by Javier F. Chento | Oct 16, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
We need not dwell on those amongst them who are better off [at Lyonnais Street]; those who, for six persons, can supply two beds, into which are huddled pellmell the sick and the healthy, boys of eighteen with girls of sixteen. Let’s not talk about the ruin of...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 9, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
On either side of a filthy sewer rise houses five stories high, many of which shelter fifty families. Low, damp, and noxious rooms; […] no paper, often not a single piece of furniture, hides the nakedness of the wretched walls. In a house of the Rue des Lyonnais...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Those who have the privilege of distributing the public help […] go, for instance, to the twelfth arrondissement, one of the strongholds of the insurrection, and out of about ninety thousand inhabitants they find eight thousand families inscribed on the list of...
by Javier F. Chento | Sep 25, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
It is easier to use an uplifting language, to fulfill certain positive precepts, to reject certain pleasures, than to be deeply filled with the evangelical spirit, to keep it in the depths of the soul to ennoble it, purify it, and improve it; in short: to reproduce it...
by Javier F. Chento | Sep 18, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
One thing could stop and lose us: to alter our original spirit; the pharisaism that makes the trumpet sound before self; the exclusive esteem of itself that does not know virtue in other places than the preferred corporation; an excess of practices and rigor, which...
