Medjugorje Website Updates of year 2012

Mirjana ai pellegrini italiani dal balcone della sua casa

Don Roberto Fiscer di Arenzano con i suoi ragazzi presentano i loro canti e le loro attività.

Don Roberto Fiscer with his youth presents their songs and their activities.

On the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of the death of Msgr. Pavao Žanić, the late bishop of the Diocese of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan, his successor, Bishop Ratko Perić celebrated the evening Holy Eucharist in the Cathedral of Mary Mother of the Church in Mostar, for the repose of the soul of the deceased bishop. Some of late Bishop Pavao’s assistants concelebrated in the Mass: the pastor of the Cathedral parish Msgr. Luka Pavlović, the Chancellor of the Diocesan Chancery Fr. Ante Luburić, and the choir master of the Cathedral Fr. Dragan Filipović. Bishop Ratko spoke to the faithful on the heroic stance of Bishop Žanić towards communist ideology, thereby disproving the recent attacks against his noble Episcopal character, while also being aware that he must tell the truth about the bishop so that lies and slander not be spread against him!

by Marco Corvaglia

Even today, proponents of Medjugorje must somehow come to terms with the uncomfortable opposition of him who was Bishop of Mostar at the time when the phenomenon began, Msgr. Pavao Žanić.
And so, hundreds of thousands of people that every year go in good faith to that spot heard this version of events, solely based on rumors: the bishop was initially well disposed toward the visionaries, but at one point the communist government intervened and threatened him, inducing him to become an opponent of Medjugorje.

Actually, it can be categorically excluded that Msgr. Žanić submitted to any pressure from the police, as we shall see. To affirm the contrary is only slander.

Testimonianza di don Tonino,di ritorno da un'esperienza presso la Cittadella Cielo "Orizzonti di Pace" di Medjugorje, in Bosnia, della Comunità Nuovi Orizzonti 8-1-2012

We are ("two or three"), friends from Russia, Ukraine and Hungary made this documentary film about famous pilgrimage place Medjugorje (Bosnia&Hercegovina), where since 1981 pilgrims are coming because of the apparitions of Saint Mary. But this story is about "not pilgrimage", because girl going to this small town is going not as a pilgrim, believer or like that, but just as a curious person with a question "what does it mean - the apparitions of Saint Mary? how people feel it? why they coming here?" Name of the film partly tells about it "Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20) Made in 2010.

Our Lord awaits us in the Eucharist. Let our praise and glory to the Blessed Sacrament never cease. - Bl. Pope John Paul II

Mr. Rateb Rabie, KCHS, President of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, spoke with reporters for Radio MIR Medjugorje during his visit to Medjugorje.

Mr. Rateb is a Christian from Palestine, born in Jordan. His parents were forced to leave Jerusalem in 1948 and they had to immigrate to Jordan. He himself immigrated later to the United States where he got married and lived there for 35 years. Mr. Rabie is the citizen of the United States.

It hasn't snowed like this in Medjugorje since the 1950s check out IHS's footage of a Medjugorje Winter Wonderland.

EARLY MEDJUGORJE DOCUMENTARY 1991 "Tell The World Not To Wait, 10th Anniversary - A documentary about Medjugorje, made in 1991, immediately before civil war broke in the former Yugoslavia. The documentary is introduced by the late Fr. Richard Foley, SJ.

Here are the latest standards (1978) on Marian apparitions. They contain only two formulas: one which acknowledges the supernatural and one which rejects it

A Vatican Insider article dedicated to the work of the Committee on the apparitions of Medjugorje, presided over by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, has provoked some quite varied reactions.

The article stated that in addition to the positive formula (“constat de supernaturalitate”, established as supernatural) and the decidedly negative one ("constat de non supernaturalitate, “It is established that there is nothing supernatural here”), there is also an intermediate formula (“non constat de supernaturalitate”, there is nothing supernatural here). In fact, the latest available standards published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1978, the result of a decision by the former Holy Office discussed four years previously, only covers the first and third formulations set out above. The first case gives an affirmative answer to the question of supernatural events. In the second case ("no constat de ...") the answer is negative.

Chiesa di San Giuseppe, Riva del Garda

Un breve estratto della trasmissione

Trasmissione di Paolo Brosio su Rete4 - 14 marzo 2012

Claudia Koll Racconta La Sua Esperienza durante il pellegrinaggio del 2009 a Medjugorje. Viaggio a... del 21 marzo 2012 - breve estratto, Claudia Koll

Tradizionale testimonianza di Mirjana, 1 aprile 2012 dell'incontro con i pellegrini italiani

Da Rai2 del 8 aprile 2012. Ospiti: Andrea Tornielli, Chiara Amirante, Padre Livio Fanzaga, Mara Santagelo. Collegamenti con Lourdes, Fatima e Medjugorje.

• Hosanna
• Ave Maria, grazia plena-short version
• Agnus Dei
• Alleluja
• Come and fill this temple
• Gloria in execelsis Deo
• Kyrie Eleison
• Sanctus
• Resucito
• Shine Jesus shine
• Došli smo ti Majko draga
• Kyrie Eleison/Gloria
• We are marching in the light of God
• Alleluja 2

Estratto dalla trasmissione di Rete 4 del 27 marzo 2012

I was an Anglican priest living in England, in 1985 when I was invited by a group of Anglicans and Catholics to visit Medjugorje. I didn’t want to go. Being a former Evangelical-fundamentalist I wasn’t too keen on apparitions of the Blessed Virgin. I opted out. They insisted. I dug in my heels. They said someone else would pay for it. I didn’t want to go. They cajoled and twisted my arm until I said ‘yes’.

