Sunday, August 26, 2012

Ten ways to give the devil the shoe horn

The world appears to grow madder at every minute.

                                                        "It was all going so well....and then 
                                                         Catholic bloggers came along"
                                                       
Unborn children are slaughtered out of hand,  men "marry" men and women "marry" women whilst supposedly good Catholics in the public eye (and out of it) reject the teachings of Holy Mother Church to further their political ends.

Priests and Bishops trip over themselves to give witness at the altar of political correctness and climate warming and the guidance of the Holy Father is scorned and ignored by many who should know better.

The devil is having a field day and must have taken up golf having so much free time on his hooves.

The world is going to hell in a handcart (whatever that may mean) and Satan is considering early retirement, job done!

But....not just yet, Sonny Jim, there are a few actions that we can take that will ensure that the fightback will commence in earnest.

Just ten simple steps and you reduce Satan to a quivering blob of iniquity; here they are:-

1. Say the Rosary - daily

2. Renew your baptismal vows every week before Mass*

3. Say the St Michael prayer daily

4. Make a daily penance, just a simple act, nothing along the flagellation lines

5. Buy your parish priest a copy of the CTS 'Manual of Minor Exorcisms'

6. Abstain from buying/reading The Tablet/Cath News/National Catholic Fishwrap

7. Pray for the Holy Father

8. Keep a font of holy water in your home

9. Display a crucifix in your home

10. Pray for those who, in their last days on earth, fear death so much that
      they reject the Last Rites of Holy Mother Church


* Renouncing Satan

Priest: N., do you renounce Satan?Priest: N., abrenuntias Satanæ?
Sponsor/Catechumen: I do renounce him.Sponsor/Catechumen: Abrenuntio.
Priest: And all of his works?Priest: Et omnibus operibus eius?
Sponsor/Catechumen: I do renounce him.Sponsor/Catechumen: Abrenuntio.
Priest: And all his pomps? Priest: Et omnibus pompis eius?
Sponsor/Catechumen: I do renounce him.Sponsor/Catechumen: Abrenuntio.

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