Australian Medjugorje Centre
Keeping Australian Followers up to date. 

In order to show why our website promotes more than just Medjugorje, here are the details of the relationships between the various apparitions and locutions. We should be asking ourselves, why is Our Lady appearing at so many places.

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Medjugorje and Fatima

 

In the message of August 25, 1991, Our Lady said "Dear Children! Today also I invite you to prayer, now as never before when my plan has begun to be realized. Satan is strong and wants to sweep away plans of peace and joy and make you think that my Son is not strong in his decisions. Therefore, I call all of you, dear children to pray and fast still more firmly. I invite you to realize through the secrets I began in Fatima may be fulfilled. I call you, dear children, to grasp the importance of my coming and the seriousness of the situation. I want to save all souls and present them to God. Therefore, let us pray that everything I have begun be fully realized. Thank you for having responded to my call."

Medjugorje like Fatima has also the Rosary, confession, Holy Communion, and the Consecration to the Immaculate Heart.

 

Medjugorje and Lourdes

 

The common theme is pennance. Our Lady said at Lourdes "Pennance, Pennance, Pennance". Also Bernadette's act of washing was a form of Pennance. At Medjugorje we are called to Confession to confess our sins. Part of the confession process is the reception of pennance for our sins from the priest. Also the request for fasting at Medjugorje is a form of pennance.

 

Items common to all sites.

 

Apart from the spiritual similarities mentioned above, the people involved (except Fr Gobbi) were all simple children living in poor areas. It seems that God often choses those considered by others to be lower down in society for his great tasks. Look at Jesus's apostles, they were simple fishermen.