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Holy Week: "Little Glow"

4/9/2020, 7:42:48 PM


The Figaro editorial, by Étienne de Montety.

" Whenever you pray, retire to your room . By starting Lent this year, Christians did not think that they would be forced by a global health crisis to live the word of the Gospel of St. Matthew read literally on Ash Wednesday. Here they are confined like billions of men in the world, and the Church, a word which means assembled, dispersed, exploded in houses and apartments. Christian families are mysteriously restored to their dimension of “domestic church” (Saint John Chrysostom) for the celebrations of the Paschal Triduum.

However, confinement does not rhyme with isolation: to live this unprecedented situation, Christians do not show less ingenuity than their contemporaries who organize telework or e-aperos: flourished offices live on YouTube, videos of widely disseminated education and other prayer groups via Hangout s. In 2020, if you don't go to church, the Church comes easily to

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