1968 Song Reveals Its Mystery Through Our Lady

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[PAUL HARVEY]

The man I’m talking about was not a scrooge, now, he was a kind a decent, a mostly good man. Generous to his family and upright in his dealings with other men. But he just did not believe in all of that Incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas time. It just did not make sense and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He could not swallow the Jesus story, about God coming to Earth as a man.

 

He told his wife, “I’m truly sorry to distress you, but I’m not going with you to church this Christmas Eve. He said he’d feel like a hypocrite, that he’d much rather just stay home, but that he would wait up for them. So, he stayed, and they went to the midnight service.

 

Now, shortly after the family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier and heavier and then he went back to his fireside chair and began to read his newspaper.

 

Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound. Then another, then another, then yet another. At first, he thought somebody must be throwing snowballs against the living room window. But when he went to the front door to investigate, he found a flock of birds huddled out there miserably in the snow. They had been caught in the storm and in a desperate search for shelter they had tried to fly through his large landscape window. That was what had been making the sound.

 

Well, he couldn’t let the poor creatures just lie there and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter. All he would have to do is to direct the birds into that shelter.

 

Quickly, he put on a coat and galoshes, and he tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. And he opened the doors wide and inside the barn, he turned on a light so the birds would know the way in. But the birds did not come in.

 

So, he figured that food would entice them. He went back into the house and fetched some breadcrumbs and sprinkled those on the snow, making a trail of breadcrumbs to the yellow-lighted wide-open doorway of the stable. But to his dismay, the birds ignored the breadcrumbs.

 

The birds just continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. He tried catching them. He could not. He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around and waving his arms, but instead, they scattered in every direction … every direction except into the warm lighted barn.

 

And that’s when he realized that they were afraid of him. They were afraid of him. To them, he reasoned, I am a strange, terrifying creature. If only I could think of some way to let them know that they can trust me. That I am not trying to hurt them, but to help them. But how? Any move he made tended to frighten them and confuse them. They just would not follow. They would not be led or shooed because they feared him.

 

And he thought to himself, if only I could be a bird, now, if I could be a bird and mingle with them and speak their language and tell them not to be afraid, then I could show them the way to the safe warm barn. But I would have to be one of them, wouldn’t I? So they could see…and hear…and understand.

 

At that moment the church bells began to ring. The sound reached his ears above the sounds of the wind. And he stood there listening to the bells, Adeste Fidelis, listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. And he sank to his knees in the snow…

 

Paul Harvey. I hope for you and those you love this will be a wonderfully Merry Christmas.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

And of course, Paul Harvey was a great storyteller. I listened to him all the time.

 

Hearing those bells brings me back to Medjugorje on my first two or three trips. When the apparition happened outside of the rectory, everyday when Our Lady appeared, flocks and flocks and flocks, all the birds came to the rectory. We knew it was supernatural. They were drawn, just like in the story, given the symbol for the people to come. If Our Lady could bring the birds there, what about the people?  And St. James bells at that time sound just like what you heard on the recording and these birds were singing through the whole time. We forget these things. It was miraculous. Everybody knew that. Nobody doubted that Our Lady called these birds as a physical sign of Her presence.

 

Our Lady gave a message yesterday, December 25, 2022, and many are going to think She is just telling us the same thing; but She’s not. And after you hear this broadcast, you’ll see much more into it.

 

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Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje’s December 25, 2022, Monthly Message to the World

 

“Dear children! Today I am carrying my Son Jesus to you, that you may be His peace and a reflection of the serenity and joy of Heaven. Pray, little children, to be open to receive peace because many hearts are closed to the call of the light which changes hearts. I am with you and I pray for you to open yourselves to receive the King of Peace, Who fills your heart with warmth and blessing. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Our Lady wants you to have peace, She says,

 

“…His peace and a reflection of serenity and joy of Heaven…,”

 

Speaking of Her Son. And She says to be

 

“…open to receive peace because many hearts are closed to the call…”

 

Isn’t that incredible, that this man that didn’t believe what God could do, he restricted Him and limited His power and he parallels himself with the birds, he could not get them into the barn. They were closed. The birds’ hearts were closed to the call.

