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Rosary to Halt Construction of NYC Mosque (Catholic Caucus)
myself | 08/12/2010 | myself

Posted on 08/12/2010 11:55:14 AM PDT by Pyro7480

Pope St. Pius V trusted in the power of Our Lady's intercession through the Holy Rosary to save Christendom. He asked Christians everywhere to pray the Rosary for the victory of the united Christian fleet against the Mohammedan Turks. On 7 October 1571, at the Battle of Lepanto, the Turkish fleet was defeated, and the Catholic Church now celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Rosary every year on October 7.

After World War II, Fr. Petrus Pavlicek of Austria led a Rosary Crusade to save his country from communist domination. In 1955, the Soviet forces occupying their zone of Austria pulled out.

Our Lady's powerful intercession can stop a lesser but none the less important planned cause- the construction of 13-story Mohammedan center/mosque 2 blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City.

Please pray the Rosary on the feast of the Assumption with the intention that this mosque isn't built.

August 15 is also the 90th anniversary of the "Miracle on the Vistula," when the outnumbered Polish army drove back the invading Bolshevik army. Many of the Polish soldiers saw a vision of Our Lady during the battle.


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Pray the Rosary on August 15 for this intention!
1 posted on 08/12/2010 11:55:17 AM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480

What a great idea!!!!!! Inspired...


2 posted on 08/12/2010 11:57:16 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; american colleen; Desdemona; StAthanasiustheGreat; ..

Catholic ping!


3 posted on 08/12/2010 11:57:52 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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Heck, I’m Lutheran, but willing to learn!


4 posted on 08/12/2010 11:59:32 AM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: FreeStateYank
Ask, and you shall receive. :)

The Holy Rosary

5 posted on 08/12/2010 12:01:28 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480

Great idea Pyro!


6 posted on 08/12/2010 12:03:51 PM PDT by livius
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To: Pyro7480

Ditto, great idea.

Mary, Holy Mother of God, please pray for us and for this our intention.

Amen.


7 posted on 08/12/2010 12:04:43 PM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: FreeStateYank
Here ya go -- guided Rosary Tour online --

Pray the Rosary Online

8 posted on 08/12/2010 12:07:11 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Pyro7480

Consider it done. In fact, I may even start tonite (Thursday rosaries are my favorite anyway; I love love love the luminous mysteries)!!!


9 posted on 08/12/2010 12:19:49 PM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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To: Pyro7480

Who can hear mention of Lepanto without recalling GK Chesterton’s magnificent poem? http://chesterton.org/gkc/poet/lepanto.html

Lepanto

White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;
There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared,
It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard,
It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips,
For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships.
They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,
They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,
The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;
The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;
From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,
And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.

Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half-attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,
The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,
That once went singing southward when all the world was young.
In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,
Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.
Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war,
Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold
In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,
Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,
Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he comes.
Don John laughing in the brave beard curled,
Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,
Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.
Love-light of Spain - hurrah!
Death-light of Africa!
Don John of Austria
Is riding to the sea.

Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees,
His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.
He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,
And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,
And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring
Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.
Giants and the Genii,
Multiplex of wing and eye,
Whose strong obedience broke the sky
When Solomon was king.

They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,
From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;
They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;
They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the ground, -
They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.
And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk may hide,
And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,
And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,
For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.
We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,
Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces - four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!
It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,
Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.”
For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,
(Don John of Austria is going to the war.)
Sudden and still - hurrah!
Bolt from Iberia!
Don John of Austria
Is gone by Alcalar.

St. Michael’s on his Mountain in the sea-roads of the north
(Don John of Austria is girt and going forth.)
Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift
And the sea-folk labour and the red sails lift.
He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;
The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;
The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes
And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,
And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,
And Christian dreadeth Christ that bath a newer face of doom,
And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,
But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.
Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse
Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,
Trumpet that sayeth ha!
Domino gloria!
Don John of Austria
Is shouting to the ships.

