With Just One Word

Posted byValerie Parisi September 4, 2023  EditWith Just One Word

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Tuesday of the Twenty Second Week of Ordinary Time

With Just One Word

Feel in your heart, My little sister, the reward favored with graces for having accepted My order that I gave you through your confessor. Now, you see and feel the power that caused the doubts to cease in your soul.” (Jesus) (July 17, 1965)

Today’s Readings: They were all amazed and said to one another, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” (Luke 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord with just one word, you command the unclean spirits to leave. Lord, if we let You- You will restore us piece by piece! Lord, help us to ask You today, what are we holding on to in darkness that needs to come out into the light- fear, unforgiveness, some sin we are afraid to bring to You, our need for control? Lord with Your Word today, especially in the Sacrament of Reconciliation set us free and break the chains that keep us captive today!

Console One Another

Posted byValerie Parisi September 3, 2023  EditConsole One Another

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Monday of the Twenty Second Week of Ordinary Time

Console One Another

In this ceremony, pass the lighted candle from one to another. Take the candle home and begin the family prayer in the same way. If your fervor does not fail, I will be consoled.” (Mary) (April 15, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we stand on Your Promises, that we will live with You forever, that You will come and get us when it is time. We know not the date or time for either Your return or our passing but we can be consoled that no matter where we are You will meet us! Lord, as we sojourn here on Earth, let us console one another- let our fervor not fail as we pass the lighted candle of Your Flame of Love to one another. Let our hands gather with You in unity for the salvation of souls!

The Fire That Burns In Our Hearts

Posted byValerie Parisi September 2, 2023  EditThe Fire That Burns In Our Hearts

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Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

The Fire That Burns In Our Hearts

The next day, a sharp burning pain burdened my soul. “My Jesus, You promised to give me different sufferings. Although I suffer greatly, it is pleasant for me to suffer. I do not know to what I can compare this pain.” (Elizabeth) (April 20, 1962)

Today’s Readings- I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it.(Jeremiah 20)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, love, it is not an easy thing. You ask us to pick up our crosses daily and follow You (Matthew 16)- to bear trials with patience and joy, to mortify our senses and to offer prayer and sacrifice for others! The world wants us to seek comfort- God forbid, we say with St. Peter, that anything negative would ever happen to us! If it is all suffering and pain for its own sake, it is just all worthless and cruel. This is a broken world but Lord You pour into us the burning Flame of Love in our hearts! We see at Calvary what real love looks like! Lord open our hearts so that they would become burning furnaces of charity ready to return love for the Love that never fails and never gives up on us!

Keep Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

Posted byValerie Parisi September 1, 2023  EditKeep Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

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Saturday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time

Keep Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

All that you can still do for Me on earth is meritorious. Time is short, little sister, and never returns. What you do not accept at a given moment will never again become available to you, because I think that you would not receive it willingly.( Jesus) (July 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. (Matthew 25)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, You have given us so much- gifts and talents, our vocation, our families, and every spiritual blessing through Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Church (Ephesians 1:3). Yet Lord so often we bury our talents in the ground- afraid to step out in faith or too busy and distracted to hear Your Call on our lives. Lord time passes quickly and so much of it can be wasted! Lord, please help us not to miss the time of our visitation (Luke 19:44)- let us not waste a single gift, talent, or opportunity that You have given us to give Your Glory in our lives and our relationships!  As St. Augustine stated so well, our hearts are restless until they rest in You, let us not wait too long or take Your Love and Salvation for granted -something we can pick up at a later time as that time may never come. Life on Earth is struggle but with You we will run our races and like St. Paul fight the good fight and keep the faith! (2 Timothy 4:7). Lord may we all hear well done good and faithful servant! (Matthew 25)

All Out Of Oil

Posted byValerie Parisi August 31, 2023  EditAll Out Of Oil

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Friday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time

All Out of Oil

With motherly love, I will await your arrival in Heaven. The drops of oil resulting from your sufferings will fall on the earth into the lamps that are either extinguished or barely flickering, and they will ignite my Flame of Love. (Mary) (October 5, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’ But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.” (Matthew 25)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, I know so many who feel like they are all out of oil! The bad news, the media, our own sinfulness and lack of perseverance, our losing sight of You as we look around at the waves and the water, all threaten to take us under. Lord, help us to look up and fix our eyes on You, even if we cannot see You except barely with the eyes of our hearts and You seem long delayed! Help us, to offer our sufferings for the salvation of souls like drops of oil on the lamps of the multitude of souls separated from You! We may be poured out like a libation but combined with Your Sacrifice and in union with You we truly will be fighting the good fight of faith! (2 Timothy 4)

Faithful And Prudent Servant

Posted byValerie Parisi August 30, 2023  EditFaithful And Prudent Servant

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Thursday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time

Faithful And Prudent Servant

What you must love and seek the most in it are the internal and external humiliations. Never believe that you are important. Your principal task is to consider yourself as nothing; never stop doing this. Even after your death, this should be happening. It is for that reason also that you receive the graces of internal and external humiliations. In this way, you can remain faithful in spreading my Flame of Love. Take advantage of every opportunity; seek these external and internal humiliations with your own effort, because what you seek for yourself increases your humility even more.” (Mary) (September 29, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples:
“Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.

