• During an apparition, the visionary Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti asked Our Lady, “Gospa, do you have anything especially for me?” The answer was, “I am giving you my love so that you can give it to others.”
On one occasion I asked Marija (pictured) if she could single out the one message that was the most beautiful and the most hardest. After a short pause she remembered the above question and Our Lady’s answer. I wanted to know why this was the most beautiful and the most hardest message. She answered, “To experience the beauty of Our Lady’s love and to realise that this love is a gift, is something most beautiful in life. But when I try to love others and to give this love to others it is so hard that I am ashamed of my incomplete love in the light of Our Lady’s all-encompassing, motherly love.”Then I asked, “What can be done?” The visionary answered, “Well, I pray every day that I can be open more and more to the love of Our Lady and that I can hand it over to everyone. I pray for others that they will be able to experience this love and transmit it to others. We are so far from love toward one another and that is a sign that we are far away from God’s love. The closer we would come to God’s love, the easier our life and our witnessing to others would be.”
I believe there is no better way for the rest of us than daily prayer for the gift of love, so that we can experience that love which is most beautiful and accomplish what is hardest.
Fr Slavko Barbaric OFM
• adapted from his book: IN THE SCHOOL OF LOVE
