Heroes are born for times such as these. And you are all HERE, in the providence of God! Who knows how many of us will go down swinging, only to have epics written, and songs sung about us for generations? Who knows what deeds we are put on earth to do, what evil we are to have a hand in vanquishing? Look up, my friends, your redemption draws nigh, one way or the other! Throw ink-wells at the enemy as Luther did. Laugh them to scorn. The best revenge is loving your own deeply, teaching them diligently, building your house with all fervor and devotion. Love will bind our children to us, and the joy of the Lord will be our strength, and theirs.

The time in which we are living is the time forseen by St Louis de Montfort (1673 – 1716 ) when “the enemies of God, idolaters, schismatics, Mahometans, Jews and souls hardened in impiety who shall rise in terrible revolt against God to seduce all those who shall oppose them and to make them fall by promises and threats”

The Revolution inaugurated 1789 is buiding to its culmination in our time. And I think the words of St Louis do about sum it up.

When George Bush inaugurated the Terror War and culmination of the Revolution, he invoked Lucifer – “the angel that rides this whirlwind”.

However, it is the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour and King who reigns, Unreconstructed. And he must reign until all his enemies are under his feet. 1 Cor 15:27; Eph 1:22.

Victory in this battle will go to the Church. And our King intends this Victory to be won with spiritual weapons despised as weak and foolish by his proud foes. These weapons were commended to all who would summon the faith to believe and to employ them in faith so that even the last and least among the faithful might make their contribution to the Victory that he intends.

In commending the prayers of Holy Rosary to individuals, families, the Church and nations, Sr Lucia of Fatima in her final prophetic interview (Dec 26, 1952) with Father Fuentes puts it like this:

“Look, Father, the Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Holy Rosary. She has given this efficacy to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one, of our families, of the families of the world, of the religious communities, or even the life of peoples and nations, that can not be solved by the Rosary. There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary. With the Holy Rosary, we will save ourselves. We will sanctify ourselves. We will console Our Lord and obtain the salvation of many souls.”

It is the role of the father, Unreconstructed, to assemble his family for the prayers of the family. Let him lead his family in the contemplation of the saving mysteries of our Lord’s life, death and resurrection, the mysteries pondered in the Immaculate heart of the Blessed Mother. Perhaps a reading of holy scripture with the Mystery and then the recitation of the prayers together.

This is like when Moses elevated the image of the serpent in the wilderness. The people had to get their minds off their problems; they had to raise the vision of their faith in the Lord by the word of his prophet Moses and focus upon the image. And all who looked – lived. But in order to look, they had to get their minds off the bites of the serpents and onto the image that had been elevated. This is a type or a prefigurement of acts of faith which the Church commends.

Today a new in hoc signatio vinces has been raised and to solve all problems, wounds, fears and terrors that are being generated all around us we have to enter into the tranquility of our faith vision.

This is the recitation of the Holy Rosary.

At Fatima, on Oct. 13, 1917 our Lady told the young children that her Immaculate Heart would triumph over precisely these our apocaylytic times by means of the Holy Rosary and the Scapular of Carmel.

The world busy with its Terror War, the Jews busy with their antiChrist agenda, the people of nations in gross darkness and descending to a level lower than the beasts, the Church in Eclipse…
“In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph, the Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me” and it will all turn over.

Until it does, please lay hold of the fact that this thing is indeed what three popes have declared: “the Signum Magnum” of Apoc 13. And in the culmination of the Revolution inaugurated 1789, victory will go to the Church.

“My question is: HOW is a man to do this when he has no legally enforceable right to control his own household? Courage and the willingness to fight for right are wonderful Christian characteristics. We need much more of it. But a dead man, or a financially broken man in an imperial prison cannot do much to help his family. Unless I am missing something, all he can do practically as a husband and father is beg his wife and children as individuals to behave themselves.”

In this context, “fighting,” as we see in “The Passion of the Christ” — and it’s been a theme in other Mel Gibson movies — means the courage to accept suffering. We might go to jail. We might lose everything financially. It is then that we are forced to rely on our spiritual resources. We must take inventory of our treasure in heaven where rust does not corrode it and the moths don’t eat it. How much have we saved up? We might discover the virtues of poverty. “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”

Could Alexander Solzhenitsyn ever have believed that spending 10 years in the Gulag would be the best thing that could have happened to him? He was on the road to perdition, and it was only that experience which allowed him to awaken to the truth, to become a different man, and then to influence millions of people around the globe.

The only answer to your question is that we need to win over the hearts and minds of our children (and hopefully our wives as well, although that might prove an impossible task). This is the hard, difficult road, and we wish the easy way was an option, where our authority was supported by the family, community and state. But ultimately being forced to take the difficult way can pay the biggest dividends in the long run.

Our children can be convinced of the truth, their hearts can be turned to God, they can turn from this sick society and choose a better way. But only if we have the spiritual resources to show them, to convince them, to prove by our actions and not just by words that the Kingdom of Heaven is worth fighting for.

To be specific, first they must come to the realization that they have a soul. That sounds simple, but the vast majority of people today, no matter what they might say on a survey, do not truly believe in their hearts that they have an immortal soul. But a child who has a strong experiential conviction of the reality of their soul will think differently, feel differently, and act differently every minute of every day. They will reject all the blandishments of the devil and follow you even into martyrdom if they are convinced that you can save their souls. “Where else can we go Lord, since you have the words of everlasting life?”

