The Revolution
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(Fr. Lafitte’s emphasis is underlined; my emphasis is in bold)
Saint Ignatius Retreat House
April 1st, 1993
Letter 32:
THE REVOLUTION
CLARIFICATION:
In this Letter 32, I am using the word “Revolution” in its generic sense. Therefore, it applies to any revolution, be it the American revolution (1776), the so-called French revolution (1789), the Russian revolution (1917), the Vatican II revolution (1961-1965).
The point of interest for us is the spirit behind each of these revolutions and this spirit is the same: the liberal and naturalistic humanism of “liberty-equality-fraternity.” The differences between these revolutions are historical and accidental, while the substance is the same for each of them.
DEFINITION:
Monseigneur Gaume gives the classical definition of revolution: “The hatred of any order in which man is not recognized as King and god together;” it is the establishment of a political system centered on the person of man, the new god!
The revolution, being the synthesis of all heresies, is at the same time:
- Naturalism, by denying the original sin; man is good by nature and consequently does not need Our Lord Jesus Christ, His Grace, and His Church.
- Humanism, by placing man instead of God at the center of creation.
- Subjectivism, by giving to man the power to determine what is true and what is false.
- Liberalism, by giving the same rights to truth and evil.
It is of the utmost importance to note that:
- The revolution is not a transitory fact, but a permanent state of motion; it is a permanent revolution!
- The revolution is first in the mind before being in the facts. A revolutionary mind will always lead to an active revolution.
- The revolution is by essence anti-God, that is to say anti-Catholic
ITS CAUSES:
To give a complete definition, it is necessary to answer the following questions:
- who? (efficient cause)
- why? (final cause)
- what? (formal cause)
- out of what? (material cause)
- The efficient cause of the revolution is the devil (principal efficient cause), using many instruments such as the liberal Catholics, the false churches, the masons, the communists, etc … (instrumental efficient cause).
- The final cause of the revolution is the eternal damnation of the souls.
- The formal cause of the revolution are the democratic processes of liberty, equality, fraternity, that is to say the law of the majority. Using the law, the revolution will try to crush the Altar (destruction of the Catholic Church), the Thrones (destruction of the Catholic Monarchies), and Authority (because authority comes from God).
- The material cause of the revolution lies in pride, ignorance, and love for novelties.
It is obvious that we have a true liberty, a true equality, and a true fraternity, but these notions have nothing to do with the revolutionary trilogy of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
True liberty means the power to choose the best means to reach the end and leads to perfect obedience.
True equality can be said about our human nature: each man is equal in the sense that all of them have the same human nature; true equality leads to perfect justice.
True fraternity can be accepted only between people recognizing a common Father and will lead to true charity.
ITS HISTORY:
Let us try to outline the process of the revolution, which is nothing but a process of de-Catholicization.
If the efficient cause of the revolution is the devil himself, we must go back to the revolt of Lucifer and his “I will not serve” to find the root of the revolutionary principles. Then, Adam and Eve, through original sin, will place inside our hearts the wounds of ignorance, weakness, malice, and concupiscence.
After the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church spreads everywhere to bring the message of the Gospel to the entire world. The highest degree of Catholic civilization will be reached during the middle of the XIII century, the century of the holy preachers Saints Francis, Dominic, Bonaventure, the great philosophers Saints Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, and the holy Kings Saint Ferdinand of Spain, Louis of France, Henry of Germany.
At that time, the Catholic Church and the state were perfectly united in Europe, the Law of the Ten Commandments was considered as state law, religious indifferentism and liberty of conscience were condemned by both Church and state. As said Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical, Immortale Dei: “There was once a time when the States were governed by the principles of Gospel teaching.”
Since the XIII century, everything went down, step by step, following the shrinking of Catholic states and minds.
First step of the revolution: the HUMANISTIC revolution, or RENAISSANCE (XIV-XV centuries)
Under the influence of Erasmus (1466-1536), man, instead of God was considered as the most important thing and the center of society; the supernatural life weakened inside souls as the court of the French King Francis 1st looked for worldly pleasure. It was the “Rebirth” (or “Renaissance” in the French) of naturalistic and humanistic principles.
