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04:38 Pope Leo XIII and the Rosary’s Historical Significance
11:41 Origins and Evolution of the Rosary
15:30 Mary’s Apparitions and Their Messages
18:57 The Battle of Lepanto and the Rosary’s Role in Christian Victory
30:58 The Rosary as a Spiritual Weapon in the Battle Against Evil
32:46 Surviving Hiroshima: Jesuit Priests and the Rosary’s Protection
35:13 Our Lady of Fatima: The Lady of the Rosary’s Message
37:08 Rosary as a Lifeline in Difficult Times
40:00 The Evolution and Meaning of the Hail Mary Prayer
46:27 Building Rosary Habits and Atomic Habits Principles
50:20 Mary: Our Lady of Grace and the Meaning of Grace
52:30 Showing Reality: Hell, Abortion, and the Need for Awareness
59:30 The Rosary’s Power to Solve Any Problem in the World
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In this episode of Catholic Education Matters, host Troy Van Vliet welcomes longtime family friend and faith advocate Angie Dee to discuss the beauty, history, and spiritual power of the Rosary. Angie shares her personal journey of faith and education, including her theological studies and ministry work, and recounts her recent visit to Rome during the historic election of the new pope, Leo XIV—named in honor of Pope Leo XIII, the “Pope of the Rosary.” The episode explores Marian apparitions, the story of Blessed Bartolo Longo’s incredible conversion from satanic priest to apostle of the Rosary, the historical impact of the Rosary at pivotal moments like the Battle of Lepanto, and its power as a spiritual weapon against evil. Angie emphasizes how the Rosary draws us closer to Christ through Mary and recounts remarkable miracles attributed to its daily prayer, including the survival of Jesuit priests during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This episode is a rich, inspiring testimony to the enduring significance of the Rosary in Catholic life and spiritual warfare.
Transcript:
[00:00:00] Intro: Welcome to Catholic Education Matters, the podcast that celebrates the beauty of Catholic education, highlighting excellence in academics, athletics, and the transformative power of faith. Join us as we share the stories of those making a lasting impact on Catholic education. Let’s begin.
[00:00:34] Troy Van Vliet: Good day everyone and welcome to Catholic Education Matters. I’m your host Troy VanVliet and I am excited today to have with me a longtime family friend and I cannot say enough about Angie. No, she’s absolutely an absolute dear to be around and she is an advocate for the faith and I want to say welcome Angie. We’re going to be talking about the rosary today.
[00:00:57] Angie Dee: Thank you, Troy.
[00:00:58] Troy Van Vliet: Yeah, Catholic education matters. You’re going to educate us on the rosary.
[00:01:03] Angie Dee: Well, it’s my first podcast ever and I’m so glad it’s with you because as you say,
[00:01:08] Troy Van Vliet: you’re family. Your mom is one of
[00:01:12] Angie Dee: my soul sisters. Your dad was someone I admired and loved so deeply. And I’ve been in your life for quite a while.
[00:01:20] Troy Van Vliet: Yes, absolutely. And it’s an honor to have you here today.
[00:01:24] Angie Dee: It’s an honor to be here.
[00:01:26] Troy Van Vliet: Thank you. And I’m going to say a few things about just about your bio, a little bit about your background, if I may. And just so that people know a little bit more about you. First of all, when the youngest of your five children left for university, you returned to school earning a master’s degree in theology in 2016. So, since then you worked at the Archdiocese of Vancouver and Manila and you were giving presentations on different Catholic topics of course and in different parishes facilitating small and large group studies, leading the Marian consecration programs and events in Alpha as well.
[00:02:15] My goodness. Also, you worked as a coordinator of Discipleship of the Holy Name of Jesus Parish.
[00:02:24] Angie Dee: Just up the street here, off a And
[00:02:29] Troy Van Vliet: I also want to talk about you did this in the footsteps of your father who was nicknamed Mary’s ambassador by the late Pope St. John Paul II.
[00:02:39] Angie Dee: And
[00:02:41] Troy Van Vliet: you’ve spoke to crowds up to 6,000 people in The Philippines, the one hundredth anniversary celebration of Fatima. You’re a popular person here. In 20 And that’s where Mary identified herself as Our Lady of the Rosary and requested that we pray it daily. Isn’t that fascinating? That’s great.
[00:03:04] And you’ve also, before we jump into the rosary, you just got back from Rome.
[00:03:07] Angie Dee: I just got back from Rome.
[00:03:09] Troy Van Vliet: And it was a surprise trip.
[00:03:12] Angie Dee: Surprise gift for Mother’s Day and my birthday, which usually falls on Mother’s Day in some years, from my youngest son, so the one who went back to university and I along with him, name is Joseph. Surprise gift for the papal announcement, which we made it to. We landed the day before they announced the new Holy Father. So, it’s a very exciting time. There’s a lot of connections to the rosary, you know, so you might want to touch on that sometime during the discussion.
[00:03:42] Troy Van Vliet: Yeah. Oh, 100%. Or we can
[00:03:44] Angie Dee: do it now.
[00:03:45] Troy Van Vliet: Yeah. Well, we can jump right into Okay.
[00:03:48] Angie Dee: So we landed on May 7, and later that afternoon was the first ballot. And of course the black smoke comes out, because no one is elected usually on the first ballot. But on the second day, May 8, which was a Thursday, after the final ballot of the day, white smoke appears on the chimney, everybody goes crazy, I’m in Mass with my son and the priest says, We’re doing this fast! After someone whispered in her ear. Abemus papam!
[00:04:18] You know, we have a new father, Holy Father. That was the fastest So, missed the white smoke on the big screens. But we ran out, waited about forty five minutes for the new Holy Father to come out on the balcony. Now, what is the significance of May 8? Actually, it’s more the significance of the name that he chose Leo XIV after Pope Leo XIII.
[00:04:46] Who was Pope Leo? He is known to this day as the Pope of the Holy Rosary. He wrote 11 encyclicals on the rosary and numerous apostolic letters. He loved the rosary, promoted it everywhere he went and asked everyone to pray it, daily, if possible. So, there’s that connection to the rosary.
[00:05:10] Pope Leo XIII also is the composer of the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer, which we often say after Mass at many, many parishes. But in his time, it was said after every Mass until St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. Why this prayer? Because after Mass one day in his Papal chapel, he was given a vision of the battle that the Church was about to enter into.
[00:05:42] Satan versus our Lord. And coming out of that mystical experience, he went to his office and quickly composed that prayer. So, he’s very aware of evil versus good and the forces in this invisible war, which is all around us, and I think which we can feel much more acutely one hundred years later than in his time. May 8 is the anniversary, the date, where Saint Michael appeared in Gargano, Italy. And there’s a shrine built there now to this apparition, which is a very significant one.
