The Fourvière Tuesdays - Notre-Dame de Fourvière

Presented by the rector and the chaplains of the sanctuary, in this 2018-2019 year the Fourvière Tuesdays invite you to expend your faith and life practice around four major themes: Increase your faith, Lection divina, The daily holiness, the sacred art and catechesis.

THE FOURVIERE TUESDAYS TIMES :

Every Tuesday afternoon (Except during school holidays) from 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. between October and June.

They take place in the room Saint Thomas (at the end of the little street on the right of the Chapel of the Virgin).

SACRED ART AND CATECHESIS LED, led by bishop Patrick Le Gal

This year we suggest that you travel through time from the 6th to the 20th century, always in the Latin Occident to discover the richness and diversity of the 4 important spiritual and theological themes in the art.

27th November : The representations of the Last Judgment (4 examples from the 13th to 17th century : the stained-glass window of Bourges, the altarpieces of Fra Angelicoand of Roger van Weyden, the picture of Greco)
29th January : the prayer of the psalmist through the biblical work of the painter Benn (1905-1989)
26th March : the parable of the prodigal child (stained-glass windows of the 12th and 16th centuries, a painting by Rembrandt, a watercolour by Chagall, a contemporary tapestry)
28th May : the big vision of the eucharistic liturgy in the mosaics by Ravenne.(6th century)

INCREASE ONE’S FAITH : Behave as a Christian, led by Father François de Vorges.

Come and participate to a series of discussions dealing, in 8 courses, with the main lines of the Christian religion about human acting, that is to say the foundations of evangelical ethics.

2nd October : God’s intentions on our behaviour.

6th November : the Covenant and its charter of human behaviour

4th December : God’s law and the wisdom of the nations.

8th January : Sin : the original sin and ours.

5th February : The spiritual fight.

5th March : Charity, «the form » of all virtues.

2nd April : To say the truth, to practise justice.

7th May : The body, to respect ours and that of others.

« LECTIO DIVINA » : The Sunday gospels led by Father Olivier Velut

We suggest you share point of view about the Sunday gospels of the new liturgical year (cycle C) following the successive articulations.

It is an opportunity to enjoy a delightful reading of God’s words and increasing the understanding of evangelical texts we can hear during mass.

9th October : End of the ordinary time, All Saints’Day, and the King Christ.

13th November : Advent

11th December : Christmas

15th January : Beginning of the ordinary time

12th February : Preparation to Lent

12th March : Lent (to be continued)

9th April : Easter

14th May : Time of ordinary time to be continued, The Trinity and The Holy Sacrament

HOLINESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE : a free comment of the apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, led by the abbot Laurent Spriet and his Eminence Patrick Le Gal

Last March Pope Francis delivered us an Exhortation about Christian holiness. To extend the teaching of Vatican II, he shows how the path to holiness is open to everyone every day. He denounces the errors which go against it and underlines the real nature of holiness.

16th October : Vocation of all to holiness (PL)

20th November : Errors and objections to this vocation (PL)

18th December : The Beatitudes, paths to holiness (PL)

22nd January : Live the works of divine mercy, an essential criterion (LS)

19th March : Characteristics of holiness in today’s world (LS)

30th April : Fight and vigilance (PL)

21st May : The urgent necessity of judgment (LS)