Sunday, January 31, 2021

Episode 44: Mary Kloska Speaks on the VIRTUE OF PURITY

 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." -Matthew 5:8

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Episode 44: Mary Kloska Speaks on the VIRTUE OF PURITY
Description: In this episode, Mary defines purity as being soaked in the presence of God. She discusses the great purity of Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John and tells the stories of many saints who suffered for purity -both how they fought temptations against this virtue as well as how many of them shed their blood and died in order to preserve this precious treasure in their own lives. At the end she includes many quotes from saints about this topic in order to inspire the listener to pursue purity at all costs.
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Saturday, January 30, 2021

The Reality of Miracles and Spiritual Warfare.

 I wrote a great post last night –much better than I can put together again now. But when I posted it my Facebook account froze and for 15 hours it won’t unfreeze, so I had to cancel the post.

My point was to share with you how God is tangible in His Love and Graces to us –even if many are oblivious to His presence around us. But just as God’s Hand is real in our lives, so is the reality of spiritual warfare. There are actual evil spirits whose entire energy is put into messing up the plan of God –and the plan of God for your lives. When they can’t get you to sin, then they just try to annoy you… and that is when you have to turn them against themselves –laugh –offer up the inconveniences of the cross and trust that God is ultimately in control.

I had a friend recently tell me that I should do an entire podcast about the miracles God does in my life –not all people experience God’s presence (and satan’s attack) as physically as I have at various times in my life –but it is something that is just as real in all of your lives as it is for me. Although the spiritual life is something usually left to faith (invisible), at times God allows us to see evidence of it in order to build our faith and strengthen our resolve to be committed to living out His Will no matter the cost.

I will share just a small portion of the pictures I have of miracles and warfare that I experienced the past few months. As I was cleaning out the pictures on my camera I realized I had quite a bit of this captured on film. I hope that this builds your faith in God’s presence in your lives, too… and quickens your step in your battle against the evil one who really doesn’t want for you to be holy.

Roses: St. Therese of Lisieux sends me roses when I pray to her for direction. She also sometimes makes me simply smell them everywhere –which is what happened last week as I finished a novena. Since I didn’t receive physical roses from her (nor Jesus) I went and bought myself some at Walmart. But about a week later I was teasing them about not even showing up with roses for me and I was reminded that I had some on my cupboard. I retorted, “But I had to buy them for myself.” And in my heart I heard Jesus say, ‘Not the white ones.’ When I looked at the bouquet that I bought I saw that the purple ‘filler flowers’ had bloomed these beautiful little white rose like flowers from their center. I don’t know what kind of flower that was and if that was normal for them to do or not, but I truly felt like Jesus had given me these white roses as His sign of love and as an answer to my intention.






The gold corpus: Lots of my rosaries and stuff turns gold… its just a sign that God is with me and its cool. The corpus on the relic of the true Cross that I have worn around my neck for 15 years turned gold immediately upon me putting it on the first time. Well, a few months ago when I woke up in the morning I noticed that the corpus was gone. I couldn’t find it and I changed into running clothes, but before I left for my parent’s house I looked in the bed one more time and found the corpus. When I arrived at my parents my Dad noticed that I had a corpus imprinted on my sweatshirt. And I did… but I had not been wearing that sweatshirt while I slept the night before. I had put it on after the corpus was gone. It was almost as if Jesus wanted to make sure that I still had an image of Him around my neck.


Lights at the cemetery: When I visited my brother’s grave around the time of the anniversary of his death last April these blue lights appeared in every picture I took. I felt as if it was him or an angel or God just saying that they were present with me praying there. Ironically, my grave someday will be to his left.



Oiling Holy Pictures/Papers: A couple of months ago (November) I moved apartments. As I was cleaning out my cupboard next to my bed I noticed that I had a pile of holy cards/writing mixed in with my tax papers and other important documents. But what was amazing was that the holy card I had of St. Therese was oozing oil –as was the holy card of St. Francis of Paola (the hermit patron saint against the demons of jealousy and lies) –and many of the papers I had written words from Jesus on. I won’t share them all because many of them are private, but here are a few of them. When they continued to ooze oil a week later my Dad came over to investigate. It was really amazing. Even the envelope holding my baptism/confirmation certificates were wet. BUT... the tax papers and other secular documents that were laying on top of and underneath the oozing stuff were totally dry. Just cool.


















