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Fourth Hour: From 8 to 9 PM The Eucharistic Supper

Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” (Matthew 26:26)

Hours of the Passion

My Heart and my Life, Jesus, this appearance of Yours, never before seen, draws the attention of all the apostles. They are caught by a sweet enchantment and do not dare even to breathe. Your Sweet Mama runs in spirit to the foot of the altar, to admire the portents of Your Love. The Angels descend from Heaven, asking themselves, “What is this? What is this? These are true follies, true excesses! A God who Creates, not heaven or earth, but Himself. And where? In the most wretched matter of a little bread and a little wine.”
But while they are all around You, O insatiable Love, I see that You take the bread in Your hands; You offer it to the Father, and I hear Your most sweet voice say, “Holy Father, thanks be to You, for always answering Your Son. Holy Father, concur with Me. One day, You sent Me from Heaven to earth to be Incarnated in the Womb of My Mama, to come and save Our children. Now, allow Me to be Incarnated in each Host, to continue their salvation and be Life of each one of My children. Do You see, O Father? Few hours of My Life are left; who would have the heart to leave My children orphaned and alone? Many are their enemies—the obscurities, the passions, the weaknesses to which they are subject. Who will help them? O please, I supplicate You to let Me stay in each Host, to be Life of each one, and therefore put to flight their enemies; to be their Light, Strength and Help in everything. Otherwise, where shall they go? Who will help them? Our Works are Eternal, My Love is irresistible—I cannot leave My children, nor do I want to.”
The Father is moved at the tender and affectionate voice of the Son. He descends from Heaven; He is already on the altar, and united with the Holy Spirit, concurs with the Son. And Jesus, with sonorous and moving voice, pronounces the words of the Consecration, and without leaving Himself, Creates Himself in that bread and wine.
Then You communicate Your apostles, and I believe that our Celestial Mama did not remain without receiving You. Ah, Jesus, the Heavens bow down and all send to You an act of adoration in Your new state of profound annihilation.

Prayer Meditation- O My Jesus, we love You, we adore You and we thank You on this Holy Thursday for the Institution of the Eucharist- how can we ever thank You enough for the gift of Your Self broken for us. My Jesus never leave us and never let us go!

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

Holy Thursday

The God Who Washes Our Feet- Loving Us To The End

Mary: “My little one, Thursdays and Fridays should be considered

as great days of grace. Those who offer reparation to my Divine

Son on these days will receive a great grace. During the hours

of reparation, the power of Satan will weaken to the degree that

those making reparation pray for sinners.(Mary) (September 29, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “Do you realize what I have done for you?

You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am.

If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,

you ought to wash one another’s feet.

I have given you a model to follow,

so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” (John 13)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord on this Holy Thursday let us meditate deeply on Your love for us and model that love for others. Let us be cleansed by You so we can serve others. Let us also keep You company tonight at least one hour and make reparation for those who do not know You and love You- You gave everything for our salvation, let us give just a little back to participate in Your saving work.

In compassionating the Mother, one compassionates Jesus. On Calvary, at the crucifixion, Luisa sees all generations in Jesus.

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Mag′dalene.  When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. (John 19:25-27)

Volume 4-April 5, 1901

As the state of privation continued, this morning I seemed to see Him a little bit, together with the Queen Mother; and since adorable Jesus had the crown of thorns, I removed it from Him and I compassionated all of Him. While I was doing this, He told me: “Compassionate also my Mother, because, since the reason of Her sorrows is my suffering, in compassionating Her, you come to compassionate My very Self.”
After this, I seemed to find myself on mount Calvary, in the act of the crucifixion of Our Lord, and while He suffered the crucifixion, I could see – I don’t know how – all generations, past, present and future, in Jesus. And since Jesus had everyone within Himself, He felt all the offenses that each of us would give Him, and He suffered for all in general, and for each individual in particular, in such a way that I could see also my sins, and the pains that He suffered for me individually; and I could also see the remedy that He administered to us, with the exception of no one, for our evils and for our eternal salvation. Now, who can say all that I saw in blessed Jesus? From the first to the last man. As I was outside of myself, I could see things clearly and distinctly; but finding myself inside myself, I see them all confused. So, in order to avoid nonsense, I stop here.

Prayer Meditation- O Lord let us keep Our Mother and Yours company this week, O Mary conceived without sin and who suffered for us, pray for us!

