THE LIES SURROUNDING MEDJUGORJE VISIONS
A number have been reporting visions of Jesus' mother at Medjugorje since 1981. The lies surrounding the claims say it all. Bishop Zanic dismissed the visions as false.
Fr Vlasic spiritual director of the "visionaries" sent a report to Pope John Paul II and Bishop Zanic on the 2nd of
December 1983 that relates Mirjana’s account of what the Virgin told her about
Satan one day in a vision. The Virgin started off by saying, “Excuse me for
this, but you must know that Satan exists”. But why would the Virgin have to
apologise for something that needs to be told and which Mirjana already
believed? The mother of God does not need to apologise for she is full of the
power and protection of God.
St Paul wrote that Christians must respect and obey and pay taxes to the Roman
Empire for God gave it political power even though it is pagan and brutal and
unjust (Romans 13). The children of Medjugorje had visions and promoted them in
spite of governmental prohibitions as did the children of Fatima and Bernadette
of Lourdes. Bernadette went to the grotto to have her vision because she had the
supernatural feeling that the lady was planning to appear meaning Mary called
her to the grotto despite her parents forbidding it. The Med six risked their
safety for the apparitions which is foolish for when apparitions have been made
subject to the Church and are under Church authority it is dangerous to take
risks for them. The apparitions put them in unlawful danger for most apparitions
according to the Church are not supernatural and are not from God if they are
supernatural and only the Church is in a position to decide. The apparitions
encouraged disobedience to political authority so they cannot be really from God
for the Bible and commonsense cannot condone their action.
Mirjana said that the Devil did not know that Mary would often appear during the
twentieth century to warn, that God would give more grace then than ever before,
and would sent chosen people whose loyalty to him could never be shaken (page
11, Fall 1995). As if the Devil wouldn’t know what God was like and would do
something cataclysmic to counteract the satanic influence even if God gave him
more influence and power.
Does Satan know that Mary is appearing in Medjugorje if she is? He might be
intelligent but that doesn't mean he knows. He might have no explanation for the
visions either. He might not use God as an explanation. Attacks on Medjugorje
are blamed on Satan. But those who blame the attacks on him are doing wrong to
him for they have no reason to think he knows what or who is appearing in
Medjugorje. Apparitions always lead to slander even against the Devil.
The Virgin told Mirjana in the second year of the apparitions that anybody who
has an abortion has to do penance for it all their life (Queen of Peace, Fall
1995, page 17). Rationally and theologically, abortion cannot be the worst sin.
Most abortions are done when it is believed the baby has not become a person
yet.
The Queen of Peace newspaper prints all sorts of material from discredited
stigmatists and visionaries and ones who have not been checked properly. It
shows no regard for scientific or even religious honesty. Yet among its
directors is Medjugorje apostles, Fr Rene Laurentin and Fr Michael O Carroll.
Their names appeared in an ad for it in the edition for spring 1997 which listed
them as advisers and directors.
The Virgin of Medjugorje claims that she was 2000 on 5th August 1985. A
celebration of prayer was held in Medugorje at the time to mark this occasion.
But since the Matthew gospel says that Jesus was born before 4BC the year Herod
died and this is accepted as being right by nearly all believers in the
existence of Jesus it is undeniable that the lady has made a fatal mistake and
inferred that she got pregnant at 10 or younger. That is too young. The lady
contradicts the gospels.
No apparition can be true because Jesus said God comes first and he claimed to
be the way and the truth and the life meaning that we should investigate Jesus
and see who he is and get the facts right about what he stood for above all
things. It is only natural if God comes first that you will put truth first and
keep it pure and check that it is pure. Apparitions call us away from this for
we can’t investigate everything and they call out for investigation. It takes a
vast amount of money to investigate them and Jesus was the one that wrecked the
Temple money area and was more concerned about money going to the poor. All
apparitions since the New Testament was completed should be treated as false and
satanic no matter how thrilling or edifying they seem to be.
Fr Vlasic’s interview with Mirjana shows that she is a bit mentally disturbed
despite what the psychiatrists who have proclaimed all the children normal have
been saying.
Ivan wants people to fast on bread and water three days a week according to the
Virgin’s command. But he is not doing it himself for he is very heavy and I
would add the following: his example is a poor one for he lives in a mansion and
drives a Mercedes. The visionaries make the excuse that this does not mean that
his heart is not with God alone. But Jesus himself in the Sermon on the Mount
stated that we must not hide our light under a bushel which is what Ivan would
be doing then. If we start accepting excuses like that we will never know when a
religious nut is taking us for a ride for a nut rolling in cash and donations is
most likely to be a confidence trickster. It is interesting that Mary does not
correct her visionaries’ errors when it comes to money and glory.
