THE MEDJUGORJE WITNESS

“Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? He is not here, he has risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee: that the Son of Man had to be handed over to the power of sinful men and be crucified, and rise again on the third day?”

 

Luke 24 : 5-7

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Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The Lord drove back the sea with a strong easterly wind all night, and he made dry land of the sea. The waters parted and the sons of Israel went on dry ground right into the sea, walls of water to right and to left of them.

 

Exodus 14 : 21-22

Lord Jesus, Crucified One, to your cry of agony, I unite my suffering, my fears and failures, my delusions and the emptiness of my heart. I cry out my need for you.

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Lord Jesus, Crucified One, I make myself an intercessor on behalf of all my brothers and sisters: I bring and unite to your cry the cries of the hearts that weep for their dear ones who have died.

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Lord Jesus, Crucified One, I bring and unite to your cry the anxiety of the sick and elderly, the fatigue of the healthcare workers, the exhaustion of many families, the diffidence of children and adolescents.

 

Lord Jesus, Crucified One, I bring and unite to your cry the worries of entrepreneurs, the uncertainty of employees, the trepidation of teachers, the confusion of our Christian communities.

 

Lord Jesus, Crucified One, receive our cry and hear us. Teach us to entrust ourselves
into the loving arms of your Father and our Father.

 

Lord Jesus, Crucified One, receive our cry and hear us, for we are certain that nothing happens that is not a part of your loving plan. Teach us to believe that in you, everything has meaning.

 

Lord Jesus, Crucified One, I trust in you. I entrust myself to you.

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Father Andrea Vena (Vatican News)

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“It is in loving the cross that one discovers his heart, for divine love does not exist without suffering.”

 

St Bernadette Soubirous

The mosaic detail shown above illustrates the fifth Mystery of Light station at Medjugorje, The Institution of the Eucharist.

 

One small detail often overlooked by observers is the figure placed in the bottom right corner. It’s Judas leaving the table and entering into darkness. Night had fallen.

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As Jesus was approaching the downward slope of the Mount of Olives, the whole group of the disciples joyfully began to praise God at the top of their voices for all the miracles they had seen. They cried out: “Blessings on the King who comes, in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

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The father of the prodigal son wasn’t in the least bit interested in hearing where his younger son had strayed or drifted, this way and that; just happy to see his son return home from his wandering in the wilderness.

 

He set no condition for his boy to enter the house, nor for the elder sibling. It was the father’s desire that both sons should enter his house, their home.

 

When war rages, parents want their sons and daughters to return home from battle in one piece. That is their prayer. As the war continues and they see that some kids don’t make it back, the prayer changes and becomes less conditional: “Just bring them home… crippled or not, wounded or not, maimed or not, alcoholic or not, priest or not; we just want our kids to come back, and we will accept and still love them whatever condition they are in.”

 

Unlike Thomas who insisted that Jesus show his wounds, the father in the parable of the two sons had no need to make demands in this way. 

 

The younger son suffered “because of his own poor choices and habits”. The elder sibling suffered because he was unable to love his brother in the way that the father loved both sons. Yet neither son was rejected by their father.

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Well, I did. But my pledge lasted only for the first week.

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Recently I’ve been giving some serious thought to how I struggle with some things in my life and never seem able to come to terms or overcome these particular issues. I constantly ask God to help – even plead, but nothing seems to come back.

 

And I got to thinking...

 

There I am, praying everyday, asking for this and that, to be blessed in all sorts of ways. But when God does deliver, does offer with both hands, I start getting picky, like choosing only those chocolates I like from the selection box, the gifts that give a little buzz and pleasure, those I enjoy.

 

The other ‘sweets’ in the box I tend to leave alone, discard, or put onto one side with a response like: “Thank you, but I’ll tackle that later” – like not wanting to waste time chewing through a tough toffee when there are soft centres that can be absorbed more easily and give the buzz ‘I want’. The hard stuff I’ll leave to later, that’s if I can ever be bothered to go back to it at all.

