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Variety #135 – Radio interview with Fr. Gabriele Pellettieri ( 31 min) >>> Play

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Fr. Joseph Michael interviews Fr. Gabriele Pellettieri during a visit to the friars in Perth, Australia. Fr. Gabriele, the cofounder of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, discusses Marian Consecration based on the example of St. Maximilian Kolbe who viewed consecration to Our Lady as not only for personal sanctification but the sanctification of all souls and ultimately the conversion of the world. There are many ways to express one’s Marian consecration, but Fr. Gabriele focuses on the Holy Rosary.

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Homily #110215l ( 11min) Play – Seeking the Living Bread by being humble and detached from the “things” of this world. We have the good example of St. Maximilian Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta.
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Mass: Votive Mass of St. Maxamilian Kolbe – – Form:
Readings:
1st: gen 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 10
Resp: psa 29:1-2, 3-4, 8, 9-10
Gsp: mar 8:14-21

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Prayer to the Most Holy Trinity:

I adore You, O our heavenly Father, because You placed in the most pure womb of Mary Your only-begotten Son. I adore You, O Son of God, because You condescended to enter the womb of Mary and became truly Her actual Son.  I adore You, O Holy Spirit,  because You deigned to form in Her immaculate womb the Body of the Son of God.

I adore You, O most Holy Trinity,  O One God in the Holy Trinity,  for having enobled the Immaculate in such a divine way. And I will never cease daily from the first moment I awake to adore You most humbly, O Divine Trinity, with my face to the ground, repeating three times: Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, is now,  and will be for ever. Amen.

On Unlimited Happiness: 

So we do wish to live after all, but without having to suffer. We want to live happily, but not any sort of happy life. We would like our happiness to grow con­tinually rather than diminish; in fact, the knowledge itself that we might find an insurmountable obstacle in our path would diminish our happiness. We long for happiness, but it should have no limits. Quite so. And not only should it have no limits, but it should last for a very long time, as long as possible; endless­ly, if possible.

Indeed. Evidently, there is no such thing as unlimited hap­piness in this limited world; such happiness can only be found in the infinite, eternal God himself, in heaven. Besides, all of us who are here, long for this, and every person, regardless of nationality, lives on such longing. The longing comes from human nature itself, which is common to us all.

Could God himself, who has bestowed on us abili­ties and natural tendencies to reach our goal (eyes to see the objects that really exist, ears to hear the sounds that really exist), give his creatures a higher, intellectual longing, without offering them the chance to fulfill it? If this were the case, then that longing would be pointless.

A God who has created in nature this somehow unquenchable longing for happiness, explicitly intending it to be unlimited, but without offering the way to satisfy this burning thirst, would not be acting sensibly nor lovingly. In short, he would not be God. Therefore, there must be such happiness.

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe

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Homily #100815t ( 07min) Play – Twentieth century age of progress or age of victims? St. Maximilian Kolbe’s martyrdom was a light in the darkness of the twentieth century. In the assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mother we have great hope in the resurrection of God’s faithful.

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“Let us give ourselves to the Immaculata. Let her prepare us, let her receive Him in Holy Communion. This is the manner most perfect and pleasing to the Lord Jesus and brings great fruit to us.”   – St. Maximilian Kolbe

 For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.
- Saint Maximilian Kolbe

“A soul consecrated to the Immaculate must follow the inspirations of the heart with complete liberty and approach the tabernacle, the cross, the Holy Trinity with much more courage, because that soul does not approach alone, but together with the Heavenly Mother, the Immaculate. Therefore, the soul consecrated to the Immaculate needs to pray the ejaculatory prayers and other prayers with great liberty, as the wings of the love of God guide it, where the Holy Spirit inspires it, shattering all barriers.”

 “A soul that is consecrated to the Immaculate, even if it does not turn its thought in an explicit way to the Immaculate and offers the prayer, the work, the suffering or any other thing, directly to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, that soul procures for the Heart of Jesus a pleasure that is incomparably greater than it would if it were not consecrated to the Immaculate.”

 “If we belong to the Immaculate, then everything that is ours belongs to Her and Jesus accepts everything that comes from us as if it came from Her, as if it belonged to Her. In this case, She cannot leave those actions imperfect, but She renders them worthy of Herself, that is Immaculate, without the slightest stain.”

