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issue number 18 - June 2009

Consecration of Russia to the

Immaculate Heart of Mary

issue number 18 - June 2009

Convictions, issue number 18 - June 2009

Dear readers,

This past ﬁ rst of May, Bishop Fellay launched a third Rosary Crusade. After two victories, the new

cause to stand up for is the consecration of Russia by the Holy Father, to the Immaculate Heart of

Mary, according to the requests of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.

Why such a move at the present time? Why appeal to the faithful with a period of prayer so long,

up to March 25th, 2010? Why return to business which, it seems, had been settled by John Paul II

in his time?

Heaven has its reasons, and their entire signiﬁ cance we do not necessarily understand. But he

who looks around himself would realize that the world situation is far from corresponding to the

promises that the Blessed Virgin had attached to this request, when in July of 1917 she addressed the

three children of Fatima:

- The conversion of Russia to the Catholic faith.

- A time of peace in the world.

- The eternal salvation of a great number of souls.

The Marxist revolution had international aims. Russia, and after that the Iberian Peninsula,

were only the starting points in order to better strangle Europe, this old World of Christendom.

The Blessed Virgin therefore had good reasons to warn us. If communism was the great peril of the

20th century, its spirit has not disappeared and our modern democracies stemming from 1789 are,

of course, all permeated with it. Today, Russia tries to awaken itself from a moral coma in which it

has been plunged for a very long time. Everything remains to be done in order to restore its strength

of former years, and yet it will be a long-term reeducation.

Its current government tries the impossible to bring the country out of its profound misery due

to the economic and social ruin in which it happens to be. If in a few major cities the misery re-

cedes, there are nevertheless millions of people who live in an extreme outcome from this situation.

Children and adolescents abandoned by the millions live and die in the street, or survive through

means of debauchery. With totally nationalist politics, the present Russian government works to-

wards bringing back its dignity, even its sense of pride to this big nation which attaches itself with

conﬁ dence to its leaders. Its exterior politics demonstrates that today Russia is a rampart for the Oc-

cident against Islam and a force in the world equilibrium against Atlanticism.

Russia has been conﬁ ded to Mary by the preceding sovereign Pontiff, but not consecrated; the

present situation clearly proves it. At Fatima, and indeed, in other places of apparitions, Our Lady

has spoken to the children and asked them for prayers and sacriﬁ ces. If the Queen of Heaven trans-

mits such requests about subjects so serious that concern primarily the leaders of the world, it is in-

deed a proof that heaven makes use of the most humble means in order to obtain for us the greatest

graces, the greatest victories, in spite of the deployment of troops the most unimaginable imple-

mented by the powerful of this world.

It is therefore necessary to involve our children in this great intention, because their prayers are

powerful in touching the heart of God. At the school and also in the home, our rosaries must be

raised to God with this faith in the victory, this hope of a genuine peace promised by heaven and

this charity towards those men who are far from our Mother the Church, She alone who is able to

obtain for us salvation.

In reality, the decision for such a crusade is of utmost importance, willed by Providence. We must

respond favorably with enthusiastic interest to the call of our Superior General; the cause is vital for

the future of the Occident.

Father Jürgen Wegner

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“Forming

Catholic

Minds”

Editorial _________________________________________________________ 2

Let us devote ourselves, as our Superior General has

asked of us, to this Rosary Crusade, to obtain from

the Sovereign Pontiff the consecration of Russia to

the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Rev. Fr. Jürgen Wegner, SSPX

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Rev. Fr. Patrick Girouard

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A seed in our souls _____________________________________ 4

Sermon by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,

Conﬁ rmations, October 19, 1975.

H.E. Marcel Lefebvre

The consecration of Russia _____________________________ 8

Answers to several important questions concern-

ing the solemn and public act of reparation and of

consecration of Russia, requested of the Holy Fa-

ther by Our Lady, at Tuy, on June 13, 1929.

Father Fabrice Delestre

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A seed in

our souls

Sermon by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,

Conﬁrmations, October 19, 1975

My dear children,

What is a Christian? It is he who is anoth-

er Christ, he who is entirely given to Our Lord

Jesus Christ, entirely submitted to Our Lord Je-

sus Christ, desirous that His kingdom come. It is

this that you say in the Our Father: Thy kingdom

come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heav-

en. You will repeat it again in a little while.

Already for a long time, certainly, you have

prepared yourselves to receive this sacrament of

Conﬁrmation; your parents, your priests, have

taught you about what is the sacrament of Con-

ﬁrmation.

