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Restoring Le Royaume de France Catholique
La réduction française philosophique de Ste. Jehanne d'Arc
La réduction française philosophique de Ste. Jehanne d'Arc
La réduction française philosophique de Ste. Jehanne d'Arc is a transcendent, systematic model of the French royal hearts of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux developed through the influence of the life of St. Joan of Arc, Thérèsian Carmelite spirituality, and the philosophical lens of Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross). Its aim is Faith, Hope, and Love "on earth as it is in Heaven" through the majesty of French Catholic spirituality and True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Its means is personalized, phenomenological devotion to the combined hearts and spirituality of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
The Story
What is Royaume France?
Royaume France's purpose is to inspire others to make a dogmatic confession of Catholic faith in the spirit of True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary as prescribed by St. Louis de Montfort. Our means of inspiring that confession of faith under the mantle of the Blessed Virgin is devotion to the eternal form of Our Lady's Catholic and Royal France under the patronage of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the two co-secondary patronesses of France.
The Royaume France model, built through the phenomenological reduction of the combined hearts of St. Joan and St. Thérèse, is a transcendent form of traditional French Catholic spirituality designed to keep us on what I call "the Trail of the Dogmatic Creed with St. Joan and St. Thérèse" to the Kingdom of God. Without such a model, we likely will be swept away by the prevailing hurricane force winds of modern culture, philosophies, and disoriented spiritualities. Our goal is Heaven; our understanding of the only means to attain it is the Holy Catholic Church; our fundamental spirituality is devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary; and the manifestation of all this is what we call the "Royal Heart." The Royal Heart is foremost a spiritual orientation resulting from Royaume France which naturally leads to a Catholic worldview in cultural and political affairs.
Foundational to meriting the Royal Heart of St. Joan and St. Thérèse in the center of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is the rejection of the grave errors of modernity - it's ideologies, philosophical manifestations, cultural premises, and socio-political structures.
Royal Hearts are inherently, substantively opposed to modernity for the simple reason that we are for the Kingdom of God. In the temporal cultural world, we are different from "reactionaries" who simply "conserve" the present (thus, fancying themselves as "conservatives"). Royal Hearts have a positive understanding of the Kingdom of God as our model "on earth as it is in Heaven," however imperfectly we instantiate that Kingdom on this earth. Therefore, we oppose modernity with its progressive liberalism not because we are "reactionaries" who are "afraid of change," but because we are Catholic and Royal Hearts who are pointing to a superior model in the center of the Immaculate Heart of Mary where Jesus Christ reigns in all His glory. We are "for" the better manifestation. We "oppose" what draws us further from it, while supporting what moves us closer.
Thus, we often share immediate goals with reactionaries. It is not unusual that we oppose the same liberal evil. However, we are not reactionaries attempting to conserve the existing ways; we always are seeking movement toward the superior model, a very different and life-giving motive. The interests of reactionaries and royalists coincide but are grounded in different paradigms.
My goal as a Royal Heart, and as reflected in Royaume France, is the rejection of modernity for the glory of Mary and to help usher in the reign of her Immaculate Heart. This model is one that provides lasting spiritual support in that effort. Only those who "endure to the end" will be saved. To reject modernity for the sake of the Blessed Virgin Mary is to take a step away from the gates of Hades and toward the Kingdom of God.
This is Royaume France, the "form" of True Devotion to Mary instantiated in us that we call the "Royal Heart" of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux.