Fr. Ignatius Manfredonia

"We are instruments, but not physically constrained as the brush in the hand of the painter, but guided by means of the intellect and the will. If we let ourselves be led in…

"I want to hope that, with the help of the Immaculate, you will succeed in bringing to completion that which you have begun and to persevere in religion all the way to a…

?"My hope for all of you is that the Immaculate take you by the hand and lead you, that She hold all of you and each of you individually close to her Immaculate…

Ave Maria! "May the little medal of the Immaculate be the weapon, or rather the bullet, used by every militant of the Immaculate. One could be the worst of all people, but if…

Ave Maria! "Jesus died for each one of us, without considering the difference of nationality, and every one of us, therefore also every one of the Jewish people, is an ingrate, nonetheless son…

Ave Maria! "The goal of the Militia of the Immaculate is so difficult to attain that, if one counted only on the energy, the activity and the strength that nature provides, one could…

Ave Maria! "Every day the militants of the Immaculate must repeat, with ardent fervor, the words that the Immaculate Herself showed impressed upon the Miraculous Medal: 'O Mary conceived without sin, pray for…

Ave Maria! "The Immaculate promised to grant many graces to those who wear Her medal; it is precisely for this reason that the members of the Militia use this medal as a weapon…

Ave Maria! "Holy Father St. Francis writes in the Rule: 'may the friars not extinguish the spirit of prayer'. The spirit which consists in always elevating one's thought to God, one's thought, that…

Ave Maria! "To study Mariology is an excellent thing, but let's always remember that we know the Immaculate more in humble prayer and in the loving experience of everyday life than in learned…

Ave Maria! "To be a man of prayer (a religious) it is sufficient to pray the prayers established by the Rule and the ejaculatory prayers; many vocal prayers tire us. Involuntary distractions increase…

Ave Maria! "With prayer we will certainly obtain everything that is truly useful. But we must pray with much insistence and perseverance; with an ever greater fervor and, by means of us, God…

Ave Maria! "Sine me nihil potestis facere, without me you can do nothing (Jn 15:5). Beautiful sermons and activity without prayer bears no fruit??The knees, not the intelligence or the pen, make activity,…

Ave Maria! "The most important degrees of prayer are: vocal prayer, meditation and contemplation. In this last degree God sometimes draws the soul very close to Himself, in such a case, the soul,…