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The Great Rosary Campaign is an ongoing prayer and penance campaign for the conversion and strengthening of both Catholic and non-Catholic leaders.

For this week's Great Rosary Campaign, let us pray for the hierarchy of the Catholic Church: preeminently Pope Leo XIV, the bishops, and our priests.

The SUGGESTED PENANCE this week is a 24 hour water fast (adjusted for your state in life).

In these dark times, we must fight evil with the most powerful weapons we have. The Rosary is foremost among them. Join the Great Rosary Campaign today at: www.GreatRosaryCampaign.com.

Countless Saints and Popes have told us that the Rosary is incredibly powerful for three things in particular:

1. Keeping the Faith
2. Moral renovation
3. Conversions of non-Catholics

The Great Rosary Campaign is also based on several biblical themes and principles.

First, PRAY FOR OUR BRETHREN. “Pray for one another…” (Jas. 5:16). “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith" (Gal. 6:10).

Second, PRAY FOR OUR ENEMIES. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 5:43-44).

Third, PRAY FOR ALL MEN, PARTICULARLY LEADERS AND THOSE IN AUTHORITY. “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, or kings and all who are in high positions…” (1 Tim. 2:1-2).

Fourth, GOING INTO BATTLE WITH THE ARK. When the ancient Israelites came to Jericho, God didn't tell them to besiege the city. Instead, He told them to march around it with the Ark of the Covenant seven times, and on the seventh the walls would fall. We will now "march" in prayer for seven days with the New Ark of the Covenant, Our Lady, through the Rosary. We pray in hope that on the seventh day, a day especially devoted to Our Lady (Saturday), extraordinary graces of conversion will be given to those we are praying for.

Fifth, EVANGELISM AND APOLOGETICS = LOVE + ARGUMENTS + PRAYER + PENANCE. Ultimately it is God who reveals Himself to a soul, and empowers them to say "yes" to Him by His grace. He chooses to use us, but He does not have to. We must remember that as we evangelize and defend the Faith, our arguments will be fruitless unless informed by love (charity), and reinforced by prayer and penance.

Sixth, RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL. “Do not return evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing" (1 Pet. 3:9).

Sign up to take part in the Great Rosary Campaign today: www.GreatRosaryCampaign.com

October, the month of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, has begun.

This week, we obtained an incredible sermon from a dear priest friend of ours, warning against spiritual mediocrity, the URGENT need to embrace the high calling of becoming a saint, and the necessity of praying the daily Rosary to do so.

While he must remain anonymous, we received his permission to deliver his sermon in video form in order to share its message with as many souls as possible.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro: An Urgent Homily for the Month of the Holy Rosary

01:57 - Scripture Readings: The Wedding Feast and the New Man

04:17 - The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

06:18 - The Wedding Garment: Living Faith and Righteous Deeds

07:35 - “To Whom Much Is Given, Much Will Be Required”

09:02 - The Narrow Path, Mediocrity, and Mortal Sin

09:44 - The Daily Rosary as a Weapon for Sanctity

10:40 - St. Thomas Aquinas's First Step to Becoming a Saint: “Will It”

12:49 - The Peril of Not Desiring Sainthood

13:25 - Lepanto, the Rosary, and Spiritual Combat

14:30 - St. Louis de Montfort on the Saving Power of the Rosary

15:27 - Examining Our Devotion to the Rosary

16:18 - Rosary, Spiritual Reading, and Mental Prayer

17:23 - Sainthood is Difficult, but Not Complicated

18:11 - The Danger of Spiritual Mediocrity

19:30 - Conclusion

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The Great Rosary Campaign is an ongoing prayer and penance campaign for the conversion and strengthening of both Catholic and non-Catholic leaders.

For this week's Great Rosary Campaign, let us pray for all the new converts, and that many more would join their ranks, as they prepare to come into full communion with the Catholic Church this Easter! Let us pray the Rosary with particular zeal during this Month of the Rosary, remembering the great victory of Christendom against the Mohammedans hordes at the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. If the Rosary could obtain such victories for the outer man, imagine how much more for the inner man.

The SUGGESTED PENANCE this week is a Holy Hour before Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

In these dark times, we must fight evil with the most powerful weapons we have. The Rosary is foremost among them. Join the Great Rosary Campaign today at: www.GreatRosaryCampaign.com.

Countless Saints and Popes have told us that the Rosary is incredibly powerful for three things in particular:

1. Keeping the Faith
2. Moral renovation
3. Conversions of non-Catholics

The Great Rosary Campaign is also based on several biblical themes and principles.

First, PRAY FOR OUR BRETHREN. “Pray for one another…” (Jas. 5:16). “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith" (Gal. 6:10).

Second, PRAY FOR OUR ENEMIES. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven" (Matt. 5:43-44).

Third, PRAY FOR ALL MEN, PARTICULARLY LEADERS AND THOSE IN AUTHORITY. “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, or kings and all who are in high positions…” (1 Tim. 2:1-2).

