History and Specificity of the Different Papers
“L’Armée de Marie”
Humble in appearance, but rich with vibrant sentiments in favor of the Triple White: the Eucharist, Mary and the Pope, the little review L’Armée de Marie was edited by Marie-Paule and published between September 1971 and September 1976. It recounted the development of the Work by means of the Marian and Christological formation given the members and through information given on the various apostolic activities leading to a consoling extension of the progression of souls towards Christ the Redeemer through Mary, Queen and Mother, who said at Fatima: “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”
“Marie”
In September 1976, after five years of intensive formation through the review, courses in spirituality and recollections, the review gave way to the paper MARIE. A new phase was beginning: it was the hour of the combat. And through MARIE, the light began to pierce through the darkness of the times. Already the plan of love which God was offering to humanity could be seen rising on the horizon. But once again, it was the ones who are humble and simple who understood the mystery of the Kingdom which Christ, through Mary, wished to inaugurate on earth: “Thy Kingdom come... on earth as it is in heaven” The battle continued, fed by those who were not afraid to cast about the venom of their calumnies, in the hope of destroying what God wanted to build and which they did not understand.
“L’Étoile”
From September 1979 to May 1982, Raoul Auclair took over the editorship of the paper L’ÉTOILE. A new step had been taken in the formation given the members of the Army of Mary, now more and more committed to the service of the Church. L’ÉTOILE was the paper of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, signs to which the Council and especially Pope John Paul II have asked us to pay much attention. Knowledge and faith are required to complete an exegesis of Scripture, but even more important is the grace of inspiration.
Raoul Auclair, a Marian and eschatological writer, was able to enlighten us on the writings of the prophets of the Bible and to familiarize us with the Book of Revelation “through an understanding that draws its knowledge from within a supernatural clarity, a clarity whose source so many highly learned men today seek. Raoul made us understand that through the apparent anarchy of history, there reigns a profound and predestined order.”
The Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation) which closes the Bible is a book of victory. It is the book of the great combat and we know that Mary will be victorious.
“Le Royaume”
In 1982, the paper L’ÉTOILE became LE ROYAUME, and Marie-Paule, having just founded the “Family of the Sons and Daughters of Mary”, once again assumed the directorship. Just as in the time of Christ the Redeemer who announced the Kingdom, what warring, what persecution in this time of the Co-Redemption! This phase had been announced and recounted in the volumes of Life of Love, the thirteen French volumes of which had been published between May 1979 and June 1980.
In January 1993, Le Royaume, while remaining the organ of the Work, in complete fidelity to Rome, took on a new presentation, coinciding with the beginning of a new era for the Work.
Twenty-seven years have passed since the founding of the Army of Mary which has given birth to other Works, according to its development and based on the necessities of the times: the Family and the Community of the Sons and Daughters of Mary (May 31, 1981), the Oblate-Patriots (August 15, 1986) and the Marialys Institute (May 31, 1992).
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