 

“…Little children, be open to receive peace because many hearts are closed to the call of the light which changes hearts…”

 

When we were small, as children, we were innocent. We used to laugh. Now we’re grown up and laugh at those who play because even the youth today, they don’t know how to play, except with cell phones and electronics. They’re limited. They can’t hear the call. But time has passed by and you grow up tall and as we age, we see how nature can speak to us. Our Lady says go out and see nature, it speaks to you truth. If you watch an apple tree, there are apples falling one after one. How many souls are falling from the tree because their hearts are closed to the call of the light? They don’t want to change their hearts. Paul Harvey’s story showed his heart changed.

 

The one thing we have to have is love because love never dies, no matter how much time passes by. A closed heart doesn’t have serenity. Our Lady is dropping to us breadcrumbs to lead us to a way of life but it’s passing you by.

 

[SONG]

When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall, we used to love while others used to play. Don’t ask me why, but time has passed us by. Someone else moved in from far away.

 

Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small, and you don’t ask the time of day. But you and I, our love will never die. But guess we’ll cry come first of May

 

The apple tree that grew for you and me. I watched the apples falling one by one. And I recall the moment of them all. The day I kissed your cheek and you were mine

 

Now we are tall, and Christmas trees are small, and you don’t ask the time of day. But you and I, our love will never die. But guess we’ll cry come first of May

 

When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall. Do do do do do do do do do.

 

Don’t ask me why, but time has passed us by. Someone else moved in from far away

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

“The apple tree that grew for you and me.”

 

Your family, your friends, who is listening to Our Lady?  Who’s not listening to Our Lady?

 

“Don’t ask me why. But time has passed us by.”

 

Four decades with the Virgin Mary and so many people still won’t listen to Her who very much know everything about Her and what She says.

 

“…many hearts are closed to the call of the light which changes hearts…”

 

It’s a sad song because many are going to the barn, out of the cold—or the trees around the rectory—while many of your loved ones and many souls are not.

 

Mankind is poor. Our Lady is here to enrich us. She is here to tell a story of Her Son that is only told seldom, right here at Christmas, and then it goes away.

 

Today is December 26^th. I turned on one of the stations here in Birmingham. I know what I was going to hear but I wondered if they changed this year. And they didn’t. No Christmas music. And its not just pop music. The commercial that first comes on is about Spring and a sale. They throw Jesus away. He’s just something for commercialism to help us make more money.

 

We Christians, not following Our Lady are squandering our resistance of the direction of the world. The messages are resistance, and resistance means you hold the line. You don’t give into the world. You don’t follow everybody else. You make your promises to Our Lady. But man hears what he wants to hear and man disregards the rest. Lies, lies, lies are everywhere. And many want those lies. They even lie to themselves. Our Lady has repeatedly said, “Do not be afraid.”

 

If you listened to last Thursday’s broadcast, titled, Now You Know, it’s an hour an a half, and you need to spread this for the whole next year. It’s shocking. When the buttons are pushed, almost everybody will be running scared except those who got into the barn to eat the breadcrumbs—the messages. They’ll be looking for places. They’re going to want jobs because people are not taking jobs now. They’re not working. And it’s a sin.  There is going to come the day, they’ll be penalized because there is not going to be any job offers.

 

They’re finding people up North right now, dying in their car, frozen. They were trying to get home. It’s tragic. Our Lady is crying out to us so that you won’t be angry and have shame that the time of grace has passed. Almost everything you hear today is a lie.

 

[SONG]

I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told. I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles. Such are promises. All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

 

When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy in the company of strangers, in the quiet of a railway station, running scared. Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go, looking for the places only they would know. 