Fourth, GOING INTO BATTLE WITH THE ARK. When the ancient Israelites came to Jericho, God didn't tell them to besiege the city. Instead, He told them to march around it with the Ark of the Covenant seven times, and on the seventh the walls would fall. We will now "march" in prayer for seven days with the New Ark of the Covenant, Our Lady, through the Rosary. We pray in hope that on the seventh day, a day especially devoted to Our Lady (Saturday), extraordinary graces of conversion will be given to those we are praying for.

Fifth, EVANGELISM AND APOLOGETICS = LOVE + ARGUMENTS + PRAYER + PENANCE. Ultimately it is God who reveals Himself to a soul, and empowers them to say "yes" to Him by His grace. He chooses to use us, but He does not have to. We must remember that as we evangelize and defend the Faith, our arguments will be fruitless unless informed by love (charity), and reinforced by prayer and penance.

Sixth, RETURNING GOOD FOR EVIL. “Do not return evil for evil, or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing" (1 Pet. 3:9).

Sign up to take part in the Great Rosary Campaign today: www.GreatRosaryCampaign.com

In this Papal Snapshot, we begin our dive into the works of Theodore Abū Qurrah, an 8th-century bishop who wrote an extraordinary Arabic defense of the papacy and the infallible authority of the Church against heretics who rejected it.

Thank you to Dr. John Lamoreaux, the English translator of Theodore's works, for his very generous permission to freely quote his translations.

Thank you ⁨@FlorianiSacredMusic⁩ for allowing us to use your beautiful "Anima Christi" sacred chant in our intro.

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CHAPTERS

03:21 - Historical Context

05:17 - Differentiating the True Church from Heresies

08:37 - Which is the True Church?

12:33 - How Can Ordinary People Find the Truth?

15:14 - Ancient Israelite Councils

20:01 - Councils in the Apostolic Age

26:11 - Bishop of Rome, Councils, and Heretics

30:34 - How the Popes Strengthened the Church

34:14 - Heretics Have No Excuse for Rejecting Councils

43:48 - Three Possible Objections

01:00:15 - An Exhortation to the Heretics

1:05:08 - Conclusion

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In this Papal Snapshot, we cover an amazing letter written by the Council of Aquileia (in which St. Ambrose participated) in 387, acknowledging before all the emperors of the Roman Empire—both east and west—that the Roman Church to be the center and source of Catholic communion.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

03:34 - Historical Context

05:20 - The Letter of St. Ambrose (Council of Aquileia)

10:27 - Conclusion

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In this episode, we begin part 1 of proving from the Old and New Testaments why Catholic claims about the Church are true: that She is governed by the successors of the Apostles; that Her teaching is without error; and that She will never defect from Christ.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

06:19 - Dogmatic Summary

10:16 - Jesus's Kingdom of Apostolic Thrones

17:55 - The Ascension

30:58 - Conclusion

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In this Papal Snapshot, St. Ambrose of Milan—the Church Father who baptized St. Augustine—shows that early Christians equated being Catholic with being under Rome’s authority. He also tells a riveting story confirming his Catholic beliefs about the Eucharist.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

3:03 - St. Ambrose, On the Death of Satyrus

09:19 - Conclusion

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In this episode, we interview Dr. David Anders, who played a profound role in Joshua Charles's conversion. After attending the famed evangelical Wheaton College, and pursuing a doctorate in order to disprove the Catholic Faith, he came out Catholic. The reason: he saw that the "Reformation" was not recovering ancient Christianity, but radically departing from it.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro: Dr. David Anders and His Conversion Story

05:02 - Evangelical Roots, Wheaton, Seminary, and the Search for Truth

30:02 - Catholic Coherence, Love of Christ, and the Limits of Protestantism

39:12 - Studying Reformation History and Losing Confidence in Calvinism

51:03 - Reading the Fathers: Seminary, Original Sources, and Historical Reality

1:09:16 - Salvation, Assurance, and the Problem of “Once Saved, Always Saved”

1:18:25 - The Early Church, Mortal Sin, Relics, and Catholic Continuity

1:53:37 - Evangelicalism, Gnosticism, and Sola Scriptura

2:33:03 - Scripture, Deification, Fasting, and Final Reflections on the Church

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In this Eucharist Snapshot, we cover an ancient bishop's vision of worthy and unworthy souls receiving the Eucharist, one radiant with heavenly splendor, the other grotesque, ghastly and hellish. In short, he saw the reality of Catholic truth when it comes to how we receive the Eucharist, which is Christ's Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

02:43 - Worthy Reception of the Eucharist

04:47 - The Vision

12:02 - Conclusion

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In this latest Papal Snapshot, we cover St. Isidore of Seville's Letter 8 to Bishop Eugenius in the early 600's outlining Christ's establishment of St. Peter with greater authority than the other Apostles, and the duty all bishops have to obey the Pope as the successor of Peter.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro

3:13 - Historical Context

04:02 - St. Isidore, Letter 8 to Bishop Eugenius

10:07 - Conclusion

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