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Monday of the Second Week of Advent

A Journey to Make

“I grasp your hands. I will go with

you. May our feet journey together.” (Jesus) (November 29, 1962)

Today’s Readings: It is for those with a journey to make,

and on it the redeemed will walk.

Those whom the LORD has ransomed will return

and enter Zion singing,

crowned with everlasting joy;

They will meet with joy and gladness,

sorrow and mourning will flee. (Isaiah 35)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, sometimes it is so easy to forget that it is indeed a journey we make to You and Your Kingdom. We want instant restoration and healing but that is usually not how life is and not the way You work in souls. You work in us little by little, changing us from glory to glory! So let us be patient with ourselves and realize we have a journey to make in this world to You- we are redeemed by Your Blood and we will enter our heavenly Zion singing with everlasting joy and gladness and all sorrow and mourning will flee. And on the way, we sing with joy and praise because we are never alone but Your Feet journey together with us and You take us by Your Loving Hand!

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

Second Sunday of Advent

People Get Ready

“Repent! Repent! Repent! This is what I am asking you. The voice of repentance reaches up to the throne of My heavenly Father. It is the voice holding back the arm of justice of My Father.” (Jesus) (November 8, 1964)

Today’s Readings: John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said:
A voice of one crying out in the desert,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths. (Matthew 3)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we are in the Second Sunday of Advent and all the readings point to the need to get ready, to repent, because the Kingdom of God is at hand! As we long for You Lord during this season of Advent help us to see where we need to repent- where we need to be purified. Is it food, drink, anger, worry, gossip, maybe despair? What is getting in the way of Your Grace, impeding it from flowing freely into our hearts? Open the eyes of our hearts Lord, that we may see and help us to make our crooked paths straight (Isaiah 45). Empty us of ourselves that we are ready to be filled with You this Christmas!

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Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier

Abundant Harvest

Use all your strength to bring sinners to me. Give no thought to anything else. With your entire soul, desire that My consecrated souls always

look upon Me and are never distracted by worldly things. They

must see My sorrowful eyes and be immersed in Me. If they look

into My eyes with a repentant heart, I will make them holier with

the rays of My grace. By plunging them into the love of My Heart,

I will give them new birth provided they trust Me fully. (Jesus) (April 8, 1962)

Today’s Readings:
The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.” (Matthew 9)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we may be few, those of us who respond to Your Call but even in our weakness we are actually working in Your Strength! The harvest seems even greater now in this world of growing darkness but You desire that we give all we have to bring the lost to You. O Lord we need laborers who are on fire with the Flame of Your Love! O Lord we know You will be gracious to all who cry out to You (Isaiah 30) May our hearts also be moved with pity for all the troubled and abandoned in this world (Matthew 9) because a bruised reed You will not break! (Isaiah 42). Break our hearts for what breaks Yours!

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Friday of the First Week of Advent

The Lord Is My Light And Salvation

With His enlightened words, He poured out the wonderful grace of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Power, and the wonderful light of the Holy Spirit enlightened my soul. (Elizabeth) (May 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: 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)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we focus in the readings on light, particularly in the first reading and the Gospel, light for the blind. Lord how many of us are spiritually blind, even if we can see with our physical eyes? Sometimes what blinds us to Your Light is stress, fear, anxiety, and despair. Yet Lord, You are our light and our salvation, whom shall we fear? Our refuge, of whom shall I be afraid? Lord, pour out Your Spirit of power and light into our souls that we would see You with our spiritual eyes rather than our problems. Lord, we believe, help our unbelief!

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Thursday of the First Week of Advent

On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand- All Other Ground is Sinking Sand

We constantly hurt Him by our many sins. He, in spite of everything, is always kind. He said: “I bless this house that is consecrated to My Sacred Heart.” (Elizabeth) (August 16, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them
will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. (Matthew 7)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we often build our houses not on the Rock of Your Love but on the sinking sand of what the world tells us should be our foundation. And then we are confused when it all falls apart- the rains, the floods, and the winds come and we have no foundation. Thank You Jesus that we can turn to You in spite of everything because a humble contrite heart You will not spurn (Psalm 51). Lord, let us build our houses, our lives, on You the Solid Rock on which we stand- all other ground is sinking sand! Jesus we trust in You!

