Our Father

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Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Our Father

“May our lips beg our heavenly Father, together, to obtain mercy.” (Jesus) (May 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “This is how you are to pray:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’ (Matthew 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, as we pray the Our Father, a prayer we pray sometimes many times a day,  let us pray it with true intention and devotion. Because You are Our Father- Our Father means You have given Yourself to us, You have given us everything. Let us worship You today and let Your Will be done in our lives- help us to surrender to Your Holy Will which is love and mercy itself! Let Your Will be done on Earth as it is Heaven!

A Cheerful Giver

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Wednesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time

A Cheerful Giver

“They are bored. They live in wasteful laziness, seeking only their own comfort. They exclude Me from their lives, taking every opportunity to hide like cowards and to deceive themselves. They act as if they were not My workers. O unhappy ones, how can you give an account of your wasted time?” (Jesus) (October 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters, consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9)

Prayer Meditation- Lord how stingy we can be, even those who feel called to work in Your Vineyard. We can get stuck in our comfort zones and find that much like the Church in Ephesus we have lost our first love (Revelations 2). We forget we are called to evangelize others through our witness of joy, peace and love. As St. Teresa of Avila exclaimed God save us from dour faced saints! Let us sow bountifully today with cheerfulness and not with sadness or compulsion. You love a cheerful giver!

His Kind of Perfect

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Tuesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time

His Kind of Perfect

If we refer to the Flame of Love, the Lord Jesus will enlighten our intellect to know what we must do, for example, how we can choose between two things and which is the most perfect and represents the Will of God.” (Elizabeth) (July 11, 1975)

Today’s Readings: For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we all try so hard to be perfect, but it is perfect the way the world defines it. Along the way it can seem that our love can grow so cold. We make idols out of so many things in our lives and along the way we lose the ability to see others the way You see them. Lord, I believe You are telling us that You want Your kind of perfect- the one that loves without counting the cost. The one that drives out all fear (1 John 4:18). The one that lives the Gospel message we have been reading from the Sermon on the Mount. Lord, it is only Your Grace that makes us that kind of perfect- Lord rain down Your Flame of Love through the Immaculate Heart of Mary that we would know and love Your Perfect Will!

Poured Into Our Hearts

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

The Solemnity of The Most Holy Trinity

Poured Into Our Hearts

Meanwhile, He filled me with a new and wonderful grace. I cannot describe the grace that poured over me while He said: “What I give you now is the grace of full abandonment to Me. All during your life, it will totally control your being, and from your soul, it will radiate to others.” (Elizabeth) (December 15, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.(Romans 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, the Trinity is a mystery we will never understand. We were made to love and serve You in this life and live with You forever in the next! Lord, the Holy Spirit, the love between the Father and The Son has been poured into our hearts. We can have hope even when we are afflicted and experiencing trials because this is what You use to guide us on the road to sanctity. Let us abandon ourselves to Your Grace so that You will truly live in us and that we would radiate Your Grace to others, especially those we love!

Ambassadors For Christ

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Saturday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time

Ambassadors for Christ

“Do not be passive about my Sacred Cause. It will be through the few, the little ones, and the humble that this great outpouring of graces that must begin which will shake the world. None of those called must excuse themselves or refuse my invitation. All of you are my little instruments.” (Mary) (December 2, 1963)

Today’s Readings: So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we are Your ambassadors and Your instruments. We represent You as believers to the world and have a great responsibility to bring You to others. Lord You have equipped us- because of Your Sacrifice we have Your Spirit, Your Righteousness in us! So let us be reconciled to You and let us never be passive- let us be Your little humble instruments that will bring Your Grace, The Flame of Love to a world in need of You!

Earthen Vessels

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Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua

Earthen Vessels

In the morning, while kneeling before the tabernacle, torments afflicted my soul. Crying and sobbing, I called out to the Lord, “Where are You, adorable Jesus? Why must I live without You? Give me the grace of conversion…” (Elizabeth) (Compendium Page 21)

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 hold Your treasure in earthen vessels. Leaky and broken vessels that can easily lose the graces You so generously give us! But let us take heart- conversion is a lifelong process- we are afflicted and perplexed but we are not driven to despair because You live in us no matter how we may feel if we are in You! So if we are broken today let us come for healing-confession if we need it, prayer, Mass, Adoration, reading Your Word – let us spend time with the One who never abandons us!

Unveiled Faces (From Glory to Glory)

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

Thursday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time

Unveiled Faces (From Glory to Glory)

Jesus: “You see, My little sister, this fine veil, like a breath, is all that separates us from one another. Do you know what this is? It is your life that still keeps you captive on earth.” (Jesus) (September 3, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, 
there is freedom.
All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory,
as from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians 3:5)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we bless You, we adore You and we glorify You because You are  so close to us, it is really just a fine veil which separates us and keeps us captive on Earth. And if we are in You, then the Spirit of the Lord is in us and even here on earth we walk in freedom. With Your Victory on the Cross, the veil of the Temple was torn (Matthew 27:51) in two and the old covenant was gone. We are now Your living temples! And as we gaze on You now with our unveiled faces, we are transformed into Your image from glory to glory because it is not us who live but You who live in us (Galatians 2:20). Lord Jesus reign in us here on Earth as You do in Heaven- come Holy Spirit, come by the means of the power of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.