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Video – Homily #1: Our Lady Queen of the Seraphic Order

apostolate — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:25:47 +0000

Homily Video #1 – Our Lady Queen of the Seraphic Order >>> Play

Ave Maria!

On the Feast of Our Lady Queen of the Seraphic Order Fr. Angelo gives a homily on the special relationship between Our Lady and the Franciscan of the Immaculate as we strive to follow the Spirituality of St. Maximilian Kolbe.

Ave Maria!

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Video – Fr. Angelo – Standing Fast #9: St. Maximilian Kolbe

apostolate — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:02:14 +0000

Standing Fast #9 – Fr. Angelo on St. Maximilian Kolbe, Knight of the Immaculate>>> Play

Ave Maria!

In today’s episode of Standing Fast, Fr. Angelo explains how the book of Genesis contains the ‘First Gospel’ which gives us a first look at the constant war against Satan. St. Maximilian Kolbe understood that Our Lady was the answer to winning the battle, and that she would indeed crush the head of the serpent.

Ave Maria!

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Video – Fr. Peter Fehlner: St. Maximilian on the Holy Spirit

apostolate — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:58:04 +0000

Short Video Series #6 – Fr. Peter speaks at Steubenville on St. Maximilian and his teaching on the Holy Spirit and the Immaculate Conception (80min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Fr. Peter Fehlner speaks at Steubenville University in 2007, at the invitation of Dr. Scott Hahn. The talk is on his book St. Maximilian Kolbe: Martyr of Charity – Pneumatolgist where he outlines the teaching of St. Maximilian on the the Holy Spirit and His relation to the Immaculate Conception. He covers St. Maximilian’s methodology, his teaching on the Holy Spirit, how it can resolve, revive and update theology on a sound basis and some of the objections raised against this Saint. He gives a brief discussion on the three titles of Mary, Complement of the Trinity, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and the Immaculate Conception, and how these titles apply to the Holy Spirit and Our Lady. The talk is followed by a question and answer session. Come listen to this fascinating talk on this sublime subject.

Notes are available: https://airmaria.s3.amazonaws.com/shrtv/shrtv0006text.html

Fr. Peter’s books:

St. Maximilian Kolbe: Martyr of Charity – Pneumatolgist – https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/maximilian-kolbe-pneumatologist

Roman Conferences of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe: https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/roman-conferences-of-st-maximilian-m-kolbe

The Triple Way: https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/triple-way

Other Books Mentioned in the Talk:

Virgo Ecclesia Facta – The Virgin Made Church: https://academyoftheimmaculate.com/products/virgo-ecclesia-facta-the-virgin-made-church

Dr. Mark Miravalle’s article “Coredemptrix and Immaculate Conception”: https://www.foromariano.es/images/Libros/PDF/2%20Inmaculada/Mark%20Miravalle-Coredemption%20and%20Immaculate%20Conception.pdf

Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IWQwtZmy4ok

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Oct 27 – Homily – Fr Angelo: St. Maximilian Kolbe and Charity

apostolate — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:48:45 +0000

Homily #081027 ( 08min) Play – 30th Mon Ordinary Time – Fr. Angelo preaches for this votive Mass to St Maximilian Kolbe who died as a martyr of charity. He relates this to the Gospel that says charity summarizes the entire law of God.
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A Meditation on Suffering

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:12:21 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

from St. Maximilian Kolbe: AIM HIGHER

Intention

1. The perfection of every action depends on the perfection of our intention.

2. One acts and suffers everything joyfully for the Immaculata. Regardless of the unpleasantness we meet in life, let us accept all with the intention of strengthening our love toward the Immaculata.

Suffering

Notwithstanding its being paved at times with crosses and sufferings, the way of the Immaculata is not so difficult, so dark, so unclear that we can always feel her motherly warmth. A cross consists of two pieces of wood, crossed at one point. In every day life our cross consists in our will crossing the will of God. In order to remove it, it is necessary to conform ourselves to the will of God. In practice it is necessary that we put off our own will. The saints did not understand life without suffering.for suffering for love nourishes love.

