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Mise à jour III – Breviarium Monasticum 1963 – Update III

5/16/2025

 
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We are pleased to make available details of the contents of the appendix to Volume II which has now been typeset by the monastery so as to provide the texts that people who use older versions of the monastic office would wish to use.
 
Nous avons le plaisir de vous présenter le contenu de l'annexe du tome II, désormais mise en page par le monastère afin de proposer les textes que les personnes utilisant d'anciennes versions de l'office monastique souhaiteraient utiliser.
 
• The customary prayers before and after the Office. • The proper conclusions of hymns for different seasons. • The ferial chapter and Preces for Prime. • The integral text of Psalm 13 for Thursday Prime. • The additional blessing for a commemorated Gospel at Matins. • The integral text of the ferial canticle for Saturday Lauds. • The Preces for Compline. • The common texts for the Vigils of Apostles • The proper texts for most feasts omitted from the 1963 edition or most of the extra texts for matins that it does not contain where a feast has been reduced in rank.
 
• Les prières habituelles avant et après l'Office. • Les conclusions des hymnes des différents temps. • Le chapitre férial et les Prières de Prime. • Le texte intégral du Psaume 13 pour Prime du jeudi. • La bénédiction additionnelle pour un Évangile commémoré à Matines. • Le texte intégral du cantique férial pour les Laudes du samedi. • Les Prières de Complies. • Les textes communs pour la Vigile d’un Apôtre. • La majorité des textes propres aux fêtes omissent dans l'édition de 1963 et la plupart des textes supplémentaires pour les matines qui ne figurent pas dans l'édition de 1963, lorsque le rang d'une fête a été réduit.
 
Be sure to order your copy before publication so as to benefit from the 50 euro discount. Further details here.
 
N'oubliez pas de commander votre exemplaire avant la publication afin de bénéficier de la réduction de 50 euros. Plus d'informations ici.

Pray for Pope Leo - Priez pour le Pape Léon !

5/15/2025

 
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Those who would like to light a 9 day candle in the monastery church
for the intentions of our new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV,
on the occasion of the solemn inauguration of his Petrine ministry may do so using the QR code below
or by following this link.

À l'occasion de l'inauguration solennelle du ministère Pétrinien de notre nouveau Saint Père, le Pape Léon XIV,
les personnes désirant faire b6ruler un cierge aux intentions du Pape dans l'église du Monastère,
peuvent le faire en utilisant le QRcode ci dessous.
ou par ce lien.
 
Ad multos annos Beatissime Pater Leone!


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A Homily for the Third Sunday after Easter

5/11/2025

 
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+ It has been a momentous week. Habemus papam! After a period of concerted prayer and fasting and—to be perfectly honest—not a little concern or even fear given the exercise of the papacy over the last twelve years, the Church of God now rejoices in the election of Pope Leo XIV.
 
I say “rejoices” not because I have the privilege to know the man personally or have been able to study his curriculum vitae and past writings and discourses and form a personal judgement on their orthodoxy or prudence, nor because I am aware of his interior dispositions in respect of acts of governance he has carried out on behalf of others—the replacement and removal of the bishop of our own diocese included. Indeed, it is quite possible, even probable that Father, Bishop and Cardinal Prevost made mistakes of judgment in the past, or that he has even been wrong in his understanding of some matters. He may even have found himself in positions where he has had to sign-off acts that he would not himself have initiated. And, of course, these are not any cause for rejoicing. Far from it.
 
No, I say that we rejoice in the election of Pope Leo XIV because we are Catholics and because we hope and we pray that in His Providence, Almighty God has given His Church the new Supreme Pontiff He wills for our time and that we need. And in this fact alone, as Catholics, our natural response (our default position as it were) should be to rejoice.
 
But it is, of course, a reality that the abuse of the papal office to push forward personal and political agendas in any age detracts from its integrity and erodes the filial loyalty Catholics should naturally accord it. This does very great harm. And it is a sad reality that today, for this very reason, the new pope is being evaluated and examined as might any new political official. What will he do? What kind of Church does he want? Will he allow the ordination of women? Will he attempt to totally ban the older liturgical rites? Will he accept divorce, same-sex marriages, etc.? The list goes on and on whilst Catholics who seek to be faithful withhold their consent, as it were, to his election.

