A MONTH WITH OUR BLESSED MOTHER - ' MOTHER OF HOPE LEAD US ON OUR WAY' (JULY 15TH -AUGUST 15TH) KJC

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Mary, Mother of God, holds a unique place in the history of salvation. She is the model of prayer and pastoral love, the teacher of wisdom and the guide of our Family. We contemplate and imitate her faith, her concern for the needy, her fidelity at the hour of the cross, and her joy at the wonders wrought by the Father.

Mary Immaculate, Help Christians, leads us to the fullness of our offering to the Lord and gives us courage for the service of our brethren.

We develope a strong filial devotion to her. We recite the rosary each day and celebrate her feasts to encourage a more convinced and personal imitation.

(Article 92, Constitutions of the Society of St Francis de Sales)

As we commemorate Our Mother Mary's day every 24th of the month we would like to share you the comparison of Mary's revolution with the Revolution of Marx and Communism.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTION

Mary

Mary begins with the soul and god. “My soul magnifies the Lord; my spirit has found joy in God who is my saviour.” The whole universe revolves around these two realities: the soul aspiring to an infirmity of happiness which God alone can supply.

Marx

Marx ended the first of his books with the word: “i hate the entire god.” From communism there is only matter endowed with its own inner contradiction which begets movement. Since there is only matter, there is no soul. The belief that each man has value, “ is founded,” and Marx, “on the Christian illusion that every man has a soul. There is no God, because a belief in God alienates man from himself and makes him subject to someone outside self. There is no God, but man, “Religion is the Opium of the People.”

THE FUTURE OF REVOLUTION

Mary

“All generations will count me blessed.” She will be an exception to the law of forgetfulness, because the Lord of History has willed that she be venerated through the centuries. History providentially determined. The progress and fall of civilizations is due to the moral ordering of human life. Peace is the tranquillity of order, and order implies justice of God and neighbour. Peace fails when each man seeks his own and forgets the love of God and Neighbour.

Marx

History is dialectically determined. It is not God, nor does the way men live that decide the progress and decay of civilization, but a law of class conflict which continues until Communism takes over and classes no longer exist. The future is determined by matter. The present generation and all the past can look to a remote future where they will dance on the grave of their ancestors. Certain classes are destined to be the funeral pyre to light future generations, lifting clenched fists over the corpse of Lenin.

FEAR AND REVOLUTION

Mary

“He has mercy upon those who fear Him, from generation to generation.” Fear is here understood as filial, namely, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father, and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.

Marx

Communism is founded not on filial but on servile fear, the kind of fear a slave has for a tyrant, a worker has for a dictator. The fear begotten by the revolution is a compulsion neurosis, born not of love bur power. A revolution which destroys filial fear of God always ends in the creation of servile fear of man.

TECHNIQUE OF REVOLUTION

Both Mary and Marx advocate the exaltation of the poor, the dethroning of the proud, the emptying of the rich in favour of the socially disinherited, but they differ in their technique.

Mary

Violence is necessary. “The kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence.” But the violence must be against self, against its selfishness, greed, lust and pride.

The sword that strikes must be thrust inward to rid onself of all that would make one despise neighbour.

The transfer of wealth, which makes for the prosperity of the poor, is inspiring by an inner charity which loves God and neighbour.

Man has nothing to lose but the chains of sin, which darkens his intellect and weakens his will. By throwing off sins through the merits of Christ, man become a child of God, an heir of Heaven, enjoying inner peace in this life and even amidst its trials, and an ultimate and final ecstasy of love in heaven.

Marx

Violence is necessary. But the violence must be against neighbour, against those who own, who believe in God, and in democracy. Egotism must be disguised as social justice.

The sword that strikes must be thrust outward to rid society of all that would despise a revolution based on hate.

The transfer of wealth takes place through “violence confiscation” and the shifting of booty and loot from one man’s pocket to another.

Man has nothing to lose but the chains which bind him to God and to property. Thanks, then, to atheism and socialism, man will be restored to himself as the true God.