And although sometimes God does miracles in a tangible way to get our attention, sometimes He also allows the evil one’s battle against us to be tangible just to strengthen our resolve to fight harder. Satan only makes noise where God’s will is being done. Those of you who pray the rosary with me in the morning have seen several times when my camera went flying to the floor as if it had been knocked during the rosary. In fact, that happened during my podcast about the Infant Crucified Christ two weeks ago. That must have been a powerful podcast, because when I finished recording and went to the bedroom to finish uploading it, a crash came from the kitchen and the icon I had used of Mother Mary with the Child Jesus with a cross behind him had been thrown from the wall literally across the room and broken in half. A total bummer… my Dad (a woodsman) wasn’t able to fix it –he said that it was broken in a very strange way. I consider it a battle wound for Mary and Jesus and simply fiat. Other times statues, (plants? –go figure) and icons will be thrown down and broken. I always take it as a sign that I am doing something right. Several months ago when I finished an important work I went running and almost stepped on a blue racer snake –I had never seen such a snake in the 40 years I lived in that neighborhood growing up, nor anywhere in Indiana for that matter. Other times its just computer problems that come from nowhere –one day I emailed a priest a list of topics/questions for an interview we were going to have and he received all of the letters on top of each other. Other times my computer will freeze and flash three sixes… I just laugh and move on… but I share this because it shows you that the war for your soul is real.








St. Catherine of Siena said, ‘Be who God created you to be and you will set the world on fire!’ Satan doesn’t want that… so he fights you in the ordinary stuff of life to keep you from being holy. But always remember, like you see in these pictures, just as the battle is real –so is Jesus’ Grace. It is so awesome to know that we have a Savior and He ALREADY WON.

I hope this feeds your faith…

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Episode 43: Mary Kloska Speaks About Her Book, "Out of the Darkness"

 My new podcast this week is about my NEW BOOK, 'Out of the Darkness' -it includes excerpts -be sure to listen and then to get yourself a book for Lent!

See my book page for more details: https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/outofthedarkness/
Title: Episode 43: Mary Kloska Speaks About Her Book, "Out of the Darkness"
Description: In this episode, Mary Kloska takes the listener through the history that was behind the publishing of her newest book, 'Out of the Darkness.' She explains in depth the two parts of the book and their respective chapters. Both at the beginning and the end of the episode, she reads an excerpt from the book to give the listeners a better feel for the spirituality behind the writing. This episode itself is as if a mini-retreat which condenses the rich content contained in "Out of the Darkness" into bite size pieces for people to meditate on -and it inspires the listener to get a copy of their own in order to go deeper into an understanding of Jesus' suffering and love.



Thursday, January 21, 2021

My book "The Holiness of Womanhood" is being printing in Northern NIGERIA!!







 My book "The Holiness of Womanhood" is being printing in Northern NIGERIA!!

This is really miraculous.
I wrote this book hoping that I could help Americans with the same material that I helped the rest of the missionary world with for many years. And yet, God always overdoes our expectations. Instead, it has somehow reached our severely persecuted Christian brothers and sisters all over the world and they are thrilled to work with me to get it printed more affordably in their own country. It will be spread much less expensively than here (and there's absolutely no profit in third world countries -in fact, it costs me to do this) and those who receive or buy copies are already planning meetings where they gather large numbers of illiterate women to read and guide through the teachings in this book. Pope John Paul II, Archbishop Fulton Sheen and St. Edith Stein have got to be thrilled that their teachings on women are being spread this way.
These books in Northern Nigeria will be given away for free -primarily to priests and seminarians all over the country. The plan is to get them into every seminary and university, so that the people formed there can go out and teach the others. We also have 50 of the 300 books accounted for going to a priest who works in the North to rescue abused women threatened by death. If you give birth to multiples (twins or triplets) in the North, you are considered cursed and both the mother and children are buried alive. This priest rescues them, but now he will be able to share this book with them to heal their hearts and help them to understand their true dignity. Most of the North is Muslim and it is beautiful to me that a priest is saving Muslim women. And it is amazing that I specialize as a nanny in multiples (twins and triplets) and that now my books will save these 'special children' of mine.
I blurred the faces and names on these pictures because several priests have been murdered in the past few weeks in the North simply for being Christian. We already encountered problems with the persecuted Church in other countries so we want to keep some of this quiet. And yet, Jesus said, 'Do not be afraid! And let your light shine before men!' and so I agreed to share these pictures with you so that you can see the physical fruit of our efforts.
If you feel called to support providing these books (and the healing it brings to both men and women) to the persecuted Church (in Nigeria, in Pakistan, in Zanzibar or another place) please consider donating to my GoFundMe for that purpose. It will be used for the greatest need unless you specify wanting to help a particular group or country.
Please pray for this -for protection, for fruitfulness, for donations, for LIFE...
Thank you and God bless you!!
Fundraiser by Mary Kloska : The Holiness of Womanhood for Persecuted Christian (gofundme.com)

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Episode 42: Mary Kloska Speaks about the Mystery of the Infant Crucified Christ

 Many people ask why I always include signs of Jesus’ Passion on Baby Jesus. It is because it is truth- He was the crucified Savior from the beginning.

