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  • ...days, in short, as Jacob will tell Pharaoh despite his 130 years : “The days of the years of my life have been few and bad” (Genesis 47.9). If this observation is a little dark, it is to make us aware of the brevity of life. Awareness that may push us towards better life choices. What better...

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  • ...and reading, not in dribs and drabs, but in a "constant" way ! The same is true for our spiritual life. If we want to be children of God capable of surprising the world, the Bible encourages us to be immersed... in the Holy Spirit : Ephesians 5:18 could be translated as : "Be constantly filled with...

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  • ...have value. Humanly, it is obvious. God Himself says He has always desired your conception and your life on Earth. He loves you from your mother's womb. Incredible, right ? "You formed my loins, who knit me in my mother's womb" (Psalm 139-13). "From the womb I have been in your care, from my...

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  • ...for our instruction. We've all been young teenagers eager to experience new things, to bite into life and for the most part we've had parents who told us : "Don't do this, be careful with that, be careful with such a thing...", and we, young people knowing everything, we had only one desire, it was...

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  • ...must probably, in his desire to please God, have accepted that God does what pleases Him with his life. I come to the following reflection : what is wrong with Christians when some of them go through painful times ? If, and this is the union minimum, we say that we live for the Lord and for His...

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  • ...who suffer from a grasshopper mentality ? 1- People who constantly complain about the injustices of life, dwelling on events where someone has apparently wronged them or misunderstood them. For them Paul wrote these lines : “Suffer with me as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Timothy 2. 3). 2-...

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  • ...can we burn the book which brings us, in the Gospels, the true words of Christ, source of eternal life ? Fortunately, times have changed and several popes have authorized the faithful to read the Bible. This book, listed as a World Heritage Site, the best-selling and most translated in the world,...

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  • ...the beginning and the end. To him who is thirsty I will give him from the spring of the water of life freely. Revelation 21.6 You will draw water with joy from the springs of salvation. Isaiah 12.3 Cracked cisterns - Where do you seek happiness ? The desire for happiness is a natural and universal...

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  • ...celebrate my 70th birthday. It was then that I realized that I was approaching the last period of this life, and that I would do well to reevaluate my priorities. I thought then that I should now look more like Marie in our story than her sister Marthe. Today, I would like to rehabilitate Martha a...

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  • ...age of 12, and the beginning of his public ministry, in his thirties, we know almost nothing of his life as a teenager, then of young adult ? If some people fantasize about a "hidden life" made up of journeys to distant lands, the reality of these "shadow years" is probably less flashy. Jesus...

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