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LGBT issues boil over in Poland ahead of October electionsPŁOCK, Poland (ChurchMilitant.com) - A 15-year-old Polish boy is being hailed as a Catholic "hero" after daring to block an LGBT pride march with a raised crucifix and Rosary in his hand. Jakub Baryła, who describes himself as "Catholic, traditionalist, conservative and patriotic" on Twitter, has become a social media sensation after standing in the path of a 1,000-strong LGBT equality march in the city of Płock on Saturday. Baryła, who is a councilor at Płock Youth Council, said that he decided to block the march with a crucifix after he...

An Encounter Today: Dr. Robert Moynihan with Archbishop ViganoMonday, July 29, 2019“Here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.” —Hebrews 13:14Today after a long journey I met Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano in a quiet place.We greeted each other with joy and I asked him how he has been during the past year.“Better than I deserve,” Vigano replied, laughing, adding with a smile, “Cardinal Deskur used to answer that way.”He looks very good.“So you have been well?” I asked.“I have been well, yes, thanks be to God,” Vigano said. “I have been visiting with...

[Catholic Caucus] Hundreds of Polish Catholics protect children’s pilgrimage from LGBT marchers CZĘSTOCHOWA, Poland, June 18, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Hundreds of Polish Catholics blocked the street to their nation’s holiest shrine as an LGBT march approached a children’s rosary procession.    The 20th Pilgrimage of the Children’s Backyard Rosary Circles (“XX Pielgrzymka Podwórkowych Kół Różańcowych Dzieci”) to the Shrine of Jasna Góra in Częstochowa took place without incident, thanks to police and hundreds of adults who separated the devotional event from the famous city’s second LGBT “Pride March.” According to Polish website Polonia Christiana, there were fears that the pro-homosexual...

November 2018 Pope Francis and the Sacrilegious Use of the Rosary t has been integral to the vision which inspired the Rosary to the Interior: For the Purification of the Church (CO, Jan. 2018) that the entire Church is in need of purification, and that the most visible aspects of the current crisis of the Church are like cancerous excrescences on the surface of the body, which point to a much deeper malady within. We see this sickness as stemming from two primary sources: the surrender of the intellectual foundations of our Faith (theology and philosophy) to reductive science;...

Father James Martin's new rosary-meditate on LBGTQ couples and Mother Earth Nothing Fr. James Martin shares on social media surprises me anymore.  Here is Martin promoting social justice Rosary beads for "modern sorrows" telling Catholics to meditate on LBGTQ couples, immigration, Mother Earth and other social justice topics with NO mention of Jesus at all. I'm not kidding...this is what Father James Martin is now promoting on social media. Description of the "Rosary of Modern Sorrows":  The Rosary of Modern Sorrows invites us into guided meditation on the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in the U.S....

Did Pope Francis call us to pray the Rosary to silence Archbishop Carlo Vigano? In this latest Sunday Sermon from South St. Paul, Father explains the history of the Holy Rosary and then stresses the necessity of praying the Rosary for the intention of a heavenly intervention in the ongoing crisis in the Church under Francis of Rome. “Let Heaven hear the sound of your rosaries so that the voices here on earth trying to expose the wickedness in the Church might be heard and this help bring an end to this wickedness.” Please Share this video: V is...

White Double of the Second Class 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...

LEPANTO! "The highest moment that the centuries ever witnessed." Lepanto"The highest moment that the centuries ever witnessed." (Cervantes) We cannot but recall that four great Roman Pontiffs came from the Dominican ranks. Of these, the last, St. Pius V, won undying gratitude from Christianity and civil society. He joined together, after unceasing efforts, the arms of the Catholic princes, and under the patronage of the Virgin Mother of God, whom, therefore, he ordered to be saluted in future as Help to Christians, destroyed forever at Lepanto the power of the Turks. In this is amply shown the third quality...

The Clarion Call to Arms We are at war. A war without borders, where no man is exempt but where most haven’t recognized, let alone been trained, to fight. Casualties often go unseen, but very few are left unwounded. The Enemies encamped against us seek to rob us of our Dignity–the essential Dignity of the Human Person, being made in the Image and Likeness of God. ... In 2017, the Church in Poland [Link to NY Times Article: Polish Catholics Gather at Border for Vast Rosary Prayer Event By JOANNA BERENDT and MEGAN SPECIA -- OCT. 7, 2017 ] gathered...

