Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
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The meeting of Péguy and Lonsdale – Between heaven and earth
It's a little marvel that Michael Lonsdale invites us to with the show Between Heaven and Earth. A delight. Such nuggets always deserve to be given space. We must make room in the tumult, in the oppressed heart, in the life we dream of and forget to live. Live Continue reading
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Charlie's Fate
"The enemy limits you, therefore gives you your shape and founds you." This phrase from Saint-Exupéry expresses our condition quite well at the end of this first week of 2015. The enemy forces me to evolve according to his codes, within a space that he has circumscribed. I am first a prisoner. He chooses the terrain and forces me to Continue reading
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Two thousand and fourteen years ago...
Christmas can be summed up in four letters: fiat. Before being an industrial symbol, it is the word, Mary's acceptance of the angel. This acceptance precedes all reflection. It is docility and trust in the epiphany. Four little letters like a breath but also like a feverish expectation. Thy will be done! And may all our Continue reading
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Novena for France
What a wonderful initiative! A novena for France. A novena to express our love for the Blessed Virgin and ask her to watch over our beautiful country with all the saints. There's no point in belching on social media, on the Internet, or even in the street. Continue reading
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One day at Pôle Emploi in 2014
An edifying story that was told to me this week... A far cry from the grandstanding of our leaders on television sets. A day at the employment center for a young unemployed woman with a project quickly turned into an obstacle course. Continue reading
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The Humanity of Cheyenne Carron — Reflections on the Film The Apostle
What amazement came over me one recent morning as I listened to the voice of a young woman being examined by Louis Daufresne on his show, Le Grand Témoin, on Radio Notre-Dame. I was about to learn that this young woman's name is Cheyenne Carron. A Christian, she made a film, L'Apôtre1, the story of a Muslim touched by grace who decides to convert to Continue reading
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In memoriam Alvaro Mutis
It was a year ago. Alvaro Mutis was returning to heaven. The immense Colombian writer deserves to be read and reread. This brilliant monarchist projected a bridge between old Europe and South America. His poems, his stories, his novels carry and carry our history through the figure of Maqroll el Gaviero, a solitary, disillusioned sailor. Continue reading
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From traditional…
"We are dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants; we see more than they do, and further; not that our gaze is piercing, nor our height high, but we are raised, elevated, by their gigantic stature." This quote from Bernard of Chartres (12th century) found in Rémi Brague's latest book, Modérément moderne (Editions Flammarion), Continue reading
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Which saints to turn ?
The Marcial Maciel affair forces us to ask the question of Evil. Our era avoids dealing with it. What do we know about the devil's work, and what can we do to protect ourselves from it? After trying to hide the good in life, should we be surprised that evil is coming to light? The works of the devil are Continue reading
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Humility News
The human vision of humility is like the human vision of love, reduced. Humility must exercise its authority at all times and in all places. Humility does not allow one to choose whether it should be exercised. Humility thus demands infinite availability and infinite vigilance. It demands a term that has almost disappeared from our Continue reading
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Fear news from Ernest Hello
But if we move from fear in general to the fear of Jesus Christ in the Garden of Olives, we will find silence more appropriate than words. His passion is a series of excesses, many of which are unknown to us, says Angela of Foligno. But these sufferings, however terrible they were, were successive, not simultaneous. In Continue reading
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Gregorian chant is made for the liturgy
Excerpt from The Holy Mass, yesterday, today and tomorrow, quote 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 Continue reading
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Letter to my friend Alvaro Mutis
One day in the 90s, we were walking down the street, leaving the Hôtel des Saints-Pères, and Alvaro Mutis1 stopped dead in his tracks. We were almost at the corner of Rue de Grenelle, and he said to me: "Emmanuel, I have the impression that we walked like this together a long time ago in a street in Cadiz. And we Continue reading
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Alvaro Mutis on the monarchy
The paradox, quite painful for me, is that I was already a royalist from a very young age. I could almost say, since childhood. My first readings of history led me to look for where the monarchy came from and how it worked. I know perfectly well that the monarchy, as I understand it and as other eras have experienced it, is now unthinkable.[…] Continue reading