Helping Our Blessed Mother Light the Flame of Love of Her Immaculate Heart in a Diocese

Thank you for your interest in bringing the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to your diocese. The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a gift our Blessed Mother wants to give to the entire diocese – the gift of the love of her own Immaculate Heart full of grace. Our goal is not to establish a large new Apostolate in the diocese although we do have an Apostolate. It is not to create a large chain of prayer groups in the diocese although we have and welcome the formation of prayer cenacles. It is not to start a new devotion in the diocese although we do have beautiful, powerful, and strongly catechetical devotional elements. Our goal is to spread this gift – this outpouring of love and grace. If we remain very tiny but the entire diocese is filled with the love of Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Heart and brought into deep union with Jesus as the effect of grace, mission accomplished for us. We are here to help Our Blessed Mother give her gift to the diocese.

And this gift is not just for the Catholics in the diocese; it is for everyone within its geographical borders. When Our Blessed Mother first gives the Flame of Love to the Church, she cries out, “so many sins are committed in this country. Help me. Let us save the country.” She does not limit her concern to one group but is concerned about everyone. She says, “families are torn apart and live as if the soul were not immortal. With my Flame of Love, I want to make the home come alive again with love. I want to unite families that are scattered.” She does not say just Catholic families; she is concerned about all families.

To describe who the Flame of Love is for, both Jesus and Mary use the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. The Flame of Love is for those with lit lamps. Our Blessed Mother says, add your love [the love we received at baptism by virtue of sanctifying grace] to it [the gift of love of her Immaculate Heart full of grace]”. In other words, she gives us this gift to dramatically augment what we already have – to love more than we ever have before – to be the Christians we were always supposed to be – filled with the love of the Holy Trinity as the effect of grace like Mary is. But Jesus and Mary also say the Flame of Love is for those who lamps have gone out, who have lost their faith. and even for those who have never had a lamp – who have never been baptized. In these cases, the Flame of Love is to light the way back to Jesus, to light the way to salvation. The Flame of Love is for everyone because grace is for everyone; the Flame of Love is the Movement of Grace. Our Blessed Mother described it as the greatest outpouring of graces since the Word was made flesh – the grace we need to be the Church we are supposed to be – filled with the presence of Jesus as the effect of grace – the grace needed to bring people to her Son.

When we understand what Mary is doing, we can see why she calls the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart her greatest miracle ever. That is an extraordinary statement considering what she has done in places like Fatima, Guadalupe, and Lourdes but this miracle is different. It is not a miracle in the Sun, the Tilma, or the water; she says this will be a miracle in the depth of hearts. And it is not a miracle in one location but in every family, in every heart. Jesus says, “She wants every family to be a sanctuary, a wonderful place where, in union with you, she works miracles in the depth of hearts. Going from heart to heart, she places in your hands the Flame of Love of her heart. Through your prayers and sacrifices, it will blind Satan who wants to rule over families.”

The phrase “blind Satan” may seem strange until we hear Jesus and Mary explain it. Jesus said, “By collaborating with Me, Satan will be blinded by it; and because of his blindness, souls will not be led into sin.” Mary said, “Satan loses his dominion on the parish souls. Blinded, he ceases to reign on souls.” This is not some esoteric deliverance program. This is exactly why Jesus came according to Saint John: “Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil.” (I John 3:8b NABRE). The author of Hebrews agrees: “that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil” (Heb 2:14b NABRE). When Satan loses his power to deceive souls by virtue of this great outpouring of graces, members of our communities are more open to the beauty of the gospel. This openness makes our efforts to evangelize our communities more effective. It is, in effect, Mary’s plan for evangelization in a world that has stopped listening. This is what we want to bring to the diocese.

