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HOMÉLIES

À travers nos moyens limités de présenter la marche de la vie en ligne, prenons le temps de
poser des gestes de charité et des gestes de rapprochement envers des personnes qui sont
peut-être isolées en ce temps de confinement.
Et, en même temps, prenons également le temps de confier toute l'humanité et notre société
à l'amour de Dieu, à sa présence, à l'amour de Jésus Christ qui a donné sa vie sur la croix pour
chacun et chacune d'entre nous.

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One of the aspects that we are more and more conscience we’ve known it, but it became more
obvious, more and more obvious is that there’s a link between the value of life and the value of
spiritual life. Without spiritual life it becomes very difficult to be open to the value of life. And as
we are rediscovering through this pandemic, the value of spiritual life is like at the bottom of the
scale! And maybe we can pray that all of humanity, our societies, our countries, our families, that
we rediscover the value of spiritual life, the importance of spiritual life, and I (would like) to say
the primacy of spiritual life because we exist body and soul. When someone says ‘I’, this ‘I’ takes
its center in the soul, in the spirit, in the heart. Expresses itself body and soul. But takes its center
in the soul. So the rediscovery of the spiritual life is very important. It’s a necessity. It certainly can
be something we try to rediscover for ourselves in our own personal life, for our families. Specially
one way to grow through this pandemic, would be to grow in the rediscovery of the family as a
domestic church. There’s a classic expression: a family that prays together, stays together. But the
family is called to pray. The family is the work of God, comes from God. It is God who invented the
family. And certainly, the family is called to be, is a cell of society. No family, no society! Life comes
from the family. And at the same time, no family, no Church! Life comes from the family. First
transmission of faith is within the family! It is the parents who present their child to the Church
for baptism. Rediscovering the value of spiritual life, the primacy of spiritual life, is a task that
is ahead of us. But at the same time, we can work on it right now! We’ve been doing it for many
years, for a long time! But this pandemic manifests to us that we need to renew our prayers and
our efforts. I will invoke for you a prayer that is based on Mother Genevieve Micheli and it puts
together all those aspects of the value of life, the value of spiritual life:

“We are living at a time that is both disturbing and amazing. A time that is dangerous and where
nothing preserves the soul. As members of faith communities, being aware of the true value of the
spiritual life, we carry a great responsibility and we must live up to it. Together, we must help each
other to create places of refuge for spiritual peace. We come together today, 14th of May 2020, on
this day of prayer, fasting and charitable works. In order to implore God to preserve the world,
to help us to overcome this pandemic, to restore security, health and prosperity. Together we pray
that once the pandemic is over, humanity may come to know the true value for the spiritual life,
to grant a larger place to brotherhood, and to protect life and creation.”

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