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- You're late. - I'm sorry, Boss.

- You are not paid to feel.

I trust you left your heart at home.

If you brought all your brain cells, we can begin.

This time it's something huge.

A genuine worldwide revolution,

fomented in broad daylight by normal, everyday people, street folk.

- How many are there? - At first, there were 12 of them...

in a small town you couldn't find on a map.

But they've grown so much, they are now countless.

- Are they dangerous?

- Some governments have tried to eradicate them

but nobody's been able to do it.

Not even with the most persuasive methods.

They have proven to be stronger than the Roman Empire,

stronger than Napoleon, than communism or capitalism,

stronger than all the media put together.

They might even be more powerful than...

soccer!

- Who's their leader? - Their leaders remain in hiding.

There are three, but so united they act as if there was only one.

People refer to Them in family-based codes:

they speak of a Father, a Son, a Brother.

There's a woman too.

They call her Mother.

She is the intermediary between the leaders and the rank and file.

She is highly discrete and appears unexpectedly to whom she chooses,

conveys her messages and disappears.

Then those people, who look meaningless, spread them throughout the world.

- Where's their operations center?

- They're everywhere, in all continents.

Infiltrate them, earn their trust

and interrogate those who claim to speak with the Mother.

Reach her and then...

get to the very top.

- Documents, codes, messages, do we have anything?

- Read this.

- Doesn't even have pictures.

- We knew you'd say that.

Relax: Our production department has prepared a G rated brief.

Do you need popcorn to concentrate?

Warning: Unauthorized VideoBible.

For those without time to read the Authorized Bible.

Once upon a time there was God:

a good and almighty being, who created a fascinating world

full of beautiful creatures.

Of all His many creatures of such beauty,

none did He love as much as the last one.

- Wait a minute, Boss.

Are you telling me that in the 21st century people

still believe the story that man was made from clay?

When do they think that happened?

- The date doesn't matter nor whether it was clay or a chimpanzee.

What matters is that they believe Someone created us all,

that we neither came from the Void nor will return to the Void.

They believe there's life after death.

Imagine the consequences, if that were true...

God's love for each of his children kept growing more and more,

seemingly without limit.

He rested his gaze on those small and frail creatures,

like there was no creature in the Universe more important than them.

And as the Father's love for his children grew,

so grew the envy the angel Lucifer felt toward them.

- All that is mine is yours. - Everything? Everything, Daddy?

- Yes! Everything I've created is for you and for your children,

who will also be my children.

- And when there are a great many of us, will you love us all, Daddy?

- No! I don't love you all together. I love you one by one.

- Daddy, how much do you love us?

- Again? Why, I already told you many times.

- Doesn't matter, say it again!

- No, I'll say it.

"I love you more than the clouds, more than heaven and the angels."

"I love you more than the mountains and the earth."

"I love you more than the plants and the animals."

"I love you more than all that exists and all that will exist."

- You have no idea how much I love you.

The Father provided his children with intelligence,

to be able to learn the laws of His creation.

No creature was capable of violating those laws.

However, God created his children, and the angels, with free will.

He taught them to distinguish between good and evil in their hearts.

If they chose good, they would be happy.

But if they chose evil,

they'd be like a tree that denies its own roots.

They would know sadness, despair and death.

Without God's children suspecting it,

the angel Lucifer, created to serve them

rejected God's will and wished to destroy them.

Rejected God's will and wished to destroy them.

His attack was disguised as love, as beauty, as freedom.

- Hi, what are you eating?

- A delicacy of the gods.

- But Daddy said...

- Daddy said you were free. Didn't he?

If you like obeying, don't eat.

- My child, no!

Please! Trust me, children.

Wait, please!

- With all due respect, Boss.

Weren't apples the forbidden fruit?

- With all due respect, JM, you just don't get it.

Who cares if it was an apple or a peach?

This is not a documentary on fruit trees, don't you understand?

Stop watching this movie like a spectator.

You and I are the main characters.

- My children, do not hide from me. Do not be afraid, I am your father.

- My Lord...

You said those who disobeyed you, would know death.

They've betrayed you, they're weak, they shall do it again!

Suffer not, my Lord. I myself shall take care of them.

When it seemed God's wrath would fall on His rebellious children,

the unexpected happened.

- You, ungrateful and arrogant creature.

Do you want me to destroy those I asked you to love and serve?

They are my children!

From now on you'll no longer be called Lucifer,

because you've chosen darkness over the light I put within you.

You have chosen the name of Satan, adversary.

- I hate you! Where's your power?

I only see weakness. Look at him, he is incapable of controlling his children.

Let's see who's more powerful!

Destroy me now, because if you don't...

I will destroy your children.

I will break your soft hard, time and again.

I will make them forget you.

Their cries of pain shall reach your ears.

