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Christ Our Strength

December 6, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Christ Our Strength

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

Memorial of Saint Ambrose

Christ Our Strength

Use all your strength to bring sinners to me. Give no thought to anything else. With your entire soul, desire that My consecrated souls always look upon Me and are never distracted by worldly things. They must see My sorrowful eyes and be immersed in Me. If they look into My eyes with a repentant heart, I will make them holier with the rays of My grace. By plunging them into the love of My Heart, I will give them new birth provided they trust Me fully. (Jesus) (April 8, 1962)

Today’s Readings:
The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.” (Matthew 9)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we may be few, those of us who respond to Your Call but even in our weakness we are actually working in Your Strength! The harvest seems even greater now in this world of growing darkness but You desire that we give all we have to bring the lost to You. O Lord we need laborers who are on fire with the Flame of Your Love! O Lord we know You will be gracious to all who cry out to You (Isaiah 30) May our hearts also be moved with pity for all the troubled and abandoned in this world (Matthew 9) because a bruised reed You will not break! (Isaiah 42). Break our hearts for what breaks Yours!

The Lord Is My Light And Salvation

December 6, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

The Lord Is My Light And Salvation

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

Friday of the First Week of Advent

The Lord Is My Light And Salvation

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) (May 24, 1963)

Today’s Readings: The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
of whom should I be afraid? (Psalm 27)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we focus in the readings on light, particularly in the first reading and the Gospel, light for the blind. Lord how many of us are spiritually blind, even if we can see with our physical eyes? Sometimes what blinds us to Your Light is stress, fear, anxiety, and despair. Yet Lord, You are our light and our salvation, whom shall we fear? Our refuge, of whom shall I be afraid? Lord, pour out Your Spirit of power and light into our souls that we would see You with our spiritual eyes rather than our problems. Lord, we believe, help our unbelief!

On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand- All Other Ground is Sinking Sand

December 5, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

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

Thursday of the First Week of Advent

On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand- All Other Ground is Sinking Sand

We constantly hurt Him by our many sins. He, in spite of everything, is always kind. He said: “I bless this house that is consecrated to My Sacred Heart.” (Elizabeth) (August 16, 1962)

Today’s Readings: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them
will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. (Matthew 7)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we often build our houses not on the Rock of Your Love but on the sinking sand of what the world tells us should be our foundation. And then we are confused when it all falls apart- the rains, the floods, and the winds come and we have no foundation. Thank You Jesus that we can turn to You in spite of everything because a humble contrite heart You will not spurn (Psalm 51). Lord, let us build our houses, our lives, on You the Solid Rock on which we stand- all other ground is sinking sand! Jesus we trust in You!

Pity For The Crowd

December 4, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Pity For The Crowd

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

Wednesday of the First Week of Advent

Pity For The Crowd

“How good of You to come! Truly, You do not despise me. Because I am a sinner, You double Your strength in me. What goodness, what limitless compassion You have for a repentant sinner.” For a long time, I gave thanks for His infinite mercy. (Elizabeth) (November 22, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus summoned his disciples and said,
“My heart is moved with pity for the crowd,
for they have been with me now for three days
and have nothing to eat.
I do not want to send them away hungry,
for fear they may collapse on the way.” (Matthew 15)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, today we are reminded that You indeed have pity on us. There is nothing that escapes Your Loving Gaze into our hearts. There is no need that You do not understand and want to fill. You have true loving concern for us in every moment of our lives! What goodness, what limitless compassion You have for those who love You and what mercy is awaiting those who do not yet know Your Love! Lord Jesus, be born in our hearts this Advent season and in the hearts of those we love and bring to You every day in prayer!

To The Childlike

December 3, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

To The Childlike

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

Memorial of Saint Francis Xavier

To The Childlike

Jesus: “Do you know why I make you write about the different events in your life? Because these are reflections of My graces in your soul that you – I know it well – would never tell others. In this manner, I oblige you to write so all will see the Divine Work that I have done in your soul since your childhood. (Jesus) (July 24, 1965)

Today’s Readings: Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
“I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
for although you have hidden these things
from the wise and the learned
you have revealed them to the childlike. (Luke 10)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, sometimes we can make things so complicated. We want to know everything but the reality is that You reveal Yourself to the childlike and the humble who turn to You in faith and trust. To them, and hopefully that is us, You have revealed the Kingdom of Heaven. You have been working in our souls since our baptism and You want us to remain Your little children totally dependent on You. Maybe this Advent it is time to strip any complexities from our lives, especially our faith lives, and go back to basics. Instead of piling on devotion after devotion, spiritual book after spiritual book, why don’t we read a chapter a day from the Gospels and pray the Rosary from the heart. Let us do it every day and help us to keep our eyes on You and our hand in Mary’s Hand as we await Your birth into our hearts anew this Advent.

