Four Popes

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[ANNOUNCER]

This is a Special World Report with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[MUSIC]

[CLIP]

“He sayeth unto them, but whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.’ And Jesus answered and said unto him, ‘Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, for flesh and blood hast not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in Heaven. And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.’”

[CHEERING]

 

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum;
habemus Papam:

Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum,
Dominum Robertum Franciscum
Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost
qui sibi nomen imposuit LEONEM XIV

[I announce to you great joy;
we have a Pope:
The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord,
Lord Robert Francis
Cardinal Prevost of the Holy Roman Church
who has given himself the name LEO XIV]

[ITALIAN] La pace sia con tutti voi

[CHEERING]

[ENGLISH TRANSLATION] Peace be with you all.

[POPE LEO’S FIRST BLESSING]

[CHEERING]

[MUSIC]

[NARRATOR]

“And the Lord said, ‘Simon, Simon, behold, satan hast desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.”

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

 

We are in a time, as Our Lady says in the messages, “I came here. Had I not come the world would have ended.”

Now we have a new pope. Think about this. This June it will be 44 years Our Lady has appeared.

Through that time, we now have four popes. What does that say to us? What does it mean?

They had to be lining up, further ground, for the moment when the first and second and third secret is released.

Its interesting. We’ve got Trump and we’ve got a pope who speaks English and from the United States. The first time.

Our Lady has been cooking everything for when the big fireworks happens, the right people have to be in position, because there is going to be a radical change in the world and the Church.

It’s time to make the Church to be Holy again by paralleling what our President is doing.

Its interesting, Trump and the Pope can talk together in the same language.

There are a lot of things that are lined up like dominoes, one  down, then the next one.

The times is the time who tells us come down from Heaven and say “This is my time.”

Many people who knows about Our Lady’s apparitions is wearing out and many don’t have that spark in their hearts.

Our Lady is just another apparition, another message.

We are in the time of Revelation 12.

Yes, I’ve said that many times and there is nobody saying that in a position.

Maybe many of you may say it, but the big voices out there, priests and the Cardinals, nothing about it.

 

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[ANNOUNCER]

We are going to continue to hear from a Friend of Medjugorje tonight about these important world events that are taking place.

What he is saying right now, or we’ve said this many times before, what you will hear a Friend of Medjugorje speak about today are the things that you heard ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago.

His beliefs have never changed. His positions have never changed when it comes to Our Lady to Her apparitions.

And we are going to continue to hear from a Friend of Medjugorje in just a few minutes, but first we are going to share with you something he wrote, providentially, twenty-four years ago.

It speaks exactly to what he is saying right now.

It’s a lesson that is just as important today as it was then, possibly more important today then it was back then.

It’s about 14 minutes long. Afterwards, we’ll hear a Friend of Medjugorje again.

So listen now to a Friend of Medjugorje’s writing from twenty-four years ago.

 

[NARRATOR]

The following epistle from a Friend of Medjugorje was originally written in June, 2001.

Its speaks of events going on in that time, pre-September 11^th, right before the Towers fell.

Place yourself back in that place and time as you hear the following, remembering where the world was at the turn of the century, before so much evil entered the world.

Though a Friend of Medjugorje wrote this twenty-four years ago, much of what Our Lady says in Her messages of recent time is reflected in this writing.

Yet, now we are older and wiser because of the events lived through over the past twenty-four years.

A Friend of Medjugorje often says, ‘knowing the past will help us know the future.’ Though we are still in the winter of our purification, a springtime awaits us, if we follow Our Lady’s guidance.

Have a firm faith and love.

Are You Tired from the Journey,

by a Friend of Medjugorje

“Nearing the end of their travels through the desert, the Israelites, God’s chosen people, encountered yet another trial.

Along their way to Atharim, the Canaanite King of Arad heard the Israelites were coming, so he engaged them in battle and took some of them captive.

Israel then made this vow to the Lord: “If you deliver this people into my hand, I will doom their cities.”

