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

Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales

Whoever Does The Will of God

For the teachings and inspirations of

the Lord Jesus (of God the Holy Spirit), the Flame of Love of the

Blessed Virgin prepares a road in our souls. 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: And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,

“Here are my mother and my brothers.

For whoever does the will of God

is my brother and sister and mother.” (Mark 3)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today You tell us that those who do Your Will are those who are Your true family. Rather than a rebuke to Our Blessed Mother, You were confirming She who always did Your Will perfectly. Lord, we strive to do Your Will but we fill our days and our heads with noise that drowns You out- it is only when we get still with You that we can even hope to hear You! Let us imitate Our Mother who pondered in Her Heart always and so was able to give Her Fiat to Your Holy Will which is love and mercy itself! In the words of St. Francis de Sales, By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

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

Day of Prayer for Legal Protection of Unborn Children

His Right Hand Has Won Victory

Unite your thoughts with Me so our hearts can beat in unison.

Do not look to the right or the left. Look only into My eyes. That

will invite you to be recollected and help you to obtain the victory

for the success of My work of Redemption. Thank you, Elizabeth!

Your understanding love touches the deepest part of My Heart because

My Divine Heart also feels with human affection.” (Jesus) June 29, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm. (Psalm 98)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today, we pray for legal protection for the most vulnerable among us. It is sad and often hard to believe that we need to do this to protect life made in Your image and likeness, however, so many have been deceived into believing the lies of what Pope St. John Paul called the “culture of death” And yet this year, we can be reminded that indeed Your Right Hand has one victory because on June, 24, 2022, on the Feast Day of Your Sacred Heart, an unjust decision was overturned in favor of unborn life! And we know it has taken years and we know the fight is far from over, but today, maybe we can take even a few moments to meditate on the goodness of Your Sacred Heart and Your everlasting patience and love for us! Help us not to look or veer to the left or the right in this culture of ours but to keep our eyes and our hearts solidly fixed on You as we plead mercy for all of our brothers and sisters!

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

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Seeing a Great Light

The greatest suffering is when my soul is in total darkness

and the awful torment of doubts weigh upon me. (Elizabeth) (Full Diary Page 105)

Today’s Readings: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles,
the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light,
on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death
light has arisen.  (Matthew 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today in the Gospel You come to Capernaum to begin Your Ministry preaching the words- repent and believe in the Gospel. You came to the people sitting in darkness to bring Your Great Light! Today Lord so many of us can feel as if we are sitting in darkness- maybe it is unconfessed sin, secrets buried inside, anxieties and fears, or simply a lack of feeling Your Presence. When that darkness hits Lord, let us examine ourselves- if it is through our fault help us to repent and begin again in the Sacrament of Confession so that You can heal us! So often the light will return at once when we do this. But what if the darkness is not something we brought on ourselves-  maybe just a dry desolate little season we are going through? Because You tell us that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and that is true whether we feel it or not. Lord, so often the secret in releasing our faith is in praise- let us sing with the psalmist today The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
of whom should I be afraid? (Psalm 27) and let us come to You today in faith and trust knowing that even when we sit in darkness You are the Great Light, the Flame of Love, who has set us free and will set us free!

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

Memorial of Saint Agnes

Come Alive!

“I will explain the words, “True God and true Man.” If this were not true, how could you come closer to Me? I let Myself be known to you as true God and true Man. Not only you, but all those who eat My Body and drink My Blood. As true God, I penetrate your heart and as true Man, I speak to you. (Jesus) (March 4, 1964)

Today’s Readings: How much more will the Blood of Christ, 
who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God,
cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. (Hebrews 9)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, You are True God and True Man- through Your Sacrifice offered to the Father You cleanse us of all that is dead in us so that we can worship in spirit and in truth! It is You that call us into close union with You- we cannot do this for ourselves! Lord let us worship You and seek You in Your Word, Sacraments, and through, in and with the Holy Spirit! Lord help our dry bones (Ezekiel 37) and dead hearts come alive in You- breathe on us!

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

Friday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time

Draw Me Close To You- Never Let Me Go!

