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Power of the Miraculous Medal
AND ABOVE ALL, THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL!
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“𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣, 𝙖 𝙗𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙪𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙨.” 𝙎𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙭𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙆𝙤𝙡𝙗𝙚
St. Maximilian Kolbe was murdered by the Nazis in 1941. He performed great spiritual works using the Miraculous Medal. He was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1973. On the 10th October 1982, Pope St. John Paul II canonized Maximilian Kolbe as a “martyr of charity” where he proclaimed:
“At various times and in various trials the most Blessed Virgin Mary has come to the aid of her children, giving them different ways of attaining salvation more easily, and freeing others from the yoke of Satan. Now in this epoch of the Immaculate Conception the most Blessed Virgin has given mankind the ‘Miraculous Medal.’ Its heavenly origin has been proved by countless miracles of healing and particularly conversion….
“On this medal there is inscribed the ejaculation: ‘O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.’ This is a prayer which the Immaculata herself places upon our lips, revealing it to us and recommending its recitation…. This is truly our heavenly weapon.”
A motto of St. Maximilian’s Order is: “And above all, the Miraculous Medal”
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I’m not at the best of moods at the moment (primarily because I’m terribly angry and conflicted w/ myself) but could you please offer to pray a Rosary for me? I’m back once again on my sinful old habits and am greatly terrified of going to confession (mainly because I’m not able to sincerely amend my venial sins for past two times now). I feel things are just going for the worse. Every time I try to resolve something good, I can’t even make it last long enough. What’s worse is that I know what I’m doing are wrong but still do them. It’s making me very angry and not sure where to go know because my scrupulosity isn’t helping either.
I will pray a rosary for you. Here’s some advice from St. Maximilian Kolbe:
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.
God bless you, Anon. ❤️
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"Courage, my sons. Don’t you see that we are leaving on a mission? They pay our fare in the bargain. What a piece of good luck! The thing to do now is to pray well in order to win as many souls as possible. Let us, then, tell the Blessed Virgin that we are content, and that she can do with us anything she wishes."
St. Maximilian Kolbe, when first arrested
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Vatican City — Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in Algeria.
The 85-year-old pope, who has been using a wheelchair due to knee and leg pain, was driven to the altar at the start of the ceremony, which was attended by more than 50,000 people in St Peter's Square. It was the one of the largest gatherings there since the easing of COVID-19 restrictions earlier this year.
Francis limped to a chair behind the altar but stood to individually greet some participants. He read his homily while seated but stood during other parts of the Mass and read his homily in a strong voice, often going off script, and walked to greet cardinals afterwards.
Francis read the canonization proclamations while seated in front of the altar and 10 cheers went up in the crowd as he officially declared each of 10 saints.
Titus Brandsma, who was a member of the Carmelite religious order and served as president of the Catholic university at Nijmegen, began speaking out against Nazi ideology even before World War II and the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.
During the Nazi occupation, he spoke out against anti-Jewish laws. He urged Dutch Catholic newspapers not to print Nazi propaganda.
He was arrested in 1942 and held in Dutch jails before being taken to Dachau, near Munich, where he was subjected to biological experimentation and killed by lethal injection the same year at the age of 61. He is considered a martyr, having died because of what the Church calls "in hatred of the faith."
The other well-known new saint is Charles de Foucauld, a 19th century French nobleman, soldier, explorer, and geographer who later experienced a personal conversion and became a priest, living as a hermit among the poor Berbers in North Africa.
He published the first Tuareg-French dictionary and translated Tuareg poems into French. De Foucauld was killed during a kidnapping attempt by Bedouin tribal raiders in Algeria in 1916.
The other eight who were declared saints on Sunday included Devasahayam Pillai, who was killed for converting to Christianity in 18th century India, and Cesar de Bus, a 16th century French priest who founded a religious order.
The others were two Italian priests, three Italian nuns, and a French nun, all of whom who lived between the 16th and 20th centuries.
"These saints favored the spiritual and social growth of their nations and the whole human family, while sadly in the world today, distances are widening, tensions and wars are increasing," Francis said after the Mass.
World leaders had to be "protagonists of peace and not of war," he said in an apparent reference to Ukraine.
Miracles have been attributed to all the new saints.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that only God performs miracles, but that saints, who are believed to be with God in heaven, intercede on behalf of people who pray to them.
Several other Catholics killed in Nazi concentration camps have already been declared saints. They include Polish priest Maximilian Kolbe and Sister Edith Stein, a German nun who converted from Judaism. Both were killed in the Auschwitz camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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St. Maximilian Kolbe
Daily Meditation
What She Wishes
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"Let us pray that she may always and everywhere do what she wishes, not what we want." (KW 510)
Prayer of Consecration
O Immaculata, I renew my consecration to you. May I only do what you wish and not what I want.
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Daily Mass: Moses exhorts the people to live for the Lord. Catholic Inspiration
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SAINT OF THE DAY (August 14)
Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Polish Franciscan priest, missionary and martyr, is celebrated throughout the Church today, August 14.
The saint died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during World War II.
He is remembered as a “martyr of charity” for dying in place of another prisoner who had a wife and children.
He was beatified by Pope Paul VI on 17 October 1971. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on 10 October 1982.
St. Maximilian is also celebrated for his missionary work, his evangelistic use of modern means of communication, and for his lifelong devotion to the Virgin Mary under her title of the Immaculate Conception.
All these aspects of St. Maximilian's life converged in his founding of the Militia Immaculata.
