Eucharistic Crusaders: Editorial

The Hidden Picture

Dear Crusaders,

Above the gates of an old church in Germany, one can see some very old paintings, one of Our Lord, the other one of Our Lady. Such paintings were beautiful, but some people did not like them and they covered them all with an awful whitewash*! Many years later, artists managed to remove the whitewash and found a treasure in paintings underneath.

In the same way, dear children, when you are coming to confession, you are doing the same as these artists who cleaned up the whitewash. Yes, your soul is indeed a beautiful picture, made at the likeness and the image of God. How does it look? Alas, too often your soul is all covered with a haze of all kind of colours. Here I see a red coat of paint: this is from the fighting with your comrades or disobedience of your parents. Over there, I see a yellow spot from the sin of envy and jealously. In that corner, I see a grey spot from laziness. Up here, I see a bunch of colours without order; this is from the bad habit of lying, which always tries to cover up the truth. Finally, I see a black spot from mortal sin.

Now, dear children, you need to make a good clean-up of your soul. Get rid of this awful whitewash, so that the image of God can again shine forth with the full brightness of baptismal innocence. Check all these coatings of bad paint. Then, ask pardon of God, for having soiled the brightness of our soul. Ask pardon to Our Lord, because you lost the brightness of His Blood.

When your soul shines again with sanctifying grace, you will be able to keep it that way by the Precious Blood of Our Saviour in Holy Communion. By doing this, you will reproduce in your soul the perfect picture of Jesus, according to the model of Nazareth.

This is my wish for all of you in the Crusade

*whitewash was a mix of lime and a gluey water, like a weak white paint that was used to whiten things quickly.

Father Dominique Boulet

* On Christmas Day, December 25 I’ll say the monthly Mass for the intentions of the Eucharistic Crusade

* Send all correspondence to:

Eucharistic Crusade
3012 – 37 Street
Vernon, BC
V1T 6G5

E-mail: EucharisticCrusade@sspx.ca

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