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Loving Our Enemies

February 22, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Loving Our Enemies

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

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Loving Our Enemies

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. (Mary) (November 19, 1962)

Today’s Readings: But rather, love your enemies and do good to them,
and lend expecting nothing back;
then your reward will be great
and you will be children of the Most High,
for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Luke 6)

Prayer Meditation- Today we have one of those hard teachings Lord, one that always sounds good in theory until it applies to a situation in our life. And our enemies are typically not surrounding armies as in the first reading today (1 Samuel 26) with King Saul and David where David showed mercy and respect but they are our family, our friends, and our co-workers. The people we love the most and we feel should love us! Why did he say that, why did she do that, how could they- these are all the questions and little wounds we deal with every day. And yet You ask us to love and to do good- to not expect anything back because You Yourself show us mercy every day in our ingratitude and our sins. And You ask us to be merciful just as You are merciful. And all of this is hard, a great battle, but our reward will be great because we are Your Children. So let us not put our trust in people (Psalm 118:8) but put our trust in You as You show us how to love all in our path with Your perfect Love.

Following Jesus

January 13, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Following Jesus

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

Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Following Jesus

The souls that make reparation and faithfully follow My desires are so few. (Jesus) (October 18, 1962)

Today’s Readings:

Jesus said to them,
“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Then they left their nets and followed him. (Mark 1)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord, we have decided to follow You- help us to leave the world behind and walk with You! May our feet journey together, may our hands gather in unity! May our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father. Lord help us to follow Your desires, Your most Holy Will which is love and mercy itself! Help us to increase the number of souls that will make reparation and follow You through the Flame of Love Devotion!

He Loved Us First

January 7, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

He Loved Us First

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

Tuesday After Epiphany

He Loved Us First

Beloved, I am waiting for you with a loving heart. God is calling you with His infinite love.” (Jesus) (September 23-24 1964)

Today’s Readings: In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. (1 John)

Prayer Meditation: Lord, sometimes it is so hard for us to believe and take in that indeed, You have loved us first. That You love us with an infinite love! Lord You came so that we may have life and life abundant! (John 10). Let nothing hold us back from Your Loving Embrace today!

He Remains In Us

January 6, 2025/Lifesong/Leave a comment

He Remains In Us

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

Monday After Epiphany

He Remains In Us

Jesus: “The water of My graces, like a stream, flows continually into your soul. Now is the moment to tell you why these abundant graces remain in your soul. By your sacrifices, you have dug a deep channel and the water of My Divine Graces, with its purifying power, has found a place in your soul. (Jesus) (November 17-18, 1964)

Today’s Readings: Beloved:
We receive from him whatever we ask,
because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.
And his commandment is this:
we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,
and love one another just as he commanded us.
Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them,
and the way we know that he remains in us
is from the Spirit whom he gave us. (1 John 3)

Prayer Meditation: Lord You have promised us that You will remain in us, that without You we can do nothing(John 15). But with You nothing is impossible. You have given us Your Spirit and even though we may not always feel it, You are there united with us in everything we do if we keep Your commandments. If we believe and hope in You and love one another as You have loved us. Lord may the living water of Your graces flow in our souls today and may we continue to dig a deep channel for those graces to purify our souls by our prayer and sacrifices as we remain in Your Love!

Family Ties

December 29, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Family Ties

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

Feast of the Holy Family

Family Ties

There are many cold families like yours in my country. I want the Flame of Love of my heart to warm them up and others just as well. I can see that you understand this well since you are living the same reality. This is why you have compassion for me. (Mary) (November 19, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters: Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. (Colossians 3)

Prayer Meditation- O Lord so many families torn apart by so many things today in our culture. The family is under attack in a big way- it is hard to find anyone not going through a hard time these days. But Lord You came to be born and raised in a family- with a mother and a father and by Your Presence, the family which You created is sanctified. You have come to rescue broken families and set them free! Lord You have given us the Model and You have given us the Grace- may the family be healed through the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary! May every child be wanted and may every home turn to Jesus!

Not Great Things But Small

November 3, 2024November 3, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Not Great Things But Small

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

Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo

Not Great Things But Small

“Why do you prefer some passing goal? Do you not trust the value of sufferings? I give value to your sufferings and it causes me sorrow if you do not appreciate them. I would think that you are not accepting them with love. Without love, even great things have no value. (Jesus) (August 16, 1962)

Today’s Readings: O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor are my eyes haughty; I busy not myself with great things, nor with things too sublime for me. (Psalm 131)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, the daily readings have been about humility. About doing nothing out of selfishness and vainglory (Philippians 2) but putting others first. About caring about those who cannot repay us (Luke 14). This way is counter to the world. Even those of us on a spiritual path, we want to do great things! But You are not asking great things from us but small things done with great love! Lord, help us to accept our sufferings and put ourselves last in service to our neighbor, particularly our families. Help us to serve each other with Mary’s Heart as we see You in all that we meet!

Our Purpose In Life

October 28, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Our Purpose In Life

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

Tuesday of the Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time

Our Purpose In Life

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: Today’s Readings: Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and ‘the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.’ (Luke 13)

Prayer Meditation- Lord Your Kingdom starts small- little seeds that grow in our hearts and souls. Some of us are blessed to have been baptized and brought up in the faith. Others have come into the Kingdom later in life. The Kingdom grows in us slowly watered by Your Grace as we grow in virtue from glory to glory (2 Corinthians 3:18) if we do our part and allow You to change us. Lord, grow the Kingdom each day in our hearts and in our family members as we sow seeds of faith into the hearts of those we love! Let it be our only purpose in life that with Your Grace we will fight with You as Children of the King to save souls!

Chosen And Loved

October 27, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Chosen And Loved

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

Feast of Saint Simon and Saint Jude

Chosen and Loved

You, My little one, must stir up the fire because you have been chosen for this. This is a great privilege. Never interrupt your desires and sacrifices because this would cause My Mother great sorrow.” (Jesus) (July 12, 1962)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:
You are no longer strangers and sojourners,
but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones
and members of the household of God,
built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets. (Ephesians 2)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, as we celebrate the Feast of Saint Simon and Jude we meditate on what is means to be chosen for Your work of redemption. Because we are not strangers to You but members of Your household built upon the Apostolic foundation of the those who have gone before, fellow citizens with the saints. So let us stir up the fire in our hearts because we have been chosen by You to spread Your Kingdom on Earth no matter our state in life. All are called to desire this Kingdom to come into our hearts and into our families and to make loving sacrifices, as simple as a smile when we don’t feel like it or a sharp word held back out of love for You, because we are chosen and loved!

Afraid To Ask

September 28, 2024/Lifesong/Leave a comment

Afraid To Ask

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

Afraid To Ask

Oh, how sad I am to see the multitude of devout souls living a pious life without earning much merit on behalf of their eternal salvation. So many of them do not attempt to come close to Me in any way as though they are afraid. (Jesus) (November 8, 1964)

Today’s Readings:
But they did not understand this saying;
its meaning was hidden from them
so that they should not understand it,
and they were afraid to ask him about this saying. (Luke 9)

Prayer Meditation: O Lord like the Apostles we can be afraid to ask about the things we don’t understand in our lives and in our faith walk. We can bury under the rug that which is uncomfortable or a hard truth rather than take the issue to You! Oh what peace we often forfeit! Lord let us not just keep going through the motions in our spiritual life – let us never be afraid to ask the hard questions and to draw close to You- let us take everything to You in prayer and to the Sacraments!

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