Point 10. The Gospel Transformation.

Jesus saved the world from Satan’s slavery and relieved every person of the burden of their own sins through human atonement and divine forgiveness on the Cross. He has an ardent desire, an unquenchable thirst to love and be loved. To love His Father infinitely, with all the strength of his human heart, and to be loved by Him immensely, in order to draw His life, His grace, and His glory among men. His Sacred Heart thirsts to love men and to be loved by them too, so that men may respond to His call, for His sake and for theirs, for His satisfaction and glory, for their redemption and eternal bliss.

1. Thus constituted as their mediator, He gives life back to men and reopens Heaven to them through His sacrifice. He is the author of their salvation, His Cross is the means. All are beholden to Him, all are saved by Him. He has acquired rights over them, or rather He draws them to His love, to His obedience.

Hence comes the Phalangist’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and to His Holy Cross. He knows the Father in the Son and draws his joy from the glory that appears on the Face of Jesus crucified, revealed to the world on the Holy Shroud. The glory of God shines on His outraged Face, the love of God overflows from His pierced Heart, the beauty of God is in His conversation, the grace of God is in His hands. The Phalangist thinks of nothing else but to imitate Him by living as another Christ.

2. The Phalangist will therefore venerate inseparably the Heart and the Cross of Jesus through the mediation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in order to enter into this mystery of suffering and death for the sake of love, a mystery of beauty in pain, joy in sorrow, honour in service, glory in humiliation, and ultimate bliss in persecution and martyrdom.

To find the Father in the Son is to attain glory through the Cross, to seek happiness in trials, wealth in poverty, life in sacrifice and death through love. Such are the evangelical Beatitudes, such is the revealed mystery of divine wisdom, “which is foolishness in the eyes of men” but truth and blessing for those who believe. The Cross is the privilege of the Phalange. The Phalangist resolutely enters this mystery of the Cross, knowing that by renouncing everything and renouncing himself, he is promised a hundredfold in this world and eternal life.