Glory Cloud- How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place!

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Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Glory Cloud- How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place!

Each morning, present to Me the offering of your sacrifices; place it at the door of My tabernacle, it will ignite at the fire of My love. During the day, let not the flame of your sacrifices fade away. See to it that the love of many victim souls rise up to Me, and through My intercession, obtain the mercy of the heavenly Father.” (Jesus) (May 1962)

Today’s Readings: In the daytime the cloud of the LORD was seen over the Dwelling;
whereas at night, fire was seen in the cloud
by the whole house of Israel
in all the stages of their journey. (Exodus 40)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord we bless You, we adore You and we praise You because the Israelites saw Your Glory in the Dwelling of the meeting tent. The Cloud guided them by day and the fire, the fire of Your Love was with them at night. And today we can worship Your Glory in every tabernacle in the world even unto the end of time! And unlike the Israelites we can approach You and worship You without fear! (Luke 1) in every Catholic Church. Each morning Lord let us offer You our sacrifices at the door of Your tabernacle and we can do so not only for ourselves but for everyone past, present, and future because the fire of Your Love will burn ever more brightly as we unite our little acts of love to the Love that will never let us go! How lovely is Your Dwelling Place, O Lord Mighty God! (Psalm 84)

Friend of God

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Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, 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”.

From Small Things Big Things Someday Come

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Monday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time

From Small Things Big Things Someday Come

“Through your smallness and ignorance, and above all through your humility, we want to put our Holy Cause into action through you. Be careful, do not let vainglory come near. That is why I am bringing it to your attention: be very humble, work hard at it. In this way, your efforts will come together.” (Mary) (August 30, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds. “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’” (Matthew 13)

Prayer Meditation: Lord, You are not looking for the learned and the wise but the little ones (Matthew 11) to advance Your Kingdom on Earth! We are small, ignorant even, and most days it seems like we have no clue but Lord help us, through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother to be humble and work hard according to our state in life so that the Kingdom will be alive and growing in us!

Perplexed But Not Driven to Despair

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Feast of Saint James Apostle

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!

Blessed Are The Eyes That See

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Thursday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time- St. Charbel

Blessed Are The Eyes That See

Jesus said, “My little one,
take courage and gaze at Me. May our eyes look at each other and our glances melt in one
another.” (Jesus) (January 14, 1963)

Today’s Readings: “But blessed are your eyes, because they see,
and your ears, because they hear.
Amen, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people
longed to see what you see but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.” (Matthew 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we can often feel that it would have been better to have been with You in person like the Apostles who walked with You day to day. But Lord, we have it even better! Because, though Your Real Presence is veiled in the Blessed Sacrament, we can receive You daily at Mass and visit You daily in any Catholic Church anywhere in the world! Lord, how we take this for granted! Lord open the eyes of our hearts that we would keep our eyes fixed on You Lord as You gaze on us with love beyond all telling!

Thorny Ground

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Memorial of Saint Bridget

Thorny Ground

“Forgive Me if I now expose before you the well-known pain of My Heart. You know, many souls consecrated to Me have fallen on good soil and produced abundant fruit. Now they are dispersed. They do not allow themselves to be plucked or ground. Without this, they will never be useful creatures. (Jesus) (November 23, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced fruit,a hundred or sixty or thirty fold. Whoever has ears ought to hear.” (Matthew 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord many of us start well, Your Word falls on good soil. Then the thorns appear- worries, cares of the world, return to old ways and before we know it, the gardens of our souls need an overhaul. We can indeed even become comfortable with these thorns, that is just the way I am we may say or if I didn’t have this work stress, family problems, fill in the blank, it would be easy to be holy. These are all delusions because You ask us to live for You right here right now despite our circumstances. To live each day full of holy moments trusting in You one step at a time. That is the way of the saints! Lord, help us each day to present these thorns to You so that You can pluck them out and till the soil of our hearts so that we would again bear much fruit! Without You we can do nothing!