The Medjugorje
Vol. 22, No. 4
Published for the Glory of God
Star
August/September 2008
Reflection on the Message
of Our Lady
Scraps of Time
by Fr. Charles Sellars, omi
By Dominique Monzelun, Jr.
Christian Hope
This is a reflection he sent to the teens who
made their recent Medjugorje pilgrimage
together. It will give you an idea how the
pilgrimage affected him.
My twelve-year-old sister, Suzanne, and I
took her little cocker spaniel dog named
Sandy to the Veterans Home today so the
aging veterans could pet Sandy and spend
time with someone other than Oprah and
Dr. Phil. And it got me thinking about
Mary, and y’all, so here’s another brief
reflection:
I was standing in a nursing home living
room with people I’d never met before,
and my sister, oh, don’t forget the dog. A
little awkward. But these ninety-year-old
veterans, who had seen the worst of humanity on a battlefield, smiled and raised
feeble hands to greet my hesitant ones.
“I am the resurrection and the
life.” Most of us are accustomed to
regard eternal life as beginning
when we die. But Jesus states that
for those who believe in Him, eternal life has already begun. Who we
are now is what we shall be forever. Physical death is not a defeat
but another step on the way to
follow to the fullness of God. For
us eternal life has already begun.
And my sister and I sat and talked with
them as their tattooed hands stroked Sandy;
scraps of time were all we offered, but
they smiled as if we had just pulled them
from a burning wreckage. And I was struggling to give just a few moments. I had to
leave and get back to my life, with my
precious time, my precious comfort zone.
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Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje
July 25, 2008
D
ear children! At this time when
you are thinking of physical rest, I
call you to conversion. Pray and work so
that your heart yearns for God the Creator who is the true rest of your soul and
your body. May He reveal His face to you
and may He give you His peace. I am with
you and intercede before God for each of
you.
Thank you for having responded to my
call
Volume 22, No. 4; August/September 2008
Because Jesus has been raised from
the dead, we too can hope to share
in His Resurrection. Christian spirituality is based upon the death of
Jesus and His resurrection guided
by the Holy Spirit within us. Jesus
is here with us. Lazarus is a sign of
God’s love and mercy—if we believe. God loves us and desires that
we be saved. Eternal life is a free
gift, but it is not automatic.
August 25, 2008
D
ear children! Also today I call
you to personal conversion.
You be those who will convert and,
with your life, will witness, love, forgive and bring the joy of the Risen One
into this world, where my Son died and
where people do not feel a need to seek
Him and to discover Him in their lives.
You adore Him, and may your hope be
hope to those hearts who do not have
Jesus.
Thank you for having responded to
my call.
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As I got back to my house with Suzanne,
Mary whispered gently the words of the
Gospel account from Mark of the woman
whose daughter was possessed by a demon. This Greek Gentile woman, approaching Jesus, pleaded with Him to heal
her daughter. And Jesus’ gaze gently fell
upon her eyes, eyes that had cried so long
for her daughter in desperation, and then
His gaze fell on the Jews gathered around
to hear Him. His heart broke to see the
thought on the minds of many of them:
“God came to save OUR people; the Covenant and Jesus are only ours.” And He
spoke their lie, “Let the children be fed
first. For it is not right to take the food of
the children and throw it to the dogs”
(Mark 7:27). And the woman cried, “Lord,
even the dogs under the table eat the
children’s scraps.” And Jesus’ heart wept
Jim Caviezel
in Medjugorje
F
rom July 14 to 18, 2008, Prof.
Dr.Tomislav Ivani held a seminar in
Hagiotherapy [treatment of the sick
by contact with relics of the saints, visits
to shrines, and other religious observances]
for English-speaking pilgrims in Medjugorje. Among the participants was Jim
Caviezel, famous because of his role in
Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.”
with pride over this woman’s faith—and
He healed her daughter, instantly.
The truth knocked the wind out of me—all
the veterans wanted were scraps of our
time because we as a society have shut
them up and only occasionally visit them,
like dogs in a pound. So many amazing
family members and volunteers come to
love them, but how many of us—beginning with me—just give them a passing
smile and keep walking? And it took the
Son of God twenty centuries ago to look
with overwhelming, perfect love upon a
Gentile woman for us to get it: our soul
becomes sickly and paralyzed as an aging
man in a wheelchair within us when we
walk past the sick and aging. When we tell
them that they only deserve the scraps of
our time, because that’s all we’re comfortable with sharing; we forget whose table
Jim Caviezel was converted thanks to an
encounter with Ivan Dragicevic, a Medjugorje visionary, while he was on the set
in Ireland (Count Monte Cristo). Motivated by the desire of his wife Kerry, who
already knew Medjugorje, Caviezel
wanted to assist at a prayer meeting with
Ivan that was taking place not far from the
set, but his obligations would not allow
him to do so. Then, providentially, the
weather came to his assistance: strong rain
interrupted the work, so Caviezel went to
meet Ivan. He was also present during an
apparition, and this changed his life.
we’ve been created to feast at.
