Acting purposfull
Marian Entrepreneurs
Marian entrepreneurs are people who want to undertake Marian activities. That is, they desire to engage in the works of Our Lady on earth; more precisely, they want to take part in her actions aimed at realizing the aim – purpose – she announced.
Aim/Purpos: Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is realized in the victory:
Truth – by knowing of the objectively existing reality (the correspondence of the intellect with reality),
Love – through perfect fulfillment of the will to that of Mary Immaculate (conformity of will to the will of Mary).
Means
The aim dictates the means to achieve it and the way of achieving them:
– types of initiatives, for example, spreading the ideal of the most perfect human person – Mary Immaculate; spreading the realism in education, science and socio-economic practice,
– a way of acting which consists in allowing Mary to govern, organize and direct her earthly entrepreneur,
– principles of action, i.e. necessary conditions to ensure the realization of Mary’s aim, e.g. maintaining material and formal independence from other aims,
– a form of organisation and cooperation, i.e. a formal association providing structures for achieving this and only this aim, in cooperation with people who have also chosen and are following the same aim.
Each person has the freedom to choose the means to achieve the aim, depending on their unique individual circumstances, abilities, condition, etc.
Each person realizes the aim primarily through their own life, i.e. adapting their own person to the aim, realizing this aim in their own daily choices, by perfecting their intelectual powers (intellect and will) and subjecting them to the action of Mary.
Each person strives to be increasingly guided by Mary, to become more and more her own entrepreneur – a Marian entrepreneur.
Purpose-oriented activity
Every human action is directed towards a specific aim.
Even if we don’t think about it, all the daily choices we make lead us to a specific aim.
Similarly, every organization, structure, and system all follow an aim. Aim dictates the organizations, structures, and systems form and determines the methods and principles of operation.
Every person can choose the aim they want to follow.
The voluntary choice and realization of an aim that a person has recognized as a real good enables him/her to transcend the structures and systems that seemingly determine him/her and lead to unclear aims (called systems or structures of evil), and thus frees him/her from them.
Mary
In choosing and achieving a truly good aim, Mary, the only human authority who cannot fail, helps. The most perfect human person, untainted by any falsehood or defect: the Immaculate One.
As the only human being in the history of the world, Mary was immaculate, that is, free from any defect of body or soul. Thanks to this privilege, her intellect, will, and memory functioned perfectly. They reached the highest level possible for human intellectual faculties. When they function properly, they cannot be enslaved by corrupt power or the lure of apparent goods and pleasures. She was more gifted than anyone who has ever struck us as extraordinary in terms of mental acuity and reliability, willpower, balance, and harmony of higher and lower faculties. In the strong powers of will, intellect, and memory, perfectly in harmony with the Supreme Good—God—lies the true strength of Mary: the universal spiritual (intellectual) mother of all people.
Another essential privilege of Mary is her mediation in the distribution of grace. Grace is a supernatural power that empowers humanity to do good. Only through grace can the human being’s will perfect itself in desiring good and putting it into practice. In other words, thanks to the will cooperating with grace, human being is capable of constructive action, including choosing a truly good aim – purpose – in life. Finally, Mary was assumed into heaven, meaning she is the only human being in the history of the world who is already fully saved. Thanks to this, she has a constant and real influence on the history of individuals and entire nations.
One of the manifestations of Her activity took place in 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, where Mary, through three little children, left a message to the world. Of particular significance is Mary’s promise, which foretells the coming triumph of Her Immaculate Heart.
The person who believes in the truth of this promise receives a salvation from the structures and systems of evil, unparalleled in the world and its history. They are offered a lighthouse – an aim that guarantees anchorage in the real world, in the world of the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, and therefore in a world where truth and love prevail.
Thus, paradoxically, we start building structures of goodness from the end – the aim – arriving at the specific solutions that it requires for its implementation.
The Model of the Marian Entrepreneur
The model of a Marian entrepreneur and the patron of the Association of Marian Entrepreneurs is St. Joseph: a man remaining in the world, but living and acting only for Mary and the Lord Jesus, thus perfectly fulfilling God’s plan.