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Feast of Saint Andrew The Apostle

Fishers of Men

“My daughter, your repentance has brought you closer to Me. Seek this profound repentance for a great number of souls. I call many souls to follow Me, but few come.” (Jesus) (April 17, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
At once they left their nets and followed him. (Matthew 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today is the Feast of Saint Andrew, the Apostle that told his brother Saint Peter that he had found the Messiah. We do not hear a lot about Andrew as compared to his brother Peter but it was likely that it was his quiet witness that prepared his brother to pick up and follow You when You called. Today Lord, You are asking us to pray and sacrifice and to witness discipleship with our lives. You call everyone but it seems few come. But then how can they come if they have not heard? (Romans 10). Let us pray for our priests and for vocations so that many more will come because of our prayers and lives of penance. Saint Andrew, pray for us!

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Tuesday of the First Week of Advent

To The Childlike

Jesus: “Do you know why I make you write about the different

events in your life? Because these are reflections of My graces in

your soul that you – I know it well – would never tell others. In this

manner, I oblige you to write so all will see the Divine Work that I

have done in your soul since your childhood. (Jesus) (July 24, 1965)

Today’s Readings: Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike. (Luke 10)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, sometimes we can make things so complicated. We want to know everything but the reality is that You reveal Yourself to the childlike and the humble who turn to You in faith and trust. To them, and hopefully that is us, You have revealed the Kingdom of Heaven. You have been working in our souls since our baptism and You want us to remain Your little children totally dependent on You. Maybe this Advent it is time to strip any complexities from our lives, especially our faith lives, and go back to basics. Instead of piling on devotion after devotion, spiritual book after spiritual book, why don’t we read a chapter a day from the Gospels and pray the Rosary from the heart. Let us do it every day and help us to keep our eyes on You and our hand in Mary’s Hand as we await Your birth into our hearts anew this Advent.

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Monday of the First Week of Advent

Only Say The Word

“I tell you and I promise with My Divine Word that whenever you pray for someone, you will never be refused, because the drops of oil of your sacrifices not only fall on the lamps of souls, but also upon My wounds which burn with fever. (Jesus) (April 12, 1965)

Today’s Readings: The centurion said in reply,
“Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof;
only say the word and my servant will be healed. (Matthew 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we meet the centurion who like us is totally unworthy to receive You but who hopefully like us has faith that You can heal by just one Word! Because one drop of Your Favor is all that it takes to turn any situation around. So let us pray boldly and with confidence, unworthy though we are, because You want our healing and the healing of our loved ones more than we do! Lord I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof but only say the Word and my soul will be healed!

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First Sunday of Advent

Awake- Put On Christ This Advent

“Many souls are asleep like yours was. I also want to give to them the life-giving rays of my maternal heart, the effect of the grace of my Flame of Love.” (Mary) (May 19, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:
You know the time;
it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep.
For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed;
the night is advanced, the day is at hand. (Romans 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today, this First Day of Advent, we turn our attention not to Your First Coming but to Your Second. So many of us get all caught up in the end of the world- either anxiously trying to read the signs or thinking it is some far distant event. But neither posture is what You want from us because no matter when the End is, our end will come sooner than we may think. And how many of us are just sleep walking through life- caught up in our own sins, faults, failures, hang-ups, and weaknesses or just busying ourselves to the point where we are numb to Your Voice and Your Call. Advent is the time to wake up! Let us examine ourselves and make ourselves ready to meet You- purified of all that does not belong to You. The sure way to do this is total surrender to Your Divine Providence- most of us don’t have to make up some new mortifications because life itself is mortification if offered with loving acceptance and trust to the God who yearns for us to walk in freedom for eternity. Mother Mary with Your Spouse the Holy Spirit, help us to put on Christ as Saint Paul asks us so that we would be armored in light, the light of the world!

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Saturday of the Thirty Fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Daily Duty

Our Lady said, “Throughout the day, you should offer me

your daily chores for the glory of God. Such offering, made in a state of grace, also contributes

to blind Satan.” (Mary) (November 30, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples:

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy

from carousing and drunkenness

and the anxieties of daily life,

and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.(Luke 21)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, so often, our daily duty becomes a source of anxiety and worry. We run around like Martha on steroids trying to get it all done! We may even give into seeking entertainment and escape instead of giving time to prayer. Yet, Lord You ask us to be vigilant in our daily lives. We can do this by offering our daily duty for the love of You and the salvation of souls! Nothing is wasted in Your Kingdom, even the daily tasks we do offered to You for Your Glory! Let not our hearts become drowsy but may we stay alert depending on You each day as You guide our steps!