It's Still Not Over: Our Lady, Her Silent Majority and the Election Recount, Part II

The Other Silent Majority No One Is Talking About

Leading up to the 2016 election, my mother told me of a private novena she had begun to pray.  First, she would seek the intercession of the Blessed Mother upon our election by the daily recitation of the Rosary.  Second, she invoked another silent majority for assistance, the all-too-often forgotten silent majority of 61 million plus unborn victims of abortion. 

While many in the pro-life movement have spoken of the tragedy of over 61 million innocent baby boys and girls who have been mercilessly slaughtered at the hands of Roe V Wade, very few have encouraged us to pray for the salvation of their little souls.  Even fewer encourage us to ask for their intercession.   . 

I am not here to debate whether the unborn victims of abortion go to heaven, purgatory or limbo.  We can only “entrust them to the mercy of God” as the Catechism says.[i]  However, a close friend who is heavily involved in Post-Abortion Healing and Recovery once told me, “never forget to pray to these little ones (the aborted children).  They are very powerful intercessors.”      

I followed my mother’s lead, begging the innocent victims of abortion and Our Lady to intercede for us and deliver an improbable victory.  As we know from history, Our Lady and her army of little ones delivered us an election miracle for the ages!  It is far from the first miracle Our Lady has had her hand in.

Our Lady Of Victory

Five centuries ago, the European Continent, much like our Nation stood at the precipice of destruction.  Much like today, the Catholic Church was in grave crisis due to corrupt clergymen, indifferent laity and the Protestant Reformation.  It was no secret the rising power in the East, Islam, wanted to annihilate Christianity and Western Civilization, wipe out freedom, abolish Judeo-Christian Principles and sack Rome.  In response to this looming threat, Pope St. Pius V ordered Christendom to pray the rosary to stave off this threat of annihilation, while assembling a make-shift Christian Fleet to fight the massive Muslim Navy.    

The fight for the preservation of Europe, Christendom and countless generations to come came to head on October 7, 1571 off the coast of the Greek Town of Lepanto (now Naupaktos).  The Christian fleet was vastly outnumbered, poorly trained, lacking supplies and naval combat where withal.  The Muslim fleet, vastly superior in men, munitions, experience and weaponry spotted the Christian Fleet and forming their naval battle lines in the shape of a crescent, charged towards the outnumbered Christian Fleet with the wind at their backs and under cover of thick fog, a clear strategic naval advantage. 

Knowing the stark odds they were facing but still undeterred, the Christian Fleet formed their battle lines in the shape of a cross while offering fervent and passionate prayers for intercession to Our Lady.  In that moment, the winds miraculously changed to the astonishment of both fleets.  The Christians now held the advantage with the wind at their backs and the fog, which disguised the Muslim Fleet only moments earlier, now offered perfect cover for the Christian battleships!  With the wind at their backs and The Virgin protecting them from on high they slaughtered the Muslim Fleet, decimating the Islamic Navy thereby saving Christendom and Western Civilization.  

The moment victory was secured, Pope St. Pius V was granted a vision of the triumph at St. Peter’s in Rome, exclaiming to his fellow Catholics “Victory!  Victory!”  Official word of the victory would not reach Rome for another two weeks.  Thanks to the victory Mary granted us at Lepanto, she is now invoked as “Our Lady of Victory!”[ii]

Having Faith In The Unknown

I do not know what the ultimate outcome of this election will be.  I am praying diligently for another election miracle as all of us should be.  But right now, it feels like the winds of the media, academia, politics, education and yes, the corruption in the Church are overwhelming us.  It seems like they are attacking us at every angle under cover of the thick fog of lies, deceit and treachery.  The lies of Progressivism and Marxism feel like an unstoppable tidal wave, ready to crash upon and consume us.  

However, we should not allow that to deter our prayers for the truth to be made manifest.  This should not deter us from praying that if there is fraud and cover-up, it is exposed and swiftly dealt with.  The winds of progressivism should never deter the hope that no matter what, good will come out of this.  This is no time to back down, tuck tail and run.  This is the time to stand more fervent than ever in the truth of Christ and His Church and defend her with all that is in us.   

Should we pray for a miracle?  Absolutely!  But this must also be the time that we make the conscious decision from now until the day we die to continue to be a voice for the voiceless, to speak truth in the midst of falsehood, to expose fraud and to scatter darkness with light.  All of this and more can and will be accomplished by turning to Our Lady and her little army of Unborn Martyrs. 

I encourage you to start by offering a decade of the Rosary per day for Our Lady to intercede for us, to heal this land and the multitude of wounds caused by the Culture of Death.  Pray that the truth is exposed in this election, that God’s will, not man’s be done and that America begins to re-embrace a Culture of Life.  Who knows, Our Lady and the little ones may very well dissipate the fog of falsehood and alter the winds to reverse course and be at our backs sooner than we think!

Our Lady of Victory…..Pray For Us!

Mary Patroness of the Unborn and Healer of All Wounds…..Pray For Us!

[i] Catechism of the Catholic Church. (United States Catholic Conference. Washington, DC) 1994. CCC 1261. 

[ii] Calloway, Rev. Donald.  Champions Of The Rosary.  The History And Heroes Of A Spiritual Weapon. Stockbridge, MA. 2016.  Account of the Battle of Lepanto is paraphrased from his book pp. 84-89.