Medjugorje "A bunch of 8 travellers arrived in Medjugorje on Monday 16th May 2011. Walking from Belgium. The leader of the route was Marko Pini, who in an interview for the radio station Mir Medjugorje, together with his wife Yvonne Lespagnard talked about this unusual venture. Marko was born in Zadar, married with Yvonne from Belgium for many years and he is living with his folks in Belgium,writes wordpress.com.
Medjugorje - Since 1981, in a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina named Medjugorje, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been appearing and giving messages to the planet. In Her own words She tells us, "I have come to tell the world that God exists. He is the fullness of life, and to take pleasure in this fullness and peace, you need to return to God". The following is an account of the beginning of the Apparitions ;
On the 24th June 1981, on the hill known as Podbrdo (Apparition Hill) 6 youngsters, Ivanka Ivankovic, Mirjana Dragicevic, Vicka Ivankovic, Ivan Dragicevic, Ivan Ivankovic and Milka Pavlovic saw a pretty young Girl carrying a little child in her arms. They were frightened at what they saw and did not come closer, although the Girl waved them closer. They knew this Girl was Our Lady.
The next day, the 25th of June 1981, the youngsters went to the same place where Our Lady had appeared the previous day in hope of seeing Her again. Nonetheless the group of youngsters had changed somewhat ; Ivan Ivankovic and Milka Pavlovic were replaced by 2 others, Marija Pavlovic and Jakov Colo. With the flash of a light, the 6 youngsters looked up and saw Our Lady, this time without the child.
When they reached Her, they fell to their knees and began to pray with Our Lady. Before Our Lady left the youngsters, She said, "God be with you my angels!" There's been only five days where no apparitions happened. Medjugorje has been a place of peace, hope and inspiration for so many . The Word of God is alive in Medjugorje as well as conversion.
In Medjugorje, you may follow the group program or elect to be on your own. Every day (in the language of your choice) you are welcome to take part the celebration of the Eucharist and attend talks, concerning our Blessed Mother's messages with Monks, Visionaries, nuns and others, trip to Cenacolo at the Hamlet of Bijakovici, where local craftsmen and workmen give testimony to Our Lady's work in their lives.
You'll visit Bijakovici to see the visionaries and their houses, and to meditate at the Blue Cross Mountain. Morning climbs will be planned for our groups for Podbrdo Mountain (Apparition hill) and Krizevac Mountain (Cross mountain). Your guide will accompany you as you follow the same path up Apparition Hill where the young visionaries first encountered Our Woman.
As you climb, you can see the inspired dexterity of the bronze plaques depicting each poser of the rosary and touch and pray before the cross that remembers the spot where Mary appeared to the visionaries. In 1933, the villagers built a thirty-foot cross at Cross Mountain, to remember the 1900 year anniversary of Christ's crucifixion.
Each evening you are welcome to join the other travellers and the parish community of St. James Church for the recitation of the Rosary, the party of the Eucharist, and prayers for the sick. On alternative evenings you will have the opportunity to attend the Holy Hour of Devotion of the Blessed Sacrament or Veneration of the Cross.
Early afternoon talks are typically held in the green tents or at the rotunda-circular lectern stage at the back of St. James Church. Sometimes they're booked in the evening and at the very last minute, so always listen for the press releases after the morning and evening Mass. Changes to schedules could be recounted also.
Contingent upon his schedule, you may visit Pop Jozo's parish to attend his holy preaching. When the apparitions commenced in 1981, Father Jozo was the pastor of St James parish. He is considered by many to be the highlight of a pilgrimage to Medjugorje.
The place of Our Lady's first apparitions on the hill of Crnica is mostly called Apparition Hill. It is situated a couple of hundred meters above the Bijakovo hamlet of Podbrdo. A steep footpath leads from the houses to the very place of the apparitions. Now slightly widened by the uncountable millions of travellers who have so far paid a visit to the place of the first apparitions, the trail has become detectable from as far distant as St. James.
Numerous travellers, many of whom were born on flat asphalt, regularly in unsuitable clothing or shoeless, and on their knees, climbed over the pointed stones to the place of Our Lady's first apparitions.
Half way up the trail is located a massive plain wooden cross. Here's where on the third day of the apparitions, June twenty-six, 1981, Our Woman appeared to the visionary Marija Pavlovic who, after having had a vision with the others at the common place that evening, ran down the hill a little ahead of the other visionaries.
At this place Marija once again saw Our Woman, now with a sorrowful face. Behind her was a giant cross and motioning with her hands she said, "Peace, peace, peace and only peace! Peace must reign between God and man and also between men!" Today this is a place where travellers stop, remaining in prayer and reflection on the message given by Our Lady, directed to occupy, and the sector of today, which is so much in such great need of peace.
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