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[Mirjana] 
Here, the faith was not free.

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We were allowed to go
to Holy Mass on Sundays.

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And, that was it.
That was what we could do.

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The rest of religious life
was taking place at home.

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Our parents taught us to pray.

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We prayed Holy Rosary
every evening together.

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But, they did not talk about
the faith, much.

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Because, they were afraid.

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As kids, we cannot speak about it
in school.

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If so, they could have problems.

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

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

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in such a way.

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

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When Ivanka told me
that she thought

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Our Lady is up on the hill,

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I was kind of rude.
I had a rude response.

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I told her, "Right. She hasn't got
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
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.
When I got there,

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I saw Ivanka standing
at the very same spot.

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She told me, "Look now, please."

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I saw a woman 
in a long, greyish gown,

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who was holding a baby
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 
in a long gown

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with a baby in their arms.

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At that very moment,
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
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, 
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
up on the hill."

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She told me "Take the Holy Rosary.
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 
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, 
I was helping my uncles,

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like every day before that.

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But, when the time came
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
to the hill

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because something has been 
calling me.

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When we got there,

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nearly half the village
was there, already.

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Someone came with 
every visionary.

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We saw Our Lady
at the very same place.

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This time, she was not
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.
Do not be afraid.

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I am the Queen of Peace."

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That is how our daily
apparitions started.

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

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

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Shortly afterward,
police came, with dogs.

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They surrounded the hill.

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Everyone there, eventually
ended up in prison.

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In those first days,
Our Lady showed some miracles.

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Nearly everyone from the village
saw something.

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For example, there were two
miraculous healings, right away.

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Then, the cross on Cross Mountain
was disappearing, with

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Our Lady appearing
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
what the situation was like.

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We, who had been 
brought up in communism,

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had learned how to be silent.

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The fewer words you say,
the better for you.

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So, when the cross was disappearing
at Cross Mountain,

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everyone was silent.
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,
because of the emotions he felt.

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

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He was sentenced to prison
for six months.

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That was the situation
at that time.

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The word "Mir" was written
in the sky.

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"Mir" means "Peace."

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At that time, Father Jozo
was our parish priest.

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When the police came to him,
to tell him to close the church,

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because Holy Mass was
now forbidden,

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Father Jozo said,
"I saw with my own eyes,

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that the word Mir 
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
had seen all of that.

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Knowing us as children,

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they trusted us,
and they helped us.

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We had an apparition
every evening at a different spot.

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I had daily apparitions like that,
until Christmas, 1982.

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

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She told me I would no longer
have daily apparitions.

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She told me it would be
once a year.

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Every 18th of March,
as long as I live.

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She also said I would have
extraordinary apparitions.

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Those apparitions started
on 2nd August, 1987.

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Those are ongoing
until this day.

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I don't know how long
I will have them.

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Those apparitions are also
a prayer for unbelievers.

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Our Lady never calls them that.

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Because if you say about someone,
"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 
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,
the six visionaries.

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She means the help of everyone
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
as a priority in our daily prayers.

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Most of the ugly things which happen
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,
you pray for yourself, and your future."

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In addition to prayers, she asks
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,
God, and the love of God.

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

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

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the tears she cries for unbelievers,

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I am sure you would pray
with all your heart.

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She says this is the time
of great decision.

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

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that there is a great
responsibility upon us.

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When she asks prayers
for unbelievers,

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she would like us to try that
in her way.

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That would be,
the way I understood it:

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First, feel love for them.

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Feel they are our 
brothers and sisters

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who were not as lucky
as we were,

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to feel the love of God.

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

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Never judge, never condemn,
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,
at our workplace,

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and that unbeliever looks at us,
and at our life.

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We must ask ourselves whether
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
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
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
our brothers and sisters

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from Italy are.

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

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"We got here, first!"

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So many words
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
one of the visionaries.

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They gave me the whole bench
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
for the first time?

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

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And they behaved toward me
in such a way?

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Would I ever enter the church again?

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And whose responsibility
would that be?

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That is something that
Our Lady tries to say.

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We can all learn
to speak nicely.

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But, Our Lady
wants our lives to speak, instead.

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That with our example, 
it can be shown

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that we are trying to live
the love of God.

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In these apparitions 
of Medjugorje,

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the most important
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
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
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
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,
and ask my Son for you."

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Jesus is always in the first place.

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Many pilgrims,
when they come to Medjugorje,

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think that we visionaries
are important.

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That it is enough
to say something to us,

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that God listens to us
more than to others,

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but that thinking is wrong.

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Because, for Our Lady
as a mother,

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there are no privileged ones.

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For her, we are all
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
one of you.

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That is something she said
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 
our Holy Mother,

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we have the same importance.

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

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I learned, at the very beginning
of the apparitions,

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You heard when I said
"my uncle, my grandmother."

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Because I am the only one
of us six visionaries

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who was not born here, 
nor grew up here.

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My parents are from here.

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But, when they married,
they moved to Sarajevo.

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So, I was born and raised there.

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

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But when the apparitions began,

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because the communists
wanted to stop everything,

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I was returned by force
to Sarajevo.

