Catholicism
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Based on the values
Authority has lost its nobility along with humility. Authority has become a synonym for implacable order, thoughtless force, and tyranny. What an inversion of values! Whereas, according to Antigone, authority prevented tyranny! The modern era has this impression of authority because it has been trampled underfoot by Continue reading
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Novena for France
What a wonderful initiative! A novena for France. A novena to express our love for the Blessed Virgin and ask her to watch over our beautiful country with all the saints. There's no point in belching on social media, on the Internet, or even in the street. Continue reading
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The Humanity of Cheyenne Carron — Reflections on the Film The Apostle
What amazement came over me one recent morning as I listened to the voice of a young woman being examined by Louis Daufresne on his show, Le Grand Témoin, on Radio Notre-Dame. I was about to learn that this young woman's name is Cheyenne Carron. A Christian, she made a film, L'Apôtre1, the story of a Muslim touched by grace who decides to convert to Continue reading
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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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Humility News
The human vision of humility is like the human vision of love, reduced. Humility must exercise its authority at all times and in all places. Humility does not allow one to choose whether it should be exercised. Humility thus demands infinite availability and infinite vigilance. It demands a term that has almost disappeared from our 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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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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The death of intimacy
Everywhere, on the Internet, in newspapers, or on television, personal experience is displayed, exhibited, and intended as a reference. This indecency is based on an inversion of values. It is founded above all and everywhere on the idea of the same. The idea of the same thinks: "I lived this, my experience reflects a universal feeling. I want to say what 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