Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana on March 18 ~ some messages that teach us what holiness really is!

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 1995The apparition lasted ten minutes. After it, Mirjana, all in tears, withdrew to her room. Here is what she said about her meeting with Our Lady. "I prayed the Our Father and the Glory be with our Lady three times. The first one was for unbelievers, especially for those who have not experienced God's love. The second was for the souls in purgatory and the third for the intentions of those who were present at the apparition. Our Lady blessed all those present and also all the religious articles. Our Lady was not happy during the apparition as she has been known to be during past apparitions for my birthday. She talked to me about the secrets but I cannot say anything about that." In answer to questions why Mirjana cried and if Our Lady give any message, the visionary answered: "It is hard for me when Our Lady goes away. The meeting with Our Lady is a fulfilment of everything. I feel completed. But when she leaves, I realize that I'm here, on earth, that I'm going on without her as if I were forsaken even though I know I am not. It is really hard, so hard . . .

In the message, Our Lady spoke about the love that we need. Her wish is that people love one another because God is love and if we love God, we will love one another. I understand this message as one of consolation and that we don't have to fear anything if we have love." And this was Our Lady's message:

"Dear children! Already for many years as a Mother, I have been teaching you

faith and God's love. You have not shown gratitude to the dear Father nor

have you given him glory. You have become empty and your heart has become

hard and without love toward your neighbours' sufferings. I am teaching you

love and showing you that the dear Father loved you but you have not loved

him. He sacrificed his Son for your salvation, my children. As long as you

do not love, you will not know your Father's love. You won't get to know him

because God is love. Love and don't be afraid, my children, because there is

no fear in love. If your hearts are open to the Father and if they are full

of love toward him, then why any fear of what is to come? Those who are

afraid are the ones who do not love because they are waiting for punishments

and because they know how empty and hard they are. Children, I am leading

you to love, to the dear Father. I am leading you to eternal life. Eternal

life is my Son. Receive him and you have received love."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 1996This year also the visionary Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo had her apparition on March 18. After the apparition, Mirjana transmitted Our Lady's message:

"Dear children! On this message, which I give you today through my servant,

I desire for you to reflect a long time. My children, great is the love of

God. Do not close your eyes, do not close your ears, while I repeat to you:

Great is his love! Hear my call and my supplication, which I direct to you.

Consecrate your heart and make in it the home of the Lord. May he dwell in

it forever. My eyes and my heart will be here, even when I will no longer

appear. Act in everything as I ask you and lead you to the Lord. Do not

reject from yourself the name of God, that you may not be rejected. Accept

my messages that you may be accepted. Decide, my children, it is the time of

decision. Be of just and innocent heart that I may lead you to your Father,

for this that I am here, is his great love. Thank you for being here!"

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 1997 The apparition was at 1:50 PM and lasted six minutes. Our Lady did not speak about the secrets, but gave the following message:

"Dear children! As a mother I beseech you, do not go on the way you have

been going. That is a way without love toward neighbour and toward my Son.

On that way, you will find only hardness and emptiness of heart, and not the

peace that everyone is crying out for. Genuine peace will be had only by the

one who sees and loves my Son in his neighbour. In whose heart my Son

reigns, that one knows what peace is and tranquillity. Thank you having

responded to my call."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 1998. The apparition lasted between four and five minutes. Our Lady spoke to her about the secrets, blessed all those present, and gave the following message:

"Dear children! I call you to be my light, in order to enlighten all those

who still live in darkness, to fill their hearts with Peace, my Son. Thank

you for having responded to my call!"

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 1999. The apparition lasted for 6 minutes from 10:14 to 10:20 am. Our Lady spoke about the secrets. She blessed everyone.

"Dear children! I want you to surrender your hearts to me so that I may take

you on the way, which leads to the light and to eternal life. I do not want

your hearts to wander in today's darkness. I will help you. I will be with

you on this way of discovery of the love and the mercy of God. As a mother,

I ask you to permit me to do this. Thank you for having responded to my

call."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2000. The apparition started at 9:55 a. m. and lasted about 5 minutes. Our Lady prayed over everyone and blessed everyone. Mirjana especially recommended the sick. This time Our Lady did not say anything about the secrets.

"Dear children! Do not seek peace and happiness in vain, in the wrong places

and in wrong things. Do not permit your hearts to become hard by loving

vanity. Invoke the name of my Son. Receive Him in your heart. Only in the

name of my Son will you experience true happiness and true peace in your

heart. Only in this way will you come to know the love of God and spread it

further. I am calling you to be my apostles."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2001. The apparition lasted 5 minutes from 9.45 to 9.50 a.m. Our Lady blessed everyone and gave a message. She was resolute and clear in Her words.

"Dear children! Today I call you to love and mercy. Give love to each other

as your Father gives it to you. Be merciful (pause) - with the heart. Do

good works, not permitting them to wait for you too long. Every mercy that

comes from the heart brings you closer to my Son."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2002. The apparition lasted from 9:27 a.m. to 9:34 a.m. and Our Lady gave the following message.

"Dear Children! As a mother, I implore you, open your heart and offer it to

me, and fear nothing. I will be with you and will teach you how to put Jesus

in the first place. I will teach you to love Him and to belong to Him

completely. Comprehend, dear children, that without my Son there is no

salvation. You should become aware that He is your beginning and your end.

