[beloved]

Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje’s August 2, 2016 Message
Given through Mirjana



“Dear children, I have come to you - among you - for you to give me your concerns so that I may offer them to my Son; that I may intercede for you before Him for your good.

I know that each of you has his concerns, his trials.

Therefore I am inviting you in a motherly way: come to the table of my Son.

He is breaking bread for you; He is giving Himself to you; He is giving you hope; He is asking for more faith, hope and serenity from you.

He is seeking of you to battle within against egoism, judgement and human weaknesses.
Therefore, as a mother, I am saying: pray; because prayer gives you strength for the interior battle.

My Son, when He was little, often said to me that there will be many who will love me and call me ‘mother’.

Among you, I feel love.

Thank you.

For the sake of that love I am imploring my Son that none of you, my children, will return home the same as he came; that you may take with you all the more hope, mercy and love; that you may be my apostles of love who will witness with their lives that the Heavenly Father is the source of life and not of death.

Dear children, anew, in a motherly way I am imploring you, pray for the chosen ones of my Son, for their blessed hands - for your shepherds - that they may preach my Son with all the more love and in this way bring about conversions.

Thank you.”

[Medjugorjeprayers]

“Dear children, I have come to you - among you - for you to give me your concerns so that I may offer them to my Son; that I may intercede for you before Him for your good.

I know that each of you has his concerns, his trials.

Therefore I am inviting you in a motherly way: come to the table of my Son.

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Dear Blessed Mary, Thank you for publicly recognizing our many trials. I can speak for myself tonight as you know the difficulties that I and others are facing.
I am praying, my family is praying, other believers and even some unbelievers are praying but even so, it sometimes feels as if we are being defeated by the enemy. You know how hard it is right now for your children and I thank you for your steadfast commitment to help bring us to your Son. Please dear Jesus, protect us with your precious blood from all evil as we move forward in this broken world to serve and glorify You... Amen

[stunnedbyit]

He is breaking bread for you; He is giving Himself to you; He is giving you hope; He is asking for more faith, hope and serenity from you.

This makes me think of the main problem we have in the West (my vantage point is Scotland) - wealth, entertainment and comfort.
I sometimes feel like I live in a cloud where faith and hope cannot enter.
This very comfortable life does not evoke a hunger for God.
This also explains why Western Catholic Churches are full of people who mostly look miserable and are only present due to a sense of obligation.
Lord, help us not to be satisfied with our material affluence. More importantly, help us know how to live a Christian life in a satiated society that, on the surface, has everything it needs.

[HOF_13]

Its interesting that Our Lady has mentioned hope in her last two messages.

She is clearly emphasizing there is hope for each one of us and that is the purpose of her coming here; to bring "hope" in a better life, here and for eternity. And not as so often is misconstrued to bring fear and doom and gloom.