
He shall set up a standard to the nations (Isa. 11:12).
...when Christian institutions and morality decline, the main foundation of human society goes together with them. Force alone will remain to preserve public tranquillity and order (Sapientiae Christianae 3)
Christians are, moreover, born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God aiding, the triumph (Sapientiae Christianae 14).
"I am worried by the Blessed Virgin's messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soul. … I hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.
"A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, 'Where have they taken Him?'"
- Roche, Pie XII Devant L'Historie, p. 52-53
LET ALL MORTAL FLESH KEEP SILENCE (audio)
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Piety requires a certain disposition, a temperament that is characterized by quietness, stillness, humility and obedience. It not only informs how we pray, it touches how we dress, how we stand, how we enter, and how we leave the church. Unfortunately our culture does not foster such a disposition. In its drive to protect the rights of the individual we have left behind and forgotten the value of respect between persons, regard for the other. The principle of individual rights has become individualism. Individualism has become disregard for the other and ultimately disrespect for others and disintegration of the self. The very word pious has been turned into an insult. This is one of the most difficult things we have to overcome when we enter the church. We pray in a certain way not for ourselves but for the other. We dress in a certain way not for ourselves but for the other. We enter and leave the church in a certain way not for ourselves but for the other. And by doing so, we do not enter the church as individuals who have come to fill ourselves with our own personal spirituality without regard for the person standing next to us. We become one body in Christ and stand together, united in the Kingdom of God.
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