Pour Out Your New Wine Lord Into Our Souls

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

Friday of the Twenty Second Week of Ordinary Time

Pour Out Your New Wine Lord Into Our Souls

“My adorable Jesus, what are You doing with such an unworthy person?” With an inspiration as soft as a sigh, He poured out in my heart the feeling that, at that moment, in a direct soaring, He was drawing my soul to the infinite love of His Divine Being. (Elizabeth) (February 13, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, You tell us that new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. The wineskins of our souls become fresh by repentance and when we have humble and contrite hearts! Lord help us desire this new wine to be poured into our souls as unworthy as we are! Help us not to keep desiring the same old same old which is getting us nowhere as we keep wandering in the desert of our human wills  but to truly desire the ”new thing” (Isaiah 43:19) You want to spring forth, the wine of The Spirit. Lord make a way in the wilderness of our souls to the Living Water only You can give!

“September 4—Le Fresne. As I was thanking Him for His marvelous sunshine. “If only to have the joy of your thanks, I would create weather like this.””

— He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

²⁴ This is the day that the Lord has made;
    let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118L24)

¹⁰ he gives rain on the earth
    and sends waters on the fields; (Job 5:10)

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. (Genesis 1:16)

Prayer Reflection- O Lord may we always thank You for Your creation, not only for ourselves but for all. Let us give You the joy of our thanksgiving!

At Your Command

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

Thursday of the Twenty Second Week of Ordinary Time

At Your Command

“It is of little importance to Me what you can do on a certain day or how much you can accomplish, only do not take a break, because that would cause Me great sorrow.” (Jesus) (February 20, 1964))

Today’s Readings: “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.” (Luke 5)

Prayer Meditation- Lord some days it can feel like we have been working all day and all night and have absolutely nothing to show for it. No matter our vocation or state in life- the wear and tear of day to day living and our efforts to stay afloat and just tread water can make us feel like all we want to do is take a break and rest. But Lord, You ask us to keep going, to put out into the deep and lower our nets- to keep trying even when we want to give up! And it is amazing because  it is just at those times when we obey that You multiply the little we have left. Lord may those nets overflow with Your abundance so that, like Peter, we can fulfill the mission You have for us! May our humble prayer be Your Command, Fiat!

“September 3—“ I’ll keep you young, My bride. Shouldn’t the bridegroom and the bride be like one another?” “Ask, ask. Often it’s only after a long time of asking that you receive. Act as though your eyes were behind My eyes and you saw everything through Me.” “Lord, do you want me to spend a Holy Hour with You between 4: 30 and 5: 30 in the morning? Is this your wish?” “My wish is to be able to reward you later on.””

— He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

² And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; (Revelation 21:2)

⁷ “Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. ⁸ For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)

⁴ so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Matthew 6:4)

Prayer Reflection- Lord, You keep us young in You because You are always while every ancient always ever new! Let us have confidence in asking and seeking especially in Your Will and may we desire always to spend time with You in Adoration for love of You!

The Healing Touch of Jesus

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

Memorial of Saint Gregory The Great

The Healing Touch of Jesus

I was sick. For days, I could not pray because I was so weak. The great heat of this summer contributed to my fatigue. I could hardly walk. When I felt a little stronger, I firmly resolved to return to prayer at night. I asked Jesus, “My adored Jesus, give me strength.” At 3:00 a.m., the Lord awakened me by His presence and His words. (Elizabeth) (August 1, 1962)

Today’s Readings: At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him.

He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. (Luke 4)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, so many are sick today. Some are struggling with physical and chronic illness. Some are sick in mind and spirit- depression and anxiety and other maladies of the heart. We can feel so weak, sometimes it is just so hard to pray!  But Lord, You are always willing to touch and heal us- prayer can be so hard but Lord we need most of all to ask for Your Strength. Lord lay Your Hands on us through Your Word, Your Sacraments, and through the loving care of others. Lord help us to be Jesus to those among us who may be too weak or feel too defeated to reach out to You- let us be Your Hands and Feet today to those who are most in need of Your Healing Touch!

September 2- ““As you begin to act, put yourself in My presence: ‘Jesus is there.’ Then at the end of your action say, ‘My Jesus, I love you,’ and put your heart into it.””

— He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

³¹ So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

³ O magnify the Lord with me,
    and let us exalt his name together! (Psalm 34:3)

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

Prayer Reflection- O Jesus breathe in our breathing, think in our thinking, speak in our speaking! May we call You into all of our acts today for Your Glory and the good of all!

With Just One Word

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

Tuesday of the Twenty Second Week of Ordinary Time

With Just One Word

Feel in your heart, My little sister, the reward favored with graces for having accepted My order that I gave you through your confessor. Now, you see and feel the power that caused the doubts to cease in your soul.” (Jesus) (July 17, 1965)

Today’s Readings: They were all amazed and said to one another, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” (Luke 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord with just one word, you command the unclean spirits to leave. Lord, if we let You- You will restore us piece by piece! Lord, help us to ask You today, what are we holding on to in darkness that needs to come out into the light- fear, unforgiveness, some sin we are afraid to bring to You, our need for control? Lord with Your Word today, especially in the Sacrament of Reconciliation set us free and break the chains that keep us captive today!

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:26)

¹² By them the birds of the air have their habitation;
    they sing among the branches. (Psalm 104:12)

¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray constantly, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, how You sing to us in creation and how You long for our voices to sing back! may we always pray ceaselessly giving thanks for Your Most Holy Will in all circumstances!