An Interview on My New Book, "A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary"

If you are interested in my most recent book, "A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary" -here's an interview I did about it on Sunday with Dr. Cynthia Toolin-Wilson (an author herself and Professor and Dean at Holy Apostles Seminary). If spiritual warfare can gauge how meaningful something is to the Lord, this one gets 5-stars. My book kept disappearing from the computer, it wouldn't allow us to record for 35 minutes and after we did the recordings kept disappearing -only a large miracle (maybe St. Anthony?) caused it all to reappear last night in the right place so that we didn't have to re-do it.

Please, GIVE IT A LISTEN AND A LIKE!

Please be patient -the interview starts at 1 minute 20 seconds -before that is a little jabber and commercials. Thank you!

To purchase your own copy of the book, see Amazon or the link here:

A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: The Reflections of a Siberian Missionary by Mary Kloska | En Route Books and Media

 

Russian song “ближе господ к тебе,” -“Closer to you, Lord”

Happy PENTECOST!!! 

A saint once said, “The greatest gift of the Holy Spirit is being united to the cross.” The closer we draw to Jesus crucified, being united with Him in Love, the more our hearts will be consumed by His Love, which is the Holy Spirit.

This Russian song is from my podcast for next weekend- but I wanted to share just this song with you today for the Feast of Pentecost. When you continue to say, “Come closer, Lord,” even when it is dark, you are alone or feel lost and crucified- it is then that the Holy Spirit is truly beginning to consume you in the greatest, most pure Love.

 

Episode 60: Mary Kloska Speaks on Littleness and the Holy Spirit

 "Come, Holy Spirit!!!"

Here's this week's podcast:

Episode 60: Mary Kloska Speaks on Littleness and the Holy Spirit

Description: In this Pentecost episode, Mary speaks about the foundation of littleness, humility and purity of heart on which the Holy Spirit needs in order to descend, take root and bloom forth fruit in one's life. She offers the examples of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in this. She also speaks about how the Holy Spirit guides us -not always as a great fire and wind as in Pentecost, but often in a 'still, small voice' like He guided Elijah. She also reflects upon Jesus' words and promise in the Gospel of John about sending us the Holy Spirit.

#holyspirit

#pentecost

#littleness

#elijah

#stillsmallvoice

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Children of the Cross -in Pakistan

  The 'Children of the Cross' Prayer Groups are really spreading quickly in Pakistan to pray for priests and persecuted Christians. We still need $1050 to print copies of my book, 'In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests' so that we can give them to the priests and catechists and adults leading these groups. We also need almost $600 for a similar work in Nigeria. Please pray for people to be generous. Please read these testimonies and see the comments for the Gofundme link.

Or see here: https://gofund.me/76229944

If you would like to be part of a Children of the Cross group to pray for these intentions please contact me. Those who live near me are invited to come pray with me the first Friday of the month at 3:30. Others are welcome to start a little group with their own children or children of your neighborhood. Please see this link or contact me for more information:

https://www.marykloskafiat.com/children-of-the-cross...

And please pray for my translator Aqif, who does all of this for free simply to spread the Gospel! He sent me the following letter. Be sure to read the captions of the pictures:

"Greetings of the Lord and Our lady be with you!

I am very happy to share with you that we had a small thanksgiving prayer for these two books. We prayed for all those who have helped us through their prayer and of course funds. We had a special prayer for Dr. Sebastian who is always there to encourage us and available for our persecuted Christians in our country.

We had a special prayer for Mary Kloska, whose books have really given our people hope, love, understanding, dignity, peace and a source to know Jesus.

I have shared a few pictures with some writing about our Children of the Cross.

I have a plan through these groups I will engage with women groups, youth groups and other elders of the community. And then I will use these two books to quench their spiritual thirst and to provide them some peace, hope and love.

Priests in my place always thought that they are the one who can pray for others. But when I shared with priests about the idea that we have groups that will pray for them, they really appreciated it. Few of them were humble to acknowledge that they need people to pray for them.

I would like to share that in my place there is a gap between lay people and priests. So when I talked to the priests, they said that it’s our prayer that the book “In our Lady’s Shadow” will make connections with people and priests.

We also prayed in our groups that God may provide us to print this book. We need (money) to begin the printing. (The total is $1050.)

Our people are everyday suffering and going through emotional and physical pain. Many times they have nothing to eat. Children have no idea about God and why they should pray. They know nothing about Jesus. Most of them do not know about Mother Mary. These books are becoming the source to know why they should pray, gradually they are knowing who is God, who is Jesus.

Thank you for your books, for your wisdom, thanks God who is using your books in my country.

Blessings!"

"Seven Sisters" talk about Praying for Priests

This is a talk that Mary Kloska gave on Friday, May 21, 2021 to a 'Seven Sisters' Group in Elkhart, Indiana about her book, "In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests."

