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© Children of Medjugorje 2025
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Medjugorje, December 18, 2025
Dear Friends, praise be to Jesus and Mary!
1. On November 25, 2025, the visionary Marija, received the following monthly message:
Dear children! In this time of grace, I am calling you to follow me. Pray for those who do not pray and do not want peace and joy, which only the Most High can give. May your souls be united in the joy of expectancy and your heart will be filled with peace. You will be convinced, little children, that all will be good and that God will bless all; because the good that you give will return to you, and joy will enfold your heart because you are with God and in God. Thank you for having responded to my call.
(With ecclesiastical approval)
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2. To fully celebrate Christmas, please come with me into the poor stable in Bethlehem. Here we find the three most extraordinary people who have ever lived on earth. Invited by Jesus, let us enter and feel at home in His family, because His family is also ours! Let’s allow ourselves to be loved by Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Let us get to know Saint Joseph! Joseph was a "righteous man", a carpenter from Nazareth, betrothed to a young girl named Mary (Matt 1:18-19). The word “righteous”, Tzaddik in Hebrew, means that he was adjusted to the will of God, adjusted to his wisdom. He is the man of the Beatitudes who has that thirst for living in communion with God. He was imbued with this wisdom, and this enabled him to sense what God expected of him, in accordance with God's plan. Saint Joseph was of royal lineage, chosen by God among all men as the most worthy, the most accomplished in his humanity to be placed alongside Mary. He was not, as some see it, a mere nice gentleman from the village of Nazareth whom Mary would have chosen for his honesty and righteousness, or because he was recognized as a good carpenter.
St Joseph listened to God and scrutinized the Torah. He fed on Scripture. He had that inner and spiritual finesse that enabled him to commune with God's thoughts. His silence was a silence of deep listening; he did not want to interfere with the word of God.
This has nothing to do with that old man portrayed by certain artists! If he was that old, how could he have worked hard in a job that required so much strength? How could he have fled to Egypt in the night with the responsibility of a young mother and her small child, and then provide daily bread for the One who was to become the Bread of Life?
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Mr. Olier, a great 17th century French mystic, said that every saint on earth manifests something of the soul of Christ. But Saint Joseph is the saint who reflects the image of our Heavenly Father. He was chosen uniquely by God. No other saint has had the privilege of being invested with the Holy Spirit in such a powerful way as Saint Joseph, given his mission to be the icon of the Heavenly Father for Jesus and for us all.
How about his work? In the time of Jesus, being a carpenter was a very noble profession. He not only made building frames; he also acted as an architect because the shape of the house depended on the frame. He was also a notary. He closed deals once he had built the house, and could sign contracts. He was a woodworker, a carpenter, an architect, a notary, a profoundly wise man and a spiritual advisor. He was the man chosen by heaven to become the head of the holy family.
In the stable, I imagine how busy he was, trying to provide some comfort for Mary, but there was nothing there, and it was so cold! He was humiliated to have nothing more than that to offer his wife for the coming into the world of the Child-God.
I want to look at him at length... and I find in him this humble, intelligent responsible man, seeking by all means to serve the so mysterious plan of the Heavenly Father for his Son Jesus! Did Christ, the Creator of the world, have to lie in a manger for animals? For a Jewish man, no way, this was unthinkable! All his life, our tender-hearted Joseph had to adjust to the Heavenly Father's surprising plans, because the Savior of the world had to come incognito to our earth, as the poorest of the poor, in order to take upon Himself all the poverty of our humanity, so wounded by sin. Who wouldn't dream of having such a father?
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O Saint Joseph, please look upon me as your child! I choose you as my adoptive father and throw myself into your arms! Lead me in the ways that the Heavenly Father has chosen for me, lead me with the same love that you led the Child Jesus entrusted to you. Hold me close to your heart, just as you embraced your little Yeshua!
Through your unconditional tenderness, please heal me of the many wounds of my childhood, melt away all my fears!
