Religion
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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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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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Christian testimony – 2
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about the liturgy quickly came to me. Not to claim expert status, but to share my experience of what represents the heart of a Christian's life. So there were two paths that had to merge: I had to tell the Mass (and Continue reading
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On the stale air of our societies
"We are told that the air of the world is unbreathable. I agree. But the first Christians found every morning at their door an atmosphere saturated with vices, idols, and incense offered to the deities. For more than two hundred years they were relegated, slandered, and marginalized by the current of the social river that carried them away. Continue reading
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On totalitarian states
"Totalitarian states, which alternately use lies and violence (lies to cover up violence and violence to silence those who discover the lies), owe the greater part of their success to having paralyzed the forces of reaction against imposture and lies. This is on the moral level. Continue reading
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Speech by Donoso Cortes (1850)
"Regular armies are today the only thing that prevents civilization from being lost in barbarism. Today a new spectacle is presented to our eyes in history, new in the world: when, gentlemen, has the world seen, except in our own days, that we are moving towards civilization by arms and towards Continue reading
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The abandonment of Benedict XVI
"Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?" 1 When Benedict XVI signifies, in a few simple words, that he is renouncing the office of Pope, it is an earthquake that shakes the world and strikes Catholics. The most outlandish rumors are circulating and everyone is wondering about the causes of this decision which, even if it Continue reading
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A short history of Envy, from hero to scapegoat
The modern world is constantly presenting us with scapegoats. Lance Armstrong, Richard Millet, Jérôme Kerviel, John Galliano, to name but a few, each in their own field, with completely different causes and reasons, have recently embodied the scapegoat, the rightly punished culprit, the troublemaker put in his place. Continue reading
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Christian testimony
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about the liturgy quickly came to me. Not to claim expert status, but to share my experience about what represents the heart of a Christian's life. So there were two paths that had to merge: I had to tell the Continue reading
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In the heart of darkness, life
After seeing "Tree of Life," I for a long time forbade myself from writing about this film. Two forces were clashing within me. Subjugated by the poetry, by the state of bliss in which I was immersed, I was afraid of disturbing the surface of this work. I became so wrapped up in the mystery of this film that Continue reading
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A year that ends...
As the year draws to a close, we often take a furtive look back. Don't linger too long. You never know how many things you've forced yourself to bury might reappear, like those impromptu, rude, and irritating pop-ups on the internet. The exercise you can do is to Continue reading
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In the shadow of Ernesto Sabato
When Ernesto Sabato died on April 30th at the age of 99, he repeated to himself the words of Maria Zambrano: To die, that elusive action that is carried out by obedience, happens beyond reality, in another realm. In his house in Santos Lugarès ("Holy Places" near Buenos Aires), Ernesto Sabato obeyed this last injunction. He Continue reading
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Monsignor Centene...
The people of Vannes are well-off. Monsignor Centène's homily at Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Vannes last Sunday was a welcome change. This isn't the first time Monsignor Centène's homilies have been cited on Catholic websites, and given their quality, it's not likely to end soon. Continue reading