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The visionaries are:
Marija Pavlovic, Vicka Ivankovic, Mirjana Dragicevic, Ivanka Ivankovic,
Ivan Dragicevic, and Jakov Colo.
Witness by Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic
Given 22 September, 2003 at Bijakovici, Medjugorje.
The talk was recorded and transcribed by Phil Townend.
In the words of a translator:
"The main messages of Our Lady, those that she is giving for all of us
are prayer; peace; conversion; confession, and fasting. And Our Lady
recommends to all of us to pray every day all three parts of Rosary. And
She also recommends that we fast twice a week, on Wednesdays and
Fridays, bread and water only. In a special way Our Lady is asking from
us to pray and to have very strong faith. First of all Vicka would like
to greet everybody here. We are going to say one prayer together, one
Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be. And after that Vicka is going to
share with us Our Lady's main messages; those that Our Lady is giving
for all of us.
"And when Our Lady is recommending to us to pray, it doesn't mean that
she only wants us to pray by lips and using words. Our Lady is
recommending to us from day to day to open our hearts, that our prayer
can become a real joy to all of us.
"And Our Lady gave us one beautiful example. She said: All of you in
your homes would have one flowering plant. And if you are watering this
plant every day, putting a few drops of water, you'll see that this
plant will be growing, and pretty soon you will have a beautiful rose
blossoming. It is same with our hearts. If you put into our hearts every
day a few words of prayer with the heart, our heart is going to be
growing and developing in the same way that this plant was. And if you
don't water this plant for a couple of days you will see that pretty
soon that this plant will be dying and it will look like it never
existed before.
"Very often it happens to some of us that when prayer time comes we try
to find different excuses, saying we're tired today, we'll do it
tomorrow, or next day; and then when the next day comes we find
different excuses saying we'll do it another day, so little by little we
put prayer away from us and then it’s kind of letting all those bad
influences affect us.
"Our Lady says, in the same way that this plant is not able to live
without water, we are not able to live without God's graces. She says
prayer of the heart is something that you are not able to study or learn
how to do. You can only live that, step by step, and making progress
every day.
"When Our Lady was asking from us to fast, She also says: for all the
sick ones who not able to fast with bread and water only, they can plead
and make their own way of fasting, making little sacrifices themselves.
But Our Lady says there are many healthy ones who try to find different
excuses, saying when they fast they get headaches, they get sick. What
is really missing there is their strong will to do it. Once we decide to
do it out of love for Our Lady and Our Lord, then nothing is going to be
difficult and impossible for us.
"Our Lady wants our complete conversion. She says: Dear Children, all of
you when you have problems, when you have illnesses, all of you think
and believe that Jesus and I are far from you. But Our Lady says, no,
they are always very near us. But we need to open our hearts, and after
that we will realise how much they love us all.
"Our Lady also would like us to make little sacrifices. But she would be
especially pleased if we would give up sins, if we wouldn't commit sins
any more. She also says she is giving us her peace and her love, so that
we can bring this peace and this love to our families and our friends.
"Our Lady wants our complete conversion. She says: Dear Children, all of
you when you have problems, when you have illnesses, all of you think
and believe that Jesus and I are far from you. But Our Lady says, no,
they are always very near us. But we need to open our hearts, and after
that we will realise how much they love us all.
"She is also giving us her blessing and is praying for all of us.
"Our Lady says she would be especially happy if we would renew prayer of
the Rosary in our families and in our communities. But she is the
happiest when parents pray with their children and children with
parents, because only when we are united in prayer, Satan is not able to
do us any harm.
"Our Lady keeps reminding us that Satan is always there trying to
disturb us. In a special way he wants to disturb our prayer and our
peace. She recommends us to make our prayers stronger; and the strongest
weapon against Satan is Rosary beads in our hands. She is also
recommending to all of us to have something blessed with us all the
time, either a small medal or cross, something that would help us to
defend against Satan.
"She also recommends that we place the Holy Mass at the very first place
in our lives, because these moments are very important, the most
important and the holiest. Because during this time the living Jesus is
coming to us. Our Lady would like us to be especially prepared so that
we are able to receive Jesus with great love and without any excuse.
"She also recommends monthly confession, and she says: when you go to
confession don't just go because you have sins to confess; you can also
ask your Priest for advice during the confession so that you can make
one step further after that.