 

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“Dear children! Today, when the light of Jesus’ birth is illuminating the entire world, in a special way, with Jesus in my arms, I am praying that every heart becomes the stable of Bethlehem in which my Son will be born, so that your lives become the light of His birth. Little children, you live in restlessness and fear. Therefore, little children, today on this day of grace, pray to Jesus to strengthen your faith and become the Ruler of your lives because, my children, only with Jesus in your life will you not look at restlessness but pray for peace and live in peace, and you will not look at fear, but Jesus, Who frees us from all fears. I am your Mother who constantly watches over you and I bless you with my motherly blessing.”

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

One could say, this message sounds like the 25^th for Marija for the whole world.

 

Our Lady said November 2, 2019, Our Lady wants you to trust God. She says, He…She says,

 

“…my…Son always prayed and glorified the Heavenly Father…”

 

“…He…,” talking about Jesus,

 

“…always said everything to Him and trusted in His will…”

 

And God’s Will for Jesus was pretty tough. He even said, in the Agony of the Garden, “Let this chalice pass Me by.”

 

Jesus had to trust the Father.  And so Our Lady continued and says,

 

“…This is what you, my children, should also do, because the Heavenly Father always listens to His children…”

 

Always. Not maybe. Anytime you talk to God, the Heavenly Father, He is listening. And then She says,

 

“…One heart in one heart…”

 

And then She defines what She means in the heart:

 

“…love, light and life…”

 

So, that means love in the heart, light in the soul, and life in the physical realm.

 

If you have that in your heart, then you can see these messages from Marija’s to Jakov’s, and you wouldn’t be saying, “Oh, they’re saying the same thing.” No, they did not.

 

Our Lady says in the same message of November 2, She says this,

 

“…My children, read the book of the Gospel. It is always something new…”

 

And basically She says, after that, regarding the Gospel and Her Son is the words of life.

 

So Marija’s message says, “carrying Jesus,” making the point where Our Lady just says, the book of the Gospel is always something new. But Jakov, you might say the messages say the same thing. No, it does not. Jakov’s said,

 

“…Today when the light of Jesus’s birth is illuminating the entire world…”

 

Marija didn’t say the entire world. And then Our Lady tells Jakov,

 

“…in a special way, with Jesus in my arms…”

 

And Marija’s,

 

“…I am carrying my Son Jesus…”

 

And there’s something profound in Jakov’s message. What do you think Jesus did in Our Lady’s arms? He slept. God slept in the arms of the Virgin Mary. That was His bed. Jakov said, “…illuminating the entire world…”

 

What did the world do to Jesus? They did jokes to Him on the way of the Cross, spitting on Him. Why? Not because of the miracles. Because the things that He said.  “You’re God?” They hurt His head, put a Crown of Thorns on His head. They wanted to silence Him.

 

Jesus cried over Jerusalem, over His apostles, over so many things. His Heart was broken because they wouldn’t accept what He said. And finally He died, of which started the whole world crying.

 

And it’s interesting and intriguing what Our Lady says to Jakov, “…with Jesus in my arms…” Her arms was the bed for the Child. And at the end of His life, at the foot of the Cross in Our Lady’s arms, when they lowered Jesus, those arms was His deathbed. As Jakov said, “…illuminating the entire world in a special way, with Jesus in my arms…”

 

[SONG]

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, but I didn’t see that the joke was on me, oh no.

 

I started to cry, which started the whole world laughing. Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.

 

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes. And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I’d said.

 

Till I finally died, which started the whole world living. Oh, if I’d only seen that the joke was on me.

 

I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes. And I fell out of bed, hurting my head from things that I’d said.

 

‘Till I finally died, which started the whole world living. Oh, if I’d only seen, oh yeah, that the joke was on me.

 

That the joke was on me

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Incredible. I’m telling you, for years and years, I knew this song was about Jesus. I never could put it together. Last year, I listened to it 20 times. This is about Jesus. I did research on the Bee Gees who wrote this song and they said, one of them just wrote the words and they weren’t talking about anything. They couldn’t explain it. And it bothered me because somehow this was a song of Jesus, His Birth and His Crucifixion. And today, Our Lady proves what She says

 

“…My children read the book of the Gospel. It is always something new, it is what binds you to my Son who was born to bring the words of life…”

 

Words are important. Paralleling messages, Marija, “…I am carrying my Son…”

 

Jakov, “…Jesus’ birth is illuminating the entire world, in a special way…”

 

And this is where it is different from Marija’s.