History

Our Blessed Mother first gives the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart to the Church in communist Hungary – a country uniquely dedicated to our Blessed Mother because it was not just consecrated but literally given to her by King Saint Stephen. She gives it on April 13, 1962 – a date reminiscent of Fatima. That year, it was also the Friday before Good Friday which, in the liturgical practice of the time, was a commemoration of our Lady of Sorrows; Our Blessed Mother comes crying over the sins of the country. Interestingly, she does not first give the Flame of Love to a priest, monk, or nun but to a widowed mother of six and secular Carmelite named Elizabeth Kindelmann (1913-1985) whose own family was struggling mightily. Our Blessed Mother explains that she chose Elizabeth because a mother would understand our Blessed Mother’s sorrow over so many of her children in trouble. She says, “My sorrow is just like your sorrow.” and “Only a mother can truly share my sorrows. I am the Mother of Sorrows, I suffer greatly because of the souls being lost.” Jesus gave her a different reason, viz, He chose her to show that is possible to live the holiness to which He calls us in the context of a family – that she served both God and the family at the same time.

Understandably, the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary could not be spread very far or even properly investigated under Communism but Our Blessed Mother did tell Elizabeth that it had to go overseas and so it did. The Jesuits had been exiled from Hungary under the Communists. A Hungarian Jesuit, Gabriel Rona, studied and was ordained in Spain and sent as a missionary to Ecuador. He quite miraculously came into possession of a large portion of Elizabeth’s diary which had been smuggled out of Hungary by taking photographs of the handwritten pages.

He translated this compilation into Spanish from1982 to 1989 and the Flame of Love took deep root in Latin America. The entire Episcopal Conference in Ecuador has approved the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Movement. The entire Episcopal Conference in Mexico has commended it. When the Movement in São Paolo, Brazil, celebrated the 60^th anniversary of the Flame of Love in 2022, they filled the football stadium; it was the largest event that year in São Paolo – even larger than the football games.

After Communism fell in Hungary and the Church recovered from Communist control, the four handwritten volumes of Elizabeth’s Diary were compiled into the “Critical Edition of the Spiritual Diary”. In 2006, the local ordinary, Péter Cardinal Erdö, Primate of all Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, initiated a multi-year investigation into the Spiritual Diary and the fruits of the Flame of Love in countries where it was already active. In 2009, he granted his Imprimatur to the Diary and established the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Movement in his archdiocese granting it Juridic Personality. In this year, we also saw Movements established in several French speaking countries in Africa.

Beginning in 2021, we saw a dramatic acceleration in the Movement. We pray and believe that this is our Blessed Mother moving quickly in the world as we began to see the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart light in country after country. We now have organized or organizing Movements in over 50 countries on every continent and we seem to adding new ones every month.

The What, Why, and How of the Flame of Love

Mary is very clear about the purpose of the Flame of Love, viz., to blind Satan, i.e., to break his influence over society so that souls are saved. This is done as the effect of grace, i.e., to bring us into deep union with Jesus. We do not blind Satan by poking out his eyes but by shining the light of holiness, the light of grace, the light of Jesus literally alive in us so brightly that Satan cannot see, i.e., cannot influence us for where Jesus is present as the effect of grace, Satan is driven out.

If that sounds familiar, if it sounds like Christianity itself, you are correct. When the Diary was evaluated for Cardinal Erdö, the Theological Examination noted that there is not a lot that is new in the Diary; it is not about new messages or the messenger. What is new is the power and the urgency.

The Urgency: We can’t wait any longer. Our tools of destruction, both physical and spiritual, have grown too powerful. We can objectively state that, in all the history of humanity, we have never seen the destruction of life, of innocence, of family, and the power to influence minds on a massive scale as we see today. Mary and Jesus are clear that Satan is attacking humanity more viciously than ever especially against families. Mary says that Satan is hurling the fire of his hatred so high that his victory seems imminent. The need is urgent; we can’t wait any longer. We need to be the Church we are supposed to be and help Our Blessed Mother light her Flame of Love in all hearts – to fill hearts filled with hellish hatred with her Flame of Love – to bring all people to her son – to bring about the triumph of her Immaculate Heart.

The Power: Our Mother is aware of our weakness and so she comes to aid us – to give us her own love as a miraculous gift: “add your love to it”. She has come to pour great graces upon us to live a life of love, to bring us to deep union with Jesus. Indeed, the Flame of Love is both Marian and Eucharistic. This is why Mass and Adoration are essential to the Flame of Love. All Mary is doing in the Flame of Love is to bring us into such intimate union with Jesus as the effect of grace that Satan’s influence is broken. It is all about Jesus, has always been about Jesus, and will always be about Jesus. This power is to strengthen the entire diocese. We do not want people leaving what they are doing to become “Flame of Love”; we want them to bring the Flame of Love into their ministries, families, and lives to strengthen everything they do with this great outpouring of grace and love. It is the same Christianity but strengthened with the greatest outpouring of graces since the Word was made flesh in order to meet the urgency of the times.

