Mary's Army

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Pax Christi!

This child of Mary prays the Holy Rosary daily, though Facebook isn’t my cup of tea.

God bless.
 
Great post! Holding my Rosary is like holding the Holy Mother’s hand. One of my favorite parts of being Catholic!
 
MI Consecration Prayer
(Composed by St. 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 you. I, (name), a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet, humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to yourself as your 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 you.
If it pleases you, use all that I am and have without reserve, wholly to accomplish what was said of you: “She will crush your head,” and "You alone have destroyed all heresies in the whole world. " Let me be a fit instrument in your immaculate and merciful hands for introducing and increasing your glory to 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 you enter you obtain the grace of conversion and growth in holiness, since it is through your hands that all graces come to us from the most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
V. Allow me to praise you, O sacred Virgin
R. Give me strength against your enemies
 
Our Lady believed her Son to be her God and she followed Him. She supported Him all the way to Calvary’s Cross. When we give ourselves to Mary, we come to imitate her relationship to Jesus. Just as we imitate Jesus’ dependence upon Mary on one side of the coin, on the other we identify with Mary in her stance of following Him.
Through such a close identification with Mary, we begin to see Jesus through her eyes and to love Him through her heart, or better yet, she sees Him through our eyes and loves Him with our hearts.
St. Maximilian describes this close relationship with Our Lady through total consecration, saying: “To come close to her, to become like her, to permit her to reign over our hearts and whole beings, that she may live and act in and through us, that she may love God with our hearts… this is our ideal!”
When we say to Mary, “Totus Tuus”, “I am totally yours,” she receives us and takes up residence in us, just as we take up residence in her. Through our consecration we invite her to become part of our inner life. Although invisible, the presence of Mary becomes a spiritual reality within us and she speaks through our hearts to God. Through our own soul, prayerfully, she repeats her words at Nazareth: “Fiat! Let it be done to me…” and her Magnificat – “My soul magnifies the Lord.” Thus, Mary begins to share the interior dynamics of her own prayer life with us and we echo her Fiat and Magnificat to God.
Secondly, since Our Lady was ever obedient to the will of God, the second fruit of our total consecration to her is obedience, touching on the very heart of our soul, which has an intellect and a will. With our intellects our souls come to see and understand the truth as God reveals it, and with our wills our souls respond to the truth; that is, obey God’s law and do God’s will. Through consecration, Our Lady is not just interiorly present within us, but she is identified with us. Mary’s soul and our souls fuse together in an intimate union, so that her constant attitude of obedience to God’s will becomes gradually our souls’ attitude, and we are strengthened to say “yes” to God the way Mary always does.
“Don’t permit our tormentors to create us in their image. I’ve told you many times, hate is not creative, only love is creative. As one of our saints has assured us, ‘We experience love when we bring love to that place where no love exists.’
The Immaculata wills that we love everyone. In this place where the weak are exploited by the strong, where bread is stolen from the starving and where the dying are robbed of their last article of clothing, we must persistently witness to love.”
~Father Maximilian
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  1. I said that this will happen especially towards the end of the world, and indeed soon, because Almighty God and his holy Mother are to raise up great saints who will surpass in holiness most other saints as much as the cedars of Lebanon tower above little shrubs. This has been revealed to a holy soul whose life has been written by M. de Renty.
  2. These great souls filled with grace and zeal will be chosen to oppose the enemies of God who are raging on all sides. They will be exceptionally devoted to the Blessed Virgin. Illumined by her light, strengthened by her food, guided by her spirit, supported by her arm, sheltered under her protection, they will fight with one hand and build with the other. With one hand they will give battle, overthrowing and crushing heretics and their heresies, schismatics and their schisms, idolaters and their idolatries, sinners and their wickedness. With the other hand they will build the temple of the true Solomon and the mystical city of God, namely, the Blessed Virgin, who is called by the Fathers of the Church the Temple of Solomon and the City of God . By word and example they will draw all men to a true devotion to her and though this will make many enemies, it will also bring about many victories and much glory to God alone. This is what God revealed to St. Vincent Ferrer, that outstanding apostle of his day, as he has amply shown in one of his works. This seems to have been foretold by the Holy Spirit in Psalm 58: “The Lord will reign in Jacob and all the ends of the earth. They will be converted towards evening and they will be as hungry as dogs and they will go around the city to find something to eat.” This city around which men will roam at the end of the world seeking conversion and the appeasement of the hunger they have for justice is the most Blessed Virgin, who is called by the Holy Spirit the City of God .
  • St. Louis de Montfort
 
No army is needed, God alone could utterly destroy Satan anytime he wanted, he could turn him into a pile of dust on the floor, along with every single fallen angel he took with him.

