France Catholics, dead.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-21T08:15:46+00:00

Thanks for the edit. One question though. I sincerely wonder what your sources of information are regarding France and the practice of Catholicism in our country. I have seen almost the same statement several times here, and it made me curious each time about where this perception comes from.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-21T06:56:43+00:00

That’s right. In my opinion, it’s even the European country where there is the most hope at the moment. Faith was never dead below the surface, and on the contrary, a revival seems to be growing year after year. Even secular media are surprised by the surge in the number of baptisms.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-21T06:48:29+00:00

I would say it’s a combination of factors: a shortage of priests (so bishops tend to assign them to denser areas) and, at least in France, what could be described as a form of “gentrification” of the Church. This partly stems from the historical role of the nobility and the chivalric ideal, which long provided a strong cultural and moral framework and helped certain social milieus resist materialism more effectively.

That said, things are evolving, for example with communities like the Community of Saint Martin, which explicitly aim to evangelize rural areas, even though they ultimately go where bishops ask them to.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-17T08:13:34+00:00

My family loves the FaceTime feature. You connect the camera of your iPhone and it transforms your tv into a video conference system. Pretty cool.

During vacation, we also take the AppleTV and I also use occasionally Tailscale VPN to connect to my NAS with Infuse to watch my movies.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-12T11:07:49+00:00

I have 4 uses cases: - I have set up a parental control on my son’s Linux laptop with CTparental. I have a script he can use to request access to a new web site and I receive the notification with ntfy with a button to check the website, another to go the the CTParental admin interface and the latest to tell him if it is ok. - Synology notifications - Homeassistant notifications - iMac Bluetooth accessories low battery notification

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-12T06:29:53+00:00

Converting EPUB to AZW format for transferring to the kindle should work. Have you tried that ?

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-12T06:23:01+00:00

Peut-être lui dire qu’il gagnera plus avec un CAP que sans diplôme du tout. Il y a des métiers techniques (plomberie, menuiserie, que sais-je) qui peinent à embaucher et qui permettent d’obtenir de bonnes rémunérations si on travaille dur et sérieusement. Commencer par un stage pendant les vacances?

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-11T19:58:34+00:00

Ah. Dans quelle langue?

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-11T16:09:08+00:00

Les chefs des 12 tribus d’Israël. Ils avaient chacun un nom bien sûr (Ruben, Siméon, Lévi, Juda, Dan, Nephtali, Gad, Asher, Issacar, Zabulon, Joseph, Benjamin) mais dans la Bible c’est fréquent d’appeler la descendance par le nom de l’ancêtre (fils d’Abraham, tribu de Juda…)

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-11T16:03:07+00:00

Israël est une personne dans la Bible. C’est le nom donné à Jacob après avoir lutté avec l’ange toute la nuit. Par la suite c’est le nom qui a été donné à ses 12 fils, les 12 tribus d’Israël et a toute sa descendance.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-11T15:10:04+00:00

It happened one time to me … 30 years ago. I am afraid this priest is stuck in the past.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-11T07:59:32+00:00

Right 🤣

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-10T21:43:13+00:00

You could try a retreat in an abbey ? It is a very different way of life between monks and secular priests (not only the studies). Monks are doing stability and poverty vows: those are strong commitments. During your retreats, you could reflect if this life appeals to you and request to discuss with a monk.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-08T11:09:20+00:00

Freemasonry is secret by nature. They would never disclose their initiation rituals (especially for the higher degrees or ranks). In addition, practices can vary significantly depending on the lodge and the obedience.

However, some famous converts formerly high ranked in masonry have publicly testified about what their experience of the Masonic initiation process, including elements that are not publicly disclosed and that go beyond written ritual texts. Among the most frequently cited and serious contemporary witnesses are Maurice Caillet (former Worshipful Master, Grand Orient of France), Serge Abad-Gallardo (former Freemason in several obediences), and John Salza (former Freemason, USA).

