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Medjugorje, February 17, 2026
Dear Friends, praise be to Jesus and Mary!
1. On January 25th, 2026, the visionary, Marija, received the following monthly message:
“Dear children, Today, I am calling you to be prayer and a blessing for all those who have not come to know God’s love. Little children, be different from others and be positive people of prayer and love towards God, that with your lives, you may be a sign of God’s love to others. I bless you with my motherly blessing and intercede for each of you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
(With ecclesiastical approval)
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| 2. An unexpected paradox! Don Dolindo Ruotolo, ‘the saint of Naples’ has a surprising question for us today:
“What is the best way to pray? I would dare to offer a paradox: you pray well when you pray badly. That is to say, when you find prayer tiring, full of constraints, and yet, you pray; you thus render to God great glory and honor.
“But… if your aridity stemmed from your own weaknesses and difficulties, you wouldn’t pray at all. If you have the strength to say all your prayers, it’s a sign that you live for God, and that you love Him above all else.”
Thank you, Father Dolindo, for these words! They have already comforted so many people who have decided to pray at all costs, even if they sometimes encounter internal or external obstacles, to the point of being tempted to abandon prayer. God forbid!
For what pleases God is our willingness to meet Him in prayer, regardless of the obstacles that arise. Satan does not want us to pray—absolutely not; he knows all too well that when we do, he loses ground and his evil plans crumble. |
| One day, after spending her holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament, Sister Faustina was very sad because she had been constantly tormented inwardly by distractions and thoughts that had nothing to do with the faith. No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on the Lord’s presence, it was no use; her mind wandered in every direction. As she complained to the Lord, He said to her:
“Your prayer is extremely pleasing to me!” (§ 691) Indeed, with every distraction that came to her mind, she did everything she could to return to the Lord! This is what makes our prayer precious: the firm will to be with God, to take time for Him, despite the difficulties caused by our fatigue, our worries, or our imagination.
The visionary Mirjana told us that she too experiences distractions during prayer. So, she entrusts the cause of her distraction to the Blessed Mother and calmly resumes her prayer. (PS 1) |
| 3. Saint Joseph will exceed our expectations! At home, we venerate Saint Joseph by offering him a 33 day Novena: we pray his litany for 33 days, from February 15th to March 19th (PS2). Indeed, Saint Joseph is called to play a very important role in these troubled times of ours. Blessed is he who befriends him; Saint Joseph will exceed his expectations! |
| 4. After death, where do you want to go? One day, someone asked me, “Sister, does Hell still exist?” It’s true that modern life could make us forget our ultimate end, and yet, after death there is eternity! As for hell and purgatory, yes, it still exists.
Why talk about this today?
To warn us—who dares speak of such a thing? — and also to reassure us! Indeed, “after death, there is eternity,” Mary tells us. “It is wrong to believe that after death, there is nothing.” Ignorance about our final destiny can prevent us from making the right choices during life. We allow ourselves to be dominated by the surrounding, and so disappointing, materialism, while our Creator and Savior surrounds us with His immeasurable love and calls us at every moment to open our hearts to Him! He has prepared a place for us beside Him to eternally enjoy His love, in His presence. Every person longs for this ineffable happiness that will never end. For each person bears within them the seal of their Creator, who is nothing but love and light. In creating the world, God intended it to be a love story.
“Dear children! Do not forget that you are here on earth on the way to eternity and that your home is in Heaven. That is why, little children, be open to God’s love and leave egoism and sin…” (25/07/2000)
“My children, your life is only a blink in contrast to eternal life. And when you come before my Son, he will see in your hearts how much love you had.” (02/08/2014) |
| “Love covers a multitude of sins,” St. Peter tells us. (1 P 4, 8).
“I bless you with my Son Jesus and call you not to lose hope; and for your gaze and heart to always be directed towards Heaven and eternity. In this way, you will be open to God and to His plans. (25/12/2016)
Who goes to hell? We have all received freedom from God. Who goes to hell is the one who decides to go there, the one who stubbornly refuses God’s mercy, always offered, even to the most hardened of sinners. Here we touch upon the mystery of iniquity. The key word for hell is the deliberate will to say no to God. The first sin stems from doubt. The last is choosing hell through the categorical rejection of God’s mercy. But a stubborn sinner can repent at the last moment. His loved ones must know this and pray fervently at his bedside! Our Christian faith is clear about the ultimate ends of humankind. (PS 3) |
| The visionary, Vicka, often recounted fragments of her “guided tour” of heaven, purgatory, and hell with the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1981. She and Jakov were taken by Mary to see these three places, and their bodies disappeared for 20 minutes. Upon their return, Mary instructed them to tell everyone what they had seen.
“Hell is a terrible place. In the middle, there is a great fire, but it is not a fire like the one we know on earth… We saw perfectly normal people throw themselves into this fire. No one pushed them. When they came out, they looked like ferocious beasts, shouting their hatred and rebellion, and blaspheming. They were disfigured. Faced with this, we were terrified. Our Lady then explained to us.” These people go to hell of their own free will. It is their choice, their decision. Do not be afraid! God has given everyone freedom. On earth, everyone can choose to be for God or against God. Some people on earth always do everything against God and against His will, consciously. These people then begin a hell in their own hearts. And when the time of death comes, if they do not repent, that same hell continues… God cannot force anyone to love Him. He does everything to save us. Jesus died on the cross in order to save each of us, and His love is great for all. He always invites us to draw closer to His Heart, but what can He do when faced with someone who doesn’t want His love? Nothing! Love cannot be forced…”
(I will tell you about Vicka’s visit to Heaven and Purgatory later; it was necessary to warn every one of the worst part first.) |
| “Most souls go to Purgatory, very few go directly to Heaven, and many go to Hell”. (Interview with Mirjana Dragicevic, by Fr. Tomislav Vlasic, January 20, 1983)
Here are some excerpts from the Diary of Saint Faustina:
§1698 “Oh, how beyond comprehension is God’s mercy! But – horror! – there are also souls who voluntarily and consciously reject and scorn this grace!
“Although a person is at the point of death, the merciful God gives the soul that interior vivid moment, so that if the soul is willing, it has the possibility of returning to God.But sometimes, the obduracy in souls is so great that consciously they choose hell. |
| §741 “I am writing this at the command of God, so that no soul may find an excuse by saying there is no hell, or that nobody has ever been there, and so no one can say what it is like.
“I, Sister Faustina, by the order of God, have visited the abysses of hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence. I cannot speak about it now; but I have received a command from God to leave it in writing. The devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God. What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: that most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell. When I came to, I could hardly recover from the fright. How terribly souls suffer there! Consequently, I pray even more fervently for the conversion of sinners. I incessantly plead God’s mercy upon them. O my Jesus, I would rather be in agony until the end of the world, amidst the greatest sufferings, than offend You by the least sin.” |
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