We need to be clear. No pope can legitimately do such things. His authority and power is not a positivisitic one as might be that of a president or a prime minister. He cannot do what he wants. The Pope cannot sign a shower of ‘executive orders’ (called a Motu Proprio in the Church) and change things immediately according to his personal wishes. No: the Pope is a steward, a custodian, a guardian of the Deposit of Faith, one whose primary purpose is to protect all that Our Lord Jesus Christ revealed and taught as the Truth necessary for the eternal salvation of every man and woman in human history, that the Church has herself faithfully taught throughout the ages in her unbroken Tradition.
 
The issue is, therefore, not what Robert Prevost thinks about divorce or the Latin Mass or women’s ordination or whatever—or even what he has said or thought about them in the past. Rather, the fact is that Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been given the duty to ensure that when the Church is confronted by these or any other questions that may arise, we—that is, he himself as Pope and the entire Catholic Church, its hierarchy and all others—remain utterly faithful to the teaching of Christ and to all that has been handed on in the Church’s Tradition, knowing all the while that, as St Benedict teaches so often in his Rule about the abbot’s exercise of authority, the Pope shall have to answer to Almighty God for all of his deeds on the day of Judgement. 
 
This is a terrible responsibility for any man and whilst we rejoice that this yoke has been taken up anew, our rejoicing must be realistic: the faithful exercise of the papacy requires that its holder is open to and receives the grace of the office to which he has been called. Here, we have a vital part to play through our prayer and sacrifices offered for Pope Leo. There is a reason that the Pope is prayed for the Canon of the Mass: he needs our prayers, and out of filial loyalty we are obliged to offer them generously and in good faith.
 
Whatever of the exercise of the papacy in recent years, those times are now past. As Catholics we must pray fervently that Pope Leo shall receive an abundance of grace so as to be a strong and faithful steward of the Church’s treasury of grace and Truth in our age. Indeed, we may well pray that in the face of the powerful currents of politics and of positivism in the Church and of the cancers of relativism and syncretism in the world he has the strength to embrace the wisdom contained in an expression cited by one of his predecessors when first elected pope: In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. (John XXIII, Ad Petri Cathedram, 1959) In essentials, unity; in what is not essential, liberty; in all things, charity.
 
Let us pray earnestly, then, this morning in this Holy Mass and throughout this pontificate, that through Pope Leo’s humble and faithful exercise of the Petrine Office, the sadness and distress that we have known for a little while now (and which lingers in the mouths of many) may indeed be turned into a true experience of that paschal joy of which this morning’s Gospel speaks, which nobody can take from us. Amen. +

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Oremus pro pontifice nostro Leone!

5/9/2025

 
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Leo XIV Pont. Max.

5/8/2025

 
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Ayant reçu la nouvelle de l'élection de Léon XIV au trône de Pierre, la communauté a chanté un Te Deum d'action de grâce ainsi que les prières pour le Pape.

Having received the news of the election of Leo XIV as the successor of St Peter, the community has sung a Te Deum in thanksgiving as well as the traditional prayers for the Pope.

Nous vous invitons tous à prier pour qu'il soit, comme le veut son nom, un véritable lion et que le Seigneur lui accorde les grâces nécessaires à sa très haute charge.

We invite all to pray that he shall be, as his name implies, a true lion and that the Lord shall grant him all the graces necessary for his high office.

Oremus pro pontifice nostro Leone!

A Homily for the Second Sunday after Easter

5/4/2025

 
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+ The feast of St Athanasius which fell on May 2nd last week, offers an opportunity to examine the importance of his example in the life of the Church today.

As bishop of Alexandria, he played an unparalleled role in holding true to the truth of the Divinity of Christ against all that could be thrown against him by heretical powers both temporal and ecclesiastical. He was sent out of his See five times into exile, supporting the faithful of the locality of his exile and taking time among the monks of the Egyptian desert to refocus his attention on the one thing necessary: Christ. With the change of political leaders, he was recalled and restored to his See where he unfailingly taught his flock who Christ is, and that this an objective reality, a truth that is in no sense dependent of what anybody’s personal opinion is.

He knew exactly what it was that Christ meant by saying that “I know my sheep and my sheep know me,” for anybody who is truly of God will recognise His voice despite all the surrounding noise, and would follow Christ in spite of all attempts to eliminate the teaching of the truth. This is precisely why St Athanasius was driven from Alexandria so often: he was not afraid to preach Christ Crucified and he accepted the personal challenges and consequences that this meant in those times for anyone who would follow Christ faithfully.

