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Our Lady’s messages and teachings (Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM)
Our Lady is the Mother of the Divine Word. She first believed. She conceived Jesus by her faith. He became flesh in her and became man in her most pure heart, which was – by…
Category: Meditations
Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM
I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you
When Jesus speaks of “this Passover”, he means the Last Supper – the first Holy Mass or the Eucharist. Like all the Jews, Jesus was celebrating the Passover, the feast that each year commemorates the…
Terézia Gažiová
The mother and the refuge
What happens when Our Lady prays for us? “Dear children, with much love and patience I strive to make your hearts like unto mine. I strive, by my example, to teach you humility, wisdom and…
Fr Ljubo Kurtović, OFM
Return to God and prayer
In the message of May, Our Lady invited us to go into nature and pray so that God may speak to our hearts. Nature is an environment in which we can more easily hear and…
Fr Ljubo Kurtović, OFM
Go into nature and pray (Fr Ljubo Kurtović, OFM)
Our Lady, as the true Mother of the Church, walks with us not only in liturgical season but also in the season of nature in which we are enthroned and in which we live. Everything…
Terézia Gažiová
God has love for every creature (Terézia Gažiová)
The invitation of Our Lady to go into nature, to pray and to listen to God is an invitation to follow Jesus. She teaches us to learn from nature through all that is created. Jesus…
Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM
I Am the Living Bread (Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM)
Jesus often repeated that He was the Living Bread and the Bread of Life. He also several times multiplied bread in order to feed those who came to listen to Him. He did not want…
Fr Ljubo Kurtović, OFM
Carriers of peace and joy (Fr Ljubo Kurtović, OFM)
Our Lady, as a true mother, does not stop calling Her children. She speaks to those who strive to hear Her voice and feel Her heart. Mother never gets tired. She never rests. She feels…
Terézia Gažiová
The Love of Jesus transforms (Terézia Gažiová)
Our Lady’s message touches us in the very state of heart in which we find ourselves. It always brings hope and direction to what we need to focus on most. Today the Mother reminds us…
Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM
The Lamb of God (Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM)
At the beginning of the New Testament stands the last prophet of the Old Testament – John the Baptist. His life and his words are the immediate preparation for the coming of Jesus. He lived…
Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM
You have given them bread from Heaven
One of the events that prefigured the Eucharist is the manna in the desert, which announced the Bread from Heaven. Human life is often like a journey through the desert. We are exposed to pain…
Terézia Gažiová
It is a time of prayer
Our Lady calls us very clearly, briefly and solemnly to make this time a time of prayer. This time is a time of grace for the Lenten season. The Church calls us to intense prayer,…
Fr Ljubo Kurtović, OFM
A time of prayer
This simple and short message of Our Lady is extraordinary because it is all too short. We have become accustomed to messages with a few sentences and now she speaks to us in a very…
Fr Slavko Barbarić, OFM
Prefigurement
In Holy Mass, we mention different biblical names, especially two of them: Abel and Isaac. Through their sacrifice, although in different ways, both of them are a prefigurement that announces the sacrifice of Christ. …
Terézia Gažiová
In humility seek peace
Our Lady is the Queen of the Prophets. All the prophets call for conversion, fasting and prayer, which are the conditions of peace. “Mary has neither better nor other means than those by which the…
