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Divine Mercy Sunday

Who In His Great Mercy

Jesus: “I choose you, My little one, to be the bearer of My Divine

Mercy. Fill yourself with the abundance of My Divine Mercy

and when you open your mouth to speak, proclaim the mercy of

My Heart burning of desire for sinners. Let your whole life be a

burning desire to take part in My work of Redemption through

prayer, sacrifice and desire.” (Jesus) (May 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading,
kept in heaven for you
who by the power of God are safeguarded through faith,
to a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the final time. (1 Peter 1:3)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we bless You, we praise You and we adore You on this day of Amazing Grace, the feast of Divine Mercy. A day where all can begin again if we take advantage of the graces of this day and go to confession within the timeframe given to us by the Church and receive Holy Communion and venerate Your Divine Mercy in Your image and in our lives! The quote from Elizabeth Kindelmann is amazing because You told her what You told St. Faustina and what You have been telling us from all time because Divine Mercy is the heart of the Gospel! In Your Great Mercy Lord, You have indeed given us a new birth, a living home and a heavenly inheritance in these times which are so perilous but so at the same time filled with Your Grace! Because indeed as St. Peter continues to tell us in the Epistle Reading today, we will endure various trials so that we become fire tried gold ready for Your Kingdom! We have not seen You but we love You and in Your Divine Mercy Image we know that Jesus I trust in You are not just pretty words but our reality because from time immemorial it has never been heard of nor do Heaven or earth remember that a soul trusting in Your Mercy has been disappointed (Divine Mercy in my Soul, 1730).

The mission of the Divine Will is eternal, and it is precisely the mission of Our Celestial Father.

He who is greatest among you shall be your servant;  whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. (Matthew 23:11-12)

Volume 17, April 15, 1925

Furthermore, of David it was said that he was an image of Me, so much so, that all of his psalms reveal my person; of Saint Francis of Assisi, that he was a faithful copy of Me. It is said in the Holy Gospel: ‘Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect’ – no less; it is also added that no one will enter the Kingdom of Heaven if he is not similar to the image of the Son of God; and many other things. About all these, no one says that they have been exalted too much, and that these are things not conforming to truths spoken by my very mouth. Only because to you I said that I wanted to compare you to the Virgin – to make you Her faithful copy, I have exalted you too much? So, comparing those to Me was not exalting them, nor did anyone raise any doubt or difficulty; but then, comparing to the Virgin – that’s too much exaltation. This means that they have not understood well the mission of the knowledge of my Will. Indeed, I repeat to you that I not only place you near Her as Her little daughter, on Her maternal lap, that She may guide you, instruct you on how you must imitate Her, to become Her faithful copy by always doing the Divine Will; so that, from Her lap, you may pass onto the lap of the Divinity. In fact, the mission of my Will is eternal, and it is precisely the mission of Our Celestial Father, who wants, commands, expects nothing else but that His Will be known and loved, that It be done on earth as It is in Heaven. So you, making this eternal mission your own and imitating the Celestial Father, must want nothing else for yourself and for all but that my Will be known, loved and fulfilled. And besides, when it is the creature who exalts herself, one should think about it; but when she remains at her place and I exalt her, all is permissible to Me – making one reach wherever I want, and the way I want. Therefore, trust Me and do not be concerned.”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, sometimes Your goodness and Your gifts can be so hard to believe. You indeed use and exalt the humble and the simple, not the wise and the learned. You have called Luisa Piccarreta and us linked to her in the Divine Will to Your true life living in us! Fiat Amen, what a gift!

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

Saturday in the Octave of Easter

Until The Whole World Hears

 “With this Flame full of graces that I give you from my

heart, ignite all the hearts in the entire country. Let this Flame go

from heart to heart. This is the miracle becoming the blaze whose

dazzling light will blind Satan. This is the fire of love of union

which I obtained from the heavenly Father through the merits of

the wounds of my Divine Son.” (Mary) (April 13, 1962)

Today’s Readings:

He said to them, “Go into the whole world

and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You have commissioned us to go out and preach the Gospel to every creature. In this time of present darkness, You have given us even more abundant grace through the Flame of Love Devotion- may the Flame in our hearts become a fire so that every heart will be open to receiving Your Divine Mercy which is the heart of the Gospel! Come Lord Jesus!

