Thoughts from John Sullivan, Director of Communications and International Dissemination for The Flame of Love Movement
The most important thing we can do collectively as the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Apostolate or as individual devotees is to spread the Flame of Love to everyone – inside the Church and outside the Church. However, prayer cenacles are also an important part of …
No, this reflection is not about God’s forgiveness toward us although that depth is unfathomable. This reflection is about the depth of our forgiveness of others – a critical topic for November, the month of the souls in Purgatory.Why are souls there? One reason is to endure the temporal punishment …
Last week, I described my personal experience of seeing the shattering power of dawn. The dawn arrived almost imperceptibly but yet most clearly and its progress was inexorable; darkness had no choice but to retreat before the dawn. There was no contest; darkness had no choice other than to retreat …
The theme of this year’s US National Conference (and the theme for the entire Flame of Love Movement set by our International Director, Győző Kindelmann this year), was, “I, the Beautiful Ray of Dawn, will blind Satan”. Eileen, our US National Director, has asked me to write a series of …
One of the greatest gifts a father can give his children is for them to know that he believes in them. He believes in all they can be. This helps carry us through the dark times – when we’ve fallen down, when we feel like we can’t go on, when …
This Sunday, we will celebrate The Most Holy Body And Blood Of Christ (Corpus Christi). When I returned to the Church after being away for over 25 years, it took me a while to get used to the idea that we celebrated not only events in the liturgy like the …
I pray all of you had a most blessed Pentecost. With the end of the Easter Season, we have come to the end of our reflections on the Unity Prayer: “May our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father.” Like everything about the Unity Prayer, this petition …
Do we place too much emphasis on blinding Satan? Some may object to The Flame of Love Movement because of how much attention we pay to this subject. In fact, Elizabeth Kindemann stated it was the whole purpose of The Flame of Love: “. . . . this priest understood …
I hope that each one of you have known the kind of love in your life that needs no words – where you sit with your beloved in the silence, perhaps gaze in each other’s eyes and, without a word, speak volumes of love. “May our ears listen to the …
“May our thoughts be as one”. When we answer yes to Jesus’ prayer to us, the deepest desires of His heart, we are moved to intense union with our Lord. This is why the Unity Prayer not only encapsulates the Flame of Love Movement but the entirety of Christianity. It …
“May our souls be in harmony.” This phrase of the Unity Prayer is slightly different from most of the other phrases. The others speak of “unity”, “unison”, “being as one” but this one speaks of harmony. This has important implications for us especially as our cenacles and Movement become more …
“May our hearts beat in unison”. This is, perhaps, the most profound of all the petitions in the Unity Prayer. It takes us right to the heart of Christianity, no pun intended. And what is that? That we may love God as He loves us To do this, we must …
This week, we continue our exploration of Jesus’ Unity Prayer in the hope that our deepening union with Jesus will prepare us to go out into the world to spread the Flame of Love in whatever way our Lord and Lady put before us. In fact, as I understand it, …
As Jesus used the time between His Resurrection and Pentecost to help His disciples understand Him more fully before being sent into the world to proclaim the Gospel, so let us use this Easter Season to grow in unity with Him by examining the Unity Prayer. The Unity Prayer is …
We often describe the Flame of Love Devotion as the Devotion of Grace which builds upon the Devotion of Mercy – the two great devotions given to the Church at this time. This understanding is powerfully validated in what is often referred to as the final vision of Sister Lucia …
Alleluia! The Lord is risen! He is truly risen! I pray that the unbounded joy of Easter fills your lives this week. Over the seven weeks of this Easter season, we would like to use this time in the same way Jesus did with the Apostles – to draw near …
Yes, this is a practice of The Flame of Love. God has given us each moment that marks our lives. Like all questions of love, how are we using the time we have been given? For ourselves or others? The Flame of Love calls us to pour out our lives …
As we hasten quickly toward Holy Week, it seems appropriate to consider the single largest topic in the Spiritual Diary – Suffering. What does suffering have to do with love? Everything! In this life, there are three things that are inseparable: Love, Freedom, and Suffering. For love to be perfect, …
Many people talk to me or write to me about the Night Vigils as they are an important part of the Flame of Love Devotion. I almost always hear the same two statements: “They’re amazing” and “They’re really hard!” So why are we getting up twice each night for one …
