May is a month of beauty, renewal, and grace—set apart in the life of the Church as a time to honor Mary, our Mother and Queen. It’s a time marked by May Crownings, the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima (May 13), and an invitation to draw close to her Immaculate Heart.

At the center of this month, we highlight the Heart to Heart pillar of the 5 stones as a rule of spiritual life—a call to personal intimacy with God through daily prayer, silence, and receptivity. And no one lived this better than Mary.

In her apparitions in Medjugorje, Our Lady repeatedly calls us to return to the essentials. She offers us a simple but powerful way to live the Gospel, often referred to as the Five Stones, our weapons for spiritual battle:

1. Sunday Mass and Holy Days of Obligation
2. Daily meditation on Scripture
3. Daily Rosary
4. Monthly Confession
5. Fasting or some form of penance

During this Marian Month, we are invited not just to honor Mary with flowers and prayers, but to imitate her way of life. One that was entirely Heart to Heart with God. Her Fiat (“let it be done”) was not just a moment; it was a lifelong disposition of surrender. Through these five stones, Mary leads us back to Jesus. She doesn’t point to herself; she always draws us deeper into relationship with her Son, where we learn to hear His voice, rest in His presence, and live from the heart.

“Dear children, today I invite you to fall in love with the Most Holy Sacrament. Adore Him, little children, in your parishes and in this way you will be united with the entire world.” – Our Lady of Medjugorje

Let this Marian month be more than devotional—let it be transformational. To commit to living the 5 stones and learning more about the movement ​keep scrolling below. 

The 5 Stones: 

1. Sunday Mass and Holy Days
2. Daily meditation on scripture
3. Daily Rosary
4. Monthly confession
5. Fasting or some form of penance

Messages given by Our Lady in Medjugorje began in the summer of 1981 and first appeared to six children in the small village of Medjugorje in what at the time was war-torn Bosnia-Hezegovina. 

Summarizing her overall message, advice, and wishes, and to underpin and support her five key themes of Peace, Faith, Conversion, Prayer, and Fasting, Our Lady in her messages gives us what may be described as five stones, similar in a way to the five stones David used to slay Goliath (1st Samuel, Chapter 17). 

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, with the assent of Pope Francis, has given its approval on Sept. 19, 2024 to the promotion of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title “The Queen of Peace,” linked to the “Medjugorje phenomenon.” 

It gave the nihil obstat (“no objection”) to the Medjugorje phenomenon, this means, as the relevant norm states, that, “Without expressing any certainty about the supernatural authenticity of the phenomenon itself, many signs of the action of the Holy Spirit are acknowledged ‘in the midst’ of a given spiritual experience, and no aspects that are particularly critical or risky have been detected, at least so far.”

“The time has come to conclude a long and complex history that has surrounded the spiritual phenomena of Medjugorje. It is a history in which bishops, theologians, commissions, and analysts have expressed a series of divergent opinions.” The Vatican emphasized that the nihil obstat “does not imply that the alleged supernatural events are declared authentic. Instead, it only highlights that the Holy Spirit is acting fruitfully for the good of the faithful ‘in the midst’ of this spiritual phenomenon of Medjugorje.”

“The positive fruits are most evident in the promotion of a healthy practice of a life of faith, in accordance with the tradition of the Church. The uniqueness of the place lies in the large number of such fruits: abundant conversions, a frequent return to the sacraments (particularly, the Eucharist and Reconciliation), many vocations to priestly, religious, and married life, a deepening of the life of faith, a more intense practice of prayer, many reconciliations between spouses, and the renewal of marriage and family life. It should be noted that such experiences occur above all in the context of pilgrimages to the places associated with the original events rather than in meetings with the ‘visionaries’ to be present for the alleged apparitions. -Vatican's approval of Medjugorje devotion, 9/19/2024

These five stones are essential for protecting our conversion, and in turn to aid the conversion and protection of others.

Join us as we set to transform our community to reflect the Immaculate Heart of Mary and console the Sacred Heart of Jesus.