July 27, 2026
Don’t Be Left Behind
[Podcast] (36 Minutes) – A Friend of Medjugorje focuses on one small detail in Our Lady’s July 25, 2026, message that many may miss, and he shares some older words of wisdom to strengthen us.
Episode Transcript
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[THEME MUSIC]
[A COC I]
Our Lady Queen of Peace of Medjugorje’s July 25, 2026 monthly message to the world.
“Dear children, while darkness and peacelessness rule in many hearts, you little children, be prayer and my extended hands of love. Little children, Place the Sacred Scripture in a visible place in your family and read it, so that it may be an encouragement for you to conversion and a new life. Because satan is strong and seduces hearts. Your hearts, through my maternal heart, I desire to commend to the heart of my Son Jesus, so that He, The Risen One, may reign in you, and joy may begin to reign in you and around you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Everything today in the world is connected to Medjugorje. You think not? Well, when you become a part of Medjugorje, your life changes. You can relate to others who have been to Medjugorje more easily than you can relate to your family.
What we are doing is our future. You just heard the message July 25th, 2026. Our Lady says “your hearts through my maternal heart.” What does that mean? Let’s jump back to October 25th, 2009.
Our Lady says, “…I bless you all and call you to grow on this way, which God has begun through me for your salvation…”
Let’s go back further more again. June 25th, 2001.
Our Lady says, “…especially today when God gives you abundant graces, pray and seek God through Me…”
There it is again. It that goes through Our Lady. Let’s go back even further more. July 25, 1988, “…Everything you do and everything you possess, give over to God so that He can take control in your life as King of all that you possess. That way, through me…” there it is again.
What does it mean? Think about it.
“…That way through me, God can lead you into the depths of the spiritual life…” for you to make you see what’s going on through the heart of Our Lady.
May 25th, 1996. “…Little children, I also wish that you all become active during this time that is through me connected to heaven in a special way…”
We are in a time from the beginning of the world that Our Lady is showing to us. This is special. This is not [near] heaven.
Another message, February 2, 1990.
“…I wish to show you the way to eternal life. I wish to be your tie, your connection to the profound faith. Listen to me…”
Who is me? Our Lady. Most of the people, I would say, most of the people going to Medjugorje, they really don’t know what’s going on in the depth that everything that’s going through the world this year is going through Her heart.
More messages. June 2nd, 2016.
“…Many of my children do not see and do not hear because they do not want to…”
How sad. She continues.
“…They do not accept my words and my works. Yet through me, my Son calls everyone…”
Another message to help you to understand what I’m trying to tell you and what She’s telling you.
March 18, 2013. “…Live in faith through me. My Son is preparing you for the works which He desires to do through you. Works through which He desires to be glorified….”
And going now to this new message we just got two days ago, July 25, 2026. “…Your hearts, through my maternal heart, I desire to commend to my Son, Jesus…”
This broadcast is going to help you to show you to be like a soldier. Our Lady is calling you to relate to Her messages that everything’s in this time of history goes through Our Lady.
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You’re going to hear on this broadcast 2011, and this is connected to July 25th, 2026.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
People that’s gone to Medjugorje have bumped into each other. And they may not know each other. You may be traveling in some way. I’ve been to Medjugorje. I have too.
You instantly have a kinship that you don’t have with anybody else. You could be the only one in your family, the other person the only one in the family. You don’t know them, but you run across on them at the beach or somewhere or Europe, wherever.
And instantly, you have an animated conversation. Why is that? Because you’re in colleague with something of common that is difficult to share with anyone else.
It’s difficult to identify with someone else that hasn’t been there. Or even if they don’t, they know Our Lady and they followed her.
You immediately have relationship. You immediately have people that you could say, these are my brothers.
And when we have people go to war, there’s something they share that can’t be explained. It’s difficult to even for them to talk. They come back and they’re silent.
There are things they can’t talk about because nobody would understand. Their family won’t even understand.
Conversion in Medjugorje is the same way.
So, what was it like with the apostles who walked with Jesus? What did they share together in those three years walking with him?
