My thanks
I would like to express my gratitude to my parents, Marko and Anda Glavinic, who supported me in my project, as well as to my sister, Ana. I am thankful to the mayor of Jasenovac, Croatia, Marija Mackovic, for the business collaboration and support, and to all those who prayed for me.
I extend my thanks to Cardinal Josip Bozanic, Bishop Antun Škvorcevic, Reverend Ivica Žuljevic, all the bishops of Croatia, Fra Smiljan Kožul, Fra Ivo Pavic, Reverend Zlatko Sudac, Reverend Mario Cimbal, Reverend Pejo Oršolic, Reverend Krunoslav Jurakovic, Reverend Duro Cvitic, Reverend Nedeljko Androš, Reverend Ciril Cuš from Slovenia, Professor Zdravko Lešic, spiritual music singer Danijela Sisgoreo Morsan, Ružica Šilic from Zagreb, Gabrijela Hadela from Zagreb, Reverend Davor Lukac, Father Mijo Nikic, Reverend Branko Švogor, Reverend Milan Vidakovic, Reverend Robert Medved, Reverend Perica Matanovic, Reverend Tomislav Pavlovic, Reverend Josip Pendžic, Reverend Mihael Kos, Violeta Kos and her mother, Ivana and Marko Vukoja and their families, Zdenko and Žaklina Pivar from Mostar, Sister Martina Popic, Sister Marija-Emanuela Kvesic, Sister Dobrila and the Carmelite Sisters of St. Joseph in Breznica Dakovacka, Sister Marija Propetog Isusa Petkovic, Sister Kristina Injic, Sister Emilija Barbaric, Sister Milena Jurcevic, all the Sisters of Blessed Mary Propetog Isusa Petkovic, Sister Ilijana Kosic, Marija Cvitanovic-Šundov, Dunja Ana Vucicevic, Mirella Pizzioli from Italy, and all the priests and sisters who supported me with their prayers.
And among all of them, I express my heartfelt gratitude to the dear visionary of Our Lady from Medjugorje and her family and relatives who prayed for me: Marijana Ivankovic, Frano Ivankovic, Zlata (Vicka’s mother), Mirjana Brecic with children, Stipe and Jasna with children, Alenka and Ante with children, Iva Juricic and Zdenka with daughter, Marija Jurcic-Bule with family and children, Fra Tomislav Pervan – Medjugorje, Fra Ivo Dugandžic – Medjugorje, Fra Rozo Palic – Trieste, Italy, Marica Kordic, Vera Ljubas, Skender Bubalo, Matteo and Nada from Italy, Vesna Bolešic and family, Fra Petar Vrabec, Cvetka and Andrej Hocevar from Slovenia, Blaženka Lovric Vukušic, Marija Job Petak, Renata Krajina from Vienna, Baka Anka Gavran from Ularice, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all the children in Medjugorje… Special thanks from my heart go to the realization of Our Lady’s plan in Medjugorje… We pray for Our Lady’s intention and the fulfillment of Her plan.
I thank the visionaries of Our Lady from Medjugorje who prayed for me (Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic, Ivan Dragicevic, Marija Pavlovic-Luneti, Jakov Colo, Mirjana Dragicevic-Soldo) – the Medjugorje visionaries with whom I had the opportunity to meet.
To my heavenly patrons: the late Saint Pope John Paul II, with whom I met in the Vatican on May 15, 1996, and congratulated him on his birthday on behalf of Croatia, as well as the late Father Slavko Barbaric, with whom I took the exam for guides in Medjugorje, my late spiritual advisor Reverend Josip Šverer, who served in Otok near Dakovo… To all who have passed from this earth to eternity and now intercede for me in heaven, I offer special thanks for all the holy prayers and masses offered.
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DR. FRA SLAVKO BARBARIC, OFM
IN MEMORIAM
Fra Slavko Barbari died on November 24, 2000, at 3:30 p.m. After completing the Way of the Cross, which he usually led on Fridays on Cross Mountain for the parishioners and pilgrims, he felt pain. He sat on a stone, soon lay on the ground, lost consciousness, and surrendered his soul to the Lord.
Fra Slavko Barbaric was born on March 11, 1946, in the family of Marko and Luca (née Stojic) in Dragicina (Cerin parish). He attended elementary school in Cerin and high school in Dubrovnik. He entered the Franciscan Order on Humac on July 14, 1965. He made his solemn vows on September 17, 1971, and was ordained as a priest on December 19, 1971. He studied in Sarajevo, Graz, and Freiburg, completing his studies in Graz, Austria, earning a master’s degree. After five years of pastoral work in the Herzegovinian province, in Capljina parish, he went for further studies in Freiburg, where he obtained a doctorate in religious pedagogy and the title of psychotherapist in 1982.
As a Franciscan priest, he served in Capljina from 1973 to 1978. From spring 1982 to September 1984, he worked in Mostar as a religious education teacher for students and led prayer seminars with nuns in Bijelo Polje near Mostar. Due to his fruitful work with young people and the well-received prayer courses for students, the communist authorities at the time began to persecute Fra Slavko. In those difficult moments, Cardinal Franjo Kuharic protected Fra Slavko Barbaric in his work.
Because of his knowledge of major European languages and despite his obligations in the parishes where he served, Fra Slavko tirelessly worked with pilgrims in Medjugorje since his return from studies in 1982. He was officially transferred to Medjugorje in 1983. At the request of Bishop Žanic, he was transferred to Blagaj parish in 1985 and to Humac in 1988, where he served as a chaplain and assistant novitiate teacher.
At the beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when all the older friars left as refugees to Tucepi, with the oral permission of the late Fra Drago Tolja, the provincial at the time, Fra Slavko remained in Medjugorje.
