Une église à la mode mais vide

Hello, friends. Today I was invited by friends, neighbors who baptized their child. They invited me to church. I went to see, I accepted the invitation and I still haven't gotten over it. The idea is that the neighbor is Muslim and her husband is Christian. So it was the husband who decided who took the initiative to baptize the child, even though in reality, in the act, it was the mother who held him over the building funds. In any case, this church struck me a little. I arrived about five minutes late. Very large church, very well made, like we see today, Built centuries ago. It's not prefabricated Chinese. You can see that right away. And in fact, there was a woman, a priestess. I don't know if I can say a priestess. This rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it's due to my culture, maybe it's due to my Islamic upbringing. I have a hard time honestly taking a priestess seriously. So maybe it's my upbringing. I see this once. I see in it a form of atavism. As much as I have no problem having wives doing lots of jobs, I have no problem with that. But in this specific case, uh, I don't know. Especially since she didn't embody the role with the solemnity necessary. That is to say that she was already the decoration to set the scene a little bit. There were blue and yellow decorations everywhere, huh? Decorations of the Ukrainian flag, Right. There was also a big multi colored flag, a rainbow flag, right. And well, pride always brings ruin, as they say. And she was standing there in the middle and she was preaching from a piece of paper. The truth is that this person's family, this child's family on his mother's side, did not come knowing that it was a Christian occasion in a Christian church. So they did not want to show themselves. And I think they were wrong. I think they were wrong because I will tell you why they were wrong. If I can talk to them, here is what I will tell them. They were wrong. Because you will see that this church is not really a church. In reality. I did not feel in there. I did not feel the Holy Spirit anywhere. It was a trendy church. It was a church that sought to please. This priestess was standing there with a piece of paper and there were little passages of prayers. There were prayers that are part of the baptism ceremony. Shedi, stop like that. She looked at her paper, Ellie. The only thing she didn't read was when she poured water on the child's head. And she said, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's the Only thing she remembered, it struck me a little. And I said to myself, you know, the texts that we deliver from memory, that we deliver from the heart, have a striking force, have an impact that is much stronger than the texts that we read from a piece of paper. And I don't understand how a priestess in a church who has to do a lot of work, she has to do hundreds of baptisms and still have to read from a piece of paper while there are 75 year old Freemasons who declaim on 10 or 12 pages of small print, okay, in character, 8 or 9. Why? Why is there no investment? Why is there no involvement? I had the impression that she and two old ladies who seemed to be more or less willing came to open the church like one would open a grocery store, just because it was 2pm There were two baptisms because there was another family who were also there for the same reason. And the two baptisms were done at the same time. And I had the impression that they had opened a cat somewhere. What also bothered me was the fact that this church wanted to be trendy. It wanted to be in tune with the times. There is a flag, as I told you, a rainbow flag. There are the colors of Ukraine. You can immediately feel that this is a church that embraces today's concerns. It is truly in tune with the times. It's fashionable. However, Jesus wasn't really fashionable. He was so unfashionable that he ended up on a cross. He could have preached differently. He could have said, I don't know, like the church today saying that love and grace cover sin, for example. He could have said that. He could have told the merchant in the temple, stay as you are, do exactly what you're doing, and everyone will go to heaven anyway. He could have said words to please and appease them. And it's clear that he wouldn't have met the fate that befell him. He could have done that, except that he was so out of fashion that he wasn't even literally of this world. Okay, and today we have a church that is fashionable, that follows the fashions of the moment. And when sensibilities change, what will it do? Oh, well, that will change too. Uh, that's it. I stayed. I stayed there for a while, meditating, watching. Even when it was over, I kept thinking, looking at those walls, all that. And I said to myself, it's clear that this isn't a place, right? This isn't a place where you're going to receive a visitation, where you're perhaps going to See, a miraculous healing, it's not really the kind of place where that would happen. In terms of the Holy Spirit, it's practically equivalent to a supermarket. You know, it's the equivalent of the local supermarket. So it's true that it made me a little sad. It made me a little sad. And if I could talk to this woman's Muslim family, I could have told them, listen, just go to this church. Because honestly, even if you don't want to go to church, this isn't a church. It's not a church. Just go. Don't worry. If you're used to going to the supermarket, go to this church. It's exactly the same, the same level. And unfortunately, these churches are empty. They're emptying. It's not that they're emptying, they're empty. A lot of the air is already closed. A lot of it is sold, turned into parts and all that. I was in Ireland a few years ago. I was in a kind of pub with big cylinders. They brewed beer locally and all that. Uh, it was a church. The architecture was clearly that of a church. But there are churches today that we can't even maintain because no one comes. No one comes because we try to please everyone. So here's a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, we try to please everyone in these churches, and then no one comes. And when no one comes, what do we do? They're still watching tv. They're thinking, what's the current trend? What are people into these days? And then we're going to try to please them. We're going to try to put symbols in place to attract them so that they come, because