The Battle for Albany

The Battle for Albany will not be fought with guns of knives. It will not be fought with fists and feet.

No. The Battle for Albany will be fought with pure hearts and a Rosary in our hands.

The following is an excerpt from an article written in 2015 by Kathy Schiffer, the original being at The Pope, the Rosary, and the Battle of Lepanto On October 7, Catholics remember Our Lady of the Rosary.

The feast was actually instituted under another name: In 1571 Pope Pius V instituted “Our Lady of Victory” as an annual feast in thanksgiving for Mary’s patronage in the victory of the Holy League over the Muslim Turks in the Battle of Lepanto. Two years later, in 1573, Pope Gregory XIII changed the title of this feastday to “Feast of the Holy Rosary.” And in 1716, Pope Clement XI extended the feast to the whole of the Latin Rite, inserting it into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, and assigning it to the first Sunday in October. In 1913, Pope Pius X changed the date to October 7, as part of his effort to restore celebration of the liturgy of the Sundays.

The Battle of Lepanto

On October 7, 1571, a patchwork fleet of Catholic ships primarily from Spain, Venice and Genoa, under the command of Don Juan of Austria, was at a distinct disadvantage. The much larger fleet of the Ottoman Empire—a force with 12,000 to 15,000 Christian slaves as rowers—was extending toward Europe.

However, St. Pope Pius V, realizing that the Muslim Turks had a decided material advantage, called upon all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory. Christians gathered in villages and towns to pray as the sea battle raged; and at the hour of victory the pope—who was hundreds of miles away at the Vatican—is said to have gotten up from a meeting, walked over to an open window exclaiming “The Christian fleet is victorious!” and shed tears of joy and thanksgiving to God.

The toll of the sea battle was great: The Holy League lost 50 of its galleys and suffered some 13,000 casualties. The Turks, however, lost much more: Their leader Ali Pasha was killed, along with 25,000 of his sailors. The Ottoman fleet lost 210 of its 250 ships, of which 130 were captured by the Holy League. Coming at what was seen as a crisis point for Christianity, the victory at Lepanto stemmed Ottoman incursion into the Mediterranean and prevented their influence from spreading through Europe. Through the intervention of Our Lady, the Hand of God prevented the Muslims of the East from overcoming the Christian West.

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The Battle for Albany will be fought by the faithful in the same fashion, with the help of Our Lord and his Mother.

Will you commit to joining me to pray for the defeat of Satan, the defeat of the practice of abortion, in the state of New York. Certainly, we pray for this on a daily basis, but I believe that we must purpose to engage in battle together, and I propose that we do it on the day when we celebrate the day on which the Word became Flesh and dwelt among us - March 25, 2019, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Will you commit to praying 5, or perhaps all 20, decades of the Rosary? And, in praying the Ave, add 2 prayers at the end of each decade.

“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I beg pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee. Amen.”

“Lord Jesus Christ, through the prayers of the the Theotokos and of St. Thomas More, have mercy on those in authority in New York. Open their eyes to their having turned their back on you and having embraced the Culture of Death. Give them a heart, instead, which truly seeks your holy will”.

and, lastly, after the final prayer, “St. 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 power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”