Judged Worthy

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Tuesday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time

Judged Worthy

Hail Mary, my sweet Mother, I humbly implore you, keep me under your special protection. I am your unfaithful Carmelite daughter. I know I am not worthy of that title, even if I were to labor for centuries. to gain it. Come, Mother, and lead me to your Divine Son. (Elizabeth) (1961-1962)

Today’s Readings: But as we were judged worthy by God to be entrusted with the Gospel,
that is how we speak,
not as trying to please men,
but rather God, who judges our hearts. (1 Thessalonians 2:1-8)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord we love You and praise You and adore You because St. Paul speaks of being judged worthy by You. How many of us like Elizabeth feel so very unworthy! And sometimes that feeling of unworthiness can keep us stuck afraid to leave our little boats and meet You on the water! It is when we keep our eyes on ourselves and not on You that we sink below the waves needing Your Steady Hand to lift us up! Because the fact is You have indeed entrusted us with the Gospel and You judge not our performance but our hearts in all that we do united to You! So let us ask Our Lady for Her protection and ask her to lead us to You in our nothingness knowing only You are worthy and we can do all things though You who strengthen us! (Philippians 4:13).

Spirit of Power

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Monday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time

Spirit of Power

The Lord Jesus asked if I understood.

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) (March 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: For our Gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction. (1 Thessalonians 1)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we can hear Your Word over and over again but if the Holy Spirit is not in what we are hearing, they can be just words to us. We know from our own lives- all the times we have heard the Gospel over and over again and it becomes so familiar that it just bounces off. And then in one moment The Holy Spirit opens our hearts to what You are saying and indeed Your Word pours over us with power and convicts us. Sometimes it is when we are seeking, sometimes it is just out of the blue, and a lot of times it is when we are desperate and we just have nowhere else to go and we are finally ready to listen. Lord, please help us to be docile to the promptings of the Holy Spirit so that Your Living Word speaks to us daily!

It Starts with a Yes and Ends with a Crown

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Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

It Starts with a Yes and Ends with a Crown

Yes, my little one, we will put out fire
with fire: the fire of hatred with the fire of love. (Mary) (December 6, 1964 )

Today’s Readings: Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord.
May it be done to me according to your word.” (Luke 1)

Prayer Meditation- Today we celebrate the Queenship of Mary, Our Mother. Lord, She gave Her Yes, not knowing what would lie ahead but in humble trust and faith! As the first disciple She gained the Crown and lives in Heaven with You, interceding for us, more Mother than Queen (St. Therese). Today, if we have the opportunity, let us pray all four mysteries with Mary, from Her Yes to Her Crown, and let us follow Her and imitate Her virtues as we meditate on Your Incarnation Lord knowing that we will live forever with You in following this sure path!

It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere

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Memorial of Saint Bernard

It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere

Jesus: “My little Carmelite, your continual sacrifices give witness to your continual fidelity to Me and to My work of Salvation. These make you walk on the path of martyrdom. Do not fear, our feet journey together, and even though you grieve, let us continue walking together. I am giving you abundant graces, My little one, because My Heart overflows with love and prompts Me to be lavish. I fill each of your efforts with graces that are a thousand times greater. Would that many souls loved Me as you do. What great joy I would experience if I could give to many souls the abundant graces which I give to you.” (Jesus) (October 2, 1962)

Today’s Readings:

Going out about five o’clock, he found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’ (Matthew 20)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, You want no one to be lost- even the five o’clock laborers, the ones who are late to Your table. O Lord let us make our efforts to bring those five o’clock souls to You- who have we not invited? Let us not pick and choose who should come! And if like me Lord, we are the “late” ones who are paid the same let us be confidant in your abundant graces and may we love You for those who do not. May our continual sacrifices of praise, prayer, and thanksgiving bring souls to You!

It is I Who Send You

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Tuesday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time

It is I Who Send You

This is why I asked Him, “Am I capable of doing this?” Jesus responded, “You must only will it; leave the rest up to Me.” (Elizabeth/Jesus) (1961-1962)

Today’s Readings: The LORD turned to him and said, “Go with the strength you have and save Israel from the power of Midian. It is I who send you.” (Judges 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we read about Gideon who was greeted by the angel as a champion. Truth be told Gideon felt far from being a champion and yet that is the message You wanted to convey to him. Because Lord, You do not call the qualified, You qualify the called. Lord when we feel that call, we can feel so helpless, we ask are we capable of this? And yet You ask of us only our nothingness because Your strength is made perfect in our weakness (2 Corinthians 8-12). It is You who fight our battles- let us only will what You will and leave the rest up to You!

The Heart of God

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Monday of the Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time

The Heart of God

“I broke forth in tears. This increased my sorrow for sins. Who would not cry in the presence of such goodness and kindness? In the silence, He remained next to me and then left. “Rest in peace. I am going to look for hearts.” (Jesus/Elizabeth) (September 1, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Many times did he rescue them, but they embittered him with their counsels. Yet he had regard for their affliction when he heard their cry. (Psalm 106)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today in the Readings we see Your Heart. Because despite our falling away again and again and again You never give up on us. We go after all kinds of things instead of the One Thing that can fill that great big hole in our hearts! Yet when we cry in our affliction, You hear us and You always give us a way out and a way forward. You do not turn Your back ever on those who turn back to You. I like to think the Rich Young Man in today’s Gospel who could not let go of the one thing that kept him enslaved remembered that day that You looked on him with love not with regret at the end of his life but with thanksgiving because that was the day he knew he had to give you everything and he eventually responded generously to Your call on his life. Lord let that be the choice we make as we let go of the one thing that keeps us from You!

He Is A Consuming Fire

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

He Is A Consuming Fire

While saying this, Jesus quenched in my heart the thirst for souls and He poured the fire of His burning charity over me in the greatest measure. (Elizabeth) (July 20, 1965)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! (Luke 12)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You are a Consuming Fire, the Flame of Love! You have come to set the world on fire- the fire of the Holy Spirit. The fire that burns away and purifies all that is not of You! We can do this narrow road the hard way or the easy way- the easy way is to surrender to You so that You can change us from glory to glory! (2 Corinthians 3:18). Lord, we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses as the Second Reading from Hebrews 12 tells us so let us run our race and put aside all that is in the way of Your Grace. Further in that chapter is the theme of these daily meditations- therefore we who are receiving the unshakable Kingdom should have gratitude with which we should offer worship pleasing to God in reverence and awe. For Our God is a consuming fire! Gratitude and surrender Lord, burn the rest of our baggage away!

Blessed Are They That Believe

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Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Blessed Are They That Believe ‘If each Christian saved just one soul, no one would be lost.’” (Jesus) (January 15, 1964)

Today’s Readings:

Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.” (Luke 1)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord. blessed is She who believed and followed You. Blessed is Her Glorious Assumption into Heaven where she intercedes for us! O Lord may we believe and act on Your Word like Our Blessed Mother. Let us never doubt that our prayers in union with Mary in the Rosary are the weapon for our time and for saving souls! Lord we believe Your Word today- help us to follow You!