“My little one, whenever a magnet attracts something to itself, it does not let go because that would be against the laws of nature. So, I never let go of you or of anyone else because that would be against the law of My Divine Tenderness.” (Jesus) (August 3, 1964)

Today’s Readings: I will put my laws in their minds
and I will write them upon their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.(Hebrews 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord please write Your law of love in our minds and our hearts- draw us close to You! Lord never let us go- attract us like a magnet to Your Sacred Heart of Divine Tenderness filled with love for us! We are Your People, You are Our God and we love You, praise You, and glorify You and we do so in the name of everyone for all eternity!

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

Thursday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time

He Is Able

Jesus: “My little one, write down what I now dictate: …You are

mine and this is your guarantee. After your death, 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.” (November 17-18, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Jesus is always able to save those who approach God through him,
since he lives forever to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord You are able always to save us and make us new- You make continual intercession for us. Let us really take this in today. We try so hard to make things happen under our own power and it can so frustrating! Lord Jesus, help us to call out to You to send us Your Neverfailing Grace! It is only by Your Grace that we become able to do Your Will in the present moment of each day. Lord You are able always- we lean on You today and not our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5)

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

Second Wednesday of Ordinary Time

Stretch Out Your Hand

I constantly stretch out My hand asking for help. I go from heart to heart and I receive only a small donation. Then they quickly close the door of their heart and I can hardly cast a glance inside.” (Jesus) (May 2, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.”

He stretched it out and his hand was restored. (Mark 3)

Prayer Meditation- Lord You are always stretching out Your Hand to us- You want to walk with us and live inside our hearts! But do we stretch out our hands to You- Lord what is withered and dry and broken in us that we can stretch out to You for healing and restoration? Lord help us not to leave You the crumbs of our days but to let You inside- Lord keep us connected to Your Sacred Heart beating in unison with ours!

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

Memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbott

Feeling Sluggish?

“Get to work and do not be lazy. I will help all of you in an

almost miraculous way, and my help will always continue. Trust me. Act quickly. Do not put

off my Cause to another day.” (Mary) (October 19, 1962)

Today’s Readings: We earnestly desire each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness

for the fulfillment of hope until the end,

so that you may not become sluggish, but imitators of those who,

through faith and patience, are inheriting the promises. (Hebrews 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You have promised that those who endure to the end will be saved (Matthew 24). Lord sometimes it can be so difficult to exercise faith and patience in our daily life, it can be a real struggle. It is so easy to become sluggish and mind numb in our daily duties. Yet, Lord, especially those of us consecrated to You through Mary, have every help from Heaven to succeed in the spiritual life if we just do our part! Lord grant us fortitude and perseverance today!

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

Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

Out With The Old

Your bad temper will go on, but out of this evil nature, I will accomplish

a masterpiece if you agree to submit to My Divine Hand.

Simply surrender to Me like the wine grapes that are pressed and

transformed into wine, which will become My Precious Blood.

You also will be intoxicated with My Precious Blood, but only if

you are transformed and purified, just like the must, or like the

wheat transformed in My Sacred Body, once it has been ground.

You also will transform yourself only once you have been ground

down and your miserable nature divinized. (Jesus) (September 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins,
and both the wine and the skins are ruined.
Rather, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins.” (Mark 2)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord sometimes we wonder if we are really fresh wineskins into which You can pour the wine of Your Spirit. So much of the old nature gets in the way- the little pebbles of our human wills! Lord we can’t rid ourselves of our faults and weaknesses ourselves! It is only the vehicle of trust and surrender to You that allows You to do Your Work in us- we are nothing and You are all! Lord work Your masterpiece of Grace in our souls!

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

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Behold The Lamb of God

Renounce

yourself and love only Me. Let only the Holy Spirit of Love fill

your heart.  (Jesus) (April 20, 1962)

‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain,
he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’
Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.” (John 1)

Prayer Meditation- Today we can almost picture the scene. John the Baptist is baptizing and his disciples are with him and along You come- the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And those disciples pick up and follow because You are the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Lord so many of us have had life changing encounters with You where we may have picked up after You and our lives changed. Others, maybe the awareness of who You are has come slowly but steadily as Your Grace and Your Spirit of love has filled their hearts. Either way let us renew anew our love for only You- the One who passes by and calls us by name.