they'll feel inclusive. They'll feel that we're inclusive and they'll come. Yeah, no, that's it. A church isn't going to be inclusive, not inclusive of sin. It is clear that it must welcome the leper, but it must consider him and speak to him as if he were a leper somewhere. We are not going to tell him, no. Leprosy is great. Come with him. That is excellent. She will try to embolden him. Right? She will not encourage him on his path, knowing that these same churches, when the temporal power told them not to welcome the unvaccinated, they did not welcome them. Huh? So in a way, welcoming lepers is something they do not do. That is it. So. And all that. All that unfortunately. All that, unfortunately. Because after all, the church is important to me because that is what provides its spirituality to the West. Still, the west needs spirituality because without spirituality, the evil ones come home. The late ones come home, and there are abominations that happen. And when it hits. When it hits you, well, it's a bit too late. You would have liked your life to be a little bit. A little bit spiritual, a little bit of timeless value, a little bit of. A little bit of the hereafter, instead of having a life that is purely materialistic and just inscribed in the who, which is perhaps synchronized with the release of the next iPhone somewhere, right? You may want to have a different life. We just want to tell you something. We have friends from South Africa. Their daughter. Their daughter, I think she's 17 or 18 years old. They came when she was literally a baby, okay? So they live in a modern way and all that. Suddenly the girl said, listen, here's the thing. I'm a boy. She said, I'm a boy, and this is what you're going to have to call me. And all that. The family was in shock. They were told by their community and all that. And what they said to them was, listen, just be careful. Just be super careful. Because if you upset her, social services can take her, okay? You could lose her completely. Other friends, Russians, their daughter, who's also 17 or 18, then she suddenly declares herself lesbian, and she goes out with a black man, a huge, very fat black man who is in the process of transitioning to become a woman. Do you understand? That's why they want to become a woman. And what she does is to apologize for being Russian. She collects money for Ukraine. Right? Okay? So we have families who are still affected by things that are completely artificial. We feel that these are things that do not come naturally to families, but that are, in fact, the source of. We know the source. We have a school here in the United Kingdom where children want to change sex. 17. Why? Because one of them wanted to change sex. And then when they saw that he was glorified, that he was celebrated and all that, the others said, but I want to do the same thing, too. And so they go to the teachers, they go to the principal or the school nurse and say, I want to do it, too. And you know what? There's such a misconception about these things these days, that when a kid says, I want to do this, the people in charge only have one option. Get up, go to the drawer, take out the form, start filling it out, and call the local hospital to start the process. That's it. I read an article by someone who said he was a guy and then he wanted to become a woman. At one point he felt bad about himself. Many young people, many teenagers, go through periods when things are going really badly. It's not that they're tormented somewhere, they're tormented by all the evil in our society. Do you know what that evil is? There are people who write to me and say, I'm 60 years old, I'm 50 years old. I cry when I see what is in our world and all that. And yes, my dear friends, you cry. But. But think about the 14 or 16 year old kid. What is he doing? What is he doing? You, with all your experiences, all your life experiences, you see the evil at work, you see it working. What do you do? You cry because you realize how difficult it is. But imagine a 15 or 16 year old kid, he does not have the same references as you. He does not have the same strength as you. He did not live the before and after. He grew up in that world, in that rotten world, in that world, that world inhabited by evil and which is further encouraged in the fire. He is fed, fed by states, fed by institutions, fed by billionaires, fed by associations. That is what this kid is. I was saying he was 16 or 17 years old. He said he wanted to become a woman. He said he had a two hour consultation and after two hours they said, okay, we're going to give you hormones and we're going to butcher you. They started butchering him and they took everything away. Then later on he reached the age of 20 and realized that, well, no, this wasn't what he wanted, that he wasn't happy. And that at that time he had gone through a difficult period in his life. And instead of being supervised, of being supported by adults he trusted, they gave in to dogma, they gave in to the current of the moment. And then they mutilated him that he could never go back on. That's it. And that's why I came back to my church at the beginning and said that there are values, there are sure values, there are eternal values. And I think that's the kind of value that the church should be able to embody. A church that lives in the moment is not a church that lives in the moment. It's not a church. It's basically an empty church. It's an empty church in both senses of the word empty. It's empty of spirituality, it's empty of mission, but it's empty of people, because people have no interest in coming there and they'd rather go to the local church or go to the local supermarket. There's a little more light a little more people. It's a little more lively and all that. A little more color, that's all. There you have it. Anyway, I don't know why I wanted to talk to you about all this. Maybe it's not even my role to come and talk about church and all that, but, hey, it struck me and I wanted to share it with you. I wanted to share it with you, but it's. Yeah, I was disappointed. Honestly, I was disappointed. I was disappointed. And really, it's empty. Completely empty. Nothing at all. There you have it, my friends, thank you for listening to me so far, and I'll see you in a next video. I originally came to talk about other things, and I don't remember. In any case, the essentials have been said. Thank you. See you soon.