Extended curfew, school closures, widespread teleworking, like all French people, Christians heard the president announce the paschal menu on Wednesday.
And, like all French people, they may have experienced a moment of depression.
Everyone has lived for a year to the rhythm of announcements and disappointments.
Hope is regularly followed by discouragement, and more and more often by weariness.
Sometimes there is sorrow too: oxygenation, resuscitation, death, the litany of the sick and the dead is muted, but it does not weaken.
The only occasion to rejoice for the faithful, the third confinement did not compromise the celebrations of Holy Week like last year.
Between civic sense and common sense, the Church adapts.
Maundy Thursday services took place during working hours, the Stations of the Cross were static.
The Easter vigil, a long vigil interrupted by the magnificent appearance of fire on the spring night, will be celebrated this year at the first light of
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