — The one from Huta and this one for Lagiewniki. I share your concern for 'The Weekly' and every day I entrust this name to God. I wish Marek the gift of courage and health. 'J Paul II 'Christus natus est nobis! 'Venite, adoremus!
'John Paul II, Pope'

Fr.Jozo's Refletion

( Photo taken from http://www.childrenofmedjugorje.org.uk/com50/sharing.shtml)

" With all of my being I desire to enter into the very core of that Loveand to respond to the greatest challenge of love. How am I to do this?It is through my surrender. Our Lady tells us that only through givingwill we be able to comprehend the gift of Jesus’ sacrifice on the Crossfor each of us. Yes, we are to respond to Love, with love. And there isno greater love than this - to give one’s life for one’s friends. OurLord says so simply, “You are my friends”. How are we then to respondto this grace with our life and how are we to live it? The Queen ofPeace tells us that it is through giving. Our giving is the beginningof this way of faith and love. She also tells us what it is that wehave to give, “ Little children, give time to God.”

For the full text from Fr.Jozo vist http://frjozo.blogspot.com/

Our Lady's Message to Mirjana ~ December 2, 2007

Our Lady was very sad. Her eyes were filled with tears through out the whole time.

"Dear children,Today, while I am looking at your hearts, my heart is filled with pain and shudder. My children, stop for a moment and look into your hearts. Is my Son – your God truly in the first place? Are His commandments truly the measure of your life? I am warning you again. Without faith there is no God’s nearness. God’s word which is the light of salvation and the light of common sense."
~ December 2, 2007 ---- Our Lady's message to Mirjana

......Mirjana added: I asked Our Lady painfully not to leave us and not to give up on us. Our Lady painfully smiled to my request and left. This time she did not finish her message with the words “Thank you.” Our Lady blessed all of us and all religious articles we had with us.

Advent

I thought this was very interesting because most of us Catholics don't know about this .... i found this on http://monkallover.blogspot.com/ . This blog was created by a monk. I often refer to his homilies each day (when posted).


TWO SEASONS IN ONE

Most Catholics, even priests, seem to be unaware that Advent really is a season to be observed in two stages, each stage having its own character.The Mass marks these two separate stages by giving us two separate Prefaces, one for the first stage of Advent and a different one for the second stage of Advent.The Second ComingThe first stage of Advent begins with the First Sunday of Advent and lasts through December 16. The Preface of the Mass for this first stage recalls that Christ “humbled himself to come among us as a man”, but it quickly invokes our hope for the day when “Christ our Lord will come again in his glory.” Here is the complete text of the Preface of the Mass for Advent I.
The Lord be with you.And also with you.Lift up your hearts.We lift them up to the Lord.Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.It is right to give him thanks and praise.Father, all-powerful and ever-living God,we do well always and everywhere to give you thanksthrough Jesus Christ our Lord.When he humbled himself to come among us as a man,he fulfilled the plan you formed long agoand opened for us the way to salvation.Now we watch for the day,hoping that the salvation promised us will be ourswhen Christ our Lord will come again in his glory.And so, with all the choirs of angels in heavenwe proclaim your gloryand join in their unending hymn of praise:Holy, holy, holy….

The Approach of Christmas
The second stage of Advent begins on December 17 and lasts through the afternoon of December 24 (thus being an octave). It prepares us more specifically for the coming solemnity of Christmas. The Preface of the Mass for this second stage of Advent recalls the prophecies of Christ’s birth, his life in the womb of the Virgin Mother, and John the Baptist’s announcement of his coming. Then this preface speaks of the joy that Christ give us “as we prepare to celebrate.” Here is the complete text of the Preface of the Mass for Advent II.
The Lord be with you.And also with you.Lift up your hearts.We lift them up to the Lord.Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.It is right to give him thanks and praise.Father, all-powerful and ever-living God,we do well always and everywhere to give you thanksthrough Jesus Christ our Lord.His future coming was proclaimed by all the prophets.The virgin mother bore him in her womb with love beyond all telling.John the Baptist was his heraldand made him known when at last he came.In his love Christ has filled us with joyas we prepare to celebrate his birth,so that when he comes he may find us watching in prayer,our hearts filled with wonder and praise.And so, with all the choirs of angels in heavenwe proclaim your gloryand join in their unending hymn of praise:Holy, holy, holy….