 

“…in a special way, with Jesus in my arms…”

 

Arms of the bed, the arms of the Virgin Mary, held Him when He was birthed and at His death. And they killed Him because of what the song says,

 

“I fell out of bed, hurting my head with the things that I had said, till I finally died which started the whole world living.”

 

Amazing.

 

The messages of Our Lady are amazing. You’ve got to crack them open through prayer, fasting, sacrifices, being persecuted, being hated, and I tell you people, these messages are a preface of the Bible. Also, we can look at the words or the messages of Our Lady in another way.

 

If you look up something in the dictionary, it explains the words. The theologians don’t understand this. Our Lady is defining the Bible to bring it to life into a time that is so radically different from when the Bible was written, for modern man to understand Scriptures. And this is a perfect example of struggling for something over a song that I knew was about Christ that it comes through the message.

 

We are living a Biblical moment. Don’t tell me chapter 3 in Genesis, verse 15, where it says,

 

“I will put enmities between thee and the Woman and thy seed and Her Seed, She shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for Her heel,”

 

That that is not tied to Revelation 12. It says, “The Woman and the Dragon,” quote,

 

“And a great sign appeared in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars and being with child, she cried out in her pain and was in anguish of delivery.”

 

Our Lady is trying to deliver the world back to Her Son. She’s cried. She’s begged. She’s pleaded. It continues,

 

“And another sign was seen in heaven and behold, a great, red dragon…”

 

And going down further,

 

“And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bring forth he might devour her Son. And she brought forth a male child.”

 

Yes, Revelation is difficult to understand but the Virgin Mary is spoken about in the beginning, the Second Eve, and at the end of the Bible.

 

Yes, many people in Christendom, Protestants and others, don’t accept Our Lady. If you just reason out the Bible and about Our Lady, chapter 9 of Matthew, it explains what people are objecting to with the Virgin Mary that She was conceived with out sin and what Our Lady’s messages are showing, to break open to see things in the Bible, the people, or Christians, have not applied to the Virgin Mary.

 

In Matthew, Jesus says,

 

“People do not put new wine in old wine skins. Otherwise, the skin bursts, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wine skins and both are preserved.”

 

Don’t tell me, you out there, even Protestants who are against Our Lady or they don’t believe Who She is, there is no way God is going to put His Son, Who is sinless, into somebody who has sin in them.

 

Years ago I saw this. I’ve never heard anybody say it before. You don’t put God in a human being that’s in sin because Her blood mingles with His Blood.

 

As we walked with Our Lady for all these times, these decades, She gives us the gift of the real Baby Jesus. Our Lady’s hands, and what She held 2,000 years ago, was more than what She could even understand. She believe it, but can you imagine, you’re holding God? To believe what is unbelievable, She had to open Her heart. She gave Herself, to let shine the light of love for Christmas for us. She was eye to eye with Jesus. We don’t need presents. We don’t need the lights. We need the light of Jesus. What Our Lady is asking and begging of you to do is just open your heart to Her Son to shine the light of love from Her hands to your hand. The treasure that is given to us, but if you stay with the world, is more than your hands can handle. Give it to Our Lady. Give it to Jesus.

 

[SONG]

Looking back on all the years past, moments in December, what do you remember? Can you hold the gifts of Christmas in your hands?

 

Do you cherish all the memories? Laughing with your loved ones? Sharing joy with someone? Do you hold the gifts of Christmas in your hands?

 

May we share our hearts and give ourselves, feel the hope in helping someone else. And let us shine the light of love this Christmas. Let us find the time to share between us, eye to eye, with our hearts open wide, to more than what our hands can hold this Christmas

 

It’s not about the lights or presents. We can find the spirit. Listen, and you’ll hear it from those without means or fortunes in their hands.

