Medjugorje – A Warning

Medjugorje

The main reason I reject Medjugorje is that it contradicts Fatima.

Against that, the other objections are almost trivial, but they are real.

†Our Lady says far too much.

†True apparitions down the ages have used few and inspired words.

†This "Monthly Message" amounts to divination, not Catholicism.

†I will not even mention here the many highly disturbing manifestations over the years. They are documented and available online.

†Then the messages themselves are so trite.

†And this brings us back to Fatima. Our Lady is reported at Medjugorje to have said "Peace, peace, peace". Well, leaving aside the absurdity that Our Lady would come down from Heaven just to tell us that, compare Fatima:

"If my requests are granted...there will be peace. If not...various nations will be annihilated. ... in the end, ... God will grant a period of peace to the wor.æld."

In the first place, this is a real message. In the second place, it is certain that Our Lady's requests have not, even now, been granted. See The consecration of Russia.

Is it not obvious that this pseudo-message of Peace, Peace, Peace is designed to lull us to sleep while the calamities warned about in the true message of our Lady at Fatima come daily nearer? Above all we must continue with the First Saturdays of Reparation, to amend our lives and to offer our daily sacrifices, and to press the Holy Father to consecrate Russia. Fr Gruner also suggests we ask our diocesan bishop to consecrate our diocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

And preferably, in this dangerous time, to be prudent and ignore any apparition that has not received the approval of the Church. This for practial purposes leaves us with Lourdes and Fatima. They contain all we need - indeed, more than enough.

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The following information was on on the New Advent Website.

October 24, 2006

The results from the Medjugorje Litmus Test

A few months ago, Bishop Ratko Peric (Mostar-Duvno) reported that "something similar to a schism" was occurring in his diocese. He attributed it to the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje, and said:

Therefore I responsibly call upon those who claim themselves to be “seers”, as well as those persons behind the “messages”, to demonstrate ecclesiastical obedience and to cease with these public manifestations and messages in this parish. In this fashion they shall show their necessary adherence to the Church, by neither placing private “apparitions” nor private sayings before the official position of the Church.

As New Advent said in July, It's a simple litmus test in the Church, confirmed by centuries of practical experience: if the apparitions are true, the seers will obey their bishop's request...

Needless to say, the Bishop was ignored. Followers of the unbiassed history of Medjugorje will find it littered with examples of disobedience to the bishop of Mostar, who is the legitimate authority. True apparitions never, ever, encorach on the bishops' authority.

My own comment: if the alleged seers are lucky, it is all self-deception. But I greatly fear they are not as lucky as that.

See "Understanding Medjugorje: Heavenly Visions or Religious Illusion?" by Donal Foley. reviewed at

http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/007211.php

It is a very well researched and perhaps definitive account of how Medjugorje received the attention it has. The author's discussion on the first two weeks of the alleged apparitions and the cassette recordings of the interviews at that time, before they were carefully edited for world distribution, are highly instructive - and essentially prove the falsity of the claim that any of this is from Heaven..

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And while on the topic, the following is very instructive...

Statement of Bishop Peric on the visit of Cardinal Schonborn to Medjugorje

On the occasion of the visit of Cardinal Schonborn to Medjugorje

January 2, 2010

Statement

Since the mass media have announced and tracked the public appearance of Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Archbishop of Vienna in Medjugorje, which has especially given some believers the erroneous impression that the Cardinal’s presence acknowledged the authenticity of the Medjugorje “apparitions” I believe that it is my duty as a diocesan bishop, to provide some information to the faithful, with the observation that I have already sent to the Cardinal in a personal letter with similar content.

[etc]

http://te-deum.blogspot.ie/2010/01/statement-of-bishop-peric-on-visit-of.html