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Dear Knights of the Immaculata!

When Saint Maximilian wrote to the knights, they used to name his messages “Our Father Director’s letters”. After his death his successors, the international moderators of the MI, continued long time this tradition for the simple reason that it was easier for the knights to use the term ‘director’ than the somehow complicated canonical term “international moderator”. As the Divine Providence through the voice of the superiors has chosen your servant as international moderator of the “Militia Immaculatae – traditional observance”, allow me to go in the footsteps of the holy founder and send you more or less regularly “Father Director’s letter”. As the knights in those times recognized Saint Maximilian both as their father and guide, so today I ask humbly your prayers, that I would become a faithful echo of him, so that today, when we lack terribly true fathers and guides, he may be again and even more “our beloved Father director”.

In this first letter I wish to inform you about the origins of the Militia Immaculatae in its traditional observance and to give you a brief historical account from its beginnings until our times.

It was in our first year of the seminary, in 1981, when the leaders…

 

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Dear Knights of the Immaculata,

Saint Maximilian Kolbe from the very first issue of his bulletin “Rycerz Niepokalanej – The Knight of the Immaculata” invited all knights to pray daily in the intentions of fellow knights. He also invited the knights to send their prayer request to the headquarters. The most important of these requests he even had them published in his bulletin.

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The first apparition of Our Lady in Fatima 13 May 1917

(TOWARDS FATIMA 2017 – part 5)

 

Dear Knights of the Immaculata!

Approaching the great mysteries of the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, allow me to send you the events of the first apparition of Our Lady in Fatima on 13 May 1917 and a commentary, which may help you to meditate about the words and requests of the Immaculata. May I ask you also to have in mind to become more and more APOSTLES of FATIMA. Therefore you should know both the events and the deeper meaning very well, so that you can attract other souls to HER.

With my priestly blessings for this holy Passion tide.

Fr. Karl Stehlin

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IMMACULATA YOU MOST HUMBLE ONE!

Dear Knights of the Immaculata!

As this year Good Friday is on the 25 March, the Divine Providence wants to direct us on how to sanctify ourselves meditating the two greatest mysteries of our faith in one!

What unites the mystery of Incarnation with the Passion of Our Lord?

HUMILITY!

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Dear Knights of the Immaculata!

Entering a new year, we must remember its purpose.

Each year, each month, week, day, hour, minute and second has just one sense – to come closer to Our Lord through the Immaculata. And since our consecration to HER, we Knights should add: this New Year I should win, more than ever before, many more souls for HER, that they may recognize and love HER as Mother and Queen and so be saved by Her Son, Our Lord.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND THE YEAR OF MERCY

 

Dear Knights of the Immaculata!

Each year, when the feast of the Immaculate Conception approaches, Saint Maximilian Kolbe would be filled with an overwhelming spiritual joy which he would communicate to his brothers. He often explained to them, that this great dogma concerned not only Herself, but had eminent practical consequences for us. Let us try to enter into this mystery with him and meditate on it as we approach the 8th of December, a day when all knights should definitely renew their consecration to the Immaculata.

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