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Medjugorje, September 13, 2025
5th apparition in Fatima
1. On August 25th, 2025, the visionary, Marija, received the following monthly message:
“Dear children, my little children, my beloved ones; you are chosen because you have responded, you have put into practice my instructions and love God above all else. Therefore, little children, pray with all your heart that my words may be realized. Fast, sacrifice yourselves, love out of love for God Who created you, and be, little children, my extended hands to this world that has not come to know the God of love. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
(With Ecclesiastical approval) |
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2. How to react to blasphemy? In Medjugorje, many pilgrims confide in us that one of the greatest sufferings within their families, at work, or among their loved ones is hearing God’s name frequently taken in vain. This hurts them deeply, and they try their best to silence the blasphemer, but they are unsuccessful. They reproach them for the blasphemy, they emphasize its horror, and express their profound disapproval. But this only worsens the atmosphere and poisons relationships.
In Medjugorje, Our Lady gave us some enlightening advice: “Do not enter into an argument!” she said. Let’s follow this advice to the letter!
I think of this maternal advice when I hear pilgrims talk about this, and I invite them to completely change their attitude toward the blasphemer.
First of all, keep quiet; it’s essential.
Pretend you didn’t hear anything. It is all about the painful silence of Jesus on the Cross that He breaks to say, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,” while He dies of thirst for souls. It is right to remain silent in our heart, offering our suffering and forgiveness.
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Invoke God’s help to maintain peace of heart at all costs, and behave as if one had heard something which is uninteresting. Do not react, because expressing our disapproval can produce the opposite effect and provoke an increase in blasphemy. The peace of our heart must not depend on what others do or say (even if it’s difficult at times!), for Jesus Himself is the source of our peace!
What should we do then? Bless the Lord fervently and praise Him from the depths of our hearts. Thus, the praises and blessings will go straight to His Heart and cover the effect of blasphemy. We can also recite a few verses from the psalms; they will be of great help, for the Word of God is a double-edged sword!
The blasphemer will tire of blaspheming before we tire of blessing.
This attitude of silence and prayer also applies to any situation where we hear hurtful, hateful, violent, or indecent words. Sometimes, it is even necessary to leave the room. St Thérèse of the Child Jesus gives us an example: faced with a sister who exasperated her, fearing she would not be able to contain a negative reaction, she sometimes preferred to leave the room.
This painful situation is also the right moment to recite inwardly this magnificent prayer that the Angel of Fatima (Portugal) taught the three little shepherds:
“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifference by which He is offended.” By the infinite merits of His Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I ask you for the conversion of poor sinners.” |
| 3. The Shepherd’s Voice. A shepherd from the Karlsruhe region (Germany) discovered one day that his entire flock, 111 sheep, had been stolen during the night; meaning that in the space of one night, all his belongings had disappeared. Needless to say, he was in a state of immense anguish! He immediately reported the theft to the police, who began to search for the animals. A few weeks later, the authorities learned there was a plan in Cologne to transport 5,000 sheep to Turkey by train. They asked the shepherd to go to the train station to check if his sheep were in the convoy.
On the day the sheep were to be loaded, the shepherd stood with the police at the freight station. The enormous flock passed in front of them. At regular intervals, the shepherd gave his call.
Like all shepherds, he had a unique way of whistling to gather his sheep when he was with them in the countryside. The authorities could not believe their eyes when they saw that little by little, one after the other, the sheep were breaking away from the large mass of small livestock and gathering around their shepherd. Once the other animals were loaded onto the train, the small flock remaining near the shepherd was counted. To everyone’s surprise, there were exactly 111 sheep. Not a single one was missing! The police were very impressed and understood without a shadow of a doubt that these sheep truly belonged to the shepherd.
