July 15, 2006
July 15, 2006
Dear Children of Medjugorje
Praised be Jesus and Mary!
1. On July 2nd, Mirjana received her monthly apparition at the Cenacolo, in the presence of a huge crowd. At the end of the apparition, Mirjana shared with those present this message:
Dear Children,
God created you with free will to comprehend and to choose: Life or Death. I as a mother, with motherly love, desire to help you to comprehend and to choose life.
My children, do not deceive yourselves with false peace and false joy. Permit me, my children, to show you the true way, the way that leads to life – my Son. Thank you!
To choose life and not death is the invitation that Our Lady is offering us in these troubled days. In our culture, we see blatant invitations to death everywhere, and to resist them, one must have a solid prayer life and an awareness that we are on a battle-field. Victory will be ensured by God’s mercy; He will have the last word!
In the midst of the darkness of the “culture of death” there are marvelous lights shining, which are given by God, and which announce of the New Pentecost of Love.
One of our good friends from Ireland, Bernadette Goulding, of “Rachel’s Vineyard” (see PS 1), lived through the darkness resulting from her abortion and now supports other women who experienced abortion. In her ministry, death and life are dramatically manifesting themselves. Here she shares some thoughts about these issues.
“I will always regret that I chose Death and not Life for my child. I deceived myself with a false peace and a false joy.
Every abortion is a death in a family. After death you need to grieve, but with abortion you are not allowed to grieve. With abortion there is no body, no funeral, no graveside, no focus for the grief, so the grieving goes on and on.
During Rachel’s Vineyard weekends, many women realize for the first time that they are mothers. They realize they are not grieving over a bunch of cells, that they are grieving over the loss of their children. They come to understand that Jesus is the only True Way, that any other way is false.
There is a wound in your soul that only the Divine Physician can heal. We speak our pain to the Merciful Jesus, who offers the gift of His forgiveness. We have rejected His gift of Life, and now He offers us His gift of Mercy and forgiveness.
One of the passages of Scripture that is good to read is John 4, the woman at the well. Jesus knows all about her, and yet this woman with a past carries his message of Life and of Living water to her people.
God can use our sins to make better people out of us. He has used my abortion to bring the message of hope and healing to so many women. He can make miracles out of our mistakes.”
2. Don Calloway!
The Blessed Mother mentions “false peace” in this message, and it is not by chance! I’d like to share a little more from Don Calloway’s interview here in Medjugorje (see report of June 15). He speaks of how people are misled these days.
Sr. Em: How do you spread the Medjugorje messages?
Fr. D: Most times I spread the messages when I go to parishes, to missions, conferences, a lot of youth groups, prisons. Usually to the people I give the fundamentals, like the five stones, that is simple. The people can remember that. They can walk away with it. A lot of people come up to me because of the evil one’s manifestations, the demonic things, the occult, it is everywhere. They are into Wicca, New Age, Reiki (see PS 1), massages, Yoga, everything. You have to tell them that those things can only be driven out by prayer and fasting. That is part of the message, you have to do this!
Sr. Em: Father, many people are trapped in Reiki’s practices. Do you have any advice?
Fr. D: There is a book called “Ransomed from Darkness” (see PS 2). So many have been deceived by these things, for example Harry Potter books. I would say like Jesus did, “Better for your child to enter the Kingdom of Heaven illiterate.” A lot of people, especially in convents and parishes, think it is all ok. Yoga, tai chi, these things are not simply exercises, it is a mentality of being that you are setting up, and you are trying to be your own self help, self messiah, trying to heal yourself. You can_t do it! Many people, when I talk about those things, get very upset.
The rosary is the answer. If you want to learn how to become calm and peaceful, and have your breathing become peaceful and feel better, great! But if you don’t have a sacrificial element involved, it could be demonic.