- Lord, annihilate him!

- No!

The most humble of my daughters shall be the one, who with her bare foot...

shall crush his proud head.

May he be gone!

- You're making a mistake,

little God.

That day a silent war began, which continues today.

Both try to win us back, while we flee as fast as we can.

Satan pursues us, hidden in the darkness.

And God sends us messengers to call our attention

and get us to come back to Him.

- My Lord, your children refuse to listen.

Satan was right. Your children are treacherous.

I ask you not to destroy them...

but to take away their freedom.

- So that they obey me like the rest of the Universe already obeys me?

I don't want my children to obey laws.

I want them to love.

I shall place myself at their service. - What?

If they don't believe in my words, in my deeds they shall believe.

- Lord, they have your deeds before their eyes and they don't want to see them.

- But my deeds cannot teach them to love.

Who will teach them to forgive one another, and ask for forgiveness.

The water? The sun?

Who can teach them to serve one another?

The trees? The mountains?

My Word shall become flesh of their flesh.

I shall grow in a womb, like them.

I shall renounce all privilege.

I shall teach them to love unconditionally.

I shall let them take me in their hands.

I shall submit to their will.

They shall see that love is not imposed.

I shall be their servant.

And what's more, I shall be their food,

the simplest of foods, so that all may come towars me.

- Jesus, how can I talk to God, if I can't see him?

- It's very easy. Just say to him:

Dad: "Our Father Who art in heaven..."

He who wishes to be the first... may he be the last.

He who wishes to be the greatest, may he be the smallest.

Serve one another.

Fear not he who can kill your body.

Fear he who can kill your soul.

Father...

forgive them,

for they know not what they do.

Son...

there's your mother.

Mother...

there's your son.

- A terrible ending.

- It's not an ending at all. This is just getting started.

Now they say he's alive.

- Well, he's alive in the collective memory,

like Michael Jackson or Marilyn Monroe.

- If someone says they speak with Michael Jackson

or that they receive messages from Marilyn Monroe

we suspect they're lying or that they need a psychiatrist.

There are millions of people who say they speak with Jesus Christ every day

or that they receive messages from the Virgin Mary.

Are they lying? Are they crazy?

Or are they telling the truth?

- Do you doubt it?

- They pay me to doubt and to solve mysteries.

I want you to investigate whether this movie is fiction or reality,

whether it is comedy or drama.

Find out why the romantic scenes are interrupted with segments of terror

And decide whether the ending is already written, or if it's up to us.

If we discover that it's all bogus...

our lives will remain the same.

But if it were true that God's prescriptions work

Would you be afraid to change what needs to be changed?

- Why me? - I reviewed your file:

Catholic, of those that claim to believe in God.

But, do you think anybody around you notices that?

Tell me about your faith.

- I was educated to believe that in the past there were miracles,

But I don't think they exist today.

My relationship with God is cultural, intellectual.

- And with the Church?

- I have the same relationship I have with my soccer team:

I watch the games, I clap, I criticize them, but I don't play.

- It's just what we need: a lukewarm believer with unresolved doubts.

- What's my new identity? - It's not new.

We've reinstated a character created by the Catholic Church four centuries ago,

created to ensure the search for the truth in any investigation.

You'll be the new "Devil's Advocate."

' MY Weapons?

Wow, awesome, the perfection achieved by our R&D agents

Why, you would think it's a simple umbrella.

- We're in times of crisis, JM. No more squander.

You'll easily learn how to use it.

Good luck!

Your first destination is London.

And the name of your first suspect is John Rick Miller.

Born in New York 66 years ago. Married. Two children.

Worked as a businessman, was a corporate executive and US government adviser.

But, 25 years ago, he changed jobs and bosses.

Now he travels the world as an ambassador for God. That's right.

Over the last 10 years, his movement has spread to 21 countries and 350 cities,

uniting over a million members.

John meets the world's top leaders,

proposing them to consecrate their territories to the hearts of Jesus and Mary.

And far from dismissing him as a nutcase,

they receive him, listen, and some even do what He says.

Find out how he does it.

Your children, my children, it is hard for them to return.

The wounds in their hearts are enormous.

These are self-inflicted wounds caused by not accepting my will.

Is it not enough to have created them?

To have bestowed this wonderful world on them so they would love me?

Is Jesus' devotion to their service, as man and as food, not enough for them either?

Not even with the help of my priests, to whom I give all my healing powers?

Some of them even forget my laws. What more can I do?

Let me go. Let me try. I'm their mother, they are my children.

You gave them to me.

Go. Tell them how much I love them.

Tell them I forgive them for everything. That I shall forget everything. May they come back.

Select the meekest, the humblest, to be your messengers.

Maybe them they shall believe.

Tell them I love them. Go with them.

