Fr Jozo's commentary on the August 25 2009 message

Message of August 25, 2009

"Dear children! Today I call you anew to conversion. Little children, you are not holy enough and you do not radiate holiness to others, therefore pray, pray, pray and work on your personal conversion, so that you may be a sign of God's love to others. I am with you and am leading you towards eternity, for which every heart should yearn. Thank you for having responded to my call."


The call to conversion, which is a precondition for holiness, which imbues this message, has been known to us from before. At the moment when the disciples want to discuss with Jesus as who is the greatest in the Kingdom of God, Jesus teaches them that converts are the greatest and that conversion is a precondition of life with Jesus in the Kingdom of God. For full 28 years has Our Lady been calling us to conversion. The call to conversion can be understood and accepted only in prayer. For it is actually in prayer, in the meeting with Christ, that we are imbued with the need for the change of our own being, for the conformity with Christ.

To covert – means to come back to one's own soul, to one's own being, to the image in which God created me, and that is the image of holiness.

Be holy because I am holy, said Jesus, and this call of His should be our lasting inspiration. Today the Church celebrates St. Monica who by her self-sacrificing motherly love obtained by prayer the conversion of her son whom we honor as St. Augustine.

Holiness is to be obtained by prayer, it is the reflection of our spiritual life with Christ. It is with responsibility that we should listen to and accept this message by which the Mother is calling us to conversion. For, as long as we are not converted, we shall not be able to intercede for the conversion of others and to be a sign of God's love in the world.

Therefore this month we are going to pray for the following intentions:

For the gift of personal conversion.
For the gift of openness to Jesus and to the incentives of the Holy Spirit.
For the gift of prayer so that all members of our prayer family may be Mary's army today, who with the rosary in their hands will by prayer obtain peace and blessing for the whole world.