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[Music]

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Here, the faith was not free.

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We were allowed to go[br]to Holy Mass on Sundays.

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And, that was it.[br]That was what we could do.

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The rest of religious life[br]was taking place at home.

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Our parents taught us to pray.

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We prayed Holy Rosary[br]every evening together.

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But, they did not talk about[br]the faith, much.

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Because, they were afraid.

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As kids, we cannot speak about it[br]in school.

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If so, they could have problems.

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That is why I had never heard about[br]Lourdes, or Fatima.

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I didn't know that Our Lady[br]could come here to earth

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in such a way.

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I thought she is up in Heaven,[br]and we pray.

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When Ivanka told me[br]that she thought

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Our Lady is up on the hill,

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I was kind of rude.[br]I had a rude response.

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I told her, "Right. She hasn't got[br]better things to do?"

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"And she came to the two of us?"

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And I left her there, and I wanted[br]to return to the village.

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But, when I got to the first houses,

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I felt this call within me.

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I had to return back.[br]When I got there,

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I saw Ivanka standing[br]at the very same spot.

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She told me, "Look now, please."

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I saw a woman [br]in a long, greyish gown,

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who was holding a baby[br]in her arms.

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Everything was really strange.

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Because, no one went to the hill.

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Especially not a person [br]in a long gown

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with a baby in their arms.

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At that very moment,[br]I felt all possible emotions

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that we are able to feel.

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Pride. Beauty. Incomprehension.

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Fear.

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And, what was the most[br]intense emotion

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was the need to flee this place.

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I ran back home.

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When I got home, [br]I found my grandmother

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and I told her, right away:

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"Granny, I think I saw Our Lady[br]up on the hill."

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She told me "Take the Holy Rosary.[br]Go to your room, and pray."

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"Leave Our Lady where she is."

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I didn't have the strength [br]to explain everything to Granny.

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I just wanted to be alone, in prayer.

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That was the only way I had peace.

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The following day, [br]I was helping my uncles,

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like every day before that.

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But, when the time came[br]that I saw Our Lady the day before,

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I felt this calling, again.

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I told my uncle that I had to go[br]to the hill

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because something has been [br]calling me.

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When we got there,

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nearly half the village[br]was there, already.

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Someone came with [br]every visionary.

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We saw Our Lady[br]at the very same place.

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This time, she was not[br]carrying a baby in her arms.

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On that day, 25 June 1981,

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was the first day we got to hear her.

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She introduced herself.

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She told us, "My dear children.[br]Do not be afraid.

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I am the Queen of Peace."

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That is how our daily[br]apparitions started.

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For a short while, we had the apparitions[br]at the hill.

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As I said earlier,[br]it was a time of communism.

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Shortly afterward,[br]police came, with dogs.

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They surrounded the hill.

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Everyone there, eventually[br]ended up in prison.

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In those first days,[br]Our Lady showed some miracles.

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Nearly everyone from the village[br]saw something.

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For example, there were two[br]miraculous healings, right away.

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Then, the cross on Cross Mountain[br]was disappearing, with

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Our Lady appearing[br]on that spot, instead,

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dressed in white.

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The local people saw this.

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I will give you an example[br]what the situation was like.

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We, who had been [br]brought up in communism,

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had learned how to be silent.

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The fewer words you say,[br]the better for you.

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So, when the cross was disappearing[br]at Cross Mountain,

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everyone was silent.[br]They just looked at it.

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One young man was 25 at that time.

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He was unable to remain silent,[br]because of the emotions he felt.

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He said, "Look! There is no cross![br]Our Lady is there, instead!"

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He was sentenced to prison[br]for six months.

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That was the situation[br]at that time.

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The word "Mir" was written[br]in the sky.

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"Mir" means "Peace."

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At that time, Father Jozo[br]was our parish priest.

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When the police came to him,[br]to tell him to close the church,

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because Holy Mass was[br]now forbidden,

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Father Jozo said,[br]"I saw with my own eyes,

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that the word Mir [br]is written on the sky.

