We hope that in this way we would bring the spirit of Medjugorje in your homes and in your everyday life. Along with weekly reflections given by our Herzegovinian Franciscans, we will post photos from Medjugorje, prayers, spiritual reflections and quotes and broadcast news from Medjugorje.
Lately, many of you have contacted us and shared your difficulties when trying to send your contributions for expanding our live streaming capacities in several languages at our bank accounts. Hereby, we kindly send you our apologies for this.
We need to say that we, too, had difficulties since we sometimes had to pay for bank provision more money than the actual donation (for instance when the amount of couple of euros would be sent). In this way, both you and we were only helping banks.
Finally, at your request, our media centre ICMM was able to open PayPal account and this problem, is thankfully, resolved in that. Now, you are also able to contribute the minimum donation and cover our production, translation and live streaming services to the whole world.
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At this time of coronavirus pandemic, all programmes of the international spiritual retreats and this year’s Youth Festival go through various challenges and many events have already been cancelled. Thank God, the situation at the moment allows us to organise this year’s 31st Youth Festival, however, a bit modestly than normally. Most of the programme from Medjugorje is being now sent to the world via electronic media and many faithful are tuned to those on daily basis, from all over the world. In the same way, this year’s Youth Festival would be live streamed and online and we remain connected to all those who, unfortunately, would not be able to come to Medjguorje personally this year.
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From Thursday to Saturday, we will have three virtual reflections given before the evening prayer programme by our Franciscans, Fr. Marinko Sakota, Fr. Ljubo Kurtovic and Fr. Stanko Cosic
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Number of Holy Communions: 42 000
Number of priests that concelebrated at Holy Masses: 432 (14 per day)
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The Apostolic Visitor with the special role for the parish of Medjugorje, the Archbishop Henryk Hoser, paid a visit to Radio Mir Medjugorje and met all those who work there. ...(photos)
Siate obedienti al mons. Hoser» (Be obedient to Mons. Hoser), these is what the Holy Father Francis told me after I told him I was the parish priest from Medjugorje and that Mons. Hoser was sending his regards to him. (photos)
After the ceremony of blessings of the Great Hall of the Croatian Catholic University in Zagreb, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, held a press conference on Monday, October 30, on which occasion he answered a question regarding Medjugorje. As the Informative Catholic Agency reports, this is what the Cardinal said:
On Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 4 pm, an hour-long press conference of the Special Envoy of the Holy See for Medjugorje, Dr. Henryk Hoser, was held in the Hall of St. John Paul II. Even though there were about fifty journalists registered, the interest for this event was much greater. The conference was translated into the Croatian, English, Italian, German and French languages, and those were the official languages spoken during the conference, while a translation was also given in the Polish, Spanish and Slovakian languages.
Dear brothers and sisters, I will speak in French, excuse me, for I have not yet learned the beautiful Croatian language!
We have gathered around the altar on the 5th Sunday of Lent. We have two more weeks from the Easter, and in a week time, it will be Palm Sunday, and in two weeks we are going to celebrate, at the end of Holy Week, the greatest Christian Feast Day - the Feast of the Resurrection.
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Mons. Henryk Hoser, Special Envoy of the Holy See for Medjugorje, on the occasion of his arrival to Medjugorje, in the church of St. James said to all gathered:
After arriving to Sarajevo and paying visit to Mostar, the Special Envoy of the Holy See for the parish of Medjugorje, mons. Henryk Hoser, arrived to Medjugorje in the company of the Provincial of Herzegovina Neretva Province, Fr. Miljenko Steko. On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 29, he was welcomed by Fr. Marinko Sakota, the parish priest, brothers Franciscans, Franciscan School Sisters werving in Medjugorje and gathered parishioners and pilgrims. Children from the parish welcomed him with a bouquet of flowers.
The International Spiritual Retreat for Priests that was to be held from July 6-11, 2020 is being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This retreat is rescheduled for July 5-10, 2021.