So as in Jesus’ time, as in Medjugorje a
couple of months ago, as in our homes
now, Jesus whispers to us through His
Beloved Mother: “Go out into the streets,
into the lost and forgotten places. Bring
my people home, back to my table, back to
where I CANNOT give them scraps; for
at My Father’s table—the altar—there is
only my Body and Blood. I can give them
no less than everything. Myself.”
It is Mary’s desperate prayer that Jesus’
response to the woman, who thought herself nothing more than a dog, becomes
ours: “This is my body, given up for
you…for in it, you will find the Savior you
seek.” Brothers and sisters, let us LIVE
THE EUCHARIST.
How did he get the main role in “The
Passion of the Christ”? He only sent to
Gibson an envelope with his card and a
rosary from Medjugorje… While working on the “Passion,” he was fasting a lot,
he went regularly to confession and Holy
Communion, he was all the time reading
the messages and praying the rosary daily.
Caviezel came to Medjugorje several
times. In December 2003, he organized in
Mother’s Village a private presentation of
the unfinished version of “The Passion of
the Christ.”
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www.medjugorje.hr.
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Volume 22, No. 4; August/September 2008
Andrea Bocelli: I am going to Medjugorje to receive a message, not to give a message”
A
ndrea Bocelli, one of the greatest
tenors of our times, gave a concert
in Medjugorje on the outside altar
on August 7, 2008. He was accompanied
by the Czech National Symphonic Orchestra, soprano Paola Sanguinetti and
the mixed choir of the Croatian National
Theater from Split. The concert, one of the
most important cultural events of the year
in Bosnia and Hercegovina, was transmitted live by FTV Bosnia & Hercegovina
and attended by thousands of visitors.
Bocelli arrived in Medjugorje in the afternoon on Thursday, August 7. Upon his
arrival, he went to the church and prayed
a moment in front of Our Lady’s statue.
This moment of recollection did not last,
because he was very soon disturbed by
photo reporters… At the outside altar, he
joined the other musicians for the general
rehearsal. After this, he met the Franciscans
serving in Medjugorje, and the Medjugorje
visionaries.
Andrea Bocelli was born in the village
Lajatico in Tuscany, Italy, on September
22, 1958, where he grew up on a family
farm. At the age of twelve, he lost his
sight. He graduated in Law and worked
for a while in his profession. As a child, he
was enthusiastic about opera and the traditional Italian music. This love for music
determined his later life. Today, he affirms that music helps him to live.
Rediscovering Catholicism
oward Our Spiritual North Star
Journeying T
Toward
By Matthew K
elly
Kelly
A Review by Mimi Kelly, director of
The MIR Group
Perhaps I should begin with Matthew
Kelly’s explanation of what Catholicism
is. “Catholicism is not a lifeless set of
rules and regulations. Catholicism is a
lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life
designed by God to help you become all
you can be.”
Are you striving to thrive or are you merely
trying to survive? In the first chapter of
Matthew’s book, Rediscovering Catholicism, he explores what he has found to be
the heart’s desire – the universal hunger of
so many, that great hunger for the authenVolume 22, No. 4; August/September 2008
tic. “Are you real,” he asks – a real
Christian, that is? The blessing of being a
Christian is so simple, and yet I wonder if
we (I) put that blessing in gear each time
we have the opportunity to be a blessing
for someone else.
And so before I continue to share why I’m
just so completely blown away by Matthew Kelly, let me share a thought that
I’ve had, which connects The Medjugorje
Star to the writings of Kelly. For the last
21 years of my life, I’ve been connected to
Medjugorje. Not only is it in my heart, in
my personal life, but it is my professional
life (director of a Medjugorje center) as
well. What we find in Medjugorje is a
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Before the concert in Medjugorje, he said
that this would be a “unique experience.”