(Reported by the Swiss-German newspaper St. Galler Tagblatt on August 3, 2013) |
| 4. How can we not think of Jesus, our divine Shepherd, who tells us: “The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The doorkeeper opens to him and the sheep listen to his voice, and he calls his own sheep one by one and leads them out… he goes ahead of them and the sheep follow him because they know His voice…” (Jn 10:2-4)
And we, do we hear His voice? “I speak to all souls,” Jesus said to St. Faustina. But not all souls hear the murmur of His voice. Here are some excerpts from Sr. Faustina’s Diary:
“Silence is a sword in spiritual combat. A talkative soul will never achieve holiness. The sword of silence will cut through anything that would cling to the soul.” (Diary § 477)
“The silent soul is strong; if it perseveres in silence, no opposition will touch it. The silent soul is capable of uniting itself with God in the most profound way; it almost always lives under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; in the silent soul, God acts without encountering any obstacle.” (Diary § 477)
“The Holy Spirit does not address the dissipated and talkative soul, but He speaks through silent inspirations to the silent soul.” (Diary § 552)
“Try to live in recollection, so that you may hear My voice, which is so sweet that only recollected souls can hear it…” (Diary § 1779)
These are precious words, of primary importance for our time when noise so often imposes itself upon us and robs us of the intimacy we could have with the Lord! |
| 5. Dearest Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, what a celebration it was in heaven and on earth at your canonization last Sunday!
Now more than ever, come to the aid of the young people throughout the world! They are so tender and impressionable! Come visit the hearts of each of them, give them your enthusiasm for this great gift from God that is life! Protect them from evil that wants to devour them. Keep away from them the traps of all kinds that are set for them! Accompany them in their desire to love and be loved! Help them discover with what love they are loved and cherished by their Creator from the moment of their conception, and what a maternal heart they find in the Blessed Virgin Mary! Give them the ability to discern good from evil and never to fall into the subtle and fatal trap of “Everyone does it…”. Help and console parents who, like yours, have lost a child.
For, “Do not forget, dear children, that each of you is a unique world in the eyes of the Heavenly Father!” Mary tells us. (May 2, 2016).
This is not the time to be idle; the world is on fire! |
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| 6. A few pearls of wisdom from Carlo Acutis…
“Infinity is our Homeland. We are always awaited in Heaven.”
“Our Compass must be the Word of God, which we must constantly confront.”
“The Eucharist is my highway to Heaven… The more we receive Holy Communion, the more we will become like Jesus, and already on this earth, we will have a foretaste of Heaven… If we approach the Eucharist every day, we go straight to Heaven… When we stand before the sun, we tan. When we stand before Jesus in the Eucharist, we become saints.”
“All are born as originals, but many die as photocopies.”
“To be always united to Jesus is the purpose of my life… Find God, and you will find the meaning of your life… Everything passes… What will make us truly beautiful in the eyes of God will be the way we have loved Him and our brothers and sisters.”
“I offer to the Lord all the suffering I must endure, for the Pope and for the Church, in order to go directly to Heaven and avoid Purgatory…”
“I die in serenity because I have lived my life without wasting even a minute on things that do not please God.” |
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| 7. My next live broadcast in French, with commentary on the September 25 message, will be broadcast on September 26 at 9pm local time.
Commentary on the August 25th message:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOV1hA5_xew |
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| Dearest Gospa, the path to holiness that you propose to us is not easy. But how beautiful it is! It leads us to where you are, that is, to Heaven. And before Heaven, even in the midst of a world that has not known God’s love, we have true peace of heart, the peace that our God gives us through your maternal hands!
Sister Emmanuel, Community of the Beatitudes
Translated from French
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| PS2. Free a priest from Purgatory? Among the works of mercy recommended for the Jubilee Year, I propose celebrating a Mass for the liberation of a priest from Purgatory, for priests suffer greatly there. This priest will be dedicated to powerfully helping his fellow priests on earth, those who have embarked on paths of sin and spiritual death, so that they may return wholeheartedly to Christ and His Word. In this way, we can do immense good for the Church and the world! |
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| PS3. Follow the Medjugorje evening program at home, from 5pm to 8pm winter time. Our Lady herself is the one who created the evening program!
It can be seen at www.medjugorje.hr Or here: www.centremedjugorje.org |
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PS4. Wonderful books to read this summer:
– “Does God laugh out loud” is a book written by Fr Frankie Mulgrew, a Catholic Priest in the Diocese of Salford in England. He was a stand-up comedian before answering his call to the priesthood. Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, but how many of us can say that we are truly joyful in our witness of Jesus? This thought-provoking book offers a refreshing new perspective, which shows that God does have a sense of humor and that he wants us to have one too!
Let’s not get drawn into the doom and gloom, but instead rejoice always in the Good news of Jesus Christ!
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| – “My diabolic possession” by Francesco Vaiasuso, a good friend of us, a great disciple of the Queen of Peace. How he was delivered from 27 legions of demons.
CLICK HERE |
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