[Music] At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves and mountain Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and President of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord’s day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God. Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ now and forever and ever. Amen. My dear beloved brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ, I welcome you on the Sunday morning to our radio show. We will spend a wonderful good Sunday morning together. We will spend these upcoming minutes, praising the Lord and giving thanks to Almighty God, thinking about our happiness, thinking about how we follow the Lord, being our happiness, thinking about how we stay away from sin as much as possible, being also the source of our happiness, thinking about how when we follow the precepts of the Lord, when we try to apply His laws, whether in times of strength, whether in times of weakness, whether the laws through which we remain standing, or whether the laws through which we come back to the grace of the Lord, where we ponder on His laws, day and night. All of these things are wonderful signs, are wonderful ways to maintain us in the way of the Lord. In general, there are two ways, as you know, we have been praying with the seventh petition in the prayer of the our Father, for a month and month now explaining the prayer of the our Father, and we kept saying now, deliver us from evil, and many times we said, “What kind of evil that we want the Lord to deliver us are from?” Then we looked at the image of the dragon and the image of the nations. And of course, now when we look at the deliver us from evil, we want to look at humanity if it keeps rejecting God by itself. This is a big hazard, this is a big risk, and in this sign, if a humanity continues to reject God, there is of course an evil that we face from which we want to be delivered. There is nothing harsher in the world than a brother killing his brother. There is nothing harsher and more hard in the world than what we see. Innocent children and victim and men and women paying the price for blind violence, being bombed, being murdered, being killed, being attacked simply, because they are innocent and they are victims of some sort of hate. There is nothing worse in this world than thinking about the reality that like, you know, like it was being brought up by one of the candidates, I believe. If there are like 300,000 children and many children across our borders, as disappearing, we do not know where they are, for instance. Or if there is really human trafficking, if there is really an organ trafficking, of course, such horrible things exist. And that’s also something we want to ask the Lord to deliver us from, imagine parents losing their child or their child being kidnapped out of their hands, and they do not know how they will never meet with their children again or imagine children or innocent people or the weak people being exposed to major and horrible things. This is really not good. This is really a sign of evil that usually pays that attacks the dignity and the integrity and the safety and the security and the identity of a human being. With those things, we always want to pray to Almighty God to truthfully deliver us from evil, but in mind in ourselves, with the song one, with song one, that there are two ways a man may take. And one way is the way of evil and another way is the way of good is the way of God. Without giving any political opinion, it is worth it sometimes, it merits, it has a merit to think into ourselves and when we discern how we are going to vote, on what foundation, on what base, whether we are voting for any public office actually in a land, whether for public office that has to do with the highest office governing our land or a given nation or our nation or any other small office, whether in religious offices or in civil dignitaries, I do believe or public service of some sort, I do believe it is important that we look at the convictions of these people, the principles, the ethics. And I’m not saying that they have to be perfect, no, I’m saying, of course, are they willing to change their lives? How beautiful it is to see people come into conversion, you know, when if Jesus was to ask the permission of the public means of broadcastings, public means of broadcastings, you know, public means of given opinions, whether through the next or through the media, excuse me, probably imagine Jesus asking their permission to hire Peter to make him head of the apostles or asking the permission of some famous outlet if he was to hire Paul. Remember Paul is a murderer, he actually killed the people, right, before his conversion, I think imagine Jesus putting limits for people, unless they fit certain criteria that they can serve him. I think Jesus makes a choice and says, I chose you, you did not choose him, then our life becomes converted, then we begin with our acceptance to the calling of the Lord. We convert, how beautiful it is to see how simple can the word actually and change his life and repent it from his sin and became the apostle to the nation’s. In fact, Jesus told that I believe one of his followers in Damascus, when he told them, “Gerap, you have to go open the eyes of Saul because I brought in YouTube to Damascus.” I believe it was Ananya and he tells the Lord, but he was killing