The Messages Are the Escape

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The following is a special message from a Friend of Medjugorje.

 

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[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Medjugorje is not something that doesn’t matter. Through the years, many people have gone, and they’re not part of it. How do you go there and not act on it and continue with your life and leave Medjugorje?

 

Not everybody stayed converted. Not everybody converted at all.

 

And so, Medjugorje is not a leaving matter that we can continue on life as it is. These moments with Our Lady are not going to come back. It’s part of salvation history.

 

But we are man, and as men, we forget that. And because of that, for the lack of visions, the people lose their faith.

 

[SONG]

Remember when you couldn’t wait to show up early and find your place, ‘cause you didn’t want to miss a thing. And your heart was open, ready for change.

 

Oh, those days you were never afraid to sing, never afraid to lift your hands, didn’t care what people would think.

 

You were on fire. And church was more than a place, and people were more than faces, and Jesus was more than a name.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

The first thing’s a radical conversion. Many people who go to Medjugorje do that.

 

The second thing happens is a separation. You start separating from everybody else.

 

The third thing is your greatest zeal in your life is conversion of a pagan. Could be your spouse. Could be your children. Could be your neighbor. Could be your enemy. Whoever!

 

These three things are paramount in the messages. They’re going to come associated in the future with the Secrets.

 

This is here. This is the moment.

 

Radical conversion,

 

Separation second,

 

Third, you want to convert everybody.

 

The whole world’s going to be like that.

 

[SONG]

Remember when you weren’t ashamed to tell your friends about your faith. A time when you felt the pain of just one lost soul that was slippin’ away.

 

Your heart was soft; you had radiant eyes. But slowly the pressures and burdens of life pulled you into the dark of the night. Oh, when did you lose your sight?

 

‘Cause you were on fire. And church was more than a place, and people were more than faces, and Jesus was more than a name. Oh, you were on fire. You let life put out the flame. But He’s still callin’ out for you, ‘cause He wants to light your heart again and set it on fire. Set it on fire.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

October 28, 1981 Medjugorje

 

“Regarding the fire that hundreds of people saw that burned but did not consume anything,” Our Lady said:

 

“The fire, seen by the faithful, was of a supernatural character. It is one of the signs, a forerunner of the great sign.”

 

What does it say to us?  It says that you have to commit more to Medjugorje, not less.  You have to give up everything.  There is nothing else more important than Our Lady’s apparitions upon the earth and what She is calling you for.  And if you’re not answering that call to be an apostle, you will have regrets.

 

These are the last apparitions. Impress that in your heart. And you need to invest everything you can into it.

 

[SONG]

Turn your eyes. Turn your eyes. And don’t forget what it was like.

 

Set me on fire. Set me on fire. I wanna hold God’s people close, wanna feel the power of Jesus’ Name. Set me on fire.

 

Set me on fire.

 

Set me on fire. Set me on fire. Set me on fire.

 

Set me on fire.

 

[ANNOUNCER]

This has been a special message from a Friend of Medjugorje.

 

Do not waste another moment. Medjugorje is not something you can simply walk away from.

 

Set your heart on fire.

 

Contact BVM Caritas Medjugorje Pilgrimages in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.

 

Again, 205-672-2000, ext. 218 or 219.

 

Or see mej.com for more information.

 

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[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Oh, what those days were. A honeymoon, so exciting. Everybody was on fire.

 

A month ago today, I was in Medjugorje. Marija asked me to come, and in three days, I was headed to Medjugorje.

 

After I had been there that week, I decided we had to start going back to Medjugorje.

 

We’re opening up our pilgrimages for the first time in two years. We’ll be there for the 41^st Anniversary. I will be there, and we already have twenty people who have already signed up. I want to encourage you to go, because you’ll never see Medjugorje like it is now once it gets busy. It’s very organic. It’s very beautiful, like it was in the beginning, in a lot of ways.

