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The restorations of churches and abbeys that flourish every year throughout France show the attachment that society has to its religious buildings. Here are the most beautiful heritage adventures we have collected in 2019. More than just millennial stones, churches are living stones. Stones that speak of God. Every year, dozens of courageous owners and heritage-proud municipalities fight to restore the threatened cult buildings and restore their spiritual meaning. "While there are definitely fewer practitioners, the villagers remain attached to their church because it remains a landmark in the landscape," Stéphane Bern told Aleteia last June. Whether it is a family adventure or a communal project, all these heritage adventures bear witness to the undeniable love that the French have for their Christian heritage. To discover them, click on the slideshow. In pictures: the most beautiful heritage adventures of 2019

Mother Teresa said, "Transmit prayer to your family, pass it on to your children. Teach them prayer. Because a little one who prays is a happy child. A family that prays is a close-up family." Family prayer allows the spiritual growth of its members and the strengthening of their family ties. It is not enough to want to establish it in the home, it is necessary to know how to do it. Parent-child prayer is easier than marital prayer, as children are generally willing to pray with their mom and dad. This prayer, however, presents some difficulties, including the risk of abstaining from prayer, falling into routine. These things that must be taught to children Before praying with your children, it is important to remember that it is not a question of "making david or Sandrine pray" but of really praying with them, and that the educational attitude is to support, suggest, help, while respecting the prayer of the Holy Spirit in children's hearts. The key will be ...

Miraculous from the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris, the great organ of the cathedral avoided the worst. Very enlarged by lead, it will be several months before it can be dismantled in order to consider a complete restoration, confides to Aleteia Olivier Latry, one of the three organists holding the cathedral. He was one of the lucky ones of the Notre-Dame de Paris fire. The great organ of the cathedral, perched on its grandstand in front of the great western rose, escaped the flames but also the liters of water dumped by the firemen. Only inconvenience to note? The thick layer of lead that has come to dust the buffet, the pipes and all the mechanics. Olivier Latry, one of the three organ owners for 33 years, came to the scene a month after the fire and saw the damage himself. "The organ is actually very dusted by lead but it has escaped the worst. It's a miracle that the heat didn't melt the pipes," he told Aleteia. But since then, the grandstand is no longer accessi...

You constantly stumble on your children's toys, clothes litter the floor and everyone's belongings are everywhere? Say "stop," take matters into your own hands and follow this modest storage guide to keep your home clean and tidy! Invite your family to look at your home with you with a fresh look Sure, you have more volumes and storage space than you think! However, the disorder or the imperatives of everyday life have not allowed you to take advantage of it... So start by reminding your tribe that vacuum storage is always effective. Make sure that regularly used items are at your fingertips. At height, put away those whose use is exceptional, at the bottom, place the heaviest. If storage spaces are lacking, look up: empty walls and nooks can accommodate shelves. Three planks and a few squares cost nothing, and multiply the storage possibilities (think to occupy the maximum width and height). Don't forget the bed-bed undersides, the back of the furniture. The...

It is not always easy to be a Christian parent and especially a Christian parent. Sometimes we are so discouraged to see our children move away from faith that we come to give up. How in these circumstances can we not sink into discouragement, the devil's formidable weapon? Educating children has always been difficult. But it is perhaps even more so today. Christian parents are very often forced to row against the tide. Many feel alone and helpless in the face of the many influences exerted on their children, far from the faith they would like to pass on to them. What to do in front of Alice who screams every time it comes to going to Mass or chaplaincy? What words to find to speak of God with Baptiste who derides everything he is told? How can we pass on his hope to Paul who is locked in his difficulties? What is the meaning of family prayer when it becomes an opportunity for arguments and tensions? How can we not feel guilty when our children seem to reject everything we seek...

In the run-up to the new mobilization against the bioethics bill on the weekend of November 30 and December 1, Aleteia spoke with Bernadette Lemoine, psychologist and psychotherapist, to find the most accurate words possible for discuss with a child the subject of LDC open to all women. "Soon, a child will be able to have two mothers! It was the mistress who said it! Josephine, 7, said on her way home from school. An idea that children could not even imagine a few years ago, and which now belongs to the order of possibilities in their little head. What can we say to that? Some will say that there is nothing to answer. Others, anxious to emphasize the richness of parental otherness, will find here solutions adapted to children. 1 DON'T EVADE THE SUBJECT Whatever the outcome of the bioethics bill, the idea that a child can have two mothers has certainly already come a long way in the minds of children. Between school, the playground, books seen in the library and television...

Sudden death leaves no possibility of preparation. It falls unannounced and causes misunderstanding in adults and children alike. How can they be accompanied in times of mourning when many questions torture them? There are tragedies that suddenly change the lives of entire families: a father who kills himself in a car, a teenager who falls in the mountains, a child who drowns in the sea... And if suffering is always unbearable, it seems even more incomprehensible when it falls abruptly, without warning. What "why" then spring up, especially in the mouths of children. And one feels powerless to respond, especially if one is plunged into disarray or revolt. However, children need to be able to question and question us, very freely, without "taboos" ... and they will only do so if they feel that we are ready to accept all their questions. Listen to the child before answering questions To accept a child's questions is not to answer them first, but to listen to ...