 

And then the next day I start all over again: “Lord help me with this, help me with that...” and the whole process is repeated over and over until it is God’s time to step in and break the hopeless cycle.

 

One night Jesus stepped in... In my mind’s eye I saw a picture of Him with his two hands outstretched before me, similar to how one receives communion in the hand. Both hands were full of gifts, some in brightly coloured wrapping, others in dull brown paper tied with string, which I didn’t like the look of. But I took them all because I was concerned if I didn’t maybe He wouldn’t offer them again.

 

And yes, it was the bright boxes that I first began to open – every fool knows that all good things come in bright and attractive wrapping. So I continued sifting through the gifts, taking some, ignoring others, until I sensed that I was being shown a lesson, God’s revealing ways. And then I realised how blind I have been to the fact that the Father only hands out goodness, nothing bad.  The brown paper gifts, the tough toffees, are full of God’s goodness and necessary for my health in mind, body and soul; and that if I don’t start chewing on the hard toffees, the tough decisions, and having patience to untie the knots on the string parcels, then I will remain deficient in many areas of my life.

 

I have to WORK at the gifts and the talents handed to me by God, not sit back and look for the soft and easy route all of the time. I know now that graces come in all sizes, colours and packages. All, like vitamins, are given to me because I am need of them. If I discard some then my spirit will not be healthy. My body may also suffer unnecessary.

 

Our Lady gives gifts of plenty from Medjugorje. There is a programme called the Five Stones. It involves Prayer, Fasting, Monthly Reconciliation, and reading the Bible. All beautiful gifts, but not always easy to chew on or even swallow. It can be so easy to be ‘picky’ with these as well.

 

So next time I come on to God, the Father Son and Holy Spirit, asking for this and that, I have a feeling He will say, “I gave you that last week. Best check inside yourself first. Go on, make an effort. Untie the string, take off the wrapper and get chewing!”

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I can’t remember where or when I heard this story, or if I have all the details correct, but anyway, there’s a message in there for everyone as we are all born to bear and share the cross in our lives.

 

● A woman travelled to Medjugorje for the first time and was deeply touched by a homily given by a Franciscan priest. It opened her heart and she returned home promising herself that she would do all she could to promote the message of Medjugorje.

 

She opened a small shop selling religious items and promoted and distributed the Medjugorje messages. She even started a prayer group which was well attended every week.

 

A year later the woman returned to Medjugorje excited about her new life and keen to share her joy with the Franciscan priest whose homily she had been inspired by. But when she met the priest, he didn’t share her excitement and practically ignored her when she wanted to tell him about the good things that were happening in her new life. The woman returned home hurt and disappointed. 

 

More disheartening events followed. The shop started to struggle, numbers at her weekly prayer meeting began to drop and people lost interest in the messages she was distributing. Finally, the shop shut down, so did the prayer group and the woman no longer distributed the messages. She lost heart.

 

Another year passed and the woman made a third trip to Medjugorje and happened to meet up with the Franciscan priest again. This time he welcomed her with open arms, and so she poured out her heart and told him how her efforts to promote the messages, prayer groups and run her piety shop had all ended in failure after a successful start.

 

And then the priest responded with these words: “Good, good! Now you are beginning to learn how to carry your cross!”

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The high priest intervened with all his supporters from the party of the Sadducees. Prompted by jealousy, they arrested the apostles and had them put in the common gaol. But at night the angel of the Lord opened the prison gates and said as he led them out. “Go, and stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new Life.” They did as they were told; they went into the Temple at dawn and began to preach. Acts of the Apostles 5 : 17-21

 

• At the beginning of the Medjugorje apparitions the young visionaries, were taken away by the communist authorities of the time, then intimidated and threatened. But the children still continued to give witness to the apparitions and Our Lady’s messages.

 

The word angel derives from the Greek, angelos, meaning messenger. In the early days of the Medjugorje apparitions, Our Lady often addressed the visionaries as “my dear angels”.

