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Cardinal Walter Brandmuller: Pray Rosary to Combat ‘Inhuman Ideologies’...
"Realize the power in your hand with the Rosary, for in your hands you hold the power of God. If you do not recognize the Rosary, can you expect to be recognized by My Son? How much can you expect? Why do you hide My Rosary? It was with a Mother's loving heart that I chose to give you these pearls of Heaven that you reject.
"Woe to all dedicated who seek to remove these from the little ones' hands, for their punishment will be metered in accordance to it!
"Why has sophisticated man cast aside these tokens of My love? Those who remain true to My Rosary will not be touched by the fires. Gather these treasures, My children, for the time will come that you will not find them on the counters of your stores."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1970
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
LifeSiteNews.com reported on May 22, 2019:
by Dr. Maike Hickson
Dubia Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, in his May 13 homily on the occasion of an initiative promoting “The Rosary for Austria,” spoke about the dangers that are threatening the faithful today and affect “our living together and destroy our culture.”
“It is again about calling upon the help of the Mother of God, in contemplating in the Rosary the mysteries of our redemption,” he said in his homily.
The elderly cardinal was not able to participate in person at the festive traditional Mass in the Karlskirche, Vienna, but his homily was read aloud. (Here are some pictures of the event as provided by Father Edmund, a Cistercian monk, and here is a little video of the Mass as celebrated by priests of the Fraternity of St. Peter. The whole homily in German has been published here by Kath.net.)
The festive celebration of the Holy Mass in Austria is dedicated to the promotion of the Rosary and also commemorates the fact that, in 1955, Austria had been freed from Soviet occupation after the population had intensely prayed the Rosary.
Cardinal Brandmüller reminded his audience of some historical events where the Rosary played a pivotal role, including the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
Today, he explained, “it is not anymore about strange armies that threaten us – it is about inhuman ideologies, it is about moral aberrations which have affected our societies like illnesses and which destroy our living together and our culture.”
The German cardinal called on his hearers to pray the Rosary and thereby to remember that it was Our Lady who said at the Marriage Feast of Cana: “Do whatever He tells you.”
Regarding what it is that Our Lord tells his followers to do, Cardinal Brandmüller quoted Our Lord's own words: “I am the Way, the Life, and the Truth.”
And indeed, the prelate added, “we have left the path. Moral aberrations are now being described as normal.” In addition, our life and health are being threatened by “the distribution of bad groceries and medications,” as well as even the builders of homes are using “deficient material and thus are causing buildings to collapse.”
“Children are being abducted, mutilated, killed, so that one can do trade with their healthy organs.” “Behind doubtful biotechnical research,” he added, “is to be found financial interests.”
“Added is the unbelievable scandal of abortion,” as well as the scandal of “so-called euthanasia – what a euphemistic word for murder!” at the end of life, Brandmüller explained.
“We have erred and gone far away off the path, away from Jesus Christ Who says: 'I am the Way.'”
Cardinal Brandmüller reminded Catholics that it was the Creator who has “given us a compass, which shows the true way to life.” Man has to “follow guidelines and standards” of the natural moral law as it has been written by God into human nature. These standards “are always and everywhere valid and are not subject to change.”
Quoting Pope John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor (96), the German cardinal pointed out that “these norms in fact represent the unshakable foundation and solid guarantee of a just and peaceful human co-existence.” These norms, he added, “are rooted in the innermost nature of man,” as St. Paul has also pointed out.
“In light of these words,” Brandmüller continued, “it is also important to resist the manifold threats to the marriage between a man and a woman that comes to us from modern ideologies, as well as from the much-propagated morally lax sexual education of children and of the youth.”
However, if we follow the moral law, he said, “we will find Him Who says: 'I am the Way. Nobody comes to My Father but through Me.'”
The Cardinal exhorted his listeners to "return individually and as a whole people to this path, let us follow the word of the Mother of Our Lord: 'Do whatever He tells you!"
The Rosary Dealt a Crushing Defeat to the Muslims at the Battle of Lepanto...
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The Story of the Battle of Lepanto...
Almost from the very beginning of Islam, there were wars upon wars between Christians and Muslims. We remember the Crusade wars, seven major and several minor, which lasted for centuries. This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity.
