39

True Love is when
both people think
they’re the lucky one.

Author Unknown

Marry your best friend, have a few kids, keep honest friends and have a little garden.

Bake pies, work with your hands, use fresh herbs and have too many books.

Prioritize God, joy and laughter.

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Queenship

“Let us commit ourselves to hasten this moment: first and foremost by allowing the Immaculata to take entire possession of our heart so that by becoming instruments in her immaculate hands we will gain, to the limit of our possibilities, the greatest number of souls for her, through prayer, through the offering of our sufferings and work.” KW 1159

St. Maximilian Kolbe

“I invite all the faithful to take part in a day of fasting and prayer on August 22, imploring the Lord to grant us peace and justice, and to wipe away the tears of those who suffer because of ongoing armed conflicts. May Mary, Queen of Peace, intercede so that peoples may find the path of peace.”

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday, August 20th

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God!

two crowns

To win the entire world for the Immaculata and, through her, for the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.”

St. Maximilian Kolbe

St. Maximilian Kolbe was born Raymund Kolbe in Poland on January 8th, 1894. Poland at this time was part of the Russian Empire. His father was a weaver and mother was a midwife. At age 12, Kolbe was given a vision of Our Lady. He wrote this: That night I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me. Then she came to me holding two crowns, one white, the other red. She asked me if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.

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