Benedict XVI in Paradise!
— Is it morning or evening? My breath would catch, then catch again. As if it were malfunctioning. It was failing me. My lungs were leaving me. I breathed...
Argentina wins against globalism
Never has a World Cup started so badly. Awarded to Qatar, with Zinedine Zidane as its ambassador, in an atmosphere rife with suspicion of corruption. Everything has...
Father Garrigou-Lagrange on the subject of the enemies of the Church!
The Church is uncompromising on principles, because it believes, and tolerant in practice, because it loves. The enemies of the Church are, on the contrary...
Paradise Lost by Sébastien de Courtois
There is a nostalgia for a lost paradise. We all feel it, more or less; it connects us to Original Sin and the Fall. This affliction torments...
Of authority
In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves through the eyes of their family, their loved ones, their community. Women reserved themselves...
Gregorian chant
It was in June 1985, in Pont-à-Mousson, at the end of the symposium "Music in the Church Today." Maurice Fleuret—may he rest in peace...
The Pump by Clive Staples Lewis
“First, you must rid yourself of this nauseating idea, born of a complex manifesto of inferiority and a worldly mind, that pomp, in the...
The sacrifice of the chief
“Who is like God?”(1), the book by Lieutenant General Pierre Gillet, exhaustively inventories the qualities of a leader and outlines the….
I chose you to see you fight under the banner of Christ!
Blessed Alain de la Roche (1) lamented the lukewarmness with which he recited his rosary in a Dominican church in Paris during the octave of the Torah...
Lauda Sion
A magnificent sequence in the Mass of Corpus Christi, written by Saint Thomas Aquinas, this dogmatic poem praises the new and true Zion, the Church.
Pentecostal Happiness
One of the joys of the Octave of Pentecost lies in the recitation of the Veni, Sancte Spiritus, following the recitation of the Victimae Paschali during Easter week, the...
Prayer to the Souls in Purgatory by Father André Haussaire
O Jesus, to Your Heart I entrust (whom I desire: for example, "the victims of the virus"). Look upon (him/her/them) and then do what Your Heart tells You. Let...
Prayer in times of epidemic
(Extract from the Roman Ritual, Titulus IX, Chapter X) V. Lord, do not treat us according to our sins. R. And do not punish us according to our iniquities. V. Help us...
Spiritual Communion (continued)
In the Middle Ages, when the faithful were accustomed to receiving communion only at Easter time, pious people, generally...