[00:06:25] More well known in Italy than in North America, but very well known around Europe, especially Poland also. So there is that, Saint Michael’s apparition, Our Lady of Pompeii, which our Holy Father mentioned at the end of his first speech when he first came out of the window. Today is Our Lady of Pompeii in Italian, everybody cheered. So we will end with a Hail Mary, which he prayed in Italian. So beautiful.
[00:06:54] And who is Our Lady of Pompeii? Her image is in the Basilica Of Our Lady Of The Most Holy Rosary in Pompeii. And it was built this is an incredible story. This is what you call a conversion story, if there ever was one. It was built by Blessed Bartolo Longo.
[00:07:17] Who is Blessed Bartolo? The cause for his canonization was just approved in February, three months ago, by Pope Francis before he passed away. So, he is going to be canonized very, very soon. The miracle for his canonization was accepted by the Church. And it will probably be Pope Leo who canonizes him.
[00:07:37] Who is he? He was a satanic priest. Think about that, do I say a satanic priest? If one of my sons was a satanic priest, I don’t know what I’d do. This is for me the worst news.
[00:07:50] He was born and baptized Catholic, lost his way at age 10 after his mother died, followed all the false teachings around the schools and universities of that time, which were very anti Catholic, grew in his hatred of the Pope and of the Church and anything Catholic, and eventually became a satanic priest, going through all the rituals and the initiation and was going through a really hard time getting more and more depressed. So, a good priest that his father knew, they started praying the rosary for him. And they told him, Pray the rosary. At a certain point he was about to commit suicide. And he said, I can never be saved after all that I’ve done and all the people I’ve led away and all the curses that I’ve put on people.
[00:08:38] And he heard a voice within him. And the voice said: One of the promises of Blessed Mother for the rosary is whoever propagates it will be saved. And so that was it. He turned his life around, prayed the rosary every day and became known in Italy, especially Pompey, as the Apostle of the Rosary. And with monies that he raised, you know you’re raising money for a school, this is for a gigantic basilica.
[00:09:09] It is so beautiful. It is the shrine to the rosary in the whole world. So it’s in Pompeii, Italy, the Basilica Of Our Lady Of The Most Holy Rosary. You can just Google it, I actually have it my laptop. Beautiful, it will be there forever unless there is a massive earthquake, but the materials used, the love and the labour with which it was made, all for Our Lady Of The Rosary, all in honor of the Rosary.
[00:09:39] He became very good friends with Pope Leo XIII. And together from Pompey, the petitions for the assumption of Our Lady, we believed that as one Marian dogma, it came from the two of them together and through Pompeii and all the rosaries they were praying.
[00:09:58] Troy Van Vliet: And then the ultimate conversion story.
[00:09:59] Angie Dee: The ultimate! He’s going to be canonized, he’s going to be canonized most likely, hopefully this year, maybe next, but not too long from now because the miracle was just approved. And he will be canonized by a Pope who took the name of Leo XIII, who was his friend. It’s unreal and it’s all through the rosary.
[00:10:23] Troy Van Vliet: That is incredible. And so, speaking about the rosary, you know, a lot of people Okay, I go down some rabbit holes on YouTube, things like that, especially with conversion stories. I love hearing them. Befores and afters and, you know, people converting from different faiths or coming from no faith at all.
[00:10:50] Angie Dee: Or even the satanic church.
[00:10:51] Troy Van Vliet: Yeah. So, and then you’ve got the ultimate conversion stories like that. And when you have people coming from other Christian faiths over to the Catholic faith as well, I find those fascinating too. It’s like, well, what led you over? And what were your preconceived ideas of the Catholic church or what were you taught about the Catholic church that you found out to be false later.
[00:11:21] And one of the things that comes up quite often is, you know, the Catholics, how Mary is adored and then it’s like: we’re not supposed
[00:11:28] Angie Dee: to false
[00:11:31] Troy Van Vliet: idols. All this type of thing comes up. So, the rosary goes way back. It started out with prayer beads, I believe, that kind of evolved from that.
[00:11:42] Angie Dee: A rope that people would tie knots in, so they could count how many prayers they were doing. Whether the Our Father or the actual Psalms, 150 knots for the 150 Psalms. And how many Hail Marys are there if you take the joyful, sorrowful and glorious mysteries? 50 in each, so 150. Now, John Paul gave us the Luminous, so now we have 200.
[00:12:10] But yes, that’s how it started, like counting the prayers. People didn’t have Bibles, like we have such access to Bibles. And they couldn’t read the Psalms, and they were working walking
[00:12:23] Troy Van Vliet: They couldn’t read.
[00:12:23] Angie Dee: They were literate. So many churches in Europe, there were just so many paintings behind the altar because they were drawing out the Bible events. People couldn’t read the Bible. So, that’s how it started.
[00:12:39] Troy Van Vliet: Started from that?
[00:12:40] Angie Dee: With a rope, a prayer rope, a string of beads.
[00:12:43] Troy Van Vliet: So, the rosary today, so I guess it evolved over hundreds of years. Was it Saint Dominic?
[00:12:52] Angie Dee: Saint Dominic was given the form that we use today. Our Lady arranging the beads in five sets of 10. So, first mystery, second mystery. But you didn’t even give him necessarily the mysteries, just arrange a paternoster, our Father, 10 ava marias, glory be.
[00:13:15] Troy Van Vliet: The
[00:13:16] Angie Dee: mysteries were added later joyful, sorrowful, glorious. In 02/2002, John Paul added the luminous, but they came from blessed Bartolo Longo. So, he started writing about the rosary and he wrote, Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a set of mysteries on Jesus’ public life? Because we go from He’s found in the temple after three days to the agony in the garden. What happens in between?
[00:13:46] So, John Paul took the writings of Bartol O’Nongo and was inspired to have the baptism, which started as public ministry, the wedding feast at Cana, etc, etc, the Eucharist, the institution, and then He goes to the garden after the Last Supper, and then we have the passion. So, all of these connections.
[00:14:10] Troy Van Vliet: So beautiful. So, the mysteries basically focus on the life of Jesus, I guess.
[00:14:17] Angie Dee: Every mystery is looking at an event in the life of Jesus. Number one from his conception, in the womb of Mary, so the Annunciation. But we’re looking at every event in His life, through the rosary, through the eyes and heart of His mother. So, she’s there. That’s why we have the Hail Marys.
[00:14:40] So, it’s like we’re contemplating the life of Jesus with Mary, in Mary, and through Mary, and also for Mary, because she’s asking for the daily rosary. We live in an age of Mary, which theologians will agree started with her apparitions like in the 1800s Miraculous Medal Chapel, Rue De Bac, Paris, and they have just If you look at a chart, National Geographic has it. You start off like apparitions here and there through time, and then all of a sudden you hit almost the 19 hundred’s. So, So, the twentieth century, like an earthquake. And they haven’t stopped.
