“Ladies and gentlemen, our train is arriving at Montaigu station, please don’t forget anything on board.Didier, still numb from his rest, picked up his travel bag. Leaving Strasbourg early this morning, the church man in his forties is going to join his family for a few days vacation. “I need it, I’m so tired“, – blows the priest of several old people’s homes in the east of France. “Everyone needs a vacation, no reason for priests to get away with ithe adds in a playful tone.
“On the seventh day, God finished what he had done. He rested and blessed the day(Genesis, 2:2). For Father Didier, after a year of service, it is now time to rest, surrounded by his two sisters, their husbands and their children. The program includes board games, bike rides, good food and reading. “Not forgetting the mass“, he insists. If for civil society the two months of summer rhyme with holidays…
Source: Le Figaro
