My Heart Will Triumph Paperback – August 15, 2016

This remarkably open and honest account of her life by Mirjana Soldo is a joy to read. One gets a sense of her personal humility in the willingness to tell her story to the world in the way that one would tell it to a close friend. You will learn how having been chosen to be a Visionary and Messenger for Our Lady of Medjugorje has not only been a great blessing, but also a great cross to bear for Mirjana and her family, and yet they have accepted it from the start. You will hear of the many crosses, but also of the many joys and blessings in her life and in the lives of so many others.In telling her own story, she also tells that of Medjugorje and it's people, including the other Visionaries, in a narrative told with compassion, love, and no small amount of humor. The importance of other people in her life, in Medjugorje and beyond, is demonstrative of the love that obviously exists in Mirjana's heart. More than once I was moved to tears. Mirjana's cheerful good humor often led me to hearty laughter. Seldom is a personal narrative so openly honest and personal as this one is.Those who already know about Medjugorje should not pass this book by; for those who know little or nothing about Medjugorje this book is a great place to start.It reads like an open letter to the world, and yet like a personal letter from a dear friend. You will come away feeling like you know Mirjana and her family in a special way, and you will understand the humility and perseverance that she must have to carry the crosses in her life just as you and I must have to carry the crosses in ours.You will gain practical insight into Our Lady's mission guided by numerous quotations from Our Lady's messages to the world, and you will learn the importance of the "5 Stones" of Medjugorje...PrayerFastingConfessionHoly Mass (Eucharist)The Holy BibleAnd the importance of the Conversion that Our Lady is calling us to. The urgent need for the world to turn back to God.Although wonderfully written with the collaboration of co-authors Sean Bloomfield and Milijenko Musa, this book does not fail to resonate in Mirjana's own voice nor to tell her own story from a very personal perspective.I highly recommend this book to everyone!

