Medjugorje, envoy of the Pope: “Beyond different opinions on alleged visions, we are converted here”

Beyond the “conflicting opinions regarding the alleged visions, we must live the reality of Medugorje which is a place of reflection and prayer, of encounter and dialogue with the Lord”. This was underlined by the Pope’s special envoy to Medjugorje, Msgr. Henryk Hoser, in charge of the pastoral care of pilgrims on the fortieth anniversary since six visionaries claim to feel the presence of Mary who would leave them messages, not yet officially recognized by the Holy See. “The message of Medugorje – says the Pope’s envoy to SIR – is always timely because it is the appeal to conversion, to peace, to a return to God addressed to people who no longer pray, and who no longer have direct contact with our Creator and Redeemer. This invitation to penance, conversion and sacramental life, I would say, is more and more relevant. And the priests who celebrate in that place, in their pastoral work, emphasize precisely these aspects. In Medugorje many people are truly converted in the depths of their hearts, there are many cases of vocational awakening, of life change. The pandemic has therefore changed nothing, if not the number of people present, as many people have been hindered in the realization of their desire to go there personally “. The person in charge of pastoral care explains the devotion of the faithful in Medjugorje:” We pray together on the rosary, we celebrate the Eucharist and then we give people daily bread, which the Church iesa has been doing it for millennia. After the Eucharist, the prayer for healing is often said. Nothing in particular. Many pilgrims in Medugorje rediscover the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after which people usually applaud. And that applause has somehow become a sign of Medugorje. Often in the West, due to increasing secularization, churches resemble a spiritual desert. In Medugorje it is different “.