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March Editorial “Jesus is alive!”
Thérèse speaks little about the resurrection of Jesus as such. But she lives it very truly. Here are three stanzas from the poem 23 “To the Sacred Heart of Jesus”: 3. One day, oh my God, like Madeleine, I wanted to see you, to approach you My gaze plunged into the immense plain Whose I was searching for Master […]
Published on 5 March 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday March 3, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf “Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up… spoke to him of the sanctuary of his body”. By his death and resurrection, Jesus puts death to death. In the resurrected Jesus, death is dead, in the resurrected Jesus the mystery of […]
Published on 5 March 2024
Lisieux to Fatima
Two members of our team went to the Sanctuary of Fatima (Portugal) from February 21 to 24 to attend the IWRT (International Workshops on Religious Tourism), accompanied by the director of the Lisieux tourist office. For two days our teams had meetings (around a hundred in total) with pilgrimage organizers […]
February 29, 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday February 25, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf A word about Abraham and Isaac which we will find as a second reading in the Easter Vigil. Abraham, who had no children - although he is old and his wife Sarah too - receives a son, Isaac, who is the son of the promise. And Abraham […]
February 26, 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday February 18, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in pdf Every year, on the first Sunday of Lent, the gospel makes us hear the episode of Jesus' temptations. As this year we are reading the Gospel according to Saint Mark, the episode of temptations is very brief in Mark, he does not detail it. He just tells us that the Spirit pushes […]
February 20, 2024
Rector’s Homily – Ash Wednesday
Click here to download and print the text in pdf Saint Thérèse does not talk much about Lent. She mentions it in a letter to her sister Léonie (LT 175) and I summarize: she speaks of Lent as symbolic of this “land of exile”, and of Easter as symbolic of the “Homeland of Heaven” towards which we […]
February 15, 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday February 11, 2024
Click here to download and print the text in PDF The liturgical year is not divided into small pieces, it is a continuity. And if the whole of Lent and the Easter Season which enshrine the solemn celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus move within the space of a month, depending on the year, […]
February 13, 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday February 4, 2024
Click here to download and print the text The Bible contains two Books in which the suffering of man, even the despair of man, is expressed more than elsewhere: these are the book of Ecclesiastes and the book of Job, of which we heard a snippet a moment ago. “Truly, the life of man on the […]
February 5, 2024
Lent, Holy Week and Easter in Lisieux
School of prayer “at the school of the saints of Carmel” For all, led by the Carmelite Brothers of Lisieux, every Tuesday of Lent from 20:30 p.m. to 21:30 p.m. Teaching followed by a time of silent prayer, possibility of snack at the end time for prayer. Location: Notre-Dame du Sourire Chapel, Ermitage Sainte-Thérèse February 20 – Oration at the school of […]
Published January 29 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday January 28, 2024
Click here to download and print the text As the Book of Exodus describes the manifestation of God among his people, when God gives Moses the words of the Covenant, we can understand that the people are afraid. What is described looks very much like a volcanic eruption… And what […]
Published January 29 2024
Homily from the rector – Sunday January 21, 2024
Click here to download and print the text Is Jonah a Blessing to Nineveh? Is Jonah's proclamation to Nineveh a word of blessing? Yes ! Yes, we see it through the effects on the people of Nineveh: “At once the people of Nineveh believed in God. They announced a fast, and all, from the most […]
Published January 26 2024
Sunday January 14 2024
Click here to download and print the text “Speak, Lord your servant hears.” We can hear this instruction from Eli the priest to Samuel for ourselves. It’s about listening to the word of God. But where does this word resonate? First in creation. If you reread the first chapter of Genesis, the one we understand as […]
Published January 16 2024