[00:15:24] Troy Van Vliet: For those that don’t know what the apparitions are, or what apparitions are, can you explain that a little bit?
[00:15:29] Angie Dee: Sure. There are periods in time when perhaps and probably God feels we need a mother. A mother to warn, a mother to remind, a mother to tell us, I’m with you, I am your mother, and I need your prayers. So, does need us to cooperate with what God is asking for. And so, he sends his mother, Bishop Fulton Sheen, who is venerable, has said that God always speaks to his children and his people.
[00:16:02] He doesn’t play hide and seek. Sometimes you think, Where are you?
[00:16:05] Troy Van Vliet: He
[00:16:05] Angie Dee: sends people, He sends the prophets, which He did in the Old Testament, and then He sends His only begotten Son. And at the very end, Archbishop Sheen said, If we’re still not listening, last resort, mother, his own mother. Saying to us, Follow my son. Her message is she’s not the goal, she’s the guide to the goal. The goal being her son Jesus.
[00:16:34] Follow, follow. You’re not following. The world’s falling apart. And so, miraculous medal at Re De Bac, that’s 18 The Miraculous Medal I wear on my chain,
[00:16:45] Troy Van Vliet: the
[00:16:45] Angie Dee: crucifix, she designed this medal. She gave the whole design to Saint Catherine Labourie, and the chair on which she sat in that chapel on Rue De Bac is still there as a relic of where she sat and she explains everything. But I’m getting off topic, this is more the Miraculous Medal and it truly is miraculous. So from there, you have lords, you have Bano, Borengue, La Salette, the four lords even. Guadalupe?
[00:17:15] Guadalupe was fifteen thirty one. And this is a time when Luther broke away from the church, the Protestant Reformation. And millions followed him. Meanwhile, in another continent, Our Lady is bringing more than that number back. The Mexican natives, most of them the native Indians, Aztecs and otherwise, but who were performing child sacrifice.
[00:17:44] They were removing the hearts of children while they were still alive and breathing. And they have found in the gravesites around there that when you look at the corpses of children, and young people even, adolescents, the ribs are broken and always above the heart. So, they rip out the heart while the child is alive and then offer it to the sun god. And then Our Lady comes, as Our Lady of Guadalupe. So many miracles, tons of books written about
[00:18:16] Troy Van Vliet: her.
[00:18:18] Angie Dee: Was there a reference to the rosary? No. But I mean, in ten years, 9,000,000 came to the faith. Only Our Lady can do that. The Franciscans had been trying for years as missionaries, they weren’t getting anywhere.
[00:18:31] Our Lady comes and boom! Can you imagine in ten years here at the Archdiocese if we can bring 10,000,000 people to the faith? Our Lady did it. So as Luther is drawing people away, she’s bringing them back. And we’re heading to the five hundredth anniversary of our apparition there in 02/1931.
[00:18:50] Troy Van Vliet: 02/1931? Five hundred years.
[00:18:53] Angie Dee: She did it in 1531.
[00:18:56] Troy Van Vliet: Wow.
[00:18:56] Angie Dee: In 1571, I’m going to tie a miracle of the rosary to this because we’re on the topic of Guadalupe. That’s 1531. In 1571, forty years after, we have the famous Battle of Lepanto. What is that battle? This battle was fought October 7.
[00:19:16] It was won on October 7 by the Christian fleet. Vastly outnumbered compared to the Ottoman Empire’s fleet, which are invading Muslims. Now they had already taken over most of the Middle East, the Iberian Peninsula, which was Portugal and Spain, and now they want to take over all of Europe. The Vatican is the goal, to plant the Islamic flag there. This was the battle of all time ever fought on water, on seas.
[00:19:47] There hasn’t been a greater battle than this. And now, of course, we’re fighting with bombs and bullets. It’s a very different type. But this was the greatest battle of all time to preserve Christianity in Europe. Pope Pius V at the time, who is now a saint, so he’s Saint Pope Pius V, called on every Christian in Europe to pray the rosary day and night, non stop.
[00:20:10] He led rosary processions, he had churches open 20 fourseven, everyone come in and pray the rosary. He was not very well at the time of the battle, but he went out and joined. And he saw the victory even though he couldn’t see the battle. This was near Greece being fought Lepanto and he was in Rome. But he was shown the vision that the Christians won and he rejoiced in prayer with thanksgiving.
[00:20:37] Every single Christian soldier or navy man, I suppose we can call that boarded the fleet, the ships, was armed with a rosary. Onto the ships were Franciscans, Benedictines, Dominicans, they all went in and they’re like, every day we’re praying, every day we’re hearing confessions. And the leader of the fleets, a very young 23 year old, Don Juan. This is where we get the term Don Juan. He was very young.
[00:21:06] A 23 year old leading all these men. There was no such thing as adolescence then. Can you
[00:21:13] Troy Van Vliet: imagine had that not happened? Did the entire Christian faith
[00:21:20] Angie Dee: could have
[00:21:20] Troy Van Vliet: been
[00:21:19] Angie Dee: Well, the saying is if the Christian fleet lost that battle, if you were born in Europe, you would be born Muslim. You would be in the Muslim faith, in the Muslim family. Because it would be like how they took over the Middle East and parts of different countries in the world. It would be the entire Europe.
[00:21:40] Troy Van Vliet: So, the feast day used to be known as Lady of Victory.
[00:21:46] Angie Dee: They attributed the entire victory to her because at the moment it was at the worst, the wind shifted. It was really miraculous and that’s how they won.
[00:21:54] Troy Van Vliet: Was there a fog as well or something like Oh,
[00:21:58] Angie Dee: you know the story.
[00:21:59] Troy Van Vliet: Oh, there won some of it.
[00:22:00] Angie Dee: Oh, it’s so amazing. Really, really amazing.
[00:22:02] Troy Van Vliet: I know. It’s really quite amazing. And that’s October. October 7.
[00:22:08] Angie Dee: So that’s now today known as the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary or the Feast of the Holy Rosary. So it was changed through time by the Pope after St. Pius V until Our Lady of the Rosary. And then Pope Leo XIII, whom we were speaking about, wanted the whole month of October to be the month of the Rosary. So he wrote most encyclicals in September to be read to the whole church so that October is really spent praying the rosary.
[00:22:41] But May is Mary’s month and praying the rosary is like doing something that you know she needs and she loves. You can look at every Hail Mary many people do this, Philippines we do this as a rose that you give her. So, it’s like surrounding her with roses for Mother’s Day, Springtime, it represents new life, renewal, rebirth, new beginnings. There’s no better way than picking up the rosary, asking mom to help us live a life that’s like Jesus.
