An
Astute Deviation of Our Attention!
Dear
friends,
In order to help us to be not just “innocent as
doves”, but also “wise as serpents”
(Mt 10:16), which is often the harder
part, especially today in a world filled with the beautiful easy lies
of “the father of lies” (Jn 8:44), I took the time to summarize
some of the wisdom brought to light by the group, “Catholics for
the Common Good” (http://www.ccgaction.org/).
I find it very interesting, if not divinely
providential, that in the Gospel for the 27th
Sunday of Ordinary Time, which was the day of the beginning of the
Synod on the Family (October 4, 2015), one finds the very clear and
unequivocal words of Christ: “What
therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder”
(Mk 10:9). Also in the same Gospel Jesus tells us: “Truly, I say to
you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall
not enter it” (Mk 10:15). Do the
bishops who are seeking to reform the Sacrament of Matrimony “receive
the kingdom of God like a child” and do they consider the point of
view of the child, or do they even mention “what is best and needed
for the children of separated and divorced Catholics”?!?
I find it very interesting, if not divinely
providential, that the day of the beginning of the Synod on the
Family coincides with the Feast day of
Saint Francis of Assisi (October 4,
2015) whose name Cardinal Bergoglio took as his name as Pope. For it
was to Saint Francis that God revealed a prophecy about the false
pope:
2. “The power of the demons will be greater than
usual, the immaculate purity of our religious community and of
others, will wither to the point that very few Christians will want
to obey the true Sovereign Pontiff and the Roman Church with a
sincere heart and perfect charity. At the decisive moment of this
crisis, a personage
not canonically elected, raised to the Pontificate,
will endeavor to administer shrewdly to many the
MORTAL POISON of his error.”
7. “Some preachers
will keep silent about the truth and, denying the truth, they will
trample upon the truth. The sanctity of life will be held in derision
by those who only profess it outwardly, and for this reason Our
Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a worthy Pastor, but a
destroyer.”
In last month’s “Spiritual Food 1509”
(http://spir-food.blogspot.it/2015/09/the-false-pope-will-fall-silent.html;
http://wordbelife.blogspot.it/2015/09/spiritual-food-1509.html),
I quoted Our Lady of
Good Success at Quito, Ecuador (January
20, 1610):
“Thus I make it known to you that from the end
of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th
century…the passions will erupt and there will be a total
corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which
symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked
and deeply profaned. FREEMASONRY, which
will then be in power, will enact
iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament,
making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging
procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the
Church… IN THIS SUPREME MOMENT OF NEED
FOR THE CHURCH, THE ONE WHO SHOULD SPEAK WILL FALL SILENT.”
“While men were sleeping, his enemy came and
sowed weeds among the wheat…” (Mt
13:24-43). Those men who have more responsibility are more culpable
for sleeping while the enemy sowed weeds among the wheat!
Even though by now that the weeds of destruction
are all over the place in our society today, we
must NOT give up, even though it is
much more difficult now. As Jesus’ parable tells us, God will “Let
both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell
the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be
burned, but gather the wheat into my barn” (Mt 13:30).
As Our Lady told us over four hundred years ago,
“the Sacrament of Matrimony,
which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will
be attacked and deeply profaned”.
These weeds sown by our enemy have changed the
true meaning and purpose of
marriage, making it very difficult to
help people today rediscover the indisputable reality of marriage
that we can verify by God’s plan for creation and that is stamped
right in our very nature. Thus what was taken for granted by a more
Christian culture 60 or 70 years ago, today we need a language that
will not presuppose that the person you are talking to necessarily
embraces faith, and yet be consistent with what faith reveals. We
are looking for a language that really touches reality.
Because do not most people today think that marriage is about two
adults being happy together? That is the argument that is being used.
If marriage is defined this way, it doesn’t necessarily have to be
between a man and a woman; it can be between any two consenting
adults. So what’s wrong with that perception of marriage? A survey
shows that 58% think that marriage is only the public recognition of
a committed relationship; thus for these people it would be
discriminatory to restrict marriage between a man and a woman.
