Today is 99 anniversary of sixth apparition of Our Lady at Fatima. What happened at the Cova da Iria on October 13, 1917? Please read about apparition: here and please read commentary of Father Stehlin about it: “Towards Fatima 2017” (part XIII) Information about miracle of the sun at Fatima:Read More →
On October 2nd, while their Guardian Angels invisibly exulted, 38 parishioners pronounced their consecration to the Immaculata and signed their enrolment sheet. A few days ago, a number of Fijian Catholics became members of the Militia Immaculatae. Suva, the capital of the Fiji Islands, is home to our priory, StRead More →
New Caledonia is a French territory in the South Pacific. It lies 750 miles east of Australia and is part of the apostolate of New Zealand. Fr. Bochkoltz reports: “I had prepared for the enrolment ceremony by the publication in our magazine, “The Flamboyant” and the distribution of booklets aboutRead More →
On Vanuatu, an island quite some distance from Australia, Fr. Louis Bochkoltz accepted 45 new Knights. This is one of the first enrolments to the Militia Immaculatae in Oceania. There are also new Knights in New Caledonia and Fiji island — we will write about those in a few days.
On Saturday 1st October 2016, the first Saturday of the month of the Holy Rosary, our small Mission in Vanuatu was blessed by the Immaculate Virgin Mary. Having arrived almost one week earlier, Fr. Bochkoltz had prepared the faithful for their "promise" towards Our Lady (the word "consecration" being yet too difficult for them).
With 13 children and 1 adult having received the grace of Baptism and becoming children of God that same morning, a good 50 people were present in the church around 4 pm. At that time we started our procession with a local stretcher for Our Lady's statue. In the village, we stopped at each lot of bamboo huts, praying one decade of the rosary and blessing these houses at each station. Every time more and more people were joining the procession and singing the hymns as we went along. So, when we arrived back at the church, more than 100 people were crowded inside! It was now time to start the ceremony to make new Knights of the Immaculata!
Blessed be Immaculate! Dear Knights! It is hard to share an affirmative attitude of the Primate of Poland card. Stefan Wyszyński towards the last council and post-counciliar changes and also to counciliar spirit of popes John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II. However, Primate’s Marian devotion can and evenRead More →
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m October 28, 2016 to 31 July, 2017 the Society of Saint Pius X is organising a pilgrimage throughout the Philippines. It is called "MARY'S MISSION TOUR" — a 2000 km (1,200 mile) walk with the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima in which Pilgrim Virgin Walkers strive to spread devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary throughout the world! It’s Fatima continued — souls called to conversion and to sanctification — through the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
The Pilgrimage starts October 28, 2016. Pilgrims will go from south of the Philippines (city: Marbel in Mindanao Island) to north of the Philippines (city: La Trinidad in Luzon Island). Pilgrims may join a different route sections. Pilgrimage will finish July 31, 2017.
“For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even until that day in which Noah entered into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.” Mtt 24:38
And it is true today. The run of events related in TV and newspapers, on Facebook and websites, provide an endless stream of data showing a world tending downwards uncontrollably. And yet while many notice the downward trend, few consider the reasons, few care for the remedy.
Dear Knights of the Immaculata!
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Let us enter the month of the Holy Rosary with the immense desire and firm resolution to obey the Immaculate Heart when She requires us to pray the Rosary every day. More than ever before, we now live in terribly apocalyptic times; therefore we should be deeply impressed with the words of Sr. Lucy: “Now God gives us the last two means of salvation: devotion to the Holy Rosary and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” With these means alone we will save our souls and the souls of many others. We Knights should be in the front lines fighting the campaign of the Rosary Crusade instituted by our General Superior to make the Immaculate Heart known and loved and Her solemn requests finally fulfilled for the good of Holy Mother Church and the salvation of many souls.
But be attentive: it is insufficient to merely recite the Rosary. We must have a real devotion to it, grasping the treasure hidden of this mysterious prayer. Saint Louis Mary Grignion himself meditates deeply on this hidden treasure in his book about the admirable mystery of the Rosary, and Pope Leo XIII in his encyclicals about the Rosary explains the Rosary in these terms: its exterior ‘body’, its ‘material side,’ is the vocal prayer, but the interior aspect, the ‘soul’ is meditation on the mysteries of the life of Our Lord through Our Lady.