But if our own immortal soul is only an abstraction to us, then we cannot convince even ourselves, nonetheless our children or anyone else. Which brings us back to the point about suffering. A man discovers the reality of his soul only when he is put to the test. A man has little need for an immortal soul when he is enjoying a life of comfort and ease. “As gold is tried in the furnace, so are the hearts of men tried in the fire of humiliation.” Perhaps the day when I am led away from my home in handcuffs will be the day when I will be forced to discover the reality of my soul, and its shameful condition. Only then can I begin to have any true influence.

“There are NO females of marriageable age, apart from the isolated instance of girls raised in strict Independent Baptist or maybe Presbyterian Covenanter families (and how many of either of these are there in total, and how many of that miniscule number are racially awake also?)who are not infected with the spirit of modernism and female licentiousness.”

What you say is true, and it’s an important realization that each man needs to come to when he is considering marrying and starting a family. Let’s remember, however, that this SWB posting began with links and discussion of the series of TOQ articles which concludes with the mandate to seek communities apart. I agree completely with this advice. There is just no way we can live in the midst of today’s moral sewer and preserve any innocence for our children. We must follow St. Peter’s admonition on the day of Pentecost, “Separate yourselves from this perverse generation.” All generations are perverse to some extent, but that particular generation was facing a tribulation in which “not one stone would be left standing upon another,” and perhaps our own generation will witness something similar.

Are these communities guaranteed to protect us? No, the devil infiltrates everywhere, and no one is immune. The state sent their tank to knock down the gate of the YFZ ranch in Texas and now some of their men are in jail based on new laws written to target those specific men. And even greater likelihood is the insidious betrayal from within.

Yet even if it is true that there are no 100% guarantees anywhere, at least these islands of traditional beliefs can offer a chance and a hope. Intellectually, morally and spiritually we already live in a post-apocalyptic landscape like “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” and like the protagonist in that story, we need the support of a community of like-minded people.

Also, as the “Swiss Family Robinson” discovered, the family is not a “perfect institution.” Even the best family is incomplete and requires other families for propagation. So even if we were to create our very own personal Shangri-la, we would still need other likeminded families in order to carry on the next generation.

Our ancestors pulled up roots and came to America, often with little more than the clothes on their backs, sometimes seeking economic opportunities, but often seeking freedom to practice their religion. We may be faced with the same necessity.

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Even the sons and daughters of professing Christians (some of whom know sexual and racial reality deep down, though they won’t say it) are lost by the age of 3 or 4. I would like to think that children are inspired by courage, but I just don’t see it. Daddy is an emasculated, buffoonish figure whose function is to buy the garbage output of industrial China and who is constantly browbeaten by his social climber consort within earshot of the children. Reality is that children are inspired today by pimps and whores. Has anyone heard of or seen the pop culture abomination “Toddlers in Tiaras?” Those are Southern people for the most part. The Bible belt indeed. Girl children, unless they are totally cut off from the popular culture, are trained from birth in all of the worse habits and vices of the female sex. (Boy children have their spirit and masculine development crushed, but that is another issue.) There are NO females of marriageable age, apart from the isolated instance of girls raised in strict Independent Baptist or maybe Presbyterian Covenanter families (and how many of either of these are there in total, and how many of that miniscule number are racially awake also?)who are not infected with the spirit of modernism and female licentiousness. Maybe I am too pessimistic, but I can see no light at the end of this tunnel, not in my lifetime.

Lynda, I particularly agree with this: “Without the protection of her father’s house and her father’s esteem for her in her identity as a daughter, his respect for her as a virgin and what that means for the integrity of her soul and her people, it will be exceedingly difficult for a young woman to persevere in chastity with a view to marriage should that be her estate in life.” My question is: HOW is a man to do this when he has no legally enforceable right to control his own household? Courage and the willingness to fight for right are wonderful Christian characteristics. We need much more of it. But a dead man, or a financially broken man in an imperial prison cannot do much to help his family. Unless I am missing something, all he can do practically as a husband and father is beg his wife and children as individuals to behave themselves.

A daughter looks to her father to affirm her in her identity as a woman – whether she imitates her mother or not.

The society into which she is being propelled is adverse to women generally and specifically adverse to women as virgins, and as Christian wives, mothers, as grandmothers because of the Church’s position on divorce.

In high school even to be recognized by her peers a young woman must ‘date’. Because there is no parental oversight of the social life of the youth, the young men are able to dictate the dating scene on their terms, which are sexual terms.

The young woman who is not going to meet these terms, therefore is not going to be accepted by her peers. She will be very isolated. And the girls who my grandmother would have called ‘fast’ will bully her mercilessly because they can not initiate her into the demands of the young men. (For which they are rewarded with popularity and admission to the sororities etc)

Without the protection of her father’s house and her father’s esteem for her in her identity as a daughter, his respect for her as a virgin and what that means for the integrity of her soul and her people, it will be exceedingly difficult for a young woman to persevere in chastity with a view to marriage should that be her estate in life.

In terms of the Matyrology, there is sublimity about the lives and witness of the young Roman women, virgins and martyrs for the faith raised to the altars of the Church and in the accounts of their deaths narrated in the liturgy.

It has always been of interest to me that in the public witness and testament of these deaths, our Lord chose to display the powers of the resurrection body while these young women were yet in their earthly bodies. Their testaments were so astonishing that Rome had to rethink the public executions of the Christian virgins in the circuses and came around to a preference for private executions of the young women because of the display of the powers of the resurrection body with their martydoms.

Just as the Apostle did not testify in “plausible words of wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and power” (1 Cor 2:5), so did the virgin daughters of the Christian patricians of Rome who were martyred for the faith. Many of the old basilicas that are stations of Lenten pilgramage preserve their relics and are dedicated to them.

To borrow from General Jackson, If all men believed such, all men would be equally brave.

Sola Deo Gloria,