Our Lady’s Messages

Dear children! Today I wish to call you to pray, pray, pray! In prayer you shall perceive the greatest joy and the way out of every situation that has no exit. Thank you for starting up prayer. Each individual is dear to my heart. And I thank all who have urged prayer in their families. Thank you for having responded to my call. (March 28, 1985 )

Monday, March 25, 1985 (Feast of the Annunciation)
“Through my joy and the joy of this people, I say to all of you this evening, I love you, and I wish you well.”

Today I wish to call you all to confession, even if you have confessed a few days ago. I wish that you all experience my feast day within yourselves. But you cannot experience it unless you abandon yourselves completely to God. Therefore, I am inviting you all to reconciliation with God! (March 24, 1985 – Sunday)

Dear children! I wish to keep on giving messages and therefore today I call you to live and accept my messages! Dear children, I love you and in a special way I have chosen this parish, one more dear to me than the others, in which I have gladly remained when the Almighty sent me. Therefore I call on you – accept me, dear children, that it might go well with you. Listen to my messages! Thank you for having responded to my call. (March 21, 1985)

Monday, March 18, 1985
To Mirjana:
“The rosary is not an ornament for the home, as one often time limits himself to using it. Tell everyone to pray it.”

“Right now, many are greatly seeking money, not only in the parish, but in the whole world. Woe to those who seek to take everything from those who come, and blessed are those from whom they take everything.”
(This relates to the exploitation of some pilgrims.)

“May the priests help you because I have entrusted to you a heavy burden, and I suffer from your difficulties. Ivan did not make a big mistake. I have sufficiently reprimanded him for the error. It is not necessary to scold him anymore.” (March 18, 1985)

Dear children! In your life you have all experienced light and darkness. God grants to every person to recognize good and evil. I am calling you to the light which you should carry to all the people who are in darkness. People who are in darkness daily come into your homes. Dear children, give them the light! Thank you for having responded to my call. (March 14, 1985)

Wednesday, March 13, 1985
Message addressed to Vicka, when a mistake by Ivan, who was frightened, caused a stir.
“Pray, pray, pray! It is only with prayer that you will be able to avoid Ivan’s error. He should not have written. And after that had to clearly acknowledge it, so as not to plant any doubts.” (March 13, 1985)

Saturday, March 9, 1985
“You can receive a grace immediately, or in a month, or in ten years. I do not need a hundred or two hundred Our Father’s. It is better to pray only one, but with a desire to encounter God. You should do everything out of love. Accept all annoyances, all difficulties, everything, with love. Dedicate yourselves to love.” (March 9, 1985)

Dear children! Today I call you to renew prayer in your families. Dear children, encourage the very young to prayer and the children to go to Holy Mass. Thank you for having responded to my call. (March 7, 1985)

Dear children! Today I call you to live the word this week: “I love God!” Dear children through love you will achieve everything and even what you think is impossible. God wants this parish to belong completely to Him. And that’s what I want too. Thank you for having responded to my call. (February 28, 1985)

Dear children! From day to day I have been inviting you to renewal and prayer in the parish, but you are not accepting it. Today I am calling you for the last time! Now it’s Lent and you as a parish can turn to my messages during Lent out of love. If you do not do that, I do not wish to keep on giving messages. God is permitting me that. Thank you for having responded to my call. (February 21, 1985)

Dear children! Today is the day when I give you a message for the parish, but the whole parish is not accepting the messages and is not living them. I am saddened and I want you, dear children, to listen to me and to live my messages. Every family must pray family prayer and read the Bible! Thank you for having responded to my call. (February 14, 1985)

Dear children! These days Satan is manifesting himself in a special way in this parish. Pray, dear children, that God’s plan is brought into effect and that every work of Satan ends up for the glory of God. I have stayed with you this long so I might help you along in your trials. Thank you for having responded to my call. (February 7, 1985)

Dear children! Today I wish to tell you to open your hearts to God like the spring flowers which crave for the sun. I am your Mother and I always want you to be closer to the Father and that He will always give abundant gifts to your hearts. Thank you for having responded to my call. (January 31, 1985)

