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Journey Into The Divine Will- Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 26, 2023

Journey Into The Divine Will- Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip

The sea, symbol of the Divine Will.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. (Psalm 95:5)

Volume 36- September 27, 1938

I am always in the sea of the Divine Will, and I make my pains and unspeakable bitternesses flow within It, so that they may be invested by Its divine strength and may turn into light for me and for all. And my sweet Jesus, visiting my little soul, all goodness told me: “My blessed daughter, the sea gives room to all the things that are immersed in it. It gives room to the fish, keeping them submerged inside its waters, giving them everything that is needed to keep them alive. The fish are the most fortunate, the richest – they lack nothing because they live always in the sea. Oh! if the fish got out of the sea, their life would end. The sea receives everything, it lends itself to all, it bathes everything and everyone and hides them all inside its waters. If the sailor wants to cross the sea and go to different regions, the water of the sea receives the ship, becomes the way, accompanies him, never leaves him alone until he reaches his destination. Everyone can find a place in the sea.
Such is my Will: all can find their place in It, and with unspeakable love It makes Itself life of each one, way to guide them, light to dispel the darkness of life, strength to sustain them. It never leaves them alone; whatever they do, It wants to do it together with them. Oh! how It grieves when It sees the creatures outside of Its sea, because It sees them ugly, dirty, so dissimilar from It as to be disgusting. Therefore, the most fortunate are those who live in my Will; they are carried on the lap of Its waves, and as long as they live in It, It will take care of all that is needed for their good.”


Take Nothing For The Journey —

Take Nothing For The Journey

Take Nothing For The Journey

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


Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul

Take Nothing For The Journey

“I grasp your hands. I will go with you. May our feet journey together.” (Jesus) (November 29, 1962)

Today’s Readings: He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic.(Luke 9)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, on this journey of life we can load ourselves down with so many things- so many props, so many things we think we can’t live without. So many attachments! We all have them- money, food, need for approval, addictions, stuff! But Lord we can’t grasp Your Hands if we don’t fully let go- Lord help us to rid ourselves of whatever baggage is getting in the way of our walk with You! Because only You lead the way to the narrow road of life! (Matthew 7:14).

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip —

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip

The mere word ‘Will of God’ contains an eternal prodigy. How everything converts into love and prayer.

For with thee is the fountain of life;
    in thy light do we see light. (Psalm 36:()

Volume 20, September 16, 1926


And Jesus, resuming His speaking, added: “My daughter, wherever my Will is present, everything is sanctity, everything is love, everything is prayer. So, since Its fount is in you, your thoughts, your gazes, your words, your heartbeat and also your movements – everything is love and prayers. It is not the form of the words that forms prayer – no; it is my operating Will which, dominating all of your being, makes of your thoughts, words, gazes, heartbeats and movements as many little fountains, which spring from the Supreme Will; and rising up to Heaven, in their mute language, some pray, some love, some adore, some bless. In sum, my Will makes the soul do what is holy – what belongs to the Divine Being. Therefore, the soul who possesses the Supreme Will as life is the true heaven which, be it even mute, narrates the glory of God and announces itself as the work of His creative hands. How beautiful it is to see the soul in whom my Will reigns! As she thinks, looks, speaks, palpitates, breathes, moves, she forms the stars to adorn her heaven, to narrate more the glory of the One who created her. My Will embraces everything as though in one breath, and lets nothing of all that is good and holy escape the soul.”

Our Forever Family —

Our Forever Family

Our Forever Family

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Tuesday of the Twenty Fifth Week of Ordinary Time

Our Forever Family

My Mother accompanied Me everywhere with her love, her sacrifices and her prayers.  (Jesus) (January 17, 1964)

Today’s Readings: The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him
but were unable to join him because of the crowd.
He was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside
and they wish to see you.”
He said to them in reply, “My mother and my brothers
are those who hear the word of God and act on it.” (Luke 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord God we thank You for the forever family You have given us in the Saints and particularly Our Blessed Mother! She accompanied You everywhere with Her sacrifices and prayers and She does the same for us! Our Mother and brothers and sisters in faith do Your Will-may we imitate them and do the same!

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 24, 2023

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip

Effects Of The Prayers Done In The Divine Will

Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (Philippians 4:6)

Volume 11 September 25, 1914

I was offering my poor prayers to blessed Jesus, and I was thinking to myself to whom it would be better for blessed Jesus to apply them. And He, benignly, said to me: “My daughter, the prayers done with Me and with my very Will can be given to all, without excluding anyone. All receive their part and their effects, as if those prayers had been offered for one alone. However, they operate according to the dispositions of the creatures, just like Communion, or my Passion: I give It to all and to each one, but the effects are produced according to their dispositions; and if ten people receive It, the fruit is not inferior to the case in which five had received It. Such is the prayer done together with Me and from my Will.”