- You copy me, Boss? - Go ahead, JM.

- I'm inside. Taking my first steps in a spiritual world,

inhabited by invisible beings.

I've been assured they exist and that I can speak with them myself,

but so far I haven't managed to see God or his Mother anywhere.

Be extremely careful with the next suspect.

Her beauty is extraordinary.

Don't let her female charm cloud your mind, is that clear?

- Relax, Boss. I'm in control.

- That woman was a sensual top model...

and has become a spiritual top model.

Find out if she's been brainwashed or if she's under the influence of a drug...

Go to Colombia, look for her and call me after talking to her.

- Ten-four, Boss, understood. Over and out.

We're headed to Colombia, non-stop...

- To Colombia in this thing?

You watch too many movies...

- Amada Rosa Pérez? - Yes.

- Juan Manuel Cotelo, Devil's Advocate.

May I ask you some questions?

- Yes.

- Do you know these two women?

- Yes.

The first one is me... and the second one too.

- How do you get from the first to the second?

- Well, it's a long story...

- We got time.

- It all began at a gym. I was 18.

Someone said: "Hey, would you like to be a model?"

And I said:

"Well... yes."

"Being a model means fame, success, money... why not?"

I won four contests.

I immersed myself in shopping,

the meetings, the cocktail parties, in talking only about money,

worshiping the body. I used to work out for five hours at the gym.

I immersed myself in the ephemeral, the superficial, banal.

And it didn't satisfy me.

- If you already had money, a job you liked, pleasant, nice people around you...

what were you missing?

- Peace.

- And why couldn't you find peace in all of that?

- That's what I was asking myself:

"if I have all these things, why do I have nothing?"

"if I can buy something, why do I feel dissatisfied?"

"if I can be with the person I'd like to be with,

and I could, why do l feel bad?"

"Why do I feel like this?"

It's truly when you're alone, in silence, and you start to question your life,

and take off all those masks you wear when you're in front of the camera,

on the street, with friends with people...

I'd say: "This isn't me."

During the time when I was pregnant...

I wish I had found someone who would've said something positive and nice:

"Listen, being a mom is not bad,"

it's a blessing, not a misfortune as portrayed in today's culture and world

which bombard you with a slew of messages

"it'll ruin your life, you won't succeed. Your goals come first...

fulfilling yourself as a woman, as a professional."

During those times in which I was so lonely...

I told several people, and the few people that were around me, they said all those things.

I was terrified, I didn't tell my parents

and... decided to get rid of my baby.

The consequences of abortion are extremely serious,

I'll mention them all:

tearing of the uterus, hemorrhaging, anemia, bulimia...

and the opposite, despair and the anxious urge to eat...

deep depressions, emotional emptiness, nightmares.

I had nightmares, I dreamt of babies, I heard babies crying.

Whenever I saw a baby...

I thought: "How old would my son be if I had let him live?"

I was irascible, irritable about everything.

My moods were unstable and would swing.

I'd cry for one reason, cry for the opposite, if they looked at me, if they didn't.

- You associate all that with the abortion? - Yes.

- Isn't it a little exaggerated? - No.

- Maybe you were just an irascible person or you were going through a bad spell...

- I've had the fortune of speaking with many women who have had abortions...

and they've told me those are precisely the symptoms.

That's why, thoughts of suicide...

which some have carried out, unfortunately...

they're all related to an abortion, to one of these events.

After the last abortion I tried many things,

but above all I devoted myself to esotericism...

to believe in the cards, having my palms read...

my iris, my aura, my hair.

To believe in a number of things that make no sense.

I would go to church, pray to the Holy Virgin,

seek God, asking: "What am I going to do?"

"Why am I like this? Why do I feel like this? I want to get out of here."

I felt I was between a rock and a hard place.

And I bought a book of Catholic prayers.

I became very interested...

and seeing that, at its core, it simply seeks the happiness of human beings,

not to repress them, but rather for you to be truly happy.

The Bible says, "Come to me, all ye who are weary and burdened",

and I shall give you rest."

"That's the way I feel, I want You to give me rest, please..."

I don't want to feel depressed and empty anymore,

"lost in this world with no way out."

When I start to say the rosary, I start to feel that peace.

But, the more I devoted myself to the Lord, the more the enemy, the devil, would assail me.

I started to feel certain presences in my house...

and seeing that, at its core, it simply seeks the happiness of human beings,

I started to feel a shadow that would lie on top

of me and pin me down, wouldn't let me move,

it imbued me with fear, dread, terror.

I would sleep with both a knife and the Bible next to me.

One night, I think that was the strongest I experienced...

I felt that presence, a colossal oppression

and I couldn't move, I couldn't speak.

And right then when I was in such despair...

I heard a voice that was so sweet...

so... motherly,

that said: "Pray, but with devotion."

"Pray, pray, pray my child, because it's never enough."

I understood, with the full awareness only God provides,

that it was the Holy Virgin. And those battles became more persistent,

until one day someone who also works in television, told me:

"Amada, the battle is very complicated.

You can't do it without confessing."

That's when I understood the importance of confession.

When I confessed that abortion

I couldn't speak, I cried and didn't know why.

And the priest I was with, thank God...

he started telling me all my sins and I was completely floored.

- Let's see, he was telling you your sins before you had told him?

- Yes, every one of them.

- That man had a special power, a special ability...

- God spreads gifts and abilities among his children, to help others.

In this case he was helping me, who couldn't speak.

Abortion is one of the worst and deepest sins,

it leaves a very deep wound in the heart of human beings, one that we hide for years.

When I got to that part of the confession, I simply said "Yes"

crying, and asked: "How can he know my whole life?"

It was right then that I felt and saw my soul,

tainted, rotten and foul.

At that time, I heard him say: "I forgive you, because I love you."

When I heard that “I forgive you, I love you...”

it was so beautiful...

so wonderful...

l felt the Infinite Love embracing my soul, cuddling my heart.

And right then I understood...

God's infinite Mercy.

That all the sins from Adam to those of the worst sinner of today,

are a little drop compared to the immense ocean of Mercy.

Later, when I took communion...

for me it was... absolutely wonderful,

and I cry out of joy because remembering it is...

I want to be in His presence to feel it again!

- Beautiful women like you, models, you're beautiful even when you cry.

When I cry it's a horror show, my snot runs...

- Tell me about what you have in your hand.

- It's a rosary. This is the whip for the Devil.

Hail, Mary, full of grace...

The Lord is with Thee...

- Why the same prayer over and over again, fifty times?

- I wish it were five thousand...

I put the Pope here, and the Church, the sick...

drug addicts, women who have aborted, the indigent...

For childhood, for virginity, for marriage, for families...

for all those who are suffering the crisis, the children in Africa,

for all the poor, for those who are in need...

for those who don't know Him,

for all those who have let me down, for my enemies.

We're all here.

- And is that prayer heard?

- Yes. The prayer God doesn't listen to, is the one that's not said.

Three cases so far, of three friends...

who couldn't become pregnant.

Two of them now have their babies and the third is in her first month.

And many cases like that of diseases, of cancers that were cured...

of marriage problems or crises,

of problems with studying at school, work...

- Anybody can talk to that woman today?

. Anybody.

She's the mother of humanity. Anybody.

And those she seeks the most...

are us, the sinners.

I've been in this battle for four years...

it's a battle until the day I die.

Today I walk with my feet on the ground, but with my gaze fixed on Heaven.

I no longer feel like a model.

The Virgin is the model, She is the true model.

I don't care if they say I'm crazy, that I'm nuts, have a screw loose.

I'm happy!

Nobody can take that away from me.

They can talk about me all they want...

but I'm happy, I have the peace that I so longed for.

- Can't think of any more questions, but I have a small whim.

Would you mind having our picture taken?

Boss, this is to inform you that I haven't found any symptoms

of insanity or drug use in that girl.

She seems to be a happy person but... what if she were playing a character?

Or maybe she believes

because things are going well for her,

but, can you love God when life gets complicated?

- Well thought, JM! Change your course!

Get away from the centers of power and the beauty salons.

Get in shape, because I want you to investigate in the heart of pain...

of danger and sadness.

Interview the poor, the sick, drug addicts, prostitutes...

Let's find out if God is by the side of people who live in hell.

- Good morning, Rubén? - Hi, Salvador, how are you?

- I'm not hurting you, am I, Rubén? - No, it's OK.

- Take care, Rubén. Have to go to another job.

- God bless you.

This is for you, brother. God bless you, brother. Bye.

Jesus loves you, child. Remember that He shed his blood for you.

God bless you.

I'm on my way. I see you. God bless you, sister.

- Good evening. Could I get a glass of water, please?

- In exchange for some questions. - Sorry?

- Salvador Iniguez? - Yes.

- Juan Manuel Cotelo, Devil's Advocate.

What is a person like you,

with a portrait like that, doing in a place like this?

- I'm sharing God's love, which I found through this Woman,

with people who don't know about that love, because there's no one to talk to them about it.

Want some?

- I wouldn't want them to die without someone

having told them about the love of God in their lives.

It's a medication. If you take it, it makes you want to say the rosary.

- But wait a minute these people work in prostitution.

Shouldn't you start by telling them: "What you do is wrong,

God doesn't want you to do this"?

- They know that what they do is wrong, and everybody tells them.

But why not talk to them now about what's right

and the things they can do right?

Jesus doesn't judge us. He shows us God's unconditional love,

God's merciful love.

Christ died and resurrected for every one of us;

doesn't matter how many times we fall, the Lord awaits us with open arms.

Doesn't matter how many times we fall, the Lord awaits us with open arms.

There are wounded hearts here, many wounded hearts,

and I've seen the results.

Blanquita, how are you, sister?

I think he is wonderful.

He always calls me over the phone, tells me that the Virgin loves me,

that God is with me, that I'm blessed by Her.

My son was stabbed in December,

he almost died.

The Virgin helped me, showing signs that she was with me.

I ask for Her protection a lot, that she guide me, lead me by the hand,

to keep me from falling into prostitution.

I haven't prostituted myself for a year now.

I've offended God, the Virgin...

And they don't deserve that, because They give everything.

Why do we make them suffer so much?

When they get to experience God's love

they suffer over their past.

And they end up loving Jesus Christ to the same

degree as the hurt they experienced. That's why their lives change.

- One day I was very sad and depressed,

and I found a portrait of Jesus in the trash.

I picked it up saying: "if they didn't love you, I sure will!"

Since that time I put it on the landing of my staircase.

When I come home I feel his gaze,

I cross myself and say: "Bless you Lord you let me come home safely."

I'm sorry, I screwed up, I'm despicable.

Then I come and cry to you and ask you to help me.

Sometimes I don't even have the words to ask you to help me get on in life

because the devil arrives and l fall again.

I don't want to go backwards.

He's the one who understands me,

the one on whom I can vent my sorrows.

And I feel he heard my prayers today

because I've met Salvador, and he introduced me to the Virgin of Peace.

She's the one who gave me peace and quiet.

I feel that the Virgin is lots and lots of love.

In the life I lead, one of vice,

I never imagined that I'd get through or that I'd have so much peace and quiet,

so much love for the Virgin,

like a mother that is with me and is guiding me, not with words,

but with Her love.

I feel like I'm protected, sheltered.

That gives me the strength to keep going.

- Thank you, Salvador, for being so nice, and thank you for being my friend.

- Salvador, honestly...

How many people have told you you're nuts?

- A lot! They have told me that!

Even at home they've asked me how I could ever go to those places.

They tried to mug me,

but they ended up assaulted by a weapon

more powerful than any one they can brandish.

- Here, in this neighborhood can I talk to God

or do I have to go to a church, a pilgrimage?

- So much so, that even right now we're talking about Him.

- Yes, but one thing is to talk about Him, another is to talk with Him.

- Yes you can, we have that ability because God gave it to us.

God is not limited to a place, God lives within every one of us.

And as the Virgin says, all they have to do is open their hearts through prayer...

and the Lord begins to act.

God is a father.

- And in the Church, is it possible to find God today?

Or do we only find scandals, theft, abuse, hubris?

- I would suggest you not measure your faith in God by the behavior of others.

Measure it by your behavior.

I am the Church, and the Church has your flaws, because you're part of it, and it has mine.

I didn't want anything to do with the Church, I stayed away from the sacraments for a long time.

And it was through Mary, Queen of Peace, that I was reunited with my Church.

And I won't say that my heart has fully healed,

Because She said it herself in Medjugorje:

"Conversion is not a state of life, it is a journey."

And I can tell you that there are many bad priests, and good ones too.

Try to get to know the good priests too, not just the bad ones.

- I need urgent information, Boss, about good priests.

Maybe someone can help me discover the truth about God.

- It won't be easy, JM.

Our informants know all about priests that are pedophiles, thieves

womanizers, drunkards, guerrillas, former priests...

but they don't investigate the good priests.

- I understand, Boss. Mission impossible, then.

- iNO Way!

Since when have we relied on the press to discover the truth?

Stay away from the information highways. Delve into unpolluted territory.

We know that there are priests who don't just talk,

but who also preach by example.

There's one, named Francisco, who built a village in the middle of the jungle...

to care for deprived and wounded people.

They say the Virgin helps him.

Our agents in Panama will give you some leads.

After that... Good luck!

- We made it, Juan Manuel! Behind those trees...

- What trees, sorry? - Those trees you can see back there

behind them is where we're going.

- I won't get lost? - No, don't worry, the road takes you there.

- Is there cell coverage around here? - No, there's no coverage.

- OK, and the crocodiles sleep at night, right?

- Yes, they sleep and they're far from the road.

- Right... - A pleasure, Juan Manuel.

- Likewise Bye!

- Bye. May God be with you. - I need him.

- Who are you?

- I'm Juan Manuel Cotelo, Devil's Advocate.

How's it going? You live around here? - Yes!

- Do you know Father Francisco? - Yes!

- Can you take me to him? - Yes!

The Father created the Magnificat community for girls

with emotional difficulties,

especially for those with drug abuse problems, vices, alcohol,

victims of child abuse,

sexual harassment, who find no meaning to life.

- There's a lot of 'Christ Therapy' work. - What is that?

- All of us who come here we don't take antidepressants or drugs,

because it is God who will heal our life, a medication is not what will make me happy.

Without realizing it, I'm healing over time. It's being born again entirely.

It's the work of God.

- And the children that come here who are they?

- Children ages six to 15 come here.

Many have difficulties, they feel dejected,

here they come to a place of prayer, of play,

they partake in the Holy Eucharist every weekend they come,

So that they can also feel happy,

in spite of all the inequalities or difficulties they suffer in this world.

- Where can I find Father Francisco Verar?

- See that tree over there?

- Yes.

- See the iguana that's over there? - Yes!

- Behind that iguana you'll find Father Francisco Verar.

- Thank you very much Lourdes, pleasure meeting you.

Thank you for everything. Goodbye!

- Sorry to interrupt you. Father Francisco Verar?

- At your service.

- You're the one responsible for what's happening in the jungle?

- I'm not the one responsible. In any event, She would be responsible,

the Virgin, because it was She who inspired this work,

about eight years ago.

After giving the Eucharist in Medjugorje,

I felt a strong desire to help women with difficulties.

One of the community's rules is to not ask for anything at all.

Not even when

we need food for the girls or the boys...

do we ask for anything.

And we see God's hand, whenever we receive exactly what we need.

Since I was a child, my mother used to say:

"You need to thank the Virgin, because you came into the world thanks to Her."

I didn't pay much attention to her, and one day I said to her:

"Tell me precisely what you mean by this."

And that was when she told me, in detail

that she had been married to my father for 12 years

and had hopes of having a baby, but she had been unable to become pregnant.

She had asked Jesus plenty of times. And she use to say:

"Seems that the Son is not listening. I will ask his Mother, to see if She listens to me."

With tears in her eyes, she asked the Virgin to be able to have a baby.

When I was born, my mother consecrated me to the Virgin.

What's interesting is that once I was born...

a year and a half later, she wanted to have another baby.

She asked the Virgin And my brother was born.

When I was born, my mother was 40 years old.

And my brother, who is also a priest, when he was born my mother was 42.

We both had perfectly fine births, both of us are priests and we work for the Lord and for Mary.

- Are you happy to have two sons that are priests?

- Of course, thank God.

I'm happy.

- Why didn't you keep asking so that more of us would be priests?

- Because your Dad didn't want to.

I think that the relationship of a mother with her child on earth

is the same relationship as the one the Mother of God has with each of us:

she is always by our side, she always accompanies us, always advises us

she always intercedes, always, for our needs.

I've never seen either the Virgin or Jesus,

but I always feel Jesus and the Virgin.

- How do you feel them? Since I was a child I learned there were five senses:

taste, touch, sight, smell and hearing.

- Yes! - Do you have one that I don't?

- Love!

If we truly want to get to know the Virgin and Christ

we must open our hearts.

Let's not forget that the First Commandment of God's Law

is to love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

God laid it down like that not because he's narcissistic,

but because that way, man on earth is happy;

he loves and lives in harmony.

When man removes God from his heart, what guides him is pride and arrogance

And from that, you only get destruction,

which is what we are witnessing in the world today.

When the towers in New York collapsed,

and we saw those hard-hitting images where people were jumping out of the building,

A person at ground zero said:

"And where is God right now? Why does he allow this?"

And other person shouted: "He's not here, because we cast him out of the city",

by living the way we do."

If God is not present in the heart of man,

man cannot attain peace

and he cannot be an instrument of peace for others.

Peace is an urgent matter for the world

and peace is achieved, fundamentally, by conversion.

And there's no time to lose.

Father.

- My communications link to you was down for days, Boss.

- My communications link to you was down for days, Boss.

I trust you'll copy my message.

At this stage, fatigue is setting in.

Don't know if I'm going forward or backward, cause I still have the same doubt I started with:

Are they crazy? Are they lying? Were they brainwashed?

Or are they telling the truth, but I'm not willing to believe them?

It would be wonderful if there were a formula that could overcome hate and fear...

Living in peace would be beautiful.

With these doubts I arrive in Bosnia-Herzegovina,

determined to investigate what happens in that village called Medjugorje.

Got an appointment with a local interpreter in Mostar, 25 kilometers out.

It's hard to believe that the peace and quiet of these streets...

were desecrated in the past by gunfire, bombs and screams of pain.

It's so hard to believe that in a Muslim country, under Communist rule...

is where the Virgin appears.

Filka has experienced the insanity of war and the peace of reconciliation.

She's my guide.

- I met a doctor and, in talking, he said: "You have heart trouble."

