CATHALON WEEPS

[The King Of The Moon 7016]

CATHALON WEEPS
A Response To The Tragic Passage of His High Holiness, Pontian III
14^th of Harren’s Folley, 1752

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It is with great sorrow that I write to my fellow Kaedreni – and others in the realms of Man – having just been given the news of his High Holiness’ murder at the suspected hands of Godless brutes.

Whilst the Crowlanders and our own Bishop of Ves, the zealous Boniface of Belvitz, look to make sense of this atrocity and meet out justice against these agents of Iblees, it is the duty of we the rightcheous followers of Owyn and the broader Canon to answer this call to battle.

 

It is not ours to find our own justice on the field, lest his Majesty command it, but instead to wage a different kind of war; a war of the spirit. Too long have the words of holymen fallen on deaf ears across our Empire, in favor of modernism and its systematic dismantling of the individual and his faith... And whilst we in Cathalon trust in his Excellency, the Governor General, and his Majesty’s government, it is not the responsibility of the State to heal the souls of mankind, nor in truth the Church or any other worldly body.

Faith is the charge – the duty and privilege – of the individual. One some of us see challenged each and every day. If ever our relationship with the lord God is to prosper, and we are to love him in a way deserving of his love to us, we must assess the self and our own personal guilt in our recent neglect of The Faith. This is a plea to my fellow moral people, in Kaedrin and abroad, to bask in the warmth of Owyn’s flame and return into the open arms our beloved Creator.

To commit ourselves to strive for perfection under the Canon’s judgement, and to better respect and uphold the institution of Church as one close to our hearts, so that none may ever again question the sons and daughters of our Holy Empire as the true heirs to Horen’s legacy, and that we are the Lord’s instrument of righteousness upon our mortal world. 

My house and I offer our sincerest condolences to the upper administration of the Church, as well as the friends and family of our late Pontiff. We shall be observing the proper traditions of mourning for our Church’s murdered head, and offering our prayers to others sharing our bereavement, until such a time that his successor deems us healed. 

I implore you to join us in this endeavor, reader, not as Kaedreni, Haenseni, Curonians or Crownlanders, but as fellow Canonists of our Holy Orenian Empire.
I also wish to conclude with a favored prayer of mine, and may God bless us all:

XLIV, for the Church

Saint Daniel, please pray for all the prelates of the Church in their hour of need.
Grant them the strength to observe their vows,
and grant all the people the grace to use those Sacraments provided by Holy Mother Church.
Most of all, grant our Holy Pontiff, successor of Pontian, virtue in all his ways, and wisdom in all his acts.
Amen.

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Prince Leopold Guy Helvets,
Duke of Cathalon