Saint Yves was particularly devoted to saint Tugdual. The Catholic Church celebrates the feast in 2 December, since it does not know exactly the day of his death. Normally, saints are honored the day of their death for the Church believes that they are immediately welcomed to Paradise. It is the day of their “dies natalis”, which means the day of their coming to light: the Eternal and unending Light of God. By the way, we should remember the parallel that the last Sunday gospel made for the...
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Surprising echo to the reflection about the link between the Virtue of Justice and Ecology. The canon of Latran - … and very anticlerical French President- François Hollande officially sent a certain Nicolas (!) to Pope Francis, in order to prepare the success of the meeting about climate changes in Paris, in 2015. The former TV presenter, who also tried to be the ecologist candidate to the French presidential election, Nicolas Hulot, arrived in Rome, on Thursday 21 of November. This is what...
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In 1264, Pope Urban IV instituted the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, as a reply to the heresy of Berenger of Tours’ that denied Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist. In his Bull Transiturus, he wrote: “It is right, in order to reply to some heretics’ madness, to remind ourselves of the presence of Christ in the Holy Sacrament.” Normally, this feast takes place sixty days after Easter, which is on the Thursday that comes after the solemnity of the Holy Trinity, as it is the case...
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