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MY BOOKS
Led by the Immaculata: St. Maximilian Kolbe's Spiritual Battle Plan for Marian Consecration
In Led by the Immaculata, Joshua Mazrin, a Kolbe devotee and Mariology expert, will:
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introduce you to St. Maximilian Kolbe,
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explain the meaning of consecration and the objectives of the Knights of the Immaculata,
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walk you through the fourteen doable and practical steps of the consecration, and
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provide a step-by-step plan for completing the consecration.
MY ARTICLES
Mother of Sorrows, Mother of Mercy
Mary’s fiat did not end during the Annunciation, but she stood as Mother, offering her only son at Calvary, living the reality that Abraham was asked to do with Isaac. She willingly consented to her son’s suffering, standing at his foot at the Cross. Here, Christ gives her to us as our mother, and he gives us to her as her children.
The Knight of the Immaculata: St. Maximilian Kolbe
“Every action starts from the Father through Jesus and the Immaculata, and comes to souls. Every reaction starts from the souls, and through the Immaculata and Jesus comes to the Father. Between the Father and Jesus, and Jesus and the Immaculata there exists perfect union. Between the Immaculata and the souls, instead, much needs to be perfected.”
Why Fasting? The lost art of denying yourself
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world,” he says. (1 John 2:16). This has been a problem from the beginning, through Jesus’ time, and even now.
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Luckily for us, the Catholic Church has a remedy: the three pillars of the spiritual life. These pillars, fasting, almsgiving, and prayer, each correspond to one part of the three temptations. Fasting is a remedy to the lust and temptations of the flesh.
I prayed the Rosary every night that week by myself. I had to look up online how to pray it. For some reason this was more important than I could understand. The fruit of the Rosary was a new desire to go to daily Mass, which I began immediately. Then after only a short while, a friend reached out randomly, asking me, “Have you ever done the Marian consecration?” I had no idea to what he was referring. No, I hadn’t, but it sounded like something I wanted to do.
After work I rushed to the church to speak to the youth director. He emphasized how truly important Marian consecration was to me. He told me that St. John Paul II attributed his entire faith to Marian consecration—that it changed his life. If I was to do Marian consecration, I needed to take it seriously, he told me. This is not a casual thing. My immediate response was, “Then Marian consecration is going to change my life, too.”