"Dear children,  Today also I am calling you to personal conversion.  You be the ones who will be converted, and in your lives be witnesses.  Love, forgive and bring the joy of the Risen One to this world where my Son died, and where people do not feel the need to seek Him and discover Him in their lives. You be adorers of my Son and may your hope be hope to those whose hearts do not have Jesus.  Dear children, thank you again today for having responded to my call."

Watch the video of apparation at St Joseph Church in Kalamazoo, Michiganwith Ivan Dragicevic  here.... 


Ivan's talk in full version from marytv.tv:
Ivan began his testimony on January 31, 2012, with the greeting: "My dear priests, my dear friends in Christ, and also in a special way everyone who is joining us in prayer over the internet, I would like to greet all of you as well."   The following is his testimony about Our Lady's apparition in St. Joseph Church that evening:

Our Lady came very joyful and happy and she greeted all of us with the greeting, "Praised be Jesus, my dear children!" After that she extended her hands over the priests present here and prayed over them for a longer time.  And after that she prayed over everyone present here and she prayed for a longer time for those who are sick among us.  And after that I especially recommended all of the sick present here to her.  After that Our Lady blessed us with her motherly blessing and she blessed all of those things that you brought to be blessed.  And after that Our Lady turned to all of us and said:

"Dear children,  Today also I am calling you to personal conversion.  You be the ones who will be converted, and in your lives be witnesses.  Love, forgive and bring the joy of the Risen One to this world where my Son died, and where people do not feel the need to seek Him and discover Him in their lives. You be adorers of my Son and may your hope be hope to those whose hearts do not have Jesus.  Dear children, thank you again today for having responded to my call."

I then recommended all of  you to her, all of your needs, all of your petitions, all of your families.  After that Our Lady continued to pray over all of us here, and in that prayer Our Lady departed in the light and in the light of the Cross, with the greeting, "Go in peace my dear children!" I know that many of you here have been to Medjugorje. Or you have heard of it from friends who have been there. Or you have watched videos about it. How many of you have been? How many have not been? For those who have not been, I would like to take you back to the early days of the apparitions, so you can have an idea of how the apparitions began.

1981, I was a child at the time, I was 16 years old. I was very shy, very reserved. And those years, 1981, those were difficult years. It was the time of communism. Yugoslavia existed at that time, a time without freedom, without freedom of speech and freedom to express your faith. Life was difficult. My parent and I worked very hard every day in the fields, in the tobacco fields and in the vineyards. I got up every morning at 5:00 am. Because I was the oldest of the children, I had to be the first one. I worked hard every day. And every day, in that difficult labor I asked my parents when some holiday or feast day would come up, so I could rest. So I could go play soccer with my friends.

And that day did arrive. It was the 24th of June, 1981. It was the feast day of St. John the Baptist. It was a Wednesday. That morning, like on every other feast day, our parents let me sleep in a little longer - but not long enough for us to miss Mass. My mother came to my room several times, waking me up, saying to me, "We are going to be late, what are you waiting for?" You know how mothers can be! There wasn't much to think about. I got up quickly, got dressed, and woke up my 2 younger brothers. We crossed the fields together to go to church. I went to the 11:00 am Mass that morning. I was there in body, but I am not certain if I was there in heart and soul. I could hardly wait for that Mass to end. I came home. The habit my parents had was to ask me a question. My mother asked me that question. "Ivan, what was the gospel reading today?" I will never forget that. And I didn't know!

After that we sat at the family table and had lunch together. And before the end of that lunch, some of my friends from the village came by and asked me to play soccer with them. And somewhere around 3:00 pm that afternoon we went to a field near my home and we played soccer. And when we all got tired, we started heading back to our homes. As we were walking back to our homes we encounter three girls, Ivanka, Mirjana, and Vicka. I knew one of those girls well because she and I went to the same school. She was a year older than me. But I didn't know the other two girls well because at that time they didn't live in Medjugorje. Mirjana lived in Sarajevo, Ivanka lived in Mostar. But they would come during the summer vacation to Medjugorje to spend the summer with their grandparents.

