Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti

Marija in May 2011. Photo: Daniel Miot, guardacon.me

Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti (born April 1st 1965) receives the Virgin Mary’s monthly message to the world, given on the 25th day of each month. This has been the case since January 25th 1987. For almost three years before that Marija also received the Virgin’s weekly message which was given each Thursday to build up the parish and the parishioners of Medjugorje to become a great light for the world.

When the apparitions began, Marija was timid and shy. This has changed and now she comes across as outspoken and more extrovert. Quite remarkably her level of intelligence has also increased since the onset of the apparitions: In her early teens Marija had to repeat a year in school whereas a scientific investigation in 1998 showed her intelligence to be above average.

Marija during her apparition in Lignano, Italy, in May 2011. Photo: Daniel Miot, guardacon.me

In spite of her almost self-eradicating attitude during the early years of the apparitions, she still impressed many people who met her by her serenity and deeply spiritual nature. She still does to this day. For more than ten years before her marriage in September 1993 Marija contemplated to become a nun, a vocation she might have undertaken if she had not been adviced by Mother Superiors that a life as a nun might also imply for her to keep silent about the messages she receives from the Virgin.

When Marija was in her mid-20s the Virgin Mary gave her the gift of speaking fluent Italian, a skill that developed from one day to the next. Shortly afterwards she met Paolo Lunetti, today her husband and father of her four sons. Marija and her family live part-time in Milano and part-time in Medjugorje where she is quite often speaking to the pilgrims.

Her special prayer mission, entrusted to her by the Virgin, is to pray for priests, nuns and the souls in Purgatory.

The Virgin Mary’s message given on March 2nd 2013

"Dear children, I am coming to you as a mother and I desire that in me, as in a mother, you may find your abode, consolation and rest. Therefore, my children, apostles of my love, pray. Pray with humble devotion, obedience and complete trust in the Heavenly Father. Trust as I have trusted when it was said to me that I will bring the blessing of the promise. May out of your hearts, from your lips, always come forth: 'May Your will be done!'. Therefore, trust and pray so that I can intercede for you before the Lord, for Him to give you the heavenly blessing and fill you with the Holy Spirit. Then you will be able to help all those who do not know the Lord - you, apostles of my love, will help them to call Him 'Father' with complete trust. Pray for your shepherds and place your trust in their blessed hands. Thank you."

February 25th 2014

“Dear children! You see, hear and feel that in the hearts of many people there is no God. They do not want Him, because they are far from prayer and do not have peace. You, little children, pray - live God's commandments. You be prayer, you who from the very beginning said `yes` to my call. Witness God and my presence and do not forget, little children: I am with you and I love you. From day to day I present you all to my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”

February 2nd 2014

"Dear children, with motherly love I desire to teach you sincerity, because I desire that, in your actions as my apostles, you be exact, resolute, and above all sincere. I desire that, by the grace of God, you be open for a blessing. I desire that by fasting and prayer you obtain from the Heavenly Father the cognition of what is natural and holy – Divine. Filled with cognition, under the shelter of my Son and myself, you will be my apostles who will know how to spread the Word of God to all those who do not know of it; and you will know how to overcome obstacles that will stand in your way. My children, by means of a blessing, God's grace will descend upon you and you will be able to retain it through fasting, prayer, purification and reconciliation. You will have the efficiency which I seek of you. Pray for your shepherds that the ray of God's grace may illuminate their ways. Thank you."

January 2nd 2014

“Dear children! For you to be able to be my apostles and to be able to help all those who are in darkness, to come to know the light of the love of my Son, you must have pure and humble hearts. You can not help for my Son to be born in, and to reign in, the hearts of those who do not know Him, if He does not reign – if He is not the King – in your heart. I am with you. I am walking with you as a mother. I am knocking on your hearts. They can not open because they are not humble. I am praying, and you my beloved children also pray, that you may be able to open pure and humble hearts to my Son and to receive the gifts which He has promised you. Then you will be led by the love and strength of my Son. Then, you will be my apostles who everywhere around them spread the fruits of God’s love. My Son will act from within you and through you, because you will be “one”. My motherly heart yearns for this – for unity of all of my children – through my Son. With great love I bless, and pray for those who are chosen by my Son – for your shepherds. Thank you!”

Mirjana told that at first the Virgin Mary was sad and then decisive.

December 2nd 2013

“Dear children, with a motherly love and a motherly patience I am looking at your ceaseless wandering and how lost you are. That is why I am with you. I desire to help you to first find and come to know yourself, so that, then, you would be able to recognize and to admit everything that does not permit you to get to know the love of the Heavenly Father, honestly and wholeheartedly. My children, the Father comes to be known through the cross. Therefore, do not reject the cross. Strive to comprehend and accept it with my help. When you will be able to accept the cross you will also understand the love of the Heavenly Father; you will walk with my Son and with me; you will differ from those who have not come to know the love of the Heavenly Father, those who listen to Him but do not understand Him, those who do not walk with Him - who have not come to know Him. I desire for you to come to know the truth of my Son and to be my apostles; that, as children of God, you may rise above the human way of thinking and always, and in everything, seek God’s way of thinking, anew. My children, pray and fast that you may be able to recognize all of this which I am seeking of you. Pray for your shepherds and long to come to know the love of your Heavenly Father, in union with them. Thank you.”