Later, when the Lord heeded Israel’s prayer and delivered up the Canaanites, they doomed them and their cities. We read about it in Numbers 21 verse 2 through 3.

Immediately, the Israelites continued on from Mount Hor on the Red Sea Road.

Numbers 21 verse 5

QUOTE “But with their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, ‘Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!’” UNQUOTE

What is truly amazing is that the wretched food, about which the Israelites were complaining, was the supernatural gift of bread that fell from Heaven for forty years called Manna.

On top of it all, they were complaining against God directly after He had heard their prayers and given them the victory over the Canaanites.

“What ungratefulness!” we remark. But are we much different when we examine our consciences?

Regrettably, human nature tends to be the same throughout the course of history unless we reflect on it and learn from past errors.

Just seven months ago, Our Lady announced a victory to us over the enemy.

Our Lady said on August 25, 2000:

“Dear children! I desire to share my joy with you. In my Immaculate Heart I feel that there are many of those who have drawn closer to me and are, in a special way, carrying the victory of my Immaculate Heart in their hearts by praying and converting. I desire to thank you and to inspire you to work even more for God and His kingdom with love and the power of the Holy Spirit…”

She tells us not only that there are many who are carrying the victory of Her Immaculate Heart in their hearts by praying and converting, but that She inspires us to work even more for God and His Kingdom.

Yet, if we look through prayer at the profoundness of the messages at the next six monthly messages, we see a common message within these messages. Our Lady seems to be hinting that we have become tired and lost our joy in prayer or maybe have never found that joy.

(September 25, 2000)  “…May prayer become a joy for you…”

(October 25, 2000) “…I call you to pray, pray, pray until prayer becomes a joy for you…”

(December 25, 2000) “…I pray for all of you for joy to be born in your hearts…”

(January 25, 2001)  “…Today I call you to renew prayer and fasting with even greater enthusiasm until prayer becomes a joy for you…”

And again, just last month on April 25, 2001:

“Dear children! Also today, I call you to prayer. Little children, prayer works miracles. When you are tired and sick and you do not know the meaning of your life, take the Rosary and pray; pray until prayer becomes for you a joyful meeting with your Savior…”

The words “until,” “become,” and “to be born” signify that we have not yet reached the point of fulfilling something.

So, at the moment, we are lacking something.

The fulfillment will only come through believing what Our Lady says and persevering to get there.

While we may not be on the same physical trek across the desert as the Israelites or fighting physical hand to hand wars, we certainly are in the same boat spiritually.

As we are God’s chosen people of this day and age, we have Our Lady as our “greater than” Moses leader.

Certainly, our trials and battles are no less critical and fatiguing spiritually than those of our brothers from the past.

Our Lady, like Moses, continues to encourage and exhort us to keep up the fight even though we are worn down by the journey.

It is good to stop and reflect on the hope that lies in front of us by retracing just what has happened in the past two and a half years.

The year 1999 was spent in great anticipation and excitement of the upcoming Jubilee Year, simultaneously with all the anticipation, fears, and preparations for the possible Y2K happenings.

The year 2000 brought in all the excitement of a new millennium, a year of unlimited mercy and pardon.

There were great victories.

And despite all the hubbub that the media and many others had created concerning the possible Y2K calamities, it passed in silence without a problem.

It had left many wondering, “What really does the future hold?”

With such an expectation passing, it can lead to a sort of complacency. Yet God’s ways are not our ways.

As the Scriptures state, God’s ways are as high above ours as the heavens are from the earth, and that God’s foolishness is wiser than the wisest man.

He does not act according to what the media forecasts or according to what man may forebode. His messenger for our times and the future is Our Lady.

 

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So what was God’s reaction to all of this?

Strangely enough, after January 1, 2000, when Y2K failed to materialize worldwide, Our Lady came the very next day on January 2nd, and told the world words directly from God, conveyed through His messenger, Mary, which said, quote:

“Pray and wait.”

