Nothing Compared With The Glory

Posted byValerie Parisi October 30, 2023  EditNothing Compared With The Glory

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Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time

Nothing Compared With The Glory

Never despise any tiredness. Be my eternal companion helping me bear my sufferings. This is what I ask of you.” (Mary) (November 19, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are as nothing
compared with the glory to be revealed for us. (Romans 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, some days can just make us so tired. We can feel overwhelmed- it does not even have to be anything bad going on- just stress, work, family troubles, worries, aches and pains. We sure all want our heaven here. And yet we are promised that our present sufferings are nothing compared with the glory to be revealed to us. Saint Paul goes on to write-  For in hope we were saved.
Now hope that sees for itself is not hope.  
For who hopes for what one sees?
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance (Romans 8) Lord, help us to wait in endurance and hope and not despise any tiredness. Let us accompany Our Mother of Sorrows who will bring all of these tribulations to You for Your Glory and to save souls!

Sons and Daughters

Posted byValerie Parisi October 29, 2023  EditSons and Daughters

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Monday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time

Sons and Daughters

“My daughter, put your earthly things in order. Time passes quickly and you are flying to Me without sensing your speed. There is an immeasurable distance between your soul and the earth. Beloved, I am waiting for you with a loving heart. God is calling you with His infinite love.” (Jesus) (September 23-24 1964)

Today’s Readings: This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?” (Luke 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we are Your Sons and Daughters, Your Beloved Children. Like the Gospel today, You do not want to see us bent over, eyes to the ground, stuck in our infirmities be they of the body, mind, or spirit. Lord You breathe restoration and healing over us if we but turn to You in prayer, Your Word, and in the Sacraments! Lord, You do not want our eyes on the ground, on the earthly things that do not matter and cannot save- our lives pass quickly as You wait for us with a loving heart as we return to You. Lord set us free so that we can keep our eyes on You, the One who was, and is, and is to come! (Revelation 1:8)

Love For Love

Posted byValerie Parisi October 28, 2023  EditLove For Love

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Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Love For Love

Jesus: “Do you know how much you please Me? Just embrace My teaching. My insistence has not been in vain. I am truly happy. I just do not understand why you are so ambitious. Why are you not satisfied with the little sacrifices? Why do you not remain small? Do not believe that if you had powers to do great things, you would be a saint sooner. You are mistaken. Great things carry in themselves their own glory and receive their reward right here on earth. May our hands gather in unity. All that we gather together will be of great value, even the smallest things. For Me, nothing is insignificant. I hold in high esteem all that you do for Me.” (Jesus) (October 25, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 
He said to him,
“You shall love the Lord, your God,
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first commandment.
The second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 
The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we are given the essence of our faith, what You are truly asking of us- the two great commandments which sum up all the law and the prophets. To love You with all our hearts, souls, and minds. And to love others as ourselves. And it seems so simple but often so hard to do. Lord, the key is to love You first above all else- to completely surrender and abandon ourselves and our will. We all want to do great things, to be noticed here on Earth- but those are works that only have their reward here, even “religious” things if done for the purpose of being seen and noticed or with our own agendas. You call us to littleness, to nothingness. To be happy with little sacrifices done in our everyday lives done in union with You! Then our acts have great value in Your Divine Will! And it is when we allow You to empty us of ourselves and to be filled only with You that we begin to know how to love You with Your Love. And when we love You with Your Love and through Your Sacred Heart we can then love others as ourselves because we have living in us the Divine Indwelling of Your Holy Spirit ready to gather others into Your Marvelous Light (1 Peter 2:9).

Chosen And Loved

Posted byValerie Parisi October 27, 2023  EditChosen And Loved

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Feasts of Saint Simon and Jude

Chosen and Loved

You, My little one, must stir up the fire because you have been chosen for this. This is a great privilege. Never interrupt your desires and sacrifices because this would cause My mother great sorrow.” (Jesus) (July 12, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and sojourners,
but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of the household of God,
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets. (Ephesians 2)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, as we celebrate the Feast of Saint Simon and Jude we meditate on what is means to be chosen for Your work of redemption. Because we are not strangers to You but members of Your household built upon the Apostolic foundation of the those who have gone before, fellow citizens with the saints. So let us stir up the fire in our hearts because we have been chosen by You to spread Your Kingdom on Earth no matter our state in life. All are called to desire this Kingdom to come into our hearts and into our families and to make loving sacrifices, as simple as a smile when we don’t feel like it or a sharp word held back out of love for You, because we are chosen and loved!