Dear children! These days you have experienced God’s sweetness through the renewals which have been in this parish. Satan wants to work still more fiercely to take away your joy from each one of you. By prayer you can completely disarm him and ensure your happiness. Thank you for having responded to my call. (January 24, 1985)

Dear children! These days Satan is working underhandedly against this parish, and you, dear children, have fallen asleep in prayer, and only some are going to Mass. Withstand the days of temptation! Thank you for having responded to my call. (January 17, 1985)

My dear children! Satan is so strong and with all his might wants to disturb my plans which I have begun with you. You pray, just pray and don’t stop for a minute! I will pray to my Son for the realization of all the plans I have begun. Be patient and constant in your prayers. And don’t let Satan discourage you. He is working hard in the world. Be on your guard! (January 14, 1985 – Monday)
Message conveyed by Vicka from Our Lady.

Dear children! Today I want to thank you for all your sacrifices, but special thanks to those who have become dear to my heart and come here gladly. There are enough parishioners who are not listening to the messages, but because of those who are in a special way close to my heart, because of them I am giving messages for the parish. And I will go on giving them because I love you and I want you to spread my messages with your heart. Thank you for having responded to my call. (January 10, 1985)

Dear children! These days the Lord has bestowed upon you great graces. Let this week be one of thanksgiving for all the graces which God has granted you. Thank you for having responded to my call. (January 3, 1985)

Message given through Jelena Vasilj
I want you to be a flower which will blossom for Jesus on Christmas. And a flower that will not stop blooming when Christmas is over. I want your hearts to be shepherds to Jesus. (December 21, 1984 Friday)

Dear children! Today I am inviting you to do something concrete for Jesus Christ. As a sign of dedication to Jesus I want each family of the parish to bring a single flower before that happy day. I want every member of the family to have a single flower by the crib so Jesus can come and see your dedication to Him! Thank you for having responded to my call. (December 20, 1984)

Dear children! You know that the season of joy is getting closer, but without love you will achieve nothing. So first of all, begin to love your own family, everyone in the parish, and then you’ll be able to love and accept all who are coming over here. Now let these seven days be a week when you need to learn to love. Thank you for having responded to my call. (December 13, 1984 )

Dear children! These days I am calling you to family prayer. In God’s Name many times I have been giving you messages, but you have not listened to me. This Christmas will be unforgettable for you only if you accept the messages which I am giving you. Dear children, don’t allow that day of joy to become my most sorrowful day. Thank you for having responded to my call. (December 6, 1984)

Dear children! No, you don’t know how to love and you don’t know how to listen with love to the words I am saying to you. Be conscious, my beloved, that I am your Mother and I have come on earth to teach you to listen out of love, to pray out of love and not compelled by the fact that you are carrying a cross. By means of the cross God is glorified through every person. Thank you for having responded to my call. (November 29, 1984 )

Dear children! These days live all the main messages and keep rooting them in your hearts till Thursday. Thank you for having responded to my call. (November 22, 1984)

Dear children! You are a chosen people and God has given you great graces. You are not conscious of every message which I am giving you. Now I just want to say – pray, pray, pray! I don’t know what else to tell you because I love you and I want you to comprehend my love and God’s love through prayer. Thank you for having responded to my call. (November 15, 1984)

Dear children! You are not conscious of the messages which God is sending you through me. He is giving you great graces and you do not comprehend them. Pray to the Holy Spirit for enlightenment. If you only knew how great are the graces God is granting you, you would be praying without ceasing. Thank you for having responded to my call. (November 8, 1984)

Dear children! Today I call you to the renewal of prayer in your homes. The work in the fields is over. Now devote yourselves to prayer. Let prayer take the first place in your families. Thank you for having responded to my call. (November 1, 1984)

Dear children! Pray during this month. God allows me every day to help you with graces to defend yourselves against evil. This is my month. I want to give it to you. You just pray and God will give you the graces you are seeking. I will help along with it. Thank you for having responded to my call. (October 25, 1984)

Dear children! Today I call on you to read the Bible every day in your homes and let it be in a visible place so as always to encourage you to read it and to pray. Thank you for having responded to my call. (October 18, 1984)

Dear children! Thank you for dedicating all your hard work to God even now when He is testing you through the grapes you are picking. Be assured, dear children, that He loves you and, therefore, He tests you. You just always offer up all your burdens to God and do not be anxious. Thank you for having responded to my call. (October 11, 1984)

Jakov was sick and received this message at home.

