Dear Children,

I am here among you.
I am looking into your wounded and restless hearts. You have become lost, my children. Your wounds from sin are becoming greater and are distancing you all the more from the real truth. You are seeking hope and consolation in the wrong places, while I am offering to you sincere devotion which is nurtured by love, sacrifice and truth. I am giving you my son.

I got up this morning and I was quite surprised to see a few inches of snow. I know, it does not sound like a big deal, but when you live in an area where it snows so  seldom it is a big deal. We don't have any snow plows or any other machinery to clean the roads. So until it melts on it's own, we're stuck at home, at least some are, I have a neighbor that is in the digging business so he went through with one of his diggers and cleaned the road in my neighborhood. Thank you neighbor Bruno. :-) Anyway, to make this short, I will add a few photos that I took today so you can see the amount of snow that has fallen.

By Kathleen Gilbert

TORONTO, February 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - 12-year-old "Lia" of Toronto has become a star at her school and on Youtube with her five-minute pro-life speech, crafted for a school competition.  Despite discouragement and outright opposition, Lia's presentation was so well done that she reportedly won the contest she was told she would be disqualified from, due to the "controversial" message of her speech.

The parish priests prepared a tree day program of spiritual retreat for the parishioners. It starts today and it end Sunday. The conductor is a very prominet priest by the name of Fr. Tomislav Ivancic. Some of you might have read some of his numerous books, he is published in different languages and most of them are available in Medjugorje. I get an email every once in a while, people asking where they could get "The Stations of the Cross" book that he compiled that, I find this book very refreshingly different and it includes the messages of Our Lady throughout the way to the Cross. So, I am looking forward to attend this retreat. I will post some photos later.

Hello all, we have a saying here, "The year will turn out in accordance to the way you start it." and I must say mine started with allot of grace. I will try to keep this short and say that I welcomed the New Year at St. James church, I was there from 9:30 for the holy hour and the mass started at 11:30. It was just so inspiring and emotional. To see all the people that came from all over the world to welcome the new year in that little church of St. James was nothing but the grace of God. New years day was quiet and slow but rainy and cold. I happened to bump in to Mirjana's husband and he invited me and some of my friends from NY to join them in prayer the next morning for Mirjana's second of the month apparition, it was so joyful and a great gift although there was several thousand people, it was very peaceful. We were quite close to Mirjana during the apparition and I took some photos and I already shared one with you earlier. After that event we went our ways and during the day I bumped to Marija the visionary and she invited me and my friends to join her and her family and some other people at her little oratory next to her house. Needless to say, we were there at from 4:40 to 5:50 or so. Marija shared about the apparition and said that Our Lady prayed over all of us there. Afterwards, she shared some bookmarks with the image of Our Lady with all of us that she brought in before the apparition. I must say, living in Medjugorje for all my life and being here for so many new year celebrations, thiy way by far the best start of the new year so far. :-) Here is a photo of Marija from that evening that I took during the apparition. I hope I wasn't to long and that the writing didn't bore you. GOD BLESS You. Good night.
 

Dear children;

While great heavenly grace is being lavished upon you, your hearts remain hard and without response. My children, why do you not give me your hearts completely? I only desire to put in them peace and salvation - my Son. With my Son your soul will be directed to noble goals and you will never get lost. Even in greatest darkness you will find the way. My children decide for a new life with the name of my Son on your lips. Thank you.

I know this video should have been posted earlier but I just got if, it was forwarded by a friend from NH, thank you Larry.