In this section of the blog, I will meditate upon the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe by going over his two volumes of writings as published by the Militia Immaculata. 

Each of those published letters or articles that he wrote have a specific date and I will try my best to commemorate his words, deeds, and ambitions leading up to his heroic self-sacrifice in a Nazi death camp.

To put his life in wider context of the "communion of the saints" (of which he is a recently added member), I place these writings alongside the Roman Martyrology and the Liturgical Sanctoral Cycle and ask what the Gospel really demands of us.

Not everyone is called to martyrdom per se, but we are all called to be ready and willing to pick up our Crosses and to do so with a kind of spiritual joy unknown to the world and its received wisdom about the "good life." 

That does seem like a tall order, but if we look at the lives of the saints as we are wont to do, we realize that their diversity of background, walks of life, vocations, and even encounters with Christ does contain an underlying common factor that we shall soon explore. 

Be well!

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