Medjugorje Message: July 25, 2026
Dear children! While darkness and peacelessness rule in many hearts, you, little children, be prayer and my extended hands of love. Little children, place the Sacred Scripture in a visible place in your family and read it, so that it may be an encouragement for you to conversion and a new life; because Satan is strong and seduces hearts. Your hearts, through my maternal Heart, I desire to commend to the Heart of my Son Jesus, so that He, the Risen One, may reign in you and joy may begin to reign in you and around you. Thank you for having responded to my call.
River of Light
August 2026
The Reign of Joyful Hearts
“While darkness and peacelessness rule in many hearts…”
(for a riven nation are we, dearest Mother—
gutted by conflict, split from self and each other;
locked in isolation, hopeless of a livable, forgivable future;
stressed, scared, disgusted, angry—caged and enraged in our fears:
this runaway machine’s grinding gears of war, injustice, and greed
destroying our poor and weary souls in need!)
“You, little children, be prayer and my extended hands of love”
(Don’t succumb to the general malaise,
overwhelmed by the enormity of these evil days;
be the counterpoint and counter pose to the postures of power and hate:
no retreat into self-protective barricades—fear’s gate!
But open your soul to vulnerable listening prayer,
then hospitality’s outreach to all:
offering our God-Who-Is-Love to heal planet Earth after the fall.)
“Place Sacred Scripture visibly in your family and read it, that it may encourage you to conversion and a new life.”
(Read it as Christ did—to proclaim Good News of help for all:
the left-behind, lost, abandoned, forgotten, oppressed, distressed,
mistreated, conquered, colonized, unwanted and shut-out of this world.
Read it as care for the hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, and imprisoned—
not to gratify and glorify the pompous and powerful,
ignorant and arrogant empire builders of earth: NO—
for such reading offers no change or newness to the “status quo.”)
“…because Satan is strong and seduces hearts. Your hearts, through my maternal Heart, I desire to commend to the Heart of my Son Jesus.”
(I must meet seduction with seduction, dear ones, for
my Immaculate Heart to triumph over your ancient enemy:
I must battle for your hearts, now lured away by your culture’s
demonic ego temptings—the awful offerings that
sate your shallow cravings for a moment, bringing
wreckage for a lifetime in the wake of their vanity.
I must draw your hearts, through mine, toward the Sacred Heart of Jesus
that our union of Two Hearts Joined may have the force of desire
to pull you out of the devil’s flaming clutches, a raging fire
now gripping the world in a claw of selfish unconscious yearning:
consuming, devouring the whole Creation, already burning!)
“So that He, the Risen One, may reign in you and joy may begin to reign in you and around you.”
(for when your heart is removed from deadly demonic ego strife,
and given entirely “to Jesus through Mary” —
within the One Resurrection and Life—
this union of hearts will bring conversion and newness to amaze:
you’ll see Christ’s reign of LOVE begin to rule your days,
causing JOY to dominate everything you do, both within and around you;
for now, each and every happening—“good” and “bad”—
becomes just another chance to LOVE with my extended hands.)
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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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AUGUST PEARLS…
If divine Providence means anything at all, there can be nothing haphazard about the allocation of human sufferings. If not a bird falls to the ground that God does not know all about, not a human being suffers an affliction with which God is unconcerned. Even those afflictions we bring down upon ourselves by our stupidity, obstinacy, failure to respond to his light…can be used for God’s greater glory.
It is a mistake to look upon every unpleasant thing that happens to us as a deserved or God-sent punishment; far better to look upon it as a God-sent opportunity, whether deserved or not. What may well be consequences of sin can be pressed into the service of sanctity. A man may ruin his health by a life of dissipation and then spend his enforced retirement in the study of the spiritual life…Indeed one of the signs of advancement in the spiritual life is the readiness to turn to good account things which of themselves are far from good. Much that surrounds us is evil, but to the clean of heart it does not appear so.
People who allow the evil in the world to dominate their horizon either become fascinated by it and plunge in, or are disgusted by it and made miserable. The horizon does not have to be crowded with evils, and though it would be absurd to pretend that sin was not really very widespread, it would be equally absurd to see it everywhere and conclude that there was no longer any good. Sin, temptation, suffering, disaster, cruelty, war: these things hit the headlines because they possess greater sensation-content than generosity, justice, order, kindness, truth, peace. It is for the Christian to look squarely at the first list in a spirit of faith and penitence, and confidently at the second in the knowledge that he can make his own contribution to the sum of good there.
—Fr. Hubert van Zeller, OSB
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—Servant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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—Thomas Kelly
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—Mark Nepo
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—St. Therese of Lisieux
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—Dom Lorenzo Scupoli
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—St. Theodore Guerin
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—Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
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—Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault
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—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
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Wisdom from Pope Leo XIV
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