[00:23:21] Troy Van Vliet: How do
[00:23:21] Angie Dee: we know how Jesus lived?
[00:23:23] Troy Van Vliet: The
[00:23:23] Angie Dee: rosary, the mysteries. How did he react when he was on the cross? Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they do. How did He react when He was bleeding in the garden?
[00:23:38] When
[00:23:41] Troy Van Vliet: He was on the cross and he said to his mother, and I’m going to butcher this, forgive me, Behold your mother or behold Yes,
[00:23:54] Angie Dee: to John and Mary.
[00:23:55] Troy Van Vliet: To John and Mary. Yes. So it was what he said to John that
[00:24:01] Angie Dee: Behold your mom.
[00:24:02] Troy Van Vliet: Behold your mom. Yeah, like this is your mom. This is the world’s mom.
[00:24:06] Angie Dee: Woman, behold your son. So, he represents John is the gospel where he’s writing for every single disciple. Now, the whole world is not Christian, but it’s really representing everyone in the world. And she made that clear when she appeared in the Miraculous Medal. She explained to Saint Catherine, every person in the world is her son or daughter, whom she loves as much as she loves Jesus.
[00:24:35] Can you get over that? She loves you and me as much as she loves Jesus. The same love. And so, at the foot of the cross, Jesus gives away His very last possession. He doesn’t have anything to His name.
[00:24:48] No car, no home, no land title, no clothes! Even that was taken and gambled away. The only thing he has left is his mother. And that’s his most precious possession. And even her, he gives away.
[00:25:02] John, behold your mother. Mother, behold your son. And that’s the first, I would say, Marian consecration at the foot of the We entrust ourselves to Our Lady and then she now becomes our mother. So, we gain a savior and a mother and also the church is our mother. It’s mother church.
[00:25:25] So when Dunginus with his spear spirited into the heart of Jesus, blood and water came out. So that represents the Church. The white of the water, baptism, and the red blood, the Eucharist. So, it’s the birth of the Church also. And the Church is our mother.
[00:25:45] She’s with us from birth to death with all sacraments. So beautiful, never abandons us. We’re born, then we’re born into the family of God. We die, we take our last communion, apostolic blessing, Jesus accompanies us all the way back to Him. Is Jesus on the way to Jesus?
[00:26:07] Our last blessing communion, if we are so fortunate to receive the last rites. But she’s with us every step of the way. Marriage, Priesthood.
[00:26:18] Troy Van Vliet: You brought up my mom and dad traveling to Midjugorje all the time. And there were operations there. And I remember, I don’t know who it was or when it actually happened. And it was asked of Mary, you know, what happens to all the aborted babies in the world.
[00:26:40] Angie Dee: Yeah. I don’t know what she
[00:26:41] Troy Van Vliet: replied to The answer was, They’re with me.
[00:26:45] Angie Dee: Makes sense. I mean, they’re completely innocent. They’re not baptized. But you have such a thing as baptism of desire. It’s not the actual holy water, because you might not have any in the middle of a war or an earthquake.
[00:27:01] And all of a sudden you’re given the grace to I want to be baptized. Your desire for your child or for yourself or for your loved one is already a kind of baptism. God knows the heart. But speaking of it’s forty four years of daily apparitions since 1981. My youngest son is there now, the one who gave me the Mother’s Day gift.
[00:27:25] Troy Van Vliet: Don’t want to come He said,
[00:27:28] Angie Dee: I am just so spiritually full and I want it to keep going. So, he checked into our flight back to Vancouver, but he went on another flight to Madrigori. And here she asks again for the daily rosary, like she did at Fatima. And she said, I need your cooperation to have peace in the world. God has a plan for peace.
[00:27:53] And she promised at Fatima, In the end, my immaculate heart will triumph and peace will be granted to the world. Rewind. What were the two sentences before that? If you don’t do as I say, if, it’s always conditional, if not, if you don’t do the first five Saturdays, if the Holy Father does not consecrate Russia to my Immaculate Heart, then Russia will spread her errors throughout the world. We see that.
[00:28:24] Mean, Ukraine is feeling that big time for a long time now. The Holy Father will have much to suffer. And this is the worst one, the third and worst. I don’t want to scare anyone, but this is the words of Our Lady and they’re public. You can go to vatican.va to read exactly her words or any book on Fatima.
[00:28:42] Or just Google Fatima. Nations will be annihilated. Annihilation is not what happened in World War II when the two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That was a destruction of most of the city, with 200,000 dying in one place and hundreds of thousands more in the other. This annihilation is gone.
[00:29:10] The nation disappeared, right? Ceases to exist.
[00:29:14] Troy Van Vliet: Now what that looks like, we don’t know.
[00:29:16] Angie Dee: We don’t know. But we know that the nuclear bombs are now and we live under this incredible threat of nuclear war. And we know that this new Holy Father, His first words on that balcony window were, Peace be with you. Everybody just cheered. Peace, peace, peace.
[00:29:34] And everything, every homily that he’s had since, he’s always speaking about building bridges, loving your neighbor, looking at them with different eyes, with eyes of love and peace. And if we really lived this way, there would be peace. Right? War starts in the heart. He had an audience with 6,000 journalists the day after he was elected.
[00:29:59] And he said: Have the courage to report so that the fruit is peace. Stop the destructive language, the language of division, the language that incites hatred. That’s the media. The media does this.
[00:30:12] Troy Van Vliet: Is it ever?
[00:30:14] Angie Dee: I mean, we lived through it during Covid especially. It’s all your fault. So you’re dividing people. And he said, No, have the courage to report with peace in mind. The end goal should be peace.
[00:30:29] Bringing people together because God is always a spirit of unity where the evil one, Satan, the devil himself, diabolical, where it comes from this word, is to divide. So, wherever you see division, war, hatred, dissension, disorder, it’s always the devil behind.
[00:30:50] Troy Van Vliet: Yeah. That’s what they’re saying, divide and conquer comes in. You destroy a nation through dividing them and turning them against each other.
[00:30:57] Angie Dee: So, why the rosary? Where does the rosary come in? It’s a weapon of war. It’s actually a spiritual weapon and the strongest one ever. So, when I say we fight bombs and bullets with beads, normally you say that to anyone, they’ll laugh at you.
[00:31:12] Bombs with beads? Come on, get out
[00:31:16] Troy Van Vliet: of here.
[00:31:17] Angie Dee: Because we’re not actually fighting flesh and blood in the end. Scripture says that. We’re not fighting flesh and blood, we’re fighting powers and principalities. We’re fighting evil forces that are far more powerful than we are. They’re supernatural beings.
[00:31:35] And what defeats them, we know this from the exorcists who do nothing but exorcisms all day. The chief exorcist of the Vatican was Father Gabriele Amorth. He died in 2018, but he did thousands of exorcisms. I have three of his books. An Exorcist Tells a Story Part one, Part two, and then the third I can’t remember the name of it but reading them, you know how powerful each Hail Mary is.
