The Family Spirit

The Family is the most ancient and most fundamental institution of mankind. It predates the existence of the State. Founded on the natural needs of man, it is the precursor and model of any society that subsequently came into existence. 

Msgr. Delassus lays out for the youth of his time insights that are even more useful for the youth of our times. How worse the problems he addressed have become since then!

Western societies, based on faulty Masonic principles, have destroyed the family institution to a large extent. Divorce, free love, contraception, feminism, total contempt for the authority of the father, intrusion of the State in the family life: all these evils contributed to the gradual destruction of the family spirit. The current generations are only left with a vague and insufficient idea of what a family is supposed to be and what kind of principles are supposed to govern it.  

In this masterful essay, Msgr. Delassus unfolds the pivotal truth of social life: a functional society must be based on strong and healthy families, and must function itself, to some extent, like a family. Outside of this principle, no hope of social reform can ever be found.

And what does a strong and healthy family look like? Such a family relies on authority, selfless service, sincere union between the members, traditions, respect for the ancestors, shared works and shared estates that are transmitted from generation to generation.

Let us put all our efforts into rebuilding true homes, and rediscover the family spirit, if we hope to rebuild, one day, true cities and true states. 

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Paperback, 184 pages.