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Rising Up To Meet Him

December 20, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Rising Up To Meet Him

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

Saturday of the Third Week of Advent

Mary: “My little one, my Flame of Love has become so incandescent that I want to spread on you not only its light, but also its warmth with all its power. My Flame of Love is so great that I can no longer keep it within me; it leaps out at you with explosive force. My love that is spreading will overcome the satanic hatred that contaminates the world so that the greatest number of souls is saved from damnation. I am confirming there has never been anything like this before. This is my greatest miracle ever I am accomplishing for all. (Mary) (October 19, 1962)

“Arise, my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one,
and come!
“For see, the winter is past,
the rains are over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth,
the time of pruning the vines has come,
and the song of the dove is heard in our land (Song of Solomon)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, You are the Radiant Dawn on the horizon- the hope of all longing hearts. Fill us this Christmas with Your Presence- Mary’s Flame of Love ready to be poured out on a world so in need of You! Lord may we rise up to meet You this Christmas and carry the Flame of Your Love to all that we meet.

Emmanuel

December 19, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Emmanuel

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

Friday of the Third Week of Advent

Emmanuel

At this moment, the bells began to ring for the Angelus. I wanted to begin this prayer that honors the Blessed Virgin, but she intervened. Mary: “Now, your prayer must be to pay attention to my words. Meditate on them with your mind as a sign of your veneration. (Elizabeth/Mary) (December 12, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Therefore the Lord himself will give you this sign:
the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and shall name him Emmanuel. (Isaiah 7)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, what a beautiful announcement today in today’s Gospel, the Annunciation, when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us! Thank You Blessed Mother for being attentive to God’s Will and giving Your Fiat to the Incarnation. Lord, we are often given signs, and like King Ahaz in the first reading we can be purposely dense and even show false humility, not believing You would ever speak to us, when really we are just tuned out and ill disposed. How weary we must make You at times Lord when all You want to do is live among the sons of men (Revelations 21:3), Emmanuel, God with us! Lord may we listen to the Blessed Mother, especially in the beautiful words of The Angelus, and meditate on them as a sign back to You of our veneration and our love! Because You are our Emmanuel- wonderful counselor, Lord of life, Lord of all, Prince of Peace, mighty God, Holy One, Emmanuel! (Michael W. Smith/Amy Grant)

God With Us

December 18, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

God With Us

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

Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent

God With Us

Today’s Readings:

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- O Lord, You are with us always as You have promised and You will never leave us. Thank You Lord for the Grace of the Flame of Love for this time and this world that is so in need of You! Reign in all the Earth!

Family Tradition

December 17, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Family Tradition

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

Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent

Family Tradition

“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. It is necessary for you, mothers, to extend the warm understanding of your hearts to your children even once they have established their own homes. She (Mary) wants every family to be a sanctuary, a wonderful place where, in union with you, she works miracles in the depth of hearts. Going from heart to heart, she places in your hands the Flame of Love of her heart. Through your prayers and sacrifices, it will blind Satan who wants to rule over families.” (Jesus) (January 17, 1964)

Today’s Reading

Thus, the total number of generations
from Abraham to David
is fourteen generations;
from David to the Babylonian exile, fourteen generations;
from the Babylonian exile to the Christ,
fourteen generations. (Matthew 1)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, this season is a time for families. The genealogy of the Word Made Flesh includes everyone from prostitutes to kings. Lord You chose to have a family history just like us. And as we may feel troubled about our family situations that seem impossible, we are reminded that You always have the last word and You are working right now especially through the Flame of Love to bring Your children home!

Rejoice I Say!

December 15, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Rejoice I Say!

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

Third Sunday of Advent

Rejoice I Say!

Then I spent a long time before Him. I cannot describe the joy that I felt through the words of the Lord. (Elizabeth) (September 4, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:

Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we thank You for this special Sunday in Advent. For on this Gaudete Sunday, we start to see the rose light of dawn in the darkness as we wait and long for You! Lord, this time of year especially can bring anxiety and worry for many reasons- but Lord set us free from those chains as we pray and praise You with thanksgiving! Because You are always near, whether we can feel You near or not. Let us speak these healing words over our lives today!

Days of Elijah-Like A Fire

December 14, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Days of Elijah- Like A Fire

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

Saint John of The Cross

Days of Elijah-Like A Fire

Jesus: “Are you confident you can fulfill the destiny for which we have chosen you? I am asking you again: Do you accept the many humiliations and sufferings that accompany the task of asserting our Holy Cause? Do you know that the sufferings you have received so far only served to prepare you to achieve the goal that we set for you? You are an instrument in our hands. Do you want to continue being an instrument? Do you want to climb with Me the Mount of Calvary, the Golgotha? If so, your place is beside the Mother of Sorrows. The Flame of Love of her heart that she wishes to enkindle on earth through you demands a total commitment on your part. Do not answer right now, meditate and prepare yourself to the answer concerning the great Cause.” (Jesus) (March 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: In those days,
   like a fire there appeared the prophet Elijah
       whose words were as a flaming furnace.
   Their staff of bread he shattered,
       in his zeal he reduced them to straits;
   By the Lord’s word he shut up the heavens
       and three times brought down fire.
   How awesome are you, Elijah, in your wondrous deeds!
       Whose glory is equal to yours?
   You were taken aloft in a whirlwind of fire,
       in a chariot with fiery horses.
   You were destined, it is written, in time to come
       to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD,
   To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons,
       and to re-establish the tribes of Jacob.
   Blessed is he who shall have seen you
       and who falls asleep in your friendship. (Sirach 48)

