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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
Closing of the Jubilee of Saint Teresa – Homily by Cardinal Semeraro
Click here to download and print the text THERESE OF LISIEUX, PILGRIMS OF HOPE We celebrate today, dear brothers and sisters, the mystery of the Epiphany of the Lord. On this day, as the Liturgy prays, with the help of the star, the Lord revealed his Son to all nations. The arrival of the Magi, who came from the East to […]
Published January 10 2024
Sunday December 17 – Homily from the rector
Click here to download and print the text This prophecy from chapter 61 of the book of Isaiah that we hear today, Jesus will be keen to read it himself in the synagogue of Nazareth at the beginning of his public ministry, to reveal its meaning. accomplishment. For Jesus will be the one on whom the Spirit of the Lord God rests in full, John […]
December 19, 2023
Sunday December 10 – Homily from the rector
Click here to download and print the text I said last week, the Advent season is a time of spiritual exercise to revive in us the spirit of vigilance, to revive in us the expectation of the Day of the Lord, the expectation that we recall each time we celebrate the Eucharist in the acclamation that follows […]
December 11, 2023
17th world crib exhibition
From the time of Advent when we prepare to welcome the Child Jesus in our hearts and at home through the nativity set up with the family, come and discover the magic of Christmas at the basilica! This year, the Sanctuary teams installed the 17th exhibition of nativity scenes of the World and put the American continent especially at […]
December 5, 2023
Sunday December 3 – Homily from the rector
Click here to download and print the text Liturgical times are like spiritual exercises where the Church invites us to train in an aspect of spiritual life. The time of Advent is devoted to vigilance, to awakening in us the expectation of the Day of God, of the Day of the Lord: “It will come […]
Posted on 21 November 2023
Death of Monsignor Bernard Lagoutte, former rector of the Sanctuary
Monsignor Jacques Habert, Bishop of the Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux informs us of the death of Monsignor Bernard Lagoutte, former rector of the Sanctuary, this Friday, November 3, 2023. Bernard Lagoutte, born in Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant on July 27, 1934, is ordained priest on March 12, 1960. He is responsible for diocesan vocations and professor at the major seminary of […]
Posted on 3 November 2023