 

Like the angel who opened the prison gate for the apostles, instructing them to go and tell the people all about this new Life – the Resurrection – those who similarly accept the message of Mary’s angels from Medjugorje, who are brought out of prison and into the light, who experience their own resurrection, are also asked to witness their new life in the Spirit and be angels for our Lady’s messages.

 

Dear children! Today I invite you to become missionaries of my messages, which I am giving here through this place that is dear to me. God has allowed me to stay this long with you and therefore, little children, I invite you to live with love the messages I give and to transmit them to the whole world, so that a river of love flows to people who are full of hatred and without peace. I invite you, little children, to become peace where there is no peace and light where there is darkness, so that each heart accepts the light and the way of salvation. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, February 25, 1995

 

Dear children! Today I call you to put prayer in the first place in your life. Pray and may prayer, little children, be a joy for you. I am with you and intercede for all of you, and you, little children, be joyful carriers of my messages. May your life with me be joy. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, May 25, 2002

 

• The picture shows five of the six Medjugorje visionaries: Vicka, Ivanka, Jakov, Marija and Ivan.

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My mother died on September 2, 2006. She was buried three days later, as is the custom in Ireland. I was due to travel to Medjugorje a week later, but I really didn’t want to. However, my family persuaded me not to cancel my pilgrimage.

 

As it turned out, it was a special visit, rewarded with much peace and many gifts.

 

Yesterday, the fifth Sunday of Lent, the famous Veil of Veronica was displayed in St Peter’s Basilica. According to tradition, the cloth was used to wipe the face of Jesus as he made his way to Calvary and is said to bear the image of Christ’s face.

 

This reminded me of the time I made my visit to Medjugorje after my mother’s death and of an image I took on my camera at the Risen Christ sculpture on September 14, 2006, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross.

 

It was early in the morning and there was only one other pilgrim at the prayer site – an Italian woman. She had a picture of Our Lady in her hand and was pressing it against the right leg of the bronze sculpture where water flows from. I asked her to raise the picture up so I could take a photograph of her with it. Communication was difficult and she just kept slapping the picture on the leg. At that stage I gave up attempting to take the picture I wanted and went on to pray the Stations of the Cross nearby.

 

When I got as far as the sixth station, Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus, a desire came to me to look at the images I had just taken of the woman with her picture of Our Lady. I quickly scrolled through the few frames, and there was only one that grabbed my attention – the image above that shows out Lady’s reflection on the leg of the sculpture. It wasn’t an image planned or intended, quite the opposite, but at that moment my mother Sarah came to mind and I took it as a sign of her Resurrection into Heaven.

 

It was also a reminder of the time my mother was earlier blessed with seeing the Holy Face of Jesus miraculously appear on a wall of the church of Christ the King, Gortahork. But that’s another testimony for another time!

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BG

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Saul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He had gone to the high priest and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, he could find. Acts of the Apostles 9: 1-2

 

• Sometimes it is our own way, our own will, that takes preference in our life. And like Paul, we can become hostile and blind when we shut out Jesus, or even turn against Him. Even when Jesus walked the earth, witnessed and performed miracles before the people, there were some who did not accept that Jesus was who He said He was, the Way, the Truth and the Life, the Son of God.

 

Paul had this difficulty and took extreme measures against the followers of the Way. His own zealous ways made him blind to the real presence of Jesus in their lives.

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Our Lady frequently calls us to accept her messages, her teaching the ways of love and peace, to change our hearts. Without acceptance we cannot love as she desires us to love. Conversion, she says, will only be easy for those who desire to accept. To be able to love we must be able to accept love into our life – the source of all love.

 

Conversion will be easy for all who desire to accept it. That is the gift which by prayer you must obtain for your neighbour. part Medjugorje message, January 23, 1986

 

• The picture shows part of one of Our Lady’s messages in braille.

