Medjugorje

The 20th International Youth Festival in Medjogorje ( Mladifest 20 ) will take place from August 1st – August 6th. The theme of the Festival 2009 is: -Do whatever he tells you!-

July, 31th – Friday
06:00 pm – Rosary
07:00 pm – Holy Mass – general rehearsal for the choir and the orchestra
08.00 pm – Adoration – – general rehearsal for the choir and the orchestra

August, 1st – Saturday
06:00 pm – Rosary
07:00 pm – Presentation of the Language Groups, Holy Mass
08:30 pm – Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament, presentation of the Community of the “Merciful Father”

August 2nd – Sunday
04:00 pm – Lectures, Music, Testimonies
06:00 pm – Rosary
07:00 pm – Holy Mass
10:00 pm – Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
11:30 pm – Whole Night Adoration in the church

August, 3rd – Monday
09:00 am – Morning Prayer
09:30 am –12:00 am – Lectures, Music, Testimonies
12:00 am – Pause
04:00 pm – Lectures, Music, Testimonies
06:00 pm – Rosary
07:00 pm – Holy Mass
~ 08:15 pm – Procession through the Parish
~ 10:00 – 11:00 pm – Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament

August 4th – Tuesday
09:00 am – Morning Prayer
09:30 am –12:00 am – Prayer, Music, Testimonies of Community “Cenacolo”
12:00 am – Pause
04:00 pm – Lectures, Music, Testimonies
06:00 pm – Rosary
07:00 pm – Holy Mass
~ 09:15 pm – “Cenacolo” Community Programme (Theatre and musical show)

August 5th – Wednesday
09:00 am – Morning Prayer
09:30 am –12:00 am – Lectures, Music, Testimonies
12:00 am – Pause
04:00 pm – Lectures, Music, Testimonies
06:00 pm – Rosary
07:00 pm – Holy Mass
~ 08:30 – 09:30 pm – Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament
~ 09:30 ~ 11:00 pm – Singing Farewell

August 6th – Thursday
03:00 am – Rosary going up Križevac
05:00 am – Holy Mass on Križevac

THE 19th INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FESTIVAL

The 19th International Youth Festival ( Mladifest 19 ) will take place in Medjugorje from August 1st to August 6th, 2008.

The theme of the event is, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses”(“In silence may the Holy Spirit speak to you and permit Him to convert and change you.” Message of July 25, 2006)

(This theme is in harmony with the theme of the 23rd World Youth Day, which is taking place in Australia.)

Thousands of young people, from all over the world, will gather together in Medjugorje like they did every year.

More than 30.000 young people from all over the world came together in Medjugorje last year, in order to encounter Jesus in Mary’s school of peace and joy… flags of about 50 countries were fluttering in the rhythm of the songs…

Every evening, Rosary and prayer of the faithful will be pray in 24 different languages:

Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Slovene, Serbian, Aramaic, Dutch, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hebrew, Maltese.

23 interpreters will simultaneously translate masses from the Croatian into 15 languages :

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Korean, Slovene, Arabic, Chinese.

Hundred of young people from different countries are going to form the International choir and orchestra, which will accompany the festival with music, singing and dancing.

This festival is an unforgettable and emotional experience, it is such a strong feeling of togetherness you will hardly find somewhere else.

The person next to you isn`t a stranger even you have never seen him before, and you will take his hand and pray with him because all people came by the same token : peace,joy, faith and hope .

Medjugorje
1981 – 2008

On June 15, 2008, begins the Novena in thanksgiving for 27 years of the apparitions of the Queen of Peace. In Medjugorje, they will pray the rosary at Apparition Hill every day at 4 pm, and we unite with all our friends and with all the pilgrims all over the world through this Novena. The Novena ends on June 23, and on June 24, at 6 am, we pray for peace in the “Peace March” which leads us in a Eucharistic procession from Humac to Medjugorje. We invite all Our Lady’s pilgrims, wherever they may be, to unite in a joyful prayer!

Priest of Medjugorje
What to offer to Our Lady for the Anniversary of Her apparitions?

What could we offer to Our Lady for the anniversary of Her apparitions? This is the question many pilgrims ask, and we answer with another question: Wouldn’t the dearest gift be if we would really start to live Her messages?

The main theme of Our Lady’s messages is the call to peace and reconciliation, but She underlines very often that we can obtain them only through prayer. This is why She calls us unceasingly to pray, to renew prayer until it becomes a joy for us, to pray with the heart…

We have composed a simple novena with the deep desire to offer something special to Our Lady for this Anniversary, something that unites all Her children in the whole world, something that helps us to live Her messages.

Why a Novena?

The idea for the Novena comes from the New Testament, when Mary and the Apostles, 40 days after the Resurrection of Jesus, remained in prayer for nine consecutive days. They prayed with one heart and persevered in prayer, waiting for the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, that was promised them, and that filled them “when the time of Pentecost was fulfilled” (Ac 2,1). Since then, Novenas have become a frequent practice in the tradition of the Church. Also in Medjugorje, Our Lady calls us: “Dear children, offer novenas, making sacrifices wherein you feel the most bound.” ( July 25, 1993 [O] )

How to pray this Novena?

One special intention is devoted to each day. We pray for this intention, meditating on the texts that are proposed, through the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. The first text is a passage from the Gospel, the second – a message of Our Lady from one of the previous anniversaries, and the third – a passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. These have been chosen to give a threefold insight into the prayer intention: A Gospel, a Marian (through the messages of Medjugorje) and an Ecclesiastical insight, to help the person who is leading the prayer and introducing the Mysteries. The passages from the Catechism on prayer show us the richness, the depth and the immensity of the experience of Christian prayer, of which Our Lady reminds us here in Medjugorje. The concluding prayer unites all the intentions of prayer regarding the intention for the day.
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