And today, here you are, with your parents

near you, to receive this sacrament. You will no-

tice that we have wished to give some solemni-

ty to this sacrament of Conﬁrmation, because it

is a very great sacrament, very necessary today

more than ever, in order to remain good Chris-

tian boys and girls. It is for this that you receive

the sacrament of Conﬁrmation.

Well, the grace that you receive, the grace of

Baptism, grace of the sacrament of Conﬁrma-

tion, grace of all the sacraments, grace of the

Holy Eucharist especially, all these graces are

made so that your souls may be entirely given

to Our Lord Jesus Christ. And this is not so easy!

Our Lord is demanding. Our Lord wills that we

love Him and that we do not love another thing,

that we do not love the things which would take

us away from Him.

The day of our Baptism, when the grace of

Baptism descends into our souls, we receive it

as a seed in our souls. It is a seed which must

grow and which must invade every part of our

souls, our souls fully, all entirely. It must make

our souls become perfectly Christian, perfectly

submitted to Our Lord, ﬁlled with the Spirit of

Our Lord.

Now today in this world, and moreover, as

always, but maybe even more today than in the

past, because science has made discoveries which

unfortunately permit men to do much evil and

to give much more scandal than in the past, well

these scandals which surround us, want to tear

us away from Our Lord Jesus Christ. And the dev-

il uses all these means to snatch our souls from

Our Lord Jesus Christ. The devil does not want

that Our Lord Jesus Christ reign in us. He does

not want it. He will do everything during your

life, up to your very last breath, to try to tear you

away from Our Lord Jesus Christ, who has con-

It is precisely this that Our Lord has wanted.

That all of the sacraments add to the grace of

Baptism another particular strength in order to

help us to give our souls completely to Our Lord

Jesus Christ, that we be completely under the in-

ﬂuence of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

A seed in our soul...

quered you both through Baptism and who now

today, will conquer you more and will become

your King still a little more through the sacra-

ment of Conﬁrmation. The devil does not accept

this. So he employs all the means that are at the

service of his intelligence – and he is crafty, the

devil, really he is intelligent, with all those who

are at his service, and all those who here on the

earth have placed themselves at his service, to try

to prevent souls from being in the so sweet, the

so good reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

they have brought you here? Certainly not. On

the contrary, they have brought you here, to be

sure, to be entirely certain, that I would use on

you the rite which the Church has always used,

which the Church has used for centuries. Because

if the Church has practiced this rite for ages and

ages and it has been happy with this rite and it

has considered that this is the rite which Our

Lord Jesus Christ has wanted, therefore you may

be sure of receiving the sacrament of Conﬁrma-

tion from all times.

Well then, you are going to receive this sac-

rament of Conﬁrmation which will give you

a very great strength if you prepare your souls

well. If you close your souls to the grace of the

Good God, Our Lord cannot penetrate into your

hearts, into your will, into your intelligence. But

I am sure that your souls are well prepared, well

disposed to do the will of Our Lord. And that is

why the grace which you are going to receive in

a few moments will transform your souls anew.

That is why it is very important to receive the

grace of this sacrament. It is Our Lord who has

instituted these sacraments. It is not we who

have invented them. It is not the Church that

has invented these sacraments. It is Our Lord

Himself. It is the Church that teaches us this.

Even if, for example, I was distracted, in giv-

ing you the sacrament of Conﬁrmation, even so

you would have received the sacrament of Con-

ﬁrmation, because I would have performed the

rite that the Church has always done and be-

cause in my intention, I want to do that which

the Church has always done. That’s what is nec-

essary for what we call the validity of the sacra-

ment, which means that the grace truly descends

into our souls.

It is Our Lord Himself who has wanted this

sacrament of Conﬁrmation. Consequently, we

cannot do just anything, just any prayer, just any

rite, just any gesture to give or receive the sacra-

ment of Conﬁrmation.

If I would say, in a few moments, in place of

saying the prayer which is written in the Pon-

tiﬁcal to give the sacrament of Conﬁrmation, if

I would invent a prayer of my own, as for ex-

ample: “Receive the Holy Spirit”. If that is all I

said at the moment of imposing my hand on

your head and of signing your forehead with the

Sign of the Cross, well then, you would not re-

ceive the grace. You would not have the grace of

the sacrament of Conﬁrmation. You would have

had a very lovely gathering, here at Econe, but

you would have left without the grace of the

Conﬁrmation.

Is that what your parents wanted? Have your

parents brought you here to say a prayer and to

return to your homes without having received

the grace of the Conﬁrmation? Is it for that that

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