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  • Belloc to Chesterton: Trust the Blessed Virgin Mary

    Let us go into the virtual Catholic attic where the archives of the Church Militant are stored, and take out a box which contains the letters received by the Catholic English writer, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936).  For today, let us look at one letter. This letter will be of interest to those fascinated by Church history, as…

  • A Marian Ode

    Today, I am posting a poem which was written by the English-French Catholic writer, Hilaire Belloc (b. 1870- d. 1953). It is a loving tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Częstochowa. The name of this Marian ode is Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa. I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifoldAnd very Regent…

  • The Rosary: Promises and Quotes

    “The Most Holy Virgin in these last times in which we live has given a new efficacy to the recitation of the Rosary to such an extent that there is no problem, no matter how difficult it is, whether temporal or above all spiritual, in the personal life of each one of us, of our families…that cannot be solved by…

  • Grotto Update

     “You shall receive me when the clouds are high  With evening and the sheep attain the fold.  This is the faith that I have held and hold,  And this is that in which I mean to die.”   Hilaire Belloc   I have been relaying to you* the story of the Marian grotto which is being built in a New Jersey…

  • A Marian Poem

    Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa by Hilaire Belloc I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that…