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This Is How I Fight My Battles!

November 22, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

This Is How I Fight My Battles

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

Saturday of the Thirty Third Week of Ordinary Time

I see your perseverance and I am rewarding you in advance for that. Just so you not be distressed, I will mention a little detail which pleases me and is for your merit. Many people in your neighborhood have known you for years. You have fought your great battles before their eyes. Many admire you and even your enemies speak of you with respect. I am pleased to hear that. A mother is pleased to hear one of her children is recognized as being good. And you are my daughter, twice over. (Mary) (November 19, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Blessed be the LORD, my rock,
who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war. (Psalm 144)

Prayer Meditation: Lord why is it that every day is just a battle! Life on earth is just a battlefield. Every day it is always something- family difficulties, work problems, financial concerns, illness, and just feeling down and discouraged if we take it all in without Your Help. And we wonder where You are! But Lord You promise us in today’s Psalm that You train our hands for battle, our fingers for war! And You see us, fighting our great battles even if nobody else sees. Lord, there is a song called Surrounded by Michael W. Smith which goes like this over and over- this is how I fight my battles! And the song starts with Isaiah 61:3- that we are to put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. So let us praise You in all circumstances and pick up our weapons, The Holy Rosary because our fingers are indeed trained for war when we unite ourselves with You and the Blessed Mother! Because the battle belongs to You! (1 Samuel 17:47)

Sing And Rejoice O Daughter Zion

November 20, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Sing and Rejoice O Daughter Zion

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

Memorial of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary

Sing and Rejoice O Daughter Zion

Human words cannot express what I have prepared for all of you. I await your arrival with a rich gift. My Heart will rejoice at your arrival. (Jesus) (October 4, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion!
See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD.
Many nations shall join themselves to the LORD on that day,
and they shall be his people,
and he will dwell among you,
and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. (Zechariah 2)

Prayer Meditation- Today we celebrate the presentation of Our Lady in the Temple! Our Lady by tradition lived in the Temple from the age of three years old and she entered the Temple with joy united to Your Holy and Divine Will! Our Lady can indeed sing and rejoice because with Her prayers in the Temple she yearned and longed for the coming Messiah, having no idea She would be the Mother of God! And with Our Blessed Mother we can long and pray for the coming of Your Kingdom through the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Let us present ourselves today to You in prayer and thanksgiving because human words cannot express what You have prepared for those who love You! (1 Corinthians 2:9).

Faithful In Small Things

November 19, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Faithful In Small Things

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

Wednesday of the Thirty Third Week of Ordinary Time

Faithful In Small Things

You are a small instrument, just like the little match that you hold in your hand. Do not be surprised by what I tell you. With one strike of the match, I will enkindle in millions of souls the Flame of Love of My Mother.” (Jesus) (January 16, 1966)

Today’s Readings: The first came forward and said,
‘Sir, your gold coin has earned ten additional ones.’
He replied, ‘Well done, good servant!
You have been faithful in this very small matter;
take charge of ten cities.’ (Luke 19)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we are the smallest of Your instruments and yet if we are faithful and trustworthy You will grow Your Kingdom through us! Let us not bury our talents in the ground but let us leave nothing on the table as we use the gifts You have given us for Your Glory! Let us be the little match knowing that we have no talents that do not come from You to enkindle the fire of Your Flame of Love in millions of souls! All we have to do is be faithful, one “yes” to Your Will at a time.

Jesus Is Knocking At The Door Of Your Heart

November 19, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Jesus Is Knocking At The Door Of Your Heart

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

Tuesday of the Thirty Third Week of Ordinary Time

Jesus Is Knocking At The Door Of Your Heart

I constantly stretch out My hand asking for help. I go from heart to heart and I receive only a small donation. Then they quickly close the door of their heart and I can hardly cast a glance inside.” (Jesus) (May 2, 1962)

Today’s Readings:

“‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,
then I will enter his house and dine with him,
and he with me. (Revelations 3)

Prayer Meditation: Lord You knock always at the door of our hearts! Yet we keep You in our little “God box”. We let You in briefly on a Sunday and then we don’t give You a second glance as we go on with our busy lives! Yet You want to live with us and dine with us! You want to live every moment of our lives in us- in unity! There is not a single detail of our lives that You do not want to share with us! Lord, help us not to block Your Grace but to let Your Mercy come in like a rushing wind- blow apart what stands in Your Way today Lord!

Will He Find Faith On Earth?

November 15, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Will He Find Faith On Earth?

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

Saturday of the Thirty Second Week of Ordinary Time

Will He Find Faith on Earth?

“Suffer with courage, perseverance and a sincere abandonment. Don’t ponder if the suffering is large or small. All that you can still do for Me on earth is meritorious. Time is short, little sister, and never returns. (Jesus) (July 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Luke 18)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, when You come again will You find faith on earth? I have to admit Lord with the way things are in the world and the Church, that question has been actually keeping me up at night. It seems like faith is very hard to find. Yet Lord, in today’s Gospel You teach us about prayer and perseverance, no matter the difficulty. To never give up! We only have today to love and serve You! Lord, yes You will find faith on earth- we may be small and few but we suffer with courage, perseverance and sincere abandonment for the love of You and the salvation of souls!