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Wednesday of Holy Week

Adoration And Reparation

Adore Me and make reparation on behalf of others also. Seek many graces for them. (Jesus) (January 6, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

Insult has broken my heart, and I am weak,
    I looked for sympathy, but there was none;
    for consolers, not one could I find.
Rather they put gall in my food,
    and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

I will praise the name of God in song,

and I will glorify him with thanksgiving:

“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;

you who seek God, may your hearts revive! (Psalm 69)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord even in the darkest hour let us seek Your Face and praise You in all things. Today we read in the Gospel how You were betrayed by one of the twelve- by a disciple and friend. And while we can relate to that on a human level what was worse was the loss of Judas because of his despair. We cannot even imagine how You grieve over the loss of souls. Let us seek Your restoration for our own hearts and for others and let us console Your Heart in union with The Immaculate Heart of Mary as we enter the Triduum.

How, in God, the word is everything. Knowledge is the bearer of the divine act and of the possession of divine goods for creatures. Cure that Jesus prescribed.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

Volume 24-April 4, 1928

I was doing my round in the Divine Fiat, and many things about the Supreme Volition wandered through my mind; so, I thought to myself: ‘How can it be that if the knowledges about this Divine Will become known to creatures, Its Kingdom can come? If He did so much for the coming of the Kingdom of Redemption – the mere knowing was not enough, but He operated, suffered, died, performed miracles – will the knowledges alone be enough for the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat, which is greater than Redemption?’ But while I was thinking of this, my lovable Jesus moved in my interior and told me: “My daughter, in order to form the smallest thing, creatures need works, steps and raw materials; but God, your Jesus, does not need anything to create and form the greatest works, and the entire universe. For Us the word is everything. Was the whole universe not created with the word alone? And in order for man to enjoy all this universe, it was enough to know it. These are the ways of Our Wisdom that We have: in order to give, We make use of the word; and in order to receive, man must make use of knowing what We have said and done with Our word. In fact, if a people does not know all the varieties of plants which are spread throughout the whole earth, it does not enjoy, nor is it the possessor of the fruits of those plants, because in Our word there is not only the creative strength, but united with it there is also the communicative strength – that is, the strength to communicate to creatures what We have said and done. But if they do not know it, nothing is given to them. What did man add in order to enjoy the light of the sun and receive its effects? Nothing; nor did he add anything to the water he drinks, to the fire that warms him and to many other things created by Me. However, he needed to know them, otherwise it would have been for man as if they did not exist.
Knowledge is the bearer of the life of Our act and of the possession of Our goods for creatures. So, the knowledges about my Will have the virtue of forming Its Kingdom in their midst, because such has been Our purpose in manifesting them. And if in Redemption I wanted to descend from Heaven to take on human flesh, it was because I wanted to descend into all human acts to reorder them. More so, since Adam had withdrawn from Our Divine Will to content his humanity, and with this he disordered himself completely, he lost his state of origin; and I had to follow the same path: descend into a Humanity so as to reorder him anew; and everything I did in It was to serve as remedy, medicine, example, mirror, light, to be able to put decayed humanity in order. Now, having done all that was necessary, and still more, so much so that I had nothing else to do – I did everything, and I did it as God, with surprising means and with invincible love in order to reorder this decayed humanity; and man cannot say: ‘Jesus has not done this to cure us, reorder us and place us in safety’ – everything I did in my Humanity was nothing but the preparation and the cures I prescribed so that the human family might recover, to return once again into the order of my Divine Will.
So, after about two thousand years of cure, it is just and decorous for Us and for man that he no longer be sick, but that he be healthy again so as to enter into the Kingdom of Our Will. And this is why the knowledges about It were needed – so that Our creative word, which speaks and creates, speaks and communicates, speaks and transforms, speaks and wins, might speak and make new horizons, new suns rise for as many knowledges as It manifests, in such a way as to form so many sweet enchantments that, amazed, the creature will be conquered and invested by the light of my Eternal Will. In fact, nothing else is needed for Its Kingdom to come but the two wills kissing each other, one dissolving within the other – my Will, to give, and the human will, to receive. Therefore, just as my word was enough to create the universe, so will it be enough to form the Kingdom of my Fiat. But it is necessary that the words I have spoken, the knowledges I have manifested, be known, to be able to communicate the good that my creative word contains. This is why I insist so much that the knowledges about my Will, the purpose for which I manifested them, be known – to be able to realize my Kingdom which I so yearn to give to creatures. And I will overwhelm Heaven and earth to obtain the intent.”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we love You, we bless You and we adore You and and we thank You for Your Word living and active which created the universe and longs for us to know, love, and adore Your Holy Will! May Your Kingdom Come and Your Will Be Done!

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Tuesday of Holy Week

You Can’t Run from Trouble

They avoid what is difficult, as years go on, their soul becomes grey and covered with dust. (Jesus) (December 22, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me?

Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow

before you deny me three times.” (John 13)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, Peter could talk the talk but couldn’t walk the walk- how many times is that us even in our daily lives. When it gets hard, when the road narrows and gets rocky, we just want to hide and make it all go away. Lord help us not to deny You but follow You even when the path ahead is impossible to see and when we fall. Let us, like Peter ,also humbly realize our brokenness and accept Your forgiveness.

