The following comes from a September 20 Catholic San Francisco article:
The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual rosary rally is Oct. 8 at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco.
The event begins with 10 a.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St. at Geary Boulevard.
The one-mile rosary procession begins at 11:15 a.m., led by the archbishop from the cathedral to U.N. Plaza where the rally begins at noon. Archbishop Cordileone will deliver the keynote address, and the event will conclude with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
The rosary rally was re-established in 2011 at the initiative of the Legion of Mary on the 50th anniversary of Servant of God, Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton’s Family Rosary Crusade. The 1961 rosary rally drew hundreds of thousands to Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field.
Father Peyton was known as the “Rosary Priest” because he tirelessly promoted the powerful prayer of the rosary around the world, preaching to an estimated 28 million people over the course of his life. His rosary rallies attracted hundreds of thousands, including several in the Philippines and South America that drew over a million people.
This year the San Francisco rally will begin celebration of the centennial of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917, rosary rally organizers said. The rally will include the presence of the National Pilgrim Virgin Statue of the World Apostolate of Fatima and the sacrament of reconciliation will be available at U.N. Plaza, organizers said. For more information, rosaryrallysf.com.
Maybe y’all want to talk to him about his stance on the death penalty!
Correct me if I am wrong, but I am under the impression that such rallies are prayers for the conversion of souls from sinful behavior to adherence to the Moral Natural law, not “theology on tap” discussions.
Anything to take away from the glory of this day, eh “YFC”? You Zombie-Liberals are all the same: try to silence with apostasy, and if that fails, then attack the orthodox (or even a questioner — all most stand at attention).
The good Archbishop is wrong on capital punishment, but very right on the Rosary.
Your brand of religion, whatever it is, is vile. Time to go to confession.
Your Fellow Catholic– why not come to the procession, and pray the holy Rosary, and honor Our Lady? She might grant you many special blessings, favors, and graces! She would be so pleased, if you would come! And you can talk to the Archbishop yourself, about what is troubling you, regarding his stance, on capital punishment! You really ought come and honor Our Blessed Mother, YFC– you are supposed to be our “Fellow Catholic!”
A good start for reparation of sins. Nothing sends the demons packing like — a Holy Mass, rosaries full of ‘Hail Mary’. Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament & confession of repentant sinners. God knows, the new age Sodom & Gomorrah, aka San Francisco, needs it. Might I suggest an exorcist? Could not hurt. All for God’s glory.
Preparation for Oct. 8th, Our Lady of the Rosary, and the re-start of the Peyton Rosary Rally’s in SF: I’ll be there. You can be sure the Legion of evil spirits that have taken up residence in the City of St. Francis will be in a chaotic frenzy.
Also, in 6 days, on Sept. 29th, is what was previously one of the most solemn holydays in the Catholic calendar, the First Class Feast of St Michael the Archangel.
Along with his day on May 8th, St. Michael, in recognition of his protectorship of the universal Church, was accorded the major distinction of two major days in the Church year (other than the Bl. Virgin, only Ss. Peter and Paul, St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph have similar dual solemn memorials).
In the Jewish pantheon, St. Michael specifically was charged with protecting the synagogue from evil, both spirits of the air and the human sort (Dom Gaspar Lefebvre OSB). Extraordinary how the Catholic Church maintained the Jewish traditional link to this most…
powerful patron.
Sept. 29th was such an important ancient feast (dating from at least 530 AD: it had previously been a feast day memorialzing all the angels), that St. Francis often annually prepared for it by a 40-day fast and retreat (which is why he received the stigmata on Sept. 17th). Even the great saints have patron saints of particular power and devotion. So, for St. Francis, the Archangel Michael was a supremely important one.
To eliminate one’s living link to Catholic tradition and history, the most important step to undertake is to impose forgetfulness of the past. The Soviets used to airbrush out photos of disfavored and executed officials. The Egyptians would chisel out the name-cartouche of anathematized pharaohs.