The Kingdom Of God Is Among Us

November 13, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

The Kingdom Of God Is Among Us

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

Thursday of the Thirty Second Week of Ordinary Time

The Kingdom of God is Among Us

“Each night, My little one, ask yourself what you have done for the coming of My Kingdom (Jesus) (August 28, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, Jesus said in reply, “The coming of the Kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, ‘Look, here it is,’ or, ‘There it is.’ For behold, the Kingdom of God is among you.” (Luke 17)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, Your Kingdom is here and now and not yet because You will return! And yet it is inside each one of us who is a baptized believer in a state of Grace. We have to look no further than our own hearts. Let us ask ourselves each night if what we have said and done has brought us closer or further away from Your Kingdom. Let us resolve to live in You, through You and for You each day! Fiat, Thy Will be Done!

Women Of Courage

November 11, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Women of Courage

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

Memorial of Saint Josaphat

Women of Courage

He (Satan) just wants me to live a normal life. People are going to think that I am an eccentric bigot; that I am foolish because my dress, my food, my enjoyments, and the way I treat others is not like other people. (Elizabeth) (August 31, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to drink, teaching what is good, so that they may train younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, chaste, good homemakers, under the control of their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited. (Titus 2)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, the world wants to pull us, especially women away from You and to the broad way of “doing our own thing” To conform to this world and this age- to live it up and live for ourselves- the good life! How many years Lord wasted along the way- how many detours off the narrow road to the broad road of “having it all”. Lord thank You for the broken road that led me straight to You! Following You Lord may make us stand out from the crowd these days- praying for our families, standing up for life, avoiding the noise in our culture to hear Your Voice, loving our husbands and children above our own needs may not be popular but we are dearly loved daughters of the King! Lord may we be women of God who lead our daughters to You!

Who Can Ascend The Mountain of The Lord?

November 10, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Who Can Ascend The Mountain Of The Lord?

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

Memorial of Saint Martin of Tours

Who Can Ascend The Mountain Of The Lord?

I felt as if my soul was climbing a mast so high that I was getting dizzy, and I only had to climb to the top or to throw myself into the abyss. But I could no longer fight this long battle… In the midst of my sufferings, 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: Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain. (Psalm 24)

Prayer Meditation: Lord today we read in the First Reading in St. Paul’s letter to St. Titus that the condition for being chosen as a bishop was to be blameless. And in the Gospel of today from St. Luke how we are to be on guard not to lead others to sin and how we must always forgive. And we can just feel like Elizabeth in the diary reading- Lord we keep climbing but the way is long and hard and we just feel dizzy and like giving up because who really can ascend this mountain Lord and stand in Your Holy Place. Again, sinless, blameless- Lord this trying to be perfect as You are perfect is beyond exhausting! But then there we go again, trying to do it all in our own will, in our own steam, and really not even thinking to ask You for a hand up this holy mountain of sanctity. Your ways are not our ways and You cannot wait to show us the elevator, just like You did for St. Therese if we would just remember we are little children totally dependent on You for without You we can do nothing! (John 15). Lord, we cannot fight this battle of life alone and the battle belongs to You (2 Chronicles 20:15) so let us fight on our knees and immerse ourselves in Your Holy Trinity and Your Holy Will and we will be standing on that mountain in no time holding the Hand of Our Loving Father and Friend who carried us there in His Loving Arms!

A Widow’s Mite

November 9, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

A Widow’s Mite

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

Thirty Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

A Widow’s Mite

Jesus said, “I want to give you great graces, but you must renounce yourself completely.” Elizabeth write: These were harsh words for my reason. This is why I asked Him, “Am I capable of doing this?” Jesus responded, “You must only will it; leave the rest up to Me.” (Jesus) (1961-1962)

Today’s Readings: Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.” (Mark 12)

Prayer Meditation- Today we have the stories of two widows in the Liturgy of the Word- they gave their all to You! Lord, You ask for our everything but we so often want to hold back. We hold on to so many things, be they material or spiritual, because we are afraid of what will happen if we give ourselves away. We wonder, are we capable of renouncing ourselves so that You can fill us with Your Graces. Lord, help us to stop giving You only from our surplus but to truly give You all that we have and are- help us to will it and to leave the rest up to You! Jesus, we trust in Your Providence in all things!

Citizens Of Heaven

November 7, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Citizens Of Heaven

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

Friday of the Thirty First Week of Ordinary Time

Citizens of Heaven

“You are too immersed in earthly things, My little one. I did not say that to discourage you. I want to encourage you so that you do not seek relief by looking to the earth in your battles.” (Jesus) (February 7, 1963)

Today’s Readings:

Their end is destruction.
Their God is their stomach;
their glory is in their “shame.”
Their minds are occupied with earthly things.
But our citizenship is in heaven,
and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 3)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord You know how we are drawn to the Earth! Our little gods and appetites rule and occupy us even as we strive to seek You in our everyday life. We immerse ourselves in so many things and seek relief in so many outlets! Life on Earth is a battle
but we can only be victorious with You, Our Savior- the only One who can break the chains that weigh us down and keep us from claiming our rights as sons and daughters of Heaven! Lord break every chain today by the power of Your Precious Blood!

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