Medjugorje Message: March 25, 2026
Dear children! The poison of selfishness and hatred rules human hearts and that is why you do not have peace. I am calling you, little children: be love and my extended hands to all those whom you meet. In humility, pray for peace and work on reconciliation among people, so that it may be good for every person on earth. Thank you for having responded to my call.
Annual Message to Medjugorje Visionary Mirjana Soldo: March 18, 2026
Dear children, never forget how great is the love of God. Through that love I am with you. Do not forget how great is His mercy. Through that mercy I am showing you the way to true happiness and perfect peace. That is the way to my Son. Therefore, my children, with complete trust, abandon yourselves to my Son and do not be afraid. Do not be afraid of the future because it belongs entirely to the will of my Son. Therefore, my children, renounce everything that distances you from my Son: false happiness, false hope, false splendor. Trust my Son. Tell him about your pains, sufferings, desires and hopes. You will feel His love and blessing. Thank you!
River of Light
April 2026
“Do Not Be Afraid….Be Love“
“Do not be afraid of the future
because it belongs entirely to the will of my Son.”
and He is great love and mercy, true happiness and perfect peace.
So “with complete trust, abandon yourselves to Him and do not be afraid.”
Yet such fearful things are happening in our world!
Afar—a war with all wars’ insanity: senseless bombing,
destruction and death.
Innocent lives lost, families and futures shattered.
At home—obscene corruption, greed, fraud and deceit
blatantly blinding the eyes of the once-just:
annihilation of a nation’s moral compass!
“My children, renounce everything that distances you from my Son:
false happiness, false hope, false splendor.”
So much is false today! We swim in the foul soup of our toxicities:
Toxic Technology enthralling our brains,
making mincemeat of children’s minds—
Garbage in/Garbage out: a violence so deeply sown!
Toxic Masculinity camouflaging men’s frightened despair—
pushing scared shrinking violets into big brutal violence!
Toxic Materialism consuming all our time with money-lust,
stuffing all our space with amazonian excess!
Toxic Religiosity conflating our faith with patriotism,
bowing to the nation’s golden calf, giving to Caesar what is God’s—
forgetting Christ’s “kingdom not of this world“!
Toxic Exploiting of Mother Earth’s body,
raping her resources of land, sea, and sky,
leaving only the filthy discharge of our overconsumption.
“Trust my Son. Tell Him your pains, sufferings, desires and hopes.
You will feel His love and blessing.”
Let us begin with heartfelt confessing!
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Thank you, Blessed Mother, Queen of Peace
for calling a spade a spade!
For telling us plainly why things are this peaceless way:
“The poison of selfishness and hatred rules human hearts
and that is why you do not have peace.”
Our outer world is a faithful mirror
reflecting the inner world of our human hearts—
both suffering beneath the same despotic rulers:
“the poison of selfishness and hatred.”
Our demagogues and despots, now wreaking havoc on this planet
are tiny men with grand opportunities provided
by the inner rot of the populace: our collective fatal illness of spirit—
hearts knowing no end of cruelty, vanity, greed, corruption,
“selfishness and hatred.”
Oh, Queen Mother of Peace, show us the way to a remedy!
We would be ruled by you and your Prince
rather than this sickening reign of our inner toxic terror!
“I am calling you, little children: be love
and my extended hands to all those whom you meet.”
(ALL we meet?! Even our wrong-headed opponents and sworn enemies?!)
“In humility, pray for peace and work for reconciliation among people,
so that it may be good for every person on earth.”
(Both “pray” AND “work”?!)
(With “humility” —not self-righteous, militant zeal?!)
(Not for “my side winning” but the universal good of “every person on earth“?!)
Just call a spade a spade, dear Lady! Your recipe for Peace:
We must BE YOU in this world—
show a MOTHER’S LOVE for every child of God!
That is—for ALL CREATION!
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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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APRIL PEARLS…
The words heard by the women at the tomb are also addressed to us: “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.” Death, solitude, and fear are not the last word. There is a word that transcends them, a word that only God can speak: it is the word of Resurrection….This is what the Pasch of the Lord accomplishes: it motivates us to move forward, to leave behind our sense of defeat, to roll away the stone of the tombs in which we imprison our hope, and to look with confidence to the future, for Christ has changed the direction of history.
Yet, to do this, the Pasch of the Lord takes us back to the grace of our own past; it brings us back to Galilee, where our love story with Jesus began, where the first call took place. It asks us to relive that experience in which we met the Lord and received a new way of seeing ourselves, the world around us, and the mystery of life. We are asked to remember and go forward! If you recover that first love, the wonder and joy of your encounter, you will keep advancing. So remember, and keep moving forward.
—Pope Francis
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What do the scars of Christ teach us?…that our condition of a final resurrection is exactly the same as his; that unless there is a cross in our lives, there will never be an empty tomb; unless there is a Good Friday, there will never be an Easter Sunday; unless there is a crown of thorns, there will never be the halo of light; and unless we suffer with him, we shall not rise with him….Our Blessed Lord said, “I have overcome the world.” By this he means that he has overcome evil in principle. Victory is assured. The worst thing evil can do is to kill God. Having been defeated in that, in its strongest moment, when evil wore its greatest armor, it can never be victorious again.
—Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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Our Lord has taken the horror out of death. He has made it something no longer to scare people, but to encourage them. It is no longer a ruin but a sacrifice that every soul can make. For us death is not the end of the roadway. It is only a turn in the road. The journey ends not in death, but in life. Indeed the journey has no ending. Christ taught us how to vanquish death by not being afraid to die.
Because death has been met and answered, every Christian soul should know that there is nothing that cannot be firmly and properly dealt with. No problem can utterly be insoluble. There is a remedy for all things. Now it is part of the spirit of the followers of Christ never to be afraid of the future, or of whatever the future may bring. There are dark clouds and difficulties before us always. Yet there must always be victory for good. God is triumphant. Life is triumphant. Every lesser thing shall fail.
—Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P.
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Live the doctrine of abandonment. Accept with thanksgiving everything that happens to you. Say continually, “Jesus, I thank you for everything.” That is enough. Do not ask for crosses, but know how to accept with joy those which Jesus has chosen for you. Sanctify yourself with the duties of your state in life, your daily life with all its thorns. Accept all with a smile on your lips. Accept the unexpected crosses—they are the most painful: the sickness which immobilizes you, the feeling of being useless and a burden; the humiliations, contradictions, slanders, calumnies, ingratitude, bad will, criticisms, good intentions misunderstood, family quarrels, sorrowful bereavements, separations, and reversals of fortune.
Put up with yourself, with your thousand physical, intellectual and moral miseries. Then there is the cross of having carried the cross badly. Here we turn to the words of little Thérèse: “We would like to suffer generously. We would like never to fall—what an illusion!” You can always throw yourself into the arms of Jesus. It is the present moment which is so important. In that moment, you can take leave of all the past by giving it to him, in order to bury yourself in his heart.
—Fr. Jean du Coeur de Jésus d’Elbee
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When we are overcome by sadness, fear, or suffering; when the pains of loss overwhelm us; when evil seems to have taken power; let us look to the cross and be filled with peace, knowing that Christ has walked this road and walks it now with us and with all our brothers and sisters.
—St. Teresa of Avila
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Every bombed village is my hometown
And every dead child is my child.
Every grieving mother is my mother.
Every crying father is my father.
Every home turned to rubble is
the home I grew up in.
Every brother carrying the remains
of his brother across borders is my brother.
Every sister waiting for a sister who
will never come home is my sister.
Every one of these people are ours.
Just like we are theirs.
We belong to them
and they belong to us.
—James Baldwin
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It is a lesson we all need—to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.
—St. Katharine Drexel
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In Jesus’ teaching, sacred places and people are not essential for someone to be able to enter the Kingdom of God. The sacred place is where you are. It is ordinary life. This is what transformation is about. It is not going on pilgrimage or entering a special state of life. It is how we live where we are. What Therese called the “Little Way” is quite simply the circumstances of everyday life and what we do with them. “Everything is grace” was one of her favorite sayings—still terribly hard to grasp. How can everything be grace?
The experience of the transforming union is a way of being in the world that enables us to live daily life with the conviction of continuous union with God. It is a new way of being in the world.
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
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There is not a moment in which God does not present Godself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals God’s divine action.
—Jean-Pierre de Caussade, SJ
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The circumstances of our lives are a medium of God’s communication with us. God opens some doors and closes others….Through the wisdom of our bodies, God tells us to slow down or reorder our priorities. The happy coincidences and frustrating impasses of daily life are laden with messages. Patient listening and the grace of the Spirit are the decoding devices of prayer. It is a good habit to ask, What is God saying to me in this situation? Listening to our lives is part of prayer.
—Marjorie Thompson
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The school of Christ is the school of love. In the last day, when the general examination takes place, Love will be the whole syllabus.
—St. Robert Bellarmine
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Pride and shame. You’d never know they’re sisters. They appear so different. Pride puffs out her chest. Shame hangs her head. Pride boasts. Shame hides. Pride seeks to be seen. Shame seeks to be avoided. But don’t be fooled. The emotions have the same parentage. And they have the same impact. They keep you from your Father. Pride says, “You’re too good for him.” Shame says, “You’re too bad for him.” Pride drives you away, shame keeps you away.
If pride is what goes before a fall, then shame is what keeps you from getting up after one. God, the selfless Father, loves us in our pride and shame. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.” (2 Cor 5:19)
—Max Lucado
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Wisdom from Pope Leo XIV
God cannot be enlisted by darkness. Rather, he always comes to bring light, hope and peace to humanity, and it is peace that must be sought by those who call upon him. I appeal to those responsible for this conflict: cease fire! May paths of dialogue be reopened! Violence can never lead to the justice, stability and peace for which the people are waiting.
Thousands of innocent people have been killed, and countless others have been forced to flee their homes. I renew my prayerful closeness to all who have lost loved ones in the attacks, which have struck schools, hospitals and residential areas. Our brothers and sisters around the world are suffering because of violent conflicts, sparked by the absurd notion that problems and differences can be resolved through war. Some even go so far as to invoke God’s name in these choices of death. What is needed is unceasing dialogue for peace.
Faith is an invitation to open our eyes to see the suffering of others and the afflictions of the world. With so many questions of the human heart, and tragic situations of injustice, violence and suffering that mark our time, it is essential that our faith be alert, attentive and prophetic. It should open our eyes to the darkness of the world and bring to others the light of the Gospel through our commitment to peace, justice and solidarity. May the light of Christ open the eyes of our hearts and enable us to bear witness to him with simplicity and courage.
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
