Any society can only tolerate so much plundering before its peoples ask others to invade it. “Moslems would be an improvement over our own corrupt Visigoth King.” said the Spanish nobles who urged the Moslems to attack their own king after he used his power to debauch their daughters.
Western governments still battle with invaders from the Middle East. Our ongoing enemy has simplified government and religion by combining the two. Their people live in unrelieved squalor as a result. That squalor is a great organizing tool for their leaders: “You are poor because Jews sent their lackeys to take everything that’s rightfully ours. Destroy them and their lackeys. Then, we will prosper.”
We can look at every country they’ve already taken over. None of them “prosper”. Money made in the initial looting is soon absorbed by wealthy polygamists. They use it to keep the poorer citizens in poverty.
When our enemies grow too dangerous, we ask God for help. Catholic prayers are answered when the time is right. Richard, Raymond, Godfrey, and Sobieski were answers to the prayers of devout Catholics. Their spiritual descendents are ready to defend us on land. Don Juan of Austria is always ready for battle.
We see something else: The Greek Orthodox used to ask God to help defend them. They lost most of their lands. We see that He did not answer their prayers. He has, however, answered Catholic prayers for the defense of Europe. We must pray that He will continue to defend The Church Jesus Founded. It is more likely that He will do so as schismatics turn from their vain posturings and return to The Church of their ancestors.
So, this is our prayer: “Jesus, save us from the schisms that divide us.” After enough oppression, and after government bribe-takers are exposed and shunned, a Catholic champion will emerge. We will, again, be victorious.
Then, the rot will begin, again. And, once more Catholics will pray, “Jesus, save us from the schisms that divide us.”
In the long stretches of time between actual battles on actual battlefields, souls come into existence, live, and pass on to Judgment.
We who live in such times should work. And pray: “Jesus, save us from the schisms that divide us.”