There has been an
astute deviation of our attention by
the ones who have taken control of the motors of the culture (the
mass media, the schools and religious institutions) in the last
several decades, and now we must likewise make an
astute deviation of our attention back
to the reality that God has implanted in His creation! In this fierce
but underhanded battle, it is very important to be “wise
as serpents”, not just “innocent as
doves” (Mt 10:16) which is the easier part.
Today if you define marriage as the union of a man
and a woman, a permanent union that is open to life and it prepares
them for receiving children as a gift, and it provides a firm
foundation for raising the children, the majority of the people in
our society today do not understand or believe this definition of
marriage after being surrounded by the weeds that the collaborators
of our enemy have sown especially in the last 50 or 60 years. We
have already largely separated sex from having children, from
procreation, after the invention of “the pill” (1960) and after
the great rebellion against Humanae Vitae (1968).
Marriage has become pretty adult centered because of no fault
divorce, and other things in society. So this traditional definition
of marriage no longer resonates with many people’s experience and
how they viewed marriage today. Marriage has become pretty adult
centered because of no fault divorce, and other things in society. So
this traditional definition of marriage no longer resonates with many
people’s experience and how they viewed marriage today.
THE SOLUTION, simple but difficult,
is the novelty of rediscovering the
words of Christ: “Truly, I say to
you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter
the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is
the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 18:3-4).
The view of the child is what everyone is forgetting about today, the
rights of the child. “I thank Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that Thou hast hidden these things from the wise and under
standing and revealed them to babes” (Mt 11:25; Lk 10:21). We must
help people rebuild themselves to become childlike. Because the child
knows reality. If you talk to a child about abortion, they cannot
even conceive of it; it’s absurd. By the time they are in high
school, they are starting to see the other side of the issue. And we
pick up baggage of the culture along the way on this issue. So we
need to find a language of the culture. Our Lady of Guadalupe spoke a
language of the culture to the people in South America. It also
really starts with realizing that things
are not true merely because the Catholic Church teaches it. The
Church teaches it because it is first true.
And there are some things that we can know without the benefit of
divine revelation. We have to develop an attitude that we can speak
in these basic terms, so that picking up the Catechism of the
Catholic Church and Sacred Scripture is to help us have a deeper
understanding of that reality that we already know.
Marriage is not just about two adults being
happy together; THERE’S THE PROSPECTIVE OF THE CHILD.
The child has an interest in the marriage of Mom and Dad, but the
child has no voice in the current debate. Thus we must put ourselves
in the place of the child which will lead us to understand that the
Church teaches that the child has a fundamental right to be born into
a family with Mom and Dad united in marriage. A child has a right to
know who is his father and who is his mother and has a right ideally
to be raised in a communion of love. Sometimes it does not work out
that way, because of death, because of other situations. But the
child really has an interest in the marriage of Mom and Dad. As Pope
Benedict and Pope John Paul II spoke about marriage, marriage is a
communion of persons, communion of man and woman, leading to a
communion between parents and child. And there is not a closer
communion than that between a mother and child in the womb.
“THE CHILD HAS THE RIGHT
to be conceived, carried in the womb, brought into the world and
brought up within marriage: it is through the secure and recognized
relationship to his own parents that the child can discover his own
identity and achieve his own proper human development” (Donum
Vitae;
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19870222_respect-for-human-life_en.html).
That’s the religious language; that’s our
understanding of the beauty of Catholic teaching. “The Catholics
for the Common Good” are trying to offer
the foundational definition of marriage in terms of reality that
might help people today understand the great reality of marriage.
A simple definition of marriage from a reality point of view might
be:
MARRIAGE
IS AN INSTITUTION BASED ON THE FREE CHOICE OF A MAN AND A WOMAN THAT
NOT ONLY UNITES THEM WITH EACH OTHER BUT ANY CHILDREN BORN FROM THE
UNION.
This
is the only institution, marriage, which is recognized, that
unites a man and a woman with the children born of their union, and
unites the child with the mother and father. It you redefine that
institution out of existence, you are defining out of existence the
institution which unites the children with the mother and the father.