Let us not always wish to feel the sweetness of devotion to the Immaculata, for this would be spiritual greed. Let us permit her to direct us as it pleases her. It is not always time for sweet caresses, be they ever so holy. We also need the trials of dryness, abandonment and the like. Let her fit the means to our sanctification according to her will. We must have one quality, continually deepening it: allowing ourselves to be led by her, reconciling ourselves to her will ever more perfectly, giving obedience to her will by religious obedience.

Whoever in life strives to avoid crosses as much as possible and does not mortify himself in anything does not know what happiness is. Whoever is capable of suffering much for love can be happy that his love is deep. As the harvest is a period of the farmer’s greatest efforts in gathering the crops into barns and storerooms, so also the soul’s harvest is the time in which it can gather for itself as many priceless merits as possible; these are the moments pregnant with suffering and the cross.

If God visits us with a painful suffering and our soul walks the thorny path, it behooves us to rejoice that God destines us for high perfection. God exhibits a special love for those whom he chastises in this life, because the punishment of purgatory is both long and severe. In this life the voluntary acceptance of crosses merits us an even greater glory in heaven. Hence the saying, “Whom God loves he chastises.”

The more powerful and courageous a soul becomes with the help of God’s grace, the greater the cross God places on its shoulders, so that it might mirror as closely as possible the image of the crucified in its own life. We will lay up so many more graces if, while in external and internal darkness, full of sadness, overworked, suffering, without consolation, persecuted at every step, amidst continual failures, abandoned by everyone, ridiculed, alone-just as Jesus on the cross-we shall pray for everyone and strive in all ways to draw everyone to God through the lmmaculata and unite them to him as intimately as possible.

Temptations and trials befall the soul when it is abandoned and plunged into spiritual darkness; when it as it were hangs upon the cross without respite and consolation, after the pattern of Jesus crucified, and in spite of this, with the help of God’s grace peacefully and joyously received and bears this cross even for a long time: this is true perfection. A soul cannot imagine to what great heights it rises and what a great glory God is preparing for it in heaven. When love encompasses and penetrates us, sacrifices become necessary for the soul.

Spiritual joy is born of sacrifice.

When we become tired, when it is hard for us, let us go to the Mother of God with greater confidence so that she will help us. And always, always forward, so as to fulfil the will of the Immaculata better and better. Suffering and sacrifice are the proofs of love, although suffering itself is not the essence of love. Without sacrifice there is no love. Sacrifice the senses, especially the eyes, particularly when one goes out of the cloister among lay people. The same can be said of taste, of hearing and so on.

In case of difficulties, confide them to the Immaculata, that she do with them what she pleases: remove them, lessen them, increase them or leave them without change. Difficulties, no matter how great, ought never disturb us, but they should on the contrary strengthen and steel our will in the direction to overcome these same difficulties.

When the most varied temptations, trials befall the soul; when it is abandoned and plunged into spiritual darkness; when it as it were hangs upon the cross without respite and consolation, after the pattern of Jesus crucified, and in spite of this, with the help of God’s grace peacefully and joyously receives and bears this cross even for a long time: this is true perfection. A soul cannot imagine to what great heights it rises and what a great glory God is preparing for it in heaven. When love encompasses and penetrates us, sacrifices become necessary for the soul.

Let us remember that love lives and nourishes itself on sacrifices. Let us thank the Immaculata for interior peace and for the exaltation of love, but let us not forget that all this, however good and beautiful, is not as it were the essence of love. Without all of this love can exist, and even a perfect love. Love’s summit is the state in which Jesus on the cross said, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”

Although storms rage around us often and thunder resounds, if we are unreservedly dedicated to the Immaculata we can be sure that nothing will happen to us as long as our best and dearest mother will not allow it. We shall rest sweetly as we labor and suffer for the salvation of souls.

