June is a member of IIPG prayer group as well as an author on Medjugorje. Ivan's message Posted by: "June Klins" Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:23 am (PDT) "Dear children, today I want to invite you through this time of grace, pray and renew my messages, live my messages. Dear children, this is a time of responsibility, to responsibly live my messages. Dear Children, I want you to act, not just use words. Mother prays with you and intercedes before her Son for each of you. Thank you dear children and today, because you accept me and you live my messages." Last night I read this message to my prayer group, even though I am the only one in the IIPG from this group (the rest of them do not use computers, believe it or not). Anyway, I told them the message was for the members of the IIPG, but certainly all of us could benefit from hearing it. I woke up this morning thinking about this message. I know the Holy Spirit works on me when I am asleep and He would not let me even eat my breakfast till I sent this post. I would like to relate a little story a priest told to our adult catechism class last week, and then relate Ivan's message to that story. Father said that since he is the chaplain for a local hospital here, he gets called at all times of the day and night when someone is dying and needs the last sacraments. Recently he was called at 2 AM that a man was dying and needed a priest. He got up and began getting dressed and then went to the sitting room and turned on the TV while he put his socks and shoes on. He then turned off the TV when he was done and left for the hospital. He said to us, "What did I do wrong?" We all in unison said, "You turned on the TV." He said that was right, but asked why that was wrong. I said because he should have been praying for the dying man. He said true, but that was not the answer he was looking for. Someone else said that maybe what was on the TV was inappropriate, and Father said that was not the answer either, because even if he had on EWTN, it would be wrong. Finally, Father told us the answer he was looking for. The reason it was wrong was because he was wasting precious TIME while this man was dying. The few seconds it took him to turn on and off the TV, (and I add that if he was paying attention to the TV it slowed down his process of putting on his socks and shoes), delayed him from getting to the dying man. What if that man had died a few seconds before Father got there? He then told us what a big RESPONSIBILITY priests have and that they will be judged differently than lay people. He made a point of saying how important it is to pray for priests. Now, to relate this to Ivan's message - what jumped out at me when I read this were the phrases "TIME of RESPONSIBILITY" and "to RESPONSIBLY live my messages." We, in this prayer group, and in a special way, those of us who have been blessed to have gone to Medjugorje, have a great responsibility. Are we wasting precious TIME with things that do not matter? We have been given a gift. Like the parable of the talents, what are we doing with this gift? Every moment of breath we are given is precious. What are we doing with that time? Mary Sue Eck of "Medjugorje Magazine" told a story at the Notre Dame conference about her elderly aunt who wanted to go to Medjugorje at age 95. She asked her aunt why she wanted to go, and her aunt said she wanted to ask God what He wanted her to do for the rest of her life. (She knew the value of precious TIME!) She did go to Medjugorje, and while she was there, God asked her to give up the knitting, crocheting, quilting and cooking classes she had been giving to people for free, and devote the rest of her time to praying day and night. So she did. She is now 104 years old and she still prays day and night as God asked. She is LIVING RESPONSIBLY the messages. What a living example of Ivan's message. June Klins "Only by prayer and fasting can war be stopped." (Our Lady of Medjugorje, 4/25/92)
Thank you so much for posting and sharing this with us! ~Catherine (I certainly need to try harder at living responsibly and making use of precious time....)
