Banning the rosary ! Of all places, the Spanish government is banning saying the rosary in public. Are Mari Loli’s words coming true right before our eyes? (before the Warning) " it would be very hard to practice the religion," https://thelibertariancatholic.com/...B7zFKiVdTXf8Il_mBEMTf_bK-2yCk79d4ohLswreeXkxM
Wow, this is next level evil. Here, peaceful prayer in front of abortion clinics has been declared "illegal". However, in the end, the Immaculata will triumph.
"When communism returns ....." Today, November 29th, 2023, King Felipe VI of Spain inaugurated the new legislature in the Spanish Parliament. This is a totally, extreme communist government -a frankenstein government- in which the socialist party that lost the July 23 national election, has sold the country, the Constitution, the Separation of Powers of the democracy to 15 tiny separatist parties of the extremest kind in order to get invested as prime minister -which happened a couple of weeks ago. This president of the government is openly committed to making legal the unacceptable demands of these minorities, which imply the destruction of the rule of Law and of the unity of the country, and the removal of the King. There is a coup of state being perpetrated from the head of the government. The protesters -citizens- are manifesting every single night, non-stop, for several weeks now, and since now do so praying the Rosary to counter the police violence and aggression on pacific citizens, the illegitimate government is trying to smash this prayerful opposition. Even associations of judges, and of prosecutors, lawyers etc, have been protesting publicly -without the rosaries part, or course. Spain is getting back to 1934, just before the Civil War 1936-39, "thanks" to communism AGAIN. The bloody persecution to Catholics during the civil war has given thousands of new martyrs -saints and blesseds- to the Church. Glen, I think that can relate this situation to what has been said by the Garabandal seers over the years ...
Spanish woman arrested for praying the rosary near the government headquarters. God bless her. https://twitter.com/i/status/1729793645132316715
I was looking at pictures of the funeral for Sister Lucia of Fatima and was struck at seeing policemen and soldiers taking care of her funeral. When Our Lady appeared at Fatima it was police and soldiers of a Masonic Portuguese state that arrested and tortured her. The same thing at the funeral of Padre Pio. The same thing at Fiestas for Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico or Our Lady of Good Success in Ecuador. First they praise the Church, then they try to wipe it out, then they go back to praising it. It reminds me that persecution appears to be the natural order of things. There is no doubt that the ruling parties in Ireland as in the USA as in Canada hate and detest the Church. The only thing that is stopping all out persecution is that we are still too strong.
I notice at every Mass we pray for peace so we can fulfill our religious duties. The Church has long memories of the Catacombs.. There is not a country in the world were Catholics have not shed their blood for the Faith. It is not a matter of if but when they come for us again.
I agree. These things are the twists and turns of history. I'm reading a sermon from Joseph Ratzinger when Archbishop of Munich and he speaks of the reality of an enduring advent. He tells us that the borderline between "before Christ" and "after Christ" does not run through historical time, in an outward sense, and cannot be drawn on any map; it runs through our own hearts. Much to ponder with that. This reality of the enduring advent helps us make sense of the fact that history, our own lives are filled with darkness, suffering, death, destruction etc. Ratzinger asks us to pray that we live our lives less and less "before Christ" and certainly not "after Christ", but truly with Christ....amen.
This new development follows upon Great Britain, where a known pro-life woman was arrested outside an abortion clinic simply for standing there: no audible words, no rosary beads- a thought crime! Or think of the weighty sentences the pro-lifers were sentenced to who blockaded an entrance to an abortion clinic in the USA for 3 hours. Convicted and sentenced to long years in prison. https://catholicreview.org/five-pro...ison-for-blocking-washington-abortion-clinic/ As Pilate asked, "Truth, what is truth!" We each must ask the Lord, "To what extent am I willing to stand up for truth, out of love for you, Jesus? Prepare my heart!"
One of those sentenced to a number of years in prison, wrote a letter to the friends she made in the Pro-life Movement : I am so very grateful for everyone who would want to send me commissary money, or write me a letter (letters are most special gifts), or visit me in prison. But I hope you will be able to understand why I am pleading with you not to do any of these. Please! The short explanation is that I want my prison stay to be a time of undistracted prayer, as well a time of penance – for myself and our nation. I want to make my cell as it were a cloistered monastery cell. In a Carmelite monastery the nuns are only allowed 2 visits a year from family, and depending upon the specific monastery, they are only allowed 2-4 letters a year from family. Therefore, that is what I want to emulate. My family will visit when they are able and will write. So I will have that. I love each of you so very much! We in the prolife movement are as much family as could possibly be. At this point I cannot be on the front lines with you, but in my prayers and in my heart I am with you and our precious unborn brothers and sisters who are suffering martyrdom… Joan Bell
The world going to hell in a hand basket no longer applies. It's now heading there in a supersonic jet.
And how can they stop it. We don't need to hold a physical rosary to say the rosary. God conveniently gave us 10 fingers. I can say it just fine on my fingers. You can't stop prayer!!
Yes, but as Mario pointed out I remember reading that China banned the rosary, they confiscated all rosaries. When the people continued to pray the rosary on their fingers, they cut off their fingers.
Meanwhile, in Russia https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/top-russian-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist-2023-11-30/
Perhaps Spain's punishment for suppressing manifestations of the Catholic faith in public is an invasion of people who like to practice their religion in public.