Crosses may overwhelm us, but the grace of God, having warmed our hearts, will inflame them with such love that we will bum with the desire of suffering, of suffering without bounds, of humiliations, mockery, abandonment. Thus we will show how we love the Father and our best friend Jesus and his dearest Immaculate Mother. For suffering is the school of love. What peace and happiness will penetrate us on our deathbed to know that we have much, very much toiled and suffered for the Immaculata.

The mercy of Christ is not a cheap grace; it does not presume a trivialization of evil. Christ carries in his body and on his soul all the weight of evil, and all its destructive force. He burns and transforms evil through suffering, in the fire of his suffering love. The day of vindication and the year of favor meet in the paschal mystery, in Christ died and risen. This is the vindication of God: he himself, in the person of the Son, suffers for us. The more we are touched by the mercy of the Lord, the more we draw closer in solidarity with his suffering – and become willing to bear in our flesh “what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” (Col 1, 24).

-Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

So That We May Be Glorified

“The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.” (Rom 8: 16-17)

The experience of the action of the Holy Spirit extends more widely than prayer. There are times when we rejoice in dying to self, in suffering for the Gospel, in loving and forgiving when we have no capacity for such love. All of this is an unmistakable experience of the movement of the Holy Spirit within us. Imagine: God himself, the Holy Spirit, is actually at work in us to bring us to eternal life! As these things happen to us and we yield to them, we are granted a tiny glimpse of the work of the Spirit in the great saints and martyrs. We are not alone, my friends; the Spirit of God is with us and in us and raises our small capacities beyond themselves so that we live and act, think and feel, like children of God.

This, then, is his witness along with our own spirit that we are in fact the very adopted children of the Father, loved by him and heirs to all his treasures. What does it mean to be an heir of God? It means that God plans to give us everything except his own divinity, and even then he has made us sharers “in the divine nature” (2 Pt 1: 4) so that we live eternally, body and soul, by the direct gift the Trinity makes of himself to us. If only we suffer with Jesus, join him in the pain of dying to sin, and in bearing the burden of those who have yet to hear the Gospel. There is no one on earth who does not suffer yet how many have the privilege of offering. Their daily pains, their efforts to die to sin, and even the great sufferings that come in life, in such a way that others can draw life from these? This is the privilege of the baptized. We suffer with him so that we may be glorified with him.

The presence of suffering causes us fear and revulsion, as it did you as well, Jesus, in your agony in the garden. You embraced your vocation with the power of the Holy Spirit and the presence and suffering of your Mother. Teach us what it means to suffer with to love with you, and to know the support of Mary, looking forward in hope to the joy set before us. Mary, Mother of God, identify my spirit with every movement of your own.

Fr. Francis Martin

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Sep 20 – Homily – Fr Angelo: The Messiah Must Suffer

apostolate — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:19:55 +0000

Homily #090920 ( 22min) Play – In Mk 9:30-37 the Apostles do not understand when Our Lord says, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” Fr. explains that this habitual attitude in the Apostles is still the natural human attitude prevailing today. Listen as Father shows how the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men.
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Video – New Pentecost 5th Marian Dogma – Dr. Miravalle: Mcasts77

apostolate — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:24:14 +0000

MaryCast Specials #77 ( 09min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle gives a compelling argument for how the proclamation of the 5th Marian Dogma can bring about a new Pentecost since Mary was so instrumental for the first one where the Holy Spirit, her spouse, descended on the Apostles. He mentions the comparison that St. Maximilian Kolbe made of the spousal relationship between Mary and the Holy Spirit with that of the union of two natures, human and divine, in the person of Jesus Christ.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Jun 14 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: Reparation vs Retaliation

apostolate — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:45:15 +0000

Homily #100614 ( 06min) Play – Fr. Bonaventure celebrates a votive Mass to St Maximilian Kolbe. In today’s Gospel Our Lord tells us to turn the other cheek and no longer seek the law of retaliation but the law of reparation as did Jesus on the Cross and St Maximilian at Auschwitz.
Ave Maria! Mass readings
1: 1 Kings 21:1-16
R: Ps 5:2-3,4-7
G: Mt 5:38-42

