Feast of The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
St. Maximillian Kolbe was acutely devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He actually began “The City of the Immaculate” to promote devotion to, and reliance on her. “For Father Maximilian Kolbe, sanctification always necessitated the mediation of Mary because, for him, only through her and by means of her, the Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier of souls, acts in an inseparable way in each individual soul… whether or not that soul acknowledges Mary’s role in this process. But as he explained, the more a soul acknowledges and is conscious of Mary’s important role in the economy of salvation – the surer, easier and faster that soul can become a saint via consecration to her.”
Immaculate Mary, pray for us.