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James: Hello, all. Welcome to another episode of the Manly Catholic. This is James, your host, and with me, we have a guest who’s been with us before, and I’m very excited to speak with him again. We have Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Your Excellency. Welcome back to the manly Catholic
Bishop Schneider: Thank you. God bless you.
James: It’s so wonderful to have you on again, bishop, and today we’re going to be talking specifically about one of his latest books. You’ve been busy writing your excellency, but this is the one that we’ll be speaking about. It’s Salve Regina, a rosary crusade to plead for the holy Popes. I think that is so prominent in this day and age, and I’m excited to speak with you. But Your Excellency, before we begin and dive into that, would you mind just starting us off with a prayer, please?
Bishop Schneider: Yes,
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are Thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now in the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
James: Amen. Thank you so much, Bishop. Now, Your Excellency. I want to start off with a lot, obviously, that has happened since we last spoke, as we elected a new pope. And I wanted to ask you, just before we kind of dive into the rosary. What have been your first impressions of Pope Leo the 14th, since he began his pontificate?
Bishop Schneider: Well, since his first appearance on the balcony on the day of his election. It was, I perceived it very positively. His manner of behaving, of speaking, was very done with dignity and with moderation. And he had some irradiance of a man of prayer, and so and then he used all the official papal vestments as his fitting for this. So really, he showed dignity in his office. And so it was my first impression, positive. Of course, it’s still too early to make an assessment of this, because he is only now, basically three months, and we have to wait and pray for him.
There had been some actions already that were not so encouraging. Unfortunately, he appointed some very dubious persons to the Episcopacy and promoted them even higher, who were known already before as bishops who promoted heresy and immorality, accepted the homosexual agenda, and nevertheless, he promoted them to higher ranks. This is, for me, very concerning, but I don’t know why he did this, and I hope that he will not continue to promote such ecclesiastics to higher church rank. Therefore, we have to pray for him. But in general, what he speaks is sound theology, usually. And this gives hope that, over time, I hope he will have good counselors and collaborators who will help him also to appoint really worthy men of God as shepherds and give to the church again the clarity of doctrine.
James: Bishop, that, I mean, you mentioned so many key points there, too, the importance of prayer, and obviously, that’s the heart of your book. You know, a rosary crusade to plead for holy popes, and for maybe those of you who are just listening to you for the first time, we just kind of do ask a very basic question: what is, is the main role of the Pope? And why should we go on this rosary crusade? Plead for holy Popes. Why, I guess, why is having a holy Pope? Why does that even matter for the church?
Bishop Schneider: Yes, because the Pope is the visible head of the church, and when the head is functioning well, then the entire body will be functioning. It is logical. And so from the Pope, from the Holy See, come the appointments of bishops, and said, Therefore, for cardinals, and they basically influence the life of the church concretely, and a bad bishop, an evil Bishop, a modernist Bishop, a heretic bishop, he can destroy the spiritual life of a diocese. For some generations, we had this and a good man, a good Bishop, a man of God who is zealous in doctrine, in holy life, in liturgy; he will renew completely the face of the Diocese. And there will be a new generation of holy priests.
I witnessed it in Brazil, where I lived and where I studied, and where I was ordained a priest by a Holy bishop. He came to chaos in this diocese in Brazil, which was destroyed spiritually by the theology of liberation. And then he in 25 years of Episcopacy, he renewed the diocese completely with his example, with his training of good priests. I witnessed it so and so. There are other cases. And therefore we must pray for the Pope that he give us good shepherds, men of God, and also confirm the entire church in the clarity of the faith that Christ entrusted to Peter, to every Pope. Therefore, we must pray for this, that God gives us not only one holy Pope, but an entire series of holy Popes. It is so evident to me that from a holy Pope depends so much for the entire church, if from one holy priest in a parish, he can change the life of a parish. One Holy Priest. We pray for holy priests.
You know, many times, why not pray for holy bishops? Who is more important than to pray for holy priests? In my opinion, to pray for holy bishops? Why don’t we pray for holy Popes? It’s more important still to imagine, right? And we have to accustom ourselves in the Catholic Church to dare to pray for holy popes in the plural.
