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The Battle of Lepanto - October 7th 1571 - Paolo Veronese (1528 – 1588)
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4 MOST HOLY ROSARY
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October 7th - Our Lady Of Victory Feast Of The Most Holy Rosary Dom Prosper Gueranger It is customary with men of the world to balance their accounts at the end of the year, and ascertain their profits. The Church is now preparing to do the same. We shall soon see her solemnly numbering her elect, taking an inventory of their holy relics, visiting the tombs of those who sleep in the Lord, and counting the sanctuaries, both old and new, that have been consecrated to her divine Spouse. But today’s reckoning is a more solemn one, the profits more considerable: she opens her balance-sheet with the gain accruing to our Lady from the mysteries which compose the Cycle. Christmas, the Cross, the triumph of Jesus, these produce the holiness of us all; but before and above all, the holiness of Mary. The diadem which the Church thus offers first to the august Sovereign of the world, is rightly composed of the triple crown of these sanctifying mysteries, the causes of her joy, of her sorrow, and of her glory. The joyful mysteries recall the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Birth of Jesus, Mary’s Purification, and the Finding of our Lord in the Temple. The sorrowful mysteries bring before us the Agony of our Blessed Lord, His being scourged, and crowned with thorns, the carrying of the Cross, and the Crucifixion. While, in the glorious mysteries, we contemplate the Resurrection and Ascension of our Savior, Pentecost, and the Assumption and Coronation of the Mother of God.
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Such is Mary’s Rosary; a new and fruitful vine, which began to blossom at Gabriel’s salutation, and whose fragrant garlands form a link between earth and heaven. In its present form, the Rosary was made known to the world by St. Dominic at the time of the struggles with the Albigensians, that social war of such ill-omen for the Church. The Rosary was then of more avail than armed forces against the power of Satan; it is now the Church’s last resource. It would seem that, the ancient forms of social prayer being no longer relished by the people, the Holy Spirit has willed by this easy and ready summary of the Liturgy to maintain, in the isolated devotion of these unhappy times, the essential of that life of prayer, faith, and Christian virtue, which the public celebration of the Divine Office formerly kept up among the nations. Before the thirteenth century, popular piety was already familiar with what was called the psalter of the laity, that is, the Angelical Salutation repeated one hundred and fifty times; it was the distribution of these Hail Marys into decades, each devoted to the consideration of a particular mystery, that constituted the Rosary. Such was the divine expedient, simple as the Eternal Wisdom that conceived it, and farreaching in its effects; for while it led wandering man to the Queen of mercy, it obviated ignorance which is the food of heresy, and taught him to find once more “the paths consecrated by the Blood of the Man-God, and by the tears of his Mother.” Thus speaks the great Pontiff who, in the universal sorrow of these days, has again pointed out the means
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of salvation more than once experienced by our fathers. Pope Leo XIII., in his Encyclicals, has consecrated the present month to this devotion so dear to heaven; he has honoured our Lady in her Litanies with a new title, Queen of the most holy Rosary; and he has given the final development to the solemnity of this day, by raising it to the rank of a second class Feast, and by enriching it with a proper Office explaining its permanent object. Besides all this, the Feast is a memorial of glorious victories, which do honour to the Christian name. Soliman II., the greatest of the Sultans, taking advantage of the confusion caused in the West by Luther, had filled the sixteenth century with terror by his exploits. He left to his son, Selim II., the prospect of being able at length to carry out the ambition of his race: to subjugate Rome and Vienna, the Pope and the Emperor, to the power of the Crescent. The Turkish fleet had already mastered the greater part of the Mediterranean, and was threatening Italy, when, on the 7th October, 1571, it came into action, in the Gulf of Lepanto, with the pontifical galleys supported by the fleets of Spain and Venice.
The Madonna of the Rosary - Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617 - 1682)
It was Sunday; throughout the world the confraternities of the Rosary were engaged in their work of intercession. Supernaturally enlightened, St. Pius V. watched from the Vatican the battle undertaken by the leader he had chosen, Don John of Austria, against the three hundred vessels of Islam. The illustrious Pontiff, whose life’s work was now completed, did not survive to celebrate the anniversary of the triumph; but he perpetuated the memory of it by an annual commemoration of Our Lady of Victory. His successor, Gregory XIII, altered this title to our Lady of the Rosary, and appointed the first Sunday of October for the new which possessed an altar under that invocation.
