As Cardinal Mercier said : "When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere."                                                                                  From Cardinal Sarah : "In order to avoid hearing God's music, we have chosen to use all the devices of this world. But heaven's instruments will not stop playing just because some people are deaf."                                                                                              Saint John-Paul II wrote: "The fact that one can die for the faith shows that other demands of the faith can also be met."                                                 Cardinal Müller says, “For the real danger to today’s humanity is the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief and the decay of morality when no one knows and teaches the difference between good and evil.”                                                  St Catherine of Siena said, “We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.”                                                  Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”                                                Brethren, Wake up!

SAINT CECILIA AND SOLDIERS FOR CHRIST

Today, the last Sunday of the Year, the Feast of Christ the King in the Universal Calendar, is the Feast of Saint Cecilia.

This gentle child martyr virgin, patroness of the caressing muse of Music, the angels' art, inflames us to violent battle against the Powers of Darkness.

The Benedictus Antiphon of her morning Office rings out - "As dawn was breaking into day, Cecilia cried out saying: Courage, soldier of Christ, cast away the deeds of darkness, and put on the armour of light."

"Dum aurora fine daret, Cecilia exclamavit dicens : Eia, milites Christi, abicite opera tenebrarum et induimini arma lucis."

Let those fools who would deny our duty to fight for Christ against the World and the Devil, who makes his nest even within our midst, and turn our ancient and holy Order into a den of spiritual pacifists, take heed. Christ the King requires of us an Army, and we must be ready to answer the clarion call. 

Ordo Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani Militaris et Hospitalis Melitensis, custodi et inflamma nos!

(The painting is by Carlo Saraceni,Venice, c 1610. Now Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2020
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