It is in the public interest, in the common
interest, of every child without exception,
to be united to their Mom and Dad. The only reason that a good
government would take an interest in marriage is to protect the
common good, the rights of children, to be united with and to promote
to the extent possible, healthy marriages. In the past the law has
tried to protect women and children from exploitation. It is clearly
in the public interest from not only an economic, but a psychological
and emotional stand point, to the benefit of children, to be raised
in a stable environment with a married Mom and Dad. There has been a
terrible impact of fatherless homes on children, not only
economically in terms of the children living in poverty, but from an
educational, psychological and emotional stand point. There
has been done great damage to kids from being raised in fatherless
homes.
We might ask why are fatherless homes going to be
affected by the redefinition of marriage? What has been the effects
of no fault divorce, redefining marriage as just an adult centered
institution, as a commitment as long as both parties are happy?
Children have been separated from
marriage. Today there is a real crisis;
people just are not getting married. With women under 30, more 50% of
children are born outside of marriage.
Marriage is something we not only need in the law,
which gives us authority to promote it, but we have to all be
directed toward promoting the understanding of what marriage is. We
must rediscover why marriage is so important as the foundation of the
family, and evaluate every law, every
institution, every curriculum by how well it promotes men and women
marrying before having children. The promoters of the culture of
death have done the exact opposite in sowing their very destructive
weeds in the last several decades.
We are talking about these TWO DIFFERENT
UNDERSTANDINGS of what the reality of marriage is.
The majority of people today think that marriage is nothing more than
the public recognition of a committed relationship between two
adults, and for the benefit of the adults. If people think that
marriage is only the public recognition of a committed relationship,
it is unreasonable to restrict marriage to a man and a woman, because
there is no reason for this restriction. However,
that’s not what marriage is! In
reality, marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any
children born from their union. That summarizes section 1603 of the
Catechism of the Catholic Church for adults. But when you say that
marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any children
born from the union, that’s a fact! That’s what marriage does.
That’s what it is. We know this. It’s the fact that it has been
recognized by every culture, every society, and every religion since
the beginning of time. And that
correlates with our own experience because we all have a desire for
connection with our own Moms and Dads.
We are taking the approach of safeguarding the
reality of the child, to try to put ourselves in the place of the
child! Because if you are going to redefine marriage as only between
adults, then it doesn’t matter who my mother is or who my father
is! But we all want to know our origins.
We all would like to be raised in a loving relationship.
To know my origins and to be loved by my married Mom and Dad is the
deepest desire in all of out hearts. Even for children who don’t
know their father and mother, who have been separated for various
reasons, there is that longing and desire, to know where they are
from. Adopted children, as they become older, they are appreciative,
as far as it may be discovered, where are their origins, where is
their real natural mother and father.
This is our experience of God’s plan for
creation stamped right in our nature. Each of us is an eternal
witness of the one flesh union of our Mom and Dad for eternity.
That’s reality; that desire for that connection, is part of that
experience. And this is independent from
believing or not believing in God. The
recognition of marriage is the recognition of this reality!
We
must try to find reality based language for our culture today,
filled with very destructive weeds of deception, that is consistent
with what faith has revealed, but not necessarily based on faith to
come to the awareness of the reality of what marriage is.
The reality of creation came before revelation.
Reality exists; divine revelation gives us a deeper understanding of
that reality that we already know, and we can already experience. We
must continually strive to reinforce that we have to become
childlike. We tend to look at things, analyze problems and think
about things from the prospective of the adult. When we do that,
we’ve got all kinds of baggage from the culture, our prejudices,
our biases, and things of that sort (weeds!), that really help
obscure what reality is. So we must
start thinking and training ourselves to start thinking from the
prospective of the child that is within each of us,
so that we can see reality, so that we can contemplate reality, and
then share the fruits of our contemplation with our children and our
family members, our friends, our coworkers. That’s the
evangelization of culture.
What
has transpired and what is currently obscuring our understanding of
the reality of marriage is really making it difficult for us to
establish relationships which lead to healthy marriages. Every
child is at risk today of adopting false premises and concepts from
the culture that really affect the choices they make in life, which
do not lead to good healthy marriages as the foundation of their
family. The shift in people’s views about marriage is clearly
leading to the breakdown of marriage today which is leaving so many
families with fatherless homes, that is creating havoc. It’s really
an issue of social justice and an imperative to us to address the
issue of marriage and work to rebuild a marriage culture.
True Christians today are being accused of not
tolerating same sex couples who want to marry, of restricting them.
