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Many Are Invited But Few Are Chosen

August 20, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Many Are Invited But Few Are Chosen

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

Memorial of Saint Pius X

Jesus: “You know, do you not, that I invited you to My private war camp? Do not be attracted by the passing comfort of this world. The coming of My Kingdom must be your only purpose in life. My words will reach a multitude of souls consecrated to Me. Trust! My grace will be with you and I will help all of you in a miraculous way.” (Jesus) (August 8, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Then the king said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready,
but those who were invited were not worthy to come.
Go out, therefore, into the main roads
and invite to the feast whomever you find.’
The servants went out into the streets
and gathered all they found, bad and good alike,
and the hall was filled with guests.
But when the king came in to meet the guests
he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment.
He said to him, ‘My friend, how is it
that you came in here without a wedding garment?’
But he was reduced to silence.
Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet,
and cast him into the darkness outside,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’
Many are invited, but few are chosen.” (Matthew 22)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, many are invited but few are chosen. Not because You do not want to choose them, You choose everyone, but because so few have readied themselves for what You are asking of us. We can be so poorly dressed- not dressed for the Kingdom but dressed for the passing comforts of this world. Our garments and our baggage drag us down. Lord, You have given us the perfect wedding garment- the garment of our baptism which we keep clean by the sacramental life including confession and frequent reception of the Eucharist, prayer, and living on the food of Your Word every day. You have invited us all to Your private war camp in these times- so let’s suit up and ready ourselves because we are the chosen little army You are gathering to reach a multitude of souls!

As For Me and My House We Will Serve The Lord

August 15, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

As For Me and My House We Will Serve The Lord

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

Saturday of the Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time

As For Me and My House We Will Serve The Lord

“It is to the warm solidarity of the family sanctuary that souls come back to, after having strayed far. It is there that they come to find themselves and they once more return to God. It is necessary for you, mothers, to extend the warm understanding of your hearts to your children even after they have established their own homes. (Jesus) (January 17, 1964)

Today’s Readings: If it does not please you to serve the LORD, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24)

Prayer Meditation- Lord in these days where the culture seems against us and families can be so divided, we are comforted in knowing that You love each and every one of our family members, especially the prodigals and that You never give up on them. You have asked us as mothers and fathers to stay faithful to our vocation, to keep our homes and our hearts open because we have trained our children in the way that they should go and You have promised that when they are older ,they will not depart from it (Proverbs 22). Even if we are less than perfect, if we but ask, You fill in those deficiencies with Your Grace if we bring all of these problems to You. So let us believe and declare that yes, as for me and my house we shall serve the Lord! Mama Mary keep us all safe under Your Mantle until all find their way home!

Is Not His Mother Mary?

July 31, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Is Not His Mother Mary?

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

Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Is Not His Mother Mary?

“My Mother, you must speak in my favor because I am miserable and a nobody. They do not pay attention to me even though I bring your words. What can I do? O Mother, again I ask that you be the one who speak. Your Divine Son promised that you would confirm what I do. I beg you, Most Holy Mother, act so that they pay attention to your constant pleas. Also, Mother, I am being consumed and I suffer because the priest you sent me to has not accepted your request.” (Mary) (May 17, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus came to his native place and taught the people in their synagogue.
They were astonished and said,
“Where did this man get such wisdom and mighty deeds?
Is he not the carpenter’s son?
Is not his mother named Mary
and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
Are not his sisters all with us?
Where did this man get all this?”
And they took offense at him. (Matthew 13)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord we thank You and praise You and adore You because You have allowed Elizabeth Kindelmann to experience what You experienced which is rejection of what is just too familiar. The hometown boy come back to the synagogue and the local widow who everyone knows as a simple mother and grandmother have much in common. As a matter of fact those of who have tried to get the Flame of Love message out to family, friends, coworkers, parishioners may have experienced the same thing! Because how can someone so familiar and ordinary like us be the bearers of a mission from You. And yet it is the meek who will inherit the Earth and it is exactly the “little ones” who You are seeking to be “Our Lady’s little rabble” who You have called for Your purpose. So let us compassionate You Lord because most people, especially the religious people, went on to reject You. Let us know how blessed we are to suffer for the Name (Acts 5) and for Our Lady’s Cause because we can be confident that You are spinning all of these contradictions into pure gold for the salvation of souls.