BOOK REVIEW OF My Heart Will Triumph by Mirjana SoldoCocoa, Florida, Catholic Shop Publishers, 2016, 369 pagesby Samuel A. Nigro, MD, retired psychiatrist, copyright c 2018, open access.A beloved high school sweetheart of the 1950s asked me to review this book. It is the story of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six children in Medugorje, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo) which began June 24, 1981. The author lived it and describes it. It is a startling peek of Eternity and life outside of space-time. I find it provides the basis for contemporary parables of basic physics and science which help in understanding the universe consistent with ancient parables helping people know there is more than all the entropy and synthesis of our daily lives in space/time. Similar are current scientific theories of multiple universes seeming to confirm the Church's ancient proposed multiverses of Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell.My Heart Will Triumph is another glimpse of Spirituality proving the pre-Big Bang Statimuum, which is the word in basic physics for "Eternity with God"--or "Heaven." Mirjana stated, "Scientists, I later learned, categorized our experience as being in a state of ecstasy. I called it being in Heaven" (page 29). This is confirmed by wide-eyed onlookers repeatedly viewing the children ascending, gliding in less than two minutes to the top of the hill to see the Virgin, a walking distance adults said would take them "at least 12 minutes to get there (page 28)." What Soldo details is amazing. Who knows why these kids got apparitions so vividly. Maybe because one can find no hint of fabrication, division, evil, degradation or exploitation in anything in the book about these kids. Indeed, these kids bland acceptance of intimidating and demanding abuse by ubiquitous Communist authorities evokes the relaxed sainthood imagery of St. Thomas More facing his decapitation by King Henry VIII because of infallible-knowledge providing immunity and total undisturbed solace. As always, Communists, Pharisees, scribes, Herodians, atheists, secularists, and other jealous angry editors have not the faintest idea of the reality that there is more to life than their short-sighted arrogance.It was rough on the kids--peers and adults avoided and openly rejected them and their families for the most part because there were unpleasant consequences for those who were accepting and nice to them. What childhoods: ignored, bullied and threatened with murder...but all accepted with benign revering composure because they witnessed real Spirituality (As the Virgin told them "For those who will live the word of my Son and who will love, death will be life" page 59). "During those days, I was ready to die at any moment. I expected it was all leading to a point where they would kill me; I would vanish overnight...I wasn't afraid of dying, though, because then I could be with the Blessed Mother forever" (page 117).The book details "the visionaries" as they were called. What they heard from the Virgin must be read directly; a reviewer cannot do them justice. Most chapters begin with a quote from the Virgin as a title for the chapter. Many more quotes in each chapter from the Virgin offer a touch of the Divine throughout the book enabling many minutes of supernatural reflection and Spirit as events of the children are described. The best summary is that, after a full reading, it is a "prayer book" deserving at least a few pages every morning or bedtime--to start your day off with some contemporary words of the Virgin.Back to physics, apparitions are glimpses of what basic physics has to call the pre-BigBang: "the Immediacy of the non-time, non-space Statimuum", necessary for the Big Bang to have occurred about 15 billion years ago containing all the universe we know and have lived in. The Big Bang had to come from the pre-BigBang--Eternity--the Statimuum-- which contains the all of the All of the Universe Immediately--the Unrestrained Infinite Immediacy beyond our understanding and perception--except by brief glimpses which My Heart Will Triumph describes, as do the apparition experiences of others over the centuries.Stimulated by Soldo, I find myself confirmed in proposing that there are several human phenomena which give glimpses of the Statimuum of a more generalized superficial Spirituality and are usually not even recognized as a touch of Eternity. All are "super-nature"--beyond the limitations of the animal kingdom, because only humans have "conscious of consciousness",i.e., the soul enables functioning beyond nature. To be listed are complex human-only events requiring interactions leading to "spirit" which is felt as an exhilarating surge of transcendence no doubt a glimpse of the joyful Immediacy of the All in the pre-Big Bang. The listed, infra, are not "apparitions" but mini-glimpses of Spirit. They are not "perfect" because nature has it's errors and pollution; and humans have the freedom for entropy as well as synthesis.A few routinely overlooked mini-glimpses, not apparitions, of Spirit:(1) Human Art--Matter in nature creates Spirit--Love from the Creator is even evident in molecular attractions which fill the universe. Just before receiving My Heart Will Triumph, I visited the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago. It is an artful collection of many plants with molecules provoking humans to imitate their natural transcendent organizing into more visible exhibition of transcendence provoking in humans even more genuine Spirit beyond the Universe. Suddenly, you see and feel love everywhere there is real Art, including in nature, as the Virgin told these kids: "Today I invite you to observe nature because there you will meet God...I call you to give glory to God the Creator in the colors of nature. Through even the smallest flower, He speaks to you about His beauty and the depth of His love" (page 81)--If you can see clearly, matter creates Spirit, because there is even "love" between molecules attracted to each other in nature.(2) Sports--Sports are spirit-filled interaction events--contestants and spectators pray alot.(3) Music--Music with words of transcendence-being, matter, identity, truth, oneness, good, and beauty(1).(4) Words--Words and language cannot be understood by evolutionists, scientists, philosophers, or academics because "words are angels"(2)--Look them up in the Oxford English Dictionary and find their birth and personhood.(5) Theogeocalculus--Natural Law (3)--If you do not follow it, you are pollution.(6) The Mass--with its ultimate human purposes of Life, Sacrifice, Virtue, Love, Humanity, Peace, Freedom, and Natural Death Without Fear (4,5,6).These human events all pale to the apparitions by the Virgin to the children, but genuine pre-BigBang Spirit is glimpsed and felt by involvement in these six human-only C2 (Conscious-of-Consciousness) categories beyond nature but not beyond Nature's God and super-nature.My Heart Will Triumph is a must read consistent with the God given Lovelution of the Church and full humanbeingness.Thank you, Karen, for alerting me to this book!References:(1) "On Listening To Music"[email protected](2) "Words Angels Language"[email protected](3) "The Theogeocalculus of Life"...theogeocalculus.pdf - Adobe Reader(4) "Deplorable Pamphleteer"...Sam @DocNigro.com(5) "The Church"...Samuel A. Nigro, MD, J Psychol Clin Psychiatry 2015, 4(3): 00216(6) "Does Anyone Know How To Go To Mass Anymore?"[email protected]

This book shared the messages of Our Lady in such a beautiful and joyful way even with all the struggle and darkness that Mirjana experienced. This book is pure love and pure truth.

I loved reading this book. I feel more motivated and inspired to strengthen my faith to our Lord and Blessed Mother.

If there is a singular problem with this book is that it jumps around from year to year and event to event. However, it is a great 1st person narrative about Medjugorje and the desires of the Virgin Mary.Having met Marijana in June of 2018 in Medjugorje she is very much like the book. She is as humble as she says she is in the book. She served all of our pilgrim crew at lunch when she could have easily had her staff and family do it for her.Still when you read the book you have a clearer understanding how the visionaries work together, the gifts that they bring, and the suggestion of why they were selected to be visionaries.I had read about 3/4 of the book before getting to Medjugorje for the second time in 2018. The book helped with my pilgrimage.The book does not dig into the controversies surround Medjugorje and instead focuses on Mary's messages as well it should. It does point out that none of these controversies are new and many are decades old. One would think that the Vatican would not have appointed in March of 2018 an Apostolic Visitor (Hosner) if there were any significance to those allegations.This book is really for those who already believe in the visions and want a better understanding of history, background, and the messages of Medjugorje.