A Valuable Tool for the Rosary Crusade
On September 23, 1979, on the occasion of his priestly jubilee in Paris, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre launched a crusade:
We must begin a crusade founded specifically upon this idea of sacrifice, in order to rebuild Christianity, to rebuild Christianity as the Church would, as the Church has always done with the same principles, the same Sacrifice of the Mass, the same sacraments, the same catechism, the same Scriptures.
On July 2016, on the occasion of the priestly ordinations at the seminary of Zaitzkofen, Bishop Bernard Fellay announced a new rosary crusade, from August 15, 2016, until August 22, 2017, to be concluded by an international pilgrimage to Fatima on August 19 and 20, to celebrate the centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady to the three shepherd children.
Today Fr. Patrick Troadec’s Le rosaire avec Mgr Marcel Lefebvre [The Rosary with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre] is released, which will be a valuable tool for this crusade. In the foreword, Bishop Fellay writes,
During the rosary crusade that began on August 15, 2016, I greatly hope that the fervent recitation of the rosary will respond to Our Lady’s wishes, that is, that devotion to Her Immaculate Heart will spread, so that we may obtain Its triumph and the consecration of Russia to that same Immaculate Heart.
Besides the intentions Our Lady gave us, the Superior General asked that we pray to Our Lady for Her maternal protection of the Society of St. Pius X and of all its members, as well as of the religious communities in the Traditional movement.
His words echo those of Archbishop Lefebvre in 1979:
It is you, dear brethren, you who are the salt of the earth, you who are the light of the world, you to whom Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks, saying, 'Do not waste the fruit of My Blood, do not abandon My Calvary, do not abandon My Sacrifice.' And the Blessed Virgin Mary, standing at the foot of the Cross, also says it to you, She whose heart was pierced, filled with sufferings and sorrows, but also filled with the joy of uniting herself to the Sacrifice of Her Divine Son. She also tells you, 'Be Christians; be Catholics!'
-- Father Alain Lorans