From the beginning of his work in Medjugorje, he began to engage in writing, producing books of spiritual content: Pray with the Heart, Give Me Your Wounded Heart, Celebrate the Mass with the Heart, In the School of Love, Worship My Son with the Heart, With Jesus and Mary to Golgotha Toward the Resurrection, Pray Together with Joyful Hearts, Mother, Lead Us to Peace, Follow Me with the Heart, Conversations, and Fast with the Heart, which is being released these days. Fra Slavko Barbaric’s books have been translated into over twenty languages and printed in over 20 million copies worldwide. In addition to books, he published articles in various magazines. He edited the St. Francis Bulletin in Capljina, collaborated with Kršni Zavicaj, Glas Mira, and Radio Station “Mir” in Medjugorje. In addition to his writing work, he tirelessly spoke to pilgrims, led Eucharistic adoration, prayers before the Cross, the rosary prayer on Apparition
Hill, and the Way of the Cross on Cross Mountain, where he also ended his earthly life. He conducted special annual meetings for priests and youth, led fasting and prayer seminars at the provincial house “Domus Pacis.” Due to the great suffering in the war, he founded and managed the institution for education and care called “Mother’s Village,” where over 60 people currently live (war orphans, children from devastated families, young single mothers, and elderly and sick children). If anyone knew how to love children, it was Fra Slavko. Even the little ones loved him: they were always around him, and he always knew how to gather them around him in some way, just like Jesus! His psychotherapeutic training and upbringing enabled him to work with drug addicts in the “Cenacolo” community founded by Sister Elvira, primarily in their house in Medjugorje called “Campo della Vita.” He also tried to direct the help of benefactors from around the world to two funds: the “Fund for Children of Fallen Defenders in the Homeland War” and the “Friends of Talents Fund” – for assisting young students.
It is difficult to single out anything from the life of this great and extraordinary man. However, if we were to attempt to do so, it would undoubtedly be the period of his life in Medjugorje. Fra Slavko Barbaric traveled the world, spreading the message of peace and reconciliation of Our Lady. He was the soul and heart of the peace movement that was born in Medjugorje 19 and a half years ago. He was characterized by extraordinary qualities: knowledge of languages, ease of communication with people, education, simplicity, care and concern for people in need, inexhaustible energy that was even hard to believe one person could possess, diligence, and above all, devotion, humility, and love. He prayed and fasted a lot, and he loved the Virgin Mary with childlike love. That was actually the essence of his life: to bring human souls to God through Mary, the Queen of Peace, through prayer and fasting.
Living beside him sometimes seemed unreal because he was there in the world, yet at the same time, he seemed to be beyond it. In his presence, the words of Jesus’ high priestly prayer became a reality: “…They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake, I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth…” (John 17:16-19).
About Mother Teresa
Once they asked Mother Teresa of Calcutta how to pray better. She smiled and replied, “Pray more. That is the only recipe; there is no other.” Unfortunately, many people only find the recipe for prayer when they are in difficulties. Our Lady called us to seek God not for our needs but out of love for Him.
Archbishop of Trieste, Monsignor Giampaolo Crepaldi: A Urgent Call for Conversion Comes to Us from Medjugorje.
Gathered around the altar, where the offering of Jesus to the Father is renewed through the powerful action of the Holy Spirit, we wish to express our devoted gratitude to the Trinitarian Love, which manifests itself here in Medjugorje in a special way through His characteristic of forgiveness and mercy.
We, like the sinful woman in the Gospel passage, have come here to fall at the feet of Jesus. Like her, we are also called to cultivate great love because love allows us to experience the gratuitousness of forgiveness. These were the words with which Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi of Trieste began his homily in Medjugorje.
On Thursday, September 19, 2019, he presided over Holy Mass at the outdoor altar of St. James Church in Medjugorje, concelebrating with 81 priests.
We too must feel saved and completely redeemed from our evil, which often saddened our souls for a long time, recognizing that deep peace that Jesus Himself announces to us: “Your sins are forgiven, your faith has saved you; go in peace!” This is one of the formulas with which the confessor concludes the rite of confession, repeating the same desire for salvation and peace to each penitent. Let us cherish this treasure, and His grace will not be lacking for us, said Archbishop Crepaldi, emphasizing how in Medjugorje an urgent call to conversion reaches us, “which is concretized in the call to direct our lives towards Christ.”
Meeting in Medjugorje
FATHER ROZO PALIC, ARCHBISHOP OF TRIESTE ITALY GIAMPAOLO CREPALDI, MARIJANA GLAVINIC, BERNARDA OUR CROATIAN IN SWITZERLAND
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Republic of Croatia
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia and Minister of Defense Damir Krsticevic
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia and Minister of Internal Affairs Davor Božinovic
Minister of Croatian Veterans Tomo Medved
Dear Glavinic family, as we commemorate the glorious military and police operation “Oluja,” which, through the unity and strength of Croatian defenders, liberated the area of western Slavonia after almost four years, we remember your Damir, a fallen Croatian veteran, with special gratitude.
His sacrifice was an immeasurable contribution to the establishment of democratic values and the building of peace, and as such, it remains a lasting testament to Croatian statehood.
With gratitude and pride, in a dignified manner and in the circumstances we face, we will mark the 25th anniversary of Operation “Oluja” and pay tribute to our fallen heroes.
The Republic of Croatia is forever grateful to you, the members of the family of a fallen Croatian veteran, with the message that the sacrifice of your loved one for the freedom of Croatia will not be forgotten.
Eternal glory and thanks to all fallen Croatian veterans.
Zagreb, April 27, 2020.