#militia immaculatae

[deus77vult]

Der ganze Monat Juni ist besonders der Verehrung des heiligsten Herzens Jesu gewidmet. Die Herzen Jesu und Mariens gehören zusammen. Ist Ihnen schon aufgefallen: Das Logo der MI vereint diese beiden Herzen unter einer Krone. Ebenso sind auf der Wundertätigen Medaille auf der Rückseite diese beiden Herzen abgebildet. Auch auf dem Skapulier sind auf dem einen Bild das Herz-Jesu, auf dem anderen Unsere liebe Frau vom Berge Karmel abgedruckt. Widmen wir uns also der Herz-Jesu-Verehrung – welche Verheissungen sind mit dieser Verehrung verbunden?

Zum Herz-Jesu Monat Juni

[ha-bakbuk]

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (May 20th, 1851 - July 9th, 1926), the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The picture is the last picture of her ever taken. Rose Hawthorne dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the cancer-ridden poor, after two experiences; the first was the loss of her friend Emma Lazarus (of "The New Colossus" fame) to cancer in 1887. The second was her discovery of the fact that New York City hospitals would not house cancer patients once their prognosis became terminal, leaving those without a means of housing themselves to die in obscurity. As Mother Mary Alphonsa, Hawthorne worked to serve those who were dying of cancer in order to give them a sense of comfort and dignity in their final weeks and months. Taking Saint Vincent de Paul's maxim for the poor (the first of the quotes below) as a personal motto, she sought to further and further identify herself and her wards with the living Christ. I am for God and the poor. God and the poor await us side by side.

[cristianesimocattolico]

La stanza dove nacque la Milizia dell’Immacolata

Per contrastare la massoneria sempre più tracotante «e gli altri servi di Lucifero», san Massimiliano Kolbe, il 16 ottobre 1917, fondò a Roma, con sei confratelli, la Milizia dell’Immacolata. Una grande opera mariana nata in un’umile stanza… Continue reading La stanza dove nacque la Milizia dell’Immacolata

[lord-here-i-am]

Zum Fatimatag am 13. Oktober: Was waren die letzten Worte der hl. Jacinta von Fatima?

➡️ Die letzten Worte der heiligen Jacinta von Fatima

(https://m-i.info/de/die-letzten-worte-der-heiligen-jacinta-von-fatima/) Teilen und Kanal abonnieren: t.me/MilitiaImmaculatae

[myremnantarmy]

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢...

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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 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.

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 the age of 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.

St. Maximilian Kolbe's 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.”

[catholic-saint-tournament]

my dad nominates maximilian kolbe!

YOUR DAD KNOWS WHAT'S UP and another vote has been added for him!

St Maximilian Kolbe is one of my all time favorite saints.

Can I share something super funny? I'm going to do it. Once upon a time your mod was friendly with a Latter-day Saint who was expecting and she needed ideas for a boy's name. It was a Facebook post with lots of ideas.

Like a good Catholic, I'm thinking the LDS name their kids really unique things, and I'd just joined up the Militia Immaculata, so I suggested the Anglicised Colby (for St Maximilian Kolbe) and SHE NAMED HER SON COLBY.

So little LDS Colby, you got unwittingly named for a Catholic saint, and I am shameless about it.

[korrektheiten]

Dritte Fatima-Lichterprozession der Militia Immaculatae zum Baseler Spalentor

katholisches.info: Am 17. Mai fand in Basel zum dritten Mal eine Fatima-Lichterprozession zum Spalentor statt. Katholisches.info berichtete über die erste Prozession 2022. Die Initiative steht in direktem Zusammenhang mit den Marienerscheinungen im portugiesischen Fatima, die sich zwischen dem 13. Mai und dem 13. Oktober 1917 zutrugen. In Fatima versprach Maria den Menschen als himmlische Mutter zu ... http://dlvr.it/T7HZZH

[deaconjohn1987]

Fervor from the Base

Meditation

"As for the Militia of the Immaculata on American soil, I am convinced that an order from the top will not achieve as much as fervor from the base." (KW 740)

Prayer of Consecration

O Immaculata, I renew my consecration to you. May my fervor for you spark spiritual renewal. militiaoftheimmaculata.com

[consecratedhearts]

“Let us look at the image of a true Knight of the Immaculate. He (or she) does not restrict his heart to himself alone, nor merely to his family, friends, neighbors, co-citizens, but embraces the whole world, each and every human being, because they are all without exception, our brothers and sisters who have been purchased by the Blood of Jesus. The militant desires for everyone the light of faith, happiness, forgiveness of sins, and a heart afire with God’s love. His dream is the happiness of all humanity in God through the Immaculate.” -Saint Maximilian Kolbe (picture source: https://missionimmaculata.com/index.php/kolbe/short-bio-of-st-maximilian-kolbe)

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT MAXIMILIAN KOLBE The Knight of the Immaculata and the Martyr of Auschwitz Feast Day: August 14

"Without sacrifice, there is no love."

