Booklet about St. Maximilian

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The present generation will never forget the enthusiasm with which the entire universe received the tidings of the definition. It was an event of mysterious importance which thus marked this second half of our century ; and we shall look forward to the future with renewed confidence; for if the Holy Ghost bids us tremble for the days when truths are diminished among the children of men, He would, consequently, have us look on those times as blessed by God in which we receive an increase of truth; an increase both in light and authority.

The Church, even before the solemn proclamation of the grand dogma, kept the feast of this eighth day of December; which was, in reality, a profession of her faith. It is true that the feast was not called the Immaculate Conception, but simply the Conception of Mary. But the fact of such a feast being instituted and kept, was an unmistakable expression of the faith of Christendom in that truth.

Bernard and the angelical doctor, St. Thomas, both teach that the Church cannot celebrate the feast of what is not holy; the Conception of Mary, therefore, was holy and immaculate, since the Church has, for ages past, honored it with a special feast.

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The Nativity of the same holy Virgin is kept as a solemnity in the Church, because Mary was born full of grace; therefore, had the first moment of Mary's existence been one of sin, as is that of all the other children of Adam, it never could have been made the subject of the reverence of the Church. Now, there are few feasts so generally and so firmly established in the Church as this which we are keeping today. The Marian Teachings of Fr.

A few hours before his second and final arrest, on February 17, , Fr. Kolbe had time to put on paper his thoughts about her, who for a quarter of a century, day after day, had never ceased to occupy his priestly and apostolic mind and heart. This text, is therefore, of the highest importance. He could not have written it during his captivity at Pawiak near Warsaw, nor during his detention in the death camp at Auschwitz, even though he delivered many spiritual sermons on the Immaculata.

Since human words are incapable of expressing Divine realities it follows that these words: However, we can and should reverently inquire into the mystery of the Immaculata and try to express it words provided by our intelligence using its own proper powers. Who then are you, O Immaculate Conception?

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Not God, of course, because He has no beginning. Not an angel, created directly out of nothing.

Nänie, Op. 82.
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Transient Ischemic Attacks.

Not Adam, formed out of the dust of the earth. Not Eve, molded from Adam's rib. Not the Incarnate Word, Who exists before all ages, and of Whom we should use the word "conceived" rather than "conception.

Humans do not exist before their conception, so we might call them created "conceptions. They are conceptions stained by Original Sin; whereas you are the unique, Immaculate Conception. Everything which exists, outside of God Himself, since it is from God and depends on Him in every way, bears within itself some semblance to its Creator; there is nothing in any creature which does not betray this resemblance, because every created thing is an effect of the Primal Cause.

It is true that the words we use to speak of created realities express the Divine perfections only in a halting, limited and analogical manner. They are only a more or less distant echo as are the created realities that they signify of the properties of God himself.

Would not "conception" be an exception to this rule? No, there is never any such exception.

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Theses few words sum up the mystery of the life of the Most Blessed trinity and of all the perfections in creatures which are nothing else but echoes, a hymn of praise of this primary and most wondrous of all mysteries. We must perforce use our vocabulary, since it is all we have; but we must never forget that our vocabulary is very inadequate. Who is the Father? What is His personal life like? It consists in begetting, eternally because He begets His Son from the beginning and forever. Who is the Son? He is the Begotten-One, because from the beginning and for all eternity He is begotten by the Father.

And Who is the Holy Spirit? Since then a war has been going on, infinitely worse than all World Wars and other cataclysms together: Work for the conversion of sinners. The apparitions of Our Lady in July and August were all centred on the means she wants us to use for the greatest possible number of conversions of poor sinners.

The great secret of Fatima revealed to the children on 13 July begins with the terrific vision of Hell to make us understand the extreme gravity of the matter and give us an efficacious motivation to employ all possible means to work for the conversion and salvation of souls — and all souls are in imminent danger of getting lost forever in the fires of Hell.

In Fatima Our Lady gives us the means to do this work and so to bring to souls true happiness: The devotions to her Immaculate Heart, precisely the First Saturday devotions and the Consecration of our institutions and especially Russia to her Immaculate Heart. She insists on our prayers and sacrifices, especially one — the daily Rosary.

She also inspired Saint Maximilian Kolbe to found the M. Moreover, she wants the M.

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The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog (Puffin Modern Classics).
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The Immaculata: A Mystery, by Brad Fern.

Motherly Heart of the Immaculata among her children. We must be very much convinced that, during this exceptional year , Our Lady has kept aside very special graces and favours for the whole Church and for all those who are really concerned with her messages and determined to seriously fulfill her requests. We must therefore pay special attention NOT to waste the precious time given to us. Every day, this year, we must deepen our devotion towards HER Immaculate Heart, the sanctuary where we abundantly receive all the graces of conversion. So, in May, the fruit of your meditations will be an immense desire of the eternal happiness for you and for the others.

You will be more and more aware that the whole world is nothing in comparison with one second in heaven. Sorrow and compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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In the anathema which fell upon the serpent, there was included a promise of mercy to us. This day the humiliation which weighed you down is annihilated. It is the Holy Spirit that we love in her; and through her we love the Son. The apparitions of Our Lady in July and August were all centred on the means she wants us to use for the greatest possible number of conversions of poor sinners. A few hours before his second and final arrest, on February 17, , Fr. Hence, they must tell us in the most precise and essential manner who she really is. The Catholic Church teaches that God acted upon Mary in the first moment of her conception keeping her "immaculate".

This means that at the tender age of three she left her beloved parents, Saint Anne and Saint Joachim, to deliver herself to the service of God in the sanctuary. Tradition tells us that at this moment she uttered a vow of virginity because she wanted to be HIS, entirely and forever.

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We, her knights, should not only admire her total consecration to God, but also strive to imitate her as far as this is possible. October 13th marked the great miracle of the sun at Fatima. On the eve of the 17th of October in Rome the Militia Immaculatae was founded. At the same time the devil gathered his armies for a general mobilization during the October revolution in Russia and the th anniversary of Freemasonry in Rome. Since then a war has been going on. The apparitions of Our Lady in July and August were all centred on the means she wants us to use for the greatest possible number of conversions of poor sinners.

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Knight of the Immaculata No. 11

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

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