Glory brought home in just 33 Days: Feb 2 Thunder Candle Consecration -- 1 of 3

Amidst diverse PC clerics, co-workers, and constituents, it is exceedingly rare for a Roman Catholic bishop to suggest a particular format for days of prayer. The episcopal, litigation-enshackled, tend to mimic corporate power-house CEOs, preferring wordy overkill to extended periods of prayer. Euro counterpart-princes, on the other hand, favor proclamations. The Apostolic Administrator for Buffalo has broken these molds.

More exceptional is a Western hemisphere hierarch encouraging to emulate someone from Poland. This Albany bishop, once again, is not a majority leader. He calls us to meet two Polish men, a short, unattractive Albanian woman, and a relatively unknown, pre-French Revolutionary reject.

The latter saint’s writings survived the burning butchery of Libertė, Fraternitė, Equalitė unleashed on thousands of believer-citizens. His manuscript was unearthed only after government-induced violence, its blood, dust, and drownings, cleared. This shinning, spiritual French knight called Louis, centuries post-mortem, would become the single most important influence on the recent Polish Pope.

This coming Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 10am friends and members of The Church of St Casimir will, as every year, welcome the global pinnacle of Christmas inclusivity: “Christ! The Light of the Nations!”  A joyful and inspiring Gospel event completes the 40-day caroling cycle. “Baby stories” (infancy narratives) from the Evangelist, St Luke, come to life among us in a procession of blessed Thunder Candles.

These blessed flames are destined to enlighten every home of each Baptized household in the global family-of-families, the Catholic Church. After all, while bringing their own child to the Font, parents were entrusted with Jesus Light: “keep it burning brightly.”  Yes, Sunday’s celebration is kid-friendly.

Don’t miss this uplifting and hope-instilling festival. Despite the fact the ceremony is found in every Roman Catholic Missal of the world, almost as infrequently as CEOs call employees to weeks of prayer, so rarely does this loving act of worship illumine atrophied US winter liturgy. Courageous Latinos, Hispanics and Poles are exemplar, yet little known, exceptions.

Candelaria, Seville, Spain.

At this Mass, all who have meditated through the “33 Days to Morning Glory” may make their solemn, loving entrustment to Jesus, through His Mama. Consecrate your life in the brilliance of Christ, radiating from your Thunder Candle, and in front of the Black Madonna, as did St Maximillian Kolbe. 

The solemn entrustment will be made before a crowned icon, the 1976 gift to St Casimir’s from the Polish Pope and world-consecration-leader (above photo). His life was Totally Hers, Totus Tuus.  Be ready to bring this hallowed, gladsome light home, as ages of our ancestors did before us each year: a guide thru the challenges and joys of 2020 and beyond. Traditional, 51% beeswax candles will be available.

Our Lady of the Thunder Candle protects the homestead. Poland.

You may sense I just completed “Morning Glory” day twenty-eight. The last three weeks have shockingly challenged me. After 48 years of daily, albeit shaky recitation of the consecration-prayer, these last days led me through a challenging, tough re-thinking of everything, re-doing of everything, re-entrusting of everything under Jesus’ crucified, bowed head, and pierced side. All for the (mercy) love of God.

Author's collection of Thunder Candles:
handcrafted from USA & Poland, blessed by St John Paul: The Vatican.
On display at the International Family Faith Exhibit, St Casimir Social Center.

This intimate, loving, yet demanding relationship, is more powerful than the worst apocalyptic visions of evil, threats or fears the media can throw at us. This Thunder Candle from now on, will radiate refulgent, supernatural, resurrected victory-light; a rediscovered tradition I have practiced for over 50 years. Daily, the saints of the last few weeks literally shook my mind and body to discover the profound and personal splendor of truth, absent to date, from all my studies and meditation.

Come, and share my new-found, evangelic joy, my personal transformation. Rooted in the deep, long-suffering Catholic faith of the Polish family, it now reaches far beyond to everlasting resilience.

Knights and Ladies! Be a part of this rare, once-in-a-lifetime, transforming and enlightening Marian Consecration. A bishop who thinks and acts out of a suffering, almost lifeless box encourages each one of us.  He himself, renews his personal Consecration annually.

Awesome! Never saw anything like this!