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Battlelines Newsletter
TAKEN FROM ANF’S PUBLICATION, BATTLELINES
Joyfully Fighting Our Lady’s Battles in Houston, Texas
Every second Saturday of the month, seasoned Rally Captain Elyva of Houston, Texas, holds a rosary rally for Our Lady’s causes. On December 12, 2020, she held a rally to remind the public to “Keep Christ in Christmas” and to keep the holy day sacred. In hopeful and cheerful spirits, she and twenty other faithful Catholics prayed fifteen decades of the rosary.
“We had a lot of support from drivers, some of them very enthusiastically sounding their horns for long periods of time, and one eighteen-wheeler very loudly… Many drivers were waving at us, smiling and giving us thumbs up,” said Elyva. “At the end of the rally we sang Christmas carols, which put everybody in an even greater joyful mood.”
Opposing Satan in San Jose, California
For the past three years, San Jose, California allowed the display of a satanic “Christmas” tree as part of its ‘Christmas in the Park’ event. And this year was no different as local Satanists again decorated a tree with pentagrams, inverted crosses, demonic goats and other satanic items! Fortunately, Rally Captain Philip and his rally participants were willing to defend Our Lord at a rally of reparation on December 19. “Thanks to the grace of Our Lady, the rally went well,” Philip said, “with good attendance of over forty people.”
“Some rally-goers were Spanish, Portuguese and Vietnamese,” the rally captain proudly reported, “People enthusiastically offered to lead decades in their native tongues.” Inspired, one heroic attendee rode his bicycle seventy-five miles to the rally to make reparation for this attack on Christmas. Another prayer warrior announced her own rally would be December 22 to ‘Keep Christ in Christmas.’
Defending Our Children in Gambrills, Maryland
On a chilly December 3, 2020, in Gambrills, Maryland, Rally Captain Patrick resolutely defended Church teaching alongside his dedicated prayer warriors. Most had traveled from miles away to pray the rosary in reparation at the School of the Incarnation, where a third-grader has decided that her new gender identity is male. They came to protest the Archdiocese’s decision to treat the female student as a boy in the school.
Some rally participants took the time to speak patiently with parents about the Church’s teaching on this issue. “They did this calmly and with respect,” Patrick relayed proudly. “The fact that these people showed up to participate made the rally a big success! Parents and passersby saw us, they saw the banners, and they witnessed us say the rosary, boldly standing for Christ!”
