We love because God first loved us! John 4:19 In turn, we love in and through the Immaculata – (St. Maximilian’s favorite name for Mary – the one she herself used at Lourdes, saying: “I am the Immaculate Conception”) – because she, also, first loved us! “Only at the time of God’s judgment in Heaven […]
On this day 4 of our preparation for total consecration we will ponder Maximilian’s next steps in his journey, and how God began to bless his efforts unimaginably! The City of the Immaculate “When he returned to Poland as a young priest in 1919, he was appointed professor to the Franciscan seminarians in Cracow. However,
On this day 3 of our preparation for total consecration we will ponder Maximilian’s Goal to Win all Souls for Christ through Mary. Contemplating Mary as not only our Mother, but the Mother of all souls – surely spurred St. Maximilian to understand that a Mother cannot be happy if any one of her children
As we read yesterday, as the young Maximilian saw the Freemasons celebrating their 200th Anniversary by parading throughout Rome, he understood “the destructive effects of atheistic secularism” that it represented. He saw, already in 1917, “the spreading of dangerous religious indifferentism and various antireligious theories, as well as of the subtle decline of morality. He
Image found on website: The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation I have often consecrated myself to Jesus through Mary, but haven’t yet done so through, in and with the wisdom of the Militia Immaculata (MI) that St. Maximilian formed. I have been drawn to do just that this year. Today, on the
Mary revealed herself to us by saying: “I am the Immaculate Conception” in Lourdes, France in 1858 — when the young girl, Bernadette, to whom she had been appearing, asked her who she was. I spoke of the Consecrating ourselves to Mary in a previous post. By contemplating this Consecration, it will help us to
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