{"id":4103,"date":"2017-03-22T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/?page_id=4103\/"},"modified":"2017-06-13T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:00:44","slug":"directors-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/directors-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Director\u2019s letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In imitation of the tradition of St. Father Kolbe, there will be sent letters to the knights at regular intervals. These are written by the international moderator of &#8220;Militia Immaculatae &#8211; traditional observance&#8221; Father Karl Stehlin.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can find all the letters of the Father&#8217;s Director:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/father-directors-letter-no-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 6, May 2017: Whenever St. Maximilian Kolbe speaks about Our Lady, he usually uses the same titles: \u201cImmaculata\u201d, \u201cHeavenly Mother\u201d (who he usually addresses with the affectionate nickname <em>Mamusia<\/em> \u2014 little mother), and \u201cQueen of Heaven and Earth\u201d.We would like to examine these last two titles in a little more detail, indeed it is the goal and the great aspiration of the Knight&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/father-directors-letter-no-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 5, March 2017: Why does Satan surround himself with gigantic armies on earth? Why the beasts of the Apocalypse? The reason is to spread his impiety with more efficiency, to deprave men so that they stop worshipping God and join the chorus of the ungrateful and indifferent ones. What joy for the infernal serpent to see God insulted and Christ driven out of his Kingdom! On focusing on&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/postsletter-no-4-to-the-knights-of-the-immaculata-asia-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 4, December 2016: Allow me to inform you, that we just finished the annual priests\u2019 meeting of the district of Asia in Manila. The theme of the meeting was: \u201ctowards 2017\u201d. We all are aware that 2017 will be a crucial year of anniversaries: 500 years of Protestantism, 300 years of Freemasonry, 100 years of Communism on the one hand, 100 years of Fatima apparitions and establishment of&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/postsletter-no-3-to-the-knights-of-the-immaculata-asia-37\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 3, October 2016: Allow me to inform you, that I was received on 17 December 2014 by His Eminence Cardinal Ranjith, archbishop from Colombo, and on January 17 by His Grace Gregory Antonysamy, archbishop from Chennai. To each of them I could give my books \u201eWho are you, o Immaculata\u201d, and \u201eThe Immaculata Our Ideal\u201d, and both Cardinal Ranjith and Archbishop Antonysamy were&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/postsfather-directorrsquos-letter-no-2-july-2016-149\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No. 2, July 2016: On 14 August 1941, Vigil of the Feast of Assumption, Saint Maximilian was killed with a carbolic injection in the extermination camp in Auschwitz. Since February 17 he had been put into prison by Hitler\u2019s slaves because of his courage to uphold the principles of Catholic Faith against the national socialist invaders. Since May he had been transferred to Auschwitz, where he&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/test4.mi-backup.ch\/en\/postsfather-directorrsquos-letter-no-1-june-2016-139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">No. 1, June 2016: When Saint Maximilian wrote to the knights, they used to name his messages \u201cOur Father Director\u2019s letters\u201d. 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 \u2018director\u2019 than the somehow complicated canonical term \u201cinternational moderator\u201d&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In imitation of the tradition of St. Father Kolbe, there will be sent letters to the knights at regular intervals. These are written by the international moderator of &#8220;Militia Immaculatae &#8211; traditional observance&#8221; Father Karl Stehlin. 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