Featured article from March's Spirit of Medjugorje
The Testimony of Aidan O’Kane
By Cathy Nolan
We all have healing that we
need. But the greatest healing is the
healing of the heart which can only
come from Jesus, the healing from
guilt and sin, from brokenness and
unforgiveness. This is the healing
that can bring peace, because it
opens us up to being close to Jesus –
close to God the Father. I want to
share a short testimony given in
2014 by Aidan O’Kane, on Fruit of
Medjugorje, Episode 121 [on www.marytv.tv]. Aidan shares
just such a beautiful healing that he witnessed in an old
friend, and in himself, while in Medjugorje.
“My name is Aidan, and I come from the north of Ireland,
but I live in England. I came to Medjugorje for my first trip
back in February 1991 – totally unplanned. I had a free ticket
with a parish in England, and I came here not knowing
anything about Medjugorje. I took some advice and I was
told to expect good weather and expect to be spiritually
renewed. So I came with my summer clothes, with a
cardigan, and I didn’t get the weather I was expecting at all!
It was winter weather and very wet.
“But what happened there, to make a long story short...
there was a person there that I thought I knew – an
acquaintance that I hadn’t seen in nine years. She was
the sister-in-law of a fellow I went to college with back in
Dublin. And this person, I thought I knew her. But from the
waist down, no, it wasn’t her, because the woman I knew
had a short leg.
Aidan
“Well, towards the end of my pilgrimage, this woman
came up to me and asked if I was Aidan, and I said yes, I
was. She introduced herself as Fennella. And I said it was
very exciting! So she turned to her friend and asked if she
should tell me...and I said, “Yes, please tell me!”
“She went on to explain that on Tuesday evening during
the apparition (which at that time was taking place on the
left tower of the church), she happened to be standing at the
door to the tower; and her left leg, from her knee through her
thigh, began to burn. And the burning sensation continued
right up until the Consecration at the Mass, which could
have been an hour. And after the burning sensation ceased,
her legs were the same length!!!
“She told me this story, but she said that it wasn’t the
whole story. She said that was only the physical miracle! I do
believe that Medjugorje is a place where miracles happen.
And some are confirmed by physical miracles. The actual
miracle in her situation was a healing of the memory, the
healing of a guilt that she carried for some 30 years. Back
then, she was going to a disco in Dublin with her sister – she
was about 15 or 16 – and a drunk driver ran into them. The
sister was killed outright, and as a result of the accident, the
growth in her leg was stunted. So not only did she get the
healing of the memory and of the guilt, but she also got the
growth back to her leg! And she said she was going home
after the healing, the miracle, to tell her mother the truth.
She carried this for 30 years, this guilt. So Medjugorje is
about peace! She received peace 30 years after a tragic event
in her life.
“I personally received peace
here. I had been to Confession, but
I couldn’t forgive myself. And it
was one evening, and I was at Mass
outside, and a weight just lifted off
my shoulders. And I can’t explain
what the guilt was about, but it was
just a pure weight that was lifted
off my shoulders. In Medjugorje,
Our Lady comes as the Queen of
Peace, and any pilgrim who comes to Medjugorje, comes
at Her own personal invitation. Those are Her own words.
I heard them myself one night at an apparition on the
mountain. Coming here is a response to Her personal
invitation. And what She wants to give every pilgrim here
is peace.
“We think actually of the Christmas message which was
very different (Christmas 2013) because Our Lady didn’t
give a message. It was Jesus, the Infant King of Peace, who
said, “I am your peace. Live My commandments.” So peace
can only come from Our Lord.
“And to think that Our Lady’s first message to the people
here was “Peace, peace, peace, and only peace. Peace between
God and man, and peace between men.” So Medjugorje is
peace. No matter where you are, peace pervades this place –
peace in your hearts and in your families.
“So please, take it from me! I am an example of responding
to the invitation, and now I have that peace. And I hope that
anybody who comes here can have that same peace. It is the
peace, which Jesus says, our world cannot understand.”
www.marytv.tv
Editor’s note: Mary TV is sponsoring a pilgrimage to Medjugorje in November 2015. For more information, visit their website or call 574-335-9952.
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