"Dear children! My call for you is prayer. May prayer be a joy for you and a wreath which binds you to God. Little children, trials will come and you will not be strong, and sin will reign but, if you are mine, you will win, because your refuge will be the Heart of my Son Jesus. Therefore, little children, return to prayer until prayer becomes life for you in the day and the night. Thank you for having responded to my call."
This posting on the medjugorje.org website was accessed August 4, 2019. It is likely that it will be replaced by newer messages. Previous messages can be obtained by clicking on the side tab under The Messages [3].
It is neither clear from the website where Marija was when she received the July 25, 2019, message from Our Lady, nor does there seem to be a video that was posted on You Tube showing Marija Pavlovic Lunetti receiving the apparition.
This is what Bergoglio thinks about the Medjugorje visionaries, as reported by al.com [4]:
The pope said Christians should not rely on visionaries that "tell you this or that: no, the last word of God is Jesus Christ, there is no other!"
The pope cautioned against those who search for God "with these Christian spiritualities that are a little ethereal." He referred to them as "modern Gnostics."
He cited predicted visions as an example of those who base their faith on novelties. These people "live from this," he said.
"This is not Christian identity," the pope said. "God's final word is called 'Jesus' and nothing more."
Although he didn't mention Medjugorje by name, that appeared to be a direct knock at the Medjugorje visions...
Catholic News Service had this to report [5]:
While the investigations into the very first alleged apparitions at Medjugorje in must continue, Pope Francis said he has doubts about claims that Mary continues to appear in the village of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Asked May 13 about the authenticity of the Marian apparitions, which reportedly began in 1981, the pope referred to the findings of a commission chaired by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the retired papal vicar of Rome.
"The report has its doubts, but personally, I am a little worse," the pope told reporters traveling with him from Fatima, Portugal. "I prefer Our Lady as mother, our mother, and not Our Lady as head of the post office who sends a message at a stated time."
"This isn't Jesus' mother," he said. "And these alleged apparitions don't have much value. I say this as a personal opinion, but it is clear. Who thinks that Our Lady says, 'Come, because tomorrow at this time I will give a message to that seer?' No!"
Who is Bergoglio to say what the Blessed Mother can and cannot do? Can the Blessed Virgin Mary not give a visionary an appointment to meet Her? On the seventh apparition, Bernadette Soubirous "punctually returns [to the Grotto] and keeps her promise and her appointment with the lady." [5] Does Bergoglio not believe in the Lourdes apparitions either?
And who is Bergoglio to say if the Marian apparitions that take place regularly in Medjugorje have much value or not? The one thing that is certain in this blogger's mind is whatever Bergoglio utters has little to no value at all.
Is Bergoglio afraid that he is being relegated to irrelevance by the words of Our Lady, and that faithful Catholics from around the world consider him to be a demonic figurehead and pay no attention to him whatsoever?
Who needs Bergoglio when the Blessed Virgin Mary is saving souls?
Can Bergoglio be jealous of the Blessed Mother just as Satan is jealous of the Blessed Mother Who is so blessed by God?
[1] https://www.medjugorje.org/
[2] http://www.medjugorje.org/index.html
[3] https://www.al.com/living/2015/06/pope_knocks_virgin_mary_vision.html
[4] https://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2017/returning-from-fatima-pope-says-he-has-doubts-about-medjugorje.cfm
[5] https://www.directfromlourdes.com/apparitions_at_lourdes
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