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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).