New Year’s Eve in Medjugorje
Come and enter into the New Year in prayer, with Jesus and Mary!
Night of prayer : 31.12. At 10 pm

Adoration Holy Mass

An enormous screen will be put up in the New Hall, and a tent will be built for every one of those who may not find place in the church, so that everybody may keep dry and warm.

MEDJUGORJE

Ever since the first apparition of Our Lady took place in Medjugorje in year 1981, this little village became one of the most important destinations for travellers in the entire world. Without reference to their age, nationality, colour, education, and even religious believes, folks from the entire world are coming to Medjugorje to find peace and sense of life. A call from Medjugorje is always an individual call. Millions have left this village with a grin on their face, and strength to return to their every day routine. There are pilgrims in Medjugorje throughout the entire year, but there are 1 or 2 dates that are extremely special and always bring increased number of folks to the town chosen by Our Lady. December 31. Is one of those dates.

WHY NEW YEAR’S EVE IN MEDJUGORJE?

Youngsters are folks on the go, folks with fresh ideas, strength and need to contribute. Pretty shortly they get bored of fake things, exploited events and folk who need to use them.

When an individual comes to Medjugorje he feels special and accepted. He feels accepted and protected. He feels young, regardless of how old he is. Therefore , coming to Medjugorje is like returning home, like returning to the happy infancy (whether or not you never had it…). It is a coming to your mother. Our Lady has been inviting us (for nearly 30 years now) to take her hand, to allow her help us. It is a time of choices, a time to decide for God. You have Medjugorje hotel for accommodation and others good pansions,don’t worry!

WHO IS INVITED?

In Medjugorje Our Lady addresses her messages to her dear youngsters. She never declared : “Dear Catholics”, or “Dear American citizens” or anything like that…She always claims : “Dear children…” Every homo sapien is Her kid, and a call from Medjugorje is always an individual call. Every individual has been invited for such a lot of times by Our Lady.

It is generally a challenge, especially for young people, to try some new things, something they never attempted before. This is an alternative way of spending the common event. Occasionally it takes courage to do something new , and it is customarily the young that dare to contribute.

A mother is calling her youngsters.

Everyone Is INVITED! : )

PROGRAM

Night of prayer : 31.12. :

At seven hundred pm there is a melodramatic play in front of the Church of St James given by young boys and girls from the Cenacolo Community (community of previous cokeheads). The area round the church becomes Betlehem for one or two hours and you can see those important moments in Mary’s and Joseph’s lives, including the night when Jesus was born.

Prayer begins at 10 pm in the church of St. James. First there is an Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar followed by the central event of the programme, the Holy Mass. At about midnight it’s the moment when the bread and vine are turned into the body and blood of Jesus. The moment when the miracle happens. In those moments fireworks display in our hearts! That is how we shall enter into a new year.

(A giant screen will be put up in the New Hall, and a tent will be built for every one of those who may not find place in the church, so that everybody may keep dry and warm)

The parish of Medjugorje has been coordinating the New Year’s prayer programme for a few years and number of people who want to attend it is skyrocketing every year. Whoever comes once, comes back again for sure,writes tagza.com.

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Reporters of radio station “Mir” Medjugorje continually invite pilgrims who come to Medjugorje to witness about their apparitions. Here, we intend to bring some of those experiences.
Davor Terzic, musician and composer from Rovinj came with his wife Vesna to Medjugorje.They were in Medjugorje hotel. Davor is very much present at Croatian music scene and he’s regularly participating at every holiday of spiritual music. “We visited other Croatian shrines like Marija Bistrica and Vepric, and here we are in Medjugorje, for 7th, eighth time. We try and have a little bit time for ourselves every year. Our work is related to music, we make our living from that. We come here to thank God for everything he has given us in the year before. This is where we feel fulfilled.”

The Organisation “I hear, I suspect, I see” from Zagreb has organised study trip and pilgrimage for young people and disabled students. While they were in Medjugorje they visited prayer places and took part in the evening prayer program.
The blind student from Prelog, Martina Bilic, related that greatest challenge for her was to climb Apparition Hill. “This was always beautiful experience for me, it is physical effort, but one can feel non secular peace and sacrifice which has purpose.”

Andrea Bianco, 41 years old pilgrim from Bolzano, tiny town on the north of Italy, shared his experience with us. As a sophomore student he was in a significant auto accident and lost his sight on that occasion. He thinks that he survived thanks to God’s prudence. He’s married and has 4 kids. He’s making rosary beads along with his better half and gives those to travellers, but also he is organising pilgrimages to Medjugorje. “My young days were like of the average young person at that time. I had it all, girl, money, I was studying. I did not worry about spirituality too much. It was all about entertainment. All of a sudden, my life was modified over the night. One day, I was on my way back home, after having a field trip with my fiance, I wanted to overtake a truck that hit us and threw us to a tree on the opposite side. My girlfriend was fine, but I was severely hurt . I was taken by helicopter to the surgery in Bolzano. It was Holy Thursday, and they did not have enough staff. I was sent to the hospice in Verona and I had surgery there. My doctor was young, new doctor who had lost his brother in a vehicle accident also. He probably did the surgery and I was in coma for twenty days. I had one hematoma that was pressing my eye nerves and that is how I lost my sight.” What followed was the period of recovery when he went from hospice to hospice. It was in that time that he welt urge to go to sacrament of reconciliation. Soon afterwards he was given the sacrament of Holy Confirmation he had not received before. Three years thereafter he and his girlfriend Lara got married. He revealed how he was listening stories about Medjugorje for years that were both negative and positive. He came on his first pilgrimage in 1998, and fruits of that pilgrimage followed after. “This is where we will be able to feel heaven, immense grace from our Heavenly Ma. We are coming home renewed, different and we are prepared to come back to this place of grace”, claimed Andrea who comes regularly to Medjugorje twice a year since that time.
Fr. Loky Flanagan, Irish missionary in Malawi, Africa, shared his experience also. He was introduced to Medjugorje through charity organisation “Mary’s Meals” that is fruits of Medjugorje and feeds each day around 400,000 kids in Africa. He came to Medjugorje in 2003, and took part at the retreat for clergymen and found that an incredible non secular experience. “Medjugorje helped me to have religion and trust in The Lord God, it inspires me to keep on working as a priest. I have more peace. Meeting people and confessions help me a lot. I wouldn’t say I Am consistently concerned in the events in Medjugorje, but I do have a book with Our Lady’s messages”, announced Fr. Loky who plans to come to Medjugorje next year as well , writes tagza.com.

