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

Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo

Citizens of Heaven

“You are too immersed in earthly things, My little one. I did not say that to discourage you. I want to encourage you so that you do not seek relief by looking to the earth in your battles.” (Jesus) (February 7, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

Their end is destruction.
Their God is their stomach; 
their glory is in their “shame.”
Their minds are occupied with earthly things.
But our citizenship is in heaven, 
and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 3)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord You know how we are drawn to the Earth! Our little gods and appetites rule and occupy us even as we strive to seek You in our everyday life. We immerse ourselves in so many things and seek relief in so many outlets! Life on Earth is a battle 
but we can only be victorious with You, Our Savior- the only One who can break the chains that weigh us down and keep us from claiming our rights as sons and daughters of Heaven! Lord break every chain today by the power of Your Precious Blood!

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

Thursday of the Thirty First Week of Ordinary Time

Joy in Heaven

Our Lady allowed me to feel in my soul the

wonderful union of the saints. I was filled with an indescribable joy. (Elizabeth) (November 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’

I tell you, in just the same way

there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents

than over ninety-nine righteous people

who have no need of repentance.(Luke 15)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, how much joy there is in Heaven when a sinner repents, when we repent and we seek the lost! Lord help us to practice the spiritual works of mercy daily- and if all we can do is pray, help us to remember that to pray is to do something! Praying for the living and the dead is a spiritual work of mercy anyone can do no matter the circumstances in our lives! Lord, help us to know Your reckless love for us and help us show it to others ,especially those You have given us to bring to Heaven!

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

The Commemoration of All The Faithful Departed

Grace and Mercy Are With His Holy Ones

“Let all your actions be done with the purpose of helping them in union with Me, desire that these souls contemplate My face as early as possible. Offer for them the strict fast as well as prayer during a part of the night.” (Jesus) (April 10, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Those who trust in him shall understand truth,
and the faithful shall abide with him in love:
because grace and mercy are with his holy ones,
and his care is with his elect. (Wisdom 3)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we remember all the faithful departed including those who are part of the Church Suffering. Because we cannot yet enter Heaven with “baggage” on our souls. The baggage as the Church teaches is the effect of forgiven sins and remaining venial sins and faults. Do we hold onto anger, unforgiveness, negativity, over attachment to the goods of this world, selfishness? If we can’t leave it behind, it will have to be burned away in that place of Your Mercy so that we are perfected in love. Perfect love drives out fear (1 John 4:18). Lord, Your will is that we become Your kind of perfect- not what the world calls perfect. And as St. Therese has taught us You can purify us in an instant- but we have to be open to grace. How many of us just get stuck and lack the love and trust to turn to You in total childlike dependence? Lord today, let us especially examine ourselves to see where we can be perfected in love and let us pray and sacrifice for the faithful departed including our deceased family members and friends offering them the charity we lacked when they were among us. Because we are all one Church and we will abide with You in love because grace and mercy are with Your holy ones and Jesus we trust in You!

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

Solemnity of All Saint’s Day

Made White in the Blood of the Lamb- All Saints Day

“Then I humbly hid Myself under a common appearance so as to be more accessible to you, so that you would not fear Me. I hid Myself in the white Host like a child wrapped up in swaddling clothes. When I enter your heart, make sure that the robe of your soul is free from any stain or tear, because no father has made greater sacrifices to acquire a suit for his child.” (Jesus) (May 1962)

Today’s Readings: “Who are these wearing white robes, and where did they come from?”
I said to him, “My lord, you are the one who knows.”
He said to me,
“These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress;
they have washed their robes
and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.” (Revelation 7)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we honor all the Saints, all the ones who made it- the great cloud of witnesses that cheers us on from Heaven including we pray our family members who have come before. The ordinary people saved by grace who have washed their robes and made them white in Your Precious Blood. Lord, as we think of all the great saints, including our patron saints perhaps, we see their great deeds and we may feel like we may never get there. But Lord, as St. Therese has taught us and as St Faustina and the Divine Mercy devotion has shown us it has never been easier to be a saint! Because we have been given especially in these times every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1:3). But do we desire holiness or are we content with mediocrity? Let us examine ourselves and place ourselves in the Holy Hands of Our Mother Mary who will fashion us into saints, as St. Louis Marie de Montfort says, by placing us in Her mold as she fashions us into Your Likeness. As St. John tells us today, we shall be like You because we will finally see You as You are, so let us make ourselves pure as You are pure as we hope in You with all of our hearts!

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

Monday of the Thirty First Week of Ordinary Time

Not Great Things But Small

“Why do you prefer some

passing goal? Do you not trust the value of sufferings? I give value to your sufferings and it

causes me sorrow if you do not appreciate them. I would think that you are not accepting them

with love. Without love, even great things have no value. (Jesus) (August 16, 1962)

Today’s Readings: O LORD, my heart is not proud,

nor are my eyes haughty;

I busy not myself with great things,

nor with things too sublime for me.

