Medjugorje WebSite Updates of year 2011

Primo incontro con i pellegrini italiani, fine Dicembre 2010.

Brosio a Matrix, 4 gennaio 2011

At the May 2001 American Family Foundation Conference in Newark, New Jersey, several ex-members of Caritas of Birmingham offered their stories to a distinguished panel of psychologists and cult exit counselors. It was the overwhelming opinion of the panel that the leader of Caritas of Birmingham, Terry Colafrancesco (self-styled “A Friend of Medjugorje”), fits the profile of a cult leader, much the same as David Koresh and Jim Jones were leaders of their groups. There are several factors that determine whether a group can be classified as a true cult.

ENGLISH The first hours of the day in the Accueil Notre Dame (Lourdes) --- ITALIANO Le prime ore della giornata nel Notre Dame di Lourdes.

“Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed” (Jn 20, 29)

Christianne Claessens – the first witness of healing of woman from Switzerland Joelle Beuret – Devanthery in Medjugorje, in October 2010, as she describes the pilgrimage and all of the events.

Testimonianze di fede presentate nel corso della trasmissione "Domenica In... Onda" del 2/1/2011 su RaiUno: Gianni Romolotti (pubblicitario), Mara Santangelo (tennista), Roland Patzleiner (convertito e sacerdote) e Bonifacio.

Costantino e Stefania. In collegamento telefonico Padre Livio Fanzaga (Radio Maria) precisa la posizione della Chiesa su Medjugorje e offre la sua personale testimonianza.

Poor Clare Mother Mary Leo and Sister Mary Christiana talk about Sister making her solemn profession to the community in St. Louis, MO.

By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the bishop of Green Bay, Wis., recently recognized a series of Marian apparitions from 1859, it marked the first time apparitions in the United States received official approval.

That's quite an achievement considering that more than 1,500 visions of Mary have been reported around the world, but in the past century only nine cases have received official church approval as being "worthy of belief," said an expert in Marian apparitions.

Puntata integrale della trasmissione "Sulla via di Damasco", condotta da Don Giovanni d'Ercole, dedicata a Medjugorje, andata in onda il 24/6/2006.

La storia siamo noi I segreti di Medjugorje - http://www.storia.rai.it

(RNS) Dirt at an ancient holy site in Chimayo, N.M. reputedly cures a woman’s rare bone cancer.

In North Carolina, a 14-year-old girl stricken with pneumonia is removed from life support but survives after an angelic image appears on a security monitor outside her hospital room.

A Texas man lives despite being cut in half after being run over by a train.

Were these acts of God, or is there a scientific explanation for events that seem to defy reason?

For an hour every Wednesday night (10 p.m. EST), that divisive question is the focus of “Miracle Detectives,” one of prime-time television’s first forays into exploring the miraculous.

Ti ricordiamo così, KAROL" Speciale di RAIDUE - RAI VATICANO dedicato all'indimenticabile Papa Giovanni Paolo II

Tratto dal programma di RAIUNO "Porta a Porta" condotto da Bruno Vespa

Documentario sul terzo segreto di Fatima. Questo documentario è stato realizzato prima del 2000.

Documentario su Medjugorje.

Documentary 'Mother Teresa The Legacy'

Documentario su Medjugorje.

Documentario su Giovanni Paolo II.

Tratto dal programma di RAIDUE "Sulla via di Damasco" condotto da Monsignor Giovanni D'Ercole

Tratto dal programma di RAIUNO "A sua immagine" - Edizione 2009

ENGLISH The statue of Our Lady of Lourdes as you've never seen it ! An unusual video !
ITALIANO La statua della Madonna di Lourdes, come non l'avete mai visto! Un video insolita !
FRANCAIS La statue de Notre-Dame de Lourdes (la vraie, dans la Grotte) comme vous ne l'aviez encore jamais vue !

Medjugorje - 29 dicembre 2010 - La veggente Vicka Ivankovic comunica un messaggio della Madonna.

Medjugorje - December 29, 2010 - The visionary Vicka Ivankovic communicates a message of the Virgin Mary (Italian translated simoultaneously into English)

Bellissimo documentario su Giovanni Paolo II con musiche di Andrea Bocelli.