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Mostar Airfields management is visiting Pescara so as to finalise the flight details. The project is being propped by a local tour operator. This are welcomed reports for the airport as it’s been battling to attract airlines for years . If all goes to plan flights could commence next month, local media reports. In April, Mostar handled 2.193 passengers thanks to charter flights from Italy and Lebanon. It is thought Mostar Airfield could attract airlines offering flights to non secular travellers visiting the nearby Medjugorje, writes balkans.com.

Medjugorje, in the center of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a special place of pilgrimage visited by thousands of travellers annually in pursuit of the spirituality and serenity that exists here.

On 24 June 1981 Our Woman first seemed to 6 visionaries from the village of Medjugorje and told them, “I have chosen this parish in a particular way and I only wish to guide it”. Our Woman continues to give messages to these idealists : Ivan, Jakov, Marija, Mirjana, Vicka, and Ivanka. They report that Our Lady’s mission is one of peace and love and she tells us “I have come to tell the world that God exists. He’s the fullness of life, and to take pleasure in this fullness and peace, you must return to God”.

Since the apparitions of Our Woman started in 1981, millions of travellers of all faiths, from every area of the world, have visited Medjugorje on pilgrimage and have left spiritually bolstered and renewed. Numerous sceptics and physically or psychologically troubled, have been converted and healed.Since the apparitions of Our Woman commenced in 1981, millions of travellers of all faiths, from every area of the world, have visited Medjugorje on pilgrimage and have left spiritually reinforced and renewed. Numerous unbelievers and physically or mentally afflicted,have been converted and healed.

It’s a fact that many travellers who come to Medjugorje testify to having seen special signs in the sky or at the Cross or to have felt the presence of Our Woman and her call with a great magnitude. Although it is, naturally, hard to assert objectively what has happened, one must still emphasise that this also constitutes a big element of Medjugorje pilgrimages.

Nevertheless here also the rule applies that the ultimate criterion is what the traveller does after having experienced the extraordinary interventions of the Lord God. Here, one can also include the spiritual, mental and physical healings.

Those who have experienced such healings, by their affidavit awaken the faith and the interest and induce people to leave their everyday life and jobs and to go to the people and places, which, thru the intervention of The Lord God, have become the aim of many travellers.

A special sign of pilgrimages to Medjugorje is the message of Our Woman to fast with bread and water. Bread is the basic food of man and, thus, also the symbol for life. Also water is vital in the life of man. It is above all a symbol for non secular cleaning. These 2 realities and signs already contain a message : return to life and live, come forth from your impurity and be cleansed.

Simply said we are called on consciously to live for 2 days only with bread and water. This is the ideal fasting. An individual who takes this literally and can live this surely only does something good for his soul and his body. Nonetheless one must still take into account one’s everyday life, Problems and problems.

This call is surely an invitation, which is to be replied to in the fullness of freedom and responsibility. Bread and water were also the basic foods of the travellers in the old days. One couldn’t carry anything more when travelling by foot for several days or weeks. So walking and living alongside bread and water, an individual became cleansed and more in a position to encounter God. He left his everyday life and paid a visit to the places, where God made public Himself, and the folks to whom He appeared.

Many years folks come from all over the world in Medjugorje to see all of these things and they hunting for some Medjugorje hotel. They really can find good accommodation and be happy with this fascinating religious travel.

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To commemorate the birth of Oman’s independence, the National Day is celebrated every year on 18th November.National Day coincides with Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s birthday, which occurs November 19, adding additional significance to the day.

Quick History of National Day in Oman

A tribal society, in 749 Oman chose an Imam to be its first ruler, and so Islam became the main religion there. The country’s people remained relatively independent until 1507, despite some pressure from neighbouring Iran and other Arab countries.

In 1507, Portugal’s naval fleet arrived taking the strategic ports of Muscat and Sohar.The Portuguese saw the ports along the coast of Oman as valuable stopping and trading points in their Indian spice trade routes.

This lucrative trading activity raised the eyes of both Britain and Dutch. But as the Portugese started to exploit Oman’s resources, the Al-Ya’ribi decided to woo the East India Company of Britain to reduce the strain on resources the Portugese were placing on Oman.Under an agreed treaty, British merchants were guaranteed legal and religious rights while operating in the Oman’s domain, effectively weakening the influence of Portugal in the region.

An uprising in 1650, lead by Sultan Bin Saif ultimately forced the Portugese to leave Oman. Since then, Oman has been relatively independent and is certainly one of the longest continually independent Arab states.

Oman’s National Day Traditions, Customs and Activities

The Oman celebration emcompasses not only the day of independence but also the Sultan’s birthday. Fireworks displays, images of the sultan, and Oman’s flag can be seen during celebrations that focus on the progress the current sultan, Qaboos bin Said, has made for the people of Oman.

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