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 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, 54: Therefore, he needs all the more that we pray for him and it will not be the communists who will do it! I remind you that the Catholic religion wants to save all men and not just those in the seraglio.
The priest, who arrived in Belle-Île-en-Mer in August 2020, is used to innovating prayer intentions: Freddie Mercury, Joséphine Baker, the Bogdanov brothers or even Desmond Tutu… "It is important that religion lives with its time, with today's world, and we must pray for all the anguish and difficulties."
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