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I cannot close the church.

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Do with me as you will."

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He ended up in prison.

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But the local people[br]had seen all of that.

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Knowing us as children,

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they trusted us,[br]and they helped us.

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We had an apparition[br]every evening at a different spot.

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I had daily apparitions like that,[br]until Christmas, 1982.

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That is when Our Lady[br]entrusted me with the 10th Secret.

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She told me I would no longer[br]have daily apparitions.

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She told me it would be[br]once a year.

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Every 18th of March,[br]as long as I live.

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She also said I would have[br]extraordinary apparitions.

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Those apparitions started[br]on 2nd August, 1987.

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Those are ongoing[br]until this day.

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I don't know how long[br]I will have them.

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Those apparitions are also[br]a prayer for unbelievers.

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Our Lady never calls them that.

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Because if you say about someone,[br]"You're an unbeliever,"

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you judged and condemned him.

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Our Lady never does that.

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She says "the ones that have [br]not yet discovered the love of God."

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She is asking our help.

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When she says, "our help,"

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she does not mean the six of us,[br]the six visionaries.

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She means the help of everyone[br]who feels she is their mother.

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She says we can change unbelievers,

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with our prayers, and by our example.

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She asks that we put prayers for them[br]as a priority in our daily prayers.

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Most of the ugly things which happen[br]in this world,

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comes from them.

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That is why Our Lady says,

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"When you pray for them,[br]you pray for yourself, and your future."

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In addition to prayers, she asks[br]for our example.

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She doesn't want us to preach.

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She asks us to speak with our own lives,

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so unbelievers can witness in us,[br]God, and the love of God.

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I kindly request you consider this[br]In the most serious way.

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If you could see the tears of Our Lady[br]just once,

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the tears she cries for unbelievers,

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I am sure you would pray[br]with all your heart.

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She says this is the time[br]of great decision.

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She says it is up to us,[br]who say we are children of God,

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that there is a great[br]responsibility upon us.

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When she asks prayers[br]for unbelievers,

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she would like us to try that[br]in her way.

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That would be,[br]the way I understood it:

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First, feel love for them.

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Feel they are our [br]brothers and sisters

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who were not as lucky[br]as we were,

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to feel the love of God.

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When we feel that way,[br]we will be able to pray for them.

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Never judge, never condemn,[br]never criticize.

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Simply love them.

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Pray for them.

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And, give your own example.

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Our example tells a lot.

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We all have unbelievers,

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in our house, somewhere nearby,[br]at our workplace,

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and that unbeliever looks at us,[br]and at our life.

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We must ask ourselves whether[br]the love of God,

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is what they see in us.

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I will give you a nice example.

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One evening, when I went[br]to Holy Mass in Medjugorje,

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our church was crowded.

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I am unable to stand up very long.

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I saw a small space on one of the pews.

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I sat down.

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Our brothers and sisters[br]from Italy were there.

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When I sat down,

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they began to yell and complain.

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You know how temperamental[br]our brothers and sisters

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from Italy are.

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They all said, "Get up![br]This is our bench!"

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"We got here, first!"

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So many words[br]in just one moment.

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I got up, and I was silent.

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One lady approached me.

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She recognized me.

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She told them that I am[br]one of the visionaries.

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They gave me the whole bench[br]just for myself.

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[Laughter]

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The reason I tell you this:

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What do you think would happen

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if I was an unbeliever?

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And I was entering the church[br]for the first time?

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And inside, are the ones who claim[br]they know the love of God?

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And they behaved toward me[br]in such a way?

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Would I ever enter the church again?

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And whose responsibility[br]would that be?

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That is something that[br]Our Lady tries to say.

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We can all learn[br]to speak nicely.

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But, Our Lady[br]wants our lives to speak, instead.

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That with our example, [br]it can be shown

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that we are trying to live[br]the love of God.

