Among the provisions of the apostolic letter
Traditionis custodes
published by Pope Francis in July, the impossibility of celebrating the sacraments with the liturgical books of the Roman rite before the reform of the Second Vatican Council particularly saddened Véronique Lévy.
When she attends a wedding mass, the author of
Show me your face
(Cerf, 2015), the book in which she made public her conversion to Roman Catholicism, will no longer have the opportunity to hear the deep, beautiful and powerful inaugural blessing of the wife, entirely drawn from the Books Jews: “
May she deserve her husband's love like Rachel; / May she be wise like Rebecca; / May she live long and be faithful like Sarah.
Rachel, Jacob's wife, Rebecca, Jacob and Esau's mother, Sarah, Abraham's wife: three central figures of
Chœur de flesh
(Artège), the fourth book by Véronique Lévy, three heroines whom she names the
"desert matriarchs
", along with Leah and Ruth.
When…
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