If the soul gives to God the food of patient love, God will give her the sweet bread of grace.

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. (Romans 12:12)

Volume 6-April 14, 1904

I continue in my usual state, but always with immense bitterness in my soul because of the privation of blessed Jesus; at the most, He comes when I can take no more and after I have almost persuaded myself that He will come no more.
Then, I saw Him for just a little, carrying a chalice in His hand, and He told me: “My daughter, if in addition to the food of love you give Me the bread of your patience – because patient and suffering love is a more solid, more nourishing and fortifying food, for if love is not patient, it can be said that it is empty, light love and with no substance, and therefore it can be said that the necessary materials in order to form the bread of patience are lacking – …so, if you give Me this, I will give you the sweet bread of grace.”

Prayer Meditation- Lord, how hard it can be to be patient in our suffering and yet we know that love is patient (1 Corinthians 13) and You have asked us to love You with Your Love! Lord give us the sweet bread of Your Grace every day in Your Word and in the Sacrament, make our hears like unto thine!

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Friday in the Octave of Easter

It Is The Lord- The God Who Makes Us Breakfast

Jesus: “Since the two of us have been so exhausted, let us eat

something hot.”

I prepared some hot soup and felt much better. While I was eating,

He praised me using few words but much feeling.

Jesus: “Is it not true that we now have both gained new strength?

I also suffer with you. Could you imagine that I would leave you

alone? No! I would never do that. Our souls are always in harmony.” (Jesus) (February 13, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?”
They answered him, “No.”
So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat
and you will find something.”
So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in
because of the number of fish.
So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” (John 21)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we read about another encounter with You, the Risen Lord. The Apostles have gone fishing because it seems they really do not know what else to do. Sometimes is hard to know where we go next Lord when we decide to follow You and have seen Your Glory. And trying to do it all our own way is just exhausting! And yet Lord, You meet us where we are as You see us out there just spinning our wheels. And you don’t criticize us but You come quickly with Your abundance and You care about every single detail of our lives, yes even down to what we will eat and what we will drink (Matthew 6). We can feel confused, lost, empty, and exhausted but we can shout with confidence “It is the Lord!” knowing that You bring life and life abundant! (John 10)

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Thursday in the Octave of Easter

Why Are You Troubled?

I see that you are dwelling

on these thoughts, so I will answer your inner questions. Obviously,

I do not call everyone in the same manner. I expect more

from the one who has received more. But this is not the most important

thing for you. The essential is to make sacrifices on behalf

of those you want to lead along My road.” (Jesus) (March 11, 1964)

Today’s Readings: “Peace be with you.”
But they were startled and terrified
and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled?
And why do questions arise in your hearts?
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.
Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones
as you can see I have.”

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we see You in the upper room with the Apostles after You have risen. They have no idea what to expect and they feel all of their brokenness and weakness. What will You say- what will You do? Lord we can be startled and terrified in the presence of Your Majesty. But You are not mad us- You are not out to get us! So why are we troubled and why do we question You with such lack of trust in You- the God who bore our infirmities and nailed them to the Cross? Lord, You told St. Faustina that our sins do not wound You as much as our lack of trust does. Jesus, we trust in You and we surrender to You- let us bring all our questions to the throne of Grace!

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It is not the suffering that renders the creature unhappy; she becomes unhappy when something is missing to her love.

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,  and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,  and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:3-5)

Volume 12-April 12, 1917

As I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus came, and since I was a little in suffering, He took me in His arms and told me: “My beloved daughter, beloved daughter of mine, rest in Me. Even more, your pains – do not keep them with yourself, but send them up to my Cross, that they may become the cortege of my pains and relieve
Me, and my pains may be the cortege of yours and sustain you, burn with the same fire and be consumed together. And I will look upon your pains as my own; I will give them the same effects, the same value; and they will do the same offices which I did on the Cross, before the Father and before souls. Even more, come, you yourself, onto the Cross – how happy we will be together, even in suffering. In fact, it is not the suffering that renders the creature unhappy; on the contrary, suffering makes her victorious, glorious, rich, beautiful. But she becomes unhappy when something is missing to her love. You, united with Me on the Cross, will be completely satisfied in love; your pains will be love; your life, love – all love; and therefore you will be happy!”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, You are always with us in our sufferings and pains and we never lose hope because Your Love is poured into our hearts! Let nothing be missing in our love- please love through us!

