Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Prayers for France


Let's continue to pray for those living in France while they deal with the unrest there.

I heard breifly on the news this evening that a warehouse in Lille was set fire. Lille is where Les Petites Soeur de Pauvres run Ma Maison, a home for the aged poor and where my aunt lives and works as a Little Sister.

Je vous salue Marie, pleine de grâce!
Le Seigneur est avec vous,
vous êtes bénie entre toutes les femmes et Jésus,
le fruit de vos entrailles est béni.

Sainte Marie, Mère de Dieu,
prie pour nous, pauvres pécheurs,
maintenant et à l'heure de notre mort.
~Amen.

2 comments:

Renaud said...

Thanks for this delicate attention !
I personnally find these "events" so predictible (knowing the politics choices for the past 30 years) that I hardly see them as "plagues".
Destroying storms are plagues, political dismissal is pain for the car owners...
The french "social model" based on materialism (new gsm and gucci jeans make hapiness) and atheism (you can be "really" free only if you get rid of those superstitions) has come to a dead end.

Staying in Balance said...

Renaud, I was very concerned when I heard about the French law that was passed denying people the right to wear religious symbols in public. Not a way to foster understanding!

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