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Miraculous Medal
The following happened on Monday
27 November 1989. The meeting was only for the prayer group, at Blue cross
at 10pm.
This message was given to Marija, who was
standing in for Ivan. Our Lady came joyful and she said:
"These days, I want you to
pray in a special way for the salvation of souls. Today is the feast day of the miraculous
medal, and I want that you pray, in a special way, for the salvation of those people who
are carrying this miraculous medal. I want you to spread the devotion and the carrying of
this medal, so that more souls may be saved, and that you pray in a special way."
In my diary, there is a picture of the
medal from both sides and there is a story recounting the origin of this devotion and the
prayers associated with it. This is how it began.
In 1830, Our Lady, Mother of God, appeared
to a young novice nun Sr Catherine Laboure late at night in a church at Rue de Bac, Paris.
During the apparition, she saw an oval-shaped light surrounding Our Lady. Around the top
part of this light was written:
"O Mary conceived without sin, pray
for us who have recourse to thee"
Then she heard a voice that said to her:
"Make sure that the medal is made
like the model that you saw. The people who wear this medal with faith will have great
graces, if the medal is blessed and they pray with devotion this short prayer"
St Catherine said, "The medal
suddenly turned around. On the other side of the medal, I saw the monogram of the most
holy Virgin, made with the letter M, and above the letter M was a cross, and below were
two hearts, the hearts of Jesus and Mary. I could see the difference because one of the
hearts was crowned with thorns and the other was pierced by a sword. Around the medal were
twelve stars.
Then everything disappeared and St
Catherine remained kneeling in the dark church. Catherine told all this to her confessor,
who after some time realised that she was saying the truth. Assured that the apparition
really occurred, he went to the local bishop who was devoted to Mary. With the permission
of the Bishop, the first medal was minted in 1832. At that time, the Archbishop Mecheina,
who was not strong, was dying. That is why the bishop wanted to try the power of the
intercession of Mary through the medal. He took the medal and went to the dying
archbishop, but the archbishop refused him. Then the bishop went back home and started to
pray:
"Mary, help. show your power through
the medal as you promised."
He prayed a long time and asked for
conversion. Just as he finished his prayer, they told him that the archbishop was dying
and asking for him. He went and gave him the last rights. The archbishop died that night
in peace.
After that first miracle, the journey of
Miraculous Medal went through the whole world. Miracle, conversions and healing have been
reported throughout the world. There are too many stories about miracles due to Mary
through the Miraculous Medal to write about here.
Pope Pius 12th canonised Catherine on 19
July 1947. The bishop Sechauera permitted the reciting of the following novena on 1 July
1956.
Who is praying this devotion will
receive blessings and great graces.
Priest: O Mary, conceived
without sin,
All: Pray for us who have recourse to Thee.
Priest: Lord Jesus Christ,
born of your Holy Mother The Blessed Virgin Mary conceived without sin, permit us to ask
for Her intercession and through it, find perpetual joy, and, grant us Your blessings
which will sustain us. We ask this of You who lives and reigns in all ages into
eternity. Amen.
All: Remember, O most
gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any one who fled to thy protection,
implored thy help or sought thy intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To
thee I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word
Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in Thy mercy hear and answer them.
Amen.
When this novena is prayed publicly in the church, it should be said in the
following order.
- 1. A song should be sung.
- 2. Intention.
- 3. Rosary.
- 4. Invocation:
- Priest: Oh Mary conceived without sin,
- All: Pray for us who have recourse to thee.
- 5. Consecration of the family to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary.
- 6. Prayer to our loving Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
- 7. Song.
- 8. Most holy eucharistic blessing.
When you pray the novena by yourself, you
should pray all the prayers from this devotion.
THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL AND MEDJUGORJE
- After Fr. Jozo was released from prison, he eventually was
stationed at the
Immaculate Conception Church in Tihaljina, one of the poorest parishes in the
Mostar diocese.The church roof leaked, there was no phone service, and the
dirt road leading to the church needed repair.
Fr.Jozo realized that one of the treasurers to be found there was an
exceptionally beautiful statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was a statue
of Our Lady of Grace, the image that appears on the back of the Miraculous
Medal which is an approved sacramental of the Catholic Church.
Fr. Jozo used this image in his Medjugorje Apostolate. Every pilgrim who came
to visit him at Tihaljina received a portrait of this statue which had a
prayer or message on the back. We produced the first English version of a
portrait for him which had a consecration to the Blessed Virgin on the back.
Our pilgrim groups use to bring the portraits to him by the thousands to be
distributed to the English speaking pilgrims who visited with him at
Tihaljina.
Today, we still distribute the same portrait all over the world. We even
published a book about Fr.Jozo’s apostolate entitled, "The Story of a
Picture". It tells about Fr. Jozo’s Medjugorje apostolate at Tihaljina and
the many miracles and graces that have been given through the use of this
picture in prayer, consecration, and devotion.
Our Lady of Grace said that many graces would be given to those who sought
her intercession and there is no doubt that her sacramental blessings are
event to those Medjugorje pilgrims and devotees who make use of her image in
their spiritual endeavors.
Some of our Medjugorje pilgrimages stop in Paris to visit the Shrine of the
Miraculous Medal before continuing on to Medjugorje. This provides pilgrims
with a unique way of integrating both Marian devotions.
Your servant in Jesus and Mary,
Charlie Toye, Director
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http://www.medjugorjecenter.org
- Send Your Spirit Medjugorje Center
- (Thank you Charlie for this e-mail)
I invite you to join a new email mailing list I have
created called "mir_peace_shalom". This list will be devoted to discussion and
sharing information on Our Lady of Medjugorje's messages, events in Medjugorje,
meditations, posting prayer requests, submitting petitiions to be given to Our Lady, and
glorifying God and Our Lady. Members of the mailing list may start their own topics
of discussion or respond to those posted by others. Messages posted to the list will
automatically be sent to all of the members on the list.
This list will be operated through a mailing list service called ONElist. To
register with ONElist and join the mir_peace_shalom list, please:
 to subscribe to
mir_peace_shalom
For more information on this new mailing list, please contact me at:
mbrecic@tel.net.ba
My hope is that this list will help to spread the messages of Our Ladyof Medjugorje and
that we will be able to help each other in living her messages.
The messages given by Our Lady on Fridays, along with other messages given by Our Lady,
will only be sent to registered members of the Mir_Peace_Shalom mailing list. The
messages will not be sent separately to individuals not on the mailing list.
ALL is FREE!!!Thank you!
brecicn@cob.net.ba
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