Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Election results show U.S. needs a re-consecration to Our Lady and a Christian revival

We are in desperate need of a Christian revival. Hopefully, the re-consecration of America to Our Lady on November 11 will spur a spiritual awakening. Please see this excellent article from Spirit Daily:

AT CRITICAL TIME IN NATION'S HISTORY COMES NEW CONSECRATION AND ALLEGED MESSAGE

This weekend, November 11, at noon EST, the papal nuncio to the U.S., Archbishop Pietro Sambi, will be officiating a Mass for the renewal of the country’s consecration to Our Lady as the Immaculate Conception (at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington). We strongly applaud that at the same time as reminding bishops of a request, from an apparition that had the partial approval of a local archbishop, to place a statue dedicated to Our Lady of America in the same basilica -- which has grottos devoted to a number of foreign Madonnas (representing apparition sites in France, the Philippines, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, and most recently, Our Lady of LaVang, in Vietnam) -- but not a single representation of Mary as attached to the U.S.

It is time to consider that surprising fact, whichever way they want to represent her: there are a number of alleged apparitions since Indian times. But first on that matter of re-consecration:

As we previously reported, bishops across the U.S. have been invited to join in the Saturday event, and we hope they all do. It is more important, for sure, than the annual bishops' conference and comes as one of our last best hopes. The country is in desperate need of spiritual renewal -- slammed as it is on all fronts by everything from abortion, materialism, premarital sex, embryonic stem cells, pornography, and homosexual marriage to crime, sexual abuse, violence, and war.

High noon indeed: From politics to the Church, from the culture to practices of business, the nation is in need of a gigantic spiritual overhaul -- or perhaps one should say a spiritual rescue mission -- and one help is a consecration.

We should say "re-consecration," since this great nation has been consecrated since its very start.

Although few know it, Columbus and his crew sang the Salve Regina on the way over from Europe and there was a Mass here -- in fact, a thanksgiving Mass -- long before Plymouth Rock (in St. Augustine).

It is time for us to realize this and at this late hour extend it urgently.
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