Today is the 13th adn calendar vise the Feast of the Holy Cross is tomorrow. Here in Medjugorje we celebrate the Feast of teh Holy Cross the Sunday before Sep. 14th, today. The traditionaly celebrateon takes place on top of the Cross Mountain, holy mass is served atop at 10:30 and large crowds gather. I would guess anything from 15000 to 20000 people from all over the area and alot of pilgrims from around the world. Living at the base of hte Cross Mountain this became a special day for me and my family. Since 1933-34 this is how it has been and the attendance grows from year to year, even during the war crisis we had here. I was unable to go up to the top today as I am still disabled but I am there in spirit with all of you dear friends.  GOD BLESS

¬    No Holy Mass should be celebrated in the pensions, hotels, on the mountains or in any other places, which are not authorized by the local bishop. Only the Parish Office is authorized to receive Mass Intentions. Eucharistic Adoration is not allowed outside of the parish church.
¬    All liturgical actions, blessings and all the sacraments are given in the church in agreement with the pastoral staff, and priests who have authorization are hearing confessions in the church, or next to the church.
¬    We kindly ask you not to allow false religious or priests without priestly authorization, as well as laity without authorization, to lay hands upon you and give conferences, and to ask and take money for this.
¬    Without authorization of the Parish Office, nobody is allowed to collect funds or organize humanitarian actions. Be also careful about non-catholic groups who try to spread their ideas in Medjugorje.
¬    We ask you not to use loudspeakers around de church and on the mountains, to respect the silence of prayer areas, and not to disturb other pilgrims or parishioners during Holy Masses celebrated for other language groups than yours.

Hello all, as you notices I've been absent for a while, I had some medical issues so I was unable to keep all of this up to date. Things are better now so I went out and did a short photo time lapse, merged it in to a video and I am sharing it with all of you. I hope you like it. GOD BLESS (click "read more" below to view, have your speakers on please).

Dear friends, another long day is behind, I just got back from the evening program, the atmosphere was just overwhelming, the singing and dancing and the entire prayer program. Fr. Miljenko Steko was the one that conducted the program today, he did a great job. The main celebrant of the evening mass was Fr. Dragan Ruzic and there were 550 priests that concelebrated. As I said before, it is hard to say how many people attended tonight, if I had to guess by the coverage of the area compared to the last year I would say at least 30% more than last year. This is all for now, click read more below for photos/video:

The evening of the first day of the 20th youth fest was so filled with energy it was enchanting. I can't relay this to you by words so I will upload a few videos and some photos in a few minutes for you to look at.

It is hard to say what is the number of people that attended tonight, the evening started with the introductory of different countries, not sure how many but that took an hour or so, I just want to mention a few... Vatican, Congo, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Peru, Russia, China... One or two of the representatives of those countries carried the name of the country on a board and their flag and the shared a few words with the gathered youth. Photos and video to follow,. click read more below:
 

Don't miss this!! Aquarelles of the special places in Medjugorje made on the spot by the artist and pelgrim late Jan Marinus Reijnierse.
Time: 3rd of August till the 18th of August 2009, from 9 am – 5 pm.
Location: Mother's Village
Also to be seen at this exposition is a unique sculpture of the Holy Face of Jesus based on the Shroud of Turin
Beautiful posters and postcards are available (limited edition).
We welcome you!

To look at the gallery, click here.

Hello all, just a note to tell you all that new prayers were added to the prayers section.

- HANDY LITTLE CHART - God has a positive answer

- PRAYER OF CONSECRATION TO OUR LADY

As you all know and I've written about this before, the seminar for priests has started a few days ago. There is a great number of priests attending, I believe the number is close to 400. The program is going forward acordingly. You can take a look at the program by clicking here.