Group Says Blessed Mother to Appear in Alabama

A Medjudgorje group, "Friends of Caritas", says the Blessed Virgin Mary will make appearances in Alabama August 1-5.  Visit the Remnant News Watch page and scroll to the bottom.  I can imagine that many of you feel quite passionately about the alleged apparations in Medjugorje, but can you see why many of us are skeptical?

Comments

[Mary L Wright]

Now they're making Our Lady into a traveling road show - a genie that can be pulled out of a bottle on command. More than 20 years of this travesty - enough Lord, make it end.

[The League]

My elderly mother follows these "appearances." It gives her something to do.

[Ronald Van Wegen]

Medjudgorje is divisive - not unifying.

[John]

Stories have circulated that Caritas runs something very close to a cult in Alabama. I called diocesan offices down there a few years ago and they will have nothing to do with the group. Medjudgorje is unapproved and Caritas seems to be just plain weird. However, apparitions have been approved in the past despite less than savory behavior by followers and visionaries. Although I won't touch Medjudgorje with a ten foot pole, I have not written it off entirely yet as being illegitimate,

[Thom]

This isn't the first time the "road show" has hit the road. At least twice before, one of the alleged visionaries has visited Caritas and -- so it is said -- received visits from Our Lady in Alabama.

How Mary keeps up this busy schedule, and is still able to appear to different people in different places in different time zones simultaneously is a mystery to me. To my knowledge, in other apparitions, she has always shown up in one place, at one time, period.

Which perhaps is one more reason to be skeptical of this whole business...

[Cecelia]

If someone does have information about this group being a cult, please contact me as my son is about to move out there to live with them. As his mother, I want to find out all the information I can about them.

Thank you for your help.

Cecelia Liss

[sandra]

What about Lourdes? What about Fatima? Were they approved during the time the apparitions were taking place? I think it took about 50-70 years after the apparitions STOPPED. The apparitions are still happening, so it probably won't be accepted by the Vatican until long after we're all gone. And, unless you've been to Medjugorje I would think it would be hard to comment. I've been, I was skeptical, it is real, and it is undeniable. It's also very, very personal. Go there before you make comments. And, I'm on my way to Caritas, I have absolutely no cult-like thread that runs through any fabric of my being. I believe, and I go with an open heart and open mind. It is the enemy that is dividing you, not Medjugorje or the visionaries.

[sandra]

What about Lourdes? What about Fatima? Were they approved during the time the apparitions were taking place? I think it took about 50-70 years after the apparitions STOPPED. The apparitions are still happening, so it probably won't be accepted by the Vatican until long after we're all gone. And, unless you've been to Medjugorje I would think it would be hard to comment. I've been, I was skeptical, it is real, and it is undeniable. It's also very, very personal. Go there before you make comments. And, I'm on my way to Caritas, I have absolutely no cult-like thread that runs through any fabric of my being. I believe, and I go with an open heart and open mind. It is the enemy that is dividing you, not Medjugorje or the visionaries.

[Fred Ablitt]

I personaly have resieved many wounderfull graces as a direct result of our ladys apparitions and the whole wounderfull medjugorje experience, our lady has helped me forward in my faith and her messages have given me a greater understanding of Gods endless love for each one of us his children, our lady of medjugorge messages have allways been messages of, allways putting our full trust in God to never lose hope, to regularely pray and fast, we are reminded to say the rosary, and encouraged to live our faith every moment of our life. All these are weapons to defeat saton, and certainly do not promote him, our lady is titled, Queen of peace, and from the beginning of the apparitions in 1981, our lady stressed the need for peace, our lady also stated the impending dangers in that country and the need to continuously pray for lasting peace foretelling of the conflict that sadly, took place in that country. our lady of medjugorje is continually leading us her children to her son, our lord and savior Jesus Christ, regularely reminding us of Jesus in the blessed sacrament of the euchorist, stating if it is a choise for any of us her children between events to do with our lady and receiving Jesus christ her son in the euchorist in holy mass, we are to allways put Jesus first, our lady also stated when pilgrims commented to the visionarys how priverlaged they were to recieve these graces,our lady of medjugorje said through the visionarys that our lady is allways closest to every soul who received her son our lord and savior Jesus christ in the euchorist, more closer than any visionary could experience, in an apparition, because the sacred heart of Jesus and the immaculate heart of mary are perfectly united in there love for each other. I could say so much about all the wounderfull experiences that one experiences there,the constant feeling of peace and holyness from the moment one arrives there,wounderfull,powerfull benedictions, experiences, of a supernatural nature involving the sun,such as seeing the host clearly in the centre of the sun without hurting the eyes, the word peace in there own language that appeared within the clouds over St James church for all to see in the early days of the apperitions. In my honest oppinion i firmy believe the real danger is not weather or not our lady of medjugorje is truly appearing in medjugorje which i truly believe she is but that so many souls who clearly have never been there are crediting the devil with abbilitys that only God has,supernatural graces involving the sun ,similar to Fatima, only God is omnipotent and omnicient.The devil can only do what God permits him to do . These apperitions have been taking place for 29 years this month the longest period in history,as far as i know, and there is no sign as yet of there compleation,what with all the wounderfull conversions that have taken place during that time,peoples lives have been changed for the better I will end know just by saying. I am a dedicated catholic, i have given you all my testimony just as it is, i have absolutely no reason to lie or exagerate, i believe i am a perfectly rational human being,my experiences were not hallusinations vivid dreams or anything else other than what i have said they were, of corse everybody has equal right to believe or disbelieve in these said apperitions,and i sincerely promise i will fully abide by whatever desition the vatican may make. All i ask to those who dont believe the apperitions of our lady of medjugorje are true,please as a brother in faith i ask you dont attack and condemn, clearly judjment has not been made and therefore if they were declared true,as i sincerely believe they will be,those who attacked would have been declaring evil,what is holy, a sin against the holy spirit,it is better to hold your thoughts...YOURS IN CHRIST...FRED.

[jim]

i went to medjugorje and stayed in on of the visionairies houses as a guest. i was so amazed when i realized i was staying in ivanka's house and she served us our first meal. i personally can attest to ivanka radiating a unique holiness and modesty..... anyway, years later, i went to Cariitas, Alabama when one of the other girls from the medjugorje apparitions was visiting. though i would say that Caritas followers could be construed as no worse than a little overzealous, i do believe that (i think it was marija, it's been a while) Mary appeared to her while she was there visiting.

[jim]

sorry the type o,....in ONE of the visioairies houses