Why Would I Want To Go To Medjugorje?

“I invite you. I need you. I chose you. You are important.”


Our Lady to the six visionaries, June 1981







“It was June 24, 1981, the Feast of John the Baptist, the proclaimer of the coming Messiah. In the evening the Virgin Mary appeared to two young people, Mirjana Dragicevic * and Ivanka Ivankovic.*

The next day, four more young people, Marija Pavlovic,* Jakov Colo, Vicka Ivankovic,* and Ivan Dragicevic saw the Virgin Mary, bringing the total to six visionaries. These visionaries are not related to one another. Three of the six visionaries no longer see Our Lady on a daily basis. As of July, 2009, the Virgin is still appearing everyday to the remaining three visionaries; that’s well over 12,820 apparitions.” 1



Our Lady specifically chose these six youth, whose ages ranged from ten-year-old Jakov to seventeen-year-old Vicka when Our Lady first appeared.


Why Would I Want To Go To Medjugorje?






Three thousand people became Christian on Pentecost in Jerusalem.

All of these 3,000 were alive as Jews or pagans while Jesus walked the earth just weeks before. Does not reason tell us of the bitterness in the sweetness of their conversion, that they missed the great time of grace of personally seeing and following Jesus while He walked the earth? In some spiritual sense, Our Lady walks the earth as She did two thousand years ago. Marija has physically received kisses from Our Lady, the Virgin Mary. Ivanka has held Our Lady’s hands. She has physically hugged Her. Our Lady has been here daily, thousands of times, since 1981. Our Lady said on August 25, 1993: