Koraće

Votive mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Votive mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on March 15th, in the parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Koraće in Bosanska Posavina, gathered about 50 people from Koraće.

The believers from Koraće regularly, for the third year in a row, every 15th of the month, go on a pilgrimage to their heavenly patron, praying for her intercession for survival and return to his war-torn land.

Under the motto Our Lady of Good Counsel, be our comfort, the mass celebration was led by OFM Ilija Jerković, the director of Zlatni cekin, a longtime parish priest in Koraće. Together with the parish priest, also OFM Velimir Zirdum, OFM Ivan Ćurić and rev. Slaviša Stavnjak concelebrated the mass.

At a commemorative homily, OFM Ilija explained that Mary, heavenly mother, is always there for us, mediating for us with her Son. He claimed that this world would be much better, more beautiful and noble if we seriously understood and lived the life of the Gospel.

In the end he called on the believers to be encouraged by their piety towards Mary to have more memory of Mary living in them, of Jesus and confidence in God's providence, and to live for meeting with the Lord in eternity. Before the Mass, there was piety of the way of the Cross.

B. Lukačević