Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame
of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Pearl of Great Price
“Divine Sculptor, form me in Your image and likeness, so that at the hour of my death You recognize the work of Your holy hands. O blessed Divine Hand that carves and caresses at the same time. My soul burns with desires when You say that You need my sacrifice. What a great distinction! I bless You, beloved Jesus, and exalt You without end.” (Elizabeth) (September 1, 1962)
Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.= Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.” (Matthew 13)
Prayer Meditation- Lord soon we honor St. Ignatius of Loyola who gave up everything in his past for the pearl of great price, for You because we all have these big holes in our hearts until we abandon ourselves to You! As St. Augustine said, our hearts are restless until we rest in You! Lord, some of us grew up possessing You but some of us wandered in darkness and confusion and when we found Your treasure, You in the Blessed Sacrament, we left everything to follow You! Lord, like St. Ignatius, may we fill our minds with spiritual reading including the Bible so that You may form us into Your likeness. Mother Mary, as St. Louis Marie de Montfort has taught us, place us in Your mold as we strive to live for Jesus!
