Ave Maria!

Introducing a new daily series of excerpts from the writings of St. Maximilian Kolbe translated from the Italian translation by Fr. Ignatius Mary Manfredonia.

“Dear brothers, know and take into account the fact that in the missions you will not only come across difficulties due to the surrounding environment, but God will permit, for His greater glory, that you experience discouragement, doubts, home sickness and other such things. However, don’t ever get discouraged, because we have a most loving Mother to whom we may always have recourse: during life, at the moment of death, and for all eternity.” (SK #744)

Ave Maria!

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Ave Maria!— August’s Theme: The Missions

“I foster the hope that, with the help of the Immaculate, we may not neglect any nation, any peoples, and that we must establish everywhere the Militia of the Immaculate and Cities of the Immaculate as its national center.” (cf. SK #759)

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Ave Maria!— April’s Theme: Obedience

“Do what you’re supposed to be doing and pay no attention to anything else, be it good or bad. By submitting yourself to the will of God, you keep hold of the reins of all your faculties with the help of divine grace through the Immaculate. You must govern them and not vice versa.” (SK #970)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“My dearest brothers, as you yourselves will experience throughout life, in this world the whole perfection of holiness, all of the fervor of action, the entire success of the missionary apostolate does not consist in great wisdom, or in great genius, or in great ability, or on the quantity of prayers and penances, but solely in the perfection of holy obedience.” (cf. SK #380)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“Dear sons, let us love the Immaculate more and more every day. In regard to this, there can be no limit, while She will continue to purify our hearts of naturalism and will transform us into Herself. Devotion to the Immaculate is a secret which many still do not know, or rather they know it and they only practice it superficially, while by the will of God, it is the substance of the whole of sanctity.” (cf. SK #687)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“The fulfillment of the will of the Immaculate ‘in all its particulars and in the most precise way’ constitutes the highest degree of holiness. Because, in effect, Her will is the will of Jesus, the will of God.” (cf. SK #748)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“Nothing, not even the holiest state of life, can assure your soul’s sanctification if you neglect the duties deriving from that very state. Try to see the certain will of the Immaculate in your duties, the fulfillment of which demonstrates your love for Her and, in Her and through Her, for Jesus and the Father.” (cf. SK #1334)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“For what reason do we live on this earth?…God alone can be our end. To know God, to love Him, to possess Him, to unite oneself to Him, to transform oneself in a certain sense into Him, to divinize oneself, to become like the Man-God. This is our sanctity.” (cf. SK #1295)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“Souls, reproducing the likeness of the Man-God, imitating Christ the Lord, will tend towards sanctity; the more exactly one reproduces in himself the image of Christ, the more he draws near to divinity.” (cf. SK #1295)

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Ave Maria!— July’s Theme: Holiness

“In the womb of Mary the soul must be reborn in the form of Jesus Christ. She must nourish the soul with the milk of Her grace, lovingly care for it and rear it just as She nourished, cared for and reared Jesus. On Her knees the soul must learn to know and love Jesus. From Her heart it must attain love for Him, or rather love Him with Her heart and become like Him by means of love.” (cf. SK #1295)

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