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Walk This Way — October 5, 2024

Walk This Way

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Walk This Way

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

Twenty Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time


Walk This Way


Jesus said, “Renounce the reading of frivolous books, the hearing of your favorite music, and your seeking to be among others. On your walks, think only of My Sacred Passion.” (Jesus) (May 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. (Psalm 128)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we bless You, we glorify You and we thank You for inviting us to walk in Your Ways. Lord may our feet journey together! Lord we cannot walk in Your Ways if we cannot hear Your Voice. We will veer quickly to the right or to the left (Isaiah 30:21) Let us turn down the noise of the world and keep our eyes fixed on You! Let us meditate on the Mysteries of the Rosary in love and gratitude for all that You have done for us as we hold Mary’s Hand following You and the Blessed Mother because these Mysteries are outside of time and they apply to us today no matter what situation or circumstances we find ourselves in. The Rosary will lead us surely on the path that is level and smooth (Isaiah 26:7)- the little narrow way of sanctification for Your Glory and for the salvation of souls!

Daily Lectio- Good To Be Afflicted? —

Daily Lectio- Good To Be Afflicted?

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It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statues. (Psalms 119:71)

Meditation- O Lord we may not like to be afflicted- to suffer anything really let alone something really serious. We want our Heaven here. And yet it is in our sufferings that often we find You not only to teach us Your ways but to compassionate us and suffer with it because You hold every tear we cry in Your Hands! And we praise You Lord because as in 2 Corinthians 1:4 You are the God who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. Lord we are to take all that we have learned and all that we have been given in our hardest pains and use that suffering to comfort and console others! So Lord, help us not complain in our sufferings, thus wasting them, but help us to be not only resigned but truly surrendered as we pray Jesus I trust in You!

Prayer- O Lord, we thank You in all circumstances and we know that You never abandon us or forsake us. May we not only offer our sufferings to You to do with them as You will but may we compassionate and help others just as You console us in our pain and misery! Jesus we trust in You!

Daily Lectio- No Hiding Place From The Author Of Creation — October 4, 2024

Daily Lectio- No Hiding Place From The Author Of Creation

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“You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. (Psalm 139:2)

Meditation- O Lord there really is no hiding place from the Author of Creation (One Love, Bob Marley). You see us and You know every breath we take, every step we take to quote Sting. You know every thought and every song in our heads! I’m being a little silly this morning but in all seriousness there is not a thought, an act, a breath that we have done that has not been under Your Loving and watchful gaze! Yet You don’t don’t just watch us like the proverbial Clock Maker of the deists who believe that You exist but not that You intervene in our lives but You love us with an everlasting love because we are fearfully and wonderfully made by You as the rest of the Psalm of today tells us.

Prayer- O Lord, many may read a psalm like this and feel frightened and want to hide, who can stand as Psalm 130 say if You keep a record of our sins. But as the Psalm goes on to say You are filled with forgiveness and because of this we can trust in You and not run and hide because the God who sees us is also the God who loves us and gave His life for us that we would be truly free!

Consumed With Longing- I Know That My Redeemer Lives — October 2, 2024

Consumed With Longing- I Know That My Redeemer Lives

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Consumed With Longing- I Know That My Redeemer Lives

There is always a great and continual longing for God in my heart. I accepted life, death and suffering according to His Holy Will. This filled me with such felicity words cannot express it. My heart throbbed with happiness. (Elizabeth) (June 5, 1965).

But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives,
and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust;
Whom I myself shall see:
my own eyes, not another’s, shall behold him,
And from my flesh I shall see God;
my inmost being is consumed with longing. (Job 19)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord this passage from Job in the RSV-CE edition states I know that my Redeemer Lives! We know that we shall someday see You face to face, but now we see as through a glass darkly (1 Corinthians 13) if we see You at all. O Lord, Job as we know went through many tribulations and yet through it all he was still consumed with longing for You! Can we say that in our struggles our thoughts turn to longing for You of do they turn to worry, fear, despair, anger even?  Do we want to scream “why us!” or do we accept life death and suffering according to Your Holy Will? O Lord there is a beautiful song by Nicole C. Mullen called My Redeemer Lives which has some beautiful lines about longing for You in our suffering. Lines from this song- “the very same God that spins things in orbit runs to the weary, the worn, and the weak. And the same gentle hands that hold me when I’m broken, they conquer death to bring me victory!”  O Lord, we know that Our Redeemer Lives!

All That We Can’t Leave Behind — October 1, 2024

All That We Can’t Leave Behind

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All That We Can’t Leave Behind

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

Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

All That We Can’t Leave Behind

Ever since
then, I heard Jesus’ demand many times in my soul. However, I did not write it down. But
rather, I tried to remove from my mind the idea to leave all behind. (Elizabeth) (Diary Page 13)

Today’s Readings: 
And another said, “I will follow you, Lord,
but first let me say farewell to my family at home.”
Jesus answered him, “No one who sets a hand to the plow
and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.” (Luke 9)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord, how many times do we try to remove from our minds what it is You are asking of us. The enemy of our souls whispers to us so many excuses- so many thorns choking His Grace in our souls! Worries, fears, anxieties, demands of our state in life- Yes Lord but not yet we say! Lord help us to truly discern Your call in our lives- when to stay and when to go because we do not want to miss the time of our visitation! Let us plow forward for the Kingdom without looking back because our eyes are fixed on You!

The God Who Gives And Takes Away — September 29, 2024

The God Who Gives And Takes Away

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The God Who Gives And Takes Away

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

Memorial of Saint Jerome

The God Who Gives And Takes Away

Maternal dignity is at the
same time a vocation saturated with sufferings, and that is what I share with you. I thank you,
my little one, for your participation that is continual and filled with sacrifices. I, as a loving
Mother, can assure you of your heavenly reward.” (Mary) (August 27, 1964)

Today’s Readings:

“Naked I came forth from my mother’s womb,
and naked shall I go back again.
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
blessed be the name of the LORD!” (Job 1)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord You are the God who gives and takes away! In our respective vocations Lord we will have sufferings and crosses. At all times, Lord, help us to praise You in whatever storm we are in- knowing that You are with us and You will never let us go! Let us ask for the intercession always of Our Blessed Mother who has shared our sufferings and who prays for us without ceasing!

Take Nothing For The Journey — September 25, 2024

Take Nothing For The Journey

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Take Nothing For The Journey

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

Wednesday of the Twenty Fifth Week of Ordinary Time

Take Nothing For The Journey

Jesus: “My daughter, renounce yourself. I keep insisting on this because you can only share in My work of Redemption if you live united with Me at every moment. There must be no interruption… (Jesus) (March 4-7 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority
over all demons and to cure diseases,
and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God
and to heal the sick.
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.

Prayer Meditation: Lord, today we read how the Apostles were sent out and that they were to take nothing for the journey. Lord we want to follow You and serve You and yet how many of us are holding onto baggage that we keep dragging behind us. The baggage of sins, our past, our appetites, wants, and desires. The baggage of our own ego and wanting to be in charge. And yet to follow You and share in Your Work of Redemption is to die to ourselves so that it is not us who live but Christ who lives in us (Galatians 2:20). Impossible to do without Your Grace- Jesus we trust in You!