Messages on the Family

Our Lady repeatedly locates the renewal of the world in the home: the family rosary, family prayer, Advent as "prayer of the family." She asks that peace be prayed for in families before it can exist in the world, and pays particular attention to children and to the sick within the household. The family is treated as the first prayer group, the first church, and the first casualty when prayer disappears.

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2024

November 2024 · Given to Marija

“In this time of the grace of expectation, I desire to call you to prayer, so that Advent may be a prayer of the family.”

September 2024 · Given to Marija

“Dear children, God has sent me among you to love you and encourage you to prayer and conversion, for peace in you, in your families and in the world.”

June 2024 · Given to Marija

“Little children, peace is in danger and the family is under attack. I am calling you, little children: return to prayer in the family.”

2023

November 2023 · Given to Marija

“May this time be interwoven with prayer for peace and good deeds, so that the joy of the expectation of the King of Peace may be felt in your hearts, in your families and in the world which does not have hope.”

September 2023 · Given to Marija

“Renew prayer in your families, so that my motherly heart may be joyful as in the first days, when day and night prayer resounded and Heaven abundantly bestowed peace and blessing.”

2021

December 2021 · Given to Marija

“Today’s blessing which we give you, carry to your families and enrich all those whom you meet, so that they may feel the grace which you are receiving.”

2020

March 2020 · Given to Marija

“You will see conversion in your hearts and families; prayer will be heard; God will hear your cries and give you peace.”

January 2020 · Given to Marija

“There must be holiness in families, little children, because there is no future for the world without love and holiness. In holiness and joy, you give yourselves to God the Creator, who loves you with immeasurable love.”

2019

November 2019 · Given to Marija

“Pray for peace in your hearts and families, so that Jesus can be born in you and give you His love and blessing.”

2018

November 2018 · Given to Marija

“Open your hearts and families, so that this waiting may become prayer and love and, especially, giving.”

2017

October 2017 · Given to Mirjana

“You are forgetting the importance of the family. A family does not need to be a place of suffering and pain, but a place of understanding and tenderness. Families who strive to live according to my Son live in mutual love. … Remember, apostles of my love, that all people whom you meet are family to you—brothers and sisters according to my Son.”

January 2017 · Given to Marija

“Today I am calling you to pray for peace: peace in human hearts, peace in families and peace in the world.”

2016

December 2016 · Given to Marija

“Heaven is with you and is fighting for peace in your hearts, in families and in the world; and you, little children, help with your prayers for it to be so.”

2014

July 2014 · Given to Marija

“Return to God and to prayer, and may prayer begin to reign in your hearts, families and communities, so that the Holy Spirit may lead and inspire you to be more open every day to God’s will and His plan for each of you.”

January 2014 · Given to Marija

“Put Sacred Scripture in a visible place in your families and read it, so that words of peace may begin to flow in your hearts.”

2013

April 2013 · Given to Marija

“This is a time of grace which God gives you through my presence, but you are far from my heart; therefore, I call you to personal conversion and to family prayer.”

2011

November 2011 · Given to Mirjana

“Immeasurable is His love, the love that is bringing me to you to help you come to know Him, so that through my Son all of you may call Him ‘Father’ with the fullness of the heart and become one people in God’s family.”

October 2011 · Given to Mirjana

“Do not attempt to have families and societies without Him.”

August 2011 · Given to Mirjana

“I call you to gather into God’s family and to be strengthened with the Father’s strength.”

February 2011 · Given to Mirjana

“Prayer will bring you to the fulfillment of my desire, to unity in God’s family.”

January 2011 · Given to Mirjana

“My motherly heart prays that you may comprehend that you are God’s family. … In discovering the Father, your life will be directed towards carrying out God’s will and realizing God’s family in the way that my Son desires.”

2009

November 2009 · Given to Marija

“In this time of grace, I call you all to renew prayer in your families.”

April 2009 · Given to Marija

“Today I call you all to pray for peace and to witness it in your families, so that peace may become the highest treasure on this peaceless earth.”

2007

March 2007 · Given to Mirjana

“I am asking for love in your families.”

January 2007 · Given to Marija

“Put Sacred Scripture in a visible place in your family and read it.”

2006

December 2006 · Given to Jakov

“Little children, in a special way I call you to holiness in your families. I desire that each of your families be holy and that God’s joy and peace may come to rule and dwell in your families. Open your hearts, decide for God and put Him in the first place in your family.”

