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Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures

Memorial of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian

Love Bears All Things

Do not think that once a child has become an adult, he no longer needs his parents. My Mother accompanied Me everywhere with her love, her sacrifices and her prayers. You must do the same, and I will bless your efforts. (Jesus) (January 7, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord so many of us have been praying and sacrificing for our families- most days it does not feel like any of it is going anywhere. And yet today, we have the answer from St. Paul- it is not what we know or what we do alone because without love it is all nothing! Love bears all things and believes all things- when we are lagging in this, Lord, give us Your Mother’s Heart to love You and serve You today in those we love! In the end nothing else matters but love!

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Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows

Taking Mary into Our Homes

Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows

My Mother accompanied Me everywhere with her love, her sacrifices and her prayers. You must do the same, and I will bless your efforts. (Jesus) (January 17, 1964)

Today’s Readings: When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. (John 19)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You Holy Mother and ours followed You everywhere with love, sacrifices, and prayers. She is the model disciple and Our Most Loving Mother! Lord, You have given us Your Mother who stood by the Cross and who shared in the participation of Your Sacrifice on the Cross. She also shared in Your Resurrection- weeping turned into joy! Because as long as the deep dark night can seem, joy always comes in the morning! (Psalm 30:5). Lord, thank You for Your Beautiful Mother and ours- there is nothing that we will ever go through that She would not understand- there is no circumstance in life that She will not stand by us and pray fervently for us to You. Even today, Mary calls us through Her various apparitions around the world- crying because She will not rest until all of Her Children are home! Lord, open our hearts that we would take into our homes Our Mother- let us stand with Her at the Cross and keep her company as She brings us ever closer to You! Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us- take us deep into Your Heart and unite us to the Sacred Heart of Jesus!

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Feast Of The Exaltation Of The Cross

For God So Loved The World

Did I not shed all the drops of My Blood for all of you? My Will is to save everyone. (Jesus) (August 13, 1965)

Today’s Readings:

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. (John 3)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord You so loved the world that You gave Your only Begotten Son so that we can have everlasting life! You did not come to condemn us but to save us! How can we not take up our crosses and follow You- only You have the Words of Eternal Life!

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Twenty Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time

Has Our Love Grown Cold?

“If your love decreases, turn to our heavenly Mother and she will fill your heart with abundant love for Me. Draw close to My Mother, she will help you.” (Jesus) (March 4-March 7, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the LORD’s vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. (Sirach 27)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we so often struggle with anger and unforgiveness. We hold on tight to our resentments, how easily we can become offended in these days and times that we live in. We cannot see You in other people- we only see ourselves. Yet Lord if we live by the sword, we will die by the sword (Matthew 26:52). Forgiveness is not easy but to imitate You, it must be without limit- 7 x 70 times! (Matthew 18). We must forgive each other from our hearts because You have already paid a debt for us that we cannot possibly pay! So Lord let us not be stingy with our love and mercy for another- if our love grows cold let us draw close to Our Heavenly Mother who will always intercede for us so that the wine of grace will keep flowing in our hearts (John 2)

Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures

Friday of the Twenty Third Week in Ordinary Time

Eye On The Prize

You no longer doubt that I have chosen you to be a worker of Redemption. Many missionary priests cannot do more than you do. Your constantly renewed sacrifices and unceasing efforts are most pleasing to Me.” (Jesus) (August 1, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race,
but only one wins the prize?
Run so as to win.
Every athlete exercises discipline in every way.
They do it to win a perishable crown,
but we an imperishable one. (1 Corinthians 9)

Prayer Meditation: Lord we are all running the race to win the prize- the imperishable crown of Your Glory! This is not a sprint, it is a marathon and we win by never ever giving up in our efforts to be saints! Yes, You have called us all to be great saints- especially in these times- let us renew our sacrifices and efforts no matter how small they may seem in the natural knowing that You will multiply these efforts for the salvation of souls. Let us not grow lazy or weary in doing good! (Galatians 6:9).