We’re walking with Our Lady. The apostles, the 12 apostles were in a class that nobody else was in. Nobody could identify with them in the same way, or even the bishops today, who are the apostles of our day, with those original ones.
And so, there’s a home in Jesus. There’s something that You can’t explain to other people. Our Lady asked us today in her message, be my apostles.
You’ve been given an opportunity to be real apostles walking with Our Lady. And when the apostles were told about Jesus’ teaching on the Eucharist and all the disciples left, and he turns to them and says, what will you do? You want to leave me too? No, where will we go? The apostles responded, we’ve given everything for You.
And so, it is with our community.
There’s battles we’ve fought. There’s fights we’ve fought. There’s struggles we’ve fought that we can’t share with anybody else.
We can tell them about it. We can discuss it. We can tell the stories. But until you’ve been there, you don’t know where home is.
Our Lady has created a home in our heart underneath Her mantle. And there’s nothing else we could ever do here, especially in the community.
And the same holds for you. The closer you go to Our Lady, what else can you identify with in the world?
And so we have to realize that Our Lady is calling us to something that parallels even going to war, something that is shared by soldiers that nobody can identify with.
Only those soldiers that have become brothers with people they’re willing to die with and live with.
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[SONG]
He almost forgot how to drive over here
while he tried to survive a year over there.
Some young punk just ran him off of the road.
He just turned 22 last week
in the back of a strike or somewhere in Tikrit.
He never thought he’d live to be this old.
It’s crazy being home.
Yeah, it’s crazy being home.
He stepped off a plane, feels like yesterday
They were waving flags and signs with his name
They said they were proud of what he had done
If they only knew what he had become
The girl in love, she swore that she’d wait,
but he came home to a cold, empty place,
had a burger today and got a new cell phone.
It’s crazy being home.
The stars all look the same,
and he still answers to his name.
It’s okay, but something just ain’t right.
It’s right to fight for what you love
But his young eyes have seen too much
Till you’ve been where he’s been
You wouldn’t understand
And I hope you never have to, my friend
He got the call, he’s back on a plane
to where he belongs. It might sound insane,
but his brothers are there,
they can’t fight this alone.
So they dropped him right there in the blood-red sand.
His best friend is locked and loaded in his hands,
and his sergeant yells,
boys, it’s time to go.
And he thought, it’s crazy being home.
It’s crazy being home.
Lord, it’s crazy being home.
It’s crazy being home.
Yeah, it’s crazy being home.
Lord, it’s crazy being home.
Yeah, it’s crazy being home.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Our Lady gives us such an intimate walk with Her, and after you tasted that, you’re home.
Often, we take people to Medjugorje and they say, I don’t even want to go back home. I want to live here in Medjugorje.
And I used to say no. You got to go back home and make your home Medjugorje.
And once you’ve had that, you can never go back to the world.
What used to be home and the culture and the way you did things, the way you walked in it, who wants that?
Who could even want to be part of that anymore?
And some have. Some have grown cool to Our Lady, to the messages, and She said that.
Many will cool off. She asked us to be fervent. And if you really find a home in Our Lady, there’s nothing else that you can go home to.
Just like the soldiers who carry something in common, that can’t even be discussed.
That’s why World War II vets come home, a lot of things they can’t even talk about, except with other veterans.
And so we’re in the midst of something so big, so grand, that unless you really follow Our Lady, it’s difficult to share.
It causes strife too in the family, because many people become jealous of that.
They see you have something with somebody else who’s been to Medjugorje that you might not have with them.
But the whole world’s going to go that way. Don’t be left behind.
Our Lady always tells us to live Her messages and you won’t feel the passage from this life to the next.
I think if you’re living the messages, you’ll know really what’s in Her heart. As She plans for Her next message, you’ll be doing that without even realizing what you’re doing. And then it’s confirmed later when it comes up.
And you just do what you’re inspired to do.
Our Lady says, listen to the Holy Spirit. We spend an hour every morning quietly in personal prayer as a community, providers, the single and the consecrated men and women, we go out there and you listen to God. You listen to creation.
And why would you not hear what Our Lady is thinking about? Why would you not know that?
As we said before, Our Lady didn’t say, to be honest with you or to be truthful about the matter, what She says is. We don’t have to add anything to it. It’s truth.
