Medjugorje Message: December 25, 2025
Dear children! Also today—when God permits me to carry to you in my arms little Jesus, the King of Peace, that He may fill you with the ardor of love and peace, so that every heart may be similar to His heart in this time of grace—be resolute and courageous defenders of the love of your God, that in this time of grace He may give you His peace. Thank you for having responded to my call.
Annual Message to Jacov Colo: December 25, 2025
Today, on this day of grace, in a special way I am calling you to complete surrender to Jesus. Little children, surrender to Him your wounds and pains, your past and future, and permit Jesus to begin to rule in your lives. My children, only with complete surrender, Jesus gives Himself in your life, and this is the greatest gift that you can receive. Pray that you may comprehend how precious you are for Jesus and how much He loves you. Thank you for having responded to my call.
River of Light
January 2026
Christmas into New Year’s: Two messages from Our Lady!
“In This Time of Grace”
She comes to me—the Woman, the Queen, our Mother
Eyes shining with tears of Joy to the World
Carrying this Baby whom she calls Malki-Shalom, King of Peace
And this Baby is beautiful and smiling, stretching His tiny hands out to me.
He wants me to take Him into my own arms
And His bright eyes gaze into mine with penetrating wisdom
And I feel seen as never before seen
And known beyond all my self-knowing
And now I’m falling into a Love I’ve never felt—
There’s a desire for this Baby filling me with the ardor of love and peace I’ve only
glimpsed in the great loves of my life, which I thought were Ultimate Reality,
which I see now were but pale shadows of this Baby-Love,
and unseen reflections of it.
Somehow, now, my own small heart holds this vast sea of Love
And I realize that every heart may be similar to His heart
If we but open to His outstretched hands.
In the darkness of our collective night of unconsciousness—
Violence, division, war, greed, injustice, Nature’s destruction, and our
Endless hateful disrespect for the life of each other—
This Baby draws me to a new vow:
In 2026, I shall be, in the midst of our collective night of unconsciousness,
In this worldly dangerous darkness,
A resolute and courageous defender of this Baby’s Love:
Speaking up for it in the midst of hatred, however deadly, proclaiming
The Love of our God who would make our hearts like His,
Who alone can heal us in this time of grace
And give us His peace.
But how shall I be equipped for such courageous defense of
Love/God in this world of hate? I am weak-willed and afraid!
The Woman, the Queen, our Mother, Seat of Wisdom
comes to Jacov and us to say:
On this day of grace, I am calling you to complete surrender to Jesus.
(How do I in my self-sufficient life of action and control
wave a white flag for anyone—even the Lord?)
Surrender to Him your wounds and pains
(My abused and neglected childhood? My sad and lonely youth?
A crippling addiction, physical illness, broken relations, depression and anxiety?)
Surrender to Him your past and future
(All I have done and said, left undone and unsaid?
My plans, plots, strategies, schemes, and careful calculations for tomorrow?)
Permit Jesus to begin to rule in your lives
(I will loosen my grip on X, Lord, but Y and Z are mine….
There are things I want and need and must pursue….)
Only with complete surrender, Jesus gives Himself in your life,
And this is the greatest gift that you can receive.
(I give You everything, hold onto nothing—and then,
You will give me Yourself, the pearl of great price?
Why would You do that for me or anyone like me?)
Pray that you may comprehend how precious you are for Jesus
And how much He loves you.
Yes, it’s true: I can only surrender wounds and pains, past and future
to One Whom I believe loves me—
Not the harsh Judge or vigilant Policeman seeking just my “just desserts”
For so many crimes committed.
Only One whose gaze upon me is of
Penetrating innocence—infinite infant compassion.
Only to this Baby can everyone in the room,
Everything in the universe, “surrender completely,”
Filled finally with a vast sea of Love and
Profound peace, till the moon be no more,
As our worldly darkness yields at last to the Sun
of Light, Life, and Love.
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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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JANUARY PEARLS . . .
The whole purpose of the spiritual life is the recovery of our true self—the self that acts not from fear or illusion, but from love. As Christ grows in us, our lives become more open, more compassionate, more free. This is the hidden work of grace, often unnoticed, like a seed breaking open in the dark. We learn to live from a deeper center, where our thoughts and actions arise from God’s own life within us. In this awakening, we begin to see the world with new eyes, recognizing the divine image in others and responding with a heart shaped by mercy.
—Thomas Merton, OCSO
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The spiritual journey is not a matter of becoming better or more pure by our own effort; it is a process of becoming more open, more vulnerable, more available to the presence and action of God within us. Centering Prayer is a training in consenting to this Presence. In silence we simply let go of our own agendas and allow the Divine Therapist to heal the deep wounds of the unconscious, the places where fear, judgment, and separation have taken root.
Over time, this gentle work awakens the fruits of the Spirit in us—compassion, patience, forgiveness, and a growing sense of unity with all of creation. These qualities emerge as the obstacles to love are removed. We begin to live from a deeper place.
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
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January 1st: Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Mary is the book of the Word of life. God chose to write out his living Word in her body, and within her womb His Son’s body took its form. So too, her heart and life were an open page before the Lord on which He alone wrote, in hidden characters, the message she came to embody for the whole Church: faithful obedience, constancy in love, and singleness of dedication to the service of her Son.
—Fr. John Eudes Bamberger, OCSO
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Deep within us all, there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home to itself. Yielding to these calls, gladly committing ourselves in body and soul, utterly and completely, to the Light Within, is the beginning of true life. It is a dynamic center, a creative Life that presses to birth within us. It is a Light Within which illumines the face of God and casts new glories upon the face of humanity.