James: Yeah, Your Excellency. That’s such a great point too, because it’s almost illogical too, because, yeah, we talk about praying for priests, and of course, we want to pray for our parish priests and everything, but how much more to our bishops and then our Holy Cardinals and our Holy Father, obviously, the Pope, you know. And it is likened to, you know. It made me think of, you know, a lot of our listeners, you know, they like sports and things like that, but they talk a lot about how, you know, a great coach or a great manager. It kind of trickles down to the rest of the players and the organization. So same thing.
If you have a very structured and very hierarchical and a very holy man who’s leading the church, it can’t help but trickle down to the rest of the bishops, the Cardinals, the priests, and then, of course, to the lay people as well. And so that’s such an excellent point. And I wanted to ask you, too, Your Excellency.
I’m reading from your book here, and it says, the Holy See, whose essential mission is to be the chair of truth, is partially occupied by her enemies, who have succeeded in exerting a decisive influence on the Roman Curia itself, on the very governance of the Catholic Church I wanted to ask you about then just kick that over to you, you know, because that’s a pretty bold statement, and I agree with you 100% but I wanted to explain to the to our listeners, what do you mean by that?
Bishop Schneider: This is not my expression. This, this book, Cardinal Muller, the Roman Curia. He said it during the pontificate of Pope Francis. I think he did this. He said this phrase one or two years ago, where he said the Vatican, the Holy See is they was under a takeover, he said, a takeover of the enemies of the church. And he spoke. This was in an EWTN interview, publicly so, and we have not. There is no need for proof. It is so evident we cannot deny, during the pontificate of Pope Francis, really, we had the impression that the enemies of the church made a takeover over partly, not completely, I think, but partly to a remarkable extent of the offices and influence ranks in the Vatican.
And so the Holy See became a kind of chaplaincy of the United Nations organization, a chaplaincy of the worldly agenda, of climate change, of LGBT, of all these, of Pachamama, veneration of the idols. And so we had this before our eyes. And so we must simply be intellectually honest to recognize it, but in the same time to believe and renew our faith that the church is nevertheless indestructible the gates of hell will never prevail, even though, when shortly or in a short time, a relatively short time, the Holy See is partly infiltrated or dominated by the enemies of the church, nevertheless, it will win, they will not succeed.
You know this famous saying of Napoleon; I repeat it. It is really historical. When Napoleon arrested the Pope 200 years ago or more, Pope Pius the seventh and brought him to domestic arrest close to Paris. And when Napoleon was at the height of his power, he came to the Pope, and he requested that he sign a document which would be harmful for the church, and the Pope, thanks be to God, did not yield to Napoleon. And then Napoleon became very angry and started to shout and threaten the Pope, saying, I will destroy the church. And on the side of the Pope, there was a cardinal, and he said quietly to Napoleon, Your Majesty, what we priests and bishops tried to do during 1800 years, and we did not succeed. You will not succeed.
James: So this is, yeah. It’s, yeah, you know, Bishop, that’s such a good point, too. And I, I’m actually reading for the second time, Dr. Taylor Marshall’s book Infiltration, in which he talks a lot about that. And like you said to Pope Paul, our Pope Paul the Sixth. I think it was Pope Paul the Sixth who said the smoke of Satan, or what was it? The smoke of Satan has entered the church. And then obviously, even Pope Leo the 10th, who wrote the Saint Michael prayer. I think it’s Pope Leo. You can correct me if I’m wrong. Your Excellency.
Bishop Schneider: Leo the 13th.
James: The 13th. Thank you. Yeah. Who recognize, you know, the importance of, you know, the St Michael prayer and everything, and, you know, it’s such, I think, as late people as well. I mean, you could probably see more kinds of behind-the-scenes. So to speak of the church, we often forget too, like we’re, you know, we’re, we get so caught up in, in our the busyness of our lives, you know, and we forget the spiritual realm as well. And, I love your book so much, Your Excellency, because it talks about the rosary. And you know, Mary is, you know, he can’t talk about the rosary, obviously, without talking about our Blessed Mother. And Mary is such a powerful intercessor.
And you know, the rosary, just if you go through all the quotes of saints and popes and how many encyclicals have been written about the Rosary and our Blessed Mother, I want to just ask you, Your Excellency. Maybe you can talk about, you know, personally, what Mary means to you, but why the Rosary is so important in this day and age, and especially Mary as our intercessor, and especially in this day and age as well, where the enemies have tried to infiltrate. Well, they have, like you said, but they haven’t fully taken over. But why is her intercession so important in this day and age, especially?
