A Call for a Rosary Novena

A
Call
for
a
Rosary
Novena

By
Fr.
John
Corapi

www.fathercorapi.com


Among
the
most
important
titles
we
have
in
the
Catholic
Church
for
the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary
are
Our
Lady
of
Victory
and
Our
Lady
of
the
Rosary.
These
titles
can
be
traced
back
to
one
of
the
most
decisive
times
in
the
history
of
the
world
and
Christendom.
The
Battle
of
Lepanto
took
place
on
October
7
(date
of
feast
of
Our
Lady
of
Rosary),
1571.
This
proved
to
be
the
most
crucial
battle
for
the
Christian
forces
against
the
radical
Muslim
navy
of
Turkey.
Pope
Pius
V
led
a
procession
around
St.
Peter’s
Square
in
Vatican
City
praying
the
Rosary.
He
showed
true
pastoral
leadership
in
recognizing
the
danger
posed
to
Christendom
by
the
radical
Muslim
forces,
and
in
using
the
means
necessary
to
defeat
it.
Spiritual
 battles
require
spiritual
weapons,
and
this
more
than
anything
was
a
battle
that
had
its
origins
in
the
spiritual
order—a
true
battle
between
good
and
evil.


Today
we
have
a
similar
spiritual
battle
in
progress—a
battle
between
the
forces
of
good
and
evil,
light and
darkness,
truth
and
lies,
life
and
death.
If
we
do
not
soon
stop
the
genocide
of
abortion
in
the
United
States,
we
shall
run
the
course
of
all
those
that
prove
by
their
actions
that
they
are
enemies
of
God—total
collapse,
economic,
social,
and
national.
The
moral
demise
of
a
nation
results
in
the
ultimate
demise
of
a
nation.
God
is
not
a
disinterested
spectator
to
the
affairs
of
man.
Life
begins
at
conception. This
is
an
unalterable
formal
teaching
of
the
Catholic
Church.
If
you
do
not
accept
this
you
are
a
heretic
in
plain
English.
A
single
abortion
is
homicide.
The
more
than
48,000,000
abortions
since
Roe
v.
Wade
in
the
United
States
constitute
genocide
by
definition.
The
group
singled
out
for
death—unwanted,
unborn
children.


No
other
issue,
not
all
other
issues
taken
together,
can
constitute
a
proportionate
reason
for
voting
for
candidates
that
intend
to
preserve
and
defend
this
holocaust
of
innocent
human
life
that
is
abortion.


I
strongly
urge
every
one
of
you
to
make
a
Novena
and
pray
the
Rosary
to
Our
Lady
of
Victory
 between
October
27th
and
Election
Day,
November
4th.
Pray
that
God’s
will
be
done
and
the
most
innocent
and
utterly
vulnerable
of
our
brothers
and
sisters
will
be
protected
from
this
barbaric
and
grossly
sinful
blight
on
society
that
is
abortion.
No
woman,
and
no
man,
has
the
right
to
choose
to
murder
an
innocent
human
being.

May
God
grant
us
the
wisdom,
knowledge,
understanding,
and
counsel
to
form
our
conscience
in
accordance
with
authentic
Catholic
teaching,
and
then
vote
that
well‐formed
Catholic
conscience.


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God
Bless
You

Fr.
John
Corapi

www.fathercorapi.com


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Our Lady of Victory

Battle of Lepanto

On October 7, 1571, a great victory over the mighty Turkish fleet was won by Catholic naval forces primarily from Spain, Venice, and Genoa under the command of Don Juan of Austria. It was the last battle at sea between "oared" ships, which featured the most powerful navy in the world, a Moslem force with between 12,000 to 15,000 Christian slaves as rowers. The patchwork team of Catholic ships was powered by the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Knowing that the Christian forces were at a distinct material disadvantage, the holy pontiff, St. Pope Pius V called for all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory. We know today that the victory was decisive, prevented the Islamic invasion of Europe, and evidenced the Hand of God working through Our Lady. At the hour of victory, St. Pope Pius V, who was hundreds of miles away at the Vatican, is said to have gotten up from a meeting, went over to a window, and exclaimed with supernatural radiance: "The Christian fleet is victorious!" and shed tears of thanksgiving to God.

What you may not know is that one of three admirals commanding the Catholic forces at Lepanto was Andrea Doria. He carried a small copy of Mexico's Our Lady of Guadalupe into battle. This image is now enshrined in the Church of San Stefano in Aveto, Italy. Not many know that at the Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Spain, one can view a huge warship lantern that was captured from the Moslems in the Battle of Lepanto. In Rome, look up to the ceiling of S. Maria in Aracoeli and behold decorations in gold taken from the Turkish galleys. In the Doges' Palace in Venice, Italy, one can witness a giant Islamic flag that is now a trophy from a vanquished Turkish ship from the Victory. At Saint Mary Major Basilica in Rome, close to the tomb of the great St. Pope Pius V, one was once able to view yet another Islamic flag from the Battle, until 1965, when it was returned to Istanbul in an intended friendly token of concord.

EWTN



Did you know that Miguel de Cervantes of Don Quixote was at the Battle of Lepanto and was injured?

By 1570, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Castilian infantry regiment stationed in Naples, then a possession of the Spanish crown. He was there for about a year before he saw active service. In September 1571, Cervantes sailed on board the Marquesa, part of the galley fleet of the Holy League (a coalition of the Pope, Spain, Venice, Republic of Genoa, Duchy of Savoy, the Knights of Malta and others under the command of John of Austria) that defeated the Ottoman fleet on October 7 in the Gulf of Lepanto near Corinth. Though taken down with fever, Cervantes refused to stay below, and begged to be allowed to take part in the battle, saying that he would rather die for his God and his king than keep under cover. He fought bravely on board a vessel, and received three gunshot wounds – two in the chest and one which rendered his left arm useless, resulting in amputation. In Journey to Parnassus, he was to say that he "had lost the movement of the left hand for the glory of the right" (he was thinking of the success of the first part of Don Quixote). Cervantes always looked back on his conduct in the battle with pride: he believed that he had taken part in an event that would shape the course of European history.

Wikipedia