And so my three friends asked the three girls "Where are you going and what are you doing." They said they were going for a walk to look for the family sheep. I didn't' ask them anything because, as I said earlier, I was very shy and I didn't talk much with girls. When my friends finished this conversation we continued on our way to our homes. The majority of my friends went towards the village. But since my home was a bit further away from the village one friend came with me so I could quickly change clothes so that we could go back to his house that evening to watch television. At that time there were only five or six families that had color televisions. So we would gather in one of those homes to watch basketball or soccer. And so it was that evening. We watched the first half of that game. Ant at the half time of that game, I said to my friend, "Come back to my house with me so we can have something to eat and then we can go back and watch the second half of that game."

And so we went back to my home and ate something, and we were slowly heading back to his home to go watch the second half of the game, but we never got there. Nor have we to this day ever seen the second half of that game, nor do we know the result of that game because something else happened. As we were waking on that path, we heard a voice. Somebody was calling us in the distance. "Ivan, Ivan, Ivan, come see Our Lady!" I heard the voice but I didn't see anyone neither in front of me nor behind me. The path was very narrow, overgrown with bushes and shrubs. And since we didn't see anyone we three continued on our way. But the further along we went, the louder and closer that voice became. And in one moment I heard that voice, so close, I turned to look behind me, and I saw one of those three girls we had seen earlier, named Vicka. She was running towards the two of us. She was barefoot and trembling with fear. With her trembling voice she was saying, "Come with me, come with me to Our Lady on the Hill." I stopped and looked at her I didn't know what she was talking about.

As I said, I was 16 years old at the time, I was a child. I turned to my friend and ask, "What is she talking about, what is she saying Our Lady?" And I said, "Forget about her, she's nuts, let's go watch the second half of the game!" But she was so persistent and she was calling us to go with her. And I said to my friend, "Something strange is happening with her because that is not the Vicka I know." And so we were slowly walking with her, and as we watched how she was behaving and saw how she was shaking, we didn't feel so great anymore either. We came to that place and we saw the other two young girls, Ivanka and Mirjana. They were kneeling, turned in the direction of the hill and looking at something. As we came close to the hill, Vicka turned in the direction of the hill and pointing said, "Look up there." I looked three times, and I saw the most beautiful image of Our Lady, in normal size, and as soon as I saw it, I immediately ran home. I don't think anyone could have caught up with me. I came home, and I didn't say anything to anyone, not to my parents, nor to my brothers. I locked myself in my bedroom. And I think if I had had 100 keys and locks, I would have put them all on the door!

It was a night of so much fear, a night of so many questions running through my mind. Is this possible? How is this possible? Was that really Our Lady? I saw, but still I wasn't certain. And believe me, up to that point in my life, I could never have dreamt of something like this. And I never had any special devotion to Our Lady. I had never read of apparitions and as a child, I didn't like to read much anyway. I was a practicing believer. I went to church. I prayed with my parents. I grew up in the faith. I was raised in the faith. I was no better or worse than the others. But that night that was before me truly was a night of such great fear. And you know what I was most afraid of? I was most afraid of this that night. "What if Our Lady comes to my room tonight? How will I escape, where will I run to?" I could hardly wait for morning to come. But morning seemed to never come and that night was so long for me...

But finally morning did arrive. And my parents had already heard in the village that I had been there the day before. And they were waiting outside my bedroom door. You know in those times of communism there was great fear. What will happen? The first thing my parents said, "Be careful what you say, don't play with those kinds of things. You will go to jail if you speak like that." It wouldn't have been unusual at that time, to be taken off to jail without any due process. I told my parents what I saw.