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Thursday of the Twenty Third Week of Ordinary Time

Packed Together, Shaken Down and Overflowing- Measure for Measure

“My little one, your acceptance of sacrifices and your faithfulness stir me to pour out upon all in a greater measure the effect of my Flame of Love, but first of all and in a greater measure on you, because you are the first to receive it.” (Mary) (November 6-7 1962)

Today’s Readings: Give and gifts will be given to you;
a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing,
will be poured into your lap.
For the measure with which you measure
will in return be measured out to you.” (Luke 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You ask us to show mercy so that You will shower Your Merciful Love on us in greater measure! It is as simple as ABC- Ask for mercy, Be merciful, Confidence and complete trust in Your Mercy (Diary of St. Faustina)! We give with our little sacrifices and faithfulness each day and You give back more than we can ever ask or think (Ephesians 3:20)! Lord help us to be ready to receive all that You have to give us, all of the Graces, in good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing! All good gifts come from You Lord and everything belongs to You and will return to You! Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces, may we rejoice to receive all of His Great Gifts through Your Hands (Legion of Mary Catena)!

Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures

Memorial of Saint Peter Claver

In A World Of Woe

“They avoid what is difficult, and as the years go on, their soul becomes grey and covered with dust. Woe to them, because through example they influence others. (Jesus) (December 22, 1963)

But woe to you who are rich,
for you have received your consolation.
But woe to you who are filled now,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will grieve and weep.
Woe to you when all speak well of you,
for their ancestors treated the false 
prophets in this way.” (Luke 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we live in a world of woe- woes that are of our own making. We love comfort, escape, food, drink, entertainment, the esteem of others as if all of these things could possibly fill the God sized hole in our souls! Lord, we lay it all down- empty us so that we can be filled with You and You alone- our one true Love!

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Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Hail Holy Queen!

“You must be selfless, for we will entrust you with a great mission and you will be up to the task. However, this is only possible if you remain totally selfless, abjuring yourself. That mission can be bestowed upon you only if you also want it out of your free will. (Jesus) (1962)

Today’s Readings: She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: Behold, the virgin shall be with child and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel, which means “God is with us.” (Matthew 1)

Prayer Meditation- Lord God, we thank You for Our Blessed Mother- the Woman clothed with the Sun- Blessed is She who believed that the Lord would fulfill His promises to Her (Luke 1 NLT)! Thank You for Our Beautiful Mother who gave Her Fiat so that we would be free! Lord, thank You for giving Her to us as our Mother and Model of a life totally surrendered to Your Grace! She is our Star of the Sea and She will always point the way home to You! Hail Holy Queen our life, our sweetness and our hope! Pray for us O Holy Mother of God that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ!

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Monday of the Twenty Third Week in Ordinary Time

Saving Life Rather Than Destroying It

Therefore, all must share in this great saving work whose purpose is to save souls.” (Jesus) (Easter Monday 1964)

Today’s Gospel: Then Jesus said to them,
“I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the sabbath
rather than to do evil,
to save life rather than to destroy it?” (Luke 6)

Prayer Meditation-O Lord, we thank You we praise You and we adore You for the Saints such as  St. Mother Teresa who went to the margins to do good- to save life rather than destroy it. She saw You in the distressful disguise of the poor. Most of us will not do that heroic work but we are all called to work right where we are in our homes and our parishes to save souls. Mother Teresa taught us that the greatest disease in the West is being unwanted, unloved and uncared for. That we have a hunger for love and a hunger for You Lord. And we see it everywhere in our homes and families, this spiritual poverty all around us. And like the Pharisees in today’s Gospel, we can think of all kinds of loopholes that excuse us from doing anything about it but Lord You are asking all of us no matter our vocation, station, even the sick to pray and sacrifice for our brothers and sisters. These are the spiritual works of mercy that You told St. Faustina, another great saint, that anyone can do. So let us Lord all share in Your great saving work to save souls and let us begin today and every day!

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Twenty Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Two Or Three

Let there be at least two or three, because my Divine Son is present where two or three are gathered. Start by making the sign of the Cross five times offering yourselves to the Eternal Father through the wounds of my Divine Son. Do the same at the conclusion. Sign yourselves this way when you get up and when you go to bed, and during the day. This will bring you closer to the Eternal Father through my Divine Son, filling your heart with graces.” (Mary) (April 13, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18)

Prayer Meditation- Lord ,You have promised us that where two or three are gathered in Your Name You are there! Lord, You want us to be in community, even small little communities, in our family, in prayer and in unity! Lord help us not to be lone wolf Christians. While one alone may be easily overcome, two together can resist (Ecclesiastes 4:12)! Lord You are not asking us today for big programs, faith formation training, huge gatherings- they are all good. But Lord You are asking us to gather just one or two more together in Unity to pray the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary because that is how Her Little Children and Yours crush the head of the serpent in our times and for all time! (Genesis 3:15).

