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Vi blir dödade av världen för vår tro – för Kristi sanning som vi inte kommer att överge. Ändå darrar vi inte inför mörkret och böjer oss inte för dess raseri. Vi reser korset högt mot det! För denna värld, genomsyrad av lögner, svaghet och fiendens skugga, kan inte uthärda närvaron av en man av styrka, sanning och ljus – ledd och smidd av Kristus själv.
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New film on St. Maximilian Kolbe’s final days highlights hope amid darkness
The premiere of “Triumph of the Heart” in Dallas on Sept. 8, 2025. | Credit: Nicole Marie Richards
By Francesca Pollio Fenton
CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 06:00 am
A new film called “Triumph of the Heart” depicts St. Maximilian Kolbe’s last days on earth in a starvation bunker in the German death camp of Auschwitz. The film will be released in theaters on Sept. 12.
St. Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Franciscan friar and priest who volunteered to die in place of another man in Auschwitz. He spent the last 14 days of his life in a starvation bunker alongside nine other men.
The red carpet at the premiere of "Triumph of the Heart" in Dallas on Sept. 8, 2025. Credit: Nicole Marie Richards
At the film’s Sept. 8 premiere in Dallas, where over 1,000 people gathered at the Edith O’Donnell Arts and Technology Building on the University of Texas at Dallas campus to show their support and watch the film, writer and director Anthony D’Ambrosio told CNA on the red carpet that it was “surreal” to see the magnitude of the premiere.
He explained that it was originally meant to be a more intimate gathering with roughly 200 people in attendance but “God, of course, had other plans,” D’Ambrosio said. “I think that what I’m seeing is that God keeps on growing our vision for where he wants to take the film, where he wants to take this story.”
The current rise in faith-based media
Actors who also spoke on the red carpet discussed the resurgence of faith-based media being seen in today’s culture.
Michael Iskander, who portrays King David in Prime Video’s “House of David” and served as the master of ceremonies for the premiere, said he believes “Christ is pouring his heart out to all of us in every way possible and media is one of those frontiers that hasn’t really been touched yet.”
He credited the hit series “The Chosen” for “paving the path for so much faith-based filmmaking and showing people that this is a market that people want to see.”
Michael Iskander, the actor who portrays King David in Prime Video's "House of David," at the Sept. 8, 2025, premiere of "Triumph of the Heart." Credit: Nicole Marie Richards
A recent convert to Catholicism, Iskander shared that St. Maximilian Kolbe was one of the first saints he learned about from the Catholic Church. He highlighted the saint’s use of media to spread the Gospel message to the masses and said it is “fitting that this film and this rise in Christianity, especially in filmmaking, had to do with St. Kolbe.”
Jeff Schiefelbein, co-host of the podcast “The Beatidudes” and an investor in “Triumph of the Heart,” said he believes there is a resurgence in faith-based media because people are “sick of all the fake stuff.”
“We’re being told to compare ourselves to things that aren’t even important. The materialism has swung so far that the pendulum is making its way back,” he said. “... I think there’s going to be this resurgence … of young people, Gen Xers, old people coming back and saying, ‘Wait, we want what’s real, what’s true, what’s good, and what’s beautiful’ and so it is rooted in the Gospel when we go and seek those.”
Marcellino D’Ambrosio, a well-known author, Catholic commentator, and executive producer of the film — also the father of Anthony D’Ambrosio — called this moment we’re seeing in faith-based media “a Holy Spirit moment.”
“Human beings always need God but I think something really special is going on right now,” he said.
“St. Augustine said it well: Our hearts are restless until we rest in him. And success in the culture — this is a fascinating thing that actually goes back even to the successful cultures in Rome — there’s an emptiness when you have a certain amount of success and you have leisure; nothing satisfies but God,” he added. “So it oftentimes leads people to that restlessness that St. Augustine talks about — to look for him, to be open to him, and I think that’s what’s going on in our culture right now.”
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Actor Marcin Kwaśny as Maximilian Kolbe in “Triumph of the Heart.” Credit: Triumph of the Heart movie/Sherwood Fellows
A film that inspires hope
As for what those involved in the film hope viewers take away from it, the major theme they mentioned was their wish that it fills the audience with hope.
