Dear friends, This year 2024, Christmas opens the Year of Hope, as decided by Pope Francis. As a jubilary place in the diocese, Notre-Dame-de-Montligeon offers itself as a pilgrimage destination for us, pilgrims of hope. This is an opportunity to meditate on what hope really is. It cannot be reduced
Death is merciless. It brings us face to face with the absence of a person who used to be part of our lives, sometimes for many years. We can no longer hear or hold them. It’s no longer possible to ask for their advice, to give them affection or to
Christmas – at least all the finicky details surrounding Christmas – often causes some tension. In my family, the tensions are related to the preparations: who will make the much desired Christmas log, even if there is not much time for it, or if the result might be hazardous? There
On 21-29 December, 2025, the exhibition called “Ostentation of the Holy Tunic of Christ”, the garment Jesus was wearing during his Passion, will be visible in the entrance hall of the Montligeon shrine, at normal opening times. The previous ostentation, which took place back in 2016 in Argenteuil, had drawn
Thanks to the prayer groups that were initiated by the work of Montligeon created by abbé Buguet, Christians from every part of the world congregate to pray together for the souls in Purgatory. Amongst those many groups, the one from Les Mureaux, a Western Paris suburb, comes every year bringing
Many bereaved parents whose infant died unchristened wonder about their outcome. Regardless of the cause of the death (miscarriage, abortion or stll-birth), can a child be saved if they were not christened? What is the Church’s official position on the salvation of infants who died before they had a chance
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One day or another, one gets confronted to a loved one’s demise, whether young or old, be it due to the natural end of one’s
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Offer a Mass The Eucharist is the supreme realm where we proclaim our faith in the power of Christ’s Resurrection.Offering a Mass is a way
In the later part of the 19th century, the Reverend Father Paul-Joseph Buguet was assigned to the hamlet of La Chapelle-Montligeon, in eastern rural Normandy, France.