your people and Jesus Christ answers, I believe Ananya and he will tell him, “Don’t worry, he will see what kind of testimony I will have him make for the sake of my name for all the nations to see.” So Jesus and somehow gave also suffering to St Paul in his conversion. So I’m not saying when you want a vote for somebody, they have to fit the standard of a perfect box, no. They could come from any sort of anything that is in a word. If we, our example, our model is Jesus Christ. But once they decide that yes, or when they choose to serve the people, it is important to see if their life is changing. Are they becoming better people on daily basis? Are they being clear in their language? Are they being more precise in their approaches? Are they kind? Are they truthful? Are they able to deliver? Are they saying the honest truth about, you know, their personal things, when it makes sense that they give up their bad ways of the past? Are they following now the path of light? Those are very important key factors to show basically how in their conversion, the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed and our safety is also guaranteed, is also provided for. It’s almost looking at the contrast of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, when you look at the cross, the cross was a sign of museum, it’s a curse. You know, curse is the one who is hang on the tree. This is what the gospel tells us. This is what the Bible tells us. This is what the Roman law was about. So they used to put the criminals on a cross and this was a major curse for them. And when Jesus Christ was crucified, he was a convicted felon, right? He was a publicly convicted felon. So we literally worship a publicly executed convicted felon. His name is Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the only son of the living God. And this is the testimony of Peter. But in fact, this wasn’t injustice, right? Because Jesus was not a convicted felon. He bore our sins. He took upon us our sins. He identified with our weaknesses, with our misery. But this is to tell us to be careful. This is tell us that be nice to one another and try to see me as the Lord Jesus Christ in each other. And remember, if I choose somebody, I am capable to accompany them through their conversion to bring them back from their last way to be found again, to bring them back from death and to being alive again. It’s almost the experience of the prodigal son. So see how the cross of the Lord stands as a contrast, as a sign of a curse, basically, as a sign of shame for those who try to create this genius evil, colonnate the cross in which they put actually the people they hate or the murderers. They put anybody on the cross, right? Thousands of crosses, they crucified their enemies or they crucified the evil doers. But with Jesus Christ, the cross stands revealed as the tree of life. It’s no longer a sign of a curse. It became revealed as the tree of life. So before we continue, today we want to speak about how the Vatican on this path Thursday gave its okay to the spiritual phenomenon of what has been happening since June 24 of 1981. In Bosnia, Herzegovina, in a town called Medjugorje, where it is said that the version may reappeared in since 1981. I want to caution you, I want you to be careful to listen to me very well without any opposition, just in a logical manner. The Vatican did not actually approve of the extraordinary phenomena, stating that there is an extraordinary apparitions for our Lady. The Vatican simply addressed the spiritual experience that the people have been living. When they come to this sanctuary of our Lady, they go up to the mountain of the apparition, they go up to the mountain of the cross, they hike. And then they follow the spiritual services every day in a local parish of Saint James. Millions of people go to confession every year. Millions of people attend Holy Communion, I believe. The record of the Spasthir, Holy Communion was 1,750,000 Holy Communion were given up to now in the Spasthir, basically. And probably about 2 million and a half priests, they say. Remember, we don’t even have 2 million and a half priests. But what they want us to say, that priests come repeatedly, the same priests, basically, on others, they come almost every day, there is about, or every week, there is about, probably, 200, 300, 400 priests being found in the area of Medi-Gorje. And people come from all over the world into Medi-Gorje. Can you imagine that in a place like this, since 1981, every year it receives about a million to a million and a half visitors. For spiritual or religious pilgrimages, coming from all over the world. And they bear good fruits. They come sick, they live healthier, they come tired, they live, rejuvenated. They come here, there was a lot of oppressive powers, and I know what they do. And they live with a wonderful and good experience. These are called the good fruits of the visit to Medi-Gorje. It was because of these good fruits, that the Vatican said, it’s okay to visit Medi-Gorje. So, not based on extraordinary phenomena. They don’t even say that our lady appeared or not appeared. They did not give a judgment on that. They still are hesitant, and they’re not judged on that. So, with this, I want us to speak about on the show about what was in the content of how they approved Medi-Gorje. But first of all, let us pray with Psalm 1 