3. Father Robert Thorn, back in Medjugorje!
Father Robert Thorn (former teacher of Transcendental Meditation) offers us a first hand witness about false peace:
“I had a close friend who was so calm and at peace all the time and I asked him how he did it. And he said, ‘Well, I do Transcendental Meditation.’ I got a little information from him, and decided I wanted to try it. From the moment I started it I felt so much peace flowing into my body. I really felt an incredible amount of peace. It got me away from drugs, because the TM program didn’t allow it. Eventually, I became a teacher of TM.
Because of the encouragement of my brother, I came to visit Medjugorje but only as a tourist, out of curiosity.
One night, up on Apparition Hill, I was kneeling at the foot of the cross doing my Transcendental Meditation and some other pilgrims were praying next to me. One of them began to pray in tongues, and as soon as he started I had this uncomfortable feeling in my gut. I felt like I had to say something. All of a sudden I began to speak in tongues and he and I began to converse in tongues! This shows that the evil one can also speak in tongues!
After my experience in Medjugorje, I continued my work and travels, but began reading the Bible and praying the rosary. I was still doing TM and was experiencing uncontrollable attraction for different women. I was living in sin.
I returned to Medjugorje (en route to rendezvous with a Turkish woman for a romantic getaway in Istanbul). After a few days, I cancelled the rest of my plans and remained in Medjugorje. I had an experience one evening at the healing service in the church, right after mass. I was kneeling down, imagining the blood of Christ just flowing over me. I had my eyes closed, and all of a sudden I saw this ugly black creature, kind of a cross between a lobster crab and a beetle, just going across my mind’s eye. I said instinctively, ‘That is an evil spirit. I need to get rid of it.’
When a priest heard this in my confession, he said “Ahh, that is interesting. Tell me, have you been fasting?” I said, “Yes,” and the priest replied, “Good, because the power of the Holy Spirit is greater when you have been fasting.”
This priest was an exorcist and so, through a long intense night of prayer, we renounced and bound, in the name of Jesus Christ, the spirits that were in me. I felt incredible pain in my gut. It would start coming out my throat as burps, one time I actually saw a jet of steam come right out of my mouth! I was flat on my hands and knees on the floor and the priest was sprinkling me with Holy Water, he placed the crucifix against my gut and the pain was incredible.
At one point during this night, when the priest demanded, “In the name of Jesus Christ, who are you?” I found myself reciting my mantra from TM. Now it is forbidden to say your mantra out loud because it weakens its power to take you “within”, so it surprised me that I would be saying it. I later asked the priest if there was anything wrong with TM, and I explained that what I had recited was my TM mantra. He said, “Well, it responded to the power and authority of Jesus Christ!” Later, both he and I found out the meaning of this mantra, and it was the demon of lust. At another point during the process, the name of one of the demons was that of a master in TM!
After this, I stopped doing TM “cold turkey” and started coming frequently to Medjugorje, spending time on Krizevac and praying for discernment. I started a novena and on the third night, while attending mass, I clearly heard, during the offertory prayer “I want you to be a priest.”
I was shocked. I didn’t know what to do. I walked out of the church, in a daze, to the restaurant I always went to. I was praying to Mary. I said, “Mary if this is really what you want of me, you have to help me with my desire to get married and have children.” She said in response, “I’ll give you more children than you could ever imagine.”
Sr. Em: How do you explain the kind of “peace” you had when you started TM?
“Now, I recognize it as a false peace. In going back and looking at all the teachings of TM, all of a sudden it was all just as clear as day to me that what they are talking about are demons! In TM you will feel that you have all you want fulfilled, because you go into this field and the demons provide for all your needs. And of course the demons are going to provide for your needs because every time you meditate, you are caressing them and stroking them and they want you to come back! This peace that you feel through TM is a false peace, centered on yourself. You are just caressing your own EGO and then you feel good. You don’t realize that you are becoming “Jesus resistant” so to speak! But true peace flows from God to you when you turn to Him. TM instead is total self gratification.”
