Medjugorje Message: May 25, 2026
Dear children! May this time be for you a time of prayer and fasting. Return, little children, in love to God Who is your peace. I am with you, little children, and I love you with my motherly tenderness. Thank you for having responded to my call.
River of Light
June 2026
“Return in Love to God Who is Your Peace”
Dear “Mother of the Church” —that is, of all humanity!
You came to us on your feast day in the power of the Spirit
and the honor of this title—our true Mother
for whom we are, always and everywhere,
your “little children” …no matter how old
or how far away we wander!
Now, beyond Advent and Lent—those purple periods of penance—
and into the green summer daze of Ordinary Time, still you beckon us
to make even “this time be a time of prayer and fasting.”
This time, when war-waging still looms, dark division still rips apart
our common threadbare blanket of brotherhood,
and corporate giants—Goliaths of gargantuan wealth—ride roughshod
over the worried world of masses barely managing to make ends meet.
Into this moment on our beleaguered planet and ravaged Earth,
you ask us for ongoing “prayer and fasting,” practices to be made
“ordinary” as well as penitential, “daily” as well as liturgical.
This “prayer and fasting” —the two sides of one coin of
connection with our God-Who-Is-LOVE:
“Prayer” —the moment-by-moment recollection of
Divine Indwelling Pentecostal Presence at our root of Being,
the inner abode of Holy Spirit waiting and wanting always
to animate, motivate, and move our essence into action.
“Fasting” —the purposeful surrender of whatever obstructs prayer,
our open-hearted receptivity to Spirit…any and all of those things that
take us captive in attention, attraction, affection and addiction
to the world of self-will run riot.
You want “prayer and fasting” to be our Way of Life
“in this time” and all times!
You call, “Return, little children, in love to God Who is your peace.”
Return in LOVE—not shame!
Return in LOVE—not fear!
Return in LOVE—not terror!
to God Who is your PEACE—not your judge!
to God Who is your PEACE—not your punisher!
to God Who is your PEACE—not your executioner!
This God-Who-Is-LOVE is the foundation, bedrock, and seat of our peace,
not the cause of anxiety, fear, terror, or shame that have come
from millennia of false images and human projections onto the
Perfect LOVE-Who-Is-God, the One mirrored most completely
in Mary our Mother and Jesus our Brother, both of whom have told us,
“I love you with my motherly tenderness.”
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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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JUNE PEARLS…
LOVE is our origin, love is our ground, love is our sustaining reality and love is our destiny. Love and love alone is the substance of reality. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
—James Finley
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Jesus said to St. John the Beloved, “Behold, your mother!” (Jn 19:27) Scripture says that from that hour on, John took Mary “to his own home.” We could translate that phrase: he took Mary into his inner life, into the depths of his inner being. To take Mary with one means to introduce her to the dynamism of one’s entire existence. It is not something external.
—Pope Benedict XVI
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Man will not consent to drive away the money-changers from the temple of his soul until he realizes that it is a Holy of Holies—not a house of traffic, but in very truth the house of God. We reach two striking conclusions: There cannot be entire dependence upon the Holy Spirit’s guidance, which is the true meaning of living in Christ, without complete self-renunciation. There cannot be complete self-renunciation without the constant underlying spirit of faith, without the habit of interior silence, a silence where God is dwelling.
Many do not see the connection between thoughts about the King and service of the King; between interior silence and continual detachment. There is a strong, close, unbreakable link between the two. Find a recollected person, and he will be detached; seek one who is detached, and he will be recollected. To find one is to discover the other. Anyone who tries, on a given day, to practice either recollection or detachment finds that he is doing a double stroke of work.
—Fr. Raoul Plus, S.J.
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The first task of spiritual life is learning to see your own reactions clearly: how quickly anger justifies itself, how easily fear pretends to be wisdom, how often ego disguises itself as courage. St. Benedict took the next step. He asked, “Once you learn to see clearly, how do you live faithfully in community over the long haul?” His answer was not intensity but rhythm—prayer, work, shared meals, mutual care, accountability, humility, repair.
—Rev. Cameron Trimble
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Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
—Victor Frankl
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If the Trinity reveals that God is relationship itself, then the goal of the spiritual journey is to discover and move toward connectedness on ever new levels. The contemplative mind enjoys union on all levels. We begin by making little connections with other people and with nature and animals, then grow into deeper connectedness with people. Finally, we can experience full connectedness as union with God. Without connectedness and communion, we don’t exist fully as our truest selves.
—Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
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Jesus Christ’s human nature and personality is the door to his divinity. By identification with him as a human being, we find our true self—the divine life within us—and begin the process of integration into the life of the Trinity. When his disciples succeeded in healing and driving out demons, Jesus said, “Don’t get excited about working miracles. Anybody with a little psychic power can do that. The thing to rejoice in is that you are chosen to become divine and to join me in raising the consciousness of the world.”