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A century and a half later, this limited concession A bequest from you in your Last Will and celebration in those churches ,was made general. As Innocent XI, in memory of the deliverance of Vienna Testament would help us to continue growing by Sobieski, had extended the Feast of the most holy the publication of Catholic Voice and the Name of Mary to the whole Church; so, in 1716, dissemination of Catholic Truth Clement XI inscribed the Feast of the Rosary on the universal Calendar, in gratitude for the victory gained If you are in a position to leave a bequest, by Prince Eugene at Peterwardein, on the 5th August, however large or small, you are assured that under the auspices of Our Lady of the Snow. it will be used to promote and strengthen This victory was followed by the raising of the siege of Corfu, and completed a year later by the taking of Belgrade.
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12 A CLEAN HEART
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A Clean Heart Create In Me O God, And A Steadfast Spirit Renew Within Me John Lacken
(Psalm 50:12)
“A Clean Heart Create In Me O God, And A Steadfast Spirit Renew Within Me” These lines come from the great Psalm 50 - the ‘Miserére Mei, Deus’ - have mercy on me, O God . It was put to music by Gregori Allegri in the 1630s and the musical score was adapted by Mozart. It is a hauntingly beautiful melody which is traditionally sung on Wednesday and Friday of Holy Week. Psalm 50 is one of main Psalms chanted at the traditional Benedictine office of Lauds on ferial days. Psalm 50 is attributed to King David professing his repentance after the visit of the Prophet Nathan. King David had committed adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Urias, a soldier in the King’s army. Bathsheba was now pregnant which left King David with a predicament. There was a war going on at the time and King David tried to get Urias to go home to his wife so that her pregnancy, caused by the King’s sinful actions, would be covered up and the child would be assumed to be that of Urias. However, Urias refused to return to his house while the war was on, saying to King David: “The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.” (2 Samuel 11:11) King David then arranges for Urias to get drunk, but still, Urias did not return home.
King David - Matthias Stom (1600 – 1652) - Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
Thus thwarted in covering up his sinful behaviour, King David arranges for Urias to be sent out to the most dangerous area of the battlefield and Urias is killed by the enemy just as King David had planned. With Urias now out of the way, King David takes Bathsheba to be his wife and she bore him a son and nobody was any the wiser to King David’s sin of adultery. But God was displeased and he sent the prophet Nathan to King David. It is a beautifully told story. “And the Lord sent Nathan to David: and when he was come to him, he said to him: There were two men in one city, the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many sheep and oxen. But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he
had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter. And when a certain stranger was come to the rich man, he spared to take of his own sheep and oxen, to make a feast for that stranger, who was come to him, but took the poor man’s ewe, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And David’s anger being exceedingly kindled against that man, he said to Nathan: As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this is a child of death. He shall restore the ewe fourfold, because he did this thing, and had no pity. And Nathan said to David: Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee from the hand of Saul,
24th September 2021 Catholic Voice And gave thee thy master’s house and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and Juda: and if these things be little, I shall add far greater things unto thee. Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urias the Hethite to be thy wife. Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and in the sight of the sun. And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die. Nevertheless, because thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, for this thing, the child that is born to thee, shall surely die.” (2 Samuel 12:1-14) This powerful story of God’s justice and of His mercy, should deeply resonate with us in the world we are living in today. We are living in what must be the most evil times ever witnessed in the history of mankind. My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I beg pardon of Thee for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. Amen. Angel to the Children of Fatima 1916
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The Irish Murder of Innocents Act 2018
Early pregnancy 12. (1) A termination of pregnancy may be carried out in accordance with this section by a medical practitioner where, having examined the pregnant woman, he or she is of the reasonable opinion formed in good faith that the pregnancy concerned has not exceeded 12 weeks of pregnancy. (2) A termination of pregnancy shall not be carried out under this section unless the medical practitioner referred to in subsection (1) has certified his or her opinion as to the matter referred to in that subsection. (3) The termination of pregnancy shall not be carried out by a medical practitioner unless a period of not less than 3 days has elapsed from — (a) the date of certification under subsection (2) by that medical practitioner, or (b) where a certification was previously made in respect of the pregnancy by another medical practitioner for the purposes of subsection (2), the date of that previous certification. (4) A termination of pregnancy to which the certification referred to in subsection (2) relates shall be carried out as soon as may be after the period referred to in subsection (3)(a) or (b), as the case may be, has elapsed but before the pregnancy has exceeded 12 weeks of pregnancy. (5) For the purposes of this section, “12 weeks of pregnancy” shall be construed in accordance with the medical principle that pregnancy is generally dated from the first day of a woman’s last menstrual period.