 

Paralleling that, we encourage to come for pilgrimage at Caritas. Those who have been on pilgrimage the last two years here said they got every bit of what they got in Medjugorje.

 

Our Lady’s calling apostles. You have to commit more to Medjugorje, not less. If you can’t get to Medjugorje because you can’t get the time off or it’s too expensive, you can sign up for pilgrimages here at Caritas.

 

So, I encourage you to contact BVM immediately. Sign up for a pilgrimage here or in Medjugorje.

 

Going back to the early days of Medjugorje, I can’t tell you how exciting it was, twice a week going up the mountain for the prayer groups and what Our Lady did. We’d stay up till one, two, three o’clock in the morning. We couldn’t wait to get up. Often, we didn’t go to sleep at all. Everything was so fresh. Everything seemed new.

 

But our humanity gets used to the same thing, and it becomes normal.

 

Just three years after Our Lady appeared the first time in Medjugorje, Our Lady tells this at the beginning of the year,

 

January 10, 1985

“…There are enough parishioners who are not listening to the messages…”

 

Can you believe that? That quick, that’s how we get used to something. But when you go back thirteen years ago, May 2, 2009, Our Lady says,

 

“…You are rejecting me. You are permitting sin to overcome you more and more. You are permitting it to master you and to take away your power of discernment. My poor children…Do not permit darkness to envelop you…”

 

In this message, Mirjana says, “Our Lady was very sad.”

 

See how we get dulled by the world? satan puts in front of us so many distractions?

 

Poor, poor children.

 

Echoing Her words:

 

“…My poor children, look around you and look at the signs of the times…”

 

That’s 2009. Can you imagine, now, the signs we see now? And we are enveloped completely in darkness, and we’re in trouble, serious trouble.

 

Our Lady gave Her message today, and She says to us where we are at this point on April 25, ’22, because She’s watching you, so She can evaluate where we are. She knows us minutely, our conditions. And that means every person on earth. You, as an individual, Our Lady knows millions of your thoughts of what you do and what you haven’t done.

 

We think Google’s something, and its capability for searching things and information, there’s no comparison what Our Lady knows all about you and every single individual in the world.

 

Google is like a gnat compared to what She sees and what She understands.

 

So, this message you’re about to hear, the first sentence is a wake-up.

 

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Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje’s April 25, 2022 monthly message to the world:

 

“Dear children! I am looking at you and I see that you are lost. That is why I am calling all of you: return to God, return to prayer—and the Holy Spirit will fill you with His love which gives joy to the heart. Hope will grow in you, also for a better future, and you will become joyful witnesses of God’s mercy in you and around you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

We have to have Our Lady’s messages. So many people wounded and bruised up from the world. We’re blind, and Our Lady’s calling us to find Her.

 

Our Lady’s sweetness in Her words—Her messages—is like the bird that sings at night—the nightingale. Our Lady’s come in the darkness with beautiful words, like a whisper, but it cuts through the darkness.

 

She wants us to know that She’s there. That’s why She says,

 

“…I am looking at you…”

 

The only thing we have right now in sanity is what Our Lady’s saying. The only voice out there. Nothing else. It’s insane.

 

[SONG]

I can’t sleep tonight. Wide awake and so confused. Everything’s in line, but I am bruised. I need a voice to echo. I need a light to take me home. I kinda need a hero. Is it you?

 

I never see the forest for the trees. I could really use your melody. I’m a little blind. I think it’s time for you to find me.

 

Can you be my nightingale? Sing to me. I know you’re there. You could be my sanity. But bring me peace. Sing me to sleep. Say you’ll be my nightingale.

 

Somebody speak to me, ‘cause I’m feeling like hell. Need you to answer me. I’m overwhelmed. I need a voice to echo. I need a light to take me home. I need a star to follow. I don’t know.

 

I never see the forest for the trees. I could really use your melody. I’m a little blind. I think it’s time for you to find me.

