Who Are You, O Immaculata?

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by the leader of the international Knights of the Immaculata, Traditional Observance

recommended at an SSPX retreat on Fr. Kolbe and Marian devotion

Fr. Kolbe has some very deep Marian+Trinitarian theology. For example, he says the Immaculata is the "quasi-incarnation of the Holy Ghost" and that the Holy Ghost and the Immaculata both share the name Immaculate Conception.

St. Thomas Aquinas is quoted passim.

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Who Are, O Immaculata?
The first time that God communicates his own name to us in Holy Scripture he says, “I AM WHO AM.” When Our Lady spoke to little Saint Bernadette at Lourdes she told her “I AM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.” Oh, the depths of mystery and beauty that lie in those twin utterances! The full role of the Immaculata is explored and refined, and its relevance to the world of our time is detailed in an easy to read and understand format.
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07/07/26: 34

There is the theory of the evolution of things starting from the Big Bang and continuing through the higher development of the species, leading up to man. About this theory we should note first that every advance from a lower to a higher species must be accompanied by God and His creative power, for the lower form does not have the capability of bringing about something higher by itself, according to the fundamental law: agere sequitur esse - action follows being and corresponds to it. One cannot give what one does not possess.

07/07/26: 43

According to the opinion of many Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the mystery of the Incarnation was made known to the angels and presented to them for a decision. They were supposed to worship Mary’s Son as their head and king of creation and acknowledge Mary, the mother, as their mistress.1

discusssed in de motivo incarnationis theses?

07/07/26: 43

The patristic passages are cited by St. Lawrence of Brindisi, who also advocates this doctrine. See HSM p. 223 – 224.

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Mary becomes through her motherhood a “blood relative of the Trinity” (consanguinea trinitatis), as the Church Fathers say.

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St. Hesychius of Jerusalem calls Mary “the pleroma of the Most Holy Trinity”,15 the completion or complement of the Trinity:

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The Father and the Holy Ghost enter into new relations with the God-man, which did not exist in the absence of Mary’s motherhood.”

How can >4 relations be in Trinity?

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To take the child’s life is to take from the mother the meaning of her life.

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To kill Him was, for her, something worse than if she herself were to be killed.

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Mary can sacrifice to the Father the deepest, most intimate part of her intelligence: a sacrifice that Jesus Himself cannot offer.

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In her sacrifice reason is cast into the darkest night and as such is offered up in charity: and this sacrificial offering is precisely what is still lacking in Christ’s suffering.

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St. Bernard

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she is indeed our Mediatrix.”

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through her we receive prevenient and preparatory graces. Thus the saintly Church Father Germanus says: “No one, O most Blessed Lady, is filled with the knowledge of God except through thee; no one attains to salvation except through thee; no one receives grace from the Divine Mercy except through thee.”

so Aristotle received prevenient grace to know God exists?

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Mercy. But why did God, in setting out to find sinful man who was lost, decide to give this, His most beautiful and magnificent divine attribute, to a weak creature, to a woman? In order to make the way easy for us, so as to

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touch our inmost depths, to show us how much He loves us, that He even renounces, as it were, this jewel from His divine crown and so does absolutely everything possible to save us.

wow

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the most profound reason why God entrusted to her the entire “order of mercy”

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St. Albert the Great. He even says that the name Queen of Mercy is the most appropriate title for Mary’s dignity, and that this title, “Mother of Mercy”, “Queen of Mercy” can belong to no one else.20

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20 Mariale qu. 75, p. 131, in Ego Sapientia, La Sagesse qui est Marie (Laval, 1943), pp. 171-172.

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See especially the Akathist Hymn, (Eng. ref.).

:)

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Cardinal Newman summarizes this by saying that ‘Mary is the guardian of the truth of Christ’s Incarnation.’

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It is remarkable, too, that the denial of Mary’s virginity in a Modernist periodical precipitated the condemnation of this perfidious heresy the Church hierarchy.

It did? What was this article?

07/09/26: 90

E. Neubert, Marie dans le dogme (Paris, 1953), pp. 208-210.

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In the year 1954 the “Children of Mary” numbered about 36,000 chapters throughout the world;

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Keeping one’s distance from Mary in the name of ecumenism is one of the worst possible affronts to God.

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How can this beast arising from the sea of hellfire, i.e., anti-Christian regimes, be conquered? Through confidence in the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the recognition of her power in public, social and political life.

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O. Allo, L’Apocalypse (Gabalda, 1921), p. 184.

