Attacker Found!

The person who has been attacking the group through the cell phone has been found. He is a teen whose parents have been seeking aid in dealing with his addiction. We were not the group attacked.

Litany of Our Lady of Victory

 

Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, hear us.
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of Heaven,
Have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the World, Have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, one God, Have mercy on us.
Our Lady of Victory, Pray for us.
Triumphant Daughter of the Father, Pray for us.
Triumphant Mother of the Son, Pray for us.
Triumphant Spouse of the Holy Ghost, Pray for us.
Triumphant Choice of the Most Holy Trinity, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Immaculate Conception, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Crushing the Head of the Serpent, Pray for us.
Triumphant Over All the Children of Adam, Pray for us.
Triumphant Over All Our Enemies, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Embassy of the Angel Gabriel, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Espousal to St. Joseph, Pray for us.
Triumphant at the Scene of Bethlehem, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Flight Into Egypt, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Exile, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Humble Dwelling at Nazareth, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Finding Thy Divine Child in the Temple, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Earthly Life of Our Lord, Pray for us.
Triumphant in His Passion and Death, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Resurrection, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Ascension, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Descent of the Holy Ghost, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Sorrows, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Joys, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy Entrance into the Heavenly Jerusalem, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Angels Who Remained Faithful, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Felicity of the Blessed, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Graces of the Just, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Announcement of the Prophets, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Desires of the Patriarchs, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Zeal of the Apostles, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Light of the Evangelists, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Wisdom of the Doctors, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Crowns of the Confessors, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Purity of the Numerous Bands of Virgins, Pray for us.
Triumphant in the Triumph of the Martyrs, Pray for us.
Triumphant in Thy All-Powerful Intercession, Pray for us.
Triumphant under Thy Many Titles, Pray for us.
Triumphant at the Hour of Our Death, Pray for us.

Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world, 
Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world,
Graciously hear us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, Who taketh away the sins of the world,
Have mercy on us, Lord.

V. Pray for us, O Blessed Lady of Victory! 
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let Us Pray

O Victorious Lady! Thou who has ever such powerful influence with Thy Divine Son, in conquering the hardest of hearts, intercede for those for whom we pray, that their hearts being softened by the rays of Divine Grace, they may return to the unity of the true Faith, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Salve Regina

Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in the valley of tears.

Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us. And after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. 

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary, Pray for us,
O Holy Mother of God:

That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Anniversary

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

Today is the anniversary of one of the worst events in my working with men and their families in addiction recovery.  I send a prayer for the repose of John M.

I have been working with St Joseph’s Freedom Group now for six years. In that time there have been three men I could not help which have affected me very much.

John was in his late thirties. He had a wife and two lovely children. John was addicted to pornography. One night after having spent the evening indulging in his addiction and stopping for just a “couple of beers” he had a single car accident. He did not lose his life in the accident but he did lose his sight.

When I met John he had been physically blind for about six months. He and I would speak on the telephone and discuss recovery from Pornography Addiction.  The problem John had is that the last thing he saw was pornography. It continuously looped in his mind’s eye and nothing he did could stop it.  The pornography had permanently burned into his consciousness. In an attempt to deal with this on his own, he decided to self-medicate with alcohol. His was consuming at least a ½ gallon bottle of vodka every two days.

One evening after consuming a generous amount of alcohol he told his wife he was going to take a shower and clear his head. After about 30 minutes of the water running his wife stepped into check on him. Unfortunately what she found was him sitting on the floor of the shower with wounds to his wrists. He was already gone by the time the EMT’s arrived.

This heinous war waged on men and their families by the devil is not one we can sit idly by and allow to continue. We cannot continue sit quietly by and allow him to influence us. We need to go on the offensive.  We cannot allow anyone else to be lost.

I think I will go and have some quiet time – hug my wife and kids – say a prayer or two and thank God for all that I have.

Your Brother In Christ’s Passion.