Let us look at the Blessed Virgin Mary! She is completely silent, and together with Joseph, she accepts the precariousness of this place. She is exhausted, because they had to walk for a long time to find suitable accommodation, which they ended up not finding! She too had to adjust to the circumstances! However, she did not harbor any bitterness that could have been caused by Joseph’s family’s refusal to offer them hospitality. Instead, she prayed. With her smile and docility, she comforts Joseph as much as possible. Her whole being is focused on the Child she is carrying, and that she will bring into the world. Ever since the Annunciation, she has been speaking to him secretly, intimately. She and the Baby are already one. She contemplates Him in the invisible, calling Him by His name: Yeshua! Soon, she will see Him with her own eyes! She will touch Him, caress Him, press Him against her heart. She melts with gratitude toward the Heavenly Father, who has looked down on his humble handmaid and made her the Mother of His Messiah. She knows that from now on, all generations will call her blessed.
At the Annunciation, Mary received from the Angel Gabriel a name that amazed her: full of grace. This is the only time it appears in the Bible and it applies only to Mary. She is full, there is no empty space within her, she is overflowing with the presence of God. And the Blessed Virgin Mary wants to give us all that she has, she holds nothing back for herself, because God wants everyone to have a share in what He has placed in her, all the way to this unique privilege of being the Immaculate. Of course, she alone is the "Immaculate Conception". This remains a unique privilege willed by God for her. But this privilege is an immense richness for us! Far from separating us who are sinners, this privilege brings us closer to her. It is precisely because she is Immaculate that she loves us so much! Far from being inaccessible because of the immensity of her virtues, she is infinitely close to us! The purer a heart is, the more it is capable of loving. We see how sin alters within us the capacity to love in truth.
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In the Immaculate Virgin Mary, I like to see a Mother of Mercy who knows what she has been preserved from. She never sinned. Like us, Mary was saved by the Cross of her Son. But in anticipation, in view of her divine motherhood she is the first of the saved ones, the first of the redeemed ones. Our sins hurt her as much as they hurt her Son, but she responds by overflowing us with the treasures of her virginal heart. She is therefore close to sinners. She is intimately close to the worst of great sinners. Her compassion for us is immense! The more miserable and sinful we feel and the more ugly and dirty we feel, the more we are entitled to Mary's closeness. She then leads us to the source of mercy that flows from the Heart of her Son. Within her and through her, everything becomes pure and beautiful, everything blooms and is reborn. Just looking at her, and invoking her, makes all evil forces move away, hence her great power against demons, in our favor.
Dearest Mother, as I come near to the manger, I enter your world, and what a world it is! The world where Jesus lived for 30 years, a world of tenderness and love, a world where harshness has no place, a world that disarms evil to its root… Satan could never penetrate it, your love would have burned him then and there.
O full of grace, how I need you! From the depths of my poverty, I cry out to you! I happily grasp your motherly hand, O Mother, and thus I will dwell with you all the days of my life.
O Child Jesus, hidden in Mary, you are the treasure of treasures, the Savior of the world announced by the prophets! You cannot wait to see the light of day, but only Joseph and Mary know who you are. Although you are a small and unique being, you live in total union with your mother, a kind of fusion, and you share everything she feels.
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Indeed, when a child is conceived, even if at that time the child is not able to think, he knows in his soul the type of welcome that his mother offers him. His soul is already present in its fullness, it is not tiny like his body. If his mother does not desire this life, the little one will understand that he is not welcome, and he will be deeply hurt, because the gift of life must be accompanied by the gift of love! But if his mother is happy to give life, if she blesses God for this infinitely precious gift of this new creature, then the little one will understand that his life is beautiful, that it is worth living, and this will allow him to grow according to the harmony that the Creator has placed in him. He will be well equipped to face the hardships of life that await him.
You, dear Child Jesus, could not have dreamed of a better welcome from your mother! Even before she saw you with her own eyes, she cherished you with all her being, she listened to your heartbeat with rapture, she never stopped praying with you, she sang you lullabies that she composed herself...