07/10/26: 101

Whatever one may think about the publication of the third secret of Fatima, there is no longer any doubt as to its essential contents: the almost total destruction of the Church and a heretofore unprecedented number of apostate souls is the work of the second beast, which is incarnate, so to speak, in a new world religion that leads entire nations into the great apostasy in the name of a false ecumenism.

07/10/26: 119

The essential thing is not to do much according to our ideas, but rather to be in her hands. She can accomplish something for the honor and glory of God much better, whereas we botch so many things.

07/10/26: 125

this is just how the Protestants behave: they honor Jesus, but not the Mother of God. They pray the Our Father but not the Hail Mary. And that is precisely the diabolical way, the way of pride. Subjecting oneself to God - Lucifer could understand that, but that he, an angel, should subject himself to a human creature - that he could not endure, that was too much of a humiliation…

07/10/26: 127

People say that time is money. Christians say that time is worth as much as the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, because our redemption took place in time and we must grow supernaturally in time.

07/10/26: 133

By way of contrast, by placing our fallen reality in the light of her reality. The Immaculata Conceptio then makes us aware, on every occasion, of how much we allow ourselves to be guided by our wounded human nature and the extent to which attitudes inspired by sin direct our thoughts, words and deeds. Thus, for example, we plan our daily routine or even our state in life according to the principles of personal ambition or egotistical, wishful thinking.

07/26/26: 139

Mary’s divine maternity is her reception of the Eternal Word into herself, her carrying of God in her heart and her giving birth to the Incarnate Word in the world. It is also the most intimate relationship that there can ever be between persons: the relationship of mother and child. In this sense Mary’s divine maternity is the most perfect created image, rendering visible of the most intimate relationship of the Father and the Son within the Most Holy Trinity.

so Madonna & child paintings are Trinitarion icons

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In her this is at the same time a spiritual and a fleshly reality: fleshly, since she is physically the Mother of God and Christ is flesh of her flesh, blood of her blood; spiritually, since she conceived him “first in her heart, and only then in her body” (prius in mente quam in corpore).

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Since this relationship between God and creature in Mary’s divine maternity - the most intimate relationship possible - is the prototype and summit, the meaning and purpose of all God’s work, we must conclude that the relationship of our souls to God is nothing other than a copy and a certain participation in this mystery of divine maternity.

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The birth and raising of the child is understood as a divine mission, that is, as the presentation and proclamation of Jesus Christ to the world: bearing Christ in souls. Jesus Himself reaffirms such an outlook when He says that whoever does His will is His “brother, sister and mother”.

07/28/26: 154

the liturgical furnishings are a likeness of Mary, as the Ethiopian liturgy very clearly states when it praises Mary: “Rejoice, thou golden table, upon which the exquisite Mystery ripens. Thou art the golden bowl, in which the manna is kept, the bread that came down to us from heaven. Thou golden paten, which carries the showbread. Thou golden chalice, which contains the wine of the Mystery, mixed with the fragrance of the Holy Ghost…. Thou art the golden censer that contains the burning coal of the divinity.”3

Is this the basis if the misconception (∃ heresy?) that the chalice (or sacramental species) = Mary?

08/05/26: 159

there is no sonship without a mother. One cannot have God as his Father if one does not have Mary as his Mother.

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when making a confession we should think of all the offenses committed against her Immaculate Heart.

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Marriage and Family

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the relation between Mary and Joseph illuminates the sort of relationship that spouses should have.

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This humility and love of the hidden life is the special grace of the Immaculata for the family, without which a woman can never be a good mother and wife.

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the form of matrimony consists in a certain inseparable union (conjunctio) of souls, by which husband and wife are pledged by a bond of mutual affection that cannot

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be sundered.”

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A happy marriage is not primarily a question of compatibility or mutual understanding, but rather a question of prayer and devotion to God.

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someone who perfectly fulfills God’s will can boldly say that he is doing so much that even God, who is Almighty and infinite, could do no more in his place. Therefore someone who perfectly fulfills God’s will does infinite good for souls.

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her helpless presence gave the Crucified One the greatest joy, the greatest consolation.

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Without sacrifices there is no love. Sacrifices of the senses, especially of the eyes, taste and hearing, but especially sacrifices of the understanding and the will in holy obedience.

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La Salette,

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Many will turn their backs on the Faith; the number of priests and religious who fall away from the true religion will be large. There will even be bishops among them…

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Many religious houses will lose the faith completely and lead many souls to ruin.

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Bad books will flood the world and the spirits of darkness will spread general laxity in the service of God everywhere.

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A. de Lassus, Le Secret de Notre Dame à La Salette (Paris: Action Familiale et Scolaire, No. 125, 1996).

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God cannot create anyone greater than she is.”10