Round Of The Soul- We bless You, we love You and we adore You Lord because You have asked us to pray not only for ourselves and our loved ones but everyone past, present, and future so that Your Celestial Dew would fall on all! Lord we plead mercy, salvation and sanctification of all souls that all would be disposed to receive what You so long to give us which Your Kingdom living on Earth as it is in Heaven!

Place Our Lamps On The Lampstand —

Place Our Lamps On The Lampstand

Place Our Lamps On The Lampstand

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Monday of the Twenty Fifth Week of Ordinary Time

Place Our Lamps On The Lampstand


The Blessed Virgin revealed that the light of her Flame of Love filled not only me, but all my family members, and the Evil One could not lead them into sin. That is why their souls are strengthened and prepared to receive even more graces. (Elizabeth) (February 21, 1963)


Today’s Readings: Jesus said to the crowd: “No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed; rather, he places it on a lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. (Luke 8)

Prayer Meditation- Praise You Lord Jesus that in these times in which we live Your Grace abounds even more than the sin that surrounds us! (Romans 5:20). We are living in the time of Divine Mercy, the time of the outpouring of the Flame of Love if we would just receive! Lord let us who are consecrated to You through Mary be ready for the Holy Spirit to fill us with Your Light so that it is not we who live but You through us! (Galatians 2:20). Lord let this light shine brightly in us, this Flame of Love, so that this light would move from heart to heart to heart! Come Lord Jesus into our hearts and fill us with Your Abundant Life which will overflow to all around us! (John 10:10)

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 23, 2023

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip

The Humanity of Our Lord, sacrarium and custodian of all the works of the creatures. How love never says enough.

Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself,  taking the form of a servant,  being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)

Volume 32-September 24, 1933– “My good daughter, in all Our works there was always an excess of love toward man; and one excess gave me the spur to make another one. So, it was not enough for Me to descend from Heaven to earth in order to make him anew, but each act I did, each pain and, I can say, even each breath, was directed toward him. In my all-seeingness I called him, I clasped him in my arms, I molded him anew in order to restore him and give him the new life which I had brought for him from Heaven. I made him my own brother in order to place him in the sonship of my Celestial Father. But this was not enough for Me; in order to keep him more safe, I made of my Humanity the depository of all the works, sacrifices and steps of man. Look at Me – how I hold everything enclosed within Me; and this leads Me to love him twice as much in each act he does. By incarnating Myself in the womb of the Immaculate Queen, I formed this Humanity of Mine and I constituted Myself the Head of the human family in order to unify all creatures with Me and make them my own members. Therefore, everything they do is mine, I enclose everything in the sacrarium of my Holy Humanity, I keep the little good as well as the great. But do you know why? By their passing into Me, I give them the value as if they were my own works, prayers and sacrifices; the virtue of the Head descends into the members, blending everything together, and I give them the value of my own merits. So, the creature finds herself in Me, and I, as the Head, find Myself in them.
But do you think that my love said or says ‘enough’? Ah! no, it will never say ‘enough’. The nature of divine love is to form ever new inventions of love, to give love and receive love. If it were not so, it would be like setting a limit and closing Our love within Our divine sphere. But, no, Our love is immense, and by its own nature must always love. And here is why I want my Humanity to be followed by the large field of my Divine Will, which will do incredible things for love of creatures. Here, then, Its knowledges, Its wanting to reign. If It does not reign, how can It abound, and make display of Its surprises of love? Therefore, be attentive, and you will see what my Will can do. ”Fiat!!

Round of the Soul: We bless You, we love You and we adore You, because in Your Humanity Lord, You held nothing back! True love never says enough! Your excess of love for us is infinite and we are but finite creatures and yet You give us, fused in Your Most Holy and Divine Will, Your own merits! May all be for Your Glory, Amen and Fiat!

Five O’ Clock Saints —

Five O’ Clock Saints

Five O’ Clock Saints

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

Twenty Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Five O’clock Saints- Your Ways Are Not Our Ways!

