In 2011, the total number of Holy Communions distributed during Mass in Medjugorje went above 2 million for the first time. The amount of concelebrations by priests was likewise record-high in passing 40,000, also for the first time.
Monks were concerned in two Medjugorje records in 2011 : Never previously did many of them come – and never previously did they disburse so many Holy Communions to parishioners and pilgrims
2,027,900 Holy Communions would be adequate if all the inhabitants of Houston, Texas, were to receive the Body of Christ one time each. Yet the number does not stem from Houston, but from Medjugorje where more than two million distributed Holy Communions in one year was registred for the 1st time in 2011.
The number climbed from 1,571,800, a rise of twenty-nine p.c compared with 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 priests, 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 only some of it. 8,171 Italian concelebrations occurred 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 hamlets 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 takes place in the Bijakovici section of Medjugorje. On the afternoon of June 24, 1981, 2 girls, Ivanka Ivankovic, age 15, and Mirjana Dragicevic, age 16, were coming home from a walk. Looking toward the hill called Crnica, Ivanka saw a bright outline of a woman. She announced to Mirjana, “It is the Gospa!” ( Our Woman ).
On June 25, the two girls returned to the hill with 4 others. Their names are, Vicka Ivankovic, age 16, Ivan Dragivevic, age 16, Maria Pavlovic, age 16 and Jakov Colo, age ten. A figure in white was calling them to come up the hill. The children were somehow transported in some confusing way to a gorgeous Lady who calls herself, the Queen of Peace. The Woman gives messages to the seers for the whole world. To date, the Queen of Peace has left thousands of messages. Initially, the messages were almost daily. Now, for the past one or two years, they come on the 25th of every month.
The idealists describe Our Lady as gorgeous beyond words ; glowing with holiness. Her talks with the children have taken the form of motherly sensitiveness and love, and she took 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 is saying, “Go in peace, my dear children.” She seems to the 6 visionaries as a 3 dimensional real image and always appears among brilliant flashes of light. Her appearances typically occur about 6:40 pm every day. In Medjugorje, loads of people come daily at this time to take part in the event with prayer, song, the rosary and the Mass, which is commonly concelebrated by thirty or more priests. The whole evening service lasts about three hours. And this has been occuring daily since 1981! – as reported tagza.com