Dear Christ, Saint Maximilian Kolbe was imprisoned in Auschwitz where he ministered to the captives and celebrated Mass by consecrating bread and wine that had been smuggled in. He was martyred after he voluntarily took the place of a young married prisoner condemned to die. Since he’s the patron saint of drug addicts and people in prison, I ask him to intercede for the inmates in our jails. O Lord, heal their hearts and protect them from the evil that surrounds them. I also ask him to pray for the addicts in my family and my friends’ families. O Lord, set them free from the prison of their addictions. Saint Maximilian Kolbe, pray for us. Amen.
Quotes for Today
Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)
Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving.”
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it.”
By dedicating ourselves to [the Immaculate Virgin Mary] we become in her hands instruments of God’s mercy even as she was such an instrument in God’s hands. We should let ourselves be guided and led by Mary and rest quiet and secure in her hands.”
The prayer above is from Terry Modica’s book Daily Prayers with the Saints.
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