gracchietto
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Jean-Marie Lustiger, for twenty-four years the Catholic Archbishop of Paris, in France, left us alone yesterday, at almost 81, after a long, courageous fight against cancer.
Of Polish birth, Jewish, he had found his faith in 1940, at 14, two years later his mum was deported to Auschwitz, never to come back.
I visited the camp one year ago almost to the day, on a grey, cool day in August, and I couldn't help but think of this man, little more than a year before, commemorating the liberation of the camp 60 years before, on a very cold night, under heavy snow, a candle in his trembling hands, tears in his eyes.
We now know he was already ill, yet he had decided he wanted to be there, and he was.
A few years ago I was lucky to assist to a Te Deum Mass in this beautiful gothic church which is the Parisian cathedral which is Notre-Dame, being the last day of the year I'm sure it was him who was celebrating, but the church was bursting at its seams, sometimes you have to wonder why they say the Catholic Church is undergoing a big crisis.
I retain from this night a sense of peace and I so much wish I could live it again, just once, who knows.
Farewell, Monseigneur.
Sorry to anyone if this message hurts anyone, I just needed to get some of my grief out.
Chiara
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