He prescribed a trip to Medjugorje. Is it the place to heal your heart?

- I think it's the best place to heal your heart.

- What do they give you there? - All I can tell you is that

you'll feel a lot of love.

And the love of not just anybody,

but that of your own Mother.

- My mother's?

- Of your Mother in Heaven, because you have another mother.

I can tell you her love heals everything,

especially the heart.

I also had many doubts at first but

I just trusted the Visionaries,

the people who see Her.

And, seeing that the formula worked,

I said: "I'll put it into practice. See what happens."

I got nothing to lose."

"Take this, dear friends,

it's the most potent medicine for this world that is sick and plagued by fears."

- We come from God and cannot be happy...

until we return to Him.

And here, while we're on earth, if we're not reconciled with Him,

if we're not in communion with Him...

- And what is being happy? Cause we have good days and bad days...

- It's having the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

peace, kindness, helpfulness,

joy, patience, understanding.

Being happy also means

living in accordance with God's will, which you discover day by day,

listening to our conscience, which is where God speaks to us.

- Another question Filka, when... - Listen, why don't we stop talking now

and go straight to the 'drugstore' for the 'medicines?

What do you say?

- It's that I have a very good question.

- I don't care. We can talk for hours on end...

but I want you to take 'the medicines' now.

- They'd better work, or you'll be hearing from my lawyer!

- I don't think he'll come, but that's ok.

- Medjugorje, how do you pronounce it exactly?

Does it mean something? You're a translator...

- Yes, Medjugorje means 'between mountains'.

- Between mountains? - Yes.

- I love the mountains and movies about mountains.

- Me too. - They're my favorite.

- Are there many attractions in Medjugorje, interesting things to see?

- That's precisely why Medjugorje is so alluring,

because it has no external attraction.

I think the Virgin chose this place,

which is hard to reach and so unattractive,

because by coming here, she wanted...

you to not look outward, but rather inward, within.

You can be climbing the mountain with thousands of people,

but you're alone with your God.

But what is truly amazing, if we're talking about external things,

is the multitude of people that come from all over the world. You'll see.

All races, cultures, different religions too...

From all walks of life: doctors, athletes, politicians, artists, bankers...

that is truly moving.

- I hope you can copy my message, Boss.

I've infiltrated a crowd of people that pray.

Haven't spoken with any of them yet, but tomorrow I have an appointment

with those who've claimed to see, hear and speak with the Virgin Mary

for over 30 years, in this insignificant town.

I'm confident I'll reach the very top and finally make contact with that woman.

I see the Virgin like I see you now.

Sometimes she congratulates us, offers us her hand we kiss her, she hugs us...

she's alive like we are.

Before she arrives, there are three flashes, like a signal.

She has a Grey dress, a white veil,

a crown of stars, blue eyes,

black hair, pink cheeks...

She's on a cloud, without touching the ground.

On important holidays like Easter, Christmas...

she wears a golden dress.

On Christmas she appears with Child Jesus in arms.

Once we asked Her: "Why are you so beautiful?"

She said: "I am beautiful because I love."

Begin to love and you shall also be."

- God knows why. Maybe because we're like children, we have clean hearts, open hearts.

We're not sly, don't know how to lie.

It was something between God and us. God knew that we said: "He will help us."

And God has helped us over all these years. You think this would be easy without His help?

When the Virgin first started appearing here, everything was prohibited.

You couldn't even say the word "Medjugorje."

But God, in a few months, made everyone know about it.

Because when it's about God, you can't stop it.

Doesn't matter if it's Washington, Barcelona, Paris...

What's important is that it's about God and bears fruit.

God could make us all believe in Him in one second.

But no, He has left humans free to choose the path they wish to take.

And He sends His Mother to Lourdes,

Fàtima,

Guadalupe,

to show us the right path.

But if we don't want to God doesn't force us, he leaves us free.

- That's entirely up to you. When you want it.

Because She says: "Open your hearts and I will be with you."

I know, I've seen how much She loves us all.

Not the Visionaries or the priests, but all of us,

with the same love and concern!

What's important is that you open your heart and say:

"I want to walk with you."

And you'll feel her. Because a mother never says 'no' to her children.

Pray. Tell God, the Virgin, Jesus or those closest to you... how you feel.

Tell them what you want, what you want to change in yourself, what you want to feel...

And pray. When the time comes, God will give it to you, if your heart is open.

- My understanding is that when we pray, when we say "Hail Mary" or "Our Father..."

if we feel every word that comes out of our mouths with our heart...

to me that's praying with the heart.

We can have all the things in the world, but if we don't have peace... we have nothing.

The only true peace is the one Jesus gives. And that comes with prayer.

- Why is it that I don't feel sorrow when I see Jesus on the Cross?

