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O Immaculata? Who Are You, O Immaculata? Fr. Karl Stehlin Who Are You, O Immaculata? Fr. Karl Stehlin Who Are You, O Immaculata? translated by Michael J. Miller MI Kolbe Publications 2017 English edition copyright © 2017 by Kolbe Publications Copies Available: Kolbe Publications 286 Upper Thomson Road, Singapore 574402 www.kolbepublications.com email: [email protected] ISBN 978-981-11-2636-9 First Printing All rights reserved Contents Foreword 7 Introduction 9 PART ONE: THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF ACTION AND REACTION Chapter 1 The Fundamental Law of Action and Reaction 16 PART TWO: TO RENEW ALL THINGS IN CHRIST THROUGH MARY Chapter 1 God’s Work of Creation Through the Immaculata 28 Chapter 2 The Sending of the Son into the World Through the Immaculata 39 Chapter 3 Christ’s Work of Redemption with the Immaculata 50 Chapter 4 The sending of the Holy Ghost into the World Through the Immaculata 64 Chapter 5 God Working in the Church Through the Immaculata 88 Chapter 6 God’s Work at the End of the World Through the Immaculata 97 5 PART THREE: CREATION’S RETURN TO GOD THROUGH THE IMMACULATA Chapter 1 The Beginning of the Return: Total Consecration 119 Chapter 2 The New Law of Life: My Life in the Immaculata 123 Chapter 3 Reforming Our Life Through the Glories of Mary 131 Chapter 4 Mediatrix to the One Mediator, Jesus Christ 154 Chapter 5 Christian Life in the Immaculata 191 Chapter 6 The Return of Creation at the End of Time Through the Immaculata 229 Chapter 7 World without End 242 PART FOUR: THE IMMACULATA IN THE MYSTERY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY Chapter 1 The Mystery of the Trinity 258 Chapter 2 Who are You, O Immaculata? 262 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 271 6 Foreword WHO ARE YOU, O IMMACULATA? by Fr Karl Stehlin is a valuable book for all Mary’s children who want to spend their lives and themselves in her service as her slaves In every respect this little treatise is composed along the lines of the Marian devotion and mysticism of St Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort and St Maximilian Kolbe, whose writings are quoted extensively Besides these, it draws on Mary’s message at Fatima and thus makes an important connection to the crisis that is convulsing the Church and society today In this book moreover, the burning issue of devotion to Our Lady is embedded in a Catholic, that is, a comprehensive view of the great plan of creation and God’s plan for governing the world: God brings creation into being out of nothing (actio); His masterpiece therein, after the humanity of our Lord and Saviour, the Immaculata, the Daughter of the Father, the Mother of the God-man, the Bride and Sanctuary of the Holy Ghost She is the prototype of creation, God’s original idea of creation in the first place. Therefore how could she not have a central purpose in the return of creation to God (reactio)? In the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as a sacra- mental renewal of the Sacrifice on the Cross, in the seven Sacraments of the Church, in doctrine and everywhere in the proclamation of the faith she has a position that far surpasses all the Saints As Mediatrix of all graces, Mother of Good Counsel, and Help of Christians she guides the soul that seeks and loves God toward its eternal goal, stands by 7 her people in battle, helps the Church (of which she is the archetype) in her trials today, in her conflict with the forces of darkness, which is in fact assuming apocalyptic proportions And so this little book is an appropriate means of enlightening our minds with a better appreciation of the Immaculata, inflaming our hearts with love for her and nourishing our souls with a genuine spirituality Blessed the soul whom the Immaculata allows to see her greatness and glory and calls to serve her unconditionally! Blessed the man whom the Immaculata employs as an instrument in carrying out God’s plans, in order to perfect her divine Son’s work of salvation! Blessed are they who not only are called the children of the Immac- ulata but are such in spirit and in truth! Menzingen, in the Month of Mary, May 2006 Father Franz Schmidberger, SSPX 8 Introduction “O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, I know that I am unworthy to draw near to you, to fall down at your feet, with my head bowed to the ground. But because I love you very much, I dare to ask you that you would be so kind as to tell me who you are! For I would like to get to know you better and better, boundlessly, and to love you more and more ardently, without any limits whatsoever. And I long to tell other souls, too, who you are, so that more and more souls might come to know you ever more perfectly and to love you ever more ardently. Indeed, I yearn for you to become the Queen of all the hearts that are beating on earth and ever will beat — and for this to happen as quickly as possible.