[00:32:06] So, he is forced to answer Father when he talks to the demons that are possessing the person. They are forced to answer. Satan himself told Father Every Hail Mary is a blow to my head. And if Christians knew the power of the Hail Mary, that would be the end of me if they prayed it every day. So, it’s so simple!
[00:32:31] It’s beads for the battle, It’s beads that are more powerful than bombs. Beads not bombs. I
[00:32:39] Troy Van Vliet: like that. Like that.
[00:32:42] Angie Dee: It amazing? So that’s why Our Lady Knows. We talked about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is one of the biggest miracles of the rosary ever. So 08/06/1945 the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima.
[00:33:03] And eight blocks from ground zero, the most lethal area being two miles from ground zero this is eight blocks, like half a mile there were four Jesuit priests in their quarters where they were living, their residence near a church, a Catholic church, survived with nothing to show, just a few scratches from the glass that was flying around. Where for miles around, past the lethal two mile zone into the outskirts of Hiroshima, people were dying throughout that year and beyond skin cancers, radiation exposure and on that day burned, like incinerated. There are accounts that you can read online written by one of the eight priests who survived. Four were further away, four were eight blocks from ground zero. One of them went on to be the head of all the Jesuits in the world for many years.
[00:34:00] Father Pedro Arrupe, very well known among the Jesuits especially. He almost became a medical doctor. He attended to those who were it was just horrible, like the descriptions. He made a makeshift hospital out of the church. They died, each one of the eight, in old age of natural causes.
[00:34:20] No radiation effects at all. They were medically examined and interviewed over 200 times. Spokesperson of the group, a priest named Fr Hubert Schiffer, German Jesuit, had the same answer to every question of: How do you explain your survival? And your freedom from not having any after effects. And this was his answer every time: We believe we survived because we were following the message of Our Lady of Fatima.
[00:34:52] We prayed the rosary daily in our home. Prayer is more powerful than the bomb. End of quote. So, what more can I say? If you can survive an atomic bomb eight blocks away and attribute it to following Our Lady of Fatima.
[00:35:15] It’s 1945, she appeared in 1917. And she never gave her name for six apparitions, all on the thirteenth of every month, except August because the children were kidnapped. She appeared later. And at the end she said: I will identify myself. I am the Lady of the Rosary.
[00:35:33] That’s her title in Fatima, Our Lady of the Rosary. The only request she had for the three shepherd children whom she appeared to, every single time, all six apparitions was to pray the daily rosary. She had many other requests but the only one consistent in all six, the daily rosary. Wow. And until you fall in love with it, it can
[00:35:59] Troy Van Vliet: be challenging for a lot of us.
[00:36:01] Angie Dee: Very challenging for me to this
[00:36:06] Troy Van Vliet: But it’s a discipline too, like any good thing that we do. And it’s part of being obedient, which is a discipline. Very
[00:36:14] Angie Dee: much. But
[00:36:17] Troy Van Vliet: it’s also extremely rewarding when you fall into that.
[00:36:21] Angie Dee: If you persevere. I struggle with it. I have a very Sometimes I think I’m ADHD. I don’t know. I pray the rosary at home, I’m walking around.
[00:36:30] I can’t sit still. And my mind is always going like five different directions.
[00:36:35] Troy Van Vliet: But that’s supposed to be okay, right? When you’re You were
[00:36:37] Angie Dee: made that way.
[00:36:38] Troy Van Vliet: But it’s supposed be okay that we’re because sometimes I come up with the best ideas or things while saying the rosary. So, it allows me to kind of turn some things off and then it just allows me to go and it’s like: Oh, wait a minute, I’ve to refocus. But I think it’s okay that when you’re meditating on the rosary and you’re meditating because sometimes the different mysteries that you read them off and it’s like, Oh, yeah, this is a good reminder for me today. Yet again, I know I’ve read this I don’t know how many times and still that but today you know, when my mind’s going over here, this is just a reminder, oh, if it’s a tough day or I’m anguishing over this and it’s like, and then you’re going through the sorrowful mysteries. You’re like, oh, wait a minute.
[00:37:25] Angie Dee: Yeah, puts it all in perspective.
[00:37:26] Troy Van Vliet: Exactly. Somebody died for
[00:37:28] Angie Dee: me here.
[00:37:28] Troy Van Vliet: I was getting tortured in
[00:37:30] Angie Dee: this mystery
[00:37:30] Troy Van Vliet: and I’m like, don’t have it so bad.
[00:37:33] Angie Dee: That’s why it’s so great.
[00:37:34] Troy Van Vliet: It’s a way to bring everything back again, going through the different mysteries in each day of the week.
[00:37:40] Angie Dee: Even in my lowest points in my life where I thought: I’m not going to make it through this day. I mean, was just hanging on to it was like a lifeline. It’s like a chain to our mother. I’m like, I can’t pray. I’m really not good.
[00:37:55] I’m so low. I can’t even get out of bed. I just hang on to it. And even there was such comfort in going through the beads, passing through your hand. You know how the three children of Fatima used to pray?
[00:38:08] Their parents would send them out every morning, Tend the sheep. Okay? And don’t forget your rosary. Okay! They’re homeschooled, they don’t have a school to go to.
[00:38:16] Karima is like a farming village in the middle of nowhere in Portugal, and they couldn’t wait to play. So, they’d be: Okay, rosary, our father. Hail Mary, Hail Mary, Hail Mary, Hail Mary, Hail Mary. That was their rosary!
[00:38:28] Troy Van Vliet: They
[00:38:29] Angie Dee: just named the Glory be, our Father, Hail Mary. Then Our Lady appears: My children pray this way. And by the way, in her July 13 apparition she showed the children a vision of hell. The whole ground opened up. Hell!
[00:38:52] Nasty! Seven, eight and nine years old. Seven, eight and 10. Jacinta was seven, Francesco was eight, Lucia was 10. We don’t even like to talk to our children about hell.
[00:39:05] Our Lady showed them hell. And here’s where we get the decade prayer from. She said, You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go because no one is praying for them. From now on, between each decade of the rosary, pray, O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those It’s from Fatima, 07/13/1917.
[00:39:35] Lucia describes it in her own handwriting, which she sealed in an envelope and gave to the Pope at the time. And it’s on the vatican.va site, you can read it in her own handwriting. All in Portuguese, but you can also ask AI now for the How did Lucia describe hell? And AI will give it to you in two seconds. And how she describes exactly what they saw.
[00:40:02] Troy Van Vliet: Let’s talk about that for a second. All the different prayers in the rosary. Because I’ve prayed in different groups and things like and some people add this in, that in. Is there an official rosary?