He also spoke about faith. “Those who
have no faith, have difficulty to find reasons to live and always risk to be disappointed, because life without faith is a
tragedy and ends as a drama. Faith helps
us to live, in itself it is a reason to live.” He
added, “Life is a trial and in this sense,
faith has an important place and is a solution for many problems.” When asked
about a message to give to those in Bosnia
and Hercegovina who were waiting joyfully and impatiently for his concert, he
answered: “I am going to Medjugorje to
receive a message, not to give a message.
The only message that I can give is contained and hidden in the notes of the songs
that I am singing, I have nothing to add.”
The concert opened with the Choir of the
Croatian National Theatre Split with the
song “Hercegovina in the Heart.” Bocelli
sang the classical spiritual repertoire
(Handel, Schubert, Franck, Vivaldi,
Mozart, Mascagni, Verdi, Rossini,
Gounod, Ortolani, Lecot). At the end of
the concert, he thanked the musicians and
expressed his joy for the possibility to sing
in this place of peace and
grace.
www.medjugorje.hr.
CD's by Andrea Bocelli are offered on
page 5.
world like we wish the rest of the world
could be. Here is a short paragraph from
Rediscovering Catholicism, which explains my thought.
For the first Christians, Christianity was
a lifestyle. The first Christians shared a
common life. Living in community, they
often worked together, prayed together,
and studied the Scriptures together. Their
faith was the center of their lives and it
affected everything they did. They shared
meals together, played together, and cared
for each other in sickness. They strove
earnestly to apply guiding principles of
the Gospel to each activity in their lives.
They comforted each other in their afflictions and challenged each other to live the
Gospel more fully. There was unity and
continuity between their professional lives
and their family lives, between their social
lives and their lives as members of the
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Church. Then, at the pinnacle of their
common life, they celebrated Eucharist
together.
Doesn’t this sound like the Medjugorje
experience? This coming together as a
people of God and sharing and caring and
celebrating Eucharist together – isn’t this
what makes your experience of Medjugorje
something that will never leave your heart?
Isn’t this what makes you hunger to do it
again and again? This is what life lived in
a Christian community should be. This is
why Medjugorje needs to come home
with us, so that we can build up the Church
right were we are. This is why Kelly’s
book Rediscovering Catholicism has made
so much sense to me. It’s a book that all
those under the age of 60 – those in that
gap, where Catechesis kind of fell short –
can now have a one-book course in rediscovering our Catholic faith. No kidding,
with each page you just sit back and say,
“Wow!”
Kelly has the ability to say the things that
I know in my heart, but don’t have the
ability to articulate. He just has the gift!
Here are some simple points that he makes:
The essence of Catholicism is
transformation. You cannot become more
like Jesus Christ and at the same time stay
as you are.
Hedonism is not an expression of
freedom, it is a passport to the enslavement of a thousand addictions. And the
end it produces is not pleasure, but despair.
Jesus said, “Go therefore and
make disciples of every nation” (Matthew
28:19). Jesus didn’t say, “Go make followers…” It is easy to be a follower, but
to be a disciple requires discipline.
Freedom is not the ability to do
whatever you want. Freedom is the
strength of character to do what is good,
true, noble and right. Freedom without
discipline is impossible.
When our children know more
about teen pop-idols than they do about
Jesus Christ, it is time for us to reassess the
place and priority our faith has in our
lives.
When veneration replaces imitation, the saints lose their genuine role in
Christian spirituality. (That statement is
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so true. Sometimes we seem to merely be
in awe of those saints, whose lives were so
incredibly inspiring, and yet, do we strive
to be like them or merely love them because they were who they were? I suspect
that our teens are venerating and imitating
their idols, but I don’t think most of them
are saints.)
Kelly shares that we can celebrate
many things in our lives – life and faith –
love and forgiveness – or we can celebrate
hatred and violence – selfishness and greed.
What is it that we celebrate? Kelly suggests that, “We become what we celebrate.
It is true not only in the life of a person, but
also in the life of a family. It is true in the
life of a nation, and it is true in the life of
the Church.” (I wonder what we are
celebrating as a nation. And I wonder if it
is what our forefathers had in mind when
they foresaw a nation as a home of the free
and a land of the brave?)
People…striving for excellence
is precisely what needs to be re-ignited in
Catholics today. Reconciliation is the
perfect tool to re-ignite our passion for
excellence in the spiritual life. …If you
want peace in your heart and the joy of a
clear conscience, come to Reconciliation.
On the subject of happiness - …if
you want to be happy for a lifetime, find a
way to make a difference in other people’s
lives.
I love this one – Worry doesn’t
empty tomorrow of its suffering, it empties today of its strength.
Prayer doesn’t change God.
