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LITURGIA (Liturgy)

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Patron St. Hilary of Poitiers

In battle against the modern day Constantius, which is Secularism, the fight will be as Hilary's fight against Constantius when he said: " It had been happy for him had he lived in the days of Nero or Decius. The Holy Spirit would have fired him to endure as did the martyrs of Scripture; torments and death would have been welcome. It would have been a fair fight with an open enemy. But now Constantius was Antichrist, and waged his warfare by deceit and flattery. It was scourging then, pampering now; no longer freedom in prison, but slavery at court, and gold as deadly as the sword had been; martyrs no longer burnt at the stake, but a secret lighting of the fires of hell. All that seems good in Constantius, his confession of Christ, his efforts for unity, his severity to heretics, his reverence for bishops, his building of churches, is perverted to evil ends. He professes loyalty to Christ, but his constant aim is to prevent Christ from being honoured equally with the Father. Hence it is a clear duty to speak out, as the Baptist to Herod and the Maccabees to Antiochus."

Dominam Nostram Redemptionis, Ora Pro Nobis

To Our Lady of Ransom: O God, who by means of the most glorious Mother of Thy Son was pleased to give new children to Thy Church for the deliverance of Christ's faithful from the power of the heathen; grant, we beseech Thee, that we who love and honor her as the foundress of so great a work may, by her merits and intercession, be ourselves delivered from all sin and from the bondage of the evil one. Through the same Christ, our Lord.