This year is the 30th anniversary of the Medjugorje apparitions and Joe Walsh Tours has trips from Dublin and Cork as reported irishtimes.com.
Medjugorje is one of the hamlets of the Western Herzegovina municipality of Citluk in the former Yugoslavia. The name Medjugorje is Slavic and means "area between 2 mountains". This real life story occurs in the Bijakovici section of Medjugorje. On the afternoon of June twenty-four, 1981, 2 girls, Ivanka Ivankovic, age fifteen, and Mirjana Dragicevic, age sixteen, were coming home from a walk. Looking toward the hill called Crnica, Ivanka saw a bright silhouette of a woman. She said to Mirjana, "It is the Gospa!" ( Our Woman ).
On June 25, the 2 girls returned to the hill with four others. Their names are, Vicka Ivankovic, age sixteen, Ivan Dragivevic, age 16, Maria Pavlovic, age sixteen and Jakov Colo, age 10. A figure in white was calling them to come up the hill. The kids were somehow transported in some mysterious way to a lovely Woman who calls herself, the Queen of Peace. The Woman gives messages to the seers for the whole world. To date, the Queen of Peace has left thousands of messages. At first, the messages were almost daily. Now, for the last a few years, they come on the 25th of every month.
The idealists describe Our Woman as pretty beyond words ; radiant with holiness. Her chats with the kids have taken the form of motherly sensitivity and love, and she's taken the role of both mommy and catechist in advising and directing their lives. She greets them with, "Praised be Jesus, my dear children." At the end of the apparition she is saying, "Go in peace, my dear children." She seems to the six idealists as a three-dimensional real image and always appears amid brilliant flashes of light. Her appearances generally occur about 6:40 pm each day. In Medjugorje, thousands of people come daily at this time to take part in the event with prayer, song, the rosary and the Mass, which is sometimes celebrated by 30 or more monks. The whole evening service lasts about three hours. And this has been going down daily since 1981!
In the apparitions, the idealists do not respond to light, they do not hear any worldly sound, they do not respond to being touched. They've been subject to many systematic tests even in the apparitions, and the observations are well documented. While with Our Woman, they feel they're outside space-time.
Our Woman started imparting systems to the idealists in Medjugorje extremely early on. She has informed the idealists that each of them would receive 10 strategies. Our Woman has imparted these secrets to the six visionaries progressively over these past 18 years. Three visionaries have received all 10, and afterward, they have stopped having the daily apparition with Our Woman. The other three each have 9.
The secrets refer to the idealists themselves, to the Church, to the sign, to all humanity, and to everyone, and to the entire world and to Medjugorje. The ninth and tenth techniques are grave matters. They seem to be a censure for the sins of the Earth. The punishment is inevitable because we cannot expect the conversion of the entire world. The censure can be lessened by prayers and penance. It cannot be suppressed. An evil which threatened the world, according to the 7th secret, had been eliminated through prayer and fasting according to Mirjana.
Local Church leaders sometimes feel they must keep Medjugorje under "wraps" until formal Church approval is given. Nonetheless Rome has established for itself a totally different pastoral response; a reply of support rather than distance. The support, naturally, is low keyed and temporary, so as not to short cut the on-going process that will lead directly to a final definitive judgement. The method, traditionally, has only granted full recognition to world-scale apparitions when they have come to their conclusion. FATIMA was officially recognised thirteen years after, and GUADALUPE two hundred years after.
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