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“They will know the grandeurs of that Queen, and will consecrate themselves entirely to her service as subjects and slaves of love. They shall be the true apostles of the latter times.” St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, now that’s a strange sounding name – de Montfort – what’s it mean? Well, it’s not as strange as it sounds. St. John the Baptist said, “ He must increase while I must decrease” (Jn. 3:30). St. John meant that God must become more in him as he became less. As we empty ourselves, God fills us. And so it was that St. Louis emptied himself – even of his name. His middle name was Marie and his surname was Grignion. He dropped them both and preferred to be called simply le Pere de Montfort (the Father of Montfort) after his birthplace. “De” means “of” in French and that’s why we call him St. Louis de Montfort. His name is like “Joe from Kalamazoo.” He’s a nobody, so he preferred the name of a nobody.

The issues surrounding Ted Kennedy’s funeral are not limited to whether Cardinal O’Malley should have allowed or presided at his public funeral or whether he should have allowed the grand celebration of Kennedy’s supposed legislative accomplishments (without mention of his support for abortion, embryonic killing or same-sex marriage) or even the quasi-canonization by the priest homilist. The central issue is whether sacrilegious Communions were committed by Catholic politicians who publicly support the horrendous sin of abortion.

The Feast of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19. From Scripture we know that the great virtue of St. Joseph was his obedient faith. “He did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took Mary as his wife.” Mt 1:24. He did this in spite of the fact that Mary’s pregnancy was apparently visible to everyone. He took her in the mystery of her motherhood and acted in obedient faith, as did Mary when she said, “Let it be done to me according to your word.” Lk 1:38. “Blessed are they who have not seen, yet have believed.” Jn 20:29.

We are starting off the New Year by celebrating the feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. She was our first native born to be canonized. She was two years old in 1776 when she became a charter citizen of the United States of America. She lived on to become a mother, a widow and a foundress of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s, the first community for religious women to be established in the United States. She also founded St. Joseph’s Catholic school, the first Catholic parish school in the United States. Like all of our American Saints, she is a model of holiness for us.

At a time when we are faced with the dangers of untold terror, violence and war, the use of nuclear weapons by rogue regimes, worldwide persecution of Christians, economic devastation and the plague of Ebola, Our Lady’s requests are most urgent and beg your attention! The statue of the Queen of Our Country must be solemnly processed and displayed in our National Shrine to be a safeguard for our country. Please help her.

Our Lady of America appeared to Sr. Mildred Neuzil from 1956 through 2000 in Fostoria, Ohio and Rome City, Indiana. Our Lady of America asked us for purity and promised us peace and protection. However, America gave her the Sexual Revolution and a Culture of Death. America brought her widespread fornication and adultery, continuing with legalized contraception and abortion and culminating in legalized sodomy, same-sex false marriage, false transgenderism, suicide and the sexual harassment and sexual abuse crises. St. John Paul II called our culture a Culture of Death.

“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the Anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.” (Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, later St. Pope John Paul II, November 9, 1976).

Terrorist attacks by militant jihadist Muslims are becoming so frequent that we soon forget them. I use the term “militant jihadist Muslims” because peaceful Muslims profess that jihad is not a violent external struggle, but an interior spiritual struggle. Therefore, I use the word “militant jihadist Muslims” to distinguish the violent terrorists from the peaceful Muslims who do not engage in violent terrorism.

Addie Moser is a bright, creative and courageous 11-year-old girl who has suffered for more than a year from Gorham’s disease. Gorham’s disease is a very rare skeletal condition that can be life threatening. It is characterized by loss of bone and fluids, because of which it is commonly known as vanishing bone disease.