The books we had printed in Nigeria are greatly desired by both the seminarians and priests, as well as by the Muslim women... please pray that we can continue to fund these worthy projects!
Friday, April 30, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
A Talk to Pakistani Altar Boys... come Holy Spirit!
I thought that all of my friends in Pakistan (as well as young men who serve at Church out there) might appreciate this 20 minute talk that I gave (via YouTube) to a group of young men who are altar servers in Pakistan. Please pray for these courageous young men!!
Please click on it and like it and take a listen...
And please pray for these courageous young men!
Come Holy Spirit!
Here they are at the retreat listening to it!!
Monday, April 26, 2021
Persecuted Christians...
If your interested in helping persecuted Christians (or even just wondering what life is like for them) I finally gathered together all of the testimonials from emails, texts, etc., sent to me from Nigeria and Pakistan and put them together (with tons of pictures) in one place on my website.
This was so much work.
I don't know how I ever figured out how to do things like making websites and organizing international business deals with translations, promotion, printing and distributing my books (so often for free) in places of the world I know nothing about. If nothing else, it shows the power of what God's grace and love can do through a really little heart...
Check this out (just to make me feel better about all of my work today)! 
I haven't gotten it translated into the 12 other languages on the page yet... that's for this week!
I haven't gotten it translated into the 12 other languages on the page yet... that's for this week! 
"B" is for "BENEFACTRESS"...
Thank you to Deacon Tom and Dee at RIM Catholic Radio in Payson, Arizona for having me on their radio program a second time (I was on their "O is for OBEDIENCE" show in October 2020). Anyone interested in my work especially among persecuted Christians will enjoy our conversation. My interview begins at minute 10:50...
Catholic Vitamin B: BENEFACTRESS
Posted on April 24, 2021 by Deacon Tom
Many of us are inspired by the great work of others. Sometimes, we wonder how people can accomplish so much! We’ve brought a special guest back to Catholic Vitamins. Her name is MARY KLOSKA. She’s an author, a speaker, an iconographer, a musician. The reason for the return visit is that Mary is becoming an important BENEFACTRESS to people in the United States, but also in foreign lands. Most especially among persecuted Christians. All this, while living a quiet (appearing) life as a nanny in Indiana. How does someone who has a full-time job find time to write… to see to communications with publishers, language conversion friends and specialists? How does she find time to speak with listeners to Catholic Vitamins? We’d say she is grace-powered, and we’re so glad to hear of her success and grace in reaching and helping others.
Mary’s website is www.marykloskafiat.com We hope you’ll get to know her and her work and products.
To hear the interview please click here!
Happy Good Shepherd Sunday!!
Happy Good Shepherd Sunday!!
"The Lord IS OUR SHEPHERD so we really shall not want...
... even though we walk through a dark valley, we fear no evil because He is at our side, His rod and staff give us COURAGE..."
Here's a few thoughts I have on the Good Shepherd...
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Episode 56: Mary Kloska Speaks about Living the Mass
I could much more easily live without food than live without the Mass... here's why.
My podcast this week is in response to a special request from
Adah Johnzion
's Whatsup group of priests, religious, seminarians and lay faithful in Nigeria. I am so happy to spend this hour with them... and with you... explaining the secret of all I do and who I am (that secret being the power, the grace, the love, the direction I receive from Jesus' Eucharistic Heart in daily Mass.)Title: Episode 56: Mary Kloska Speaks about Living the Mass
Description: In this episode, Mary discusses with the listener the absolute centrality of the Mass in her own vocation and life. She also takes the listener through a prayerful meditation on how she prays each of the different parts of the Mass, offering suggestions as to how they can go deeper in their own prayer during Mass. At the end she encourages them to make living the Mass the source and the summit of all that they do and all who they are.
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Sunday, April 18, 2021
Episode 55: Mary Kloska Speaks on Her Book "In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests"
What was Mary's relationship with Jesus, the Eternal High Priest and how can WE enter into that?
