Faced with a spectacle deemed “satanic”, the Archbishop of Toulouse consecrates his diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Faced with a spectacle deemed “satanic”, the Archbishop of Toulouse consecrates his diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

“I consecrate my heart to you and present to you the hearts of Christians and all the inhabitants of the city and the diocese.” These are the words that some Catholics in Toulouse were waiting for, after almost a month and a half of incessant controversies. The weekend of October 25, 26 and 27, the town of Toulouse will host the Compagnie de la machine, whose first show took place in 2018. The city center will be decked out in black with mechanical monsters and gloomy costumes by the urban opera “The Guardian of the Temple, the Gate of Darkness”. A staging with smoke and fire which shocked and shocked local Christian communities, seeing in it a valorization of esoteric and satanic symbolisms. In response, the Archbishop of Toulouse, Mgr Guy de Kerimel, decided to consecrate Toulouse and its diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The opportunity also to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of Paray-le-Monial, during a mass, the day when Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, seer of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart is celebrated by the Church.

A mass against “dark threats” and “despair”

This Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in the heart of the pink city, nearly 700 to 1000 faithful – from Toulouse or from all over Occitania – gathered in the church of the Sacré-Cœur under police surveillance. So much so that many of them had to attend the service outside, in the light rain.

A religious ceremony necessary for the bishopric, because it is the first time that so many Toulouse Catholics have opposed an urban spectacle. A need above all to “propose something that allows us to look at the future with confidence, but through a spiritual response”, judges Mgr Guy de Kerimel in an interview with Aleteia, in the face of an event that he did not hesitate to describe a “completely hazardous” choice if not a “sad spectacle”. Pointing out the “signs of despair” of a society dedicated to a “satisfaction of passions” by ancient mythologies, he offers mercy, hope, the love of God and the Sacred Heart of Jesus to locals like a “victory over evil and death”. A good way for him to protect the city center against an event with “satanic symbolism” and “anti-Christian messages of hatred”.

The prelate does not hesitate to speak, in his homily, of the fight against “the roots of evil and sin” with a desire to see in this solemn act “an invitation to conversion to show, in our wounded world, something of the new world, born from the pierced Heart of Jesus. »

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