The shock of the first Secret will open the eyes of the inhabitants of Medjugorje
We move from a worldly vision of life to a supernatural vision
Someone might ask why the plan of the Queen of Peace includes the “Cross” of the first two secrets that painfully involve Medjugorje, after a period of several decades during which there was certainly no lack of long periods of trials courageously overcome. It is always the visionary Mirjana who, after having described the material “disaster”, reveals to us the profound spiritual change that has occurred in Her.
Mirjana, in fact, states that these events permitted by God will have extraordinary effects of grace. In the face of the loss of material things, perhaps even of life, there is the possibility of an interior transformation for those who cultivate faith; others will not want to see. The scales will fall from their eyes and people will look at the world and life in another perspective.
This happens to many people who experience the test of illness, for example, and come out of it changed, they have a different vision of life. Life is a passage, it is a blink of an eye. Through these events there is a purification that opens to eternity.
This will happen to all those who have responded to the call, but who need purification and to all those who have kept traces of the goodness of human nature in their hearts, traces of the grace that will make them open to God’s call. The time of the Secrets is God’s time par excellence, we will be called to decide before God whether to be on His side until the end, whether to remain in indifference or whether to turn against Him.
Speaking about the spiritual awakening and why God allowed the evidence of the first Secrets in Medjugorje, Mirjana said the day after the vision: “It shook me more than anything else. This was, of course, because of seeing the first Secret . If people saw the first Secret, as was demonstrated to me yesterday, everyone would certainly be shaken enough to look at themselves and everything around them in a completely new way. Now I know things that are not particularly pleasant. I believe that if everyone knew the same things, each of these people would be shocked and would look at our world in a completely different light.”
We then move from a worldly vision of life to a supernatural vision; from a vision of life according to an earthly logic to a vision of life according to the perspective of eternity through which we understand that God, love, holiness, grace count, that even suffering becomes an instrument of grace and everything must be oriented towards eternal life.
If people were aware of the disaster and suffering caused by the first Secret, they would certainly be shaken enough to look at themselves and their surroundings differently. Just think of those who have lost everything because of the floods, the earthquakes; I am sure that among them there are those who have had a change in their outlook on life compared to before the catastrophe.
Those who will see, who will experience from close up but also from afar the effects of the first Secret, will be led to a radical purification of mind and heart, upstream of which obviously there must be adhesion, good will and faith.
The vision of life will be different, God will be the absolute good, loved above all things; Heaven will be the goal to be achieved, love for one’s neighbor as a practice of life. Medjugorje was chosen to show the world how the Secrets must be lived in a time of purification and transformation of oneself.
The people of Medjugorje will be an example for all men and women of good will on how to face this ordeal which would have happened anyway (except for the third Secret), because the events of the Secrets are caused by nature or by men.
The Madonna, announcing the Secrets does not provoke them, they would happen anyway. Through the announcement three days before, God makes sure that the prophecy gives us the possibility of spiritual renewal and physical safety.
God has assumed events that would happen in any case, to bring us to an interior spiritual purpose of improving our gaze and the orientation of our heart. This happens if we prepare ourselves in time for the Secrets. Otherwise, arriving unprepared, we will be involved and risk being resentful towards God, accusing Him of not intervening to save us. With the events of the Secrets, God wants to change the world spiritually so that a time of peace may begin.
In the interview of October 26, 1985, Mirjana said that preparation for the first Secret is necessary: ”The Holy Virgin told me that it is necessary to pray a lot until the first Secret is revealed. But in addition to this, it is necessary to make sacrifices as much as possible, to help others as much as we can, and to fast, especially now before the first Secret. She said that we are obliged to prepare ourselves.”
Time runs out quickly and is running out, so we must use it to enter the new dimension which is the time of Christ’s salvation through Mary.
Our Lady, through Mirjana, recommends that we dedicate ourselves completely to preparing for the first Secret. When the time of the Secrets begins, if we are not prepared and therefore fortified, we risk throwing in the towel and surrendering to evil:
“She not only asks but begs everyone to convert, to pray, to fast. [Those who do not believe] have no idea what awaits them, and that is why, like their Mother, she is in deep anguish for them,” Mirjana said, referring to people who do not believe and thus live their lives without God. This is the time of spiritual conquests, if we are not strengthened we risk collapsing. We must necessarily prepare ourselves now.
The first Secret will certainly be something disastrous that will necessarily cause a rethinking of one’s life and a different way of looking at the world. In those who believe it will cause the collapse of the material priorities that we have and we will put God and the soul first. This spiritual metamorphosis will allow us to pass through the burning furnace without being burned. In the time of the Secrets we will be purified and made like Mary’s angels.
We have no time to waste. Let us see if our life is in order, if we have all the weapons for the battle, how strong is our faith, how great is our love for Mary. Let us go to confession, let us break the chains of evil with the Sacrament of Confession preceded by the intention of not sinning again and by the sorrow for sins.
Let us put our lives in order, let us prepare for battle by throwing away the ballast. Let us put our families in order, let us face the world with a different look. Let us not enter the fair of vanities, let us cultivate an evangelical life. This is a time of grace that we must live in this perspective. Our Lady obliges us to prepare ourselves because she wants us to be saved and, through us, she wants to save many souls.