NOVENA IN HONOR OF THE ANNUNCIATION TO OUR LADY (Beginning September 28) May be said in public or in private.i. 300 Days, each day. ii. Plenary on the Feast or during the Octave, I, II, IV (See Instructions, p. 1., 1910 Raccolta.) 1. LITANY OF LORETO Kyrie, eleison. Christe, eleison. Kyrie, eleison. Christe, audi nos. Christe, exaudi nos. Pater de cælis Deus, miserere nobis. Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, Spiritus Sancte Deus, Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis. Sancta Dei Genetrix, Mater Virgo virginum, Mater Christi, Mater Ecclesiæ, Mater Divinæ gratiæ, Mater purissima, Mater castissima, Mater inviolata,...

Mass For The Unborn Rachel Rosary A pdf of this Rosary will be in the comment section.

In the mid 1800’s there lived in Paris a good woman who, after her husband died, was left destitute. The widow had an only son, Hubald, who was her pride and joy. Worn down by poverty, sacrifice, and worry, she became critically ill. Calling her son to her bedside she said, “Hubald, son, I am about to die. I would like to make a last will.” “Mother,” remonstrated the lad, “We’ve never had less; what can you possibly leave me?” “I have a treasure to leave you,” said his dying mother, “Reach under my pillow.” Doing so, Hubald pulled out...

Rosary on the Coast for Life and Faith a huge successDETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Thirty-thousand faithful Catholics gathered in Ireland Sunday afternoon to pray the Rosary. Their intentions were for the preservation of the Faith and for the defense of the right to life. The Rosary on the Coast for Life and Faith took place this past Sunday, the Feast of Christ the King (in the Ordinary Form calendar). Organizers say over 30,000 people showed up at 295 registered locations, with an unknown number joining the initiative at their homes and around the world. As the event's name indicates, most registered...

“With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives,” said Pope Benedict XVI in October. He was recommending praying the Rosary daily during the Year of Faith. These scriptures and meditations, a version of which first appeared in the National Catholic Register in the Year of the Rosary, can help. Rosary Meditations: The Joyful MysteriesRosary Meditations: The Sorrowful MysteriesRosary Meditations: The Luminous MysteriesRosary Meditations: The Glorious Mysteries

The rosary is immensely powerful, but it is God's strength at work, not ours Two weeks before Ealing Council voted to ban pro-life vigils, the local MP Rupa Huq accused the Good Counsel Network of “weaponising the rosary” as they prayed silently outside the local abortion clinic. It is interesting that this non-Catholic MP should have perceived that the rosary was being used in this way. For Catholics the rosary has indeed always been a spiritual weapon – and we should not be afraid to say so.

Kochi: Hundreds of people are flocking to a church in Kerala after a group of children claimed to have had Marian apparitions while praying there. The children are students of St Ambrose Lower Primary School at Edavanakkad adjacent to a parish church with the same name under the archdiocese of Verapoly. According to an explanatory note posted on the parish billboard, it all began on September 23 when a Hindu girl student, Krishnaveda, went to the church to pray for her ear problem and applied some holy water. The girl later told her companions that she felt immediate relief as...

Dunamis Power is yours my children just speak what you need or declare what it is My Spirit is to manifest before you and it shall be for as you have overcome the world it now sits at your feet as it does for me for we are one and I walk hand in hand with you as you do my will alone . Let My Spirit of Holiness lead your days now for the body and Bride of Christ are coming together now in a redeeming way in that all that is being done now in this hour is...

Faithful Catholics in Italy are fasting on bread and water and praying the Rosary together throughout the country.  On Friday, the 100th anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima, the Italian Association Accompanying Marian Sanctuaries (Associazione Italiana Accompagnatori Santuari Mariani, or AIASM) sponsored a nationwide day of fasting, as well as a Rosary. Organizers called it "Rosary at the Border" and praised the Rosary as "the most powerful peace initiative" for their country and the world.  The event's inspiration came from the "Rosary to the Borders" rally in Poland on October 7. Poland's Rosary to the Borders drew well...

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Rupa Huq is planning to table an amendment outlawing protests outside abortion clinicsA Labour MP is planning to table an amendment to new domestic violence legislation to ban protests outside abortion clinics. Rupa Huq, the MP for Ealing Central and Acton, told a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference that pro-life protesters were “weaponising rosary beads” outside a clinic in her constituency. HuffPost UK quotes her as saying: “We have a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing and for as long as I can remember, there has been a constant phoney vigil outside the clinic, with people stopping women going...