It's all here in my book and this podcast walks you through it.
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Title: Episode 55: Mary Kloska Speaks on Her Book "In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests"
Description: In this episode, Mary Kloska speaks about her newest book, "In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests." She gives a brief history of the book and explains how it could bear great fruit in the life of any priest, mother of a priest or person who is committed to praying for priests.She takes the listener through each chapter explaining both Our Lady's relationship with Jesus as the Eternal High Priest from infancy through His Kingship in Heaven, as well as how the reader can enter into Our Lady's relationship with Jesus and imitate Her. She includes practical suggestions as to how to help and pray for priests, and provides a myriad of examples of holy souls and saints who were either priests or prayer warriors for priests while on earth.
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Saturday, April 17, 2021
Children of the Cross Prayer Group in Pakistan
CHILDREN OF THE CROSS
My translator in Pakistan has done an incredible job forming this little prayer group to meet on Fridays to pray for priests and persecuted Christians, especially in his own country. If you missed my post a few days ago about these new prayer groups, please see it below. I will be starting a prayer group at 3:30 on the First Friday of the month for children to pray for priests and persecuted Christians. All are invited.
Here is Aqif's witness letter about the power of the prayer in these groups. We pray also that God raises up good donors to help us gather a few thousand more dollars to print more books for the persecuted Christians in Pakistan. Come Holy Spirit!
"Greetings to you Mary and Dr. Sebastian
I am very happy to share with you that we had a wonderful prayer session with “Cross of the Children” just now. It was an experience full of the Holy Spirit. Children prayed for all the persecuted Christians in Pakistan and throughout the world. Children also prayed for all the priests in the whole world and also in Pakistan.
We had a special short prayer for the nurses who were recently falsely accused of blasphemy and going through life threats. There were tears in the eyes of all children.
At the end I encouraged all the children to write thank you letters to God for all the priests who always do their best to give us direction.
Next time, I have asked them to bring pictures of the priests and persecuted Christians with them.
I am witnessing that our small room was full of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you to God and thanks to you for your motivation and blessings.
I am sharing a few pictures of today’s prayer session. And please use these pictures to spread our message of peace.
Note: I also need your continued prayers as I have started translating the book “In our Lady’s Shadow – Spirituality of Praying for Priests. I used a few references today from this book and from “Out of Darkness”.
And I am also praying that God may provide us with some funds so to have few more books on Holiness of Womanhood and some free books of “Out of Darkness”
Many people are asking for books but I feel sorry that I cannot give them free. May God provide us some assistance so I may give them as they are really in need.
Once again thanks God for all HE is doing for us. I also thank God for your life Mary. Thanks for being light and hope in our darkness and despair here in Pakistan.
Blessings."
Sunday, April 11, 2021
CHILDREN OF THE CROSS and Persecuted Christians in Pakistan
CHILDREN OF THE CROSS - My translator in Pakistan sent me these pictures today with very sad news of the continuing persecution of Christians in his country. For a long time I have wanted to start a prayer group of children (and adults with childlike souls) to pray for priests. I even discussed it in my new book, "In Our Lady's Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests". Well, Aqif has taken my books and started a prayer group (made up of mostly children) in Pakistan to pray for their persecuted brothers and sisters. I have decided that I will join him in this work and found my little Apostolate of the Children of the Cross. We will form little prayer groups of children to gather the First Friday of the Month (for now I will be able to host it at 3:30pm -the Hour of Jesus' Death and Divine Mercy) to pray for BOTH priests and persecuted Christians. It will be very simple -some spontaneous prayer, a Chaplet of Divine Mercy, a decade of the Rosary and perhaps a Chaplet of Sorrows. The little prayer group will last about 30-45 minutes. I will invite the children who come to bring pictures of the priests and others who they want to pray for. Any children (or people) in my area who want to come over at 3:30 on the First Friday of the month to pray are welcome. It would be helpful to let me know ahead of time if you are coming and the number (since I might have to move it to a bigger location if we get a handful of big families), but you don't have to and God will provide. Also, any mother (or other person) who would like to start their own little group in their home or parish can contact me and we will unite this into something official.