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Mary Vitamin – The Woman of the Bible and Our Mother

apostolate — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:26:11 +0000

Mary Vitamin for August 5th

Topic: The Woman of the Bible and Our Mother

Quote:

[Mary] is the real, physical Mother of the Messiah; she is the real mystical Mother of the Church, the new people of God. This is the thread, that, without a break in continuity, starts with Genesis and reaches to Revelation, passing through Cana and Calvary.

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed, (Academy of the Immaculate: 1989), 356.

Meditation:

Fr. Stefano Manelli, FI

On this subject, a passage interesting and rich in insight, accurate as it is delicate, has been written by I. de La Potterie:

A very important insight of modern exegesis has brought to light how the mystery of Mary in some way forms a synthesis of all of the preceding revelation about the people of God, about all that which God, through his salvific action, wishes to realize for his people. In Mary are accomplished all of the important aspects of the promises of the Old Testament to the Daughter of Sion, and in her concrete person is anticipated that which will be realized for the new people of God, which is the Church. Now, the history of revelation regarding the theme of the Woman Sion concretized in the person of Mary, and extended to the Church, constitutes a doctrinal bastion, an unshakeable, well-structured ensemble for understanding the history of salvation, from its origins to the last times.

Father Stefano Manelli, FI, All Generations Shall Call Me Blessed, (Academy of the Immaculate: 1989), 361.

Resolution:

The simple devotion to the Mother of God opens the mysteries of the Old Testament, is a symbol of the church, encourages appreciation of the True God/True Man reality of the Messiah, sheds light on the profound mystery of the Blessed Trinity and finally provides one with a greater and more profound desire to worship the Blessed Sacrament, the Son of God who is also the Son of Mary.

I will try to cultivate a deeper love for my Heavenly Mother, the Queen of Heaven. The more childlike I become in her presence the more the mysteries of heaven and God will be revealed.

Today I will call upon the Queen of Heaven with the word "mother" and realize so much is contained in this one simple word.

Marian Vow:

St. Maximilian Kolbe

She is queen also of earth because she is the Mother of God himself, but she both desires and has a right to be freely acknowledged by every heart, be loved as the Queen of every heart, so that through her that heart might become immaculate, similar to her heart and more worthy of union with God, with the love of God, with the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Will to Love, (Marytown Press: 1998), 138.

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary

Thanks be to God for graces received.

Related sites: Castle of the Immaculate

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Fi News – The saints who live among us | SouthCoastToday.com

apostolate — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:13:26 +0000

Ave Maria! Linda Andrade Rodrigues of South Coast Today (online version of New Bedford’s Standard Times) published an article about us today, St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Feast Day. She had many kind words about us and Mother Teresa’s Order in New Bedford. We will have to explain to her, though, that we are not quite ready for canonization. Thanks, Linda!

The saints who live among us | SouthCoastToday.com.

By LINDA ANDRADE RODRIGUES

lrodrigues@s-t.com

August 14, 2010 12:00 AM

NEW BEDFORD — Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton wrote, “Oh my God! You see what a barren and desolate place this world is —- send us saints!”

The answer to his prayers, our city is blessed by the good works of saints.

Walk along our streets, and you’ll see Mother Teresa’s nuns in their white and striped-blue habits, ministering in our neighborhoods.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta sent her order, the Missionaries of Charity, to New Bedford, and on June 14, 1995, she visited the city, worshipped at the Church of St. Lawrence Martyr and touched the lives of countless SouthCoast residents.

Dressed in simple gray robes with sandaled feet, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate reach out to this city’s homeless and forgotten, and offer spiritual guidance to a constant stream of strangers who wander through the doors of Our Lady’s Chapel in downtown New Bedford. More …

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