In the false reform of the calendar of Annibale Bugnini (cf. the account of eyewitness and peritus, Louis Bouyer, “Memoirs”), Bugnini truncated the 3 separate archangel feasts into one, eliminated May 8th (Apparition of St Michael), as well as eliminating Marian feasts and esp. eliminating the Roman martyrs and early popes from the general calendar (such as today, St. Linus, successor to St. Peter, the 2nd pope, and of course a martyr…
So, if even the 2nd pope could be erased, in Bugnini’s unending quest to impose amnesia on the patronage and living tradition of the Catholic Faith, virtually suppressing the Archangels and reducing St. Michael to an “also-ran” was easy. (Bugnini also of course eliminated the Leonine prayers to St. Michael, as a good mason would want.)
We don’t know if many Catholics will notice Thurs. Sept 29th as the solemn and ancient feast of St. Michael. However consider St. Francis’ devotion, while preparing for October 8th and the Rosary Rally we can restore S. Michael’s proper honor and we must recover our past. Quickly.
Time is short.
LOVE your posts, Justin K!! LOVE the Sept. 29th Feast of St. Michael and all the Archangels– Raphael, Gabriel– and Uriel, too! Also I LOVE the Oct. 2nd Feast of the Guardian Angels, too! Why don’t you write us a post about that one, too?
P.S. I AGREE with your thoughts, on the ridiculous doings of the infamous Bugnini, and his Vatican II pals! (I prefer the views of Cardinal Ottaviani, who was head of the Holy Office, at that time!) But I ignore all of that “Vatican II baloney,” as best I can, and just go on, like many people– practicing my Catholic Faith, in the traditional way! Yes– we NEED our Archangels, especially today, to protect our Church! Please do relate the story, with all the details- as to why Pope Leo XIII began the special “Leonine prayers,” after Mass– he had marvelous visions, instructing him to do so!
P.S. #2 Oct. 7th is the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, and we should have a great many traditional Novenas, for that beautiful Feast!
Thank you, Linda M: and tho’ risking a “mutual admiration society”, I always appreciate your “common-sense-Mother-Angelica-no-nonsense-Catholic” comments, too. And, like Mother A., your overwhelmingly solid common Catholic sense makes me laugh. :)
But, as Justin K. no doubt knows, if Bl. Herman’s life, short as it was (1013-1054), had not been valued, as it was in this most Catholic age, we would not have today the Salve Regina, the written text with a musical chant accompaniment which Bl. Herman “the Cripple”, composed.
Thank you, too, Justin K. for your comments. Perspective, perspective, perspective, which you bring.
Also: today (Sept 25) is the saint’s day for Bl. Herman of Reichenau: “Herman the Cripple”.
We know today that the life of the unborn is cheap: increasingly numbered among the millions aborted are those who even while in the womb are found to have birth defects.
Fortunately, Bl. Herman, who appears to have had a severe muscular atrophy disease (some have said spina bifida) was placed by his family at the Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau, situated in southern Germany. And even though he had difficulty walking (he is said to have crawled along the cloister walls) and even speaking, Bl. Herman became a gifted…
Justin K: I also recommend if you haven’t read it, “The Reform of the Roman Liturgy”, by Vatican II eye-witness, unsuperseded liturgical scholar, and peritus, Monsgnr Klaus Gamber.
Gamber adds to Bouyer’s picture on the hijacking of the actual “Liturgy of Vatican II”. It actually was to remain the Traditional Latin Mass: because Gamber observes that the Council Fathers ordered tens of thousands of “1965 Roman Missals” (Ordo Missae 1965) printed. The 1965 Missal is virtually the same Mass as the pre-Vatican II Missal. Gamber states the Fathers would never have ordered the printing of this Missal if somehow a “Novus Ordo” (a phrase completely alien to Vatican II by the way) was to later be initiated. (cf. p. 33)
People, the Magisterium HAS EVERY AUTHORITY to amend the liturgies of the Church. It is the competent authority, not you people. Therefore, if the Second Vatican Council says that the liturgy is to be thus, then it is LEGITIMATE! Your complains are groundless, just on the basis of the authority of the Magisterium over the Church’s liturgy.
