Liberian:
I have to ask, since Mary is not a priest, how can she bless things? I ran into this at Conyers, too.
I have rosaries blessed by Our Blessed Mother. I have gone to rosary meetings where the visionary Mary Reilly is, and Jesus and Mary have appeared there, seen only by Mary Reilly, during our roasary prayer. It is then that Our Lady blesses the rosaries and holy objects that are there, including a basket of free plastic rosaries that are always there.
She appears as Our Lady of the Finger Lakes. It is okay with the Church to beleive in private revelations as long as they do not disagree with Church teachings. Mary Reilly had an excellent spiritual director, Fr. Albert Shamon, so that and Mary herself and the message content convinced me.
Mary Reilly relays to us that Our Blessed Mother blesses the Holy objects, and also relays to us that Our Blessed Mother says that they still need to be blessed by a Priest, if they haven’t already been.
So Our Lady’s blessing is very special but does not replace the Priest’s blessing. I guess that explains something I always wondered but never asked – which is, as Jesus has appeared, too, along with His Blessed Mother, why doesn’t He bless the objects rather than Mary? I see now perhaps because doing so would negate the need for a Priestly blessing and He does not cause an arguemnt that might also lead to someone neglecting a teaching of the Church.
I do not know a lot about Medjagorie but I am aware of the controversy of the local bishiops not approving it. I always wonder about that, as, while not knowing anything about those bishops i do know that some local bishops in our country are in no position to make an inspired call about holy matters. Of Medjagorie I have seen amazing fruit from some who have attended there - conversions and changed lives in a big way. And Bob and Penny Lord spoke of a possible apparation of Archangel Raphael in one of their books, and spoke of how the place is. So many people say such things! So I can’t dismiss it.