The 2ndINTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR THE MUSICIANS
to be held in Medjugorje from September 24-27, 2020
21st INTERNATIONAL SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR MARRIED COUPLES
to be held in Medjugorje from October 7-10, 2020
Seminars are conducted by franciscans of Međugorje. Here are the dates according to language groups, as well as contact persons: Contact
Audio-video and photos live from the church in Medjugorje
Beginning with the feast of St. Francis, we began broadcasting live audio-video programs and photos from the church in Medjugorje. You can follow them at the link: http://medjugorje.hr/en/multimedia/ - croatia language from Church - Evening Prayer Programme - Adobe Flash media live player
Links both live audio and video in various languages:
www.medjugorje.de (Deutsch)
www.kathtube.com (Deutsch)
www.kathtube.com/player.php?id=32333 (Deutsch)
www.kit-tv.at (Deutsch)
www.qpmm.org http://62.75.216.148 - USA KOREA
The movement, born after the apparitions of the Queen of Peace in Medjugorje, includes pilgrimages to Medjugorje, the setting up of Peace Centres, prayer and charity groups all around the world, as well as pastoral, publishing, humanitarian and other kinds of activities...
This questionnaire will give us the opportunity to have a better grasp of the worldwide dimension of the movement in the service of the Universal Church. It will help us to get to know each other better, to have better communication with various groups worldwide, as well as to grow better in our prayer and service.
We kindly ask all the leaders of Peace Centres, prayer and charity groups, as well as organisers of pilgrimages to fill in the questionnaire and to send it to Medjugorje to fax no. + 387.36.653 360, or to write to gospaspilgrim@gmail.com in order to receive the questionnaire by email.
Questionnaire:
ČESKY / DEUTSCH / ENGLISH / ESPAÑOL / FRANCAIS / HRVATSKI / ITALIANO / MAGYAR / NEDERLANDS-VLAAMS / POLSKI / PORTUGUÊS / ROMANA / RUSSIAN / SLOVENSKY
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GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PRIESTS
We ask you to keep integrally the rules of the Church envisaged by the Code of the Canon La~ the general liturgical rules and the directives and the rules of the proper authorities of the Church in connection with the life and the service of the priest.
To take part in the liturgical life of the parish, according to the rules of the Church, it is necessary to have arecommendation letter of your bishop or your superior (celebret), not older than one year. (Cf" Code of the canon Law, Can. 903)
The important dates in Medugorje parish
There are many events taking place in Medjugorje parish throughout the year, along with the regular seminars of fasting and prayer and different international spiritual retreats. Here are some of the important dates for Medjugorje parish in 2020:
February 26 – Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lent
March 2 – March 6 – The 27th International Spiritual Retreat for the Group Leaders and Organisers of Pilgrimages;
April 5 – Palm Sunday (procession from the old to the new church);
April 12 - Easter;
May 20-23 -the 8thInternational Spiritual Retreat for Life;
June 11 – Corpus Christi (procession through the parish with the Blessed Sacrament);
June 14-17 – the 9th International Pilgrimage for Children and Persons with Disabilities;
June 24 – Peace Walk from Humac to Medjugorje;
June 25 – the 39th Anniversary of Our Lady’s Apparitions;
July 6-11 – The 25th International Spiritual Retreat for Priests;
July 25 – Feast of St. James, patron saint of Medjugorje parish;
August 1 -6 – the 31st Youth Festival;
August 15 – Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary;
September 13 – Holy Mass on Cross Mountain, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
September 24-27, 2020 – the 2nd International retreat for musicians
October 7-10 – the 21st International Spiritual Retreat for Married Couples;
November 24 – the 20thAnniversary of Fr. Slavko’s death;
December 24 – Christmas Vigil;
December 31 – New Year’s Eve Vigil Prayer
Mother of God – the best pastoral theologian
Max Domej from Gebetsktion Wien spoke to Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, Archbishop of Vienna, during his visit to Međugorje.
Both in Lourdes and Fatima the events first ceased and than Church had its decision about that. Its final decision. Sooner or later that will take place here as well, but in this case we let Mother of God with freedom of choice...I think that Medjugorje can continue well on their journey, with full trust that Church, Mother and Teacher, in this case, is going to continue to monitor their journey.
Respected brothers, the purpose and aim of this questionnaire is to make a list of priests who received their vocation through Medjugorje. So, we kindly ask you to fill out this form with following information: (Questionnaire)
