Medjugorje Message: June 25, 2026
45th Anniversary of Our Lady, Queen of Peace
Dear children! Rejoice with me because the Most High permits me to be with you, to lead you to Him Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Rejoice, little children, and be joyful also in difficulties and you will have the strength, because you will be aware that you are transient and you will know to offer everything to God. That is why, do not forget: I am your Mother and I love you. Thank you for having responded to my call.
River of Light
July 2026
“Rejoice with Me!”
“Rejoice with me because the Most High permits me to be with you, to lead you to Him Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
We rejoice, dearest Lady, in your lingering Medjugorje presence:
45 years! which—by our worldly accounting—is long,
but in eternity, maybe not?
Are a thousand years indeed as only one day where you dwell?
And in this lengthy madness of our human choosings—
our continual riots of self-will bent towards greed, violence,
suicidal choices for our body-minds made in God’s image,
homicidal negligence of God’s beloved poor and powerless,
and our protracted ungrateful assault upon planet Earth, given
as a glorious garden to tend with care—
still, you “rejoice” because God “permits you to be with us”!
Good Lord, dear Lady—how can you stand to be with us?!
Yet faithfully, you are here “to lead us” to Jesus your Son,
“Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life“—
the One upon Whom your maternal eyes ever gaze,
never wavering from this sole focus of your attention.
If only we, too, had your immaculate vision
with eyes fixed in constant, conscious awareness upon the One:
+ Who is “the Way” (when we’ve lost our moral compass and path to peace);
+ Who is “the Truth” (when we can no longer discern Reality from the cesspool of lies and propaganda we inhabit);
+ Who is “the Life” (when our culture of death has cheapened human dignity into a void of existential bankruptcy)
But even today, in these hard-hearted, stiff-necked times, you
continue, tirelessly, to lead us to Him!
“Rejoice, little children, and be joyful also in difficulties and you will have the strength, because you will be aware that you are transient and you will know to offer everything to God.”
Blessed Mother, you call us to the highest challenge of faith:
JOY in the midst of suffering!
The acid test and gold standard of discipleship:
abandonment to your Son of “everything”
that we have tried, in our weakness and folly,
to get, to win, to achieve, to manage, to control, to keep.
Through the great gift of adversity, trouble, and grievous loss
we learn the surrendering to God of all
our health and wealth, wishes, dreams, and loves—every Good
now realized as unspeakable grace, un-keepable treasure:
never ours to own but always and ever God’s alone!
And we ourselves, but “transients“—mortal, temporary, short-lived
as the grass of the field—only passing through this world
for a brief, fleeting moment on the human stage, soon to exit.
In this liberating knowledge that is faith, dear Lady,
you tell us we “will have the strength” to meet every difficulty life can bring.
For our vanishing, ephemeral sojourn here—once accepted—
brings Freedom, rejoicing, to every moment:
the Blessed Assurance that All and Everything is in God’s hands—not ours!
Behold, all fear can evaporate!
“That is why, do not forget: I am your Mother and I love you.”
The words that we all long to hear—that should have been
spoken by our birth mom a million times (but weren’t)—the
promise of unending safety, security, affection, esteem, comfort, agency:
the ultimate affirmation from which a healthy,
loving psyche is built and a God-loving soul evolves.
Our Lady, Queen of Peace, Spouse of the Holy Spirit,
Ark of the Covenant, Seat of Wisdom, Cause of our Joy,
and Mother of God: You are truly our Mother who loves each of us
with an infinite and eternal Love we’re meant to enjoy forever!
In this incredible epoch of your Medjugorje visitation, you address
our innermost wounds of a lifetime, knitting back together our
fractured sense of self and restoring the divine image of your Son.
In gratitude we REJOICE!
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PERENNIAL PEARLS…
Empty yourself. Sit quietly, content with the grace of God.
—St. Romuald
The purpose of silence is to break through the crust of the false self.
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.
—St. Vincent de Paul
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than to have words without a heart.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi
Contemplation is a wordless resting in the presence of God beyond all thoughts and images.
—James Finley
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that we used when we created them.
—Albert Einstein
Division begins in the MIND and can be ended by the HEART.
