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Henri-Dominique Lacordaire at Sainte-Sabine Rome, by Théodore Chassériau(1840), Musée du Louvre
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MEMO:
Henri
Dominique Lacordaire
is known principally in the English-speaking world as a brilliant pulpit orator
who packed NotreDame in Paris for his Lenten and Advent, conférences.
Mgr. Knox remarks somewhere that you can
achieve mononymity without getting into trouble police, you can translate the
Bible. You can also, he added, he a
preacher of renown, ... for long he has been known simply as Lacordaire – he achieved
mononymity before his death.
Lacordaire was known by the Cure de’Ars.
Pere Lacordaire did in fact visit Ars. After his celebrated conferences in Notre-Dame in Paris and his restoration of the Dominicans in France he was one of the best-known priests in that country. It is certainly true to say that Abbe Vianney was another. Pere Lacordaire spent Sunday, 4 May 1845, in Ars. Abbe Vianney was overjoyed to see him, got out the best vestments for his Mass and did everything possible to make him welcome. In the presence of his visitor the Cure preached in the morning at high Mass on the Holy Spirit and made a great impression. Lacordaire sang Vespers the same evening and preached, much to the disappointment of the pilgrims, who had come to hear Abbe Vianney and were not to be satisfied with a substitute, however eminent. The Cure's comment on the day's proceedings was characteristic: "Two extremes met in the pulpit of Ars today," he remarked, "extreme learning and extreme ignorance! "
(Portrait
of Parish Priest, St. John Vianney, the Curé d’Ars, p.151 L.C. Shepphard),Previous Posts om Lacordaire;
04 Nov 2009
Lacordaire on God's Inner Life. The name of Lacordaire has always had some fascination. It took many years actually coming at this point to have the compulsion to learn more. To begin the Magnificat Missalette had a ...
24 Jan 2010
Gospel according to Luke 1: 1-4; 4: 14-21 . . . "Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing'. The readings of the entire Pentateuch were covered in a three year cycle, much like our Christian lectionary today.
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