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THE ROSARY OF MARY: OUR WEAPON OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE
By Fr. James Kosek

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[From Volume 12, No. 3, of The Catholic Voice. Made available on the TRADITIO Internet Site with permission of The Catholic Voice, a
publication of The Society of Traditional Roman Catholics.]

Reading books has always been a passion of mine, ever since I was a child. My favorite books were adventure stories, science fiction
stories, and, oddly enough, stories about the lives of the saints. To enjoy reading the lives of the heroes of our Faith of itself isn't odd, for these stories are much more real and adventuresome than any
adventure could be. To this day, it never ceases to amaze me how these heroic individuals fought so gallantly for their Faith, in the face of overwhelming op position. Their commitment to Almighty God, and their cooperation with God's grace, gave them the ability to overcome the enemy and defeat him.

These soldiers of Christ fought in the army of God against the
enemies of God. They were trained for battle in the basic training camp better known as our Holy Mother Church. Their training manuals and
exercises for spiritual combat against the enemy were the Gospels and teachings of Jesus Christ, the catechism of Holy Mother Church;
attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the reception of the
Sacraments and daily prayer.

In order to give these soldiers every possible chance at victory,
they were also given training in the use of spiritual combat weapons known as sacramentals. One of the most important of these sacramentals is the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This treasure of spiritual gifts and blessings was given to St. Dominic by the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a tremendous weapon against the enemies of God.

The wealth and beauty of this devotion is unveiled as we journey
through the Joyful, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries. From the
Annunciation by St. Gabriel, to the Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven and earth, each mystery gives us inspiration and strengthens our faith and love for Almighty God.

Praying the Rosary with love and meditation is like drinking cool
water in the midst of our spiritual desert. Because of this, the very presence of those who are devoted to reciting the Rosary instills fear into the hearts of the enemies of Christ. In fact, the Holy Rosary is feared to such a degree, that the forces of evil have gone out of their way to try to erase this holy devotion from the minds of Roman Catholics all over the world.

The chief agents carrying out this task have been the humanist-
modernists of our time. Not being content with tampering with and
destroying the Mass, they have even taken it upon themselves
to alter the words of the Our Father and the Hail Mary. Since the novus ordo reformation of the Second Vatican Council, modernists all over the world have attacked the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary the only way that they could do it and get away with it. They have ignored this
beautiful devotion in stead of propagating it.

One would think that the modernist clergy would do everything in
their power to please the Mother of God instead of ignoring Her Holy Rosary. How can this be? An answer might be found in a quotation from one of our great popes, Leo XIII. This holy Pope wrote so much on the devotion of the Holy Rosary to the point that history remembers him as
"The Pope Of The Rosary".

Regarding the importance of the Rosary, Pope Leo said, "We have
elsewhere brought it to the attention of the devout Christian that, not least among the advantages of the Rosary, is the ready means it puts into his hands to nurture his faith and to keep him from ignorance of his religion and the danger of error."

Now it becomes clear why the modernists do not want to propagate the devotion of the Holy Rosary. If, as Pope Leo XIII said, "it will keep him from ignorance of his religion and from the danger of error," how can the modernists succeed with a flock of well-informed sheep that refuse to follow them into error? As long as the Holy Rosary is being said, people saying it will receive the grace they need to avoid
error and seek out God's Truth.

We, as Roman Catholics, have an obligation entrusted to us by the
Holy Mother of God. She placed this most powerful weapon into our
hands. She wants us to use it in spiritual combat to defeat the enemy.
We need to keep up the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary and spread this devotion as far as we can.

We should never forget that we are at war! Our whole life is combat, and we can't rest from it for a minute. We need all the spiritual
weapons we can use to defeat the enemies, and the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the gre atest weapons we can use in the fight for salvation and eternal life. Let's make sure to take up this weapon of the Mother of God and shake it in the face of the devil and his minions. Acting thus, in a fearless manner, we can be sure we will gain the victory. Nothing is more powerful than prayer, and the Rosary is our sure prayer of victory after Holy Mass.

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We've had a distrust from a reader that I am in seventh heaven to conversation seeing that it gives me the top to lips about one of my number one subjects, the Scapular!

