True Devotion

[LilyofSaintMaria]

Hi,
I just wanted to to post two orders that live out the Kolbe spirituality. They are both very wonderful. They are the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate and the Sisters Minor of Mary Immaculate. Sound the same, but totally different. Check them out! I don't know the URLs, but if you put them into google I'm sure that'll be the first find you get.
God bless,
Bernadette

[shortnun]

[quote name='LilyofSaintMaria' date='Mar 31 2006, 07:57 AM']Hi,
I just wanted to to post two orders that live out the Kolbe spirituality. They are both very wonderful. They are the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate and the Sisters Minor of Mary Immaculate. Sound the same, but totally different. Check them out! I don't know the URLs, but if you put them into google I'm sure that'll be the first find you get.
God bless,
Bernadette
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[b][url="http://members.cox.net/fsofmi/"]Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate[/url][/b]
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[url="http://cmswr.org/member_communities/SMMI.htm"]Sisters Minor of Mary Immaculate[/url][/b]

[Guest Rick777]

Yah, I personally think St. Louis Mary de Montfort's is the best, but only my opinion.

[shortnun]

I ran across another community who makes a consecration to Mary using the de Montfort consecration.

[b][url="http://www.corazones.org/english.htm"]Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary[/url][/b]

[sadora]

I absolutely love de Montfort's consecration.

I (fairly) recently researched a little bit about Kolbe's Marian consecration, but I don't know.... for me, de Montfort's "fit" better. I did de Montfort's method last year with my consecration date of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. And reading his [u]True Devotion[/u] changed my life. Amazing book. Still re-reading it and will continue to do so for the rest of my life.

I agree with Rick777 -- I think this is the best consecration, too.

P.S. LilyofSaintMaria, thank you for posting your e-mails.

[GodChild]

St Louis is mighty waffly! I got a headache the first time I read the 'True Devotion' as its all just a little to 'philosophical' and 'theological' for me.
I find the maternity of Mary to the be the most beautiful thing expounded in the work and I'm making the consecration for the first time on Jan 1st - the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.

[Veritas]

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The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word:

"Each year, as a community, we renew our consecration to the Immaculate Mother of God, using the method of St. Louis Marie de Montfort — including the thirty-three day preparation."

~http://www.mfva.info/1/aboutus.htm





[quote name='brendan1104' post='921287' date='Mar 24 2006, 09:35 PM']
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary - both the approved and unapproved communities. - [url="http://www.saintbenedict.com"]http://www.saintbenedict.com[/url] - their whole spirit is according to St Louis Marie Grignion De Montfort.

The Carmelite Monks. - [url="http://www.carmelitemonks.org"]http://www.carmelitemonks.org[/url]
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Are the Benedictines that you link to above an approved community? As a side note, they pray the rosary three times (once in Latin -yay!) every day -wow!

[quote name='shortnun' post='926079' date='Mar 28 2006, 11:17 PM']
Has anyone ever done the consecration according to St. Maximilian Kolbe's formula (as opposed to Louis de Montfort)?
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I have not made this consecration (I am a devotee of St. Louis Marie de Montfort's method), but this community is AWESOME (CMSWR Members) and they are totally devoted to spreading Marian Consecration via St. Maximilian Kolbe's method:

[url="http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/"]http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/[/url]


As a side note, they wear one of my FAVORITE habits -I love the color!:

[url="http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/sisters.shtml"]http://www.marymediatrix.com/rel_life/sisters.shtml[/url]

Edited August 30, 2006 by Veritas

[brendan1104]

They're not Benedictines- they're Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and yes.

[quote name='Veritas' post='1053464' date='Aug 30 2006, 04:09 AM']
Are the Benedictines that you link to above an approved community? As a side note, they pray the rosary three times (once in Latin -yay!) every day -wow![/quote]

[TeresaAvila]

oh I agree it is the best, I consecrated myself last year on the feast of St. Louis Marie De Montfort, and it was such a joy, I highly recommend it to anyone!

[sanctafamilia]

My formor spiritual director was a tertiary of the Franciscans of the Immaculata. Her name in religion is Sr. joseph Mary Maximilian and she lives an hour from me.

[shortnun]

Another community that does the de Montfort consecration: [b][url="http://www.trinhvuong.org/"]Sisters of Mary, Queen[/url][/b]

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='sanctafamilia' post='1173345' date='Jan 22 2007, 06:16 PM']
My formor spiritual director was a tertiary of the Franciscans of the Immaculata. Her name in religion is Sr. joseph Mary Maximilian and she lives an hour from me.
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And she did the Kolbean consecration or the DeMontfort consecration?

[she_who_is_not]

[quote name='Totus Tuus' post='1174801' date='Jan 24 2007, 02:01 PM']
And she did the Kolbean consecration or the DeMontfort consecration?
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How do the two differ? I've read True Devotion but no very little about St. Maximillian Kolbe.

[shortnun]

[quote name='she_who_is_not' post='1174807' date='Jan 24 2007, 01:07 PM']
How do the two differ? I've read True Devotion but no very little about St. Maximillian Kolbe.
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There's a thread on here somewhere that marks out the differences. When I have more time, I'll try and do a search and see if I can find it.

[the lords sheep]

I believe most of the Sisters of life make one of the Marian consecrations. I've talked about it with one of the Sisters before... from what I remember it is the Sister's choice which she uses but it is encourage (possibly required?) that she make one... Don't quote me though....