Dear children, Let all the prayers you say in your homes in the evening be for the conversion of sinners because the world is in great sin. Every evening pray the rosary. (October 8, 1984 – Monday)

Dear children! Today I want to tell you that again and again you make me happy by your prayer, but there are enough of those in this very parish who do not pray and my heart is saddened. Therefore pray that I can bring all your sacrifices and prayers to the Lord. Thank you for having responded to my call. (October 4, 1984)

Dear children! You have helped me along by your prayers to realize my plans. Keep on praying that my plans completely I request the families of the parish to pray the family rosary. Thank you for having responded to my call. (September 27, 1984)

Dear children! Today I call on you to begin fasting with the heart. There are many people who are fasting, but only because everyone else is fasting. It has become a custom which no one wants to stop. I ask the parish to fast out of gratitude because God has allowed me to stay this long in this parish. Dear children, fast and pray with the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call. (September 20, 1984)

Dear children! I still need your prayers. You wonder why all these prayers? Look around you, dear children, and you will see how greatly sin has dominated the world. Pray, therefore, that Jesus conquers. Thank you for having responded to my call. (September 13, 1984)

Dear children! Without prayer there is no peace. Therefore I say to you, dear children, pray at the foot of the cross for peace. Thank you for having responded to my call. (September 6, 1984)

Dear children! The cross was also in God’s plan when you built it. These days, especially, go on the mountain and pray before the cross. I need your prayers. Thank you for having responded to my call. (August 30, 1984)

Dear children! Pray, pray!” Marija said that he also invited the people, and especially the young people, to keep order during the Mass. (August 23, 1984)

Dear children! I beseech you, especially those from this parish, to live my messages and convey them to others, to whomever you meet. Thank you for having responded to my call. (August 16, 1984)

This apparition was unexpected. Ivan was praying at home. After that he started to get ready to go to Church for the evening services. By surprise Our Lady appeared to him and told him to relate to the people. “I would like the people to pray along with me these days. And to pray as much as possible! And to fast strictly on Wednesdays and Fridays, and every day to pray at least one Rosary: the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries.” Our Lady asked that we accept this message with a firm will. She especially requested this of the parishioners and the faithful of the surrounding places. (August 14, 1984 – Tuesday)

Dear children! Pray, because Satan wishes to complicate my plans still further. Pray with the heart and surrender yourselves to Jesus in prayer. (August 11, 1984 – Saturday)

No message was given by Our Lady (August 9, 1984)

The celebration of the second millennium of Mary’s birthday was preceded by three days of fasting and continuous prayer. Seventy priests heard confessions without rest; there were a great number of conversions.
“Never in my life have I cried with sorrow, as I have cried this evening with joy. Thank you!”

In anticipation of this day Our Lady had said:
“The priest who will hear confession will have great joy on that day.”

During these 3 days of fasting and continuous prayer the visionaries say the Blessed Virgin was: Very Joyful. Our Lady repeated:
“I am very happy, continue, continue. Continue to pray and to fast.”

Her joy seemed to have reached a peak Sunday, August 5th. Like a flower when it blooms, and full of joy, Our Lady said:
“Continue, continue, open your hearts, ask God and I will ask for you.” (August 5, 1984)

Dear children! Today I am joyful and I thank you for your prayers. Pray still more these days for the conversion of sinners. Thank you for having responded to my call. (August 2, 1984)

Dear children! Today also I wish to call you to persistent prayer and penance. Especially, let the young people of this parish be more active in their prayers. Thank you for having responded to my call. (July 26, 1984)

Late in the evening, on the hill of the apparitions:
“Open your hearts to me, come close. Say in a loud voice your intentions, and your prayers.”

The Blessed Virgin paid close attention to the prayers of the visionaries. When they prayed for the Bishop of Mostar, her eyes were filled with tears. While crying, she tells them:
“You are my little flowers. Continue to pray, my task is lighter because of it.”

