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“Dear children! Also today, I call you to live my messages even more strongly in humility and love so that the Holy Spirit may fill you with His grace and strength. Only in this way will you be witnesses of peace and forgiveness. Thank you for having responded to my call. ”
The Virgin Mary is coming to us for 22 years and 10 months now. With a
motherly heart, she is addressing her messages to us. Through her
messages, she wants to lead us on the way of conversion and of holiness.
Throughout these years, many children of Mary began to believe and
encountered the vivifying force of her presence here, among us. The treasure
of Heaven that is coming to us can remain undiscovered. This precious
pearl can remain hidden and not found. Those who find it are able to give
everything: their time, their love and their life. The Gospel is
teaching us: “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Mt
6,21) Mary wants that our treasure is in God, in spiritual values, and
not in things and corruptible treasures of this world "that moth or
rust corrupt”. (Cf.: Mt 6,20) Those who discover this treasure will not
remain at the edge of the shore, attached to the banks of this world that
is imprisoning us, but will dare to row to the open sea, where Jesus is
calling us.
In the simplicity of the words of Our Lady is hidden the power of
Heaven, the power of the Mother who is able to give a new beginning to our
lives. In this message, she is calling us: “Live my messages even more
strongly”. Our God is a God of humility and of simplicity. Simple
motherly words that she is addressing to us are able to create in us a new
mentality, the mentality of the Gospel, of the life of God that wants to
blossom in us.
It is only in humility and in love that we can know God and recognize
the messages of Our Lady as messages of the Gospel, as messages of the
Kingdom of God that wants to begin to live in us, and through us in this
world. In Jesus, God has humbled himself, he stooped down to us so that
we can understand him and listen to him. During the Last Supper, Jesus
washes the feet of his disciples. He - who is God - stoops down to his
disciples to wash their feet. The washing of the feet is a task of a
servant or of a slave. It is possible to wash somebody’s feet only if one
bends down or goes on one’s knees in front of somebody. One must be at
the feet of somebody. This is precisely what Jesus is doing. He is on
his knees in front of his disciples, he is looking at them from down
upwards, like a little child that - since it is small - is looking at the
adults from down upwards, as if it wanted to ask: Do you accept me? God
speaks to man from down upwards, his Word resounds in humility.
However, one would expect to hear the Word of God coming from another
direction - and this is why God is not heard.
One could say that, in this place, Gospa also is speaking to us from
down upwards. She is using the words of a child that each one can
understand, and she is asking us: Will you accept me, will you listen to me,
so that the life according to the Holy Spirit can flower in you, so that
you can become the witness of what we need most: peace and forgiveness.
Let us listen to the Mother who is speaking to us and we will be happy
in this world already.
Fr. Ljubo Kurtovic
Medjugorje, April 26, 2004