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"Aim higher! Put out into the deep!"  Walking with and standing on the shoulders of our heroes: Maximilian Kolbe, Satoko Kitahara and John Paul II 

It is with great joy that I announce to you that the MI National US has found a home in the diocese of Peoria, Illinois! Read the National President's Letter

Prepare for Easter by growing in your love of Christ through Mary through twelve lessons offered by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, founded by Dr. Scott Hahn. Just enter your email address in the video window to watch The Bible and the Virgin Mary. Let your total consecration to the Immaculata be renewed by this journey through Sacred Scripture! Be ready to be an ever more generous instrument in her immaculate hands so as to draw all hearts to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus!

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Maria! Happy 100 years to you and all of the members of the MI, founded in 1917 by our beloved St. Maximilian! I hope that you will have local public celebrations of this event, or attend one of the three MI Centenary Celebrations scheduled around the country. We are also sponsoring an MI pilgrimage to Rome in October 2017 to visit special Kolbean sites and to attend the International MI Conference. Consider being part of this once-in-a-lifetime event!

Dear Knights of the Immaculata, Maria! The National United States MI Council met near Guerneville, CA, from Tuesday, January 24, to Friday, January 27, 2017. Although we have been meeting via monthly telephone calls, this was our first face-to-face meeting since June 2016, when we were canonically elected at the first MI Elective National Assembly to serve as your MI National Council. We were honored and delighted by the presence at the Council meeting of Fr. Raffaele Di Muro, the International President of the MI.

Dear MI Knights, We are grateful to announce that the MI National Office has officially moved to a temporary location in a local parish, Santa Maria del Popolo, in Mundelein, Illinois, as we discern where the Immaculata wants the MI National Center to locate permanently.

Dear MI Knights of the Immaculata! Greetings and prayers upon returning from Fatima, where I attended the MI International Congress, which marked the beginning of the 100th anniversary year observances. I will share my report on this special event in one of the upcoming MI publications. We look forward with hearts full of gratitude to celebrating the 100th anniversary in 2017 of Our Lady’s appearances at Fatima and the centenary of the MI.

Dear MI Members and Friends of Our Lady:     As the newly elected President of the MI in the USA, recently I was informed by Fr. John Grigus, Rector of Marytown, that the MI National Council must leave Marytown. He cited finances and the changing mission of Marytown to a broader, more diversified vision of apostolates and ministries. This means Marytown will no longer be the National MI Center.

On June 3-5, 2016, the First Elective Assembly of the MI in the United States was held at Marytown, Libertyville, Illinois, presided over by the International President, Fr. Raffaele Di Muro, OFM Conv. In addition to reviewing the journey of the past years and looking to the future, the participants elected the President of the MI in the USA in the person of John Galten. He will be assisted by the Presidential Council made up of the following members: Michael Wick (Vice President), M. Kathleen O’ Brien (Secretary), Antonella Di Piazza, Juliann Elkinton and Roy Samson (National Director of MI Youth and Young Adults).

Join us in prayer for the first MI Elective Assembly in the USA, June 3-5, 2016, and for the Youth of the MI.

It is with a very heavy heart that MI Youth & Young Adults must share an important announcement from the MI National President regarding the cancellation of the 2015 summer programs.

For the first time in the history of the MI in the United States, there will be an elective assembly at which time a new MI National President and Council will be elected.

Homily on the Immaculate Conception by our MI National President, Father Patrick Greenough.

Join MI Knights from around the world by praying the Immaculate Conception Novena in preparation for the special feast on December 8th. During this powerful novena we pray for the intentions of all MI members, especially those going through a difficult time.

Yesterday we celebrated the Solemnity of All Saints, and today the liturgy invites us to commemorate the faithful departed. These two occurrences are intimately linked to each other, just as joy and tears find a synthesis in Jesus Christ, that is the foundation of our faith and our hope.