modern world
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What is the use of tradition?
Tradition requires constant conversion. It's no picnic! Tradition requires constant effort. And even the most important effort: that of not forgetting. Tradition is of little use for remembering; it serves primarily to not forget. It loses its Continue reading
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The foam of lives
Inner life versus the emptiness of the modern world Continue reading
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Family spots
Why do we think it's easy to have a family? We think what is natural is easy. However, the sense of what is natural has evaporated by forgetting its law. So it is with love. Love is born from the law, It dies when it is trampled underfoot. Love perishes under the blows of anarchy Which confuses love and conceals it. Love takes on other finery. How can we believe that it is enough to Continue reading
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The gold digger
One day, he fulfilled his only desire every day without effort. He would get up and count in his mind the time it took him to do it. He counted time as if he were mastering it while it was slipping away. He knew his age, but he persisted in not letting himself be surprised by its effects. He asked his Continue reading
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Sketch on authority or a definition of progressive.
Following the article, Why this hatred of authority?, I received many reactions. The first consisted of confusing, or asking me not to confuse, power and authority. Here, we can see one thing: many people on social networks still agree with this distinction. It even marks for them Continue reading
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Exile, migrants and the Holy Father (2)
Reflections on the Holy Father's various remarks regarding migrants Not all migrants arriving in Europe today are fleeing a catastrophic situation. They often arrive with big smiles on their faces. They don't all seem destitute. They show no nostalgia for their country and arrive in large numbers to find another Continue reading
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Why this hatred of authority?
Authority resembles those secret agents dear to Graham Greene who conceal their identity so as not to lose it further during a bad encounter. It still has a few admirers who are fond of it and deploy treasures of ingenuity to define it, redefine it, so that it is understood in its time. To do this, they bring it closer to the Continue reading
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Argentina wins against globalism
Never has a World Cup started so badly. Offered to Qatar, with Zinedine Zidane as ambassador, in a climate of suspicion of corruption. Everything has been said about this country, half the size of Brittany, managing to change the World Cup season for the first time since its inception, airing Continue reading
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Of the authority
In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves in the eyes of their family, their loved ones, and their community. Women reserved for themselves the mirror that signified beauty, femininity, and seduction. The reflection is everywhere. "There is no place that does not see you," summarizes Rilke. Continue reading
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Gregorian Chant
It was in June 1985, in Pont-à-Mousson, at the end of the conference "Music in the Church Today." Maurice Fleuret—may he rest in peace—the magnificent director of music and dance for Minister Jack Lang, spoke. Words of fire. Of supplication; one can say so, since he himself begged. I Continue reading
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The Chief's Sacrifice
"Who is like God?" (1), the book by Army Corps General Pierre Gillet, exhaustively inventories the qualities of a leader and sets out the Christian virtues necessary for command. What could pass for an insider's book, a new TTA (1), becomes, under the delicate and virile pen of Pierre Gillet, former Army Corps Commander Continue reading
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Prayer to the Souls in Purgatory of Father André Haussaire
O Jesus, to Your Heart I entrust (whom I desire: for example, “the victims of the virus”). Look at (them) and then do what Your Heart tells You. Let Your Heart act! I count on Him. I trust in Him. I abandon myself to Him! O Jesus, through Your Heart Continue reading
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Prayer in times of epidemic
(from the Roman Ritual, Titulus IX, Caput X) V. Lord, do not treat us according to our sins. R. And do not punish us according to our iniquities. V. Help us, O God our Savior. R. And for the glory of your name, Lord, deliver us. V. Lord, do not remember our former iniquities. R. May your Continue reading
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Spiritual Communion (continued)
In the Middle Ages, when the faithful were accustomed to receiving communion only at Easter, pious people, usually women, expressed their desire to do so more frequently. This is how the custom of spiritual communion emerged. "Towards the end of the 12th century, the most popular form of Continue reading