BELIEVE THE WORKS

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

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Believe The Works

In any case, I arrange everything for your good. My Divine Providence works hard, with diligence, and without any interruption for the good of all humanity. (Jesus) (January 29, 1964)

Today’s Readings: If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me;
but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me,
believe the works, so that you may realize and understand
that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. (John 10)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today in the Gospels you encounter opposition from the religious leaders. So often, You encounter resistance from us as well. Even if we profess faith in You, we can struggle with doubt and unbelief. And yet Lord You arrange everything for our good! If we look back, we can see all the times that You worked miracles in our lives- moments of pure Grace and Providence even if we did not realize it at the time. What stories we all could tell and we will tell in Heaven! Lord, help us to take time today to meditate on Your Goodness and recall all those times that You worked in a mighty way or even small ways in our lives and may we do so with faith, trust, and thanksgiving!

Oh Lord, let us praise You today for You are God yesterday, today, and always!

THE GREAT I AM

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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

The Great I Am

I am grateful to you because your heart suffers with Me, beats in Me. Never tire of contemplating My Sacred Wounds, from which you will always draw strength. Offer yourself to the Eternal Father. Abide within the Most Holy Trinity. (Jesus) (March 4-7, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you,
before Abraham came to be, I AM.” (John 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today let us contemplate Your Greatness and Your Love. The God who came to Earth to free us from the bonds of sin and death. The God who loves us to the end. The God who wishes to dwell and live among us even now in trial and travail. God, You are faithful and Your Everlasting Covenant of Love is forever and always! Let us like Abraham follow You in faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5) because Your promises are true and indeed if we remain in Your Word we will never die but live with You forever! (John 8).

Lord thank You for setting us free and continuing to set us free from the chains that bind us! Lord show us where we still need Your Freedom as we enter into Holy Week!

ANOTHER IN THE FIRE

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Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Another In The Fire

With all your strength, remain continually in My redeeming work. You will not be paid less because you came later than those who arrived early. But, naturally, from you I require surrender and faithfulness that must last unto death, because it is the only way you can help from up there also. There, our hands will gather in unity.” (Jesus) (October 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord You come to us today in Your Word. In fact, You come to us every day in Your Word. And You ask us to remain in You and to be Your disciples. You ask us to know the truth, the only truth that sets us free! The truth that has never left us or forsaken us but whispers gently in our storms, I am with you! Just as in the first reading from Daniel 3, we may feel like we are in the blazing furnace in the world we live in today but You, the Son of Man are with us in the fire no matter how hot it is blazing! Lord help us to praise You with Daniel- “Blessed are you who look into the depths
from your throne upon the cherubim;
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.” We praise You in this storm!

GO TO JOSEPH

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Solemnity of St. Joseph

Go to Joseph

Your most worthy patron is Saint Joseph. Do not forget him, invoke him every day. He will gladly help making our Cause a success. (Jesus) (April 10, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Joseph, son of David,
do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home.
For it is through the Holy Spirit
that this child has been conceived in her.
She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus,
because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, help us today, in this time of world crisis and fear, to go to St. Joseph, protector of the Holy Family and terror of demons with faith and trust that through his intercession and through the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary You will act. Fiat!

O Lord, You are walking with us no matter what we are walking through!

SIN NO MORE

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Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Sin No More

Then, as I raise you, the sin falls away instantly and you become lighter again. Gratitude is all I want in return. Tell Me just one word: ‘Thanks.’ (Jesus) (August 7, 1963)

Today’s Readings: Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.
Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.” (John 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we, like the woman caught in serious sin and those who accused her, are all sinners. None of us could pass the test of being without sin. How easily we condemn others. Lord, You have raised all of us out of sin and death- do we reflect on this and do we thank You? Do we do our part and strive to stay not only out of serious sins but even venial sins, those little foxes that spoil the vine (Luke 13:32). Lord, we are all weak and full of faults but help us to sin no more and when we fall to turn to You in humble trust.

JUST A GRAIN OF WHEAT

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Fifth Sunday of Lent- St. Patrick’s Day

Just a Grain of Wheat

Conscious of my misery and my nothingness, I always think of what I can give You. Lord, my Jesus, I once more give You my sins again and again, and the monotonous flow of tears from my heart imbued with graces. Please listen to me. This is the music of my heart and the only gift I can offer. I know that this is also a gift from You and I thank You a million times. In every beat of my heart there is repentance. My Lord, my Jesus, it is very little because my heart sometimes misses a beat. Therefore, I ask You that in each grain of dust that You have created, I can place sorrow for my sins. In this way, the wind can take them to You and You can see how much I love You. This is my hymn, my poem and my music. This is all that I can give. Accept me as I am.”

Today’s Readings: “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Amen, amen, I say to you, 
unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, 
it remains just a grain of wheat; 
but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it,
and whoever hates his life in this world
will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me, 
and where I am, there also will my servant be. (John 12)

Prayer Meditation- Lord as we enter into the homestretch of Lent, what was known in the old Church Calendar as Passion Sunday, the beginning of Passiontide, two weeks before Easter. As the readings become more somber we realize that soon and very soon You will be entering Jerusalem and giving Your Life for me and for all. And we wonder what we can possibly give You for the Love that never gives up on us and never lets us go! And all we have is our misery and our sins, anything good in us comes from You, and yet if we repent and turn to You it is indeed music to Your Ears. So let us place our sorrow for our sins on every grain of dust created by You placing our I Love You on every breath of wind that carries them to You. Accept us as we are, just little grains of wheat ready to die to ourselves to produce Your fruit in us that we would follow You every step of the way these next two weeks and love You in the name of everyone past, present and future for Your Glory and the good of all!

Oh Lord, purify our hearts that we would be the good soil that brings forth fruit with patience! Clear the thorns and rocks that choke Your Word in our hearts!