- That you need to ask yourself. I advise you to pray and ask God:

"Why don't I feel your pain? What's wrong with me?"

And pray. He'll give you the answer, don't worry.

Look at Him. He's suffered so much for me!

He's given me so much!

With his death he has shown me so much love!

- Hello. Silvia? - Yes.

- Pleasure, Juan Manuel Cotelo.

- Someone told me that you have experienced a miracle.

- At the end of October 2004,

I became completely paralyzed from the waist down.

I was in a wheelchair, paraplegic, unable to walk or move my legs.

All medical tests came back negative.

I lost a lot of weight, started having epileptic seizures

that limited my life, that of a 16-year-old girl, even more.

On June 20, my doctor said she would be away the following week,

because she was going with her mother to Medjugorje.

That's when I asked her if she would take me with her to Medjugorje.

Medjugorje, Lourdes, Fatima to me they were basically the same thing. I knew nothing.

I knew they were places where the Virgin appeared, but that's all.

We arrived on the morning of June 24,

we went with the wheelchair to the foot of the hill...

and then, two people carried me to the summit.

They sat me down between the rocks, as best they could, and I began to pray.

That was the first time I remember having prayed with my heart.

I never asked for my own healing, because I thought that was impossible.

I did believe that God performs miracles... but not on me,

but rather on the noblest, the holiest, the highly devoted... not on me.

The leader of my group said: "Ask the Virgin for everything you want."

She'll descend from Heaven to Earth, will be here before us,

" And listen to us all without distinction."

I asked the Virgin for the strength to accept and face my future in a wheelchair,

of smiling once again even in my condition.

I was 17. A future in a wheelchair terrified me.

To my left I saw a white light, gorgeous and very bright,

that I could look at without being blinded.

At first I was afraid.

I tried to look away, but it was so beautiful that I couldn't stop looking at it.

All I remember is having been on a very soft cushion,

and the sweetest of voices spoke to me and calmed me down, consoling me.

After a few minutes, don't know how many...

I opened my eyes and saw my father, next to me, crying

and for the first time in nine months, I felt my legs supported by something.

And seeing a hand in front of me

I took hold of it and stood up, as if it was the most natural thing.

When I saw myself standing, I started to cry and cry

because it was something bigger than me. I would've never imagined this.

The next morning, at 4:30 am, we climbed up the Via Crucis, at Mt. Krizevac

and both going up and coming down, I was the first of the group.

- Your case is one of a kind!

- No. In Medjugorje there are many cases of healing.

- How many, 10? - No, over 100.

But there are many more cases of conversions of the heart...

And they are the most beautiful.

- I wasn't a believer. I was completely closed off.

And even my character has changed here.

I feel at home, in peace, calm.

I came empty, and am leaving full.

It's not about telling the experience... it's about living it.

Inexplicable things happen in this town, Boss.

It's not just what they tell me, but also what I see with my own eyes.

There's a metal sculpture of Jesus that exudes a liquid from the knee.

If it's a magic trick, it's a really good one.

Many people, myself included, have seen the sun move, as if it danced.

I can think there's nothing miraculous about it, that it's an optical, natural effect,

which some eyes detect and others don't.

All I know is that it happens here.

I've spoken with an exorcist.

A priest who not only claims to expel the demons some people carry within,

but also that he himself was possessed by a demon that he cast off here.

- As soon as She touched me, the evil spirit that possessed me left.

Right afterwards, I heard this voice in my soul: "I am your mother and I protect you."

It was an incredible feeling.

But I haven't yet told you what's most amazing, Boss.

I've seen long lines of people who wait their turn to tell their lives to a priest,

repentant of the bad things they've done.

They are convinced that it is Christ himself who listens to and forgives them.

And if it were true, Boss?

The people that come to confess don't come to get a weight off their shoulders,

they come because, suddenly, everything they had in their heads, all they had learned about faith...

went down to their hearts.

And they come seeking a more intimate encounter with God.

And they find it.

It's true He doesn't speak like you might expect. You're a grown man

and you follow reason, it's true.

But when your children were babies, you didn't talk to them like that.

And yet you managed to communicate.

The phone to speak with God is prayer.

And the first thing prayer requires is faith in God's presence.

When you put yourself within God's reach, God indeed acts.

These people don't just believe in God...

or speak about Him, they speak with Him

and have placed Him in the center of their lives.

I'm free to think they're naive, that no one listens to them.

I can interrogate them all and not believe any of them.

But I've decided to change strategies,

because I suspect that this investigation is one for "internal Affairs."

I take my first steps with doubts and fear

knowing that I might discover things I should change,

but there's no going back.

If I'm determined to discover the truth, I'll take the formula

to personally test its efficacy.

The Vatican is still investigating the credibility of the apparitions of Our Lady in Medjugorje.