Invited to Europe 1 during Pentecost Monday, Monsignor Matthieu Rougé considers that this important celebration for Catholics is "a great deconfinement", and finds it "extraordinary" that the two events fall at the same time.  

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A divine sign? This Monday does not only mark the eve of the start of phase 2 of deconfinement. For millions of French Catholics, it is also Pentecost Monday Mass. A gathering necessarily special because of the sanitary measures put in place against the coronavirus. But what Monseigneur Matthieu Rougé wishes to emphasize on Europe 1 is the link that exists between deconfinement and Pentecost. 

Guest of the Europe noon newspaper this Monday, the Bishop of Nanterre and member of the Permanent Council of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), finds it "extraordinary" that these two events are taking place at the same time, since "the Pentecost is a great deconfinement ". Returning to the origins of this important celebration for Catholics and Jews around the world, he recalls that it was at this time "that the first disciples of the risen Christ received this inner strength to defy their fear and begin their mission". 

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