“I have set before you life or death, blessing or curse. So choose life, so that you and your descendants may live…”
(Deuteronomy 30:19)
In the Bible, God says through the voice of Moses: “So choose life so that you and your descendants live.” How can we understand this command of God? Can we choose to be alive when life is a gift? It takes 40 days to meditate on this verse from the Book of Deuteronomy, written between the 8th and 7th centuries BC!
This is RCF’s proposal for Lent: a spiritual journey that will accompany you, step by step, through this liturgical season. Prayers, meditations, teachings… indulge yourself in listening to RCF and finding our special file on Lent!
“Choose life” in the Halte Spirituelle series
“Choose Life” : what God says in the Bible can find an echo today in the current discussions about the end of life or about the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution. But what is life? Is it a gift or a choice? If life is a gift from God, what are we responsible for? Are we not shocked by this prohibition when we ourselves face illness or bereavement? What does the Bible and the Christian tradition say about life and the living?
What Christians celebrate on Easter is the resurrection of Christ, that is, the victory of life over death. How can this affect us, who have every reason to give in to the fear of the ecological crisis, war, violence, etc.?
RCF offers you a spiritual journey in five stages, every day at Halte Spirituelle.
1. Lent, a time of choosing life
Week of February 19 to 25, by Madeleine Vatel
Guest: Fr. Lionel Dewavrin, priest of the Diocese of Lille, teacher at the Faculty of Theology in Lille
2. Choose life by returning to prayer
Week of February 26 to March 3, by Véronique Alzieu
Guest: Sister Josip, a Benedictine nun at Pradines Abbey (Loire)
3. Choose a life that prefers sharing
Week of March 4-10, Madeleine Vatel
4. Choose life by adopting composure
Week of March 11-17, by Véronique Alzieu
Guest: Father Alexandre Masson, Jesuit, from the Châtelard spiritual ecocentre
5. Choose life while working for peace
Week of March 18 to 24, author Madeleine Vatel
Lent at RHF is also…
– Holy Wednesday: how do you enter Lent?
The show I think therefore I act, Wednesday, February 14 at 9 a.m.
– What is Holy Week?
The show I think therefore I act, Monday, March 25 at 9 a.m.
I THINK, THEREFORE I ACT: you have a say at RCF every day!
Every morning from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., contact us live on 04 72 38 20 23, in the Facebook group I think, therefore I act, or write to direct@rcf.fr.
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Follow the 2024 Lenten conferences on RCF
RCF broadcasts the 2024 Lenten Conferences every Monday at 9 p.m. A great reflection meeting organized every year by the Diocese of Paris on the occasion of Lent.
The theme of the Lenten conferences in 2024 is: “Mysterious music of the sacraments. Literature and spirituality”. Or how to rediscover the sacraments thanks to the texts of great writers whose creativity is marked by Catholicism: Charles Péguy, Georges Bernanos, Marie Noël, Léon Bloy, Paul Claudel and Joris-Karl Huysmans.
While our way of approaching the sacraments very often remains conceptual and limited to the field of theology or catechesis, these great authors offer another entry point. They know how to enter into the mystery with the art of poetry or storytelling, sometimes much better than a theological discussion.
– Léon Bloy: Word as sacrament
Monday, February 19 at 9 p.m., Emmanuel Godo, khâgna teacher
– Paul Claudel: Sacramental aesthetics
Monday, February 26 at 9 p.m., Dominique Millet-Gérard, university professor
– Charles Péguy: The spirituality of communion
Monday, March 4 at 9 p.m., Nicolas Faguer, professor of literature
– Georges Bernanos: Gift of tears
Monday, March 11 at 9 p.m., Philippe Richard, khâgna teacher
– Joris-Karl Huÿsmans: Writing as a mystical halal
Monday, March 18 at 9 p.m., Gaël Prigent, khâgna teacher
– Marie Noël: God’s gift in danger of abandonment
Monday, March 25 at 9 p.m., Father Arnaud Montoux, professor of theology