"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)
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.
According to the Book of Genesis, Adam and Eve are the first ancestors of humanity, and from them were born the first brothers, Cain and Abel. When God did not look with favor upon Cain’s offering but accepted the offering of his brother Abel, Cain became filled with anger. He led his brother Abel out into the field and killed him. When God then asked Cain where his brother Abel was, Cain replied, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” pretending ignorance (cf. Gn 4:3–9).
This biblical account conveys a fundamental message: conflicts—whether between brothers or within any human relationship—must never be resolved through violence. More deeply still, it teaches us that in every circumstance human beings are called to coexist, to protect one another’s lives and well-being, and to take responsibility for one another.
Although the Old Testament does contain references to God as Father, the people of Israel used this expression with great reverence and caution. They even considered it irreverent to pronounce God’s name directly, choosing instead titles such as Elohim or Adonaiin place of Yahweh.
Yet Jesus, in proclaiming the Gospel, addressed God as “Father.” Throughout the Gospels, Jesus repeatedly called God Father, and when He taught His disciples the Lord’s Prayer, He instructed them to pray, “Our Father who art in heaven.”
Through this expression, Jesus defined the relationship between God and humanity, and among human beings themselves. God is Father; we are His children; and therefore all people are brothers and sisters. In this way, Jesus revealed that all humanity forms one great family, gathered under God as Father.
For this reason, Christians do not hesitate to call one another brothers and sisters. In the life of the Church, in the celebration of the liturgy, and in daily life, this language comes naturally to us. Jesus taught us that since God is our Father and we are His children, we must recognize and live as brothers and sisters to one another.
If we truly keep this truth in mind, the words of Our Lady will not seem difficult to us: “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.” All people of the world—especially those who do not yet know God’s love—are children of God and of Our Lady, and therefore our brothers and sisters. As members of God’s family, we bear a fraternal responsibility toward them.
How, then, are we to live out this responsibility? Our Lady tells us clearly: we are to become prayer and blessing for them. This does not mean simply offering a prayer or a blessing once in a while. Rather, it means that they are to be continually present within our prayer and our blessing. Our prayer must not be confined to ourselves but must remain constantly open and directed toward them.
Thus, the intention of our prayer must expand beyond ourselves and our families to embrace all people, especially those who have not yet come to know God’s love. We are called not only to ask for the well-being and blessings of our own households, but to pray that all people may live in happiness and peace, and that God’s blessing may rest upon them always.
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.
“Little children, be different from others.” This expression appears for the first time in Our Lady’s messages. Upon hearing these words, one may naturally think of the Pharisees often mentioned in the Gospel. Unlike the Sadducees, who were priests, the Pharisees were lay people who sought to live the Law more strictly than anyone else and who were determined to lead holy lives. They chose for themselves the name “Pharisee,” meaning “the separated ones,” wishing to be recognized as those set apart from others.
Their desire to live differently is understandable. They did not want a lax or superficial faith, but rather sought to serve God rigorously and to observe His Law faithfully. Yet in the eyes of Jesus, they were hypocrites. Though they appeared outwardly devout and meticulous in observing the Law, they placed their own piety above God. Lacking love—the true heart of the Law—they fell into outward observance and pride. For this reason, Jesus strongly rebuked the Pharisees and the scribes (cf. Mt 23:1–36).
When Our Lady calls us to be different from others, her words also contain a warning: we must not become modern-day Pharisees. Even today, within the Church and in the world, we often encounter people who claim to be “different” and behave with arrogance. Just as Judas, who betrayed Jesus, still exists in every age, so too do Pharisees.
Our Lady desires a very different kind of “difference.” She calls us to become positive people of prayer and love toward God. When a person truly loves God and prays with sincerity, that person naturally becomes different. We can sense it in their face, in their voice, in their manner of speaking, in their attitude, and even in the way they walk or turn away.
Certainly, we must become such people for the sake of our own salvation and peace. We are called to be different. Yet when this difference is sought only for ourselves, it becomes dangerous, for it can easily lead us into the pride of the Pharisee. Our Lady calls us to become different so that our lives may have a good influence on others, inviting them too to discover God’s love and to find salvation and peace.
For this reason, Our Lady calls us to become a sign of God’s love to others through our lives. What matters here is not our words, but the way we live. We can always speak beautifully and convincingly about God’s love. Yet if those words are truly authentic, they must be supported by concrete actions and by the witness of our lives. That is why life speaks more powerfully than words, and why the testimony of a life lived in love carries real and lasting strength.
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.
In recent messages, Our Lady has repeated these words at the conclusion. Although she always blesses us and intercedes for us, her insistence at this moment reveals how much more we now need her blessing and intercession. It is also a sign that we are living in times more difficult and burdensome than before.
Let us therefore thank Our Lady, who takes our struggles and hardships as her own, who blesses us all the more, and who remembers each of us individually as she intercedes for us before her Son. And with grateful hearts, let us respond to her call.