Bishop Schneider: Well, our lady, she is the. Winner, she destroyed the heresies as the church gave her this title in the liturgy, the destroyer of all heresies. And she also crushed the head of the snake of the Serpent. God gave her this power because of her Immaculate purity, and she is the mother of God. And so, together with Christ, and therefore the devil, he fears the most. He fears Our Lady, therefore. And so the Rosary is a synthesis of the most holy and powerful prayers which God gave us, our father, the Hail Mary, which is a prayer from heaven because Saint Gabriel spoke this prayer. And then the glorification of the Holy Trinity, glory be to the Father.
And then there’s the synthesis of all the gospels with the mysteries of the life of our Lord and of redemption. So this is a synthesis of the gospel in the most holy prayers. And with this power we intercede, and Our Lady is guiding us and transmitting these appeals, these prayers, these applications to the Divine Throne of Grace, and therefore, and she recommended, repeatedly, the efficacy of the Rosary, starting in Lourdes and then in Fatima specifically, and the Popes did also so, and therefore we must simply obey these appeals of our lady herself and of the popes who invite us to pray with the Rosary and in Fatima later, Our Lady said to Sister Lucia of Fatima, that there is no problem in the world in our day which we cannot be resolved through the prayer of the Rosary. And therefore we do.
I might have thought this was my idea and my suggestion to make an appeal, a kind of continuous, continuous crusade, a kind of crusade of rosaries for the specific intention to plead, to implore, that God may grant His Church in our day, holy Popes.
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James: Yeah, and your Excellency. I just want to, you know, because you talk about crusade, and I want to dive into that, because I thought, I think that’s very purposeful, that you said a rosary crusade. You know, St Patrick Pio said the Rosary is the weapon for these times. And then blessed Pope Pius the nine says, Give me an army saying the rosary, and I will conquer the world. So, I mean, we have very much with the rosary kind of this, this military, or militaristic, or kind of battling RAM, which, I think, if I remember, when she gave it to St Dominic, she said, the Rosary is, is like a battering ram, essentially. So talk about, you know, a rosary crusade to plead for holy Popes. Because I feel like you can correct me if I’m wrong, you chose the word crusade for a very specific purpose. Do you mind diving into that a little bit?
Bishop Schneider: Yes, because this is a military concept, and then, because we have to be aware, because the Church on earth is the so-called militant church. This is our reality. We have to fight, not against one another, not against flesh and blood. We must fight against the spirit, the evil spirits. This is our fight, a fight against our sins and against the evil spirits with this weapon of the Holy Rosary. And therefore crusade, because crusade is a kind of army, a specific army, it was historical to free the holy land from the occupation of the non-Christians who dominated the Holy Land and prohibited or impeded prayer in the most holy places of Christianity in the Holy Land.
So to free it, I mean materially, but now the crusade is to make a spiritual crusade, not with the weapons we sword, but with the Holy Rosary, to free the Holy Land spiritually in the church. It means the leadership in the church, those places that are important strategically in the church this the Holy See, the bishops, the priests, to free them from this slavery or towards the world, I mean, and from these holy popes will come holy bishops is logical, because holy popes will not appoint evil bishops, never. Holy popes will appoint holy Cardinals. These holy Cardinals will then elect a good, holy Pope, the successor. It’s so logical and holy popes will appoint holy bishops. Holy bishops will do that. They will have good priests and a good formation of priests. And when we have in many parishes holy priests, there will be plenty holy families, young families, who will be encouraged by a good, holy priest and a good, holy Bishop. This is so evident.
James: In Your Excellency, too. Like you said, it’s so logical, you know. And I want to ask you too, because it seems like, I mean, you can correct me if I’m wrong. There. Seems like there has been a shift a little bit from, I mean, I know. I mean, I know, like in the Archdiocese of Detroit, which is, you know, a few hours away from me, there was a bit of controversy when some prominent kind of conservative theologians were fired from their posts over in Detroit. But that talks about, to what you just said, the difference that one bishop can make in a diocese where he goes right after this seminary, essentially.
And there’s one too in North Carolina or South, I think it was North Carolina, where the bishop wanted to basically, completely restrict the Latin Mass and but the laity heard about it, and they wrote to him, basically, and said, like you, like you can’t do this essentially. And he actually, well, he didn’t reverse course, but he paused it. So there definitely seems to be, you know, a, almost a reversal, based on what you’ve been saying. Do you see, you know, signs of hope with the church coming in the years to come? Or do we still, I mean, I know we still have a fight, or do you, or do you feel like we’re kind of stagnating, maybe even turning and getting worse, actually?
