The Martyrdom of Maximilian Kolbe
Daily Rosary Meditations | Catholic Prayers
Dr. Mike Scherschligt
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🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Holy Family School of Faith. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to our rosary meditation. We are getting really close to having 10,000 people praying this rosary every day. |
| 0:14.0 | We want to give this great gift to our lady on the feast of her queenship, so share it with others. |
| 0:20.0 | Today is the feast of St. Maximilian Colby. |
| 0:22.8 | This meditation was recorded in Auschwitz one year ago, where Colby gave his life for another |
| 0:31.0 | man. |
| 0:31.8 | This cannot be improved upon, so we deliver it to you today. |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome to our Rosary Meditation. |
| 0:41.3 | We are in one of the most awful and yet most beautiful places on the planet. |
| 0:47.6 | We are at Auschwitz, and we are at the very spot where St. Maximilian Colby fulfilled the greatest words of Jesus. |
| 0:58.0 | Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends. |
| 1:04.6 | So let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:08.5 | Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for. Let's pray |
| 1:13.4 | especially for all the souls who died here who have no one to pray for them. All the eyes |
| 1:20.5 | in the pictures that you looked into that have no one to pray for them. We offer this rosary |
| 1:26.8 | for them. We offer this rosary for them. |
| 1:28.3 | In 1936, Maximilian was recalled from Japan to Poland for the last time. |
| 1:37.3 | World War II broke out September 1st, 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland. |
| 1:42.3 | September 5th, almost all the Franciscans were ordered to leave Neapokalana |
| 1:48.0 | and before leaving them for unknown destinations, some for exile, others for prisoner death, |
| 1:56.0 | Maximilian Colby said to them, do not forget love. |
| 2:03.6 | Forget not love. |
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