[00:40:16] Angie Dee: Well, grew over time. It used to be 150 patern nostrils, our fathers. Then it became the Hail Mary was always just the words of the angel Gabriel in Luke one to Mary when he came with a message from God. So when he is speaking, that’s God speaking. An angel is nothing but a messenger.
[00:40:36] Those are not His words. God the Father is like, Go to the town of Nazareth to Mary and say this. So imagine God saying, Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. That was the Hail Mary then. That’s it.
[00:40:49] That was it. For years on the rope. And then there was a pope, I can’t remember who, who added Elizabeth’s words to Mary. We’re still on Luke chapter one. So, she goes to visit Elizabeth in haste after the angel says: Your cousin is pregnant.
[00:41:07] She who was said to be barren she’s way past childbearing years is now pregnant is going to be the herald of Jesus, John the Baptist, his first cousin, because Mary and Elizabeth are cousins. She goes with haste and as she approaches Elizabeth’s home, Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit, Scripture tells us, Luke tells us, and she says, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. Jesus is added, I think, by another pope or a saint, somebody else added Jesus. And John Paul II, in his letter Rosarium Virgis Maria, the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that’s the one that gave us the Luminous Mysteries, he said when you get to the name Jesus, it’s a speed bump. Slow down!
[00:41:55] We tend to pray the machine gun rosary, Hail Mary full of grace! We’re killing the devil with the machine gun! So too fast, slow down. It’s a speed bump. The reason Mary is blessed, the reason she is filled with grace, the reason we honor and even pray the rosary through her intercession, is because she is the mother of Jesus.
[00:42:15] It’s Christo centric, it’s not Mary worship, it’s Christo centric, centered on Christ. He’s in the center of the rosary We need to slow down and bow in adoration in our hearts, not necessarily our heads. Slow down a bit. And then the last part, I forget again who added, get the book Champions of the Rosary by Father Donald Calloway. It’s the most comprehensive book on the history, on the saints of the rosary, the popes of the rosary, the miracles of the rosary and even original artwork on the rosary.
[00:42:48] This is the book. Champions of the Rosary, Father Donald Calloway. And before that, Secret of the Rosary, Saint Louis de Montfort was a really good one. Much shorter, much smaller, quicker to read. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, was added during a plague in Europe.
[00:43:09] So, it was the natural response of a child imagine COVID, there was that fear this was an even worse plague, like really a plague that killed millions in
[00:43:19] Troy Van Vliet: Europe.
[00:43:20] Angie Dee: Statistically far greater than Covid in terms of statistics. People were praying: Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Death was all around them. So, that was later added and now officially that’s the Hail Mary. So, it’s biblical, it’s scriptural.
[00:43:41] The first part, which we had for years, is from scripture. Luke one, the name of Jesus, that’s just the natural progression, right? Blessed is the fruit of your womb. Who is it? Jesus.
[00:43:53] And then the latter part, during the plague in Europe, and then becoming the official version, much longer than Hail Mary, Hail Mary!
[00:44:00] Troy Van Vliet: But
[00:44:03] Angie Dee: giving us more time to contemplate in the scene that we’re in, whether it’s the visitation, the birth of Jesus. Would you be thinking about the birth of Jesus in the middle of spring? Probably not. So, what brings us there? It’s the rosary.
[00:44:21] It’s a Bible on beads. It’s actually the Bible on beads. So, like those churches in Europe I told you about, where they’re painted with all the scenes of the distracting during Mass because you’re looking, people couldn’t read. So, in our day, we’re not meditating or contemplating enough on the life of our Lord. And that’s what the rosary does.
[00:44:41] It draws us back in to two thousand years ago. It’s the family photo album, if you will.
[00:44:50] Troy Van Vliet: It’s truly important to have those mysteries there with the rosary. I know I put them on my phone because I haven’t at them all. I have them on my phone so I scroll through them as I for the different days of the week. And
[00:45:04] Angie Dee: you do not feel like praying the glorious mystery on a really bad day. You might want to do the sorrowful. So, those are just the guidelines. There’s no rule like that. You have to stick.
[00:45:15] I mean, traditionally, Monday is joyful, Tuesday is sorrowful. I like to do luminous on Tuesday because I’m very orderly. I don’t want to go sorrowful, then back to luminous. Let’s just do it in order. There are people who pray all four in one day.
[00:45:34] The visionaries of Madrigori of David.
[00:45:36] Troy Van Vliet: 200, so they’ve gone beyond the call of duty But
[00:45:39] Angie Dee: just to tell you how wise and prudent a mother Mary is, in Madrigori, when she appeared, they were all around fourteen fifteen except for one. Jakob was 10, so he was just a child. The rest are 14, 15 years old. She started with seven sets of Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be. So, not even one decade.
[00:45:59] She said, Every day, put this in your day. Seven times for the seven sacraments or whatever, it’s a very divine number, seven. Say: Our Father Hail Mary, Glory be. Pray for my intentions. Pray for peace.
[00:46:12] So, they did that. After that, okay, let’s graduate through the rosary, one rosary. After many months or maybe even years of that, two rosaries, three, now they’re four. And they never It’s a habit. It’s become a habit.
[00:46:29] And they’re not going to break that habit. I mean, it’s just part of the rhythm of their day.
[00:46:34] Troy Van Vliet: That’s the way to do it. Know I have to for things like that it’s like working out. For me, I can’t work out unless I do it in the morning. It has to in the morning. If I miss it in the morning then I end up not doing it.
[00:46:49] So, for the rosary I’ve tried to put that in the same thing too. So, it’s the first thing that I do when I wake up then. And it’s tough There
[00:46:59] Angie Dee: are so many things vying for our attention. That’s why I struggle with it. I really have a lot on my plate. I had breakfast with my first cousin yesterday, very providential. I told her: Hey, I’m doing this podcast tomorrow and I’m going mention that.
[00:47:15] She said, Have you read this book called Atomic Habits by James Clear? I’m like, No!
[00:47:22] Troy Van Vliet: I’ve heard of it though.
[00:47:23] Angie Dee: She goes, If there’s a question on how to pray the rosary better or how can we do it consistently, mentioned that a small change make it a habit that’s already on top of a habit you’re doing. So you’re not creating a new habit that probably you’re not going to persevere with. So if you’re having a cup of coffee every morning, then you add the rosary on top. And then if you take our ladies method, you just do one decade. If you’ve never run a marathon, you need to jog around the block first.
[00:48:01][Although my son did that, he ran their London marathon and he didn’t perform.
[00:48:05] Troy Van Vliet: He didn’t train at all?
[00:48:06] Angie Dee: No, he didn’t train, he just ran it. And he did it, he made it. He almost collapsed at the end.
[00:48:10] Troy Van Vliet: I’m sure.