Daniele Bossari presenta il mistero delle apparizioni mariane a Medjugorje raccontandone la storia e intervistando Mirjana, una delle veggenti. Vengono trasmesse alcune immagini di repertorio relative alle prime apparizioni e una intervista del medico Henri Joyeux, studioso delle estasi dei veggenti. Viene mostrata l'apparizione a Mirjana presso la Croce Blu del 2 novembre 2009 e viene intervistato Padre Petar Ljubicic in merito ai Dieci Segreti di Medjugorje.

Tratto dalla trasmissione "Mistero", andata in onda il 27/11/2009 e in replica il 15/02/2010 su Italia 1).

Intervista ad Andrea Bocelli e a Chiara Amirante (Comunità Nuovi Orizzonti), andate in onda nel corso della trasmissione "Pomeriggio sul 2" nello spazio speciale “Dillo a Lorena”, affidato a Lorena Bianchetti, il giorno 11/02/2011 su RaiDue.

Vicka Ivankovic is set to visit Ireland in February 2011. Vicka has been invited there by Finbar O’Leary, a long standing pilgrim and group leader from Cork.

The Late Late Show shown on Irish television with Vicka Ivankovic as a guest of host Ryan Tudbridy. Translator Manuela Spinelli.

Interviste a Paolo Brosio, Claudia Koll, Alessandra Borghese, Nicola Legrottaglie nel servizio di Tv7 (Rai1), trasmesso Venerdì 8 Gennaio 2010.

Bellissimo documentario su Medjugorje.

From the Wake Up Call CD, Angelina actually recorded this version when she was 12 years old. The Music Video was shot, very early in the morning, in Italy on the Meditteranean approximately 3 years later. We hope you will find this video extremely meditative filled with love!

STANDING tall and broad, occasionally kilted and with the rosiness of cheek sported by those who thrive outdoors, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow wouldn’t look out of place on the front of a packet of porridge oats, swinging a caber.

Edward and Patricia Locks are now for over 10 years concerned parents of their daughters Erin and Jenny living in Caritas of Birmingham.

Recently someone attempting to defend Caritas of Birmingham and its leader, self-styled "A Friend of Medjugorje" (Terry Colafrancesco), posted a letter attributed to Edward and Patricia Locks. This letter was not posted or written by the Locks. The originator of this letter is guilty of fraud.

A beautiful, extroverted, lively girl, in love with God. But the beauty of God’s plan for her life becomes shiningly apparent in the last two years of her illness. 18 years of life: a model for people of all ages.

Chiara Luce Badano was born is Sassello, near Savona (Northwest Italy), on October 29, 1971, to parents who had been trying to have a child for 11 years. Her childhood and adolescence were serene: she lived in a loving, united family from which she received a solid Christian education.

Chiara Badano, called Chiara “Luce” (which means "Light"), (Sassello, October 29, 1971 - Sassello, October 7, 1990) was an Italian teenager who has been declared "Blessed" within the Catholic Church. She belonged to the Focolare Movement and died prematurely at eighteen after succumbing to osteosarcoma, an aggressive and painful form of bone cancer. She was beatified on September 25, 2010 in the Sanctuary of “Our Lady of Divine Love” in Rome.

Caritas of Birmingham - Question from anonymous on 12-23-2010:

Dear Dr. Geraghty, Concerning the upcoming apparition at Caritas of Birmingham with a visionary from Medjudgorje (Marija) March 19 - March 23, 2010, advertised on their website, okay for Roman Catholics to attend? Thank you!

Tratto dal programma di RAIDUE "Sulla via di Damasco" condotto da Monsignor Giovanni D'Ercole.

Vicka incontra i pellegrini italiani all'aperto nell'area di Sr. Cornelia (intorno al 18 marzo)

Vicka meets pilgrims in the area of Sr. Cornelia (around 18 March)

Mirjana parla ai pellegrini italiani nel salone giallo

The young Franciscan Peter Kim Dae Woo visited Međugorje for the second time. He comes from the parish Incon in Korea, where he serves as the assistant parish priest. He was ordained in 2009, despite his great desire to become a singer. He studied at the University for electrical engineering, but he dreamt of music, and that had even reduced his student’s performance at the university. “I studied for four years, but I was not interested in that at all. I would spend most of my time playing and singing, the music was my whole life. I was student only up to the moment when I got to know music a bit better. At one point, I was no longer attending classes. Back in those days, I used to have a nick name “factory of curses”, because all of the words that were coming out from my mouth were bad, but I did not care for that at all. I only cared for music and lived in its world completely. I socialised with ‘so-called musicians’”

by Prof. Marco Corvaglia

The community Caritas of Birmingham (Alabama) has gained much publicity and visibility in the U.S. by hosting many times (162 from 1988 to 2011), year after year, Marija Pavlović's, the Medjugorje visionary, daily apparitions.

