The Messenger of the Sacred Heart for India July 1919

To-day again the cry has gone forth from the Vatican the old rallying cry of the Crusaders " God wills it l" and at the bidding of our spiritual Commander-in-chief the children of the world are once more to be marshalled in the fashion of a crusade this time a crusade of prayers however against the forces opposed to Holy Church. [...] 0 JEsus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary I offer Thee my prayers works and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of Thy Sacred Heart in union with the Holy Sacrfioe of the Mass throughout the world for the intentions of all our Associates and especially for the union of the Church's little ones in a Crusade of Prayer." [JULY 1919. [...] Below lay the little town of Castiglione and a way in the distance the blue waters of the Lago di Garda and the majestic summits of the Alps. [...] She has brought home to men the true place of woman ; especially she has taught the place and the influence of the mother ; is it strange then that in her own history and in its manifestations the marks of this growth should be seen ? Scarcely had she begun to spread across the world scarcely had she made the name of Jesus familiar to men than they began to look at His Mother ; and the devot [...] In her the rights of the mother were recognised ; in her the mother's work in the world was sanctioned ; this new force for the regeneration and upbuilding of mankind was consecrated in the devotion to St.