- Installed on rue Valade, a stone's throw from Place Saint-Pierre and its festive evenings, a poster depicts Jesus Christ and Darth Vader.
- If the initiative has sometimes reacted very negatively to some Star Wars fans , Father Damien Verley ensures that the return is essentially positive, and explains the message that his parish wants to convey.
"Everything but not indifference", sang Jean-Jacques Goldman in 1981. These words find a particular resonance 39 years later in Toulouse, with the initiative of the Students' Parish, a stone's throw from the very festive Place Saint- Pierre. Installed for Lent, put away at the start of confinement and then reinstalled before Easter, this double-sided poster depicts on one side Darth Vader, the emblematic villain of Star Wars with his saber with red blade and the other Jesus, equipped with sand with a blue blade like the Jedi knights.
On the Web, some fans - not frankly won over to the Catholic cause - of the saga launched by George Lucas, were moved, even upset, about this hijacking. "I haven't had too many derogatory reflections", assures Father Damien Verley, in charge of this parish which welcomes in the Saint-Pierre-des-Chartreux church "400 people every Sunday and 1,500 or 2,000 during the great occasions ”.
"I hear people dead laughing"
"By anti-religion, there are people who find a reason to let off steam on social networks," said the 36-year-old abbot. I hear people dead laughing all day, from my office or when I pray. "
But by the way, what message (apart from the Mass schedules) should we read through this poster, the fruit of several work meetings? “Spiritual combat is very important for us Christians, says Father Verley, who has already accompanied some of his young flock a bit geek at the Toulouse Game Show. Medical personnel are fighting the Covid-19, an invisible enemy. We fight against sin, which is just as invisible. "
The student parish already has another idea in its drawers: to make the atrium of Saint-Pierre-des-Chartreux a place of spiritual experimentation, to read while listening to Gregorian chants. A priori, Goldman or John Williams, composer of the legendary soundtrack of Star Wars , will not be on the program.
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