Why Does Our Lady Sometimes Speak in Aramaic?

By a Friend of Medjugorje

© 2026 SJP

 

During this 9-day novena on top of Apparition Mountain (which started on June 16th and will end on June 24th, Our Lady has been speaking in Aramaic every night. Why does Our Lady, on occasion, speak in Aramaic, the language of Her earthly life?

 

The first question is not why She speaks Aramaic. The first question is why Heaven would find it necessary to remind us that Mary is real.

 

We live in a time when everything is becoming artificial. Relationships are artificial. Communication is artificial. Even faith can become artificial—something we know about rather than something we live.

 

But Our Lady is not an idea. She is not a symbol. She is not a religious figure frozen in stained glass.

 

She is a real Woman.

 

She lived in a real village. She walked real roads. She carried real water jars. She spoke a real language. She held the Son of God in real human arms.

 

If She occasionally speaks in Aramaic, perhaps Heaven is reminding us that the Gospel is not a story. It happened.

 

The same lips that once called Jesus to supper. The same voice that taught Him the prayers of Israel. The same Mother who stood beneath the Cross. The same Woman who was present at Pentecost. It is that voice which still speaks to the world today.

 

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Why is that important?

 

Because the world has become detached from reality.

 

The messages of Medjugorje are a call back to reality.

 

Reality is prayer. Reality is fasting.

 

Reality is “conversion”. Reality is the family.

 

Reality is God. Reality is Heaven.

 

And reality is that Mary “is” alive.

 

There is another possibility.

 

The language of a mother is the language of the home.

 

A person can learn many languages, but the language of childhood remains hidden deep within the heart. It is often the language that surfaces in moments of great emotion, great tenderness, great love.

 

Could it be that Our Lady occasionally speaks in Her own Motherly tongue because She is speaking from the depths of Her motherhood?

 

Not because she needs to.

 

But because she is Mother and she wants to speak to her children in an intimate way.

 

There is also a warning in this.

 

People become fascinated with signs.

 

They want secrets.

 

They want extraordinary events.

 

But if Our Lady speaks Aramaic, the most important thing is not the language.

 

The most important thing is that she is speaking.

 

A mother does not come to analyze words. A mother comes to save her children.

 

The tragedy would be to spend years discussing the language while ignoring the message.

 

What has She been saying for over 45 years?

 

Pray.

 

Fast.

 

Be converted.

 

Return to God.

 

Put God first.

 

Live the Gospel.

 

If a mother tells her child every day to come home, the most important thing is not whether she says it in English, Croatian, Italian, Spanish, or Aramaic.

 

The most important thing is that the child finally comes home. Perhaps that is the deepest reason.

 

Aramaic is the language of the Gospel age.

 

The language Our Lady spoke.

 

The language Saint Joseph spoke.

 

The language spoken in the home of Nazareth.

 

The language Jesus Himself spoke during His earthly life.

 

Its occasional appearance reminds us that Medjugorje is not about something new.

 

It is about returning to what is oldest.

 

Returning to the Gospel.

 

Returning to the family of Nazareth.

 

Returning to the Mother who has never ceased searching for Her children.

 

And perhaps, every now and then, Heaven allows us to hear an echo of Nazareth itself.

 

Strictly speaking, we cannot know with certainty why Our Lady occasionally speaks Aramaic unless Heaven itself explains it. But as a spiritual reflection, it carries profound meaning.

 

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Aramaic was not the language of a great empire.

 

It was not the language of power, wealth, conquest, or prestige.

 

It was the simple language of a humble people in a small corner of the world.

 

Yet from that humble language came the words spoken by Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the Apostles.

 

One could contemplate that when Our Lady speaks in the language of Nazareth, she is not choosing one nation over another.

 

Rather, she is speaking from the place that existed before all our modern divisions.

 

Before there were Americans, Croatians, Italians, Chinese, Nigerians, Brazilians, or Australians, there was a young woman from Nazareth whom God chose to become the Mother of all mankind.

 

At the Cross, Jesus did not say, “Behold your mother” to one race, one language, one culture, or even one generation.

 

He entrusted Her to all mankind.

 

The motherhood She received beneath the Cross extends across every boundary that separates human beings.

 

When Our Lady comes, She does not come as the Mother of the Croatians. She does not come as the Mother of the Italians, the Americans, the Africans, the Asians, or the Europeans.

 

She comes as Mother. Before you are anything else, you are Her child.

 

In that sense, Aramaic could be seen not as a particular language, but almost as a reminder of Her origin—the place from which Her universal Motherhood entered history.

 

There is also a beautiful connection to eternity and this is reflected in Our Lady’s homework assignment on the 3rd day of the novena when She said:

 

“To pray for all the deceased, for our entire lineage and all our descendants, so that our Lord might protect them from all evils and from all the sins they have committed, and so that they may ascend from Purgatory to Heaven and be united with Him. In this way, She asked us to pray for all souls and to do penance for all souls, especially for those in purgatory.”

 

The Church speaks of the Communion of Saints—the living and the dead united in Christ. Our Lady’s motherhood is not limited by time. She is mother to:

 

• Abraham and Moses,

• the Apostles and martyrs,

• the saints of every century,

• those living today,

• and those who will be born long after we are gone.

 

Her maternal heart spans the whole human family.

 

One could therefore pray:

 

Mother, when you speak in the language of Nazareth, remind us that beneath all our divisions we belong to one human family; that every race, every nation, every culture, every tongue is gathered beneath your mantle; that the living and the dead are united in God’s plan; and that your desire is to lead every soul, from every age and every people, to your Son.

 

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That thought also resonates strongly with Medjugorje itself.

 

Pilgrims come from every continent, speaking dozens of languages, often unable to converse with one another.

 

Yet they kneel together, pray together, confess together, and attend Mass together.

 

In a small way, Medjugorje becomes a living image of what Our Lady’s universal motherhood looks like:

 

many languages, one Mother;

 

many nations, one family;

 

many peoples, one call to conversion and peace.

 

Perhaps Aramaic, the language of Our Lady’s earthly home, serves as a quiet reminder that before mankind was divided into countless camps, God had already prepared one Mother whose heart would be large enough to embrace them all.

 

Love from Medjugorje,

 
 

P.S. Last night in the apparition (June 20th), Marija said that Our Lady prayed a much longer time in Aramaic over everyone present. Marija then said that she did not understand a word of what Our Lady prayed, which caused a ripple of laughter among the pilgrims.

 

But it raises the question, how can we be in union with Our Lady if we do not understand what it is She is praying for over us?  Our Lady many, many times throughout the years has told us to:

 

“Pray for my intentions.”

 

One such time She said:

 

December 15, 1988

“Dear children, I love you and wish you to pray for my intentions with the love you have for me, so that every plan of God about each one of you may be fulfilled.”

 

When we pray for Our Lady’s intentions, we don’t have to know Her specific intentions. We know She can only ask for the very best for all of us. We can simply say, “Dear Mother, we unite our prayers with yours and pray for the fulfillment of your intentions that you offer on our behalf before Your Son and the Father.” In that way we are fully united to Our Lady’s prayer.

 

The same Virgin Mary that taught little Jesus how to read, is the same Virgin Mary Who is teaching us today as Her “little children” through Her Medjugorje messages.

 

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