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I believe nothing can happen that will outweigh the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For him I have accepted the loss of everything, and I look on everything as so much rubbish if only I can have Christ and be given a place in him. I am no longer trying for perfection by my own efforts, the perfection that comes from the Law, but I want only the perfection that comes through faith in Christ, and is from God and based on faith. All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by reproducing the pattern of his death. That is the way I can hope to take my place in the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have become perfect yet: I have not yet won, but I am still running, trying to capture the prize for which Christ Jesus captured me. I can assure you my brothers, I am far from thinking that I have already won. All I can say is that I forget the past and I strain ahead for what is still to come; I am racing for the finish, for the prize to which God calls us upwards to receive in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:8-14

 

• Dear children! Also today, with great joy in my heart, I call you to conversion. Little children, do not forget that you are all important in this great plan, which God leads through Medjugorje. God desires to convert the entire world and to call it to salvation and to the way towards Himself, who is the beginning and the end of every being. In a special way, little children, from the depth of my heart, I call you all to open yourselves to this great grace that God gives you through my presence here. I desire to thank each of you for the sacrifices and prayers. I am with you and I bless you all. Thank you for having responded to my call

 

Medjugorje Message, June 25, 2007

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With Him are strength and sound wisdom,

The misled and the misleader belong to Him.

 

Job 12 : 16

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• The picture shows detail from a painting of the Parable of the Blind (1598) by Pieter Breugel the Elder.

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In his announcement this week on global tariffs, President Donald Trump stated that Bosnia Herzegovina charges the U.S. tariffs of 70 percent, and accordingly, the U.S. will impose tariffs of 35 percent on BiH.

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According to data from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, the total trade exchange of BiH from January to June 2024 amounted to 22.01 billion BAM (Bosnia and Hercegovina convertible mark). The value of exported goods was 7.96 billion BAM, while the value of imported goods reached 14.05 billion BAM, resulting in a trade deficit of 6.09 billion BAM.

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From this data, it is evident that Europe was the dominant market for BiH exports. BiH’s top exports included insulated wire and cables worth 353.83 million BAM, electricity worth 289.31 million BAM, iron or steel structures worth 270.11 million BAM, and seats and their parts worth 267.90 million BAM. In the first half of last year, BiH’s largest export destinations were Croatia (1.28 billion BAM), Germany (1.27 billion BAM), Serbia (826.77 million BAM), Austria (787.44 million BAM), Slovenia (681.53 million BAM), and Italy (653.35 million BAM).

 

Exports to EU countries amounted to 5.93 billion BAM, which was 7.30 percent lower than in the same period of 2023. Exports to CEFTA countries totaled 1.26 billion BAM, marking a 21.64 percent decrease from the previous year, while exports to non-EU and non-CEFTA countries accounted for 9.65 percent of BiH’s total exports.

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In 2008, BiH exported 53 products to the U.S.

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When it comes to foreign trade, exchange with the U.S. accounts for a negligible one percent of BiH’s total annual global trade.

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Last year, BiH mainly exported non-military industry products to the U.S., though some of its food industry companies also placed products on the U.S. market. In 2024, BiH’s total exports to the U.S. amounted to just over 200 million BAM.

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For years, BiH has imported more goods from the U.S. than it has exported. Five years ago, according to data from the Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA) of BiH, the country exported 53 different products to the U.S. in just five months, with the top exports being weapons, followed by furniture, zinc products, and products made from iron and aluminium.

 

Source: Sarajevo Times

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Let us see if what he says is true. Let us observe what kind of end he himself will have. If the virtuous man is God’s son, God will take his part and rescue him from the clutches of his enemies.

 

Let us test him with cruelty and with torture, and thus explore this gentleness of his and put his endurance to the proof.

 

Let us condemn him to a shameful death since he will be looked after – we have his word for it.

 

Wisdom 2 : 17-20

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When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel came to Peter and said, “Does your master not pay the half-shekel?” “Oh yes” he replied, and went into the house. But before he could speak, Jesus said, “Simon, what is your opinion? From whom do the kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their sons or from foreigners?” And when he replied, “From foreigners”, Jesus said, “Well then, the sons are exempt. However, so as not to offend these people, go to the lake and cast a hook; take the first fish that bites, open its mouth and there you will find a shekel; take it and give it to them for men and for you.” Matthew 17 : 24-27

 

• The image above is detail from a fresco by Pietro Perugino on the Eastern Wall of the Sistine Chapel titled The Delivery of the Keys to St Peter.

