Medjugorje priest preaching it!

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Hi everyone,

My apologies for any inconvenience this may cause!, But last year I visited Medjugorje yet during two masses one in St. James Church in Medjugorje one priest spoke out and said out lady has been coming here for over 20 years to show her your love for each of us. I was aware that the church has not approved of Medjugorje yet. But yet NOT one priest stood up and said something.

What made me angry was during another mass one priest preached that we should accept the body of Christ each time we attend mass no matter how many times; yet the next day this rude nasty priest spoke before mass was over to correct that priest from the pre day about the amount of times we are allow communion but he never spook about Medjugorje not been approved. Can someone tell me what is going on in Medjugorje? Is it approved or not? Is there visionaries or not…??

Many thanks 🙂
 
Medjugorje has NOT been approved, and in fact the local ordinary has stated flat out that nothing supernatural is going on there. I’m inclined to defer to his judgement.
 
It is not approved! Also, Catholics are allows to receive communion twice a day, but no more.
 
I find this very confusing. Pilgrims are visiting Medjugorje knowing it has not been approved by the Church. Pilgrims attend Masses there and priests say Masses for the pilgrims, But then is everyone pretending they don’t believe Mary is appearing there even though they must or why would they be there? I don’t get it.
 
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I find this very confusing. Pilgrims are visiting Medjugorje knowing it has not been approved by the Church. Pilgrims attend Masses there and priests say Masses for the pilgrims, But then is everyone pretending they don’t believe Mary is appearing there even though they must or why would they be there? I don’t get it.
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Just because it is not approved does not mean that it is all a hoax. I think it took something like 30 years before Fatima was approved. These things are a long grueling process which have to be examined over a long period of time before they give approval to them. It is the voice of those appointed to review these things that we should listen to and not necesarily just any priest’s opinion. Opinions vary!
 
momor said:
I find this very confusing. Pilgrims are visiting Medjugorje knowing it has not been approved by the Church. Pilgrims attend Masses there and priests say Masses for the pilgrims, But then is everyone pretending they don’t believe Mary is appearing there even though they must or why would they be there? I don’t get it.
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It is a weakness of our fallen nature that we seek proof, rather than greater faith. We seek modern, contemporary evidences rather than accepting the testimony of the Saints on faith. This dishonors those who stand in God’s presence. Many Priests have been susceptible to this desire, as well. There is no approved apparition that has continued for such an extended period - or which has produced such easily fabricated “quotations”. Apparitions add something to what has gone before. I see Medjugorje as adding only to the local economy.

Until the Church approves, I have nothing to do with the claims of Medjugorje.
 
po18guy said:
It is a weakness of our fallen nature that we seek proof, rather than greater faith. We seek modern, contemporary evidences rather than accepting the testimony of the Saints on faith. This dishonors those who stand in God’s presence. Many Priests have been susceptible to this desire, as well. There is no approved apparition that has continued for such an extended period - or which has produced such easily fabricated “quotations”. Apparitions add something to what has gone before. I see Medjugorje as adding only to the local economy.

Until the Church approves, I have nothing to do with the claims of Medjugorje.
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Faith and Reason work together otherwise we should just pick and choose what we want to believe and call it faith. There are reasons to believe everything the Catholic Church teaches and we should thank God for our abilities to reason with our intellect.
 
Hi Ethan 192 . I have a few links which might fill in some of the background info for you. First though, it’s probably better if you know that CAF prefers we don’t discuss unapproved apparitions - particularly the events and (purported) visions of those unapproved apparitions.[Post # 4;rule # 26, http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=486782”]this link].

Medjugorje has not been approved, but private pilgrimages are permitted. EWTN has a copy of the reply from the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith to To His Excellency Mons. Gilbert Aubry,Bishop of Saint-Denis de la Reunion confirming this when he had asked whether private pilgrimages were permitted. The link to that 1998 reply is here.

Deacon John’s blog has an interesting read on why the Bishop of Mostar ruled as he did here.

Father Z of WDTPRS listed some more up to date developments (from about a year and a half ago) of new directives (restrictions actually) issued by the Bishop of Mostar; which concern both pilgrims and parishoners of Medjugore, and which should be observed because they come from the Bishop. That link is here , but you should note that they are unclear because as Father Z says , they were translated from Croatian into english “by a machine” . On the same page further down, one of the readers of Father Z’s article provides a link to a much clearer translation of the restrictions rendered by Richard Chonak here .

Father Z noted that the Bishop of Mostar needs our prayers because of having to take on the “Medjatourist industry” . I can believe it. I’ve heard from friends who had visited the approved site of Lourdes that the surrounding commercialism can sometimes be overwhelming .
Canon 917 , says we may receive Holy Communion a second time the same day, but both times must be within a Eucharistic celebration (unless Communion is received as viaticum).

There’s a fair explanation on some of the reasons for that Canon here .

One of those reasons mentioned is that , “the Church encourages the full participation of the laity in the Masses they attend, including Holy Communion (if they are worthy).” I’m wondering if that might have been what the priest who was giving the homily may have tried to say – but maybe his choice of words made it a little too garbled to understand.

One of the reasons you won’t find mentioned at the last link is the instance where someone might have to travel all day Sunday because of an emergency or a death in the family. Now say that person went to Mass daily, and had already attended a Saturday morning Mass, then subsequently discovered due to an urgent situation, they would have to travel all day Sunday. That person might want to fulfill their Sunday obligation by attending a Sabbath day Mass on the same Saturday in the late afternoon/early evening.

The Church wishes to have conditions favorable to the faithful participating as fully as possible in each Eucharistic celebration, while simultaneously guarding the practice from becoming excessive or abusive.

Hope that clears at least a few things up for you.

God Bless.
 
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