Reflection from Fr.Danko ~ November 25, 2007

“Dear children! Today, when you celebrate Christ, the King of all that is created, I desire for Him to be the King of your lives. Only through giving, little children, can you comprehend the gift of Jesus´ sacrifice on the Cross for each of you. Little children, give time to God that He may transform you and fill you with His grace, so that you may be a grace for others. For you, little children, I am a gift of grace and love, which comes from God for this peaceless world. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
~ Message of November 25, 2007


Reflection from Fr.Danko Perutina on the Message from Novemer 25, 2007

"Spe salvi"

You can find Pope Benedict XVI NEW Encyclical "Spe Salvi" to all the Biships, Priests and Deacons men and women religious and all the lay faithful on Christian Hope.

" “SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom 8:24). According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply a given. Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: the present, even if it is arduous, can be lived and accepted if it leads towards a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey. Now the question immediately arises: what sort of hope could ever justify the statement that, on the basis of that hope and simply because it exists, we are redeemed? And what sort of certainty is involved here?"
~ Pope Benedict XVI "Spe salvi"

Words of Encouragement

1 Timothy 2:5-6
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, Who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony to which was borne at the proper time.
The saints are the hands of God reaching down to bear grace to us. Francis Gajowniczek came to know this. He was chosen at random by the commandant of Auschwitz to die along with several other prisoners in reprisal for an escape. His sentence was to perish in the starvation bunker without food or water in the middle of the blistering Polish summer of 1941. As he was about to be led away, there was a stir in the ranks of the assembled prisoners in the yard. A man stepped forward and volunteered to take Gajowniczek's place. He explained that he was old and a priest, of no use to anyone in the Nazi New Order of utility. The commandant, with brutal Nazi calculation, accepted the proposal -- and St. Maximilian Kolbe was led away as a ransom just as his Master had been. Most of us do not have to go to this extreme to ransom the captive. But there are other sorts of captives in our lives: captives to drugs, or alcohol, or despair or pain. We can ransom them with gifts of ourselves in various ways. Is there a captive in your life? How can you help him or her to get free?
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Fr.Ciszek - - He Leadeth Me

"Continuing my mini-series on people who may be canonized that I’ve known, I turn my attention to an extremely great man Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ who was a prisoner in Soviet Russia for twenty-five years. Fr. Ciszek wrote two very interesting books With God in Russia and He Leadeth Me both published by Doubleday. Many older people will remember when this priest, who was supposed to be dead, came back out of Russia released by the communist government. He had gone into Russia a quarter of a century earlier to try to work quietly as a missionary. He had spent most of his time in concentration camps and in Siberia. He was a man of outstanding faith and an utterly courageous person. I was privileged to know father in his old age. When you would meet him you would have a certain sense of awe in the presence of such a man, but he completely disarmed you by his informal ways. He was a deeply spiritual person following in the traditional path of Jesuit spirituality. I was very delighted when I was asked by Bishop Michael Dudik of the Ruthenian Diocese of Passaic to be the censor of the two books of Fr. Ciszek for the opening of his cause of beatification. Never did books need censorship less than these two books, and I was delighted to testify that they were of the most solid Catholic faith. Sometimes in our own lives we get discouraged by the difficulties surrounding life in the church. Even priests and bishops can get discouraged. The life of Fr. Ciszek and his great message He Leadeth Me is something that we all need to keep in mind."
~ Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR

This book is best described on Et tu blog . . . I am still in the middle of reading this book, however, it is one of the most remarkable books I have read, so I thought I would share it !!!

Feast of the Miraculous Medal

"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee"

"These (gems on fingers with rays of light) are the symbols of the graces I shed upon those who ask for them. The gems from which rays do not fall are the graces for which souls forget to ask."