 

A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary

Got my new book (A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary) about mission work in Russia and Our Lady of Fatima’s promise that after Russia is converted the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart will happen?

Mine arrived on the same day as my statue of Our Lady of Fatima from Portugal.

See Amazon to get your copy (and check out our book page below):

https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/frozen/

A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary

 My new book is now available in both Kindle and paperback! You can find it on Amazon and in a few weeks everywhere else where books are sold (Walmart, Barnes and Noble, etc,.) For more information about this book, please visit my book page by clicking here: 

A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: The Reflections of a Siberian Missionary by Mary Kloska | En Route Books and Media

Episode 59: Mary Kloska Speaks About Sheep and Why Saints Need Saints

 Did you know that there are 900 different breeds of sheep?

When Jesus tells us that we are all His sheep, He doesn't mean that we are all the same. We are each called to be a different saint -and we need each other (and each other's differences) in order to get to heaven.

Here's my podcast this week -Please LISTEN, LIKE AND SHARE!

Title: Episode 59: Mary Kloska Speaks About Sheep and Why Saints Need Saints

Description: In this episode, Mary takes a look at the lives of the saints who are as different from each other as the 900 different breeds of sheep all over the world. And yet, they are still united by the fact that they are all sheep with One Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Their gifts are given to complement each other and Mary shows the importance of spiritual friendships between them. It is by sheep hearing the single voice of their shepherd, that they are guided to safety -and it is by saints helping each other to hear and follow Christ's voice, that we are all guided on the narrow way to heaven together.

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#jesusflock

#spiritualityofsheep

#saints

#spiritualfriendships

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'In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests' for Persecuted Christians

 One year ago four seminarians in Sokoto, Nigeria were kidnapped by a band of 45 Muslims. One of them -a courageous saint named Michael -refused to stop preaching the Gospel to his captors and thus they killed him. The murderer, Mustapha Mohammed, arrested by the police, confessed to the crime, claiming that the young seminarian "continued to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ" to his kidnappers. According to Muhammad, they had killed Michael because he kept asking them to repent and change their lives, letting go of their evil attitudes. He said that what bothered them the most was that although Michael knew they were Muslims, he kept insisting that they had to repent and abandon their way of life. This is daily life for priests and seminarians in the Middle East and North Africa.

You can read Michael's story here: http://www.fides.org/.../69812-AFRICA_NIGERIA_Seminarian...

My new book, "In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests," is a book that explores Our Lady's Relationship with Jesus, the Eternal High Priest and how we can enter into that in our prayer for priests. This book would be a great benefit for the priests and seminarians in countries where their lives are daily at risk. It guides these men deep into the relationship Jesus had with His Mother and invites them to enter into that with Her as well -thus strengthening them for their difficult mission of preaching the Gospel while putting their lives daily at risk.

This book would also greatly benefit the religious sisters and lay catechists who daily pray for their priests and the difficult work that they embrace. In Pakistan little prayer groups surrounding this book have already been formed, and they are simply waiting for us to find the funds to print these books (already translated into Urdu).

It is incredible to hear how one little book can totally change a person's life. Yet is is happening because of your generosity every single day.

We would like to print 1000 copies of this book for Pakistan and at least 500 to be given away for free in Nigeria (including to the seminary where Michael attended). PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO OUR GOFUNDME to help print these books! If each one of you gave $10, we could do so, so much!

Spiritual food is of greater importance than even physical food. Thank you so much for feeding these suffering souls the truth and encouragement that only comes from a life lived in union with Jesus and Mary!

LINK TO THE GOFUND ME IS HERE!

Conversion and Healing of Protestants in Pakistan

 This is so beautiful to hear... (even if sad)...

What a beautiful Mother's Day gift to hear that God is using my little nothing book to touch and heal not only Catholics and Muslims, but Christians of other denominations.

All I can do is thank my Urdu translator in Pakistan Aqif Shahzad for doing such an incredible job gardening and watering the seed of my books in the hearts of his people... Read this testimony below!!!

Come Holy Spirit!

"Greetings and wish you a very happy Mother Day,

Three days ago, I got a call from one pastor (he doesn’t belong to a catholic church -he's some other denomination) and he invited me to conduct a short session for a Mother Day program. I said that I would do it happily and I asked him the purpose of this program.

The pastor said that he has a group of young women in his church. And in this group two women were raped about one year back. Then there is a woman whose husband has been in prison because he was falsely accused of blaspheme, he has been in jail for more than four years.

Then next I was surprised to listen to him. He asked that I please share with my group from the book “Holiness of Womanhood”. I asked him how he knew about this book.