altogether. O God, come to my assistance, O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now and will be forever. Amen. See how the cross of the Lord stands revealed as a tree of life. Happy indeed is the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor lingers in a way of sinners, nor sits in a company of scorners, but whose delight is the law of the Lord, and who punders his Lord day and night. He is like a tree that is planted beside the flowing waters, that heals its fruit and do season, and whose leaves shall never fade, and all that he does shall prosper. Not so are the wicked, not so. For they, like wind on chaff, shall be driven away by the wind. When the wicked are judged, they shall not stand, nor find room among those who are just. For the Lord guards the way of the just, but the way of the wicked leads to do. This is our prayer, my friends, on this wonderful Sunday morning. I wish you all again good Sunday morning. This is Father Andre with these minutes that we spend with the Lord together. We have been talking about many things, and what kind of evil and how we’ll get deliver us from evil, and how we need to constantly continue to pray for the Lord to deliver us from evil. We said also a little bit about when we come to elect and to vote for public officials, it is good to put consideration in our minds. Are they following the way of evil, or they are following the way of good? It is important. It is actually the most decisive point when we are to vote for somebody to represent us and to work on our behalf. We end up paying for them from our personal text, money that we help actually to raise and to provide for the population of our nation as a sign of solidarity, as a sign of membership and ownership and citizenship, and that we are all partners. And we own our nation as its own family who supports it and who make sure that we have a good future for our public servants. With this, it is important that we look to our public officials when we want to vote for them if they are actually doing good, if they are actually following the good principle of life, if they are actually serving the good principle that God laid before us and showed us the way. Unfortunately, relativism in the human politics, specifically in the West and namely in the United States of America, has become a little bit more dangerous because today we do not know what is good, we do not know what is evil. There are no real boundaries, no real barriers, no real sharp line, dividing what is good or what is evil. But in fact, there is, and there should be, the precepts of the tank in madness. That’s one way we know if to distinguish between what is good and what is evil. Serving life versus serving death, this is another way to know how we serve good and not serve evil. Our ethics and our values and our virtues, excuse me, our values and our virtues. This is another way also we serve good and we are away from evil. Our personal life, our capability of repentance, our capability of kindness, of generosity, of good character, of doing what is good or are so many characteristics based on which our knowledge, our information, our science, our learning, our language skills, sometimes it is necessary if we are to govern and discord and deal with a lot of nations. It’s important even though we have a lot of translators that we as human beings could know probably one language and a half, two languages, three languages is better and better and better, probably. And other criteria, of course, I’m a no politician, but at least from my angle of caring for humanity. I do see that one of the most important to distinguish in fact, when we try to vote based on what, it should be based on life, not on death, it should be based on the person being good, serving what is good versus evil and serving what is evil. But with this, the show will continue to speak as well about the Vatican gave its okay, its a Neil Obstat we call it, Neil Obstat, for the spiritual experience of the people in Medjugorje. So our Lady Queen of Peace is the sanctuary and a shrine that is here in Medjugorje and we ask our Lady Queen of Peace to pray for us. It seems that the Vatican is saying that in Medjugorje, in Bosnia, Herzegovina, in Eastern Europe, one of the old Balkan countries, which was part of Yugoslavia, there is a reawaken in coal for the Christians to desire again the Kingdom of God. So Pope Francis, the Spacepthus, the September 19, 2024, gave the Neil Obstat or simply the approval for public worship for the people about the spiritual event of Medjugorje, namely calling it a sanctuary and a place for pilgrimage with a spiritual fruits and this place is consecrated to our Lady Queen of Peace. And the Vatican in a same way distanced itself from studying the extra-ordinary event so they did not judge on the apparitions of our Lady. They simply studied the content of the messages given to six visionaries and they said, for many reasons, despite contradictions within the messages, but the general sense of these messages lead the people to the holy gospel. And because the people are living a beneficial experience, they said, we do not see the extra-ordinary phenomenon inside the events of Medjugorje, at least not yet, but we do recognize the spiritual wellness of the people who come and attend the spiritual events. So as a place for rejuvenation, for retreat center, for pilgrimage, for