Can it not be claimed, however, that St Athanasius fled, abandoning his flock whilst accepting exile from his See? In his discussion of such a question, St Augustine recognises that there are times when the Gospel and Apostolic teaching is clear that Christ’s minister must flee, whereas on other occasions he should stay and accept the martyrdom promised by the potentates of this world. In observing this this St Augustine lays down the practical guidelines for when to flee, and when to stay, teaching that if the persecution is directed at the individual, the individual may flee and leave the care of the flock to others, whereas if fleeing would harm the flock in his care, the shepherd must remain regardless of the consequences.

On this second Sunday after Easter 2025 the Church is united in prayer that Almighty God will, through the deliberation of the College of Cardinals, grant to her a strong and faithful shepherd who shall not fear the wolves of our times—be they dressed as persons, policies or ideologies—and turn out to be a mere hireling who, like so many of us at times, lacks that true humility which acknowledges that we are all subject to the Truth revealed by Christ and shall be judged accordingly.
Rather, we pray for a Chief Shepherd of the Church who stands firmly in the light of the Resurrected Christ, proclaiming Him to be the Way, the Truth and the Life, the unique Saviour for all human persons of every race and time in history. For it is all too easy, even for successors of the Apostles, to flee from the demands of the Truth of Christ in the face of a world rent by relativism, syncretism and individualism.

My brothers and sisters, the College of Cardinals and Rome may seem a very long way away and we may feel powerless in respect of their deliberations and of the outcome of the coming Conclave. However, in God’s grace our prayers and sacrifices in the coming days for this most important moment in the life of the Church shall not be wasted. Even were the worst possible candidate to be elected and a formal schism in the Church ensue—which God forbid!—our spiritual and ascetical offerings for the Conclave will fortify us and bring the graces necessary to persevere even in truly historically extraordinary times—with Saint Athanasius as our patron and guide.

But God is merciful, and we may always hope and pray for a furher outpouring of his mercy—and that is our task in the coming days. Be that by assisting at Holy Mass or the Divine Office, or through prayer and fasting individually according to our particular circumstances, we must make an extra effort. The good of our souls, of the souls of others, and of the Church and her salvific mission in the world depends on it.

On Wednesday 7 May the Conventual Mass at 09h00 will be sung Pro eligendo Summo Pontifice in the monastery church. And beginning on the same day and continuing each day of the Conclave, at 12h00 the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed before the singing of the Office of Sext which will be followed by a period of adoration, concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 13h00. You are warmly invited to join us if possible. So too, these days shall also be days of fasting for the monastic community.
 
As we offer ourselves anew this morning in this Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, let us be confident that if we are faithful, as was Saint Athanasius even in adversity that lasted several decades, the Lord will support and console us and use our sufferings for His Providential purposes. For one who is deeply rooted in the Truth of Christ, even if his shepherd proves to be a hireling and flees the wolves, cannot be lost. +

Missa Pro eligendo Summo Pontifice

5/3/2025

 
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On Wednesday 7 May the Conventual Mass at 09h00 will be sung Pro eligendo Summo Pontifice
in the monastery church.

Le mercredi 7 mai, à 09h00, la messe conventuelle Pro eligendo Summo Pontifice
sera chantée dans l'église du monastère.


Beginning on 7 May and continuing each day of the Conclave, at 12h00 the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed before the singing of the Office of Sext which will be followed by a period of adoration, concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 13h00. These days shall be days of fasting for the monastic community.

Mercredi 7 mai et tous les jours du Conclave, le Saint Sacrement sera exposé à 12h00, avant le chant de l'Office de Sexte et sera suivi d'une période d'adoration avant le Salut du Saint Sacrement à 13h00. Ces jours seront également des jours de jeûne pour la communauté monastique. 

We invite you to join us in these observances, begging Almighty God to give to His Church a strong, wise and holy new Successor of Saint Peter.

Nous vous invitons tous à vous joindre à nous dans ces exercices afin de demander à Dieu de donner à Son Église un successeur de saint Pierre qui soit fort, sage et saint.

Those who wish to light a candle in the monastery church for the intentions of the coming conclave
may do so using the QR code below.

Ceux qui souhaitent allumer une bougie dans l'église du monastère aux intentions du prochain conclave
peuvent le faire en utilisant le code QR ci-dessous.