January 2006 · Given to Marija

“Also today I call you to be carriers of the Gospel in your families.”

2005

June 2005 · Given to Marija

“I call you, little children, to be my apostles of peace and love in your families and in the world.”

April 2005 · Given to Marija

“Renew prayer in your families. By prayer and the reading of Sacred Scripture, may the Holy Spirit, who will renew you, enter into your families. In this way, you will become teachers of the faith in your family.”

2004

October 2004 · Given to Marija

“This is a time of grace for the family and, therefore, I call you to renew prayer. May Jesus be in the heart of your family. … May every family become a witness of love in this world without prayer and peace.”

June 2004 · Given to Ivanka

“Pray for those families who have not come to know the love of my Son.”

2002

September 2002 · Given to Marija

“In a special way, little children, you are called to live and witness peace—peace in your hearts and families—and through you, peace will also begin to flow into the world.”

2001

August 2001 · Given to Marija

“Little by little, step by step, prayer and a decision for holiness will enter into your family.”

2000

September 2000 · Given to Marija

“Renew prayer in your families and form prayer groups.”

June 2000 · Given to Ivanka

“Renew family prayer and receive my blessing.”

1999

September 1999 · Given to Marija

“I call you to renew prayer in your families by reading Sacred Scripture and to experience joy in meeting with God, who infinitely loves His creatures.”

January 1999 · Given to Marija

“Renew prayer in your families. Put Holy Scripture in a visible place in your families, read it, reflect on it and learn how God loves His people.”

1998

October 1998 · Given to Marija

“I call you to renew in your families the fervor of the first days, when I called you to fasting, prayer and conversion.”

1997

May 1997 · Given to Marija

“Renew prayer in your families and your hearts will glorify the holy Name of God, and Heaven will reign in your hearts.”

1996

August 1996 · Given to Marija

“Little children, place Sacred Scripture in a visible place in your family, and read and live it.”

April 1996 · Given to Marija

“Today I invite you again to put prayer in the first place in your families.”

January 1996 · Given to Marija

“Before all else, forgive in the family, and then you will be able to forgive others.”

1995

November 1995 · Given to Marija

“Today I am with you and invite you to discover love in your hearts and in your families.”

August 1995 · Given to Marija

“A family cannot say that it is in peace if it does not pray.”

March 1995 · Given to Marija

“Today I invite you to live peace in your hearts and families.”

1994

December 1994 · Given to Marija

“Today I rejoice with you and pray with you for peace: peace in your hearts, peace in your families, peace in your desires and peace in the whole world.”

1993

April 1993 · Given to Marija

“I desire you to awaken love in your families, so that where there is unrest and hatred, love will reign; and when there is love in your hearts, there is also prayer.”

March 1993 · Given to Marija

“Today, as never before, I call you to pray for peace: peace in your hearts, peace in your families and peace in the whole world.”

1992

January 1992 · Given to Marija

“Today I am inviting you to renew prayer in your families, so that every family may become a joy to my Son Jesus.”

1991

December 1991 · Given to Marija

“First of all, give your love and example in your families. Put God in the first place in your families, so that He may give you peace and protect you.”

July 1991 · Given to Marija

“Renew fasting and prayer in your families.”

1988

October 1988 · Given to Marija

“I want you to consecrate yourselves as parents and as families, so that all may belong to God through my heart.”

1986

July 1986 · Given to Marija

“Let your family be a place where holiness is born. Help everyone to live in holiness, but especially your own family.”

May 1986 · Given to Marija

“Begin changing your life in the family. Let the family be a harmonious flower that I wish to give to Jesus. Let every family be active in prayer, for I desire that the fruits in the family may one day be seen.”

April 1986 · Given to Marija

“The elderly are especially important in the family.”

1985

March 1985 · Given to Marija

“Today I call you to renew prayer in your families.”

February 1985 · Given to Marija

“Every family must pray together and read the Bible.”

1984

December 1984 · Given to Marija

“First of all, begin to love your own family, and then you will be able to love and accept others.”

November 1984 · Given to Marija

“Let prayer take the first place in your families.”

September 1984 · Given to Marija

“I ask the families of the parish to pray the family Rosary.”

June 1984 · Given to Marija

“Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon your families.”