Colloquium
From 1 er to May 5 in Rome
“Repairing the irreparable”
Is Jesus’ call to “make amends” still relevant?
To give a new place to the call for reparation that Jesus makes in Paray-le-Monial, and to shed light on its topicality, even in the present context of the crisis of abuse that the Church is going through.
On December 27, 1673, Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary and revealed to her “the wonders of his love and the inexplicable secrets of his Sacred Heart, which he had always kept hidden from her, until he opened it to her for the first time.” Other revelations followed that would shape the life of the saint, making her a “beloved disciple” of the Sacred Heart, following in the footsteps of the beloved disciple of the Gospel of John, and constituting her as a missionary of these revelations. Jesus’ main request was the institution of the Feast of the Sacred Heart, which became a universal solemnity of the Catholic Church in 1856. The events in Paray-le-Monial will have a global and lasting impact. It is no exaggeration to say that devotion to the Sacred Heart, which is present on the entire surface of the earth, was born there.
On December 27, 2023, the sanctuary of Paray-le-Monial will enter the celebration of the jubilee of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions. This anniversary will last 1/2025 years, until the Feast of the Sacred Heart in 1. On this occasion, the shrine wishes to honor its mission of spreading the message of the Sacred Heart by once again organizing an international conference. It will take place in Rome from 5 to 2024 May <> and will focus on reparation, under the title: “Repairing the irreparable”.
Indeed, although this aspect is less well known, it can be considered that the events of Paray-le-Monial refer to the spirituality of reparation. The request for the institution of the Feast of the Sacred Heart by Jesus, during the “great apparition” of June 1675, is a request for reparation.
The term, absent from the New Testament, appears quite late in the history of the Church, as part of the movement of conversion and penance induced by the positive response to Christ’s call to follow him. Following the events of Paray-le-Monial, reparation took a prominent place6 in the spirituality of the Church, until the great anthropological turning point of the 1970s, when it declined very quickly.
Why take an interest in it again or bring it up to date?
The demand for reparation is central to Paray-le-Monial. It is not possible to hide it without amputating the “message” of an essential part. It is therefore up to the shrine to find ways of accessing this request of Christ and to propose a new actuality of it.
Colloquium-Rome – Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart Paray-Le-Monial (sacrecoeur-paray.org)
Speakers
Monsignor Éric de Moulins-Beaufort
Mgr Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, Archbishop of Reims, President of the Bishops’ Conference of France since July 2019. Auxiliary Bishop of Paris from 2008 to 2018. Doctor of Theology and author of “Anthropologie et mystique chez Henri de Lubac” (Paris, éditions du Cerf, 2003).
Father Serge-Thomas Bonino, op fr
A Dominican from the province of Toulouse, he is currently full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and visiting professor at the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). He is president of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and a consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Father Benoit Guédas
He was the Rector of the Sanctuary of Paray-le-Monial from 2014 to 2022. He is the author of “The Awakening of Mercy” and “In the Heart of Jesus, Saint Margaret Mary, Mistress of Spiritual Life” published by Editions de l’Emmanuel.
Father Luis Navarro
Professor of Human Law. Rector of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. President of the Conference of Rectors and Deans of Pontifical Roman Institutions (CRUIPRO). Consultor of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life.
Brother Henry Donneaud
Dominican of the province of Toulouse, professor of fundamental theology at the faculty of theology of the Catholic Institute of Toulouse. He is former Pontifical Commissary and then Apostolic Assistant of the Community of the Beatitudes (2010-2020) and since 2021 Apostolic Assistant of the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit of Pontcallec.
sabelle Chartier-Siben
Doctor, psychotherapist and victimologist, president of the Association “Cestadire” created in 2002 to help victims of physical, psychological and spiritual abuse
Rabbi Etienne Kerber
He was ordained a rabbi in 2021 in Paris. He was director of the Talmud Torah of the CJL and the Mahanetzer Summer Camp. He created Shabbat rock. He is the author of Cherche l’Étincelle published by Actes Sud. He is a rabbi at the CJL.
Agustín Sánchez Jimenez
Priest of the diocese of Getafe (Madrid). Doctor of Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Stable Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Ecclesiastical University of San Dámaso (Madrid). Director of the Diocesan Marian Forum of Getafe.
Father Benoit de Baenst, fr
A member of the Emmanuel Community and a priest of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, Benedict de Baenst is, after having served in the parish for sixteen years and taught theology for ten years at the Institute of Theological Studies (Brussels), a teacher-researcher at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lille and Sunday vicar in Villeneuve d’Ascq
Agnès de Lamarzelle
Agnès de Lamarzelle, a consecrated member of the Emmanuel community, teaches Sacred Scripture at the Collège des Bernardins, Faculté Notre-Dame, Paris. His dissertation appeared in the collection Études bibliques: “Sonship of the Only-Begotten Son and Sonship of Believers in the Fourth Gospel: From the Study of Jn 1:1-18; 3 ; 19:16b-42; 20:11-18″.
Father Ottavio de Bertolis
He is a Jesuit and holds degrees in law and philosophy. He holds a doctorate in philosophy of law from the University of Padua and also holds a degree in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He devoted much time to reflection on the mystery of the Sacred Heart, about which he wrote numerous publications, translated into different languages.
and Martin F. Echavarría, Father Stefan Tertünte, Father Giuseppe Forlai, Amedeo Cencini