A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1772, sig. 109-4/1527

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V/ Germany, which should certainly not only be free from Rome, but also from Christ and the personal God. If we also do not know their program, the measures taken so far in Germany, and even more those in the new East and Western regions, let us guess a little about what the kath. Church in Germany is imminent, if the Reichskirche is probably introduced in the near future. Terrible is the seriousness of the situation, Holy Father! Sohwer is the attack. How should the defense be? Numerous the weapons of the opponents, the church seems almost unarmed. And yet we cannot and do not want to despair. For God and his whole heavenly army are enjoyed our covenant! Only as far as we can, we, the adversary, can push forward, as God allows. We also fight for the truth, which triumphs in the long term by itself. Therefore, we continue to use all the ways of pastoral care that we have gone so far, as it is still possible, and each of the means to date within the framework of the new restrictions. We unite with good success the children in pastoral care and seek to call together the pupils of higher schools to faith. We do not abandon work in groups of forgotten living conditions. In particular, we lead women and girls to teach children religion in a simple form and show mothers how they can prepare their children for the first Holy Communion at an early age. In the men's world, too, we find a great longing for divine truth and catholic living in our systcmatic training work. Still imme.r we also train core groups of young people and collect the kath. Youth in numerous attended faith ns- :