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Here, where you are now,
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
were 'Croatian,'

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and, when they took us 
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 
completely different.

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In Sarajevo, 
there were true communists.

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And, mainly Muslims.

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Every single day,
they came to my house.

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They would destroy 
everything around.

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And, they would
take me with them.

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I was just 15, then.

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I never knew if I would ever
return home.

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I thought Our Lady
would help me.

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But, when I would have
an apparition,

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she told me the same things
as told to the other visionaries.

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Nothing regarding me, 
or my situation.

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I don't need to tell you
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
and supports them.

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

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Everyone else was forced to
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
the love of God."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I have never met
many of those people, in my life.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So, I was not the one
who prayed for them.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
They had open hearts.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
They asked for Mother's help.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She asked her Son, for them.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I am telling you this,
so you may understand

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
when you need
Our Lady, our Mother,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you do not need visionaries.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
The only thing you need
is an open heart.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Our Lady says,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
"Open your heart,
and I will be with you."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So, it is up to us,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
if we want our Mother with us,
to be at our side.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Our Lady asked for
prayer in families.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She says nothing unites family
as well as praying together.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She says parents have a great 
responsibility to their children.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Because, they are the ones who
should put the rules of faith

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
in their children.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
They can, if they pray together,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and if they go to Holy Mass.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We cannot talk to children
about the importance of Holy Mass,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
unless they see that we put Holy Mass
In first priority.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We cannot speak about
the importance of prayer,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
if they do not see us praying.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is why Our Lady says
the parents have great responsibility.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Because children know what they see
in their homes and families.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
And, they see a lot,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
way more than we think.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I always like to give this
nice example from my family:

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When my older daughter, Marija,
was just two,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I had not talked to her
about the apparitions.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I thought, at age two,
she is unable to comprehend anything.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
One day, when she was playing
with a friend, in her room,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I heard her friend say,
"My mother drives a car."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Since I don't drive, 
Marija was silent a moment.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Then she said, "Big deal, to 
drive a car.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
My mother talks to Our Lady
every single day."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Without me saying anything,
she understood.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is why it is important
for children to see

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
that for their mother and father,
God is the first priority.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Our Lady asks us to fast.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Bread and water, 
Fridays and Wednesdays.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She does not ask people
who are ill, to fast.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She said that, through prayer,
they will understand

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
other things they can do.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
If you never fasted 
two days a week,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
if you never prayed the Rosary
every day,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I would suggest you begin

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
the way Our Lady showed us
to begin.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
First thing she asked:

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Seven Our Fathers, Hail Mary,
Glory Be, and Creed.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Then, she asked for the
first part of the Rosary.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
And, that we fast on Fridays.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Also, it is not necessary
that you begin with bread and water.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You can begin by
not eating meat on Fridays.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Catholics never ate meat on Fridays.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That can be a beginning.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
After a while, Our Lady asked
for the second part of the Rosary.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
And then third (part of Rosary),

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and that we fast on Wednesdays,
as well.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She was going step by step.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is an example for us.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
What is important is
to go with her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When you fall,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
she will give you a hand
to get up.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It is important to start

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
walking with her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I would recommend you all,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
present here with me,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
don't begin fasting here.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Once you return home,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
then begin.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I don't want any of you
to become dizzy,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
especially now.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Who will take you 
to the hospital?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
With this corona?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Thank God, it is not here yet.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But, that is my sisterly advice.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Start at your homes.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We will prepare simple food here.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It is important for you 
to eat something.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Our Lady also asks for
Holy Bible in families.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When she gives me a message,
she does not explain it to me.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She gives me a message

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
in the very same way
I am giving it to you.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I need every one of you:

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Pray, read the messages,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and try to discern
what God wants from you.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Those who have been 
following the messages

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
on the 2nd of the month,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you might notice that
there are quite a lot.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I remember it exactly
the way Our Lady said it,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
just for two or three
minutes, afterwards.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is why, always,
at the Blue Cross,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
as soon as Our Lady
leaves us,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I tell the message.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So, they write it down.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Because, when I 
return to my room to pray,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I can tell you what she talked about.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But I am unable to repeat it
word for word.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I need the written message, 
myself, later,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
as I read and pray.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is also when Our Lady says,
return to the Bible.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I think we all have a Bible.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But, I think Our Lady 
wants simple things.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
To open the Bible 
every single day,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
to read a line or two,
no matter what.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But, that the Bible
is present, in our families.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That the Bible is not there
merely to say we have it,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
but we don't remember
when we last touched the Bible.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
In the Bible,
there are the answers we seek.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Many pilgrims think

