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Monday, October 30, 2017

 
When once men recognize, both in private and public life,  that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Pope Pius XI

Saturday, October 28, 2017

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 Pierre Le Gros
Religion Overthrowing Heresy and Hatred
Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di GESÙ all’Argentina, Rome


THE PEACE AND CALM OF ADORATION
“Withdraw yourself from people and spend at least a quarter of an hour, or a half-hour, in some church in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament.
Taste and see how sweet is the Lord, and you will learn from your own experience how many graces this will bring you.”
- St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

Thursday, October 26, 2017

 
The Practice of Charity
Seek occasions to please the Heart of Jesus by the practice of holy charity in always thinking and speaking well of your neighbor, assisting the poor according to your ability, spiritually and corporally, considering Jesus Christ in their person, and doing nothing to them which you would not wish to be done to yourself.
Be patient toward all, in order to give confidence to each one, and above all to the poor who come to you in their need. Be a friend to everyone and an enemy to no one; then you will become like unto God.
Charles IX, King of France, once asked the poet Tasso who, in his estimation, was the happiest. Tasso replied without hesitation: “God.”
“Everybody knows that,” continued the king; “but who is next?”
And Tasso answered: “He who becomes most like to God.”

Taken from the Fr. Lasance prayerbook

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

 

RUSSIANS PULLOUT OF AUSTRIA, 1948 - After World War ll, the Allies turned
over Catholic Austria to communist Russia. For three years the Austrian
people endured this tyranny. Then, a Franciscan priest, Father Petrus,
remembered how the Christians although greatly outnumbered had defeated the
Turks at the Battle of Lepanto through the Rosary, and he launched a Rosary
crusade. Through it 70,000 people, one tenth of the Austrian population,
pledged to say the Rosary daily for the Soviets to leave their country.
Austria was valuable to the Russians because of its strategic location,
rich mineral deposits and oil reserves. Yet on May 13, 1955, the
anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, the Russians
signed the agreement to leave Austria, and they did so without one person
being killed and without one shot being fired. It is the only time that the
militant atheistic forces of Marxism have ever peacefully left a country in
which they held power. Military strategists and historians are baffled as
to why the Russians pulled out. But we are not - it was the power of the
Rosary.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

"Among all the devotions approved by the Church, none has been so favored by so many miracles as the Rosary devotion." Pope Pius IX

Sunday, October 22, 2017

 


HIROSHIMA - August 6th, 1945 There was a home eight blocks (about 1
kilometer) from where the A-Bomb went off in Hiroshima Japan. This home had
a church attached to it which was completely destroyed, but the home
survived, and so did the eight German Jesuit missionaries who prayed the
rosary in that house faithfully every day. These men were missionaries to
the Japanese people, they were non-military, but because Germany and Japan
were allies during WWII they were permitted to live and minister within
Japan during the war. Not only did they all survive with (at most)
relatively minor injuries, but they all lived well past that awful day with
no radiation sickness, no loss of hearing, or any other visible long term
defects or maladies. Naturally, they were interviewed numerous times (Fr.
Schiffer, a survivor, said over 200 times) by scientists and health care
people about their remarkable experience and they say "we believe that we
survived because we were living the message of Fatima. We lived and prayed
the rosary daily in that home." Of course the secular scientists are
speechless and incredulous at this explanation - and they are sure there is
some "real" explanation - but at the same time over 55 years later the
scientists are still absolutely bamboozled when it comes to finding a
plausible scenario to explain the missionaries’ unique escape from the
hellish power of that bomb.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

 


BATTLE OF LEPANTO, 1571 - On Sunday, October 7, the Christian and Turkish
fleets met in Lepanto Gulf, off the coast of Greece. The bitter battle
finished with a brilliant victory of the Christians who where vastly
outnumbered. That very evening Pope St. Pius V had at Rome a clear
knowledge of this success. The same afternoon, the Confraternities of the
Rosary, particularly in Rome, had marched through the streets in procession
reciting the Rosary. This victory put an end to the naval power of the
Turks and saved Christian Europe. To this day this victory has been
attributed to the praying of the Rosary. The feast of “The Most Holy
Rosary” is celebrated on October 7 now and the month of October is
dedicated to the Most Holy Rosary.

Sunday, October 15, 2017

 



St. Dominic prayed to Our Lady that she would force the devils who
possessed a man to reveal the truth about devotion to her. The devils were
forced by Our Lady to reveal: "Now that we are forced to speak we must also
tell you this: Nobody who perseveres in saying the Rosary will be damned,
because she obtains for her servants the grace of true contrition for their
sins and by means of this they obtain God's forgiveness and mercy."

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

 


THE COUNTRY THAT SAVED ITSELF - Brazil 1962 - In 1962 there was a looming
threat of communist takeover in Brazil. A woman there named Dona Amelia
Bastos was known to have formed a Rosary rally among the Brazilian women
there to do their part in opposing the looming threat. Their goal was
simply to pray the Rosary in large groups asking the Virgin Mary for help
in opposing the Communist takeover which the President of Brazil was
leaning toward at the time. In Belo Horizonte 20,000 women reciting the
rosary aloud broke up a Communist rally. In Sao Paulo, 600,000 women
praying the rosary in one of the most moving demonstrations in Brazilian
history, caused the President of Brazil to flee the country and not a
single death was encountered, sparing the country from Communist takeover.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

 



The most holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new
efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no
problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or, above all,
spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the
families of the world, or of the religious communities, or even of the life
of peoples and nations, that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no
problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve
by the prayer of the holy Rosary. With the holy Rosary, we will save
ourselves; we will sanctify ourselves; we will console our Lord, and obtain
the salvation of many souls.
Conversation between Sr. Lucy of Fatima and Fr. Fuentes, Dec. 26, 1957

Friday, October 6, 2017

 

The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep
oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in your homes, and
in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even
one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many
cares and labors." Pope Pius XI

Tuesday, October 3, 2017




True Charity consists in bearing with all the defects of our neighbor, in not being surprised at his failings, and in being edified by his least virtues; Charity must not remain shut up in the depths of the heart, for no man lighteth a candle and putteth it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. (Cf. Matthew 5:15). It seems to me that this candle represents the Charity which ought to enlighten and make joyful, not only those who are dearest to me, but all who are in the house.🌹🌹🌹
Story of A Soul, Chapter IX