Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord,
I lift up my soul. - Psalm 86:4
"You come to me and unite Yourself
intimately to me under the form of nourishment.
Your Blood now runs in mine,
Your Soul, Incarnate God, compenetrates mine,
giving courage and support.
What miracles!
Who would have ever imagined such!
St Maximilian Kolbe
Poland ~1894-1941
Priest, Martyr
Founder: Militia of Immaculata
Patron: drug addicts, imprisoned people,
journalists, Pro-life movement
Patron: drug addicts, imprisoned people,
journalists, Pro-life movement
“When the conquest for the Immaculate of the whole world
and of every single soul now living or to live until the end of
the world, and through Her for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
is completed, ... then souls will love the Sacred Heart
as they have never as yet loved Him, because like Her they will
have been immersed as never before in the mystery of love:
the Cross, the Eucharist. Through Her the love of God
will inflame the world, will set it on fire, and will effect
the ‘assumption’ of souls,... the divinization
of the entire world.” - St. Maximilian Kolbe
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"A single act of love makes the soul return to life."
"A single act of love makes the soul return to life."
St. Maximilian Kolbe
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" For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more."
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" For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more."
St. Maximilian Kolbe
St Maximilian, pray for us!
More on St Maximilian (From Saint of the Day - www.americancatholic.org)
I don’t know what’s going to become of you!” How many parents have said that? Maximilian Mary Kolbe’s reaction was, “I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me. She appeared, holding in her hands two crowns, one white, one red. She asked if I would like to have them—one was for purity, the other for martyrdom. I said, ‘I choose both.’ She smiled and disappeared.” After that he was not the same.
He entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in Lvív (then Poland Ukraine
Ordained at 24, he saw religious indifference as the deadliest poison of the day. His mission was to combat it. He had already founded the Militia of the Immaculata, whose aim was to fight evil with the witness of the good life, prayer, work and suffering. He dreamed of and then founded Knight of the Immaculata, a religious magazine under Mary’s protection to preach the Good News to all nations. For the work of publication he established a “City of the Immaculata”—Niepokalanow—which housed 700 of his Franciscan brothers. He later founded one in Nagasaki Japan
In 1939 the Nazi panzers overran Poland
In 1941 he was arrested again. The Nazis’ purpose was to liquidate the select ones, the leaders. The end came quickly, in Auschwitz
The commandant, dumbfounded, perhaps with a fleeting thought of history, kicked Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek out of line and ordered Father Kolbe to go with the nine. In the “block of death” they were ordered to strip naked and the slow starvation began in darkness. But there was no screaming—the prisoners sang. By the eve of the Assumption four were left alive. The jailer came to finish Kolbe off as he sat in a corner praying. He lifted his fleshless arm to receive the bite of the hypodermic needle. It was filled with carbolic acid. They burned his body with all the others. He was beatified in 1971 and canonized in 1982.
