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Dear Knights of the Immaculata!<\/span><\/p>\n Allow me to inform you, that we just finished the annual priests’ meeting of the district of Asia in Manila. The theme of the meeting was: “towards 2017”. 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 the Militia Immaculatae on the other hand. We are fully aware, that in comparison with the gigantic armies of the enemies of our salvation we are nothing. As Saint Maximilian Kolbe often said, we are only miserable zeroes. If you put many zeroes together, the result will be always zero (00000 … = 0). But just put a ‘one’ before the zeroes, you will have a complete different result: 1 000000… The “one” is the Immaculata, we are the zeroes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, what depends on us and our small possibilities should be done: to commemorate the anniversary of Fatima, we have to know more than ever before the requests of Our Lady, when she appeared to Lucy, bl. Francesco and Jacinta. However, it is not sufficient to know the whole message of Fatima well, we have to do what Mary requires: 2017 must become THE year of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.<\/span><\/p>\n The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Militia Immaculatae must motivate us, HER knights, to become more than ever faithful ‘instruments in Her immaculate hands’, so that She can pour out the innumerable graces of conversion and sanctification she received from Her Divine Son on her beloved children. She wants so much to save them from hell and damnation, from error and sin, but there is a condition: her instruments must “pray and make sacrifices for them”. <\/span><\/p>\n We must have an immense desire to win to our Mother as many souls as possible as a token of gratitude for the anniversaries of HER miraculous interventions. As a goal we would like to offer her AT LEAST 100 000 new knights until the 13 October 2017<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n In order to achieve these goals (personal sanctification through deep devotion to Her Immaculate Heart and apostolic work of conversion following the example of Saint Maximilian Kolbe and all the generous Knights of the Immaculata in the past) we have to prepare ourselves. The festivities of 2017 will start on 13 May 2017 <\/span>and finish on 8 December 2017<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n The headquarters of the SSPX are about to set up an international program to which we add a special program for the Asian district, (if it is God’s Will) beginning with the Consecration of the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Saint Bernard Novitiate in Iloilo, Philippines, followed by prayer crusades, parish missions, processions, pilgrimages, retreats and recollections, solemn consecrations etc.).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIn order to prepare for these solemnities, it was decided to organize a novena, not only of nine days, but of 9 months starting from 13 August 2016 and ending on 13 May 2017<\/span>. All traditional Catholics should be fully involved in that preparation, but particularly the KNIGHTS of the Immaculata should commit themselves to this novena. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n