The Lord Our Justice

November 30, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

The Lord Our Justice

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

First Sunday of Advent

The Lord Our Justice

“Repent! Repent! Repent! This is what I am asking you. The voice of repentance reaches up to the throne of My heavenly Father. It is the voice holding back the arm of justice of My Father.” (Jesus) (November 8, 1964)

Today’s Readings: In those days Judah shall be safe and Jerusalem shall dwell secure; this is what they shall call her: “The LORD our justice.” (Jeremiah 33)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, in the beginning of Advent we hear in The Readings about Your Justice. As St. Therese has said, “My sister, if you look for the justice of God you will get it. The soul will receive from God exactly what she desires.”. Because, Lord You are Our Father, You desire from us humble repentant hearts turned towards You! Hearts like those Lord, will be safe and secure forever in Your Loving Arms! As we prepare to make room for You Lord- let us examine ourselves, especially emptying ourselves of what is in the way of receiving You with joy, peace, and hope this Christmas! In this way we will be found waiting and prepared to run to You Lord, whenever You may call us!

The Kingdom of God Is Near

November 29, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

The Kingdom of God Is Near

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

The Kingdom of God Is Near

Wherever you go, let it be felt that you partake every day in the heavenly banquet. Desire that everyone have this same yearning. Let the coming of My Kingdom be the only object of prime importance in your life. (August 16, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Jesus told his disciples a parable.
“Consider the fig tree and all the other trees.
When their buds burst open,
you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near;
in the same way, when you see these things happening,
know that the Kingdom of God is near. (Luke 21)

Prayer Meditation- Lord the Kingdom is here now but not yet. Because Your Kingdom has not come in its fullness as it will at the end of time. And yet You told us that the Kingdom of God is within us (Luke 17:21). And do we live like we are already in the Kingdom? Is it apparent wherever we go that we partake in the heavenly banquet of the Mass? Do we live Spirit filled lives? Let the coming of the Kingdom right now in our hearts as well as when it comes on Earth as it is in Heaven be our purpose and may we desire that everyone has the same yearning for the God who yearns for us!

Great And Wonderful

November 26, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Great And Wonderful

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

Wednesday of the Thirty Fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Great and Wonderful

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: “Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God almighty. (Revelation 15)

Prayer Meditation- Lord as we come to the end of the liturgical year and meditate in the daily readings on when You will come back in glory let us take this time just to praise You Lord for all of the graces that You continue to pour out on us! No matter what circumstances we may be in we know that Your works are great and wonderful- may the light of Your Holy Spirit enlighten our hearts, minds, and souls today! Let us sing to You a new song each day in thanksgiving and in praise!

Seeking The Face Of God

November 24, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Seeking The Face Of God

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

Monday of the Thirty Fourth Week of Ordinary Time

Seeking the Face of God

While getting ready to go to bed for the night, I prostrated myself one last time before the image of His Holy Face. (Elizabeth) (May 28, 1964)

Today’s Readings: He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, a reward from God his savior. Such is the race that seeks for him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob. (Psalm 24)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we read today in the first reading from Revelation about those in Heaven who contemplate Your Face for all Eternity. Lord, we struggle here on Earth and You seem so far away at times- we see as through a glass darkly (1 Corinthians 13). Lord the Gospel today teaches us one way through the darkness- total self- surrender of all that we are, just like the poor widow who gave not from her surplus but all that she had. (Luke 21). Lord, help us always to seek Your Face- in the good and the bad, in joys and sorrows, in the valley and on the mountaintop because You are there through all of it and You will never let us go!

Hearing The Voice Of The King

November 23, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Hearing The Voice Of The King

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

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe

Hearing the Voice of the King

I would speak to every soul this way, if they would receive me. (Jesus) (May 1962)

Today’s Reading: Jesus answered, “You say I am a king.
For this I was born and for this I came into the world,
to testify to the truth.
Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” (John 18)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, our King and Savior, make us attentive to Your Voice- the Voice of Truth that leads us to Your Kingdom and Glory forever! We adore You, the one who was and is and is to come! Lord help us to surrender all of ourselves to You that You would reign in our hearts, minds, and souls. Pour out Your Flame of Love into our hearts and set us on fire so that nothing will hold us back from Your Lordship of our lives! As we enter Advent, may we long only for You! Let us examine ourselves, be attentive to Your Voice, and let us be purified of any territory in our hearts not fully surrendered to You!

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