Tea at Trianon: Sweet Heart of Mary, be my Salvation!

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, June 1, 2015

Sweet Heart of Mary, be my Salvation!

The time has come for us to pray as we have never prayed before. Sometime in June the Supreme Court will vote on an issue which could criminalize the most basic Christian beliefs on sin, virtue, vice and particularly unnatural vice. But it is no longer the time for words. It is the time for prayer. It is the time for courage. It is the time to shine like the stars. June 13 this year is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It is the day our Lady appeared at Fatima and said "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way which will lead you to God." It is the feast of St. Anthony the Wonder-worker. The power that is with us is greater than the power that is in the world. Prayer can do all things. It can change hearts. Let us say the rosary everyday for the next two weeks for our nation to be saved. If our petition is not granted may we at least have the courage of our Christian brothers and sisters who are being persecuted in Muslim lands. Holy God! Holy Mighty God! Holy Immortal God, have mercy on us and on the whole world!

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