“I hope they will take away hope,” Marcellino D’Ambrosio said. “I hope that everyone realizes that God is real; I have a future, no matter how bad the present looks … he’s with me in the present and he has something in store for me that’s greater than my wildest dreams.”
Rowan Polonski, the actor who portrays Albert in the film — one of the men in the starvation bunker alongside Kolbe — told CNA his hope is for the audience to be “pleasantly surprised in the way that they’re moved.”
“Entering into this movie, you could quite easily walk in thinking it’s going to be a pretty dark and heavy write, but what I want them to walk out with is a sense of joy and catharsis,” he added. “And a sense that no matter how dark times can get, how low one can feel, there’s always a way out, there’s always a crack of light somewhere that you can cling onto and follow through and it’s normally in the form of love.”
Producer Cecilia Stevenson added: “I really want people to feel love when they watch this movie and specifically to feel the love of Our Lord and how he enters into our suffering with us, just like Kolbe did for those men in that film. Our movie, Kolbe’s story, it’s a modern-day example that ultimately points us to Christ, and I really hope people feel that love and I hope it gives them hope, that there is meaning in life and that suffering itself can have meaning.”
Tags: Catholic News, Sacrifice, Auschwitz, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Catholic films, Triumph of the Heart
Francesca is a staff reporter for Catholic News Agency. She received her degree in Communications with an emphasis in Digital Media from the University of Colorado - Denver. She is also in charge of the social media for Catholic News Agency.
Novena till Matteus.
12 - 20 sep
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Novena till Matteus.
12 - 20
september.
Den helige Matteus, som jag har utsett till min särskilda skyddshelgon, ber för mig att jag också en dag ska förhärliga den heliga Treenigheten i himlen. Skaffa mig din levande tro, så att jag kan betrakta alla personer, ting och händelser i den allsmäktige Gudens ljus. Be, att jag måtte vara generös i att offra timliga ting för att främja mina eviga intressen, som ni så vist gjorde.
. – Herr talman,
Sätt mig i brand med kärlek till Jesus, så att jag kan törsta efter hans sakrament och brinna av iver för hans rikes utbredande. Hjälp mig genom din kraftfulla förbön att fullgöra mina plikter mot Gud, mig själv och hela världen.
. – Herr talman,
Vinn för mig renhetens dygd och en stor tillit till den Heliga Jungfrun. Beskydda mig i dag, och varje dag i mitt liv. Bevara mig från dödssynd. Skaffa mig nåden till en lycklig död. Amen.
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Kära föreläsare Tack gode Gud för dig och för din föreläsning. Människan måste först smaka det onda för att kunna glädjas åt det goda. Och aposteln Paulus uppmanar oss i Nya testamentet att glädjas och sprida en glad anda, för annars kan vi samla på oss många psykosomatiska sjukdomar. Tack gode Gud för dina stora tankar. Tron på Gud och våra gärningar är alltså vår räddning för himmelriket.
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Learning from the Prayers We Say
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September is a school month. We’re all still going to school. As Catholics we learn from the feasts and saints we celebrate and the readings before us, day by day, month by month.
We also learn from the prayers we say. If we listen closely our prayers tell us to pray from the world we live in. For example: “Grant that all the faithful of the church, looking into the signs of the times by the light of faith, may devote themselves to the service of the gospel. Keep us attentive to the needs of all that, sharing their grief and pain, their joy and hope, we may faithfully bring them the good news of salvation and go forward with them along the way of your Kingdom.” (Eucharistic Prayer)
We need to pray, not just for our ourselves or those close to us, but for all and for the world at large.
What are the signs of the times we should look for this September? On September 11, we remembered the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York and the thousands killed there. A sign that our world is in danger.
This month in New York City the United Nations meets. In September 2015 world leaders agreed to work together to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.The goals aimed to “eliminate poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change, while ensuring no one is left behind.” They recognized that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address.
We are not on target to achieve those goals. A pandemic and wars are presently dividing us. Doesn’t look good.