Only with this awareness can you be happy and merit eternal life. As your

mother, I desire this for you. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2003. The apparition lasted from 8:55 a.m. to 9:02 a.m. and Our Lady gave the following message:

"Dear children! Particularly at this holy time of penance and prayer, I call

you to make a choice. God gave you free will to choose life or death. Listen

to my messages with the heart that you may become cognizant of what you are

to do and how you will find the way to life. My children, without God you

can do nothing; do not forget this even for a single moment. For, what are

you and what will you be on earth, when you will return to it again. Do not

anger God, but follow me to life. Thank you for being here."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2004. The apparition lasted from 13:58 to 14:03 and Our Lady gave the following message:

"Dear children! Also today, watching you with a heart full of love, I desire

to tell you that what you persistently seek, what you long for, my little

children, is before you. It is sufficient that, in a cleaned heart, you

place my Son in the first place, and then you will be able to see. Listen to

me and permit me to lead you to this in a motherly way."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2005. The apparition lasted from 14:09 to 14:14 and Our Lady gave the following message:

"Dear children! I come to you as the mother who, above all, loves her

children. My children, I desire to teach you to love also. I pray for this.

I pray that you will recognize my Son in each of your neighbors. The way to

my Son, who is true peace and love, passes through the love for all

neighbors. My children, pray and fast for your heart to be open for this my

intention."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2006. The apparition lasted from 13:59 to 14:04 and Our Lady gave the following message:

"Dear children! In this Lenten time, I call you to interior renunciation.

The way to this leads you through love, fasting, prayer and good works. Only

with total interior renunciation will you recognize God's love and the signs

of the time in which you live. You will be witnesses of these signs and will

begin to speak about them. I desire to bring you to this. Thank you for

having responded to me."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2007. The apparition lasted from 14:07 to 14:12 and Our Lady gave the following message:

"Dear children! I come to you as a Mother with gifts. I come with love and

mercy. Dear children, mine is a big heart. In it, I desire all of your

hearts, purified by fasting and prayer. I desire that, through love, our

hearts may triumph together. I desire that through that triumph you may see

the real Truth, the real Way and the real Life. I desire that you may see my

Son. Thank you."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2008. The apparition lasted from 14:01 to 14:08. Mirjana transmitted the following: I have never seen Our Lady address us in this manner. She extended her hands towards us and with her hands extended in this way, she said:

"Dear children, today I extend my hands towards you. Do not be afraid to

accept them. They desire to give you love and peace and to help you in

salvation. Therefore, my children, receive them. Fill my heart with joy and

I will lead you towards holiness. The way on which I lead you is difficult

and full of temptations and falls. I will be with you and my hands will hold

you. Be persevering so that, at the end of the way, we can all together, in

joy and love, hold the hands of my Son. Come with me; fear not. Thank you."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2009. The apparition lasted from 13:52 to 13:58. Mirjana transmitted the following:

"Dear children! Today I call you to look into your hearts sincerely and for a

long time. What will you see in them? Where is my Son in them and where is

the desire to follow me to Him? My children, may this time of renunciation

be a time when you will ask yourself: 'What does my God desire of me

personally? What am I to do?' Pray, fast and have a heart full of mercy. Do

not forget your shepherds. Pray that they may not get lost, that they may

remain in my Son so as to be good shepherds to their flock."

Our Lady looked at all those present and added: "Again I say to you, if you

knew how much I love you, you would cry with happiness. Thank you."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2010. The apparition lasted from 13:50 to 13:54.

"Dear children! Today I call you to love with all your heart and with all

your soul. Pray for the gift of love, because when the soul loves it calls

my Son to itself. My Son does not refuse those who call Him and who desire

to live according to Him. Pray for those who do not comprehend love, who do

not understand what it means to love. Pray that God may be their Father and

not their Judge. My children, you be my apostles, be my river of love. I

need you. Thank you."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2011. The apparition lasted from 13:46 to 13:50.

"Dear children! I am with you in the name of the greatest Love, in the name

of dear God, who has come close to you through my Son and has shown you real

love. I desire to lead you on the way of God. I desire to teach you real

love so that others may see it in you, that you may see it in others, that

you may be a brother to them and that others may see a merciful brother in

you. My children, do not be afraid to open your hearts to me. With motherly

love, I will show you what I expect of each of you, what I expect of my

apostles. Set out with me. Thank you."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2012. The apparition lasted from 14:00 to 14:05.

"Dear children! I am coming among you because I desire to be your mother -

your intercessor. I desire to be the bond between you and the Heavenly

Father - your mediatrix. I desire to take you by the hand and to walk with

you in the battle against the impure spirit. My children, consecrate

yourselves to me completely. I will take your lives into my motherly hands

and I will teach them peace and love, and then I will give them over to my

Son. I am asking of you to pray and fast because only in this way will you

know how to witness my Son in the right way through my motherly heart. Pray

for your shepherds that, united in my Son, they can always joyfully proclaim

the Word of God. Thank you."

Our Lady's annual apparition to Mirjana - March 18, 2013. The apparition lasted from 13:52 to 13:58.

"Dear children! I call you to, with complete trust and joy, bless the name

of the Lord and, day by day, to give Him thanks from the heart for His great

love. My Son, through that love which He showed by the Cross, gave you the

possibility to be forgiven for everything; so that you do not have to be

ashamed or to hide, and out of fear not to open the door of your heart to my

Son. To the contrary, my children, reconcile with the Heavenly Father so

that you may be able to come to love yourselves as my Son loves you. When

you come to love yourselves, you will also love others; in them you will see

my Son and recognize the greatness of His love. Live in faith! Through me,

my Son is preparing you for the works which He desires to do through you -

works through which He desires to be glorified. Give Him thanks. Especially

thank Him for the shepherds - for your intercessors in the reconciliation

with the Heavenly Father. I am thanking you, my children. Thank you."