(Psalm 131)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, the daily readings have been about humility. About doing nothing out of selfishness and vainglory (Philippians 2) but putting others first. About caring about those who cannot repay us (Luke 14). This way is counter to the world. Even those of us on a spiritual path, we want to do great things! But You are not asking great things from us but small things with done with great love! Lord, help us to accept our sufferings and put ourselves last in service to our neighbor, particularly our families. Help us to serve each other with Mary’s Heart as we see You in all that we meet!

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

Thirty First Sunday of Ordinary Time

Seeking and Saving The Lost

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: And Jesus said to him,
“Today salvation has come to this house
because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.
For the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save what was lost.” (Luke 19)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we read about Zacchaeus, the “wee little man” who climbed up

the tree just to see You. He was desperately seeking You and in turn You came running to him and told him to come down quickly as You had to come to his house. Why, because Zacchaeus opened up the door of his heart just a little and that is all it took for You to come rushing in! Zacchaeus experienced a profound conversion experience just being in Your presence. How we want that not only for ourselves but for others including our loved ones. You call all souls to follow You but few come- let us pray and sacrifice that hearts would open as together with You Lord we seek the lost so that You can save them!

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Saturday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time

For Me To Live Is Christ To Die Is Gain

I have already said that this is how it will be until your death. Just as night follows day, so light and darkness will alternate in your soul.(Jesus) (September 4, 1964)

Today’s Readings:

For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.
If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me.
And I do not know which I shall choose.
I am caught between the two .(Philippians 1)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, our lives can be a roller coaster- up and down, light and dark. Nothing comes to us that does not come from Your Hand. Lord we only have this life to let You live through us- to labor in Your vineyard- yet we know that when our lives are over we gain Heaven where we will behold You for all Eternity if we are but faithful! Lord God please help us whether we are struggling in darkness or walking in Your Marvelous Light to live for You in each moment! All of our moments belong to You!

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

Feast of Saints Simon and Jude

Chosen and Loved

You, My little one, must stir up the fire because you have been chosen for this. This is a great privilege. Never interrupt your desires and sacrifices because this would cause My mother great sorrow.” (Jesus) (July 12, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and sojourners,
but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of the household of God,
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets. (Ephesians 2)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, as we celebrate the Feast of Saint Simon and Jude we meditate on what is means to be chosen for Your work of redemption. Because we are not strangers to You but members of Your household built upon the Apostolic foundation of the those who have gone before, fellow citizens with the saints. So let us stir up the fire in our hearts because we have been chosen by You to spread Your Kingdom on Earth no matter our state in life. All are called to desire this Kingdom to come into our hearts and into our families and to make loving sacrifices, as simple as a smile when we don’t feel like it or a sharp word held back out of love for You, because we are chosen and loved!

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

Thursday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time

Battle Ready!

The Evil One has me so confused that I say the Rosary with

my lips, but not as I usually do. Instead, I keep repeating, “I believe

in you, O miraculous Virgin.” I only say this with my lips, but my

mind and my heart refuse to accept it. I want to cry for not being

able to believe. The Evil One insists that this is my interpretation.

With all my strength, I resist his intrusions.  (Elizabeth) (September 7-8, 1962)

Today’s Readings:

Brothers and sisters:
Draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.
Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm
against the tactics of the Devil.
For our struggle is not with flesh and blood
but with the principalities, with the powers,
with the world rulers of this present darkness,
with the evil spirits in the heavens.
Therefore, put on the armor of God,
that you may be able to resist on the evil day (Ephesians 6)

Prayer Meditation: Lord, every day is a battle! We fight not flesh and blood but the enemy of our souls! Lord may we do a daily wardrobe check- helmet of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, belt of truth, shoes of peace, shield of faith to fight off the darts of the enemy, and the sword of the Spirit which is Your Word spoken out loud! Train our hands for battle Lord (Psalm 144)- and may our hands hold firmly to the Holy Rosary, the weapon for our times!

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Wednesday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time

Working Unto The Lord

The supervisor continually oversaw the good functioning of these machines and was ready to

stop them immediately. He did not want a hundredth of a millimeter of error.”

Jesus used this memory to describe Himself as her supervisor. “I remind you of these facts so

you see that you gained success from your application and your conscientious work, not from

your knowledge (Jesus) (November 10, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling,

in sincerity of heart, as to Christ,

not only when being watched, as currying favor,

but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

willingly serving the Lord and not men,

knowing that each will be requited from the Lord

for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free (Ephesians 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we all know work can feel like slavery and drudgery not matter what kind of work we do, even if we work at home or within our families. But we are not working unto man but unto You! Lord let us offer our conscientious work to You as a loving sacrifice today to glorify You and to save souls!