[Squire]

It's not a coincidence that the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary falls on the same date as Lepanto. St. Pius V called for all Christians to pray the Rosary for the defeat of the Turks. When the Turks were defeated at Lepanto on October 7th, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was placed on October 7th.

[Askel5]

Seemed apropos ...

"It would be a real lack of humility, as St. Grignon de Montfort says, to pass over the mediators whom God has given us because of our weakness.

Far from lessening our intimacy with God, they prepare us for its increase.

Just as Jesus does nothing in souls except in order to lead them to His Father, so also Mary works on minds and hearts solely in order to lead them nearer to her Son.

God has willed to make continual use of Mary for the sanctification of souls."

-- Fr. Reginald Garrigou-LaGrange, O.P.,
The Mother of the Savior and Our Interior Life

Thanks ... I'm taking that for use on the page I'm adding to our parish website on the Holy Father's request we pray the Rosary daily during the month of October. With any luck, I'll get out to St. Dominic's for the Rosary Congress that began yesterday here in New Orleans.

Regards.

[L`enn]

And October 13 is coming up. That and May 13 are significant days relating to Fatima.

[ninenot]

the Turks

Moslems, baby. I seem to recall that Lepanto was basically the last stand--without a Christian victory there, Europe would have fallen to the Moslem horde. As it is, we had to leave them in (guess where?) Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Serbo/Croatia. NOW you know why there have been 400+ years' war over there....