Principalities and Powers

Catholics should always be clear about who the real enemy is:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A church in the New Haven, Connecticut parish at which the Knights of Columbus was founded was vandalized this week, with a satanic symbol painted on the door.

Fr. Michael McGivney, who will soon be beatified, began his priestly ministry at St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, the city’s first parish, in 1877. The priest founded the Knights of Columbus there in 1882.

In 2018, nearby St. Joseph Church became part of St. Mary’s Parish during a diocesan consolidation process. Dominican Fr. John Paul Walker, the parish pastor said in a Facebook post Thursday that vandalism at St. Joseph Church had taken place overnight.

“Words and various symbols including a satanic one were painted on the outside doors of the church,” Fr. Walker said.

“While we assess the situation and make plans to bless the church, the church will remain closed at least through the end of the day today,” he said. “Our two daily Masses, confessions, and afternoon Adoration are therefore canceled. We will be live streaming Mass at noon from the priory chapel.”

Mass and other liturgies ordinarily take place at both church buildings in the parish. But because of renovations underway at St. Mary’s Church, all parish liturgies have been taking place in St. Joseph Church.

Go here to read the rest.  Go here to read about a wave of attacks against the Church in this country.  As much as God loves us, Satan hates us.  In the lamentable chronicle of human crime and folly, Satan is always leading the cheer for our own self-destruction, and to cheat God of His children.

Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in the battle.  Be our protection against the malice and snares of the Devil.  We humbly beseech God to command him.  And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the powers of God, cast into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.