Shrove Tuesday 2012

Today, we're beginning our long journey to Easter. We'll begin in joyfully, especially with our kids...

Because for our kids, it's also "Pancakes Tuesday". But the best pancakes we'll have are Jesus' words.

Remember in particular what's written in John's 1st Letter 4:

"If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit."

Beatification of John Paul II

John Paul II will be beatified on May, 1st 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI.

Meanwhile, we share with you this video:

Jesus is among us!

Jesus has left for us the most valuable treasure: His teachings.

It's time for peace, it's time for Jesus' Peace.

Let's pray for Peace.

Greetings!

Merry and holy Christmas

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Happy New Year 2010

£¥€$: "Possess or be possessed?"

This title is the central question of a sermon that Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926-2007), Archbishop of Paris, preached in the mid-eighties. It was during one of the masses he used to preside every Sunday afternoons. I think I'll remember this homely forever.
It was a period of my life when I felt very lonesome . I returned from long years of expatriation, settling definitely in Paris. I worked and lived in La Defense which was — and still remains — a kind of excentered down town and one of Paris Business Districts. As you could guess, the unique theme of discussions around me was at work and after work was: Business!
Denizen in my own country, I tried to find how to spend usefully my time and especially during my week-ends. My Sunday afternoons were filled with a long five-mile walk from home to Notre-Dame, enjoying almost one half of Paris highly touristic avenues and monuments: The Champs and rue de Rivoli, the Concorde, Louvres, Chatelet, etc. The pretext was to attend the organ concert of sacred music in the cathedral.
I was one of few who remained for the mass. Most of the members of the parish of Ile-de-la-Cité — the district around Notre Dame were affluent people beyond the forties, very well-dressed as any Parisian of the upper classes should be.
This Sunday, Father Lustiger discussed on the word "possession" that has a double meaning in French. The first is: ownership ( "To own money, lands, houses: fortune".); The second expresses the state of being possessed by the Evil… He pointed out that the obsession of possession, in the first meaning, leads to possession, in the second meaning.
Turning my head around, I saw in my neighbors’ eyes a kind of sadness… like what the rich young man should have felt after listening Jesus. “When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth” (Matthew 19-22).
Conclusion: Money lies!

Jesus' Genealogy

Like Jesus, we're all sons and daughters of Adam and Eve.

During his life on Earth, jesus shared our human conditions. Luke and Matthew have traced the filiation of Jesus:

Matthew 1:1-17	Luke 3:23-37
	Adam Seth Enosh Kenan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah Shem Arphaxad Cainan Shelah Eber Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah
Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah Perez (Tamar’s son) Hezron Ram Amminadab Nahshon Salmon Boaz (Rahab’s son) Obed (Ruth’s son) Jesse David	Abraham Isaac Jacob Judah Perez Hezron Ram** Amminadab Nahshon Salmon Boaz Obed Jesse David
Solomon (Bathsheba’s son) Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Johoram Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon Josiah Jeconiah	Nathan Mattatha Menna Melea Eliakim Jonam Joseph Judah Simeon Levi Matthat Jorim Eliezer Joshua Er Elmadam Cosam Addi Melki Neri
Shealtiel Zerubbabel	Shealtiel Zerubbabel
Abiud Eliakim Azor Zadok Achim Eliud Eleazer Matthan Jacob	Rhesa Joanan Joda Josech Semein Mattathias Maath Naggai Esli Nahum Amos Mattathias Joseph Jannai Melki Levi Matthat Heli
Joseph Jesus	Joseph Jesus

Sentence of Wisdom for: Easter

Fast until Easter, pray and give alms, seek repentance and reconciliation, turn your minds towards faith, hope and charity for by your baptism, you are committed to the Lord, in whom you have put your eternal trust.