I wasn’t Catholic! I wasn’t even a good Christian! Yet, her message continued: “I am asking you to spread the messages I am giving here and if you choose, the spreading of these messages will become your life’s mission.”
There was no denying the reality of what was happening. I had no idea of why I was the one asked to do this, but finally, I mentally mumbled a weak, “I’ll try. . . .”
In the weeks that followed this incredible personal miracle, I learned that a simple, weak yes is all Our Lady needs from us. Once we commit, once we allow her just a little crack of space into our hearts and minds, she takes care of the rest.
Within a year, everything in my life had changed. By April 1986, I had sold my businesses and was making plans to go to Medjugorje. Less than a month later, on May 1 of that same year, I arrived in the little village, unaware of the significance of that day as a special Marian feast day. I returned in June and again in November.
In those trips, the Blessed Virgin Mary became my constant guide, with more miracles and personal words to my heart. I actually began writing my first book, Medjugorje: The Message, at the foot of the huge cement cross on top of the mountain that overlooks the valley. I did so because I felt she was asking me to begin it there. In the ensuing years, I have come to expect nothing less from her. She is my “everything” when it comes to my spiritual life and mission.
Since that miraculous day, Mary has sent me to nearly every major city and town in the United States and to hundreds of smaller places, including dozens of countries throughout the world. I’ve spoken in thousands of Catholic and non-Catholic churches, bringing the messages of prayer, fasting, and penance given at Medjugorje to millions of us.
That first book, Medjugorje: The Message, written nearly twenty years ago, has reached over a million copies sold and is still going strong. This is all the work of the Holy Spirit. Only through the Holy Spirit can Mary come in apparition, or speak or appear to anyone. Our Lady could have chosen any person and asked him or her to take on this particular mission. As Mother Angelica of EWTN Television fame said to me when I appeared on her show in 1988, still a Protestant at the time, “God can choose any dummy off the street and make them an instrument of His message!” She then quickly caught herself and said, “Oh, I didn’t mean to call you a dummy!” but it was too late; the audience roared with laughter. Truth be known, though, she was right!
All of the graces of God come through the Holy Spirit. Without that grace, I would not have been part of the Medjugorje miracle.
Let’s take a look at that holy power and how it works.
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