April

[April @ALaurieWard]

@seasgair7 @la_lany891 @jainelwinck Chilling… Like St Hildegard‘s a 5 beasts prophecy

[April @ALaurieWard]

@EdwardOfW1ndsor @gutsy9 @trad_west_ @grok what flag is this?

[April @ALaurieWard]

@JoshuaNSAWP @Aaronaeus Most anti-Halloween stances started as anti-catholic stances so it’s not surprising when protestants feel this way.

https://t.co/YJJoEKjxcb

[April @ALaurieWard]

@JoshuaNSAWP @Aaronaeus The devil will contort anything he’s able to
nobody HAS to celebrate a these days.

that said, Christmas has been taken over by secularism. I’m not going to let them steal Christmas OR Halloween. Our family celebrates all of it, with Jesus & church teaching at the centre

[April @ALaurieWard]

@Tablesalt13 Praying for everyone there

[April @ALaurieWard]

@HyperHawkMedia @kangminlee All western nations too, they were told“wait to settle down” & “kids are a burden”and now there isn’t enough youth. Also, with nobody to pass down culture to what do you expect? Immigrants will pass down their own. Have more babies and teach them to honour heritage & tradition

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

''France, the eldest daughter of the Church, what have you done with your baptism?" -

Pope John Paul II

[April @ALaurieWard]

@MarioNawfal 💔

[April @ALaurieWard]

Pope St Pius V pray for France, pray for a revival of Christendom

[Peter's Barque @petersbarque]

⚓⚔️🙏 October 7, 1571 (Lepanto)

Our Fathers.

Hail Marys.

Beads between their hands.

Galleys on the water.

On October 7, 1571, the Ottoman fleet met the ships of the Holy League near Lepanto.

Cyprus had fallen. Ottoman power had been expanding through the Mediterranean. Christian Europe was deeply divided, and Pope Pius the Fifth had spent months trying to convince Catholic powers to stop fighting among themselves long enough to confront a very real threat.

Eventually, Spain, Venice, Genoa, and others sailed together under Don Juan of Austria.

But they didn't only prepare ships.

They prayed.

Pius called Christians throughout Europe to pray the Rosary for the fleet.

So while sailors rowed toward Lepanto, Catholics far from the battle held beads in their hands.

Then the fleets met.

And this wasn't romantic.

Sixteenth-century galley warfare was brutal.

Cannon fire.
Splintering timber.
Grappling hooks.
Boarding parties.
Sword against sword.
Men chained below decks.
Thousands killed or wounded.
This song is about a battle.
It is not a glorification of violence.
Lepanto was fought in defense against an advancing Ottoman power that had already taken Christian territory and threatened more. The men who went into that fight weren't reenacting some glorious pageant.
They were going into something terrible because something worth defending was in danger.
And prayer didn't relieve them of the need for courage.
They rowed.

They planned.

They commanded.

They fought.

They bled.

Some died.

That's part of what makes Lepanto worth remembering.

Catholicism does not require us to choose between Providence and actually doing our duty.

Grace does not erase human action.

And human courage does not make prayer unnecessary.

Men fought at Lepanto while the Church prayed for them.

The Christian fleet prevailed.

The Ottoman center broke.

And Christian captives who had been chained to Ottoman oars found themselves free.

But the Church did not remember Lepanto merely as a successful piece of naval strategy.

Catholics saw the victory as an extraordinary answer to prayer through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Tradition even remembers Pope Pius the Fifth, praying in Rome far from the battle, suddenly rising and announcing the Christian victory before ordinary news of Lepanto could have reached him.

The victory became associated with Our Lady of Victory and, eventually, with the feast celebrated every October 7:

Our Lady of the Rosary.

And THAT is why I'm singing about a sixteenth-century naval battle.

Not because war is glorious.

War is terrible.

But courage can be noble.

Sacrifice can be noble.

Defending others can be noble.

And faith does not become less necessary when the danger becomes more real.

Lepanto has been remembered for more than 450 years as a moment when men did what was theirs to do...

while the Church begged Heaven for what only God could give.

Human courage.

Heaven's aid.

Men who fought.

A Church that prayed.

🎶 “October 7, 1571 (Lepanto)” — a Peter’s Barque history lesson about cannon, galleys, Cervantes, the Rosary, Marian intercession, and the strange moment when a catechist discovers he has apparently written a Spanish-flamenco-inflected spoken-word song about sixteenth-century galley warfare.

October seven.

Fifteen seventy-one.

Lepanto.

Remember what was won.

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[April @ALaurieWard]

@JoshuaNSAWP @Aaronaeus Hallow means holy

We need to take it back. Just like st Valentine’s Day, st Patrick’s day and CHRISTMAS

Often Catholic cemeteries get lit up with candles every all saints and All Souls’ Day as people go to pray and remember their loved ones.

https://t.co/n77d4UGULb

[April @ALaurieWard]

@wokerates @visegrad24 Sometimes we have to learn the hard way. I was left leaning until I simply started questioning some of the leftist behaviours and stances (because they seemed to be loosing their minds) and I experienced so much nastiness from people I actually know, including family

[April @ALaurieWard]

@rivazon888 @JoniWagner If they do all those free Palestine people will burn cities all over the world. They’ve already assembled in Montreal.

[April @ALaurieWard]

@vlottoisblotto @JoniWagner Many. There are so many people that do not really want to know. Canadians don’t want to face and accept our own reality. They’re not thinking about France

[April @ALaurieWard]

@HamardBrice @MaryTilesTexas Thanks for sharing

[April @ALaurieWard]

@LP_LaPresse They are standing in solidarity with chaos, looting, and destroying historical/cultural buildings?

[April @ALaurieWard]

@_HenryBolton Hopefully things settle down overnight. These organizations need to be shut down. Protests should never be spun out of control like this

[April @ALaurieWard]

@johndover27642 @MarcNixon24 Agreed

[April @ALaurieWard]

@visegrad24 I truly hope this does not happen. Devastating

[April @ALaurieWard]

@visegrad24 This actually hurts my heart

[April @ALaurieWard]

@FeserEdward Agreed