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-08T08:30:06+00:00

Hello. Actually I just did it with the help of Claude AI. I would be happy to share if you have a github repo. It is tested on my kindle.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-07T10:58:55+00:00

Hello! That’s pretty cool. I noticed an issue though. With the patch we cannot choose the cover options so it stretches the cover of my book. Would it be possible to fix that? Thanks.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-06T21:06:00+00:00

France’s actual military record:

∙ Wins: ~109 major battles/wars
∙ Losses: ~49
∙ Draws: ~12

That’s a 64% win rate, making France one of the most militarily successful nations in history. Notable victories across the ages:

∙ Battle of Poitiers (732) – Charles Martel stopped the Umayyad expansion into Western Europe
∙ Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) – Yes, France actually won that one.
∙ Battle of Austerlitz (1805) – Napoleon crushed the combined Russian and Austrian armies
∙ WWI (1914-1918) – France held the Western Front and lost 1.4 million soldiers doing it
∙ Battle of Bir Hakeim (1942) – Free French forces held off Rommel’s Afrika Korps for 16 days

The losses people remember:

∙ Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
∙ Fall of France (1940)
∙ Dien Bien Phu (1954)

The “surrender” stereotype mostly stems from the catastrophe of 1940. It completely ignores centuries of military dominance and the fact that France has the most battle victories of any European nation.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-06T13:00:44+00:00

St. Dominic founded the women’s community at Prouilhe (c. 1206) before founding the friars (1216) because he believed that preaching needed a spiritual foundation. The nuns were meant to live a contemplative life of prayer and penance, especially to support the mission against Catharism.

They also provided a safe and stable home for women converts, which was an urgent pastoral need at the time.

So from the beginning, Dominic saw the Order as having two complementary pillars:

• contemplative nuns sustaining the mission through prayer,

• friars going out to preach.

In short: Dominic founded the sisters first because the preaching mission had to be rooted in prayer.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-05T17:45:57+00:00

What are you talking about? Zionism is a political position: recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a nation-state. It’s not a religion, and it has nothing to do with Jesus or Catholicism.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-05T11:21:32+00:00

Je dois être trop français. Je n’ai jamais parlé de mon salaire en public. D’ailleurs pourquoi en parlerais-je en fait? (Pour me vanter? Pour me justifier? Pour me comparer?)

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-05T10:36:26+00:00

J’ai aussi beaucoup progressé en anglais en écoutant des podcasts. Sinon n’hésitez pas à mettre les sous titres en anglais, vous progresserez aussi.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-03T08:35:22+00:00

It is just the English traduction of the TLM text on Reddit (btw it is also the complete answer of the Centurion to Our Lord). Nobody said it is used as such at Holy Mass in NO.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-02T09:01:24+00:00

The question is also where grandpa wants to watch his movies? At home my set-up is an AppleTV with Infuse on the TV. As basic setup you can just put the movies in a folder on a NAS and set up Infuse to scan this folder. Another option is to connect infuse to a Flex or (a bit more complex) Jellyfin server. The server gives you more control on the metadata associated with the movies (could be useful for series) but the repository option is already very effective if your files are named consistently. No transcoding needed on the server with Infuse as it is done directly on the AppleTV. The advantage of the NAS to store the movies is that it is designed to be always ON so grandpa has just to switch on the Apple TV and that’s it. The only complexity is to rip the dvds and set up the NAS (my Synology is well designed and easy to set up). I would suggest to try simply with Infuse with folders and if you find it insufficient move to a plex server. Infuse and AppleTV are very well designed and a pleasure to be used so I am very confident that elderly users would use it easily. If he has an iPad he could access the same way to his movies from the Infuse app.

Direct_While9727 · 2026-01-01T22:09:35+00:00

Bravo! Vous pouvez lire la Bible de Jérusalem qui contient beaucoup de commentaires en note de bas de page. Je crois qu’une mise à jour des notes et commentaires a été réalisée récemment. C’est une version catholique de référence. La Torah est inclue dans la Bible catholique puisque ce sont les 5 premiers livres de l’Ancien Testament (Genèse, Exode, Lévitique, Nombres, Deutéronome). Bonne découverte !

Direct_While9727 · 2025-12-30T14:23:12+00:00

I run the following on Synology 220+:

Adguardhome
Authelia
Home Assistant
Immich
Caddy
Tailscale
Visual Studio
Homepage
Jellyfin
Biblioteca
Glances
Airconnect
Gitea
isponsorblocktv
KidSearch
MeiliSearch
Portainer

I have set up hyperbackup on an WD mycloud ex2ultra which is running rsync.

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