SSPX priest Fr. Lawrence Novak joins John-Henry Westen to share the life and recent death of his 93-year-old mother, a woman whose determination to preserve the traditional Catholic faith shaped a family of eight children that produced two priests and a religious sister. Fr. Novak was at his mother's side when she died after receiving the Last Rites and the Apostolic Blessing. He credits her faith and perseverance with profoundly influencing the vocations and families that emerged from her children.
Fr. Novak tells the story behind his book A Chicago Mom and the Fight for the Catholic Faith, how his parents navigated the upheaval surrounding Vatican II, removed their children from Catholic schools they believed were becoming corrupted, and eventually helped preserve the Traditional Latin Mass through the Society of St. Pius X. Central to the story is an extraordinary memory from his mother's childhood: around 1940, a priest warned her First Communion class that someday "the Mass is going to be taken away from you" and that they would have to find the true Mass themselves, more than twenty years before Vatican II.
A mother's faith. A family's perseverance. And a prophecy that came true. The Church is in crisis. But faithful Catholic families are the answer. And this mother of eight proved it, one child at a time.
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