Special TV show Toussaint: death, an existential issue

Audio 48:30

“Living as a mortal”, by Christian de Cacqueray.

© Salvator Publishing

By: Geneviève Delrue

1 min

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World Religions - Sunday October 31, 2021 - 10:10 am-11am Paris time (Winter Grid)

With the Covid-19 pandemic, our Western society, which hides death, has suddenly experienced its daily presence. In his book

Living as a Mortal

 " (Salvator)

,

Christian de

Cacqueray, director of the Catholic funeral service created by Cardinal Lustiger

, takes this health crisis to deliver a personal testimony on his long experience in the world of accompaniment. of the funeral rite and remind his contemporaries that the flight from our finitude removes density from life.

On the occasion of this All Saints weekend, we welcome

Father Paul Denizot.

This

44-year-old priest from the community of St Martin is the rector of the

sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Montligeon

, a world center of prayer for the dead and a place of pilgrimage.

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