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“Father Hewett once told me that a saint is a sinner who keeps getting up.”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, The Fruits of Medjugorje: Stories of True and Lasting Conversion

“Recently, I’ve gathered some of the most compelling stories in a book called The Best of The Spirit of Medjugorje and the latest project I am considering is putting the newsletters on cassette tapes and CDs for people who cannot see well enough to read. If this additional ministry is the will of Our Lord and Our Lady, it, too, will be carried out. June Klins, Pennsylvania”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, The Fruits of Medjugorje: Stories of True and Lasting Conversion

“After I composed myself, Sister Janja told me this little boy’s story. He was placed in the orphanage at a young age when his mother, a single parent, became unable to care for him due to disability. Sister said that a beautiful and loving family adopted Boris a couple of years ago. She also said that she had not heard anything more about the child in years until just recently, when she was told a remarkable story. About three weeks earlier, Boris had woken up at one o’clock in the morning and had run into his parents’ room in tears. When his mother asked him what was wrong, he said between sobs that he had dreamed she had died. The mother hugged her son and assured him that she was just fine, letting him sleep the rest of the night between her and her husband. At eight o’clock the next morning, Boris’s mother got a call from a woman at the social services office in Central Bosnia. She called to say that Boris’s biological mother had passed away in the night.”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, The Fruits of Medjugorje: Stories of True and Lasting Conversion

“If God answers my requests my heaven will be spent on earth up until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my heaven in doing good on earth. . . . After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses.”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, Shower of Heavenly Roses: Stories of the intercession of St. Therese of Lisieux

“Today there are so many people I would like to seek forgiveness from, but I don’t know where most of them are anymore and my health prohibits me from leaving my home easily. For these people I offer up my daily torment of every kind of physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional suffering imaginable. Although I can never make things right by myself, I entrust these people to Our Lady, knowing that she can bring them peace and healing.”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, The Fruits of Medjugorje: Stories of True and Lasting Conversion

“Two years later, my son and I traveled to Medjugorje with Hearts of the World. One of the side trips we made was to Mostar to visit Sister Janja’s orphanage and present her with our donations. Sister took one look at my tote bag and said, “That looks like little Boris.” Then she did a double-take and said, “That is little Boris.” It turns out that the child I had been calling “my poster boy for the Rosary,” whose image was helping to raise money for the orphanage, had actually been an orphan under Sister’s care years earlier. I burst into tears.”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, The Fruits of Medjugorje: Stories of True and Lasting Conversion

“My intention was to serve my time (and the rest of my life) in Florida, finding some quiet space to live a humble Catholic life. That, however, was not God’s plan. Word of my conversion got out and I was sought after to share my testimony at various Marian conferences throughout the country. The schedule was grueling, and I did not preserve enough personal time for the four to six hours of daily prayer I had been doing in prison, where I was completely focused on God. Father Hewett, who had foreseen my notoriety, gave me some solid advice that I unfortunately did not heed: he told me that when I got out of prison, I should try to be a reservoir and not a stream.”
― Elizabeth Ficocelli, The Fruits of Medjugorje: Stories of True and Lasting Conversion