Second step of the revolution: the PROTESTANT revolution (XVI-XVII centuries)
The apostate Catholic priest Martin Luther (1483-1546) removed the influence of the Catholic Church on souls and subsequently destroyed the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, most of the sacraments, grace, the papacy, keeping faith and reason alone.
Descartes (1596-1650) achieved the weakening of souls, introducing subjectivism in philosophy.
Third step of the revolution: the LIBERAL revolution (XVIII century)
After the work of preparation of Freemasonry (founded in 1717) and of the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804), the spirit of “liberty, equality, fraternity” was fully displayed in the US revolution (1776), then in the French revolution (1789). Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the world, was now totally removed from society.
Fourth step of the revolution: the COMMUNIST revolution
After the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx (1818-1883), written in collaboration with the German philosopher Fridriech Engels (1820-1895), the Communist revolution outlawed God Himself from society. The idea of truth was totally destroyed with the “Thesis (truth), Antithesis (error or anti-truth), Synthesis (new truth)” of Engels. The truth did not exist anymore, but was a notion in constant self-mutation.
Fifth step of the revolution: the SATANIC revolution
This time, the natural law itself was destroyed. Saturated with sensual pleasures “according to nature,” people looked for pleasures “against nature” (homosexuality, rock ‘n’ roll, pornography). During the XIII century, society was “theocentrical,” centered on God; then it became humanistic, or centered on man; now it is centered on the devil!
Sixth step of the revolution: the MODERNIST revolution inside the Catholic Church
This step is the most dangerous of all the steps because the devil is now working inside the Mystical Body of Our Lord, the Immaculate Spouse of Christ. Vatican II Council (1961-1962) introduced the motto of the revolution inside the Church: religious liberty (liberty), collegiality (equality), ecumenism (fraternity). The wall of protection around the Church collapsed, leaving the entire property under the power of the devil.
HOW TO FIGHT IT?
The revolution being first something against God, the means to overcome it must be first supernatural.
Without a strong Catholic Faith, the state of sanctifying grace, and a deep inner spiritual life (that means for most of us the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola once a year), there is no counter-revolution possible.
“For what does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but ruin or lose himelf? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in His glory and that of the Father of the holy angels.” (Luke 9: 25-26)
“I know thy works; thou art neither cold nor hot. I would that thou wert cold or hot. But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of My mouth.” (Apoc. 3: 15-16)
Because revolution is something very violent and drastic, drastic measures are a must. To help to see the importance of the problem, let us try to give a few rules.
1 – If you do not live according to what you believe, one day you will believe according to the way you live. If you have the Catholic Faith, you must act accordingly. If you have a revolutionary way of life, you cannot claim to be Catholic at the same time. Your Faith in God must lead your fight against the revolution.
2 – We must be anti-revolutionary in everything, not only in the way of thinking but also in the way of acting. A woman using pants, bikinis, or mini-skirts, a family keeping television at home or sending their children to the local public school, cannot claim to be anti-revolutionary, because conscientiously or not, they play the game of the revolution. No one can serve two masters at the same time!
3 – To fight against the revolution, we must learn again how to use properly our intelligence. Therefore, we need to study the Magisterium of the Popes, especially the great encyclicals against liberalism (Leo XIII: Libertas, Saint Pius X: Our Apostolic Mandate), modernism (Saint Pius X: Pascendi), indifferentism (Gregory XVI: Mirari Vos, Pius IX: Quanta Cura, Syllabus), masonry (Leo XIII: Humanum Genus), communism (Pius XI: Divini Redemptoris), americanism (Leo XIII: Longinqua Oceani, Testem Benevolentiae).
Good doctrinal books must also be studied: Archbishop Lefebvre: They Have Uncrowned Him, Don Sarda: Liberalism is a Sin, the books of Father Fahey, Carol Robinson: My Life with Thomas Aquinas, Solange Hertz: The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism.
4 – The revolution is like a huge machine which can be stopped by a little pebble place between two huge wheels. A Catholic with strong convictions can do a lot against the revolution. Without Our Lord, we cannot do anything, but with His help, everything is possible. Saint Pius X used to say: “Give me a small army praying the Rosary daily, and we can conquer the world.”
