Your favorite?

[CatholicFireman]

Fatima has almost been ruined in my heart by zealots who almost disregard the Gospels and focus solely on Fatima.

 

[UnusVeritas]

Immaculate Conception is the most popular one that I like. The picture is pretty.

I also really like Mother of the Eucharist. It really makes a point about the humanity of Christ in the Eucharist.

 

[Domnall]

This was a tough question, though I think I’ll have to settle on both Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Perpetual help. The Blessed Mother has helped all of us, and it is amazing how different titles reflect different ways she aids us.

Go check out the Our Mother of Perpetual Help facebook page and see everyone who gives thanks for everything she does for us.

Also, I’m getting tattoos of both these images. Our Lady of Guadalupe will be on the back of my right leg and Our Lady of Perpetual Help will be a large back piece, since it has both Jesus and Mary in it.

 

[JReducation]

I thought St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Carmelite and not a Fransiscan.

ANATHEMA!



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Check out that chord around his waste. We’re the only ones who wear that. It’s our tademark. All 112 Franciscan obediences wear the chord, even though the tunic is of different colors.

His full name was Friar Maximilian Maria, OFM Conv. The Kolbe was added after his death. He was born Raymond Kolbe.

Anyway, OFM Conv = Order of Friars Minor Conventual. The Friars Minor are Franciscan.

When Pope Paul beatified him in 1971, religious had gone back to using last names, instead of their home towns. Pope Paul beatified him as Maximilian Kolbe, dropping the Maria. When Bl. John Paul canonized him, he canonized him as Maximilian Maria Kolbe. He became St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe or as we call him, St. Max or Brother Max. He’s rarely called Father Maximilian. Calling Friars “Father” is a very modern thing that started in the 20th century. No one seems to know why.

In any case, Max was very devoted to the Immaculate Conception. Max spoke Polish, German, Hindi, Japanese, English, Spanish and Italian. For some reason he shortened the name to “The Immaculate” My guess is that it was easier to use Immaculate in all those languages than Immaculate Conception. I know that Immaculate Conception does not translate accurately into Japanese.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

 

[Sandalwood]

Now you’ve really cornered me. I have several representations of Our Lady that I love for different reasons.

My first love is The Immaculate Heart. I’ve always prayed that I may love with a heart as pure as her own and as filled with grace. Her heart conforms to that of Christ in all things.

My second is Our Lady of Hope, which is the pregnant Mary. In today’s world where one person has the right to reduce the life of the unborn to a choice, while the unborn has no right to an advocate, not even the father,. . . someone has to remind us that the Son of God was also a fetus.

My third is Our Lady of the Angels, which in the USA we know as The Immaculate Conception. She is the patron of the Franciscan Order under the title of The Immaculate Conception. The friars defended that title centuries ago, her greatest advocate being Bl. John Duns Scotus. The image is beautiful, especially the one in Assisi, which I believe may be the original under that name. I’m not sure about that. I thought I heard that.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

love this! very well said

 

[amsjj]

Wow! Nothing like getting a bright ANATHEMA! on the screen to get my attention!

I wonder if perhaps Little One0307 was thinking of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross?

amsjj

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Jesus, God and man,
imprisoned by love in Thy most holy Sacrament,
have mercy upon us.
– Blessed John Henry Newman, December 22, 1851

Tú y yo sabemos por la fe que oculto en las especies sacramentales está Cristo,
ese Cristo con su Cuerpo, con su Sangre, con su Alma, y con su Divinidad,
prisonero de amor.
– San Josemaria Escriva, 1 junio 1974

 

[JReducation]

Wow! Nothing like getting a bright ANATHEMA! on the screen to get my attention!

Wait until ByzCath comes on. He’s a Carmelite. I think I just threw a good friendship out the window.

I wonder if perhaps Little One0307 was thinking of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross?

amsjj

That may be. They were contemporaries. Both were killed by the Nazis. They died almost exactly a year apart. He died August 14, 1941 and she died August 9, 1942.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

 

[Little_One0307]

Good evening,

WOW. I must beg the forgiveness of those who have been reading this post. Yes I was thinking about Edith Stein and Titus B. *

My apologies. I would have googled it but that never ended up in my mind.

My apologies and thanks for using that big, bright, and beautiful red font to grab my attention lol. I knew somehow I had messed up.

[Grins… Since I have now admitted my error, please undeclare me as anathama.]

Thanks.

God Bless.

[Wow that must be a first, got a post anathamatized. This will make some good table stories this week.]*