Take Up Arms!

Join the Annual Worldwide Nine-Day Bread & Water Fast
To Reconcile Ourselves, Our Families and Our Nation Back to God
Friday, September 27, 2024, to Saturday, October 5, 2024
Ends one month before the U.S. Presidential Elections

 

A Friend of Medjugorje, inspired by Our Lady, began an annual nine-day bread and water fasting novena that turned into a worldwide movement. He invited the public to join in this 9-day fast in the first year of the new millennium, 2001. The fast has been done annually over the past 23 years to bind and stymie satan’s assaults. A Friend of Medjugorje conceived the idea of at least one person covering each day of the coming year would by a nine-day bread and water fast for each day. Usually, so many people sign up, that the days of the coming year are covered by multiple people. Medjugorje visionary, Ivan, was once asked why Our Lady insists on not just prayer, but that we fast as well. Ivan answered, “Prayer without fasting is like a soldier with only one leg. He will be easily defeated.”

A Friend of Medjugorje has had many experiences with demonics over the past 40 years. He shared a particular one that took place in Medjugorje on June 25, 2022, the anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions. A Eucharistic procession took place after the Evening Services and Mass. Thousands lined the streets in procession. Four priests carried a beautiful statue of Our Lady that was lifted high on a platform covered in flowers, following a group of 300 or more priests that led the procession. As the statue of Our Lady passed in front of a Friend of Medjugorje, he heard a man, just two people away from him, begin to scream at Our Lady. His voice filled with hatred towards Our Lady. When a Friend of Medjugorje saw the person, he was shocked to see it was not a man, but a woman who was screaming. Yet, it was a deep masculine voice coming from the woman. A Friend of Medjugorje often quotes St. John Vianney, who said that there are two things satan hates the most: when we deny ourselves food and when we deny ourselves sleep.

 

Medjugorje visionary Ivan recently stated; “Our Lady is very concerned about the situation in the world.” A Friend of Medjugorje responded on Radio Wave saying, “Our Lady has said the word ‘satan,’ 126 times in Her messages. She is the Woman battling satan through you.”*

 

A Friend of Medjugorje is calling all of Our Lady’s Apostles to join with him and the Community of Caritas in the annual nine-day bread and water fast.

 

The fasting novena includes the original prayer written by a Friend of Medjugorje, 23 years ago, which seeks repentance and is also for your intentions and the intentions of the Community and Mission of Caritas. It is a powerful prayer leading to deeper conversion. The fast covers each day of 2025. Spread this information to your family and friends, so that each day of 2025 will be covered several times over. One should do everything to fast on bread and water for the nine days to make it powerful. If you absolutely, and honestly, cannot fast on bread and water for the nine days for legitimate reasons, please join us in making sacrifices during this time, praying extra Rosaries, offering your Holy Communions, increasing your prayers, and uniting other penances to give to Our Lady with our fasting.

 

For those joining in the fast on bread and water, call Caritas of Birmingham to sign up for the Fast at 205-672-2000, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Central Time USA, Monday through Friday. Or leave a message on ext. 315 with your full name and phone number. Let us know that you are calling to request an assigned day for your 9-day fast. We will call you back to tell you the day of 2025, that your nine-day fast will cover. We can only assign days for those fully participating in the nine-day fast on bread and water. If you are unable to commit to all nine days, or if you are not able to fast only on bread and water, your sacrifices are important and will add to the grace of this novena for our nation through this nine-day fast. If for some reason you are unable to join fully, call Caritas and your name will be joined to someone else who is able to complete the full nine days. You can also fill out the form below the novena prayers to sign up for the 9-day fast.