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

 

 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

 
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

 

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.

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

 


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.

 


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.

 



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."

 


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.

 



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

 

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

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