Today is the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe and my love and respect for this great Saint of the Church has grown greatly over the last couple years after initially hearing the story of his martyrdom. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar whp volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
According to an eyewitness, who was an assistant janitor at that time, in his prison cell, Kolbe led the prisoners in prayer. Each time the guards checked on him, he was standing or kneeling in the middle of the cell and looking calmly at those who entered. After they had been starved and deprived of water for two weeks, only Kolbe remained alive. The guards wanted the bunker emptied, so they gave Kolbe a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Kolbe is said to have raised his left arm and calmly waited for the deadly injection. He died on August 14. His remains were cremated on 15 August, the feast day of the Assumption of Mary.

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Ora Pro Nobis!

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#saint #quote #evil

"Routledge maintains he has been unshaken by the experience thanks to his Catholic faith. He described on Twitch, a livestreaming website, that he imagined being asked to renounce Christ at gunpoint and refusing. He has been out and about with a crucifix around his neck. ‘I was fully prepared for death, I accepted it,’ he said, ‘This trip has been a test of God. I’m very religious so I believe I’ll be looked after. Before I left I wrote a letter to my friends saying that if I died, not to feel guilty, that I would die happy and religious and proud.’"

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/bit-of-a-pickle-meet-the-british-student-stuck-on-holiday-in-kabul/

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Stand strong! Let's unite and stop them!

➕#OBITUARY➕
A young 27 years old devout Catholic man named Héctor Hernansanz has passed away, please say some indulgenced prayers in rememberance of him, for the repose of his soul and his family. If you can, please consider offering Mass intention for him as well.
REQUIEM æternam dona eis DOMINE, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace, Amen (*3)
ETERNAL rest give unto them, O LORD, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. (*3)

In order to respond to the world’s expectations, the #Church must therefore find the way back to herself and take up the words of Saint Paul: “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and Jesus crucified.” She must stop thinking of herself as a substitute for humanism or ecology. These realities, although good and just, are for her but consequences of her unique treasure: #faith in Jesus Christ. https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/on-the-credibility-of-the-catholic-church #today

https://tfpstudentaction.org/blog/modesty-and-god
The struggle for the restoration of the family by opposing abortion, contraception, and homosexuality will be much more effective if done together with efforts to restore sobriety, modesty and elegance in #dress.
#modesty #virtue

#heart #saint #quote

What is the ordinary and universal magisterium, and is it limited to things believed always, everywhere and by all?

Chapter I of landmark nineteenth-century work on the ordinary and universal magisterium by J.M.A. Vacant, in exclusive English translation.

https://wmreview.co.uk/2021/08/20/vacant-oum-introduction-chapter-i/