The Quantity Of Concelebrations By Monks Was Likewise Record-High In Passing Forty Thousand, Also For The First Time.
In 2011, the total number of Holy Communions distributed during Mass in Medjugorje went above 2,000,000 for the 1st time. The amount of concelebrations by priests was similarly record-high in passing forty thousand, also for the 1st time.
Priests were involved in two Medjugorje records in 2011 : Never previously did so many of them come – and never previously did they disburse so many Holy Communions to parishioners and travellers
2,027,900 Holy Communions would be sufficient if all of the inhabitants of Houston, Texas, were to receive the Body of Christ one time each. Yet the number doesn’t derive from Houston, but from Medjugorje where more than two million distributed Holy Communions in one year was registred for the first time in 2011.
The number climbed from 1,571,800, a rise of twenty-nine % compared to 2010 which was itself a record year. 1,378,600 Holy Communions were distributed in Medjugorje in 2009, according to parish stats.
A record breaking number of clergymen handed out the more than 2,000,000 Holy Communions. 41,094 concelebrations of Mass were registred in Medjugorje in 2011, up from 38,227 the year before. The figures aren’t descriptive of the particular number of visiting clergymen, as most concelebrate more than one Mass during their stay in Medjugorje.
The existing Medjugorje boom in Italy accounts for some of the progress, though not all of it. 8,171 Italian concelebrations happened in 2011, up from 7,270 the year before and 4,718 in 2009.
Also, you must visit Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Medjugorje is one of the villages of the Western Herzegovina municipality of Citluk in the previous Yugoslavia. The name Medjugorje is Slavic and means “area between two moutains”. This true story happens in the Bijakovici section of Medjugorje. On the afternoon of June 24, 1981, two girls, Ivanka Ivankovic, age fifteen, and Mirjana Dragicevic, age sixteen, were coming home from a walk. Looking towards the hill called Crnica, Ivanka saw a bright silhouette of a woman. She revealed to Mirjana, “It is the Gospa!” ( Our Woman ).
On June twenty-five, the two girls returned to the hill with four others. Their names are, Vicka Ivankovic, age 16, Ivan Dragivevic, age sixteen, Maria Pavlovic, age sixteen and Jakov Colo, age 10. A figure in white was calling them to come up the hill. The children were somehow transported in some mysterious way to a pretty Woman who calls herself, the Queen of Peace. The Woman gives messages to the seers for the entire world. To date, the Queen of Peace has left thousands of messages. Initially, the messages were almost everyday. Now, for the past several years, they come on the 25th of every month.
The visionaries describe Our Woman as gorgeous beyond words ; glowing with holiness. Her talks with the children have taken the form of motherly sensitiveness and love, and she’s taken the role of both mum and catechist in advising and directing their lives. She greets them with, “Praised be Jesus, my dear children.” At the end of the apparition she says, “Go in peace, my dear children.” She seems to the six idealists as a 3D real image and always appears among brilliant flashes of light. Her appearances typically happen about 6:40 pm every day. In Medjugorje, crowds of people come daily at this time to participate in the event with prayer, song, the rosary and the Mass, which is commonly concelebrated by 30 or more priests. The entire evening service lasts about 3 hours. And this has been occuring daily since 1981! – as reported tagza.com
Posted: February 9th, 2012 under Travel and Leisure.