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Argentina wins against globalism
Never has a World Cup started so badly. Offered to Qatar, with Zinedine Zidane as ambassador, in a climate of suspicion of corruption. Everything has been said about this country, half the size of Brittany, managing to change the World Cup season for the first time since its inception, airing Continue reading
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Father Garrigou-Lagrange about the enemies of the Church!
The Church is uncompromising in principle because she believes, and tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church, on the other hand, are tolerant in principle because they do not believe, but uncompromising in practice because they do not love. The Church absolves sinners; the enemies of the Church absolve sins. Continue reading
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Paradise Lost by Sebastien 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 illness torments pure souls. It languishes and agitates. A youthful illness if ever there was one, a romantic madness, this nostalgia is at the heart of Sébastien de Courtois's novel, Continue reading
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Of the authority
In ancient Greece, men knew and recognized themselves in the eyes of their family, their loved ones, and their community. Women reserved for themselves the mirror that signified beauty, femininity, and seduction. The reflection is everywhere. "There is no place that does not see you," summarizes Rilke. Continue reading
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Gregorian Chant
It was in June 1985, in Pont-à-Mousson, at the end of the conference "Music in the Church Today." Maurice Fleuret—may he rest in peace—the magnificent director of music and dance for Minister Jack Lang, spoke. Words of fire. Of supplication; one can say so, since he himself begged. I Continue reading
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The Pump by Clive Staples Lewis
“First, you must rid yourself of the nauseating idea, the fruit of a manifest inferiority complex and a worldly mind, that pomp, under the right circumstances, has anything in common with vanity or self-importance. An officiant solemnly approaching the altar to celebrate, a princess led by her king Continue reading
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The Chief's Sacrifice
"Who is like God?" (1), the book by Army Corps General Pierre Gillet, exhaustively inventories the qualities of a leader and sets out the Christian virtues necessary for command. What could pass for an insider's book, a new TTA (1), becomes, under the delicate and virile pen of Pierre Gillet, former Army Corps Commander Continue reading
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I chose you to see you fight under the flag 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 All Saints' Day 1465. Suddenly, Our Lady appeared to him, accompanied by several virgins: "Do not flee, my son!" she said to him. If you have any doubt, be Continue reading
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Lauda Zion
A magnificent sequence in the Corpus Christi Mass, written by Saint Thomas Aquinas, this dogmatic poetry praises the new and true Zion, the Church. Benedict XVI said of this Mass: "These are texts that make the waves of the heart vibrate, while the intelligence, penetrating with wonder into the mystery, recognizes in the Eucharist the presence Continue reading
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Pentecost happiness
One of the joys of the Octave of Pentecost is the recitation of the Veni, Sancte Spiritus, after the recitation of the Victimae Paschali in Easter week, the liturgy never ceases to amaze us. Come, Holy Spirit, And send from heaven A ray of your light. Come, father of the poor, Come, dispenser of gifts, Come, Continue reading
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Prayer to the Souls in Purgatory of Father André Haussaire
O Jesus, to Your Heart I entrust (whom I desire: for example, “the victims of the virus”). Look at (them) and then do what Your Heart tells You. Let Your Heart act! I count on Him. I trust in Him. I abandon myself to Him! O Jesus, through Your Heart Continue reading
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Prayer in times of epidemic
(from the Roman Ritual, Titulus IX, Caput X) V. Lord, do not treat us according to our sins. R. And do not punish us according to our iniquities. V. Help us, O God our Savior. R. And for the glory of your name, Lord, deliver us. V. Lord, do not remember our former iniquities. R. May your Continue reading
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Spiritual Communion (continued)
In the Middle Ages, when the faithful were accustomed to receiving communion only at Easter, pious people, usually women, expressed their desire to do so more frequently. This is how the custom of spiritual communion emerged. "Towards the end of the 12th century, the most popular form of Continue reading
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Prayer of 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