Famed Author: “The Dalai Lama had not reached me at the level Medjugorje Visionary Vicka did.”

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Famed Author: “The Dalai Lama had not reached me at the level Medjugorje Visionary Vicka did.” 2016-02-06T18:28:16-05:00 Mystic Post

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Medjugorje Visionary Vicka

By Stephen Ryan Author of The Madonna Files

Mr. Sullivan is an acclaimed investigative journalist, Rolling Stone’s contributor, New York Times bestselling author and onetime TV host on the Opra Winfrey Network. A major Hollywood movie comes out next year based on his book “LAbyrinth”.

A number of years ago, Randall Sullivan stumbled into the strange world of miracles and apparitions. Captivated by the possibility of supernatural realities, he spent the next eight years of his life researching and writing about miraculous claims made by the Catholic Church, including the unexplained mystical events occurring in a town called Medjugorje.

His seminal work, The Miracle Detective, is remarkable in many ways. Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning Post wrote, “For me, it ranks with Thomas Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain as one of the most affecting spiritual biographies of our time.”

For many readers, it was Randall Sullivan’s anecdote of his encounter with Medjugorje visionary Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic, that stands out as a moment that captures the deceptively simple power that is Medjugorje.Sullivan writes:

“Vicka had promised me an hour, but we were only about fifteen minutes into our interview when I began struggling to get words out, barely able to ask even the briefest of questions. Later, I would try to think of who else had affected me similarly, and couldn’t come up with a single name. I recalled my interview with the Dalai Lama twelve years earlier. I found the exiled Tibetan leader delightful – no one I’ve met before or since has described his own foibles with such genuine amusement – but the Dalai Lama had not reached me at the level Vicka did. Staring into the eyes of this plain young woman, with close-cropped hair and pockmarked pale skin, I wasn’t sure if I felt awed or unnerved. I managed to stammer out that I had read about her illnesses and sufferings. Vicka responded with a nod but no change of expression. I was trying to think why I had brought that up, then found myself blurting**,** ‘Vicka, are you ever unhappy?’ For several moments she regarded me in silence. There was a twinkle in her eye; I knew that she knew I would never believe her if she answered no.

She smiled. ‘No’, she told me. ‘Never.’

‘When you had the brain tumor,’ I persisted, ‘weren’t there ever moments when you became angry or afraid?’

Vicka looked at me as though she enjoyed the comic relief but really didn’t need it. ‘I am with Our Lady every day,’ she answered at last. ‘How can I be unhappy even for a moment?’ I met her gaze, took a breath, and felt myself go silent. It wasn’t a case of being unable to think what I wanted to ask; I had become literally incapable of speech. …..For the next forty minutes, neither of us said a word. Then Vicka stood up and so did I. ‘What you need to know,’ she told me, ‘is that Lord Jesus and Our Lady both love you very much. They have brought you here for a reason, and it is up to you to understand what that reason is. The answer is in your heart.’

Indeed, the answer is found in our hearts and for millions of people, Medjugorje, has been a miraculous river of spirituality filling countless hearts with the peace only found in Christ.

For over thirty years, six normal, healthy, people, claim to see Heaven and the Virgin Mary. They claim to literally “visit” with the after-life regularly, even daily. Despite the combined efforts of the totalitarian communist state of Yugoslavia and some Catholic Church authorities, to denounce and suppress the claims of the seers, Medjugorje has endured and continues to mystify its critics and the apparition grows each year in popularity and prominence.

The six visionaries say the Virgin Mary comes to them from Heaven in bodily form – that they see her just as they see you and me. They describe her presence as being enveloped in an unfathomable love, impossible to explain in human terms and not of this Earth.

The Medjugorje “seers” tell us God has sent the Mother of Christ to us, and her time among us is a time of grace granted to us by God, a time that we should not waste. They say the Virgin Mary pleads for people to return to God. “He is the fullness of life, and to enjoy this fullness and peace, you must return to God.”

A persistent mother, continuously she implores everyone to put God in the first place and to return to daily prayer. The Blessed Mother through Medjugorje is leading her children on a path back to the creator. She has revealed to us that another life exists after this one, and she reminds us the only thing that we carry with us after this life is our holiness.

Randall Sullivan Authior of Miracle Detective

Medjugorje is now the third most popular Catholic shrine in the world, behind Lourdes and Guadalupe. It is estimated that over forty million people have gone to Medjugorje. All who go to Medjugorje say they experience a deep, lasting peace, and a newfound closeness to God.

Medjugorje has become known as Mary’s school of prayer. Through her messages, the Mother of God urges the world to convert, to reconcile with God, and to seek peace in our hearts. The messages make up a “mosaic,” forming a new kind of spiritual guidebook.

The mystery of Medjugorje continues on because six ordinary people, no different from the rest of us, stand by the simple words: “We see what we see.” These simple words have mystified the Vatican and the faithful for decades and what has transpired over this time is the emergence of one of the greatest spiritual mysteries in Christian history.

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