A Call To Prayer
Without fully endorsing the person of Raymond Cardinal Burke, who, despite his many well-founded criticisms, remains convinced of the legitimacy of Bergoglio’s papacy, we are transmitting today to the faithful of St. Margaret Mary’s and of our online readership, the Cardinal’s call to pray a nine-month Novena to Our Blessed Lady of Guadalupe. In the face of a thousand threats, known and unknown, to life as we know it, we feel bound to take note of the sense of urgency Cardinal Burke conveys in this call to prayer, seeking our Lady’s intercession beginning on March 12 and culminating on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. 12.
For those who are not familiar with Cardinal Burke, he is one of the few conservative bishops left in the Vatican II establishment who have partly survived the inexorable rise of the modernist revolution. His career began as the Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, rising to the post of Archbishop of St. Louis, Missouri before being appointed in 2008 as head of the Church’s highest court, the Apostolic Signatura. With the election of Jorge Bergoglio and the apparent triumph of modernism, no time was wasted in removing Cardinal Burke from all positions of power. Bergoglio’s latest action has been to take away the cardinal’s Rome apartment, another petty coup de grace in his ongoing war against any and all proponents of conservative thought left standing.
The American cardinal, who founded the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Wisconsin, announced the prayer initiative in a video address posted last week. “Our Lord has not called us to fear. No matter the darkness of our age, men and women of faith are not without the truth and love of Christ, nor the faithful care of his Mother,” Cardinal Burke wrote. “The darkness of sin seems so great. But Our Lord has not called us to fear! Evil cannot approach the power of God’s grace. Sin cannot prevent Our Lord’s healing mercy from reaching those who repent and seek it. And nothing can diminish the care and protection of Our Lady for us, which remain as strong today as they were 500 years ago.”
It is likely that many thousands of Catholic faithful will follow the Cardinal’s invitation to prayer, and we should not miss the opportunity of joining our own prayers to those of the less fortunate souls who remain trapped within the prison of blind obedience to an evil antipope who is intent on dragging their souls to hell. Here is the text of the prayer Cardinal Burke is asking us to say every day from March 12 until December 12:
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
O Virgin Mother of God, we fly to thy protection and beg thine intercession against the darkness and sin which ever more envelop the world and menace the Church. Thy Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, gave thee to us as our Mother as He died on the Cross for our salvation. So too, in 1531, when darkness and sin beset us, He sent thee, as Our Lady of Guadalupe, on Tepeyac to lead us to Him Who alone is our light and our salvation.
Through thine apparitions on Tepeyac and thine abiding presence with us on the miraculous mantle of thy messenger Juan Diego, millions of souls converted to faith in thy Divine Son. Through this novena and our consecration to thee, we humbly implore thine intercession for our daily conversion of life to Him and the conversion of millions more who do not yet believe in Him. In our homes and in our nation, lead us to Him Who alone wins the victory over sin and darkness in us and in the world.
Unite our hearts to thine Immaculate Heart so that they may find their true and lasting home in the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Ever guide us along the pilgrimage of life to our eternal home with Him. So may our hearts, one with thine, always trust in God’s promise of salvation, in His never-failing mercy toward all who turn to Him with a humble and contrite heart. Through this novena and our consecration to thee, O Virgin of Guadalupe, lead all souls in America and throughout the world to thy Divine Son in Whose name we pray. Amen.