King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck
(Don John of Austria is armed upon the deck.)
The walls are hung with velvet that is black and soft as sin,
And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.
He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,
He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,
And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey
Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,
And death is in the phial and the end of noble work,
But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.
Don John’s hunting, and his hounds have bayed -
Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid.
Gun upon gun, ha! ha!
Gun upon gun, hurrah!
Don John of Austria
Has loosed the cannonade.

The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke,
(Don John of Austria is hidden in the smoke.)
The hidden room in a man’s house where God sits all the year,
The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.
He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea
The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery;
They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle dark,
They veil the plumed lions on the galleys of St. Mark;
And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,
And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous griefs,
Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race repines
Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.
They are lost like slaves that swat, and in the skies of morning hung
The stairways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.

They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or fleeing on
Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon.
And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell
Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell,
And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign -
(But Don John of Austria has burst the battle-line!)
Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,
Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
Vivat Hispania!
Domino Gloria!
Don John of Austria
Has set his people free!

Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath
(Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.)
And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,
Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,
And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the blade. . .

(But Don John of Austria rides home from the Crusade.)

- G.K. Chesterton


10 posted on 08/12/2010 12:23:36 PM PDT by Mobties (I yield back the balance of my time)
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To: Pyro7480

Yes and bump.

Be nice for the if NY Catholics could gather at the site on this date too and Pray the Rosary.

That would be awesome.

This idea of yours Pyro needs to go viral on and off of the net/in the country.


11 posted on 08/12/2010 12:27:48 PM PDT by Global2010 (Congratulations to Dware for the FR Mussel Eating Fundraiser.)
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To: FreeStateYank

I like your spirit!


12 posted on 08/12/2010 12:29:42 PM PDT by Global2010 (Congratulations to Dware for the FR Mussel Eating Fundraiser.)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Hey I know you are a dedicated Doggie Lover but who knew you were a too cool Catholic Sister too.

: )


13 posted on 08/12/2010 12:31:35 PM PDT by Global2010 (Congratulations to Dware for the FR Mussel Eating Fundraiser.)
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To: Mobties

I love GK’s writings and his what would you call it sarcastic wit and humor?


14 posted on 08/12/2010 12:36:36 PM PDT by Global2010 (Congratulations to Dware for the FR Mussel Eating Fundraiser.)
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To: Pyro7480

I’m not a Catholic, but didn’t LA Gov Bobby Jindal ask everyone to pray the Rosary to heal and protect the Gulf of Mexico from harm? Now everyone is wondering what happened to the oil from the spill. Anyone else notice this?


15 posted on 08/12/2010 12:48:13 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Pyro7480

We might add that the FEAST OF THE HOLY ROSARY was originally OUR LADY OF VICTORY.


16 posted on 08/12/2010 12:57:12 PM PDT by ardara
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To: sportutegrl
Our Lady said that those who pray and put their trust in her son, will always have their prayers answered

And the Holy Rosary is one of the best way we can show our devotions

Simchi Miriam mele-at hachesed. Adonai imach. Brucha at me-ha-nashim ubaruch Yeshua pri rachmech. Miriam hakedosha em Adoneinu, hitpaleli beadenu ha-chotim, ata ube-et moteinu. Amen.

That is a Hail Mary is Hebrew

17 posted on 08/12/2010 1:03:32 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Lord help our Armed Service members that they not become pawns in Hussein's quest to destroy America)
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To: sportutegrl

I didn’t see that. Where did you read/hear that?


18 posted on 08/12/2010 1:04:55 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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To: Pyro7480

Absolutely!! My pleasure indeed. I wish more Catholics prayed the rosary; we have the amunition we need to conquer evil at our fingertips, but so many ignore the weapon.


19 posted on 08/12/2010 1:32:14 PM PDT by diamond6 (Pray the Rosary to defeat communism and Obamacare!!)
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To: Pyro7480

Hear what. That Bobby Jindal said to pray the Rosary or that the Gulf Oil is apparently gone?

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/gov_jindal_sets_oil_spill_day.html

Apparently he just called for a day of prayer. I assumed since he was a Catholic.

Here is news that claims most of the oil from the spill is gone.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/08/as_bp_plugs_leak_report_says_m.html


20 posted on 08/12/2010 1:41:22 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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