Bøger af Walter Adams

(This book is included in its entirety in the collection titled RoyaumeFrance.) Little Flowers and Fiery Towers is a collection of poems and poetic prose in honor of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and St. Joan of Arc. This volume is your opportunity to walk simply, tranquilly, and poetically through the castle gates of the Catholic Church and along the Trail of the Dogmatic Creed toward the Kingdom. Here you may observe in your own quiet space its landscapes, flowers, and fiery towers with the celestial guidance of St. Thérèse and St. Joan!

(This book is included in its entirety in the collection titled RoyaumeFrance.) The fourth edition of The Dove and Rose is a series of essay reflections designed to inflame your heart with love for Sts. Joan of Arc and Thérèse of Lisieux. Its purpose is to allow you to open your heart to their saintly, sisterly influence that they might lead you to the center of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in order to perfect your consecration to Mary for the glory of Jesus Christ her Son. It is about going to Jesus through Mary in the friendship and sisterly care of Sts. Joan and Thérèse! I hold an undergraduate degree in Economics from Princeton University and a Master's Degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University. I am married and the father of one child. Raised a Methodist in the Bible Belt and surrounded with evangelicalism as a youth, I converted to the Catholic Church prior to my marriage in 1985. Touched deeply by the life of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and imbued with a filial love for Mary, I set out on a life-long spiritual journey to "seek first" Christ's Kingdom with Thérèse as my guide. Eventually led to confront my inner most being on that lonely, mystical hill of Calvary, I discovered through Mary's maternal guidance and Thérèse's sisterly care that Jesus had called another mighty saint to walk with me and to protect me through that dark and awful night of self-confrontation that leads us in Christ to true freedom. That saint, a spiritual sister to Thérèse, was Joan of Arc. These reflections are designed to help those who also desire to seek that Kingdom in union with Mary and with those whom I like to call my "saintly sisters," St. Joan and St. Thérèse. Walter Adams

"Seek the Kingdom, Love the Kingdom, Defend the Kingdom!"This book is a testimony to how St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux authenticated my life. It is devoted to Traditional French Catholicism through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the combined spirituality of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Le Royaume offers a program with personal reflections designed to cultivate devotion to these two great saints, the Mother of God and the Renaissance of Catholic France, for the glory of Jesus Christ the King. This effort aims to inspire others to follow St. Joan and St. Thérèse on the Trail of the Dogmatic Creed to "Le Royaume," the mystical Kingdom of Catholic France, in the center of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.Le Royaume inspires souls to seek, grow, and persevere in sanctifying grace through True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the beautiful combined spirituality of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and the noble counterrevolutionary pedagogy of Traditional French Catholicism.

Seek First the Kingdom - The March of Hope is about my life-long journey along the Trail of the Dogmatic Creed through Catholicism with the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joan of Arc, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux that I introduced in my first book, Journey to Christendom - The Freedom Dance. Here, you will continue your journey as we venture together through the gateway at the great castle walls of Catholicism and march forward with the Virgin Mary, St. Joan, and St. Thérèse to a beautiful panoramic view of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ that awaits you inside the mysterious land of Catholic spirituality. The March of Hope is about the mystical beauty and reality that is the Catholic Church, the Kingdom of God on earth. It is about what happened next, on the Trail of the Dogmatic Creed. It is about a new world view.

On a blustery, sunny October afternoon in 2008, I left the Church of St. Stanislaus Kostka in Chicago heading northward on the Eden's expressway toward my home in Lake County. It was mid-afternoon and rush hour traffic had yet to materialize. As a result, traffic was relatively light, and I was able to cruise at a steady pace. My mind began to wander. My thoughts began to drift. As they did so, the following phrases rolled through my head like a contemplative mist: One dayI was walkingThrough a forest I continued pondering that for a while. As I moved further northward, the traffic became even lighter, my thoughts drifted further, and the contemplative mist became softer and more mysterious: In an open field I saw anUnusual sceneThere, a group of bright, Smiling people were, Dancing Just a half hour earlier, while adoring the Blessed Sacrament at St. Stanislaus, I had the following contemplative image. I saw myself walking in a beautiful meadow with the Blessed Virgin Mary. She spoke to me, saying, "If you have something you feel you need to say, you should probably think about saying it." I thought for a moment. Then I responded to her. "Yes, I believe I do have something I would like to say now."