People are very nervous; they do not want to talk about what is being
proposed about same sex marriage. What “Catholics for the Common
Good” say is, don’t talk about this proposal. These new proposals
have nothing to do with marriage. We
can’t learn a thing from talking about relationships between
couples of the same sex and why they don’t qualify for marriage.
Why in the world has this become an issue at the Synod on the Family;
who is maneuvering and manipulating the Synod and why
is Pope Francis remaining silent about
this deviation of the proper priorities and of values and of the
misguided attention which leads us away from the real solution for
families today?
What was Our Lady of Good Success (Quito, Ecuador;
January 20, 1610) telling us over 400 years ago for our times? “In
this supreme moment of need for the church, the one who should speak
will fall silent.” Because if “the
one who should speak” approves openly what has been promoted by the
Freemasonry, “the Sacrament of Matrimony … will be attacked and
deeply profaned”, many people will wake up if sex outside of
marriage is officially approved. Satan is not stupid! To lead as many
souls to hell without waking them up until they are in hell, sex
outside of marriage will be approved in the Church around the world
by way of the silence of the pastors of the Church,
especially the most important pastors of the Church. Behold the
“astute deviation of our attention”!
“Negligent religious leaders are often afraid to
speak freely and say what needs to be said – for fear of losing
favor with people. As Truth himself says, they are certainly not
guarding their flock with the care expected of a shepherd but are
acting like hirelings, because hiding behind a wall of silence is
like taking flight at the approach of the wolf. These are the people
whom the Lord is reproaching through the prophet, when he says: ‘THEY
ARE ALL DUMB DOGS, THEY CANNOT BARK’
(Is 56:10) … If a religious leader is afraid to say what is right,
what else can his silence mean but that he has taken flight? Whereas,
if he stand firm in defence of his flock, he is building up a wall
for the house of Israel against its enemies. And so again the sinful
people are told: ‘Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions
for you; they have not exposed your iniquity in order to provoke you
to repentance.’ …” (Pope St. Gregory the Great; Office of
Readings; Sunday, Week 27 of OT).
“What kind of men are they who, fearing to
hurt those they speak to, not only do
not prepare them for imminent temptations, but even promise the
happiness of this world, which God did not promise to the world
itself?...” (Sermon of St. Augustine on
the Shepherds; Office of Readings; Sunday, Week 24 of OT, Friday).
We have to go back and start from the beginning as
Jesus told the Pharisees (Mt 19:8). When we use the terms forced on
us by the highly controlled mass media today about the issue of
marriage, it makes true Christians sound like our only interest is
preventing same sex couples from marrying, and that this issue is
merely about the participation of same sex couples in marriage. But
really in fact that obscures the reality, the fact, that marriage is
being redefined. There is no such thing
as same sex marriage in the law. It is being redefined, and when it
is redefined it eliminates from the law
the only institution that unites kids with their Moms and Dads.
Is this not what many of the recently promoted bishops and cardinals
are doing and did at the Synod on the Family last October 2014?!?
Many
states in the USA are being coerced and manipulated to redefine
marriage to accommodate same sex couples which eliminates the only
institution in the law that unites kids with their Moms and Dads.
The laws about marriage up to now have enabled us, with legal
support, to promote men and women marrying before having children,
and to safeguard the union not only of the married man and woman but
also the union of the parents with their children! Thus those who
want to redefine marriage have really a bigoted position to advocate
against a woman and a man marrying and having a stable union to
welcome children so children can know who their Dad is and who their
Mom is. That becomes discrimination when marriage is redefined and
eliminates children from the law, from the equation.
For more in depth explanation of this attempt to
find reality based language for our culture today, and to take back
marriage for our children and families, visit: Catholics
For The Common Good
(http://www,ccgaction.org/).
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After having offered this very brief summary of
the situation today regarding the institution of marriage, which is
“attacked and deeply profaned” (Our Lady of Good Success; Quito,
Ecuador; January 20, 1610), we might be able to understand better
what Cardinal Burke, a canon lawyer, said about what the current
Catholic reformers are saying: “Oh, we’re not questioning the
indissolubility of marriage at all. We’re just going to make it
easy for people to receive a declaration of nullity of marriage so
that they can receive the sacraments.” But to this, Burke
said, “IS A VERY DECEPTIVE LINE OF ARGUMENT
which I’ve been hearing more now in this whole debate.”