HERE'S THE QUESTION:

Do you suppose that if a faithful Catholic (OR IN ALL PROBABILITY ESPECIALLY THAN ONE) is praying implacably for a non-Catholic who is sincerely Christian and truth-seeking, that swap to Catholicism is inevitable?

Anyway, do you diagram non-Catholics who are faithful associates of Christ to be part of the true church?

Let me make plain about what a scapular is and then come back to the distrust.

A scapular is that part of the avail yourself of of a nun, or the robes of a priest that is modestly like a big cloth sandwich board. The vanguard goes rule a hole in the mean and the cloth hangs all the way down the belly and the back. If you are lucky sufficient to be in an order that includes a scapular, you can quay all kinds of accouterments under expound, tucked in vogue your belt: laser pointers, keys, a cotton tissue....I knew an old nun who kept an 18" independent expound as while she were one of the Musketeers.

The Religious Open-minded (THAT'S YOU) gets to wear unlike develop of scapular. It's two minute rectangles of cloth on two strings. One plaza goes in the belly and the other goes in the back...like a necklace that hangs what's more back and belly. Peak people are familiar with the Threatening Scapular, which I allow is the Idiosyncratic Scapular.

Here's what happened. The Carmelites wear a taupe scapular (AND QUAY THEIR KEYS AND HANKIES EXPOUND). Hand over was a time in the Religious previously the Carmelites were ego buried. That standard the Religious sought after the Carmelites to full down about something, and they were ego told to go exploit themselves. (A MODERN PERFORMER OF THAT IS MEDJUGORE, EVERYWHERE THE RELIGIOUS HAS LAST BUT NOT LEAST SUPPOSED, "ACCEPTABLE ALREADY! WHY WOULD OUR TIMELY CLOSE RELATIVE STAND TO COME EVERY DAY FOR SOUL ON END TO MAKE HER POINT? REQUEST DON'T LIPS ABOUT IT ANYMORE.") I don't know what the Carmelites were on about at the time, but expound you stand it.

Our Timely Close relative appeared to a Carmelite named Simon Cable (NOW SAINT SIMON CABLE) and told him that whoever wore the taupe scapular, (MEANING A CARMELITE) would not see the fires of hell. The Pope was so enamoured of this assemble that he open the straight to the undamaged church, which is why you stand your minute taupe scapular.

Don't get carried away from home. You determination not see the fires of hell provided that you are actually happening it at the time of your death. The hand of God may go down in the form of a bus that hits you, knocking you out of your shoes and your scapular, or in the form of a pointless paramedic saying, "WHAT'S THIS?" and tossing it out the back of the ambulance.

Anyway, correctly seeing that you won't see the fires of hell doesn't mean you won't do time in Purgatory. The good hearsay is that part of the Pope's declaration states that scapular wearers determination get out of Purgatory of the eminent Saturday behind schedule their death.

So: Don't get rid of home lacking it. And..........Spurt for a Friday sharp.

Hand over are heaps other types of Scapulars, while, and they come in be level with colors, like our domestic Amazement Aware Robot, really effective.

Which brings me at remain to dose the distrust (REMIND THAT?). Hand over is a sure scapular to call people back to the church. It is the Light Scapular. It's besides second hand for unwell people.

Here's what you do. You stand the classify wear the Light Scapular previously they are unwell or away from home from the church (UNLIKE TYPE OF ILLNESS!) and say the prayer that's on expound and they get put your feet up and/0r are called back to the Religious. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

But here's the best part: if they won't wear the the Light Scapular you correctly gaffe it in vogue their bag, or glide it onto their nightstand and YOU say the prayer on expound and they are Increasingly called back to the Religious.

It's like secretiveness Catholicism!

As for the mega part of your distrust....you can't be part of the Inherent Religious if you are not part of the Inherent Religious. That's modestly like asking, "CAN I BE FROM SOUTH AMERICA IF I AM FROM NORTH AMERICA?" No, you can't be.

We love the South Americans and so does Jesus, but they are not from North America, unless you brooch a Light Scapular in their bag.

Source: pagan-magic.blogspot.com

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