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Homily for the closing Mass of the 350th anniversary jubilee of the apparitions of Paray-le-Monial, Sunday, June 29, 2025
Brothers and sisters, with this triduum? Eighteen months of jubilee are coming to an end. Eighteen intense months, as those who were able to see the video made during the events and broadcast Friday evening during the Thanksgiving Vigil were able to appreciate....
Homily of Cardinal François Bustillo – Saturday, June 28 – Feast of the Sacred Heart and Closing of the Jubilee
My friends, we are gathered. We have heard it. We come from different peoples, different traditions, different cultures. Each of us has our own journey, our own life, our own sensibilities, our own struggles. We are welcomed here, in Paray-le-Monial, in this diocese,...
Teaching on the Sacred Heart
"This Jubilee is not a simple memory, it is a grace for each one" The significance of the celebration of these 350th anniversary of the apparitions of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary is a call for us to return to what is essential. And the essential thing in life, in our...
Newsletter for Sun chat Jul 27
When He Touches Us With Sickness... For Sunday's Living Jesus Chat, we will again read an article from a book by St. Francis de Sales called Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety. It explores the importance of prayer in...
Sunday chat Jul 20
Why do you think keeping resolutions is so difficult?What is the “food of self-esteem,” and how does it hinder us from keeping our resolutions?How can we keep our minds free from “useless reflections”? And what might constitute a useless reflection?Why do...
Newsletter for Sunday chat Jul 20
Make Good Resolutions and Detach Yourself From Your Own Opinions For Sunday's Living Jesus Chat, we will again read an article from a book by St. Francis de Sales called Of Devotion, and of the Principal Exercises of Piety. It explores the importance of nurturing...
Visitation Museum Exhibit 2025
Downstairs, an introductory room devoted to the architecture of the churches built for the Visitation in the 19th century This is a fairly quick route, but it shows that the churches of the Visitation in France in the 19th century (there are about 70 of them) are...
Life of a Blessed Guard of Honor Member
Blessed Vladimir Ghika, Martyr and Guard of Honor Vladimir Ghika was born in Constantinople on Christmas Day, 1873. He came from a princely dynasty that ruled over Moldavia and Wallachia, the two principalities that formed Romania, before the latter was recognized as...
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