Our Lady of the Rosary, Pray for Us!
By:  Solange Hertz

Quote:“Of the beliefs and public doctrines entrusted to the care of the Church, there are some which are based on Scriptural teaching, others which we have received handed down in mystery by the tradition of the Apostles ; and in relation to the true religion they both have the same force. Nor is there anyone will contradict them ; no one certainly who has the least acquaintance with the established laws of the Church. For were we to attempt to reject the unwritten practices of the Church as being without great importance, we would unknowingly inflict mortal wounds on the Gospel. . . .

“For example . . . who is it that has taught us in writing to sign with the sign of the Cross those who place their trust in Jesus Christ our Lord? . . . The words of the invocation at the Consecration of the Eucharistic Bread and the Chalice of Blessing, which of the saints has left them to us in writing? For we are not content with the words both the Gospel and the Apostles have recorded, but have added some others, both before these and after them, as having great significance to the mystery, and which we have received from unwritten tradition.”

Quote:“Just as Jesus Christ, to show His great love for us, became Man, so too the third Person, God-Who-Is-Love, willed to show His mediation as regards the Father and the Son by means of a concrete sign: this sign is the Heart of the Immaculate Virgin! It remains true to say that Mary’s action is the very action of the Holy Ghost. . . Let us grasp how impossible it is to separate the Holy Ghost from Mary the Immaculata, since she is the instrument He uses in all He does in the order of grace.”

Quote:“The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary, to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal, or above all, spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families, of the families of the world or of religious communities, or even of the life of peoples and nations that cannot be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we cannot resolve by the prayer of the Rosary! With the Holy Rosary we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.”

Quote:“For it is an arduous and exceedingly weighty matter that is now at hand: to overcome the ancient and insidious enemy, Satan, in the brazen array of his power; to win back the freedom of the Church and of her Head; to preserve and secure the fortifications within which should rest the safety and wellbeing of human society. Care must be taken, therefore, that in these times of mourning for the Church, the most holy Rosary of Mary be assiduously and piously observed, particularly since this method of prayer, being so arranged as to recall in turn all the mysteries of our salvation, is eminently fitted to foster the spirit of piety.”

Quote:“true servants of the Blessed Virgin who, like so many St. Dominics, would go everywhere, the burning, blazing brand of the Gospel in their mouths and the Holy Rosary in their hands, barking like dogs, burning like fire, dispelling the world’s darkness like suns, and who, by means of devotion to Mary. . .would crush the head of the ancient serpent wherever they went.”[11]

Ever wonder why Veterans Day is on the 11th and does not change?  World War I ended on the 11th  month on the 11th day on the 11th hour.
Some years ago I saw a man selling poppies stop a lady and ask if he could re-position her poppy.  While doing so he told the lady she should wear the poppy on their right side; the red represents the blood of all those who gave their lives, the black represents the mourning of those who didn't have their loved ones  return home,  the green leaf represents the grass and crops growing and future prosperity after the war destroyed so much.  The leaf should be positioned at 11 o'clock to represent the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month,  the time that World War I formally ended. He was worried that younger generations wouldn't understand this and his generation wouldn't be around for much longer to teach them.

• The word synodality as well as collegiality, communion and co-responsibility are code words in Conciliar Church parlance for the democratization of the Church. Fr. Karl Rahner spelled it out straightforwardly: “We could hope for a true democratization of the Church. … Democratization … should be understood as a key for integrating the Church into the temporal and pluralist society, the existential and permanent substractum for the formation of the Church.” (1)
  

At right, Karl Rahner: ‘Democratization is key to integrate the Church into society’

• It is ironic that while the Bishops preach democracy in the Church and demand that inferiors should have all types of liberty and participation in decisions, they nonetheless obey the strict commands of the dictator Pope. They are not free to speak for themselves. The democratic liberty they preach is the opposite of the reality in which they live.
  
• As democracy is dying all over the world in the civil sphere and people are looking for a way to replace it, the Conciliar Church arrives on the scene breathless and boasting that it is democratic, trying to appear in style… It is a bit late; democracy is yesterday’s trend that has almost completely lost its appeal.
  