The martyr of Auschwitz and the patron of political prisoners and invoked against drug addiction, was born Raymund Kolbe, in Zduńska Wola, Congress Poland, Russian Empire on January 8, 1894. 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. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to Pabianice. In 1906, when he was 12 years old, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him asking to choose between the two crowns in her hands. One was white, symbolizing purity; the other red, symbolizing martyrdom. Maximillian answered: 'I choose both.'

After entering the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (Conventual Franciscans) with his elder brother Francis in 1907, and both enrolled at the Conventual Franciscan minor seminary in Lwow later that year, he went to Rome to complete his theological studies. In 1910, Kolbe was allowed to enter the novitiate, where he chose a religious name Maximilian. He professed his first vows in 1911, and final vows in 1914, adopting the additional name of Maria (Mary). In 1917, one year before his ordination, he founded and organized the Militia Immaculatae (Army of the Immaculate One), to work for conversion of sinners and enemies of the Catholic church, specifically the Freemasons, through the Blessed Virgin Mary's intercession.

Maximilian ordained a priest in 1918. The following year in July, he returned to Poland, which was newly independent (Second Polish Republic). He was active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary. He was strongly opposed to leftist – in particular, communist – movements. From 1919 to 1922, he taught at the Kraków Seminary. Around that time, as well as earlier in Rome, he suffered from tuberculosis, which forced him to take a lengthy leave of absence from his teaching duties. In those pre-antibiotic times, TB was generally considered fatal, with rest and good nutrition the best treatment.

He founded the monthly periodical Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculata) in January 1922, a devotional publication based on French Le Messager du Coeur de Jesus (Messenger of the Heart of Jesus). From 1922 to 1926, he operated a religious publishing press in Grodno. As his activities grew in scope, in 1927 he founded a new Conventual Franciscan monastery at Niepokalanów near Warsaw. It became a major religious publishing centre, and a junior seminary was opened there two years later. 

He undertook a series of missions to East Asia. He arrived first in Shanghai, China, but failed to gather a following there. Next he moved to Japan, where by 1931 he had founded a Franciscan monastery, Mugenzai no Sono, on the outskirts of Nagasaki. Kolbe had started publishing a Japanese edition of the Knight of the Immaculata (Seibo no Kishi: 聖母の騎士). The monastery he founded remains prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Japan. He had the monastery built on a mountainside, and according to Shinto beliefs, this was not the side best suited to be in harmony with nature. Later, when the American forces dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Kolbe's monastery was saved, unlike the Immaculate Conception Cathedral (Urakami Cathedral), because the blast of the bomb hit the other side of the mountain, which took the main force of the blast. Had Kolbe built the monastery on the preferred side of the mountain, as he was advised, his work and all of his fellow monks would have been destroyed. Fr. Kolbe also entered into dialogue with local Buddhist priests, and some of them became friends.

Meanwhile, in his absence the monastery at Niepokalanów began to publish a daily newspaper Mały Dziennik (the Small Diary), in alliance with the political group National Radical Camp (Obóz Narodowo Radykalny). This publication reached a circulation of 137,000, and nearly double that, 225,000, on weekends. Kolbe returned to Poland in 1933 for a general chapter of the order in Kraków.

In 1930, Maximillian went for a few years in Japan, until called back to attend the Provincial Chapter in Poland in 1936. There he was appointed guardian of Niepokalanów, thus precluding his return to Japan. Two years later, in 1938, he started a radio station at Niepokalanów, Radio Niepokalanów. He held an amateur radio licence, with the call sign SP3RN.

When the Second World War broke out, Fr. Kolbe worked actively to support the Jewish refugees, and was one of the few friars who remained in the monastery, where he organized a temporary hospital. After the town was captured by the Germans, he was discovered on September 19, 1939; he was later released on December 8. Fr. Kolbe refused to sign the Deutsche Volksliste, which would have given him rights similar to those of German citizens in exchange for recognizing his ethnic German ancestry. Upon his release he continued work at his friary where he and other friars provided shelter to refugees from Greater Poland including 2,000 Jews whom he hid from German persecution in the Niepokalanów friary. Kolbe received permission to continue publishing religious works, though significantly reduced in scope. The monastery continued to act as a publishing house, issuing a number of anti-Nazi German publications.

After the monastery was shut down by the German authorities, Fr. Kolbe and four others were arrested on February 17, 1941, by the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany, and imprisoned in the Pawiak prison. He was transferred to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp on May 28, as 'Prisoner 16670'. Continuing to act as a priest, he was subjected to violent harassment, including beatings and lashings. Once he was smuggled to a prison hospital by friendly inmates.