If Mary is so intent on victory over Satan, why does her son keep granting him permission and the power to do terrible things…doesnt make much sense.
 
mikekle said:
No army is needed, God alone could utterly destroy Satan anytime he wanted, he could turn him into a pile of dust on the floor, along with every single fallen angel he took with him.

If Mary is so intent on victory over Satan, why does her son keep granting him permission and the power to do terrible things…doesnt make much sense.
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do you mean “granting her” and not “granting him”? - if so - what terrible things does Mary do?
 
mikekle said:
If Mary is so intent on victory over Satan, why does her son keep granting him permission and the power to do terrible things…doesnt make much sense.
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God permits the evil spirit to exercise influence in the material world.
God permits no evil in the world without a proportionate reason.
God permits evil in the world in order that He may bring good out of it.
Faith tells us that nothing happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. Therefore we may not doubt that God does well, or wants us to learn from the fact, even when He permits evil.
He does not permit this except for a just reason, and all that is just is good. Although, therefore, what is evil, in so far as it is evil, is not good. Nevertheless it is well that not only good but also evil should exist. Were it not a good that evil things should also exist, the Omnipotent God would most certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as it is for Him to do what He wills. Unless we believe this, the very first sentence of our profession of faith is endangered, wherein we profess to believe in God the Father almighty. He is called almighty for no other reason than that He can do whatever He wills, and because the effectiveness of His almighty will cannot be thwarted by the will of any creature whatsoever.
~Saint Augustine
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We may fail to see the supernatural workings of Providence, whose purposes are often brought about through the sins and even malice of men. With faith we can see behind the veils of external circumstances and recognize in them the hidden objectives of God.
Every situation of daily life, then, is somehow an expression of the divine will for us at that moment: of something to be done or avoided, accepted or refused, enjoyed or sacrificed, continued or abandoned, depending on the circumstances and conditioned by the dictates of right reason and faith.
Our human nature has been terribly wounded by sin. Because of the sin of our first parents we lost what is called the gift of integrity. We all now have concupiscence, which is the natural proneness to sin.
God permits moral evil out of consideration of human (and angelic) freedom, and because He has the wisdom and the power to cause good to arise from the evil. In the end, moral evil will serve the supreme purpose of the universe, which is the glorification of God, since it reveals His mercy in forgiving and His justice in punishing.
When temptations come from the devil, their diabolical intent is to destroy our souls. But from the viewpoint of God’s permissive will, which never allows a man to be tried beyond his strength, they are true graces.
God allows us to be tempted because He does not want to impose virtue. He wants us to live freely as human beings. Moreover, temptations reveal us to ourselves. They open our eyes to our sinful inclinations and inspire us with gratitude for the mercy of God.
God tries His chosen servants by sending them trial and opposition. Their sanctification is determined by the measure of faith which recognizes in these human obstacles the workings of divine grace.
Why does God send us difficulties, trials, suffering, disappointment, sickness, failure? So we might get down on our knees and pray.
Everything in our lives is part of the providence of God. Our conformity to His will depends on our faith in seeing His will in what we casually call circumstances. There are no circumstances in our lives. They are all situations planned and provided by God to give us the opportunity of conforming our will to His.
Our faith in God’s omnipotence is especially tried by the evil and suffering we see and experience in our lives.
We who have the true faith believe that nothing ever happens by chance. The massive culture of death that has invaded the minds of whole nations must somehow have a divinely ordained purpose. As Saint Paul tells us, where sin has abounded, there grace will even more abound.
Our strongest support in coping with evil and suffering is Christ crucified and glorified. Only this faith can glory in its weakness in order to draw on the power of Christ.
Throwing ourselves into to the arms of Christ, and relying on the help of His Mother, our sinful urges become the occasion for rising to heights of holiness.
Our highest model is the Blessed Virgin Mary, who believed that nothing is impossible with God, who does great things, even miracles, for those who humbly trust in His holy name.
Saint Maximillian saw the prospects of converting sinners to a life of grace under two conditions. First, we will be as effective evangelizers as we are personally devoted to Our Lady. Secondly, we must, if necessary, make drastic changes in our approach to those whom we want to bring to Christ or to a closer following of Mary’s Son. We must promote our missionary and conversion zeal through promoting the knowledge, love and devotion to the Mother of God. Mary will do wonders, provided we use her name and her influence to effect what is so desperately needed in the modern world.
Mary is the key to converting the world to her Son.
 
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