Bishop Schneider: Well, we have, we must also always be with hope. A Christian must be, even in the worst situation. This is our faith, that Christ is the winner. Well, I don’t know. I have hope that with this pontificate, the divine providence will slowly start to really renew the church in a good direction of the tradition of sound theology, liturgy, morality, and clergy. So it is a process, I hope, and depends on our prayers. Therefore, I consider it so important to be indefatigable, not to be tired, to pray, to implore really holy popes that in the Vatican must be the change when there was the great crisis during the so-called reformation. I call this deformation, not reformation of Martin Luther in the 16th century, even before Martin Luther, it was really a very sad situation in the Holy See with the immoral Popes. Really, it is. It was, and the immorality with the bishops and cardinals, the high clergy. And therefore there was an axiom, a motto. At that time, the renewal, the reform of the church, started in the head and in the members in capite et members in Latin.
It was so it was, and the same in our day, it must start with a reform in the Vatican to place there really men of God who must occupy the key positions in the Vatican, men who love the tradition, who love the purity of the doctrine, who love the dignity of the liturgy. Who are men of God? These must be there and only then. They must be put there in the Vatican, priests, bishops, and cardinals. But who puts them? It’s the Pope, or at least he must recognize this and surround himself with worthy people who truly have the spirit of the church.
James: And holy men like you said too. And, for you know, lay people are listening to this as well. I mean prayer and fasting, you know. And this is a spiritual battle that we are in and praying for, you know, like, like we’ve talked about so much, I think it’s often neglected, you know, it, of course, pray for your priest, but you have to pray for your bishops and especially your Holy Father, because, as we’ve have you so, you know, eloquently, have stated Your Excellency, the the importance of the Pope cannot be underscored because it just trickles down to the rest of of the church. And I wanted to ask you, as well, Your Excellency, going back to your book, you include in here the litany of the Child Jesus, which I love. But I wanted to ask you, why did you feel it was imperative to include that in your book about the rosary?
Bishop Schneider: Well, I included it for a purpose, because in difficult times, God’s method was always to use the little ones in the church to confound the establishment, I mean, the nomenclatura. He loves to use the little ones in crisis situations always, and this is he will do this in our day also. And therefore, Child Jesus is the expression of the love of God for the little ones. He became a little child. And therefore, this rosary crusade is they will be prayed mostly by the little ones. I mean by children, by youth, by families, not so much by the establishment, I mean. And so therefore, to stress this truth, this method of God, I, for the purpose, put the Litany to the child, Jesus.
James: I love that I knew you had a deep meaning behind that, Your Excellency, because I know you’re a very purposeful man. So I wanted to ask you about that. And you know, let’s I want to go back a little bit too, because I think this is relevant to a little bit of the history of the Rosary. Do you mind? You know, especially those, like I said, who are just listening? No, when did Mary, our Blessed Mother, introduce the rosary, and what was the meaning like? What was going on? The time of Saint Dominic, who, obviously, she gave it to and and because I really want to dive into the history, because I think that is so important, I know that leads into your book as well.
Bishop Schneider: Well, historically, there are still questions for historians, when certain things directly, if our Lady directly appeared to Saint Dominic, and so on. But we can say that it was already probably known to Saint Dominic, this method of prayer, because the simple monks in monasteries who did who could not read. They were illiterate. Of them, they could not read the office, the divine office, because of the Psalms.
So they substituted it, because there are 150 Psalms, you know, and so they substituted it with 150 Pater Noster, Our Father, always 150 invocations to Our Lady, Hail Mary. And then they used the chain, so to you kind of what we call today a rosary. So it was already before Saint Dominic, but St Dominic. Probably took this idea of these 150 invocations of Our Lady to fight against here at his time, it was very serious, also, at least in that region where he lived in South France, North Italy, the Albigensian heresy, the kind of pre Protestant ideas at that time, already a sectarian movement and so And the first some secular powers, even the Inquisition.