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In these apparitions [br]of Medjugorje,

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the most important[br]message of Our Lady

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is the Holy Mass.

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But, not solely on Sundays.

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When we were children,

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at the beginning of[br]the apparitions,

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she said on one occasion,

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"If you have to choose

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between an apparition[br]or Holy Mass,

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you should choose Holy Mass.

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Always.

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Because during Holy Mass,

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my Son is present, with you."

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Throughout all the years[br]of apparitions of Our Lady,

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Our Lady never said,

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"Pray and I will give."

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She always says,

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"Pray, so I can pray,[br]and ask my Son for you."

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Jesus is always in the first place.

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Many pilgrims,[br]when they come to Medjugorje,

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think that we visionaries[br]are important.

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That it is enough[br]to say something to us,

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that God listens to us[br]more than to others,

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but that thinking is wrong.

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Because, for Our Lady[br]as a mother,

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there are no privileged ones.

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For her, we are all[br]her dear children.

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She chose us,

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to speak the messages to us.

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But, she chose every single[br]one of you.

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That is something she said[br]in one of the January 2nd messages.

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She said, "Dear children,

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I have invited you.

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Open your hearts.

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Let me in, so that I can

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make you my apostles."

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So, in the eyes of [br]our Holy Mother,

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we have the same importance.

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There are none whom she listens to[br]more, or less.

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I learned, at the very beginning[br]of the apparitions,

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You heard when I said[br]"my uncle, my grandmother."

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Because I am the only one[br]of us six visionaries

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who was not born here, [br]nor grew up here.

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My parents are from here.

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But, when they married,[br]they moved to Sarajevo.

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So, I was born and raised there.

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I always visited here,[br]because the rest of my family was here.

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But when the apparitions began,

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because the communists[br]wanted to stop everything,

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I was returned by force[br]to Sarajevo.

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Here, where you are now,[br]in this zone,

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is populated by Croatians.

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Croatians are Catholic.

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Here, the communist police[br]were 'Croatian,'

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and, when they took us [br]for interrogations,

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they yelled, they swore at us,

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but nothing else.

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But, in Sarajevo,

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the situation was [br]completely different.

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In Sarajevo, [br]there were true communists.

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And, mainly Muslims.

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Every single day,[br]they came to my house.

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They would destroy [br]everything around.

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And, they would[br]take me with them.

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I was just 15, then.

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I never knew if I would ever[br]return home.

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I thought Our Lady[br]would help me.

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But, when I would have[br]an apparition,

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she told me the same things[br]as told to the other visionaries.

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Nothing regarding me, [br]or my situation.

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I don't need to tell you[br]how alone and abandoned I felt.

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The five of them were here, together,

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in the village that loves[br]and supports them.

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But in Sarajevo, I had only[br]my parents and my brother.

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Everyone else was forced to[br]distance themselves from us.

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But, through prayer,

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I understood,

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for God, for Our Lady,

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there are no privileged ones.

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If you are having a hard time,

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take Rosary, and pray.

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God will not leave you alone.

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When I felt that in my heart,

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I was able to deal with

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everything that hurt me,

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with far more strength.

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Also, now, in Medjugorje,

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many times, people say,

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"I had a healing,

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I got to know[br]the love of God."

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I have never met[br]many of those people, in my life.

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So, I was not the one[br]who prayed for them.

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They had open hearts.

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They asked for Mother's help.

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She asked her Son, for them.

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I am telling you this,[br]so you may understand

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when you need[br]Our Lady, our Mother,

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you do not need visionaries.

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The only thing you need[br]is an open heart.

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Our Lady says,

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"Open your heart,[br]and I will be with you."

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So, it is up to us,

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if we want our Mother with us,[br]to be at our side.

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Our Lady asked for[br]prayer in families.

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She says nothing unites family[br]as well as praying together.

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She says parents have a great [br]responsibility to their children.

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Because, they are the ones who[br]should put the rules of faith

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in their children.

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They can, if they pray together,

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and if they go to Holy Mass.

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