A GREAT SIGN

"...(S)ouls find themselves in danger of trampling many graces and celestial favors, and following the overwhelming way of corruption, pleasure, and apostasy against the law of the Lord.

          So many are hopelessly overwhelmed and drug into the whirlpools of sin. But the Heavenly Queen, Commander, continues to appear on the horizon, as the signum magnum (great sign) of Revelations. She calls her children to battle, to lead them to victory. Trusting in the triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, our Institute ought to hear that cry to the counter-attack, to embark against the dragon of many heads, enemy of God and of his faithful followers.            

          ...(Y)ou are soldiers of Mary, instruments of love and mercy... Therefore, be worthy of such a high mission, keeping your gaze fixed on His, in order to reproduce in yourself, in your lives, His most beautiful virtue." 

excerpt from OVS Volume 1, Father Luigi Faccenda to the Fr. Kolbe Missionaries