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In 1987, Mary Hendel McCafferty, a stay-at-home mother of two, learned of the supernatural events taking place in Medjugorje, a remote village in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Apparently the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, had been appearing to six young people since June of 1981. Responding to a persistent desire to go there, Mary and her mother journeyed to Medjugorje in 1990. The pilgrimage was life changing. From the time of her return, Mary desired to share with others all that God had given her. As her family grew from two to seven children, she was blessed to be able to return to her "home away from home" many times. In 2012, she decided it was time to write the story of her conversion as a memoir for her children. At the urging of family and friends, she then decided to publish her memoir, hoping to inspire others to pursue a closer relationship with Christ. "Born Again . . . in Medjugorje" takes you on her weeklong journey to the place where Mary experienced God's love in ways she never expected. Upon her return to the United States, she wrote, "In just one week's time I had experienced God's love more completely, it seemed, than I had in the first thirty-one years of my life. I had emerged from the womb of Medjugorje and was now about to take my first breath."
In June 1981, six young Croatians in the village of Medjugorje, in the former Yugoslavia, reported that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them. The Medjugorje visionaries say that Mary has returned every day since then, bringing them important messages from heaven to convey to the world. Throughout history, people have reported encountering extraordinary religious experiences-apparitions of the Virgin Mary, visions of Jesus Christ, weeping statues and icons, the stigmata, physical healings and miracles, and experiences of the afterlife-and interpreted them as supernatural in origin. Scholars have often tried to reinterpret such experiences, including those described by the great mystics like Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila, into natural or psychopathological categories, such as hysteria, hallucination, delusion, epileptic seizures, psychosis, the workings of the unconscious mind, or fraud. Are such reductionist explanations valid? Over the past three decades the Medjugorje visionaries have been subjected to extensive medical, psychological, and scientific examination, even while undergoing their visionary experiences. Daniel Klimek argues that the case of Medjugorje affords a rare opportunity to understand a deeper dimension of extraordinary religious phenomena. Presenting and analyzing the scientific studies on the visionaries in juxtaposition with the major scholars and debates surrounding religious experience, Klimek concludes that a multidisciplinary approach grants a more holistic and deeper understanding of such extraordinary religious experiences.
Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary in the village of Medjugorje (on June 25th), this volume provides readers with a collection of compelling firsthand accounts of visits to the site and how Medjugorje genuinely and permanently transformed people's lives.
The small town of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina was a simple and unassuming farming community, unheard of to most people. But all that changed during the summer of 1981, and it has since been the meeting place of millions of pilgrims. In Fingerprints of God, author Stephen J. Malloy chronicles the reported miracles and extraordinary supernatural activity that have occurred in Medjugorje since that time. It all started when five teenagers and a ten-year old boy began to report in tandem that they were having heavenly visions. According to their witness, the Madonna, the Virgin Mary had begun appearing to them in order to call the world to an urgent conversion, reconciliation, and peace through Jesus Christ. Fingerprints of God uniquely combines: - the author's own experiences as a pilgrim to Medjugorje; - a detailed description of the central messages given by the Virgin Mary, according to the six visionaries; - stories about miraculous healings and extraordinary signs; - the meaning of the ten secrets, concerning prophesied events to occur in Medjugorje and in the wider world; - thorough examination of what the Catholic Church has said in its official capacity concerning the reported apparitions and related phenomena; - positive assessments of renowned theologians; - relationship made between the Medjugorje messages, Christian morality, and biblical revelation, especially the teachings of Jesus. Celebrating thirty-one years of the Madonna's special presence, Fingerprints of God accounts that Medjugorje has been host now to more than twenty-eight million pilgrims from all over the world.
The Communist bloc has collapsed. Factional strife is on the rise. The West faces an uncertain future. What is the message of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, for these times? To find an answer, Dudley Plunkett explores the mystery of Mary's recent apparitions in Medjugorje. Since 1981 millions from around thde world have traveled to the tiny Yugoslavian mountain village, believing Mary to be appearing there to a group of teenagers. Plunkett, after his own pilgrimage there, has come to bleve it as well Many book have reported on the apparitions. Queen of Prophets pushes the discussion forward: How can these apparitions be understood in light of the Bible and of the Christian traditions of the East and the West? What do the messages of Mary, her pleas for peace, prayer, and simplicity, mean to a rapidly changing world? With great clarity Plunkett builds a bridge between the consoling and challenging message of the apparitions and the concerns of everyday life. This is a book for these times.
