by Fr. Elias M. Mills, FI | Nov 25, 2025 | 2025, Missio Article
Our Lady is the Queen of the Missions and the first missionary to bring Christ to the world. Even now, she continues her work through souls consecrated to her to be her instruments of mediation of grace. And the master said to the servant, “Go out to the...
by Fr John Lawrence Polis, FI | Sep 17, 2025 | 2025, Missio Article
“Just a piece of cloth? How could that save anyone?” Many question the devotion surrounding the Brown Scapular, dismissing it as superstitious or lacking a historical foundation. This article looks at the historical and doctrinal bases for this sacramental. From the...
by Paul Kachinski | Jul 21, 2025 | 2025, Missio Article
Br. Francisco Mary of the Hidden Jesus (Paul Kachinski) reflects on his spiritual journey, speaking about Our Lady’s call to all of her children though the Fatima apparitions, the gift of total consecration to her, and the beauty of being a Franciscan Tertiary of the...
by Joshua Mazrin | May 14, 2025 | 2025, Missio Article
The thirty-three days of preparation for my consecration to the Immaculate were days of intense spiritual warfare. At one point, I felt as if I was surrounded by some presence which did not want me to continue. All I could think to do was fight back and pray, so I...
by Caleb Barber | Mar 5, 2025 | 2025, Missio Article
Either Brother Lawrence and St. Therese were seriously wrong and idolatrous, or they were examples of living the true faith; one doesn’t get prayer totally right and “accidentally” have a child-like devotion to the Mother of God. If I was to follow Brother Lawrence,...
by Fr. Matthias M. Sasko, FI | Jan 16, 2025 | 2024, Mary and the Eschaton, Missio Article
Advent reminds us not only of the first coming of Our Lord, but also of the second, final one, the Eschaton. The end of the world might still be far away—it is impossible to know when it will happen: we don’t know the day or the hour. But we know for sure that with...