And so, by doing that and opening yourselves and find that quiet time of the day for an encounter with God, with Our Lady, She’ll speak to you.
And you’ll do steps that you won’t feel lightning and thunder, but then you come up a month later and here it is, She says it. This is what I call you to do. You’re ahead of the curve.
And we’ve often seen way ahead of, 10 years ahead of the curve.
The Church is not ready to accept what we’re doing right now. Many people aren’t ready to live what we’re doing right now. But I tell you what we were doing 5 and 10 years ago, people are doing now.
We’re ahead of the Church. St. Francis was ahead of the Church.
Many things that came to be recognized or rejuvenate the Church was ahead of the Church. They got persecution because of it, because nobody wants to be convicted or changed.
We say things nobody else is willing to say. But Our Lady has said it, and we don’t care what everybody else thinks. If She says it, She inspires it, She does it, we institute it.
We don’t expect everybody to agree with us. There’s many people who want the movement of Medjugorje to all be united and together, under one central authority.
Who, Our Lady didn’t tell me that. I don’t want to guide our community that way. We’re not underneath the Franciscans in Medjugorje, and we’re not going to be.
They didn’t call us to Medjugorje or anybody else, or the whole movement getting together and say, this is how we’re going to do it.
God don’t want it that way. Our Lady’s calling people to do what they do or evangelize the way they see or wherever they’re most bound they feel.
Our Lady said do novenas where you feel most bound. That being the case, She says, “obey me, listen to me.” That’s what we do. And we see it confirmed repeatedly.
If everything is to be centralized, why is there Franciscans? Why is there Jesuits? Why is it Dominicans?
We need everybody to be their own charisma in the Medjugorje movement. We need a lot of people spreading Medjugorje.
That’s a big mistake, a misnomer to think you got to be all in colleague and working together.
Our Lady told us in a private message at Marija’s house in Italy to “get hearts close to mine to a way of salvation.” We were walking away. And I’ll talk a little bit more about this after this break.
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[SONG]
Go ahead and take your best shot.
Let her rip, give it all you’ve got.
I’m laid out on the floor
But I’ve been here before
I may stumble, yeah, I might fall
I’m only human, but aren’t we all
I might lose my way
But hear me when I say
I will You’ll stand back up
You’ll know just the moment when I’ve had enough
Sometimes I’m afraid and I don’t feel that tough
But I’ll stand back up
I’ve been beaten up and bruised
And I’ve been kicked right off my shoes
Been down on my knees
More times than you’d believe
When the darkness tries to get me
There’s a light that just won’t let me
It might take my pride, and tears may fill my eyes
But I’ll stand back up
I’ve weathered all these storms
But I just turn them into wind
So, I can fly
If what don’t kill you makes you stronger
When I take my last breath
That’s when I’ll just give up
So go ahead and take your best shot
Let her rip give it all you’ve got
You might win this round,
but you can’t keep me down
‘Cause I’ll stand back up
And you’ll know just the moment when I’ve had enough Sometimes I’m afraid and I don’t feel that tough
But I’ll stand back up
You know just the moment when I’ve had enough
Sometimes I’m afraid and I don’t feel that tough
But I’ll stand.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
In The Poem of the Man-God, Jesus is relayed by Maria Valtorta, who wrote these books. And these books, Maria asked Our Lady, 1981, the first months of the apparition, on behalf of seminarians, can we read these books because so many people are against them?
People say the Church condemned them. Our Lady said one must read these books.
And I wrote Cardinal Ratzinger at the time, not in 1981, but back in the late 80s.
And they reviewed them and said, yes, they can be read by the faithful.
They just were not declared supernatural, which is fine because everything in the moment of going through an approval stage never can be that, no more than Medjugorje can be approved right there at this moment.
But in there it relays that Jesus burned with fire to cure people and evangelize them.
Other than that, people fatigued him.
He would go to escape the crowds and pray. He needed silence.
So when you’ve been kicked down, when you’ve been knocked down, how do you stand back up?
I used to train horses in high school. We’d take wild horses and break them.