So it is particularly interesting and significant to know the doctrines that are observed in the community and are spread by its founder and owner, Terry Colafrancesco.

He published in the mid-nineties, under his usual pseudonym of Friend of Medjugorje, the book How to Change Your Husband [Caritas, Sterrett (AL), 1996], printed by the community itself and now also downloadable from its official website.

Reading the book one is astonished by the male chauvinism, sometimes grotesque, that seems to characterize it: for example, he writes that the devil, in order to hide to people the potentially destructive nature of women, got persons to quit the right habit of giving female names to hurricanes that each year lash the shores of the Atlantic.

Actually, this isn’t simply absurd male chauvinism, but rather adhesion to well-known religious ideologies.

By Michael H. Brown

... I'll go by what the Church ends up formally concluding (it is currently in the hands of a Vatican commission) -- period -- but my personal belief is that this is a place halfway between here and the hereafter, a supernatural spot where the dimensional partition is thin. I had gone through my "conversion" (actually, my return) to the Church years before, as I said (independent of any apparition), but this brought me into a deeper and richer phase of Catholicism. It also spurred my writing in the Catholic realm. Not only did virtually everyone change for the better after visiting, but did so profoundly -- converting others, establishing Adoration in their parishes upon return to the U.S., starting uncountable Rosary groups, and in many cases becoming priests. The seers are human -- and not perfect (is anyone?) -- but the good fruits vastly outweighed any "bad."

"I was raised in a devout Lutheran home in New York and always believed in God, but from my teen years onward I rejected organized religion, believing it was created totally by man and not by God. After marrying Ed and reluctantly agreeing to raise our children Catholic, I told him, ' Don't EVER expect me to become Catholic. You have to be born that way - you'd have to be crazy to choose it voluntarily! ' I rejected the Church's teachings, thinking they were made up by men who had nothing better to do than make people feel guilty and miserable. I occasionally went to church with my family, but found it profoundly boring.

... A striking example of the healing power of the cross is Jaime Jaramillo, affectionately known as Papa Jaime in his home country of Colombia. Papa Jaime is one of the stories in a book I wrote called Full of Grace: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Conversion through Mary’s Intercession. For many years now, he has single-handedly rescued children who actually live in the underground sewer canals of Colombia. Again and again, he picks up his cross and enters the sewers. Here’s how he speaks of his experience.

“Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.”
(John 20,21)

To all parishioners, pilgrims, friends, benefactors, and to all men of goodwill a

Blessed and Happy Easter!

Parish priest and the Franciscans

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A young man from the United States, Michael, came to Medjugorje in March and he just sent me a letter. I share it with you because it may encourage and inspire each one of us in our personal call to prayer in the midst of our daily concerns.

"My last pilgrimage to Medjugorje was life changing for me, as the Gospa revealed to me early in the pilgrimage that I needed to pray for peace in my soul. I realized that, though I prayed and believed and had many miracles happen to me in the past, I still did not have much peace inside me. It was hard for me to pray with love, to mean what I was saying.

Sulla via di Damasco, trasmissione del 27 Marzo 2010. Nuovi Orizzonti in Brasile, i bambini di strada.

The following is Deacon Ken Finn’s account of his remarkable interactions with Mary, the Mother of God.

My first encounter with the Blessed Mother happened when I was travelling in an RV with my wife, Marie. We co-authored a Catholic Bible-study, called The Bread of Life, and we were making a grand circle, clock-wise through the outer states of the country, introducing our study to parishes. One night, at the beginning of our trip, we parked our RV in the parking lot of the mission in Santa Barbara, and as we lay down to go to bed, our conversation turned to the sadness of people who are unable to bond with their mothers from birth. My wife and I had adopted three children, who were about eight weeks when we got them, and we wondered if they might have been deprived of the precious gift of early bonding.

Very beautiful song The Prayer from Cecilia's album "The Healing Voice".

Estratto della trasmissione, intervista a Vicka e altri personaggi in studio.

Prima, Seconda e Terza parte

Tratto dal programma di approfondimento del TG2 "TG2 Dossier".