Marian Movement of Priests

The Marian Movement of Priests ( MPB) is a Roman Catholic association of priests with the aim of implementing the revelation of Fatima. It is not canonically erected. The MPB is one of the world's largest and most influential very conservative movements within the Roman Catholic church official and member of the United apostolate in the spirit of Mary.

History

On 8 May 1972, the Italian priest Stefano Gobbi took part in a pilgrimage to Fatima. In the Chapel of the Apparition he prayed for some priests who have fallen in his opinion the faith and of loyalty to the Catholic Church.

In the innerkirlichen controversy surrounding the movement, one aspect of authentic inner locutions of the Virgin Mary turns to the right of priest Stefano Gobbi received to have. Gobbi wrote the promptings in his spiritual diary. The Vice President of the Catholic station, EWTN Colin B. Donovan, STL said to the promptings Gobbi: " In the case of adopted mysteries, there's always the possibility that it is a mental illness, fraud, vivid imagination, or even the demonic. "

Requirements for Membership

A member of the MPB uses the following obligations are fulfilled:

• The consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• Unity with the Pope and the church connected to it
• The leadership of the believers to a life of devotion to Mary. The aim is to let Mary act in your own life.

The "Devotion to Mary" and "commitment to repentance " is not only a one- ordination, it requires every believer a lifestyle that goes against the "ruling (s) fads especially in the leisure sector ." This includes a critical attitude towards the as " challenging " and " shameless " perceived clothing style in the Western world. In addition, to the followers of the movement against " any dissemination of immoral publications in magazines, on television and in the theater set to defend ." Even the followers of the movement should avoid places " where the sacred character of their person is desecrated ." The aim is to conduct a " new evangelization of the world" under the tenets of the MPB.

Members

The Marian Movement of Priests has spread through the book to the priests, the beloved sons of the Mother of God by Don Stefano Gobbi. The book contains the observations and inspirations that should have Gobbi received in the form of inner promptings. The book is not available in bookstores; it is distributed exclusively through the country or regional secretariats in charge of the Marian Movement of Priests.

Organization

The offices are located in Germany in Tengen, for Austria in Salzburg and for Switzerland in Baden. The International Centre of the Marian Movement of Priests is located in Milan (Italy).

The theological background and connections

The priest movement is controversial both within and outside the Catholic Church as the arch-conservative grouping.

The Movement of Priests supports the conservative Marian devotion within the Catholic Church. In one picture on the homepage of MPB you see clergymen in front of a statue, stands at the Maria on the globe before the cross. Symbolically and theologically Maria is moved as the central figure of the Christian faith against the Trinity.

For the theology of the Marian revelation movements of the Swiss theologian Scheidegger said in 1999 in the context of apocalyptic prophets groups and sects of modern times, that the Catholic tradition of " private revelations " rich already back in the last century. Catholic traditionalist groups such as the Marian Movement of Priests, the Catholic Boy Scouts of Europe ( KPE ) and the congregation servant of Jesus and Mary ( SJM ) lived from this type of religiosity. These groups would take "signs of the end times " in the world and society true and wanted to restore the true ecclesial community, "so that at the end of time the obedient of God to be saved and allowed to share in the joy of heaven ."