THE MEDJUGORJE WITNESS

The death has taken place of James (Jim) Browne, Killadoon, Louisburgh. He died suddenly on Saturday at Galway University Hospital.

Widely known for his charity work and leading pilgrimages to Medjugorje, a place that helped change his own life, news of his passing is widely regretted by everybody who knew him.

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Midwest Radio broadcast a documentary about his life some years ago entitled “A Little Miracle at Medjugorje.”

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Jim will repose at Mir House, Killadoon, Louisburgh on Wednesday, from 3:00pm until 8:00pm. Private removal on Thursday morning at 10:00am to St Mary's Church, Westport, for Funeral Mass at 11:00am.Burial takes place afterwards in Aughavale Cemetery, Westport.

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source: Connaught Telegraph

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit of in plenty; for cut off from me you can do nothing.

John 15 : 5

We search incessantly for the new to satisfy our hunger and appetite... new

experiences, new thrills and excitement, new books, new films, new friends, new relationships, new jobs, new flavours, new tastes, new fashions, new theories, new ways, new technology, new horizons, new environments, new projects, new ideas, new success, new days, new weeks, new news, new posts, new blogs, and even new messages...  We constantly hunger to be renewed by the ‘new’ in our life.

In a message from Our Lady to the seer Mirjana we are reminded that it is God who renews the face of the earth, and makes new children of us all. 

Our Lady says: “When you become cognisant of the Father, you will comprehend that he is all you need.” (June 2, 2013)

Our hunger to be satisfied can only be truly fulfilled by God. We are fed by the Lord when we place our trust in him to provide for our needs. Then, as Pope Francis once reminded us, we have no need to leave the company of Jesus to go into the neighbouring villages and search for food. God provides. 

We understand and set out and follow Jesus, Son of Mary, knowing and accepting he is the true source for our happiness and peace. He feeds us. He feeds his sheep. He feeds all his flocks, so wonderfully described by Pope Francis when he said: 

“God can bring forth what is necessary for everyone. Jesus trusts completely in the heavenly Father, He knows that in him all things are possible. So he tells the disciples to have the people sit down in groups of fifty – this is not accidental: this means that they are no longer a crowd, but they become communities, nourished by the bread of God.” (June 2013)

Dear children! I am with you to tell you that I love you and to encourage you to prayer; because Satan is strong and every day his strength is stronger through those who have chosen death and hatred. You, little children, be prayer and my extended hands of love for all those who are in darkness and seek the light of our God. Thank you for having responded to my call.

Most of what we know about Mark comes directly from the New Testament. He is usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12:12. When Saint Peter escaped from prison, he went to the home of Mark’s mother.

Paul and Barnabas took him along on the first missionary journey, but for some reason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem. It is evident, from Paul’s refusal to let Mark accompany him on the second journey despite Barnabas’s insistence, that Mark had displeased Paul. Because Paul later asks Mark to visit him in prison, we may assume the trouble did not last long.

The oldest and the shortest of the four Gospels, the Gospel of Mark emphasizes Jesus’s rejection by humanity while being God’s triumphant envoy. Probably written for gentile converts in Rome—after the death of Peter and Paul sometime between A.D. 60 and 70—Mark’s Gospel is the gradual manifestation of a “scandal”: a crucified Messiah.

A winged lion is Mark’s symbol. The lion derives from Mark’s description of John the Baptist as a “voice of one crying out in the desert” (Mark 1:3), which artists compared to a roaring lion. The wings come from the application of Ezekiel’s vision of four winged creatures to the evangelists.

Source: Franciscan Media

Dear children, put God in the first place in your families, so that he may give you peace and may protect you not only from war, but also in peace protect you from every satanic attack.

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Part message, December 25, 1991

Now at the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem there is a building called Bethzatha in Hebrew, consisting of five porticos; and under these were crowds of sick people – blind, lame, paralysed – waiting for the water to move; for at intervals the angel of the Lord came down into the pool, and the water was disturbed, and the first person to enter the water after this disturbance was cured of any ailment he suffered from.

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John 1 : 2-4

1. A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.

2. A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash.

3. An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

The Lord God said to the serpent: “Be accursed beyond all cattle, all wild beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust everyday of your life. I will make you enemies of each other: you and the woman, your offspring and her offspring. It will crush your head and you will strike its heel.

Genesis 3 : 15

Dear children! Today I call you to pray in a special way that you offer up sacrifices and good deeds for peace in the world. Satan is strong and with all his strength, desires to destroy the peace which comes from God. Therefore, dear children, pray in a special way with me for peace. I am with you and I desire to help you with my prayers and I desire to guide you on the path of peace. I bless you with my motherly blessing. Do not forget to live the messages of peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.

Medjugorje message, October 25, 1990

“Brother Saul, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on your way here so that you may recover your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” Immediatlely it was as though the scales fell away from Saul’s eyes and he could see again. […] After he had spent only a few days with the disciples in Damascus, he began preaching in the synagogues, “Jesus is the Son of God.”

Acts 9 : 17-18, 20

Do not let your hearts be troubled.

Trust in God’s will, and trust in me.

There are many rooms in my Father’s house;

If there were not, I should have told you.

John 14 : 1-2

Go in peace. Your sins are forgiven.

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven;

Anyone who eats this bread will live forever;

And the bread that I shall give

Is my flesh, for the life of the world.

John 6 : 51

Jesus said to the crowd:

I am the bread of life.

He who comes to me will never be hungry;

He who believes in me will never thirst.

John 6 : 35