Cathorico : le chant du coq catholique

  Marie Reine : la France sous le regard de sa patronne Du ciel à Cotignac English summary On 22 August, the Catholic Church celebrates the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen, eight days after the Assumption. Pope Pius XII instituted the feast in 1954, while the post-conciliar calendar later moved it from 31 May to 22 August in order to underline the link between Mary’s Assumption and her queenship. In France, the feast has a particular resonance: Louis XIII placed his kingdom under the protection of the Virgin Mary in 1638, and Pope Pius XI confirmed Our Lady of the Assumption as principal patroness of France in 1922. In 2026, this Marian tradition has acquired a strikingly contemporary setting at Cotignac, where the Notre-Dame de Grâces sanctuary reopened on 13 August after being threatened for weeks by devastating wildfires. Saint du jour : la Vierge Marie, Reine Ce 22 août 2026 , le calendrier liturgique célèbre la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie Reine . L’AELF indique cette mémoire pour l...

  Séparation, Sillon, Jeanne d’Arc English summary On 21 August, the Catholic Church celebrates Saint Pius X, Pope from 1903 to 1914. His pontificate coincided with one of the most violent crises in modern relations between France and the Holy See: diplomatic relations were broken in 1904, the French law separating Church and State was adopted in 1905, and Pius X formally condemned it in 1906. Yet reducing him to an anti-Republican Pope would be misleading. Pius X explicitly stated that he was not fighting a particular form of government. At the same time, his pontificate profoundly marked French Catholicism through the beatification of Joan of Arc, his support for the Curé d’Ars, his Eucharistic reforms and his 1910 intervention against Marc Sangnier’s Sillon movement. Saint du jour : Pie X Ce 21 août , l’Église célèbre saint Pie X . L’AELF inscrit bien ce vendredi 21 août 2026 comme mémoire de saint Pie X, pape . Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto naît en 1835 à Riese, en Vénétie, dans u...

  La foi au bout du rivage English summary On 20 August 2026, Catholics from Charente-Maritime gather for the annual pilgrimage to Île Madame, near Rochefort, in memory of the priests imprisoned on floating prison ships during the French Revolution. In 1794, 829 priests and religious who had refused the constitutional oath were detained in appalling conditions; 547 died. Sixty-four were beatified by Saint John Paul II in 1995. The pilgrimage, held for more than a century, remains one of the most striking Catholic memorial traditions of the French Revolution. The Church also celebrates today Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the great Cistercian abbot and Doctor of the Church. Saint du jour : Bernard de Clairvaux Le 20 août , l’Église célèbre saint Bernard de Clairvaux , abbé et docteur de l’Église. La mémoire de saint Bernard figure bien au calendrier liturgique français de ce jeudi 20 août 2026. Né en Bourgogne en 1090 , Bernard entre très jeune dans la vie monastique et rejoint la réfo...

  Prier, former, secourir English summary On 19 August, the French Catholic Church celebrates Saint John Eudes, one of the great figures of the French School of Spirituality. A missionary, preacher and founder, he cared for plague victims, worked for the formation of priests and created an institute devoted to women in distress. He also played a pioneering role in the liturgical devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. His life shows that Catholic doctrine, worship and practical charity were never meant to be opposing choices. Libellé Blogger Jean Eudes, Eudistes, École française de spiritualité, Sacré-Cœur, Cœur de Marie, séminaires, missions, charité, prêtres, Normandie, réforme catholique Saint du jour : Jean Eudes, le missionnaire du cœur Le 19 août , l’Église célèbre saint Jean Eudes, mort à Caen ce même jour en 1680 . Né en Normandie en 1601, il appartient à la seconde génération de la grande réforme catholique française du XVIIe siècle. Bérulle, François de Sales et Vincent...

Le cuir, la rue, l’Évangile English summary Father Guy Gilbert, one of the most unconventional figures in French Catholicism, suffered a serious health incident in spring 2026 and spent two weeks in intensive care before entering a rehabilitation facility. Behind the famous leather jacket and street language lies more than sixty years of priesthood devoted largely to troubled young people. Ordained in Algeria in 1965, he later became a street priest in Paris and founded the Bergerie de Faucon in Provence, where generations of adolescents have been welcomed and educated through work, community life and contact with animals. Une précision sur son état de santé La bonne nouvelle qui circule de nouveau ces derniers jours n’est pas une annonce médicale du mois d’août. Elle reprend un communiqué publié par l’Association Père Guy Gilbert le 14 mai 2026 : après un « accident de santé » survenu environ deux semaines plus tôt, le prêtre avait pu quitter le service de réanimation pour ent...