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Excerpts from Kolbe's Writings on Total Consecration to Mary |
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 The following texts are collection of thoughts and insights on total consecration to the Immaculate from the writings of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe. There are only two complete critical editions of St. Maximilian's writings, namely in Polish and in Italian. There is no complete English edition of his writings at the present moment in one collected volumes. Hence, we offer our readers and missionaries the following materials that can be used as supplement for meditation, and/or instruction on Kolbe's Total consecration to the the Immaculate. |
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Is Consecration to Mary Legitimate? |
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 by Fr. William Most
Today one hears at times that it is not possible or correct to make any consecration to Our Lady—it is asserted that it is only through her to God. Superficially, one might say: Everything is directed to God, so of course this is true. |
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Maximilian Kolbe, Apostle of Mary |
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 Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
St. Maximillian was born in the Poland in 1894 and baptized under the name of Raymond. He entered the novitiate of the Conventual Franciscans in 1910 and given the name of Maximillian. |
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St. Francis, the Troubador of Christ |
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 The name Saint Francis of Assisi reminds most people of a cute lawn figure surrounded by birds or of a man who had a great love for animals, nature, and poetry; others may know that St Francis also founded three religious orders, had a great love for the poor, especially for lepers, and that he was a man of peace. |
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St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe: A most faithful follower of St. Francis |
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 “We are now on the second page of our Order’s history; it is beginning now. In the Order everything belongs to the Immaculate.” -St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe
St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe (1894-1941 A. D.), a member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, |
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