In the same line of thought Archbishop Lefebvre told us many times: “We will be able to reconquer the Catholic city if we have a little group of faithful convinced of the Catholic truth, and that this Catholic truth is a Divine force capable to transform everything.”
Let us conclude: the only way to be truly anti-revolutionary is to constantly struggle for sanctity. A change in our morality, in our customs, is necessary to act according to our Faith. If the revolution has been working so hard and so easily amongst our Catholic families, it is first of all because of the lack of convictions of many of them.
We are constantly trying to compromise with the world, because out of a false love for ourselves, we want to feel good, because out of a false charity, we want our neighbor to feel good. For many of us, perhaps the first truly anti-revolutionary act must be to make the sign of the cross publicly in a restaurant before a business dinner, or to unplug the television during the time of Lent, or to say no to our teen-ager who would like to date, or to throw out of the house the records of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, or Guns and Roses, etc.
I would like to end this Letter 32 with a beautiful quote from Carol Robinson, in her book My Life with Thomas Aquinas, page 152:
“We need a Saint Francis of Assisi in America, one frequently hears. Indeed we do. What a delight it would be to have a great barefoot saint helping us to extricate ourselves from the chains of materialism which bind us to the consideration of earthly things.
But we also need a Saint Dominic. We need someone who dares shout what we scarcely dare whisper, that everywhere youths are going to college and being graduated as bewildered fools who do not even know the purpose of life. We need someone to give us courage to disregard the latest exert in deference to The First Expert. Then we shall take to our knees and light will be given to us.”
This “someone” Carol Robinson speaks about can be any of us if we learn how to use the powers of the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Sanctifying Grace. Archbishop Lefebvre was someone like that; from Heaven, may he guide each of us to be able to go all the way to Heaven, like the ten millions of martyrs of the first centuries of the Catholic Church who died because they did not accept compromise.
Truly yours in Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Immaculate Mother.
Father Jean-Luc Lafitte
Society of Saint Pius X
Saint Ignatius Retreat House
April 1st, 1993
Letter 32:
THE REVOLUTION
CLARIFICATION:
In this Letter 32, I am using the word “Revolution” in its generic sense. Therefore, it applies to any revolution, be it the American revolution (1776), the so-called French revolution (1789), the Russian revolution (1917), the Vatican II revolution (1961-1965).
The point of interest for us is the spirit behind each of these revolutions and this spirit is the same: the liberal and naturalistic humanism of “liberty-equality-fraternity.” The differences between these revolutions are historical and accidental, while the substance is the same for each of them.
DEFINITION:
Monseigneur Gaume gives the classical definition of revolution: “The hatred of any order in which man is not recognized as King and god together;” it is the establishment of a political system centered on the person of man, the new god!
The revolution, being the synthesis of all heresies, is at the same time:
- Naturalism, by denying the original sin; man is good by nature and consequently does not need Our Lord Jesus Christ, His Grace, and His Church.
- Humanism, by placing man instead of God at the center of creation.
- Subjectivism, by giving to man the power to determine what is true and what is false.
- Liberalism, by giving the same rights to truth and evil.
It is of the utmost importance to note that:
- The revolution is not a transitory fact, but a permanent state of motion; it is a permanent revolution!
- The revolution is first in the mind before being in the facts. A revolutionary mind will always lead to an active revolution.
- The revolution is by essence anti-God, that is to say anti-Catholic
ITS CAUSES:
To give a complete definition, it is necessary to answer the following questions:
- who? (efficient cause)
- why? (final cause)
- what? (formal cause)
- out of what? (material cause)
- The efficient cause of the revolution is the devil (principal efficient cause), using many instruments such as the liberal Catholics, the false churches, the masons, the communists, etc … (instrumental efficient cause).
- The final cause of the revolution is the eternal damnation of the souls.
- The formal cause of the revolution are the democratic processes of liberty, equality, fraternity, that is to say the law of the majority. Using the law, the revolution will try to crush the Altar (destruction of the Catholic Church), the Thrones (destruction of the Catholic Monarchies), and Authority (because authority comes from God).
