On the 27th of November 20 seminarians of the Seminary de la Reja in Argentina were enrolled into the M.I. These Knights are the first in Argentina.
On the 27th of November 2017, on the feast of the Miraculous Medal, the emblem of the Militia Immaculatae, the enrolment ceremony of the Militia Immaculatae of Seminarians and Brothers who wish to serve Mary as Her instruments for the salvation of souls, took place in the Seminary of Our Lady Coredemptrix in La Reja (Argentina). In total there were 20 new Knights of the Immaculate, among them two deacons shortly before being ordained priests and thus about to start their apostolate under the directives of the Immaculate.
The ceremony was held in the church of the Seminary dedicated to the Immaculate Conception; so the date and the Patroness of the church enhanced the significance of the ceremony.
The whole enrolment ritual of the Militia Immaculatae was conducted in the presence of Reverend Fr. José María Mestre Roc who addressed the new Knights indicating why the date of November 27 was chosen to start the Militia Immaculatae in the Seminary, and the meaning of offering oneself to Mary as an instrument, now in the Seminary and tomorrow in the apostolate. He indicated particularly, referring to the apparition of Our Lady to Saint Catherine Labouré, that the new Knights are called to be those hands of the Immaculate from which all graces proceed, and by their fidelity, should be the hands distributing the luminous rays, this is, the really dispensed graces, and not the hands with turned off rays, this is, that due to their guilt put a hindrance to the graces Our Lady wants to grant to the souls through them.
With all fervour the new Knights pronounced their Consecration to the Immaculate, offering themselves “completely and totally” to Mary as Her good and property, in “life, death and eternity”, to be “a faithful instrument in her immaculate hands”.
Let us ask the Lord and Her Most Holy Mother that this consecration really means to each one of the new members of the Militia, a victory of the Immaculate over the serpent, camouflaged in the world.
Dignare me laudare te, Virgo sacrata
Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos
We pray for the Knights and the Militia Immaculatae in Argentina. Let the zealous Knights spread the spirit of St. Maximilian and the Militia Immaculatae.
