The two steeples of St. James Church in Medjugorje

The two steeples of St. James Church in Medjugorje

 

Prophecy of Sr. Briege McKenna

By Louise Lotze

   When I was reading the April, 2013 issue of The Spirit of Medjugorje, a phrase jumped out at me which reminded me of a prophecy Sr. Briege McKenna had made before the apparitions had begun in Medjugorje. The article I was reading was by Sr. Emmanuel, “One Single Mass Per Year.”  In conclusion, she was speaking about St. James Church and the thousands of pilgrims that gather there today. Then she said it is no wonder that we see “rivers of graces” flowing on that village. This inspired me to find Sr. Briege's prophecy again. I searched and discovered my cassette tape in a shoe box.

 

    In 1981, Sr. Briege was attending an International Conference for priests in Rome, one month before the apparitions had begun in Medjugorje. The priests were formed into groups by their country.  She met with a group from the former Yugoslavia.  A Franciscan friar who was a youth director in the diocese of Mostar asked her to pray with him to find a way to help the youth. The youth were really seduced and were taken to meetings by the Communists with propaganda to draw them away from Christ. As Sr. Briege prayed with him, she got images like an overhead projector.  She saw this priest sitting on the main celebrant's chair in front, and he was looking onto the body of the church, and it was packed with young people. From behind him on the altar, there were streams of water –  rivers, just flowing, and the young were cupping it and drinking it, but as they were drinking it, they would go out and bring others in. She told the priest he didn't have to worry, that many young people would come to his church.  She also told him that she saw a church with two huge steeples.  Almost immediately, a Sacred Heart missionary, a French Canadian priest whom she knew, walked over to her. She had been speaking into the friar's ear and it had been translated by another priest, so no one could have heard what she had said.  This missionary priest, who had just gotten a prophetic word, then told the friar that “you know Father, Our Lady is going to visit your church.” This friar priest was not even in Medjugorje at that time, and no one knew about the two steeples in the church.  It was all very bizarre, but later made sense when the friar became pastor of St. James.

   A year later, Sr. Briege was invited by the government of Brazil to give a retreat and to speak to the government officials. She begged the Lord to tell her on what she was to speak. She was given a message by Our Lord to promote the Rosary, fasting, penance, prayer and to speak about Our Lady.    

 

   Later, Sr. Briege received a letter telling about the apparitions in Medjugorje.  She hadn't heard of this, though it was a year later. When Sr. Briege recalled all this, she realized that the message of Medjugorje had been placed in her heart at that particular time when she was speaking in Brazil!

Editor’s note:  Louise is from Ashtabula, OH.
Source of this Article   http://www.spiritofmedjugorje.org/