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
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Practice the Stoic Pause: The Stoic philosophers, such as Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, practiced to focus solely on what was in their control—their own thoughts, actions, and beliefs. Steps to apply the Stoic Pause to any upsetting or disturbing events:
+ Recognize the urge to react.
+ Pause and breathe.
+ Shift your focus to what you can control.
+ Choose your response with purpose.
+ Reflect on your response afterward.
Practice the Welcoming Prayer: In the ordinary moments of your day, sink into the sensations of the body as the challenges unfold, embracing your experience of each moment as it is.
—“Word of the Week” gospel reflections
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Creative work, like love, is not an exclusive gift bestowed on only a chosen few. A few now possess sanctity and moral vision, heroism and wisdom, genius and talent. But all that is merely activation of the potential dormant within every soul. A sea of love, an inexhaustible wellspring of creativity, bubbles behind the consciousness of each one of us. All creative work that is done in its own name and for its own sake is divine in nature. Through it, people elevate themselves and fill their own hearts and the hearts of those around them with God.
—Danil Andreev
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We are beginning to realize that the path to unity does not lie in saying, “You are wrong and I am right,” even as we remain conscious of the issues that separate us. Rather we are looking at what we share as human beings and are seeing that what we share dwarfs what separates us. What do we share in common that dwarfs any dogma, ecclesiology, authority structure, or historical misunderstanding that separates us?
We share this in common: one beginning, one nature, one earth, one sky, one law of gravity, one fragility, one earthly mortality, one desire, one aim, one destiny, one road, one God, one Jesus, one Christ, one Holy Spirit. And that brings with it an invitation and an imperative: love your own church and love your neighbor’s church as well.
We should begin to speak of “convergence” rather than “converting.” The Spirit invites us to come together in mutual respect and humility. The path to ecumenism is not by way of conversion. Rather, we are all still journeying toward fuller truth, fuller discipleship, and giving a fuller expression to the Body of Christ on earth. It’s time to embrace each other as fellow pilgrims on a common journey.
—Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
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I don’t meditate to improve my mental acuity. I don’t meditate to slow down the effects of aging. I don’t meditate to lower my blood pressure, reduce my stress, or improve my frame of mind. I don’t meditate to be a better Christian. Sure, all those things can be byproducts of my meditation practice.
I meditate because I am, in a sense, blind without it. Without the surrender inherent in it, I lose my deepest vision and insight. I lose the ability to see myself and the world with compassion, forgiveness and humility.
I do not meditate to have insights or mystical experiences. My practice is not measured by how I feel or what I experience in sitting for twenty minutes. Its true test is my behavior the other 23+ hours of the day. I practice Centering Prayer so that I can learn gradually to stand steady in chaos and stand aside to let God work in and through me. Meditation practice can make me a sponge that gathers up and releases water—not holding onto, owning, or creating water. Letting myself be filled, over and over, with the grace of God, so that as a saturated sponge, I can leak Love into a dry, dusty world.
—Therese DesCamp
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We are living through a hinge moment in the human story. Artificial intelligence, planetary crisis, and the steady erosion of shared meaning are the same one emergency viewed from different sides. Each is asking the same question: who do we intend to become? There is an intrinsic yearning for resolution and wholeness built into nature.
Unless we change the way we think, we will not change the way we act, and we are running out of time to act differently. Education in the classical sense was formative: a deepening of mind and heart that expanded the whole person toward truth. Higher education today, by contrast, is largely organized around careerism and information streams designed to deliver success rather than wisdom, producing graduates who can do anything but have not been asked what is worth doing. That is a big failure on which most of the others rest.
We need an evolution from the conceptual to the embodied, from formation to transformation—seeing the future as not just technological, but as an ethical, spiritual, and evolutionary question too. How do we live responsibly with the new forms of intelligence we are bringing into the world? Perhaps the real danger of AI is not that it will take over, but that we will use it to avoid the work of seeing and becoming who we truly are—that we will let machines think for us and quietly hand over the labor of becoming human.
True knowledge must lead to love, or it will dissolve into the infinite streams of information that already flood our lives. In the end, only love remains because only love unites. A world that does not learn to converge will not outlast its divisions in this age. Let us travel together into the future.
—Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
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Wisdom from Pope Leo XIV
By simulating human voices and faces, wisdom and knowledge, consciousness and responsibility, empathy and friendship, the systems known as artificial intelligence not only interfere with information ecosystems, but also encroach upon the deepest level of communication, that of human relationships.
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