[00:48:10] Angie Dee: But that’s just the way he’s made, very extreme. He’s an all or nothing guy. But if you’re already doing the coffee or let’s say the drive to your workout, add a decade. You already have that habit. Add it on and the chances are you’ll never let it go.
[00:48:25] It’ll be permanent, and then you build on it. So, the habits that last, according to James Clear, are the habits where you do little things and your end goal is not to do something, but to be a better person. So the goal is also not, oh, so I can blank, blank, blank, a reason that’s other than becoming the best version of myself. I would say in Catholic speak becoming a saint. To becoming a disciple of Jesus.
[00:48:59] Troy Van Vliet: I remember the late Father Fagan our Star of the Sea. His homily always have that. I remember being in high school and he says: Oh, you know, it’s our goal. We all want to become saints
[00:49:09] Angie Dee: and scholars.
[00:49:10] Troy Van Vliet: And I’d be like, is that what we’re really all spending? The older I get, of course, the more things start. Yeah. He was saying that all the way back then to us.
[00:49:20.55] Angie Dee: We’re thinking of canonized saints, too. There’s no way we’re all going to be No. Every one of us is called to the holiness that God calls us to. And that’s what a saint is. A saint is someone who does God’s will all the time, who seeks it, who does it and who loves it, no matter what it is.
[00:49:40] And so there is someone, it’s Leon he’s a Frenchman, but he said: The only tragedy in life is to die and not be a saint. That is the only tragedy. You miss the mark, because that’s what we were made for. We were made to be one with God and the way is Mary is our model. She’s 100% human, zero divine.
[00:50:07] She doesn’t have a divine nature, 100% human nature like you and me. But she’s filled with the divine, filled, because she’s empty of herself. So, she’s filled with grace. And here’s another thing about May 8. It is the day when the Augustinian Order named after Saint Augustine celebrate Mary, Our Lady of Grace.
[00:50:32] Who is our Holy Father? The first Augustinian Pope. There’s never been an Augustinian Pope. Just like with Francis, there was never a Jesuit Pope. He’s the first and Pope Leo is the first Augustinian.
[00:50:45] May 8 is when they celebrate Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady filled with grace.
[00:50:50] Troy Van Vliet: Oh, and that’s when he was
[00:50:52] Angie Dee: That’s when he was elected Our Lady of Pompeii, Our Lady filled with grace, the beginning of the Hail Mary, hail full of grace. And Fatima, she would open her hands like this. And Lucia described in her book that light would emanate from her hands, envelop the three children and they would fall to their knees simultaneously in prayer and say the same prayer. Everything is infused by God. And Lucia said: We saw ourselves in that light that was God.
[00:51:22] So the light coming from her hands is God. That’s what grace is. Grace is the inner life of the Trinity, the love between Father, Son and Holy Spirit. She is filled with that, she opens her hands and envelops the kids. That’s our destiny!
[00:51:38] That’s our destiny! To be so filled with God that we’re filled with grace. And that’s a saint. All she did was God’s will every moment of her life.
[00:51:49] Troy Van Vliet: Here’s a tough question that you may or may not give an opinion on it. In our Catholic school systems, how do we bring the rosary in and get our kids to understand how important it is or how much of a weapon it is against evil. When there’s so many temptations that are happening, I mean, it’s absolutely incredible. I don’t know how our kids are going to survive with their constantly being bombarded.
[00:52:29] Angie Dee: You can see the battle played out right before your eyes. I always say I’m glad I don’t have young kids. At this day and age I already struggled enough, but I have five. But the elder three, and there is a seven year gap and two more, that gap and then the younger two, who are now 28 and 29, it’s a far different world than my son who is 40, who got his first cell phone in university. Now they’re getting it in preschool and they’re constantly with the phones.
[00:52:58] It’s a totally different
[00:53:00] Troy Van Vliet: world. They’re being indoctrinated.
[00:53:02] Angie Dee: People perish from ignorance, from lack of knowledge. That’s in Scripture. My people perish from lack of knowledge. We need to have people who come into the school or teachers who are aware. And this is my mission.
[00:53:14] I do so many PowerPoint presentations, especially on Fatima, because her three children Our Lady appeared to. It’s in our time, 1917 is not 1414 when Dominic got the rosary or 12/14. Thirteenth century. It’s very recent history and the children are fascinated. And even in one school that I went to, elementary, I said: Can I talk about the vision of hell?
[00:53:45] Because seven, and 10, Our Lady showed it to them. She’s the perfect mom. She didn’t think: Oh, I’m going to freak them out for life and they’ll have nightmares. She actually showed them hell. And the principal, thanks be to God, said: Oh no, no, no, don’t hold back.
[00:54:03] And anyway, my slides are more cartoon drawing of hell, cartoon drawing of the children when I’m speaking to the younger grades in elementary. But in high school you definitely can show actual pictures of the children after they see hell. We have cameras in 1917 and their faces are like, we can’t see hell!’ That was a gift for the three children alone.
[00:54:29] Troy Van Vliet: Now it’s about It’s crazy. We protect our kids from I remember being a kid, seeing, I don’t know, my mom and dad were watching Dateline thing
[00:54:40] Angie Dee: or something
[00:54:41] Troy Van Vliet: like that. It was on the destruction of LSD or angel dust, these different kinds of drugs. And I remember watching it just kind of off on the side watching it and then asking them, What’s going on with these people here that are going crazy? Well, they’re on these drugs or whatever. And I remember it having such an impact on me back then that I just thought, I’m never going
[00:55:06] Angie Dee: to do that.
[00:55:07] Troy Van Vliet: I don’t want that to happen to me.
[00:55:08] Angie Dee: They look possessed.
[00:55:09] Troy Van Vliet: These people are just losing their minds and stuff. Don’t want that. And I also remember I was saying this the other day to somebody I can’t remember who I was talking to about the whole thing of abortion. And when we were in either it’s in elementary school or even in high school, we were shown what happens in an abortion and we were shown all the graphic stuff that goes
[00:55:32] Angie Dee: They don’t hold it back from you.
[00:55:34] Troy Van Vliet: And it was just black and white. It was like, well, that’s wrong. You you didn’t even have to think about it. It was like, and I have these visions in my head of a garbage bag full of baby parts from then that just burned in my mind then like that is not right. That is a 100% wrong.
[00:55:58] And today
[00:56:00] Angie Dee: We’re celebrating it like a rite. You’re celebrating but those visions,
[00:56:04] Troy Van Vliet: they’re not out there. That’s swept off the internet. Exactly. They
[00:56:11] Angie Dee: even the woman an ultrasound, which is normal when you’re about to do surgery on the uterus. Once they see that beating heart, they’re going to get up off the table and most likely the majority of women will walk away. They purposely do not show you your baby because the imaging today is so clear. They can probably see it’s a girl, it’s a boy, the heart is beating, they’re sucking the thumb. You wouldn’t have the heart.
