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Vous trouverez ici des textes extraits de mes écoutes et lectures "spirituelles". Si un mot, une phrase, une pensée, touche votre coeur c'est que Dieu vous a fait signe par les mots de ceux qu'Il inspire. |
La prière est la première tâche de la vie chrétienne. Si, dans les affaires quotidiennes, le dicton « on n’a jamais fini d’apprendre » est vrai, il l'est d'autant plus pour la prière, qui ne s'arrête jamais et qui n'a pas de limite. Permettez-moi de rappeler...
Misguidance does not lie outside God, for it is one of His acts. If God chooses to lead a person astray, it's because He wishes to lead them to Him, but by an indirect route. For God remains the Guide, even in the midst of misguidance; the shadow itself...
Among the ancient liturgical readings sung on Holy Wednesday is the episode of Christ in the Garden of Olives. The full-page miniature shows, under a starry sky, this moment of extreme anguish and absolute solitude for Christ. His friends are asleep at...
There are people I've tried to help, for years. One man accepted this help for about twenty years, then said: "You're a scoundrel". Well said, I don't argue. But, you know, I could have said to myself: you cared so much about this person, and he, he didn't...
During Lent one year, many of the brothers were fasting very strictly (more strictly than is advised, even for monks). In fact it had gotten to a point of pride as some got sick, and others were refusing to eat certain foods. One debate got down to some...
Motherhood is a particular form of feminine kenosis. The mother gives herself to her child, partially dying for him, following God's self-lowering love, repeating in a certain sense the words of Saint John the Baptist: "He must increase and I must decrease"...
Un jour, un maître demanda à ses disciples : « Pourquoi les gens crient-ils lorsqu’ils sont en colère ? » Les disciples réfléchirent un moment. « Parce que nous perdons patience, voilà pourquoi nous crions », répondit l’un d’eux. Le maître reprit : «...
Après la mort du starets Macaire en 1860, deux personnes lui succédèrent dans le startchestvo [la pratique de la paternité spirituelle] à Optino : le père Hilarion, recteur du skite [habitation de quelques moines] et le père Ambroise, qui assistait Macaire...
Nous venons de vivre le premier dimanche du temps après la Pentecôte où la tradition occidentale nous propose de prier et de contempler le mystère, car c’en est un, de la Sainte Trinité. Mais comment aborder le mystère de la Sainte Trinité ? Vous me direz...
L'homme est orthodoxe par nature : Qu'il soit chinois, italien, africain ou de n'importe quelle couleur de peau, il est orthodoxe par nature. L'Orthodoxie est la seule réalité de l'homme. Elle est dans la nature humaine. Cette nature, peu à peu, fut connue...
Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Fils de Dieu, aie pitié de moi pécheur ! Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Fils de Dieu, miséricorde pour le pécheur que je suis ! Examinons ce que cette prière a à dire sur l'incarnation de Jésus-Christ et sur notre guérison par lui et en...
We recall that the Orthodox Church considers holy relics to be vessels of divine grace, and according to Orthodox patristic theology, we accord them respectful veneration. St Gregory Palamas (Archbishop of Thessalonica) points out that just as Christ's...
The world is a fallen world because it has fallen away from the awareness that God is all in all. The accumulation of this disregard for God is the original sin that blights the world. And even the religion of this fallen world cannot heal or redeem it,...
A young man said to the priest: Father, I'm not coming back to church. The priest asked him what the reason was. The young man replied: Here I see a woman gossiping about each other, the one next to me has fallen asleep, the other can't read very well...
The Christian must be courteous to all. His words and actions must show the grace of the Holy Spirit dwelling in his soul, so that God's name may be glorified. He who is attentive to every word will also be attentive to every action. He who examines the...
Forgiving someone doesn't mean forgiving their behavior. Nor does it mean forgetting how they hurt you. Forgiveness means making peace with what happened. It means acknowledging your wound, giving yourself permission to feel pain, and understanding that...
Extrait du livre : Dans l'ombre de Byzance, sur les traces des chrétiens d'Orient de William Dalrymple aux Editions Noir sur Blanc Si je m'intéressais autant aux icônes de saint Antoine, c’était que par la suite, durant la période obscure du haut Moyen...
Rétrospective du stage de calligraphie et illustration sur les Anges animé par Sophie du 29 février au 2 mars Rétrospective du stage de calligraphie et illustration sur les Anges animé par Sophie du 29 février au 2 mars Une Aventure vécue dans la Prière,...
The Church, in studying the possible ordination of women, seeks above all to remain consistent with the will of her Founder. She sees herself as the depositary, not the owner, of a truth and of certain means of distributing divine grace. Any other consideration,...
O God, whose servant Brigid, kindled with the flame of your love, became a shining light in your church: Grant that we also may be aflame with the spirit of love and discipline, and walk before you as children of light; through Jesus Christ our Lord,...
Brigid arrived on a grassy ridge at the western end of the gorse-covered Curragh plain, with a group of other nuns, for whom she had more or less assumed the role of leader. They built a small oak church on this ridge. The Irish word for church is "cill"...
Le très célèbre Suaire aujourd’hui appelé « Linceul de Turin », est apparu en France à partir de 1357, dans la petite ville de Lirey, à une quinzaine de kilomètres au sud de la ville de Troyes en Champagne, selon la première mention historique documentée...
Angels are not the sole preserve of the great monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They were found long before in ancient animist and shamanic traditions. The figure of these celestial beings can also be found, in various forms,...
The Basilica of Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, celebrates 150 years of veneration of the icon in Paris on November 8. An icon traditionally attributed to Saint Luke Among the six basilicas in Paris is Notre-Dame...
My Dear Brothers in Christ, It is a great joy for me to convey greetings from the Fathers of the American Vicariate of the Orthodox Church of the Gauls at the start of this New Year of Our Lord 2025. Though we are geographically far from you, we are blessed...
