from Cluny Salut! Here again what is going on! All of France is celebrating the parish priest of Ars This is in addition to Jeanne d'Arc of the most popular saint in the country. And he even comes here from the area. Strictly speaking, from Rhone-Alpes. This is the landscape that is with me as the next person when it comes to the mountains behind Cluny. So, today is the 150th Death of the Saint Curé d'Ars, as it is called here, and all the Catholic communities have a hard week. It started in Chagny in the Sunday Mass, which was told in the sermon of his life. To me it's not unknown. In Darmstadt, I always namely mini galley at the Easter Vigil. And since the holy water is consecrated. Yes, and the holy water pond is part of the Litany of the Saints. As can be endlessly many saints called, and although all their names. But one is always there, in which the name is never mentioned. Yes, and this is the Saint Curé d'Ars. Which is to say always ". Curé of Ars - Pray for us," I noticed again and again. Every year during the Easter Vigil. And every year I wonder who that is.
But now he is celebrated big. He has of course also a real name, Jean-Marie Vianney. Not far from here, he has taken over in a very poor area an abandoned town and really made something out of it. He has preached was super, totally committed to socially and has built an orphanage. And more and more people have come to his sermons. Finally, were 10 000 listener there. But a Brother Roger of the 19 Century, it was not for me. Because with young people he has come not at all clear. Return, he was too old-fashioned. The kiddies in his village have not been real easy with him. If they even wanted to party, he has intervened against. I have seen pictures of him. This was a very little man. He looks even stuck out pretty. And at school he should not have been good. Especially in Latin, he was very bad. Hehe, that makes him so likable again. He almost did not therefore become pastor. It has, however, went well anyway. 70 years after his death he was canonized and became a model for all priests charged. The pastor has
in Chagny meant on Sunday in his sermon, that's a nice story. The smallest, Shy serious and untalented student of theology is the very best priests and the role model for others. And the show but that has something for every talent. One has to only find out for what exactly. Hm, so I am seeing something different. On the one hand the Cure d'Ars was what really moved. No question. But when I see how he has dealt with young people, then I see a little despot. He probably needed that. As a staunch KJG-speaker, I find that a good pastor is one in which runs a good youth work. Does not matter, if mobilized of 10,000 mother dear, and listens 14 hours a piece of the confession, but scared away the young. And that today still as an old-fashioned and uptight type the official mission statement for a good priest is not much of a spotlight on our church. Because I know better role models. Brother Roger, for example.
In Taizé I was there, too. Of Chagny, I went in three days about Taizé to Cluny. It was another glorious move. The weather now is really great and the path leads through the vineyards and past ancient castles and churches. In Saint-Gengoux-le-National, I left the pilgrimage to go over to a former railway line to Taizé. Now there is a bike lane. Oh, man, 12 kilometers straight ahead, without tree and it was again 31 degrees. This I had the day off to Saint-Gengoux already 19 kilometers. I get along better now but with the heat and the distances. I know now, I think better coordinating water resources. Although I never wear more than one liter with me, I manage to have four to five liters a day. Actually I just got a very good run. Therefore, I have found in Taizé We slept well only once, and I am the next day after the morning prayer on the same. In Taizé must either be a week or go straight on. Otherwise one is there any way out of place and lost something hangs around between loud people who all have the Taizé Feeling it and to know each other very well.
The prayers were but good. Here in Darmstadt I'm already gone a few times to Taizé prayer in the church Ludwig. But even the Taizé is something else entirely. I found it very nice that it's been so gradually subsided and there is no official end. It just sits there in the church with his bench can sing along or just listen. It was enough to meditate a very good mood. After the 30 miles today I was very well afterwards. The evening prayer I enjoyed it. I got a lot of contact not. Too bad. But last night I was too tired and just wanted to sit in the church. Yes, and the breakfast is actually settled very quickly to get started the day program can. Since we are not big on a "salut, d'où où "came out.
Today I did not go as far as yesterday, just ten miles to Cluny, but again the same old railway route as yesterday. When it was hot, so I was already there. But it takes its time in Cluny, to watch the huge abbey complex. Here in 1100 the largest church in Christendom was built. It was 187 meters long! That would be a sensation if the would be still there. Unfortunately it was canceled after the French Revolution by a builder. A few remains of the church are still visible, a tower, archway and Pfeilerstuempfe that have been excavated. So you can see how big the church has been. Especially if you bottom of the tower stands and looks up, you have this experience. That must have been a huge church. From here, a monastic reform is considered as of Citeaux, but already nearly 200 years before. And even here it has been shown for what brought the success with it. Cluny had finally Unterkloester 1000 with 20,000 monks. 300 of them have lived in Cluny itself. The abbey was so rich and powerful that one has told the monks that he is no longer believable. That was Robert de Molesme who then went to Citeaux. I think it remarkable that there have been many upheavals in Burgundy and reform of the monasteries: Cluny and Citeaux in the Middle Ages and Taizé today.
the Museum of Cluny are still some capitals and ornaments to see the abbey church. The most beautiful capitals are not in the museum, but in the former granary of the monastery, in which one has to mimic the choir of the church. The figures on the Chorkapitellen symbolize the Paradiesfluesse, the winds and the sounds of music. They have robes that flutter down on the edge. Thus, the figures seem so easy. Fickle say how winds and are now Musiktoene times. I've taken my violin in the Abbey area and above the capitals trying to improvise. First I copied the river and wind as they rush, and then I acted out the different tones. There are very good at the box office folder where it say exactly what the for Sounds are. It was a good suggestion. For this old store has a really good sound. Unfortunately I could not play much, because tonight is a concert here. Floetensonaten by Handel, Haydn and Mozart. And it was even built. The workers have held me for a musician who still have to practice. But then the musicians have also come to the clay samples for making speakers. So I had to stop. But I go in after the concert. The card I have. So, I would like to sometimes give a concert in the granary. Meanwhile, I've been practicing so much namely, the confidence that I really make time was solo.
my bed I have this night in the hostel for pilgrims Week, the former in a Abteigebaeude is set up, not far from the museum where I had parked my backpack. This is practical. Yesterday I was told me on the phone that have not yet registered other pilgrims. Na was about time. Since Bellemagny I have no longer made the move. Now I am going to relate to my bed and me for making the concert in the Abbey Barn cope.
Bisou
vôtre Julie
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