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Wednesday In The Octave Of Easter

Were Not Our Hearts Burning Within Us

What would I not give to you? Ask! Just ask! I will make

up royally for your lunch. I offer the stream of My Heart’s love to

all who discover My hand asking for help. (He confided so much

about what concerned me.) Now I fill your heart with the feeling of My Divinity. Oh, that we might gather together as much as possible. (Jesus) (October 18, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Were not our hearts burning within us while He spoke on the way and opened the Scriptures to us? (Luke 24)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord as we walk the road with You may You come along beside us and open the Scriptures to us! Even when we don’t recognize You, You are always speaking to us and knocking on the door of our hearts (Revelation 3). But are we listening or are we stuck in whatever is in our heads- our grief, our fears, our anxieties and our own ideas about You? May You open our hearts to Your Word and may we always recognize You in the breaking of the bread! O Lord our hearts burn within us with the fire of Your Love!

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Who am I, and who are you?

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
“Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,”
which means Teacher. (John 20)

Volume 2-October 28, 1899

“What is my Love for you? And what is your requital for Me?”
Now, while at the first words I would have wanted to flee, frightened, from His presence, at these second words – “what is my Love for you?” – I found myself sunken, bound by His Love from all sides; so, my existence was a product of His Love – if this Love ceased, I would no longer exist. It seemed to me that the beats of my heart, my intelligence, and even my breath, were a product of His Love. I was swimming in Him, and even if I wanted to flee, it seemed impossible for me to do it, because His Love surrounded me everywhere. My love, then, seemed like a little drop of water thrown into the sea, which disappears and can no longer be distinguished. How many things I comprehended – but if I wanted to tell them I would be too long.
Then Jesus disappeared, and I was left all confused. I saw myself all sin, and in my interior I implored forgiveness and mercy. After a little while my only Good came back; I felt all soaked with bitterness and sorrow for my sins, and He told me: “My daughter, when a soul is convinced that she has done evil in offending Me, she already performs the office of Magdalene, who bathed my feet with her tears, anointed them with balm, and dried them with her hair. When the soul begins to look into herself at the evil she has done, she prepares a bath for my wounds. In seeing her evil, she receives bitterness and feels sorrow for it, and by this she comes to anoint my wounds with a most exquisite balm. From this knowledge, the soul would want to make a reparation, and in seeing her past ingratitude, she feels love arise within her toward a God so good, and she would want to lay down her life to attest her love; and this is the hair which, like many gold chains, binds her to my Love.”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we bless You, we adore You and we thank You not only for the mercy shown to sinners like Mary Magdalene- in fact sinners like me but how You reward repentance, love and faithfulness with the fullness of Your Resurrection! Let love arise in us for a God so good and bind us to Your Love!

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Tuesday In The Octave Of Easter

Why Are We Weeping

“It seems to Me that you have forgotten that I already pronounced

these words when I was carrying My Cross, and the holy

women were weeping for Me more than for their own sins. Again, I

ask pious souls to repent. Repent on behalf of others as well.” (Jesus) (November 10, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
“Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni,” (John 20)

Prayer Meditation- Lord it is easy in these times to feel a bit like Mary Magdalene. Like the Magdalene, we do not recognize You even though You have never left us and if we listen closely enough, we will be able to hear You softly call our name. Lord, today, fill us with Your Peace and Your Presence which You never deny to anyone who calls to You in faith and let us turn to You and contemplate You truly alive! Alive in our lives and in our world right now. Jesus may we use these times to grow closer to You, rid us of what does not belong to You, as we offer our prayers for the salvation of souls!