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Medjugorje, March 19, 2024
Solemnity of St. Joseph
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| Dear friends, praise be to Jesus and Mary!
1. On February 25, 2024, the visionary, Marija, received the following monthly message:
“Dear children! Pray and renew your hearts so that the good which you have sown may bear the fruit of joy and oneness with God. The chaff has taken hold of many hearts, and these have become sterile; that is why you, little children, be light, love and my outstretched hands in this world that yearns for God Who is love. Thank you for having responded to my call.” |
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| On March 18, the visionary, Mirjana Soldo, received her yearly apparition and Our Lady gave this message:
“Dear children, by the merciful love of God, I am with you. That is why, as a mother, I am calling you to believe in love – the love that is union with my Son. With love you help others to open their hearts to come to know my Son and to come to love Him. My children, love makes it for my Son to illuminate your hearts with His grace, to grow in you and to give you peace. My children, if you live love, if you live my Son, you will have peace and you will be happy. In love is victory. Thank you.” |
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| 2. On this feast of Saint Joseph, I wish to pray with you a very moving prayer that dates back to the first centuries of our era:
“O Saint Joseph whose protection is so great, so strong and so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. O Saint Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ our Lord, so that having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers. O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him in my name, and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.” |
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| 3. Yes, “the world yearns for God who is love!” How much suffering today, everywhere! How many painful, even unbearable wounds paralyze our hearts and our society! But we are not abandoned. There is a remedy that is very effective, in fact I know of no other remedy than this one, the one that Mary often reminds us of in her messages, because she has not stopped practicing it herself. Change the direction of our gaze. If I look at my wound, because of the pain I feel and the impossibility I find myself in to remove the evil that assails me, then I find myself sinking. I go down and down… little by little I drown in sadness, bitterness, revolt, anger, or other negative feelings that gnaw at me… It is as if my heart were sinking deeper and deeper into a bush of thorns where I struggle without being able to get out.
To contemplate one’s own misery is to risk sinking beneath the waves of despair.
The remedy is the opposite of this attitude! If only it were better known and offered more effectively to the faithful! If only children were taught to practice it and adults to discover or rediscover it, the world would be in a different place. This remedy is very simple and within everyone’s reach, since it deals with a simple gaze. A simple gaze that comes from the heart means to look, simply turning one’s gaze from the heart. It is a matter of shifting our eyes, and no longer gazing at our own wounds, rather setting our eyes on the wounds of Jesus.
“By His wounds we are healed” the prophet Isaiah tells us (Isa. 53:5). Even those who do not really know Jesus can do so, they are entitled to do it, because Jesus knows them, and it is He who changes hearts, it is He who is the Resurrection and the Life! This is His identity. Who else could replace Him? Certainly, changing the direction of our gaze requires a clear decision on our part, a courageous determination, because there is sometimes a complacency in contemplating our own misery, in sinking into its depths and believing that no one will be able to get us out of it…That is wrong! We have a powerful and compassionate Savior who calls us by name in the darkness of our confinement.
“Those who look to Him are radiant!” (Ps. 34:5). |
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| 4. It is no coincidence that the enemy of mankind wants to remove crosses from schools, hospitals and public places. He knows all too well the power of the cross of Christ, since it is by that cross that he was defeated forever. Nor is it by chance that the Blessed Mother, when she appears to the visionaries of Medjugorje, always comes where there is a crucifix. When France was Christian (and that will come back!), believers erected crosses at crossroads, sometimes even calvaries, and this drew God’s blessings on the villages. Now we destroy them. What blessings has this brought us? Doesn’t casting out the Savior mean to cast out salvation?
Yes, the world is languishing for God who is love, but God himself languishes after our gaze of love on him! In his immense love for us, He is on the lookout to catch the slightest expression of love from us, and that is why He said on the cross “I thirst!” Above all, He is thirsting for us! |
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| Holy Week is a special opportunity to quench his love-thirsty heart with our loving attention to all that He experiences, suffers, and expects from us. It’s a great opportunity to bring our intimacy with Him back to life! We cannot even imagine the graces He has in store for those who worship Him or who humbly strive to worship Him.
The visionary Vicka gave some very good advice when we contemplate Christ’s sufferings: simply ask Him, “Jesus, what do you want me to do for you?” Because what has He not done for us that He could do?
5. The great Hungarian mystic, Sister Natalia Magdolna (1901-1992) had a strong relationship with the Blessed Mother who often visited her. She would tell her about the apocalyptic times we live in. One day, she told her this simple word that can only encourage us all in our daily struggles, in our difficulties to love, our sincere efforts, the times when we fall and get up again… |
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| “You will not be saved because you are good, you will be saved because you are mine!”
