NJ.com
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A 25-year-old Jersey City man is accused
of pushing over a Virgin Mary statue outside Our Lady of Victories Church at Kennedy Boulevard and Ege Avenue.
Omar J. Ibrahim, of Fairview Avenue, is charged with desecration of a venerated object and criminal mischief for allegedly pushing the statue over and breaking it on July 18, the criminal complaint states.
Probable cause for the charge is identification of Ibrahim from security video, according to the court document.
The Devil hates and fears Our Lady.
For Our Lady will, one day, lead Moslems to her Son Jesus by converting to the Catholic Faith. We are now in a religious war. Even though Francis refuses to acknowledge this
fact.
In 1952, Archbishop Fulton John Sheen, in his classic book,
“The World’s First Love, Mary, the Mother of God," devoted an entire chapter to this subject entitled, "Mary and the Moslems." He wrote:
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At the present time, the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming a hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it,
the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world power. Moslem writers say, “When the locust swarms darken vast countries, they bear on their wings these Arabic words: *We are God’s host, each of us has ninety-nine eggs, and if we had a hundred, we should lay waste the world with all that is in it.”
Sheen continues:
"The Koran, which is the Bible of the Moslems, has many passages concerning the Blessed Virgin. First of all, the Koran believes in her Immaculate Conception and, also, in her Virgin Birth. The third chapter of the Koran places the history of Mary’s family in a genealogy which goes back through Abraham, Noah, and Adam. … The Koran has also verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity. Angels are pictured as accompanying the Blessed Mother and saying: “Oh, Mary, God has chosen you and purified you, and elected you above all the women of the earth.” In the nineteenth chapter of the Koran there are forty-one verses on Jesus and Mary. There is such a strong defense of the virginity of Mary here that the Koran, in the fourth book, attributes the condemnation of the Jews to their monstrous calumny against the Virgin Mary.
Mary, then, is for the Moslems the true Sayyida, or Lady. The only possible serious rival to her in their creed would be Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed himself. But after the death of Fatima, Mohammed wrote: “Thou shalt be the most blessed of all the women in Paradise, after Mary” In a variant of the text, Fatima is made to say: “I surpass all the women, except Mary.”
Archbishop Sheen then explains the significance of Mary’s choice of Fatima for her apparitions.
“This brings us to our second point, namely, why the Blessed Mother, in this twentieth century, should have revealed herself in the insignificant little village of Fatima, so that to all future generations she would be known as ‘Our Lady of Fatima’. Since nothing ever happens out of heaven except with a finesse of all details, I believe that the Blessed Virgin chose to be known as ‘Our Lady of Fatima’ as a pledge and a sign of hope to the Moslem people, and as an assurance that they, who show her so much respect, will one day accept her Divine Son, too.
Evidence to support these views is found in the historical fact that the Moslems occupied Portugal for centuries. At the time when they were finally driven out, the last Moslem chief had a beautiful daughter by the name of Fatima. A Catholic boy fell in love with her, and for him she not only stayed behind when the Moslems left, but even embraced the faith. The young husband was so much in love with her that he changed the name of the town where he lived to Fatima. Thus, the very place where Our Lady appeared in 1917 bears a historical connection to Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed.”
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In the latter times right up to the Reign of Antichrist, the enmity between the
children of Mary and the children of the Devil will intensify. St. Louis de
Montfort:
"Mary must become as terrible as an army in battle array to the
devil and his followers, especially in these latter times. For Satan, knowing
that he has little time - even less now than ever - to destroy souls,
intensifies his efforts and his onslaughts every day. He will not hesitate
to stir up savage persecutions and set treacherous snares for Mary's faithful
servants and children whom he finds more difficult to overcome than others.
It is chiefly in reference to these last wicked persecutions of
the devil, daily increasing until the advent of the reign of anti-Christ, that
we should understand that first and well-known prophecy and curse of God uttered
against the serpent in the garden of paradise. It is opportune to explain it
here for the glory of the Blessed Virgin, the salvation of her children and the
confusion of the devil. 'I will place enmities between you and the woman,
between your race and her race; she will crush your head and you will lie in
wait for her heel' (Gen. 3:15).
God has established only one enmity -
but it is an irreconcilable one - which will last and even go on increasing to
the end of time. That enmity is between Mary, his worthy Mother, and the devil,
between the children and the servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and
followers of Lucifer.
Thus the most
fearful enemy that God has set up against the devil is Mary, his
holy Mother. From the time of the earthly paradise, although she existed then
only in his mind, he gave her such a hatred for his accursed enemy,
such ingenuity in exposing the wickedness of
the ancient serpent and such power to defeat, overthrow and crush this proud
rebel, that Satan fears her not only more than angels and men but in a certain
sense more than God himself. This does not mean that the anger, hatred and power
of God are not infinitely greater than the Blessed Virgin's, since her
attributes are limited. It simply means that Satan, being so proud, suffers
infinitely more in being vanquished and punished by a lowly and humble servant
of God, for her humility humiliates him more than the power of
God. Moreover, God has given Mary such great power over the evil
spirits that, as they have often been forced unwillingly to admit through the
lips of possessed persons, they fear one of her pleadings for a soul more than
the prayers of all the saints, and one of her threats more than all their other
torments." True Devotion, Nos 50 - 52).
The Spotless Virgin, the
Immaculata, has a special "ingenuity" in exposing the Devil's plans and
tactics. Which is why the Devil often uses others - sometimes other Catholics -
to try to influence us to abandon our devotion to Mary, or at least to water it
down under the pretext that it is "excessive" or "harmful to
ecumenism."
The Devil knows that those consecrated to the Immaculata
will be protected in a special way in this time of Apostasy. Which is why he
attacks their true devotion. Again St. Louis de Montfort: "Since Mary alone has
crushed all heresies, as we are told by the Church under the guidance of the
Holy Spirit (Office of B.V.M.), a devoted servant of hers will never fall into
formal heresy or error, though critics may contest this. He may very well err
materially, mistaking lies for truth or an evil spirit for a good one, but he
will be less likely to do this than others. Sooner or later he will discover
his error and will not go on stubbornly believing and maintaining what he
mistakenly thought was the truth." (True Devotion, No. 167),
In other
words, those who practice true devotion to Mary will be better disposed toward
the truth and will receive special graces against error.
The Devil knows
this. So he tries desperately to undermine such true devotion: "It's harmful to
ecumenism," "It is excessive," "It is too pre-Vatican II," "It is
Medeival."
Don't you believe the lies. Consecrate yourself daily to the
Immaculata. Pope John Paul II, in a General Audience of November 15, 1995, said
that to honor Mary is to go to Jesus. How then can our devotion to Mary be said
to be "excessive"? During the same General Audience, the Holy Father places
"such as Lourdes, Fatima, Loreto, Pompei, Guadalupe and Czestochowa" [this list
is not exhaustive]...are "a wonderful testimony to God's mercy, which reaches
man through Mary's intercession.."
