St Felix, traditionally, was a member of the French Royal House of Valois and the Co-Founder, with St John of Matha, of the Order of the Holy Trinity and Captives. The Order is dedicated to the Temporal Works of Mercy and the ransom of captives, originally Christians enslaved by the Muslims.
At the weekday Mass on his Feast Day, our Pastor, a Frenchman, gave a short homily on the Saint's life mentioning his connection to the House of France. I was with a friend who knew of my attachment both to the cause of monarchy and to the French Royal House.
After Mass, she introduced me to Father, mentioning that I was a monarchist. I told him that his homily was quite different from the one I had heard in a Novus Ordo Church on 14 July 1989, the bicentennial of the Satanic Revolution in France. In that sermon, the Priest had praised the Revolution in glowing terms for being a harbinger of 'Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity', with no mention of its deeply anti-Catholic character or the hundreds of Priests, religious, and laity martyred by the Revolution.
When I finished, Father replied, in no uncertain terms, 'Well, you won't get any of THAT here!'
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