—Robb Smith
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.
—St. John Paul II
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“Incarnatio continua!”: The Incarnation continues IN you, AS you.
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Find inner peace and thousands around you will find salvation.
The purpose of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit.
—St. Seraphim of Sarov
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LOVE is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. LOVE is the primal and universal psychic energy. LOVE is a sacred reserve of energy; it is the blood of spiritual evolution.
—Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Every being exists in intimate relation with other beings and in constant exchange of gifts with each other.
—Fr. Thomas Berry, CP
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Recognizing “enoughness” is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more.
—Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Our Amma/Abba, Divine Source-Who-Is-Love,
Whole and Holy is Your Name.
May Your reign of Love come, Your will of Love be done
Here on earth, just as it is with You.
You give us each day all that we need
and You hold no accounts against us,
just as we wish to hold no accounts against each other or ourselves.
Leave us not in temptation of believing the lie of separation,
But deliver us from its consequences of acting out in fear
and the evil delusions of ego.
For Yours is the power and the glory of endless Life, Light, and Love
now and forever, amen.
—Aramaic translation of the Lord’s Prayer
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JULY PEARLS…
When Jesus says that the Spirit will lead us to the complete truth, he means that the Spirit will make us full participants in the divine life, a life that makes us into new people, living with a new mind and in a new time: the mind and time of Jesus Christ. In and through the Spirit of Christ, we become other Christs living in all places and at all times. Thus discipleship is the life of the Spirit in us, by whom we receive new eyes to see, new ears to hear, and new hands to touch.
—Fr. Henri Nouwen
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A sculptor who wishes to carve a figure out of a block uses his chisel, cutting away chunks of marble, then smaller pieces, until the point where only a brush of the hand is needed to reveal the figure. In the same way, the soul has to undergo big mortifications at first, and then more refined detachments, until finally its Divine image is revealed. Because mortification is recognized as a practice of death, there is inscribed on the tomb of Duns Scotus, “twice died, but buried only once.” When we die to something, something comes alive within us. If we die to self, charity comes alive; if we die to pride, service comes alive; if we die to lust, reverence for personality comes alive; if we die to anger, love comes alive.
—Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is serene and radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies all our time, making our life programs new and overcoming. We need not get frantic. Love is at the helm. And when our little day is done, we lie down quietly in peace, for all is well.
—Thomas Kelly
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The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that Love is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, Love is under the porch as well as on the top of the mountain, and JOY is both in the front row and in the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
—Mark Nepo
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Everything is grace. Everything is the direct effect of our Father’s love—difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul’s miseries, her burdens, her needs—everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is grace because everything is God’s gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events—to the heart that loves, all is well.
—St. Therese of Lisieux
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When you are interiorly free, you call others to freedom, whether you know it or not. Freedom attracts wherever it appears. A free man or woman creates a space where others feel safe and want to dwell. Our world is so full of conditions, demands, requirements, and obligations that we often wonder what is expected of us. But when we meet a truly free person there are no expectations, only an invitation to reach into ourselves and discover there our own freedom. Where true inner freedom is, there God is.
—Fr. Henri Nouwen
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Before we determine what God wants to hear from us, we need to think about keeping still in order to hear from God. Our culture is drowning in noise. Such a culture cries out for a ministry of silence. It needs to re-learn that silence is an indispensable discipline of the spiritual life, to discover that the voice of Love speaks most powerfully in the still small voice of silence.
—Marianne Micks
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No creature ever loved Jesus Christ more ardently, nor showed more perfect submission to His will, than Mary, his mother. If then, this Savior, immolated for us, gave His mother to us, an advocate and intercessor for all time, she cannot but comply with His request, and will not refuse us her assistance. Let us not hesitate to implore her pity; let us have recourse to her with great confidence in all our necessities, as she is an inexhaustible source of blessing, bestowing her favors in proportion to the confidence placed in her.
—Dom Lorenzo Scupoli
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For true hearts there is no separating ocean; or, rather, God is their ocean, in Whom they meet and are united; they love, and lose themselves in Him and in each other.
