Day 11:
Opening Prayer
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created and You shall renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, Grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever enjoy His consolations.
Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.
The MI Movement
In the Kolbean spirituality, this ecclesial dimension is not simply a corollary, albeit important. It is a
fundamental point.
In St. Maximilian’s vision, authentic consecration to Mary does not exist if it is not referenced to the Church, especially in reference to the mission of the Church.
We could say that what is truly original in St. Maximilian, compared to other forms of consecration to Mary in the Church, is precisely its missionary and universal dimension.
He founded the MI Movement in 1917, when he was still a young man, with few resources, but with a great ideal in his heart. As time went on, that ideal would become ever more clear: “To win the whole world for Christ through the Immaculata”2; To embrace the entire globe “…so that she may extend her dominion in the hearts of all those who live in any corner of the earth” (KW 1210).
In the original charter of the MI, St. Maximilian delineated the characteristics of the MI movement; he indicated the goal of his Movement with these words:
“To bring about the conversion of sinners, heretics, schismatics, etc., especially Freemasons, and the sanctification of all, under the patronage and through the mediation of the B.V.M. Immaculate”
(KW 1368). To attain this purpose St. Maximilian considered one’s total consecration to the Immaculata the essential condition (ibid.).
Closing Prayer
Hail Mary…
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to you, and for all those who do not have recourse to you, especially the enemies of Holy Church and all those recommended to you.
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