I encourage you to a new life in joy and prayer (Fr. Lubo Kurtovych, OFM)

Our Lady of Medjugorje’s May 25, 2026 monthly message:
“Dear children, I am praying for you and encourage you to a new life, a life in joy and prayer. May the Holy Spirit fill you, little
children, with joy so that you may be like a spring of pure and drinkable water; that you, little children, may be in God and with
God missionaries of love and peace. Your life is short here on earth and that is why I am with you to lead you towards Heaven.
Thank you for having responded to My call” (With ecclesiastical approval).
In the March message Our Lady told us that selfishness and hatred were obstacles to true peace in our hearts. We can give only what we have
and carry within our hearts. If our heart is ordered and at peace within itself then we will carry this peace and share it with others. We can receive
the grace of peace only when we are united with the One Who is the King of peace. Today the King of Peace – Jesus – directs us like John the
disciple toward His Mother, the Queen of Peace. She is full of grace and She Herself experienced the richness and peace that only God can give.
In this message Mary the Mother calls us to a new life in joy and prayer. A new life is given to us by Christ the Lord through the power of His
resurrection. In a certain way through faith and prayer we already feel and carry within ourselves the first fruits of Jesus’s resurrection. The
resurrection of Jesus profoundly concerns our lives. To be a Christian means to become a person who increasingly clothes himself in the
resurrected life, opens himself to the trust that we are new and freed and begins to live in this way.
We should free ourselves from a merely human understanding of the resurrection. It is not Jesus’s returning to this earth and to this earthly life. It
is not a revival of our dead who would come out from their tombs and live here on the earth again. Resurrection is an exit from transience and an
entrance into eternity. It is getting out of guilt and entering into forgiveness. Resurrection means that the devil will no longer be able to seduce us
or cause us any harm. Resurrection of the body is a freedom from sickness and death. It means that everyone who suffers will receive back a
hundredfold in compensation for pain and suffering. The resurrection of the body is a victory over injustice and over those who believed that the
most important things were money, profits, estates, fame, positions of power, the exaltation of military force and boasting in human might which
is short-lived and mortal. The resurrection is freedom from suffering, dying and death.
This resurrection is already built within our souls and it is already flowing in our veins. It is important to realize it and begin to live it, constantly
deepen, strengthen and multiply it within ourselves through prayer and God’s word.
Here on the earth we are like in exile: here we suffer and endure, here we sin and are marked by guilt. But a new heaven and earth are coming. A
new life in God is coming to which the Virgin Mary wants and desires to lead us.
Let us respond to the Motherly call of the Queen of Peace in order to experience and realize the width, length and depth of Christ’s love that
surpasses all knowledge (Ephesians 3, 18-19).
Prayer
Virgin Mary, You said many times that You are with us and intercede for us and desire to lead and carry us in Your Motherly Heart. We beg You
for Your Motherly intercession and for prayer without ceasing with us and for us so that day by day we may grow on the path of holiness and
may get to know Christ’s love that saves, liberates and heals our souls. Mother Mary, in a special way we beseech You to pray with us as You
prayed with disciples so that we may witness the power of the Holy Spirit Who renews all things and makes everything new in our lives. Oh
Mary, You, Who is the Bride of the Holy Spirit, obtain for us to experience the true joy which the Holy Spirit gives in our hearts and lives.
Amen.