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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:02:47 CDT
From:         Elizabeth Stevens <CCCAMPER@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
Subject:      Cyndi Cain, Messages from God

( es - this article, part one of two, is to acquaint you with *who*
a person is who is receiving direct revelations. To me, this seems
to be a part of the discernment process)


(MIR is the word for "peace" in Medjugorje)
by Michael and Cyndi Cain, shared with permission from "A Call To
Peace" special issue, compilation of vol.2, numbers 1 to 6
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THE MIRACLE OF MIR-A-CAL CENTER

  Many people have asked how MIR-A-CALL center and A CALL TO PEACE
began and why have we given up everything to pursue this ministry.
Our story is a simple one, based on blind faith in God's guiding
hand in our lives.
  Though MIR-A-CALL Center is only a young seedling, the roots stem
all the way back to the late 40's and early 50's when Cyndi's mother
and father (Dolores and Joseph) dedicated their daughter to the
Blessed Virgin Mary. With that kind of commitment it makes more sense
why and how Cyndi has been blessed with inner locutions. It has been
through these messages from Mary that we at MIR-A-CALL Center draw our
strength and inspiration.
  A little background on our lives help bring this into focus since
Our Lord and His Blessed Mother have been nurturing us for many years
for this calling, though at the time we didn't fully realize it. As
Wayne Weible has said many times, "it takes a while to say "Yes" to
the Blessed Virgin Mary, but once you do say 'yes'...Our Lady's
got you for life". (note: Wayne was a Lutheran journalist who was
called to spread the story of Medjugorje) We like to agree for it
took us quite a while to finally say "Yes".
  For it was Our Lady who first spoke to Cyndi's heart back in
December, 1988. Her brother Jeffrey had died in November and she had
a dream where she saw her brother with the Blessed Mother in Heaven.
  Almost for that time on, Cyndi began receiving daily locutions from
Our Blessed Mother. "This was a very scary thing," Cyndi recounts.
"One that I prayed over constantly, fearing to offend God or His
Holy Mother by saying one word that was not from Heaven. How do you
go about convincing your family, especially a 'doubting Thomas'
husband that you are sincere, that you aren't going crazy? First
I had to have God reaffirm these locutions to me, because as wonderful
as it was to feel Mary's presence within me and to hear her voice
in my heart, I had to be absolutely sure it was from Heaven and not
anything to do with my weaknesses, my subconcious, or God forbid,
that the words were coming from Satan who masquerades himself as the
father of half-truths."
  It took Mike a while for all this to penetrate and many doubts
cropped up. Five months later a brain aneurism called him mom home.
While his brothers and sister agonized with him over whether to
pull the plug on the life support system as she lay in a totally
comatose state, we prayed intensely for her soul. Mike had been
priveleged, as a Eucharistic Minister, to bring her the Holy
Eucharist just an hour before she went into a permanent coma. During
the daily Rosary at St. Francis a few days later, Our Lady showed
Cyndi an interior vision of Donna ascending into heaven amidst the
angels. Mike knew then that his mom's soul was no longer in her
lifeless body and had no hesitation then in convincing the others
to stop all life support.
  A year later we moved to Minnesota, Mike's homeland, in order to
give our boys Kevin and Kellin some real roots, to show them a bit
of what it had been like for us growing up in the 50's and 60's.
The cold winters were worth the price for we found a home that
personified the American Dream.
  This was in October 1989. It was hard moving from sunny
Southern California to long winter nights, but the rewards of family
life were worth it. God gave us nine months fo appreciate the beauty
of the four seasons, the precious commodity of a spacious home for our
children, and then through His Holy Mother, He changed everything!
MIR-A-CALL Center started to sprout.
  We had heard about Medjugorje somewhat but wanted to know more and
thus went to hear Wayne Weible at St. Patricks Catholic Church in
Edina, a suburb just southwest of the Twin Cities. It was during
Wayne's talk that Cyndi confided to Mike that Our Blessed Mother had
said within two years we would be doing something similar to what
Wayne was doing. (spreading the messages from God) Mike was
somewhat dubious but didn't think too much about it. A few weeks
later during a Christmasreunion of his former seminarian colleagues,
we discovered Father Al Svobodny OMI was going to Medjugorje in the
spring. Father Al was the priest who recruited Mike to Our Lady of
the Ozarks Oblate Seminary in Cathage, MO back in 1956. The very
next day we called Fr. Al and shortly after that signed up to go with
him on May 7th. The season of Lent blended well with the weather and
terrain of the frigid Twin Cities - bleak. But eventually spring
entered the scene and it wasn't long before we were winging our way
to Medjugorje.
  Needless to say, our experiences in Medjugorje changed our lives.
There were some tremendous spiritual highs as well as some necessary
lows for we were really touched by the Holy Spirit. Our cleansing,
our purification had begun in earnest. Even before our departure
from this blessed place we no longer belonged to the world, to each
other or to a specific locale. We belonged to Jesus through Mary.
Our conversion of heart had begun to take effect. We would never be
the same again. The beautiful part of this is that we didn't want
to be.
  Nine days after our return, Cyndi's father passed away on Ascension
Thursday. She flew immediately to San Diego where her parents had
lived since 1969. She remained with her mother, whose health was
failing, for nearly a month, then returned to Minnesota.
   Then in late June, Cyndi received a locution from Our Lady that
was very clear and direct. Our heavenly mother said "Sell your home.
Return to San Diego and care for my Hidden Flower's earthly mother
for no less than six months. There I will direct you to begin your
apostolate for me."
   This was really difficult for us. Sell our beautiful home? Move
back to San Diego into our mother's home? And what apostolate was
Mary referring to? We knew that Our Lady, through her locutions to
Cyndi, had repeatedly been telling us we would spend the rest of
our lives working for the Blessed Mother. But what exactly did she
mean?
  We took our faith in our hands and hearts, placing a mere three
line ad in the newspaper at a time when there were other houses for
sale in the area less than our asking price. Not only that, but the
market was very soft. So we did it...saying "If Mary wants the
house to sell right away, she'll bring us a buyer".
  This was on July 2nd. On the morning of July 3rd our phone rang
just before our daily 7:30am mass. Mike told the callers they could
see the home at 9am. Once he hung up, Our Lady told Cyndi "these
are the buyers" which Cyndi immediately related to Mike. He was still
somewhat dubious. Sell the home in one day without a real estate
agent? That *would* be a miracle! Well, call it what you will but at
10:30am that same morning we were signing papers! The necessary profit
we needed to make, in order to defray moving expenses, was provided.
There were no hitches, no hassles. And all this had taken place on
the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, the doubting one. "That made
a total believer out of me" Mike reiterates over and over.