These words, given the day after the greatly anticipated catastrophe that never occurred, carry great significance.

Praying people everywhere have sensed a forthcoming intervention of God on the horizon for some time now, and for many not standing on solid ground and/or, in particular, God’s words through His messenger (Our Lady) has led to a complacency in many thoughts that God is not going to act.

We do not forecast a future of gloom and doom because, for the believer, there is great hope for the future.

Yet, we do know something great is on the horizon. A future which Our Lady has just recently spoken of:

October 25, 2000

“…I desire to renew prayer with you and to call you to fast which I desire to offer to my Son Jesus for the coming of a new time – a time of spring…”

Throughout Church history and Salvation history, we can easily observe that different “springtimes” have only come about after the purification of a “winter.” Much de-emphasis has been put on the ten secrets of which Our Lady has foretold of in Medjugorje. While we should not dwell on them in fear, we should re-awaken and realize that they are realities of which Our Lady has spoken, and the impulses they offer for our good. The secrets are a part of the future. Yet as Our Lady:

June 25, 2000

“…The one who prays is not afraid of the future…”

The real question then is, “Are we really still praying?” “Are we persevering in prayer until prayer becomes a joy?”

If not, then we are in danger of it becoming a rigor that may cause us to decrease our prayers or possibly quit altogether.

We are hearing from many of you who have been going through the desert and the battles.

For us here, when the desert comes, we dig in and go more deeply into prayer.

It has come, for all of us, through hatred from unexpected places, misunderstandings, illnesses, jealousies and a host of other reasons.

But what else can we expect when we have words given straight from Heaven on the first day of the year 2001?

January 1, 2001

“…Now that when satan is unchained…”

These difficulties are not necessarily bad if we can turn and see them for what they truly are—purification –our winter before spring.

The Almighty sent serpents to bite those who complained against Him persistently and unrepentantly in the desert.

Yet he sent a remedy as well for the poison.

When the afflicted people called out for Moses to go to God on their behalf, he did so and returned with that remedy.

They must repent and look upon the bronze serpent upon the pole and be healed.

This action of Moses was of course the pre-figurement of Jesus being lifted up on the cross and taking on the figure of the serpent, our sins, so that He would take the punishment that we deserved.

The remedy for us today is no less the same.

March 25, 1997

“…Today, in a special way, I invite you to take the cross in the hands and to meditate on the wounds of Jesus. Ask of Jesus to heal your wounds, which you, dear children, during your life sustained because of your sins or the sins of your parents…”

While many may feel that their sufferings are not the result of any sin of their own but as the direct sin of another, still it is God who has allowed that suffering, and not at all because God wants us to suffer. He does not.

Everything has to be allowed by His hand because much of our suffering is a result of ours or other’s behavior.

We, on our part, must recognize that and turn all suffering and evil into good.

Use it for our own purification and for the reversal of the situations.

May 25, 1988

“…I want you to love all men with my love, both the good and the bad. Only that way will love conquer the world…”

After stopping to reflect on the past, we must regroup and begin again to renew prayer and love in our lives and recognize the hope of what the future holds.

A new time—a springtime is coming without a doubt according to Our Lady’s own words from Heaven.

Even in the midst of our ongoing battles and desert experiences, we can prepare for this time.

Praying that Prayer Becomes a Joy for You,

A Friend of Medjugorje, June 2001

[MUSIC]

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

This morning, our new Pope said, quote, “Saint Ignatius, who was led in chains to this city…,” he’s saying that right there, in Rome.

“…who was led in chains to this city, the place of his impending sacrifice, wrote to the Christians there…”

And he sees of himself, the Pope, quote, “…Then I will truly be a disciple of Jesus Christ when the world no longer sees my body…

Ignatius was speaking about being devoured by wild beasts in the arena and so it happened.”

What the Pope is saying, about beasts in the arena, and apply for all those in the Church who exercise a ministry of authority.

