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And is it not, therefore, natural to see why family life in it's totality is being attacked? Break-up of marriages, abortion, etc.? Here is where the devil and his minions can smear the image of the Blessed Trinity. God is too exalted in eternity for the devil to attack him directly, since the devil is merely a creature of God. However, in creation, particularly that of our first parents, God's exalted union and fecundity of Love is imaged and produced in Holy Matrimony - the union and fecundity of which leads to ever more Life and Love.
It is no accident, nor merely a parable, that Christ comes to us as the bridegroom in Love with His bride - the Church. Christ stands up for Her and protects and sacrifices Himself out of Love for Her. This reality is expressed most clearly in the marriage banquet of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Since the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist - Christ Himself - gives Himself to us in Love with the fecundity of increasing Divine Life and Love in us. It clearly has "sexual" overtones to it, as properly expressed in Holy Matrimony. Rather, Holy Matrimony is a sign of It. It is His oath and pledge to us, His vow, i.e. Sacrament.
Christ comes to reverse the perversions that the devil destructively projects into Creation, He comes to rebuild family Life - that of marriage and extended families, to nations, to the whole of universal Creation, i.e. Catholic.
Often the saints have written that the devil himself and his fallen angels fear Our Lady more than anyone else other than the Holy Trinity. They have an overwhelming fear of the Rosary, writes St. Louis de Montfort. And St. Bernard explains that the Angelic Salutation puts them to flight and makes all hell tremble.
It is precisely in the Angelic Salutation that God's redemptive plan of Salvation begins in Christ. It is here that Mary, in all humility and under the Grace of God, speaks for all mankind to accept the 2nd Person of the Blessed Trinity into His Creation as the Incarnation of Jesus Christ! It is here that family Life and Love begin to be restored, with the wondrous Mystery of God Himself directly becoming part of His Creation. Through Christ our Brother, God becomes truly our Father as opposed to merely our Creator. Consequently, Mary too, is given the singular role of truly becoming our Mother in the Divine Life of God as per His plan. No wonder the devil fears her and the prayer of the Holy Rosary - a prayer that builds in our interior lives, under the influence of Grace, the contemplative foundation of the Divine Family Life and Love of God! The devil cannot touch this. He will do anything to prevents it's growth. Let us not help him succeed!
BTTT on the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, 10-07-06!
I'm curious as to the Biblical reference/support for this statement.
Just saw the the ewtn series on Pope Pius Xii and realized how prayer ended WWII and saved the Jewish people.