 

May we share our hearts and give ourselves, feel the hope in helping someone else. And let us shine the light of love this Christmas. Let us find the time to share between us, eye to eye, with our hearts open wide, to more than what our hands can hold this Christmas

 

May we share our hearts and give ourselves, feel the hope in helping someone else. And let us shine the light of love this Christmas. Let us find the time to share between us, eye to eye, with our hearts open wide, to more than what our hands can hold this Christmas

 

To more than what our hands can hold this Christmas

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Her arms, Her hands were stretched out today, December 26^th, at apparition time, over the whole world, every person across the world, billions of people. And they’ll wake up when the Secrets happen knowing and understanding August 25, 1997,

 

“…Now you do not understand, but soon will come a time you will lament for the messages…”

 

They are written down. You can go to them. If you have to lament the messages and they are there, what are you going to feel like when the apparitions are over and you realize every day you were blessed. That’s why we are on our knees in the Field, wherever we are, to get the fullness of those blessings.

 

Tomorrow, the next day, the next week, the next month, be on your knees when She comes to the world. She is blessing you. You want to miss that? You want your heart to be open so you get the fullness of what She is doing?

 

From 1988, we have never missed praying in the Field at the moment of the apparition, and we’ve got beautiful memories. Do you have them? We have thousands and thousands of consecrations for this Valley, the pace of the world falling and crashing cannot continue without a total crash in destroying the world. The daily apparitions is a shield to keep satan to destroying you and the world. The means to do it is there, only Her hands is stopping it before the throne of God. And the temperature of the world is rising in its evil.

 

January 1^st, a few days from now, countdown to the Secrets. We are on the eve of it. Mirjana said four or five years ago, “We have entered into the period of the Secrets”!

 

Do you want to be stingy of your time, what you’re doing, your prayers, your money?  I tell you strongly, do everything you can to get close to Our Lady. If you can’t go to Medjugorje, come here. We’ve had people over and over and over have said they got just as much here as when they went to Medjugorje. There are sites to come pray that Our Lady has sanctified, here in the Tabernacle, up on the mountain, the Cross, the Bedroom of Apparitions, the Field of Apparitions, many beautiful things. Geographically, Our Lady marked the spots. It’s not like following Marija. These last apparitions in Medjugorje makes this place the last apparition, geographically, on the earth.

 

Yes, the visionaries have been all over the place.  But Our Lady specifically went to the Cross, specifically to the Bedroom as the major place to appear and to the Tree telling Marija, “Tomorrow I will appear at the tree.” Give Our Lady a gift, and that’s your heart, and open it up.

 

[SONG]

The journey cross a desert land. Nothing sure and nothing planned. Faith in something still unknown. The Savior born without a home.

 

Shepherds gather from afar. Darkness broken by a star. Something new that always was. A newborn baby, God with us.

 

Someday He’ll give His life for me. For now, He sleeps so peacefully.

 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! They all sing praise the King! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Come adore, He is born today! (Hallelujah, hallelujah) Today (He is born today)

 

Seeing now with open eyes what once was lost what once was blind, what once was broken in the world, amazing grace has now restored

 

Someday He’ll give His life for me. For now, He sleeps so peacefully.

 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! They all sing praise the King! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Come adore, Christ is born today! (Hallelujah, hallelujah) Today (He is born today)

 

Stepping down from Heaven’s throne to show us that we’re not alone. The truest love, a single light. The Son of God, Christmas night.

 

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! They all sing praise the King! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Come adore, He is born today! (Hallelujah, hallelujah) Today (He is born today) Today (Hallelujah, hallelujah) Today (He is born today)

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

We love you.

 

Our Lady said, February 25, 1998, “Sacrifice your lives for the salvation of the world.”

 

That is what this Community is about. This is what my life is about. Nothing else is important to me because we are in the throws of the battle from Heaven and hell. Who’s going to win who has most on their side to make the sacrifice that Our Lady asks you for. We give you our heart for this Christmas. We labor for you. We give you everything that we have.

 

We wish you Our Lady. We love you, and have a beautiful Christmas in the next weeks that come to you.

 

Good night.

 

[THEME MUSIC]

[ANNOUNCER]

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