Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liquori
The Potter’s Hand
You, little instrument, be reasonable and totally humble. You are an instrument in our hands. (Jesus) (December 17, 1962)
Today’s Meditation: This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: Rise up, be off to the potter’s house; there I will give you my message. I went down to the potter’s house and there he was, working at the wheel. Whenever the object of clay which he was making turned out badly in his hand, he tried again, making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased. (Jeremiah 18)
Prayer Meditation- We are but instruments in Your Loving Hands, pieces of clay that You mold into what is pleasing to You if we would but abandon ourselves to You! Lord, an old worship song says it best- Take me, mold me, use me, fill me I give my life to the potter’s hand. Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me I give my life to the potter’s hand.
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Memorial of Saint Ignatius Loyola
Pearl of Great Price
After your death, there will abound in the treasures of your heart those who will know, bless and glorify God. God helped you with His boundless grace to have a life filled with treasures. Those who will live after you on earth can draw abundantly from these treasures. They will be able to follow the simple road of your life. By this path, they also can reach Me.” (Jesus) (November 17-18, 1964)
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, You are the pearl of great price, the treasure in the field! For so long, I had no idea, I took my faith and You for granted. Then You turned my life upside down and I had nowhere to go but You! You blessed this broken road and took me by the hand- Lord I had no idea that the pearl of great price was not only You in my life but You fully present in Your Church! That was quite the surprise and I traded my ideas of who You were and what church was twelve years ago for entry into Your Church! Lord I pray that this little path I am on now filled with boundless grace will sow seeds in my family so that they too will find You in all of Your Fullness!
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time
Shine Like The Sun
If they used the Sacrament of Penance to polish these treasures, they would shine again with the light of My graces. But they have no interest and are distracted by the world’s glitter. Whoever does not gather with Me, scatters.” (Jesus) (May 24, 1962)
Today’s Readings: Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.” (Matthew 13)
Prayer Meditation- O Lord, so much of the world can appear dark. World events and news can bring us down and so can our daily lives. We are to be the light but so many of us have our lights under the bushel (Matthew 5:15) of anger, anxiety, worry, despair, fear, and sin. Your light will never shine though us or on us with all of that gunk on the windshield of our souls. Because Lord we don’t like to admit it but with all of that weighing us down we may well find ourselves in the weed category. Even in grace we can have thorns and thistles that we do not let You pluck out entirely. So let us examine ourselves, if You are not shining through us what is blocking the Sun of Your Grace? Do we need to use the Sacrament of Penance perhaps to polish the treasures we are trying to hold in our Earthen vessels (2 Corinthians 4:7)? O Lord we can do nothing without You (John 5:15). So let us let You in so that You, the Son and Our Sun will shine again with the light of Your Graces in us and through us for Your Glory and the good of all souls!
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Memorial of Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
Friend of God
Jesus said, “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 entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. (Luke 10)
Prayer Meditation- Lord, we read in the Gospel how You had friends including Martha, Mary, and Lazarus! You are God and yet You want to be our closest friend. The Friend who never lets us down and never lets us go! Lord help us to welcome You into our homes and our hearts and just “waste” time together as we pour out everything on our hearts knowing You will listen! We can be like Martha, Mary, and Lazarus today and visit You in the Blessed Sacrament and just “hang out”.
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Loaves and Fishes
When I entered the bakery, I remembered that it was Saturday and I asked, “Do you still have bread?” They said, “No.” I was scared. What will happen now? When I was about to leave, I heard them call me. They had reserved a bread, but the one for whom they had set it aside did not come to get it. At once, I said, “My adorable Jesus.” He said:
Jesus: “I am that one. Do you see? The time you spend with Me should not harm your family. (Elizabeth/Jesus) (February 14, 1965)
Today’s Readings: Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.” One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. (John 6)
Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we thank You and praise You and adore You because today we read about the loaves and the fishes. The disciples were in a tough spot because the crowds were overwhelming- how would they feed so many. What did they have to work with- five barley loaves and two fish? Who could do anything with that for so many? And how many times do we also start to run on empty, so little to give, afraid that what we have will never be enough. And yet Lord, to quote Dallas Jenkins, creator of The Chosen, it is not our job to feed the five thousand but to bring the loaves and fishes. The loaves and fishes of our lives- the little we have left given to You in all humility and trust knowing that what is overwhelming for us is not overwhelming for You! And what do You do with these loaves and fishes- these fragments of our lives? You take what we have to give and You multiply it- You make what we have to give perfect in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9) united to You. And You are always more than enough and more than we can ever ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). Lord today’s Gospel is the beginning of John 6- the Bread of Life discourse. The multiplication miracle of the loaves and fishes is a foreshadowing of what is to come in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar when You give everything You have to us in the Eucharist. O Lord, let us praise, love, and adore You and receive You with grateful affection always knowing that You will always take the little we have to give, our nothingness really, and multiply it in union with You and Your Most Holy Divine Will!