- The material cause of the revolution lies in pride, ignorance, and love for novelties.
It is obvious that we have a true liberty, a true equality, and a true fraternity, but these notions have nothing to do with the revolutionary trilogy of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
True liberty means the power to choose the best means to reach the end and leads to perfect obedience.
True equality can be said about our human nature: each man is equal in the sense that all of them have the same human nature; true equality leads to perfect justice.
True fraternity can be accepted only between people recognizing a common Father and will lead to true charity.
ITS HISTORY:
Let us try to outline the process of the revolution, which is nothing but a process of de-Catholicization.
If the efficient cause of the revolution is the devil himself, we must go back to the revolt of Lucifer and his “I will not serve” to find the root of the revolutionary principles. Then, Adam and Eve, through original sin, will place inside our hearts the wounds of ignorance, weakness, malice, and concupiscence.
After the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church spreads everywhere to bring the message of the Gospel to the entire world. The highest degree of Catholic civilization will be reached during the middle of the XIII century, the century of the holy preachers Saints Francis, Dominic, Bonaventure, the great philosophers Saints Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, and the holy Kings Saint Ferdinand of Spain, Louis of France, Henry of Germany.
At that time, the Catholic Church and the state were perfectly united in Europe, the Law of the Ten Commandments was considered as state law, religious indifferentism and liberty of conscience were condemned by both Church and state. As said Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical, Immortale Dei: “There was once a time when the States were governed by the principles of Gospel teaching.”
Since the XIII century, everything went down, step by step, following the shrinking of Catholic states and minds.
First step of the revolution: the HUMANISTIC revolution, or RENAISSANCE (XIV-XV centuries)
Under the influence of Erasmus (1466-1536), man, instead of God was considered as the most important thing and the center of society; the supernatural life weakened inside souls as the court of the French King Francis 1st looked for worldly pleasure. It was the “Rebirth” (or “Renaissance” in the French) of naturalistic and humanistic principles.
Second step of the revolution: the PROTESTANT revolution (XVI-XVII centuries)
The apostate Catholic priest Martin Luther (1483-1546) removed the influence of the Catholic Church on souls and subsequently destroyed the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, most of the sacraments, grace, the papacy, keeping faith and reason alone.
Descartes (1596-1650) achieved the weakening of souls, introducing subjectivism in philosophy.
Third step of the revolution: the LIBERAL revolution (XVIII century)
After the work of preparation of Freemasonry (founded in 1717) and of the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant (1724-1804), the spirit of “liberty, equality, fraternity” was fully displayed in the US revolution (1776), then in the French revolution (1789). Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the world, was now totally removed from society.
Fourth step of the revolution: the COMMUNIST revolution
After the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx (1818-1883), written in collaboration with the German philosopher Fridriech Engels (1820-1895), the Communist revolution outlawed God Himself from society. The idea of truth was totally destroyed with the “Thesis (truth), Antithesis (error or anti-truth), Synthesis (new truth)” of Engels. The truth did not exist anymore, but was a notion in constant self-mutation.
Fifth step of the revolution: the SATANIC revolution
This time, the natural law itself was destroyed. Saturated with sensual pleasures “according to nature,” people looked for pleasures “against nature” (homosexuality, rock ‘n’ roll, pornography). During the XIII century, society was “theocentrical,” centered on God; then it became humanistic, or centered on man; now it is centered on the devil!
Sixth step of the revolution: the MODERNIST revolution inside the Catholic Church
This step is the most dangerous of all the steps because the devil is now working inside the Mystical Body of Our Lord, the Immaculate Spouse of Christ. Vatican II Council (1961-1962) introduced the motto of the revolution inside the Church: religious liberty (liberty), collegiality (equality), ecumenism (fraternity). The wall of protection around the Church collapsed, leaving the entire property under the power of the devil.
HOW TO FIGHT IT?
The revolution being first something against God, the means to overcome it must be first supernatural.
Without a strong Catholic Faith, the state of sanctifying grace, and a deep inner spiritual life (that means for most of us the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola once a year), there is no counter-revolution possible.
