PILGRIMAGE FROM LAS VEGAS to MEDJUGORJE, DUBROVNIK and SARAJEVO
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MISSION STATEMENT: The Center is a non-profit organization, chartered by both Federal and State of Nevada as the Medjugorje Information Center of Las Vegas, aka Marian Information Center. Our purpose is the publication of a quarterly newsletter and to maintain an active website (www.lasvegasmariancenter.com), principally to inform our readers of current Vatican and Catholic news unreported by the secular press and to provide current and updated information regarding reported alleged and approved apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [Discretion is always necessary in discernment of news about any alleged apparitions.] In addition, The Center offers monthly Masses in honor of Our Lady Queen of Peace, pilgrimages to various spiritual sites, brings guest speakers and conferences to the Las Vegas area. We encourage prayer and the practice of the Roman Catholic Faith in conformity with the teaching and absolute authority of the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI and his successors. Most Merciful Father, keep us faithful and ever attentive to the teaching authority (the Magisterium) of your Divine Son's Church! We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. ____________________ |
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GOSPA MESSAGE OF JUNE 25, 2008 Dear children! Also today, with great joy in my heart, I call you to follow me and to listen to my messages. Be joyful carriers of peace and love in this peaceless world. I am with you and I bless you all with my Son Jesus, the King of Peace. Thank you for having responded to my call." MONTHLY MASS IN HONOR OF
FRIDAY, July 25, 2008 Thank you to all who attended the last two special prayerful evenings - May in honor of our Spiritual Director's 56th Ordination Anniversary of his Holy Priesthood at Holy Family Catholic Church and just recently - 27th Anniversary of the Apparition in Medjugorje of Our Lady, Queen of Peace and to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Shrine of Our Lady of LaVang. Special thank you to Father Joe and his parishioners for allowing us to celebrate the Holy Mass, what was the former Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The ground is indeed holy. Again, with profound gratitude. REMINDER: Every Tuesday evening, Mass and vocal prayers, starting at 5:30 p.m. at MICenter. Please call (702) 985-3144 for information.
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AUDIENCE: GOD FORGIVES AND AWAITS MAN'S CONVERSION
VATICAN CITY, SEP 25, 2002 (VIS) - In today's general audience, celebrated in St. Peter's Square, the Pope reflected on "Psalm 84: our salvation is close at hand."
The Holy Father explained that Psalm 84 "is a joyful hymn, full of hope in the future for salvation. It marks the glorious moment of Israel's return from exile in Babylon to the land of the fathers. ... Above all, Israel's physical return is celebrated" as well as another "'more interior and spiritual return'."
"In this 'return' the Lord acts effectively, revealing His love while forgiving the iniquity of the people and erasing all sins, while showing His anger and yet putting an end to His ire. It is precisely this delivery from evil, this forgiveness of and purification from sins that create the new people of God."
John Paul II emphasized that "a 'return' must correspond to this 'return' of God, that is, the conversion of man who repents. The psalm declares that peace and salvation are offered to 'he who returns to Him with all his heart'." He who continues on the path to holiness with determination will receive the gifts of joy, freedom and peace."
In the second part of Psalm 84, he concluded, "a new world is described, one in which God's love and fidelity embrace each other as if they were people. ... Mercy, truth, justice and peace become the four cardinal points of this geography of the spirit."
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