💌"Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Let's remember that not everything which is good and beautiful pertains to genuine, essential love, because even without those other things love can be present, indeed a perfected love. Without sacrifice there is no love. Sacrifice the senses, taste, hearing, and above all, the mind and the will in holy obedience. I wish for you and for myself the best appreciation of sacrifice which is the unconditional willingness to sacrifice"
💌"For flowers of of virtue to blossom in our soul, they must be heated by the warmth of the Immaculata."
💌"In her womb the soul must be regenerated according to the form of Jesus Christ. She must nourish the soul with the milk of her grace, caress and rear us in the manner in which she nourished and brought up Jesus."
St. Maximilian Kolbe, Pray for Us
🔱 1. "Baptized as Raymund Kolbe, our saint was a normal child and the stories of his childhood don’t have the false patina that Flannery O’Connor said exist in the stories of pious children. Yet there is this one stunning exception. One night in Kolbe’s childhood, Our Lady appeared to him in a dream holding a white crown and a red crown. He later related, “She asked if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.” So, yes, St. Maximillian had a normal childhood, but with one tremendous difference that was to define the course of his life.
The young Raymond excelled in what we now call the STEM areas of study (science, technology, engineering, and math). He also had a passionate interest in all things military. A childhood dream of the priesthood was almost lost for this ardent patriot with a soldier’s heart, as he had hoped for a military career defending his beloved Poland. Complications caused him to abandon these plans and he entered the Franciscan noviate late in 1910 and was ordained in 1918.
His still had a soldier’s heart, but now waged a spiritual war. With several friends a new type of army was founded, the Militia Immaculatae, an army to convert sinners and bring all to love Mary Immaculate.
🔱 2. He founded a religious group focused on evangelization.
By the time he was in his early thirties, Fr. Kolbe founded a religious house near Warsaw, Niepokalanów – the City of the Immaculate, from which to expand his evangelization efforts. Starting with a handful of friars, within a decade it grew to house nearly 1,000! He and a handful of his brothers travelled to Japan, where they opened another house in Nagasaki.
🔱 3. There are St. Maximilian pilgrimage sites, even in America.
Niepokalanów is still a thriving community. There is even a museum which pilgrims visit in large numbers. If you live in the United States and your travels will not take you abroad, you can still plan a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe at Marytown in Libertyville, Illinois, about thirty miles north of Chicago.
🔱 4. You can acquire relics of St. Maximilian.
Though St. Maximilian’s body was incinerated at Auschwitz, there are first class relics available for veneration. Years before the saint’s death, a somewhat prescient barber in his community started saving clippings of Fr. Kolbe’s hair and beard. Parishes may obtain a first class relic for public veneration through Niepokalanów. The community can also accommodate requests for second class relics and provide prayer cards with relics."
Info from this site: http://www.wordonfire.org/resources/blog/9-things-to-know-about-st-maximilian-kolbe/4426/
✔️ Check out his parents: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
"His parents, who were educated only in elementary schools, belonged to the third order Franciscans, they home schooled during early years, helped the poor (not being well of themselves) and sickly. Looking for jobs, they ended up in a big industrial city of Łódź, but soon after decided that because of the kids they needed to move to the little village nearby. They ran a small store and gave away so may things to the poor that they lost the store. Because of the political unrest they downsized to a small one room apartment and changed apartments often. They both worked 12 hours daily, went to the Mass daily at 5 am, prayed together as a family, and thought their kids this order of life: work, study and play only if you have time. They belonged to a rosary group and every Sunday attended Eucharistic adoration, which they themselves organized.
The boys were responsible for keeping the apartment clean, they cooked and brought food for their parents twice a day to the factory, and they made dinners daily and walked parents from their factory to spend time with them at the evening. Marianna helped as a doula after her factory work, and studied herself at the evenings to become better help for the poor women without medical help. Juliusz supported local parochial library, and made book covers, and wrote articles for a local newspaper. He evangelized everyone around, trying to convert even local Evangelical pastor, and Marianna, feeling inadequacy for raising her boys, constantly called upon Mary’s help. Her conversations had only one focus: God. She was very firm and expected nothing but the best from the boys. After having five sons, they decided to live in chastity.
Young Rajmund KolbeThey were very patriotic family (Poland was under partitions for over 100 years when the boys were small) and talked a lot about Polish history.
After their three boys went to to the seminaries (two boys died while young), both parents decided to consecrate their lives only to God. Marianna lived in the house of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Felix and Juliusz helped Franciscan monasteries. Marianna’s words: “I loved my sons and husband more than my life, but not more than God.” She survived all of her sons and husband, and died in 1946."
Info from this site: https://iwka.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/lesser-known-facts-about-st-maximilian-kolbe/
Novena to St. Maximilian Kolbe
O 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...
(State your intention here.)
Through the Militia 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.
Recite the following prayers...
3 Hail Mary...
1 Glory Be...
ıɬ ıʂ ɱơʂɬ ŋɛƈɛʂʂąཞყ ɬơ ℘ཞąყ, ℘ཞąყ, ℘ཞąყ (~_~)
ąʂ ɖąཞƙŋɛʂʂ ıʂ ཞą℘ıɖƖყ ʂɛɬɬƖıŋɠ ơ۷ɛཞ ɬɧɛ ῳơཞƖɖ ɬơɖąყ ╯︿╰
ɬơ ცɛ ųŋąʄʄɛƈɬɛɖ & ŋơɬ Ɩɛɬɬıŋɠ ყơųཞ ℘ɛąƈɛ ɠơ ąʂɬཞąყ ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
ɬųཞŋ ɬơ ɠơɖ, ƈąųʂɛ ɛ۷ɛཞყ ʄɛąཞ ɧɛ ῳıƖƖ ƈɛཞɬąıŋƖყ ąƖƖąყ (•ิ‿•ิ)
ąʂ ƈɧཞıʂɬ ʝɛʂųʂ ıʂ ცɛʄơཞɛ & ცɛɧıŋɖ ყơų 2 Ɩıɠɧɬ ɬɧɛ ῳąყ (︶^︶)
✞ⓂⓂ/℘✞L̶o̶r̶d̶ \☀/
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