VB 2 (1985)
To Ivan’s prayer group:
Even the little things, entrust them to me. Consecrate them to my mission. (S. Barbaric, Mar. 2, 1985. VB 2, p.40).
To the question:
How does one behave before Satan?
Fervent prayer, humility, reciprocal love will prevent Satan from approaching you.
To a question conveyed through Tomislav Vlasic at the beginning of Lent, 1985:
What do you most wish for the fast?
The Gospa responds insisting on something else:
Honesty, love, humility and sincerity will lead you to me. (T. Vlasic, Mar. 9, 1985. VB 2, 45).
What should one do in the midst of so many discussions and publications on Medjugorje?
See! Now I am there, in each family, in each home. I am everywhere because I love. Do the same. The world lives from love.
After having repeated a song three times:
Excuse me for making you repeat, but I wish you to sing with the heart. You must really do everything with the heart.
And afterwards, (the seers continue, quoted by T. Vlasic) , she made us know this at the beginning of prayer:
One has to be already prepared. If there are some sins, one must pull them out, otherwise, one will not be able to enter into prayer. If one has concerns, he should submit them to God.
That same evening she said:
Take off your jackets. Here it is warm. Remember what Jesus said: Have faith. You must abandon yourselves to God. (All that in preparation for prayer.).
You must not preoccupy yourselves during prayer. During prayer, you must not be preoccupied with your sins. Sins must remain behind. (Words at the beginning of Lent, at the end of Feb. or the beginning of Mar. 1985, reported by T. Vlasic, VB 2, 66).
Many come to pray, but do not enter into prayer. (T. Vlasic, Apr. 5, 1985. VB 2, 74).
When you have entered into prayer, then you are able to pray for God’s plans, because when God is there, he inspires your plans.
Do not ask for the blessing, just as you have done the last time. You asked for it and you did not obtain it. (Because it is not a magic thing, she crowns what God has inspired in you in prayer, observes T. Vlasic, Apr. 5, 1985. VB 2, 75).
Prayer must be enjoyment in God, blossoming in God, be
full of peace, be full of joy (T. Vlasic, Apr. 10, 1985. VB 2, 107).
Many Christians do not ever enter into prayer. They arrive at the beginning, but they remain there. (ibid).
(If you enter into prayer after you have been relieved of all your concerns, remorse, analysis), then you will be able to ask God to inspire your plans from within. You will feel what God wants, (inside of you, yourself and your group), and then ask for the blessing. (T. Vlasic, Apr. 10, 1985. VB 2, 112).
Your work will not go well without prayer in the morning. Pray then in the morning, and pray in the evening. Understand that your work cannot be done well without prayer (Message of autumn 1983, T. Vlasic, Apr. 29, 1985. VB 2, 137).
Come early to church.
Sometimes it is better not to come to Mass than to come in a hurry and to return home in a hurry, (S. Barbaric, May 18,1985, VB 2, 147).
These apparitions are the last for humanity (T. Vlasic, May31, 1985, VB 2, 165).
To Jelena, message of 1983:
Take me seriously. When God comes among men, he does not come to joke, but to say serious things.
It is better to stay in church and pray with faith than to gather together with onlookers near the seers during an apparition. (Which had then taken place in the presbytery).
Message to the prayer group which had received many messages during Lent and was surprised not to receive any more after Easter:
Thank you to all those who pray and feel my presence. I regret that some individuals say the Gospa is no longer among us. Pray, and you will feel that I am present.
In a meeting of her prayer group, Jelena saw the desert, and in the desert, a tree, and under the tree, where the sun was shining. In this sun, she recognized Jesus Christ.
The Gospa told her, among other things:
To this group, many graces have been given, but you must not reject them. (T. Vlasic, June 15, 1985, VB 2, 18).