Earthen Vessels

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

Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua

Earthen Vessels

In the morning, while kneeling before the tabernacle, torments afflicted my soul. Crying and sobbing, I called out to the Lord, “Where are You, adorable Jesus? Why must I live without You? Give me the grace of conversion…” (Elizabeth) (Compendium Page 21)

Today’s Readings: Brothers and sisters:

We hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the Body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body. (2 Corinthians 4)

Prayer Meditation- Lord, we hold Your treasure in earthen vessels. Leaky and broken vessels that can easily lose the graces You so generously give us! But let us take heart- conversion is a lifelong process- we are afflicted and perplexed but we are not driven to despair because You live in us no matter how we may feel if we are in You! So if we are broken today let us come for healing-confession if we need it, prayer, Mass, Adoration, reading Your Word – let us spend time with the One who never abandons us!