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Charlie's Fate

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"The enemy therefore limits you gives you your form and founds you". This sentence of Saint-Exupéry expresses our condition fairly well at the end of this first week of 2015. The enemy forces me to evolve according to his codes, within a space he has circumscribed. I am first prisoner. He chooses the field and is trying to stay confined to it. Of the two immutable human data, space and time, it takes me space. Remove the space in time is a bit of Laurel to Hardy. The other unit continues to live, but it is disfigured. She lost the balance offered by the otherness of her spouse. Time is not the same following the space in which it evolves. Geography performs fate with a measure as precise as the hourglass. Read the continuation of "The fate of Charlie" →

In the shadow of Ernesto Sabato

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When Ernesto Sabato died on April 30 at 99, he repeated the words of Maria Zambrano: to die this elusive action that is carried out by obeying, happens beyond reality, in another kingdom . In his house in Santos Lugarès ("holy places" near Buenos-Aires), Ernesto Sabato obeys this last injunction. He prepared for a long time. In Resistance , his moving literary will published in 2002, he wrote: I forgot great sides of my life, but, on the other hand, certain meetings, moments of danger and the names of those who have drawn me depressions and Blepitum still piles in my hands. And yours too, you who believe in me, who have read my books and go help me die.

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Emotion at Notre-Dame du Lys

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It is a very beautiful emotion that all the assistance of the faithful of Notre-Dame du Lys felt this morning at the holy mass at 11:15 a.m. A delegation of Iraqi Christians from Baghdad was present as well as an Iraqi priest who had simple and touching words to testify to the massacre last October in Baghdad's cathedral. The recall of the facts by one of the witnesses of this carnage transported the assembly for a few seconds in deep contemplation. The young Iraqis present followed the Mass of the Extraordinary Rite with fervor and contemplation. Father Charles Fazilleau's beautiful sermon has been translated into Arabic so that Iraqis can learn the lessons of this Passion Sunday.

On leaving the chapel, the smiles and handshakes exchanged with these young men from the Orient who had already been so tried in their faith were a moving and joyful moment. Well beyond the language barrier, an infinite joy was reflected in the eyes. The joy of being alive in Christ.