To believe in Medjugorje is like...being in love!
By Mark Waterinckx
He who is in love floats
with happiness. He sees the whole world through pink glasses. His life is a whirl of excitement. His beloved is the best, the most beautiful,
the only one, the true one...
He is blinded, for love
makes one blind indeed. He refuses to
listen to the good advice of well meaning friends, who know more about his
beloved, who want to help him. Then
one says: "He is not with his both feet on the ground any more. He has
lost his mind. He has butterflies in his belly..."
But what really happens in
the mind of a person in love? I myself
also do not know so well. It must be a kind of individual PSYCHOSIS. Wittingly or unwittingly one switches off
one's ratio. Common sense is switched
off. The same phenomenon is established
with the 'believers' in Med.
They undergo ( I experienced
it myself) a kind of collective PSYCHOSIS , and develop a fanatic faith, which
does not tolerate any contradiction. Suddenly their whole faith moves around
the 'apparitions' and the 'messages' of the Gospa ( Our Lady) of Med. If the bishop does not want to recognize
these 'apparitions', then he is a 'bad bishop'. One does not even realize any
more that one is sinning through this thoughtless utterance. One is not even interested in the arguments
of this competent bishop. Against all ecclesiastical prescriptions, one
attaches an absolute credit to private apparitions, which even if they are
officially recognized, never belong to the points of doctrine.
In the 12 Articles of Faith,
NOT ONE word is mentioned about private revelations. The Divine Revelation is
given us by Jesus Christ, and has been definitely closed at the death of the
last apostle. He who swallowed Med.
suddenly knows everything better than the competent ecclesiastical authority,
Some even dare to say: "if the church does not recognize Med., then. it is
no longer my church." In this way many sects came into being in the past.
Our 2000 year old church history is full of it.
Also the direct circle of
friends of the Med.-fanatics share in the pieces. A former friend, who does not want to share his
"belief" in Med. Suddenly
becomes an 'enemy' to avoid. If
somebody dares to criticize Med. one feels oneself being attacked. Med. has become a part of the person
himself. Priests, who do not believe in
Med, suddenly lose their esteem.
Desire of sensation replaces
reliable Bible study. One again and
again wants to know the 'latest message' or the 'latest news'. One is addicted to it. Unconsciously one becomes brainwashed,
programmed, drugged. One cannot do
without it any more. Previous activities are replaced by Med. gatherings, where
one speculates about nearing punishments, about 'secrets', about the date on
which Jesus will return on earth, what only 'initiates' know...
One feels electarian. And without knowing already is
sectarian. One always wants to persuade
others that Med. is 'authentic', but
one closes one's ears for
the sad reality in Medjugorje :
Franciscans, who themselves
lay down the laws for their bishops and for Rome; suspended so called 'holy'
priests who illegally continue to administer Sacraments;
false seers who preach
fasting and penance, but who themselves live in luxury;
their lost vocations to
priesthood and monastic life;
seers who, like stars, show
off in the whole world and let themselves be applauded and paid;
'messages' which make us
believe that all religions are equal;
some pilgrims committed
suicide out of disappointment in Med.;
others ended up in
psychiatry;
already many marriages ended
in divorce because of quarrel about Med.;
even murders do happen in
Med. because of money-quarrels;
there is rivalry between
seers and monks in Med.;
lies and manipulations in
Med. are innumerable;
some seers even commit
perjury;
well known franciscans are
involved in sex-affairs;
there is rebellion against a
papal decree;
the prophecies never come
true;
the promised signs are not
forthcoming;
about the sensational (
6-10) 'secrets' there is a grave-like silence now;
religion and politics are
mixed up;
there is mixing of Med.
money with Croatian para-military groups;
the illegal Franciscan media
have news-monopoly in Med.;
there are illegal
communities in Med. (a.o. 'Beatitudes' with Sr. Emmanuel);
infringement of ecclesiastical
laws;
cooperation with other false
seers (a.o. Vassu1a, Don Gobbi, Valtorta, etc.);
enormous business interests;
trivial repetitive
'messages';
pilgrims who vanish without
leaving trace;
a monk Tomislav Vlasic
accused of Satanism;
a monk Slavko Barbaric who
is already 'canonized' by the 'Gospa' one day after his death;
idem for monk Jozo Zovko,
already 'canonized' during his life in 1981 ( the same man who was suspended in
1989 and in
1994 and does not care one
bit);
the once so honored
Marianalogist Rene Laurentin who lowered himself to coarse lies, manipulations
and flinging mud at the bishop of Mostar;
the charismatic movement
which partly agrees with the manipulations of Med.(i.e. Sr. Briege McKenna);
mass slaughtering in Med. In
1941 and in 1992;
'Our Lady' appears
in...grey;
a schism is threatening; so
called 'words of the pope' are manipulated;
already more than 40 books
were published (in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Croatian...) which
prove the fraud in Med.
All these FACTS are
unimportant for the fanatic Med.-believers. Not to lose face is their
motivation to strongly stick to their Med.-'apparitions'. Therefore all pretexts are good. They cannot or refuse to recognize the fact
they have been cheated and refuse the humiliation. Their own twisted way of thinking becomes an obsession.
Just like a person in love,
they refuse all criticism. The psyche wins over hard reality. Rather also lie and cheat than simply say:
"I have walked into the trap". In practice their defense of Med.
amounts to defending their own
image. Somebody in love is so
blinded that he will defend his 'beloved' even into the absurd. It is a fact that of all kinds of
fanaticism, the religious fanaticism is the most dangerous one. Med. is the
best and most striking proof of it.
The bishop of Mostar even
receives dead threats from fanatical Med.- believers. Twice already this good
man was molested by these fanaticals.
Nobody likes to be
cheated. But a honest Christians must
first of all heroically practice the Christian virtues before he ever can be
beatified or canonized. To all
Med.-believers I wish: prudence, patience, honesty, temperance, peace, love,
justice, tolerance and willingness to listen .
Realize that by going on to
support these sly cheaters (monks and seers) you make them still richer. They
are not blinded like the misled pilgrims. They are acting in a criminal and
blasphemous way by misusing the name of God and His Holy Mother for their own
(quid proudest) interests such as: rebellious Franciscan resistance against the
bishop and against a decree of Pope Paul VI 'Romanis Pontificibus'; prestige,
Croatian nationalistic interests,. financial interests.
Dear Medjugorje-believer,
reality in life is not always nice and the truth hurts. But honesty lasts
longer. Medjugorje has already lasted for more than 20 years? Other false apparitions in Church history
lasted for tens and some even hundreds of years. History repeats itself.
Even popes and saints were sometimes misled. Remember, 'apparitions' are no doctrinal points!
But full conscious
cooperation with deceit is also a sin. Caring about what people will say is not
supposed to playa part. Humility and
Love of the Truth must prevail. To admit that one was wrong is magnanimous. May
God give you the power of His Holy Spirit. I write this out of Love for you
all.
Mark Waterinckx,
Weinebruggelaan 49, B-820?
Brugge, Belgium
Tel. 00-32-(0)50-385029
E-mail: mailto:markwaterinckx@skynet.be
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