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
that after this many years,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
it's a normal thing
for me to have an apparition.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That I am used to it.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I have to tell you,
that is not the case.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Every time is like the first time.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Every time, I prepare myself,
with fasting and prayer.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Two or three days before, I fast.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
The night before, I spend in prayer.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
With prayer, I can wait for tomorrow
in a peaceful way.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When I am with Our Lady,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I believe that is the feeling
people in Heaven, have.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She leads our conversations.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Not me.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I can feel, within,
what I may or may not ask.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I never touched her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She never touched me.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But, I never felt a need
to touch her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When Our Lady looks at you,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you have everything.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You feel loved, protected.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Cries.]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is why I say
you have no other desires.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I will share an example with you.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
All mothers will understand.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I am a mother.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Like every mother,
I would give my life for my children.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But, when I am with Our Lady,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I don't remember them.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I am unaware that I have children.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I just want her to look at me,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and that I look at her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You can imagine the pain
when she leaves.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I always tell the message,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
then I go to my room, to pray.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Through prayer,
God helps me to understand,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and to go forward.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But, it is not easy.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It is not easy to be with Her,
and, then live this life of ours.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
If it were not for God's help,
I don't know how we could do it.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
These are the things
which I personally thought

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
are the most important.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
And now, you.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You can ask me about
anything I didn't say.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
If I can, I will answer
with my entire heart.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Don't hold back.
That is why we gather.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
To talk about our Mother.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] I just wanted to say thank you.
You suffer so much, for all of us.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I feel a bit uncomfortable,
when people say such things.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Our Lady teaches us
we are lower than everyone else.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Not that we are above, or special.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Look at me and you.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I am here.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You left your home and country behind,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
despite corona,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
despite everything,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
you came to your Mother.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So, I'm not really sure
you are the one who should thank.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] It is easy to see you suffer,
lots.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] I think that 
we all suffer,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
when we see those who
do not want to know

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
the love of God.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Because, we know
what awaits them.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We can just trust in 
the love of God.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I think he will judge us
by love.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Not the way we earned.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
This is Medjugorje, for me.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When you see Americans,
Canadians, Polish,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
we all speak about
the same Mother.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is what Our Lady
here in Medjugorje

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
has been teaching us.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Man speaking foreign language.]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] I didn't understand anything.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[A 2nd man] Same, here.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] He asked, um,
How do you pray in your heart.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] I understand.
I will try to explain.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Our Lady says, 
pray with your heart.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I will share the way
I understood it.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
For me, prayer with the heart

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
is, that every word
that comes out of my mouth

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
goes through my heart.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
For example, if I say "Our Father,"

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
that in my heart, I feel
that God is my Father.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So that, basically, I am living
the things I am saying.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
As a sister, I would suggest

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
that you do not waste your time

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
judging your prayers.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
For me, it's important
to try to pray better.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Man: unintelligible]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Not one of us can say,
"I pray the way God wants."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
"I am doing everything
the way God wants."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I am afraid of those people.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
There is something wrong,
in that case.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We all try.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
How successfully,
God will judge.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
For me, it is important
that we all try to pray better.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] Do you think Our Lady

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
would allow you
to come to Canada?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[2nd woman] We often wonder.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] Thank you.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
For Our Lady,
there is no such thing

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
as Canada, America.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
The only thing she says is,
"Dear children."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So, in all of these years
of apparitions,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She never said "Dear Croatians."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She never said my name.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She says, "Dear children."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Anyone else?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Come on, don't be shy.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
You were full of questions, yesterday.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
All the things you asked me,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
now you have a wonderful opportunity.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] If you remember something,
we can talk also today, no problem.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I will be with you during lunch.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Are you here for lunch today, or dinner?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] Lunch.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] Lunch. Okay.
I like that I am here.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] Me, too.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] My brother, they are
serving dinner.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] Ohh.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] Okay, if you don't have
any more questions...

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Man] What would be the best way
to pray to know God's will?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Man] Your own walk with God,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
knowing that you are doing your best
to do the Lord's will.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
A personal discernment.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] The best way 
to understand that

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
is through prayer.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When I need to decide something,
I always pray.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Then, there are various options
ahead of me.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
When I feel peace,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
then I know I made a good call.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I always ask God to guide me.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Because, alone, I am not able to do it.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
But with Him, I can do everything.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman: unintelligible]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Laughter]

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Woman] We feel the presence.
We just know God is with you,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
and with us, and thank you, for that.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Mirjana] Our Lady is always with us,
if we call Her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
One mother on earth. She will
never turn her back on her children.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
Can you just imagine
Our Heavenly Mother?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It is enough to say

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That we want Her,
and we need Her.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
The fact that She is with us,
as She said in Her numerous messages,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
"The fact that I am with you
shows you how much God loves you."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
To show us the true path.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
It is up to us to respond.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
There is a nice anecdote 
with Father Slavko.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
I don't know if any of you
met or remember Father Slavko?

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
That is his picture, over there.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
He was my husband's uncle.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We saw each other
every single day.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
One on occasion, he told me,

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
a lady approached him.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
She told him, "When I pray,
my thoughts wander.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
What do you advise, Father?"

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
He replied, "People who don't pray
don't have those problems.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
So, insist."

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
We can finish with a Hail Mary.

99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999
[Man] In the name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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[All] Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,

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Our Lord is with Thee.

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Blessed art Thou among women, and

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Blessed is the fruit of Thy womb,
Jesus.

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Holy Mary, Mother of God,

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Pray for us sinners,

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Now, and in the hour of our death.

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Amen.

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Pray for us.