 

Can you be my nightingale? Sing to me. I know you’re there. You could be my sanity. But bring me peace. Sing me to sleep. Say you’ll be my nightingale.

 

I don’t know what I’d do without you. Your words are like a whisper cutting through. As long as you are with me here tonight, I’m good.

 

Can you be my nightingale? Feels so close. I know you’re there. Oh, nightingale. You sing to me. I know you’re there. ‘Cause you’re my sanity. You bring me peace. Sing me to sleep. Say you’ll be my nightingale.

 

Oh, mmm.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Oh, how beautiful it was on the mountains, in the night. We felt so close to Our Lady. And yet, now, so many people have left, just like in three years after the apparitions, Our Lady tells us people in the village, “…are not listening to the messages…” Some were, but that voice of Our Lady is to come into our heart so that we can echo Her words to others.

 

“Dear children! I am looking at you and I see that you are lost…”

 

The song said,

 

“I think it’s time for you to find me.”

 

It’s not Our Lady Who’s lost us. It’s we who have lost Her. And She affirms that to you when She says, “…I am looking at you…” And we are wandering in the world, and we are lost.

 

Yes, there’s people still following Our Lady. They’re doing their best, but Our Lady says,

 

“…I am calling all of you…”

 

A-L-L.

 

Recently, Marija and I were talking about how many people have fallen away. They got tired. If you fall away from Our Lady, then you’re lost. There’s nowhere to navigate except to follow Her when She says,

 

“…return to God, return to prayer…”

 

This past Sunday, in the pew in front of me, was a little girl that was two to three years old. All through Mass, she had an iPad, and it wasn’t a little bitty one. She was going through all these things and these cartoons, and her behavior was so erratic, she looked like she was on steroids. And I couldn’t believe it, how parents don’t see what they’re doing, how damaging that is.

 

It’s proven that a little child up to sixteen years old that gets on computers, it recircuits how they think. Her behavior was not peaceful at all.

 

In the same family, there was a four to six month baby that couldn’t even crawl. But they gave the iPod to that baby. The baby was swiping the screen, knowing that it moved.

 

I wouldn’t believe that if somebody told me that unless I saw it. I would doubt you, but I’m telling you, I saw that.

 

Seeing that, I had just designed the cover of the book that we’ve been wanting to release, Has satan Pulled Another One on You? The child that we saw in Mass, we’ve got the cover of a child doing the same thing.

 

The lights on the computer are not what we’re supposed to follow. It’s a false light. It’s lying voices. And I tell you, these kids are damaged. I can tell you 100%, they’re already damaged.

 

Our Lady’s the guiding light. Her Son has sent Her. The whole world is lost, through electronics, who’s taken practically everyone across the whole world from the guiding light, and they don’t even know how to get home.

 

[SONG]

Well the road is wide, and waters run on either side. And my shadow in the fading light is stretching out towards the night.

 

‘Cause the sun is low, and I yet have still so far to go. And my lonely heart is beating so, tired of the wonder.

 

There’s a sign ahead, though I think it’s the same one again. But I’m thinking ’bout my only friend, and so I find my way home.

 

‘Cause when I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light. When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light.

 

Oh, well the air is cold, and yonder lies my sleeping soul, by the branches broke like bones. Well, this weakened tree no longer holds.

 

Well, the night is still, and I have not yet lost my will. And oh, I will keep on moving ’till, ’till I find my way home.

 

When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light. When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light.

 

When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light. When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light.

 

When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light. When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light.

 

So lead me on, and leave me strong, like the road I walk on.

 

When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light. When I need to get home, you’re my guiding light. You’re my guiding light.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

This song says,

 

“‘Cause the sun is low…”

 

And that’s where Our Lady is. There’s going to be a sunset for the apparitions, and every 25^th we have is one closer to the end of it.

 

There’s been forty million people going to Medjugorje. If they just tell five people—and you know it’s more than that—but let’s say the minimum, that would be 200 million people that know of Medjugorje. But I tell you, it’s way more than that.

