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apesoformythoughts · 2 years

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«Whenever you feel guilty, even if it is because you have consciously committed a sin, a serious sin, something you have kept doing many, many times, never let the devil deceive you by allowing him to discourage you. Whenever you feel guilty, offer all your guilt to the Immaculate, without analyzing it or examining it, as something that belongs to her…

My beloved, may every fall, even if it is serious and habitual sin, always become for us a small step toward a higher degree of perfection.

In fact, the only reason why the Immaculate permits us to fall is to cure us from our self-conceit, from our pride, to make us humble and thus make us docile to the divine graces.

The devil, instead, tries to inject in us discouragement and internal depression in those circumstances, which is, in fact, nothing else than our pride surfacing again.

If we knew the depth of our poverty, we would not be at all surprised by our falls, but rather astonished, and we would thank God, after sinning, for not allowing us to fall even deeper and still more frequently.»

—Letter of St. Maximilian Kolbe, quoted in Forget Not Love: The Passion of Maximilian Kolbe

#st. Maximilian Kolbe #christianity #the romance of orthodoxy #catholic #repentance #discouragement #pride #grace #guilt

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stjohncapistrano67 · 4 months

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#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic modern art #traditional catholic saints #traditional catholic saints images #traditional catholic saints prayers #st. maximilian kolbe #founder of knights immaculta #franciscan order #franciscan friar #francisican saint #catholic martyr #the day was long

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eternal-echoes · 1 year

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“Christian perfection consists in the union of our will with the will of God.”

- St. Maximilian Kolbe

#Catholic #Christianity #quotes #St. Maximilian Kolbe

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essence-of-femininity · 1 year

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Exactly 129 years ago, on January 8, St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe was born.

Our dependence on Mary is greater than we can imagine. We receive all graces, absolutely all of them, from God through the Immaculate, who is our universal mediatrix with Jesus.

St. Maximilian Kolbe.

#st. maximilian kolbe #quotes #god #follow me #jesuschrist #i need followers #faith #roman catholic #catholicism #god loves you #amen #faithful #polishblogger #iglesia católica #igreja católica #catholic church #chiesa cattolica #mary mother of jesus

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daughter-of-mary · 7 months

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#Falling back into sin #Comfort #Jesus loves you #Forgivness #Backsliding #Habitual sin #St. Maximilian Kolbe

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catholicsaintquotes33ad · 2 years

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deaconjohn1987 · 8 months

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thewahookid · 10 months

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St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941 A.D.) affirms:

"The image of the Immaculate will one day replace the large red star over the Kremlin, but only after a great and bloody trial." - (St. Maximilian Kolbe, quoted in Albert J. Herbert, S.M., Signs, Wonders and Response, (LA: 1988), p.126.)

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helloparkerrose · 2 years

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#st. maximilian kolbe #catholic #patron saint #pray for us #catholicism #roman catholic #priest #beard #glasses

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pazzesco · 8 months

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St. Maximillian Kolbe the ‘Martyr of Auschwitz’, Polish priest who was known by the Nazis at Auschwitz as Prisoner 16670, voluntarily took the place of a stranger who was condemned to forced starvation.

Artwork by Pennsylvania sacred artist, Neilson Carlin.

THE STORY OF MAXIMILIAN KOLBE (AND WHY IT MATTERS NOW, MORE THAN EVER)

By 1938, Father Kolbe was presciently convinced that the Nazis were going to seize Poland. As the Nazis approached in 1939, Father Kolbe sent away almost all the friars, but Father Kolbe chose to stay behind with three dozen friars, and Niepokalanow was essentially converted to a hospital for wounded Polish soldiers.

The Nazis rolled their tanks into Poland on Sept. 1 and the town of Niepokalanow was bombed on Sept. 7. Yet Father Kolbe remained in place. Not only that, but with the Nazis figuratively, if not almost literally, breathing down his neck, he continued to publish materials critical of the Nazis.

The Nazis had seen enough of his writings that illustrated the evils and lies of Nazism, and on February 17, 1941, Father Kolbe was picked up and arrested. On May 28, he was sent to his final earthly destination: Auschwitz.

In July, the Nazis discovered that a man had escaped. The Nazis had a procedure for punishing the remaining prisoners after an escape: ten men would be starved to death. A German officer named Karl Fritsch gleefully chose the ten men who were standing in ranks. When one of these men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, pleaded, “My wife and children,” Father Maximilian Kolbe broke ranks and made a plea of his own: “I am a Catholic priest. I want to die for that man; I am old; he has a wife and children.”

Father Kolbe’s wish was granted, and he was led away to die naked in a dark cellar.

St. Maximillian is the patron saint of families, prisoners, journalists, political prisoners, drug addicts and the pro-life movement. St. John Paul II declared him to be “the patron saint of our difficult century.”

With men on one side, and women and children on the other, the selection process of who will live and who will be sent to the gas chambers begins. In the background can be seen the main gate of the Auschwitz II–Birkenau camp. May 27, 1944.

They call him the Martyr of Auschwitz, but we shouldn't forget that there were thousands & thousands of martyrs at Auschwitz...

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portraitsofsaints · 8 months

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Saint Maximilian Kolbe

1894 - 1941

Feast day: August 14

Patronage: drug addicts, families, imprisoned people, journalists, pro-life movement

St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Due to his efforts to promote consecration and entrustment to Mary, he is also known as the Apostle of Consecration to Mary.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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stjohncapistrano67 · 1 year

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#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic saints #traditional catholic saints quotes #st. maximilian kolbe #founder of the knights imaculata

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eternal-echoes · 1 year

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“How short life is, how quickly time passes! Let us spend it, or rather, let us give it away, let us sacrifice it, as dearly as possible. The more suffering, the better, for after death one cannot suffer any more - the time in which to demonstrate love is short, and we only live one!”

- St. Maximilian Kolbe

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myremnantarmy · 7 months

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"𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱..."

#jesus #catholic #my remnant army #jesus christ #virgin mary #faithoverfear #saints #jesusisgod #endtimes #artwork #st maximilian kolbe #pray for us #we’re here to help

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catholic-saint-tournament · 10 months

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Modern Saint Bracket Announcement

Instead of waiting until Sunday, the modern bracket will open immediately after the post-schism bracket is over. This is the modern bracket, which will be followed by a final four, and then there will be even MORE polls (losers' brackets, Marian apparitions, we're going all summer baby.)

Catholic Saint Tournament Modern Bracket Round 1 Pairings:

St Therese of Lisieux vs St Elizabeth Ann Seton

St Padre Pio (of Pietrelcina) vs St Charles de Foucauld

St Maximilian Kolbe vs St Benilde Romancon

St John Bosco vs St John Neumann

St Mother Teresa (of Calcutta) vs St Arnold Janssen

St Jacinta Marto vs St Edith Stein

St Maria Goretti vs St Marianne Cope

St Charles Lwanga (& co) vs St John Vianney

St Oscar Romero vs St Josemaria Escriva

St Bernadette vs St Damian of Molokai

St Faustina vs St Catherine Laboure

St Mary MacKillop vs St Katharine Drexel

St Gemma Galgani vs St Frances Xavier Cabrini

St John Henry Cardinal Newman vs Pope St John Paul II

Pope St John XXIII vs St Mark Ji Tianxiang

St Francisco Marto vs Sts Louis & Zelie Martin (package deal)

You can still submit nominations for beatified folks, propaganda for your favorite saints, or other thoughts in the ask box! Or suggestions for future polls, questions, etc.

May the best saint win!

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catholicsaintquotes33ad · 2 years

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