The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love

This week's episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love comes from the archives of Dr. Mary Kloska's mission work in Russia. In 2002, after spending a year helping to found the SOLT mission in Krasnoyarsk, Mary was asked by the SOLT community to give a presentation about the work they were doing. This podcast is copied from a tape cassette recording of the talk. 

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska dives deep into what it means for a soul to be on fire with missionary zeal and love. She explains the call of each soul to imitate Our Lady as the burning bush -consumed with divine love radiating light to the world -taking all suffering to herself and responding with healing grace. Dr. Mary Kloska shows how the life of Ven. Fr. Aloysius Schwartz did just this in incredible ways -and by sharing his life's story and writing she sets the listener on fire with a desire to live such radical love within his own life and vocation.

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska speaks about the importance and holiness of God's gift of work to humanity. She draws from Papal Encyclicals, Scriptures and the writings of the saints to show God's purpose for entrusting work to humanity. She also explains how to make one's work a powerful sacrificial prayer of love that glorifies God.

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska speaks about the beginnings of the Fiat Foundation and the Children of the Cross Prayer ministry. She takes the listener through the work that the Foundation has done in 2024 amongst persecuted Christians and explains the importance of the work of using books to spread the Gospel. Dr. Mary Kloska also explains how this all ties in the readings for Mass this weekend -the 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time. (February 16, 2025)

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska reflects on the readings from the First Sunday in Ordinary Time -where we hear about God's Fatherly love in creating and naming us, in protecting us and calling us to a vocation and in filling us with the gifts we need to fulfill that vocation. We then hear about Jesus' love for us as the Divine Bridegroom Redeemer and how He provides for us, purifies and perfects us and unites us to Himself. And lastly we reflect on the Gospel reading of the Wedding of Cana that shows Our Lady's important role in our salvation as well as foreshadows our call to the heavenly Wedding with God in eternity.

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska shares testimonies from five of the countries where the Fiat Foundation serves with a ministry of books, catechesis and prayer. With witnesses from Uganda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Pakistan and Nigeria she allows her listeners to hear first-hand of miracles of God's grace in these countries as well as the continuing needs they have. It is Dr. Kloska's hope that through this podcast many will be inspired to donate financially to these missions which serve the poorest and most persecuted Catholics in the world.

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist, Dr. Mary Kloska speaks about the life and reflections of Fr. Alfred Delp, SJ -a German Jesuit who was martyred by the Nazi's for his faith. While awaiting execution during Advent 1944, Fr. Delp wrote little reflections on scraps of paper and smuggled them out of the prison in his wash. These reflections of his last Advent on earth, which prepared him not only for the coming of Christ at Christmas, but also eternally, are a powerful testament to his personal faith, hope and love.

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Kloska talks about her newest published book, which is also her doctoral thesis. This book, which is entitled "Crucified Love," is about how Jesus used the instruments of littleness, spousal love and Fiat to endure the Cross, thus living His role as the New Adam as Priest, Victim and Altar. After explaining how Christ endured the Passion, Dr. Mary explains how Our Lady perfectly joined Him in His work of Redemption as the New Eve -imitating His littleness, passionate love and fiat surrender -in order to endure the Cross with Him as Co-Redemptrix. Lastly, Dr. Kloska shows how the saints imitated Jesus and Mary through living littleness (humility and self-emptying) and spousal love in order to surrender to living the Cross with Christ in concrete ways. She describes both their experiences of mystical marriage and consummated crucified love that manifested itself in the stigmata, illness and martyrdom. Through offering such sufferings, the saints could be co-redeemers with Christ as well.

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Dr. Mary Kloska shares the history of the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus. She tells of the revelations of Sr. Mary of St. Peter and how her revelations deeply impacted St. Therese of Lisieux's family and personal vocation. Dr. Mary also shares other saints who were devoted to the Holy Face of Our Lord and reflects on the various aspects of how the Holy Face of Christ can be an instrument of deliverance, healing and inspiration for all of us.

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In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska speaks about the necessity of raising children in an atmosphere of truth, beauty, goodness, holiness and love. She speaks of the ways that the evil one tries to distort this as well as what adults can do to protect children from his influence.