But how does this work? How do we help Our Blessed Mother light all hearts to draw them to her Son? Mary is very clear that we do not control or measure this; it is her miracle. She says, “who is to understand my Flame of Love and how is not your business. . . . I’m the one who acts, and I’m the one who lights the Flame of my love in the depth of hearts.” She asks us to do our part and then trust her to do her part. In the Diary, Jesus and Mary are clear about our part: prayer, sacrifice, and desire.

In the Flame of Love, Jesus and Mary call us to a fervent prayer life – again, not unique to one Movement in the Church but something we all need to do. They call us to plead for the effect of grace to spread over all of humanity, to be completely one with Jesus, to actively desire and pray that the Flame of Love be lit in all souls; to be praying and desiring for those around us – at work, at home, in the store, in our neighborhoods.

But the key that makes the Flame of Love so powerful is sacrifice. By sacrifice we do not mean buying a hairshirt and celice but rather every time we sacrifice living for self to instead live for love, this is the sacrifice Jesus and Mary desire to light souls. In other words, to live a life of continuous love in everything we do as the effect of grace. The Flame of Love helps us break through the deep seated lie that love is about our self-fulfillment and brings us back to the truth that the heart of love is self-sacrifice in union with Jesus’ sacrifice. This is a great blessing to the entire diocese – to break us out of the idea that Christianity is be a nice person, go to Church on Sunday, and get to Heaven and instead lead us to live the gospel – to be partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4), to live and love as God does rather than as humans without the Holy Spirit do (Matt 5:44-48, I John 3:16, Rom 5:5), to truly take up our cross daily (Luke 9:23) sacrificing living for self to instead love in every moment.

Thus, in Elizabeth’s Diary, we see Jesus constantly inviting, not commanding (think of the rich young man in Matt 19:21), Elizabeth to make everything in her life an act of love – how she eats (fasting and making her meals tasteless), how she sleeps (awaking to pray in vigil), how she spends her time (completely dedicated to the salvation of souls), to walk in a continuous spirit of humility and repentance, embracing her sufferings as an offering for souls. And this should not be viewed as an exhaustive checklist of things to do to be “Flame of Love”; both Jesus and Mary tell her to not ask what to do but be creative, find every opportunity – find ways to fill our lives with love as the effect of grace so that there is no room left for Satan.

When people first read Elizabeth’s Diary, they are usually struck by two things: the deep and intimate friendship between Jesus and Elizabeth and all the suffering and sacrifice. “All that suffering and sacrifice. Why is Jesus being so hard on Elizabeth? Can’t He give her a break?” But Jesus is not being hard on Elizabeth in the Diary; He is opening her eyes to see how much she can love. And this is the great gift Mary brings to the diocese when she gives the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart: we begin to see how much more we can love. When we start living this continual life of loving sacrifice in every moment, when we let grace shape our lives into the image of Jesus all the time, we will change, our parishes will change, and our communities will change. Until hearts really change – “in the depth of hearts” as Mary says, we will not have peace. When hearts change, we will have peace. This is why Mary gave us the Flame of Love – why the entire diocese and not just one small group needs it.

This is not just theory; we have seen this work. Think of Saint John Marie Vianney. He is sent to the backwater parish of Ars where faith has largely died. He completely turns the parish around to be a spiritual beacon for all of Europe. How did he do it? Prayer, sacrifice, desire. It was said that Satan told him if there were three people like him in the world, his kingdom would fall. In the Flame of Love, our Blessed Mother is asking for a Church full of people willing to pray, sacrifice, and desire and, when that happens, Satan’s kingdom will fall – our Blessed Mother promised – her Immaculate Heart will triumph.

Testimonies

I will share just a few testimonies highlighting different areas of the Flame of Love to show that this is not simply theory or flowery words but a living miracle.

