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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, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself,  taking the form of a servant,  being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. 9 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!

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 21, 2023

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

Each Virtue Is A Heaven That The Soul Acquires

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)

Volume 9-September 22, 1910

This morning, continuing in my usual state, blessed Jesus came for just a little and told me: “My daughter, each virtue is a heaven that the soul acquires. Therefore, as many virtues as she acquires, so many heavens does she keep forming, and these heavens defeat all human inclinations, destroy that which is earthly, and make the soul wander through the purest auras, through the holiest delights, through the celestial fragrances of the highest good, anticipating for her part of the eternal joys.” And He disappeared.

Round Of The Soul: O Lord we bless You, adore, You and thank You Lord for the fruits of the Spirit, the virtues we acquire as You form Heaven in us and defeat all of our human and earthly inclinations for Your celestial and eternal joys! Come Holy Spirit, come by the means of the power of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well beloved Spouse and our Celestial Mama!

Set Free —

Set Free

Set Free

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

Friday of the Twenty Fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Set Free


“Your living faith in Me keeps your soul in a continual freshness and makes you ready to receive abundant graces. Hence, My little one, do not serve anyone but Me.” (Jesus) (August 1, 1963)


Today’s Readings: Jesus journeyed from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God. Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.(Luke 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord today we see You journeying with Your chosen Apostles and also some women who were set free. Like us Lord, these women were stuck in sin and in their brokenness but then You broke into their mess; and we are all a mess, and set them free! Lord we can never repay You for Your goodness and ,mercy, all that we can do is walk alongside You with a living faith! Lord we may have served many idols before- money, prestige, addictions, acting out of need for approval and human respect but now we have found everything in You and we will serve no one else! May our feet journey together!

Journey Into The Divine Will-Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 20, 2023

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

Jesus will show the generations how Luisa’s fidelity was tested by His love, by His cross and by His Will.

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:27)

Volume 16-September 21, 1923 Now, while I was in this state, so painful, my always lovable Jesus moved in my interior, and putting out one arm, He clasped me to give me life again, and told me: “My daughter, my Will wanted to make justice of you. This was necessary in order to test your fidelity, since all my attributes concur in all my works. And when the generations will see all that I have poured into you and, amazed, will say: ‘How could she not do all this, after You gave her so much?’, my justice will show the tests it made you undergo, and will say to them: ‘I made her go through the fire of my justice and I found her faithful, and this is why my love continued its course.’ Even more, you must know that the first to make justice of you was my love. How many tests did it not make you undergo in order to be sure about your love? The second was the cross, which made severe justice of you, to the point that my Will, drawn by my love and by my cross, wanted to descend into you and to make you live in It. But my Will also did not want to be outdone by my love and by the cross, and to be sure, jealous, It withdrew, making justice of you, to see whether you would continue your flights in my Will without Me.”

On hearing this, I said: ‘Ah! how could I continue them without You? I lacked the light, and if I would start, I would not finish, because the One who, making everything present to me, would make me do it for all, making me bind all the relations between the Creator and all Creation, was not with me. My mind would swim in the empty space, without seeing anyone. How could I do them?’ And Jesus: “Your starting was doing, and your sorrow for being unable to finish was completing. Therefore, it takes courage and fidelity. With a little bit of testing, one is always more certain and sure. And besides, if not even my Queen Mother was spared, would you want to be exempted?”

Round of the Soul– O Lord we bless You, we praise You and we adore You because to follow You means to bear our crosses. It takes courage and fidelity to pass the tests which even Luisa and Our Queen Mother had to undergo yet we place our I love You on all them because Your Justice is always Your Mercy even when we feel and know that we are helpless to complete anything without You! Fiat Lord to all the little tests may all be for Your Glory!

You Came For Me! —

You Came For Me!

You Came For Me!

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

Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle

You Came For Me!


“You know how pleased I am when you prostrate before Me and say that you are sorry for your sins as no sinner has ever been sorry and that you want to love Me more than all converted sinners.” (Jesus) (April 8, 1962)


Today’s Readings: Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” He heard this and said, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. Go and learn the meaning of the words, I desire mercy, not sacrifice. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” (Matthew 9)


Prayer Meditation- Lord, You remind us so vividly that You came not for the righteous but for sinners- to set us free and heal us and free us so that we can live the abundant life You have meant for us to live. (John 10). This is really good news because that means You came for me and for all of us because we are all sinners and all broken and only You can fix us. Lord help us to know that Your Gaze is always upon us- You see us just as we are and You look at us with such love and ask us to follow You. Lord help us not to miss Your invitation today and every day!

Journey Into The Divine Will- Divine Will Calendar Sip By Sip — September 19, 2023

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

Everything that happens around and inside the soul is nothing other than the continuous crafting of Jesus so that His Will may be fulfilled and carried out in her.

We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified. (Romans 8:28-30)

Volume 11- September 20, 1913 And Jesus, immediately: “My daughter, everything that happens around and inside the soul – bitternesses, pleasures, contrasts, deaths, privations, contentments, and other things – is nothing other than my continuous crafting so that my Will may be fulfilled and carried out in her. When I obtain this, all is done, and therefore everything gives the soul peace. It seems that even suffering wants to stay away from her, in seeing that the Divine Volition is greater than it is, and that It holds in her the place of everything, surpassing everything. It seems that all pay reverence to her; and I Myself, when the soul reaches this point – of using everything in order to let Me accomplish the crafting of my Will – once this is done, I prepare her for Heaven

Round of The Soul- O Lord we love You, we bless You and we adore You because in all circumstances You work all things together for good for the crafting of our souls and to prepare us for Heaven! Fiat Jesus we love You in all that You dispose for us!

Of Flutes And Dirges —

Of Flutes And Dirges

Of Flutes And Dirges

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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 Andew Kim Tae-gon and Companions

Of Flutes and Dirges

Mary: “The greater the miracles, my little one, the fewer those who believed in me. I asked for the First Saturdays and they never heeded my request. I am your gentle and understanding Mother. United with you, I will save you. (Mary) (April 13, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to the crowds:
“To what shall I compare the people of this generation?
What are they like?
They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another,

‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance.
We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.’ (Luke 7)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we love You we bless You and we adore You because You have shown us so many miracles during Your Public Life and through Your Church. The Sacraments themselves are Your Miracles as are our very lives! And yet we are so indifferent, we do so little in response or even worse, we respond with a complaining and a critical spirit. Like the generation who crossed the Red Sea and then complained for forty years in the desert. O Lord we are so blind and ignorant stuck in our own little minds. Lord help us to see the evidence of Your love all around! Lord may we unite with Your Holy Mother as She shows us how to respond with love to the Love that never lets us go!