The worldwide organization continues St. Maximilian Kolbe's mission of bringing individuals and societies into the Catholic Church, through dedication to the Virgin Mary.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM Conv. (Raymund Kolbe) was born on 8 January 1894 in Zduńska Wola, in the Kingdom of Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
He was the second son of weaver Julius Kolbe and midwife Maria Dąbrowska.
His father was an ethnic German, and his mother was Polish. He had four brothers.
St. Maximilian, according to several biographies, was personally called by the Virgin Mary, both to his holy life and to his eventual martyrdom.
As an impulsive and badly-behaved child, he prayed to her for guidance and later described how she miraculously appeared to him holding two crowns: one was white, representing purity, the other red, for martyrdom.
When he was asked to choose between these two destinies, the troublesome child and future saint said he wanted both.
Radically changed by the incident, he entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in 1907 at age 13.
At age 20, he made his solemn vows as a Franciscan, earning a doctorate in philosophy the next year.
Soon after, however, he developed chronic tuberculosis, which eventually destroyed one of his lungs and weakened the other.
On 16 October 1917, in response to anti-Catholic demonstrations by Italian Freemasons, Friar Maximilian led six other Franciscans in Rome to form the association they called the Militia Immaculata.
The group's founding coincided almost exactly with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal.
As a Franciscan priest, Fr. Maximilian returned to work in Poland during the 1920s.
There, he promoted the Catholic faith through newspapers and magazines, which eventually reached an extraordinary circulation, published from a monastery so large it was called the “City of the Immaculata.”
In 1930, he moved to Japan and had established a Japanese Catholic press by 1936, along with a similarly ambitious monastery.
That year, however, he returned to Poland for the last time.
In 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Fr. Kolbe was arrested.
Briefly freed during 1940, he published one last issue of the Knight of the Immaculata before his final arrest and transportation to Auschwitz in 1941.
At the beginning of August that year, 10 prisoners were sentenced to death by starvation in punishment for another inmate's escape.
Moved by one man's lamentation for his wife and children, Fr. Kolbe volunteered to die in his place.
Survivors of the camp testified that the starving prisoners could be heard praying and singing hymns, led by the priest who had volunteered for an agonizing death.
After two weeks, on the night before the Church's feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the camp officials decided to hasten Fr. Kolbe's death, injecting him with carbolic acid.
He died on 14 August 1941. His body was cremated by the camp officials on the feast of the Assumption.
He had stated years earlier:
“I would like to be reduced to ashes for the cause of the Immaculata, and may this dust be carried over the whole world so that nothing would remain.”
St. Maximilian Kolbe is considered a patron of journalists, families, prisoners, the pro-life movement, the chemically addicted, and those with eating disorders.
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“…pray always without becoming weary.” Luke 18:1
Prayer to me is putting on the armor God gives us and going out into the battlefield. We don’t see the enemy but they are legion and they are out to destroy us in any way they can. They look for chinks in our armor, in our mind, in situations. They strike with deception and a lot of fake news to discourage us and make us lose hope. They are still the crafty and subtle “serpents” that Eve encountered in the garden of Eden. “Did God really say...” they whisper in the battlefield of our minds. “Is God really listening to your prayers? How can you change anything with your prayers!” I like the story of Father Robert Barron about FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students. He said that these young people are always so enthusiastic and energetic. Once when he found a group of these missionaries in the University of Arizona, he asked them what their current project was. They answered, “We want to convert the most popular person in campus this year.” “And who’s that?” “The quarterback of the football team. We meet every morning and pray for his conversion.” “How is it going so far?” “We haven’t converted him yet, but we’ve converted his girlfriend and his roommate.” Father Barron smiled at them, “You’ve got him surrounded. It’s only a matter of time.” Yes, it’s only a matter of time. If we put on our armor, focus, and pray, God will surprise us. We should not lose hope, but be animated by our faith, excited to be in the thick of the battle. There are so many things to pray for. It’s obvious that in our country, we should not be complacent. Our enemy is working overtime to destroy truth, to destroy even our basic freedoms. Tyranny is rearing it’s ugly head and we see so many people just going with the flow.
St. Maximilian Kolbe said, “Indifference is the greatest sin of the 20th century”. It’s still the greatest sin today. We have a powerful, magnificent weapon in our hands. Let us not be weary about using it! Inside each of us is a warrior! Let us go unafraid into battle! Our prayer room is our war room! https://www.instagram.com/p/CjwYK3BPMW0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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“I would like to suffer and die in a knightly manner, even to the shedding of blood, if it will hasten the day when the whole world acknowledges Mary as the Immaculate Mother of God”. -St. Maximilian Kolbe
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I pray that we each are given the courage to shamelessly speak about the Love of Mother Mary, Mother of our 1 True God and Mother of us all.
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"In 1934 St. Maximilian Kolbe wrote in letter from Japan: 'I picture a beautiful statue of the Immaculate within a large altar, and in front of her, between spread arms - a monstrance in perpetual exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.'
In 2017 this was realised. The adoration chapel in Niepokalanow is one of 8 places in the world, where people pray for peace and reconciliation. That is why it is also known as the Peace Chapel.
A special indulgence is granted to those who visit, even virtually. You will receive under the normal conditions: being in the state of sanctifying grace, pious Holy Communion, remorse for sin and prayer (including adoration), ending with 'Our Father', 'Apostles’ Creed' and 'Holy Virgin Mary pray for us' and 'St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe pray for us.'"
-EWTN Polska | Adoracja z Niepokalanowa
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