Those accepting the Flame of Love will be intoxicated by the abundance of graces and they will proclaim everywhere, as I said before, that such a torrent of grace has never been granted since the Word became Flesh.” (November 7, 1963)

Today’s Readings: ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. 
Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? 
Take what is yours and go. 
What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? 
Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? 
Are you envious because I am generous?’
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.” (Matthew 20)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we are living in extraordinary times. We are living in the times prophesied by St. Louis Marie de Montfort.  He has said us, the faithful, in these times, “They shall be the true apostles of the latter times. They shall have in their mouths the two-edged sword of the Word of God. They shall carry on their shoulders the bloody standard of the Cross, the Crucifix in their right hand and the Rosary in their left, the sacred Names of Jesus and Mary in their hearts, and the modesty and mortification of Jesus Christ in their own behavior. (True Devotion to Jesus Through Mary)” In these times of tribulation, we are living in a time of extraordinary grace because we are also living in times of unprecedented darkness. And what is grace exactly- unmerited favor! We have a rich tradition of saints in the Catholic Church, those who “bore the day’s burden and the heat” by faithful perseverance. And it can be very hard to believe that right here, right now, You have called pretty much anyone who has ears to listen and give our little “yes” the ability to become great saints just by opening ourselves through Mary to the Flame of Love, which is You living in us! Not some great big staircase of sanctity, but the elevator described by St. Therese Lisieux if only we realize that we are little nothings, little five o’clock laborers called at the end of the day to receive all that You desire to give us without cost (Isaiah 55) because Your Ways are not our Ways and the best is yet to come! What a great time to be alive!

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 22, 2023

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip

One Who Lives in the Divine Will, In Her Littleness, Encloses the All and Gives God to God.

 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a little, I will set you over much; enter into the joy of your master. (Matthew 25:21)

Volume 27-September 23, 1929

My daughter, when the creature goes through the works of her Creator it means that she wants to recognize, appreciate, love, what God has done for love of her; and having nothing to give Him in return, while going through His works she takes the whole Creation as though in the palm of her hand, and she gives It back to God, intact and beautiful, for His glory and honor, saying to Him: ‘I recognize You, I glorify You by means of your own works, which alone are worthy of You.’ Now, Our delight in seeing Ourselves recognized in Our works by the creature is such and so great, that We feel as if the Creation were being repeated again, to give Us double glory; and since this double glory is given to Us because the creature recognizes Our works done for love of them and given to them as gift so that they would love Us, by recognizing Our gift, the creature encloses the All in the heaven of her soul, and We see, within her littleness, Our Divine Being with all Our works. More so since, Our Divine Fiat being present in the littleness of this creature, she has capacity and space to be able to enclose the All, and – oh! prodigy, to see the All enclosed in the human littleness, and to see her, brave, giving the All to the All, only to love Him and glorify Him. That the All of Our Supreme Being be the All – there is nothing to be surprised about, because such is Our Divine Nature – to be All. But the All in the human littleness is the wonder of wonders; these are prodigies of Our Divine Volition, that wherever It reigns It cannot make of Our Divine Being a Being by half, but the whole of It. And since the Creation is nothing other than an outpouring of love of Our creating Fiat, wherever It reigns It encloses all Its works, and therefore the human littleness can say: ‘I give God to God.’ This is why, then, when We give Ourselves to the creature, We want everything – even her nothing, so that upon her nothing Our creative word may be repeated, and We may form Our All over the nothing of the creature. If she does not give Us everything – her littleness, her nothing – Our creative word cannot be repeated, nor is it decorous and an honor for Us to repeat it; because when We speak, We want to get rid of anything that does not belong to Us; and when We see that she does not give herself completely, We do not make her Our own, and so she remains the littleness and the nothing that she is, while We remain with the All that We are.”

Round of the Soul: We praise You, we bless You, we thank You and we adore You Lord because You allow us in our littleness and nothingness to go through the Rounds of Creation giving “God to God” as You enclose us in Your Creating Fiat in such an outpouring of love! Lord rid us of anything that does not belong to You as we enter Your Fiat little by little and sip by sip!

Dwelling in Unapproachable Light —

Dwelling in Unapproachable Light

Dwelling in Unapproachable Light

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

Saint Padre Pio

Dwelling In Unapproachable Light

Jesus: “Did you enjoy the hymn? I was the One who touched you by the melody. This is the hymn which we like the most. I use it to praise you because you so much love the silence of the church where I dwell.” (Jesus) (June 2, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Beloved:
I charge you before God, who gives life to all things,
and before Christ Jesus,
who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate
for the noble confession,
to keep the commandment without stain or reproach
until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ
that the blessed and only ruler
will make manifest at the proper time,
the King of kings and Lord of lords,
who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light,
and whom no human being has seen or can see.
To him be honor and eternal power. Amen. (1 Timothy 6)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we love You and praise You and bless You because You live in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen God but Your One and Only Son, Jesus Christ has revealed You (John 1) and has showed us the way to be perfect, as You are perfect in the Gospels. Lord, You want to dwell in us and make Your love complete in us (1John 4). You care about every detail of our lives, even the hymns we like in Church and You want to share everything with us! Lord Jesus, You are light and You offer us the way to live with You forever in Your Unapproachable Light because You have made a way for us through Your Incarnation, Life, Death, and Resurrection- let us seek You always in prayer, Your Word, and the Sacraments of Your One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church!