Putting out the fire of hatred

The Flame of Love is relatively new to Papua New Guinea yet provides a striking example of the Flame of Love putting out the fire of hatred. It is a country torn by tribal violence. Revenge killings are a way of life – “you kill one of my tribe and we kill five to ten of your tribe”. This happened to one of our leaders bringing the Flame of Love to this country: they killed her brother and cut off his head. It was her responsibility to bring the body back to the tribal homeland and she knew the cycle of violence this would set off. Papua New Guinea is also a very patriarchal society, i.e., women have no voice.

As she is bringing the body home, she is praying fervently for the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to put out the fire of hatred. When she arrives, as expected, the men are dressed in blood paint with bush knives and machetes in hand ready to kill five to ten of the neighboring tribe. Miraculously, they let a woman speak and she appeals for peace and reconciliation. Even more miraculously, they listen, put down the machetes and bush knives and, for the first time ever, call in government mediators to mediate the dispute. But it doesn’t end there.

There is a big problem in the country with alcohol and drug abuse among the youth driven by poverty and despair. They make it themselves and call it Steam. They get high and start fighting and the cycle of violence starts. One night, as a small group is praying the Flame of Love in a chapel, they hear the commotion outside. One tribe’s youth run into the chapel because they are losing the fight with the rival tribe. The other tribe’s youth come with their machetes and bush knives and demand that these other youth be brought out so they can kill them. As our people pray that the Flame of Love put out the fire of hate, once again, they put down the machetes and bush knives and reconcile. But it doesn’t stop there.

Two weeks later, all the youth making Steam in the community bring all their equipment to the tribal elders and police and say, “We renounce this; we’re not doing this anymore; we’re going back to farming to meet our needs.” This is a miracle – the miracle of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Marriages

Father Dan Schuster, Pastor of Holy Trinity Parish & St. Mary’s Parish in the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA brought the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary into his parish and particularly asked the Flame of Love prayer cenacle he initiated to pray about couples in irregular marriages. In one year, he has seen more couples come to convalidate their marriages than he has in the previous 15 years.

Children

A particularly delightful story comes from the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Our leaders there were a bit discouraged. They had all been hit with very severe personal trials and felt that they were not doing enough to spread our Lady’s Flame of Love. But, again, this is not our work – we do our part and she does her part. They could not see it but our Lady was using their fidelity in prayer and their sacrifice of embracing their sufferings as an offering for souls to light the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart in the schools among the children – children spreading the Flame of Love to other children to the point that, in at least one school, the image of our Lady with the Flame of Love hangs in every classroom, the Unity Prayer of Jesus (one of the three devotional elements of the Flame of Love) is prayed in every assembly, the Principal is calling parents asking them to start family prayer cenacles at home because the children are asking for them, and, hundreds of little children give up their lunch hour to come to Eucharistic Adoration when it is offered. The Flame of Love is for children.

Conversions

There are so many testimonies of conversions that people thought would never happen but a striking one was related by the Western Regional Coordinator in the United States. She tells of a woman who had 15 family members who had not just left the Church but become vigorously hostile to it. As this woman came to the Flame of Love and began to pray, sacrifice, and desire that the Flame of Love be lit in these hostile hearts, one at a time and completely independently, all 15 have returned to the Faith.

We also see conversion within the Church. One of the most common themes I hear from people who receive the Flame of Love is that they had scattered bits and pieces of their faith but now everything is coming together – everything makes sense as a cohesive whole. This is what our Blessed Mother wants to bring to each diocese.

Approvals

These abundant good fruits are one of the reasons we have received many episcopal approvals and commendations from around the world. We are still in the process of collecting the various approvals and commendations. As we collect them, we post them https://www.flameoflove.info/approvals-and-commendations/ Here is a summary:

Association of the Faithful established with Juridic Personality:

Hungary – Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest – Péter Cardinal Erdö

Ecuador – Episcopal Conference of Ecuador

Association of the Faithful established:

Singapore – Archdiocese of Singapore – William Cardinal Goh

Commendations:

Brazil – Seven Archbishops and Bishops

Cameroon – Archbishop of Bertua and Bishop of Bafang

Costa Rica – Bishops of Ciudad Quesada and San Isidro

Ivory Coast – Bishop of Agboville

Nicaragua – Diocese of Granada

Mexico – Commission for the Laity of the Conference of Catholic Bishops

Panama – Bishop of Darien

Philippines – Archbishop of Cebu, Bishop of Butuan, Bishop of Military Chaplaincy

United Kingdom – Bishop of Paisley

Levels of participation

Before we can properly discuss how to concretely bring the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary into a diocese, we need to understand the six different levels at which people participate in the Flame of Love.

