Medugorje Pilgrimage
Medugorje Pilgrimage
Medjugorje: it is an obscure mountain village in central Yugoslavia. Until 1981 very few had ever heard of this place, let alone been interested in visiting it - but on June 24th of that year at a most wonderful and exciting thing happened that has changed not only the lives of the local people but those of millions of people all over the world,.
On this special day six children from the village off, parish of St James Dean, sought vision of a woman and child appear on a small mountain behind the village. They were Catholics and were immediately able to identify the vision as that of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The response to this first sighting has been phenomenal. The visitors from all over the world, regardless of race or religion, have responded to the message first revealed to these children, "it opened their hearts and reconciled with God."
The children from that date, and saw the vision of what they referred to as a "gospel" (Blessed Mother) on a daily basis and the widespread very quickly struck the village and neighboring countryside. Visitors came in their droves, hoping to experience what these children and at that time Yugoslavia was under a Communist rule and were officially the non-believers have gone. They, as you can imagine, were absolutely furious at what was happening. People were put in prison, including the first pastor, father Jozo Zovko, because of their loyalty to the apparitions. The six young people were threatened and verbally and physically abused by the local police. The government did some terrible things to try to prevent the spread of this "nonsense" but to no avail.) the very beginning, those who go to medjugorje experience the power of God's love coming through the Blessed Virgin Mary - man can never, ever, a complete with God and expect to win. And they didn't this time!
The six visionaries, we the only children, initially asked questions by relating to themselves, their lives and their families. On the second day they asked "why have you come here - what you want to." very plain wiles a "there are many devout believers here. I have come to convert and reconcile."
The Blessed Mary is messages can therefore be summarized in five words:
Conversion, Faith, prayer, penance, peace.
1) conversion: she is calling us to turn from sin and asking us to...