“1 “The angels often ask one another: Quae est ista? Who can she possibly be? [Cf. Canticle 3:6; 8:5]. For the Most-High kept her concealed from them. Or if He did reveal anything to them, it was nothing compared to what He withheld.“2 Again and again we hear from the mouths of the Saints the aston- ished cry: “Who are you, O Immaculata?” Mortal man is speechless 1 St. Maximilian Kolbe, Fragment of his unfinished book on the Immacula- ta, August 1940, in: Błogosławiony Maksymilian Kolbe, Wybór Pism [“Blessed Ma- ximilian Kolbe: Selected Writings”, henceforth: BMK], Warszawa 1973, p 590 2 St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, Bay Sho- re, NY: Montfort Publications 1980, par 3, p 1 9 before the countless miracles and mysteries that have their origin in her She stands there alone in her perfection and power as God’s masterpiece The Church praises her prerogatives and wants us to honour her more than all the angels and Saints (hyperdulia) Her role in Christ’s work of redemption is unique: she takes part in it as the new Eve and Co-Redemptrix; she applies the fruits of redemption to all her children as Mediatrix of all graces Thus she is given to us by God as the power through which man is first of all converted, and then as the way by which he comes to Christ She is the mold of God into which we are poured as “material”, so that God may be formed in us by her We owe to her all the graces that we have received personally She is also the great sign in the heaven, which leads the Christian army in the combat against Satan. She is victorious in all God’s battles. Particu- larly during the latter times, though, she is there as the last means of salvation that God gives the world She reveals herself, immediately through her apparitions, indirectly through instruments specially chosen by her to prove her unimaginable power at the moment of the most dreadful attacks of the Enemy of souls. Her heart becomes the final refuge of the persecuted and oppressed children of God, who try to stand their ground faithfully beneath the cross of Christ Her children, her knights, enlist under her banner; they are her “possession and property” and make up the little army that endures the supreme test and at last is victorious over the superior force arrayed against it, for “in the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph!” From this perspective it is staggering to contemplate how great, indeed, how limitless a power God willed to give to a mere creature And the question arises ever more clearly: Quae est ista? “Who are you, that you, of all people, will win the victory at the end of the ages? 10 Who are you, that you bear us as our Mother, nourish, raise, and guide us and finally promise us victory? You can communicate your immaculate nature to us sinners, but does not this power exceed all creaturely capabilities? Indeed, one might almost say anxiously: Are we not transgressing the limits between God and creature and making you a sort of God, as Protestantism accuses us of doing?” The teaching of the Church gives us a clear answer to this question: Mary is so great because she was selected to become the Mother of God. And this reality exalts her infinitely above all other creatures. From this mission of hers come all the other privileges, her perpetual virginity, her immaculate conception, her assumption into Heaven Mary has such a great role to play in the life of the Church and of every individual because, as divine revelation teaches us, God willed it so and not otherwise, although he would have had a thousand other ways of redeeming us St Louis-Marie de Montfort, too, explains why Mary manifests all her might and glory at the end of the ages: because the salvation of the world began through Mary, and through her it will also be brought to completion All these sublime truths help us not only to know and love her better and better, but also to see ever more clearly our own mission in life, which she herself essentially formulated at Fatima in those simple words: “Pray and make sacrifices, for so many souls go to Hell because there is no one to pray for them and to make sacri- fices for them.“3 We can say, therefore, that the more deeply someone penetrates into the mystery of Mary, the more he becomes inflamed with love 3 Sister Lucia Speaks about Fatima, 5.
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