Miserable

Posted byValerie Parisi October 26, 2023  EditMiserable

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Friday of the Twenty Ninth Week of Ordinary Time

Miserable

You know that I am weak and sinful. Without You, I am a miserable nothing. I live by the grace of abandonment to You.” (Elizabeth) (January 4, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Miserable one that I am!
Who will deliver me from this mortal body?
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 7)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we read in Romans today how St. Paul does not do the good that he wants but he does the evil he does not want. Many of us today may be reading it and saying to ourselves, welcome to my world. Because that is the struggle everyday- we start out each day with good intentions, hopefully prayer because if not the day is pretty much already lost, and yet the just man falls seven times each day. (Proverbs 24:16). We start out each day in battle and by the end of the day we are pretty roughed up by skirmishes of defeat- our minds, our flesh, our mouths, our failure to do what we ought to have done each day pulling us down. So, what to do- we are all, even great saints like Saint Paul, weak and sinful. We are nothing without You! The key is to live in the grace of abandonment to You! You will take our misery and make of it a victor’s crown if we but offer all of it to You! Who will deliver us- thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Little Sparks

Posted byValerie Parisi October 25, 2023  EditLittle Sparks

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Thursday of the Twenty Ninth Week of Ordinary Time

Little Sparks

“You, little spark, no matter how small you are, were created by Me and from Me. Draw close to Me without fear.” Nothing was to stand between them. “Give yourself to Me with confidence and go beyond all that would keep you from coming to Me.” (Jesus) (August 21, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing! (Luke 12)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, it really seems as though the world is burning and not in a good way. All can seem chaotic if we turn on the news or spend time on social media. We are bombarded right now with what Sister Lucia called the diabolical disorientation of our times. Yet, Lord, You always have a bigger plan! You have come to set the Earth on fire with love- the Flame of Your Love! You have come to redeem everyone and in these times You call us who are consecrated to You through Mary to be the little sparks that will light the Flame of Love of Her Immaculate Heart in all Hearts bringing peace to our homes and world! Come Holy Spirit, Come by the means of the power of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary!

Entrusted With Much

Posted byValerie Parisi October 24, 2023  EditEntrusted With Much

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Wednesday of the Twenty Ninth Week of Ordinary Time

Entrusted With Much

“According to the promptness and the degree that you share in My work of Redemption, to that same degree and promptness the Holy Cause we entrusted you will progress. (Jesus) (December 12, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Much will be required of the person entrusted with much,
and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.” (Luke 12)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, as Catholic Christians we have been entrusted with much. Your Word, the Sacraments, the Church, the Holy Spirit, and Our Blessed Mother. We have been given every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3). But we have to do our part! We must cooperate with the Grace we have been given ,especially during this time of Mercy. You are expecting great things of us and many souls! Lord, help us to be faithful in these times, let us appear before You not with any great merits of our own because we have none but clothed in Your Merits with confidence and trust! Let us not waste any moment but offer all to You- all of our words, thoughts, prayers, and sufferings in union with You!

Vigilant

Posted byValerie Parisi October 23, 2023  EditVigilant

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Tuesday of the Twenty Ninth Week of Ordinary Tim

Vigilant

“Your living faith in Me keeps your soul in a continual freshness and makes you ready to receive abundant graces. Hence, My little one, do not serve anyone but Me.” (Jesus) (August 1, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples:
“Gird your loins and light your lamps
and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding,
ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
Blessed are those servants
whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival.
Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself,
have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
And should he come in the second or third watch
and find them prepared in this way,
blessed are those servants.” (Luke 12)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we hear in today’s Gospel about the vigilant servants ready for the Master’s arrival. In fact, that is the watchful and waiting attitude that You expect of those who are Your followers and disciples. Because as no one can know the hour or the day when  You may return no one can know when we may appear before You at the end of our own earthly lives. Are we ready to appear before You and tell You about ourselves? Lord, may we live confidently in living faith and ready to receive Your abundant graces each day! Let us serve no one or nothing but You!

Rich In What Matters To God

Posted byValerie Parisi October 22, 2023  EditRich In What Matters To God

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Monday of the Twenty Ninth Week of Ordinary Time

Rich in What Matters to God

“You see My riches. I need you and I enrich you. Therefore, may our hands gather in unity since our thoughts are one and our souls are in harmony.” (Jesus) (October 15, 1962)

Today’s Readings: But God said to him,
‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you;
and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’
Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself
but is not rich in what matters to God.” (Luke 12)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we read about a man who is much like many of us. He makes plans and thinks to himself what to do with the material things and possessions he has. He is thinking ahead of a future with overflowing barns and eating and drinking and being merry. How many of us think like that- plans for retirement and some future time where we will have our paradise here. But it does not work that way really- even those who retire well for example will have to die and leave behind all earthly treasures. And how many times do we hear of those who die suddenly or become sick or disabled and none of those things that were so important really matter very much anymore. Lord, help us to see Your Riches, may we walk, no matter our state in life and how blessed we may be here, hand in hand with You because You are our only treasure! Living well also means dying well- living forever with You in Heaven.

Give To God What Belongs To God

Posted byValerie Parisi October 21, 2023  EditGive To God What Belongs To God

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Twenty Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Give to God What Belongs to God

Nevertheless, a silent withdrawal dominates my soul and I feel as if I did not belong to the earth. (Elizabeth) (July 17, 1965)

Today’s Readings: At that he said to them,

“Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” (Matthew 22)

Prayer Meditation: Lord, we work hard every week to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s but how hard are we trying to give to You what belongs to You? Because what belongs to You is our hearts, our souls, our everything! Lord, helps us to let down all of our walls and give to You what belongs to You alone- our praise, our worship, our adoration not only on Sundays but every day, giving You time each day in prayer and offering our days to You as a living sacrifice for Your Glory and for the salvation of souls!