In order to have the spirit of chivalry, love the sublimity of the fight
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
The problem is, for you to have the spirit of chivalry[1] you need to be fully imbued with the sublimity of what you do, and to love this sublimity. If you do not do that, you will not have the true spirit of the knight.
Oklahoma City Black Mass Protest on Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, August 15, 2016.
You may say: “If we see ourselves in this light, we will become proud.”
No you won’t. You won’t because he who loves true sublimity, not the sublimity of his person, but the sublimity of his [fighting] vocation – and here is the question – the sublimity of that for which he was made, for which he was called, of what he has to do; he who was invited to this by grace and says yes, elevates himself instead of falling into pride.
Traditional Marriage, Pro-Life, Protesting Socialist Health Care Mandates and various Blasphemous plays and “art work”. Rosary Rallies across this country….this is our Crusade.
It would be pride for him to imagine, “Look how formidable I have become! I am now a boss in this or that!” Then he falls into pride. But this is not chivalry.
Chivalry is for man to think, “I am a knight of God and of the Virgin and am here facing the adversaries, I’m in the battle.” This is chivalry.
A special delivery to Fatima! Results of the 2016 America Needs Fatima Rosary Rally, with a red rose in the name of every Rosary Rally captain and white roses in the name of each Rosary Rally sponsor.
It was much easier for a knight of the Middle Ages to become proud than for you. Because a man all decked up in armor, riding a horse in the street with everyone looking and finding it beautiful, would be like a man today riding around in a Rolls Royce or something of the sort. A great horse with a beautiful armor was the equivalent to a Rolls Royce today, but with much more elevation than even a Rolls Royce today. Well, while that man was still moving about in Christian lands, he would feel the object of general admiration, and so it was very easy for him to become proud.
Today you almost run the opposite risk: that of losing your combativeness for not having the courage to look at the sublimity of your [fighting] vocation and be conscious of your dignity, walking with your heads high knowing that others will mock and despise you, etc. This is what we must do.
Well, so in order for you to acquire the spirit of chivalry you need to acquire more and more the notion of the marvel that you are carrying out.
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[1] As John Horvat states in Return to Order, “History records dramatic changes in the general mentality of men. One such change was an outburst of pride and sensuality that shook medieval Christendom. It gave rise to a single historical process that Catholic thinker Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira calls the Revolution. This Revolution was a revolt against the very idea of restraint driven by an intemperate desire for pleasures and novelties, an explosion of disordered appetites and the gradual abandonment of the stabilizing forces of spiritual, religious, moral, and cultural values. We can trace the four phases of this process to: 1) the Renaissance which prepared a spirit of revolt found in the Protestant Revolution (1517); 2) the French Revolution (1789); 3) the Communist Revolution (1917); and 4) the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties (1968).*
* A connection between the first three Revolutions can be found in Leo XIII’s apostolic letter Annum Ingressi of Mar. 19, 1902. Other historians join Leo XIII in making similar connections between these first three revolutions without naming the whole historical process.)
John Horvat, Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society–Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where We Need To Go (York, PA: York Press, 2013), 18.