Fr.Slavko

Message of November 25, 2007

“Dear children! Today, when you celebrate Christ, the King of all that is created, I desire for Him to be the King of your lives. Only through giving, little children, can you comprehend the gift of Jesus´ sacrifice on the Cross for each of you. Little children, give time to God that He may transform you and fill you with His grace, so that you may be a grace for others. For you, little children, I am a gift of grace and love, which comes from God for this peaceless world. Thank you for having responded to my call.” ~ Message of November 25, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

"Dear children! Today I invite you all to rejoice in the life which God gives you. Little children, rejoice in God, the Creator, because He has created you so wonderfully. Pray that your life be joyful thanksgiving which flows out of your heart like a river of joy. Little children, give thanks unceasingly for all that you possess, for each little gift which God has given you, so that a joyful blessing always comes down from God upon your life. Thank you for having responded to my call. ”
~ Aug 25, 1988

Sacred Scripture

"Sacred Scripture isn't merely a text written in the past, but rather the word of God that has within it a personal message directed to each individual Christian"
~ Pope Benedict XVI

The Journey

"For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don't cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding..."
~ Colossians 1;9

Our journey is not our own it is all His. . . in the end He will always be there to welcome us at our last stop until then we must pray for wisdom and understanding so that we may continue on the right path towards His plan for us.

Addiction and Evil

"There's good and evil in life. The good on the right hand side of me, and the evil on the left side of me"

"Dear children! I still need your prayers. You wonder why all these prayers? Look around you, dear children, and you will see how greatly sin has dominated the world. Pray, therefore, that Jesus conquers. Thank you for having responded to my call."
~ September 13, 1984

God Acts Through the Sacraments

"When you think back to your own experience of the sacraments in your life, what did they mean then, what do they mean to you now? "
~Bishop W. Francis Malooly

Fr.Jozo's Oct 25, 2007 Reflection

"There must be those, who with their prayers, accompany the conversions, the confessors, and the confessions, so that every penitent may remove the old self and be clothed in the new- so that every penitent can return joyful to his family and community. Once again, we are called to be love and light to all those who have been overcome by darkness and sin. Imagine how cunningly Satan used a plastic Rosary as a target, saying that it has evil signs. Dear brothers and sisters, I am obliged to tell you the complete truth about this. Satanic signs and symbols exist. Those who belong to him and to his projects exist. His goal is always to destroy prayer and everything that is from God. There is no satanic Rosary or a factory that makes satanic Rosaries. Every Rosary that is blessed receives a blessing and becomes a certain sign in the hands of one who prays it. The right question in prayer is 'how we pray' and not on 'what kind of a Rosary we pray on or what material it is made of."
~Fr.Jozo

Message to Mirjana November 2, 2007

" Dear children, Today I call you to open your heart to the Holy Spirit and to permit Him to transform you. My children, God is the immeasurable good and therefore, as a mother, I implore you to pray, pray, pray, fast and hope that it is possible to attain that good, because love is born of that good. The Holy Spirit will reinforce that good in you and you will be able to call God your Father. Through this exhalted love, you will sincerely come to love all people and, through God, consider them brothers and sisters. Thank you."
~ Message to Mirjana Novemeber 2, 2007 ~

“All human beings are children of God, and everyone must become what they are, through the exacting journey towards freedom. God invites us all to belong to his holy people. The “Way” is Christ, the Son, the Holy of God: no-one reaches the Father if not through Him. "
~ Pope Benedict XVI

All Saint's Day

" Beloved:See what love the Father has bestowed on usthat we may be called the children of God.Yet so we are.The reason the world does not know usis that it did not know him.Beloved, we are God’s children now;what we shall be has not yet been revealed.We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,for we shall see him as he is.Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure,as he is pure." ~ 1Jn 3:1-3

Commentary on Monthly Message from Medjugorje ~ Oct 25, 2007

" To be the light means to shine for the others, so they do not stumble and wander in the dark. We should be the light which Christ has ignited, so people can see the truth and the face of His heavenly Father, instead of wandering and stumbling in misconceptions." ~ Fr. Danko Perutina

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
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