The fifth edition of the St Yves Charity Concert took place in Florianopolis, as every year, and, for the fourth time, in the superb auditorium of the Cultural Center. The city of Florianópolis graciously offered the space to the organizers, the Saint Yves Fraternity. Once more, this high cultural event of top artistic quality mobilized many generous good wills in order to support the music school that the fraternity founded in the slum of Morro d’Horácio, five years ago. The first...
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Although the great auditorium Ademir Rosa in the Palace of Culture of FLORIANOPOLIS, the capital city of Santa Catarina State (Brazil), is able to host more than nine hundred people, it was not sufficient to welcome all those who were eager to listen to the outstanding concert by the French singer Lauriane de HUBSCH and the Argentine pianist Alberto HELLER. Three days before, there were many messages on the organizers’ website to try to find available seats since there were no more at the theatre...
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On September 29th & 30th, 2016 the Cantus Firmus group realized an outstanding third edition of the annual Saint Yves concert. These concerts make fund-raising for the school of music in the slum of Morro d’Horácio, which was created three years ago by the Saint Yves Fraternity. The concerts were initiated thanks to the generous participation of the pianist and international concert pianist Pablo Rossi and the singers Massami Ganev, Betina Maliska, Juan Rossi, Ricardo Castro and Alícia...
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Sometimes they are more theoretical: teaching about the Jewish people and the Alliances between God and humankind… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMDpz4MRzQ0 Sometimes they are more practical: The first communion preparation through bread making while thinking about crushing wheat grains that are united in a good and fine flour thanks to the water of life and purification, and cooked by the fire of the Spirit, in order to stave off humankind’s...
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During my first year in the seminary I had a one-month experience in a farm of the ARCHE, the movement that Jean Vanier founded to host mentally disabled adults to work and live in for the rest of their life. It was for me a founding experience. Later, while the pastor of Tréguier, I was chaplain of a Faith and Light community for six years, another movement created by Jean Vanier. Faced with a person who has profoundly diminished faculties, the spontaneous reaction is often to flee....
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After twelve months of sales of Father Philippe Roche’s booklet about Saint Yves in the USA, France, Brazil and Portugal and a huge tombola to raise the necessary funds, three historical bells joyfully ring in the new tower, both painted with Saint Yves’ colors (gold and black), in Morro do Horácio’s favela. Many thanks to all for your generous help with this fine project: it will allow not only to call the Catholics of the neighborhood for masses, but also to remind the times of different...
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