modern world
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Prayer of Saint Alfonso de Liguori
My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul yearns for you, since I cannot now receive you in the Blessed Sacrament. Come at least in a spiritual way into my heart. I embrace you as if you were in me and I unite myself Continue reading
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Spiritual communion according to Saint Alfonso de Liguori
My God, I believe that you are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love you above all things, and my soul yearns for you. Since I cannot now receive you in the Blessed Sacrament, come at least in a spiritual way into my heart. I embrace you as if you were in me and I unite myself Continue reading
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François Lagarde, Ernst Jünger's photographer
Eulogy for François Lagarde, a friend of 25 years, photographer of Ernst Jünger, whose film, "The Red and the Grey" is a testament. François Lagarde died on January 13, 2017. Continue reading
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Now is not the time for governments to last
The future Pius IX, still a cardinal, responding to Emperor Napoleon III, said this: "Sire, when great politicians like Your Majesty object to me that the time has not come, I have only to bow because I am not a great politician. But I am a bishop, and as a bishop I answer them: Continue reading
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Marie Lataste in 1843
Jesus Christ said to Marie Lataste during the vision she had in 1843: "The first king, the first sovereign of France, is me! I am the master of all peoples, of all nations, of all empires, of all dominations. I am particularly the master of the Continue reading
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Antigone, rebellious and intimate (7/7. Love)
7th and final part: Love Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied; Creon, on the other hand, wants to assert himself as king and demonstrate his power. Antigone favors family ties that embody love and reveal a being. Creon establishes his power by signing a bill that must Continue reading
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Identify
Identity is divided on the one hand into a base that is within us without us being able to derive any particular merit from it, our nature and the education (culture) that we have received, and a constitutive movement of life that discovers elements that are not listed by our nature or our education, but which must Continue reading
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The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon transforms into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he should be. It is the enantiodromos, this moment and this place among the Greeks, which reveals the true nature of a man when, at the crossroads, he must confront the choice of the road to follow. The enantiodromos is the fork where the one who becomes… Continue reading
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Take on yourself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our time where individualism reigns that the action of taking on the fault that one does not think of oneself, that one thinks of the other, but which necessarily is also one's own, necessarily, because I have already committed this kind of fault by action or by omission, this fault is not unknown to me, the action of taking on the Continue reading
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Desire for recognition
The loss of all recognition in the modern era, combined with frenzied individualism, pushes everyone to crave any form of recognition. Everyone dreams of a moment of glory, the media form being the most sought after, whether it comes through television or social networks, because it appears as a form of ultimate recognition; the form Continue reading
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What is it to be above ground?
The most illuminating example of human nature is found in the New Testament when Peter and Jesus Christ are talking together and Peter insists that his master believe his devotion is completely sincere. Thus, Jesus tells him that before the rooster crows, he will have denied him three times. The first place Continue reading
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Blanc de Saint Bonnet on contemporary France
In 1851, Blanc de Saint Bonnet said: When men lose sight of moral necessities, God brings forth the light of necessities of another order. If faith is no longer received by the ear, it will be taught to us by hunger. Christianity will constitute modern society or will see it shattered. Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt on social science functionalism
I don't believe that atheism is a substitute for or can fulfill the same function as religion, any more than I believe that violence can become a substitute for authority. But if we follow the exhortations of conservatives, who, at this moment, have a pretty good chance of being heard, I am all for Continue reading
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Show “But times always come back…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Show "But times always come back..." — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo. On August 31, 1991, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment celebrated its 150th anniversary, the Battle of El Moungar, and its return from Operation Daguet, the first Gulf War, during an exceptional cinéscénie. 30,000 spectators from Nîmes attended Continue reading