 

And after forty years, everything becomes so normal, that at apparition time, many people are not kneeling down at the moment Our Lady’s appearing. And that’s even the pilgrims that have never been there before.

 

Man gets tired of the wonder, no matter how big the splendor is. And those words in the song,

 

“‘Cause when I need to get home, you’re my guiding light…I need to get home…”

 

That’s what Our Lady said today. She gave a solution.

 

“…I am looking at you, and I see [you and] you are lost. That is why I am calling…you…”

 

And then She says,

 

“…return to God, return to prayer…”

 

What’s the solution? If you do that,

 

“…the Holy Spirit will fill you with His love which gives joy to the heart…”

 

You’ve got to rekindle that.

 

The Israelites, for forty years, got tired of the wonder. Most people would say, “Well, how could they do that? The Red Sea? It all parted! Ten things that happened to release them from Pharoah!”

 

We’re doing the same thing! Millions of people have an encounter with Our Lady in Medjugorje, or even back in their homes, but the world is captivating and occupies your soul.

 

So, Our Lady says, when you return to God, return to prayer,

 

“…the Holy Spirit will fill you with His love which gives joy to the heart…”

 

It’s time to reunite yourselves back to the messages of Our Lady, which is your escape from the world.

 

So, you received what Our Lady said today, “…gives joy to the heart…” And She says,

 

“…Hope will grow in you, also for a better future…”

 

If we don’t do that, we have no future. How do we know that? Because I already quoted the message where She says,

 

“…My poor children, look around you and look at the signs of the times… Do not permit darkness to envelop you…”

 

But that’s not Her plans for you. She’s the guiding light to bring you to a better future, so that you can

 

“…become [a joyful witness] of God’s mercy in you and around you…”

 

Our Lady’s giving to you in this message today what the song said,

 

“And so I find my way home.”

 

And the only way to do that is following the guiding light that calls you today.

 

So many people were children of Our Lady, were okay with everything because She’s appearing every day. But until She’s gone, Medjugorje people, and those who don’t know Medjugorje realize that the light that daily shined across all souls who were sensitive to Her coming will have no regrets. Shine the light of grace on all souls, some of which will have regrets, and yet, the others know that She was a precious grace available every day, a love that should last a thousand years if you stayed with Her. And in the sense of a thousand years, but eternity forever.

 

When the day comes, and She disappears for the last time, the last time smiling, you’ll try holding on what you lost. A treasure—it’s value—can only be understood when it ends. And regarding to being lost, you don’t know what you lost until She’s gone.

 

[SONG]

I got wise after the fact. Now, you’re gone. I want you back. I keep hoping you’ll come through the door. The empty spaces I never felt before.

 

All the little things I didn’t treasure then, well they only get more precious when it ends.

 

This love should last a thousand years. The light is gone without you here. The stars aligned and disappeared. You don’t know what you’ve lost until she’s gone.

 

I put you last but you were always first. And I know I’ll regret it for all the days that I have left. I’m gonna close my eyes to keep you here. I’m gonna let you go and disappear. Somehow I know I’ll see your smile again. And there we’ll meet again.

 

This love should last a thousand years. The light is gone without you here. You fall in love but don’t know what it is. You’re holding on. Just holding on. Until she’s gone.

 

All the little things I didn’t treasure then, oh, they only get more precious when it ends.

 

This love should last a thousand years. The light is gone without you here. The stars aligned then disappeared. You don’t know what you’ve lost until she’s gone. Until she’s gone.

 

The stars aligned then disappeared. You don’t know what you’ve lost until she’s gone.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

There’s no time to reflect. The world doesn’t let you reflect. If you put yourself in that situation, when she’s gone, what has passed and never to come back again, and She said, “I will give you messages as never in the history of the world since the beginning,” that goes back to the Garden of Eden. You are alive! You went through that, through the desert for forty years, from life being okay to no life now, what the world gives to us now: empty.