Pearl of Great Price

July 30, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Pearl of Great Price

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

Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time

Pearl of Great Price

“Divine Sculptor, form me in Your image and likeness, so that at the hour of my death You recognize the work of Your holy hands. O blessed Divine Hand that carves and caresses at the same time. My soul burns with desires when You say that You need my sacrifice. What a great distinction! I bless You, beloved Jesus, and exalt You without end.” (Elizabeth) (September 1, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus said to his disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.” (Matthew 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord we will soon honor St. Ignatius of Loyola who gave up everything in his past for the pearl of great price. We all have these big holes in our hearts until we abandon ourselves to You! As St. Augustine said, our hearts are restless until we rest in You! Lord, some of us grew up in the Church and some of us may not have and some of us wandered in darkness and confusion or we may have wandered off the path. And when we found You, especially in the Sacraments and Your One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, we left everything to follow You! Because You never give us on us and You never let us go! Lord may we fill our minds with spiritual reading including the Bible so that You may form us into Your likeness. Mother Mary, as St. Louis Marie de Montfort has taught us, place us in Your mold as we strive to live for Jesus!

Believe You Have Received It- Knocking On Heaven’s Door

July 27, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Believe You Have Received It- Knocking On Heaven’s Door

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

Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time

Believe You Have Received It- Knocking On Heaven’s Door

Jesus: “Trust. I have always told you that whatever you ask for in confidence, consider you have already received it. Do you think that if you asked Me for souls, I would not grant them to you? May our hands gather in unity. Ask! Never grow tired of asking and desiring for Me.

Today’s Readings: “And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives;
and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
What father among you would hand his son a snake
when he asks for a fish?
Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will the Father in heaven
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Prayer Meditation- Oh Lord we thank You, we bless You and we adore You for Your Word today! Ask, seek, knock. In Mark 11:24 You tell us that when we ask we are to believe that we have received it. Because You are the Good, Good Father who knows not how to give us anything but good! It is so easy to say Lord that You do not answer or do not hear our prayers especially if it seems like it is taking years for whatever intention is on our hearts but You tell us in Habakkuk 2 that “though it linger, wait for it, it will certainly come and will not delay”. O Lord how hard it is to wait on You and to keep knocking with confidence and trust but that is exactly what You are asking of us. In fact, until we show You our confidence and trust, we are not asking as You would have us as Your faithful children. Lord, we know that You work all things together for good for those who love You (Romans 8:28) and that our times and our circumstances are in Your Hands so let us come boldly to the throne of Grace (Hebrews 12) and let us not stop knocking and believing!

Weeds And Wheat

July 25, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Weeds and Wheat

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

Saturday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Weeds and Wheat

Jesus: “Always give Me new and abundant sacrifices. I am sowing in your soul the seed of My graces, My holy doctrine. Cultivate it in your soul by your prayers, mortifications, and a continual acceptance of sacrifices. Do not forget how painful for Me is the fate of the seeds that fall by the roadside. Pull up the flowers growing in your soul and bring them to Me while they are fresh. Here, in My presence, they will give off their sweet aroma. I only want flowers that are cut, not those which are still in a pot. A flower in a pot cannot please Me because it represents a victim which draws strength and wisdom from the earth.” (May 18, 1963)

Today’s Gospel: ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field?
Where have the weeds come from?’
He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’
His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds
you might uproot the wheat along with them.
Let them grow together until harvest;
then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters,
“First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”’ (Matthew 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we praise You and thank You and glorify You because You always sow good seed into our souls. And yet, we know we have an enemy who will sow weeds with the good wheat that You sow in us. How painful it is for You to see the good seeds fall by the wayside. Lord, You show us the way to cultivate the good seeds so that we would present to You fresh flowers- prayer, mortifications and a continual acceptance of sacrifice. You want us to give You a continuous offering of ourselves and not to let ourselves draw strength and wisdom from the earth- that is when we make ourselves vulnerable to what the enemy wants to plant in our lives. Lord, You are so patient- in Your Church for so long You have allowed the weeds and wheat to grow together but we know a harvest time is coming! So let us always allow You to sow the seed of Your Graces in our souls by being faithful and attentive!

The Lord Himself Will Fight For You- Be Still

July 20, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

The Lord Himself Will Fight For You- Be Still

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

Monday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time

The Lord Himself Will Fight For You- Be Still

Jesus: “My little sister, by calling you this way, I invite you to trust Me and to believe in the One who calls you ‘little one’. When I speak this way, I guarantee you My loving care. I will give you all that you need and I will defend you at every moment. Are you not touched that I care for your needs in such a simple way? (Jesus) (April 20, 1964)

Today’s Readings: “Fear not! Stand your ground,
and you will see the victory the LORD will win for you today.
These Egyptians whom you see today you will never see again.
The LORD himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still. (Exodus 14)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we bless You, and thank You and adore You for the way that You come to us in every fight. You do not leave us alone but defend us at every moment, even we do not feel that You are there. How many times do we read in the Bible not to fear? And You reassure us that those “Egyptians” in our life- our worries, our fears, our problems, our sicknesses we will never see them again if we stand our ground and prepare to see Your victory because You will fight for us if only we would keep still. Sometimes the victory is on this side of the veil, sometimes it is in Eternity but we can rest assured in confident hope that united with You we will see victory because the battle belongs to You! (2 Chronicles 20). Your loving care is guaranteed.

