Day: November 28, 2013

Fear news from Ernest Hello

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But if from fear in general we pass to fear of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Olives, we will find silence more suitable than speech. Her passion is a series of excesses, many of which are unknown to us, says Angèle de Foligno. But these sufferings, terrible as they were, were successive, not simultaneous. In the development of the Passion, he will not carry them all at once. But in the Garden of Olives, by virtue of the same terror, they acquired in him a greater perfection than that which was about to be given to them by reality itself. Perhaps the crucifixion was felt in a more terrible way in the Garden of Olives than on the cross. For on the cross he was actually felt. In the Garden of Olives it was felt in spirit.

The sweat of blood is the word of this terror. In general the man does not sweat blood. The sweat of blood is a thing outside of everything, as the terror of Jesus Christ was outside of everything. He felt God in a rage pressing down on him, and he knew what it was to be a God in a rage.

He carried the substantial fury of God. He saw his earthly future, which was passion, then the future of men: he saw their crimes, their pains. No one knows what he saw. No one knows what he smelled. No one knows what he was wearing. No one knows with what tremor this human nature quivered, which had no other support than a divine Person, and which saw itself as the object of God's wrath.

 

Ernest Hello, Words of God, Reflections on some sacred texts. Editions Jerome Millon.

Excerpt from The Holy Mass, yesterday, today and tomorrow , quotation from Mr. Dominique Ponnau, director of the Ecole du Louvre, Conference given in Le Mans, September 19, 1998.

"I remember. This memory is for me a cultural and human reference almost every day. It was in June 1985, in Pont-à-Mousson, at the end of the conference "Music in the Church of today". Maurice Fleuret - in peace is his soul -, the magnificent director of music and dance of Minister Jack Lang, the friend of Pierre Mauroy, the man on the left, the promoter as enlightened as determined of contemporary music, took Word. Word of fire. Supplication; We can say it, since he himself begged. I will quote it ad Sensum , but that word I have never forgotten it: it is from him. Referring to what Western music, from the origins to the present day, owed to the Church, to the liturgy of the Church, what the music of the Church of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart was due to the Music of the Church. , from Beethoven, Stravinski, Messiaen: everything . To the liturgical music of the Church, Western music had everything, he said. And himself, Maurice Fleuret, in his own musician life, to the music of the Church, what should he have? All . He owed him everything, he said. And this Western music which owed everything to the Church, at the liturgy of the Church, what should it have in Gregorian singing? Everything , he said. In the Gregorian chant, all Western music, he said, owed everything . But the spirit of the Gregorian chant, he says, this spirit which he could not imagine that he stopped blowing, where did he breathe? In the liturgy, he said. And it was at this moment that he begged the Church ...: I beg you, he exclaimed, for the ecclesiastics present, do not leave the state the monopoly of the Gregorian chant. It is made for the liturgy. And it is in the liturgy that it must be practiced. »»