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Mise à jour II – Breviarium Monasticum 1963 – Update II

4/30/2025

 
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We are pleased to make available details of the contents of the appendix to Volume I which has now been typeset by the monastery so as to give the texts that people who use older versions of the monastic office would wish to use. The Appendix for Volume II is in production and details will be released when it is finalised. We have increased the number of pages for each volume to accommodate a more comprehensive appendix in each.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous présenter le contenu de l'annexe du tome I, désormais mise en page par le monastère afin de proposer les textes que les personnes utilisant d'anciennes versions de l'office monastique souhaiteraient utiliser. L'annexe du tome II est en cours de production et les détails seront publiés dès sa finalisation. Nous avons augmenté le nombre de pages de chaque volume afin d'y inclure une annexe plus complète.

• The customary prayers before the Office.
• The proper conclusions of hymns for different seasons.
• The ferial chapter and Preces for Prime.
• The integral text of Psalm 13 for Thursday Prime.
• The additional blessing for a commemorated Gospel at Matins.
• The integral text of the ferial canticle for Saturday Lauds.
• The Preces for Compline.
• The texts for the Octaves of the Epiphany and Ascension
• The proper texts for feast omitted from the 1963 edition or the extra texts for matins that it does not contain where a feast has been reduced in rank.

• Les prières habituelles avant l'Office.
• Les conclusions des hymnes des différents temps.
• Le chapitre fériel et les preces de Prime.
• Le texte intégral du Psaume 13 pour Prime du jeudi.
• La bénédiction additionnelle pour un Évangile commémoré à Matines.
• Le texte intégral du cantique fériel pour les Laudes du samedi.
• Les preces de Complies.
• Les textes des octaves de l'Épiphanie et de l'Ascension.
• Les textes propres aux fêtes omis dans l'édition de 1963 ou les textes supplémentaires pour les matines qui ne figurent pas dans l'édition de 1963, lorsque le rang d'une fête a été réduit.


Be sure to order your copy before publication so as to benefit from the 50 euro discount. For further details click here.

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Homily - Domenica in albis - Homélie

4/27/2025

 
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+ As the Sacred Liturgy immerses us further in the contemplation of the reality of the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead—if you have not read the magnificent Epistles and Gospels of the Masses of each day of the Octave of Easter, I highly recommend that you take time so to do—events in the life of the Church have taken a dramatic turn. Who could have thought on Easter day that our already frail Holy Father would be, by today, dead and buried? Which of the Cardinals could have predicted that by now they would be gathered in Rome preparing to assemble behind closed doors to elect his successor?
 
Before considering this situation further, let it be said plainly that whatever one may think of the pontificate that has just ended (and certainly, all too much can be said about it) it is now over, and our duty in filial charity is to pray for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis. Whether we agreed with his policies or not, he deserves our prayers.
 
So too the Cardinals gathered in Rome to elect the new successor of Saint Peter deserve them. This is our solemn duty in the coming days. Once the date of the opening of the Conclave is known we shall schedule a votive Mass Pro eligendo Romano pontifice, and during the conclave we shall observe a fast and an extra hour of Eucharistic adoration each afternoon. All shall be welcome to participate in these events. I strongly encourage you to pray and fast also, prudently, according to your particular circumstances. For it is only by using these tradition spiritual weapons that the graces of which the Church is so desperately in need shall be won.
 
There are, unfortunately, many at every level of the Church who do not understand this. “The Holy Spirit chooses the Pope,” they blithely assert, and accord the newly elected Pope an authority to order everything in the Church—maters of faith, of morality and matters of discipline—according to his personal wishes and agenda, much as might a new President or Prime Minister in a secular government. In such a view the papacy has become just another political office, and he who ‘wins’ that office, as it were (with the Holy Spirit’s help, or otherwise) can do what he wants.
 
But this is a gravely pernicious distortion of the Office of the Papacy, and as we pray and fast for the upcoming papal election we need to be very clear that the Holy Spirit, breathed upon the Apostles in this morning’s Holy Gospel, does not put the minds and wills of the Cardinals on autopilot. (Of course, this time, not every Cardinal-elector is a successor of the Apostles.) This was made perfectly clear in 1997, when, the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was asked on Bavarian television and asked whether or not the Holy Spirit chooses the pope? He answered: “I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks out the Pope…I would say that the Spirit does not exactly take control of the affair, but rather like a good educator, as it were, leaves us much space, much freedom, without entirely abandoning us. Thus, the Spirit’s role should be understood in a much more elastic sense, not that he dictates the candidate for whom one must vote. Probably the only assurance He offers is that the thing cannot be totally ruined.” He added somewhat wryly: “There are too many contrary instances of popes the Holy Spirit obviously would not have picked!”
 
