The Medjugorje Message: A time of grace...

Monday, April 16, 2012

A time of grace...

Dear children! May your life, anew, be a decision for peace. Be joyful carriers of peace and do not forget that you live in a time of grace, in which God gives you great graces through my presence. Do not close yourselves, little children, but make good use of this time and seek the gift of peace and love for your life so that you may become witnesses to others. I bless you with my motherly blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.
Medjugorje Message of 25 September, 2008

There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven... Ecclesiastes 3

It can seem that we never have enough time to do all the things we would like to and what is expected of us, but Our Lady assures us that our presence on earth is a time of grace.

In many of her messages she refers to ways in which we can best use the graces and the time we are given to assist us on the journey from this world to the next, where a never-ending ‘time’ of everlasting peace and joy awaits.

A time for repeating... a time for deciding... a time for carrying... a time for living... a time for gracing... a time for receiving... a time for presenting... a time for opening... a time for using... a time for seeking... a time for witnessing... a time for blessing... a time for calling... a time for responding... a time for peace...

Praying the Rosary is a very effective way of using our time and incorporating the many different ‘seasons’ of grace mentioned in Our Lady’s messages.

PILGRIMAGE ANNOUNCEMENT

Fr Donald Calloway to lead pilgrimage to Medjugorje and Rome...

Fr Donald Calloway MIC, Vicar-Provincial for the Marian Fathers in the United States and also Vocations Director, is leading a pilgrimage to Medjugorje next year, taking in Rome as well.

The 2014 pilgrimage to Medjugorje and Rome is from June 11-19. More details are available here. Fr Calloway also has his own website: fathercalloway.com

It will be eight years since Fr Calloway last visited Medjugorje which had a major impact in his life. Here’s a post on the first homily he gave at Medjugorje.

DEAR DAVID...

An extract from the letter Pope Francis sent to Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland.

[...] The long-term measures that are designed to ensure an adequate legal framework for all economic actions, as well as the associated urgent measures to resolve the global economic crisis, must be guided by the ethics of truth. This includes, first and foremost, respect for the truth of man, who is not simply an additional economic factor, or a disposable good, but is equipped with a nature and a dignity that cannot be reduced to simple economic calculus. Therefore concern for the fundamental material and spiritual welfare of every human person is the starting-point for every political and economic solution and the ultimate measure of its effectiveness and its ethical validity.

Moreover, the goal of economics and politics is to serve humanity, beginning with the poorest and most vulnerable wherever they may be, even in their mothers’ wombs. Every economic and political theory or action must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential. This is the main thing; in the absence of such a vision, all economic activity is meaningless.

In this sense, the various grave economic and political challenges facing today’s world require a courageous change of attitude that will restore to the end (the human person) and to the means (economics and politics) their proper place. Money and other political and economic means must serve, not rule, bearing in mind that, in a seemingly paradoxical way, free and disinterested solidarity is the key to the smooth functioning of the global economy.

I wished to share these thoughts with you, Prime Minister, with a view to highlighting what is implicit in all political choices, but can sometimes be forgotten: the primary importance of putting humanity, every single man and woman, at the centre of all political and economic activity, both nationally and internationally, because man is the truest and deepest resource for politics and economics, as well as their ultimate end.

Dear Prime Minister, trusting that these thoughts have made a helpful spiritual contribution to your deliberations, I express my sincere hope for a fruitful outcome to your work and I invoke abundant blessings upon the Lough Erne Summit and upon all the participants, as well as upon the activities of the British G8 Presidency during the year 2013, and I take this opportunity to reiterate my good wishes and to express my sentiments of esteem.

• Full transcipt of exchange of letters between David Cameron and Pope Francis at Vatican Radio’s website.

Monday, April 16, 2012

A time of grace...

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