They tried to fight them, even materially, with the fighting, with the wars. And then St Dominic had this illumination of God. No, we must fight them with the doctrine, with preaching, with prayer, with love. And so he and so he founded the Dominican Order, which, much as the truth, Veritas, the truth. And with this preaching, the order of the preachers, he really and with the prayer of the Rosary, had such a success in converting these heretics also. So this, this is, we can say, the context of the beginning of this form of prayer, which was already before, but expressively then spread by the Dominicans, of course. And then we have to add, and then in the 16th century, in 1570, was another very important historical event, the victory of the Christian army against the Turks, the Muslims, I mean, who were threatening to occupy Europe, to make Europe Islamic. In the Battle of Lepanto, it was a naval battle with ships and the Christians, humanly speaking, were in the minority and had not so much chance. And the Pope, it was a Dominican Pope, Saint Pius the Fifth, he asked to pray the rosary.
And there were in Rome, even fraternities to Our Lady of Rosary. And they were going through Rome in processions and praying the rosary at the moment when there was the battle in Lepanto, and really against all hopes, the Christians could overcome this huge army, a naval Army, of the enemies of the Muslims, of the Turks, which was a threat to Christianity itself in Europe. And so it was the seventh of October, and the Pope had a kind of vision, because at that time there was no phone, no telegraph, and so it was a moment when there was the decisive moment of the victory. He stood up during the meeting with the cardinals, stood up, went to the window, opened it, and said, and said Proclaim, we have the victory. And God gave him this illumination. And then He instituted the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which was also called Our Lady of the Victory, the true victory, spiritual victory. And so since then, the rosary was this triumphant God, this triumphant way in the life of the old Catholics until our day.
James: I love that. It doesn’t, yeah, it’s not ironic at all that that big battle, a huge, decisive victory, was fought on water. You know, the bark of Peter, obviously. So there’s a little bit of symbolism there as well. But you know, I want to ask Your Excellency, because in your book, you only include the glorious, the sorrowful, and the joyful. And I want to ask, you know? Because I know, obviously, Pope John Paul the Second came and brought in the Luminous Mysteries. Did you do that strictly because of the 150 Psalter? And you want to keep the three, and that’s, you know, what was the original? I just wanted to ask you, was there a reason and purpose behind that as well?
Bishop Schneider: Yes, exactly because of the symbology of this psalterium of the Psalms, this 150, and it was always explained in such a way. Since then, Dominic, from the beginning, the Popes have always explained it. It is because of the psalterium to keep the symbology, and therefore I considered it important to recall, again in our day, this is 150 to recall the symbology of the origin of the Rosary and the meaning, and even when John Paul the second proposed the so-called Luminous Mysteries, he wrote that he did not want to trouble the 150 symbology. Also, it was only a possibility to meditate on other aspects of the life of Christ. They can add more even mysteries. It’s not only the luminous, I mean, but this traditional one. There was our lady, so known and sanctified during 800 years, at least centuries. And I think we have to keep this tradition also for private meditation, you can take the Luminous Mysteries. Why not? But officially, I think we should keep the symbology of the psalterium of the 150 Ave Maria.
James: Yeah, and I want to ask you, too, Your Excellency. Correct me if I’m wrong, too. Was it originally designed to pray each, I guess, each set of mysteries every day, and correct me if I’m wrong, too. I thought I heard as well that the Hail Mary was actually a shortened prayer originally, and then, like the second half, which made it slightly longer, was added. I could have misheard or what I am thinking of, but I just wanted to ask you if there’s any accuracy or proof of that.
Bishop Schneider: Yes, usually it was the first part of the verse of San Gabriel, and the second part was added later, I think, in the 15th or 16th century. 15th probably simply to pray for the church to pray. Pray for us. It’s like a short expression of the church to her.
James: Okay, perfect. So let’s see. Can Learn a history lesson as well. So thank you. Thank you for clarifying that now with the rosary too. I wanted to ask you, you know, is there specific, a specific way that you recommend for people to pray, like, is it best to, you know, pray, you know, in church? Is it best to pray, you know? Probably, it’s best to pray when you’re walking, what, I guess, to kind of steady our minds and everything, because, obviously, you want to focus on the mysteries. Is there a way? Is there a way that you recommend that has found most edifying, maybe for you and for lay people as well?
Bishop Schneider: It depends individually. Some people pay more easily and with less distraction when they are walking in nature, going around a small walk, and so and meditate. Some prefer to be private in a silent church during the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament to show Christ, to see Christ here, and his mysteries. And some people feel easier to pray together and not being distracted. So I think it depends on people. Some find it helpful to repeat with every Hail Mary.