Level 1 – Receive It

This is for everyone – literally everyone in the geographical region of the diocese and it is as simple as it sounds. It is a gift that simply needs to be received. There is nothing to join, nothing to read, nothing to pray, nothing to buy. It is a miraculously given gift.

Level 2 – Respond to it

Like any grace, we need to respond to it or we lose it. This is also for everyone. For those whose lamps have gone out or who have never had a lamp, when the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary lights the way to salvation, they need to follow it. For those with lit lamps, when we add Mary’s love to ours, we need to respond to this increased call to love in our lives. This is a huge topic outside the scope of this summary document but, when grace inspires us to love, we must love in that moment. If we say, “tomorrow, Jesus”, we lose the grace, we lose the opportunity to love. I think we can see what a powerful difference this response can make in the life of the diocese.

Level 3 – Personal prayer of the devotional elements

The third level of participation is a smaller group of people. For those who know them, it is to incorporate the powerful and beautiful devotional elements of the Flame of Love into their personal prayer lives. Again, nothing to join or buy and no need to stop what we are doing to “join” the Flame of Love Movement.

There are only three devotional elements:

The Meditation on the five wounds

The Flame of Love Hail Mary

The Unity Prayer

Our Lord and Lady attached great graces to these devotional elements particularly for the souls in Purgatory and for their power over the demonic world. It is interesting how many exorcists are drawn to the Flame of Love because they see the power it has over the demonic world. In the Philippines, we were invited to have a display at the 2023 Exorcists Conference with roughly 450 Exorcists, Bishops, and Priests in attendance. The interest was so great that we were invited to make an unscheduled 15 minute presentation during the conference. Many of our strongest advocates in the priesthood and many of our spiritual advisors are exorcists. So what are these devotional elements?

Meditation on the Five Wounds

This is not a prayer. Our Lord and our Blessed Mother asked us to think about Jesus’ five wounds. Specifically, Our Blessed Mother said to offer ourselves to the Heavenly Father through the wounds of Jesus. In other words, the way we are an acceptable sacrifice to the Father is to love as Jesus showed us how to love on the Cross – to live the life of the love of the Trinity – the love of the Cross. But there is a problem. We cannot do that consistently on our own. It takes a miracle for us to do that and that miracle is called grace. Hence the next devotional element.

The Flame of Love Hail Mary

Grace is the only way out of the mess we are in – the only way to make Jesus truly and really present in us so that Satan is driven out and we become holy. Grace is our only hope and our every hope. Grace is so important to us right now in this time in salvation history that Our Blessed Mother took a prayer we all know – the Hail Mary – and added a petition that this desperately needed effect of grace flood all of humanity to create a new prayer, viz., the Flame of Love Hail Mary. It is not a change to the Hail Mary – the Hail Mary is still the Hail Mary – but rather a new prayer – a plea for grace at a time when the world desperately needs the effect of grace to work miracles in the depths of hearts. It begins as a regular Hail Mary and then concludes:

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners; spread the effect of grace of thy Flame of Love over all of humanity now and at the hour of our death.

Of course, Our Blessed Mother always leads us to Jesus and so it is with this prayer. The ultimate effect of grace is complete union with Jesus. The Flame of Love Hail Mary leads us to the Unity Prayer.

The Unity Prayer

Elizabeth’s Diary tells us that this prayer, given by Jesus Himself, expresses His deepest desire – His desire for us to be completely one with him:

May our feet journey together;

may our hands gather in unity;

may our hearts beat in unison;

may our souls be in harmony;

may our thoughts be as one;

may our ears listen to the silence together;

may our glances profoundly penetrate each other;

may our lips pray together to gain mercy from the Eternal Father.

It is a deeply eucharistic prayer. In fact, in the original Hungarian, Jesus does not speak of souls, thoughts, or glances but rather of our insides, minds, and eyes; it is about Jesus wanting to be joined to every part of our body to work together for the salvation of souls.