 

It shows Jesus (left) and Peter with a collector of the Temple Tax at the Temple door. Because the detail is so small compared with the overall size of the fresco, it often goes unnoticed, but observe Peter’s left arm shaped as a hook!

 

• The full picture is available at this link.

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Jesus said to the Jews: “John was a lamp shining, and for a time you were content to enjoy the light that he gave.

 

“But my testimony is greater than John’s: the works my Father has given me to carry out, these same works of mine testify that the Father has sent me. Besides, the Father who sent me bears witness to me myself.

 

“You have never heard his voice, you have never seen his shape, and his words find no home in you because you do not believe in the one he has sent.”

 

John 5 : 35-38

 

Dear children! I wish to keep on giving messages and therefore today I call you to live and accept my messages! Dear children, I love you and in a special way I have chosen this parish, one more dear to me than the others, in which I have gladly remained when the Almighty sent me. Therefore I call on you – accept me, dear children, that it might go well with you. Listen to my messages! Thank you for having responded to my call.

Medjugorje message, March 21, 1985

 

• It was no coincidence that the Virgin Mary first appeared in Medjugorje on June 24, 1981, the Nativity of John the Baptist, “a lamp shining”.

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They handed Jesus the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:

 

The spirit of the Lord has been given to me,

For he has anointed me.

He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor,

To proclaim liberty to captives

And to the blind new sight,

To set the downtrodden free,

To proclaim the Lord’s year of favour. 

 

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down.

 

Luke 4 : 18-19

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Dear children! Today on this great day which you have given to me, I desire to bless all of you and to say: these days while I am with you are days of grace. I desire to teach you and help you to walk the way of holiness. There are many people who do not desire to understand my messages and to accept with seriousness what I am saying. But you I therefore call and ask that by your lives and by your daily living you witness my presence. If you pray, God will help you to discover the true reason for my coming. Therefore, little children, pray and read the Sacred Scriptures so that through my coming you discover the message in Sacred Scripture for you. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, June 25, 1991

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Dear children! Today, I call you to become my witnesses by living the faith of your fathers. Little children, you seek signs and messages and do not see that, with every morning sunrise, God calls you to convert and to return to the way of truth and salvation. You speak much, little children, but you work little on your conversion. That is why, convert and start to live my messages, not with your words but with your life. In this way, little children, you will have the strength to decide for the true conversion of the heart. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, September 25, 1998

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“I’m here in Nuuk, Greenland, and the view of the partial eclipse is stunning. The moon has almost completely covered the sun, and you can see that gorgeous crescent shape through the clouds.”

 

Maryam Moshiri, Chief Presenter, BBC News

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Dear children! Also today I call you to be like the stars, which by their light give light and beauty to others so they may rejoice. Little children, also you be the radiance, beauty, joy and peace – and especially prayer – for all those who are far from my love and the love of my Son Jesus. Little children, witness your faith and prayer in joy, in the joy of faith that is in your hearts; and pray for peace, which is a precious gift from God. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje Message, September 25, 2014

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• The emblem of the European Union, a circle of 12 stars on a blue background was officially adopted in 1985 from the flag devised by the Council of Europe.

 

Sometimes referred to as the Flag of Europe the design was one of several submitted by Arsene Heitz, a German-French draughtsman who worked for the Council of Europe. He is considered a co-author of the Flag with Paul Lévy, a Belgian journalist and professor who also worked for the Council.

 

In 1955, Heitz (pictured) confirmed in a Lourdes magazine article that his inspiration had been the reference in the Book of Revelation to “a woman adorned with the sun […] and with the twelve stars on her head as a crown” Rev 12 : 1

 

It is said Heitz was a devout Catholic and a devotee of the Miraculous Medal, which may have influenced his views on the symbolism of the 12 stars.

