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Fr Brad’s Speech in P.E.I.

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Article from Fr. Brad on a speech he made in P.E.I

Feast of St Maximilian Kolbe

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Feast of St Maximilian Kolbe
14 August 2010

On the eve of the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, we have the feast of our founder who served Our Lady devoutly and with ardour his whole life. We find in his writings and his life, a testimony to that devotion.

St Maximilian was so consumed by his passion to lead all people to the Sacred Heart through the Immaculate, that he was in fact granted this at the end of his life. He was so consumed by this love that in fact, we have no relicts of this great saint. His body was destroyed in the ovens of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a testimony to his love for the Immaculate and the Sacred Heart that even his body was destroyed and nothing was to remain of him in the world. He said, “Make yourself disappear”, and so to we can and should so that all that remains is the love of God shining through us and in us.

His life has been a great influenced on those of his day, his Order, and ordinary Catholics today, realize that the life to come, eternal life is so very important. Our life here is but a preparation for that life in eternity and so should be spent,should be consumed as his was, with evangelizing those around us: “to gain the whole world for her, so that the reign of sin will cease” (St Maximilian Kolbe).

We need to be like St Maximilian and spend our days on this earth reaching out to the fallen world around us in all the apostolates possible to increase the Kingdom of God. It is all the more urgent to prepare others through their consecration to Our Lady. If we offer every day to her, every action and suffering through her hands, we can increase the kingdom and save souls; “to lead all men and every individual through Mary to the most Sacred Heart of Jesus” (St Maxmilian Kolbe:Motto of the MI).

We should use the feast day of our founder as an opportunity to bring ever more people into the fold and pray at this Mass for conversions, including our own. The sacrifice of the Mass is central to our prayer as Catholics, and was indeed the foundation of the life of St Maximilian Kolbe.

We must become more and more the instruments needed by Our Lady “without any limits” (St Maximilian Kolbe) and in this way become part of the work of the salvation of the world. Our prayer on this feast day should be as our daily prayer states: to renew our consecration to Our Lady and to be of use to the coming of the Kingdom; and to pray for the conversion of the world and especially the enemies of the Church.

Fr Brad Sweet,Summerside MI Village, Prince Edward Island

Newsletter July 2010

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Newsletter July, 2010 “The Little Voice”
“The love of the Immaculate is the most perfect love with which a creature can love God. With her heart then let us strive to love the heart of Jesus more and more. Let this be our greatest stimulus. ……………….…….Maximilian Kolbe

General Information:	Evangelization
Meetings Days	Militia of the Immaculata General Statutes:
Conference 2010	Feast of Maximilian Kolbe
Farewell	Teens Summer Camp:
Welcome	Did you know

2010 Conference

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3rd Annual Conference of the Militia of the Immaculata June 12, 2010 Click to enlarge
Third Annual MI Conference The third annual Militia of the Immaculata (MI) conference took place on Saturday, June 12^th at the St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto, and despite the rain, the conference was well attended. The speakers were, Fr. Stephen McKinley, O.F.M. Conv., Rector of the Shrine of St. Maximilian Kolbe, Illinois, U.S.A, and Fr. Patrick Greenough, O.F.M., Conv., National President of the MI, U.S.A. and Canada. The Conference started at 9:00 am., with the welcome speech by Jaclyn Marroquin of MI Teens, Canada. The opening prayer was the Memorare, led by Fr. Stephen McKinley. The Theme of this Year’s conference was “The Year for Priests”. The first speaker was Fr. Stephen whose talk was based on the post-synod Apostolic exhortation of Pope John Paul II, “Christifedelis Laici”. This document focused on the vocation and mission of the Laity in the Church and in the world. Fr. Stephen reminded us that our priesthood began with our Baptism, and quoted from the scriptures to confirm this (Ex. 19.6. Heb. 7:21., Rev. 1:6. Rev. 5:10). While our Priests form the Ministerial priesthood and perform the Sacramental duties, we, the laity are the priesthood of the faithful and by our Baptism we received God’s grace – gratis – totally free, for everything we need to obtain eternal life. With this grace we should bear fruit and spread the message of the Kingdom of Jesus to the whole world. Our goal should be “Everything for God”. He also stated that something that we should all strive to achieve is the Greatest Commandment, which is to “Love one another. Fr. Stephen ended his talk by encouraging us to read the document which can be found on the Vatican website. (Try www.catholicculture.org) Celebrant at the Mass was Fr. Patrick with Fr. Henry McErlean who, as concelebrant, read the Gospel and homily. Fr. Stephen provided the Music. After the homily eleven persons made a Total Consecration to the Blessed Mother. Before the Consecration Ceremony, Fr. Patrick spoke to those to be consecrated saying that they should be certain of their decision to be consecrated, because once they have given their “yes”, the Blessed Mother will lead them into places where they may least expect. Fr. Patrick our second speaker in the afternoon spoke on the role of the Priests, the various duties for which they are responsible and their day-to-day activities. He spoke about the special relationship between the Priest and God and compared this relationship to the special relationship between a mother and her child. He said that in this special relationship the Priest is able to ask God to come down to earth during the consecration at Holy Mass. He also spoke of our relationship with our Blessed Mother and said that as a mother always knows what is best for her children and is always there for her children, in the same way Our Blessed Mother Mary is always there for us. When we consecrate ourselves to her, we should dedicate all our prayers actions and sacrifices to her, reciting the consecration prayer daily. Information on MI teens and the upcoming Summer Retreat camp (August, 4-8,2010) was provided by Jaclyn Marroquin and David Mesina. Closing remarks and thanks was made by Catharine Bone