The 5-Million Rosary Crusade For the Church and the Consecration of Russia Table of Contents How to Use This Booklet ............................... 3 Letter from the District Superior .................. 4 Extracts from the Superior General’s Letter #81 ................. 5 Rosary Crusade Sacrifices ............................. 8 Rosary Crusade Calendars: January ..................................................... 9 February ................................................. 11 March ...................................................... 13 April ........................................................ 15 May ......................................................... 17 June ........................................................ 19 Prayer of the Angel of Fatima ..................... 23 SSPX Rosary Crusade Tally Booklet © 2014 Society of Saint Pius X District of the United States of America 11485 N. Farley Road Platte City, MO 64079 T +1 (816) 753 0073 F +1 (816) 753 3560 [email protected] www.sspx.org 2 The 5-Million Rosary Crusade How to Use This Booklet The 5-Million Rosary Crusade lasts from January 1 until June 8, 2014. We are praying for the Church and the Consecration of Russia, offering also sacrifices in union with the divine Victim in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. 1. Keep this booklet in a convenient place! 2. Fill in the number of Rosaries in the calendar pages. A Family Rosary should be multiplied by the number of people reciting it; so if 7 people say the Rosary together, you will count 7 Rosaries. Remember only to count whole 5-decade Rosaries and not the number of individual decades. 3. Add up all the Rosaries for each month and write the number in the space indicated at the bottom of the page. 4. Tear out the Calendar Page for the month which you need to turn in. 5. Turn in your Calendar Page on the FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH, to your chapel’s Coordinator. The Coordinator will add up all of your chapel’s totals and send it in. Note: If you do not attend an SSPX chapel, please mail your calendar pages directly to the District Office: 5-Million Rosary Crusade 11485 North Farley Road Platte City, MO 64079 or FAX them to: 816-753-3560 or e-mail your tally to: [email protected] 3 Letter from the District Superior Dear Faithful, We are invited to a new Rosary Crusade from January 1, 2014 to the Feast of Pentecost (June 8, 2014). This is an occasion to revive our devo- tion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A Rosary Crusade is a spiritual expedition or campaign to obtain spe- cial blessings and graces from God. Here are the goals: - To implore from the Immaculate Heart of Mary a special protection for the traditional apostolate; - For the return to Tradition within the Church; - For the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the consecration of Russia. In addition to saying the rosaries we are invited to special generosity, for example: - Prayer and penance as asked for at Fatima; - Sanctification through the duty of state; - A spirit of sacrifice in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We need an on-going spirit of Crusade to renew our spiritual life, to participate in this triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to obtain from God a blossoming of His Church, to be protected in danger. With that in mind, at the end of this Rosary Crusade on the Feast of Pentecost, we will have a Statue of Our Lady of Fatima starting a pilgrim- age across the District of the United States of America to maintain in us the crusader spirit and call many others to join us. This Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady will be taken from chapel to chapel all around the country. On that occasion, a Marian mission in honor of her Immaculate Heart will be held in order to form in our hearts a true and profound devotion to Her. Sure of your generous and enthusiastic response to this great cause, I am most happy to bless your efforts for the greater glory of God and of our Beloved Mother. In the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Father Arnaud Rostand December 8, 2014 4 Extract from the Superior General’s Letter #81 Prayer and Penance In this dramatic context, it seems to us essential to launch a new crusade in the same spirit as the preceding ones, keeping in view the requests and the promises of the Immaculate Heart of Mary as they were expressed at Fatima, but insisting more this time on its universal charac- ter. We have to put our whole heart, our whole soul into this new crusade: not just being content with the daily recitation of the Rosary, but care- fully carrying out Our Lady’s second request, which is penance. Prayer and penance. Penance, understood certainly as the acceptance of certain forms of self-denial, but especially as the very faithful performance of our duties of state. A Crusade Centered on the Mass This is why this fourth crusade will be based on the one desired by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1979. A crusade centered on the Holy Mass, which is the source of all grace, of all virtue. In the sermon at his priestly jubilee in Paris, he forcefully called us to a threefold crusade: a crusade of youth, a crusade of families, a crusade of heads of families for Christian civilization. Do Not Abandon My Sacrifice In that sermon, our venerable founder declared: “I think I can say that we should have a crusade based on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, on the Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, on that invincible rock, that inexhaustible source of grace which is the Mass.... We must undertake a crusade, a crusade which is based specifically on this idea of sacrifice, in order to recreate Christendom, to re-establish a Christendom such as the Church desires, such as she has always done, with the same principles, the same Sacrifice of the Mass, the same sacra- ments, the same catechism, the same Sacred Scripture. We must recreate this Christendom! It is to you, my dear brethren, you who are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, you to whom Our Lord Jesus Christ addressed Himself in saying: ‘Do not waste the fruit of My Blood, do not abandon My Calvary, do not abandon My Sacrifice.’ And the Virgin Mary, who stands beneath the Cross, tells you this as well; she, whose heart is pierced, full of sufferings and sorrows, and yet filled with the joy of unit- 5 ing herself to the Sacrifice of her divine Son, she too says it to you: ‘Let us be Christians, let us be Catholics!’” Embrace the Cross of Our Lord Archbishop Lefebvre described the role that everyone—young people, families, heads of families—had to play in this crusade: “If we want to go to heaven we must follow Our Lord Jesus Christ, car- ry our cross and follow Our Lord Jesus Christ, imitating Him in his Cross, in his suffering, in his sacrifice. Thus, I ask the youth, the young people who are here in this hall, to ask the priests to explain to them these things that are so beautiful and so great, so as to choose their vocations, and in whatever calling they may choose—be they priests or religious men and women, or married—they embrace the Cross of Our Lord. If they choose to form a family under the sacrament of matrimony, and therefore under the Cross of Jesus Christ and the Blood of Jesus Christ, married by the grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, let them understand the greatness of this path and let them prepare themselves worthily for it by purity and chastity, by prayer and reflection. Let them not be carried away by all the passions which agitate the world. Thus, let this be the crusade of the young who must aspire to the true ideal! “Let it be, as well, a crusade of Christian families. You Christian fami- lies who are here, consecrate your families to the Heart of Jesus, to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Pray together in the family! Oh, I know that many of those among you already do so, but may there always be more and more of you who do so fervently! Let Our Lord truly reign in your homes! ...” Have Confidence in the Grace of the Mass “Finally, a crusade for the heads of families. You who are heads of your households, you have a serious responsibility in your countries.... Just a few moments ago you sang, Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat! Are these just words, mere lyrics, mere songs? No! They must be a reality. You heads of families, you are the ones responsible for that, both for your children and for the generations to come. Thus, you should orga- nize yourselves now—hold meetings and come to an understanding, so that France [your country] might become Christian again, Catholic again. It is not impossible—otherwise one would have to say that the grace of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is no longer grace, that God is no longer God, that Our Lord Jesus Christ is no longer Our Lord Jesus Christ. One must have confidence in the grace of Our Lord, for Our Lord is all-pow- erful. I have seen this grace at work in Africa—there is no reason why it should not be at work here as well, in our countries.” 6 Spread This Crusade Then, addressing his priests in particular, Archbishop Lefebvre asked them: “And you, dear priests, who are listening to me now, you too must form a profound priestly union to spread this crusade, to organize this crusade so that Jesus Christ might reign.