Our Lady of Victory

Please excuse the tardiness of my duty, but I have finally attached the Novena to Our Lady of Victory. I've been praying for the soul of this nation since before the election, October 23rd last year. I ask my readers to continue to pray daily until She answers our prayer. I believe that She was here at the founding of this great country, guiding it, watching over it, and protecting it. Since those early days of our birth, we have abandoned our need for Her mothering protection. Until we call out to Her: "Hail Mary! Blessed Virgin Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ! Save us from our sins, and return us to the life your Son has given us;" I fear, lest we return to Her, we will not escape His final judgement.

Lord, have mercy on us,
Christ, have mercy on us,
Christ, hear us,
Christ, graciously hear us.
God, the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us.
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us.
God, the Holy Spirit, Have mercy on us.
Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us.

Our Lady of Victory, (The response to each of the following is "Pray for us.")
Victorious daughter of the Father,
Victorious Mother of the Son,
Victorious Spouse of the Holy Spirit,
Victorious servant of the Holy Trinity,
Victorious in your Immaculate Conception,
Victorious in crushing the serpent’s head,
Victorious over all the children of Adam,
Victorious over all enemies,
Victorious in your response to the Angel Gabriel,
Victorious in your wedding to St. Joseph,
Victorious in the birth of Christ,
Victorious in the flight to Egypt,
Victorious in your exile,
Victorious in your home at Nazareth,
Victorious in finding Christ in the temple,
Victorious in the mission of your Son,
Victorious in His passion and death,
Victorious in His Resurrection and Ascension,
Victorious in the Coming of the Holy Spirit,
Victorious in your sorrows and joys,
Victorious in your glorious Assumption,
Victorious in the angels who remained faithful,
Victorious in the happiness of the saints,
Victorious in the message of the prophets,
Victorious in the testimony of the patriarchs,
Victorious in the zeal of the apostles,
Victorious in the witness of the evangelists,
Victorious in the wisdom of the doctors,
Victorious in the deeds of the confessors,
Victorious in the triumph of all holy women,
Victorious in the faithfulness of the martyrs,
Victorious in your powerful intercession,
Victorious under your many titles,
Victorious at the moment of death,
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Spare us, Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Hear us, Lord.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Have mercy, Lord.
Pray for us, blessed Lady of Victory.
That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:
Our Lady of Victory, we have unshaken confidence in your influence with your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Humbly we ask your intercession for all of us associated under your title, Our Lady of Victory.

We beg your powerful assistance also for our own personal needs. (Please mention here your special intention in you own words.) In your maternal kindness please ask Jesus to forgive all our sins and failings, and to secure His blessings for us and for all the works of charity dedicated to your name. We implore you to obtain for us the grace of sharing Christ’s victory with you forever in the life that knows no ending. May we join you there to praise forever the Father, His Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, one God, for all the ages to come.

Amen.

Let us pray:
Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope.To Thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us. And after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of Thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary, Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray:
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that any one who fled to Thy protection, implored Thy help, and sought Thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly unto Thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To Thee I come; before Thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate! despise not my petitions, but in Thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.

All this we ask of The Father in the name of Mary’s Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with Him and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.

Amen.

Let us pray to our Blessed Lady of Victory:
O Victorious Lady! Thou who has ever such powerful influence with Thy Divine Son, in conquering the hardest of hearts, intercede for those for whom we pray, that their hearts being softened by the rays of Divine Grace, they may return to the unity of the true Faith, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Rosary Follows…

The Gathering Storm

Of the litany of evil being perpetrated on the people of the United States by President Obama and the liberal congress, perhaps the worst will be the passage of the Freedom of Choice Act.

If we do not protect the lives of innocents, how can we expect our government to protect us when it becomes "politically expedient" not to?

If Obama decides that a government run health care system can no longer afford to treat a debilitating illness now being treated under private insurance, what hapens? Would people just be piled up like sotted cordwood, or worse yet would the government sponsor a program to "deal" with the victims?

We are slowly and surely turning ourselves into a post Weimar Republic Germany, where we will become "ruled" (Rham Emmanuel's word not mine) by an uncaring beast that only seeks to devour our liberty. Germany woke up too late to the evils of their government, will we do the same?

Alarming News!!!

In just these first few weeks, we have seen alarming shifts in our approach to national defense, the war on terror, international relations, ethics in government, social issues and domestic policy. And now, drum roll please... The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009! That's one big pig in every pot! (Sans lipstick.)

First out of the box, there was Obama's in-your-face executive fiat reinstituting America's support for foreign agencies performing abortion. Next his proactive endorsement of the militant homosexual agenda. Then his edict on automobile emissions standards. Next, his stunningly hypocritical support for nominees manifestly guilty of wrongdoing and his self-serving exemptions for appointees from rules he has promulgated. Then there was Obama's autocratic dictate to corporate-CEO recipients of "bailout" money to reduce their salaries to what he deems appropriate.

These were followed by the outrageously inappropriate programs Obama and his congressional colleagues tried to sneak through under cover of the sheer volume and complexity of their budget-busting pseudo-stimulus package.