Below is the email I received from Aqif this morning and I ask anyone who is moved and wants to help contribute to get more books printed in Pakistan to please let me know or visit one of my two gofundme's for this purpose. Both books are sorely needed and the price of printing is just about $1.5/book. With around $3000 we could reprint 1000 of both of them, and for about $1500 more we could print my third book which he is currently translating. Come Holy Spirit!
Most of all, PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OF THIS!!!
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"Greetings and I really feel sad to share a few sad news with you.
First yesterday, two Christian nurses were accused falsely in a blasphemy case in Faisalabad (a city in Punjab). It was a very sad occasion. The surrounding environment is really sad and full of fear.
Then in Hyderabad (a city near Karachi) a woman named Agnes Nazeer Masih was raped. And even in this city people, especially women were full of fear.
And same day in the same city, a Christian girl of 16 years was forced to get married to a Muslim person.
Now these kinds of stories, every day, are there to make sure that Christians are daily persecuted in our country. And no one is there to follow these cases. Everyday many young men and women are persecuted because they are Christians.
These three sad and shocking incidents really made me and everyone cry. So I gathered a group of five people (young and even children) to pray for them. We read paragraphs from your book “Out of Darkness” in Urdu.
I tried to contact these victims, and told them somehow that a small group is praying with them in their persecution. I told them that Jesus is with us in this suffering. We and Jesus both have emotional, psychological and physical sufferings.
Mary, I am sure, you really do not know how much your book is bringing hope to our persecuted community.
There are many women who after reading your book “Holiness of womanhood” acknowledged that your book has told them the true meaning of being women.
May God provide us with more, so I can print a few more “Holiness of womanhood” and distribute it among persecuted Christian community. I also wish to give more “Out of Darkness” to persecuted women for free here in Pakistan.
We are really thanking God, that HE is using your writings as a source of peace, hope and comfort here in my country.
I am sharing a picture of a group of five people. You may use it. We have decided to use this group wherever persecution takes place. We will use your book “out of Darkness”. Gradually we will increase groups. The main responsibility of this group is to use your book and pray for all persecuted communities here in Pakistan and throughout the world.
And thank you to you again.
Need your continued prayers.”
Episode 54: Mary Kloska Speaks About Divine Mercy, Hope and Her Little Brother Johnny
"Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.
“I am troubled* now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.
Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” -John 12:23-28
Jesus asks so much of us, and yet there's great HOPE in His request of sacrifice because He gives us so much more than He asks from us. HIS GIFT OF DIVINE MERCY IS ONE SUCH GIFT OF HIS HOPE.
This week's radio podcast is about Jesus' gift of HOPE and Divine Mercy. I practically apply it to the life (and death) of my littlest brother. Please listen and share!
Title: Episode 54: Mary Kloska Speaks About Divine Mercy, Hope and Her Little Brother Johnny
Description: In this episode, Mary describes the great Mercy of God that sometimes seems incomprehensible or 'severe' to us. She uses the example of her little brother's tragic death as a great act of God's mercy and love for him. She also speaks about the virtue of Hope and shows how God's Mercy always gives us great Hope in His Goodness. She offers 10 sources or reasons to keep Hope in our hearts regardless of the difficulties that one may face in life. By remembering God's merciful gifts that give us Hope, the listener is able to keep that divine perspective on life, as well as joy and peace of heart in all circumstances.
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Sunday, April 4, 2021
Episode 53: Mary Kloska Speaks about the Resurrection and Easter
Description: In this episode, Mary takes the listener through a meditation on the Gospel stories about the Resurrection. She helps the listener to get inside of the mind and hearts of the characters in each one and draws their attention to the deeper meaning of the details of these stories, in the hopes that the listener will encounter the Resurrected Jesus in a personal way in his or her own life.
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