Our Lady is being sent by God to lead us. On July 25, she told Marija in Medjugorje that satan wishes to entangle us in peacelessness and hatred. Is this not like Our Lord’s warning to Peter as they left the Upper Room and headed to Gethsemane? I wonder, had Peter known what the next day would bring, would he have responded differently to being warned about satan’s “sifting”?
Are we being warned about the challenges inside the Church and our world? And if we are being warned, had we been one of the disciples in Gethsemane knowing what we know about Good Friday, would we have responded differently than Peter, James and John who fell asleep? Maybe. In any case, let us be alert to the times we are living, attend to our own spiritual life, and reach out very consciously to those who may not be close to Our Lord.