And on that second day, a lot of people began to gather from all over the place. They were with us all day and protected us as much as possible from the police and from the authorities. And somewhere around three o'clock that afternoon, those people who had spent that day with us said to us, "Let us go with you to that place where you saw Our Lady last night. Maybe Our Lady left something, some kind of a sign to convince is that she was here."

And so spontaneously, together with the people we slowly climbed the hill. And before we got to that place, maybe about 20 meters away, Our Lady was already waiting for us. She was holding Baby Jesus in her arms. She was floating on a cloud. She had a crown of stars. She was smiling and she was motioning with her hand for us to come closer.

Never in my life will I ever forget that day. I think I am going to live 5 years less after that day. In that moment I could no longer go either forwards or backwards. My legs buckled underneath me. But in one moment, not with my strength, I ran over those bushes and shrubs, it was like we were floating. We didn't feel any kind of pain. We went closer to her. We came close to her. In her left hand she was holding Jesus. She took her right hand, and she was placing it on our heads, and she began to speak her first words. "Dear children, I am with you. I am your Mother. Do not be afraid of anything. I will protect you. I will help you. I will guide you." But it was difficult to calm down and come to our senses.

One of the girls from among us, who was most relaxed, asked her, "Who are you and what is your name?" And she responded, "I am the Queen of Peace. And I have come, my dear children because God has sent me. My dear children, peace, peace, and only peace. There must be peace, my dear children. Peace must reign between God and man and between people. My dear children, this world and this humanity is finding itself in a great danger. There is a threat that it will destroy itself." Those were the first words - that was the first message that Our Lady gave through us to the world. On that second day we recognized in her our Mother, and to this day there are still three of us who see Our Lady.

My dear friends, I do not want you to look at me as a saint or as someone who is perfect, because I am not. I am trying to be better and more holy, that is my desire and that desire is deeply imprinted upon my heart. Just because I have seen Our Lady doesn't mean I have converted overnight. I know that my conversion is a process just like it is for all of us. And it is a program for my live. It is a program for which I need to make a decision every day and in which I need to be persistent and in which I need to make a daily decision to change. I need to leave sin behind on a daily basis. And I need to open myself to the Holy Spirit and open myself to grace. I must accept the words of Christ and the words of the Gospel and in that way grow in holiness.

There is a question that has been in my mind for thirty years. And that question is "Mother why me? Mother, were there not better ones than I? Mother will I be able to accomplish all those things that you ask of me in the way that you want them accomplished? Mother are you satisfied with me?" Not a day goes by that that question is not repeated in my mind.

I remember well at an encounter with Our Lady that I was alone with her. I spent a lot of time asking myself if I should ask this. I asked her, "Mother why me? Why did you choose me?" And she smiled and she said,"You know dear children I don't always look for the best ones." And do you think I ever asked her that question after that? I never asked that question again.

And so thirty years ago Our Lady chose me to be her instrument, to be the instrument in her hands and in the hands of the Lord. She enrolled me in her school, in her school of peace, of love and of prayer. I wish to be a good student in this school. And I wish to accomplish the homework assignment I receive from Our Lady as well as possible. Truly through these thirty years, I always ask myself, "Mother, why don't you appear to everyone? Because then Mother everyone would believe you." And then I wouldn't need to be here with you today!  

But we cannot enter into all those divine plans that the Father has for all of us all at once. We must be open to those divine plans. We must know how to recognize them and accept them. Even though we don't see, we must be happy that our Mother is with us. In the Gospel it says, "Blessed are those who do not see, and yet believe." Believe me it is not easy and it is not simple to be with Our Lady every day and to speak with her every day, and then after each of those encounters with her to come back to this earth and live on this earth. Because when Our Lady comes every day, she brings us a piece of heaven. If you were to see Our Lady for just one second, I don't know whether your life on this earth would be interesting after that one second. Every day after every encounter with her I always need several hours to come back to this earth and to the realities of this world. (Ivan Dragicevic, in Kalamazoo Michigan, 01/31/12, transcribed from the recording by Mary TV)

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