On July 31, in reprisal for a prisoner's escape, the deputy camp commander, SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch, randomly picked men were to die in the starvation cell to deter further escape attempts. Fr. Kolbe offered himself in place of one of them, Franciszek Gajowniczek, a father of two children. According to an eyewitness, who was an assistant janitor at that time, in his prison cell Kolbe led the prisoners in prayer. Each time the guards checked on him, he was standing or kneeling in the middle of the cell and looking calmly at those who entered. After they had been starved and deprived of water for two weeks, only Kolbe remained alive.

The guards wanted the bunker emptied, and on August 14, 1941 at Auschwitz-Birkenau - the vigil of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, after being starved for two weeks, Fr. Kolbe was executed with a carbolic acid injection. He died at the age of 47, receiving the crown of martyrdom, and serenely with the name of the Blessed Mother on his lips.

Beatified by Pope Paul VI on October 17, 1971 and canonized a saint eleven years later by St. John Paul II on October 10, 1982, his major shrine can be found at the Basilica of the Omni-mediatress of All Glories in Niepokalanów, under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Warsaw.

"O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. And for all those who do not have recourse to thee; especially the Freemasons and all those recommended to thee." -his quote about this goal that he added to the Miraculous Medal prayer

[lord-here-i-am]

Geistige Telegram Gruppen

Drei Minuten für Gott Vater Vaterbetrachtungen

Der Alltagskatholik Wissenswertes & Aufmunterung

Katholischer Widerstand Echter Widerstand kann nur aus dem Glauben heraus kommen. Wir wollen unser Land verteidigen gegen jegliche Gefahr von außen oder innen.

Militia Immaculatae Katholische Marianische Bewegung vom Hl. Maximilian Kolbe Offizieller Kanal der katholischen Vereinigung "Militia Immaculatae" im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Schriftauslegung von Bruder Elija (Harpa Dei)

Mother and Refuge of the End Times in the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph

[bylagunabay]

Power of the Miraculous Medal

SOMEONE HAD GIVEN HIM A MIRACULOUS MEDAL, AND OVERNIGHT HIS CANCER SHRANK TO JUST 1%.

A Knight of the Militia Immaculata in the U.K. noticed a stranger at Mass and engaged him in conversation afterwards. He gave the stranger a Miraculous Medal, a flyer about safety in an epidemic, and a booklet about the M.I. of the Traditional Order. The man confided that he was a cancer sufferer and had been receiving chemotherapy. Someone had given him a Miraculous Medal, and overnight his cancer shrank to just 1%. Now he is in remission and regularly drives 70 km for Mass.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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.

[traumacatholic]

NOVENA PRAYER SEEKING THE INTERCESSION OF ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE

1.

Lord Jesus Christ, who said, “Greater love than this no man has that a man lay down his life for his friends,” through the intercession of St. Maximilian Kolbe whose life illustrated such love, we beseech you to grant us our petitions . . . (mention special requests.)

Through the Militia of the Immaculata movement, which Maximilian founded, he spread a fervent devotion to Our Lady throughout the world. He gave up his life for a total stranger and loved his persecutors, giving us an example of unselfish love for all men, a love that was inspired by true devotion to Mary. Grant, O Lord Jesus, that we too may give ourselves entirely without reserve to the love and service of our Heavenly Queen in order to better love and serve our fellowman in imitation of your humble servant, Maximilian. Amen.

(Three Hail Marys and a Glory Be.)

2.

Merciful God, you made St. Maximilian Kolbe one of the foremost Catholic evangelists of the difficult twentieth century.

Through the Militia of the Immaculata movement which he founded, he implanted the truths of the Immaculate Conception and your merciful plan for us all in countless hearts, thus moving them to full conversion in faith and hope, to perfect obedience and union with the Heart of Jesus, and to complete observance of the New Covenant.

You made him fruitful through carrying the cross of suffering with dignity and hope, loving his persecutors, and giving up his life for a total stranger. Through his intercession grant us our petitions . . . (here mention the requests you have). Give us a like dignity and hope in our sufferings and sacrifices, and if it will glorify you, heal us of all our infirmities, both physical and spiritual.

Finally, enable us to follow his example of effective Catholic evangelism with Mary for the return to you of all the masses of mankind, and of every individual person, family, society and culture of our time and of all time to come. Amen.

[catholic-saint-tournament]

Maximilian Kolbe. He was killed in Auschwitz after volunteering in place of another prisoner

Anon, I LOVE Maximilian Kolbe. He's only been recc'ed once so far! Btw your dear modmin joined up with the Militia of the Immaculata about 10 years ago :)