"Our Lady is also very worried and preoccupied about all the young,
about the youth in the world, because young people are living in a very
difficult and very serious situation. And we can only help them with our
love and prayers of the heart. Also, she says: Dear young people,
whatever this modern world is offering to you, everything is so
temporary. And you can see that Satan is using every free moment for
himself trying to attack us and in a special way he is trying to disturb
young people and families.
"Our Lady also says that these moments and these times are times of
great graces, and she would like us to accept these messages, and to
live them in our daily life. She also says that we need to pray for our
peace and for the peace in the world. But first of all she is asking
from us to pray for peace in our own hearts, then for peace in our
families and in our communities, and once when we have this kind of
peace we are supposed to pray for peace in the world. And Our Lady says
when you are praying for peace in the world and at the same time you
don't have peace in your own hearts, that prayer is not so powerful.
"Our Lady recommends that in this special time we make our prayers
stronger, and that we pray for her intentions and for her plans. And
that we pick up a Bible every day and read a few verses and try to live
those words during the day.
"Our Lady also recommends that we pray for the Holy Father, for all the
Bishops and Priests, and for all our Church because our Church is in
great need of our prayers. But in a special way Our Lady is asking from
us to pray for one of her plans that is supposed to be realised.
"But Our Lady is very worried that we are concerned about the young
people, about the youth and families, because they are in a very
difficult and very serious situation. And Our Lady is saying to us that
She is praying for peace, and so She is asking from all of us to join
her in prayer for this same intention, and to pray together with Her for
peace.
"And during tonight's apparition Vicka says she is going to pray for all
of us, and she is going to recommend all of us to Our Lady, but also at
twenty to six, when she sees Our Lady, we need to open our hearts and
present to Our Lady all our desires and wishes.
"We just had one request here, and I'm sure all of you would be
interested in that: Vicka is going to describe the experience that she
and Jakov had, when Our Lady took them to see Heaven, Hell and
Purgatory.
"They were together at Jakov's house when Our Lady came and she told
them that they were going to go with her, and Jakov thought once they
had gone up there, they were not going to come back! He told Our Lady:
Well, Dear Our Lady, why don't you take Vicka because she has more
brothers and sisters and I'm the only child of my parents!
"Vicka says they were thinking how long is the journey going to take,
how many days or hours, whether we are going to go up through the sky or
down through the ground. But Our Lady just took me by right and Jakov by
left hand and she just took us with her.
"The ceiling just opened to give us enough space to go through, and in
one second we arrived in Heaven. And we were able to see that it is one
huge endless space, and there is a special kind of light that does not
exist on the Earth at all. We were able to see people. They looked the
same. There were no heavy or skinny ones. They were dressed in pink,
yellow and grey gowns. They all were praying, singing, praying together,
and there were small Angels circling around.
"Our Lady told us to have a good look, and see how overjoyed, happy and
content are those who are in Heaven. There is a special kind of joy that
does not exist on the Earth at all.
"Purgatory is also one huge space. But in Purgatory we were not able to
see any faces or people, it was very dark and foggy in there. But we
could feel that people were suffering in there. Our Lady told us that
people there are expecting and waiting for our prayers, so that they
could go out of there some day.
"As for Hell, it is also one huge space. First we were able to see a big
fire there in the middle. And we were able to see people before they
were being caught by this fire and afterwards, and as they are being
caught by the fire they become forms of different animals and they look
like they were never human beings before.
"Our Lady told us that all those who are there, it was their choice,
their decision, their way of life to get there. And she said that all
those who are living on the Earth and who are living against God's will
and God's commands, even here they live a kind of hell, so when they get
there they just continue with the same.
"Our Lady also says there are also many people on the Earth who believe
that when this life is finished, when we die here, that everything is
finished. And Our Lady says that if you think this is so, you are very
wrong, because we are just passers-by on the Earth.
"Vicka is going to spend some time now in prayer, praying like a
blessing and prayer for all of us together in silence, instead of
praying over two people at a time – there are too many of us – because
there are other groups coming, Romanians and French, that would like to
hear Our Lady's message. So she would like to ask us to be united in
prayer now for a couple of minutes, and during this time she is going to
be praying for all of us. At the end we are going to finish, praying
together one Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be."
(There followed over twenty minutes of silent prayer by Vicka).
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