If we don’t look on these signs of the times in the light faith we can easily throw up our hands and hide in our own worlds, But faith says the world is in God’s hands, and ours too, so let’s not lose hope or give up.
September is also the Season of Creation. It’s time to open our minds to the created world around us and give it our attention and care. Technology is not the complete answer to climate change. Our religious traditions tell us to see creation as God’s creation. We need to welcome it into our prayer and our care.
Pope Francis in Laudato Si’ says we need to have “ an ecological conversion”. Let’s pray we do.
September is a month to go to school. Every month, every day we’re going to school.What’s in a Name?
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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Friday, September 12, 2025
The Most Holy Name of Mary
Gal 4:4-7; Lk 1:39-47
The feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary invites us to live true to the identity our names carry.
Of the several etymological interpretations available, one interpretation holds that the name ‘Mary’ (Mariam) is a combination of the Egyptian word (Mer or Mar – to love) and the Hebrew Divine name (Yam or YHWH) to denote ‘One loving YHWH’ or ‘One beloved by YHWH.’
In my view, both meanings truly reflect who Mary was.
We must also note that one important biblical theme is name or naming. For instance, in Genesis, we read that God wishes Adam to name animals and birds and that is one of the first jobs that God gives Adam. ‘The Lord God brought all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name’ (Gen 2:19). Similarly, while the name Adam (Gen 2:19) refers to ‘man’ or ‘humanity,’ Adam names his wife Eve (Gen 3:20).
Thus, a look at Mary’s name and the names of the first people in the Bible reveals that biblically, a name is more than mere identity. Names reveal a purpose. They have meaning. They have power.
This is why a feast like the celebration of the Holy Name of Mary becomes more significant, because she shows what it is to possess a name and what responsibility it carries.
1. Mary lived up to her name. She was the beloved of God who sent her the following greetings through His angel Gabriel: ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you’ (Lk 1:28). Hence, loving God and being known as God’s beloved comes with a huge responsibility because our lives should match the weight of the name we carry.
2. Mary became the hope of her generation. The recognition of hope that Mary’s name carries comes from the mouth of her elderly cousin Elizabeth, who exclaims, ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!…Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill His promises to her’ (Lk 1: 42-45). Mary was not only blessed among women but became a blessing to all.
3. The name Mary is also the pride of our faith. Since we find in Mary a worthy model of Christian discipleship, we all believe that by following her example, we will reach Jesus. This is why we hold that we go ‘Through Mary to Jesus.’ She not only bore Jesus but also was her first and faithful disciple. Her discipleship is the best example that she lived up to her name. Hence, Mary invites us to imitate her example.
‘What is in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet’ are famous lines from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This quote is used to argue that a name is merely a label with no inherent value and the intrinsic quality of something is not changed by its name.
However, looking at Mary’s name and our own names, we know that names are not mere identifiers but have the power to lead us to who we want to be and become and how we would like to be remembered.
As we know, some names have revolutionized human history. Some of them have shocked us. But there are others that have inspired us.
The name ‘Mary’ means a lot to Christians thanks to the fact that she became the meaning and message of her name.
Looking at the name Mary and its relevance to Christian life, we cannot ask, ‘What is in a name?’ There is quite a lot. In fact, the name is everything.
Let us pray that we may rise up to the name we bear and be truthful about the meaning and the message our names carry.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
Letting the Bridegroom tend our garden hearts
Throughout Scripture, God speaks of His chosen people as His vineyard and garden. As we study and pray with The Song of Songs, we see that this analogy can be used to think of our hearts and souls, our inner sanctuary where our Bridegroom dwells. We want to offer Him a place of rest and delight and a vineyard that produces good fruit for His kingdom.
In Isaiah 5:1-2, the prophet describes the vineyard of Yahweh in which He had anticipated a crop of good grapes but received only “bad fruit.”
“I will sing for the one I love a song about his vineyard: My Beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hillside. He dug it up and cleared it of stones and planted it with the choicest vines. He built a watchtower in it and cut out a winepress as well. Then he looked for a crop of good grapes, but it yielded only bad fruit.” Isaiah 5:1-2
And in The Song of Songs, the Bride is aware that it is because she has not tended the vineyard of her own heart that she is now “blackened” by sin, sorrows, and trials.