All the Will of God in creating man was that he would do His Will in everything, in order to develop His Life in him.

Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned^,  sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.  Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. (Romans 5:12-16)

Volume 12- April 3, 2020

Continuing in my poor state, I felt my lovable Jesus in my interior, uniting Himself to pray together with me. And then He told me: “My daughter, all my Will in creating man was that he would do my Will in everything. And as he would gradually continue to do this Will of Mine, I would come to complete my Life in him, in such a way that, after repeated acts done in my Will, forming my Life in him, I would come to him; and finding him similar to Me, the Sun of my Life, finding the Sun of my Life that he had formed in his soul, would absorb him into Me; and as they would be transformed together, like two Suns into one, I would bring him into the delights of Heaven.
Now, by the creature’s not doing my Will, or if now she does It, now she does not, my Life is halved by the human life, and the Divine Life cannot be completed. It is obscured by the human acts, and does not receive abundant food to give a development that would be sufficient in order to form a life. Therefore, the soul is in continuous opposition to the purpose of Creation. But alas! how many are there who, by living the life of sin, of passions, form within themselves the diabolical life!”

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we read in this reading from the Volumes about Your “Plan A” as we enter into Holy Week and all that You have done for us to redeem us from our fallen state! And yet You long for Your best for us- the sanctity of sanctity of living in Your Will just as You made us in Adam before the fall. Let us truly enter in this Holy Week into Your Passion and love and compassionate You for all people past, present, and future in reparation for our sins and of the whole world!

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

Monday of Holy Week

Be Strong and Courageous

Suffer with courage, perseverance, and sincere abandonment. Don’t ponder if the suffering is large or small. All that you can still do for Me on Earth is meritorious. (Jesus) (July 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD

in the land of the living.

Wait for the LORD with courage;

be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD. (Psalm 27)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, help us to suffer with courage and abandonment to Your Holy Will. Lord we believe that You are working all things for good. we wait for You with courage! Lord all we can do for You is meritorious. So, let us like Mary in today’s Gospel (John 12)  anoint You with the sweet perfume of our offering of ourselves in complete trust and abandonment as we enter Holy Week.

How the ‘I love you’ is the breath and the heartbeat of God; His love is generative and operating. The greatest prodigy is to enclose His life in the creature.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)

Volume 32-April 2, 1933

“My blessed daughter, you must know that Our Divine Being is nothing other than a substance, all of love; so, the consequence of this is that everything, inside and outside of Us – everything is love. Hence, Our breath is love, and the air that We breathe is love; Our heartbeat is love, and while We palpitate love, it forms the circulation of pure love in Our Divine Being, with a race that never stops. And this circulation, while it preserves Our life in pure and perfect balance of love, gives love to all and would want love from all. Anything which is not love does not enter into Us, nor can it enter, or find a place in which to put itself; the fullness of Our love would burn up anything that would not be pure and holy love. But who directs this life of Ours, all of love? The light, the sanctity, the power, the all-seeingness, the immensity of Our Will, which fills Heaven and earth with Our Supreme Being, in such a way that there is not one point in which It is not present, and It can do nothing other than love and give love. But it is not a sterile love and Will – no, no; it is fecund, and generates continuously; it is operative, and within one single breath of love it forms the most beautiful and marvelous works, the prodigies most unheard-of, so much so, that all the human sciences feel small and ignorant before the littlest of Our works, and, confounded, they remain mute.

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, this week we will see how Your Love is Your breath and Your heartbeat- given totally for us! We love You and worship You and thank You Lord for the Love that never ends and it is given to all! Let us give You love for Love this week!

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Palm Sunday

Consoling The Hearts of Jesus and Mary

I am the Mother of Sorrows, I suffer greatly because of the souls being lost. I am tortured in pain as I grieve for the suffering of my Divine Son. Never despise any tiredness. Be my eternal companion helping me bear my sufferings. This is what I ask of you.” (Mary) (November 19, 1962)

Today’s Readings: The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. (Isaiah 50)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we sing Your Praises but we also meditate on Your Passion. Holy Week is here- whether we spent our Lent fruitfully or not. Lord our own crosses can make us so tired- especially in this time of pandemic. But Lord You who have given us everything, holding back nothing and if we ask You will give us the strength and sustain us who are weary and weak. Lord help us not despise any tiredness or crosses but help us to be Our Blessed Mother’s eternal companion in prayer and sacrifice- offering You the scraps of who we are this week if that is all we can muster knowing that You will multiply our poor love and pour into us the infinite Ocean of Your Mercy! Jesus we love You and surrender to You!