As laity, prayer is our only weapon! If we want a truly holy and Catholic Pope, let's lay siege to heaven with our petition. Here's one way.
From Rorate Cæli
By Peter Kwasniewski, PhD
With the death of Pope Francis and upcoming conclave to elect the next Supreme Pontiff, the organizers of Missae pro Missa ("Masses for the Mass") hereby announce our third -- and perhaps most important -- campaign: a worldwide spiritual bouquet imploring God for a holy pope as the next Successor of St. Peter.
As with the earlier two campaigns, launched in 2023 and 2024 for the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass, there are four ways to participate:
1. Request Masses to be said "for a holy pope" (e.g., through a parish, religious order, or another group). Or if you're a priest, celebrate Masses for this intention.
2. Offer your own hearings of Mass for this intention.
3. Pray rosaries (or undertake other prayers/sacrifices) for this intention.
4. Share this initiative with others.
Please submit your spiritual offerings via the website form. The worldwide totals will be updated daily and displayed on our home page. Our goal is to have one million Masses (requested or heard) and one million rosaries offered for a holy pope by the start of the conclave.
The intention "for a holy pope" includes implicitly, of course, that the man elected to the Chair of St. Peter will -- as Bishop Athanasius Schneider writes in his Prayer Imploring for Holy Popes -- "neither fear the powerful of this world nor compromise with the spirit of the age, but preserve, strengthen, and defend the Catholic Faith to the shedding of [his] blood, as well as observe, protect, and faithfully hand on the venerable liturgy of the Roman Church."
Specifically, we pray that the new pope may be given the grace to rectify the egregious confusion unfortunately sown under the previous pontificate, especially in the areas of Catholic doctrine, morality, and liturgy:
• By revoking the Abu Dhabi Declaration and clearly reasserting Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church as the only true religion and path to eternal salvation.
• By revoking Amoris Laetitia and Fiducia Supplicans and clearly reaffirming the Church's unchanging teaching on marriage, the family, and sexual morality.
• By revoking Traditionis Custodes and ensuring full freedom for the Traditional Latin Mass to remain a flourishing and normal part of the Church's life.
Will it really make a difference? Participants in our earlier campaigns -- encompassing faithful from over 60 countries -- will recall that these spiritual bouquets were launched amid similarly difficult and uncertain times, with rumors swirling of another Vatican crackdown on the "Mass of the Ages." In both cases, no such restrictions emerged.
Only God knows the exact effect of so many thousands of Masses and rosaries offered for a singular intention. What we do know, however, is that prayer is the most powerful force on Earth, and the Catholic Mass is the supreme Prayer. Especially at this most critical moment, we renew our faith that the re-presentation of the Sacrifice of Christ offered on behalf of His Mystical Body -- the Catholic Church -- is infinitely more powerful than all the gates of hell seeking to prevail against it.
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