“My mother’s sons turned their anger on me, They made me look after their vineyards. Had I only looked after my own!” The Song of Songs 1:6
In the garden of our hearts, as with any garden, weeding is a constant persistent chore. What are these spiritual weeds we must learn to recognize and work with Jesus, the Divine Gardener, to uproot? A few of the most common spiritual weeds we all need to be aware of include: lies we have believed about ourselves, resentments, regrets, unforgiveness, habitual sins, painful memories, and wounds from our past.
The Bridegroom warns His Bride that they must be vigilant not only in tending the weeds that are always sprouting up but they must also catch the “little foxes” that trample the budding flowers and fruit.
“Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes, That made havoc of the vineyards, For our vineyards are in flower.” The Song of Songs 2:15
The “little foxes” are the enemies to love within and without of ourselves. Saints such as St. John of the Cross and St. Francis de Sales teach us that these “little foxes” are the many temptations, negative voices, lies, and distractions that disrupt our interior peace and loving conversation with Christ. We must ask His help in identifying and catching these sly little foxes before they have grown and already trampled our beautiful flowering garden. John of the Cross identifies them as “the multitude of diverse thoughts, with many motions and various attractions that come by their subtlety and vivacity to annoy the soul… as well as “demons jealous of the peace of the soul in its inner recollection.”
Some examples of little foxes that we must catch before they wreak havoc in our vineyard hearts are: temptations, the voices of the old self and of the tempter, recurring negative self-talk, and lies we have believed about our identity and inherent worthiness.
Can you identify any little foxes roaming amongst the vineyard of your heart?
Take heart! The Lord promises to help us in tending, weeding and shooing the foxes from our hearts. His vision of the beautiful fruit-bearing vineyard of a heart committed to cooperating with His grace and gentle gardening is beautiful and hopeful.
“The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing.” Isaiah 51:3
We can take Isaiah 51:3 and personalize the wording.
“The Bridegroom will surely comfort me And He will look with compassion on all my weakness and woundedness; He will make my desert heart like Eden, My wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in me, Thanksgiving and the sound of singing, the voice of the bride and the Bridegroom.”
I am also reminded of the parable Jesus told of the fig tree that had stopped bearing fruit.
“And he told them this parable: ‘There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ He said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.’” Luke 13:7-9
Jesus is the Gardener Who never tires of tending to our garden hearts. he does not grow discouraged or frustrated when we go through seasons of lack, seasons of dormancy or even seasons of bearing rotten fruit. He is devoted and dedicated to gently and patiently tending the soil, fertilizing our hearts with His grace, and loving us into full bloom. May we never tire of inviting Him to come and care for our garden hearts!
Praying with The Song of Songs
Come my Beloved into the garden of my heart and gather Your lilies. May You find delight and rest amongst the blossoming flowers here in Your Garden, the garden to which You alone possess the key. Tend my garden heart with me, Lord… uproot the weeds and catch the little foxes, so I may always bear good fruit for You and the perfumes of my love may rise as a sweet fragrance of praise and thanksgiving to You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen
“I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine, He pastures His flock amongst the lilies.” The Song of Songs 6:3
Dear suzana,
By now you will have seen that Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and an amazing spokesman for life and family, was shot – murdered – assassinated – on Wednesday, September 10.
The suspect is now in custody.
Kirk was doing one of his regular Q&A sessions on campus at Utah Valley University when he was shot in the neck.
He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead soon after.
Many on the Left have been expressing joy at the murder of a man whose life’s work was to have respectful conversations with those who disagreed with him.
Charlie thought that the best way to avoid violence and civil war was to discuss differences openly. He thought that if people could sit down and listen to each other, solutions could be found.
But many on the Left are not interested in debate or discussion. They don’t want to hear other opinions.
They want to suppress, censor, imprison, and even kill, those who disagree with them.
And this is not new.
For more than two centuries liberal and socialist revolutionaries have imposed their ideologies by shedding rivers of innocent blood.