—St. Theodore Guerin
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The genius of the Trinitarian doctrine has the power to rearrange our universe. We know nothing about this being called God, except that this God is perfect giving and perfect receiving. The very nature of God is communion, receptivity, and generosity—unhindered dialogue between three. It all begins with three! This isn’t just an abstraction; it’s the foundational template of reality. Reality is total, continual givenness and perfect, humble receptivity; that is the source, pattern, and goal of reality.
So many scientists, physicists and astronomers are now confirming that this interconnected nature of reality is true. Looking through microscopes or telescopes, they see the same pattern of utter relationship. They are discovering that reality is absolutely relational. It’s something our ancestors used to know on an intuitive, spiritual level.
But since the Enlightenment in the west, people dismissed the possibility of interconnection or interbeing. We’ve primarily produced individualists who believe things intellectually and seek only to get the right information, which only makes us more proud and self-centered. It makes community less possible, which is evident from our politics and international relations.
Christians only ask “How can I get to heaven?” That’s a question of the ego, not a question of the Trinity within us. A conversion to this Trinitarian view of God as relationship is needed right now. When there’s no understanding of Jesus as part of the Trinity, he will be used for our own nationalistic and egocentric purposes, as a means of power and ticket to heaven. Can we be converted to the Trinity? Only inside the mystery of the Trinity can we begin to understand what Jesus is saying, and the mystery and meaning of salvation he is inviting us into.
—Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
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“Giving is receiving” is the energetic frequency upon which our universe is aligned. All other approaches to energy exchange immediately cause disharmony in the world and in our life experience. We are living in a world of interconnected belonging, made strong in the act of giving ourselves to one another and helping one another.
Two thousand years ago Jesus came announcing the same message, showing us how to do it, and sanctifying it with his own life, death, and resurrection. The radical economic and social vision that he preached couldn’t catch on all at once; it had to grow slowly in the soil of our divided humanity for two millennia until our consciousness evolved to the point where we were ready to receive it. Today we find ourselves at that tipping point. Are we ready to embrace this different vision of collective belonging and dynamic exchange?
In science, these ideas once so radical—of dynamic reciprocal exchange as the basis for a flowing oneness in our whole cosmological system—are gradually gaining force. If we could shift to this new paradigm and way of thinking, we may see a whole new level of human consciousness within our own lifetimes. These teachings have the power to renew a deeper relationship with Jesus and to see Christianity as alive, modern, relevant, and fully up to the task of carrying this beautiful flowing exchange and oneness into the new cosmovision. Christ and Christianity were born for this moment.
—Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault
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If we believe that we are going to be living with God forever, why not get acquainted with this extraordinary presence now? In this perspective, what other things are as important as this? God’s will for us is to manifest God’s goodness and infinite tenderness in our lives right now. Christian tradition is not merely a handing on of various doctrines and rituals. It is the handing on of the experience of the living Christ, revealed in Scripture, preserved in the sacraments, renewed in prayer, and present in the events of our lives.
If we are open to this presence, our lives will be transformed. The spiritual journey is a struggle to be ever more available to God and to let go of the obstacles to that transforming process. The Gospel is not merely an invitation to be a better person—it is an invitation to become divine. It invites us to share the interior life of the Trinity.
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
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Wisdom from Pope Leo XIV
Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build a city in which God and humanity dwell together.
Technology is not a force antagonistic to humanity, nor is it inherently evil. However, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate, and use it.
In developing AI (artificial intelligence), we must build for the common good, and in our values remain human, so that the world will come to recognize the human heart as the place where God desires to dwell.
To reject the contemplative dimension of any religion is to reject the religion itself, however loyal one may be to its externals and rituals. This is because the contemplative dimension is the heart and soul of every religion. It initiates the movement into higher states of consciousness. The great wisdom teachings of the Vedas, Upanishads, Buddhist Sutras, Old and New Testaments, and the Koran bear witness to this truth. Right now there are about two billion Christians on the planet. If a significant portion of them were to embrace the contemplative dimension of the gospel, the emerging global society would experience a powerful surge toward enduring peace. If this contemplative dimension of the Christian religion is not presented, the Gospel is not being adequately preached.
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
