As we look with joy toward the fourth annual Michaelmas celebration, we are struck with an immense sense of gratitude for the incredible good that you have helped us accomplish, and with true excitement for all the work yet to be done.

This is an age of unusual darkness, and the call to take up our cross may seem especially daunting. But we need only to look to St. Michael for a reminder that the darkness we face can be overcome: that love is more powerful than selfishness, that truth is more brilliant than deceit, that Holy Mother Church remains the surest vessel through the storms we face, and that the gates of Hell will not prevail against Her.