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Homily #100718t ( 07min) Play – Participating in the Priesthood of Christ is to Participate in the Cross, in Christ’s sacrifice. We see an heroic example of this in St. Maximilian’s sacrifice of his life for a stranger.
Ave Maria! 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mass: OF, – Readings:
1st: gen 18:1-10
Resp: psa 15:2-3, 3-4, 5
2nd: col 1:24-28
Gsp: luk 10:38-42

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Face of Pro-Life #79 – Fr. Angelo Geiger and Corinn Dahm on St Maximilian Kolbe ( 29min) >>> Play

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Fr. Angelo Geiger of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FI) explains the life of St Maximilian Kolbe who is a patron of the FIs and how it relates to our current battle for the Culture of Life and Religious Freedom.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: These words fell from the lips of the Immaculata herself. Hence, they must tell us, in the most precise and essential manner, who she really is. Since human words are incapable of expressing Divine realities, it follows that these words, “Immaculate” and “Conception”, must be understood in a much more profound, much more beautiful and sublime meaning than usual: a meaning beyond that which human reason at its most penetrating commonly gives to them…

Who then are you, O Immaculate Conception?

Not God, of course, because He has no beginning. Not an angel, created directly out of nothing. Not Adam, formed out of the dust of the earth. Not Eve, molded from Adam’s rib. Not the Incarnate Word, Who exists before all ages, and of Whom we should use the word “conceived” rather than “conception.”

Humans do not exist before their conception, so we might call them created “conceptions.” But you, O Mary, are different from all other children of Eve. They are conceptions stained by Original Sin; whereas you are the unique, Immaculate, Conception.

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Consecration to the Immaculata by Saint Maximilian Kolbe:

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has willed to entrust the entire
order of mercy to thee. I, N. . . , a repentant sinner, cast myself at thy feet humbly imploring thee to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to thyself as thy possession and property.

Please make of me, of all my powers of soul and body, of my whole life, death and eternity, whatever most pleases thee.  If it pleases thee, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of thee: “She will crush your head,”
and, “Thou alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world.”

Let me be a fit instrument in thine Immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing the maximum in all the many strayed and indifferent souls, and thus help extend as far as possible the blessed Kingdom of the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

For wherever thou enters, one obtains the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through thy hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

V. Allow me to praise thee O Sacred Virgin.
R. Give me strength against thine enemies.

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Homily #090920 ( 22min) Play – In Mk 9:30-37 the Apostles do not understand when Our Lord says, “The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.” Fr. explains that this habitual attitude in the Apostles is still the natural human attitude prevailing today.  Listen as Father shows how the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men.
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“Pray that my love will be without limits.”

–Saint Maximilian Kolbe in his last letter to his mother.

St. Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) Priest and Martyr

Patron of the Franciscans of the Immaculate

St. Maximilian wrote: To bring about the purpose of the M.I. (Militia Immaculatae) as soon as possible, to conquer for the Immaculate the entire world and every single soul that now lives or will live till the end of the world, and through her to win them for the Sacred Heart of Jesus! In addition, we are to be watchful lest anyone remove the Immaculate’s standard from a soul; but rather to deepen constantly in souls their love for the Immaculate, to tighten the bond of love between them and her, so that they may become one with her, so that she herself may live and love and act in them and through them. Just as she belongs to Jesus and to God, so every soul will belong to Jesus and to God through her and in her in a much more perfect manner than would be possible by not going through her or without her, if, indeed, that were possible. Then souls will love the Sacred Heart of Jesus as they have never loved him up to now, because like her they will plunge more deeply than ever into the mysteries of love: the cross and the Eucharist. The love of God will be enkindled in the world through her, will set it on fire, and there will take place the “assumption” of souls through love.

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Homily #090808 ( 10min) Play – St Maximilian Kolbe is a modern example of a knight who practiced heroic chivalry as displayed by his actions when the Germans invaded Poland.
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Marycast Specials #57 ( 10min) Play – St. Maximilian’s answer to the rise of atheism & Freemasonry in our times was total, universal consecration to the Immaculate.  How do we return the universe to Jesus?  In the same way in which Jesus came to us: through the Immaculate.  In this episode, Dr. Miravalle discusses this observation of St. Kolbe & how grace descends to us from the mediation of the Mother of God.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast Specials #55 ( 10min) Play – St. Maximilian, martyr of charity & fool of love for the Immaculate, was also a gifted theologian & mariologist, and in this episode Dr. Miravalle discusses his unique contribution regarding the role of the Holy Spirit & Our Lady.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast Specials #56 ( 10min) Play – St. Maximilian Kolbe describes the Holy Spirit as “the Uncreated Immaculate Conception,” and he also describes Our Lady as the “Created Immaculate Conception.”  What can we say in regards to their union as expressed in the Incarnation of the God-man?  In this episode, Dr. Miravalle continues to discuss these profound insights offered to us by the Apostle of the Marian Era.
To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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