The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about the call of the human heart to enter into the desert with Christ to prepare for His coming at Christmas. After introducing the desert call, Mary shows how the Lord turns the wilderness into a garden where the soul meets with Him in Love. Focusing on Isaiah and other Old Testament texts,...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about St. Joseph's role in the coming of the Messiah. She introduces St. Joseph as a man, as a friend and as a spiritual brother and father for the listener. She discusses his place in Scripture and reflects on the Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of his life with Christ. She reviews his titles i...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska helps the listener go deep into preparation of their heart during Advent for the coming of Baby Jesus. She explains the differences of the four weeks of Advent and goes through meditations on the readings provided by the Church for this time from the book of Isaiah. She discusses the call to repenta...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska talks about Christ's call in the Gospel for all Christians to embrace poverty. She explains how Jesus set the example of poverty for us to follow, the various types of poverty, including examples of the unique ways the Lord has asked for her to live it (especially in the missions) over the years. Sh...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska opens with the famous line of the French philosopher Leon Bloy, 'The only tragedy in life is not to become a saint!' She then goes on to explain what it means to be a saint. Drawing from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Mary describes our relationship with the saints, the process that Jesus tak...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about Our Lady of Sorrows. She describes the traditional seven swords that are seen piercing Our Lady's Immaculate Heart, but she also explains additional sufferings that Our Lady underwent as the Mother of the Savior. Mary touches on the meaning and power of a heart willing to suffer with Je...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about the radical call that God gives to some souls to leave absolutely everyone and everything in this world to dwell 'Alone with the Alone.' She touches on the call to the hermit life that we are familiar with in the West, but also introduces us to very unique souls of the Orthodox faith wh...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about the reality of being a failure even in the spiritual life and how this can be a gift allowed by God in order to help the soul grow in humility and bear even greater fruit. Mary reflects on St. Paul's words, 'I boast in my weakness' and 'God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wi...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska continues with her theme of the saints finding union with Jesus through their experience of His Love on the Cross. She especially focuses on the Carmelite St. Teresa Margaret Redi, who took her name from St. Teresa of Avila and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and who shared their deep love for Jesus, esp...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about the Rosary in this October Month of the Rosary. In her explanations of the mysteries of the Rosary, she connects each one to the various chapters of her new book, 'The Holiness of Womanhood.' She shows how each set of mysteries (the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful and Glorious) corresponds...

In this episode, Mary continues discussing the idea of how God uses darkness, abandonment, suffering and other experiences of the Cross to unite as one with the soul. She specifically focuses on the teachings of the Carmelite St. Teresa of Avila on this topic, as well as showing the reality of these teachings in the life of the French Carmelite Pere Jacques Bunel (who died from what he suffered as...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska continues exploring the mystery of Jesus bringing a soul through darkness, suffering and even death in order to conform it completely to Himself crucified. She speaks about the life of Bl. Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite Friar who taught at the University, was involved heavily in journalism and qu...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska introduces the listener to the life of St. Edith Stein (Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) and explains her spiritual relationship with and writing about St. John of the Cross. She shows, once again, how it is precisely through the darkness, seeming abandonment and suffering of the Cross, that a sou...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about the experience of darkness, loneliness and seeming abandonment that the soul endures in the spiritual life as it is united with Jesus Crucified. She draws heavily from the writing of St. Padre Pio, St. Therese of Lisieux and St. John on the Cross and their experiences of darkness and in...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska speaks about the week of Marian Feasts from September 8 (Our Lady’s Birthday), September 12 (Her Name) to the double feasts of September 14 (the Triumph of the Cross) and September 15 (Sorrowful Heart of Mary). In it she discusses the mystery of Our Lady’s birth and the immaculate holiness of Her ti...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about God's gift of peace to the human heart. Using insight from Scripture and the saints, she explains how it is the fruit of the Holy Spirit working within a human heart, detailing how one can live God's gift of peace even in the midst of exterior turmoil or suffering. She especially invoke...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska explains what it means for Our Lady to be our Queen. She includes some quotes and writings from the saints, as well as papal documents on the matter. She also spends the second half of the program praying through the many, many 'titles of Mary'. (August 30, 2020)

In this episode of The Holiness of Womanhood, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska discusses her newly published book, "The Holiness of Womanhood." Sitting before an icon she painted of images of Jesus with women in the Gospels and opening with a song she wrote about Our Lady and the women in the icon, Mary creatively unveils the multifaceted wisdom of God's true vocation to live holines...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about her work with orphan children in Africa. She describes how God led her there, as well as what her work looked like on a day to day basis. Including real footage, photographs and music, Mary brings alive the plight of orphan children -especially focusing on the babies she served in Tanza...

In this episode of The Heart of Jesus Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska explains the Eastern Church's notion of living as a hermit, a pilgrim, a holy fool and a wise elder. Drawing deeply from Russian spirituality specifically, she explains what it means in one's heart to withdraw from the world as a hermit, to travel the earth as a pilgrim, to make up in reparation fo...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic missionary and evangelist Mary Kloska speaks about the theology of sleep in Scripture. She talks about how the gift of sleep, when offered to God, can be a prayer and a place of union with Him. She discusses the places in Scripture where God spoke to people in dreams. And she includes advice from the Saints as to how we should fall asle...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary Mary Kloska explains what a great gift it is from God when we are allowed to suffer with Him. By using our suffering as a prayer and offering it to God in Love (whether it be little inconveniences or tremendous crosses), we can find union with the Heart of Jesus and great graces can be given to others. Mary dis...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist Mary Kloska describes her multifaceted mission work in Russia. She talks about her experiences near Moscow in 1994, as well as in Siberia from 2001-2003 and during her short visits back over several years. She describes the suffering of the Russian people under Communism, the depth of the Russian heart and the great miracles...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist and missionary, Mary Kloska, talks about the vocation of motherhood written into every woman’s being. This includes receiving, nurturing, giving and protecting life physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. She especially focuses on the special vocation of spiritual motherhood of priests and she presents examples of...

In this episode of The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love, Catholic evangelist Mary Kloska discusses St. Augustine's quote, "Fear is the enemy of Love." She explains the two types of fear and how we were created for a relationship of trusting love with God. She speaks of ways we can overcome fear, explores some of the 365 Scripture verses that say 'Do not fear' and additionally shares wisdom from the sa...