Our Lady disappeared into Heaven, still crying, after having blessed everyone with a crucifix. (July 20, 1984)

Dear children! These days you have been experiencing how Satan is working. I am always with you, and don’t you be afraid of temptations because God is always watching over us. Also I have given myself to you and I sympathize with you even in the smallest temptation. Thank you for having responded to my call. (July 19, 1984)

Dear children! These days Satan wants to frustrate my plans. Pray that his plan not be realized. I will pray my Son Jesus to give you the grace to experience the victory of Jesus in the temptations of Satan. Thank you for having responded to my call. (July 12, 1984)

No message was given by Our Lady (June 28, 1984)

Pray, pray, pray! Thank you for having responded to my call. (June 21, 1984)

Dear children! Tomorrow night pray for the Spirit of Truth! Especially, you from the parish. Because you need the Spirit of Truth to be able to convey the messages just the way they are, neither adding anything to them, nor taking anything whatsoever way from them, but just the way I said them. Pray for the Holy Spirit to inspire you with the spirit of prayer, so you will pray more. I, your Mother, tell you that you are praying little. Thank you for having responded to my call. (June 9, 1984 – Saturday)

Dear children! Tonight I wish to tell you during the days of this novena to pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on your families and on your parish. Pray, and you shall not regret it. God will give you gifts by which you will glorify Him till the end of your life on this earth. Thank you for having responded to my call. (June 2, 1984 – Saturday)

There were many people present from abroad. Our Lady did not give a message for the parish. She told Marija that she would give a message on Saturday to be announced at the Sunday parish Mass. (May 31, 1984 – Ascension Thursday)

Dear children! I have told you already that I have chosen you in a special way, just the way you are. I, the Mother, love you all. And in any moment that is difficult for you, do not be afraid! Because I love you even then when you are far from me and my Son. Please, do not let my heart weep with tears of blood because of the souls who are lost in sin. Therefore, dear children, pray, pray, pray! Thank you for having responded to my call. (May 24, 1984)

Dear children! Today I am very happy because there are many who want to consecrate themselves to me. Thank you. You have not made a mistake. My Son, Jesus Christ, wishes to bestow on you special graces through me. My Son is happy because of your dedication. Thank you for having responded to my call. (May 17, 1984)

Many of the faithful felt shaken by the last message of Our Lady. Some had the feeling that Our Lady would not give any more messages to the parish, but this evening she said, “I am speaking to you and I wish to speak further. You just listen to my instructions!” (May 10, 1984)

Marija asked Our Lady, “Dear Madonna, why didn’t you give me a message for the parish on Thursday?” Our Lady replied,

I do not wish to force anyone to do that which he/she neither feels nor desires, even though I had special messages for the parish by which I wanted to awaken the faith of every believer. But only a really small number has accepted my Thursday messages. In the beginning there were quite a few. But its become a routine affair for them. And now recently some are asking for the message out of curiosity, and not out of faith and devotion to my Son and me. (April 30, 1984 – Monday)

Dear children! Sympathize with me! Pray, pray, pray! (April 19, 1984 – Holy Thursday)

Dear children! Today I beseech you to stop slandering and to pray for the unity of the parish, because I and my Son have a special plan for this parish. Thank you for having responded to my call. (April 12, 1984)

Dear children! This evening I pray you especially to venerate the Heart of my Son, Jesus. Make reparation for the wound inflicted on the Heart of my Son. That Heart is offended by all kinds of sins. Thank you for coming this evening. (April 5, 1984)

Dear children! In a special way this evening I am calling you to perseverance in trials. Consider how the Almighty is still suffering today on account of your sins. So when sufferings come, offer them up as a sacrifice to God. Thank you for having responded to my call. (March 29, 1984)

Dear children! In a special way this evening I am calling you during Lent to honor the wounds of my Son, which He received from the sins of this parish. Unite yourselves with my prayers for the parish so that His sufferings may be bearable. Thank you for having responded to my call. Try to come in ever greater numbers. (March 22, 1984)

Tonight also, dear children, I am grateful to you in a special way for being here. Unceasingly adore the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. I am always present when the faithful are adoring. Special graces are then being received. (March 15,1984)

Thank you for having responded to my call! Dear children, you in the parish, be converted. This is my other wish. That way all those who shall come here shall be able to convert. (March 8, 1984)

