Personally finding today’s holiday to be very reflective- not the typical sense of patriotism. Although I love my country I see so much change- and a direction that is not good. So, today I feel a call to prayer for my nation. May I humbly ask others to pray for America today. We need a 2 Chronicles 7:14 moment peace.
Amen! Please pray for America today….and all of the world…as we are a very fallen world . God heal our nation and world….and have mercy on us.
Headed to a convent for the patriotic rosary ….(pray for each state in the United States with each Hail Mary) and Eucharist procession. Before it’s too late for our beloved nation. God bless America and happy 4th. Of July!
From Fr. Heilman: July 7 – October 7: Supernatural Heroes Unite in Prayer to Liberate America JULY 7 – OCTOBER 7: SUPERNATURAL HEROES UNITE IN PRAYER TO LIBERATE AMERICA WE ARE FACING OUR LEPANTO Thursday, October 7, marks the 450th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto and the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. That battle, 450 years ago, witnessed the “underdog” Christian alliance claim victory because they stood their ground as an “Under God” united force. Christianity had become “weak and divided.” The Ottoman Turks felt this was the perfect time to storm in and “deal the last blow.” Facing this make or break moment, Pope Pius V discerned it was time to “unite and pray.” Under the command of Don John of Austria, the remnant armies were gathered into one Holy Alliance nicknamed the “Holy League.” Pope Pius V then got the word out to as much of the world as he could to ask for “prayer support,” especially to petition the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary through the recitation of the Rosary. Although greatly outnumbered, the Holy League famously defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pope Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory (later named, “Our Lady of the Rosary”). Fr, Steve Grunow went as far to say, “This victory would severely curtail attempts by the Ottoman Empire to control the Mediterranean, causing a seismic shift in international relations from East to West. In some respects, and I do not want this claim to be overstated, the world that we know came into being with this victory.” Today, a seismic shift, for the good or for the bad, is in the offing, or what is called a “watershed moment.” A watershed moment is a turning point, the exact moment that changes the direction of a situation. We are now facing a historically powerful radical secular tyranny – media, Hollywood, Big Tech, government, universities, etc. – that has joined forces and is now aggressively advancing to seize absolute power and control; to “deal the last blow.” Why? Because, as it was 450 years ago, Christianity is “weak and divided.” QUO VADIS, AMERICA? (WHERE ARE YOU GOING, AMERICA?) Archbishop Fulton Sheen, in this monumental video below, identifies this new type of “tyranny by violence” that is sweeping across our country. Sheen says this is manifested as “elitism.” According to Sheen, “there is a dominant minority that makes a lot of noise, and that uses ‘violence’ to FORCE IT’S WILL UPON OTHERS!” It is also identified as “mysticism.” This is a “political mysticism.” A political mysticism starts with the belief that there is no God, and then demands, “It’s my will or nothing!” This is the “dogma” of this new radical secular religion, and they will bully you into compliance. The third characteristic of this violent tyranny is “Satanism.” Sheen states, “Order and harmony come from God, so the essence of Satanism is the destruction of that order. The destruction of the order of law, the order of morality, the order of religion, the order of ethics … anything that you please.” Sheen concludes by appealing to all of us in his raised voice, “Our nation is too full of those that are crying Down. Down with the universities. Down with schools. Down with the churches. Down with teachers. Down with government. Down with the police. Can you build anything down? You cannot! Certainly it is time in our nation to change our words! Let’s begin now to use the word UP. Up from all of this filth! Up from this violence! Up from this indifference of courts. Up, up to the battlements of eternity. Up, Up, to God!” Please watch this short historical video! (below) SUPERNATURAL HEROES UNITE IN PRAYER TO LIBERATE AMERICA Here we are on the anniversary of our nation’s own liberation: 4th of July or Independence Day. We celebrate being liberated from oppressive tyrannical forces. So that, now, we boldly proclaim that this is the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” However, justifiably, so many worry that we are facing a new great oppression of violent tyrannical forces. We are, as Sheen warns, being oppressed by satanic forces, seen and unseen. And so, we must deploy the very best tactics used by exorcists for those who are under satanic oppression. God is calling YOU to step up as His “Supernatural Hero” to expel demons and liberate America! Exorcists will, first, identify the demonic spirits and then pray certain exorcism prayers to seek this liberation. Once liberation has occurred, exorcists will guide and form those once oppressed in how to seek protection and blessing from that day forward. This is the approach we are taking to stand up and seek liberation from our country’s satanic tyrannical oppressors. Our battle cry is the same of every hero willing to fight for our freedom … I’M GOING IN! Full article: July 7 – October 7: Supernatural Heroes Unite in Prayer to Liberate AmericaJuly 7 - October 7: Supernatural Heroes Unite in Prayer to Liberate America – United States Grace Force
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Well said miker. You describe my sense today as well. The words from Ezekiel in the first reading today really hit home with me.
I have been praying for the USA for some time now. Watching it descend as it has to something I barely recognize has been tough. Hope we are still celebrating our declaration of independence this time next year but I am not so sure as some want to get rid of it along with our constitution.