Soprano marina murari cantando "Donna Vestita di Sole", "Preghero'" e "Signora Segli Angeli",di marzo 2011 - Desio

Marina Murari singing "Woman Clothed in the sun", "I'll pray '" and "Lady of the Angels" during March 2011 at Desio, Italy

Estratto dalla trasmissione di Rete 4 del 27 marzo 2012

So I took a plane to Medjugorje
To be with you
Mother Mary, Mother
Filling up this place
With hope of peace

Are you, are you here?
You're everywhere
Everywhere

Da Rete4 - 21 marzo 2012

Speciale con ospite in studio l'ex Top Model Ania Goledzinowska

Intervista a Filippo Neviani, Nek, durante il 1° Meeting dei Cavalieri della Luce a Medjugorje dal 22 al 25 giugno 2011

Telegranda va in pellegrinaggio a Medjugorje per i 30 anni delle apparizioni

7° incontro regionale della Madonna Pellegrina di Schoenstatt in Sicilia 22 aprile 2012 Centro Gesù Liberatore, Margifaraci - Palermo

Čtyři příběhy lidí, kteří prošli klinickou smrtí a prožili tzv. zážitek blízké smrti (near-death experience) či stav opuštění těla. Přestože se lékaři snaží najít přirozené fyziologické vysvětlení, na některé otázky věda odpovědět nedokáže.

Mirjana ai pellegrini italiani dal balcone della sua casa

Mate Bilic has said "everything good in life happens to me because of Medjugorje". Mate Bilic, is a Croatian footballer who currently plays with Sporting Gijon in Spain. In early June he travelled to Medjugorje.

Realizzazione Fabio De Vita

12PORTE - 19 luglio 2012: Parliamo di "apparizioni mariane", perché nonostante i pronunciamenti regolarmente emessi dalle competenti autorità ecclesiastiche, vengono spesso dati per sicuri giudizi che invece non hanno fondamento. Sentiamo in proposito mons. Andrea Caniato, con una precisazione anche sul fenomeno Medjugorie.

Medjugorje, August 1 – 6, 2012

„Lord, increase our faith”

(Luke 17,5)

I've just returned from a summer retreat in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, with five peaceful days spent in the Marian shrine of Medjugorje. Each time I visit this town, I am stunned into silence by the profound and extraordinary peace that pervades the place, a peace so profound and so penetrating that it silences all doubts. An energy this holy cannot be based upon a lie. Still, I spent some time reviewing the many criticisms and accusations about the alleged apparitions still taking place here, and there are signs of contradiction and causes of concern, intermixed with lies and slanders and deliberate obfuscations. Clearly the Blessed Mother, if she is indeed appearing here (as I truly believe) has decided not to make it easy for anyone to reach a judgement about the place - not without considerable prayer and discernment.

For any that don’t know Medjugorje is a small village in Bosnia where the Blessed Virgin Mary has allegedly been appearing over the past 25 years with a total of over 35,000 individual apparitions and messages. Millions of people have visited this place (most of whom probably against the Church’s strict teaching, although most likely without realising it).

I’ve written this blog to discuss the Church’s position on Medjugorje and how the faithful should react to it according to the Church’s teachings - if there are errors please correct me and I will be more than happy to make any necessary changes.

Intervista a Rosellina Diluna, consacrata laica che dalla Sardegna ora vive a Medjugorje

Spanish hockey player Litus Ballbe’s big dream was to play the Olympics, until a visit to Medjugorje gave him the call to be a priest. Now he is studying, but still his first dream has come true: His seminary has allowed him time for hockey, and on Monday he played at the London Olympics.

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Photos from the Medjugorje Festival during 1. - 6. August, 2012.

• 1 agosto, apertura del Festival dei Giovani
• 2 agosto, testimonianza del giovane cantante Alexander del Messico
• 2 agosto, Anna, membro dell'Apostolato di Fatima
• 2 agosto, testimonianza di Emanuel, cantautore messicano
• 2 agosto, conversione di un americano
• 2 agosto, alcuni brani del bellissimo e prezioso coro (hanno fatto un mese di prove)
• 2 agosto, una ragazza tedesca convertita a Medjugorje
• 3 agosto, Dr. Ignaz - un medico tedesco, medico e sacerdote insieme
• 3 agosto, una famiglia croata numerosa aperta alla vita
• 3 agosto, Magnus Mac Farlane, fondatore della iniziativa Mary's Meals
• 3 agosto, Marianna, personaggio politico croato, sua testimonianza
• 3 agosto, la vocazione di un sacerdote libanese
• 3 agosto, testimonianza di conversione di un ex militare ora divenuto religioso - P. Timotej Maria Pavel Vácha
• 4 agosto - parte PRIMA
• 4 agosto - parte SECONDA
• 4 agosto - parte TERZA
• 4 agosto - parte QUARTA
• 5 agosto - parte PRIMA
• 5 agosto - parte SECONDA
• 5 agosto - parte TERZA
• 5 agosto - parte QUARTA

Pascale Gryson-Selmeci, a married Brabantian and mother of family, testifies of her healing that occurred in Medjugorje Saturday August 3rd, after having communed at Mass. Suffering from leukoencephalopathy, a rare and incurable disease with symptoms appearing as those of Multiple Sclerosis, she participated in a pilgrimage organized at the end of July, in the event of the children’s festival. Patrick d’Ursel, one of the organizers, witnessed this healing.

According to witnesses, this habitant of Walloon Brabant was ill for 14 years, unspeakably. It was after having taken communion that Pascale felt a force. To the surprise of her husband and relatives, she began to speak and rise out of her chair! Patrick d’Ursel recollects Pascale’s testimony.