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Tonight, we regret the absence of three participants: Andree is a journey, Diane is working in Montreal and Josette. We are pleased to communicate the richness of our shares.

Marie-Josée

Marie-Josée presents an Iraqi author, Joseph Faradelle, which recounts his journey of conversion to Christianity in the book "The price to pay" ... a book that is scary! His path goes through a conversion experience during his military service where he had to share his room in the barracks with a Christian, a modest farmer named Massoud. How the message Christian himself was it conveyed? Massoud is a man of few words. Joseph wants to know ... questions ... comes to Christian churches who are suspicious of him, afraid to embrace it, and fear of being accused of being punished in Islamic countries because we do not trifle with proselytizing. Itself is in danger because of his conversion.

His family eventually discovered his secret in which he led wife and son. She rejects him and put in prison, where he was tortured and he comes out, emaciated, after sixteen months of torment. The lesson should be enough to bring him back to reason.

In fact, the lesson had been learned in an entirely different way. He realized he could live, free to practice his Christian faith, and that leaving Iraq by taking the path of exile. The Church eventually help them. It was she who arranged their escape, which will help to survive in Jordan where death lurks just as Muslims in Iraq is in France that convertis.Puis Moammed becomes Faradelle Joseph.

Marie-Josée

Marie-Josée introduces us to the book "The two countries" Jean de Viguerie. The fourth cover of this book published in 2003 shows us the contents thus: "There are indeed two homelands. One is the land of our fathers, country of birth and education. This has always existed. The other is recent. It dates from the Enlightenment and the Revolution. It represents a revolutionary ideology. The lyrics of the Marseillaise express his ideal. The first is France. The second is not France, but France is his support and his instrument. To each his patriotism: the first is that of gratitude and piety of the second one is marked by passion and excess. The traditional patriotism imposes a duty of gratitude. Revolutionary patriotism requires the sacrifice of countless lives. We see how the two homelands and patriotism are the two strangers to each other.

Yet since 1789, the French had ceased to associate, even to confuse them. Point of view of France in the revolutionary country and devote himself to the sweet homeland's violent ideological passion of patriotism. Only the confusion they have not committed themselves, but by the end of a long and skilful handling. If the country has been substituted for revolutionary France, this country was done without the knowledge of French. And Marie-José conclude by saying: "France is dead" because nothing that made her "France" has been sent!

You know the author Philip Roth? It is the choice of Marie-Andree who shows us one of his works, "Man," published by Gallimard in 2007. It seems that the original idea of the novel is to listen to the sick body , telling the life of a man not through his successes or his love, but through the different diseases which have affected throughout her life and that ultimately lead to death. In fact, early in the novel is the cemetery we met him in dialogue with the gravedigger.

Throughout, he takes stock of his life ... a failed life, a life of gloom, however, very realistic until the end. Nothing really important in life, centered on himself and the world of women. We can continue its reflection on the precariousness of human life. Even asking the question: Are there people predestined to fail their lives?

Louise

Louise currently reads "The meaning of things," edited in 2009 by Robert Lafond, a book which brings together various writings by authors such as Simone Veil, Daniel Cohen, Roland Castro or even Rene Girard, and synthesized at the end by Jacques Attali. The Status of Women to free, education, religion or science, this amount of reflections and interviews is an inexhaustible source of arguments and testimony.

Denis

Denis tells us about his decision this year, his reading it will know more on Pope Benedict XVI. And already he derives from his briefcase three volumes: "Jesus of Nazareth" and "Light of the world," the latter written in German, from conversations between the pope and the journalist, Peter Seewald, at Castel Gandolfo and the story of the Pope's visit to the United Kingdom during the canonization of Cardinal Newman. Happy reading, Denis, You tell us.

And as a final presentation, Bibiane us know the book "Why" by Nicolas Mazellier published by Editions Anne Sigier. Mazellier had just arrived at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, January 12, 2010, when everything starts to shake. And since then, one question haunts him: "Why me, and not others?" His testimony is that of his spiritual experience: hope, faith and suffering.

If you want to listen to his testimony, go to the following address: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xftgq8_nicolas-mazellier-9-nov-2010_webcam

Louise Denis, Bibiane

In Chapter VIII - And now? Nicolas says: "I witnessed the devastating fury of nature. I witnessed the weight of death on the living. I witnessed these lives forever marked. But I also witnessed a Presence .»...« Why not accept the paper, even marked by violence, powerlessness, suffering and loneliness, can bear fruit? It bears fruit. Now that my "why" of today is as important as this meeting yesterday amid the ruins of Montana. "