For several years I had been planning to write a book about Medjugorje and the Secrets of Medjugorje, but I hesitated to do so. Usually when you have a strong urge to write you indulge, especially those who, like me until now, usually write fiction books like me, but I postponed, I wanted to address this topic and at the same time I was running away from it. One day Padre Pio appeared to me in a dream and told me " So, Guagliò, ? - Do we want to write this book or not?". And I answered him: "It's OK, Father, but then to whom do I propose it? ". His gaze became sharp, acute, as if he wanted to read inside me, inside my inner feelings. "What you want to make known you can make known, you choose the way". Now, far from wanting to see in this a divine imperative, the anointing of the Lord, I simply took this dream as a good omen, as an incentive to want to convey what I know, what I have accumulated in my core on this subject, including the doubts and reservations of friends, but also and above all to share the treasures that are available to all, and give an answer to certain doubts and concerns. I have always known that these remain dead letters, and since the answer was often and is still close to our hands, but it was not written anywhere, I felt almost obliged to write this essay. However, I do not want to make any demands, but that the reader creates his own conscience, assimilates what I write and then elaborates freely. I chose to publish it in this way, on certain platforms, because I believe that even the most sincere and profound books on the subject of Marian Apparitions, La Salette, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje and much more, are affected by convenience and opportunity. I needed to write about these topics in absolute freedom, without being bound to any scheme, to any file where you check alternative boxes to the others. Not that I had to propose some bizarre things, but if it is true that the truth makes free, that the truth manifests its radiant beauty, perhaps in a gradual way, it is also true that to do so it is necessary to have freedom, the possibility and in case also the courage to reveal it. The truth brings with it inconveniences, even if its fruits are luxuriant, which is why Sister Lucy, revealing the Secrets of Fatima, always had an attitude suspended between obedience, silence and irrepressible impulse. Prophecy, truth and knowledge burn within the mystical soul and demand that they be revealed in all their magnificence. Our Lady has a clear plan for the life of the living, for our planet, it is necessary that more people really know what future awaits us, what challenges lie ahead in the immediate horizon. We are living particular but also exciting times, and this is therefore a circumstance, a fortune and a 'misfortune' in some ways. We are and will be pioneers of a new world. In the essay, which is also a guide to the new times, my wish is that everyone can find ideas, reflections, but above all, even a clear and concrete information, that can be a path to follow, with both your heart and your mind. In fact, then I had many things to say, to express, to reveal. At a certain point, all this made a critical mass, and I found it burning inside me, like a torch, or, in other words, I had to empty that sack that I was carrying on me, because humanity must know, or rather, a part of the people to whom this book can say a lot or a little, must know our times and those that are at the gates as they really will be, to the extent that we are allowed. Christian culture does not have a cryptic connotation, but demands that everything has to be in the public domain, therefore emerging from the shadows. Of course, sometimes with reasons of opportunity that mark the timing, but there is nothing that is or that exists that should not be revealed. Is with this anxiety of the heart, as those of who wants to communicate a new discovery to the world, that I invite you to read this book.
Amidst a period of suffering, Penny Abbruzzese hears that the Virgin Mary was appearing to six children at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Wondering if Our Lady can comfort her still-grieving heart, Penny journeys on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, unaware that this journey and search for healing would change her life in ways she could never have imagined. Along the way, she is inspired to look into the depths of her soul and ask questions about her faith. Do people really believe in miracles? Are apparitions real and can they truly change someone's life? Once there, she miraculously received the grace to communicate with Our Lady, hearing from her, "Mary gives you hope." Our Lady's ongoing messages propel Penny to a new way of life. Her heart is opened with a new focus on helping people she had once ignored--the lost souls, the sick, and the disabled. In response, Penny leads more than 100 pilgrimages with countless pilgrims, witnessing abundant grace and many miracles. She finds the answer to all her questions: yes, miracles and healings do happen. This book tells the story of Penny's 36-year journey in which she gives her life for others, finding hope and the faith to share that hope with those she encounters along the way. Penny's story is one that will inspire anyone to believe that miracles do happen, even on a journey of trials and tears.
With refreshing candor and self-deprecating humor, Wayne takes the reader with him on the adventure to Medjugorje that radically and permanently changed his life. You will discover the apparitions of the Blessed Mother along with him, as he chronicles the ways that the Virgin Mary continues to speak to the world today from Medjugorje. "In a tiny village in the mountains of Yugoslavia, the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, had reportedly been appearing to a group of local teenagers, beginning in June, 1981, and continuing every evening since." So begins journalist Wayne Weible's life-transforming investigation into the veracity of one of the most popular Marian apparition claims in history. What began as a quick attempt to add some spice to his regular newspaper column resulted in a life-long exploration of the apparitions of the Blessed Mother that are still happening at Medjugorje, and the lives that are changed as a result. Do miracles happen? Wayne Weible is one former skeptic who is now convinced that they do. Paraclete Press presents a special, hardcover, illustrated edition of Medjugorje: The Message---the best-selling English-language book on the subject--- on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Mary's first message to six youths in the mountains. This new edition includes a new preface by the author and a special, eight-page photo insert.
For the millions of people who have visited Medjugorje or have found inspiration in the events there, Medjugorje Day by Day offers a unique and beautiful experience-a program of daily meditations on the messages of Our Lady and the words of sacred scripture. This faith-filled year of inspiring reflections and Bible passages provides the perfect way to put Our Lady's words into practice.
In 1981 a beautiful lady appeared to 6 young people in the village of Medjugorje in what is now Bosnia-Herzegovina. She told them that She was the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Peace, and came with a message of peace. She has continued to appear since 1981 to give messages to the world of peace, love and joy. She is confiding ten secrets to each visionary (some are chastisements for the world) and promises to leave a visible sign at the place of the apparitions in Medjugorje for all humanity. This time, this period of grace, is for conversion and deepening faith. After the visible sign, those living will have little time for conversion. Many books have been written about Medjugorje, but this one and Volume I of this series are different. They both include not only information about Medjugorje and talks and interviews with the visionaries, but also heartfelt testimonies of those who have been healed and changed through Medjugorje, as well as advice, written from the heart, on how to live the messages. This book is for EVERYONE - all Our Lady's children, Catholic and non-Catholic. If you have not heard about Medjugorje, it will tell you everything you need to know. If you have been following the messages of Medjugorje or have been one of the millions of people blessed to have been there, this book will light your fire all over again. I desire to lead you all on the way of holiness. Live my messages and put into life every word that I am giving you. May they be precious to you because they come from Heaven. ( Our Lady of Medjugorje, 6/25/02)