 

Lévy, of Jewish origin, converted to Catholicism in 1940 and was responsible for sorting through the 101 designs submitted for the Council of Europe emblem. He is said to have finalised Heitz’s submission which was eventually adopted by the Council in 1955. Hence why both men are credited as collaborating on the design.

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It should have been Barabbas
but Jesus took his place,
a guilty man set free again
by redeeming grace.

 

Who was Barabbas but ourselves
facing death ahead,
until the sacrifice was made,
the Lamb of God instead.

 

Bar-abbas – son and father,
together in a name.
In truth this was the Father’s Son
the soldier did proclaim.

 

BG

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Dear children, in this time of grace when you are called to conversion, I am encouraging you, little children: offer me your prayers, sufferings and tears for conversion of hearts that are far from the Heart of my Son Jesus. Pray with me, because, little children, without God you do not have a future or eternal life. I love you, but I cannot help you without you; therefore, say ‘yes’ to God. Thank you for having responded to my call.

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(with Ecclesiastical approval)

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The Annunciation station is usually the first stopping point for pilgrims as they begin to ascend Apparition Hill and pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary.

 

The large bronze plaque sculpted by Carmeilo Puzzolo shows the kneeling Archangel Gabriel greeting the Virgin Mary. The Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, is also present in the scene.

 

Ever since the Virgin was sighted on the hill in the late afternoon of June 24, 1981, villagers and pilgrims have journeyed daily, praying the Rosary on their way to the site where Our Lady is said to have first presented herself to the two ‘highly-favoured’ teenage seers, Ivanka Ivankovic and Mirjana Dragicevic. 

 

• Hail Mary, full of grace; blessed art you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, Amen.

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• Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the Annunciation was partly inspired by a Muslim inventor.  Go to this link for details.

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In this time of grace, may the cross be a sign-post of love and unity for you through which true peace comes. (Part medjugorje message, November 25, 1999)

 

Mary wants us to accept the cross as a sign, but the cross does not only point into one direction. When we look at the cross we see one vertical beam pointing toward Heaven, and one horizontal beam that reminds us of the world, its people and of ourselves. We should also see unity in this way, in that the vertical and the horizontal meet one another and it is that junction point which should then point us in our correct direction. 

 

Our human path must go toward both the vertical as well as the horizontal. Only when these two directions are in balance with one another can man really experience true love and unity. These beams, the vertical and the horizontal, must have their junction in our hearts. So if we have the love for God and the love for others and for ourselves in the centre of our hearts, true peace will have come.

 

Sin is in fact a destruction of this central point of this junction, and therefore by way of sin an imbalance is caused and one then looses true peace. It happens so easily that we forget the vertical axis within us and then concentrate ourselves too much on ourselves, close ourselves or get stuck on people or the material world, and that we then, by way of bad habits, simply get pulled away from our centres and then as men and as Christians soon begin to lose our dignity. 

 

Conversion means to try again that both the vertical as well as the horizontal meet one another in our hearts all the time, that we love God above all else, and then others as we do ourselves. 

 

Fr Slavko Barbarić, November 26, 1999

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Dear children! Today I invite you to decide for peace. Pray that God give you the true peace. Live peace in your hearts and you will understand, dear children, that peace is the gift of God. Dear children, without love you cannot live peace. The fruit of peace is love and the fruit of love is forgiveness. I am with you and I invite all of you, little children, that before all else forgive in the family and then you will be able to forgive others. Thank you for having responded to my call. Medjugorje message, January 25, 1996

 

Mark Twain: Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

 

Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

 

Lewis B. Smedes: To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

 

George Herbert: He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

 

Paul Boese: Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future

 

Roberto Assagioli: Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

 

Josiah Bailey: They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

 

Gilbert K. Chesterton: To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

 

Alexander Pope: To err is human; to forgive, divine.

 

Voltaire: No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

 

Jesus: Then Peter went up to Jesus and said, “Lord how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?” Jesus answered, “Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.” Matthew 18 : 21-22

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