“For what does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but ruin or lose himelf? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in His glory and that of the Father of the holy angels.” (Luke 9: 25-26)
“I know thy works; thou art neither cold nor hot. I would that thou wert cold or hot. But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of My mouth.” (Apoc. 3: 15-16)
Because revolution is something very violent and drastic, drastic measures are a must. To help to see the importance of the problem, let us try to give a few rules.
1 – If you do not live according to what you believe, one day you will believe according to the way you live. If you have the Catholic Faith, you must act accordingly. If you have a revolutionary way of life, you cannot claim to be Catholic at the same time. Your Faith in God must lead your fight against the revolution.
2 – We must be anti-revolutionary in everything, not only in the way of thinking but also in the way of acting. A woman using pants, bikinis, or mini-skirts, a family keeping television at home or sending their children to the local public school, cannot claim to be anti-revolutionary, because conscientiously or not, they play the game of the revolution. No one can serve two masters at the same time!
3 – To fight against the revolution, we must learn again how to use properly our intelligence. Therefore, we need to study the Magisterium of the Popes, especially the great encyclicals against liberalism (Leo XIII: Libertas, Saint Pius X: Our Apostolic Mandate), modernism (Saint Pius X: Pascendi), indifferentism (Gregory XVI: Mirari Vos, Pius IX: Quanta Cura, Syllabus), masonry (Leo XIII: Humanum Genus), communism (Pius XI: Divini Redemptoris), americanism (Leo XIII: Longinqua Oceani, Testem Benevolentiae).
Good doctrinal books must also be studied: Archbishop Lefebvre: They Have Uncrowned Him, Don Sarda: Liberalism is a Sin, the books of Father Fahey, Carol Robinson: My Life with Thomas Aquinas, Solange Hertz: The Star-Spangled Heresy: Americanism.
4 – The revolution is like a huge machine which can be stopped by a little pebble place between two huge wheels. A Catholic with strong convictions can do a lot against the revolution. Without Our Lord, we cannot do anything, but with His help, everything is possible. Saint Pius X used to say: “Give me a small army praying the Rosary daily, and we can conquer the world.”
In the same line of thought Archbishop Lefebvre told us many times: “We will be able to reconquer the Catholic city if we have a little group of faithful convinced of the Catholic truth, and that this Catholic truth is a Divine force capable to transform everything.”
Let us conclude: the only way to be truly anti-revolutionary is to constantly struggle for sanctity. A change in our morality, in our customs, is necessary to act according to our Faith. If the revolution has been working so hard and so easily amongst our Catholic families, it is first of all because of the lack of convictions of many of them.
We are constantly trying to compromise with the world, because out of a false love for ourselves, we want to feel good, because out of a false charity, we want our neighbor to feel good. For many of us, perhaps the first truly anti-revolutionary act must be to make the sign of the cross publicly in a restaurant before a business dinner, or to unplug the television during the time of Lent, or to say no to our teen-ager who would like to date, or to throw out of the house the records of Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, or Guns and Roses, etc.
I would like to end this Letter 32 with a beautiful quote from Carol Robinson, in her book My Life with Thomas Aquinas, page 152:
“We need a Saint Francis of Assisi in America, one frequently hears. Indeed we do. What a delight it would be to have a great barefoot saint helping us to extricate ourselves from the chains of materialism which bind us to the consideration of earthly things.
But we also need a Saint Dominic. We need someone who dares shout what we scarcely dare whisper, that everywhere youths are going to college and being graduated as bewildered fools who do not even know the purpose of life. We need someone to give us courage to disregard the latest exert in deference to The First Expert. Then we shall take to our knees and light will be given to us.”
This “someone” Carol Robinson speaks about can be any of us if we learn how to use the powers of the Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Sanctifying Grace. Archbishop Lefebvre was someone like that; from Heaven, may he guide each of us to be able to go all the way to Heaven, like the ten millions of martyrs of the first centuries of the Catholic Church who died because they did not accept compromise.
Truly yours in Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Immaculate Mother.
Father Jean-Luc Lafitte
Society of Saint Pius X