Intention of Pilgrimage 2015

Intention of the SSPX 9th Official Pilgrimage to Akita

Ave Maria! Immaculata!

Dear pilgrims!

Again we want to pay our filial honor to Our Mother, who loves us so much, who desires the conversion and sanctifcatin of all her children.
Again we fall on our knees before the Queen, who is bestowed with immense power to guide us, to protect us from all evil and lead us to heaven.
Again we want to visit her shrine in a country she visibly cherishes and wants to convert. And not only Japan, but is not Her message in Akita somehow the continuation of Fatima, or better - the sad application of Her message in Fatima? She sheds many tears, because her children don't want to obey her, they do not take care about her so solemn advertisments ... and the world goes to its ruin, and the hierarchs push Holy Mother Church to its 'autodestruction'.

But for what do we come to HER ? Certainly before all, to console her, to fulfill her demands: PRAY AND DO PENANCE!
However, we have yet another obligation, much more important: we have to give an appropiate ANSWER to HER CALL, to Her invitation to rescue, to save us, to makes us Saints in the most difficult circumstances the Church has ever seen, in the most dangerous times, where many loose their soul!

The answer is very simple: She is our Mother, so we have to be HER true children, She is Our Queen, so we have to be Her true servants, more - slaves! SHE is Our leader in the final battle, so we have to be her soldiers - HER KNIGHTS.
This is the program of Our pilgrimage: through the conferences SHE will enlighten our intellect to understand HER role in our life and what we have to do, so that SHE will effectively become "our refuge and the way which leads us to heaven". We will discover again the shortest and easiest way to holiness, but also OUR lifetask, to become instruments in Her immaculate hands for the conversion of her children, who do not even know that she exists, or who have forgotten or even rejected HER.
Through our prayers in AKITA we will open our hearts, that through HER immaculate heart ALL DIVINE GRACES will penetrate our heart so to convert and to sanctify us.

Please prepare this pilgrimage by your daily rosary, by reading and meditating spiritual literature about Our Lady: all works of Saint Louis Mary Grignion de Montfort, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, "the Glories of Mary"of Saint Alfonsus de Liguori, the history of Her great apparitions : GUADALUPE, LOURDES, FATIMA etc., the biography of Her saints.

Wishing you a blessed time of Lent ....
KS : Fr.Karl Stehlin ( the District Superior of Asia SSPX )