The mystery as for example, it is common in the German speaking countries, in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, to repeat every Hail Mary, the mystery for example, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, whom you have conceived by the Holy Spirit and so on, or Jesus, who was crowned with thorns for us, or who was crucified for us, or who resurrected so and every time so 10-10 it’s helpful also for some people to again to meditate better. So there are different methods.
James: And I want to ask you to Your Excellency. What does the rosary mean to you? I’m sure there’s significance behind it, because you wrote a book about it. I want to ask you personally, what has the rosary meant to you over your years being a bishop and a priest?
Bishop Schneider: Yes, we already explained the reasons. I explained in the beginning, because of the holiness of his prayers. So sin is. It is of the gospel, and it’s a prayer which also gives us a kind of quiet calm in the soul, because it is the repetition of these holy, really prayers, and it is so centered on Christ and Mary so and helps us. Of course, for me, as every priest and Bishop, the Holy Mass is the Sun of the day always, and the most important, and the breviary, of course, this is our task, a holy task. But also the rosary, it depends. It is a kind of all connected together.
James: Amen. And I want to ask you as well, because I know there’s been, you know, promises that have been revealed privately, like the 15. I think it’s the 15 promises of the Rosary for those who pray it. I wanted to ask you, too, how do we kind of balance, because there’s so much private revelation out there, how do we balance to, especially in terms of the Rosary, maybe, you know, the tradition versus private revelation, what we kind of grasped onto, like, is there danger of, I don’t know, like believing every private revelation that has been, you know, I guess, approved by the church, obviously, versus just sticking to the, you know, the traditional where the rosary came from, and just the mysteries and everything like that.
Bishop Schneider: Well, there are, first, of course, we can only accept those private revelations which were formally approved by the church. The others had better not, because this is very dangerous. And there is a kind of boundless proliferation of all these so-called revelations and visions we have to stick, I think, to the saints who wrote about the rosary, especially St Louis, Marie Grignon De Montfort, who explained very beautifully how to pray the rosary. And so I think one of the best so in his book on true devotion, then we have a beautiful explanation of the rosary and the prayer of Archbishop Fulton Sheen on the 15 mysteries, very profound. So too, I would suggest using very solid or saints or church fathers or solid authors, authors who wrote about the rosary.
James: Yes, St Louis De Montfort is, gosh, there are so many saints beyond in the past that we talk a lot about tradition today too, that have just always recommended praying the Rosary as much as possible. And then, you know, Mary and at Fatima, obviously, to pray the rosary every day, and all the things we talked about too, you know, it’s, it’s our spiritual weapon, you know, and spiritual battle that we’re in every day, you know.
And your excellency, I wanted to ask you to, maybe like a final, you know, I guess, exaltation for our men out there who are listening to, especially as men, we can kind of direct it directly towards them. Why is it so important for men? I know we’ve talked a lot about it too, to pray for their parish, pray for their families as well, because that is, you know, our responsibility as fathers, as spiritual fathers, and, um, just maybe give men a word of encouragement as well, and the importance of praying this prayer.
Bishop Schneider: Yes, I would encourage all good Catholic men, especially fathers of the family, to really give an example to their family, to their children, so that later, when your children are adults, and then they will always recall. We saw our father kneeling with the rosary in his hand. Such a beautiful memory of a child. It’s not only an honor for you as a father, but also an example that encourages your children, when they have families, that they will imitate you for their children. And so give an example as a man to kneel to pray the rosary. And remember, as a man, that this is a military prayer in some way, because a man his mission, by God given, is to protect his children, his family, his house. I mean, first, sometimes materially, to give protection, but also spiritually. So this is important that men in our day keep this sound missing. Literary spirit, to our spiritual militancy, to be courageous, to confess the faith, to defend the faith with dignity, and to first, to give an example to their children.
James: Well, thank you so much for that, Your Excellency. You have been so gracious with your time. I just want to tell everyone again. I’ll flash the book here. It’s Salve Regina, a rosary crusade to plead for the holy Pope. So you can get this from Sophia Institute Press, and Your Excellency, would you mind finishing off with you giving us a final blessing?
Bishop Schneider: Yes. Dominus vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo. Benedicat vos omnipotens Deus, Pater, et Filius, et Spiritus Sanctus. Amen.
James: Amen, Your Excellency. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you all so much for listening, and until next time, go out there and be a saint.