renewal of the life of Jesus Christ to come back to the gospel, Medjugorje has been approved by the Pope as a sanctuary dedicated for peace, named after our Lady the Virgin Mary, Queen of Peace. And all of this again, regardless of the extra-ordinary phenomenon over which the Vatican refused to give a judgment. They did not pronounce judgment. They don’t see yet that there are extra-ordinary phenomenon in Medjugorje. And such a way, the Pope is indicating that the faithful are authorized to give it to Medjugorje. They’re adherents. Yet an approved in manner, because there’s always this idea that there are visionaries that they still see our Lady and they broadcast messages from our Lady. That part of the Vatican is totally distancing itself from, but it did study the content of many messages which were given since 1981 and we will give you some excerpts about them. So this decision happened in a press conference held in the media office of the Vatican City back on Thursday, this past Thursday of this week actually. And in a press conference which was happening in life, his Eminence Cardinal Victor Maniac Fernandes, the prefect of the de-Castari for the doctrine of the faith of Spoke and the Reverend Massina Armando Mateo, the secretary of the de-Castari for the doctrine of the faith, and Dr. Andrea Torny Ali, his editorial director of the de-Castari for communication. And of course, when his Eminence Cardinal Fernandes spoke, he highlighted that the big suggestion we call it in Italian La Proposta. So if we say our Lady came to Medjugorje, what was her proposal? What was her suggestion? What did she come to make? She came to Medjugorje, the Cardinal saying, to present herself as the queen of peace. And in fact, in her first apparition on June 24, 1981, our Lady spoke to the sixth visionaries on a local mountain here. And she said in a local Bosnian language, “Mir, mere, mere.” That is peace, peace, peace. So, peace for this approval by Ophrancis and the Vatican de-Castari for the doctrine of the faith, consisted of the fact that the messages are in line with the gospel. And the faithful from all over the world are bearing great spiritual fruits. When they come here, they go back with more love to learn more about the Bible, to learn more about the words of Jesus, and to draw nearer to dream back about the kingdom of heaven and how they can become better people. This past year alone, there were 1,750,000 Chameleons distributed, as I was telling you in the beginning of the show. While the document do not encourage the supernatural or the extraordinary aspect of the apparitions, and this is very important for us to know, it is more since the messages bring us back to the gospel. That’s basically the key that the messages bring back to the gospel. Our Lady invites people to walk again on the path of salvation, to convert, to work for peace, while the world is under a grave danger of a possible third world war. So, the message is my friend of our Lady. According to what the Vatican studied and to what Cardinal Ferenleis expressed, they open with authentic respect to other people from various religions, speaking about the love of God for all the people. Our Lady, the Cardinal, says, “Speak with simple words while Jesus her son speaks to us with words of life.” This is basically how the Vatican decided that because there is a perfume of the gospel, the good aroma of the gospel and the words of the gospel, meaning our Lady and the local Bosnian language, when she first appeared in 1981 on June 24, and that’s when she exclaimed, “Near, mere, mere, or peace, peace, peace.” With us my friends, let us take a moment and to thank God. And when I encourage you in me, while please go to Mission of Hope and Mercy.org, Mission of Hope and Mercy.org and support us in our mission of peace in this world. And I’m very thankful to you on behalf of all of us. Let us take a moment and pray together to Al-Nighti God to save the world from hardship and from war. And we say, Amen. So, in the together of the messages of our Lady, Medi-Goji, and inside of them says Cardinal Fernandes, “There we find clarifications removing any contradiction as our Lady invites the faithful and the world to search for that, to search for the gospel, to search for peace, and to search for the grace of Christ who gives that grace.” And Cardinal Fernandes also continues in his press conference and he says, “In one of her messages, our Lady said and quotes, I do not decide directly how to divine the graces. It is Jesus, my son, who does. So it’s amazing to know and to realize how important it is that our Lady is in complete syncing with the will and the authority and the person she does not stand in the way of the person of her son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You know, she is a servant of the Lord and it’s amazing that through these messages we can clearly identify how humble is our Lady and how little she presents herself as the servant of the Lord just as she said to the angel, isn’t it that unique, an agasple of look when the angel Gabriel chapter 2 came to talk to our Lady and to tell her that from she will bear a son and he will be the son of the Most High and he was asking her approval, basically, if it’s okay, she said, “I am the servant of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word, etch and shillad dominis, theat, mi, sekundum, verbum, tomb.” That’s