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Peace to All! Below is sister Emmanuel's Letter of 02/01/97. Our next
mailing will be the Medjugorje Press Bulletin on 02/13.

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MIR
Steve and Ana Shawl
http://www.medjugorje.org
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DIARY OF SISTER EMMANUEL

Medjugorje - February 1, 1997
Dear Children of Medjugorje, Praised be Jesus!

* Father Slavko and Vicka flew to South Africa on January 27; let us
pray for this beautiful mission that is going to touch thousands of
hearts! Many people can't afford to fly. "As they can't go to
Medjugorje, Medjugorje comes to them", as an African bishop, a witness
of the Gospa's fruit in his diocese told Vicka.

* Tomorrow, February 2, will be a big day in the history of
Medjugorje: for the 1st time Mary is inviting us to take part in her
prayer for unbelievers during her monthly meeting with Mirjana. Some
pilgrims were asking her the reasons for this change, and Mirjana
reported to them Our Lady's wish expressed on January 2: there are
still many unbelievers (those who do not know God's love yet). She
needs our help in praying for them, that is why she's inviting
everyone to join her at this meeting. She wants all those who wish to
take part to be present. (This implies that the place of the
apparition should be big enough to hold them all, of course.) The
Gospa announced that she was going to come at 11:00 AM (See PS below).

For some time, many individuals and families have begun to devote a
special time on the 2nd of every month to intercede on behalf of the
unbelievers. From now on, they will be able to experience a greater
communication with us here, as we'll all gather in prayer on the same
day. Thousands of hearts will be united around Our Lady, all over the
world.

* Pope John Paul II will come to Sarajevo from 12 to 14 April. Let's
pray hard. (By the way, he's going to fly over Medjugorje!)

* Ivan and his family came back to Medjugorje, but for a short time it
seems, as they will leave mid-February for a tour in Australia and
Asia... On January 24, during the apparition at night on the hill, the
Gospa said again that Satan wanted to destroy families and she
stressed the importance of praying for families. She made it clear
that in the families Satan was destroying the young in a special way.

* I've just come back from a long and wonderful mission in the islands
of the Indian Ocean. Thousands of young people responded to our
invitation to listen to the messages, particularly in schools. They
have such a hunger! The great majority of them have only the
suggestions of a God-less world when it comes to making decisions
concerning their lives and their futures! When a one-hour talk was
scheduled for them, they were so eager to hear about Faith the way
Mary speaks of it in Medjugorje (I mean with the heart), that they
preferred to give up their break or even their meal to stay with us
and go on talking about God, Mary or life... They would bombard us
with essential questions such as "What is there after death? What does
Mary say on abortion? How to get inner peace?" After 2 or 3 hours we
had painfully to tear away from them! How sad! We had before our eyes
a potential plentiful harvest ready to give itself, but there are so
few laborers! Seen with Human eyes, these young people will hardly
have any shepherds to guide them.

Who will stand to shepherd them? The Gospa's solution lies in family
prayer and in the example of parents. If they don't have that...we'll,
we truly have to reflect about our future! It's urgent!

Dearest Gospa, please see to our future; and for our part, today we
choose to do what you are asking us.


Sr. Emmanuel Next News on February 15.

PS. Mirjana feels sorry because in the US a big wave of agitation and
unrest is spreading due to a wrong interpretation of this event. This
morning, she told me that we should only focus on what Our Lady simply
said: it will be a normal apparition, she wants to open this meeting
to everyone, as she needs us to pray for unbelievers. Mirjana clearly
stated that the Gospa had not mentioned anything connected to the
secrets on this occasion. She didn't let us assume that they will be
revealed soon (same case of the 5 other visionaries: there is nothing
new about the date of the secrets). Any connection between this new
type of prayer meeting and the secrets is only sheer human
imagination! Mirjana always insists on the fact that Our Lady wants us
to pray rather than speak about the secrets.

We only know that choosing this date - the 2nd day of the month - is
relevant for the Blessed Mother. The hour of the apparition (11 AM) is
just a convenient time for us here. For those who live far away, this
hour might fall at night. The most important thing is not to gather at
the same hour as in Medjugorje, but that everyone should be able to
join. Better be many during the day than a few in the middle of the
night! (The Gospa will be more concerned by our hearts than by
clocks!) If Mirjana lived in the States, Our Lady would visit her at
day time and not at night, I guess. Vis-a vis the clergy, it's
important that the groups of Medjugorje witness much calm and solid
common sense!