Milan: Rosary in Reparation for the “Pride”
Last Sunday 29 June, on the Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in front of the Sforza Castle, about sixty courageous Milanese Catholics braved the scorching heat, which touched 38°, to pray a Rosary of reparation for the so-called homosexual “pride”, held in the city the day before. The act was organised by a coalition of Catholic groups.
“The streets of this city, once trodden by our great saints, such as Saint Ambrose and Saint Charles Borromeo, were invaded by a crowd boasting of moral conduct that the Magisterium of the Church considers ‘intrinsically disordered’ and ‘sinful’” – began Julio Loredo, president of the Italian TFP – “as Catholics and as Italians we cannot refrain from offering to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus a gesture of public reparation and testimony”.
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The month of June, traditionally dedicated by the Church to devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, has now become the chosen period for the so-called “pride”, public demonstrations of homosexual pride that aim to subvert cardinal principles of the divine order, the natural order and the social order itself.
Before each decade of the Rosary, excerpts from the “Letter on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons” by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith were read. This letter summarizes and reiterates the Magisterium of the Church on this very delicate matter.
After a sung Salve Regina and the recitation of the Litany of Loreto, the Act of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Pius XI was read, followed by the Entrustment of Italy to Saint Joseph and the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe. The singing of the Marian song “Mira il tu popolo o bella Signora” closed the act in style.
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Here is the key to understanding this act of public reparation. We are in the centenary of the encyclical Quas Primas, with which Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King: King of hearts and King of societies. This kingdom becomes effective through the consecration, personal and social, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
In this spirit, at the end, the participants shouted three times “Long live Christ the King! Long live Mary Queen!”.