Prayer Mediation- O Lord we thank You, and bless You, and glorify You for these readings about Elijah. The first Elijah who came like fire for the conversion of Israel and John the Baptist in the Gospel, the Elijah who was to come (Malachi 4:5-6) to turn the hearts of fathers towards their sons. The precursor of the Messiah! And here we are today, preparing ourselves this Advent for You to reign in all the Earth, for Your Kingdom to come! Our place is besides the Mother of Sorrows, who also has her role to enkindle Her Flame of Love. And you are asking for total commitment on our part in these days and these times so that we would be instruments to in this great Cause! Fiat Lord! Maranatha!

He Is Teaching-Are You Listening?

December 12, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

He is Teaching- Are You Listening

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

Memorial of Saint Lucy

He is Teaching- Are You Listening

From time to time, He would say a few words. He knows very well that I listen to each of his words as a prayer. I constantly reflect on His teaching. Today, it happened the same way. (Elizabeth) (March 4, 1966)

Today’s Readings: I, the LORD, your God,
teach you what is for your good,
and lead you on the way you should go. (Isaiah 48)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we learn in Isaiah today in the First Reading that You are always teaching. You are always teaching us what is for our good and to lead us on the way we should go. You do this in Your Word, and through Your Church and in Your Holy Inspirations. But Lord, are we listening? Because in the Gospel we see that You taught through John the Baptist and You taught by Your Incarnation and living among us with Your sermons and Your miracles and all the people could do was to find a reason to complain and a reason not to believe. Lord, why do we do that? Why do we pay no heed to Your words to us and then complain that we are all alone and that You have abandoned us. Today, let us not do this! In whatever circumstance we may find ourselves, whatever suffering whether it was allowed by You or brought on ourselves by our own brokenness let us get quiet today so that we can hear Your Voice in our hearts. You are teaching-help us to listen!

Stumbling Into Holiness

December 11, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Stumbling Into Holiness

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

Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent

Stumbling Into Holiness

You did not make yourself worthy. I, God, thought you worthy of your call. Even one instant is too much for you to be occupied with something else. My love does not rest. May our thoughts be as one!” (Jesus) (August 30, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” (Matthew 11)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, like the first reading today in Isaiah 40 we do run and grow weary, we walk, and not only do we faint, we stumble and fall. We work in our own power to somehow be good enough, to measure up, even for those of us on a spiritual path to make ourselves holy. We are literally tripping on our own feet! You see all of this and You say to us today enough! You call to us to come to You, all who are labored, burdened, just plain worn out and sick and tired of being sick and tired and You ask us to turn in that worn out yoke for a brand new one of Your making. Because we do not make ourselves good or holy- only You do when we surrender ourselves to Your Divine Will, the sacrament of the Present Moment which includes our duties to You and to our state in life and loving acceptance of all that comes to us through Your Hands for our good! Thank You Jesus for stepping into this holiday madness with Your Word in the Gospel today- let us have ears to hear!

Lost Sheep

December 10, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Lost Sheep

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

Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent

Lost Sheep

‘My little one, I want that not one soul be damned. You should want this together with me. For this purpose, I place in your hands a beam of light that is the Flame of Love of my heart.’ (Mary) (January 15, 1964)

Today’s Readings: What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.” (Matthew 18)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You love us so much that You will go after each one of us as if we were the only one You came to save! You pursue us with a burning Love that never gives up on us- You are for us and not against us! We are Your little ones, each one of us! Lord give us Your burning thirst for souls that we would also seek the lost. We do not have to go far- they are often right there in our families and our communities. No need to go on some overseas mission trip! Lord help us through the Immaculate Heart of Mary to pray and sacrifice for the conversion of sinners and for love of You!

Holy And Without Blemish

December 9, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Holy And Without Blemish

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

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Holy And Without Blemish

“I want you not just to know my name, but to know also the Flame of Love of my maternal heart beating for you. I entrusted you with the task of making known this burning love. That is why you must be very humble. Such a grace as this has only been granted to only very few. Hold such great grace in high esteem.(Mary) (September 29, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. (Ephesians 1)

Prayer Meditation- On this beautiful day celebrating Our Beautiful Mother we rejoice in the Immaculate Conception and also Her Immaculate Heart joined to Yours that loves us so much with burning charity! She wants us all to be saved and to one day be like Her, Holy and Blameless! Lord may we be the humble little ones who cling to Our Mother who always brings us ever closer to You! Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for us!

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