FAIR AS THE MOON, BRIGHT AS THE SUN, TERRIBLE AS AN ARMY SET IN BATTLE ARRAY
'Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array'.
The above quote will be familiar to only a few Catholics today, It was once on the lips of members of the Legion of Mary which was present in many parishes. Fair as the moon and bright as the sun certainly describes Our Lady of Fatima but who exactly is meant by 'terrible as an army set in battle array?' Certainly Our Lady appeared to ask us to pray for the conversion of sinners many of who were going to Hell for their sins as forewarned by her Son Jesus when he preachedHis Gospel. Often we are trying and feel we are succeeding in living good lives when suddenly everything goes wrong Like St Paul we often do the things we do not want to do rather than those that we want to do. It is because we are involved in a war between Good and Evil and we are the children of Mary that the red Dragon wishes to devour in Revelations 12 We are involved in a battle between Good and Evil
not only from a personal point of view but a battle to build the Kingdom that Jesus asked us to build and to bring a climate of morality into that world, a morality which Jesus Himself taught his disciples and to spread throughout the world. If we have a Church that is indifferent to the moral welfare of the State than that Church is not the Church of Jesus Christ. If we have a Church which does not promote chastity over sexual freedom, the indissolubility of Marriage against Divorce, the killing of innocent human lives in Abortion, which stands back and does not preach the word of Jesus as society collapses and the victims are the unborn, an society endemic with single mothers , the break down of divorce, the suffering of young people resulting from this and the poverty it inflicts on one parent families, if the Church is not concerned then that Church is not the Church of Jesus Christ.
But what you might ask is the point of praying the Rosary and doing penance. No, it is not what the world will see, and many in the Church as a 'mature answer' but it is an expression of love as all devotions are, an indication to God that we care and the more people who care enough to say the Rosary the more the hurt of God will be softened. "Do not keep offending God, who is already too much offended" said Our Lady of Fatima.
And thee is the question of Grace. God wants us all to care for one another and he wants us also to care for those 'in most need of His mercy" If we ask through the Rosary then He will listen and realise that many of the children He loves really love others in he way he wants them to love.
So why the Rosary represents is a weapon of love we can use to drive Satan and other evil spirits, again spoken of by Jesus, from this world into the fire which was prepared for Satan and His Angels. The Rosary is a weapon of battle. Again I would caution many not to presume there is no evil spirits. We know nothing about Heaven and Hell. So we should not contradict Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The above quote will be familiar to only a few Catholics today, It was once on the lips of members of the Legion of Mary which was present in many parishes. Fair as the moon and bright as the sun certainly describes Our Lady of Fatima but who exactly is meant by 'terrible as an army set in battle array?' Certainly Our Lady appeared to ask us to pray for the conversion of sinners many of who were going to Hell for their sins as forewarned by her Son Jesus when he preachedHis Gospel. Often we are trying and feel we are succeeding in living good lives when suddenly everything goes wrong Like St Paul we often do the things we do not want to do rather than those that we want to do. It is because we are involved in a war between Good and Evil and we are the children of Mary that the red Dragon wishes to devour in Revelations 12 We are involved in a battle between Good and Evil
not only from a personal point of view but a battle to build the Kingdom that Jesus asked us to build and to bring a climate of morality into that world, a morality which Jesus Himself taught his disciples and to spread throughout the world. If we have a Church that is indifferent to the moral welfare of the State than that Church is not the Church of Jesus Christ. If we have a Church which does not promote chastity over sexual freedom, the indissolubility of Marriage against Divorce, the killing of innocent human lives in Abortion, which stands back and does not preach the word of Jesus as society collapses and the victims are the unborn, an society endemic with single mothers , the break down of divorce, the suffering of young people resulting from this and the poverty it inflicts on one parent families, if the Church is not concerned then that Church is not the Church of Jesus Christ.
But what you might ask is the point of praying the Rosary and doing penance. No, it is not what the world will see, and many in the Church as a 'mature answer' but it is an expression of love as all devotions are, an indication to God that we care and the more people who care enough to say the Rosary the more the hurt of God will be softened. "Do not keep offending God, who is already too much offended" said Our Lady of Fatima.
And thee is the question of Grace. God wants us all to care for one another and he wants us also to care for those 'in most need of His mercy" If we ask through the Rosary then He will listen and realise that many of the children He loves really love others in he way he wants them to love.
So why the Rosary represents is a weapon of love we can use to drive Satan and other evil spirits, again spoken of by Jesus, from this world into the fire which was prepared for Satan and His Angels. The Rosary is a weapon of battle. Again I would caution many not to presume there is no evil spirits. We know nothing about Heaven and Hell. So we should not contradict Our Lord Jesus Christ.
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