• Finally, let us not forget that the Catholic Church is essentially monarchical by divine institution. It is a Monarchy composed of the Sovereign Pontiff, the Hierarchy and the faithful. Pope St. Pius X in his letter Ex quo of December 26, 1910, condemned those who deny that the Catholic Church has been a Monarchy from her inception (DR 2147a, cf. 1822, 1825, 1827, 1831). When someone tries to destroy this order, he falls into either schism or heresy.
  

• It is an extensive reform: “We ask all the local Churches to continue their daily journey with a synodal method of consultation and discernment, specifying concrete methods and formative ways to achieve a tangible synodal conversion in the various ecclesial realities (parishes, institutes of consecrated life, societies of apostolic life, groups of the faithful, dioceses, bishops’ conferences, regrouping of Churches etc.).” (§ 9)
  
  
• Synodality is a constitutive dimension of the Church: “With this document the Assembly recognizes and testifies that synodality, a constitutive dimension of the Church, is already part of the experience of many of our communities. At the same time, it suggests roads to walk, practices to enforce and horizons to explore.” (§ 11)
  
  
• It has multiple liturgies: “Deepening the understanding of the link between liturgy and synodality will help all Christian communities, in the plurality of their cultures and traditions, to adopt styles of celebration that manifest the face of the synodal Church.” (§ 27)
  
  
• It has an obligatory method: “Synodality is the walk together of Christians with Christ toward the Kingdom of God, united with all mankind; oriented toward the mission it includes gathering in assemblies at the different levels of the Church’s life, mutual listening, dialogue, community discernment, the formation of consensus as an expression of Christ’s presence in the Spirit, and the adoption of a decision in a differentiated co-responsibility.” (§ 28)
  
  
• “The synodal perspective, while touching the rich spiritual patrimony of Tradition, contributes to renewing its forms: a prayer open to participation, a discernment lived together, a missionary energy that is born from sharing and radiates as service.” (§ 44)
  
  
• It has a changeable theology: “Church synodality requires theologians to make theology in a synodal way, promoting among themselves the ability to listen, dialogue, discern and integrate the multiplicity and variety of requests and contributions.” (§ 67)
  
  
• It is a Church of the people for the people: “The synodal Assembly wants the People of God to have a greater voice in the choice of bishops.” (§70)
  

A session of the Synod 2024

• “In particular, some concrete demands emerge from the synodal process that need to be responded to in an adequate way in different contexts: a) greater participation of lay men and women in all phases of decision-making processes; b) broader access of lay men and women to positions of responsibility in dioceses and church institutions …; d) an increase in the number of qualified lay men and women who perform the role of judge in canonical processes …” (§ 77)
  
  
• It moves toward including all religions: “On this road a synodal Church commits itself to walk, in the various places where it lives, with believers of other religions and with persons of other convictions, sharing freely the joy of the Gospel and gratefully welcoming their respective gifts: to build together as brothers and sisters in a spirit of mutual exchange and help, justice, fraternity, peace and inter-religious dialogue.” (§ 123)
  

The Parable of the Cockle amid the Wheat
From The Training of the Apostles Vol. III
Fr Henry James Coleridge, 1884, Ch. IX, pp 148-159
St. Matt. xiii. 24–28, 36–53
Story of the Gospels, § 59-62
Sung at the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany and in one of the “spare” Sundays before Advent.
[Taken from here and here.]

Quote:‘Another parable He proposed to them, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man that sowed good seed in his field. But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat, and went his way. And when the blade was sprung up, and had brought forth fruit, then appeared also the cockle.

‘And the servants of the good man of the house coming said to him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it cockle? And he said to them, an enemy hath done this. And the servants said to him, Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?

‘And he said, No, lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also together with it. Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.’

Quote:‘Then having sent away the multitudes, He came to the house, and His disciples came to Him, saying, Expound to us the parable of the cockle of the field.

‘Who made answer, and said to them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man. And the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the Kingdom, and the cockle are the children of the wicked one. And the enemy that soweth them is the devil. But the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers are the angels. Even as cockle therefore is gathered up and burned with fire, so shall it be at the end of the world.

‘The Son of Man shall send His angels, and they shall gather out of His Kingdom all scandals and them that work iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the just shine as the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.’