Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
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Pius X at the beatification of Joan of Arc
On December 13, 1908, at the beatification of Joan of Arc, Pius X spoke these words which remain in the memory: "you will tell the French to make their treasure of the testaments of Saint-Rémy, of Charlemagne and of Saint-Louis which are summed up in these words so often repeated by the heroine of Orléans: long live Christ who Continue reading
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Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote: "We must choose; either the people of 1789 were right and the whole ancient edifice must fall; or they were wrong and it is their work that must be destroyed to restore France." Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (4/7. Freedom)
Antigone did not come to life at dusk. Antigone is born with dawn. It is at daybreak that Antigone becomes anti, which means facing, not against. As the Argive army ebbs, Antigone emerges from the shadows where she might have resided all her life, not to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, as her Continue reading
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Bismarck against France and Catholicism
Bismarck wrote to Count Arnim on November 11, 1871: We must desire the maintenance of the republic in France for one last reason which is major. Monarchical France was and always will be Catholic. Its policy gave it great influence in Europe, in the East and even in the Far East. A means of counteracting its Continue reading
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Turn idea into feeling
Max Jacob to a student: Meditation is not about having ideas, on the contrary! It is about having one, transforming it into a feeling, into a conviction. A meditation is good when it results in a YES, pronounced by the whole body, a cry from the heart: joy or Continue reading
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Funerals
Funerals serve to aim with diabolical precision a dart that bursts the abscess of pain to let it flow gently and smoothly like a sick person's IV drip, it hydrates the one who remains on the edge of the shore of the living, it brings him the comfort of always being a little with Continue reading
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The Meaning… of Funerals
The contemporary world is getting excited by using the phrase, faire sens, a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression, make sense. It is comforting to repeat this expression to oneself without it actually having any... meaning, we thus pick up little things that make sense, but what are these mini-meanings found on the ground almost by chance? What are these Continue reading
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The penalty
Pain is like the undertow that comes and goes languidly, without languishing, on the hieratic rock that plays its role as scapegoat. It submerges it almost every time and, if it misses its mark, if it does not completely tame the rock in the moment, it never resigns itself, it always resumes Continue reading
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Freedom darling!
Antigone is free, and since freedom is constantly being earned, it would be fair to say that Antigone liberates herself, because we never stop liberating ourselves, and learning to liberate ourselves. Freedom is the most repressed gift, because freedom represents truth; it is the best interpreter of life. It tames destiny and calls Continue reading
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The permanent conversion
Contrary to what is often said or believed, tradition requires constant conversion. Tradition is not a sinecure, a life spent at the spa! Tradition requires constant effort. And even the most important effort: not to forget. There is no tradition unless it is living, and living Continue reading
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The call of fate, the forgetting of vocation
To deny the origin, it is possible to assert that the existence of past events cannot be proven, or better, that it was an accident, an accident amplified by gossip. This is where mitigation often proves to be an effective subterfuge, because it does not require denial and relies on a degree of honesty, but if the deception allows Continue reading
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From sense to nonsense
The contemporary world is getting excited by using the phrase: faire sens, a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression, make sense. It is so comforting to repeat this expression to oneself without it actually having any... meaning, we thus pick up little things that make sense, but what are these mini-meanings found on the ground almost by chance? What are Continue reading
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Like robots facing death
There is no need to be afraid of these robots from Asia that seem ready to conquer our place, because the robot is in us and it is watching us; it is watching for that point of no return where man, stripped of all humanity, will exhibit his corpse, believing he has vanquished his worst enemy. The loss of know-how regarding death has Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
What a fuss about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time was based on lineage and belonging to a city. Identity was imbued with roots. Family and city gathered under a virtual banner everything that others needed to know about themselves. Continue reading
Antigone , Catholicism , counter-revolution , ethics , intimacy , forgiveness , religion , revolution , totalitarianism