It is an easy prayer to misunderstand. At first, one may think we are inviting Jesus into our lives – “Jesus come with me to work, to school, to the beach, to my happy place” – but Jesus constantly explains this prayer in the Diary. He says that our feet must go together to Calvary. Our hands must gather souls. Our deepest feelings and our mind’s every thought should be one, i.e., for souls. Even when our lips pray for mercy, it is not for ourselves; it is Jesus and us together praying for mercy for others. This is not about us inviting Jesus into our lives; this is Jesus inviting us into His life.

Simple Catechesis

One of the extra benefits of bringing the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary into a diocese is that it provides a simple catechesis on the Gospel. If we ask most Catholics, “what is the gospel”, we are likely to be met with a blank stare or, at best, a fuzzy answer. In the devotional elements of the Flame of Love, Jesus and Mary give us an ingeniously simple way to teach to Gospel to everyone:

We are called to love as God loves (Meditation on the wounds)

We can only do that as the effect of grace (Flame of Love Hail Mary)

The ultimate effect of grace is to make us literally one with Jesus (Unity Prayer – unless you eat My flesh and drink My blood, you have no life in you)

When Jesus is fully present, Satan is driven out and souls are saved

There’s the gospel every time one prays the Flame of Love! Back to our levels of participation.

Level 4 – Bring it home

The next level of participation is to bring both the miracle of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the devotional elements home. The Flame of Love is for children. Parents can no longer simply protect their children; there is too much being thrown at them. We have to teach our children to go on the offensive. They need to be active participants in the life of grace. They need to be the ones driving out evil when it pops up on their cell phones, when something bad is happening at their friend’s house, or when they are being taught something wrong in school. Our children need Our Blessed Mother’s help. Our children need to be in love with, be one with Jesus. Our children need the Flame of Love. Bring it home.

Level 5 – Community prayer

The fifth level is a yet smaller group. For those who have the time and calling, they can come together and pray in community. These are Flame of Love prayer cenacles. This is where we come together as community to pray for our communities. To specifically come together to pray to blind Satan in our neighborhoods and families – to take back our communities from Satan’s influence. They are powerful and important and Jesus asked for them in the Flame of Love but not all will be able to participate as they may have other ministries as their primary responsibility or simply the care of their families.

Level 6 – The Association of the Faithful

The sixth level is the smallest group of all and that is, for those who feel particularly inspired by the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to make it a major part of their service to the Church by participating in the Apostolate of the Flame of Love as members of the Association of the Faithful. This can be very small. It is simply the match used to light a fire in the entire diocese but certainly all who wish to do so are most welcomed and appreciated.

Practical Steps for Bishops and Priests

Bishops and Priests can be a huge aid to help Our Blessed Mother bring the gift of the Flame of Love of her Immaculate Heart to the diocese and parishes. Let’s discuss each role.

Bishop

There are several ways a Bishop can aid Our Blessed Mother in spreading her gift.

The first is simply to bless the activity of the Flame of Love in the diocese. Our members often approach their priests about bringing the Flame of Love to the parish only to hear that the bishop must first give his permission. This blessing, preferably in writing, opens the door for our members to share this gift.

The second is to allow activities such as conferences to be publicly advertised throughout the diocese.

The third, if the Bishop is willing, is to make the Flame of Love known to the priests in the diocese. For example, the Bishop of Butuan, Philippines recently invited us to present at his priest’s conference. We have been similarly invited by the Archdiocese of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Bishop of Birmingham, England recently recommended that all his priests read the Spiritual Diary of Elizabeth Kindelmann.

The fourth is to appoint a Spiritual Moderator for the Movement in the diocese. It is very much our desire to work closely with the Pastoral Plan of the diocese, to support the goals of the local ordinary, and to ensure that we do not go astray. For this, a Spiritual Moderator is most helpful.

Fifth, as the Movement grows within the diocese and bears good fruit, we would eventually like to be established as a Private Association of the Faithful or erected as a Public Association of the Faithful within the diocese.