Plus, didn’t you people realize what Ottavianni himself had said: “I have rejoiced profoundly to read the Discourse by the Holy Father on the question of the new Ordo Missae, and especially the doctrinal precisions contained in his discourses at the public Audiences of November 19 and 26, after which I believe, no one can any longer be genuinely scandalized.” Meaning that Ottavianni himself…
after his invention started think according to the MIND OF THE CHURCH on the matter of the liturgy.
My point? People, by your incessant unfounded castigations of the Council and the Ordinary Form of the Mass, you betray your agenda which is to forward a false theory by your beloved SSPX and those sympathetic to them. There is perfectly nothing wrong with the Mass of Paul VI, just as there is nothing wrong with the Mass of John XXIII. Your assertions are GROUNDLESS!
LOVED all your wonderful posts, Campion! Thanks!
As usual, there goes poor jon, in his mindless, tragic devotion to “whatever the Vatican and the Pope says, goes!” jon I just signed a very disturbing petition, regarding parents who are upset over the Vatican’s new sex-ed program, which some Catholic schools are FORCING on their students, even if parents want their kids excused from these classes! They are worried SICK! Some horrible bishops are telling parents, that their kids will be REFUSED A GRADUATION DIPLOMA, if they do not come to the horrible, dirty new sex-ed classes, and pass the classes! jon, if you have kids– you, too, WILL BE WORRIED SICK!!
We have to fine-tune LMaria’s point here. Whatever the Magisterium says concerning faith and morals must be adhered to, for the Holy Spirit preserves the Church from error on these matters. Moreover, the Church itself teaches that the rights of parents over their children is “irreplaceable and inalienable and therefore incapable of being entirely delegated to others or usurped by others.”
LMaria desires to take the mal-direction of one cleric and conflate it to the whole Church. FALSE!
jon, you need to follow Christ– NOT be a “politically-correct” follower of the “trendy (worldly, and sinful!) Vatican!” St. Francis of Assisi, in his era, recognized also, that many priests and bishops were not following Christ, though they were totally accepted in the Church of their day, as the “norm,” for their profession. St. Francis knew the REAL Christ! And in the phony, hypocritical Church of his era– he refused to be a priest! Why don’t you find Christ too, jon– and stop your mindless and unwanted criticisms of other posters, who are good, devout Catholics!!
Today’s post-Conciliar Vatican is only a bunch of IMMATURE, IMMORAL, “trendy, fashionable, hypocritical, worldly, sinful” bunch of CROOKS who run a Church that has become EXTREMELY DEVIANT under their FALSE LEADERSHIP!! It is NOT CHRISTIAN to set up a filthy, anti-Catholic sex-ed program in Catholic schools, and FORCE KIDS TO TAKE THE DIRTY, SINFUL CLASSES— OR ELSE THREATEN THEM WITH NO GRADUATION!! jon– BEST TO KEEP YOUR BABYISH CRITICISMS OF GOOD CATHOLIC POSTERS TO YOURSELF!!
Thank you, Linda Marie, for your kind comments, regarding preparing for this week’s St. Michael’S Solemn Feast 9/29, and for Oct. 7th (Our Lady of the Rosary), and then, the Oct. 8th Rally for Life.
And as others have said very well, I appreciate your common-sense Catholic observations. After all, you know some things are true and can never change: that is what the traditional Catholic believes:
‘We are what you once were.
We believe what you once believed.
We worship as you once worshipped.
If you were right then, we are right now.
If we are wrong now, you were wrong then.”
WONDERFUL, as always,. Justin K! “We are what you once were…” LOVE that quote! Thanks for all your great posts! And the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux is Oct. 1st, the Feast of the Guardian Angels is Oct. 2nd, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, is Oct. 4th– the Feast of the Holy Rosary is Oct. 7th… and so on! October is a wonderful month full of Feasts! Maybe you can write more wonderful posts all about this! Thanks!