Come and stay with the Beno family right in the heart of the village, across from St. James Church and the renowned Colombos Restaurant. The Beno family are gracious, humble villagers who will provide you with excellent service and accommodations (daily, weekly, monthly, meal plans).

NEWS Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on September 2, 2008 “Dear children, today, with my Motherly heart, I call you gathered around me to love your neighbor. My children, stop. Look in the eyes of your brother and see Jesus, my Son. If you see joy, rejoice with him. If there is pain in the eyes of your brother, with your tenderness and goodness, cast it away, because without love you are lost. Only love is effective; it works miracles. Love will give you unity in my Son and the victory of my heart. Therefore, my children, love." Once again She called us to pray for our shepherds. Message of August 25, 2008  “Dear children! Also today I call you to personal conversion. You be those who will convert and, with your life, will witness, love, forgive and bring the joy of the Risen One into this world, where my Son died and where people do not feel a need to seek Him and to discover Him in their lives. You adore Him, and may your hope be hope to those hearts who do not have Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Our Lady's message to Ivan on Apparition Hill on the Feast of the Assumption “Dear children, also today I call you with responsibility to accept my messages. Live, dear children, my messages. Today, in a special way, I call you, renew family prayer. Dear children, only by the renewal of the family prayer can today’s world be renewed spiritually. Spiritual renewal, dear children, is necessary for today’s world. Dear children, know that the Mother prays with you. The Mother intercedes with Her Son for all of you. The Mother loves all of you. Dear children, thank you for having responded to my call.” Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on August 2, 2008 “Dear children; In my coming to you, here among you, the greatness of God is reflected and the way with God to eternal joy is opening. Do not feel weak, alone or abandoned. Along with faith, prayer and love climb to the hill of salvation. May the Mass, the most exalted and most powerful act of your prayer, be the center of your spiritual life. Believe and love, my children. Those whom my Son chose and called will help you in this as well. To you and to them especially, I give my motherly blessing. Thank you.” Message of July 25, 2008  “Dear children! At this time when you are thinking of physical rest, I call you to conversion. Pray and work so that your heart yearns for God the Creator who is the true rest of your soul and your body. May He reveal His face to you and may He give you His peace. I am with you and intercede before God for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on July 2, 2008 "Dear Children! With motherly love I desire to encourage you to love your neighbor. May my Son be the source of that love. He, who could have done everything by force, chose love and gave an example to you. Also today, through me, God expresses immeasurable goodness to you and, you children, are obliged to respond to it. With equal goodness and generosity behave towards the souls whom you meet. May your love convert them. In that way my Son and his love will resurrect in you. Thank you." Our Lady added: "Your shepherds should be in your hearts and your prayers." Annual Apparition of June 25, 2008 to Ivanka Elez Ivanka was the second Medjugorje visionary to receive all 10 secrets and to stop seeing Our Lady on a regular basis. Her last daily apparition was May 7, 1985. Our Lady promised Ivanka that she would appear to her once a year for the rest of her life on June 25th, the anniversary of the apparitions.  Our Lady appeared to Ivanka at home with her family present on June 25, 2008. The apparition lasted six minutes. After the apparition, Ivanka stated: “Our Lady spoke to me about the ninth secret. She gave us Her Motherly Blessing.” Message of June 25, 2008  "Dear children! Also today, with great joy in my heart, I call you to follow me and to listen to my messages. Be joyful carriers of peace and love in this peace-less world. I am with you and I bless you all with my Son Jesus, the King of Peace. Thank you for having responded to my call." Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on June 2, 2008 "Dear children, I am with you by the grace of God, to make you great - great in faith and love - all of you! You whose heart has been made hard as a stone by sin and guilt (According to Mirjana, when Our Lady said this, she was looking at those present to whom it referred, with a painful expression and tears in her eyes), but you devout souls, I desire to illuminate with a new light. Pray that my prayer may meet open hearts, that I may be able to illuminate them with the strength of faith and open the ways of love and hope. Be persevering. I will be with you." Message of May 25, 2008  "Dear children! In this time of grace, when God has permitted me to be with you, little children, I call you anew to conversion. Work on the salvation of the world in a special way while I am with you. God is merciful and gives special graces, therefore, seek them through prayer. I am with you and do not leave you alone. Thank you for having responded to my call." Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on May 2, 2008 “Dear children! By God’s will I am here with you in this place. I desire for you to open your hearts to me and to accept me as a mother. With my love I will teach you simplicity of life and richness of mercy and I will lead you to my Son. The way to Him can be difficult and painful but do not be afraid, I will be with you. My hands will hold you to the very end, to the eternal joy; therefore do not be afraid to open yourselves to me. Thank you.”  Our Lady also said: “Pray for priests. My Son gave them to you as a gift.”  Message of April 25, 2008 "Dear children! Also today, I call all of you to grow in God's love as a flower which feels the warm rays of spring. In this way, also you, little children, grow in God's love and carry it to all those who are far from God. Seek God's will and do good to those whom God has put on your way, and be light and joy. Thank you for having responded to my call." Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on April 2, 2008 Our Lady gave the following message: "Dear children! Also today, as I am with you in the great love of God, I desire to ask you: Are you with me? Is your heart open for me? Do you permit me to purify and prepare it for my Son? My children, you are chosen because, in your time, the great grace of God descended on earth. Do not hesitate to accept it. Thank you." After the apparition, Mirjana said, "Our Lady blessed all of us and all religious articles. And while she was leaving, behind her in the blueness, I was able to see a wonderful, warm light." Message of March 25, 2008  "Dear children! I call you to work on your personal conversion. You are still far from meeting with God in your heart. Therefore, spend all the more time in prayer and Adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, for Him to change you and to put into your hearts a living faith and a desire for eternal life. Everything is passing, little children, only God is not passing. I am with you and I encourage you with love. Thank you for having responded to my call." The annual apparition of our Lady to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on March 18, 2008  The visionary Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo had daily apparitions from June 24th 1981 to December 25th 1982. During the last daily apparition, Our Lady gave her the 10th secret, and told her that she would appear to her once a year, on the 18th of March. It has been this way through the years.  This year several thousand pilgrims gathered to pray the Rosary at the Cenacolo Community in Medjugorje. The apparition lasted from 14:01 to 14:08. Mirjana transmitted the following: I have never seen Our Lady address us in this manner. She extended her hands towards us and with her hands extended in this way, she said: "Dear children, today I extend my hands towards you. Do not be afraid to accept them. They desire to give you love and peace and to help you in salvation. Therefore, my children, receive them. Fill my heart with joy and I will lead you towards holiness. The way on which I lead you is difficult and full of temptations and falls. I will be with you and my hands will hold you. Be persevering so that, at the end of the way, we can all together, in joy and love, hold the hands of my Son. Come with me; fear not. Thank you." Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on March 2, 2008 "Dear children! I implore you, especially at this lenten time, to respond to God's goodness because He chose you and sent me among you. Be purified of sins and in Jesus, my Son, recognize the sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the entire world. May He be the meaning of your life and may your life become service to the Divine love of my Son. Thank you my children!"  Message of February 25, 2008  "Dear children! In this time of grace, I call you anew to prayer and renunciation. May your day be interwoven with little ardent prayers for all those who have not come to know God´s love. Thank you for having responded to my call." Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on February 2, 2008 “Dear children! I am with you. As a mother, I am gathering you, because I desire to erase from your hearts what I see now. Accept the love of my Son and erase fear, pain, suffering and disappointment from your heart. I have chosen you in a special way to be a light of the love of my Son. Thank you.” Message of January 25, 2008 “Dear children! With the time of Lent, you are approaching a time of grace. Your heart is like ploughed soil and it is ready to receive the fruit which will grow into what is good. You, little children, are free to choose good or evil. Therefore, I call you to pray and fast. Plant joy and the fruit of joy will grow in your hearts for your good, and others will see it and receive it through your life. Renounce sin and choose eternal life. I am with you and intercede for you before my Son. Thank you for having responded to my call.” Monthly message to Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo on January 2, 2008 "Dear children! With all the strength of my heart, I love you and give myself to you. As a mother fights for her children, I pray for you and fight for you. I ask you not to be afraid to open yourselves, so as to be able to love with the heart and give yourselves to others. The more that you do this with the heart, the more you will receive and the better you will understand my Son and His gift to you. May everyone recognize you through the love of my Son and through me. Thank you." Our Lady asked for prayer and fasting for our shepherds.

Maria Simma "Get Us Out Of Here" by Nicky Eltz