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Saturday of the Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

Fools For Christ

I am either a fool and a liar or what is happening in me is true. If it is true, then I cannot stand around with my arms folded while souls are perishing. (Elizabeth) (June 18, 1965)

Today’s Readings:

When ridiculed, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
when slandered, we respond gently.
We have become like the world’s rubbish, the scum of all,
to this very moment. (1 Corinthians 4)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, what is foolish to the world is wise in Your eyes! Either You are the Truth, The Way, and The Life or we are deluded- and how often the world sees us as deluded indeed or even worse as St. Paul tells us! But we can’t stand around waiting for the world to love us and worrying about human respect- souls perish while we drag our feet! O Lord let us be fools for You- use us to shame the wise for Your Glory!

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Friday of the Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

Heart Motives

Our Lady said, “I am the one giving you the strength to begin. In spite of many objections and bad intentions my Cause will succeed.” (Mary) (August 16, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. (1 Corinthians 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, it is so often that we can do good things but do them with all the wrong motivations. We want people to like us and to notice us, to affirm us. We work for men and not unto God (Colossians 3). Yet only The Lord knows our hearts! Lord, purify our motives so that we can offer all we do today for love of You and for the salvation of souls! Let us work together with Our Blessed Mother working with and in Her Heart today while we serve Jesus in others!

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Memorial of Saint Gregory The Great

Let Down Your Nets

With deep gratitude, I thanked Him that His attention extended also to our earthly needs. (Elizabeth) (February 14, 1965)

Today’s Readings: After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,

“Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.” When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing. (Luke 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord how often we try to do it all in our own strength. We work hard and long hours and we feel we have nothing to show for it. We never think to turn to You first in our daily lives- we just keep spinning our wheels. But Lord, if we let You into our boats and listened to You and put out into the deep water, even when it does not make sense, we would know that , You are with us. You are whispering in our trials and our failures. You take the little effort we can give and You multiply it with just one touch of Your Grace and Favor! You are telling us today- do not be afraid and to have confidence in You because You always know what we need and what is best for us and You are always more than enough!

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Wednesday of the Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

God’s Coworkers

Jesus said, “All of you have been called to My work of salvation, fathers and mothers, learned and ignorant, the well and the sick. All can work for Me, the free man and the one suffering in prison. What is important is the availability of the soul and the spiritual freedom which constitutes the culture of the soul.” (Jesus) (May 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive wages in proportion to his labor. For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. (1 Corinthians 3)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, in this time of crisis in the Church when it is so easy to get caught up in the news we forget that this is Your Church and You are still on the Throne! We are nothing but unprofitable servants in Your Kingdom! (Luke 17) and we are called to work with You to bring Your Kingdom here. You have no hands or feet but ours, that has not changed! We can all work for You, even those who are sick, in prayer, sacrifice, and in loving others especially those closest to us! Let us work with You today on Earth as it is in Heaven!

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Tuesday of the Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

What Is There About His Word?

As she (Mary) said: ‘Nothing comparable to this has happened ever since the Word became Flesh.’” (Jesus) (January 17, 1964)

Today’s Readings: They were all amazed and said to one another, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region. (Luke 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we stand amazed today at Your Word, what is it about Your Word spoken over us that heals us and strengthens us like nothing else! Lord, help us to bring You today what is unclean in us- only say the Word Lord and we shall be healed! Help us put on the Mind of Christ as St. Paul tells us we have through Your Spirit in today’s first reading (1 Corinthians 2)

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Monday of the Twenty Second Week in Ordinary Time

Meditating On The Word

The material for my meditation these past months has been one phrase: “And the Word became Flesh.” This is an inexhaustible theme and I always meditate on it. (Elizabeth) (March 23, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

How I love your law, O LORD!
It is my meditation all the day. (Psalm 119)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, help us to meditate on Your Word all day long- help us to love Your Law of Love. You are the Living Word made Flesh for us- Our Rescue and Our Redeemer! Help us like Elizabeth to never tire of pondering what can only be fathomed by the heart and not only our human minds! May our hands gather together in unity Lord as we meditate on Your Saving Word all the day long!