When the house collapses, as this one will, will there be any patriots around to pick up the kindling?

"We have duties, for the discharge of which we are accountable to our Creator and benefactor, which no human power can cancel. What those duties are, is determinable by right reason, which may be, and is called, a well informed conscience." -- Theophilus Parsons "the Essex Result" 1778

Teach me?

The prolonged attack which has resulted in the diminution of liberty can be directly attributed to education and t.v.

Our educational system has been the driving force behind the gradual erosion of individual achievement and personal responsibility in this country. Combine that with the concommitant rise in television and you have a recipe for a dumbed down society that only wants their news spoon-fed and told what to do.

The Americans who voted for Barack Obama were denied the opportunity to examine the man. Reporters and writers deflected any genuine investigation and critical look into his background and ability to lead this country.

Republicans could only nominate a person who, despite his demonstrated courage in a North Vietnamese prison, was always already running a fair play and gentlemanly campaign. While the other side bloodied him, he held himself to a 'higher more principled' campaign. Well, we lost, and we lost big!

BHO in three weeks has already set-back the cause of liberty in the United States in ways that I fear we no longer have the will to retrieve. Look at how Iran is calling-out this president. He will lose in any face-to-face with evil men. I only pray that the Blessed Mother will not abandon Her ally in the cause for global Peace and Justice, for once the United States was that ally. Now, as God is rapidly being removed from the market place and the homage which is His due is chased from our society, I only pray that His wrath comes swiftly for I am a coward and don't look forward to the long suffering which is our fate.

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The following comment was written in response to an article posted here: http://www.rinosafari.com/2009/02/04/obama-limits-executive-pay/comment-page-1/#comment-241

TARP. Tax And Remove Public (scrutiny.)

Its all part of the Obama game plan, folks. If we don’t keep our heads together on this we’re going to wake up one morning and find the ‘jack-booted thugs’ beating down the doors of liberty loving people. “Mosey along here folks, nothing to see any more. The accident’s already happened.”

I have no doubt that if left unfettered, this administration will nationalize everything we have ever struggled to leave our children’s children’s children; and which was given to us by our father’s father’s father. We sit in the nexus of two worlds that are struggling to assert themselves: one guided by Freedom and the other totalitarian. The Obama-Pelosi-Reid cabal has set their agenda before us: Nancy Pelosi said a couple days ago that she would nationalize everything if she could. And remember Rahm Emmanuel who doesn’t want to miss the opportunities created by crises. Harry Reid is a useful idiot who unfortunately controls a lot of power in the United States Senate. And Obamamama, well he’s frustrated that Pelosi can’t deliver.

But we must do something. I write my congressmen and senators on a regular basis to let them know how I feel about a particular piece of legislation. In VA my representatives are all swimming in the liberal offal tank, but at least they have to weigh my opinion before they vote. The other side to that coin is I am blogging my opinions on VA web sites so that others may become convinced that what I stand for is the direction this country must be headed.

We have not lost our compass, we conveniently put it away during the happy tmes of Bush and Clinton. When things went well, we never thought of what our actions would do to us. Money was loose, and prices could be afforded. Now the grim reaper comes knocking and we hide in fear.

Return to the principles Reagan taught us. It will be difficult at first, but with discipline we can see ourselves through this crisis of identity and win back the country our founding fathers entrusted to us.

Joseph O’Donnell
Arlington, VA

Do you want to know a secret?

Allow me to suggest the following line of action for my followers on Twitter, Facebook, and whoever else may read this blog: Congress represents "We the People..." Even those representatives whom we personally did not elect represent us nonetheless. Theirs should not be a tyranny of the few (or oligarchy in the Greek), so we need make sure our representatives represent the will of the majority of their constituents, and our will will be heard. No longer will I remain one of the silent majority acquiescing to the very vocal minority of liberals now in charge of us.

In June 2006 people with backbone stopped Congress from passing a "Shamnesty" bill that would have flooded this country with some 15 - 20 million new illegal aliens seeking to either "cut the line" of our lawful immigration process, or just "step out from the shadows" to claim their "rightful" benefit of US citizenship.

What I propose on these three sources, is that we take back this government by stopping our representatives in their tracks! Call DC when there is a piece of legislation we don't want passed, call them when there is one we think is worthwhile. Tie up their phone lines and prevent them from doing the bad business that hurts our pocket books and families.

"We the People..." such wonderful words to start our Declaration of Independence may have been overlooked by the unuseful idiots we've elected, or allowed to be elected, but they will hear the cry again. From the people they were elected to represent! And represent they will!!!

"I'm mad as hell and I won't take it any more!!"

We can start with the Freedom of Choice Act. I think the majority of Americans do not favor such a hideous Bill. The gruesome procedure, when brought out of the abortion clinics into the light of day, do not meet the standards of fairness and decency for individuals, neither those having abortions or the abortee. Those undergoing the procedure are being used as pawns in a program of eugenics, those being aborted have no choice.

We must make our voices heard. NOW!