“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant,
whom the master has put in charge of his household
to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property. (Matthew 24)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we read today in the Gospel and in the Diary about being faithful and being vigilant! To be prepared, to be faithful in our tasks, to remember most of all that we are nothing and that You are all! To accept internal and external humiliations and to offer them to You for the salvation and sanctification of all souls! No one lived in complete faithfulness and in total union with You like Our Lady. When we feel tired and confused and just not sure what the right next step is let us turn to Her as our model and guide to Your Most Holy and Divine Will which is Love and Mercy itself! Blessed Lady may we do all of our actions under Your Maternal Gaze!

Receiving The Word of God

Posted byValerie Parisi August 29, 2023  EditReceiving The Word of God

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Wednesday of the Twenty First Week of Ordinary Time

Receiving The Word of God

Jesus: “My daughter, what I am about to say to you is not just for you. Share it with all My beloved children. Assimilate the essence of My words with the thoughts from your heart. You must shake lukewarm souls out of the indifference which drowns them. First, make them realize that they must live in intimate union with Me; especially those who despite receiving Me frequently in their souls avoid getting closer to Me. My effort to take them to a deeper spiritual level is wasted if they turn their backs on Me and abandon Me. (Jesus) (April 17, 1962)

Today’s Readings: And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly,
that, in receiving the word of God from hearing us,
you received it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God,
which is now at work in you who believe. (1 Thessalonians 2)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we praise You, thank You and glorify You because we can receive You daily in Your Word and in The Eucharist if we so desire. We receive Your Word, not just as the words of men long ago but as truly Your Word to us every day. Lord, may we always seek that intimate union with You in prayer and in the Sacraments, may we never be indifferent or lukewarm! Lord take us into the deep- like little drops of water in the Ocean of Your Mercy and Grace so that we would be transformed into Your image and likeness in Your Most Holy and Divine Will!

Nothing Except Christ Crucified

Posted byValerie Parisi August 28, 2023  EditNothing Except Christ Crucified

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Memorial of the Passion of Saint John The Baptist

Nothing Except Christ Crucified

At night, I laid down to rest. Because of my weakness and tiredness, I could hardly think. Quite unexpectedly, the Lord Jesus surprised me with His words and started to converse. Never in my life had His words penetrated so deeply within me. I listened to them with a trembling heart and devout concentration. (Elizabeth) (June 9, 1965)

Today’s Readings: You yourselves know, brothers and sisters,
that our reception among you was not without effect.
Rather, after we had suffered and been insolently treated,
as you know, in Philippi,
we drew courage through our God
to speak to you the Gospel of God with much struggle.
Our exhortation was not from delusion or impure motives,
nor did it work through deception.
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)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we honor and remember the Passion of Saint John the Baptist. He had stood up for Your Commandments and was imprisoned. We can only imagine his fatigue, suffering and maybe even confusion in prison. Because Lord it is when we are weak we are strong (2 Corinthians 2:10) because You are strong in us. We all have our times of weakness and tiredness in our lives and in our service to You- times when we are really united to You, our crucified Lord, in our suffering. There is no victory without the Cross, however united to You we are assured that in faith no matter how weak and lost we may seem, we are operating not in our own human wisdom but in Your power and for Your Glory! Saint John the Baptist please pray for us because unless a grain of wheat falls into the Earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it does, it bears much fruit (John 12:24)

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Memorial of Saint Augustine

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!

He Is Our Strength!

Posted byValerie Parisi August 26, 2023  EditHe Is Our Strength!

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

Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time

He Is Our Strength

And so, for my little strength, the work was excessive. I felt that I could not carry on. I begged the Lord in His kindness to give me strength because I could not manage to help my two daughters-in-law. (Elizabeth) (August 27-28, 1965)

Today’s Readings: I will give thanks to your name, because of your kindness and your truth: When I called, you answered me; you built up strength within me. (Psalm 138)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we thank You and we praise You because You always hear our prayers!  Lord so often we lack the strength to fulfill our responsibilities- we can feel so weary! But Lord when we call Your Name You answer us and You build up strength in us as we praise You, meditate on Your Word, and come to the Altar to receive Your Sacramental Graces! Lord help us to turn to You in any trial today!