Posted on 01/08/2005 12:25:01 PM PST by GratianGasparri
Dear pilgrims of Notre-Dame,
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The Christian life is a pilgrimage, often painful, which passes through Golgotha, but is illumined by the splendours of the Spirit. And which leads to glory. Oh! We may well be persecuted, but I forbid that we be pitied. For we belong to a race of exiles and voyagers, gifted with a prodigious power of invention, but refusing—that is its religion—to be distracted from the things of Heaven.
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If we seek to pacify the earth, to beautify the earth, it is not in order to replace Heaven, but so that the earth be Heaven’s stepladder.
And if, one day, faced with the growth of barbarism, we were obliged to take up arms in defense of our earthly cities, it is because, as our dear Péguy has said: “they are the image and the beginning, the body and the test of the House of God.”
But even before the hour sounds for a military reconquest, is it not permissible to speak of crusade, at least when a community finds itself threatened in its families, in its schools, in its sanctuaries, in the soul of its children?
And so it is, dear friends, that we are not afraid of revolution: we rather fear the eventuality of a counter-revolution ‘without God’!
This would be to remain trapped in the infernal cycle of laicism and desacralization!
There is no word to express the horror that the absence of God from the modern world’s institutions should inspire in us! Look at the U.N.: elaborate architecture, giant halls, the flags of every nation blowing in the wind. ‘No crucifix’!
The world organized without God, without any reference to its Creator. An enormous blasphemy!
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Looks very nice. I've bought my copy.
It is gonna be interesting to see if this book fares as well in English as it did in the original French, where it was endorsed across the board by traditionalists, from Latin Novus Ordo'ites to hardened sedevacantists.
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