Prayer changes us.
In referring to becoming the best
version of ourselves - Catholicism is the
dynamic program and lifestyle that assists
us in this transformation.
…the active part of our work as
Catholics in the twenty-first century should
be focused on two areas: education and
evangelization.
heroes of history and us: one, they had
singleness of purpose; and two, they
formed habits in their lives that helped
them to achieve their goals. In this same
way, we can all become saints. He offers
a statement that is totally true about the
socially-accepted anti-Catholic prejudice
which we seem to see all about us in this
world today and says that we are perhaps
partly to blame. He says that we, as a
family of faith, are guilty of not telling the
great stories of our spiritual ancestors –
the saints. Do you wonder who will be
next? I do, but as one who works with
teens on the spiritual level, I know that the
tree is filled with much good fruit. There
are many saints in the making.
Kelly has a section which he entitles “The
Classroom of Silence.” You’ll need to
read this for yourself, but the gist of it is
that there is so much noise in our world
today, cell phones, radios, I-pods, televisions, etc., that we can no longer hear the
voice of God. Think about it! He suggests
that we take 10 minutes a day to just sit in
silence – don’t move, don’t talk, don’t
think, just sit for 10 minutes in silence.
Think it’s easy? Try it!
And about Mary he says, “The first Christians gathered around her for comfort and
guidance, yet modern Catholics treat her
like she has some contagious disease.”
He says that as Catholics we must find a
place for Mary in our spirituality. Oh,
how I agree!
The final section of Kelly’s book is called
“Something Good Is About To Happen.”
I wholeheartedly agree! If you will read
his book, Rediscovering Catholicism, and
if you will spread the good word of this
incredible tool of evangelization to others, then yes, without a doubt something
good is about to happen and not just for us
but for our families, our communities, our
nation and especially for our Church.
In his chapter entitled“Who will be next?”
Kelly offers brief stories on the lives of
It was a priest who recommended this
some incredible people in history – Francis
book to me and I’ll be forever grateful for
of Assisi, Mother Teresa, John Vianney,
the introduction to Matthew Kelly. I hope
Thomas More and Pope John Paul II. I
that you will say the same.
believe that these vignettes inspire us to
become more like these great saints of our
Church. Kelly shares that there are two Rediscovering Catholicism is offered
great differences between the saints and on page 6.
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The MIR Group Presents
FR. PETAR LJUBICIC SPEAKING
FROM MEDJUGORJE TO LA & MS
OCTOBER 27 to 30, 2008
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2008
ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR CHURCH
4921 W. Metairie Ave., Metairie, LA
6:30PM ROSARY - 7PM HOLY MASS
CELEBRANT: FR. JOSEPH CAZENAVETTE
FR. PETAR LJUBICIC TO SPEAK AFTER MASS
EVENING CLOSES WITH BENEDICTION
DON’T LIVE AS IF YOU WILL NOT GIVE AN ACCOUNT ONE DAY.
BE PREPARED AT EVERY MOMENT TO MEET WITH GOD.
(From an interview by Lidja Kunza with Fr. Petar
Ljubicic published in Medjugorje Magazine ’02.)
Q. (Fr. Petar has been chosen to reveal the secrets given
to Mirjana.) You will reveal all 10 secrets. Can you tell
us how you will do that? Which of the secrets will be the
visible and permanent sign Our Lady has promised to
give?
A. When the time comes, 10 days before, Mirjana will
give me a parchment board, about 8 x 11 inches in size.
Our Lady gave that to Mirjana so she would know when
each of the secrets will start unfolding. On that are all the
secrets that will happen. I will be able to decode the first
secret, but not the second one. That applies for each one
of the secrets. Then I will fast and pray for 7 days. Three
days before it happens, I will be able to tell everybody
what will happen: where, at what time, hour, and minute,
and how long it will be lasting.
Mirjana said the first two secrets are connected to
Medjugorje and will be an admonishment, and a great
warning. Our Lady has come to a small village, Bijakovici,
in the parish of Medjugorje, where she has been appearing for over 20 years. When these two secrets start
unfolding, everyone will be aware that the visionaries
were telling the truth and that the apparitions are authentic. The third secret will be a visible sign on the Hill of
Apparitions called Podbrdo. That will be a great joy to
those who have accepted these apparitions as a gift of
Heaven and the Queen of Peace.
Fr. Petar Ljubicic, O.F.M.
WEDNESDAY,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2008
ST. CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH OCTOBER 29
1000 GOODYEAR BLVD., PICAYUNE, MS
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