A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary with Today’s Readings to jumpstart your day!
So who are the least of these? Of course we should do what we can for the poor and sick and see Jesus in His distressing disguise (St. Teresa of Calcutta) but the poor are also in our families and in our workplaces, those closest to us and it is there we are to serve You Lord because You are also present there in our illnesses, weaknesses, anxieties and fears. Let us see You and serve You Lord in everyone we meet in thought, word, and deed today!
Posted byValerie Parisi EditWhat Is Filling Your Thoughts?
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Monday of the First Week of Lent
What is Filling Your Thoughts
“Renounce yourself and your own entertainment. Think about how I work within you, My little sister, and do not allow any passing diversion into your soul. (Jesus) (January 18, 1965)
Today’s Readings: Let the words of my mouth and the thought of my heart find favor before you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19)
Prayer Meditation- Lord is it so easy to get caught up in entertainment. We end the day tired and we turn on the TV or we drive to the incessant beat of the car radio with blaring music or news, none of it very good! This is not necessarily sinful but what are we filling our heads with- is this entertainment leading us to or from You? Lord let us fill out thoughts with Your Word and Your Presence- can we say a rosary during that car ride.? Could we spend time each night reading our Bibles? Lord let the words of our mouths and the thoughts of our hearts be pleasing to You- let everything we choose to fill ourselves with each day lead us closer to You!
Lord Jesus, as we fast from the goods of this world, may we seek every day to hear Your Voice and to live by every Word of Yours that proceeds from Your Mouth into our hearts!
Posted byValerie Parisi EditForty Days And Forty Nights
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
First Sunday Of Lent
Forty Days and Forty Nights
Jesus: “Do not be surprised if certain people I love and who also love Me will receive you with distrust. They will treat you with suspicion and set you aside. Simply abandon yourself to Me. The way to the Golgotha was covered with obstacles. I had to cut a way for myself with great difficulty. You are now accompanying Me to the Calvary on the road of humiliations. Our dear Mother comes with us and has you share in her sorrows. (February 4, 1963)
Today’s Readings: The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. (Mark 1)
Prayer Meditation- Lord as we meditate on the Gospel, it is The Spirit that led You to the desert. You lead us to trials- You indeed call us to Calvary to die with You, that is to die to the parts of our sinful nature that still cling to us. Anxiety, worry, fear, negativity, and sin. But we are not alone at all- The Blessed Mother enfolds us in Her Immaculate Heart! Lord open the eyes of our hearts to what the Spirit wants to work in us these forty days and forty nights!
O Lord hear our prayers as we come to You, not full of ourselves, but poor and needy! We are nothing, You are all!
Posted byValerie Parisi EditRescue For Sinners
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Rescue for Sinners
Jesus: “My dear child, wish Me many, many souls. This is My only request. Souls! Oh, how I long for sinners! Oh, how I suffer from the indifference and the contempt of souls. Tell Me, Elizabeth, is it difficult to love Me?” (August 15, 1964)
Today’s Readings:
“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.” (Luke 5)
Prayer Meditation: O Lord, how You long for us to be healed and not to stay in our sin and sickness! You long for us so much that You would eat dinner with those whom society has rejected and put aside. And You are knocking on the door of our hearts to dine with us! (Revelations 3:20). Lord come into our homes and heal us of our infirmities! Let us not be indifferent but help us to love You with Your Love because without You we are nothing.
Oh Lord, You are with us in the Sacraments but not yet returned in Glory- the classic now but not yet! And so we fast, pray, and sacrifice but even now let us not do so with mourning, complaining or in fear of anxiety but let us do so in love for the Love which never leaves and never lets us go!
Posted byValerie Parisi EditHere I Am Lord With A Contrite Heart
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Friday after Ash Wednesday
Here I Am Lord With A Contrite Heart
“You must shake the lukewarm souls out of the indifference which drowns them. My effort to take them to a deeper spiritual level is wasted if they turn their back on Me and abandon Me. (Jesus) (April 17, 1962)
Today’s Readings: Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am”. (Isaiah 58)
Prayer Meditation: O Lord we so often go our own way and wander far from You. We do the right things but for all the wrong reasons- our hearts are in need of a shake up this Lent so that we truly will be walking together with You in love. Time to turn around and examine ourselves and offer first our contrite hearts (Psalm 51) and wait on You to lead the way out of our lukewarm comfort zones and indifference. Help us to keep walking with You and never turn back- always forward in Your Will and in Your Love!
Lord, it does not make sense we have to die to live, lose to win, lay ourselves down for our friends and our families. The key is for Your sake- without You we can do nothing (John 15:5) but in You we can do all things for Your Glory and the good of all! (Philippians 4:13)
Posted byValerie Parisi EditLosing Life To Save It
Today’s Consuming Fire Meditation- – A Daily Dose of the Flame of Love Diary Served Up with Today’s Scriptures
Thursday after Ash Wednesday
Losing Life to Save It
Jesus: “Do you want to give yourself to Me entirely and without reserve? I, the Man-God, ask this of you. I need you for My work of Salvation. What I am asking you now is a total abandonment. Therefore renounce yourself completely with all your strength and all your will. You must serve only Me. No one else and nothing else now exists for you. Only I.” (Jesus) (September 1, 1962)
Todays’ Readings: Then he said to all,
“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. (Luke 9)
Prayer Meditation- Today in the first reading from Deuteronomy 30 we read that You have put before us life and death- our choice. The Gospel shows us the way forward- You ask us to pick up our cross daily and follow You. Not anything big or heroic, just our own little crosses tailor made for us- our family, our work, our health, all of our difficulties. Lord help us in the everyday to choose life and to bear our crosses with patience and perseverance. All things are passing- only You remain!
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