As
I wrote last month:
“It is very interesting that in the proposals of
these bishops to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive
Communion without doing all they can “to avoid the near occasion of
sin”, THERE IS NO MENTION OF WHAT IS
BEST AND NEEDED FOR THE CHILDREN of
separated and divorced Catholics. In these proposals, which are
totally contrary to the teachings of the Church, there is only
mentioned what the adults want and desire! Do these proposals of
these bishops help people progress toward greater love of God and
neighbor in self-sacrifice, or greater love of self and less love of
God and neighbor?
I hope this brief article helps us to see through
the “very deceptive line of argument” being presented by the many
bishops, recently promoted by Pope Francis, at the Synod on the
Family this month, October 2015! Which bishops are promoting the
TRUE, authentic Gospel of altruism,
which is love of God and neighbor, and which bishops are promoting a
FALSE, non authentic gospel of disguised egoism, false
love, false mercy and misguided compassion, which does great harm?
“Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2Cor 11:14).
If
you would like to hear and see synthetically both sides of the
argument in interviews with Cardinal Burke and Cardinal Kasper, watch
on Youtube:
“World Over - 2015-10-01 – Synod Preview
Cardinals Raymond Burke & Walter Kasper with Raymond Arroyo”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCz0Jv4KYE).
Thus it is very important for us
to not let our attention be deviated
by the highly controlled mass media from the real fruits of the Synod
so as to only consider the nice words or rhetoric (leaves of the
tree) as Jesus told us (Lk 6:44; Mt
7:16-18). Considering the power of the mass media, I wrote last
month:
Those who will remain faithful to God’s
saving laws will be considered evil and cruel
and will be less and less tolerated as we have seen throughout human
history.
God
revealed to Saint Francis of Assisi these prophecies:
6. “Those who in spiritual fervor will embrace
piety with charity and zeal for the truth, will
suffer persecutions and insults as if they were schismatics and
disobedient. Because their persecutors,
urged on by the evil spirits, will say that in this way they render a
great honor to God in killing and removing from the face of the earth
such pestilent men. But the Lord will be the refuge of the afflicted
and He will save them, because they hoped in Him. And then in order
to respect their Head, they will act according to the Faith and they
will chose to obey God rather than men, gaining for themselves
eternal life; they will fear nothing, and they will prefer to die
rather than consent to error and perfidy.”
“The work of the devil will infiltrate even the
Church in such a way that one will see CARDINALS
OPPOSING CARDINALS, bishops against
other bishops… The church will be full
of those who accept compromise …”
(Our Lady of
Akita, Japan; October 13, 1973;
http://blogcristianocattolico.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-madonna-di-akita-giappone.html).
As
I wrote last month:
“In this search for the Truth, it
is very
important to understand well the most basic tenets of our faith, such
as, the
Church is the handmaid of the Truth and not the Author of the Truth.
Thus a group of bishops cannot change the Ten Commandments or the
words of Christ Himself, even in a sly covert way, with beautiful
rhetoric filled with false love, false mercy and misguided
compassion, which ends up in the long run in hurting the ones
committing the sin, those around them and our whole society in which
we live. Very few Catholics today,
immersed into relativism, realize that to change, even an “iota”
of
the saving laws of God (Mt 5:18; Lk
16:17; Mk 13:31), will bring very great
destruction to eternal souls. Wars were
fought in the first centuries of the Church due to disputes over the
doctrine of the Church; now very few Catholics even care. If
we are not alert with much prayer and study, the same old tricks of
our adversary, with different dressings, will be used to lead us
astray and away from God Who is the Truth and the Way to eternal
life. This is why we cannot rest until death, because our very
intelligent enemy does not rest even at night; our enemy works in the
dark!”
Father
Joseph Dwight
P.s.
As
I find time, I will publish on the web the complete book, “To The
Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”, from the writings of Don
Stefano Gobbi. Many bishops have given their Imprimatur to this book.
You will find in these messages of Our Lady revealed through Don
Stefano Gobbi a resemblance to the writings of Saint Louis de
Montfort, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and to the messages of Our
Lady of Fatima.