We have to understand that we are engaged in a war in which God and humanity stand on one side, and liberalism on the other.
Liberalism is the ideology with which man says to God, “I will not serve. I will not recognise the order that you have created.”
Liberalism says, “man is the measure of all things, man is like unto God”. Yet in abandoning God liberal ideology leads to man being treated as less than a beast.
Those who are celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death today are not seeing him as a human being, but a man who deserved to die because he opposed their rebellion against God.
The response of most people however has been different, whether they agreed with Charlie Kirk’s views or not.
Most people will feel sorrow that a life has been cut short so short. They will grieve for a wife, who saw her husband killed in front of her, and for two children who will grow up without their father.
Like many people, I was deeply distressed by one video in particular. It showed his three-year old daughter running towards him at a recent event, with such love and joy, and then being caught up in his arms.
Now she will never see him again.
That should make us weep, and it should make us angry.
A lifelong loss has been inflicted on the family of Charlie Kirk. But in their loss we see reflected the countless horrors that liberalism has inflicted on our society.
Truly, the number of their victims are too many to count.
Charlie Kirk travelled America telling the truth about abortion. He knew that every abortion kills a human being, made in the image and likeness of God.
More than one billion babies have been murdered by liberal and socialist governments over the last century.
Each of these babies was created by God and known and infinitely loved by him as an individual. But our liberal society cast these precious babies away, as worth less than trash.
We cannot continue to live like this. We must not tolerate any longer the liberal war against that which is most precious and most beautiful.
And abortion is only one of the evils inflicted on our society by liberalism. Children are being corrupted and mutilated, the elderly and disabled are being put down like animals, and those who dare to defend the vulnerable risk being persecuted and imprisoned.
One thing is clear. Liberalism must be defeated once and for all.
But our methods are not their methods.
Their methods are lies, hatred, and violence.
Our methods must be truth, love, and prayer.
And now our courage to proclaim the truth, the fire of our love, and our commitment to prayer, must be stronger than ever before.
We must be absolutely uncompromising in exposed the bloodthirsty liberal agenda which has as its goal the killing and mutilation of innocent human beings.
We must be absolutely uncompromising in our opposition to the global totalitarian structures which are being put in place to suppress true speech and prevent us from living and worshipping according to God’s law.
We must be absolutely uncompromising in telling the truth about ideologies which threaten the peace and stability of the world.
And we must be absolutely uncompromising in our opposition to the false pastors who work to corrupt the Catholic faith and keep souls from knowing and loving Jesus Christ.
The truth is that by obscuring the truth of Christ, these men do the most evil of all.
While we tell the truth without fear or favor, we must also be absolutely uncompromising in our adherence to the law of charity.
We must love our enemies and pray for their salvation. We must never forget that those who oppose us, no matter what evil they may do, are made in the image and likeness of God, and are called, with us, to one eternal destiny.
We must never fall into the trap of dehumanizing our enemies as they dehumanize us. Christ died to redeem and save all mankind, no matter how deep into sin we may have fallen.
But while Christ said, “love your enemies” he did not say “you have no enemies.”
We have enemies. And they want us dead.
Now is the time to stand and fight, if not for ourselves, then for those – like Charlie Kirk’s daughter – who cannot defend themselves.
Weakness in this fight is a betrayal of the vulnerable.
Weakness means more dead babies.
Weakness means more mutilated children.
Weakness means more young men like Charlie Kirk will pay the ultimate price.
Pope St Pius X is supposed to have said:
“All the strength of Satan’s reign is due to the easygoing weakness of Catholics.”
The time for such weakness is over.
Today LifeSiteNews recommits itself to the truth. We will defend life, we will defend the family, we will defend freedom.
And, through Sign of the Cross Media, we will expose the truth about the war against the Church, no matter the cost.
If you would like to support our mission, you can do donate to LifeSiteNews or Sign of the Cross Media.
Every donation will help protect the weak and build a better world for our children.
But most of all I ask you to join me in prayer for Charlie Kirk and for his wife, children, family and friends. May God give them his peace.
And may God bless you and keep you safe,
John-Henry Westen
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