Fr Vego had been trying to make young people have visions of Mary before the
apparitions took place and there is a video to prove it. He was believed to have
had a lot to do with the entire hoax.
Vicka’s lie about not being aware of her surroundings when having a vision – a
lie which was backed up by some scientists who tested her – and Mirjana’s lie
about the Virgin going to appear for the last time in three days in 1981 and
years later she is still appearing are mentioned. Mirjana was stated by her
schoolmates to show signs of very bizarre and even crazy behaviour.
Despite the fact that the visionaries say that God will overthrow all things and
send a terrible disaster over the whole world they have built opulent houses for
themselves. They are not very trusting of their Virgin when they feel they
should enjoy their lives so greedily while the poor starve. Why not give the
money to them when their houses will soon be in ruins? The site exposes the lies
of Fr Rene Laurentin, the main instigator in the respectability that the cult
has got, who has apparently resorted to getting people to forge and lie to cover
up the blunders made by the so-called Virgin Mary. Laurentin asked Bishop Zanic
in 1983 not to publish the fact that the visionaries said the Lady had been
speaking against the bishop.
Look at the story of the bloodstained
handkerchief taken from Vicka's diary: http://www.angelusonline.org/print.php?sid=2197
Below is an account of the 72nd apparition as recorded in Vicka's
diary dated September 4, 1981. Today, we waited for the Virgin
at Marija's; with me were Marija, Ivanka, and Jakov. We began
praying at 6:20 p.m. The Virgin appeared right away. We asked her
about the Franciscan Friars and sisters of our parish...We asked her
about the man who saw Jesus in the street as he was driving people
in his car. He met a man covered in blood—this man was Jesus—he gave
him a blood-stained handkerchief telling him to throw it in the
river. Going on his way, he met a lady—it was the Blessed Virgin
Mary; she asked the driver for the bloodstained handkerchief. The
man offered her a handkerchief belonging to him, but the Virgin
asked for the bloodstained one: 'If he had not given it to me it
would have been the last judgment for all!' The Virgin said this was
true.
End of citation. This quote is in line
with the tendency of many visionaries to portray Jesus as horrible
and Mary nice in order to attract followers for their pretensions.
Belief in miracles, when you see how fake miracles such as those of the US
televangelists, Hindu "holy" men and Medjugorje and so on are the most popular,
has mostly bad fruits. Religion, in its duplicity, ignores this in order to
pretend that some miracle sites such as Lourdes are good. They say we are
throwing out the baby with the bath water. We are not. There is not enough good
coming from belief in miracles to make the propagation of that belief
acceptable.
APPENDIX
Marian Apparitions at Medjugorje: True or
False?
Source: Davies
• Some have died in consequence the alleged apparitions. As Davies
points out, a small 'war' broke out in Medjugorje over the
"monopoly" one family had in the "pilgrimage industry in Medjugorje."
As a result, well over 100 people were killed. Also, at least one
other person is said to have died waiting for a promised cure that
never materialized (after refusing traditional treatment due to the
anticipated "cure")
• Appearances seem to vary with the travel
season (e.g. there may be more 'apparitions' when more people are in
Medjugorje)
• The 'seers' and others involved have become
"very rich" off the alleged apparitions. In fact, the Medjugorje
events have become a "lucrative source of income" for various people
connected with the events there. So much money is involved, it is
called a virtual "Medjugorje Industry". In fact, it is claimed that
"If any of the 'seers' were ever to admit that the whole story has
been a fraud from the beginning they would almost certainly be
lynched by their families, friends, and neighbors who have made a
fortune from the 'apparitions'. Monsignor Zanic has no doubt that
'the greatest motivator of all - money - is what inspires the
'seers' and their manipulators" (Davies). Even in the United States,
Medjugorje is a "multi-million dollar business operation"
• Alleged healings have not occurred. "The
majority of the pious public has naively fallen victim to the great
propaganda, the talk of the apparitions and of healings. These
people themselves have become the greatest propaganda for the
events. They do not even stop to think that the truth has been
hidden by deliberate falsehoods. They are unaware that not even one
miraculous healing has occurred that could have been verified by
competent experts and institutions such as the Bureau Medical de
Lourdes. No one knows of anyone healed from Herzegovina. Everyone
knows that little Daniel, old Jozo Vasilj, Venka Brajcic and others
cited in the first books about Medjugorje were not healed."
(Monsignor Pavao Zanic, Bishop of Mostar-Duvno). Also, promises of
miraculous healings may have cost some their lives, since those
expecting a "miraculous cure" may have refused customary,
potentially life-saving, medical treatment.
