As the
nineteenth century drew to a close, a journal from Rome published in 1947 gives an account of a priest who
worked at the Vatican during the time of Leo XIII, Fr. Domenico Pechenino. Fr.
Pechenino related that while the Pope was attending Mass, he began to look
upwards and displayed an unusual expression on his face. He left Mass and went
to his private office, and a short time later called for the Secretary
of the Congregation of Rites, handing him a document. This document
contained a well-known prayer, which the Pope made part of a set of
prayers to be recited on behalf of the Church at the end of Low Mass.
This prayer was taught to every member of the faithful, as Dr. Peter Kreeft has written, until:
….the 1960s. And that was exactly when the Catholic
Church was struck with the incomparably swift disaster that has taken away half
its priests, two-thirds of its nuns and nine-tenths of its children's theological
and moral knowledge by turning the faith of our fathers into the doubts of our
dissenters. It's been a diabolical reversal of Christ's first miracle at Cana , converting the wine of the gospel into the water of
psychobabble, an antimiracle by the Antichrist.
Pope Leo wrote:
Saint Michael the Archangel ,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do Thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host --
by the Divine Power of God --
cast into hell Satan and all the evil
spirits
who roam throughout the world seeking the
ruin of souls. Amen.
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