what our Lady said. So it is important that we look to this story and these phenomena and these words of our Lady with the heart that is open to the light. You know, we should not separate between Jesus and his family. I said this before and I repeated again. We cannot look at the story of the community of heaven with division. God has a family, get it through your mind. God is not alone, even in Himself. God is holy, Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, even by Himself. God is Trinity. Even in Himself, God has nine ranks of angels that serve Him. At least we know a few of them, St. Michael, the Archangel, St. Gabriel, the Archangel, St. Raphael, the Archangel and there are other angels appearing in a Bible. Right? I mean there are following angels as well who left God and they basically disobeyed them and unfortunately this is a reason for our misery and this creation because of the rebellion that one of the funny angels led that the third of the angels fell and that’s why our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ came onto earth through our Lady and the Holy Spirit. He was born and incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and this is the beauty of it that we see this happening. So we have to be in this context of the relationship of the Virgin Mary and Jesus our Lord in order for us to be able to understand the importance of why our Lady came into Medjugorje and why she declared herself the Queen of Peace and why she says clearly, “My finger points and is directed towards my sum.” He is the one who gives you the divine graces. I just point you to him. Carlyn Fernandes also said that the Vatican will continue to talk about the supernatural events. So far they did not approve them. There is no direct extraordinary supernatural event that they saw but in a meanwhile he says we want you to know that the Holy Spirit is operating amazingly through this veneration of our Lady Queen of Peace. And therefore the congregation for the doctrine of the faith grants its knee heel of stat and meanwhile, after our future messages given by our Lady, of course they will at rest them at the time and they will discern them at the time. I thought this is important, my friends, I’m sorry to share with us about why and for what motors and on what foundation the Vatican approved that Medjugorje is a place where our Lady gave messages even though they don’t see the extraordinary phenomenon or the supernatural phenomenon of our Lady, manifesting herself into the public or appearing as an event from heaven, yet the messages she gave through these visionaries have been addressed by the Vatican for the most part and they found in them a good fruit where the Holy Spirit is operating. At the conclusion of this press conference or the document which was released by the Vatican, I want to read to you the following. Let us read one last message which summarizes the valuable “Christ to Centret” meaning the Christ’s focus, sense of the message of Medjugorje and manifest its most authentic spirit and the quote goes, “Basically our Lady is saying, Dear children, my words are simple, I am calling you to my Son.” Only he can transform despair and suffering into peace and serenity. Only he can give hope and the deeper sorrows, my Son is the life of the world. The more you come to know Him, the closer you come to Him and all the more will you love Him because my Son is love. Love changes everything even that which seems insignificant to you apart from love has made most beautiful by love. This message came from our Lady to the visionaries back on September 2nd 2018. With this, I want to thank you so much for your love through your donations to the mission of hope and mercy. You are allowing us to support many people and this is one concrete way to show love. Now let us love our nation as well. Continue our donations to the mission of hope and mercy. Go on our website missionofhopeamersi.org. Send us email to info@missionofhopeamersi.org. If you have any questions or any specific way you like to know how and for what to give, otherwise you can go through our website and give for our general donations. Let us also donate our time and our mind and our soul and our spirit and our knowledge little bit and our critical thinking to give little bit of thought. Who and on what foundation we will be voting for who as a leader for our nation in our land for all public office is possible. Make sure as we pray in the beginning with someone choose those who have in them the way of God because the way of God gives peace, the way of God gives life, the way of God gives love, hope and faith for all the people and the way of God definitely is what will perpetuate sanity, good health for all and forgiveness of sins and pardon. What will reconcile the world and what will give us prosperity, protect our families and what will give us eternal life. And now my God bless us all protect us from all evil, forgive us our sins and bring us all to everlasting life. Thank you. Thank you for listening to 33 minutes on the Lord’s Day. To hear previous programs visit the show page at missionofhopeinMerci.org. Listen to Father Andre every Sunday morning at 730 on KLC as he speaks on the unity of Christians, religious freedom and the biblical foundation of Judeo-Christian values and traditions. 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