Thus, our prayer and our fasting have a clear and definite purpose: to win the grace of docility to God’s will on behalf of the cardinal electors. The outcome of the conclave may be according to God’s will, or it may not, and we must do what we can with the spiritual means that are at our disposal, praying that the new pope shall be clear, in the eloquent words of one of his recent predecessors, that:
 
“The power that Christ conferred upon Peter and his Successors is, in an absolute sense, a mandate to serve. The power of teaching in the Church involves a commitment to the service of obedience to the faith. The Pope is not an absolute monarch whose thoughts and desires are law…the Pope's ministry is a guarantee of obedience to Christ and to his Word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God's Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.” (Benedict XVI, Homily, 7 May 2005)
 
The Gospel informs us that both on the day of the Resurrection and again eight days later the Apostles were gathered together with the doors shut, at least on the first occasion out of fear. There is no doubt that when the Cardinals gather behind closed doors they too may well experience fear: most, if not all, because of the weight of their solemn duty, and a handful because they may well be chosen. We must pray earnestly that behind those doors they too shall experience the presence of the Lord, and of the peace, joy and confirmation in faith that the appearance of His Resurrected Body brought—even to the doubtful Thomas.
 
My brothers and sisters, we must do what we can. Beginning in this Holy Mass, let us commence a regime of fervent prayer begging Almighty God that the true peace of the Resurrected Christ may permeate His Church anew this Eastertide. Amen. Alleluia! +
+ Tandis que la Sainte Liturgie nous plonge davantage dans la contemplation de la réalité de la Résurrection corporelle de Jésus-Christ d'entre les morts – je vous conseille vivement, si vous n'avez pas fait, de lire les magnifiques Épîtres et Évangiles des Messes de chaque jour de l'Octave de Pâques, - tandis que nous contemplons cette réalité, les événements de la vie de l'Église ont pris une tournure dramatique. Qui aurait pu penser, le jour de Pâques, que notre fragile Saint-Père serait aujourd'hui mort et enterré ? Qui, parmi les cardinaux, aurait pu prédire qu'ils seraient aujourd'hui rassemblés à Rome, se préparant  à se réunir à huis clos pour élire son successeur ?
 
Avant d'examiner plus particulièrement cette situation, disons clairement que, quoi que l'on puisse penser du pontificat qui vient de s'achever (et certains peuvent en parler trop pour finalement ne rien dire d’utile), il est désormais terminé et notre devoir de charité filiale est de prier pour le repos de l'âme du Pape François. Que nous ayons été d'accord ou non avec sa politique, il mérite toutes nos prières.
 
Il en va de même pour les cardinaux réunis à Rome en vue d’élire le nouveau successeur de saint Pierre. C'est notre devoir solennel dans les jours à venir. Dès que la date d'ouverture du conclave sera connue, nous organiserons une messe votive Pro eligendo Romano pontifice et, pendant le conclave, nous observerons un jeûne et une heure d'adoration eucharistique sera organisée chaque après-midi. Nous vous invitons tous à vous joindre à nous et je vous encourage vivement à utiliser les armes de la prière et du jeûne (avec prudence, en fonction de vos circonstances particulières) pour faire pleuvoir des grâces sur les cardinaux. Ce n'est qu'en utilisant ces armes spirituelles traditionnelles que les grâces dont l'Église a si désespérément besoin seront gagnées.
 
Malheureusement, nombreux sont ceux qui, à tous les niveaux de l'Église, ne comprennent pas cela. « L'Esprit Saint choisit le Pape », affirment-ils allègrement, et accordent au Pape nouvellement élu l'autorité de tout ordonner dans l'Église - les domaines de la foi, de la moralité et des questions de discipline – deviennent un sujets au souhaits et son soumis au programme personnel du nouveau Pontife, tout comme le ferait un nouveau président ou un nouveau premier ministre dans un gouvernement séculier. Dans cette optique, la papauté est parfois devenue une fonction politique, et celui qui « gagne » cette fonction, pour ainsi dire (avec l'aide du Saint-Esprit ou non), peut faire ce qu'il veut.
 