Yes... the Infant Jesus in His mother's womb, although He was already a small separate being, lived in union, in total fusion with His mother in the flow of the Holy Spirit that lived in Him. He was in communion with everything that the Blessed Virgin was experiencing. Mystics like to say that Mary's atmosphere for Jesus in her maternal womb was paradise. Mary experienced messianic joy, in an act of constant worship. Always listening to God, she was all love, readiness, joy and jubilation, even in this tough and seedy village that was Nazareth.
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Dear Child Jesus, I think of you when I receive Holy Communion during Mass. I pray that you will be happy in my heart, even if I am a thousand miles from being able to welcome you within me as Mary welcomed you into her maternal womb. However, through the Eucharist, you are the same divine Child who seeks love in the soul that receives it. You are and will always be thirsty for love!
I really like the idea that Little Therese of the Child Jesus had, before her first communion, at the age of 11. She wondered how to welcome such an immense God into her little heart, and she found the best solution: she invited the Blessed Virgin Mary to come into her and welcome her Son, and she invited St Joseph too. In short, she organized a wonderful welcoming committee for Jesus in her. Why not do the same?
Dearest Child Jesus, I adore you in Mary's womb, and I desire to enter into her continuous longing for you! Little Child Jesus, who will be born at Christmas, while you are being swaddled by your mother, will you allow me to embrace you, like Joseph, like the shepherds who came to see you?Will you allow me to hold Heaven tight to my heart, even for a moment?
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3. Write a letter from your heart to the Child Jesus on the anniversary of His birth! Celebrate Him with love and gratitude, like one celebrates a very dear person, because He is so forgotten on that day in the world! Where can you send your letters?
PLEASE NOTE: Our post office box has changed, it is no longer in Nice, it is in Lisieux. Send your thanksgiving letters and prayer intentions to:
EdM, BP 45006, 14105 LISIEUX cedex, FRANCE.
You can add Gospa Mail on the envelope.
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Dearest Gospa, we want to join our hearts in unity with the parish novena on your Podbrdo mountain, from the 15th to the 23rd of December, at 2 p.m. local time. Please receive our humble rosaries, and bless us all with your motherly blessing, we who have recourse to you with immense trust!
Sister Emmanuel, Community of the Beatitudes
Translated from French
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PS1. An excellent and fruitful gift for Christmas and New year!
The revised edition of my latest book, 'Make Friends with the Angels' is now available to buy on Amazon and Google books. Having been translated from the French version, it features many more testimonies and insights into the Angels.
CLICK HERE
Available on Amazon and other bookstores
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PS2. Helping a suffering soul in Purgatory?
Be the extended hands of our Mother!
The Jubilee Year will end on January 6. Each day, we have the opportunity to obtain the liberation of a soul from Purgatory. How many days are there until January 6? Maybe one of your loved ones is expecting you to help him/her? Also, as an act of mercy, please consider having a Mass celebrated for the release of a priest from Purgatory? You may ask Our Lady to choose the priest she wants. Once freed, this priest will be committed to helping his fellow priests on earth, those who are in grave sin and spiritual death, so that they may return to Christ and be saved! We can do immense good for the Church and for the peace of the world! Will you share this initiative with your loved ones and doing so, be the extended hands of our merciful Mother?
PS3. Do you want to get to know St Joseph more? Why not do a 33-day consecration to him, while also learning about him? It may change your life! Fr Donald Calloway has written a beautiful consecration: ‘Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father’. Here is the link to it:
CLICK HERE
Available to buy on Amazon and other bookstores.
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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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- I recommend this excellent book: “The path of Mother Adele Garnier' She founded the Congregation of Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre. Jesus called her to establish perpetual adoration at Montmartre in Paris. During the religious persecution in France in the 1800s, the Congregation moved to England. The Tyburn sisters are still present today in London.
Available to buy on Amazon and other bookstores.
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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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