You learn a lot of things when you do that, especially a lot of common sense, how to not get kicked in the head.
One day we were going to breed a magnificent stallion to a mare. He had taken 6th place in Congress, which is nationwide for halter class.
He’ was a beautiful horse, just like a picture you’d see on the Quarter Horse Association, if you’re familiar with that. Really muscled out.
He was majestic.
And I had to spin the mare around until she was ready for him. And I had to do this real fast to protect the owner while he had the stud on the lead line.
And the quicker I was going around, she kicked and she kicked him right in the chest, knocked him like 5 feet.
I thought he was dead.
This guy took a hit in his chest so hard that I couldn’t even believe he’d ever get up again. But he got back up.
He couldn’t talk. He couldn’t breathe. I thought maybe it punctured his rib, may have punctured his heart.
But he was tough. He got kicked right out of his shoes.
And life does that to us sometimes. Especially in the spiritual life.
And we’re expected to get up. We’re not going to be given any more than God knows we can take.
Many things will kick you around in life. You’ll get bruised. You’ll get beat up. You’ll be laid out on the floor.
But stand back up and that’s what Our Lady wants. When She says, permit me to purify your heart, don’t think it’s going to be something pleasant.
It’s going to be a kick in the chest. It’s going to feel like your heart’s being ripped out.
But there’s a purpose to it. That you may blossom and bear fruit 100-fold. Unless a seed dies and falls to the ground, it won’t grow.
And this message today is an agrarian message.
“…Permit me, little children, to lead you. Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit so that all the good in you may blossom…”
What blossoms? Plants.
“…And bear fruit 100 fold…”
How do you get to that point? Silence. You may go to people’s homesteads or places or their businesses and they show you this and they show you that.
But do they go to you and say, this is my house. This is my heaven. This is your house heaven. This is my land. This is my living.
What kind of living are you making? What is your direction in life? Does it bring peace? Is your joy the simple things?
Our Lady’s calling us to that. If you’re listening to the Holy Spirit, you’ll know that. You’ll know what She means when she says,
“…so that all the good that is in you may blossom….”
How did the Holy Spirit? How? Permitting Her to lead you. How? In silence.
And God’s not saying just to be silenced through this message, just to be praying.
Sometimes we should be silent about what we’re doing. We should be silent about our witness. We should be silent about our actions we’re going to take.
You don’t ever turn your cell phone off. You don’t ever get away from these things.
You don’t know what silence is. It’s why we don’t have cell phones in our mission. We run an international mission.
Oh, it’d be much more convenient, but we’d lose silent moments.
Just walking to the Field, just going out at 5 A.M.
We would think we’re so important that we would have to be answering everybody across the world.
But that fatigues us. There’s no value for us just to spend time with people unless we’re evangelizing.
Other than that, we want to be in silence. We want to be in prayer.
We want to be with each other.
Because our blood, our community, our life, our simple way is what we’re most proud of.
This is my house. This is my community. This is my family. This is our way of life. This way of life we want to follow God in.
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[SONG]
This is my house. This is my heaven.
This is my land. This is my living.
This is my wife; these are my children.
This is my blood.
These are my boots, this is my tractor,
and these are my hands. This is my hammer,
this is my sweat, this is what matters,
this is my blood.
It’s my life that you’re looking at
when you’re passing by
It might not look like much to you,
but in these eyes of mine
This is my church
This is my Jesus, this is my strength
This is my weakness, this is my flag
This is my freedom, this is my blood
It’s my life that you’re looking at
when you’re passing by.
It might not look like much to you,
but in these eyes of mine.
This is my church. This is my Jesus.
This is my strength. This is my weakness,
this is my flag This is my freedom,
this is my blood
This is my house, this is my heaven,
this is my land This is my living,
this is my wife
These are my children,
this is my blood
This is my life,
this is what matters
This is my blood.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
“…Rest your body and spirit. May they be in God’s love. Permit me, little children, to lead you. Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit so that all the good that is in you may blossom and bear fruit 100-fold….”
And then this is what you can say. This is my house. This is my heaven. This is my land. This is my living. This is my wife. These are my children. This is my blood.
Good night. We love you. We wish you Our Lady.
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