One must expend oneself to the utmost, what the Pope means. You have to spend yourself, even your life, basically, to be martyred.

Because of this event of Our Lady, because Our Lady has been here for so long, people become tired because we are waiting for God to do something.

A second point emphasized that just because something has not happened yet, does not mean nothing will happen.

I know its going to. I believe it. I’ve been watching this every letter of Our Lady.

John Paul [the First], he became Pope and he died in one month, one month.

Our Lady has gone through four popes now.

Marija told me that Our Lady said to her that it was very difficult for John Paul the Second to be the pope.

It makes sense, John Paul the First, dies in 30 days?

That tells you something.

So, Our Lady has been picking each Pope for what She wants and be setting of the Secrets and what is going to happen.

And then you’ve got Benedict, when he became the Pope. We were in the Field, Benedict comes out. At that moment, Marija didn’t know it. She was at home waiting for the Pope and she didn’t see it.

Do you know why?

Because just before he came out on the balcony, Our Lady appeared. She didn’t know that until after the apparition.

Our Lady came down exactly the same time Benedict stepped onto the balcony.

I telephoned Marija right after that.

I told Marija, we were in the Field listening to, on a radio we brought down there, and Marija told me her experience and what happened.

And I asked her, what do you think Marija? She told me that the Church is safe.

The third Pope, Francis, whether you liked him or not, I wasn’t about what he has done and what he said, but he is the Pope there.

And you know what he did? He approved Medjugorje.

And he put Bishop Aldo to be over Medjugorje.

And Francis gave the position for the first time in history, one single bishop over one church.

So, now, we have a new Pope and now he is American.

 

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There is a song, one part, the second stanza, says,

“In your eyes are my secrets that I have never shown you in my heart. I feel I’ve always known you.”

This is Our Lady, the Secret.

[SONG]

And reaching will it not be soft and kind
At rest from life, from patience and from pain
At rest from bliss, we know not when we find
How can I have enough of life and love

 

In your eyes are my secrets that I’ve never shown you
In my heart I feel I’ve always known you

In your arms there’s a comfort that I never knew
You’re what I’ve been waiting for, there’s no one like you

 

Sure as the sunrise, pure as a prayer
You fashioned hope right out of thin air

Every dream I abandoned, seems it could come true
I believe in miracles, there’s no one like you

 

Innocent as a newborn in a world so frightening
It’s as if my world’s been struck by lightning

Every dream I abandoned, seems it could come true
I believe in miracles, there’s no one like you

 

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

It’s important that you support this mission.

It is you who keeps this place going.

Your donations brings to conversion.

As you know, I’m not looking for devotion. This mission, what She built, is to be a place of conversion and to propagate the messages and to help you and other people to convert people.

I was out today, and I got something to eat.

There was a woman standing there with, I guess her husband.

She had a shirt on with a word on the front of her t-shirt. The word was very, very vulgar.

I said, ”What you got girl?” She said, “What?”

“Look at that word you have on your shirt.” And I put my hand on her shoulder. I said, “Girl, what are you doing?”

And she started laughing. I said, “Look. I’m going to tell you, you like that, that word you got on there?”

And she’s laughing. And I’m smiling. And I’m laughing with her. And I said to her, “Let me tell you, what do you think Jesus thinks about that?”

And then she starts laughing more, and her boyfriend he started laughing also.

And this black lady, she’s just really laughing.
I’ve got my hand on her shoulder, “Lookey, I’m going to pray for you so Jesus will love you. He doesn’t want you to go to hell.”

She was really laughing, not being smart, she was shocked somebody would say something.

And I said, “I’m going to be praying for you. I want you to go to Heaven.”

I do this everywhere. We’ve got to be bold. I could see conversion in her.

This is what we’re supposed to do.

And we can’t do it without your help and the donations constantly, every month, whatever you can do.

We wish you Our Lady, we love you. Goodnight.

 

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This ends the Special World Report with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts are available as CDs which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.