In Belle-Île-en-Mer, France, the priest chooses to pray for Lenin instead of Louis XVI

Jean-Baptiste Barmon, the priest of Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan), has planned a prayer intention for Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov, says… Lenin, this Friday, January 21, 2022, the 98th anniversary of his …More
Jean-Baptiste Barmon, the priest of Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan), has planned a prayer intention for Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov, says… Lenin, this Friday, January 21, 2022, the 98th anniversary of his death. An intention out of place for some parishioners, on this day of another anniversary: that of the beheading of Louis XVI.
Lenin or Louis XVI? For the mass in Sauzon (Morbihan), this Friday, January 21, 2022, the anniversary of the death of these two historical figures, Jean-Baptiste Barmon, parish priest of the Belle-Île-en-Mer parish, decided. On January 21, some people pray to Louis XVI, I don't see why we wouldn't pray to Lenin, explains the man who registered Vladimir Illich Ulyanov in the parish program.
One of the parishioners, visibly upset, said he was shocked by this initiative, in a letter to the editorial staff of Ouest-France: When we think of the atrocities committed under communism... Several people are shocked, and rightly so.
A reproach answered by Jean-Baptiste Barmon,…More
Louis IX
No prayer is wasted. If Lenin is in hell (most likely) the prayer will go to another poor soul.
Roberto 55
Look at his face and you'll understand...
Jeffrey Ade
We pray for poor sinners who have no one to pray for them! Sometimes we single out those who made an impression on our lives! Eternal rest grant unto them O'Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them! May their soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace!
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For equally hateful to God are the ungodly and their ungodliness; for what was done will be punished together with the one who did it Wisdom 14:9-10
For the most High hateth sinners, and will repay vengeance unto the ungodly, and keepeth them against the mighty day of their punishment. Sirach 12:6