WISDOM FROM ON HIGH

How many have heard of "Medjugorje"?

On June 25th 1981, Mary the Mother of God first appeared to 6 children in the country of Yugoslavia in a poor town called Medjugorje. These apparitions have continued on the 25th of each month for the past 27 years. There have been countless conversions, miracles and healings over the years and the apparitions continue to this day. Books have been written, documentaries made, vocations to religious life have been discovered as a result of what is happening in this slavic country.

The events in Medjugorje are a source of controversy in the Catholic Church as these apparitions have not been approved by the Church, yet many many Catholics make pilgrimages to this site every year.

Each month, "Our Lady" leaves a message with the visionaries. The following was a message from the Lady in the apparitions to a confused Catholic priest over the cure of an orthodox child:

"Tell this priest, tell everyone, that it is you who are divided on earth. The Muslims and the Orthodox, for the same reason as Catholics, are equal before my Son and me. You are all my children. Certainly not all religions are equal, but all men are equal before God, as St. Paul says. It does not suffice to belong to the Catholic Church to be saved, but it is necessary to respect the commandments of God in following one's conscience. Those who are not Catholics, are no less creatures made in the image of God, and destined to rejoin someday, the House of the Father. Salvation is available to everyone, without exception. Only those who refuse God deliberately are condemned. To him who has been given little, little will be asked for. To whomever has been given much, very much will be required. It is God alone, in His infinite justice, Who determines the degree of responsibility and pronounces judgement."