Mais il s'agit là d'une altération gravement pernicieuse de la fonction papale, et alors que nous prions et jeûnons pour la prochaine élection papale, nous devons être très clairs sur le fait que l'Esprit Saint, que le Christ insuffle aux Apôtres comme le conte le Saint Évangile de ce matin, ne met pas l'esprit et la volonté des cardinaux en « pilotage automatique ». (Notons d’ailleurs qu’aujourd’hui tous les cardinaux électeurs ne sont pas évêques et donc successeurs des Apôtres). En 1997, lorsque le cardinal Joseph Ratzinger a été interrogé à la télévision bavaroise sur la question de savoir si l'Esprit Saint choisissait ou non le pape. Il a répondu : « Je ne dirais pas que l'Esprit Saint choisit le pape... Je dirais que l'Esprit ne prend pas exactement le contrôle de l'affaire, mais plutôt qu'il nous laisse, comme un bon éducateur, beaucoup d'espace, beaucoup de liberté, sans pour autant nous abandonner complètement. Ainsi, le rôle de l'Esprit doit être compris dans un sens beaucoup plus élastique, non pas qu'il dicte le candidat pour lequel il faut voter. La seule assurance qu'il offre est probablement que la chose ne peut pas être totalement ruinée ». Il poursuit, avec une certaine ironie, qu’« Il y a trop d'exemples de papes que le Saint-Esprit n'aurait manifestement pas choisis! »
 
Ainsi, notre prière et nos jeûnes ont un but clair et précis : gagner pour les cardinaux électeurs la grâce de la docilité à la volonté de Dieu. L'issue du conclave peut être conforme à la volonté de Dieu, ou non, et nous devons faire ce que nous pouvons avec les moyens spirituels dont nous disposons, en priant pour que le nouveau pape sache clairement, selon les mots éloquents de l'un de ses récents prédécesseurs, que:
 
« Le pouvoir conféré par le Christ à Pierre et à ses successeurs est, au sens absolu, un mandat pour servir. L'autorité d'enseigner, dans l'Église, comporte un engagement au service de l'obéissance à la foi. Le Pape n'est pas un souverain absolu, dont la pensée et la volonté font loi…le ministère du Pape est la garantie de l'obéissance envers le Christ et envers Sa Parole. Il ne doit pas proclamer ses propres idées, mais se soumettre constamment, ainsi que l'Église, à l'obéissance envers la Parole de Dieu, face à toutes les tentatives d'adaptation et d'appauvrissement, ainsi que face à tout opportunisme. »». (Benoît XVI, Homélie, 7 mai 2005)
 
L'Évangile nous apprend que déjà le jour de la Résurrection mais également huit jours plus tard, les Apôtres sont réunis portes fermées car ils ont peur. Il ne fait aucun doute que lorsque les cardinaux se réunissent à huis clos, ils peuvent eux aussi éprouver de la crainte : la plupart, sinon tous, à cause du poids de leur devoir solennel, et quelques-uns parce qu'ils pourraient bien être choisis. Nous devons prier sincèrement pour que, derrière ces portes, ils fassent l'expérience de la présence du Seigneur, de la paix, de la joie et de la confirmation dans la foi que l'apparition du Corps Ressuscité du Christ a apportées – et ce même face aux doutes de saint Thomas.
 
Mes frères et sœurs, nous devons faire ce que nous pouvons. Prenant cette Sainte Messe comme point de départ, commençons une nouvelle discipline de prières ferventes en suppliant le Bon Dieu de faire en sorte que la véritable paix du Christ ressuscité imprègne à nouveau son Église en ce temps de Pâques. Amen. Alléluia ! +

Messe pour le pape François - Mass for Pope Francis

4/23/2025

 
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Samedi 26 avril la messe conventuelle chantée de 10h
sera offerte pour le pape défunt en même temps que son inhumation à Rome.
 
On Saturday April 26th the Conventual Mass sung at 10h00
will be offered for the deceased pope at the same time as his funeral in Rome.

Comme les messes de Requiem qui ne sont pas une messe d'enterrement sont interdites durant l'octave de Pâques,
la messe sera celle du samedi de Pâques offerte pour le repos de son âme.
 
Because requiem Masses that are not actual funerals are forbidden during the Octave of Easter,
the Mass will be that of the Saturday of the Octave of Easter.
​It shall, nevertheless, be offered for the repose of his soul.

Requiescat in pace. +


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