 

Do you feel empty?

 

We’re full! We’re full of the world, and we’re empty.

 

The gas gauge shows full. You know what you feel in your heart.

 

Our Lady, in this message, is telling us we’re empty. She’s telling us how to fill up.

 

“…the Holy Spirit will fill you…”

 

She’s telling us,

 

“…I am calling all of you…”

 

Our Lady’s relaying to us, “You could have it all.” When She says, “all,” She’s talking about every person on the earth. You can have the whole world at your feet, every little thing that you think you need.

 

And yes, because we are lost, we feel empty. And Our Lady wants that better future, the best that life can bring to you. But we fondle false gold, the sparkles in your hand, which is cold and causes you to be lost.

 

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Have you ever noticed that gold sparkles in the light but it’s cold in your hands? Have you ever filled your cup, thinking it would feel like enough, but it don’t last?

 

When you don’t even know what you’re reachin’ for. It’s the absence that tells you there’s somethin’ more.

 

You could have it all. You can have the whole world at your feet. Every little thing you think you need and still feel empty. You can have it all. You can have the best this life can bring. Livin’ everybody else’s dream and still feel empty.

 

When everything you thought was a win is turnin’ out to be paper thin. It tears you apart, oh. A shadow that you thought was the light won’t keep away the monsters at night that haunt your heart, oh.

 

When you don’t even know what you’re hoping for, oh. It’s the missin’ that tells you there’s somethin’ more.

 

Oh, you could have it all. You can have the whole world at your feet. Every little thing you think you need and still feel empty. You can have it all. You can have the best this life can bring. Livin’ everybody else’s dream and still feel empty.

 

Oh-oh-oh, oh. Empty. Oh-oh-oh, oh. Woah. When you don’t even know what you’re livin’ for. It’s the questions that tell you there’s somethin’ more. Oh, yes there is.

 

You could have it all. You can have the whole world at your feet. Every little thing you think you need and still feel empty. You can have it all. You can have the best this life can bring. Livin’ everybody else’s dream and still feel empty.

 

Could you feel it? Empty. Empty.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

“…the Holy Spirit will fill you…”

 

Do you understand what the Virgin Mary is saying what is available at this moment? Never have we had this before, and never after this.

 

I’ve told you before, Our Lady is here for a soft landing. It’s going to be a crash, but with Her, it’s going to be soft.

 

What are Her messages doing if you live them? It’s giving you time for a better future for the rug you’re standing on. If you stay with Our Lady, you stay close with Her, She’s going to show you how to step off the rug. She’s giving you time—forty years—to get off of it. Because there’s coming a point when God said, “That’s it.” It’s going to come like lightning. The rug is going to be pulled out from underneath you, and it’s going to hurt, and it’s going to be bad, but Our Lady gave you every chance possible to step off that rug.

 

[SONG]

I’m going under and this time I fear there’s no one to save me. This all or nothing really got a way of driving me crazy.

 

I need somebody to know, somebody to heal, somebody to have, just to know how it feels. It’s easy to say, but it’s never the same. I guess I kinda liked the way you helped me escape.

 

And I tend to close my eyes when it hurts sometimes. I fall into your arms. I’ll be safe in your sound ‘til I come back around.

 

I let my guard down, and then you pulled the rug.

 

[FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

I’m telling you so that you can escape through Our Lady’s messages. I’m begging you in the words of Our Lady where She said, “…God’s mercy is around you…” (April 25, 2022)

 

It’s available.

 

Don’t delay.

 

Don’t wait.

 

Step off the rug.

 

Don’t let it be pulled underneath you.

 

Our prayers here at Caritas and the Community is for all people to fall in the arms of Our Lady.

 

We wish you Our Lady, and especially with this message today, our love has increased for your better future.

 

We wish you Our Lady. We love you. Good night.

 

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[ANNOUNCER]

This ends the Radio WAVE broadcast 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.