As Lent began on March 2, Brother Jean-Alexandre de Garidel returned to the importance of experiencing divine mercy. Faced with our trials and discouragements, this attribute of God invites us, for 40 days, to place ourselves under the loving gaze of the Lord. And not to make Lent a time of “spiritual performance”. Interview by … Read more
Some proposals to go to the cinema with the eyes of the Spirit by Luca Finatti In the book of Spiritual Exercises[1] of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), at no. 65, the practitioner is invited to contemplate Hell, even to imagine entering it, exciting the senses to give shape to an interior image of this … Read more
Father Jacques de Longeaux, parish priest of St-Pierre-du-Gros-Caillou in Paris, comments on the three temptations of Jesus in the desert, reported in the Gospel of the first Sunday of Lent (Lk 4, 1-13). Temptation is not sin, but it comes from the devil: Lent is a time of spiritual warfare against the Tempter. Jesus was … Read more