Dear children! I have chosen this parish in a special way and I wish to lead it. I am guarding it in love and I want everyone to be mine. Thank you for having responded tonight. I wish you always to be with me and my Son in ever greater numbers. I shall speak a message to you every Thursday. (March 1, 1984)

There are many Christians who are no longer faithful, because they do not pray anymore. Have them begin again to recite each day, at least, 7 Our Father’s, 7 Hail Mary’s, 7 Glory Be’s, and the Creed. Above all, abstain from certain television programs. They represent a great peril for your families. After you have seen them, you cannot pray any more. Give up likewise, alcohol, cigarettes, and pleasure of this kind.

The fasting which you are doing in eating fish, instead of meat, is not fasting but abstinence. The true fast consists in giving up all our sins, but one must also renounce himself and make the body participate in it.

Monthly confession will be a remedy for the Church in the west. Whole sections of the Church could be cured, if the believers would go to confession once a month.

(December 1983)

My children, understand that the most important thing in our lives is prayer. (Wednesday, December 28, 1983)

To a question from Fr. Laurentin, Ivan conveys this answer from Our Lady: “Our Lady prays for that. May he who undertakes it, do it in prayer. It is there that he will find his inspiration.” (Monday, December 26, 1983)

Pray and fast only! (Friday, December 16, 1983)

Fast on Thursday and Friday for the Bishop. (Thursday, December 15, 1983)

Pray and fast! I am asking you for prayer. (Wednesday, December 14, 1983)

Thanks to all of you who have come here, so numerous during this year, in spite of snow, ice and bad weather, to pray to Jesus. Continue, hold on in your suffering. You know well that when a friend asks you for something, you give it to him. It is thus with Jesus. When you pray without ceasing, and you come in spite of your fatigue, He will give you all that you ask from Him. For that, pray. (Thursday, December 1, 1983)

To Marija, for a priest:
“You must warn the Bishop very soon, and the Pope, with respect to the urgent and the great importance of the message for all humanity.” (Wednesday, November 30, 1983)

Our Lady only said: “Prayer and fasting.” (Saturday, November 26, 1983)

Begin by calling on the Holy Spirit each day. The most important thing is to pray to the Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit descends on earth, then everything becomes clear and everything is transformed. (Advent 1983)

The important thing is to pray to the Holy Spirit, so that He may descend on you. When one has Him, one has everything. People make a mistake when they turn only to the saints to request something. (Friday, October 21, 1983)

For the parish:
“Have all the families consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart each day. I am very happy when the entire family meets to pray each morning for half an hour.” (Thursday, October 20, 1983)

To Jakov:
“My Son suffers very much because men do not want to be reconciled. They have not listened to me. Be converted, be reconciled.” (Saturday, October 15, 1983)

I have already said many times that the peace of the world is in a state of crisis. Become brothers among you, increase prayer and fasting in order to be saved. (Sometime in September 1983)

For three priests from Liverpool:
“Preach my messages. Speak about the events at Medjugorje. Continue to increase your prayers.” (Thursday, September 29, 1983)

My Son suffers very much because the world is not converting. May the world be converted and make peace. (Monday, September 26, 1983)

“Pray, pray, pray! Do not be discouraged. Be in peace because God gives you the grace to defeat satan.”

“In my messages, I recommend to everyone, and to the Holy Father in particular, to spread the message which I have received from my Son here at Medjugorje. I wish to entrust to the Pope, the word with which I came here: ‘MIR’, (peace in Croatian), which he must spread everywhere. And here is a message which is especially for him: That he bring together the Christian people, through his words and his preaching; that he spread particularly among the young people, the messages which he has received from the Father in his prayers, when God inspires him.” (Friday, September 16, 1983)

“Pray. When I give you this message, do not be content to just listen to it. Increase your prayer and see how it makes you happy. All graces are at your disposal. All you have to do is to gain them. In order to do that, I tell you again Pray!” (Monday, September 12, 1983)

The mother of Jakov (12 years old) dies. The Blessed Virgin consoles him and reveals to him: “Your mother is with me in Heaven.”(Monday, September 5, 1983)

