I wish you, my brothers, a very happy Feast of Our Lady, Queen of the Militia. I wish to remind everyone today that, by reciting the Act of Consecration in a church, members of the Militia Knights and all the faithful may receive a plenary indulgence. It is my special prayer, as preceptor, for all of you, that the grace we receive on this wonderful feast day this year may be the desire to love Mary more than we already do—for obviously we do not yet love her enough. True love

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in his teaching on the Passion of our Lord, points out that when Pilate’s wife was disturbed in a dream, this disturbance did not arise from God or from an Angel, but rather, from his perspective, from the devil. At some point during the unfolding of the Passion, the devil, though he had entered Judas and stirred up events, may have perceived the impending destruction of his own kingdom and sought, in confusion, to hinder what he himself had set in m

The secular news in Poggibonsi covered the passing of our beloved Grand Master. See here and here for some Italian language news...

It is with sadness that we wish to report the passing of our beloved Grand Master, His Excellency Marcello Alberto Cristofani della...