Then I came to know that about a few months back this pastor was attending a prayer service in some other church. And there he heard the witness of three women who got hope, peace, comfort and some kind of conversion after reading this book. So he took my contact number from those women and called me.

Then I said yes, and requested that he should also invite men. Because men must also listen to this all. I believe that in Pakistan many women are being deprived of their rights and dignity because of men.

So I went there and I shared chapter 2 “Woman as Gift” and chapter 4 “Woman as Mother.”

Then at the end when I asked them to reflect about the questions that is given at the end chapter 2

"What are my gifts of my body that God gave to me? How is my body a gift?"

Believe me those women who were raped had tears in their eyes. I asked them to write their feelings to God, their charts ( I gave them charts to write) were wet. Even men had tears in their eyes when they listened to them.

At the end of the program I saw a smile on those women and some hope. I promised them that I would give them some books very soon.

(Here are a) few pictures of this program.

Thank you Jesus, thank you Mother Mary and really thank you Mary Kloska.

We always knew that suffering is bad and curse but after reading your books we know suffering is also a gift of God, suffering is also a sign of love."

Episode 58: Mary Kloska Speaks About Children of the Cross

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Title: Episode 58: Mary Kloska Speaks About Children of the Cross

Description: In this episode, Mary encourages the listener's heart with the words of St. Louis de Montfort and St. Edith Stein (who exhort their readers to fight bravely with the weapons of love and the Cross in the spiritual battle of life). She then goes on to talk about her new Apostolate of Prayer called 'Children of the Cross.' She includes an excerpt from St. Pope John Paul II's 'Letter to Children' where he entrusts this world's most difficult battles to their prayer. She gives examples of valiant children saints who did not shy away from extensive prayer and suffering in order to help Jesus in the work of saving souls. This podcast is an invitation to children and adults (with childlike hearts) alike to imitate Jesus' words 'unless you become like a child you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven'.

#childrenofthecross

#childsaints

#JPIIslettertochildren

#stlouisdemontford

#friendsofthecross

#stedithstein

#spiritualbattle

#fatimachildren

#stbernadette

#antonettameo

#crucifiedlove

#heroicvirtue

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A Busy Year!!!

 Pretty busy year!

I got these gems published;

I opened an Artist Shop;

I released a music CD;

I have recorded 58 podcasts/radio programs, plus countless interviews;

And I started an Apostolate -'The Children of the Cross' to pray for priests and persecuted Christians.

I've learned that when the impossible is presented to you, you simply have to take baby steps -do what you can -and then little by little you see what the Lord can multiply from your '5 loaves and 2 fish.'

I don't have copies yet of the Urdu translations of all three -but they are available (or will be again soon) in Pakistan.

Also, we have finished 'Out of the Darkness' (Fuera de las Tinieblas…) in Spanish and are awaiting final editing and arrangements. It should be published this week, or soon afterwards.

Also, Saturday I completed the final everything of my 4th book of the year -'A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary' which is all about mission work in Russia and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart (as Mary prophesized at Fatima).

We've arranged printing in the US, Pakistan and Nigeria and I am presently working on arranging printing in Poland, Belize, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico and a few other African countries (once their translations are completed).

Please keep praying that God sends generous donors to help with the $5000 needed to reprint in Pakistan and Nigeria -so that the persecuted Christians and suffering Muslim women can receive the drink of Truth, Light, Hope, Healing and Peace.

And THANK YOU all for your prayers... I so need them... and please keep praying!

Jesus, we trust in You. +++

Episode 57: Mary Kloska Speaks About Persecuted Christians and Jesus, the Good Shepherd

 My podcast this week is about modern day martyrs and the persecuted church. Please listen, like and share! 

Title: Episode 57: Mary Kloska Speaks About Persecuted Christians and Jesus, the Good Shepherd

Description: In this episode, Mary talks about the plight of Christians who have suffered (or been killed) because they proclaim and live their faith in Jesus Christ. She tells the story of a Polish family (being considered for canonization) who was killed by the Nazis (the parents, along with their 7 small children -the youngest being half-born when their Mother was shot) because they were hiding Jews during World War II. She continues telling modern day stories of Catholics being persecuted for their faith -especially in the Middle East and Africa -and reads testimonies of how her books are strengthening, healing and helping them. At the end she speaks about Jesus as the Good Shepherd, who promises to gather, protect, provide for and reward His Sheep -especially those who have suffered heroically for His Name.

We need $5000 to print more books in Nigeria and Pakistan. PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION to one of the gofundmes or directly through me (check) or to my publisher’s 501 tax exempt foundation!!! 

#moderndaysaints

#martyrs

#persecutedchristians

#persecutedcatholics

#persecutedchurch

#catholicsinpakistan

#catholicsinnigeria

#jesusthegoodshepherd