(See Our Lady’s words in PS 4)
Remember the words of Jesus “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Not as the world gives do I give unto you.” John 14:27
Dearest Gospa, Queen of Peace, in our hearts and in the world, may your voice prevail over those which deceive us!
Sr. Emmanuel +
(Translated from French)
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PS 1 Rachel’s Vineyard is a program for healing after abortion, with resources world-wide to minister to those dealing with post-abortion issues. For more information please use the following contact information: Website: www.rachelsvineyard.org, www.rachelsvineyard.ie
Email: rachelhopeforu@eircom.net
Tel (Ireland) : 087 8592877 , Tel (USA) : 1 877 467 3468
PS 2 – The practice of Reiki is spreading fast and is quickly gaining ground through the activity of the New Age. It is a kind of therapy that uses the universal vital Energy as well as certain powers originating from a “trancendental spirit” that has nothing to do with the Holy Spirit! In this practice, the universal energy is called upon the patient by tracing upon him archetyped symbols. Then the therapist visualises this energy that enters into him through the chakra at the top of the cranium, fills him and then overflows through his hand to enter into the patient. What is really happening is that Reiki opens the door to the occult. In certain cases there is a health improvement, but quickly it is replaced by symptoms that are usually linked to the practise of the occult, even spiritism. This practice includes secret symbols, mantras, from obscure sources. As is often the case in the New Age practices, it denies the existence of a personal God, our Creator, and it works with the energy in a pantheist spirit. It is transmitted during sessions of initiation (contrary to the gifts of the Holy Spirit which are not transmitted automatically from person to person but are received from above, according to God’s choices). This practice cannot coincide with our Christian faith. With Jesus nothing is secret! The fact that some religious people practice it, does not mean it is a good thing. Its traps are very subtle and the studies about is are not made public yet.
PS 3 – Ransomed From Darkness: The New Age, Christian Faith and the Battle for Souls
By Moira Noonan
ISBN: 0-9725200-7-4
Distributed by Publishers Group West, and available through Spring Arbor and other major book wholesalers. It may also be ordered directly from the publisher, North Bay Books at www.northbaybooks.com
The author is a Catholic, who spent 25 years in the occult. She worked in Religious Science ministry, as a psychic counselor and developed expertise in such areas as Hypnotherapy, Past-Life Regression, Astrology, the Course in Miracles, Reiki, channeling, crystals, goddess spirituality, clairvoyance, and other occult practices.
After a series of powerful conversion experiences, including Medjugorje, she returned to the Church, and is now is witnessing, evangelizing, and explaining the deeper meaning and influences of the New Age movement.
This book tells the story of her journey into and out of the occult, and also contains her observations about the New Age movement, its dangers, and how the New Age ideas are entering into the Church.
PS 4 – In Medjugorje in the early days (1984), Our Lady gave this response to a question about certain Oriental meditations like Zen and TM:
“Why do you call them meditations, when it deals with human works? The true meditation is a meeting with Je sus. When you discover joy, interior peace, you must know there is only one God and only one Mediator, Jesus Christ.”
PS 5 – In the United States, our organization, Children of Medjugorje, Inc., offers the translation of this report in several languages. See our website: www.childrenofmedjugorje. com
To register to receive this report in English:
cobrien@childrenofmedjugorje.com
To receive it in Spanish:
juay@fibertel.com.ar
To receive it in French:
wmmedjugorje@childrenofmedjugorje.com
To receive it in Italian:
info@vocepiu.it
PS 6 – It seems that the media have once more made huge waves about the Medjugorje dossier. But be at peace, there is nothing new issued from Rome about Medjugorje! There is no need to be agitated. Unless there is a major change expressed by Rome, we simply have to get back to the latest statement written by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in 1998.
On our website, www.childrenofmedjugorje. com you will find this document, as well as the text of the homily given by the Bishop of Mostar, to the Confirmation candidates in Medjugorje, on the Feast of Corpus Christi, June 15, 2006
These are the real documents about Medjugorje, and all the articles, criticisms and other statements published by the media are interpretations.