This is last nights' segment of the Late Late Show shown on Irish television (RTE1) with Vicka Ivankovic as a guest of host Ryan Tubbridy and translator Manuella Spinelli http://crownofstars.blogspot.com/2011/02/vicka-on-late-late-show.html
Sometimes you learn much more, not from what people say but what they do not. RTE , Ireland's National Broadcasting Station is profoundly liberal and anti Catholic with a heavily Securlarist agenda, despite the fact that Ireland's population is overwhelmingly Catholic. I was watching the interviewer he was intensely hostile to Vicka though he concealed it well. But he knew as did others that the audience both in the studio and country wide would have been enormously sympathetic to her and so he had to conceal this as well as he could. In other words he was on a hiding to nothing if he had put the boot in..as he would very much lkie to have. But I could tell by looking at him he was haivng a hard job swallowing his bile. It seemed to me that someone had tipped Vicka off that she was in very hostile territory and she kind of swept the interviewer to one side and stole the show. :lol: :wink: It reminded me of what Jesus said, 'Be you innocent as doves yet subtle as the serpent' . I was touched by what Vicka said that the great grace she had been given by Our LAdy is to suffer. What a really, really beautiful and insightful thing to say. I was touched looking at Vicka whom I have follwed with joy since she was a child. How holy she has become following Mary down the years since 1981!! I have no doubt she will be canonised one day. May she live long; but may she be raised to altars soon.
Padrig, It was fascinating to observe Vicka's resolve in not allowing the interview to stray from the essentials. At one point, she basically told the show's host, "When I'm done, you can ask your questions." Touche! 8) Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
Padraig, I'm so glad you said something. I thought I was seeing something and perhaps was the only one. The interviewer reminded me of a big snarling V8 engine, revved up and running with the brakes on. I was never terribly fond of V8's unless they were in an old Chevy truck. She was truly lovely. And not that I'm a prude but I loved that she was all "buttoned up to here". Modesty is such a part of who she is. When I first went to Medjugorje she was the visionary we got to visit. Here she came down from her terrace with the most radiant face I had every seen. I didn't know light could come from a person like that and I got in an instant that it was her time with Our Lady that lit her up! When we visited all the people were pushing and shoving to get to the front and I decided that was totally nuts and just rode the wave out. It was at the point of surrender that the opening appeared, like the parting of the red sea, I strolled to the front. :lol: It was while she prayed over us pilgrims that the silver rosary I was holding turned gold. She's dear to me to say the least.
Terry and Gail, I loved it when the interviewer asked about foks who did not believe any of this and she said, quoting Our Lady that people who did not want to believe were not being FORCED into believing. The same can be said of the Catholic faith itself. But still it is better to believe, far, far, far better to believe. I woke up last night and began to pray for a friend, a truck driver who died at the wheel due to heart failure last year. This guy was not a believer and was a bit bamboozled that I did and went to Church every day. In addition he lived with someone who was not his wife. I talked to him as far as I could when he was alive about God but with no joy. But he was a very likeable person in many ways, just very materialistic and modern. Anyhow when I prayed foor his soul last night I was prayerfully shown he is in a place where prayer no longer helps. This made me so sad and shocked me moe than a little as I had hopes still........... It reminded me how important faith is. Yes we can refuse to believe but we do so at the peril of our immortal soul. Life isn't a game its realy very,very serious. I am left wondering if I should have spoken out more..but he was never receptive..it was like everything I said was some funny fairy tale. Poor man. But it reminded me that life is not a game. That actions have consequences, Eternal Consequences and that our God though Merciful and Loving is also Just. This is something that even famous TV Interviewers would be wise to reflect on.
I believe Vicka's visit to Ireland is a special grace for this time. It was arranged months ago. As it has turned out she arrived the week we have a general election so I hope that her visit will have a positive influence on our new government. I hope to go to see her in Tralee on Tuesday. Mary
