2005: A Year of Reconquest!
By Yves de
Lassus
(Translated by Michael J.
Matt)
Editor’s
Introduction: In the present climate of endless
division and intramural squabbling, even among the followers of Our Lord, it is
sometimes all too easy to get lost in the sea of polemics and to even lose sight
of what the struggle for the Catholic Restoration is all about. Whether we are French or English, German
or American, Australian or Italian; whether we attend an Indult Mass, or a Mass
provided by the SSPX, an independent priest or the Fraternity of St Peter; and
even despite ongoing arguments over strategy that will not soon be settled—we
should all be able to concur on one urgent reality: that those who seek to keep
the old Faith in the modern world are in a most precarious position! Physically, morally and spiritually we
are up against impossible odds, humanly speaking, and I can’t imagine a more
urgent time than right now to call upon Christ the King and His Blessed Mother
to come to the rescue.
With this in
mind, I was so moved by the following call to arms issued by Yves de Lassus--
son of the premier apologist and extraordinary Traditionalist pioneer in France,
Arnaud de Lassus. The following
cogent call to arms was published in the February 2005 edition of the
incomparable traditionalist journal Action, Familiale et Scolaire (AFS).
Yves de
Lassus has recalled that ancient, powerful course of action that traditional
Catholics on either side of the Atlantic can no longer afford to ignore, if,
that is, there is to be any hope of standing against the forces of secularism
which are devouring our world. We
must consecrate ourselves to Christ and to His most Blessed Mother, not at some
point in the future, but right now!
Herein lies our hope, and we eagerly join our French allies, not only in
sounding the alarm that the future of our Church, our families and our entire
way of life is in mortal jeopardy, but also in holding up the Catholic standard
of Christ the King in the face of the armies of the Prince of this World which
are marching against what’s left of Christendom. That holy standard represents our last
hope and the last hope of the world.
If
French-reading Remnant readers wish to have regular access to the countless
vital articles published in AFS, they would do well to consider taking out their
own subscriptions to this superb traditionalist journal. Contact AFS in
In the
meantime, we wholeheartedly endorse the course of action for the year 2005
outlined in the following article, and we encourage all of our readers to join
us in consecrating ourselves and our families to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
enthroning Christ the King in our homes, and consecrating our lives to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary…before it’s too late. MJM
At the
beginning of each New Year, it is customary to exchange good wishes. What could we wish for you, dear reader,
for the year 2005, the year that the government and all the proponents of
secularism want to put under the sign of the centenary of the 1905 law of
separation of Church and State? How
to react to this disastrous anniversary?
How could we make 2005 a truly holy and Catholic year for each of us and
for our beloved country?
It is the
3rd of July 1905, after four months of heated
discussion, the National Assembly voted in the “law concerning the separation of
Church and State.” The following
December 9th, the
government published the decree of application of that law. Throughout this year of 2005, then, we
will be subjected to an intellectual bombardment in praise of that event and the
merits of that separation and of its spirit—“secularism.”
Last October
23rd, to help
resist this propaganda, Action Familiale et Scolaire (AFS) organized a day
of reflection on “secularism”.
Throughout 2005, AFS will be striving to continue to give you the tools
necessary to resist this veritable media brainwashing that we are subjected
to. This indispensable
formation will remain sterile, however, if it is not followed by a plan of
individual and local action. But what to do?
Won’t the steamroller that is the State ravage everything like the
terrible tsunami of the
To draw
graces from Heaven, one priest of a traditional community came up with the
excellent idea of consecrating his parish to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to
the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Why
not pick up on this idea in order to ask Heaven to help us reject
secularism? Thus, next June
5th, the Feast
of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, (or another day of that month), to combat
the celebrations of the centenary of the law of July 3, 1905, we could
consecrate our families to the Sacred Heart and, this would be even better,
enthrone the Sacred Heart within our families.1 And next
December 8th, we could
consecrate them to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.2
Why two
consecrations? Because no one can go to Jesus without going through
Mary. A family is only
fertile with a father and a mother.
It must be that, especially in France, Catholics rise up and respond to
secularism’s propaganda by consecrating themselves, their homes, their parishes,
their associations to the Sacred Heart next June, and then to the Immaculate
Heart of Mary on December 8th. These consecrations could
constitute a veritable rampart against the disease of secularism that attacks
us.
Readers or
friends of AFS, make this your resolution.
Commit yourselves to convincing your parents, your families, your
relatives. Ask the cooperation of your pastors; they will be happy to see that
we ask them to essentially enforce their ministry. Ask them to come to enthrone
the Sacred Heart in your home next June and ask them to receive your
consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary3 on December
8th. Ask your priests to consecrate their
parishes. Do the same for all the
associations that you are a part of or that you control.
If we can
even convince our friends who do not necessarily share our point of view, what a
good sign of unity we will thus offer Heaven.
These two
consecrations will be like two standards of our cause for the struggle against
secularism. It has been barely
fifty years since in
Could an
action so simple suffice? The answer is found in the history of the people of
We hope that
2005 will be the beginning of the reconquest of our
country. Here is our command! If it
is not immediately in our capacity to replace God in our constitution or in the
new European constitution, we will give Him at least a greater seat in all those
places over which we do have control.
If we stay passive, if we do not do at least this much, if we do not
do this first, then we will have no more right to complain about the
consequences of secularism: God excluded from our schools, laws on homophobia,
on abortion, crimes against nature, dechristianization
operating at dizzying speed, moral depravity without precedent in the history of
our country, etc. Conversely, if we
respond to the centenary of the law of 1905 with a wave of consecrations, we
could, with God’s help, draw a great deal of good out of this
anniversary.
So, like our
ancestors who wrote “long live Christ who loves the Francs” in the preamble of
the Salic law, in this year of 2005 let us reclaim the
standard of Christ the King and Our Lady and say loud and
strong:
Long live the
Sacred Heart of Jesus,
King and Head
of our homes!
Long live the
Immaculate Heart of Mary,
refuge of all
sinners!
Notes:
1 On the
enthronement of the Sacred Heart within our families, it is essential for that
ceremony that a priest be present.
2
August 22, Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, could be more
convenient, but December 8th is six months after June 5, which gives
more time to prepare for the second proposed consecration. And the Feast of the Immaculate
Conception is a good time for us to attach ourselves to the Immaculate Heart of
Mary. Then the consecration to the
Sacred Heart could be prepared during the first half of the year and the
consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary during the
second.
3
For the proposed text of the consecration, see the AFS’s brochure: Sacred Heart of Jesus, King of Your
Home. We must remember that the
Virgin Mary came to announce the devotion to her Immaculate Heart at the time of
her second apparition at