The World Health Organisation tells us that there are forty to fifty million induced abortions performed every year. The Guttmacher Institute estimates the figure at about 73 million abortions per annum. One has to be careful with the statistics from both of these organisations as they both promote abortion and contraception and both are capable of either exaggerating or reducing the actual numbers depending on which agenda they are promoting. In countries where abortion is illegal they will tend to exaggerate the number in order to put pressure on the legislators. In countries where abortion is legal, they may under report the number of abortions in order to further promote contraception and sexeducation programmes claiming that the artificially reduced numbers clearly show that the contraception and sex education are working. Dr Bernard Nathanson who cofounded the ‘National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws’ (NARAL) explained how they would exaggerate the numbers of ‘unsafe’ abortions in order to bring about change in the laws. What we do know is that the number of abortions worldwide is probably between 40 and 73 million. The story of King David teaches us the lengths that men are willing
to go in order to hide their sins. Abortion is one of the ways that modern man seeks to hide his sexual sins. Contraception is another. These abortions are justified by the passing of legislation which permits women to murder their unborn offspring whilst pretending that there is nothing wrong with this practice. If we look at the abortion figures in Ireland as reported by the Department of Health, there were 6,666 abortions reported for 2019 and 6,577 abortions reported for the year 2020. It is quite chilling and sickening to read the “Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 (see extract above). This is an act, the sole purpose of which is to facilitate the murder of innocent human beings by doctors and mothers, at the cost of the taxpayer. Our present day governments, like King David of old, seek to hide their evil actions. They do this using various tactics which call that which is evil, good; and which call that which is good, evil. They murder innocent human beings and call that a Health Act! We see this in the debacle over the children’s hospital in Dublin. A small group of elderly nuns are presented as being a serious threat
14 A CLEAN HEART to the health and well-being of children. However, the truth of the matter is, that the only reason there are objections to the connection between the proposed hospital and the religious order, is that the government wants to permit the murder of certain children in the hospital and the elderly nuns are opposed to this murder. The government also lies to the public when matters of human sexuality are being addressed because our government must comply with a global tyranny if they are to retain access to certain international funding options. The government must enact public policies in favour of abortion and homosexual marriage as part of the requirements of the globalists. One of the main motivations of the abortion industry is money. The abortion industry leads to dead bodies, and, in the pursuit of financial gain, the bodies of aborted babies are sold for profit to pharmaceutical and other research organisations, including university colleges. David Daleiden exposed the illegal trading in human body parts that the abortion and pharmaceutical research companies are engaged in. Rather than charging those engaged in the illegal sale of human organs and closing down the trade, it was David Daleiden who was found guilty of criminal activity by a court. Mr Daleiden’s videos revealed a pricing structure for aborted baby’s organs. For example, for $350 you can purchase the intact liver of an aborted baby. For $750 you can buy the intact brain of an aborted baby. These baby’s organs are then used for medical and other research purposes. The pharmaceutical industry seeks to develop foetal cell-lines from the baby’s organs and these are then used in various ways in the manufacture and
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In a statement to news media today, the University of Pittsburgh admitted that “ischemia time” in its NIH grant application for the GUDMAP aborted fetal kidney harvesting program “refers to the time after the tissue collection procedure”. “Ischemia time, he said “refers to the time after the tissue collection procedure” Ischemia starts when the organ (the kidneys primarily in Pitt’s GUDMAP project) is cut off from blood circulation. The NIH defines ischemia as “lack of blood supply to a part of the body.” The University states the fetal organs do not undergo ischemia — lose their blood supply — until “after the tissue collection procedure”. This means the organs are still receiving blood supply from the fetal heartbeat during the “tissue collection”.