And for that reason He is able to help all innocent victims of suffering- especially sadly remembering this week the victims of legalized abortion in America (the abuse and murder of children in the very wombs of their mothers.)
To go deeper into understanding this little Victim Who I so love, please LISTEN and SHARE.
Title: Episode 42: Mary Kloska Speaks about the Mystery of the Infant Crucified Christ
Description: In this episode, Mary explains the mystery of Jesus' suffering, even still while an infant. She also explains how Jesus' Heart -being totally sinless -remained exactly like a small child's in purity, in sensitivity, in trust -even as He grew into an adult. This is the cause of Christ's greatest suffering on the Cross. His Heart in the Crib, on the Cross and then in the Eucharist is the same exact Heart. For this reason, Mary explains, it is necessary to look upon Baby Jesus Crucified -both to understand the depths of Jesus' Love on the Cross, as well as to console Him Whose Heart wept from the first moments of His kenosis. She also explains how baby Jesus crucified is the remedy Who saves all innocent life that suffers on earth.
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Out of the Darkness...

 My NEW BOOK is available now! Get yours for Lent!

My Dad said, “I have read this and when you do you will never see the suffering and passion of Jesus in the same light as you have in the past!”
FROM THE FIRST CHAPTER:
“His judgment is sound who fears the LORD;
out of obscurity he draws forth a clear plan.” (Sirach 32:16)
"... It is in the darkness of the Cross that the Father’s plan of Salvation is carried out. It is in Jesus’ weak littleness on the Cross, offered to the Father in Love, that the Father carries out His great plan to conquer death and sin. It is out from the darkness, obscurity and pain of the Cross that we are healed, saved and guided by Jesus’ clear Light of Love. It is from His Death that we are given Life. And so as we unite with Him in deep Christian Love, we will come to be one with Him in His dark Love. It will be from within the dark, unclear places of our lives that the Father’s faithful Hand will guide. It will be from our little deaths in life that God places His Life within us. It will be from our weakness, offered to the Father, where He will place His powerful Crucified and Resurrected Love. This is our hope and our joy: that out, from the darkness in our lives, He will draw forth a rich plan of His Love. In this, we will be like His Son Jesus..."



Tuesday, January 12, 2021

"Out of the Darkness..." -NOW AVAILABLE

 I just published another book- about the interior sufferings of Jesus.

My publisher decided to publish this now so that you have a chance to get it for Lent.
The kindle is available and the print book should be ready for my birthday tomorrow.
PLEASE BUY and SHARE!
(More for your own benefit than mine.) 🌹
"When St. Paul arrived in Corinth and began evangelizing, he told the Corinthians he did not come to share any worldly wisdom or lofty rhetoric, but only the simple, gospel truth of Jesus Christ, and him... crucified (1 Corinthians 2:1-2).
In her new book... Out Of The Darkness... author, artist, and musician, Mary Kloska, follows along this same, powerful path. Unfortunately, due to the hedonistic cultural milieu that dominates our society, following the path of Jesus crucified is a rather lonely journey. Even in those few sectors where Christianity is still practiced, emphasis on the cross is noticeably diminished if not clearly absent (e.g. the "prosperity gospel").
Having said this, it would be hard to imagine a more timely spiritual treatise than this one. The author takes the reader deep into the beauty, mystery, wisdom and power of Jesus crucified by way of spiritual insights and observations that are fresh, inspiring, and wonderfully invigorating. Like a rainstorm in the desert, this book is entering into the "spiritual void" of our times and will almost certainly become a Lenten staple as well as a focal point for The New Evangelization."
Fr. Lawrence Edward Tucker, SOLT Author: The Prayer of Jesus Crucified: a simple way to go further in prayer; Adventures in The Father's Joy! mission stories for the new evangelization; To Whom The Heart Decided To Love; The Redemption Of San Isidro: a tale of mercy and love

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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Episode 41: Mary Kloska Speaks on Birthdays and Baptisms

 This week is my birthday, which I love to celebrate! I always celebrated big with Jesus, even when I spent it alone.










But bigger than my birthday on January 13th, I celebrate in my heart February 13th, which is one month later -the day I was baptized. Baptism made me a daughter of the Father in Heaven.
This week we celebrate the Feast of Jesus' Baptism in the Jordan. And so I have tied all of this together in my radio program/podcast about 'Birthdays and Baptisms'. Please LISTEN, LIKE, SHARE and make sure your kids are baptized 🙂.




Title: Episode 41: Mary Kloska Speaks on Birthdays and Baptisms
Description: In this episode, Mary speaks about the sanctity of human life from the beginning of conception. She explains how God created each of us with a plan for our lives from the first moment of our existence, the importance of our name and the celebration of our birthdays. She ties this into Jesus' infancy, name and birth. Mary also discusses the importance of our Baptism -when we are made to be children of God. She draws from Jesus' Baptism and the Catechism to open up the mysteries surrounding this central Sacrament, which makes each soul back into a child of God.