Which I noticed this morning; who knows how long it's been at the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté website.
I see, also, at Le Salon Beige, a 'Manifesto de Chartres', what I take to be an initiative of the Ain Karem Community-- those folks are undertaking a pilgrimage to Chartres on Sunday the 17th of this month in the spirit of the poet Charles Péguy.
... We will take advantage of the open churches to visit the Lord present in the Blessed Sacrament.
We want to go forward toward Holy Communion with more preparation and respect.
We ask God for the grace to open us to the misery of others, not to be afraid to share our bread, our lodging and also the Gospel of salvation that the Lord has given into our hands.
We repudiate the compromises in which we have convinced ourselves to live, we accept with a sincere heart the teachings of the Church on chastity before marriage, marital fidelity, the regulation of our childrens' birth, respect for life, the demand for justice in social relationships and with displaced populations, moderation in the use of natural resources...
Knowing our weakness, we want to make a wider and more profound use of the sacrament of Confession in order to go back to the fight and never resign ourselves to evil....
Contrition, repentance, a solid resolve to be better Catholics-- to refuse to allow the plague to leave us unchanged, unconverted. I see a few familiar names: Mgr Rey (Toulon-Fréjus), Mgr Aillet (Bayonne), Mgr Christory (Chartres), Dom Philippe Dupont, Abbot of Solesmes, Rémi Brague, Abbés Cayla and Garnier of Notre Dame de Chrétienté, Père Daniel Ange. Am going to refrain from writing out my usual recrimination about episcopal bureaucrats-- would it have (really, seriously, in some untoward or grossly political sort of way) committed the Bishops' Conference Poliburo head, whoever he is at this point, to have signed the manifesto? My neck has a crick already from having shaken my head too vigorously at the nonsense and shenanigans, serious and simply foolish, of my ecclesiastical betters who've made themselves the objects of public notice today.
Blogger has updated its user interface and things are not working as satisfactorily as they are wont to do. No centered asterisks and weird line spacing this morning....
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