—Thomas R. Kelly
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Contemplative prayer enables us to see the opportunities for spiritual growth that are present daily in ordinary life. If one is truly transformed, one can walk down the street, drink a cup of tea, or shake hands with somebody and be pouring divine life into the world. In Christianity motivation is everything. When the love of Christ is the principal motivation, ordinary actions transmit divine love. This is the fundamental Christian witness; evangelization in its primary form.
—Fr. Thomas Keating, OCSO
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We resemble Mary, because we can generate the Word of God here below, transforming the cry we hear into a birth. Jesus wants to be born again: we can give him body and voice. This is the birth that creation awaits. The sign of Emmanuel speaks of God’s generativity, and of our own God-given generativity, if we are willing to receive it.
—Pope Leo XIV
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The virgin birth is a story of how close Christ will come to you. The first stop on his itinerary was a womb. Where will God go to touch the world? Look deep inside Mary for an answer. Better still, look deep within yourself. “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” Scripture says. (Col 1:27)
Christ grew in Mary until he had to come out. Christ will grow in you until the same occurs. He will come out in your speech, in your actions, in your decisions. Every place you live will be a Bethlehem. Every day you live will be a Christmas. Deliver Christ into the world—your world!
—Max Lucado
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To love is to act. Not as pressure or performance but as Incarnation: the sacred not hovering above life, but rising within it. This kind of faith is formation that becomes embodied, learning that becomes compassion, contemplation that turns outward toward communion.
—Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
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The whole mystery of our redemption in Christ, by his incarnation, death, and resurrection, consists of this marvelous exchange: in the heart of Christ, God has loved us humanly, so as to render our human hearts capable of loving divinely. God became man so that man might become God—might love as only God is capable of loving, with the purity, intensity, power, tenderness, and patience that belong to the divine love. It is a great source of hope and consolation to know that, by virtue of God’s grace working in us, the Holy Spirit will transform and expand our hearts to the point of one day making them capable of loving as God loves.
—Fr. Jacques Philippe
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In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love. Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love will last for eternity.
—Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
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The Incarnation, the central mystery of our Christian faith, invites us to look down, to investigate the small, to descend. Why? Because that is what God did in the Incarnation. He emptied Himself, taking on the form of a slave. He became a small, a helpless baby.
Unfortunately, we find this hard to do practically. Usually when we look for God we look towards the sky. We investigate the powerful, we try to ascend. But maybe our experience of powerlessness (about which we complain) is a privileged avenue in the quest to know God in our own soul and its depth. Maybe we need to investigate more our experience of powerlessness to see what riches can be found in it. The movement of God in Jesus Christ is a downward one. It invites us to look for God close to the ground, in the baby rather than in the corporate magnate, president, rock star, athlete, brilliant writer, scientist, or movie star.
The Incarnation tells us which way we should be traveling, namely, downwards. To be Christian persons who keep giving flesh to God in this world, we must ultimately be free of the tyranny of ambition and achievement, of measuring our meaning and success by upward mobility or growing in power, prestige and admiration. Rather, we may grow best by emptying ourselves and assuming the powerlessness of the poor. There should be no delusion. The Christ-movement is downward.
—Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
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The Christian message is that God has become flesh (in Greek “matter”)—not a part of God but the whole infinite, eternal God Creator has become matter. The claim—God has become flesh—is so radical that it is virtually unthinkable and illogical. Christianity is the most radical of all world religions because it takes matter seriously as the home of divinity.
Christ is more than Jesus. Christ is the communion of divine personal love expressed in every created form of reality—every star, leaf, bird, fish, tree, rabbit, and human person. Everything is christified because everything expresses divine love incarnate. Jesus is by nature everything else is by grace. We are not God, but every single person is born out of the love of God, expresses this love in their unique form, and has the capacity to be united with God. Christ is the whole reality bound in a union of love.
We cannot know this mystery of Christ as a doctrine or idea; it is the root reality of all existence. We must travel inward, to the interior depth of the soul where divine love is expressed in our own particular life. Each of us is a little word of the Word of God, a mini-incarnation of divine love. The journey inward requires surrender to this mystery, a letting go of our “control buttons.” It means dying to the untethered selves that occupy us daily, embracing the sufferings of our lives, both little and big; allowing God’s grace to heal us and empower us for life, entering into the darkness of unknowns and learning to trust the darkness where divine love is already present. The God I seek is already in me…and you. We are already One.
—Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF
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Christmas is not just about welcoming the baby Jesus born two thousand years ago. In fact, we’re welcoming the Universal Christ, the Cosmic Christ, the Christ that is forever being born (incarnating) in the human soul and into history. We have to make room for such a mystery, because right now there is “no room in the inn.” We see things in their materiality, but we don’t see the light shining through. We don’t see the incarnate spirit that is hidden inside of everything material.
The Incarnation of Christ manifests a universal principle. It meant not just that God became Jesus, but that God said yes to the material universe itself. We’re always waiting for Spirit it reveal itself through matter, and for matter to become a new form in which Spirit is revealed. The gifts of incarnation just keep coming: always Christmas!
—Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
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Through your own incarnation, my God, all matter is henceforth incarnate. God is incarnate in the world. We are all together carried in the one world-womb; yet each of us is our own little microcosm in which the Incarnation is wrought independently with degrees of intensity, and shades that are incommunicable. Everything around us is the body and blood of the Word.
—Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
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Wisdom from Pope Leo XIV
The whole of humanity afflicted by violence and conflict is crying out for reconciliation. There is a universal fraternity of men and women regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or personal perspectives.
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