Charles Martel's victory at Poitiers definitely stopped the Moslem invasion of western Europe. In the east Christians held firm against attacks of the Muslims until 1453. In that year, Mohammed II threw huge assaults against Constantinople and by the evening of May 29 the Byzantine capital fell. By 1571 the Muslims were firmly installed in Europe. Their ships ruled the Mediterranean Sea from the Strait of Bosporus to the Strait of Gibraltar and constantly preyed on Christian vessels unless they flew the French flag.
Pope Pius V, in the last year of his papacy in 1571, tried to rally the nations of Europe to join in a Holy League to stop and roll back the Moslem enemy which threatened the entire continent. Spain, whose King Philip II was also King of Austria, responded favorably. The Muslims were then engaged in the conquest of Cyprus, an island belonging to the Republic of Venice.
Leading Venetian officials would have preferred to have worked out some peaceful-coexistence agreement with the Sultan, but under the crusading influence of Saint Pius V, they decided to join the Holy League along with the republics of Genoa and Lucca and the dukes of Savory, Parma, Ferrara and Urbino.
The Papal fleet was of course part of the Holy Alliance. Pius V asked Philip to appoint Don John of Austria, the 25-year old son of Emperor Charles V, as commander-in-chief of a planned expedition against the Muslims. After receiving the banner of the Holy League from the Pope, through Cardinal Granvalla, Don John's fleet set sail from Genoa for Naples on June 26, 1571.
Few historians mention that just before the departure, Philip II presented Don John with a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe which she had caused to be miraculously imprinted on the cloak of the Indian peasant Juan Diego in Mexico 40 years before. Don John placed the picture in the chapel of the admiral-vessel, the Genoese John Andrew Doria, asking for Mary's protection of his expedition.
On September 16, the Christian fleet put to sea. Don John anchored off of Corfu where he learned that the Muslims had leveled entire towns and villages and then retreated to the coast of Lepanto in the Gulf of Corinth.
At dawn on October 7, at the entrance to the Gulf of Patras, the Christian and Moslem fleets finally came face to face for the battle of Lepanto.
The wind and all military factors favored the Muslims, but Don John was confident. He boarded a fast ship for a final review of his fleet. He shouted encouraging words to the men and they shouted back. After Don John returned to his own position, the wind mysteriously changed to the advantage of the Christian fleet. First-hand witnesses wrote about this moment as a most dramatic turn-of-events resulting from an "unknown factor".
At that very moment, at dawn on October 7, 1571-- as Vatican Archives later revealed--Pope Pius V, accompanied by many faithful, was praying the Rosary in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. From dawn to dusk the prayers continued in Rome as the Christians and the Muslims battled at Lepanto. When it was all over the Muslims had been defeated. Of some 270 Moslem ships, at least 200 were destroyed. The Turks also lost 30,000 men while Christian casualties numbered between 4,000 and 5,000.
The Rosary had won a great military victory. Like all truly great military leaders who hate war and love peace, Don John retired after his victory at Lepanto. He died a few years later at the age of 31. Another who took part in the great battle of Lepanto, Miguel de Cervantes, lived longer to write his famous tribute to Christian chivalry, Don Quixote.
The Origin of the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7th...
Following the great Christian victory at Lepanto, Pope St. Pius V declared that henceforth a commemoration of the Rosary would be a part of the Vatican's Mass on every October 7. His successor, Pope Gregory XIII, went further. In 1573 he established the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary--to be celebrated at all Churches which had specific altars dedicated to the Rosary.
In 1671 Pope Clement X extended observance of the feast to all of Spain.
Only 12 years later in 1683 the Muslims again swept into Europe. With 200,000 men, they laid siege to Vienna. After months of valiant resistance by a small garrison, the city was relieved by an army under John Sobieski, King of Poland. The Rosary, to which the King was dedicated, was again instrumental in a military victory. Pope Innocent XI consecrated September 12 of that year to the Holy Name of Mary. The Moslem hordes were hurled back yet again at Peterwardein in Hungary by Prince Eugene on the Feast of Out Lady of the Snows, August 5, 1716. As a result of this victory, Pope Clement XI extended the Feast of the Rosary to the Universal Church.
"The beads of prayer will be the major instrument for the lessening of the Chastisement upon your country."
- The Bayside Prophecies
Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1973
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