Woe To Us?

July 14, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Woe To Us?

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

Memorial of Saint Bonaventure

Woe to Us?

My beloved Jesus, I want to repent of my sins and to love You more than any repentant sinner. My beloved Jesus, in the future, I ask that not one day goes by without my love causing me tears of repentance. Humble me, Lord Jesus, every moment of my life, so I always see myself as poor and sinful. O my Lord Jesus, my heart shudders when I think that I can live with You on this earth and then, after my death, be separated from You for a short time because of my sins. Tell me, O sweet Jesus, what will I do with my innumerable sins?” (Elizabeth) (1961-1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus began to reproach the towns
where most of his mighty deeds had been done,
since they had not repented.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable
for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. (Matthew 11)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we praise You and thank You and glorify You for Your Gospel today. Because we read about the towns in the Gospel that had seen Your Mighty Deeds and they did not convert. It is so easy to think that Gospel is all about those hard hearted people long ago but really if we look in the mirror, we know it is also about us. We have been given every spiritual blessing (Ephesians 1) in our one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church including the Most Holy Eucharist and how many either do not believe, do not attend, or just take it all for granted. Even daily Mass attenders can easily take what they are receiving each day for granted. Even when the Churches shut down and reopened, where was the hunger among most of the faithful to return to The Sacraments? So many are now comfortable watching the Mass on TV. And yet this is the time that we who are paying attention need to repent of our sins and come to You in humility knowing we are poor and sinful. We need to do this for ourselves and we need to do it for others who have not repented. Because blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of God! (Matthew 5). So let us not hear woe, a terrifying word that we never want to hear from You, but let us turn in faith, hope, and trust for mercy, salvation, and sanctification for our souls and for all souls because the Kingdom is coming!

Wrestling With God

July 7, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Wrestling With God

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

Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Wrestling With God

I felt that immersing myself in the Most Holy Trinity was the only way to avoid giving up forever the exhausting struggle, which despite everything I did, refused to leave my soul. (Elizabeth) (October 23-24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: The man then said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go until you bless me.” The man asked, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.” Then the man said, “You shall no longer be spoken of as Jacob, but as Israel, because you have contended with divine and human beings and have prevailed.” (Genesis 32)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we all have our times when we feel like we have gone a few rounds with You in the ring of our lives. We all strive for holiness and perfection- a lot of times that is the problem because we are trying to do it all in our own strength. And so, we struggle and we wrestle- our wills continually trying to prevail in a match we will never win. Lord, help us to surrender to You and to rest in You because this continual struggle is just exhausting. Because You are the God who will hold us and keep us steady even as we strive mightily to wriggle away. As in the Gospel of today (Matthew 9), Your heart is moved with pity for us, You are nothing but love and mercy! Lord help us not to give up in our struggles but like Jacob let us come boldly to You asking a blessing from the God who is Our Father who loves us without limit!

Why Are You Terrified

June 30, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Why Are You Terrified

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

Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Why Are You Terrified

Jesus: “Tell Me, little sister, why do you consider yourself alone since I am the One leading you? Have no fear, I will not let go of you. Come, let us go together and let there be no other moment when you would feel alone.” (Jesus) (January 25, 1966)

Today’s Gospel: They came and woke him, saying,
“Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
He said to them, “Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?”
Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea,
and there was great calm. (Matthew 8)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we all know there is much to be anxious or even terrified about these days. To the question You asked the Apostles we may feel like saying are You kidding Lord- have You seen the news? But the truth is, You not have only seen the news, You hold the future and for You being outside of time, You already know what happens. No need for You to follow some 24/7 news cycle. So really why are we so terrified- why is our faith so small when You are so big! Bigger than anything that may be happening in our world today and You are still in control! So let us have no fear- You will never let us go even when the waves, the winds, and the sea threaten to drown us. Let us have faith and trust that You will rebuke the winds and the sea even if it just in our own souls and with You there will be great calm always if we keep our eyes fixed on You!

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