On July 26, 2016, in the small church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, a priest, Father Hamel, was assassinated in full mass by two young Islamist terrorists.
Because he was a priest, because he was a Christian.
This Thursday, October 29, 2020, in the Notre-Dame church in Nice, a man and two women were murdered by a young Islamist terrorist, because they were Christians.
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One had opened the church, fulfilling his mission as sacristan.
It is a beautiful mission to open the churches.
A church is made to be open, accessible to all.
It is the house of God, it is also the house of all.
Believers or not, practicing or not, the French love their churches.
They are one of the rare oases that remain, at the heart of this sometimes so violent, so fast, so wounded world.
This
“cloak of churches which covers France”
is for all the reminder of the faith of the generations which preceded us and bequeathed these holy places.
Our churches are also the actual testimony of the faith
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