6. To belong to the Blessed Mother is to belong to life! In the midst of the turmoil that is agitating France lately, it is good to allow ourselves be fascinated by the immense beauty of the gift of life, and to savor the realities that the Lord has revealed to us. |
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| “I have come that they may have life,” Jesus tells us (Jn 10:10). “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world”, says St Paul (Eph 1:4). “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands!” said God to Isaiah. (Is 49:15-16). “Before I formed you to the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart…” said God to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:5). “Dear children, thank God for the beauty and greatness of the gift of life”, says Our Lady. And look at these very encouraging words: “Do not forget, dear children, that each of you is a unique world in the eyes of the Heavenly Father!” (2/05/2016)
I particularly like this confidence from Vicka: “When Our Lady appears to me on my birthday (Sept. 3rd), after greeting me, she prays to God joyfully, saying, ‘Lord, I thank You for the gift of Vicka’s life!’ Then she kisses me.” To my question, “How does she kiss you?” Vicka replies, “Just like everyone else!”
And this affirmation from Gloria Polo to whom Christ explained His plan for the family: “Whenever a child is conceived in the womb, the angels dance in heaven before this new creation!” (PS2). |
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| By protecting life, we imitate Saint Joseph! What did he not do to prevent Mary, who was pregnant, from being stoned? What did he not risk so that the newborn Jesus was not massacred by Herod? And for so many women who begged him to be able to become mothers, or to protect the little one they carried in their wombs? (PS 3)
And what about Archangel Gabriel, revealing to Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, the vocation of his unborn child before his conception! (Luke 1:13 -17). And revealing to Mary the identity of the Son of God she was going to conceive! (Luke 1:31 -33). What beauty in the Heart of our Creator: He knows and loves us even before we are formed in our mother’s womb! |
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| 7. Don’t miss our videos: |
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| Dearest Gospa, you became our Mother at the foot of the cross. Please, carry us all within you until we come to meet the Heavenly Father! You know from experience that nothing is easy on this earth, but also that everything is grace!
Sister Emmanuel, Community of the Beatitudes
Translated from French
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PS1. Another prayer to St. Joseph, from St. John Paul II:
“Saint Joseph, with you, for you, we bless the Lord. He chose you among all men to be the chaste husband of Mary, the one who stands at the threshold of the mystery of her divine motherhood, and who, after her, welcomes him in faith as the work of the Holy Spirit.
You gave Jesus a legal paternity in connection with the lineage of David. You have constantly watched over the Mother and Child with loving care, to provide for them and enable them to fulfill their destiny.
Jesus, the Savior, deigned to submit to you as a father during his childhood and adolescence, and to learn from you the human life, while you shared his life in the adoration of his mystery.
You remain with him. Please continue to protect the whole Church (…)”
(According to a prayer of St. John Paul II, St. Joseph’s Oratory, Sept. 11, 1984)
Let us add this: O dear St. Joseph, please look at the material and spiritual needs of your children. We appeal to your intercession and entrust to you in particular our families, our young people who are searching, our sick people, our countries and their rulers, the future of humanity…. Through you, we are sure to join the maternal gaze of Mary and become the helping hand of Jesus.
PS2. See on the Internet the overwhelming testimony of Gloria Polo (dentist in Colombia), who was fulminated in 1995 and was brought back to life.
PS3. Read the incredible testimony of Belgrade’s abortionist, Dr. Stojan Adasevic, who had a huge conversion. See chapter 21 in “Scandalous Mercy”, by Sr. Emmanuel
https://sremmanuel.org/books/#Scandalous_Mercy_When_God_Goes_Beyond_the_Boundaries
There is a special blessing for unborn children. It is recommended that mothers and fathers consecrate their unborn children to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
“O Lord, author of all life, we ask you to bless this unborn child; grant it your constant protection and a happy birth as a sign of our rebirth one day, in order to enjoy eternal life in heaven.”
https://sremmanuel.org/newsletter/sr-emmanuels-december-2023-report/ |
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| PS4. Good news about my CDS! Many of my CDs are now available for you to listen to free of charge on my website, www.sremmanuel.org
The Amazing Secret of Purgatory part 1 &2; Maryam of Bethlehem Part 1 Part 2; Make Friends with Your Angel; In Medjugorje, he told me the secret; Fasting Door to God’s Power; Adoration; Prayer Obtains everything ; Stressed? Oppressed? Bless!; Mother, Who Are You?; How Wonderfully You Made Me!; Choose Your Future; Touch Your Heavenly Mother; The Incredible Mercy of God; When Death Separates Us From Those We Love; The Miracle of the Rosay: The Joyful Mysteries; Take Baby Jesus Home; The Most Beautiful Mass of My Life; True Consecration to Mary; The Divine Mercy Chaplet Part 1; The Divine Mercy Chaplet Part 2
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| PS9. “Jesus today”. Here is some excellent daily nourishment to grow in the love of Christ! On the website Mary of Nazareth you will find the gospel of the day with a very interesting comment to “Jesus today”.
https://www.mariedenazareth.com/en/our-activities/ |
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