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Saturday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Seeds of Grace
“Always give Me new and abundant sacrifices. I am sowing in your soul the seed of My graces, My holy doctrine. Cultivate it in your soul by your prayers, mortifications, and a continual acceptance of sacrifices.” (Jesus) (May 18, 1963)
Today’s Readings: ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them.(Matthew 13)
Prayer Meditation- Lord, You always sow good seed into our souls, the seeds of Your Grace and Your Holy Doctrine! Yet we have an enemy who wants to sow weeds where You have sown the good wheat. Lord help us to guard and cultivate our souls by prayer and acceptance of sacrifices which will keep us connected to You! And as for those weeds, thank You Lord for Your patience and mercy as You patiently tend to our souls making sure that You do not pull up the good wheat as you gently pull out the weeds because a bruised reed You will not break! (Isaiah 42).
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Memorial of Saint Joachim and Anne
Grandparent’s Day
At that moment, my youngest daughter M, the mother of two small children, came in. She said: “I have to look for work because one salary is not enough” (her husband is a teacher). I decided to help her. I gave up my good paying work at the cooperative (which consisted of painting plastics), so that she did not have to leave the two small children alone in the house. This was my final sacrifice. (Elizabeth) (1961-1962)
Today’s Readings (Optional Readings): And for all time their progeny will endure, their glory will never be blotted out; Their bodies are peacefully laid away, but their name lives on and on. At gatherings their wisdom is retold, and the assembly proclaims their praise. (Sirach 44)
Prayer Meditation- O Lord we bless You, we adore You, and we praise You because today we celebrate grandparents! We extol their wisdom or at least we should and we mourn when they leave us leaving memories of the sacrifices they made to make our lives happy and safe, especially when baby sitting us like Elizabeth did for her grandkids! And now many of us may be in that position as grandparents and it is the best kind of love you can have on this Earth! And I just know Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, even though they may not have been around when You were born, must have been and continue to be so in awe that their little blessed Mary born later in life was the One chosen by You to be Your Mother and ours! So let us Lord be thankful for our grandparents and parents and our children and grandchildren bringing them all to You in Your Holy and Divine Will because united to You and in Your Love may our names live on in Your Glory forever amen!
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Feast of Saint James
Perplexed But Not Driven to Despair
“The Evil One wants to make you fall into despair. He will use a ruse to ruin your humility.” (Jesus) (March 16, 1966)
Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters: We hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body (2 Corinthians 4)
Prayer Meditation- Lord, we so often feel afflicted and perplexed. It is so easy to fall into despair and feel hemmed in on every side by the world, the flesh, and the devil. We are but earthen vessels that hold You, our treasure! Yet if we are in You Lord, we can sing with St. Paul with all of our hearts that we are not constrained, we are not driven to despair, we are not abandoned, and we are not destroyed because Your power lives in us!
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Chosen For His Purpose
“You see that almost no one is doing anything. The Flame of Love of My Mother is not yet going forward. You, My little one, must stir up the fire because you have been chosen for this. This is a great privilege. (Jesus) (July 12, 1962)
Today’s Readings:
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. (Jeremiah 1)
Prayer Meditation: O Lord, You have chosen us for Your Purpose and Your Glory. You knew us before we were born and You appointed us to be born and to serve You in these perilous times! Lord, let us stir into flame this gift You have given us for these times for You did not give us a spirit of fear but of power, love, and self -control!
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time
Our Forever Family
My Mother accompanied Me everywhere with her love, her sacrifices and her prayers. (Jesus) (January 17, 1964))
Today’s Readings: “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Matthew 12)
Prayer Meditation- Lord God we thank You for the forever family You have given us in the Saints like the amazing Saint Bridget we celebrate today and particularly Our Blessed Mother! She accompanied You everywhere with Her sacrifices and prayers and She does the same for us! Our Mother and brothers and sisters in faith do Your Will-may we imitate them and do the same!
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