  Like the Holy Family's flight to Egypt, we were heading west with
very little since we sold or gave away much of our possesions in
accordance with Mary's request to abandon all to God. Mike wrapped
up all the loose ends of his creative consultant business and within
three weeks we were back in San Diego. We weren't back more than two
weeks when Our Blessed Mother instructed us, through a detailed
locution in mid August, to begin MIR-A-CALL Center and to dedicate
it to the Sacred Heart of her Divine Son and to her Immaculate Heart.
She gave us all the directives and help we needed, promising that she
would always be with us, guiding and guarding, but that it would not
be easy. Nothing worth it ever is. Step by step we have done what
Blessed Mary has asked, deepening our faith with countless prayers,
daily mass, heartfelt love for God and His mother, and rejoicing that
by her intercession our efforts do bring God's messages to her
children and continue to spread every month.
  Like the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Mike took 200 copies
of our first issue of A CALL TO PEACE (the first was a Xerox 11x17
shee printed two sides and folded) to Medjugorje with him in October.
From that pilgrimage the fruits have multiplied to where as of December
1991 we are sending it to people in every state of the union including
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, as well as Canada, Mexico, and 15
other countries. With every issue the circulation increases
dramatically. People are thirsting for signs and God's messages of
hope, faith and love.
  In February 1991 Cyndi's locutions for Our Blessed Mother stressed
the necessity for us to plan on leaving San Diego. Our spirits
responded "God's Will be done", but we began an intense period of
prayerful discernment, carefully guided by our spiritual director,
Fr. Al Svobodny OMI. We never doubtedthat Our Lady was informing
us that our stay in San Diego was coming to an end, but where to go?
She had said "I will guide you, I will lead you to a place of refuge."
But it wasn't easy. Our finite minds see only a small portion of
the picture, God sees the whle picture. That's where faith comes
in. Faith which allows us to be totally abandoned to Him through
His Blessed Mother.
  Our spiritual director understood our situation. He firmly believed
our Holy Mother was guiding us and our obedience would bear fruit
despite the conflicts associated with leaving a place we knew and
loved, not to mention Cyndi's mom, who by this time, though still at
home, was under the competent care of a professional live-in
companion.
  As Our Lady's request took on more urgency, we seriously began to
think of the midwest. One, because both our roots are there and two,
we would be centrally located for administering MIR-A-CALL Center.
With this came a great inner peace, and through locution to Cyndi,
Our Blessed Mother confirmed that this was the proper direction for us.
  It was Michael, inspired by the Holy Spirit, who narrowed down the
vast midwest section of the country when he thought of Carthage,
Missouri. He had spent 6 years there in junior seminary at Our Lady
of the Ozarks with the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Thus, Carthage
became for us a signpost in a move that was fraught with delays -
all of them from satan.
  Our first priority was seeing to the stability fo teh apostolate.
Our spiritual director lent his prudent advice and wisdom, so that
we were able to keep our toll-free message line available throughout
the move. A dear friend through MIR-A-CALL was there to allow a phone
line to be installed in her home, and the enormous task  of fielding
messages and requests, of which we receive a growing number every
month, was undertaken while we traveled. We maintained our post
office box in San Diego to keep available to all who responded to
A CALL TO PEACE a viable contact with us. Doing these things was
absolutely necessary to stability for MIR-A-CALL Center, but posed
a heavy financial burden on us. We turned to God with trust and He
saw us through the difficult transition. Because of His grace and
love, through the powerful workings of the Holy Spirit, we kept
MIR-A-CALL Center alive, and managed not to miss a beat. In pure
faith we set out, knowing only that when we got to the place where
Our Blessed Mother wanted us, we would know it. We were comforted
by knowing that the place would be special, because She had told us
it was..a very special refuge.