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.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
£¥€$: "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!
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!
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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:
During his life on Earth, jesus shared our human conditions. Luke and Matthew have traced the filiation of Jesus:
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
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.
Word of the day, Words of the Book: Fast
Acts 14:23
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
Word of the day, Words of the Book: Pray
Jude 1:20
But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit.
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