LifeSiteNews and Fr. Richard Heilman's 50,000-strong "United States Grace Force" are combining forces in an urgent call for faithful Catholics to offer up fervent prayer and sacrifice for our nation and for our Church, in a powerful 54-day Rosary Novena.
The Novena will begin on August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and will end on October 7th, the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
We will have two intentions: to pray for the restoration of the faith in the United States, and to pray for the universal Church as the Amazon Synod approaches.
In the United States, we continue to live in peace-less times with laws and court rulings in conflict with God’s laws; especially the disregard for the rights of the unborn, elderly and weak in our society and the attacks on marriage and family values.
Society and many levels of government continue to demonstrate intolerance towards biblically-based religious belief and practice. In conflict with First Amendment constitutional rights, persecution of traditional religious expression has reached historically high levels.
With the upcoming Amazon Synod - starting on October 6th - the institutional Church is facing into a crisis of gigantic proportions.
Among many stark warnings as to the heterodox nature of the working document of the Synod, two senior Cardinals have expressed the strongest possible critique, calling it both heretical and apostate.
One theologian ominously opined that the Amazon Synod is an attempt to "create another church" by "demolishing" the true Church from within.
Whether it's our country or our Church, this is a spiritual battle of historic proportions!
We now need to implore graces from Almighty God, to lead the Pope and the Bishops of the Synod to follow sound doctrine and tradition, and firmly reject modernist interpretations of the priesthood, religion, and inculturation.
