Messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje - 1996

(Translated by Helen Sarcevic)

In addition to the regular monthly messages,

• Mirijana received a message on her birthday.
• Ivanka received her yearly apparition on June 25th.

Our Lady's message for January 25, 1996:

Dear Children,

Today I invite you to decide for peace. Pray to God that He will give you true peace. Live peace in your hearts and you will understand, dear children, that peace is God's gift. Dear children, without love you cannot live peace. The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness. I am with you and I am inviting all of you, little children, to first forgive in the family and then you will be able to forgive others.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Today I invite you to conversion. That is the most important message that I am giving you here. Little children, I wish that each of you be a carrier of my messages. I am inviting you, little children, to live the messages that I have been giving you through these years. This time is the time of grace. Especially now when the church also is inviting you to prayer and conversion, I also, little children, am inviting you to live my messages which I have given you throughout the time since I have been appearing here.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

I invite you to decide again to love God above all else. In this time when, due the spirit of consumerism, one forgets what it means to love and to cherish true values. I invite you again, little children, to put God in the first place in your life. Do not let Satan attract you through material things, but, little children, decide for God, who is freedom and love. Choose life and not death of the soul. Little children, in this time when you meditate upon the suffering and death of Jesus, I invite you to decide for life which blossomed through the resurrection, and that your life may be renewed today through conversion, that shall lead you to eternal life.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Today I invite you again to put prayer in the first place in your families. Little children, when God is in the first place, then you will, in all that you do, seek the will of God. In this way, your daily conversion will become easier. Little children, seek with humility that which is not in order in your hearts, and you shall understand what you have to do. Conversion will become a daily duty that you will do with joy. Little children I am with you, I bless you all, and I invite you to become my witnesses by prayer and personal conversion.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Today I wish to thank you for all your prayers and sacrifices which you have presented to me in this month which has been consecrated to me. Little children, I wish that all of you also be active during this time which is connected with heaven in a special way through me. Pray that you may understand that all of you, through your life and your example, need to work for the spreading of salvation. Little children, I wish for people to convert and to see me and my son, Jesus, in you. I will intercede for you and help you to be the light. Help others because in helping them, your soul, too, will find salvation.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Today I thank you for all the sacrifices you have presented me these days. Little children, I invite you to open yourselves to me and to decided for conversion. Your hearts, little children are still not completely open to me and therefore, I invite you again to open to prayer so that in prayer the Holy spirit will help you that your hearts be of flesh and not of stone.

Little children, thank you for having responded to my call and for having decided to walk with me toward holiness.

Dear Children,

Today I invite you to decide every day for God. Little children, you speak much about God, but you witness little with your life. Therefore, little children, decide for conversion, that your life may be true before God, so that in the truth of your life you witness the beauty God gave you. Little children, I invite you again to decide for prayer because through prayer, you will be able to live the conversion. Each one of you shall become in the simplicity, similar to a child which is open to the love of the Father.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Dear children! Listen, because I wish to speak to you and to invite you to have more faith and trust in God, who loves you immeasurably. Little children, you do not know how to live in the grace of God, that is why I call you all anew, to carry the word of God in your heart and in thoughts. Little children, place the Sacred Scripture in a visible place in your family, and read and live it. Teach your children, because if you are not an example to them, children depart into godlessness. Reflect and pray and then God will be born in your heart and your heart will be joyous.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Our Lady's message for September 25, 1996:

Dear Children,

Today I invite you to offer your crosses and suffering for my intentions. Little children, I am your mother and I wish to help you by seeking for you the grace from God. Little children, offer your sufferings as a gift to God so they become a most beautiful flower of joy. That is why, little children, pray that you may understand that suffering can become joy and the cross the way of joy.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Our Lady's message for October 25, 1996:

Dear Children,

Today I invite you to open yourselves to God the Creator, so that He changes you. Little children, you are dear to me. I love you all and I call you to be closer to me and that your love towards my Immaculate Heart be more fervent. I wish to renew you and lead you with my Heart to the Heart of Jesus, which still today suffers for you and calls you to conversion and renewal. Through you, I wish to renew the world. Understand, little children, that you are today the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Little children, I invite you and I love you and in a special way implore: Convert yourselves!

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Today, again, I invite you to pray, so that through prayer, fasting and small sacrifices you may prepare yourselves for the coming of Jesus. May this time, little children, be a time of grace for you. Use every moment and do good, for only in this way will you feel the birth of Jesus in your hearts. If with your life you give an example and become a sign of God's love, joy will prevail in the hearts of men.

Thank you for having responded to my call.

Dear Children,

Today I am with you in a special way, holding little Jesus in my lap and I invite you, little children, to open yourselves to His call. He calls you to joy. Little children, joyfully live the messages of the Gospel, which I am repeating in the time since I am with you. Little children, I am your Mother and I desire to reveal to you the God of love and the God of peace. I do not desire for your life to be in sadness but that it be realized in joy for eternity, according to the Gospel. Only in this way will your life have meaning.

Thank you for having responded to my call.