Our Lord, having revealed himself to St. Margaret Mary, requested that the Feast of His Sacred Heart be celebrated within the Octave of Corpus Christi. He further requested the devotion to His Sacred Heart on the first Friday of every month. St. Margaret Mary, making a long, beautiful story very short, celebrates her feast on October 16th.
That day should ring a bell, and if it does not, may it now! This is also the day that the Militia of the Immaculata was founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe. He intentionally chose this day to begin the spiritual movement whose aim would be to spread the Kingdom of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
The significance is mind blowing. The Sacred Heart points to the Interior Life, Obedience, Charity and Suffering. These are the four pillars of total consecration! We cannot possibly live our total consecration in the Kolbean Spirituality without pleasing and glorifying the Sacred Heart! This brings GREAT JOY.
For some guidance, consider the questions below and the excerpts from the Diary of Margaret Mary in italics. These italics are the words of Christ in his private revelation. Let us strive to live these four pillars whole heartily and give due honor and praise to our Lord.
1. Do I receive Holy Communion as frequently as possible?
In the first place you shall receive Me in Holy Communion as often as obedience (to your confessor and superiors)
will permit you, despite the mortification and humiliation it may cause you, which you must receive as pledges of My Love.
2. Do I live obedient to Holy Mother Church? Have I sought spiritual direction?
Therefore, do nothing without the approval of those who guide you; being thus under the authority of obedience, his efforts against you will be in vain, for he has no power over the obedient."
Therefore, do nothing without the approval of those who guide you; being thus under the authority of obedience, his efforts against you will be in vain, for he has no power over the obedient."
Hence it is that you must no longer lay any claim to whatever you may door suffer, either to increase your merits orto make satisfaction by penance or otherwise,since everything is sacrificed in favor of charity.
4. Is my suffering willed out of love?
Therefore, in imitation of Me you must act and suffer in silence without any other interest than the glory of God, in the establishment of the Reign of My Sacred Heart in the hearts of men, to whom I wish to manifest It by your means."
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