For the intention of a group of young people before their departure on their pilgrimage to Brijeg:
“I wish that you pray throughout your trip, and that you glorify God. There, you will be able to meet other young people. Convey the messages which I have given you. Do not hesitate to speak to them about it. Some begin to pray and to fast just as they have been told, but they get tired very quickly, and thus loose the graces which they have acquired.” (Monday, August 29, 1983)

Fr. Tardif, Fr. Raucourt, and Dr. Phillippe Madre have been arrested and expelled by the Yugoslavian authorities:
“Do not worry for them. Everything is in God’s plan.” (Thursday, August 25, 1983)

With respect to Fr. Emilien Tardif, the Canadian priest of the charismatic renewal:
“Have him announce my messages to the whole world. Let Jesus, only Jesus, be at the center of his efforts.” (Tuesday, August 23, 1983)

To the young people who are returning to school:
“Be careful not to diminish the spirit of prayer. Satan is enraged against those who fast and those who are converted.”(Monday, August 15, 1983)

This was an exceptionally long apparition (38 minutes). The Blessed Virgin gives the visionaries instructions to guide their lives which only concerned them:
“Pray more for your spiritual life. Do your utmost in this sense. Pray for your Bishop.” (Friday, August 12, 1983)

On orders from the Bishop, Fr. Pervan, the parish priest put an end to the custom which called for the visionaries beginning the prayers of the Rosary and the 7 Our Father’s, Hail Mary’s and Glory Be’s. Jakov questioned the Blessed Virgin on this subject:
“If it is so, then do not go against it so as not to provoke any quarrels. If it is possible, talk about it tomorrow among yourselves. All of you come to an agreement beforehand.” (Saturday, August 6, 1983)

Concerning the tensions within the diocese:
“Fast two days a week for the intentions of the Bishop, who bears a heavy responsibility. If there is a need to, I will ask for a third day. Pray each day for the Bishop.” (Beginning of July 1983)

“I thank all those who have responded to my call. I bless all of you. I bless each of you. In these days, I ask you to pray for my intentions. Go in the peace of God.” (Friday, July 1, 1983  – Toward 11:00pm on Krizevac)

“Love your enemies. Pray for them and bless them.” (Sunday, June 26, 1983)

“The sign will come, you must not worry about it. The only thing that I would want to tell you is to be converted. Make that known to all my children as quickly as possible. No pain, no suffering is too great to me in order to save you. I will pray to my Son not to punish the world; but I beseech you, be converted. You cannot imagine what is going to happen nor what the Eternal Father will send to earth. That is why you must be converted! Renounce everything. Do penance. Express my acknowledgement to all my children who have prayed and fasted. I carry all this to my Divine Son in order to obtain an alleviation of His justice against the sins of mankind. I thank the people who have prayed and fasted. Persevere and help me to convert the world.” (Friday, June 24, 1983)

Ivan: What do you wish that the priests preach during the ten anniversary days of the first apparitions?
“Have them do what they think is best. It would be good to remind the faithful of the events which have been revealed here in relation to my coming… Have them remind them the reasons for my coming here.” (Tuesday, June 14, 1983)

Ivan: May the priests begin new work around the church or must they request authorization from the authorities?
“Do not begin the work until receiving permission from the authorities. Otherwise, someone will inform the latter and the works would be forbidden. Go, and kindly request the authorization. It will be given to you.” (Sunday, June 12, 1983)

Fr. Vlasic has begun to form a prayer group requested by the Virgin on May 25th. Jakov, Vicka, and Ivanka: What do you expect of Fr. Tomislav? Has he begun well? “Yes, it is good. Have him continue.”

What should one do so that people will not drive away from here the priests who work with faith and love?
“Pray and fast for this intention. I will tell you when the moment comes, what you must do.”

Fr. Tomislav wants to call the parish to prayer and fasting, so that the church recognizes that the events here are supernatural. It is a good way?
“Yes, it is a good way. Have the parish pray for this gift. Have them pray also for the gift of the Holy Spirit so that all those who come here will feel the presence of God.” (Friday, June 3, 1983)

“Read what has been written about Jesus. Meditate on it, and convey it to others.” (Thursday, June 2, 1983)