This is a great message, but we don’t need unapproved apparitions to tell us what the Church, scripture, and the saints have been telling us for 2,000 years.
then why did the Blessed Mother Mary appear to the three children in Fatima? And what was the apparition before it was approved? Did the fact that it had not had the chance to be investigated and approved make it any less real?
It’ll be great if Medjugorje is approved, but it is not needed to know that we should “Love JESUS, pray the Rosary, faste, recieve the Sacraments.”
***I grew up in the Catholic Church…never missing Mass on Sundays. I NEVER recall being prompted by anyone within the Church to go to Confession or say the Rosary…let alone to faste, even on Friday’s during Lent.
And I have talked to many people in my adult life from many places who didn’t have ANYONE talk to them about these things, or the importance of them.
They were spoken of once Medjugoria became known…especially because of Pope John Paul II. But without what was begun in Medjugoria, I don’t think that the Pope would have had half of the popularity that he did. I don’t think the poeple would have given him their attention. The apparitions in Medjugoria woke people up. And we had been asleep for a generation or two.***
The real danger here is that if Medjugorje is condemned, as many claimed apparitions eventually are, is what will happen to all the disillusioned people? Will they have invested so much in a false seer’s words that they end up drifting away from the faith?
***Only if they are basing their faith on these apparitions. Fact is, people who recieved the message and did what the Blessed Mother asked do not need the apparitions to be proven in order for their faith in Christ and His Church to be real. We go to Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, recieve the Sacraments often, pray the Rosary, & faste. The messages are for those who haven’t been doing it. I had not…nor had millions of others who are now doing so because of the message of Medjugoria.
Our faith is not based on the authenticity of the apparitions. By it’s fruits, we have been converted to Christ Jesus. Just like those converted because of the messages of Fatima or Lourdes or Guadaloupe.
And again I ask, why the desire to believe in apparitions that have yet to be approved? How do we know that this is not a diabolical trick?
***It took years for Padre Pio to be authenticated. What about all of the thousands of people who would not have been helped by him if they had waited until he was authenticated. According to what you are saying, no one should have gone to Confession to him until he was approved. But many went to him for Confession, and recieved special words for themselves about the state of their souls. What if they had not gone to him for Confession, and died before he had been approved?
By the fruits shall you know them.
By the fruits of what is coming out of Medjugoria do we know it. And the most important thing is not the apparitions or apparitioners. It is the conversions. Conversions by the hundreds that were not happening in our lukewarm society until word came of Medjugoria.
