The Vatican Commission on Medjugorje will meet in Rome on October 11. On the same day, Medjugorje’s parish priest arrives in Rome, too, invited along with 35 parishioners. The Commission has changed its approach, to examine the fruits and assess the possible presence of the supernatural.
As the 17 members of the Vatican Commission on Medjugorje meet in Rome on Friday, Medjugorje’s parish priest is also on his way there with parishioners, invited by the Commission
Recent years’ Vatican investigation of the events of Medjugorje continues on October 11 when the Commission assigned with the task will meet for a session in Rome, sources close to the Commission tells the regional newspaper Dnevni List, based in Mostar close to Medjugorje.
The Commission meeting takes place while Medjugorje’s parish priest Fr. Marinko Sakota is also in Rome along with 35 local parishioners, at the invitation of the Medjugorje Commission. The group from Medjugorje arrives in Ancona early morning on Friday by ferry, and from there will continue to Rome.
Cardinal Camillo Ruini chairs the Vatican Commission to examine Medjugorje
“The international investigative Commission on Medjugorje continues its work, and will meet in the Vatican on Friday, Dnevni List has learned from sources close to the Commission” the regional daily reports.
Dnevni List further learns that the work of the Commission has been moving in another direction from the initial one when main figures like the visionaries and others were called to Rome to testify before the 17 members.
“After testing the main figures of this phenomenon – the visionaries, (1981 parish priest) Fr Jozo Zovko, Mostar-Duvno Bishop Ratko Peric, and former Franciscan provincial Ivan Sesar, the Commission has continued to work with a slightly different approach. It comes down to a careful monitoring of the entire phenomenon, assessing whether there are unequivocal signs of the existence of the supernatural, and the fruits of these events in recent years. It is expected that after the session which begins on Friday, we might know more about which direction the work of the Commission will take” Dnevni List reports.
The glowing statue in Vicka’s house
What is not a part of the work of the Commission, at least not at this point, is the statue that glowed for six consecutive evenings and nights from September 23 in the childhood home of visionary Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic:
“We learned from a source close to the Commission that the issue of the statue of Our Lady which began to shine in the house of visionary Vicka Ivankovic is not included in the Commission’s work, but may perhaps be a subject later” the Mostar-based paper further tells.