In Perilous Times We Need the Rosary

by Ron Quinlan on Oct 07, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ

 

We live in such turbulent stressful times.  We hear of disaster after disaster, Hurricane Irene, earthquakes, the Japanese tsunami, a record number of tornadoes, disastrous floods in the North East, fires and drought across the South West.  Economically, each day seems to bring bad news.  We may yet tip back into a recession.  Crime and violence continue to be problems.  We seem to be trapped in endless wars.  There is also a constant underlying fear of terrorism.  There is so much to be afraid of, so much potential danger.

Morally, we appear to be on the rocks.  Church attendance in America is way down yet we are so much better than the Europeans.  Many TV shows and movies seem to flirt with porn.  Even the so-called family hour is risky. Marriage as an institution seems to be under attack.  There is the high rate of divorce, a large percentage of people simply co-habitating, adultery, same sex marriages — you name it.  You have to wonder if perhaps there is a connection between the disasters and our morality.

Why is this happening?  What can we do?  Can we really change society?  Can we really stop the disasters?  Can we really regain our sense of peace?  Can we really see our children return to the Church and God?  How can we do anything?

Maybe a large factor in all of this was a decline in the rosary.  One characteristic that identified Catholics of the past was our devotion to Mary and the rosary.  Now it seems only a few old people say the rosary.  For various reasons during the Sixties many people abandoned the rosary.  Is it a coincidence that the moral decline of our nation seems to have started at the same time?

Mary has begged us time after time to say the rosary.  At Fatima she promised if enough people said the rosary daily another world war could be prevented.  Prayer and fasting, especially the rosary has the power to stop wars.

Few people really understand how incredibly powerful the rosary is.  We all know of the terrible destruction of the nuclear bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Yet at Hiroshima a single house eight blocks from Ground Zero suffered only broken windows.  All the Jesuits living there survived into old age.  A similar thing happened at Nagasaki with a house of Franciscans.  In both houses they said the rosary daily.  Every building and person around them was destroyed yet the only injuries they had came from broken glass.

I suspect more people would at least vaguely remember the fall of Marcos in the Philippines in 1986.  Tanks sent by him to crush the uprising were stopped by people kneeling in the streets saying the rosary.  There are many other stories of the power of the rosary.  The people of Austria give credit to a rosary campaign for the withdrawal of Soviet troops after World War II.  A Muslim fleet was defeated at Lepanto by an inferior Christian fleet in the 1500’s.  We all know about the fall of communism in the late 1980’s but do we realize that John Paul II declared 1987 to be a Marian year and millions prayed the rosary for the conversion of Russia?

If the Rosary is strong enough to protect people from an atomic blast, to save Europe from a Muslim invasion, to save Austria from the Soviets and help overthrow Marcos what else might it do?  Is there anything too difficult for Mary’s intercessory power? Can it not bring about the conversion of your children?  Can it not bring about the Conversion of this nation and the world?  

The trick is to actually say the rosary on a daily basis and allow it to change you.  The more time we spend with Jesus in the rosary the more we will experience His peace in our hearts, the more we will experience a sense of protection and of being loved.  The rhythm of the rosary helps to quiet our mind so that we can more clearly hear His voice.  He helps to guide us in our thinking and decisions.  We become more like Him and this is what will lead those around us back to Christ.  Seeing His peace in us during such turbulent times makes others want this too.  Experiencing His love, not condemnation, through us will bring people to Jesus.

With all our concerns about terrorism and natural disasters, we would be well off to adopt the daily rosary and give it to Mary.  We have been given the power to change the world, one person at a time.  It starts with us.  All we have to do is really pray the rosary.

 

Ron Quinlan is a former teacher in the Archdiocese of Newark, now living in South Carolina.

http://catholiclane.com/in-perilous-times-we-need-the-rosary/

“You can always judge a man not by his friends, but by the quality of his enemies. A good man will never have enemies who are anything but petty and childish. A bad man will have enemies that are legion. Who it is that dislikes a man reveals much about the man himself.”