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Twenty Second Sunday In Ordinary Time

The Fire That Burns In Our Hearts

The next day, a sharp burning pain burdened my soul. “My Jesus, You promised to give me different sufferings. Although I suffer greatly, it is pleasant for me to suffer. I do not know to what I can compare this pain.” (Elizabeth) (April 20, 1962)

Today’s Readings- I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.(Jeremiah 20)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, love, it is not an easy thing. You ask us to pick up our crosses daily and follow You (Matthew 16)- to bear trials with patience and joy, to mortify our senses and to offer prayer and sacrifice for others! The world wants us to seek comfort- God forbid, we say with St. Peter, that anything negative would ever happen to us! If it is all suffering and pain for its own sake, it is just all worthless and cruel. This is a  broken world but Lord You pour into us the burning Flame of Love in our hearts! We see at Calvary what real love looks like! Lord open our hearts so that they would become burning furnaces of charity ready to return love for the Love that never fails and never gives up on us!

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Memorial of the Passion of Saint John The Baptist

Nothing Except Christ Crucified

At night, I laid down to rest. Because of my weakness and tiredness, I could hardly think. Quite unexpectedly, the Lord Jesus surprised me with His words and started to converse. Never in my life had His words penetrated so deeply within me. I listened to them with a trembling heart and devout concentration. (Elizabeth) (June 9, 1965

Today’s Readings: When I came to you, brothers and sisters,
proclaiming the mystery of God,
I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you
except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,
and my message and my proclamation
were not with persuasive words of wisdom,
but with a demonstration of spirit and power,
so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom
but on the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we honor and remember the Passion of Saint John the Baptist. He had stood up for Your Commandments and was imprisoned. We can only imagine his fatigue, suffering and maybe even confusion in prison. Because Lord it is when we are weak, we are strong (2 Corinthians 2:10) because You are strong in us. We all have our times of weakness and tiredness in our lives and in our service to You- times when we are really united to You, our crucified Lord, in our suffering. There is no victory without the Cross, however united to You we are assured that in faith no matter how weak and lost we may seem, we are operating not in our own human wisdom but in Your power and for Your Glory! Saint John the Baptist please pray for us because unless a grain of wheat falls into the Earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it does, it bears much fruit (John 12:24)

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Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop

All Out of Oil

With motherly love, I will await your arrival in Heaven. The drops of oil resulting from your sufferings will fall on the earth into the lamps that are either extinguished or barely flickering, and they will ignite my Flame of Love. (Mary) (October 9, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’ But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.” (Matthew 25)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, I know so many who are just feeling like they are all out of oil! The bad news, the media, our own sinfulness and lack of perseverance, our losing sight of You as we look around at the waves and the water- all threaten to take us under. Lord, help us to look up and fix our eyes on You, even if we cannot see You. except barely with the eyes of our hearts and You seem long delayed! Help us offer our sufferings for the salvation of souls like drops of oil on the lamps of the multitude of souls separated from You!

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Memorial of Saint Monica

God Has Visited His People

“It is to the warm solidarity of the family sanctuary that souls come back to, after having strayed far. It is there that they come to find themselves and they once more return to God. Do not think that once a child has become an adult, he no longer needs his parents. (Jesus) (January 17, 1964)

Today’s Readings: A large crowd from the city was with her. When the Lord saw her, he was moved with pity for her and said to her, “Do not weep.” (Luke 7) (Gospel for the Memorial)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today in this beautiful Gospel, and in Your words to Elizabeth Kindelmann and to us, You remind us mothers that we have a huge responsibility to bring our families to You. We can think so many of our circumstances are too far gone- that our prayers are bouncing off the chapel walls and our little prayer corners at home where we indeed weep. Yet Lord, nothing is impossible for You and Your plan for us and our children is so much bigger than we can ask or think. You have a plan for them which is a future full of hope (Jeremiah 29:11)  O  Lord, visit Your people, visit our families and heal them and call our children back to Your Loving Care! Through the intercession of Saint Monica and Our Blessed Mother we bring You our families!