Syracuse Lay Dominicans
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Spiritual Warfare 101
Monday, September 14, 2020
The 2020 Election - Recommended Reading to Understand Our History
Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars: A History of Catholicism in the Thirteen Colonies
In this comprehensive history, Fr. Charles Connor details the life of Catholics in the American Colonies. It's a tale that begins with the flight of English Catholics to religious freedom in Maryland in 1634, and continues through the post-Revolutionary period, by which time the constitutions of all but four of the first 13 states contained harsh anti-Catholic provisions.
Catholic readers will be proud to learn from that despite almost two centuries of ever-more-intense religious persecutions and even harsher legal prohibitions, American Catholics in the colonies simply refused to abandon the Catholic Faith.
This is an indispensable reading for souls interested in the deep roots of Catholicism in America, and in the holy courage of scores of Catholics who kept remorseless forces from driving Catholicism out of America. Among other things, you'll learn:
Faith and Fury: The Rise of Catholicism During the Civil War
Many are the moving and often surprising stories in these pages of brave Catholics on both sides of the conflict stories told by Fr. Charles Connor, one of our country s foremost experts on Catholic American history.
Through searing anecdotes and learned analysis, Fr. Connor here shows how the tumult, tragedy, and bravery of the War forged a new American identity, even as it created a new American Catholic identity, as Catholics often new immigrants found themselves on both sides of the conflict.
Fr. Connor s account shows that in the nineteenth century and on both sides of the conflict, the Church in America was a combination of visionary leadership and moral blindness much as is the Church in America today. From consideration of the strengths and weaknesses of both sides, Catholics today will discover ways to bridge the gulf that today divides so many in our Church and in our nation.
Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America
Zinn’s history is popular, but it is also massively wrong.
Scholar Mary Grabar exposes just how wrong in her stunning new book Debunking Howard Zinn, which demolishes Zinn’s Marxist talking points that now dominate American education.
In Debunking Howard Zinn, you’ll learn, contra Zinn:
- How Columbus was not a genocidal maniac, and was, in fact, a defender of Indians
- Why the American Indians were not feminist-communist sexual revolutionaries ahead of their time
- How the United States was founded to protect liberty, not white males’ ill-gotten wealth
- Why Americans of the “Greatest Generation” were not the equivalent of Nazi war criminals
- How the Viet Cong were not well-meaning community leaders advocating for local self-rule
- Why the Black Panthers were not civil rights leaders
Grabar also reveals Zinn’s bag of dishonest rhetorical tricks: his slavish reliance on partisan history, explicit rejection of historical balance, and selective quotation of sources to make them say the exact opposite of what their authors intended. If you care about America’s past—and our future—you need this book.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The 2020 Election

As Christians, we MUST wage war in the spiritual realm. We propose that the following sequence of prayers be our daily rule until the election, if not afterwards.
Sunday - A Dominican Litany to the Mother of God
Monday - Litany for America
Tuesday - The Litany of Loreto/The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Wednesday - The Litany of the Sacred Heart
Thursday - The Litany of St. Dominic
Friday - The Litany of the Saints
Saturday - The Litany of Dominican Saints and Blesseds
At the conclusion, each day, we pray Consecration of Our Nation to the Mother of God and Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart, with the intention, "that every evil spirit leading the US to perdition be bound and that the US once again become a Christian nation"
One may wish to periodically pray The Lorica of St. Patrick, for protection, and The Litany of Humility.
Additionally, we pray The Divine Praises(below) sporadically during the day
Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her Glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints forever.
Monday, July 20, 2020
Pray for America
Please consider the prayers on our Recommended Devotions page, in particular The Litany for America.
God bless you for your faithfulness.