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Message of April 25, 2005 "Dear children! Also today, I call you to renew prayer in your families. By prayer and the reading of Sacred Scripture, may the Holy Spirit, who will renew you, enter into your families. In this way, you will become teachers of the faith in your family. By prayer and your love, the world will set out on a better way and love will begin to rule in the world. Thank you for having responded to my call." 04/2005
Reflection on the Message
RENEW PRAYER IN YOUR FAMILIES
In her message, the Virgin Mary speaks to the families. With a maternal
heart, she is inviting to the revival of prayer in our families. Mary, our
Mother, knows well that family is threatened in a special way. The family
is the sanctuary of each person, in which it grows, is educated, and
receives in the heart all the values that parents should transmit to their
children.
Nowadays, much is spoken about so many crises, and in a very special way
of the crisis of the family. The family is attacked on all sides by evil,
which wants to discourage and destroy communion, harmony and peace of the
family. The families are in crisis in a particular way, because family
prayer disappeared in so many families. Gospa does not make a diagnostic
of a disease of the contemporary family, but in this message, she is
giving the therapy, how to heal, how to renew and revive our families. She
brings us back to the source of life, she is putting in our hands the
means: prayer and reading of the Scriptures, of the Word of God. By these
means, the Holy Spirit - in the place of the spirit of the world - will
enter into our families and will bring blessing, peace and communion.
As a Mother, Gospa does not invent new means but gives to her children the
simplest and healthiest verified food. This spiritual food and these means
were tested in the Christian tradition of the Church. Generations ate of
it and lived their faith of it, were inspired and have remained on the way
of God, the one that leads to life, not just any life.
Gospa says: By prayer and reading of Sacred Scripture, may the Holy
Spirit, who will renew you, enter into your families. To pray with the
Bible means that we are on the best way, on the surest base, on the best
source of prayer. Here, I meet the Word of God through which He wants to
say something to me. The Word of God in the Scriptures is not the text of
a novel or of just any book. It is not pronounced or written by just
anyone. It is the language of God who, by this text, can be heard and
which resounds through all times. Today still, the Lord wants to say
something to me through his word. His word is not a dead letter but a
living word, if I allow it to be alive in me. We should ask: “Lord, what
do you want to tell me?” It is important to adopt the attitude of a humble
heart that is listening and saying: “Speak, Lord, your servant is
listening”.
When I listen to what the Lord is telling me, I will be able to speak, to
give witness and to live my faith. Then, we will be able also to lead
others and to teach them in faith, especially those which the Lord put on
our way.
By this message, the parents in particular are invited to become not only
those who put the children into the world, but most of all those who
unceasingly give to them birth for faith and in faith.
Let us pray with Gospa and in particular for the parents – in order that
they do not give up witnessing and giving birth to their children in
faith.
According to the words of saint Francis de Sales: "When your children do
not want to hear any more speaking about God, then you must speak to God
about your children. "
God will hear you. He takes seriously each one of your prayers made
seriously. The prayer in which we believe can be taken seriously by God,
and it can the answered.
Fra Ljubo Kurtovic
Reflection on the Message
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