Just a few photos from my visit to the Apparition Hill today. I hope you like them. GOD BLESS.

Dear friends, today is the 8th anniversary since our belowed pastor Fr. Leonard Orec passed away. I remember him as my mentor for my bibliography studies. He was the founder of the Guides Associatin of Medjugorje and the caritative organication called Medjugorje Mir that operated in Split after the was and then an office was open here in Medjugorje. Fr. Orec is well remembered among us, the parishioners as a wery kind and knowledable pastor and a parish priest for the time he spent here. The evening mass tonight is offered for Fr. Orec. May his sould rest in peace.

The long-awaited announcement of the successor to the retiring Catholic archbishop of Brussels, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, has sparked an unusual outcry in Belgium. The new archbishop, André-Mutien Léonard, is sometimes called  “the Belgian Ratzinger” for his conservative views. Danneels ranks as one of the last liberal prelates in a Church hierarchy that has turned increasingly traditional under Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict.

Léonard has beene a controversial figure in Belgium for his critical stands on homosexuality, same-sex marriage and condom use. He has been an outspoken opponent of abortion and euthanasia, both of which are legal in Belgium, and criticised the Catholic universities of Leuven and Louvain for their research into assisted reproduction and embryonic stem cells. 

André-Mutien Léonard has visited Medjugorje several times and is known for his strong support of new spiritual communities and movements within the Church such as the Community of the Beatitudes.

Just two weeks after returning from his visit to Medjugorje, the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Schönborn, was granted a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome last Friday (January 15).

We can only wonder if the cardinal witnessed to the Holy Father all that he had seen and heard at Medjugorje.

When interviewed recently by the German newspaper Die Tagespost the cardinal was asked if he would report his impressions of Medjugorje to the Holy See. He stated that he went on pilgrimage for personal reasons but does not conceal his attitude to Medjugorje from his brothers, which has deepened since his visit. He confirmed that he has spoken with many bishops and will continue to do so and that this was part of the Church view and judgment.  

Adopted from Bernard Gallagher's

Not seers’ duty to convince says cardinal“It is not the seers’ duty to convince; it is their duty to communicate. Regardless of the future final judgment on these phenomena, one thing is evident: the messages are simply evangelical, they have common sense: prayer, peace, reconciliation with God and amongst us, and we always, always have to remember that there is no greater miracle than Eucharist itself; the coming of Jesus amongst us, in the poorest village, in the most beautiful cathedral, in St Peter's Basilica in Rome...”
• Christoph cardinal Schönborn.

Let's join in prayer fro the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. 

This photo wat put to my attention, I think it is quite striking. 

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