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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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Prayer to the Virgin Mary by Max Jacob
Praise to this little country girl, Who deserved to be the mother of God! It seems to me that she was born in Brittany And that she lived there before my eyes…. She is the only one. She is greeted by Gabriel; She deserves it: That is why God is upon her. He is in Continue reading
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Be yourself
Being oneself never fades into habit. Identity is a search and an affirmation, a permanent enantiodromos, like a state of siege that fears no enemy. Who am I? Where am I going? Constantly accepting to question oneself and explore the mystery of life, but shielded by what one knows. Continue reading
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The Revolutionary and Forgiveness
The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, for he hates the gift that seems suspect to him and the other with whom he could have sealed the future. For the revolutionary, driven by envy, the only form of forgiveness that is proper to him involves the humiliation or death of his opponent in order to celebrate his victory. Continue reading
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The will alone or the will alone
Antigone knows that man must not believe in his will alone. Here too, it is a question of power swelling with pride. Will alone becomes perverted, corrupted, withered, and prideful. Will alone, or the will alone that often accompanies it, takes over space as soon as a higher power, authority, is forgotten. All 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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Claude Bruaire
Pain refers to the "negative" sensation in aggression that affects the being through the body. The word is used for localized aggression, with varying intensity, reserving "suffering" for the experience of the whole being, affected in its depths, in its personal being. An Ethics for Medicine. From Medical Responsibility to Moral Obligation. Fayard Editions. Continue reading
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Poetry by Philippe MacLeod
There is no greater vertigo than your exposed face (…). It is there, at the edge of this barely opened abyss, that we discover how close the flesh is to the soul. Advance into deep life, Éditions Ad Solem. Continue reading
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Our secret, a mystery
We have our secret, which we first keep secret from ourselves. Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethic. Grasset Editions. Continue reading
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Diversity (continued)
… Sounge i felibre esteba… I think of the Félibres… It is the characteristic of good artisans of the Diverse, to turn it over end for end. Would it ever be reached? It is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly behind, when one stretches out one's arms to it from the front. However, over there, Boissière writes: The Continue reading
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Diversity
I don't know if, like me, hearing the word diversity (which has replaced the word Other) makes you feel nauseous. Victor Segalen is an author who acts as a remedy for this nausea. A fine example is Jules Boissière, who, a Provençal, a Félibre, wrote his most beautiful Félibre verses in Hanoi. Here is the true Continue reading
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Craftsman's Prayer
12th Century Monastic Prayer Teach me, Lord, to use well the time You give me to work… Teach me to unite haste and slowness, serenity and fervor, zeal and peace. Help me at the beginning of the work. Help me in the heart of the labor… And above all, fill the gaps in my work Yourself. Continue reading