If
you would like a copy of the book, “To The Priests Our Lady’s
Beloved Sons”, write to:
National
Headquarters
United
States of America
The
Marian Movement of Priests
National
Headquarters
P.O.
Box 8
St.
Francis, Main 04774-0008
Tel.
207-398-3375
Email: mmp@mmp-usa.net
Or
send an email to me at:
On the 8th
of May 1972, DON STEFANO GOBBI
was taking part in a pilgrimage to Fatima and was praying in the
little Chapel of the Apparitions for some priests who, besides having
personally given up their own vocations, were attempting to form
themselves into associations in rebellion against the Church’s
authority. On that occasion Don Stefano had a mystical experience
called interior locution, which were repeated periodically (these
locutions, by now more than 500, which are gathered together in a
book entitled: “To The Priests Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”). In
that first experience he felt an interior force that urged him to
have confidence in the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Our Lady, making use
of him as a poor and humble instrument, would gather all those
priests who would accept her invitation to consecrate themselves to
her Immaculate Heart, to be strongly united to the Pope and to the
Church united with him, and to bring the faithful into the secure
refuge of her motherly Heart. The origin of the Marian
Movement of Priests stems from this
simple and interior inspiration which Don Stefano received in prayer
at Fatima.
The Bishop of Como, Italy, Msgr. Diego Coletti,
according to the Norm of Can. 322 sec. 1 and 2 CIC, approved the
Statutes of the Association of the “Marian Movement of Priests”
and conferred on this association the Juridical
Personality, July 10, 2013.
In
these very difficult and deceptive times, Our Lady revealed through
Don Stefano Gobbi:
“At Fatima, I pointed to my Immaculate Heart as
a means for the salvation of all humanity. I pointed out the way of
return to God. But I was not listened to. Now
I want to offer you my Immaculate Heart as your only refuge in the
very painful moments that await you.”
(November 9, 1975)
“But I ask this consecration also from all the
bishops, from all the priests, from all religious, and from all the
faithful. This is the hour in which the
whole Church must assemble in the secure refuge of my Immaculate
Heart! … When I ask you for the
consecration to my Immaculate Heart, it is to make you understand
that you must completely entrust yourselves to me, in a total and
everlasting way, that I may dispose of you according to the Will of
God.” (March 25, 1984)
The “Act of
Consecration to the Immaculate Heart Of Mary (For
Religious And Laity) in the Marian Movement of Priests is:
Virgin
of Fatima, Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and Earth, Refuge of
Sinners, we who belong to the Marian Movement of Priests consecrate
ourselves in a very special way to your Immaculate Heart.
By
this act of consecration we intend to live, with you and through you,
all the obligations assumed by our baptismal consecration. We further
pledge to bring about in ourselves that interior conversion so
urgently demanded by the Gospel, a conversion that will free us of
every attachment to ourselves and to easy compromises with the world
so that, like you, we may be available only to do always the Will of
the Father.
And
as we resolve to entrust to you, O Mother most sweet and merciful,
our life and vocation as Christians, that you may dispose of it
according to your designs of salvation in this hour of decision that
weighs upon the world, we pledge to live it according to your
desires, especially as it pertains to a renewed spirit of prayer
and penance, the fervent participation in the celebration of the
Eucharist and in the works of the apostolate, the daily recitation of
the holy rosary, and an austere manner of life in keeping with the
Gospel, that shall be to all a good example of the observance of the
Law of God and the practice of the Christian virtues, especially that
of purity.
Father,
with the hierarchy and with our priests, in order thus to set up a
barrier to the growing confrontation directed against the
Magisterium, that threatens the very foundation of the Church.
Under
your protection, we want moreover to be apostles of this sorely
needed unity of prayer and love for the Pope, on whom we invoke your
special protection.
And
lastly, insofar as is possible, we promise to lead those souls with
whom we come in contact to a renewed devotion to you.
Mindful
that atheism has caused shipwreck in the faith to a great number of
the faithful, that desecration has entered into the holy temple of
God, and that evil and sin are spreading more and more throughout the
world, we make so bold as to lift our eyes trustingly to you, O
Mother of Jesus and our merciful and powerful Mother, and we invoke
again today and await from you the salvation of all your
children, O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
(with
ecclesiastical approval)
