Posted on 10/27/2008 7:52:23 AM PDT by adc
Among the most important titles in the Catholic Church for the Blessed Virgin Mary are Our Lady of Victory and Our Lady of the Rosary. These titles can be traced back to one of thw most decisive times in the history of the world and Christendom. The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7 (date of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary), 1571. This proved to be the most crucial battle for the Christian forces against the radical Muslim navy of Turkey. Pope Pius V led a procession around St.Peter's Square in Vatican City praying the Roasry. He showed true pastoral leadership in recognizing the danger posed to Christiandom by the radical Muslim forces, and in using the means necessary to defeat it. Spiritual battles require spiritual weapons, and this more than anything was a battle that had its origins in the spiritual order - a true battle between good and evil.
Today we have a similar spiritual battle in progress- a battle between the forces of good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies, life and death. If we do not soon stop the genocide of abortion in the United States , we shall run the course of all those that prove by their actions that they are enemies of God.-total collapse; economic, social, and national. The moral demise of a nation results in the ultimate demise of a nation. God is not a disinterested spectator to the affairs of man. Life begins at conception. This is an unalterable formal teaching of the Catholic Church. if you do not accept this you are a heretic, in plain English. A single abortion is homicide. The more than 48,000,000 abortions since Roe v. Wade in the United States constitute genocide by definition. The group singled out for death - unwanted, unborn children.
No other issue, not all other issues taken together, can constitute a proportionate reason for voting for candidates that intend to preserve and defend this holocaust of innocent human life that is abortion.
I strongly urge every one of you to make a Novena and pray the Rosary to Our Lady of Victory between October 27th and Election Day, November 4th. Pray that God's will be done and the most innocent and utterly vulnerable of our brothers and sisters will be protected from this barbaric and grossly sinful blight on society that is aborton. No woman, and no man, has the right to choose to murder an innocent human being.
May God grant us the wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and counsel to form our conscience in accordance with authentic Catholic teaching, and then vote that well-formed Catholic conscience.
Please copy, e-mal, link and distribute this freely. God Bless You, Fr. John Corapi www.fathercorapi.com
Amen
I’ll be starting this with the family tonight.
wow, the part you bolded was reprinted verbatim in our bulletin yesterday. And our parish has begun the Rosary novena today.
Thanks for the post.
Our family is starting the Divine Mercy Novena tonight.
Oh Divine Child Jesus, Who as Total Innocence Itself was incarnated through the heart and womb of your most Holy Mother, Mary, protected from all harm by the hands of your Warrior Angel Michael and covered by the protective fatherhood of Saint Joseph who fostered you on earth, hear our cry to You.
This day millions of innocent children call out to You to avenge their blood shed by the evil and malicious hands of medical men and women who should be dedicated to life, but revel in death and cruelty. Once again You are being crucified; this time in the name of “freedom,” while so called Christian men and women of God stand by and watch the Holocaust, laugh at Your sufferings and jeer at those who would try to stem this tide of evil.
Forgive these people for they know not what they do. Have mercy on those who turn their heads and allow their unborn brothers and sisters to die and their parents to lose their souls for the sin of murder. Your Word pronounces judgment on the shedders of innocent blood and those who would stand by and let it happen. So all of us confess ourselves as guilty before You without excuse that we let this happen and even worse, that we let this go on for almost 40 years.
We have called good evil and evil good and have been proud to call ourselves Christians while trampling Your Laws and breaking Your Heart. We have no excuse. We deserve Your punishment. But in Your infinite love, dear Jesus, offer up our prayers for mercy to the Father. Beg Him to turn His just wrath away from our land, our churches and our people. We know what we should do, but we haven't done it. But now we do what we should have done years ago as a people called by Your Name-WE REPENT!
On our knees with tears and supplication, we repent of our sins that led us to this state. We surrender our souls to You that we might be forgiven. We beg for the strength we need to be used by You to turn this nation around and make it once again The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
This one last time, dear Lord, in union with the children who have been murdered by abortion crying before Your Throne, we cry out, “Save us, Oh Lord, lest we perish.” Save us lest the monsters of sin take over the running of this nation. Give us mercy and not judgment or we will perish from the face of the earth and drag many nations down to destruction with us. Do not let us be a mockery and a shame to our ancestors who suffered so much for Your Name's sake.
Give us the power to rebuke and uncover the spirits of murder, scandal, perversion, confusion, shame and lies that are running rampant in this world. Empower us as we especially rebuke, bind and cast down Satan, the Father of Lies and a Murderer from the Beginning. In the Name of Jesus in the power of His Blood, we loose the power of the holy angels to restrain the Devil until the Day of Judgment. Holy Michael the Archangel, take hold of the Dragon who seeks to devour the Child of the Woman, as it says in Revelation 12 and cast him down so he can no longer seduce the nations.
We reject Satan and his lies. We reject the glamour of evil that would seek to corrupt our souls. We reject the power of sin that would have us choose expediency over righteousness or acceptance in any culture over truth.
This day we bind ourselves to Your Will alone for the glory of the Father in this matter and in all things. We submit ourselves to You and call revival on this land. We don't deserve it, but this day give us revival, dear Jesus and restore this Nation to Your Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
I will start today. The power of prayer cannot be underestimated.
My family and I are on board. Prayer will save the Republic!
Yes, our pastor gave out the entire letter. . . God Bless him!
Best advice I have read in this bizarre campaigne. I will the begin praying the Novena today. Might I suggest we all do some form of pennance. God help us if Senator Barak Obama becomes our next president. I am terrified at the prospect of the damage he will inflict upon our republic.
Amen.
Please pass this thread along to family and friends. . . Fr.Corapi has stepped up, (as he always does), and his words are powerful.
God Bless.
Thank you. Father Corapi has a way of not mincing words.
I’d love to see him debate Obama on abortion.
My dad and I will join in this novena beginning this evening. Thank you for the reminder.
On another thread, which I cannot now find, it was suggested that we spend the half-hour of Obama's speech in Eucharistic Adoration. I think that's a brilliant idea and intend to do it.
The search feature on www.masstimes.org does not go directly to adoration (even though it is selectable in the window) but if you enter your city and state, it brings up a list of parishes and you can scroll through to see who has adoration at that time (8:00 - 8:30 on Wed, 10/29).
(Catholic Caucus) Holy Face Devotion for a McCain/Palin Victory
Bishop Finn: A Week of Prayer for Our Country
A Prayer for Our National Election(by Fr. Frank Pavone.)
Litany of St. Martin de Porres (For an Election Novena - Oct.26 — Nov.3)
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