St. Maximilian writes about The Immaculate

Sr. JosephMary f.t.i. — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:00:56 +0000

Ave Maria Meditations

“My dear little children, when it comes to the Immaculate, we do not think about ‘small parts’ or ‘fractions’ but we rather run a race all together and, by doing so, every increase in love for her in one of us will produce an even greater increase of love in the others. Our heart is so small, so weak: we never offer her the love with which she is worthy, the loves with which she loves us…

An unlimited love for the Immaculate, what does that mean? The Immaculate is so united to God through love that she rises not only above all saints, but also above the angels, the cherubim and seraphim. Therefore an unlimited love towards the Immaculate raises us up to her and joins us to her through love…

What is the Immaculate’s unlimited love? Since she is very close to God, and we are very close to her, consequently, we are very close to God Himself through her. God has give us this white stairway and He wants us to reach Him by climbing it, or rather that she, after having clasped us to her maternal heart, may lead us to Him.

Dear little children in the Immaculate, I wish you to be nourished by her with the milk of her graces, that she may caress and educate you as she did with Jesus, our elder Brother, so that He, the divine Spouse of the soul, may recognize in us those features He Himself received from His Mother, the Immaculate..

Undoubtedly, our imagination tends to make us picture God the Father, Jesus , and the Immaculate as realities that exist among other devotions, as if they were on the same level. Instead, we should think of them as rings of only one chain, each subordinated to the other as different means to only one purpose: the one God in the Holy Trinity.

The more we belong to the Immaculate, the more confidently and freely we can approach the wounds of our Savior, the Eucharist, the most holy Heart of Jesus and God the Father.”

St. Maximilian Kolbe

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Be Convinced: Conversion Only Comes Through the Immaculate Heart – Aug 20 – Homily – Fr Andre

apostolate — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:47:40 +0000

On the memorial of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Cistercian Abbot, Doctor of the Church, Aug 20, 2019), Father Andre relates the conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne, obtained when he prayed a novena of the Memorare prayer (actually misattributed to St. Bernard), to the insights of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, another great Marian saint. Both understood and taught the wisdom that will save the souls of so many who are now far from God: it is through the Immaculate Heart of Mary that conversion will be obtained for them. Our task is to help win souls back to God, by commending them to Our Blessed Lady.

— reference in homily to The Writings of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe: from Volume II: Various Writings, pp. 1822-1823 (n. 1023: “Impending Danger”, originally published in Rycerz Niepokalanej, January 1923, pp 2-4). (https://missionimmaculata.com/index.php/mi-resources/62-the-writings-of-st-maximilian-maria-kolbe)

— for the text and more information on the Memorare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorare

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Mass: St. Bernard of Clairvaux – Mem

Readings: Tuesday 20th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: Jdg 6:11-24
Resp: Ps 85:9, 11-12, 13-14
Gsp: Mt 19:23-30

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Be Convinced: Conversion Only Comes Through the Immaculate Heart – Aug 20 – Homily – Fr Andre