Report from the Centre for Medical Progress - Founded by David Daleiden
production of medicines such as the covid-19 vaccines. All of the covid-19 vaccines available in Ireland used foetal cell-lines from aborted baby’s in their production and development. When one looks at the utter horror of abortion and at the horror of dissecting babies, sometimes whilst these babies are still alive, one is forced to ask the question, ‘how is it that these barbaric practices are permitted in what are called civilised societies?’ The answer is, that many of the members of the Catholic hierarchy are failing to carry out the mission entrusted to them by Jesus Christ. When we speak of the Catholic Church, we must be very careful to distinguish between the Catholic Church as the bride of Christ - a spiritual and visible entity, founded by Jesus Christ and entrusted with the Deposit of the Catholic Faith. The Catholic Church in this sense is perfect - beautiful - indefectible and cannot err in matters of faith and morals. This is not what is understood by many of the critics of the Catholic Church who do not regard the Catholic Church as having a divine
origin. What these critics object to are the bad actions of Catholics which bring the Catholic Church into disrepute. Many baptised Catholics also fail to make this distinction between the hierarchical Catholic Church which is composed of ordained men of varying degrees of holiness, some of whom promote heresy and false teaching, and the Divine institution. It is the Hierarchical element of the Catholic Church that is failing spectacularly in our time in the mission entrusted to it by God. God has provided the Catholic Church with all that is necessary to convert the world to Christ, but for that to happen, the Catholic hierarchy must promote the teachings of the Catholic Church in their fullness and without compromise. As we have documented many times in this paper, there are bishops in Ireland and around the world, who remain silent whilst homosexuality is being promoted in their dioceses, even by organisations established by Catholic bishops. Our bishops largely remain silent when it comes to contraception and the abortion pills that are being sold by Catholic pharmacists.
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24th September 2021 Catholic Voice Catholic politicians in Ireland who voted to allow innocent human beings to be murdered in their mother’s wombs, are never denied Holy Communion by their bishops and on many occasions, public scandal is caused when politicians who voted for abortion, are televised whilst receiving Holy Communion.
challenge those who promote evil in our society. They don’t want to be seen to rock the boat.
What we can clearly see in our modern societies, where abortion, divorce, homosexual practices, contraception, and other grave evils are promoted, is that the hierarchical element of the Catholic Church is failing in its duty to teach men the truths of the Catholic Faith.
One of the differences between King David and our modern politicians is that King David repented of his sins. As he says in Psalm 50:
This however does not excuse any of us from being culpable. Many Catholics live their lives believing that the bare minimum is all that is required of them by the Catholic Church. They go to Holy Mass on Sunday, they go to confession at least once per year, but they do not
Against Thee, Thee only, Have I sinned And have done this evil in Thy sight, That Thou mightest be justified When Thou speakest, And be clear when Thou judgest.”
This creates an added burden for those of us who can see the coming collapse of our societies and who are striving to live our lives according to Catholic Church teaching and to promote those teachings in society.
“For I acknowledge My transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.
(Psalm 50:3-4)
In all of this we can take great comfort in the story of King David. God forgave his sins because he sincerely repented of them. King David, for his part, also accepted the just punishment given by God which resulted in the death of his newborn infant. Like King David, we too can pray that God will create a clean heart in us and make us steadfast in spirit so that we can help others to come to the full knowledge of the Catholic Faith. We can pray for our bishops to be given this gift too so that they will once again become steadfast in promoting and teaching the Catholic faith and so that they will reclaim their right and duty to proclaim Catholic teaching, especially in our Catholic schools. Let us never give up hope, especially when, like the apostles in the boat, all seems lost. At these times let us call most ardently on the Lord.
There’s A Place For Us
Homosexuality in the Divine Plan of Redemption There’s A Place For Us: This testimony does not shirk away from difficult Catholic teachings but shows with piercing clarity why the Church teaches as she does in the area of human sexuality. In our lives we are called to a lot more than sexual satisfaction. Rather, we are granted the privilege of living life on the highest possible plane in responding to the call of the greatness of being the Sons and Daughters of God.
There’s a Place for Us Homosexuality in the Divine Plan of Redemption Jesus said to those who would stone her: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
John Cassidy - Bio Ex-homosexual and New Man John Cassidy has been serving the Catholic Church as a full-time Lay-Man since his conversion in 2014. John has founded the Association of Believing Catholics which is a lay initiative to promote and defend the fullness of Catholic truth.
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“Go, And Now Sin No More.” By John Cassidy
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