Aug14
Divine Wisdom, Maximilian Kolbe, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and the Mundelein Seminary
By David Clayton
Love of God in the Sacred Liturgy – the source of Divine Wisdom and the end of a good education, for lay people and seminarians alike.
Today, 14th August, is the commemoration of St Maximilian Kolbe. When I read through the account of his life given in Universalis most of it surprised me. I was aware of his heroic martyrdom in Auschwitz. What I hadn’t realized was the extent of his achievements prior to this. Here was a Franciscan friar who was tirelessly following his mission of evangelization in Europe and in Japan; he founded a sodality that attracted great many devotees to Our Lady and even a community which became a ‘Marian city’ that attracted many lay people and published books and journals that were read widely. Here is man who not only found his vocation, in the tradition sense of the word so that he became a religious in the Franciscan order; but also in the broader sense he found his personal vocation. Clearly he had a special charism. He found out what it was and he understood how to direct it so that all these initiatives grew up around him.
And here is the amazing fact. Every single one of us has a personal vocation by which we flourish and complete the work of God. Sometimes the effects will be visible, as with St Maximilian, and sometimes veiled and perhaps only visible in time. But always the effect is a dramatic in the divine economy and is as profound as that which allowed St Maximilian to volunteer himself for execution in order to save the life of a fellow prisoner. This is the Christian life: centered on the love of God in the Sacred Liturgy by which we are transfigured so that we can love man so profoundly, and in accordance with our own calling, create a culture of beauty around us.
A true Christian education is a formation that directs us to this supernatural end so that all we do in this life is done in accord with the divine will. The book, the Way of Beauty, recently published by Angelico Press, describes this formation and this is taught at Thomas More College of Liberal arts as part of the curriculum, where I am a Fellow. The book, the Little Oratory – a Beginner’s Guide to Praying in the Home, describes a pattern of worship and (Read More)
Source:: http://thewayofbeauty.org/2015/08/divine-wisdom-maximilian-kolbe-thomas-more-college-of-liberal-arts-and-the-mundelein-seminary/
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