[00:56:37] It’s built into the heart of a woman. It’s the first trait of genuine femininity. It’s like this motherhood, even if you’re not a physical mother, we are built with this need to mother.
[00:56:50] Troy Van Vliet: No. And it just makes But we don’t show that. I think No, for a reason. Just like the visions of hell, I think needs to be shown more. There’s a reason why there’s a TV show out there called Scared Straight where they take these troubled teens and put them in prison and show the real life of prison when they’re younger so that they’re just like going, Okay, know, prison isn’t this great place to I did that to
[00:57:16] Angie Dee: my son Joseph, the one in Magico. I drove into Downtown East Side where I used to volunteer, Sisters of Atonement, Powell Street, Open Hirem Park. He freaked out. He was, I never wanted to. He could see the men and he hid inside the car.
[00:57:31] He really had a hard time looking at it. But it did the trick. Don’t know
[00:57:35] Troy Van Vliet: if that’s right thing
[00:57:37] Angie Dee: to do.
[00:57:37] Troy Van Vliet: Know what? Sometimes facing reality like that and showing people that this is the path you’re going down. This is the end result. And you need to see that end result because these things don’t just happen instantly. It’s one inch at a time that these things erode us and all of a sudden next thing you know you’re addicted to
[00:58:05] Angie Dee: It’s the frog in the boiling water, right? Put the frog in tepid water, it will boil to death. But if you throw it in boiling water, it immediately jumps out. And so that’s over time. We open the door more and more and more and more until it becomes the norm and then it becomes legalized and then it becomes institutionalized.
[00:58:27] You just acknowledge
[00:58:28] Troy Van Vliet: everybody from everything and now it’s just like, Oh, well, that’s just the way it is. It’s like sex on television or it’s in every single show. It’s just
[00:58:37] Angie Dee: becoming I stop watching movies too. When
[00:58:41] Troy Van Vliet: I become more conscious of it I start looking I’m like there it is again. There it is again. I’m watching a show with my daughter Anika and I’m just like, yeah, we’re going to watch something else. We’re going try and watch. And there’s so few.
[00:58:54] You know
[00:58:54] Angie Dee: what our lady told Jacinta? So, she was the youngest of the three shepherd children in Fatima. Fashions will be introduced that will offend Jesus very much. 1917, that’s only one hundred and eight years ago. Now the latest Grammy was it?
[00:59:10] People were naked.
[00:59:11] Troy Van Vliet: I can’t even They have
[00:59:13] Angie Dee: to blackout the body when they show on the news. Like there’s nothing. They’re not wearing anything. Lipstick maybe.
[00:59:19] Troy Van Vliet: And then they complain about things like rape culture and stuff like that. I’m like, well maybe we shouldn’t be flaunting ourselves as we’re walking around everywhere. How about we practice being a little bit more Modesty, yes.
[00:59:32] Angie Dee: So, Lucia is known for this quote. She’s the eldest of the three children and she died at the age of 99 or 97. She died right after John Paul, or right before. Anyway, thousand and five. The two died very young and Our Lady prophesied all of that.
[00:59:49] And she said: There is no problem, whether in your family, your community, your parish, your country and in the whole world that cannot be solved by the prayer of the rosary, whether spiritual or temporal. So all these things, the lack of modesty, abortion is huge. You look at the leading
[01:00:12] Troy Van Vliet: cause of death, it’s the leading cause of
[1:00:14] Angie Dee: a jinx. They always say it’s heart attacks, strokes and then cancer. No, it’s abortion! It’s way higher than those three combined.
[01:00:24] Troy Van Vliet: Even getting to take your first breath, that’s the cause of So,
[01:00:28] Angie Dee: we need to really pray the rosary more and more and more. It’s urgent, it’s powerful. The Dominicans were given the rosary, that Saint Dominic’s order, they wear it on the left side, they wear all the mysteries and I say when I give talks, Can you get me on film? I stand up, I go, Why on the left, why not on the right? Normally a knight pulls us Normally, most people are right handed.
[01:00:58] You take the rosary from your right and you pray because it’s a sword. It’s considered by the Dominicans
[01:01:04] Troy Van Vliet: spiritual sword. You reach across. The left,
[01:01:07] Angie Dee: unsheathed and bam! Into the heart of the evil one, the enemy. So, that’s why they consider it a spiritual sword. And we should too. Because the times call for it, Our Lady is begging for it.
[01:01:23] And she is the spokesperson for God. She cannot come and ask us to do all these things without God’s will. She’s only following what He wants. So, you know it’s God’s will and we need to listen. Like you say in the beginning, obey.
[01:01:37] Be obedient. Start small. Put it on top of a daily habit already that you have. Or if you can’t do five decades on one day, do one decade. And then by the end of the week, by Friday, you’ve completed the five.
[01:01:53] You’ve done a rosary. And It’s better to pray one hour Father and Hail Mary really well than do the whole rosary really quickly. Pray from the heart. Our Lady keeps saying in magic words: From the heart, know who you’re speaking to. She said: You’re speaking to me.
[01:02:16] So, how would you speak if Our Lady was before you? It wouldn’t be going about it so quickly.
[01:02:25] Troy Van Vliet: You’d be much more reverent. Wow, that’s fantastic. We need more rosary. I
[01:02:33] Angie Dee: always say, Our Lady promised the triumph of her heart, an era of peace. And there’s a cardinal in the Vatican who said: This will be the next greatest miracle to the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. The world has never known an era of peace. It’s always at war in some way or another. This will be the greatest miracle after the resurrection.
[01:02:57] And if Our Lady promises, she’s going to fulfill it. But how will it come about? So, it’s either from us listening to her and it will be renewed by the fire of the Holy Spirit, or it’s going to be fire from the sky, which she has mentioned in her apparition in Akita, Japan, which is approved by the church. Fire from the sky will cause purification. So, we want to do it the way she’s asking.
[01:03:26] Troy Van Vliet: Yeah. Don’t take any chances. Say your rosary.
[01:03:30] Angie Dee: Yes. Pray the rosary daily. A rosary a day keeps the devil away.
[01:03:35] Troy Van Vliet: There you go. I love it. Yeah. Well, we’ll keep doing that for sure. Angie, thank you so much for coming today and for sharing your insights on the rosary and looking forward to hearing the feedback that we get from this podcast.
[01:03:51] Angie Dee: But it scare anybody.
[01:03:53] Troy Van Vliet: Yes. No, no, no, no. Don’t think there’s anybody. Well, scared straight Yeah. And I want to thank everybody for joining us today as well and be sure to like, subscribe, share these podcasts.
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[01:04:26] Angie Dee: Thank you for the opportunity, Troy. God you and all that you do.
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