Please note that Royal Hearts is a re-packaging of The Counterrevolutionary and Royal Army of America with a few additional essays. "The mission of Royal Hearts is to affect a contemplative spiritual renewal with the counterrevolutionary spirit of the Kingdom of Catholic France in our hearts, and through our spiritually renewed "Royal Hearts," institute the Social Kingship of Christ through the reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the establishment of integralist Catholic Monarchies in the West. In fulfilling our mission, Royal Hearts seeks the patronage and motherly care of Queen St. Clotilda along with the co-patronage, friendship, and sisterly care of Ste. Jehanne d'Arc and Ste. Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus to aid us in persevering in sanctifying grace and in our devotion to Mary and to imbue us in the Traditional French Catholic experience as a guide to the integral Catholic Monarchy. With Traditional French Catholicism as a guide, we seek a contemplative counterrevolutionary Catholic worldview which will consequentially influence through us the restoration of Christendom in social, cultural, and political affairs. Royal Hearts seeks peaceful change in the temporal realm through the free acts of converted people living a life of sanctifying grace."

(This book is included in its entirety in the collection titled RoyaumeFrance.) This book is a comprehensive program for inspiring devotion to the Renaissance of Catholic France and restoring the influence of Catholic and Royal France in America. Being, therefore, the artistic creation of this Holy Realism, Le Royaume reflects my worldview and guides my every intention. I believe it to be thoroughly orthodox in its Catholicism. If there are errors here in matters of faith and morals, they are purely material and do not reflect an obstinate desire to stray from the truth. This rule has brought me to new life through the Holy Catholic Church and in particular through True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the friendship and sisterly care of St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. "To Jesus through Mary in the friendship and sisterly care of St. Joan and St. Thérèse!" "Vérité, Beauté, Bonté!"

"Joan of Arc," I thought to myself. The name was familiar, for sure. Yet, I really could not recall much that I had learned about her. I remembered something about burning at the stake. Yes. Did she not burn at the stake? The rest was a blank sheet. I would not have done well on a French history exam, even after my six weeks in Brittany.I turned with a typical "whatever" shrug and walked at a clip to catch up with the group, not realizing that she, Joan of Arc, was the reason that the French defeated England at Orléans. She was the reason the French routed the English from the Loire Valley. She was the reason that the Dauphin, Charles VII, marched to Rheims to be crowned King of France, rather than run away. She was the reason that France kept her independent crown. She was the reason France would remain Catholic after the Protestant revolution. She was the reason France developed into the nation state we know today. That is who Joan of Arc was. I did not realize the historical, religious, and spiritual significance in Western Civilization of the person whose image that curious statue represented. I also did not realize the historical, religious, and spiritual significance she would have in my personal life. Joan of Arc had saved France's life. I had no "earthly" idea at that time that she was going to save mine.

Please note that Royal Hearts and The Counterrevolutionary and Royal Army of America are slightly different versions of the same book. The Counterrevolutionary and Royal Army of America (CRAA) is a contemplative based initiative dedicated to the reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Social Kingship of Christ through the Catholic Monarchy and in the friendship and sisterly care of Ste. Jehanne d'Arc and Ste. Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus. The CRAA is inspired directly by the Armée Catholique et Royale, an 18th century counterrevolutionary movement from the Vendée/Bocage region of western France during the French Revolution. The "heart" of the CRAA is a desire to work in the friendship and sisterly care of Ste. Jehanne d'Arc and Ste. Thérèse de l'Enfant Jésus for the Social Kingship of Christ and the reign of the Immaculate Heart of Mary through a Catholic Monarchy. We are devoted to the restoration of the French Catholic Monarchy along with all Catholic Monarchies of Christendom, and even the establishment of a Catholic Monarchy in the United States.

Royaume France is my attempt to make sense of a single phenomenon. It is as if my entire life up to that day in October of 2008 was leading to it, and every day after has been an attempt to understand it. The phenomenon was a powerful instant whereby St. Joan of Arc permanently entered my life story through the Jehannian hermeneutics of St. Thérèse's plays and poetry. I refer to it, using the terminology of St. Edith Stein, as a "divine glance" and an encounter with the combined hearts of St. Joan and St. Thérèse. For the next decade or more, this encounter transformed my life.Royaume France is an attempt to explain this transformation. It is not about St. Joan of Arc and St. Thérèse of Lisieux as much as it is about their influence on me and on the meaning of that encounter. This journey led me through religion to philosophy and phenomenology and back again. Royaume France is a record of this intellectual and spiritual journey through the influence of the combined hearts of Joan and Thérèse.Despite the very philosophical language the reader encounters along this way, the work remains highly devotional in nature. There is philosophy and phenomenology but no attempt to make this "divine glance" a purely philosophical affair. The astonishing moment imbuing my soul with a lifelong devotion to St. Joan of Arc is supernatural in nature and a grace from Our Lord Jesus Christ through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. I have done my best in Royaume France to explain its meaning which I hope will be a catalyst for a similarly powerful devotion to St. Joan and St. Thérèse in others.

This new edition has a thoroughly updated variety of issues, examples, and new developments, including government bailouts of the airline industry; regulation of biotechnology; the fiasco of recent electricity deregulation; and mergers and consolidations in oil, radio, and grocery retailing. The analysis is framed in the timeless context of American distrust of concentrations of power.