Pastors / Parish Priests

The challenge for Pastors and Parish Priests is the overwhelming workload they are already under. However, when we understand the nature of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we can see how priests can bring the Flame of Love to their parish with almost no additional overhead on their part. There are at least six practical ways in which our priests can bring our Blessed Mother’s gift to their parishes. The key is to remember that this a gift our Blessed Mother wants to give to everyone and not about starting a new prayer group or prayer devotion.

1. Invite us to present to the entire parish at the Sunday Masses. This is just a brief 5-10 minute presentation, perhaps after the homily or the Communion Prayer, where we make our brothers and sisters aware of this gift, briefly describe what it means to respond to that gift (if she places this great love miraculously in our hearts, we need to respond to the call to love continuously in our lives), and offer this beautiful gift to everyone right then and there. The rest is up to our Blessed Mother.
2. Invite us to present to each of the ministries. We do not want people to leave their current ministry to “join” the Flame of Love. Rather, we want them to bring the Flame of Love into their ministries to strengthen them with this miraculous gift of love and grace. This helps align all ministries more closely with the work of the gospel rather than having a life of their own.
3. Pray the Unity Prayer together with the parish after each Communion or after Mass depending on the liturgical practices of the diocese. It is a way to not only introduce the Flame of Love but to emphasize the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. What we have just done in our actions, we reinforce with the prayer of our lips.
4. Family Holy Hours – perhaps once a month or once a quarter, the Pastor or Parish Priest can have a Mass particularly for families. After the Mass, we can teach the families how to do Flame of Love family holy hours. Many families may want to start praying together but don’t know where to begin. We can walk them through a Flame of Love Holy Hour, give them a handout to take home, maybe even give them a blessed candle to use. Then we tell them to do the same thing at home with each of their families.
5. Form a Flame of Love prayer cenacle in the parish. If there are people who have the time and calling, we can start a prayer cenacle where members of the parish – even neighboring parishes or non-Catholics – come together to pray and take our communities back from Satan’s influence.
6. Parish missions – this is less common but, where we have the resources available, we can deliver a parish mission. This is not specifically on the Flame of Love but uses the Flame of Love to deepen the parishioners’ understanding of Love and Grace. This is the beauty of the Flame of Love – it always brings us back to the heart of the Church – to understand it better and, most of all, to live it better.

Other Private Revelations

The Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary resonates with many other private revelations but there are three of particular interest.

Our Lady of Buen Suceso

These messages from Our Blessed Mother from 1610 are chillingly accurate and affirm our Lady’s and our Lord’s warning in the Flame of Love that Satan was about to launch his greatest attack ever against humanity and particularly against families:

Thus, I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and from shortly after the middle of the 20th century . . . . the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs, for Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic Sects. They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!

As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. Freemasonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging the procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church. The Catholic spirit will rapidly decay; the precious light of Faith will gradually be extinguished until there will be an almost total and general corruption of customs. Added to this will be the effects of secular education, which will be one reason for the death of priestly and religious vocations.

The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests.

Further, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which will ensnare the rest into sin and conquer innumerable frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women.

It is no coincidence that the Flame of Love comes shortly after the middle of the twentieth century with a warning that Satan’s victory would appear imminent, that he would viciously attack families, and that the Flame of Love will break his influence.

Fatima

Our Blessed Mother warned us that, if we did not heed her message, not only would there be another war but Russia would spread her errors around the world. Few countries suffered more under Russian domination than Hungary. The Flame of Love came only a few years after the Hungarian Uprising.

In the visions of Fatima, the children see the Angel with the flaming sword but the flames are put out by the radiance emanating from Our Blessed Mother’s right hand. The angel then calls out, “Penance, penance, penance.” In the Flame of Love, Our Lord and Blessed Mother call us to a truly penitential life, i.e., to fill our lives with so much sacrificial love as the effect of grace, that the effect of evil is displaced.

Most importantly, at Fatima our Blessed Mother promised that, in the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph. At Fatima, she told us what would happen. In the Flame of Love she tells us how it will happen and it should be no surprise that it is through her Son as the effect of grace.

Divine Mercy

Thank you again for your interest in bringing the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to your diocese. I pray that this document provides the overview, context, and practical steps that you need to work with our Blessed Mother to light this fire and fill all the diocese with the great outpouring of love and grace – the Flame of Love of our Mother’s Immaculate Heart.