The Spirit of Medjugorje
Medjugorje Message August 25, 2025
"Dear children, my little children, my beloved ones: you are chosen because
you have responded, you have put into practice my instructions and love God
above all else. Therefore, little children, pray with all your heart that my
words may be realized. Fast, sacrifice yourselves, love out of love for God
Who created you, and be, little children, my extended hands to this world
that has not come to know the God of love. Thank you for having responded to
my call. (With Ecclesiastical approval)"
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The Most Holy Name of Mary
By Cathy Nolan
Editor's introduction: I found this gem in my files and can't
believe we never used it. It is excerpted from a reflection by Cathy
Nolan of Mary TV on September 12, 2014.
On this beautiful Feast of the Most
Holy Name of Mary, I want to share an excerpt from Fr. Don Calloway's
testimony of conversion. He lived a very sinful life as a young man, but
received the gift of conversion through Our Lady of Medjugorje. He
discovered Our Lady in a book about Medjugorje, and decided he needed to
change his life. And right after this deep conversion, the devil came to
take his soul before the conversion could be completed. Here is what
happened:
"[After hours of kneeling,
crying and praying] I got up from kneeling. Then, at a loss for what to
do next, I made the decision to go to bed. What had happened to me was
so unbelievable that I just wanted to sleep. Then I would get up the
next day and tell Fr. Callahan what I had experienced.
"When I curled up on my couch - I
didn't even have a bed in my room, only a couch - I was so at peace. But
all of a sudden something below me and within me - this is very
difficult to explain - knocked me out of my body. I literally felt as if
I had left my body. My physical form remained on the couch, but my soul
or spirit had left.
"I was paralyzed
and in a state of shock. I couldn't move my hands or any part of my
body. I tried to scream for my mother, but I couldn't make a sound.
"For a moment, I thought I might be
going to hell - as if everything I had just come to know was suddenly
being taken away from me; I had been such a bad person that I wasn't
worthy of God's mercy. I was going to go to this place of eternal
separation from everything I had just come to know as being true and
beautiful and good. I had no idea what to do.
"Then, with every part of my being, I
managed to interiorly scream. I spiritually cried out, 'Mary!' It was so
strong and penetrating a cry, it seemed to echo throughout the cosmos.
It was like a little boy screaming for his mother after he's fallen and
been seriously injured.
"All of a
sudden, I was violently slammed back into my body with what seemed like
the force of the entire universe. It was so violent a thrust that I
expected my mom to come running into my room to check on me. Yet nobody
came because no one heard a sound.
"After I got over the shock of the
impact, a feeling of peace overwhelmed me, a peace that was tangible.
Then I heard a voice, the most feminine voice I have ever heard and ever
will hear. It was within me, it was outside of me, it was like liquid
love being poured over me. It was pure maternal love. It said, 'Donnie,
I'm so happy.' That's all I heard but I knew who it was. Nobody called
me Donnie but my mother. Nobody. I knew this was the voice of Mary, the
Blessed Virgin Mary. I was so at peace that I felt like a little boy
snuggled close to his mother's breast. I was so at peace, so loved, and
so at rest that I went into a deep sleep. I hadn't slept like that since
I was a young boy." (Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC. No Turning Back. Marian
Press. Stockbridge. p. 179-180)
The
Most Holy Name of Mary!! The most powerful name - Mary!! Fr. Calloway
knew instinctively to call on the name of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, she
who had brought him to conversion. We, too, can call on her name. She
will come and help us in all our difficulties. She drives the devil away
simply by her presence. She can protect us.
To close, here is an excerpt from
the Breviary for Sept. 12, Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary:
The Most Holy Name of Mary
O thou, whosoever thou art, that knowest
thyself to be here not so much walking upon firm ground, as battered to
and fro by the gales and storms of this life's ocean, if thou wouldest
not be overwhelmed by the tempest, keep thine eyes fixed upon this
star's clear shining. If the hurricanes of temptation rise against thee,
or thou art running upon the rocks of trouble, look to the star, call on
Mary. If the waves of pride, or ambition, or slander, or envy toss thee,
look to the star, call on Mary. If the billows of anger or avarice, or
the enticements of the flesh beat against thy soul's bark, look to Mary.
If the enormity of thy sins trouble thee, if the foulness of thy
conscience confound thee, if the dread of judgment appall thee, if thou
begin to slip into the deep of despondency, into the pit of despair,
think of Mary.
In danger, in difficulty, or in
doubt, think on Mary, call on Mary. Let her not be away from thy mouth
or from thine heart, and that thou mayest not lack the succour of her
prayers, turn not aside from the example of her conversation. If thou
follow her, thou wilt never go astray. If thou pray to her, thou wilt
never have need to despair. If thou keep her in mind, thou wilt never
fall. If she lead thee, thou wilt never be weary. If she help thee, thou
wilt reach home safe at the last - and so thou wilt prove in thyself how
meetly it is said: And the Virgin's name was Mary. --Excerpts from the
Breviary for the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary (Sept. 12)
Mother come, Mary come!!
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