Blessed are the peacemakers...

Peacemakers, when they work for peace, sow the seeds which will bear fruit in holiness. Letter of St James 3 : 18

Our Lady, Queen of Peace, is a peacemaker and has tirelessly worked for peace these past 30 years, teaching and encouraging the ways of peace through her messages and apparitions from Medjugorje.

She has consistently emphasised during all this time that we should pray, and keep praying (working), if we are to bear fruit in holiness, that closeness to the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

In today’s gospel (Mark 9 : 14-29) Jesus teaches his disciples that there is a kind of evil present in the world that can only be driven out by prayer.

In her Medjugorje messages Our Lady speaks of the power of prayer over evil.

• I am calling you, so that by your prayer and your life you help to destroy everything that is evil in people and uncover the deception that satan makes use of… September 25, 1986

• My dear little children, draw close to God so he may protect you and guard you from every evil... February 25, 1992

• Only through prayer can we defeat evil and protect all that satan wants to destroy in your lives… February 25, 1994

• The one who prays is not afraid of the future and the one who fasts is not afraid of evil... January 25, 2001

• Dear children! Also today I call you to prayer, especially today when satan wants war and hatred. I call you anew, little children: pray and fast that God may give you peace. Witness peace to every heart and be carriers of peace in this world without peace. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. And you do not be afraid because the one who prays is not afraid of evil and has no hatred in the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call. September 25, 2001